The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES “GORDON BENNETT, asanrpatoreindeieatanaties orrics &. Ww. comes OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ARMS, edvonce. Money cont by matt will be at the raw Oe re rn st "PES AEE Pads cee oes J pt gn eee Cat oh aaa} ¥ HERALD, every Wednesday, at four conte per “Wernt RT CORRESPONDENCE, dmporta \ containing ‘any quarter of the world ; sed, will a . “Gar Ove FoRetaN CORRESPONDENTS ARR ny nd ‘Brquesten ro Baal ae ‘Lerrers anp Pack: No SNOPICE taken of nomymons correspondence, We do not return rected [ENTS renewed avery day advertisements * wan VaR TENT Hekaup, Fasity Yianato, and én the ad ee Tae contol with neatness, cheapness and der AMUSEMENTS TO M! ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth mreet.—Itatray Ormea —Dor Giovanst. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broatway—Max or tax Wort —Mons. MALURT—Hussanp At SiG: NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue Lire oF an Actress, BOWERY THRATRE. Bowery.—Tux Bortuz—Decnars sux—Tae Lost TREASURE. WALLACK'S: THEATER, Leeene? Gong TO THE Bav—Lapr or tur Bev © LAURA KEENR’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Ove Auxzioax Covsur—Amn Onsect or InteKEstT. NUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broad: — Afternoon ect'vening= Taopom _e ‘Mumic Worip—Dx. Vitesse, ke. wooD's Pog ve BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway — xmortam Bom NOES. £0.—SCAMPINI. MECHANIC'S HALL, 427 Broadway.—Brvawrs’ Miwsrreis -Neguo Sonos axp Buaiesques—BoxuEsave EQuesteis, AMPBI INSTRELS, | 444 Brendway.—Bemsortay cubMioresustics, Sonus, 20-~Poxco teenth street and Sixth avenne,— ane eee TANAnTIoe SPSCtAoUs OF CINDERELLA. NEW HALL, Broadway, next Bleecker street—Mecuasicat elinvie or tus ‘Dustavorion OF JaRUSaLEM, £0. ——_—<— <<< ————————————————— ———o New York, Sunday, November 14, 1855. The News. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, City Judge Russell granted a motion to quash the indict- ments against Charles Devlin, Charles Turner, Enoch Dean, J. B. Smith, and others, ex-city officials and contractors, for an alleged conspiracy to de- fraud the public treasury, on the ground that they were improperly framed. The Judge also granted a motion for a new trial in the case of Richard Barry, a School Commissioner, convicted of an as- aault. The decisions in these cases may be found in our report of the proceedings, published in ano- ther column. William Somers, who was convicted in September of stabbing John B. Aikin, the mate of the ship Mandarin, was sentenced toseven years confinement in the State prison, Judge Russell hay- ing denied a motion for a new trial. James Corco- ran, a youth, found guilty of burglary in the first degree, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for ten years and six mouths. Republican conventions for the nomination of candidates for Aldermen in the various districts, were held last evening. In the First district Hiram Corwin was nominated. In the Seventh district Mr. Georg: Starr, the present incumbent, was nomi- nated for re-clection. In the Ninth district two conventions were held—one at Chelsea Hall and the other at Friendship Hall. The Friendship Hall party nominated Gilbert G. Ball. In the Eleventh district General William Hall was vominated. The steamship Quaker City left New Orleans on Friday morning on her yecond trip to Minatitlan She took out fifty-two passengers, bound for the Pacific via the newly opened Telwantepec route. By the way of New Orleans we have dates from Vera Cruz to the ¢th inst. A despatch under the telegraphic head contains the points of the news. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes. writing on the 22d ult., says:—i regret that the prospects of the next crop are not encouraging, owing to unusual drought. The planters are much dispirited, but trust that the recent rains may have 8 favorable effect, aided by energy, perseverance snd skill. The elections for Bridgetown and the parish of St. Michael are over, and passed off quiet- ly. All the old members, except Messrs. Elder, Grant and Gaskin, were returned. The United States steamers Fulton and Water Witch, of the Paraguay expedition, are in Carlisle bay. According to the report of the City Inspector, there were 385 deaths in the city during the past week—an increase of 24 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and three more than occurred during the corresponding period in {ast year. Of the total number 212 were of ten years of age and under, and 54 inmates of the public institutions. The following table shows the pumber of deaths for the past two wecks among adults and children, distinguishing the sexes: Men. Women. Boys. Girle. Toial. Woek ending Nov. 6..72 u 116 1” an Week endwg Nov. 13..04 "3 ila 101 385 Among the principal causes of death were the following :— ek Disrases Nov. 6. Nov. 13. Bronchiti#...........+ 2 ‘Agnsumptior oe ne ‘isons ‘(infitile) 266 2 iad » infantom seth i Tharrhosa. . ? 6 Dysentery . eee ba 6 Dropay iG the head. sccespex ae 10 Inflammation of the bowels. 6 7 Inflammation of the lungs 2 a Inflammation of the brain . lo “ Marasmus (infantile). .. 16 pI Scariet fever There were also 7 ‘deaths of apoplexy, 10 of can- cerous affections, 11 of congestion of the lungs, ll of croup, & of debility (infantile), 6 of typhoid fever, 9 of disease of the heart, 8 of hooping cough, 4 of scrofula, § premature births, 26 stillborn, and 14 from violent causes, including 1 suicide and 1 murder. The annexed table shows what portions of the haman system have been most affected:— Inwaws. Nor. 6. Now. 18. Bowes, joints, ke « Brain and nerves ° erren ™ 6 Generative organs 3 7] Heart and blood veesels . «8 18 ‘ suveeve 8 3 ‘and eruptive fowers...... iu 13 Stillborn and premature births....... . a8 bi, bowels and ther digestive organs. 