The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. proeereertiverbeeeyy OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS tconce. Money wail will be at the rig wor TPomtage amg not vtoctoed. as eubecription 4 Ma ¥ HERALD, every Wedneeday, at four conte por aie al am AMUSEMENTS IS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Wriuuas Tx— Ooasina's Wire—fr. Mary's Kva—Don Juan, BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Winaap Sxirr—Youne Scamr—l —Jonataan Braprono— in LOVERS. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Bros dway.—BivK an CHxRaT— Goure to Tas Bap LAURA KEENR'S THEATRE, ‘No 624 Broadway.—Oun Awegi0ax Coasin—An Onsnet of INTEREST. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After poon Aud Kvening—Tutopon’s Mixio Worn, de. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 snd 563 BroaAway— Fruiortax Songs, Dances, &0,—Soari MECHANIC'S HALL, 427 Brosdway.—[kVANTS' MUNSTRETS —Nweno SONGS AND Tickuasaves—Buxussace Fqurstaia. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ermorian Cnaxacrenistics, Sonus, 4C.—SOLDUER'S RETURN. 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The loss of property by the disasters referred to is estimated at two million of dollars. The ship Excelsior, which arrived at this port yesterday, was in the gale of the 25th, 26th and 27th of October, and lost « passenger, the second officer and three seamen, Her foretopmast and all her topgallant mast were carried away, and she received much other damage. Our correspondent on board the United States frigate Sabine, writing from Bermuda on the Ist and 6th instant respectively, furnishes a very full and thrilling description of the dangers through which that vessel passed during the five days she was in the gale, which is described as @ violent cyclone. An enumeration of the damages done to the ship is given, from which it will be seen that she anffered severely. After the tiller of the Sabine worked out of the rudder, the lives of all on board were in imminent danger, and in this emergency her spare wooden tiller was found to be worthless; being made of locust wood instead of white oak. Twentyfour of the crew were more or less hurt during the gale, but the officers and men behaved with admirable coolness and discipline. Lieutenant McCann, of the Sabine, furnishes some interesting facts connected with the rise and progress of this severe cyclone, which we publish this morning. We have full reports from Bermuda relative to the ravages committed by the late gale, which visited the island and prevailed around it for many miles at sea. The United States frigate Sabine was onder repair at the government dockyard on the Sd inet. It was thoughtshe would be ready for sea on the 8th. The presence of the Sabine caused the Hermudians to canvass earnestly the state of our velations with Paraguay. The ship was greatly admired, and every attention had been bestowed upon her officers by the officials and residents of the island. It is reported that owing to the gale the arrowroot crop is much injured. Many public buildings and private dwellings ali over the island were seriously damaged. The roof the new State Arsenal in course of com pletion at the corner of Seventh avenue and Thir- ty-fifth street, fell in about two o'clock yesterday morning with a terrific crash, carrying with it the walls on three sides of the building. Fortunately, the accident happened at an hour at which persons are seldom abroad in that section of the city, and consequently no loss of life was occasioned. Por- tions of the falling walls, however, fell upon build. ings in the vicinity of the arsenal, slightly wound- ing a woman named Gould, who was in bed, and killing a horse and # couple of dogs. The con tractors for erecting the arsenal, Messrs. Cleveland & Backus, expected to have the work finished by the first of December. The contract price was 967,000. The damage, which is es ited at $25,000, will fall apon the contractors. The Know Nothing Convention met last evening for the purpose of naming their candidates for Comptroller and Governor of the Almshouse. The greater part of the evening was spent over con tested seata from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards, No nominations were made, and the Con vention adjourned till Wednesday evening. The Harlem River House homicide was the subject of investigation yesterday before Coroner Hills, at the Twelfth ward station house. Mach testimony was elicited going to show a state of facts almoct precisely eimilar to those described in the Henan of yesterday The jury rendered a ver dict, charging B.D. Thompson with stabbing the deceased, Daniel Stackpole, and implicating David Fox se an aider and abettor in the homicide. A detailed report is given in another column. The Coroner's investigation yesterday in the case of Richard Bishop, who was killed at the re cent collision of Williamsburg ferry boats at Peck slip, resulted in a verdict declaring the pilots of both boats guilty of culpable negligence. The Coroner required each of the accused, whose re Baldwin and Brownell, to enter into farmer of Hempstead, 1. 