The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1858, Page 4

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Lansing, Baldwin & Go., 8 de Is Bourse. Lavenroo, .Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street, R. Stuart, 10 Exchange strcet, East. Haves.....Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Haran will @ombine the news received by mai! and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of pudlication. The News. We have accounts from Bermuda to the 7th inst. A terrific hurricane, lasting from the 23d to the 26th ult., passed over the island, doing much damage to property. The vessels in the track of the hurri- cane also suffered severely. The United States frigate Sabine, of the Paraguay expedition, put fato Bermuda on the Sist, having been disabled in the storm on the 24th. She lost maintopsail and foresail, had her bow ports forcedin and her steer- ing apparatus injured seriously. The British au- thorities promptly and cheerfully tendered assist- ance to repair the damage, and it was expected the Babine would be in order to proceed on her voyage in a few days. ‘The United States steamers Fulton, Water Witch and Harriet Lane, of the Paraguay expedition, were at Barbadoes on the 2ist ult., also the ship Ocean Bride, laden with coal for the fleet. They were to sail in a few days for Montevideo, via Pernambuco and St. Catharines. The official canvass of the votes cast for Con- gressman in the Ninth district was completed yes terday, and the result is as annexed :— Kemtle's Maj, Haskin's Maj Bank of the Republic, as their candidate for Comp- troller, and Mr. James Lynch as their candidate for Almshouse Governor. The Board of County Canvassers assembled yes- terday, pursuant to adjournment, Supervisor Purdy in the chair. Superviser Kennedy reported that several clerical errors which were made by the dis- trict canvassers had been corrected. These were principally in the vote for the District Attorney, and did not affect the result materially. In the re- turns from the Second district of the First ward forty votes were marked down by the can- vassers for John Williamson, and as this was a mis- take on their part they were given to Amor J. Williamson, and so put down upon the retarn. No report was made in reference to the case of the Fourth district of the Fourth Ward, the examina tion having been unavoidably postponed in conse quence of the failure of the candidates to attend at the specified time. The case will come up again at eleven o'clock this morning. One of our Washington correspondents gives a de- tailed account of the doings, associations and move- ments of Walker in the federal city, and shows what a thorough medley of interests is mixed up in the Ni- caraguan question. If Walker will persist in going back to the land of volcanoes and revolutions, in spite of the warnings contained in the President's proclamation—if he will abjure his American citi- genabip and put on the citizenship of Nicaragua— he will do so at his own peril, and can blame no one but himself if some summary way of disposing finally of him and his pretensions should be adopted by the country of his adoption. Judge Metcalfe rendered an elaborate decision yesterday in the Tompkins arson case, on Staten Island. He declares that the Quarantine buildings are, and will, ifrebalt, be @ nuisance, and shows from medical testimony that contagion will dissemi- nate throughout the village of Tompkinsville. He discharges the parties implicated on the ground that they removed a nuisance—-one declared so by the Board of Health of the county and the evidence of the medical men of Staten Island. A meeting of the members of the medical profes sion was held last evening at the Medical College in Fourteenth street, to consider the sanitary con- dition of the city and other business. The chief object was to recomm: 4 the appointment of none but j liysicians to the office of City Inspector and members of the Board of Health, as euch only could be properly acquainted with the duties belonging to such positions and the subjects submitted for their er 4 action. A resolution was adopte Ar tch e chapel win a proenerc garded with much fewor by Aw nia and sojourpers er rie existing in Sweden, by we and Homan Cotholios ate denied the of their con atigus belief in 1y) gloug NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1858. ! $$$ $$$ $$$ $$ | matters, was commented upon at considerable length, and it was resolved to embody the facts stated in a memorial and present the same to the King of Sweden, in order that a change may be effected. ‘The killing of John Hallis, alias Michael McGo- vern, by policeman Robert Cairnes, of the First Precinct, on Wednesday afternoon, came up for in- ion yesterday before CoronerGamble. The testimony, which was quite voluminous, bore hard against the policeman, several of the witnesses swearing that Cairnes fired his pistol while within two feet of the deceased and while the latter was standing still. The jury rendered a verdict against the accused, who was thereupon committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. Else- where will be found a full report of the Coroner's inquest, together with other interesting details. The Chamber of Commerce met yesterday and adopted a report calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to give a more liberal interpretation to the provisions of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty than his officials have heretofore done. This matter is said to be exciting much interest in Canada, and along the line of the border’»g States, and an ap plication