61 6 ‘tam seat and —_— fevers... . ccs... a 3B Unknown .... 2... = i Urinary organs . ssevce 8 7 Teta eevee oa oN The number of des aths, compared with the cor- responding weeks in 1856 aad 1857, was as follows: — Week ending Nov. 16, 1866...... 600.0406 6 Week ending Nov. 14. 1887 ‘Week ending Nov. 6, 1868 Week ending Now. 13) 1868 The nativity table gives 246 natives of the United States, 74 of Ireland, 42 of Germany, 7 of England, 8 of France, 4 of Scotland, 3 of Prussia, and the balance of various foreign countries. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,009 bales, The market closed steady at unchanged prices. Floor was in fair request, while sales were leas active aod prices without change of importance. Wheat wae in ‘imited demand, and sales were quite light. Prime to hoice lote Continued to be firmly held. Corn was firm, while sales Were more moderate at 73: for New Orleans mined, and at 740. a T6e., chiefly at the inside figure, for Western mixed. Southern yellow was at 5c a Sto. and Jereey do. at 840, 0 860. Pork was leas active and boy ont. Sales of mese were made at $17 85 0 $17 44, and of prime at $13 5040814. Beef whe steady and in good de. mand Sugars were steady, with sales of about 400 Lhds sud 800 boxes Coffee was quiet and salet limited Freight engagements were moderate, while ~— were an changed. Cotton war taken to Rotterdam and to Havre at yo. Cheeses to London was taken ant ane 690 faek oq t NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, New Complications in the Contral American Imbroglio— Approaching Collision with Englond and France. It is abundantly evident to those who watch the course of events that the British government in- tends to pursue the aame system of jockeying to- wards the United States, in the questions regard- ing the American Mediterranean and Isthmus, that has marked ita conduct from the time of Chatfield in Central America, and of Elliott, of white bat celebrity, in Texas, ‘The stateamen of England seem to be deeply impressed with the necessity, as the organ of Lord Derby recently stated, “of creating a coun- terpoise to the growing ascendancy of the United States." No matter which party comes into power there, it follows the lead of its prede- cessors in this view, and endeayors to devise some new trick or scheme to further this object, and, if possible, to make it an attainment, or a fixed fact. They are equally ready to coquette with the fire-eating filibusters un- der Sam Houston in Texas, and the blue- nose filibustera of Nova Scotia; to league with the greasers of Mexico and Central America against the invading Yankee, or to steal Tiger Island, Mosquita, Ruatan or Greytown for them- selves, ander the plea that the Yankees may get them ifthey do not. When the entente cor- dale with France was established, they hailed it as the omen of success in this great object, and Lord Clarendon boastfully announced on the floor of the British Parliament that the policy of the alliance would be one that would affect by its unity the policy of every part of the world. We have a conviction that this impression ob- tains with the statesmen of England only be- cause it has been a traditional conviction with them, and that no man with the energy and in- dependence of Sir Robert Peel has risen among them to lay down a more sagacious law of con- duct. It was this conviction that led to the Revo- lutionary war, to that of 1812, and to the nume- rous other acts of antagonism to us on the part of England. It inculeated the idea that our de- velopement was inimical to the interests of Great Britain, and must therefore be resisted on all sides, But there never was a greater error in fact, and the minds of the people in both coun- trieshave been opened to this conviction, al- though the statesmen of England still refuse to admit it. The greatest defence which the liber- ties of England have at this day, and the only one that has saved them from having been long since overwhelmed by the despotic theories ot continental Europe, is the fact that a mighty people, speaking in common language with the British, and holding common theories of political liberty, had grown upin the new hemisphere, and might at any time make common cause with Eng- land in defence of those popular rights which both hold to be most dear. Besides this, the practi- cal experience of the British merchant and the British sailor have taught them that Britain not only does not lose, but gains vastly by the de- velopement of the power and.influence of the United States. The policy which this country has ever pur- sued in its foreign relations is one of high and impartial justice to all, and of preference to none. The principle that a free flag makes free goods first came from us; the practice of intro- ducing the now universal most favored nation clause in commercial treaties is an American practice; the opening of Japan and the aboli- tion of the time honored robbery known as the Sound dues are fruits of the American policy; and the clear enunciation of the law that nar- row isthmuses between world-traversed oceans shall be equally free to all nations. without onerous imposts by the territorial sovereign, has