1. and leaves a wife and » a children. of a new Congregational church was laid yesterday afternoon, in State street, near Hoyt, Brooklyn, there being nt a number of clergymen and @ large assem { various denominations. The The corner stone p rene Plage of Christinns « stone wee laid by the Rev. Mr. Baker, and ad- dresses were made by the Rev. Messrs. Storrs «M4arke and others In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Wil tiam Andrews was sent three years and five months ‘ames Hogan three sears and seven months, and Jobn O'Hare the same period, to the State prison, having pleaded guilty to an assault with in tent to rob James Lucksfort of « gold ring alued at one dollar. James Martin and Henry Leavey were indicted with the above » emed defendants on the same charge. Martin was went to the penitentiary for three years and five months, and Leavey for two years and eleven months to the same institution. Michael Forrester was ‘vied for stabbing Edward Scallon with a knife, but ne it was clearly established by testimony that the #ol was committed in self defence, the jury acquit ted the prisoner. Clara Smith, alias Ellen Chase, was tried for forgery in the second degree, having ten nterfelt bills in hee posseasion, but was o¢ Buropean Edition ce aEEe area elie id Conia, toch i in the eum of $2,000 to await the action of | rand Jury. Mr. Bishop, the deceased, was a | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1858, quitted on the ground of # variance between the proof and the indictment. She was recommitted to prison, and will be tried next term. Several oases which were on the calendar were were put over until the Decerber term, among which waa the case of Moses Erich, charged with receiving stolen goods. The Grand Jury presented a number of indictments, to which the prisouers pleaded not guilty. A large number of the friends of Mr. Daniel E. Sickles, member of Congress elect from the Third district, serenaded that gentleman last evening, in front of his hotel in Park place. Mr. Sickles made a spicy and pungent speech, in which he referred in no complimentary terms to the elements of opposi- “tion that were arrayed against him, and thanked his friends for their warm and hearty support. Our report of his remarks is crowded out by the pressure of news matter, ‘The Board of County Canvassers met yesterday at the usual hour, Supervisor Stillman in the chair. The case of the Fourth district of the First ward, it was understood, would come before the Board; but further than a vote rejecting the report of Supervisof Kennedy, nothing was done. The motion was made by Mr. Kennedy himaclf, and over an hour was consumed in debating points of order and in taking appeals from the decision of: the Chair. Supervisor Blunt made a motion to the effect that the report of Mr. Kennedy, with the re- turns to which it referred, should be sent to the District Attorney; but this was also rejected. A similar motion was made by the same Supervisor in regard to the returns from the Third district of the Third ward, but it was also unsuccessful. Fail- ing to transact any business, and as it was evident that nothing could be done during this session, the Board did the best thing it could under the circum- stances—it adjourned. Both branches of the Common Council were in session last evening. In the Board of Aldermen a proposition was summitted authorizing the Hudson River Railroad Company to run small cars over their road between Chambers street and Fifty-third street, specifying that the T rail should be used and the fare be five cents. The proposition met with warm opposition, and after considerable discussion the subject was laid aside without any definite ac- tion. A large amount of routine business was trans- acted in the Board of Councilmen. The Comp- troller was directed to advertise for proposals from the Hanan» and other journals to publish the official proceedings. A resolution was adopted directing the Street Commissioner to advertise for proposals for a building to be erected on the south side of Fifty-frst street, between Lexington and Third avenues, to be called “The Infants’ Home,” for the reception of egitimate children, and ap- propriating $25,000 for that purpose. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,300 bales,on the basis of 11\¢c. for middling uplands; the market was steady. Common grades of flour were in good supply, with some preasure to sell by holders, which depressed tke market and caused prices to slightly give way; good to choice brands of extra were firm, while fales were made to a fair extent. Wheat was in moderate demand, while sales were light at rates given in another column, Corn was heavy, and prices easier, while salea were light. Pork was steady, with fair sales, including mess at $17 00 a $17 6244, and prime at $14 for old and $14 0 for new city cured. Beef was steady, and in good demand. Lard was firm, with moderate sales. Sugars were sold to @ limited extent, while prices continued firm; the transactions embraced about 300 hhds. at rates given another column. Coffee was moderately dealt in, while Prices were steady. Freight engagements were light To Liverpool cotton was engaged at 7-82. a 4d., and rosin at 2s. A vesee! of 1,500 tons was taken up to load with cotton at Mobile for Liverpool at 9-164. per Ib. The Next Presidency—Seward and Douglas— Joint Stock Combination. Our late Northern elections have brought out Mr. Seward and Mr, Douglas into bold relief, the former as the most conspicuous opposition candi- date, and the latter, among his followers, as the inevitable democratic champion for the next Pre- sidency. And it is very remarkable, very