The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1858, Page 4

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She brings telegraphic re- ports from London and Liverpool to noon of the 11th imstant—one day later than the accounts re- ceived by the City of Baltimore. Despatches reach- ed London on the 11th from Madrid, stating that the Spanish government was earnestly engaged in considering the relations subsisting between Spain and Mexico, and that a resort to war was by no means improbable. In London consols were quoted at 97] a 98 for both money and account, which is a Blight decline. There was no change of importance in the Liverpool American produce markets. The steamship Africa is now due at this port with Liver- poo! dates to the 13th instant. Our correspondent at Puerto Cabello, writing on the 2d imst., says:—General Paez is looked for daily ip an American ship of war. The Veneznelans are are highly elated at this compliment to their favo- rite chief, and will place on record an imperishable feeling of gratitude. The republic is quiet and healthy. The growing crops look favorably. Much indigo and coffee are coming to market, and busi- ness is very sensibly reviving. Internal improve- ments will commence immediately after the arrival of General Paea, and it is whispered he will be suc- cessful in negotiating a loan in the United States for carrying his plans into execution. We have files from Bermuda to the 9th inst., which contain some interesting local news, with later intelligence from most of the British West India IMands. The United States frigate Sabine sailed from Grassy Bank, Bermuda, on the 9th, on her mission to Paraguay. She was still out of re- pair from the effects of the late cyclone, as the mechanical appliances at the government Navy Yard at Bermuda were insufficient to unhang her rudder, the pintles of which were much damaged. Captain Page furnishes a detailed report, which we give in another column, of the rise and progress of the cyclone, with notes of the indications of tempe perature as afforded by the thermometers and ba- rometers on board. Our naval correspondent, dating on the 8th inst., describes the sen fation produced amongst all classes by the elegant appearance of the Sabine, despite her disaster. There was a constant rash of wisiters to the frigate. Nothing could exceed the courtesy and hospitality shown by the Governor the British army and navy officers, and the people generally, to our officers and sailors. The letter contains a graphic sketch of the scenery and pro- ducts of the islands, their past history, and the present position of the free inhabitants and con- victs. A severe roll of the sea was experienced at Antigua on the 24th and 25th ult., caused doubt less by the cyclone. Wet weather and ill health prevailed at Barbadoes. Immigrants from Madeira continued to arrive at Demarara, but the agent for Bt. Vincent's could not obtain a supply there. Smallpox prevailed to some extent at St. Lucia, The weather was very mild at Jamaica, and the rainy season of such brief duration that short crops wore expected. We have news from the Bahamas dated at Nas- fu, N.P., on the Sth inst. Winter set in on that day wits clear and cold but pleasant weather. The late fle bad been very disastrous to the shipping on the t, and some six or seven lives were lost The bodies of two of them—tmale and female— tuvknown at date, were washed ashore at James Pr ‘ew York firemen met last evening in Fire- mens Hall, Mercer street, and passed resolutions eviogistic of the deceased ex-Chief Engineer, Mr. CY. Anderson, and took the necessary action to follow bis remains in procession to Greenwood Cemetery today. The procession will form in J urteenth street, right resting on Seventh avenue, ® ll o'clock. The deceased is mach lamented by the whole Department. A meeting was held last evening in Mozart Hall, to give expression to public opinion in favor of the two nominees of the democratic section designated “the Regulars,” to wit—of Stephen P. Russell for Comptroiler,and of James Lynch fur ‘ernor of the Almshouse. The meeting was addromed by Mr. Russell and others. The annual Thanksgiving festival will be daly served today in the following uamed twenty- three States and two Territories New Hampshire, Indiana, ( onecticat, Marcachusetts shode Island, Georgia, Ohio, Kentocky, Flortd: nesta, South Carolina Kansas, Nebraska, ” cordance with the recommendation of the Major, the day will also be observed in Washington ety. In Virginia, the Executive having neglected te oppoint a day, the euthorities of a number of the € in the State have acceded to the wishes o the fnbabitants, and also recommended the proper ob cervance of this day. The Governor of Vermon has appointed