as yet come only from the United States. While the statesmen of England cannot deny its truth and justice, they fear that its eventual applica- tion to the Isthmus of Suez may endanger her vast possessions in India. Animated by this fear and counselled by that weakness which keeps them within the narrow limits of the traditional policy we have referred to, England still wishes to jockey in the Central American questions. This was the aimof the Clayton-Bulwer treaty; this was the purport of the recent mysterious mission of Mr. Ouseley to Washington, and his present one to Nicaragua; this is the reason of the assurance given by the British government that it will protect Central America from American invasion, and why it has gathered a large fleet in the waters of the American Mediterranean. And the present intrigues of Great Britain. aided now by France, who, for reasons of her own, fosters the fallacy of creating a counter- poise to the growing influence of the United States—extend over a far wider latitude than the Isthmus of Nicaragua. They embrace Cuba and Mexico as well, and extend to all the repab- lies and islands of Spanish-America. The ope- rations of the allied squadrons against Venezuela recently were not for the petty purpose of libe- rating Monagas, for whom they did not care a pin; but they were intended to impress upon Spanish-America and the world the fact that England and France now acted together in per- fectunion. The war with Russia bas lulled fora time; the rebellion in India has ceased to fill England with anxiety, and the dif ficulties with China are apparently end- ed. The time bad come to give a practical character, in this hemisphere, to the declaration of Clarendon, that the policy of the Anglo-French alliance would influence the policy of the whole world. The present policy of that alliance is to defeat the just intentions of this government in relation to the Nicaraguan Isthmus, and thus delay the settlement of that great question. But there is a nearer and more pertlous European movement on foot, which must receive the protection of the allied fleets, Spain is about to interfere in Mexico, and she must be protected against any contingencies that it may give rise to. Cuba must be prevented from obeying that strong po litical, social and geographical attraction which is rapidly drawing it toward a union with us. For this purpose the allied fleets are made active in the Caribbean Ses, and will soon be found in co-operation with that of Spain in the Gulf of Mexico, “A counterpoise must be created to the growing influence of the United States,” says Lord Derby's London organ. “We can perceive danger of some serious collision looming ahead,” says the London Star, in a remarkable article, which we reprint elsewhere. Let the collision come, say we. The sooner it comes the better will it be forall. In the mean- time, let Mr. Buchanan pursue unflinchingly the high and just policy he has adopted. Let the Nicaragua route be opened to the world, and protected from interference on the part of native robbers, Transit route speculators, American filibusters, or Anglo-French bullics. Let the elementary principles of Isthmus transit be eet- ted by amfeable negotiation at Washington, be- ‘ New World, and New Granada as the leading Power of Spanish-America, in their applica- tion to the Panama route, and then let them be extended to all the other routes. Let the Cass- Yrisarri treaty be ratified In its integrity, and Nicaragua and Costa Rica be brought to a sense of their duty. Let Spain be notified that we sball not look unconcernedly upon any inter- firence by her in Mexican affairs, even if she were backed by the whole of Europe. Let Con- gress enunciate the policy of this country by authorizing the purchase of Cuba. And finally, let the Anglo-French Alliance understand that we will have no more jockeying in these Central American questions. If we do these things and are prepared to fight on them, we shall have 20 collision with any European Power. But just 60 sure as we attempt to temporize we shall drift intoa war that may become general, and pro- duce mighty changes before it is ended. A Narton or Gamprers—Tue Last Casks.— The natural proclivity of all nations and peoples, savage or civilized, Christian or heathen, to engage in games of chance, has been a problem for the metaphysi- cal philosophers of all ages, People who are neither metaphysical nor philosophical per se have made as short work of it as Johnson did of the Free Will question—men and women will gamble, and there 's an end of it. most despotic governments have been unable to suppress the vice alogether. In England, al- though games of hazard are prohibited in the clubs, yet there remain whist and cribbage, at which fortunes have been lost and won. Within two years Belgravia has heard that & Gabinet Minister cheated a parvenu out ofthe snug little sum of ten thousand pounds at whist; and we presume that Morpby will win fairly at least three or four thousand pounds at chess. A celebrated Kentucky sporting man, who has not been over lucky on the British turf, has, on dit, made not less than a hundred thou- sand doliars upon the green cloth at cribbage. In Paris the public gaming houses have long since becn suppressed by the police; but the governs ent permits “circles,” which correspond to ourcluie, At the circle, as well as in private society, play—chiefly at lansquenet, piquet and écarté—is very high. In Germany, as our readers know, several sovereign princes owe