signi- ficant, and very suggestive, that while these late election victories of the opposition, from Maine to Minnesota, have been achieved by the active co-operation of the black republicans and the Douglas renegades against the administration, very significant, indeed, that these elections should be considered quite as advantageous to the trai- tor who bas nearly destroyed the Northern de- mocracy as to the republican party, which appro- priates all the solid results of his treachery. This extraordinary anomaly, however, is ad- missible of a simple solution. The apparently hostile interests which have thus combined to work out & common result in each and all of the Northern States have been moved by a cemmon interest and a common understanding. The facts cannot be otherwise. A coalition so systematic and 60 cordial and extensive as that which these late elections have betrayed between the Seward managers and the partisans of Doug- las is au impossible thing upon any theory of political accidents, local causes or spontancous combustion. It ie acoalition which can only result from preconcerted arrangements, and from the common basis of mutual sdvan- tages to the high contracting parties Thus, a we indicated onthe near approach of our late State election in predicting the over- whelming defeat of the democracy, we believe that all these late Northern opposition victories are due to « sort of Presidential bargain and sale between Seward and Douglas, and their re- epective agents, financial and political. Though their courses have been in opposite directions heretofore, there is a wonderful affinity of cha- racter between these two ambitious politicians. Seward is aa unscrupulous demagogue and lobby jobber, and so is Douglas: and the former does not adhere more taithfully to bis cardinal princi- ple, that the end justifies the means, than does the latter. Politics, too, like misfortune and ad- versity, bring together strange bedfellows; and itfe not more unnatural to find Seward and Douglas in the same conspiracy than to discover Mr. Botts and Captain Tyler under the same blanket. The Cincinnati Convention made a rebel of Mr. Douglas. He left it as the Van Bu- ren delegates left Baltimore in 1848, brood- ing upoo revenge. In the summer of 1857, at Chicago, at a railroad convention, we find him personally, cheek by jowl, interchanging compliments with Mr. Seward. Shortly there- after the “ Little Giant” addressed his impudent dictatorial letter to the President concerning a paltry office at Washington. Next, the home organ of Mr. Douglas at Chicago broke the ground of rebellion upon the Kansas question ; and next, with the hot haste of a disappointed dictator, we find him casting down the gauntlet of defiance and war to the administration with the reading of the President's Message. Our readers will remember, that for some time after the full ripening of this Kansas revolt, the chances in favor of Mr. Douglas becoming the champion, at least of the Illinois republicans, wore very promising ; that some of the leading organs of Mr. Seward in this quarter labored very earnestly to secure his republican baptism in MMinois, and that they were very much disap- pointed at bis failure to secure this admission into the republican church. We presume, how- ever, that in exchange for the republican victories achieved with the sanistance oe the retainers of 3 5 a, 8 Indie and elsewhere, Mr. Seward is entirely satisfied with the success of Mr. Douglasin Illinois. Indeed, we think it very likely that had not Mr. Seward Gosired this success of Mr. Douglas, Mr. Lincoln would have beaten him in the returns for the Legislature. It may be that in this peculiar sympathy and co- operation between the New York and the Illinois Senators, as developed in their political move- menta of the last two years, each is in- triguing with the other to out-general him con- cerning the Northern anti-slavery vote. But there is an immense financial and lobby interest involved, opposition and democratic, with which either Seward or Douglas will be a satisfactory President. The position of Seward, as the very head and front of the lobby system of tactics, must be conceded; but Douglas, the founder and father of the railroad land grant jobbing system, under which the government has been despoiled of perhaps not less than two hundred millions of property, isnot very far behind. To the land job- bers and fat contract spoilsmen, therefore, either Seward or Douglas will answer, and these lobby companies, from Albany to Chicago, doubtless think two strings to their bow are better than one. Upon this hypothesis we can account for the treacherous devices of Corning, Richmond, Cagger, and others of our Central Rail- road Albany junta at Syracuse; and for the cunning tricks of the steamboat jobbers, federal officeholders, and Tammany managers of New York, all culminating in the election of Morgan, Clark, Haskin, &c. The interests of Seward, of Douglas, and the lobby, were identical upon one poiat—the overthrow of Mr. Buchanan’s admi- nistration, and the party supporting it. That object having been achieved, to the full extent of ow Northern elections, the retainers of Seward and the disciples of Douglas are, naturally enough, equally elated and weH pleased with each other at the general result. The victory of Seward in New York is a positive gain to Douglas, and the success of Donglas