the 2d of December to be kept as Tho okagiving Day. The receipts of beef cattle Juring the past week smounted to 3,848 head, some 200 head less than the week previous, The generality of the cattle offered for sale, however, was of very inferior . stity, and the average price obtained was about je. although a large number of cattle sold at Ge. and even S4c. per pound. There is no change to no- tice in the price and demand for milch cows and Veal calves. Sheep and lambs were in large sup ply. and prices declined 50c. to Tic. per head, the r according to quality. ‘Loe receipts and sales of «wine continue moder te. a 6 ay embraced about 1,600 of 116 for middiing up e, New ! NEW YORK HAKRALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1858. A Sy SSS ens hessnesnsssnenensnnssssonsntesistitii mon grades, while extra brands were unchanged, the do- mand being confined to the domestic trade. Wheat was firm yesterday for good to prime lots, while sales were moderate, Corn was somewhat less buoyant and active, while sales of Western mixed were made Within the range of 74c. a 77¢. The decline in the ex Ports of breadstufts from the ports of the United States to Great Britain and Ireland, since the 1st of September last, compared with the same period for two or three years Past, has been quite marked, The returns to the latest dates give the following results:— Flour, Corn Meal, Wheat, Corn, Years. Bola, Bus, Bush. Bush. Exported 1858... 70,149 - 874,837 819,352 Exported 1857, 200,173 3 2,020,596 440,275 Exported 1856... 272,049 183 4,252,635 1,758,508 These figures show a decrease compared with 1857 of 180,024 bbls. flour, 3 bbls, meal, 1,646,250 bushels wheat, and 120,269 bushels corn. Compared with those for the same period in 1856 they give a still wder margin of decrease, Our exports of breadstuffs to all parts of the world the present year have been trifliog compared With those made to Great Britain. Pork was in good demand for futuce delivery, with sales Of mess on the spot at $17 30 a $17 40, and of prime at $13 50 a $18 85; and 1,000 bbls. mess sold, deliverable in ix months and 600 do. , deliverable in March, each sellers’ op- tion, at $17 50. Sugars were steady and firm, with sales of 200 hhds. muscovado. A cargo of Brazil (equivalent toabout 4,000 bags) was also sold, on private terms. Coffee was quiet and firm. The want of a stock of Rio tended to check sales, Freights were firm, but engagements were limited. A vessel of about 1,800 tons was engaged to load with cotton at Mobile for | \verpool at 5-8d, per Ib. Mr. Douglas and the Administration—No Peace in Reference to 1860. We publish this morning the late exulting speech of Mr. Douglas at Chicago, over the Sena- torial result of the Mlinois election. The promi- nent feature of this brief but remarkable dis- course is its spirit of conciliation. Thus pleads Mr. Douglas:—*Let the bitterness that has been excited—let the passions that have been aroused, be buried with the contest out of which they arose.” And, again:—“Let us now begin to consolidate our party—begin to combine our forces for the victory, in order that we may pre- sent a bold, united and invincible front to abo- litionism, and all its allied isms.” These overtures, it is supposed, indicate a de- sire, on the part of their author, to compose his differences with the administration, and to re- store that harmony in the party camp which carried Mr. Buchanan into the White House. On the other hand, we perceive, from the gene- ral tone of the Washington Union, since the Mli- nois election, a disposition in that quarter to en- ter into negotiations with Mr. Douglas; but we fear that they who expect from these signs of peace on either side anything more than a limit- ed treaty or a temporary armistice, will, in the sequel, find themselves most seriously disap- pointed. The administration may be prepared to forego all active hostilities against Mr. Douglas asa party man, in view of the compensating support of the practical measures of the administration by Mr. Douglas and his disciples in Congress. But beyond this limited agreement the rebellious Illinois Senator can have little or nothing to ex- pect, either from the administration which he has betrayed, or from the party which, in all the Northern States—Illinois not excepted—his course has delivered over to the rejoicings of the common enemy. A treaty of peace usually comprehends a set- tlement of the point of difficulty which led to the war. Now, the point of the rebellion of Mr. Douglas was the Kansas policy of the administra- tion—a policy which, as embodied in the Lecomp- tou bill, and in the Euglish bill, Mr. Douglas has contended, from first to last, was an outrage against the fundamental democratic law of “popular