their bread and butter to the gambling houses licensed within their dominions, With paternal care, however, these grand dukes prohibit their own people from playing, and say to the gam- blers: “ Please to cheat only the strangers; we can attend to that department for our subjects.” In the United States the gambling passion seems to be deeply rooted. We gamble at cards, we gamble in stocks, in public lands, in politics, in houses, and in every available thing, from a townahip in Minnesota down to a pair of gloves at Stewart's. The men in Wall street gamble in stocks all day and play at faro all night. The politicians and lobby men at Washington lose at the gambling house a good part of the money that they steal out of the public purse. Here we kave a very stringent law against gambling, and the keeping of s house for such a purpose is a felony under the statute. Sometimesour chief magistrate is seized with a fit of virtuous indig- nation, and “descends” upon a gaming house, the occupants of which, being duly warned be- forehand, receive the police like “ perfect gen- tlemen,” which they are—‘ in this connection.” Sometimes the outside gets a view of this lower world by the act of the po- tentates themselves. Thus, we published lately an amusingly illogical defence of gambling from the pen of one Willis, who writes with an air of injured innocence that reminds us of Fielding’s Jonathan Wild, the Great. This philosopher's ar gument is founded upon the idea that two wrongs make a right—that because old Closeshave gam bles in Erie, or nips illegal interest in Wall street, that he, Willis, bas a perfect right to gamble at faro or roulette in Broadway. It is needless to say that the conclusion does not follow from the premises. The cool impudence, however, of the man’s attempting a defence of his traffic is worthy of this brazen age. A little higher in the scale was the gambler who died the other day at the national capital. This man was one of the pow- ers in the republic. His contributors were grave senators and fast representatives, ministers and attachés, government clerks, chiefs of the lobby, elegant loafers, Southern merchants and planters, and cadete of the first families somewhere or other, who came to Washington to throw away their little patrimony, and then, being gentlemen, and consequently above honest labor, sunk to the debasing traffic of fowler or decoy for the place at which they had been ruined. The cor- respondent ef a provincial paper, who furnishes an eloquent obituary of the distinguished de- ceased, extolling his suppers and his wines, (favorite subjects with the Washington scribes), his wife and her equipages, his plate and his carpets, his glassware and his charities—the lat- ter being money to put out at interest in the other world—a sort of anchor thrown to wind- ward, or fifty per cent premium bid for a place on the right side at the day of great account. The Washington gambler necessarily belongs to the aristocracy of his order. His patrons are leas numerous but more select than those which fill the saloons of the metropolis, Here the tables are thronged by merchants and their clerks, bank officers and employés, counts who are of no account, barons who are altogether barren, and husbands of prima donne who, with a newly fashioned lathe, turned their wives’ throats into ivory counters. The Washington men play hea- vily and lose largely, but the metropolitan game is said to have grown smaller and leas profitable of late. Indeed, there are ramors of great dis- tress among some of the fashionable gamblers bere, and it is even hinted that the horrible con- tingency of being obliged to earn an honest livelihood has risen before them like a horrid spectre, breaking their matutinal slumbers. That so great a calamity may be averted let us all earnestly pray. Seriously, however, while Wall street encon- rages gambling in every possible form in the morning, and while senators gamble in politics at the Capitol, at the same time paying their losses at faro out of the public purse; while the parsons preach the worship of the al- mighty dollar—not the Almighty God—we do not see how the more illegal but searce- ly leas immoral business of night playing is to be prevented. While the example of the etateemen and the financiers affords no palliation for the gambler’s trade, it certainly offers.a strong temptation to the thoughtless, reckless and inex- perienced youth of our cities, who plead the force of example in extenuation of their misde- meanors. Indeed, it really seems sometimes as if we were all engaged ina great game of hazard, and where the stake was no more nor less than or owe bodjes and souls, Even the Enouisut AND Amxiican Dirvomacy—Our Naw Treary wrra Jaran.