in Illinois is regarded as only a losa to the administration. To this extent, then, the case is perfectly clear-—-that while the co-operation of Douglas has given all the other Northern S to the republicans, which otherwise were doffbtful, the struggle of the republicans in Illinois against Dougtas has secured them that State, also, but without sacrificing Mr. Douglas in reference to the Senate—the only point of vital importance to him. These results could not have been more equitsbly arranged under a specific agree- ment, from beginning to end. In this view, we dare say, that if the absence of a republican member or two, or an indirect vote or two, shall be needed at the appointed time to re-elect Mr. Douglas to the Senate, the means will be found to compass the end desired—the paramount object with Seward, as with Douglas, being the complete demoralization and over- throw of the administration, and the democracy supporting it. Under the Albany general lobby system of Seward, Weed, Richmond, Corning and Cagger, and under the lobby railroad system introduced into Congress by Mr. Douglas, the lobby interest of the North and West has become a sort of third estate in the government. Mr. Buchanan does not answer its purposes, but either Seward or Douglas will; and thus we find that while Sew- ard and Douglas have been helping each other, the lobby has been working for both, secretly or openly, from New York to Illinois. Let us watch the prosecution of the joint expedition of these voyagers. They have had smooth sailing thus far: but there are shoals, and bars, and rocks and breakers ahead; and possibly there may be a wreck or two among their flagships in the stormy interval to 1860. Let the wreckers be ready, for the spoils will be great. Tur Govexntno Ciasses or New Yorx.—We published last week a table analyzing the ruling classes of New York, and the facts therein dis- closed have naturally excited a good deal of attention and discussion. People can scarcely believe that the influences thus classed are those which actually sway and direct the administra tion of our city affairs and the expenditure of the vast sums which are annually wrung from the taxpayers. It isnot the less indisputably true that the real rulers of the city are persons of infamous lives and associations, such as pugil- ists, shoulder-hitters, gamblers, brothel keepers, thieves and loafers, forming altogether a despotic oligarchy of some fifteen thonsand persons. It will be asked how individuals belonging to the very refuse and dregs of society have ma- naged to obtain this extraordinary power in a community possessing the wealth, intelligence and refinement which characterise a great metro- politan city like this, The explanation is a sim- ple one. It is the neglect of their duties by the more respectable of our citizens which is the cause of it. The system of primary elections has virtually taken the control of the city government out of the hands to which it properly belongs. Very few, if any, of our wealthy citizens attend those primary meetings, and the consequence is that they are managed and directed by the very acum and lees of our city politicians. In these gatherings originate the nominating conventions, and from these again spring the different party nominations—so that in fact the shoulder-hitters, thieves and vagabonds of the city are those who elect to office and bave the absolute control of the city finances. Now, the classes governed, or the taxpayers, who are entitled to have a voice in the expendi- ture of the vast sums annually levied off the city in the shape of taxation, amount in the aggre- gate to ‘about seventy-five thousand persons. These for the most part are composed of the wealthiest and most respectable of our citizens — men who contribute largely, not only to the de- frayal of our city burdens, but to the support of our public charities and religious institutions of every kind. It is disereditable in the highest degree to such @ constituency that they should suffer themselves to be tyrannized over and pil- laged by a set of vagabonds and loafers who have no social responsibilities, and who bear no share of the burden of city taxation. The gross amount of this year’s taxes will not fall very far short of ten millions, and next year they may reach eleven or twelve. Such a placer as this is infinitely more tempting to the scamps who have a hand in the pickings than any that ls to be found in the mines of California and Fraser river. It is in vain to look to any poli- tical party for « reform in our city affairs. All parties—democratic, American and republican — have an interest in ing the present sys- tem, inasmuch as Yt helps to consolidate and strengthen their organizations. It is to the tax- payers, to whose indifference it owes its birth, that we must look for relief. If their eyes cannot be opened to their own interests, then we shall have to submit our necks patiently to the igno- tminious yoke which the neglect of their duties | tomint bereeif Central Amertean Developements—Where the Trouble ts Coming From. It is evident that a diplomatic storm ia brew- ingin the regions of Central America and the isthmuses of this continent, which will blow hard for @ time, and perbape in the end result in an iron hail. The allied Powers of Western Europe, having got the better of Russia in the Crimea, trans- ferred the seene of their operations