will be made to Congress in case Mr. Cobb should keep the present objectionable regulations in foree. A report favorable to steam navigation on the canals was also discussed at lengtl in a re- port which was presented by the committee having the subject in charge. In the Board of Aldermen last evening, a com- munication was received from the Mayor, announc- ing the resignation of Street Commissioner Cooper and nominating Gustavus W. Smith to fill the vacan- cy. The nomination was immediately confirmed, without a dissenting vote. Mr. Smith has been con- nected with the Street Department during the ad- ministration of Mr. Cooper, as Deputy Comimis- sioner. The Mayor also communicated a letter from Lord Napier, expressing to the Common Council the thanks of the British government for the cordial sentiments of esteem: expressed for the Queen and people of England, and also for the civilities paid to her Majesty's officers, in connec- tion with the telegraph cable celebration. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and disposed of a large number of routine papers. The Street Commissioner was instructed to have all the public clocks of the city regulated. The Comptroller was directed to advertise for a lot upon which to construct a new police station house for the Twenty-second ward. A report of the Com- mittee on Fire Department, appropriating $17,500 for the purchase of 25,000 feet of hose, was adopted. The Aldermanic Committee on Railroads met yesterday to hear parties in reference to running small cars on the Eleventh avenue. Mr. North, the Secretary of the Hudson River Railroad Company, spoke in favor of repealing the ordinance prohi- biting the company from ranning small cars, and he stated it to be their desire to run the city cars, for the purpose of accommodating the people living along the line of the Eleventh avenue. Mr- Greenin, who owns property on the avenue to the amount of $5,000, endorsed what was said by Mr. North, and argued that it would be an incalculable convenience to the poorer classes residing along the avenue to have small cars running. The com- mittee promised to take the subject into considera- tion, and they then adjourned. The Astoria case was concluded at Minneola, L. I, on Wednesday. ‘The character of Mr. Wells, the ex-United States Consul, who claimed to have been engaged to the imbecile girl, who, it is alleged, sought to abduct her from school, was fully deve- loped in the testimony then presented. The jury, aficr being out a few minutes, brought in a verdict against him. The case has created a great deal of excitement and feeling on Long Island. A full re- port of the finale of this strange affair will be found in another column. The Senatorial Police Committee, which has been in session for some time at Florence's Hotel, ad- journed on Wednesday last to meet on Monday next. A large amount of interesting evidence has in the auwantime been taken, and the whole committee of three will meet on Monday for the purpose of ex- amining Mr. Bowen in reference to the manner in which the police accounts have been kept, that gen- tleman having declined to give his testimony before the chairman of the committee alone. It is expect- ed that some strange developements will be made. There was no quorum of the Excise Commis- sioners yesterday. Commissioner Haskett, how- ever, took occasion to state that the last meeting of the Board for the present year will be held this af- ternoon, and that afterwards ten days opportunity for procuring licenses will be extended to all who desire to obtain them. The City Inspector continued to give bis evidence before the Senatorial Sanitary Committee yester- day, and he mentioned as one reason why the num- ber of deaths in this city is greater in proportion than elsewhere, the fact that thousands of unacclimated emigrants and others are continually taking up their abode here. Jndge Russell disposed of a Irage number of cases yesterday in the Court of General Sessions: Thomas De Neves, a Cuban, was tried for grand larceny, he having been charged, with a young man named Lopez, with stealing a watch and jew- elry worth $150, the property of Bella Ray, a resi- dent of Mercer street. The evidence was very slight and the jury acquitted De Neves. Lopez was sent to the penitentiary last term. Jacob Jager pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary in the third degree, and was remanded for sentence. James Welsh was tried for burglary in stealing a quantity of iron from the shop of Ewen Jones, and convicted of petit larceny; he was sent to the peni- tentiary for four months. James Cochrane was convicted of burglary in the first degree, having entered the house of James Mulligan, in Chrystie street, on the night of the 19th of October. The jury recommended him to merey, bis previous character having been unexceptionable. He will be sentenced on Saturday. Isaac L. Taylor was convicted of an assault on James Traphagen, and was remanded for judgment. Martin Fleming and William Murray were tried and convicted of steal- ing two pieces of flannel, worth $120, from a ship, and were each sent to the State prison for two years. The Grand Jury presented a number of in- dictments and resumed the discharge of their du- ke. The cales of cotton yesterday embraced about #00 bales, closing on the basis of about 11%¢0. for middling uplands. Ticldere manifested rather more con idence, and were indis- posed in the main to meet the views of buyers, Flour was again quite active, with a good demand from the Fastern trade, while common grades of State and Western closed at bigher rates. Prime wheat continued firm, with fair sales, chiefly Southern and Western, ot full prices. Corn was heavy and lower, with ales of Western inixed at Thc. ‘7te., and some prime lots at T7e,, with some common to falr Southern yellow at S80. a 85, Pork was steady ft the recent advance, with eales of mess at $17 60 on the spot, and at $17 25 for delivery in December and January, and prime at $13 75 a $14. Sugars were steady and firm, with sales of 450 a 600 hhds. and 430 boxes, at rates given in another place. Coffee wa quiet and firm. Freight room to Liverpool was scarce, and rates firmer, while engagements generally were mo- derate. No Orn Hacrs ror Orrick.