—The other day we pub- lished the substance of the commercial trcaty recently concluded by Lord Elgin between Great Britain and Japan, We are told by the North China Herald that this instrument is based on the American treaty, which was signed three weeks previously by Mr. Harris, our Consul at Simoda. The latter is understood to embrace, amongst other privileges, the abolition of the government monopoly of trade, and the right of diplomatic residence at Yedo, and to correspond in every material point with the Russian treaty, The com- mercial arrangements of the English treaty are stated to be these: The export duty on all but a few prohibited articles is to be five per cent, and imports are to be charged with a duty of twenty per cent—a list of certain articles upon which an import duty of only five per cent is to be levied being appended to the treaty. In this list Lord Elgin has procured the insertion of cot- ton and woollen goods, a most important stipula- tion for English manufacturing industry. But another and more valuable clause in the English treaty, and which is not to be found in those of the United States and Ruasia, is that agreeing that the tariff shall be subject to revision at the end of five years. With such a convention it is not likely that English interests will be long hampered by the conditions of the present treaty, the insertion of the limitation being in itseif a sufficient indication of the future views of the British agents, We are influenced by no narrow feelings of jealousy at the superior advantages secured by British diplomacy in commenting upon the dis- parity of these treaties. We know that what one of the Western governments succeeds in ex- torting from Japan the others must eventually participate in. Under the most favored nation clause, for instance, we come in for all the bene- fits guaranteed by the British convention with China, although our own treaty does not stipu- late in express terms for the right of residence at Pekin, the right of free passage through the em- pire, or the opening of more than two ports, As we have not the text of Mr. Harris’ treaty be- fore us, we are unable to state whether it con- tains a similar general stipulation securing such privileges as may be granted to other countries. It is probable that it does contain such a clause; but should this not prove to be the case, oppor- tunities, we have no doubt, will soon be found of remedying the omission. That which strikes us as inconvenient, if not, to say the least of it, unbecoming our position, is that we should be indebted for the first scanty information concerning the results of our negotiations to foreign journals. There can be no rational motive, for instance, for the State Department to withhold from the public the text of the Chinese and Japan treaties. It is essential to the interests of our com- merce, and to the operations of our mer- chants, that the latter shall be promptly in- formed of the changes which take place in our relations with other governments. In the case of the European nations, we can understand that there may occasionally be well founded reasons for diplomatic reserve or delay. With powerful opposition presses always in arms against them, the monarchical governments have frequently to study the effects of their own measures on the popular mind. A too hasty announcement of them may either affect their popularity or de- feat by an ill-timed publicity their com- pletion. In negotiations with semi-civilized and remote nations, like China and Japan, neither of these results is to be feared. The distance be- tween us is too great for us to apprehend failure from precipitate publication; and besides, those countries have no presses to disseminate the information thus obtained. There is still less motive for reticamce in these matters on the part of our own government. Whether treaties be satisfactory or not, they can exercise no sort of influence over the fate or stability of our Cabi- nets. Administrations may bungle the whole train of our foreign diplomacy and yet live out their full term of office. We have therefore a right to complain that official routine should oppose un- necessary delays to the publication of such im- portant information as that contained in the Chinese and Japan treaties, the more particularly as the contents of these documents have already been partially made known in our columns, As we have no occasion to resort to the stealthy and crafty diplomacy of the European governments, we should cast aside all the objectionable auxilia- ries by which it accomplishes its ends. Seward avo He Frevp Marreson—Tur Martyn ov Oxetoa Counry.—-No. one can have read or listened to the recent speech of Wm. H. Seward, in Rome, without feeling a touch of commiseration for poor Orsamus Benajah Matte- son. According to Seward, he was faithful among the faithless in Washington, and all the charges made against him in regard to his plundering propensities and lobby management were insti- gated by hate and malevolence, because of Mat- teson’s terrible blows against the slave power. ‘There is a Latin maxim among the lawyers which Mr. Seward must often have quoted in the course of his professional career:— Fileus in uno, faleus in omnibus, is one of the tritest and truest maxims used at the bar to break down the testimony of a witness. It means, that when a witness falsely perverts the truth in regard to one fact, his whole testimony is tainted and unworthy of cre- dit. We propose to apply that principle of law to Master Seward’s testimony in favor of Matte- son, and to ask the people of the United States, who are the jurors in the case, what degree of be- lief there ought be placed ina witness who so grossly falsifies the truth in one instance, even though it be in favor of » fellow culprit. In the exordium of Mr. Seward’s Rome speech he volunteers to give a character for good con- duct to Oneida’s present representative in Con- gress, Mr. Orsamus B. Matteson. He says: I bet in his behalf willingly nnd gratefully the tosti- mon: Lady Ryn sey at ail times and under all cir- cumstances, he has been faltol. Ttorther testy that and aid of a trosty, reliable and devoted friend. abe yet further, and deciare that, being acquainted with the facts and cir. cumstances of thie vote of censure which