The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1858, Page 4

4 ———$— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDO NNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIEIOR, OFri0H K. W. CORNED OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS aE ae Pecage tempat tooioed poystk Eh one HERALD. twoo conte FUE WEEKLY HEALD, coory topy, oF $3 per annum; the Buropern Ruition omy rer Great Britain, or $5 to any part af 1 per annua. ida enter _ ‘Ose Continent, bows AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Macuern—Lucneria Bowgiua—A Kiss 1s tur Dann Eye GARDEN. Broadway.—Anpy Buake—GRAND Pas—' Young Acrkess. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Borriu—Drcuais- alone ten Loot TREASURE. ALLA THRATRE, Broadway.—Goixe To THE ee rtd Bep Cuamese. THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—Oce Pr] BREET Osseor ov intunsxt. SNUM'S AMER: MUSEUM, Broadway.—-Afternoor wo eeg tusopon'e atinte Wont—Du. Vaurwrion, a. 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Single copies, in wrappers, 6x conts. ‘Subscriptions and advortisements for any edition of the New Yous Hxraty will be recetved at the following places a "s ©o., 47 te Hilt — pone mesg ony Contd king Withers strect. Pam. .,.,.Lansing, Baldwin & Go., 8 Place de la Bourse. Laverroo...Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street. Stoart, 10 Exchange street, Kast. Haves..... Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The coutonts of the European edition of the Hexaun will Bombing (he news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the bour of peblication. ‘The News. We have five days later news from Europe, and jnteresting intelligence from Japan, China and India, brought by the steamship Vanderbilt, which left Southampton on the evening of the 4th instant, and arrived.at this port yesterday afternoon, bring- ing the mails and three hundred and twenty-nine passengers. Cotton had experienced a slight decline in Liver- pool subsequent to the sailing of the Asia. Flour was unchanged, but tended towards a de- cline. In the London market tea was a shade lower, coflee without change, and sugars firm. Consols closed in London on the evening ofahe 3d instant at 984 for money and 983.4 98} for the 2th of December—a slight decline. The political news by the Vanderbilt is not im- portant. We are again told that Spain is pre- paring for an active demonstration agaiust Mexico. Prosecutions of the press by government continued in Madrid. A new Prussian Cabinet was in process of organization in Berlin. Some of the leading members, whose names we publish, had been already appointed. Some interesting perticulars concerning the Rteamer Hudson, of the New York and Bremen line, destroyed by fire on the 34 inst. at Bremerha- ven, will be found in another column. This is not the same line to which the illfated Austria be- longed. The Vanderbilt reports the loss of the American packet ship A Z,of New York. The A Z, it ap- pears, foundered at sea when on her passage from thie port to Glasgow, but all hands were fortunate- ly saved. The A Z was a fine vessel of six hundred and seventy-five tons burthen, built in Boston in | 1847, and owned by Mesars. Zerega & Co., of this city. She cleared at this port on the 24th of Sep- tember last, under command of Captain Greenland, on her trip for Glasgow. Madame Ida Pfeiffer , the celebrated traveller, had ied in Vienna. Ramia had sent an imposing reinforcement to her NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1858, prize. The United States steamer Despatch called in the port of Havana. A brief despatch from New Orleans announces the receipt of intelligence to the effect that reports prevailed at Indianola, Texas. that the city of Mexico had been attacked by the liberals and four hundred of Zuloaga’s troops killed; also that the whole country was in possession of the liberals ex- cept the capital. Although any change in Mexico at this time would not create surprise, yet it is ad- visable to await a confirmation of this intelligence. The Mexican news contained in the telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, on Saturday, should have read as follows:—-The Spanish steamer Colon was at Sacrificios. Oxjaca had been captured by Alvarez. We have advices from Rio Janeiro to the 10th of October. There was no political news of import- ance. Exchange on London, 26} to 26j. Coffee, good first, 4,700 to 4,900 reis. Stock, 75,000 bags. According to the Journal of Commerce the ship- ments of coffee since the departure of the last English mail were 174,000 bags, of which 39,300 were for the Channel and 24,650 for the Mediter- ranean, Our correspondent in Belize, Honduras, writing on the 26th ond 27th of October, furnishes an inte- resting résuiie of the condition of affairs there. All other local excitements had been lulled for the time by that caused in consequence of the failure of the house of James Hyde & Co., which was brought down owing to the insolvency of Messra. Hyde, Hodge & Co., of London. An attempt was made to merge tie affairs of the Belize house with those of the concern in England, and great alarm was felt amongst the local creditors in consequence; but the effort was neutralized by a decision of the Supreme Court. Owing to commercial failures trade was very dull and money remained scarce. The mahogany cutters had enjoyed a profitable season. Some domestic sugar had been ex- ported to New Orleans. The writer adds, that much excitement existed in that town as to which American vessel—the Honduras or D, Jex—would reach New York