The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | SamMES “GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orries ¥. Ww. cONWaR ov FoUToe = NASSAU STS. TERNS ow Fed Postage fr atoamon Money went ly munil will be ae he ore as subscription not received ¢ S Rdivion, $4 per annum, TSrent Britain, eed ‘ang part of the Consinent, och SY HERALD every Walneninny, of four cents per 3 PS annum 2 ll panes thay ip onieanining groeient “par Ove ? or tebe ‘ane iz iy Biaberea> to Bear ali Lerzens ano Pack- “0 MOTICE taken of anonyrcus corrsapondencs. We do not return rejected com TS renmnad emery advertisements én- CAR VERT ERENT srneet pu det cdl i, PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and dee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CADEMY OF MUBIO, Fourteenth street.—Isaitay Orena —Divonres oF Tak RGiwent—Bagnen or Sevuur—La eeava PapRona.. BROADWAY THREAT Many’s Eve—Kixo or Cuvns’ SIBLO'S §=GARDEN, Wivow. Broad way—OTMELLO—SAINt Broadway.—PavyRetts~YOUNG BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery.—Tax Piot—Macic Bar rei—Tonn Oor—Jumso Jum. WALLACK'S boy a Srostweg: Gomme To «THE Bar—Lapr or Tax Bap Cuamone, LAUBA eri THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—Oun Awaaioax Cousin—An Onsxct OF INTEREST. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Afternoon fod Rvening—Tazov0n's Miatc Woat>—Dn. VALENTINE, &c. WOOD'S MINSTREL BULLDING/61 and 563 Brosdway— rmoriam Bones, Dances, &o.—Scamrini. MECHANIC'S BALL, 427 Brosdway.—Ravanrs’ Miverrets —Neceo Bones app Bogiesqoes—BUuiRsQuB EQuestRia. OSMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ermorur Cs.maorsarstios, Songs, &0.—PosGo" PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth ayenue.— Ahernoon and Evening— €Qomstatastsm—G¥M%asTiCs—SPEC- facus OF Cinoeneiia, NEW HALL, Broadway, next Bleecker street—Mrcaanicat Parting OF THR DesTezctioN oF Jrecsacem, tc. New Vork, Wednesday, November 17, 1558. The News. At Tammany Hall last night George H. Purser waa nominated for Comptroller and Isaac Town- send for Almshouse Governor. The candidates for the Comptrollership and Governor of the Alms- honse now in the tield are three in number, as fol- roller. _ Almshouse Gov. Purser, Isaac Townsend. ‘tephen P. Russell. James Lynch. Robert T. Haws. C. ¥. Anderson. Messra. Townsend and Anderson are at present members of the Board of Almshouse Governors. It was reported last evening that Mr. Anderson was so dangerously ill that his recovery was regarded as very doubtful, In the case of the indicted officials, the District Attorney has decided to submit the question of quashing the second count of the indictment against Fernando Wood and others, to the general term of the Supreme Court, and has obtained a writ of error for that purpose. The case of Joseph R. Taylor and others will come up for trial on Monday next. The sale of the Williamsburg ferry leases, which was to have taken place yesterday, was postponed, much to the disappointment of a large number of interested persons who had gathered at the Comp- troller’s office to learn the result of the bidding. It will not probably come off within a month. The delay is caused by an oversight in not including the Division avenue lease in the sale. The proceedings relative to giving p notice of the sale, &c., will bave to be comn ed anew. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and received a number of papers from the Aldermen, which were laid over for future action. The Presi- deut submitted an act to prohibit the discharge of ordnance south of 125th street, except in the Bat- tery and Central Park, under a penalty of $10 for each offence, which was laid over. An ordinance | was adopted, fixing the compensation of the Collec- tor and Deputy Collectors of Assessments at two and a half per cent on all assessments collected by the bureau during their term of office, and at two per cent on all unpaid assessments returaed during | their term of office. Judge Russell. after consulting with the District Attorney, yesterday concluded to admit policeman Cairns, who shot John Hollis when he attempted to escape, to bail in the sur of $10,000. A number of prisoners were disposed of in the General Sessions, as will be seen by our report of the proceedings. Nency Hood, a colored woman, was placed on trial charged with arson in the first degree, having, as is alleged, set fire to a frame building in Sullivan street, on the LOth of August, which was occupied by four families. The evidence for the prosecution appears to be very strong. The case will be resumed this morning. Police Commissioner Bowen was examined yes terday before the Senatorial Police Investigating Committee. We give a full report of the testimony, column. The telegraphic chess contest Letween New York and Philadelphia commenced last night, and there was a large attendance at the Merchants’ Exchange, in this city, to witness the progress of the game. j Only twelve moves have been made so far, and the advantage seems to be slightly on the side of New York. The game will be concluded to-night. The anniversary celebration of the New York Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans cf Medical Men was held at the Astor House last evening, when about two hundred and fifty gentle- men sat down to dinner, at the conclusion of which toasts and sentiments were proposed and responded to, and the company separated at a late hour. The new Fifth ward liberty pole broke yesterday while being raised. Full particulars of the affair will be found in another column. The committee appointed