was passed upon him in the House of ives, it was my conviction ‘at that time, way my conviction now, that that vote Fes by any evidence, sas the el repartee one Seas by Ga bee, wy y taheeh he had ‘hades What sympathetic soul could listen to such testimony from such a source without feeling that poor Matteson was the most injured of in- nocenta? Was it not enough to excite to the highest pitch the indignation of all honest men against that terrible bugbear which Mr. Seward calls “the slave interest,” that could so remorse- lesely sacrifice a gallant and honorable foc? And must not the republicans of Oneida county, who heard this apeech, bave felt thoroughly ashamed of themselves for having once heen ashamed of their representatiry ia Qn NOVEMBER 14, 1858, gress? It was enough to “make the very stones of Rome rise up in mutiny.” The only drawback to its effect waa, that there was not an intelligent man who heard or read that fune- ral oration over the politically dead body of Orsamus that did not know there was not a par- ticle of truth or sincerity in it. If there were any who heard or read it, and believed a word & il, we refer them to the Congressional Globe of the third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress, to show that in respect to his friend Matteson, Seward falsely and knowingly perverted the facts in this specch at Rome, The black republican party, of which Seward and Matteson are shining lights, bad during that Congress control of the House of Ri tatives. The Speaker of the House, Gov." of Massachusetts, was a republican. It was another republican—Mr. Kelsey of New York— who introduced the resolution for the appoint- ment of a committee to investigate the charges of corruption, and who waa chairman of that committee. The committee itself was composed of two republicans, two democrats, and one American. After a full and searching investi- gation, it reperted the following resolutions in regard to Matteson:— Resolved, That Orsamus B. Matteson, a member of this House from the State of New York; did incite parties deeply interested in the passage of the’ joint resolution for construing the Des Moines grant, to have here and to use a large sum‘of money and other valuable considerations corruptly, for the pony gg the passage of said joint resolution through this ived, That Orsamus B. Matteson, in declaring that a large ‘number of members jof this House had associated themselves together, and pledged themsetves each to the other not to vote for any law or resolution g1 Sane ney oF lands unless they were paid for it, has falsel wilfully assailed and d the character of this and has proved himself unworthy to be amember Resolved, That Orsainus B. Matteson, a member of ¢his House from the State of New York, ‘be and is hereby ex- pelled therefrora, When these resolutions came up for action, Matteson, to avoid the infamy of an expulsion, notified the Speaker that he had placed his resig- nation in the hands of the Governor of the State of New York. That, however, did not prevent the House taking action on the first two resolu- tions. The first of them was adopted by 145 yeas to L7 nays; the second was adopted without division. Of sll the republican members from Massachusetts, but three had the effrontery to yote in the negative, but seven from New York, and one from Ohio; while not one from Maine, from New Hampshire, from Vermont or from Rhode Island, voted that way. And yet, iu face of these facts, 80 well known to the sonntry and so well known to Wm. H. Seward, that shameless demagogue—who will henceforth be head of the Washington lobby in his own per- son—has had the hardihood to declare himself an admirer of Matteson, and to attribute his expul- sion from the House of Representatives to “ the hostility of the slave interest.” The people of the United States well know what value to set upon the statements of a man thus convicted of falsehood and thus leagued to the head of the lobby, and we are therefore content to dismiss the matter without further comment, and to leave Seward and his friend Matteson to the infamy that they have earned for themselves, Ports or Cats, vor AtLantic STEAMSHIPS IN Inetanp.—The success of the Galway line of steamers to this country has stirred up some of the other Irish seaport cities. The citizens of Limerick appealed to Mr. Cunard to make that place a port of call for his steamships to and from Liverpool. The citizens of Cork claim that their harbor would be a more convenient one for the Cunarders to fouch at. Mr. Cunard himself is in favor either of Cork or Galway, either of which he thinks more suitable than Limerick. There is no doubt that Cork, with its proverbially commadious and safe harbor, possesses greater advantages than the other ports. In the first place, it is on the direct track of the transatlantic steamships. Every one of them pass the mouth of the harbor at about seven miles distance, while Galway and Limerick are both out of the track. Galway, it is true, offers a fine bay, aswell as the nearest starting point to the American continent, but the city of Limerick, besides not being in the course of the steamships, lies fifty miles up the river Shannon. It is probable, then, that Cork will be the favored city if any port of call is adopted by the Cunard or any other line. (Cuasom in Tax Stxxet Commwowsn’s Orrics.