to the eastern shores of Asia, There they were followed by Russia, who had the interesta of a contiguous territory to look after, and by the United States, which had sympathised ia no small degree with Russia in her Crimean difficulties, because of the pretty clearly announced intention of the allies to take this Western giant in hand after they had settled the hash of the giant of Eastern Europe. Matters in China have now been pretty well set- tled—not exactly so well asthe Allies ished, for the Americans, who were before looked upon by the Chinese as being only “second chop Eng- lisbmen,” are now held to be rst chop; aad Rus- sia has got the manifest advantage of them in her diplomatic movementa and _ territorial ® cangements, The seene of operations is now to be trans ferred to this continent, and fleets and diplo- matic agenta are gathering in and around the American Mediterranean. We have seve- ral “sick men” down there. Mexico is sick, Cuba is sick, and Nicaragua is very sick. In fact, the whole of Central and South America is sick, except New Granada, Venezue- la and Brazil. For this epidemic there are sun- dry doctors, each of whom insists upon the exhi- bition of his peculiar remedy. Sam Houston, Santa Anna, Spain, and several others, are ready to prescribe for Mexico. Mr. Ouseley, General Walker, Louis Napoleon, Senor Jerez. and Com- modore Vanderbilt all wish to exercise their heal- ing arts on Nicaragua. And the entente cordiale is feelingly disposed to back up anything or any plan that may help to head off the United States, and create, as they style it, “a counterpoise to their growing power and influence.” ‘The firm and prudent course which has been adopted by the President towards the Walker ex- pedition has in a great measure disarmed; that movement. Its departure has been delayed; and we know that delays are dangerous ia all things. General Walker’s friends announce that he will not go with itif his presence is likely to give it a bad character. This argues a change of plan, which plainly indicates discomfiture of the ori- ginal one. Then, too, it has not been found so easy to raise men to follow Walker. His’antece- dents do not inspire confidence in the im- mense mass of adventurous gpirits in this country ready and willing to take aband in anything which promises the excite- ment of danger and the prospect of renown and gain. But in the course of the Anglo-French alliance there isa greater and more imminent danger. The billious outpourings of the London press about the movements of the four great Powers in China, all of which spring from diplo- matic sources, are indicative of a revengeful spirit. Eagland and France claim to have put down Russia, and now they count upon putting the United States down. They perhaps think to catch us single handed and weak in Central America, as they caught Russia in the Crimea. The result of their plottings may yet be a war; and if it Goes come, before it ends Russia will have a hand init, and the American and Rus- sian cruisers will have swept the allied flags from the scene of coming commercial empire—the North Pacific ocean. Tn these contingencies the only course for our goverment to pursue is one of continued firm- ness and energy. We hope that on all these American issues the President will take strong ground in his coming message. We must have all these isthmus routes opened, and the safety of travel and commerce in their transit over them guaranteed. They belong to our Pacific empire, and to the developement of that our careful attention should be assiduously given. The overland mail route, Tehuantepec, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, all will be neceseary for that vast trade and emigration which will follow in the footsteps of cheap and safe transportation. California and Oregon are still in the germ, and they have sister States in the future which will spring up all along the Western shore of Ame- rica, as their elder sisters have sprung up on that of the East. We shall at no distant day have « thousand times the use for these isthmus routes that England and France will ever have, and their intrigues must not be permitted to mar our interests. Piccotommst ap Tan Taree Honanr Paeven- mex.—The three hungry Frenchmen of the Courrier des Etats Unis are likely to become as fa- mous in song and story as ‘their countrymen les trois mousquetaires. Their malicious sneers and insinuations against the lineage of Piccolomini bave stirred up the little princes# invo a terrible state of excitement, and she vows annihilation to the mounseers. Like the scions of all great houecs, she is proud of ber ancestry, and parti- cularly of those warriors of her race who distin- guished themselves in the old Italian wars; and she cannot endure the idea of having them slight- ingly spoken of by a miserable trio of sugar and water Frenchmen. It is too much for human nature, and so she is determined to punish their insolence. At first she wanted to offer them a fabulous number of francs— enough to keep them in frogs and pat/s de fois gras and claret all the days of their existence—if they could furnish a shadow of evidence to sustain their assertions. But Ullman would not let her do anything so foolish, and she bowed to Ullman’s wishes. Instead of offering the Frenchmen all these francs to do what no Frenchman or any one else could do, what course does Mile. Piccolomini