on the Sth inst., at a meeting of the merchants and business men of Boston, to consider the subject of a submarine telegraph cable from Cape Ann, Mass., to Yar- mouth, N. S., made a partial report at an adjourned meeting held on Monday. The committee had not ascertained all the facts in regard to the project, hot still they were prepared to say that the plan proposed is not only highly desirable, but in their | The whole subject was finally, referred to a new ©pinion practicable after considerable discussion, committee, who will prosecute the inquiry as to | the advantages to be derived from the opening of | ihe proposed line of communication. We learn from Brazil that the duty on flour im ported into that cx 31}000 per barrel, and which was redaced by the new tariffof March, 1857, to 2/400, has been still further reduced, by the decree of 15th September last, to 900 reas per berrel, Codfish has been re uced from 1/500 per quintal, or four arrobas, to 600 reas. Iron prepared for the construction of small houses, aud also coul, are admitted free of duty. The cotton market exhibited more steadiness yesterday and closed with a better feeling, while prices were un changed. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, includ ing 1,000 in transit. We continue to quote middling up. lands at 1190. Owing in some degree to the advent of wintery weather threatening the early closing of the canals, our was firmer, and closed at higher rates for fome descriptions , sales were made to a fair extent chiefly 9 the local and Eastern trade. Wheat was firmer, with a fr amount of sales. Conn opened dull, and sales were fight. At the close, however, prices were better sup. 1 orted, and the market cloved with a firmer fecling. Pork wee steady, with sales of moss at $17 8714 a 817 60, aha © prime at $19 75 a $18 87); Sugars wore steady, with Fa 08 Of about 660.8 700 hhds aud TI boxes at rates given untry, which by the old tariff was | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘Dano | er place. Coffee was quiet, but firm. Freightea- | are to be chosen at the charter election—will Gagements were Limited, while rates continued to rule firm for English ports. "To the Contivent engagements Wore moderate and wata~ === -* | whe Next Presidency—The Materials of the Late American Party the Balance of Power. The rise and fall of the Amorican or Know Nothing organization form one of the most curious and interesting episodes in the history of our political parties. In the Presidential election of 1852 the proud old whig party went down, to rise no more. So overwhelming was the majority for the democratic ticket that it was supposed this party had secured a new and certain lease of the government for twenty years to come. But, alas! within a single year, all this formidable array of democratic strength and solidity vanished into thin air. A paltry Custom House appoint- ment, and the party squabbles and divisions which it produced, proved that the democratic union of '52 was from the “cohesive power of the public plunder,” and that the demand for the spoils exceeded the supply. Next, that hazard- ous Southern experiment of Douglas and Pierce for the Presidential succession—that disastrous Kansas-Nebraska bill—precipitated an opposition majority into the House of Representatives, and in the State elections of 1854 revealed an oppo- sition majority throughout the Union of upwards of three hundred thousand on the popular vote. But in this general majority, omnipotent if united, there was neither coherency, consistency nor discipline. It was com- posed of the loose materials of a sudden revolution, and of all sorts gf political elements. Two new parties had risen from the ruins of the old whig party and the disintegra- tions of the democracy, to wit: the republican and the Know Nothing parties. But while the former was loosely organized upon a Northern anti-slavery reaction against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, the latter assumed the ter- rible shape of an extensive secret political con- spiracy against aliens, Roman Catholics, the Catholic Church, and the Pope of Rome. In 1853 we had the first disclosures in this city of the existence of this Order, in a Fourth of July collision between an omnibus and an Trish pro- cession. The omnibus driver was pretty roughly treated for his manifest contempt for the parade, When, presto, like the followers of Rhoderic Dhu at the sound of his whistle, the natives” of the neighborhood swarmed to the rescue, and speedily put our patriotic Celtic fellow-citizens to flight. This rescue betrayed a degree of efficiency and discipline which astonished all parties, until it was disclosed that the pledges, signs and signals of a secret anti-Catholic anti- Trish fraternity had done the business, The first revelation was speedily followed in this and in other States by political action in our State and local elections. Thus operating, under a secret system of discipline, remarkable for its unity, force and harmony, this Know Nothing order, before the expiration of the year 1854, had received such powerful reinforcements in every quarter that men of all parties and sec- tions believed it would stoutly contest, and pro- bably carry, the Presidential election of 1856. Accordingly, the ranks of this powerful and mysterious organization were swelled on every side by worn out leaders or impatient aspirants of the older political parties, North and South. And thus, in 1855, they boldly and confidently undertook the task of capturing the stronghold of the democracy—the Old