sovereignty.” If the administration is prepared to recede, plead guilty, and accept the results of the late elections as the judgment of the people in favor of Mr. Douglas, there will be no difficulty in the work of pacification. An accom- modation, offensive and defensive, will be equally feasible, with a preliminary confession from Mr. Douglas that his Kansas rebellion was prema- ture and rash, and that under the English bill, which is the fact, the “popular sovereignty ” of the people of Kansas was satisfactorily conceded, and is as decisively established as it could have been under any enabling act from the pen of Mr. Douglas himself. Butis there any probability of this prelimina- ry concession or confession from either side? We think not. We presume that, so far as the Kan- sas policy pursued by the administration is con- cerned, Mr. Buchanan will be content to abide by the result in Kansas, as a sufficient vindiea- tion against all the accusations of Mr. Douglas and his followers, of “frauds,” “forgeries,” “out- rage,” “swindling,” “executive corruption,” “executive bribery” and “executive dictation.” On the other hand, from the intense satisfaction of Mr. Douglas, in consequence of the election of a Legislature which he considers equivalent to his re-election to the Senate, he speaks, not as a re- penting sinner, but as atriumphant rebel, compe- tent to dictate the terms of his recognition by the administration. The issue, therefore, upon which he abandoned the President, and waged war against him, not only in Mlinois, but in all the other Northern States, remains an open issue, and will so remain with the adminisiration for some time to come. And how is this unsettled account to be set- tled by the party? We hold that Mr. Douglas can never recover the position in, and confidence of, the party which he has lost. These late elec- tions, from Maine to Minnesota, have made the breach between him and the regular division of the party too wide to be closed over by the narrow and unsatisfactory personal issue of the contest in Minois, Let him not be deluded with'the sym- pathy and encouragement of such Southern sup- porters of Lecompton and the English bill as Messrs. Breckenridge, Toombs, Stephens and Senator Brown. They do not contemplate the nomination of Mr. Douglas at Charleston. They are only aiming to secure the balance of power for themselves, which he and his adherents may command in the Convention from the Northwest- ern States. He has betrayed these Southern mana- gers; he has humiliated them, and they will not trust him aaa leader again. They will use him if they can; ond if they cannot, they will reduce him to a camp follower, or to the Northern re- venge of Martin Van Buren. As for the administration, it has no occasion to make the admission of Mr. Douglas into, or his exclusion from the regular democratic church, a party test. That matter will be left by the President, we dare say, among the out- standing accounts of the party, and for the party itself to settle in reference to the succession, Mr. Buchanan's term of office is secured against all contingencies; and as he is not in the field for another term, and does not intend to be, the remnant of bis official existence will be best promoted to his own advantage in confining his labors to the public exigencies, necessities and measures of the government, leaving the party managers, North and South, who have proved faithless, to settle their quarrels among them rience of the present Congress at the last se sion, that the administration has little or nothing to fear from the opposition majority which will supersede the democracy in the next House | of Representatives. No opposition majority can | be mustered in the next more difficult to manage than the factious and rebellious democratic ma- | jority of the present House. And as the leading | measures of the President at the last session were all saved and carried by opposition votes, 80 he will doubtless be sustained hereafter by | the opposition in all needful measures of legis- lation, whatever may be the factions or divisions of the democracy. The future status, then, of Douglas in the party camp becomes a matter of absolute indifle- rence to the President. The administration, in view of the general approval of the American people, regardless of parties, will take care of itself ; but as it will be tho business of the demo- cratic party, and not of the administration, to provide ademocratic candidate for the succes- sion, the disposal of Mr. Douglas will devolve, not upon the President, but upon the Charleston Convention, That the various Presidential aspi- rants of the South will endeavor in the interval to put Mr. Douglas “ina back seat,” we have no reason to doubt ; and that they will succecd in supplanting him we have every reason to believe. Tue Paraguay Fieet Waxtep ror Mexico.