—The fol- lowing changes have vaken piace in the Street Depart- ment:— Mansfield Lovell, who was Superintendent of Street Im- provements, is appointed Deputy Street Commissioner. J. B. Corlies, Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies, has resigned, to take effect om the 16th inst. J. A. Westervelt, Eeq., tendered hig resignation on the 19th inst., to take effect immediately. Edward Ewen bas been appointed Superintendent of Street Improvements, Jonathan Purdy Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies, and Bernard Kelly Superintendent of Wharves. Tonacco SavOGLING ty Srany.—Our Madrid correspondent makes the following statement in regard to this matter — Tho quantity of tobacco consumed in Spain, its value, ‘and number of smokers, is altogether a difficult account to adjust with the poverty of the revenue from this soarce. Some close estimates have been made, and the Tutelar, which, perhaps, is the very best authority for matters of this sort in the country, has devoted several articles to the subject. It is claimed that there are no lesa than three millions of smokers in the country, who con- sume a value of not less than $16,400,000, the full profit on which is about $7,100,000, making difference of $9,300,000. The question is, what becomes of his respecta- ble balance?—into whoee hands falls this excese?—who re- ceives this enormons sum of $9,300,000, of which no fovd in that year LL which rises bh nts $3,1 that actnally consumed, with the fact that the support the contraband trade surge te cmtaband ae! “small as not to be worth takitg into account, City Politics. REPUBLICAN ALDERMANIC CONVENTIONS. Finer Duerrier.—Hiram Corwin received the republican nomination for Alderman in this district. Fiera Diereacr.—The Convention of the Fifth district met at the Bleecker Buildings, at eight o'clock, but, after some digcursion, adjourned, without making any nomination, till Friday next, Severn Dirkict.—The convention met at Jefferson market shortly after 8 o'clock, when Mr. Frederick A. Conkli Present member of Assembly elect, was called to the c} Mr. W. H. Gedney acted as secretary. Mr. sane ~t Present Alderman of the district, was vnani —_ renominated, and came forward, and in ® speech of 0 fength accepted the nomination. The utmost una- simity end harmony prevailed. Nixta Distiact.—The Convention met at Chelsea Hail, corner of Kighth avenue and Kighteenth street, and ad- Journed till Wednesday, without making any nomination. Another Convention in the saine district met at Friend ship Hall, 149 Sixteenth street, and nominated Gilbert J. Butler for Alderman. Kievanta Disract.—This Convention met on Thursday evening, in Lamartine Hall, Kighth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, and nominated Gen, Wm. Hall for Alderman, Twrereesta Diernict.—This Convention met and ad- journed, without making any nomination, tll Monday evening. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS FOR gg Fanverta Diernct.—In this district two candidates have heen put forward by the democracy, via., James Connelly and Thomas A. Duns. The former is the candi date of the Regulars. Severed Dierct.—Semuct W. Galpin has been no- minated in this district by the adti-Tammany democracy. REPUBLICAN COUNCILMANIC nay nam A repabiiean convention for ne —— LY phowing por at 435 Fourth avenge, and nomin sore as canditates:—A9h ward—Joxepti H. Toone: 19th— } Hore iin Rabeowt ween Tae et Wn Ht Vaan iice, Bald 6 awd J. 4, 1. Adauas, THE LATEST NEWS. Our Spectal W. Despatch. DSSPATCH FROM GEN. OLARKE—BND OF THB INDIAN WAR IN WASHINOTON TRRRITORY—THE BXPENSES OY THS UTAH EXPEDITION, ETC., PTC. Wasurxcron, Nov. 13, 1868. ‘The War Department received to-day important des- patches from the Pacific, announcivg the conclusion of the campaign against the Indians in Washington Torritory. General Clarke sums up by saying ali the Indians engaged in hostilities have been beaten, and al! have been drives to terms. The two howitzers abaudoned by Col. Steptoe, find the remains of Captaip Taylor and Licut. Gaston, whe fel. in Steptoe’s engagement, had been phan — ‘Heapquarans Pacnic Dap; Puarr Soonp, W. T., Oat ie 10 abs. a} ‘Sar—Tho results anticipated at the date October 2d, in relation to the Pelouse Toslany, ‘aa realized. Qn September 30th tho Pelouse ie mitted to the demands of coe Sem gave hog- (fa 1 am, ym, CLARKE, Bet Ble phodiegs seepaas, Genera! Comman Lieut. yi 1. tenn hier Asst. Adit General, Reteutiees of the Army, West Point, N.Y. supposed slaver Brothers, captured by tho Bloop-of-war Marion, on the coast of Africa, ‘The Post Office Department calls the attention of Poat- masters to the practice prevailing of buying patronage im commissions allowed on mailed matter by one Post Office to the injury of others. Hereafter any such unfair prao- tice will be considered sufficient cause for removal from office. The troaty negotiated with Japan by our Consul General to that country hag not yet been received by the State Department. The expenditures for the service of Utah, agfar ag made in the Quartermaster’s Department, amounts to five mil- lion one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. Four thousand nine hundred and forty-seven wagons and am- bulances, fifty-three thousand three hundred and ninety. six horses, mules and oxen, exclusive of animals for ar- tillery and cavalry, have been furnished. Ex-Governor Medary will leave hore to-morrow for Ohio. He will answer in the course of » week whether he will accept the tender of the Governorship of Kansas News from Mexico, Naw Oniuans, Nov. 12,. 