Dominion. But the Virginia democracy, led by an old line whig, Henry A. Wise, in this decisive battle proved too much for their new enemy, and his rout was as complete and disastrous as that of Napoleon at Waterloo. From that day the prestige of this American movement, and the mysterious power which had been associated with its mysterious organization, rapidly declined: and thus this ephemeral party” entered into the campaign of 1856 confessedly in the reduced proportions of a political balance of power between the republicans and the demo- cracy. Mutiny had crept into the camp, the charm of the searet rites and ritual, and the light of the dark lantern, had lost their force; and so, to keep their wavering ranks in order, the American Presidential Convention was held in February. There the contest be- tween George Law and Millard Fillmore resulted in a split, which carried over a considerable de- tachment of the “North Americans” to the re- publican forces. The Fillmore wing of the party, however, uominated their man, and fonght him through the campaign on conservative native issues, North and South. They carried only the electoral vote of Maryland: but the popular vote j Di the repectab! which is interesting in many respects, in another | pam hope rg oar yuan iorp4 figure of cight hundred thousand, and caused a popular diversion of the opposition balance of power in the North, which unquestionably achieved the election of Mr. Buchanan. Exhausted by this extraordinary victory of “American” principles, the party has since been rapidly dying out. It scarcely maintains a show of opposition in any Southern State below Mary- land; and in the North, excepting the State of New York, there is hardly to be found the rem- nant of a separate Know Nothing State organi- zation. And yet we have no doubt that in the materials which composed the Fillmore yote of 1856, and in the dormant old whig materials in the South, which Fillmore was too weak to call out, there exist at this day, and will exist in 1860, the elements of a conservative balance of power which will prevent the nomination of Seward, and the adoption of his Rochester anti- slavery platform by the republicans, or which will inevitably crush him and his party as be- tween the upper and the nether millstone. The popular vote of this State of 1456, 18: and of 1858 foote up respectively as follows: — Dem. KN. | 1866... Teor 198.478 124 604 1887, 177,425 66,482 1858, . 248,082 61,028 | | | From these figures it appears that, while the republicans have only brought in this year a part of their reserved vote of 1466, the democrats have gained over their vote for Mr. Buchanan thirty-four thousand in the late election, not- withstanding the Douglas and Tammany de- moralizations of the camp. The source of this increased vote is indicated hy the Know Nothing deficiency; but as that faction, in their vote for Burrows, still hold the popular balance of power, the beginning of this Know Nothing diversion of 1858 to the democracy foreshadows the ending in 1860, should Seward be made the nominee of the republican party. The only hope for the opposition in 1860 is a popular conservative na- tional man like General Scott, and a platform like that of 1840, sinking the slavery agitation out of sight. Scnoot Commasstonens. ~The Board of Edtica- tion has reported to the Supervisors that the sum required for the expenses of our Common School system for the year 1859 will be one mil- lion two hettdred and forty-six thousand dollars. The School Commissioncers—4wenty-two of whom have the disbursing of this money; and voters should take care to support upright, educated ANA Tespeviavte mon A School Commissioner should know how to write his name, at least, if the whole system is not to become a farce. Yet we believe there have been members of the Board © Education whose capacity to perform thit | n~ essary duty was wanting. A School Commis- sio er should also be a man of moral character; | for the training of our youth for good or evil is, in a great measure, in his hands; and he should be a man of honesty, because a large share of the public money is subject to his control. Vote only for candidates who possess these requisite qualifications. Tue Leavers at a Loss—A Hint To THE Frienps or Generar Scorr.—Not a few of the men who have been accustomed to lead in the public and politic) questions of this country and England find themselves just now in a strange position. They may be compared to travellers who, having got down from a train at some way station to take a drink, find themselves left be- hind, and at their wits’ end how to pass the time. This is the case here with such men as Everett, John Tyler, Caleb Cushing, Choate, Giddings, and, in England, with Brougham, Russell, Sir Jobn Pakington, and a large number who study the art of silence. They have been left behind by the train of politics, and each betakes himself to some congenial pastime. Mr. Evereit goes to work renovating the home of Washington; John Tyler rummages among the antiquities of Rich- mond; Caleb Cushing lectures on anything and everything that turns up; Mr. Choate turns his attention to elaborating the Fourth of July; ex- Representative Giddings preaches an free labor; Lord Brougham overhauls the old statistics of the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge; Lord John Russell, anxious to reform some- thing that he knows will not be brought about in his time, would reform the law; Sir John Pakington looks up the emigration question and talks about that. Not a word about politics or the