—In making nominations for the new members of the Com- mon Council to be elected next month, we hope that the Conventions of all the parties will re- ligiously avoid all those men who have been in office before. They are almost all corrupt, or open to suspicion of corruption. There are plenty of new men™to be had, and let us try them: they may be better, and they cannot be worse than the old ones, If any of these old hacks are nominated, the taxpayers should reratch them off the ticket in every instances. The city is sick of them. ‘The Administration of Mr. Buchanan and the Future. ‘The political storm which has just blown over has left a fearful number of wrecks along the coast; but the good ship of the administration, though roughly handled by the hostile elements, has suffered no damage sufficient to arrest its onward course. In other words, Mr. Buchanan has substantially disposed of the troublesome legacies entailed upon him by his incompetent predecessors, Pierce and Fillmore, and the re- maining two years of his administration will be comparatively light and pleasant. A glance at the obstacles against which he has had to contend, and at the solid work which he has nevertheless accomplished, will afford the impartial reader the best assurance in regard to the capabilities of the President to mect all the present and future exigencies and contingencies of his administration. With the democratic ma- jority in Congress reduced to 2 practical minori- ty by factious cliques and over-ambitious leaders, the sagacity, firmness and steadiness of the ad- ministration were equal to every emergency of the last seasion. Thus the Kansas question was reduced to a practical settlement; thus the Mormon rebellion was put down through the prompt and efficient civil and military policy which was brought to bear against it; thus the Central American filibusters and fili- bustering propaganda were quietly put under the supremacy of law; and thus were secured the civil, military and naval acts and appropria- tions demanded to carry out the domestic and foreign measures of the administration. Among these measures we may enumerate the settlement of the British question of the right of search; the Paraguay expedition; increased military protec- ion 9 st the hostile Indian tribes of our West- is and mountains, and several overland mail routes {o the Pacific. This is a satisfactory schedule of substantial business transactions; nor should the quiet sup- pression of the hot-headed African slave trade movements tately attempted in the South be omitted from the catalogue. These things, hav- ing been achieved against 4 combination of ene- mies and impediments within and without the democratic camp, unparalleled in the history of any preceding administration, furnish the best evidence of the moral strength and capabilities of this of Mr. Buchanan. To be sure, the demorali- zations of the democracy in Congress compelled the President to rely at the late session upon the patriotism of the opposition side; but in the decisive support which they contributed upon every important measure we have the key which secures the patriotic endeavors of the President against all party rebellions, or conspiracies, or disasters, to the end. But in regard to the administration which is to succeed the present, and in reference to the elec- tion which is to decide its political status and policy, the political confusion which was stirred up at the last session of Congress ia now worse confounded than ever. The democratic party is a wreck; the republican party is but a loose conglomeration of discordant elements; and the Know Nothing party has been frittered away. The opposition will most probably bave a ma- jority in the next House of Representatives; but it will be a patchwork affair, subordinate to the chances and accidents of the hour. It will not be able to do much mischief, and may possibly prove to be a decided acquisition to the adminis- tration, as compared with the wrangling cliques of the democratic majority of the present House From this existing demoralization of parties, and from all the indications of the day, there will be neither union, nor harmony, nor system, nor policy, to guide the proceedings ofany party in the next Congress, except the party supporting the measures of the administration. And, as in the present Congress, so in the next, this party may be composed of men of all parties and sec- tions, united simply from the high considerations of duty to the government and the country. Thus, too, we may discover a nucleus around which a solid conservative Union party may be organized for 1860, which will over- whelm and supersede all the demoralized, rot- ten and effete party organizations resting upon the dead issucs of an exhausted slavery agita- tion. ‘The time is evidently at hand when the Ame- rican people, in their primary capacity, may confidently begin the work of a peaceful revolu- tion, reconstruction and reformation. Ignoring