first, as they were both to sail the same day from Belize. We may state that the Honduras arrived at New York on the 13th and the D. Jex on the lth inst. The steamer Atlantic, of the Collins line, was ad- veitised to have been sold by auction, by Messrs- Franklin Brothers, in the Merchants’ Exchange, yesterday, to liquidate the debt due the govern. ment. At twelve o'clock, however, the auctioneer announced that the sale would be postponed unt® the 30th of this month. Mase were but few per- sobs present. But litde of importance transpired in the Com- mon Council last evening, the members being pro- bably more interested in the Tammany primary elec- tions than in the public business. In the Board of Aldermen, Mr. Tucker moved to take up the report to repair certain police station houses, and to build five new ones. After various amendments, the re- pert was adopted, with an additional resolution from Mr. Tucker that the Street Commissioner be directed to advertise for all contracts over $250. The Board adjourned to Friday, at five o'clock, Thursday being Thanksgiving day. The Board of Councilmen met, but as there was no quorum when the roll was called the President instyucted the Clerk to cail a special meeting for this evening. A special meeting of the Board of Education took place last evening, to take into consideration the annual estimate of expenses for the next year. . The total sum of the various items contained in the draft presented by the Chairman of the Finance Committee was $1,296,000, but by an alteration in two of the items of the document by the Board the estimate adopted was $1,246,000. A resolution authorizing the Comptroller to direct the City Chamberlain to place $126,000 at the disposal of the Board was also adopted, aud they then ad- journed. Judge Russell disposed of a large number of prisoners yesterday in the General Sessions. Jo- seph O'Donnell and James Claney pleaded guilty © burglary in the third degree, and were each sent to the State prison for three years and ten months, being old offeaders. . Brown pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and sent to the Peni. tentiary for (wo years, instead of the State prison, in consequence of his youth. Richard Rutherford, alias Smith, also a youth, guilty of a similar offence, was sent to Blackwell's island for two years. Wi C. Hampton pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and was sent to the State prison for three years and five months. Hampton is a notorious thief. John H. Cunningham was acquitted of a charge of an attempt to commit grand larceny. Peter Dwyer and James Thompson were tried and convicted of grand larceny. Dwyer was sent two years and six mouths end Thompson two years and five month® had clerical mission at Pekia, China. Intelligence from India, dated at Bombay on the 10th of October, siates that the insurgents still kept the field in force, both in Oude and Central India, but the British leaders were preparing for a deci- sive campiign against them. | Our correspondent on board the United States Bteamer Powhatan, dating at Shanghae on the 3d of September, furnishes the most interesting re- port of the progress and results of our late nego- tiations in Japon which has yet been written. We Publish it to-day, and it is worthy the attentive pe rusal of all oar readers, most of whom will be sur- prised to lear the Japanese people enjoy a Bocial status ave». uicipal laws more elevated and just than what are experienced in most of the Cities either in Exrope or America. The commuti- cation throws much light on the resources of the Great Eastern empire which is about to be opened to our trade and the influence of reli The Dpinions of Consul General Harris on the vanese rulers, and things in general in their country, which are re ported, are very valuable. We have news from Port Louis, Manritins, to the of September. The Commercial Gazette of nat day says the weather has been dry, which has fevored sugar making, but has been detri- om. 2 Inental to the young planta . Shipments ofan- | gar have been principally made for England; there | has been great slackness in the shipments to Austra lia. |mmigration has continued on a large scale Goring the last month, the details always showing # remarkable difference in the mortality during the voyage in favor of immigrants from Madras over those from Calcutta. Sugars rate thus | Vacuum clairced, Ist quality, 7.50 a very fine | yellow 6.75 a 7; low do. 5.25 a 5.35; low brown | Sa 5.25. We have advices from Australia, dated at Sydney | Yoth and Melbourne 1th of September. Gold | valued at €847,530 had been forwarded to England The Legislature of Victoria was to meet on the 7th of October. Trade was rather dull, bat not un healthy; the quotations of exchange were unalter. ed. New gold fields had been discovered at Port | Curtis, north of Sydney. They are very rich The | New South Wales Assembly had voted a grant of £50,000 per annum for ten years towards the esta- Dlichment of @ mail vervice via Panama. Sydney | exchange, thirty days’ sight, purchased at par, eold at two premivm. The Adelaide Parliament ‘was opened on the 27th of August. The steamship Philadelphia arrived from Havana yesterday morning, bringing our files and letters dated on the Sth inst., and by way of New Orleans ‘we have nows to the llth. The sngar market was without change, and freights continued exceedingly Gall. Consul General Helm bad lad a very cordial zprompta reception from the American shipmas- {ers in port immediately on his reaching the Consular office. Don Mignel de Embil had left for Madrid, in order to submit his case to the home government Doctor Legre, whose case of summary arrest has been already reported, had resolved to stand his trial, relying on the belief that the United States fovernment would see justice done to him in the end. A Spanish war steamer had brought in the bark Venus, formerly of New Orleans, as a slave to the State prison. The City Judge decided to admit Richard Barry to bail in the sum of $1,000, to stand his trial on a charge of assault with intent to rob. John Sullivan became his surety, The trials of Nancy Hood, for arson in the first degree, and of Moses Erich, charged with receiving stolen goods, were postponed till this morning. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1500 bales, closing at about 113¢c. for middiing uplands. No sales were reported after the Vanderbilt's news came to band, which was late in the afterpoon. Her news, how ever, Was not expected to have any influence of moment on the market. The id. decline reported by her. i was said, bad been fully anticipated. Flour was firm. with. good local and Eastern demand, and, considering the inelemency of the weather, sales were quite fair, and atratber higher rates for common and medium grades, Wheat was steady, but the firmness of holders checked tales, which were limited. Corn was held with drmness, while transactions were light and prices unchanged. Sales to a fair extent, including mess at $17 35 a 50, and prime at 813 60 9 $19 75, and in small lots at The bad weather checked sales of sugars, which ‘nfined to about 300 bhds., at steady prices. Coffee was quiet. Freights were firm for English ports, while engagements were moderate. To Liverpool, pork in bbls was taken at 2s. 34. and rosin at 2s, with considerable Goad weight (ra ) at p. Our Presidentini Juggling Conventions, and the Reasons and the Means for thelr Over- throw. One of our morning cotemporaries, impressed with a lively distrust of our existing rotten Pre- sidential party conventions, asks the important question, “Why should not the people freely choose their next President?” We are next en- lightened with the juggling devices of these con vention gamblers and bhucksters, in view of the man best calculated to secure them a share of the honors and plunder of the government—a branch of the argument in which we fully concur with our cotemporary, and upon which we have repeatedly expressed our opinions heretofore. But then follows the plan of our republican philosopher and reformer, which is thas set mode of choosing a President is this | the democralie eters of each ‘ate pomtncts avd to vote for that candidate for President and Vice President Lived large number of water: for that ticket threughon the Pinion shall indicate as their choice. Then let each voter, in what- ever State, vote the ricetoral tieket of hie party headed BY the names of the candidates of his choice for President and Vice President. The electoral ticket of the stroagest, Party in cach State will thus be chosen, and the people Will decide, in choosing it, for whom the electors of the respective parties shall vote. Ber instance: Lot us ap yore that the republicans in 1860 should carry all the free States, incloding Kansas and Minnesota, except Indiana, Oregon and California, they would have a majority of the electoral yotes, and would therefore choose the President tneose whom? We answer, Whomscever the largest number of the voters for the republican clectoral tickots throughont the Union shall have designated on their elec tora! ballots. For instance, we will suppose that 800,000 shall have voted for the republican electors on ballots headed, ‘For President, John C. Fre. tions, Viee President, William L. Dayton 000,000 do. do. au, headed, “For President, William 1. Seward; Vice gyesident, Francis P. vit; and £09,000 do. do. do. headed, “For President, Salmon P Chase; Viee President, Edward Stanly ;' and 900,000 do. do, do. headed: “For President, Charles Sommer; Vice President, Cassius M. Clay.’ The reruit in each State (California probably na ex cepted) would be known al! over within ten wo Urey Ae after the close tthe’ paid foed tes Cclograpi that larality of the. republican voters had ¥ tol t a plurality voters dicated " : fed 4s their first choice; there: This, we must admit, is a very good plan, in view of the practical concentration of the dis- organized forces of the opposition upon a single Presidential ticket; but it is a plan under which two or three such large States as New York, Pennsylvania and Obio might swallow up a dozen of the smaller free States in population. This merging the smaller States in the vote of the larger ones would be contrary to the whole policy and intent of the constitution, under which the individual weight and influence of each State, in all national affairs, are carefully preserved and protected. A strict adherence to the spirit of the constitution, therefore, demands that the electoral vote of Rhode Island or Con- necticut, for President, shall be cast according to the voice of her people, and not according to the superior popular vote of any other State or States combined. Upon this single objection the combination plan indicated must be rejectel, for the smaller States will never consent thus to be swallowed up by the larger. We think, however, that with- out any such combination machinery the people may rocover the right and the power of electing a President, which they have cast away into the hands of these party conveations, made up of seedy and greedy gamblers and jugglers for the spoils. The people, in their primary