questions to the angry dis- cussion of which both countries are rapidly dritt- ing. rite these public leaders have been left be- hind by the train of the times, their places have been usurped by extremists and fanatics. In this country the demagogues who find a chance to catch the public ear enlarge upon the cvils of slavery, and endeavor to lead the people of the North into an insane warfare upon the s@vial aud State institutions of the South. They would persuade them that they must not only contro! their own institutions, but that they should in- sist upon controlling those of other States. They would have the world governed by men of strong moral impressions rather than by men of intellect; by men who would re-kindle the spirit of Cotton Mather toward the witches of Salem, and revive in our day the zeal of all those holy fathers who massacred each other in former times for religion’s sake. Thus, in the slack- water time of politics fanaticism broods mischief, while the old public leaders have been left behind to amuse themselves as they can. The case is very much the same in England. Peace men and men of one idea are hammering their crotchets into the public mind, in the belief that the country will listen to them and accept their leadership. Much of this state of affairs is to be attributed to the fact that the recent financial crisis which swept over this country and England has carried away with it the issues upon which parties were, for the time, divided, The old party lines in both countries have been erased, and the representative men who stood by them have been thrown into a strange state of confusion. No one knows exactly where he stands, or what has become of his party friends. For a little while, therefore, the fanatics and the moral maniacs will seem to have it all their own way. But they have neither the brains nor the bottom to work out anything practical, and before long new issues will arise, upon which the men of mind will take their old lead in public affairs, The country is tired of abstractions, and wants something tangible and material. Such a time as this affords an excellent opportunity for the friends of General Scott to begin to organise for 1860, The appearance upon the scene of a few Seott here and there, would at once afford a gl of light to the people, and soon take the wind out of the sails of the demagogues. Let the friends of General Scott come out and prepare for the campaign. Tux Navicatton or tue Socyp.—We re- corded last week another serious collision on the Sound, the miserable condition of which is a reproach to a great maritime port like New York. The navigation in the vicinity of Hell Gate is extremely dangerous, and it is the duty of the «eneral government to adopt some plan by which its dangers may be avoided. It would, not be a very difficult work, with the facilities now afforded by science, nor would it be a very costly one, compared with the immense advan- tages which would accrue. At the present time there are lying onthe rocks in Hell Gate a propeller and two schooners, one of which. a few days since, struck a pro- jecting rock in this dangerous passage and sunk in the ship channel. There are, on an average, not Jess than fifleen vessels totally lost every year at this locality, and from twenty to twenty-five more seriously damaged by being carried ashore by the strong currénts and eddies which cross each other and run in every direction, in making their way over the various shaped rocks which form the bed of the East river at the foot of Ward's Island. Vessels of all classes, from the line-of-battle ship to the fishing «mack, and from the noble Sound steamer to the emall tug boat, have in times past been driven upon points at this place which rendered their situations very uncomfortable, and no captain of a vessel navigating the East river considers his life or his vessel safe watil he has got well clear of Hell Gate. Pilots may know the windings of the channel, and may be able to point out the dangerous localities, but when a vessel is left at the mercy of the current all the power and knowledge of » pilot cannot save her from going on the rocks, with equal chances of her becoming a total wreck. Now there ie a simple way to avoid this dan- ger, and make the navigation of the East river as plain and safe as that of the Hudson. even supposing that the rocks are nol removed. The upper end of Randall's Island is marshy, and the ground is therefore soft, so much so that it imignt be dng out with a CofitndA mud machine. The distance across the island, from the Harlem river to the Sound, is only about an eighth of a mile. Through this mareh a ship canal of any necessary depth could be constructed, and of sufficient width to admit the largest of the Boston steamers, If this should be done, a veasel would enter the channel of the Harlem fiver at 124th NOVEMBER 11, street, from which point the course would be straight, with an average depth of water 01 virty feet, to the junction of the Harlem and East rivers at about Ninety-first street, which is con- siderably below Hell Gate, thus avoiding all the terrors of that dangerous place. _ We stated above that the channel of the Har- lem river would be clear. It may not be gene- rally known that a contract was recently made by the Common Council of this city to take out the abutments of the old bridge which once stretched across from 115th street to Ward’s Island, and that the work is now being perform- ed. When this is accomplished, the channel of the Harlem river will be clear and unobstructed from the upper part of Randall's Island to its entrance in the west channel of the East river. Tratman Opera By Dayiicut.