all the existing parties, and their rules of disci- pline, and their managing juntas and caucuses, the conservatives and practical men of all par- ties have only to meet in council, here and there and everywhere, and compare notes, and they will quickly discover a fair field and an open way for a new party, competent to control the issues and the election for the succession. In this view, most likely the measures and policy of the adminis- tration, foreign and domestic, which have been, and which will yet be developed, will form a basis for popular action which will be irresisti- ble against all the opposing parties and conven- tion managers and gamblers that may take the ld. We fully believe that at this moment a vast majority of the American people stand, in re- gard to the rotten party organizations of the day, in that position of apathy, indifference and disgust which is the next thing to an open re- volt. This state of things, with the new de- mands arising from the practical exhaustion of the slavery agitation, assuredly secures the ad- ministration for the present, and gives it the controlling balance of power for the future. Groans Prom THR Anny or Occvratiox.—We have received several complaints from the mem- bers of the militia force that has lately been de- tailed for service at Staten Island, and print the annexed as a specimen of the whole:— New Youn, Nov. 11, 1858 Mr. Eprror—Will you please say something in your per about the pay of the militia that have done duty at utine? 1 belong to the Seventy-first, and the worst of the game is, I lost my situation by rendering the State service. Iam not the only one, for! know of plenty of ‘other young men in my own and the Righth regiment who are in actual want of their psy for their eupport. ONE OF THE SEVENTY FIRST The question addressed by “One of the Seven- ty-first” was touched upon in these columns at the time when Gov. King ordered the Bighth re- giment to Quarantine. We were at a loss then to perceive who was to pay the men the stipend which is allowed by the State for routine service. It is claimed by the citizens of Richmond county that the militia were sent there illegally, but that in any case they are not bound to pay. On the other hand, the State ‘ireasurer and Comptroller have no color of law to warrant them in nccept- ing the drafts of the military authorities, if any were made. Tie Only consolation that we can offer to our correspondent and his fellow suffer: is this; The Sta syed the militia, aud the State canne! roy 1 It will probably be necessary for t)« uext Legislature to pass a spe- cia! act appropriating a sufficient sum to pay the men and the expenses of their maintenance, It will be a mere begetelle—eay half @ milion of dollars, without allowing for stealings, Still the men who have done duty at the Island should not be held responsible for the blundering of Governor King and his advisers, and the distress- ed warriors will get their moncy sooner or later. New Movement in Literature and Patriotism. It is a somewhat singular circumstance that at the same moment when leading publishing houses, like the Harpers, are debasing and de- grading the literary reputation of the nation, by issuing a work upon prostitution, which is al- most as prurient in its details as the cartload of obscene books which were seized in this city some months ago; and while journals like the Times and the Trilnme help the publishers in their work by claborate reviews of the disgusting work, we find, while all this is going on in the upper circles of liderature, a movement in another quarter to present to the public gems of English undefiled, with a view to the promotion of one of the noblest national works. This new literary and patriotic movement, which presents #0 marked. & contrast to the tendency of the recent pub- lications of the Harpers, and the reviews thereon in the Zimes and Tribune, has been inaugurated by the immortal Bonner, and is fully explained in the following correspondence:— THE IMMORTAL BONNER TO MR. EVERETT. Lxparr Orrice, New York, Sept. 2, 1858. Drax Sim—I bave a proposition of a somewhat ‘peculiar nature tomake to you. For the purchase of the Mount ‘Vernon property you bave done moro than any other man, or, I might say, than all other men. To your oloquent ap- peal in its bebalf is pre-eminentiy due the credit of the progress already made in that noble work, and the favor with which the subject i# universally received by our yle from one extremity of the land to the other. ‘The heart of the public bas naturally warmed towards you op account of your well timed and well directed efforts to rescue the tomb of the Father of our Country from neglect and dilapidation, Knowing that you have been no less distinguished in literature than in official life, it has occurred to me that it might be as agreeable to you to aid the patriotic and bene- yolcat enterprise Which you have undertaken by contri- butioas to the columns of a weekly paper of unprecedented cirentation as by & public address. I have, accordingly, to propose that if you will furnish to the New York Ledger one origipal article a week for one year, I will, immedi- ately on receiving your assent to this proposition, place at your disposal, for the benefit of the Mount Vernon Associa- tien, my check for the sum of ten thousand dollars. 1 am aware, sir, that you are not in the habit of con- tributing to the columns of any periodical, and that you are fortunately so situated financially that’ no pecuniary reward offered to you for your own porsonal benefit would induce you to deviate from your usual course; but your disinterested devotion to, and the deep interest you have taken iv, the noble work to which I have referred, leads me to hope that, for the sake of aiding it, you may accept my proposition.’ Very respectfully, {OBERT BONNER, Proprietor of the New York Ledger. Hon. Kowarp Everert. MR. EVERETT'S REPLY. Bostox, Nov. 6, 1858. Dear Sir—Your letter of the 2d of September was piactd iu my hands on the 14th of that month. In consideration of your check for teu thousaud dollars to be placed at my disposal for the benefit of the Mount Vernon Association on the receipt of my letter accepting the offer, you pro- pose tome tofurnish an original article weekly for the New York for one year. ‘This liberal Cffor has received my thoughtful considera- tion. Ihave been and am strongly tempted, on the one hand, to make this noble addition to the Mount Vernon Fund. On the other hand, among other is of hesita tion, I have been afraid that I could not do justice to your liberality, without giving up more time to the preparation of the articles than is consisteut with other engagements and duties. You are right in supposing that no peguniary benefit ac- cruing to myself would induce me to undertake the task ; although the ‘financial situation’ to which you allude is far jess brilliant than yoo may have been led to think by exag- gerated newspaper reports. I feel, however, that it is my duty not to forego this opportunity of adding 80 large a sum, at once, to the Mount Vernon Fund, aud I accept the offer. I will begin to furnish the articles as soon as the immedi- ate demands upon my time to fulfill some previous engage- ments shall coase—in the course of this month atfurthest— and I will continue them, as far as possible, weekly, mak- ing up at the end of the year for any omisgion in the regu- lar supply. They will, [hape, be received by you and the public with the indulgence usually extended to gratuitous labors in a meritorious cause. shall venture to call the articles thus furnished by me “The Mount Vernon Papers,’’ scarcely daring to assume that honored name, which, Lowever, may perhaps be per- mitted, as appropriately indicating the object for which they ate prepared; and so excasing their imperfections, I rctuain, dear sir, respectfully, yours, EDWARD EVERETT. Rowt, Bower, Fag. COvY OF RECEIPT FMOM THR TREASTRER OF THE AUXILIARY MOUNT VERNON YN $10,000 Bosros, Now. 10, 1858, Received of Hon, Edward Everett, 8. Bonner’s check for ten thousand dollars, for the trostees of the Mount Vernon Fund. F. H. PEABODY, Treasurer. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Everett accepts the offer of the immortal Bonner, and for the sum named, which has already been paid, has given his receipt. The elegant scholar and graceful orator will commence his “ Mount Ver- non Papers” in the next number of the Ladger. ‘The eum seems a very large one, but it is really a sign that we are progressing in literary as well as other matters, and it is one of the immortal Bonner’s greatest coups. The accession to the ranks of journalism of such a recruit as Mr. Everett will be received with enthusiasm throughout the country. At the same period that Mr. Everett accepts the offer of the immortal Bonner, he is preparing for a renewal of his labors commenced Yast year, and he will pro- nounce this morning at Niblo’s Garden his ora- tion upon the life and character of Washington, the proceeds to be devoted towards the purchase of Mount Vernon. While, however, we applaud the patriotism of Mr. Everett and the liberality of Mr. Bonner, contrasting them with the low spirit displayed by the leaders of the trade and the journalists of the Times and Tribune, we must express our utter disgust at the present aspect of the Mount Ver- non matter. What are the facts? The tomb of the founder of a great people—rich, prosperous and powerful beyond all precedent, the time and circumstances considered—is going to wreck and ruin; and its total decay, it seems, cannot be prevented without the use of the most extraordinary exertions. Here we have all sorts of people going about the country begging in every possible way for a dollar for Washington's grave. Women are running about, holding up their aprons to catch pennies for Washington, and a great orator, like Mr. Everett, is obliged to consecrate his whole time to going about the country and writing for the immortal Bonner to raise a few dollars for Washington. The fact is, that such a state of things is an eternal shame and diagrace to all of us. Washington, his name and fume, his abiding place in life and death, be- long to the nation. The soil wherein his body rests should be purchased by the Congress of the United States, and preserved forever as a part of the national domain as much as the Capitol or the White House. An appropriation of at least five hundred thousand dollars should be reported early during the coming session, and we should not like to be the man to vote against it. Congress can vote away millions to enrich broken down hack politicians or country printers, can throw away hundreds of thousands npon a miserable hungry lobby, or endow humbug railways with maguificent grants of public land, or vote great sums fo build navy yards where no ships can ever go, or custom houses where there are no duties to be collected—in fact, it can provide liberally for all sorts of jobs to feed political vagabonds, but it cxnnot epend one cent of the public money for the grave of Washington. That patriotic work fs left to the scholastic Kive- rett ond the immortal Bonner. Truly it may be said that “republics are ungrateful.” ‘Tue Orema at 1m AcaDRHY.