capacity, of this or that party, have only to take the initia” tive, and make their nominations for themselves. For example: a half dozen Scott men in this city put their heads together and call a Scott meeting and organise a Scott club for 1860. A member thereof starts another such club in Brooklyn, and so oa, until in every city, town and village in the. State there is a similar club; and so on from State to State; and, as in behalf of Scott, so in regard to Fremont, Seward, Chase, Douglas, Crittenden ané other candidates. Let the friends of each, without further delay, proceed to the organization of their clubs in every State where the raw materials for such clubs may exist. Next, under their auspices, public journals, public meetings and local elec- tions will, in due time, indicase the popular can- didate, democratic or opposition, and a fusion upon him will follow without much difficulty, and without the neceesity of anything in the shape of these juggling Baltimore, Philadelphia or Cincinnati Conventions aad platforms. If we are not mistaken, ‘t was the organiza- tion of Jeffersonian clubs in Virginia and the South that secured Jeffersm’s first election in the House of Representative, and thus laid the foundations of the old dominant republican party. After the lapse of a quarer of a ‘century, the people having become “ al republicans and ali tederaliats,”’ the nucleus of the democratic party was established in the Jarkson popular move- ments and clubs, here and there throughout the country, of 1822,-’3,-’4, md down to his tri- umpbant election in 1828 His popularity was such in 1832 that he was sccepted as the candi- date of the democracy by seneral consent ; but the cld Congressional caucus nominating system for President and Vice Fresident was ia that year formally abandoned, and « Democratic Na- tional Convention was calbd to nominate for the Vice Presidency, the rest of which was that Mr. Calhoun, Vice Presilent, with great unan- imity was superseded br Martin Van Buren, And why? Because Vat. Buren, appointed by Gen. Jacksoa 8 Ministerto England, had been rejected by the casting vete of Calhoun, as Pre- sident of the Senate, . Thus, although in the preceding year Henry Clay had been nominated by a Na- tional Convention as the tandidate of the whig party, the first example of the servile and de- graded character of these party conventions is furnished in the conventon which nominated Van Buren for Vice Pnsident,in 1832. His nomination for President h 1836 was compassed by the same machinery; aid again in 1840. Bat this time bis convention managers received a leston which they did not forget. Thus, in the convention of “44, in whih there was au elected majority of Van Buren deegates, the two-thirds rule was turned against bin, and he was turned adrift, Still expecting amther trial, Van Buren consented to Polk's nomintion, and aided in his election; but with the nonfnation of Cass at Bal- timore, in ‘48, the outsidefrce soil Buffalo ticket of Van Buren and Adamsmade decisive work of the regular democratic caididate. And thus, on the demoratic side and on the opposition side, the dobgs of their Presi- dential conventions, from first to last, are but & chapter of the miarable plots, corrup- tions and debasing ecxyedients of a gather- ing of hungry spotismen md public plunderers. Where they have made ayood nomination they have found it already male among the people in ndvance; where their cmvention cliques and petty squabbles over the oils have driven them to some new man, they hate done no better than to compromise their chanes upon some automa- ton. distinguished above a) things for his amia- Lie weakness and inoffenswe obscurity. It is notorious that every delegate of a Presi- dential convention expects to be paid for his ser- vices in spoils and plundeg it is notorious that his labors are directed to this single object; and it necessarily follows that, President who has thus been nomiuated is expected to do all the dirty work of his selfappointed masters. Thus poor Pierce was literally devoured; thus some of the demgeratic leaders sad managers at Cincin- nati have attempted to cule, and, failing in that, to destroy Mr. Buchanan's administration; and thus it follows that to wcure a Prosident free from these convention leeches and vampires he must come into his office, not from a gambling party convention, but from the spontaneous movements of the peoph. We propose, accordingly, that the friends of every aspirant of every party for the Presidency of 1860 proceed at once to organize their clubs and their plans for the sampaign, In this way the most popular man of the democracy and of the opposition will be discovered, and all others will be dropped, without the necessity of selling out the Cabinet, the foreign missions, éc., &e., to a pack of debauched and reckless spoilsmen in the flimsy disguise of a national convention. Popular movements and public opinion extorted of these conventions the nomination of both Mr. Buchanan and Colonel Fremont in 1856. Let the friends of General Scott begin forthwith their clubs and movements for 1860, and when the time shall come around we dare say it will be decided that he is sufficiently nominated to dispense with a national convention. Toe Rewors.