—During the past two Saturday mornings the Academy of Music in this city has witnessed a spectacle which has never been paralleled in the world. We refer to the immense crowd of crinoline that has been gathered there to hear the Opera by daylight. The two matinées have been attended by as many as cight thousand persons, nearly all women and children. The almost total banish- ment of the sombre masculine attire, and the gay dresses of the ladies, the buzz of their voices, and the music of their laughter, their tremen- dous struggles to get in and their no less extra- ordinary efforts to get out, made up a scene of delicious novelty. The matinée is a great thing; it is curious, refreshing, and amusing in the highest degree. We do not* believe that such an audience as that which assembled at the Academy on last Saturday could be collected in any other capital. In Paris they have occasionally morning con- certs; recently in London the experiment of operatic matinées has been tried, but without making any very great impression upon the public. The concerts at the Crystal Palace have drawn large audiences; but the people went to Sydenham as much to sce the building as to hear the music: and although matinées of all sorts are fashionable in England, yet never was John Bull astonished by such a display of the feminine part of his family as that which the Academy day performances has shown to Jonathan. True, the most extra- ordinary efforts have been made to augment the attractions of the daylight Opera. Yet after all it is really hard to account altogether for its extraordinary success. It grows, how- ever, chiefly, we apprehend, from the peculiar organization of society here, and the marked attention that is paid to the musical education ot our children. As has already been remarked: when the Opera was first introduced here by Malibran there were only a few families that were sufficiently cultivated to appreciate such a luxury as the music of the great composers ex- pressed hy one of the greatest of artists. Then music was not taught in the free schools; then there were but two first class private academies for the polishing up and finishing off of young ladies. Now there are forty or fifty, each one of which employs several professors of different branches of the musical art. The proficiency of American ladies in music is known all over the world. Nearly all of them play well, many of them are charming singers, and they are gene- rally first rate critics—learned equally in laces and cadenzas, ribbons and roulades, fichus and fiortures. All are passionately fond of the Opera; and many of them being unable to instil into the minds of their masculine parents, guardians, husbands or tender weaknesses, a degree of art enthusiasm equal to that with which their lovely bosoms burn, they hail the matinée with delight, regard Ullman as a benefactor of his species, and give him the next place in their affections after the youth who leads the German and the fashiona- ble clergyman with the interesting bronchitis. They can go to the matings in morulug costume— that saves money and time; they can go alone or with children, thus obviating the necessity of disturbing the post-prandial slumbers of the pater familias; they can fill up the terrible interval be- tween lunch and dinner, when all the men are down town, and they can have their Opera and return in good season for the duties connected with the household. Then, the prices are much less, and the expense of a carriage, which is almost a necessity for an evening performance, is saved. The younger branches of the family can receive at the matinée instraction and amuse- ment at the same time. The fair daughters of Brooklyn, Jersey City and other suburban local- ities, are even more enthusiastic than their metro- politan sisters, the luxury of an operatic performance being an unusual treat to them. We have thus accounted in our own way for the matinée excitement among tho ladies. The success of the new movement is so thorough and complete that we have no doubt that the opera by sunlight will become a permanent institution — it has now penetrated as far as the right angled village of Philadelphia—and that the matinées would be profitable if they were given as often as twice or thrice during each week. The only trouble about the matinées has been found in the crush at Ge doors before opening, and this may be easily avoided by opening the doors an hour or two earlier. Then Ullman shall be crowned with laurel hy a committee of Fifth avenue belles. Seetionat Lirerstere.—One of the Tribune philosophers—Dana—came into possession some ten years ago of a lot of Fourier’s old clothes, and with them and some followers like unto the contingent raised by Falstaff for the Shrewsbury fight, attempted to set mp a phalanx near Boston. To show how far the doctrine of social equality might be carried, the philanthropist referred to wore a white apron and waited upon the other reformers during their fragal meal. They were all shepherds and shepherdesses, singing the “Keo- logues of Virgil” and waiting for the millenium. But the sheriff of the county came before the good time that was expected, and the site of the Brook Farm operations is now occupied as an asylum for legal paupers, The change is simply a conventional one, The philosophers, however, were scattered to the four winds of heaven; some have ‘arned up as apiritualists, free lovers, abolition lecturers, or