3. Tue steamsfip Bennessee has arrived here with Vora Cruz dates of the 9th inst. Guadalajara was recaptured by the Liberals on the 28th instead of the 18th ult. It was most desperately defend. ed,and the liberals had to be reinforced by 1,000 mem. ‘The people were rejoicing at their success. uloaga was anxious to retire from the fleld, but the clergy bad offered him another million not to do so. ‘Mazatlan was in possession of the liberals. ‘San Blas was the only town on the Pacific held by Za- longa. The steamer Guerrero had been recaptured in the To- basco river by the liberals, and the Spanish steamer Co- lon, at Safucios, had been taken by Alvarez. ‘The Tehuantepec Route. Naw Oniaans, Nov. 12, 1868. ‘The steamship Quaker City sailed from this port thie morning with the California mails, 25 cabin and 27 steer. age passcngers—all to go via Tehuantepec. ‘The Erte Canal. Aluany, Nov, 13, 1858, The Canal Board held a short session to-day, and ad- journed until December 16, having awarded the con- tractor on the Black River improvement $24,000 for tha stoppage of the work on his contract by the State. The Contracting Board also held an exciting session. Canal Commissioner Jacox had suspended two Amoricaa Superintendents on his division, and the Contracting Board, by a vote of three to two—Messrs, Benton, Sher- rilland Ruggles, against Messrs. Richmond and Jacox— refuse@to confirm the removal, ana reinstated the super- intendemts, Immediately after the adjournment Mr, Ja- cox again suspended one of those before removed, but ‘the Auditor advises him to hold on to his office and not recognise a successor until he is properly appointed by the Board. ———————— ‘The Railroad Convention at Cleveland. Crmvananp, Nov. 13, 1858. The Convention was occupied yesterday in discussing the Niagara Convention's plans. A resolution was adopted to submit the action of this Convention to the boards of direc- tors of the roads represented, the action of this Convention not to be final unless approved by two-thirds of the num- ber of miles embraced in the territory represented. When it is approved a general convention is to be called vor the appointment of commissioners. Im the Convention to-day the Niagara pian of organiza. tion was slightly modified, and then adopted. The most important alteration made precludes express and freight companies from enjoying any facilities in the use of care or in the despatch of freight not allowod to other ship- pers. The plan is to be submitted to the stockholders of the roads for their approval, and to the Ratifying Conven- tion at Cleveland when the pian is accepted by the road. W. Dennison, Jr., Jno, Van Nortwick, and Jno. Ingle, Jr., were appointed to serve as Commissioners antil « re- gular board is clectod. The Convention then finally ad. Journed. SALE OF THE TREMONT HOUSK—SNOW, ETO. Boston, Nov. 13, 1868. ‘The Tremont House was sold at auction to-day, subject to a four years’ lease, for $192,060. The name of the pur- chaser was not mentioned. The weather is cloudy, with indications of enow. A despatch from White River Junction, Vt., eaya it is snow ing bard there. City Marshal Warren, of Worcester, who was accident ally shot on Wednesday, died this morning Disaster on Lake Ontario. Onwnce, Nov. 18, 1858. The schooner J. 8. Reed, from St. Josephs, with wheat and lumbor for this port, weat ashore ia & snow squall this morning under Fort Ontario, The vessel and cargo are insured. sas ‘The Pacific Outward Bound. ‘Sr. Jouns, N. F., Nov. 13, 1858. The steamship Pacific, from New York, was signalied at nine o'clock this morning. She leaves to-morrow for Galway. shes The Weather at the Westward. La Crown, Wis., Nov. 13, 1858 Six inches of snow fell hore last night. Lake Pepin is partially frozen over, and boats will probably be able to make but few more tri Snow at ‘Troy. Trov, Nov. 15, 1858, Over balf an inch of snow fol! in this city and vicinity between eight and nine o clock this morning. ft has now melted away. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Stocks dull: Pen ivania Stabe be Se Roast yas 8, romd, 254; Morris Canal, 49; lang thant’ siading. at te: Pevusylvania Railroad, 42%. Racroworm, Nov 15, 1868. Flour quiet and steady, Wheat dull and unchangod Corn steady. Provisions unchanged. Whiskey 220. a 22 \e. Paranazena, Nov. 13, 1858. Flour quiet, but firm. Wheat dull, Gorn activo. Whiskey advancing: 220. 0 we Burrawo, Novy. 18—1P. M Flour firm; demand fair: sales 1 bbis. at $5 37 for ss Wisconsin; $6 a $5 eS Es a #5 0 to ext diana, Hichigan, Ohio And ‘a $675 for double extra. pty ik ‘and market firm: ralor 4,400 bushels, at 90c. Yor Milwaukie club, $1 for No. 2 red winter Tilinols; $1 10 for red Ohio and Indiana. Corn in moderate demand ; in steady: sales 15,000 bushels prime at 63c. Barley and rye—No sales. Oats rcarce and Breer, ontve 1 bushels at 460. Whi firm: ‘of 100 bbis. at 200. Onnal aw ; wheat, 4,663 0, t8-8,100 fig bi i wheat, st 9,028 "bushel corn, Brooklyn City News, ‘Toeee Mew Brute ty A Sawen.—Yesterday three men, named Jobo Burris, Barney McGivney and John Berwick, wore buried in the new sewer now being constructed at the foot of Joralemon street. The excavation had attained. fa depth of some twelve fect, at the bottom of which the Himect. but the on mae bour before they cour be taken out. Both wore badly injured, MeGivney had one of his legs broken, and waa taken to the hospital, The other war badly. bruised, and was taken to his residence, Neither are in a danger ove condition, Tho contractor, Mr. Raird, made every poasib.e exertion to save Uae men, aad succeeded in 69 doing iF two remained buried for nearly an