re- solve upon? Why, to bring actions for libel against the fellows who made so free with her lineage and strove to injure her professional standing, and thus to give them the choice either of proving the truth of their charges or of paying the penalty of their falsehood by a life of retire- ment in Eldridge street prison or on Black- well’s Island. No sooner was thix plan re- ‘olved upon than it was put in execution An eminent lawyer has been employed to con- duct the case; all the papers have been placed in his hands, and to-day or to-morrow the unfortunate Frenchmen will be in the hands of the officers of the law. Piccolomini will clap her hands and exult at their discomfiture, But what will become of the poor devils? Will anybody venture to go bail for them? or will they have to occupy those miserable quarters in Eldridge gtecet that were vacated not long ago by Carpentier and his fel. low operators in the coupons of the Northern Railroad of France? What if they do! Mm wert is cheap, and dominoes are plenty. They can regale themselves with these luxuries on a very moderate allowance of acne The aon Analy bext arnet 7 a wy of funds that would be necessary, even although they did treat ber 60 ungallantly. Viom Eldridge street to Blackwell's Island would follow in due course. Facilis descensus The immortal Branch realized the ility of the descent, Why should not the renowned Lasalle and Maaseras and De Tro- briaad follow in his illustrious footstepst Be- sides, one of them has another additional chance izing the rural beauties of that insular re- troat, having been indicted by the Grand Jury for another offence. Imagine the three hungry Vrenehmen domiciliated on Blackwell's Island, deprived of eau sueré, dominoes and cent segard, and engaged ia the delightful ocou- pation of breaking stones or picking oakum! And to this complexion may they come at last, unless they have sense enough to throw them- selves at the feet of the glorious little Princess Piccolomini, recant their falsehoods, acknow- ledge her high descent, and implore her clemen- cy. Hisnot in her nature to harbor resent- ment, especially against such objects of pity; and if they show contrition and promise reform, she may pardon them, on the condition that they shall expect no more free passes to the Academy, and shall behave like gentlemen in the future., In the meantime Ullman has issued another manifesto against the three hungry Frenchmen— while one of the trio has sent us a communica- tion denying the conduct imputed to him. These documents we publish, as interesting features of the war of the Academy, which is so highly amusing to the public at large, however disas- trous it may prove to the personal liberty and enjoymenta of les trois —— Tux ee or Mxxrco.—The recent ad- vices from Mexico render it quite apparent that the defeat of Vidaurri has been an irreparable blow to the cause of the constitutional party in Mexico. The leaders of this party have endea- vored to keep up the hopes of their partisans by proclaiming the capture of Guadalajara by Gen. Degollado, which we have been told of by every mail from the republic for the last three weeks; by a reported intention of Gen. Blanco to attack the capital, which it now seems has fallen through; and, lastly, by the capture of the little good-for-nothing steamer Guerrero, and the doubtful rumor of the fall of Jalapa. But even admitting that Guadalajara and Ja- lspa have fallen into the hands of the constitu- tionalists, that proves nothing. The first of these cities has been captured by each of the contending parties two or three times during the present struggle, and sacked some four or six times. As for Jalapa, its possession would be really a point of weakness in the line of defence for Vera Cruz. It lies up in the temperate re- gion, and would have to be occupied, fortified and defended, while its very location would ren- der it an object of attack to the troops of Pucbla, thus causing & monstrous ex- penditure of powder and ball, which cost money, without any corresponding losa of Indian soldiers, which cost noth- ing at all, The line that has really defended Vera Cruz for the last six months has been the isothermal line, manned by the yellow fever. This is a more terrible enemy to the inhabitants of the temperate altitudes of Mexico than ail the valor of la heroica Vera Cruz. Everywhere else the ceatralizing party seem to govern, under the name of Zuloaga, assisted by an occasional million thrown in by the clergy. It is this occasioual million that is really decid- ing for the present the contest in Mexico. Com- merce is everywhere stopped by the civil war, and with it the custom house reveaues have dis- appeared. As these constitute the only resources of the constitutionalists, who hold the ports, their cause wanes from their poverty, while the rich church gains strength from the weakness of itsenemy. As Mr. Forsyth has returned from Mexico, and will soon be in Washington, the go- veroment will receive rom him a full exposé of the condition of affairs in the interior of the republic. Inside, the priests are still strong ; and outside, Santa Anna and the Spaniards are actively at work for them, while « British and French ficet are engaged to protect Spain from any contingencies that may come up. Coitsions ON OUR Fauna—Revtuame Ma- NaGEMENT.