—The newspaper rumors afloat to the effect that Judge Parker has been offered the office of Collector of this port,and that even in refusing it for himself the place remains at bis dizposal, are, we doubt not, some of the “weak inventions of the enemy,” and nothing more. If the President should undertake a reorganiza- tion*of his federal subordinates here he ought to make a clean sweep, including eapecially those active Tammany sympathisers with Douglas, Forney, Clark and Haskin, A very little inquiry will disclose who these double-fuced and treach- erous officials are, and they ought to be weeded out, big akd little, if there is any weeding to be done. Ocean aud Land Postal Serviec—What the Country Wants and What It Has Not. On Saturday last Captain Comstock left here for Europe for the purpose of endeavoring to consummate the sale to the French government of the three ships belonging to the Collins line now lying idle at our wharves—the Adriatic, Baltic and Atlantic. This simple fact is a pregnant commentary upon the illiberality and want of wisdom ex- hibited in the action taken by Congress last win- ter on our ocean steam postal service. We are, above all the other nations of the earth, an indus- trial and commercial people. Without aristo- cratic or privileged classes in our social organi- zation, with a more equal distribution of wealth, and a much smaller number of colossal fortunes, every class of society is more or leas intimately connected with trade, and dependent on it for success in their pursuits. Commerce is the hand- maiden of agriculture and the mechanic arts, without whom neither can in any great degree extend its labors, But commerce is dependent upon the regular and rapid transmission of intelligence, and in this way its de- velopement is linked with the postal ser- vice. Without it trade languishes, for the changes of markets pass by unperceived, and their advantages do not enter into the calcula- tions of the merchant nor stimnlate the industry of the producer. With it, trade becomes active, and brings to its combinations and developement every favorable occurrence that exhibits itself in any part of the world. Itis a knowledge of this principle that has led England to the great developement which her postal service exhibits all over the world. Hav- ing no vast extent of territory to open to com- merce, she has sought it upon the ocean. Her mail steamers now traverse every sea. Running down the coasts of the Spanish Peninsula, she- crosses the Mediterranean, traverses the Red Sca and the Indian Ocean, penetrating far into the waters of China. From this line branches run off to Australia and the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon in the Southern Ocean. On the Atlan- tic, one line connects her with her North Ameri- can possessions and the United States; another threads the West India islands, extending its ramifications to Mexico, Central America, the Isthmus transit routes, New Granada, Venezuela and Guiana; a third runs along the west coast of Africa; a fourth line embraces the several ports of Brazil; while a fifth runs to the Cape of Good Hope. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, the smoke of her semi-wonthly mail steamers vexes the blue air of the South Pacific, where they touch at every important port as far as Valparaiso. By this system of regular postal communication her merchants command the markets of all these countries and give a vast field to her manufacturing industry. We, too, have not ignored the value of postal service; but we have confined our exertions to our own territory. The nascent States of the West and the new communities of our empire on the Pacific have absorbed all our care. Like the ocean service of Great Britain, our owa Western and Southwestern post routes have aot repaid the sums lavished upon them by a direct revenue, but they have paid it over and over again in the developement of trade. Yet the representatives of these very States, forgetting that there is hardly a post route west of the Alleghanies that pays its own expenses, come into Congress insisting that no subsidy shall be granted to ocean mail steamers, and giving to them only the postage on the letters they may carry. If the same principle were applied to the post routes on land, three-fourths of those now established would cease to-morrow. But they should not cease. They are the great feed- ers of our material prosperity. Without them our trade would dwindle, our manufacturing in- dustry would diminish, and our agriculture would suffer. : argument applies to our But the same ocewn postal service that applies to our land service. We want regular postal com- munication with Mexico, with the West Indies and the Spanish Main, with Brazil, with the West coast of South America, with the Sandwich Islands, Japan and China, with the Russian possessions of the Amoor and the resorts of our whaling fleet in the North Pacific. These are the complements of our postal intercourse with the valley of the Mississippi and the plains of Nebraska, Kansas and Western Texas, Their establishment will be beneficial to all those re- gions as well as to our own, for it will feed the trade of all. We hope, therefore, that the govern- ment will take an extended and enlightened view of this subject, and that the Postmaster General will bring it forward forcibly in his coming report. We want no puerfle dwelling upon the hundreds of thousands that postal transportation costs, while we are spending millions in building vast Custom Houses and Post Oftices for lazy officers to cock up their legs in. It were better that such steamships as thoee of the Collins line were employed in carrying the letters of our merchants and our thousands of travellers to new scenes of American commerce, than that we ehould sell them and save a paltry pittance in in our Post Office account. Recertioy to Ma. Dovaras.