—The “Don Glow Le given for the third time this evening. ‘The or in interest with every performance, The artists are better, and the publie 18 more caywble of appreciating the elaborate beauties of the work. Piceolomial’s Zariin has enchanted everybody, aud the whole performance is allot migcit ” THE LATEST NEWS. AFFAIRS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Our Special Washington De BRITISH INTERFERENCE AGAINST THE FILIBUSTRRS— ACTION IN SUPPORT OF THK NEUTRALITY LAWS— THE FORTHCOMING REPORTS TO CONGRESE—THY TARIPK QUESTION--DOUGLAS COQUETTING WITH ‘THE ADMINISTRATION—NEWS FROM THK PARAGUAY FLERT, ETO. Wasarrvaron, Nov. 11, 1858, Tiearn from the best sources that the English govern ment bas replied favorably to the appeal of the well known Mora-Martinez declaration which was appended to the Beliy contract, and has assured the governmentof Nica- ragua that it will protect that republic against any inva- sion by filibusters from this country, if the government of the United States does not. This powor the British go- vernment finds itself authorized to exercise under the clauses of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. ‘Ibe Collector of the port of New Orleans, on tele- Grapling Secretary Cobb regarding the filibustering movements, to know what he should do about clear- ing suspicious vessels, has been instructed, through the telegraph, t take po action till he states a spe- cial case to the department and receives an answer, Written general instructions will be mailed to him; but up to the present time they have not been prepared, 60 deli- cate and important is this question, between the necessity of enjorcing the laws and the fear of overstepping them. Fither the British government is prepared to act against any body of Americans that may land oa tho Mosquito coast or in Nicaragua, upon invitation of the so-called government of that republic, or Lord Napier haseuccocded in impressing our government with the idea of the possi- bility of euch interference. Hence tho anxiety of the administration to prevent the unbappy comptications which must be the result. Outside of government it is believed the British will not presume to interfere, and that it is a diplomatic ruse of his lordship to give extraordinary vitali- ty to the neutrality laws at the critical juncture of Sir William Gore Ougeley’s negotiations, ‘The numerous assertious and epeculations in the news. papers about changes to be recommended in the tariff in Secretary Cobb's forthcoming report bave no foundation. All the reports from heads of bureaus are uot yet in, and the Secretary bimseif has come to no decision, and there has, therefore, been no action in Cabinet council on the subject. The present income from revenue shows a healthy condition and growth of commerce. Taking a certain average of days from October and November of the last three years, and considering the extravagant and flush time of year before last, and the extraordinary de- pression last year, and present year shows about a me- dium income between the two former periods. It is considered certain, however, that there will bo no necessity for another loan. It is believed here that Douglas’ election to the Senate is not secured. An article in that rampant Douglas pa- per—the Press—expreeses doubt by saying the adminis. tration may buy up eome of the Legislature. It is rich to pretend to anticipate defeat on that ground. ‘The Congressional ; cians of the Douglas stripe who begin to arrive here express the belief that Douglas will desire a reconciliation with the administration aud the consolidation of the democratic party. Mr. Pryor leaving the South and uniting with the States is considered a combination in favor of R. M. T. Hunter for the Presidency, and the abandonment of Henry A. Wise. It is evidently nothing more than a question of present existence and future printing jobs. Advices to the War Department from Fort Deflance to the 28th of September, state thata train in charge of Captain Lindsay, with government stores, had arrived, being forty-three days onthe route. Major Brooks ar- rived on the 24th, and reports sceing Indians in great numbers, but they could not be brought to an engagement. Captain Hatch, with Company I, of the Rifles; Lieut. Whipple, with Company B, of the Infantry, and Lieut. Dickinson left the Fort onthe 24th for Laguna Negra. On the 29th Col. Miles, with the entire command, except a small garrison, left for Chusco and Tunicha. The force consisted of Colonel Miles commander; Lieut. W. B. Lane, Adjutant; Dr. J.C. McKee, Acting Assistant Surgeon; company — Mounted Rifles, Capt. Elliott; F company Mounted Rifles, Supt. Averille; I company Mounted Rifles, Capt. McLane; H company Mounted Rifles, Capt. Lindsay; B company Third infantry, Lieut. Whipple; K company Eighth infantry, Lieut. Mil- lard, together with guides and spies, and Capt. Blas Lu- cerd—in all, three hundred and ten men. The United States steamer Arctic has been thoroughly repaired, and anew wing put om ber propeller. She leaves Washington Navy Yard on Monday fur Pensacola, with officers and crew for the Metacomet, who are waiting here. ‘The Land Office yesterday forwarded to the Governor of Arkansas, patent No. 6 of swamp lands in the Helena dis- trict, containing 326,092 acres, and to the President of the United States patent No. 10 of swamp lands in the same district, containing 111,166 acres. In the case submitted to the Attorney General with refe- rence to carrying the mails from Cairo to New Orleans, and stopping at Memphis at @ certain hour, he decides ‘that if the mail arrives at Memphis any time