—We have had occasion repeatedly to animadvert upon the gross carelessuess exhibited in the management of our ferries to Brooklyn, Jersey, and Staten Island, us an instance of the disregard of human life and the safety of thou- sands of people who daily avail themselves of thie mode of transit to and from the city. An- other flagrant case of this character has just re- sulted in the death of a citizen of Hempstead, Long Island, owing to the criminal conduct of two pilots on the Williamsburg ferry. From the testi- mony elicited on the inquest, it appears that on Friday last the ferry boat Niagara was delayed, by some cause, from getting into her dock at Peck slip, and at the same time another ferry boat of the same line-—the Nebraska—came along. and a contest arose between the pilots as to which boat should get in first. Both boats were well freighted with passengers; but, re- gardless of the lives entrusted to them, the pilots got into a strife for precedence, and the conse- quence was that the Niagara was driven with great violence against the ship Cultivator, doing considerable injury to the latter, and shivering her own sides and bringing down her flagstaff, by the fall of which one passenger was killed, and another—a lady - much injured. It is some satisfaction to know that the two pilots have been beld to bail to answer the charge of homicide; but this is not sufficient-the autho- rities should take measures to put a stop to the reckless system #0 prevalent on all ferries, in our crowded harbor, whereby the lives of passengers are in momentary danger. The fact is, that between the carelessness of pilots and the inefficiency of means to rescue par- ties in case of accident, no one ix safe while crossing many of our ferries. The verdict of the jury in this case may be a warning to the ferry employés; but a thorough reform is absolutely needed in our ferry system. Frexen Jovnsacism tn New York.—tn another column will be found a proposition for the es- tablishment of a French newspaper in this city, more in accordance with the sentiments of the Franco-American population than the existing journals. If French editors would only study the institutions of their adopted country more, and the interests of foreign dynasties and politi- cal parties less, they would meet with a larger share of success than at present, and run less risk of being repudiated by those to whose sympa- thies they addtess themselves. There never was & better opening than the present for the es- tablishment of journal conceived in this spirit, and our wealthy French residents would do well bod ems by the invitation addreased to them in Hon to which we refer Tux Crase or tax Stars Anaxnas.—The insecure and unsubstantial manner in which buildings, both of a public and private charac- ter, are erected in this city, is s question de serving the immediate attention of the Legisla- ture, with a view to the enactment of a law that will effectually explode a system so dangerous to public safety. The fall yesterday morning of the new State Arsenal, involving in its ruin three other buildings, and causing injury to humaa life, ought to be a strong reason for forcing the matter on the attention of the authorities. Rapidity in the erection of buildings may Le « valuable deai- deratum in itself; but contractors should not be suffered to lose sight of stability and firmness ia their work for the accomplishment of any other object whatever. No one can say when a house may fall and bury its occupants beneath its ruins, Not many years ago there was a fall of nearly a whole block of buildings in Thirty-second street, and, if we remember aright, the lives of several persons were sacrificed on that occasion; and, not to multiply instances, there was another wreck of buildings not long after, in the vicinity of ‘Twenty-third street. These periodical tum! in of buildings is undoubtedly owing to reckless manner in which they originally put up, and the only to prevent such occurrences for the future be by the appointment of a qualified whose duty it shall be to inspect all buil they are in course of erection, and wh permit no edifice to be reared except w most firm and substantial plan, Such a it is said, is now in the hands of the Fi dens ; but the very accidents themselves indicate that this body has not given, attention to the subject. The self-sustait of the State Arsenal should have been by some competent public officer while being put up, instead of being left entirely ahead workmen. The opinions of mili tlemen who were on the spot after the fall building were that the accident was ent attributable to the defects which éxisted ; a1 the only matter for gratulation is that the Arsenal was not filled with soldiers when it fell in, These “ accidents’””--improperly so called— must be prevented for the future ; and we hope that the Legislature will deem it worthy of their earliest attention to take some movement in the premises. THE LATEST NEWS. Our sta ‘Wechongien hh, ‘TH MOVAMENTS AND NEW PROGRAMM OF THE FILI- BUSTERS—THE LKADERS OF THK BNTRERPRISE— GOVERNMENT OFFICERS ON THR ALERT—BFFECT OP THE PRESIDENT'S RECENT PROCLAMATION—TRE- PIDATION OF SKNOK JERKZ—DINNKR AT THE SPAN 18H EMBASSY—OVATION TO SRNATOR BROWN, BTC. ‘Wasuinoton, Nov. 19, 1858. A keen watchfulness upon the movements of the Walker emigrants is kept up by the government, and their proceedings are pretty well known. His plan was to take between two hundred and fifty and threo hundred mon on