— We printed yesterday an interesting letter from an ex-British naval officer to the London Daily News, upon the subject of the expedition which our government has just despatched to Paraguay. From the care and circumstantiality evinced in this letter there can be but little doubt that its facts and conclusions have been drawn from the Dictator himself. The writer of the communication in question has, it appears, lately arrived in London from Asuncion, with the Paraguayan youth who went to London by Lopez's orders to finish their education. The writer attempts to excuse the attack of Lopez's forts upon the Water Witch, and defends Lopez against the statements made by the American company, which claims indemnity for having been broken up after recognition by the Dicta- tor. Further, the writer pleads in favor of Paraguay, saying that we can ruin her if we so desire, and though there is here and there a little bravado, yet the thing looks throughout a good deal like a white flag or an olive branch. Now, to set the matter right before the people, we again remind our English cotemporary of one fact: Our government has sent a special com- missioner to Paraguay éo arrange certain matters in dispute between the governments. That commissioner is escorted by a respectable naval force, but he goes on a mission of peace, and proceeds to the capital alone, and exactly in the same manner that any or- dinary diplomat, under ordinary circumstances, would adopt. He will investigate everything, and act fairly and liberally in every way. The contingency that the fleet will be used for any- thing more than a show is so remote as to be almost beyond the bounds of probability. Lopez will find Judge Bowlin prepared to treat with Paraguay in a perfectly fair way. It is well, however, that this Paraguayan fleet has been fitted out, It is not at all improbable that in view of the complication of Mexican affairs there will be work for it in the Gulf, where the vessels should be concentrated imme- diately, and, with as many more as can be got ready for sea, ordered to watch the operations of Spain, which Power, supported by France and England, now menaces Mexico. Our interests forbid us to think for a moment of allowing any of these Powers to obtain a hold upon the fron- tier of the United States. We are the nearest neighbor of Mexico, and must shield her from the attacks of European Powers. As soon as possible the Paraguay fleet should be mustered under the guns of San Juan de Ulua. The Paraguay affair is a flea bite in comparison with the great events that are coming in the Gulf. Tae Cuarter Ecectioy anv Tae Canpipates.— The list of candidates for office at the charter election, which we published yesterday, we lay before our readers again this morning, with such additions and corrections as we have been able to obtain, in order that the people may know who their candidates are, that they may canvass their characters previous to the election, and vote knowingly on the second of December. The coming contest is exciting considerable attention. People are beginning to think—even at the last moment—that some reform in our city government may be obtained, and were it not for the previous apathy of men of means and position, that desirable object might have been attained. And even now it may not be too late— a fall week yet remains to study the claims and qualifications of the candidates. As far as the office of Comptroller is concerned, which is the most important of all, it is admitted at all hands that the right man has not yet been nomi- nated. Even our staid Wall street neighbor, the Journal of Commerce, admitted yesterday that none of the candidates presented by the republi- cans and the two factions of the democracy were competent for the position, and that is undoubt- edly the opinion of the public generally. They are nothing more than old party hacks and lobby- men, neither of which class should be entrusted with the management of the Finance Depart- ment. There is time enough yet to pick outa good man. Meantime, we advise our readers to study the list of candidates carefully, and weed out all the bad or doubtful men. Jamer Taken ey tue Dercu.