—It is suggested in various querters (hot orrangements should be made to give to the Seuator from Minois a series of triamphal receptious in honor of his victory in the recent election in Lis own State. Proba- bly this movement will be extended to the me- tropolis, and Mr. Douglas may receive the finest of all applause—that of the party that he has conqnered, to wii, the republicans. The po- sition of the Senator in connection with these ovations is, however, somewhat peculiar, [t is quite natural that the republicans should exalt him, because they hope thereby to widen the | breach between him and the administration, aud to demoralize and disintegrate the democratic party by putting him in the position of a candi- date for the succession, Thus, by taking a tool of him, they hope to divide the democracy and to win for their own man, whoever he may be. But we apprehend that Mr. Douglas, who is ra- ther an old bird, will prefer grain to chaff, and that instead of widening the breach between himself and the administration he will rather seek an opportunity to make an honorable peace and be restored to fall commnnion in the demo- cratic church. In this view of the matter the opposition ovations to him would be so meh powder thrown away Sta More Quasin~a ov Ixticruents.—The indict- ments against Fernando Wood and the members of the late Corporation, on a charge of conspiring to violate the charter by granting a lease to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, was betore Judge Mul- lin, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, yeater- day, on « motion to have them quashed, just as thore against Devlin and others, for conspiring to defraud, were brought to the notice of Judge Rus- sel on Saturday, In both cases the motions to quash were based upon informalities in the in- dictments. It is known that in the case of thé ex-Street Commissioner and his associates the in- dictments were quashed. In the other case the Court declined to quash the whole indictments, but he did quash the only two counts of any im- portance iv them; so that, except in form, the indictments may be considered invalid. With regard to the charge of conspiracy, Judge Mullin decided—just as the City Judge didin the Devlin case—that it could hardly be sustained, as the American authorities were all against it. With regard to the second count, charging the de- fendants with making a lease, it was declared decidedly bad, and not sustainable. This is virtually quashing the indictments: any subse- quent proceedings must be merely formal. It will he remembered that Judge Russell quashed the indictments against Devlin, Turner, and the other ex-officials, because they were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and with committing the same crime in the very same count of the indictment. And yet for this act he is maliciously abused by some of the newspapers. But these newspapers do no! seem to know that this has been the law of the State for the last thirty years. Itisnow over thirty years ago since the case of the Life aud Fire Insurance Company was tricd in this city. conspiracy to defraud where the fraud had been perfected, and though a conviction was had on the indictment the verdict was set aside on ap- peal; and that has been the lawever since. Hugh Maxwell was then District Attorney, and for aught we know Joe Blunt was one of his assist- aats, From the indiscriminate abuse heaped upon the City Judge one would suppose that he un- dertook, of his own motion, to hunt up informali- ties in these indictments for the purpose of quashing them; just as if a Judge can refuse to hear the motion of counsel in such a case, or to grant the motion if the arguments in its favor ure sound and convincing and in accordance with law. This was precisely the state of the case in this instance; and the papers most malig- nant im their attacks do not pretend to say that it was possible for any just magistrate acquaint ed with law to refuse to quash the clumsy in- dictments against Devlin and his associates, But it is pretty evident that it is not by in- dicting corrupt officials for past offences that the city is to be redeemed. That mode of procedure is very much like shutting the stable door after the steed is stolen; though if it were possible to muke an example of some of these gentry it would be a satisfaction to the plundered tax- payers. In fact, indictments of this character are made a mere farce and a auility, either from the little knowledge of criminal law possessed by the partics who draw them up, or from an in- tention to encourage fraud by bringing into ridi- cule all indictments against derelict officials. The best plan to reform the municipal government is for the voters to elect no rogues to office whom they may have the trouble of indicting for their misdeeds afterwards. On the good old principle that an ounce of preveniioa is better than a pound of cure, this plan will work well; and this is just the most fortunate moment to think of it. In a few wecks a Compiroller, the whole new Board of Councilmen, nine Aldermtn, two Governors of the Almshouse and half the Board of Education, are to he elected. Thig oilers a fair chance to commence the work of re- generation by voting for honest and efficient men for these offices and no other. Whatever eforts partisan and party journals may make to Preserve the present vile order of things, the public mind is in favor of such a change as we advocate. ScatrrainG Tue Sovrwervens.