vote-yourself-a-farmers, thers, including the major domo with the white apron, have taken to book making, compiling the ideas of other men, and turning a few pen- nies by pirating upon the fruits of other people's pains. This extension of the idea of Proudhon, “property is theft,’ has been developed in a gollection of poems “ edited” by Dana, and in an agreeable serles of blunders called the “ Ame- rican Cyclopedia,” from the same hand. The charming work last named has received proper treatment at the hands of the reviewers in Europe and the United States, but the household poetry book has but recently burst upon the gaze of a dazzled world. From it we learn the re- .858, bune philospher, that rhy, mers who do not chant peta: praise of deans and burl denuncia- tions upon the head of his maq'ter, are not poets in the proper sense of the word. »'0, if old Homer had lived in these enlightened day#.%0 one would have published the Iliad unless he had introduced a passage against the Lecompton conaitution,. and personified Ajax defying the lightning in a strophe complimenting Mr. Seward’s speech at Rochester. Poetry, according to the abolition light, cannot flourish south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and writers at the North who do not feel a warm interest in the nigger may as well sell off their lyres at some second-hand shop. Even the popular song writer, Brigadier Morris, at once the Cesar and the Horace of the Union, is requested to hang his harp in the tree that he prayed the woodman to spare. The new lights intend to make the songs of the country, although the political majority does show a wonderful degree of perversity in refusing to permit them to enact its laws, This last attempt of Dana & Co. has naturally attracted the attention of the Southern press. The journalists, however, content themselves with stating the facts, and hinting that, notwith- standing the sectional character of the work, it will undoubtedly find its way into many Southern homes. We are not of that class of croakers who affect to see the soeds of disunion in the sectional literature of the day, whether it emanates from the South or the North. The subject is only worth adverting to in order that the meanness, bigotry and stupidity of people who place such things as the Tribune publications before an intel- ligent public, may be exposed. Dana and his coadjutors are about as fit to compile the songs of a nation as Lucifer would be to di- rect the music of the angelic choir. And as the best manner of proving it, we would suggest that some elles lettres scholar, either Northern or Southern—no matter which—should imme- diately produce a collection of American poetry in which the best writers of every section may be fairly represented. That would be the very best manner that could be adopted to wipe out sec- tional literature altogether. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special W: itch. VISIT OF THE WABASH TO CONSTANTINOPLE—COR- DIAL RECEPTION OF HER OFFICERS—VISIT OF THE SULTAN TO THE FRIGATE—ARRIVAL OF MINISTER FORSYTH AT MOBILE—OUR INDIAN WARS, ETC. Wasurnoron, Nov. 16, 1858. The following letter from the Commander of the steam frigate Wabash, whose visit to Constantinople has occa- sioned so much comment, has been received at the Navy Department :— Fiac Sum Wanasn, Coxsraxrivorix, Oct. 20, 1858. Stm—On my arrival at Constantinople the most lively demonstrations were manifested by the authorities. A moment after anchoring, rear Admiral Mehemed Pacha, our guest in the United States last winter, came on board, offering the warmest lations and all the conve- niences of the port. The usual visits were made to tho several heads of departments, and received with a degree of ceremony very unusual under similar circumstances, evineing a desire to acknowledge and reciprocate in every possible manner those civiliies which were extend- ed to their officers. Previous to cur reception at court I was presented to the Sultan, as he was passing from the Mosque to his barge—I, in company with our Minister, Consul General, aud many others, gg, ere for the purpose of wituess- ing the ceremonies. Such a presentation was entirely unprecedented; and the especial mark of favor thus be- etowed can be only attributed to the kindly feelings en- tertained by his Majesty for the United States. Upon this occasion the Sultan ex most cordially ie gen at our visit, and stated that he had issued orders for every attention to be shown us, &c,; and ba ag to an invitation to visit the ship, answered he woul talnly do £0. On Monday, the 18th, I, together with the officers of the ship, was presented ‘ai Gourt, and experienced a most flattering reception. Yesterday the Sultan came on board. His Majesty weat throughout the ship, manifesting much interest in every thing: he was p to compliment us upon the beauty of the model, her etticient and warlike appearance, and her admirable condition. He also reiterated bis friendly feelings for our country, wished us to prolong our stay, and particularly desired that the President of the United States eh be informed of his v' iat t0 the Wabesh ain, with great reapect, your obedient servant, GF. LAVALLETTE, Flag Ooer, Commanding Moditerranean hqundron. To Bow! ue Tovesy, Secretary of the Navy, Washing: ton, D. C. The newspaper reports that Spanish war vessels were about proceeding to Nicaragua Lave uo foundation. The State Department has received a despatch from Mr. Forsyth, our Minister to Mexico, stating he had arrived at Mobile. The General Land Office has issued « patent to Maria Antoina Cazares