—One of the items of news brought by the steamship City of Baltimore, and published in yesterday's Henatn, was that Jambi was taken by the Dutch. It is almost identical with the old joke that the Dutch bad taken Holland. Jambi is a town of Sama- tra—one of those Dutch islands in the Indian archipelago made familiar to American readers by Captain Gibson's romantic story of the Castle of Weltevreden. Jambi is a «mall town on the island of Sumatra, having a population of only some three thousaud, and being the capital of an independent State of the same name. The in- habitants are Malays, and are not much troubled with religious ideas. If the invaders had be- longed to any other race of people than the Dutch, we might, in our general ignorance of the cause of quarrel, have been led into the suppo- sition that the missionary enterprise was at the bottom of it. Aes it is, we must be satisfed with the supposition that the Jambese people had given some cause of offence to the Dutch autho- rities at Palembang, and that this was the teerri- me covsa belli, Whatever the canse of quarrel, however, Jambi is in possession of the Dutch, and, as it dove not appear that they are treading on our corns, we may wish them a good bargain int. € and annexation seem to be the ‘The War of the French and Spaniards against Cochin China, By the last mail from Europe we: learn that the combined French and Spanish forees which had been sent to Cochin China had landed at Touran, one of its most important ports, and that they had succeeded in taking the place without the loss of aman. We are also informed that the bay and river of Touran were held in a state of effective blockade by the French Admiral, de Genouilly, and that they had been so held since the Istof September. By this step France has obtained a foothold in the East, and it is but fair to presume that she will re-establish herself in the possessions which she otice held in this coun- try, and in that dominion which she now as- serts is for the protection of Christians and the propagation of Christianity in this part of Asia, The treaties which were effected by Rus- sia, England, the United States and France with China, were entered into by the three first named Powers of Christendom mainly on account of the commercial advantages which it secured to them; but the advantage which France derived was of a religious character, in the opportunity which it afforded her missionaries of preaching the Gos- pel there without danger of persecution. This was not all, however, for France was desirous in this way of establishing her power in the East, and of regaining the control which she had there in the reign of Louis XVI. In this movement, as the reader is already aware, she is assisted by Spain, and the capture of Touran is a prelimina- ry step to the more important operations which are to follow, and of which we have yet to learn the result. The country known as Cochin China is one of the provinces of the empire of Annam, the others being Cambodia and Tonkin. The Emperor of Annam—Tu-Due, as he fs named—is, like nearly all the Asiatic sovereigns, a despot, and he is said also to be both cruel and tyran- nic. One of his predecessors, the Empe- ror Gia Long, who is said to have been a protector of the arts and sciences, and who was regarded as one of the most intelligent monarchs that ever reigned on the throne of Annam, made a treaty with the French by which they obtained possession of the territory along the borders of the Bay of Touran, which, as has been stated, has now fallen into their hands. After the death of Gia Long the French missionaries who had established themselves in the country during his reign were expelled, and the new Emperor, Minh Manh, refused to see or to receive a commander of a French vessel who had been sent out by his government. A perse- cution was soon after commenced against the Christians, and in 1827 an edict was issued against every missionary who should attempt to preach in the country. Six years after a mis- sionary was executed, and the persecution of the Christians was carried on with extreme rigor. The death of Minh Manh brought about. no change in the condition of things for his sueces- sor. Thien-tri carried it on with still greater violence and cruelty. Notwithstanding this perse- cution Christianity was making such rapid pro- gress among the people that it is said as many as thirteen thousand persons were baptized in the year 1850. The execution of Bishop Diaz, in 1857, called for prompt and decisive mea- sures on the part of the French government, and it was determined to send out such a force as would strike terror into the Emperor and en- force the right of the missionaries to preach the Gospel unmolested throughout the country under hisrule. In this movement, as we have seen, France has secured the co-operation of Spain, and the operations of their combined forces will hereafter afford many an interesting chapter in the history of the progress of the Euro- pean Powers in the East. The posses- sions. of France in Asia, contrasted with those of England, are insignificant, and in India, which is almost wholly under British rule, are ined mainly to Pondicherry. There are others, itis true, which shé holds, but this is the only. one of much importance. Cochin China is considered among the most fertile and productive countries in Asia, and Touran, its principal port, is said to be one of the finest in the World. So productive is the land that in many places it gives three crops a year, and yields rice and sugar in great abun- dance. The other divisions of the Empire of Annam, Tonkin and Cambodia, are no less fertile and productive, and the population of the whole country is variously estimated at from five to twenty millions. Tue Pike's Peak axp Fraser River Gown Discoventes—Parient Ixoustray tue Surest Roap to Weaitu.