—The sudden change trom the sighs of the Indiaa summer to the blustering gales of winter has caused a grand stampede of our Southern friends, whose facos have been familiar to us during the autumn in the promenade, the social circle and places of public amusement. With the first frost, away goes the unwelcome “Yellow Jack” from the Southern cities, and the banished Southerners return to their household gods. The Southeru travel just now is immense, both by steamer and rail. The Nashville, for Charleston on Saturday, had more than ber full complement of passen- gers, and the Philadelphia, for New Orleans to- morrow, will be crowded. The Southerners are to New York hotel and shopkeepers what the Russians are to the Parisians, and their depar- ture will be severely felt on all sides, Acsomey of Most. —The hand last performance Of the “ Don Giovanni’ last night attracted an audience equal in numbers to any of last week's reprosentations very Beat was cocupied. and the aisles, passages and cor ridors were literally packed with people. The fact that Signor Gassier is obliged to go to-day to Havana to joia the Maretzek company, necessitates the withdrawal of the Opera, otherwise it it be good for several nights more, We mean gond in sense of the word, whether 4 is apple! to the public. the manager or the artists. The performance of lost night did aot differ in any exsen lial respect from thowe that have prece: it, and upon whieh we have commented fully. Piccolomini was as ad mirable as ever in Zertina, and achieved another Ce to wil to her already list. As a whole, performance was more spirited and agreeable than any which have preceded it, aud it was thoroughly enjoyed by the andienco For tomorrow night the Opera programme presente unugal attractions. Piccolomini sings in the * Figlia det Reggimento” and “La Serva Padrona,” while Mme. Laborde gives Rosina in the “ Barber of Seville.’ The manager is evidently bound to make the most of the re sources at his command. On Thursday there will bea motinée, in whieh Piccolomini and Laborde will epg. It has been suggested b. > correspondent who syinpathises with the sufferers by tue rash at the Saturday masinée, that the deors should be opened on Thureday an hour or two earlier than usual, s0 that the ladies wie choose to come early may escape the crowd at the entrances. The suggestion is worthy of consideration. Movements of General Pacz. General Poca, after visiting Washington and bidding adiou to the President, proceeded with the Venemuelan Com missioncrs to Philadelphia, where they were received by the Mayor and the authorities with all public honors. ‘They gave a grand baoquet to the authorities of that city, similar tothe one given at the Metropolitan Hotei hore we few weeks back. Thoir time in Philadelphia being Vwited, they were reluctantiy obliged to decline the Moyor's, General Patterson's, and many other invitations. Honiton gave General Paex and the Commissioners aud dinner, and Mr. J. het The steamer America, which was tendered to the General to convey him anrl suite to Venezuela requires repairs and being detained in the Brooklyn Nayy Yard, the Secretary of the Navy has ordered two steamers to be got in readiness by a week, inorder to acc the General and Commissioners. The action of the govern- ment is duly appreciated by General Paez Last Satorday Mr. A. Faiz, merchant of Pearl street, New York, gave 9 banquet a la Veneauelan, to the Gene- ral and Commissioners at Klieabethport, which was largely attended, and was a most recherche affair. steamer fae aso the Central Railroad, hoisted Pallet gave an cutertain- the Venezuelan as soon os the General embarked and the Moy Dh Jo anding 08 = : mrt daptared innumerable and bunting on the arrival The Genoral and Commissioners returned to New York by the nine o'clock exprces train. The day for their de partere for Venezuola is not yot dxed, bub will not be later thon Tuesday oext. It was a case of THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO. ee Ee New Onceans, Nov. 16, 1868. ‘Tho steamship Gonera! Rusk bas arrived here, with fa. dianola dates of the 12th ingt. Rumors were current that the city of Mexico had beem attacked by the liberals and four hundred of Zaloaga’s Soldiers killed, Also, that the whole country was in pos- session of the liberals, with the exception of tho capital. Our Washington Despatch. LETTER OF GENERAL CASS COORRNING TRANSIT ROUTH AFFAIRS—-THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN QUESTIONS —WHY THE WABASH WENT TO CONSTAN- TINOPLE—DECISION RELATIVE TO SWAMP LAND GRANTS, ETC. Wasumnoton, Nov. 16, 1858, ‘The complications of the Central American question, the Present state of Mexico, and the movements of such am ubusual number of war vessels of European Powers in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea, are signs which, in the opinion of our far Beeing statesmen, portend a coming conflict of ox- iraordinary magnitude. It will bea subject of deep iate- Fost in the approaching session of Congress. ‘The statement that there is.any ¢onnection betwece Waiker and Joe, White is not believed in well informed circles hore. The course of General Jerez in appealing to the public press in his effort to overthrow the Stebbins White contract is looked upon by the diplomatic corps generally as having been both unwise and undignified. It was ot well received by the government, as will be seca by the following letter from General Cass to Mr. White ;—= Joszen L. Wire, Esq., Sin——t have to acknowledge tho receipt of your letter of the 4th inat., relative toa publication in the Hmatp, at New York, by Senor Don Maximo Jerez, hefekey. | the pes against purchasing tickots for tho steamer Wash- ‘ton, and