for Rancho Canada de Pagolimi, Cali- fornia, containing 8,781 acres. Adespatch to this city states that Mr, Sebastian has been re-elected United States Senator for Arkansas. Lieut. ‘Reginald Fairfax has been ordered to the sloop. of war St. Marys, in the Pacitic. It ts asserted in the Department of the Interior that all our Indian wars have been with tribes with which wo have not made treaties. There is no exception but in the case of the Camanches, and we have but a very imper- fect treaty with them. Consequently the Department is in favor of treaties with all tribes, as the best means of insuring peace. ‘The Attorney General decides that clerks to com manders of naval vessels are not entitled to extra com pensation for services as interpreters. THE CRNKRAL NEWSPAPRR DRWATOU. Wasuuwaron, Nov. 16, 1868. The practice ship Plymouth, which arrived at Mobile yesterday, bringing Mr. Forsyth, our Minister to Mexico, has been ordered to Washington. The shop-of war Si Louis is to be immediately put in commission to supply her place in the Gulf. Commander Ogden has received bis preparatory orders, and is to command her. Orders are to be forthwith sent tothe naval forces ia Central America, having in view the enforcement of the President's anti-filibuster proclamation. Wesley G. Gosnell and John Owens bave beon ap- pointed sub-agents for the Indians in Washington Terri- tory. Marters tin New Jersey. SENTENCE OF JOHN M'MAMON, THE MURDERER—SEX- TON CONVICTED OF RAPR- Newark, Nov, 16, 1868, James McMahon, recently convicted of the murder of Ann McMahon, bis sister-in-law, was sentenced this morn- ing at nine o'clock by Judge Haines to be hung in the court yard of the Essex county prison, on Wednesday, the 12th of January next. The prisoner now, as throughout the whole trial, manifests the utmost brutality and reck lesaness. The jury in the case of Francis ©. Sexton, a Purser's Clerk on the United States frigate Niagara at the time of laying the cable, charged with committing a rape ona Miss Wood, of New York, came in at nine o'clock last night with a verdict of guilty. The Punishment is from one to fifteen years imprisonment, or one to ten thousand dollars fine, or both. The Mormons. ARRIVAL OF JUDGE RCKLES AND THE ABDUCTED ENGLISH GIRL AT ST. LOTS. St, Loum, Nov 16, 1868. Judge Eckles, having in charge Henrietta Polidore, who was rescued from the Mormons on a writ of habeas cor. pus, at the reqnest of the Britieh government, bas arrived here. This firt was abducted from Gloucester, England, four years ago. Elizabeth Cotton, the author of an extensively publiehed letter in regard to Mormon life, has also arrived, en rowle to ber home in England. The Fire at Providence, R. I. Provipance, Nov. 16, 1868. Tt was Howard block, in this city, that was destroyed ‘by fire last evening, and not Howard block, Boston, The despatch, by an oversight, was wrongly dated. The thea- tre was entirely destroyed by the fire. The walls foll on ® low wooden building on the east side of it, destroying it. ‘The total toes by the fire is entimated at over $200,000. ‘The insurance is $191 400. Cnanumerow, Nov. 16, The United States mail ateamship Nashville, Capt. 1. M. Murray, from New York, arrived here at two o'clock this markable fact, aecgrding to the view of the 7ri- ' morning ny Non-Arrpval of the Haurax, Nov. 16-9 P.M. There are as yet no sigus or the steamship Niagara, now about due at this port, with In"erpool dates of the 6a inat. The weather is calm, and it is x20Wwing. ——_——_——————— ‘The America Outward Bound. Bosron, Nov. 16, 1858. The mails per steamship Americe for Liverpool clos to-morrow morning at eight o’clock, end she wil! gail at about eleven. Despatches for Europe, filed at 21 Wall street, New York, 80 a8 to be here by a quurter-past tem o'clock (Boston time), will be forwarded. Convention of New England Bawhe. Bostox, Nov. 16, 1958. Eighty-cight New England banks were represented at @ convention held here to-day to consider the subject of the redemption of their bills in Boston, and to discuss the position assumed by the Suffolk Bank in the matter, Goy. Holly, of Connecticut, presided. The Convention was quite unanimous in favor of tho Bank of Mutual Re- domption as a substitute for the Suffelk, and adopted the following resolutions :— Becires That it is the duty of the banks in New Eng- ide for the redemption of their bills in the land to city of at their par value in » and that the restraints heretofore imposed upon undue expansion: of bank currency rat in no degr rastane diminished or Pre ajerny Bo we belbve it to be a right which the re- deeming ly exercise to solect thoir bs agent fo Deets epee ot iE sree, having a dueregard to the 801 Resolved, or the Bank of M tered by the Bathe Ba of Mata Roden —— mpc of Todosmaing the bills a ~ New land a peart to us to be based upon ara , both as vepardh the sceetteisl and the pene the burden impose upon th leeming banks in ths performance of the public oe Recovery of and Arrest of The moncy stolen from the Wabash V: ley road, at Fort Wayne, has been recovered and the thieves secured. Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Nov. 16, 1868. The beable are the footings of our Dank statement fr the past week — Capital stock. . $33,197, Loans ‘and discoun pti pen a thanen oe Pecarnanetas ee Amount due to other banks 7,680,600 Deposits 22,744,600 Circulatio 6,760,000 Marke PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. + Ponnaylvania Bate 6's 053 ae nngylvan "8 Railroad, 2514. Morris Canal, 40%; Lang’ Ialuad’ Ratroot 1134; Pennsylvania Railroad, 423g. Naw Onixasa, Nov. 16, 1868, The Vanderbilt's news has had no efiect upon’ th Bales a in. <- . Middling wo quote at 11%. The bal ceipts 36,500. Sugar declined 1/c., molasses uiet at $4 75. Corn dull at 68¢.. Tard firm, Frcigue ‘otton to Liverpool stiffer, but not quotably higher. Savannan, Nov. 16, 1856. Cotton unchanged; sales to-day 1,200 bales. Avausta, Nov. 16, 188. Cotton without change; sales unimportant it. Cuanuestox, Nov. thas 1818. Cotton declined 3¢c.: sales to-day 2,400 bai Barnimonrz, Nov. 6, “hao gg tk Flour quiet: Howard street and Ohio $5. tive: red, $1 20 a $1 25; Pes $1 30 a$1 50. Pobay3 let new white, 6lc. a 66c.; ew yellow, Se. a Téc. Provisions qiiet Ube very firm. Whiskey active. Pucaprtria, Nov. 16, 1858. Flour quiet. Wheat quict. Corn scarce and’ wanted: old yellow, He; new, 70c. a T4c. Whiskey scarce at 28 ge. a Qe Brrraro, Nov, 16—1 P M. Flour in fair demand; yopnly very light and holders are ently firm, abd prices are better: sales 1,000 bbis. at $4 62 a $4 87 for good to choice Wisconsin; se $6 25 for common to choice extra Michigan, Indiana an¢ Ohio; $5 60 a $5 65 for extra Canadian; $5 76 for double extra. Wheat in fair demand and market steady: sale 40,000 bushels at 87c. a $8c. for Milwaukie club; To, fo Chicago spring; $1 for Canadian club, and $1 24 for prime ito Canadian. Corn in good d mand and market hardly me om sales 85,000 bushels at 62c. a 63c. No salesof other . Canal freights un- last twenty-four hours—2, bbls, flour, 21,665 bushels wheat, 7 bushols Shipments by Canal—9,035 bbls. our, 47,903 bi wheat, 40,770 bushels corn, 18,946 bushels oats. Berrauo, Nov. 16—6 P. M. Flour firm, prices tend upwards, aioe 1 ate ee a and some lots are held out of the imaiet: sales at $4 375 for Illinois, tJ & $48735 for yoy ae sin, $5.2 $5 26 for common ‘to good extra Michigan, in diana, Ohio and Canadian; $5 50 a $5 75 for gouble oxvins. Wheat AO yy market firm: sales 46,000 bumels for Milwaukie c at 870. a =e ‘T6e. for Canada $1 10 for No. 1 red winter Illinois, $1 24 for prime white Canadian. rn in fair demand, market easier: sales 35,000 bushels at 62c. a 63¢ No sales of barley or rye. Oats firm and in good demand: preg bushels at 46c, afloat. Whiskey bag cheer minal at 20)¢c. Canal ts unchanged. 3,424 bbls. flour, 38,375 bushels wheat, 8 8,426 do. oata. ‘Shi canal— ipments {721 bushels wheat, 89,978 . corn. Onwnao, Nov. 16—6 P.M. Flour in ry demand—inarket steady : sales of 1,300 bbls. at $4 25 for straight State; $6 25 » $6 75 for Canadian extra; $5 a $5 25 a $5 75 for choice brands of Oswego extra; Wheat in active demand— $6 50 for double extra do. ae Se dian for spring. Corn very dull: sales of 2,000 bushels Ohio at 67c. Barley not very bee = ain 4,400 bushels State at 65¢., and 4,000 Rola ood Canadian at 78¢. Pay 4 and oats nothing 1 freights stead: on flour, 8c. on aol, and Se. on corn to New York. Lake inj 12,000 bushels wheat, Sage bushels barley, 2,000 oats, 3,000 bushel 16,000 bashols wheat, 3,600 unde barley, 600 600 in epey Crvemxatt, Nov. 16, 1868. at gt var ants, ales 6,000, chity fot future etivery a a holders demanded an advance, the total receipt last year. pork had domanl aries ouen firm at 1934 dema 7 y at se. articles, iy wechangea. a Tiaur quiet. Whent dull. and ected a3 s al Oats Receipts +—900 bois. 5 in 8,500 bushels wheat; i Ace y et Tar Orena.—The largest and strongest programme of the seuson is announced for this evening, when Piccolo- imini will sing two of hor best rélee—Maria, in “La Figtia del Reggimento,” and Serpina, in “La Serva Padrona’'— two entire operas. The second act of the “Barber of Seville” will be given, with Laborde as Rosina. All this is announced at the usual prices, and people will do well to sceure their places early. The performances will be commenced at balfpast seven. Tickets for the great ‘Thureday matinée will be sold to-day. lecture on this subject was delivered last evening by Pro- fessor Silliman, Jr., at the Peter Cooper Institute, tow large and respectable andience The lecturer commenced by referring to the discoveries of Volta, Galvani and other distinguished philosophers, and then procecded to speaic in detail of the magnetic telegraph. His remarks were illustrated by several interesting experiments, and during the two hours which he consumed in the delivery of the lecture he was listened to with unabated interest. Near the close he exhibited specimens of the Atlantic cable, and described the material of which it = made. While on this part of the subject he belief that the difficulty experienced in working the “xhia was Loy | Ly = whieh ad yet by. exposure to great heat of the san w ne ie last year in the factory at Greenwich, Eng) | miles of this wire ‘were found, on Sinmsation be 80 faulty that they had to be rejected, other defects had since been found by Mr. Tituny, im cutting up that portion of the cable which he he bad no doubt that the difficulty was attributable to the pape had age Mil 3 was, tl of the that present cable would hever be worked bat the enterprie could not therefore De regarded as a failure, for ite practicability A ull oatabliahed. The cable bad been laid, the mechanical ‘aidiou mS the undertaki Mr. Ausburn Birdsall, the Naval Officer of this port, whose {it health has for several months prevented his personal of the duties of his department, has 80 far recovered as to return to his post, and yester- day resumed tho charge of hi office, Cornelias V. Anderson, one of the Governors of the From London, in the ship Chrltlann—Mre Bai and child, From Bordgaus, in the bark Victortng—Capt Boyde,