—The reports from the Pike's Peak gold mines give promise of a rich yield. From the statements of Mr. S. 8. Smith, the re- puted authority, who has recently made a care- ful inspection of the mineral resources of that region, it would appear that miners furnished with the proper implements can count upon a daily guin of from five to twenty-five dollars a day. All these assertions, however, must be received with reserve. We have seen how in the case of the Fraser River discoveries the glowing des- criptions given of that region have not stood the test of investigation. Gold undoubtedly exists there, as it does in many parts of the world, where the yield will not pay for the expense of its working. It does not seem, however, to have been found in sufficient quantitics to sustain the population attracted by the reports of ite abun- dance. The truth is, that these gold discoveries are but, in too many instances, a bait to draw emi- grants to a region in which inhabitants are want- ing. The only benefit which California has de- rived from its mineral riches is its population hy a hardy and industrious race, who develope its commercial and agricultural resources. Of the mineral wealth which it has produced it has retained but little, its other branches of industry being more valuable than its aarife rous yield. This is, in a measure, to be aceount- ed for by the fact that the persons engaged in mining operations are for the most part a float ing population, whilst in all other industrial oc- cupations they become fixed residents and take a permanent interest in the localities in which they settle themselves. There can be no greater proof of the truth of this «tatement than the fact that no sooner had the Australian discoveries followed the over- working of the California mines than’ vast num- bers of the settlers in the latter region took pas- sage for Melbourne, in the hope of bettering their fortunes, Disappointment there, as elsewhere, awaited the over sanguine, and when it was an- nounced that a new El Dorado had been discov- ered in Peru, a fresh emigration took place from the Tasmanian continent to the old empi The only practical purpose Ineas. eet to enable him to secure the prize of supreme power for which be was then con tending. The Fraser river emigration ha: 0l p more fortunate. Notwithstanding ébe brill expectations held out to miners, the thousands of Californians who have been seduced fhere by the hopes of large gains have been reduced Lo state of the greatest distress, and numbers hawe been indebted to public charity for subsistence and the means of returning home, They have made the discovery, which has long since, been demonstrated by the experience of others, that those who would win gold must not seek it in the bowels of the earth, but in the slow and patient exertions of an unexcitiug and common-place in- dustry. od Re-OreninG or Tue Orera Wan.—It appears that the hungry and thirsty Frenchmen of the Courrier have not yet had enough of law, and that Lasalle, the proprietor, who is already under in- dictment for advertising a lottery, has sued the little Napoleon of the Opera for libel. Lasalle don’t like to be called a bungry Frenchman to the extent of five thousand dollars, which he de- mands that Ullman shull pay. The probabilities that Lasalle will recover damages are not cheer- ingly hopeful. The fact of the matter seems to be that Ullman and such of his artists as did not please the hungry and thirsty souls of the Courrier have been abused systematically for many months. All sorts of epithets have been hurled at the Director when he did not engage the pets of the Courrier, and he has been accused of humbugging and swindling the public, when the fact is that he is the most satisfactory mana- ger that the public has ever had. He can put in justification a thousand libels to the Courrier's one. However, it isa good idea to have all these affairs ventilated. If the case ever comes to trial, it will be competent for Ullman to show up all the sugar and water soirées, with a sandwich now and then as a bonne bouche, and to lift the curtain