to inform you, in reply, that this Department has addreased an official note to General Jerez, pointing out the impropriety of his course and expressing the dis- Satisfaction with which it has been regarded. LEWIS Cass. It is stated here that a great eflort will be made during the coming session of Congress to break up the prosent system of the government of Peru in selling the guano of the Chincha Islands, Suc a result is much to be desired, for the enormous prices of this fertilizer weigh heavily upon the agricultural interests of the country. “ ‘The frigate Wabash sailing up to Constantinople was not 4 movement of her captain, from his own impulse, but it is understood it was the wish of our government, as also of the Turkish government, and this stimulated probabiy by Admiral Mehemet Pacha when he returned home. The Attorney General has given the Secretary of the In- terior his opinion upon the swamp land grant made to Ar- kansas by the act of Sept. 28, 1858, in which he maintaing that the right of the State to all swamp lands within ite limits was completed by the act though patents had not been issued, and that the subsequent grant by act of Feb. 9, 1863, for railroad purposes, so far ag it interfered with Swamp land grants, is invalid. In other words, tio holds that the railroad grant is not good on any swamp land grant. The following plat, approved by the Surveyor General of California, was received by the General Land Office by the last mail:—Raucho El Primer Canon, or Rio de los Berrendos, finally confirmed to G. Francis Dye, ‘conta. ning 26,571 acres. ‘THE GENKRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuinctoy, Nov. 15, 1858. Senor Yrisarri, in response to inquiry, emphatically de- nies that he bas given passports to the Nicaragua South. ro emigrants; but it was the belief of the Coilector of Mo- bile that they were thus supplied. ‘The most intimate friends of Mr. Appleton deny that he intends resigning the Assistant Secretaryship of Btate to resume the editorship of the Union, or that he is interest- ed in the pecuniary concerns of that paper. Mr. Richard Fitzpatrick, of Texas, bas been appointed Consul at Matamoras, Mexico. We had snow the greater part of this day, bat it imme- dlateiy melted. Loss of the Steamer Fulton City and Twelve Cixcownart, Nov. 15, 1858. The steamer Fulton City, bound from Pittsburg to St. Louis, struck a stump at Bufington Island on morning, and sunk in sixteen feet water. Twelve passengers were drowned. The boat, which was at $18,000, and insured for $10,000, is a total loss. The rescued passengers lost all their 4 Arrival of the California Overiand Mail. St. Lovis, Nov. 16, 1858. The overland mail, with dates of the 18th ult., arrived Jate Inst night, having been delayed one day In conse- quence of bad ‘roads on the eastern part of the roxte. re were six thi Passengers, one of them man, Mrs. Crame, advices are auticipated poail steamer at Now York News from Utah. Sr. Lorm, Nov, 15, We have accounts from Salt Lake City t0 tis? he investigution of the case of the Ind’ her comuoitting outrages upon Mrs. Marker and Sinclair. went into winter quarters om the had commence before Judge 5 General J aor and high winds prevail Camp Floyd. leavy rains iled at The story stating that Indian Agont Hurt was my | Tadian squaws to be sold as mistresses to the officers Oye tow on, the moet feet @ snow on was throo the ice three inches thick. Several trains will oy to through them. i Bs The case The United States mail steamship Alabama arrived at noon day. All well, She encountered a bead wind all the way. The Florida sailed at one o'clock for New York. Grain Afloat for ‘Onweno, Nov. 15, 1868, It ia ascertained that over 140,000 bushels of “ e * P. now afloat from Lake Michigan for this port. Fire at Boston, Bostox, Nov. 15—10% P. 3. Howard block took fire carly this evening. now remains but a 0m the walls was im this block theatre, whieh it, is now on fire, and it is hardly iikely that it will be saved. The Weather. warms, Nov. 16, 1868. this mosning. it metts Wastiwetow, Nov. 16, 1858, A slight snow storm commenced here at 10-15 A. M. ‘Osweao, Novy. 15—115 P.M. a LA. M—Just began showing. Thermo- meter, 27. WATERTOWN.—A slight fall of snow at six o'clock; . Thermometer , 28, —_ Peasx: Six ee the ground and still snow. er, 90. Pinna Snow commenced falling here 8 Cast as it falls, New Ornuxans, Nov. 16, The receipt of the Vanderbilt's advices to-day effeot uj cotton market. The sales add bales at unchanged prices. Molasses 27c. Rio Prime Lc. Freights : cotton to Liver; are very scarce, and they are demanding anew number of ships are " ons i H | Oawneo, Nov. 15—6 P. Flour in demand for the interior and eastern sales 700 bbia, at $6 a $6 25 2 $6 75 a $6 50 for ent grades of choice extra and double brands. Wheat firm, with a fair inquiry: sales bushels at $1 15 for red Tilinote, $1 20 for white Oo eerie ae . Corn : ai AGO, Nov. 16, Flour quiet, Wheat dul!,and declined 1e.,, sales Corn active; sales at 62c. Onts steady. Buffalo—1,200 bbis. flour, 74,000 bushels nee nea Ss buchcle, wheat, orn. Shi to wheat Receipts—700 bbis. four, 96 8,600 bashele corn ae i. Coverswant, my at ee Hoge pened rm, wit good demand, those averaging 200 pounds. Tit at the clos 86 60 was demanded. One thousand on ‘Change sold at 96 40 for delivery in December, Slat pony be make arrangergents among t ives rey, viouk to@this the have boon doing 80 of fm G00. 8 wad. Should the ination succeed, No tare . mivins will be Receipts since Saturday, 18,000. 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