during the day the contract is fulfilled, and the Postmaster has no right to send by transient boats. James Wallace, of Philadelphia, is appointed Third As- sistant Engineer in the navy, vice Rind, resigned. The Navy Department has received intelligence from the following vessela of tho Paraguay expedition:—The Fulton arrived at Barbadocs on the 15th, and the Water Witch on the 16th ult. Both vessels left Norfolk on the Sth of the same month. The Harriet Lane arrived at the ‘same piace on the 20th, in twelve days from New York. They stopped at Barbadoes « few hours to coal, aud then proceeded to the reneczvous at Montevideo. ‘The Commissioner of Patents decided yesterday an im- portant case, which bas occupied bim a fortnight, and which has been pending several months, for rolling cold iron at bigh pressure, condensing the fbre and increasing the strength and stiffoess of the metal. It is said to greatly improve frou, and is @ most valuable invention, The contestants were Messrs. Savary and Bernard Lauth, The case was decided in favor of Lauth. THE GENKRAL NEWSPAPER DENPATOR. Wasinworox, Now. 11, 1858, * The Treasury estimates are not yet completed, and until they are it will be impossible for the Secretary to know what probable amount of revenue will be required for the next fiseal year. In the absence of this necessary infor. mation, it cannot be determined what recommendation should be made to Congress, hence newspaper specula. tions upon the subject are without authority. The Secre- tary has not yet written a line of his report. General Ward, of Georgia, though he has accepted the tender of the mission to China, will not be nominated to the Senate until after the ratification of the Reed treaty by that body. More than usual caution is observed with a view to pre vent a prematare discovery of the contents of the forth coming executive reports, and especially the President's message. Congressional Election in Pensylvania, Hansen, Nov. 11, 1868. ‘The Governor bas issued a writ for an extra election in Berks county, on the 90th November, fora member of Congress to supply the vacancy by the resignation ai anaey foo “s Arrival of Another Captured Slaver at Charleston. ‘Cuaniieeron, Nov. 10, 1868, ‘The ketch Brothers arrived here this morning, in charts of Lieut. Stone. She was taken on the south coast of Af- rica, on suspiown of being a siaver. The ketch Brothers was formerly owned by Street Brothers, of Charleston And, was sold to parties in Havana. She wan provided with n glawer’s ovtft, and had $8,700 in gold, but had no slaves on board at the time of ber capture. Capture of a Slaver on the Cuban Coast. Wasuunctow, Nov. 11, 1868. The steamship Black Wrrrior arrived at New Orleans on Satu » bringing information from Havana that the bark Venue, formerly under the Mexican flag, was cap- tured, with nearly six hundred negroes on board, off the the Moro, by Spanieh war steamer, The Railroad Convention at Cleveland. Cravetaxn, “ov. 11, 1858. The Railroad Convention wae occupled all day in dis- cussing the report mittee of the Ni Falls Convention, and the indications ate favorable for an agreement npon the plan proposed by \. aod more important part of ithas already been eyrecd to in ermin the prove tendance. ‘The For River Valley Ratirond. The Pou Nie ‘ tajtre om aueton, aNd Was be BW. Raymond fer 61 for the ben: tt © bale] » of the whole. Great interest we J ge today, and there was an frees ‘ Detroit and Milyreuktc Railroad. sal fowarnm, Nov, 11, 1858 x nd Mil a re this ¢ z ad t so ond » maoy Important from Eermu‘la. TERRIFIC HUKRIOANK—GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PRO PRETY—DISASTERS 70 THE FRIGATE SABINS AND OTHER AMRKICAN VESSELS, ETO. Hasarax, Nov. 11, 1868. ‘The steamer Delta, from St. Thomas on the 2d and Bor- muda on the 7th inat., arrived here to-day Bermuda was visited with a terrific hurricane on the 284, 24th, 26th and 2th of October, and imaonse damage was done to property. ‘Tho United States frigato Sabine put into Bermuda on the Sst ult., having been disabled in the hurricane on the 24th. Sho lost ber maintopsail and forosail, and had her bow ports forced mand her steering gear seriously in- jured. Groat facilities for speedy and effective repairs ‘were promptly and cheerfully afforded by the British au- thorities, and the Sabine would again in a few days be im complete ordor for proceeding to Buenos Ayres. Tho bark W. H. Chandler, from New York for Vige, Put into Bermuda on the 29th. She encountered the hur- ricane on the 24th, and was thrown on ber beam ends and compelied to cut away her raasts ‘The schooner Genoral Grant, from Baltimore, arrived at Bermuda on tho 29th, with a large part of her star: board waist torn out by tho hurricane. The Gen. Grant passed a large ship bottom up, aud saw two other veasela laboring heavily in the gale. ‘The schooner Harkaway, from New York, reached Bor- muda on the 28th. Part of her deck load had beoa washed overboard. ‘The bark Eliza Bares, from New York, also arrived at Bermuda on the 28th. Election of John B. Haskin in the Ninth Con- gressional District. Warre Piains, Nov. 11, 1858. ‘The official canvass of the votes in Westchester county was completed this afternoon, with the following result, as regards the contest between John B. Haskin and Gouy- erneur Kembie, to represent the Ninth Congressional dis- trict:—John B, Haskin, 6,906; Gouverneur Kemble, 4 884; Mr. Haskin’s majority in Westchester county is 1,082, and Mr. Komblc’s majority in Rockland and Putnam counties is 1,009. Mr. Haskin’s majority in the district is 18, exolu- sive of the votes cast for J. B. Haskin