from that fashionable society which lives from hand to mouth and gives soirées in the draw- ing room, while starvation sits in the kitchen, and the butcher waits in vain for bis seven dollars a month’s bill. He can show that these hungry Frenchmen were meaner than the meanest of the oyster house critics when they were at their low- est ebb. The Frenchmen attacked an artist whose merit rose far above their influence, not for any short comings in her exertions before the public, but personally declaring that she was an impostor—one who had assumed a false name for the purpose of swindling the public. Detect- ed in their falsehoods, they now sue the Director of the Opera for libel. It will be a curious case, involving some amusing intrigues and covering several Opera seasons. We trust, for the enter- tainment of the public, that it will be moved on at once. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special W: Despatch. THE CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS AGAINST FO- REIGN GOVERNMENTS—CLAIMS AGAINST MEXICO— ACTIVITY OF THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE COAST OF AFRICA, ETC. ‘Wasmmotoy, Nov. 24, 1858. The history of the claims of our citizens against foreign governments, called for by Senator Benjamin's resolution is progressing rapidly at the Department of Stato, and will be presented to the Senate at the earliest possible day. The amount involved will be found to be very heavy, probably over fifty millions of dollars. That portion of the President's forthcoming Message referring to Mexican affairs, will show a strange state of things. The claims of American citizens against Mexico amount to about fifteen millions of dollars. The Secretary of War bas so far recovered that be was at the Department to-day attending to the duties of his office. Mr. Miller, who was removed some time ago as Post- master at Columbus, Ohio, to make a place for Governor Medary, today received his comm ssion of re-appoint. ment. Mr. Medary goes as Governor to Kansas. He eaves at once for the scene of his labors. Advices were received to day at the Navy Department from the sloop-of.war Dale. She had recently arrived at Acra, on the southwest coast of Africa, having left Porto Praya on the 30th of August, and touched at Cape Palmas on the 14th of September. The vflicers and crew were all well. It was expected that the Dale would leave Acra im the course of the next twenty four hours, to cruise along the coast to Loando, and thence proceed, by way of Porte Praya, to the United States. At date of writing the British steam sloop.of-war Conflict was lying at Acra. ‘The slave traffic in those waters was being extensively carried on. The commanding officer of the Hritish sloop stated that bis vessel had captured three slavers during the last six months, and that the whole British fleet bad taken nine. The Attorney Gencral has given to the Secretary of the Interior a construction of the act of August 8, 1846, grant- ing to the Territory of Iowa certain lands to aid in the im- provement of the Des Moines river. He maintains that the grant only embraces lands between the mouth of the river and Raccoon Fork. The question of the extent of the grant bas been agitated about teu years. His opinion is in accordance with those expressed by Messrs. Critten. den and Cushing on the same subject, and oppased to the opinions of Secretary Walker and Reverdy Johnson. The State claimed that the grant extended on both sides of the river from its mouth to its source, embracing millions of acres. The opinion limits it to about one fourth the amount claimed. THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DRSPATOH. Wasuusoros, Nov. 24, 1858. The Legislature of Kansas was required to ix upon a permanent seat of government before any Congressional appropriation for the erection of the public buildings could be made available. The seat was fixed, in 1866, at Lecomp- ton, and the money appropriated for that purpose expend ed. In April last tho Legisiature passed a law, over the Governor's veto, changing the seat to Min neola. At the request of Governor Denver a decision on the subject has recently been given by Attor ney General Mack, which is that thie law is void. The feat, therefore, must be at Lecompton, at least during the existence of the Territorial government, for the reasons above stated. The money having been thus conditionally appropriated and expended, the change would be violative of the act of Congress and a fraud on the United States, James Fulton, of Tennessee, has been appototed a por ser in the navy, in place of Nanferth, resigned. Official despatches state that the violators of the Dixon family at Beyrut have been convicted, and that an order for their execution would