a Sailing vessel from Mobile to San Juan del Norte, and go at once up the river as emigrants to Nicaragua. The President's proclamation, and the announcement of Senor Yrisarri, the Nicaragua Minister, that emigrants to that republic must have passports from the Legation, bave greatly damped the ardor of the rank and file of Walker's followers, and of many of his supporters. Col Andergon, who was at Savanuah raising emigrants, has left there and gone to the Southwest, becauso the field o operations did not yield fruit as was expected. Walker's agent at Mobile is writing urgent letters to all parts of the country that every effort be made to get recruits and to have them at Mobile by the 20th inst., #0 that the expe- dition can start. The chief persons engaged in this movement with Walker are Hon. Pierre Soulé, of New Orleans; Hoo. W S Yancey and Major Julius Hesse, of Alabama; Captain Fayssoux, who commanded the schooner Granada, with two guns, and blew up the Costa Rican brig Once de Abrit, with ten guos; Col. Rudier, one of the original forty-five who landed in Nicaragua; Major Robert Ellis, of Wash- ington city, one ef the Lopex expedition; Uol. Andersoc, who captured Castillo in Walker's second expedition; Henry and Co}. Swingle, both well known in the history of Nicaragua filibusteriam; Lieut. Maury, Lieut. Ray, and a few others. ‘The effect of the President's prociamation upon them has been great. The original intention waa to sail on the 10th inst. Sirst, the departure was delayed, and Walker came here; then he announced that if bis presence with » peaceful expedition was to mar it be would not go with it; now the beliof is that the expedition will not go during the present month, and it is doubtful « it gets off atall Tt is whispered here that if Walker cannot got of his expedition from Mobile he will endeavor to obtain through tickets for California by way of Panama, and trust to luck for getting into Nicaragua. Senor Jorez has gone to New York. He is nota little alarmed at the aspect of affairs, as be believes that Wal ker has made extensive preparations and bas some chance of getting of. Hi new transit route contract has gone to Nicaragua for ratification; but as the Assembly docs not meet there tili January, it can hardly be presented before ton weeks or two months. By that time it is supposed that the route will be open and in operation under the Stebbins contract, and Nicaragua wil! bardly dare thea to close # and give the privilege to Vandyek The President will take strong ground in his message on tins Nicaragua question and tho ratification of the Cao. ‘Yriwar! treaty, and no combinations of Ruropean Powors Will be allowed to prejudice the interests of the nation who must nse these ist! routes im its domestic trade ahundred-fold more than all the rest of the world to: gether The Spanish Minister gives a dinner party to-night to the diplomatic corps and high officials, in honor of the birthday of his roya! mistross, Quoen Isabella Preparations are being made by the citizena of Wash. ington to give Senator Brown a grand entertainment. Hs deserves this for bis efficient labors in bebalfof Washing ton City, as chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia; tet it is rumorod that there ia a eooret purpose among ‘ © managers of this matter to ar range it 80 as to bo ve Senator Dougias present, and in this siy manner to 1) ..¢ the entertainment a demonstra tion for Douglas. Mise Lane has returne:! to Washington Hon. John Cochrane arrived this evening. Fe has come opportunely to give the administration the benefit of his koowledge and experience in commercial mattera. Col. Butterfield, of Mexico, is also here, at this critical time in Mexican affairs, and the adminivtration may bene- fit by his presence and extensive acquaintance with Mexi ‘can subjects Iient. Boudinet, of the navy, haa roaignod It t# said the Japan treaty negotiated by Consal Harris has been received at the State Department. It is the same io substance aa the abstract published in the Ia. RALD. Secretary Floyd is not so well to-day. His disease, in flammatory rheumatiam, assumes a typhoid character ‘The Secretary of the Navy will in his report recommend Congress to provide more war vessels of light draft. {TN GENERAL NEWHPAPER DRAPATON Wasniveros, Nov. 19, 1858. ‘The States learna from a friend, almost direct from the court of Madrid, and whose fine attainments and high focial position enable him to approach the highest per sonages the Spanish court, that France has taken up Cuban independence, and, with England, is proposing to erect Cuba and Porto Rico into a eemi-independent monarchy, on paying @ ‘renta’’ from that island. This “‘renta’’ is to represont the interest on a national debt, to be assumed by the new monarchy in consideration of her independence, the debt and “renta’’ to be assured by France and England aaa bond for the nom-annexation of Cuba to the United States, The Collector of the Customs at Mobile has by this time received the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, against granting a clearance to the Alice Painter for Groy town. The objection reste mainly on the ground that the expedition now proposed assimilates to that of Novem ber, 1857, when the steamer Fashion eacaped by false pa. pers at the Mobile Custom House, the same Collector bay ing then been deceived. ‘The nubeequent eveate were te $ With the ¢ na