in Westchester and Putnam counties, where they were rejected, Explosion of a Steam Mill, ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED. mi claaiions Sou crak pag iy Pico 11, 1868. ec vo ani ing mill in this place, belong- ing to Mr. Rich, of Moores, N. Y., burst this morning, killing one man by the name of Schoolcraft, and injuring three others so badly that they are not expected to live. ‘The names of the throe injured are not yot ascertained. Alleged Murder tn Boston, Boston, Nov. 11, 1868, Ann Stewart was found in a barber's shop in’ this city carly this morning, with all her clothes burned off aad her body shockingly burnt, She was taken to the hoapi- tal, and in her dying deposition states that a mulatte named Mitchell threw camphene on her, which ignhed when he fied. She will not live through the day. Mitchell has been arrested. Frost at the South, Avovera, Ga., Nov. 11, 1858. The despatch sent from here yesterday should have read—‘The farmers say there was a killing frost in this section yesterday,’ instead of “there was no killing frost.’”* ‘The Pacific for Galway. ‘Sr. Jou, N. F., Nov. 12, The steamship Pacific, for Galway, will not leave this Port before Saustay, and deepatchee Sled at 21 Wall atreet, iew York, on Saturday, in season to reach here the game , Will be duly forwarded by not yet arrived, but wil eveniny her. She probably be here to- morrow. ‘The Case of James McMahon, Newark, N. J., Nov. 11, 1858. ‘The case of James McMahon was concluded to-day, the Jury rendering » verdict of guilty of murder in the’ ret degree. The prisoner fested Bo appacent concerm at the verdict. He will be sentenced ina few days. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. » Nov. 11, 1858. Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania 6's, 96; Mead: Railroad, 44; Morris Canal, 49; Long Island Railroad, 11%; Penn: 25 sylvania Railroad, 43. New Ontxans, Nov. 11, 1858. ‘The receipt here to-day of the Asia's advices unsettled the cotton market and caused a slight dechne, but accu- ratc quotations cannot be given. me quote muidling at lle. alle. The sales to-day add up 6,000 bales, Su- gar steady, Flour dull. Lard quiet. Momtx, Nov. 10, The sales of cotton to-day wore 4,000 bales 114gc for middling, the market closing quietly. Cuartaston, Né ‘The sales of cotton today were 2,500 an changed prices; middling, 11}4c. The market closed quiet. BALTMoRK, Flour in brisk demand, at pr firm and unchanged. Corn—An advancing toadenc: tales at 75c. a 78c. for old white, and 850. new white, 70°. a 71c.; new yellow 78¢. Flour . d 35; red, $1 25. Corn steady: old yellow 81 and new 66c. & Tc. Whiskey advanced to Se. n “el ait RT oe ie pe Flour generally more better higher grades, receipts limited: sales 440 tok. Wheat firmer and more active: sales §,000 bushels red winter at $1 20, and a small at $128. Corn 800 do. to day —26,000 bushels A handsome lot of 103 head State Cuicado, Now. 11, 1858 Flour firm. Wheat quirt at 680, ‘Oats stead Receipts bushels corn. Corn declined to 63c. Shipments to Buffalo: 16,000 buolels wheat, bbls. four; 14,000 bushels wheat; 8,008 Crvemnant, Nov. 11—6 P.M. Flour dull and unchanged: extra, $476.0 $6 25. key advanced to iio. under an active demand. Hogs hardly so buoyant, holders being more willing to sell sales at $6 26 a $6 40 per hundred pounds. Provisions unchanged in price, with leas doing for future delivery. SEE CENTRAL AMERICA—MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAIVERRS OF Coma Rica—Its Resorrons axp ite Deeny.—In order to accommodate the numerous schools of our city, Mr. Meagher bas made arrangements to gir) a full narrative of his and Mr. Paez’s Central American travellings on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when the entire series of the splendid paintings by Mr. Kyle will be exhibited. Sul! further to accommodate the pupils of our echoots, and the friends who accompany them, the price will be lowered to one-half of that already advertised. It ie unnecessary to remind the public that this delightful and highly intel lectual entertainment takes piace at Niblo’s saloon, aod that to-morrow afternoon and evening will be the last occasion offered to New York to enjoy it, as Mr. Meaghor has to leave immediately for the South, Poet Ornce CLank Axnsermp.—Heary Reed, a night clork in the Post Office in this city , was detected Wednesday night in the act of partoining letters and packages from the mails. Several important packages had been missed re- cently, it appears, which were known to have been placed upon the counter where Reed worked, and suspicion fas- tening upon him, a close watch was kept upon his move: ments. On Wednesday night Mr. Holbrook, the special agent of the Post Office Department, and Mr. Thomas Clark, of the City Post Office, while on the wateh, saw Reed steal a number of letter packages and secrete them about his person, and immediately followed him into the bacement of the building, where he was canght in the operation of breaking open the letters. Hoe was at once arrested and taken to the police station in Beekman street, and soon after placed in the hands of the United States Marshal. ™r Arrroacinsc Pxacction of Rourna.—The execution | for the murder of Me. Swanston, will the yard of the City Prison, | ' iding the erection of the | t tet by Sheriff Wiliet, and carrying the extrema ‘The condomncd main. wnee yesterday that has charac Teinee the day he was sentenced, any vieiters—even his immediate aud bas refuted to communicate during bis lat Lours, preferring rather to enjoy the few moments that ace lef) Mia in the ox of relig‘oug devotion, f »