be asked of the Suitan. All the government offices will be closed to morrow, on account of ite being Thanksgiving day News from the Plains. Sr. Louis, Nov. 24, 1868. A telegraphic despatch from Independence, Mo., eays the Santa Fe mail, with dates to the Ist, arrived at that place on the 21st instant. Colonel Hall, the contractor for this route, and who accompanied the mall, reports the weather on the Plains to be more severe than ever expe- rienced before at this season. There is nothing impor. tant from the Navajos country. There liad been some slight skirmishing between our soldiers and the Indians at Fort Defiance. Lieut. Averell had been wounded by the Indians’ firing into his tent, while he was eucamped between Fort Deflance and Albu. querque. His wound wos not regarded as of a dangerous character. Dr. Kavanangh, who had arrived at Santa Fe, reports that he bad travelled up the South Platte a journey of seventy five miles, and found gold deposite all the way up, and from thence to Medieine Bow Creek, finding gold on every stream, ‘The best diggings were on the north side of the Divide, between Arkansas and the South Matte, In ravines four dollars toa pan had been taken in some instances, Don José Chavish, one of the richest men in New Mexico, died on the 13th of October Fire tn Milton, Mass, The oft wns destroyed ve $19,000. ONE BAY Arrival of the Prince Albert at St. Johns, Newfoundiand, LATER FROM EUROPE. Probability of War Between Spain and Mexico. DECLINE IN BRITISH CONSOLS. STATE OF THE MARKETS, &o., du, do. St. Jonns, N. F., Nov, 24, 1866. Toe At! atic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's Steamer Prince Albert arrived at this port at tem o’ctock this morning, but, owing to the wires being down om the route between this place and Sackville, we were unable te transmit her news until this evening. The Prince Albert brings Liverpeol and London adviees to Thursday noon, the 11th inst., which were telegraphed ‘0 Galway for the New York Associated Press. ‘The news is quite meagre. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, received in Londom ‘on the day of the departure of the Prince Albert, says that the Spanish government has taken hold of the Moxicam question in earnest, and declares that the difficulty must be settled ina manner suitable tothe dignity of Spain, Hostilities are covfidently anticipated. A serious insurrection had broken out in Asiatic Turkey, but the particulars had not reached London. ‘The ship Lamar, from Charleston, arrived at Liverpool on the 1th inst. Mr. Whitehouse, the ex Electrician of the Atlantic Tele- graph Company, has written another letter to the direc- tors, reiterating his former opinions touching the difficulty in working the cable, and expressing his con- viction that it may yet be made availabie, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Consols have declined, and are now at 9774 a 98 for money and account. Liverroo., Nov. 11—Nooa, Cotton steady. Estimated sales to-lay 6,000 bales. Flour very dull, and sales quite unimportant, Provisions dull. Produce generally unchanged. Tallow haa advanced, especially Russian, owing to heavy frosts at St. Petersburg. Loxpox, Nov. 11—Noon. (Nors.—We understand that the Prince Albert met with an accident to her machinery during the voyage, which lengthened her passage.—Rer.} Non-Arrival of the Africa, Sanpy Hook, Noy, 24—10 P. M. There are as yet no signs of the steamship Africa, now about due off this point, with Liverpool dates to the 13th inst. Weather cloudy. Wind northwest. The Nicaragua Emigrants. Wassinaron, Noy. 24, 1868. The Mobile Register, the organ of Mr. Forsyth, United States Minister to Mexico, says, in its issue of Saturday, that it is well known that Judge Campbell, of the United States District Court for Alabama, desires to embarrass the proposed emigration from the Southern States to Nicara- gua, and that the public, with instinctive judgment, has come to the conclusion that the special term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of Alabama is held for political purposes. The Register is particulariy severe on the Judge, and accuses him of a disposition to follow the most arbitrary forms mm tyran- nical precedents. Avovsra, Ga., Nov. 24, 1858. The Mobilo Mercury of Monday contains a card from Mr. Walter Smith, stating that he assured the crowd of emigrants who were besieging Col. Hesse’s office on Fri day, that the vessel would not be cleared unless he waa directed from Washington to give her a clearance, and ‘that be advised Hesse to return the passage money to the parties who had paid for their tickets. A committee has been appointed to arrange a settlement. The crowd has quietly dispersed. The Mercury says farther, that the emigrant vessel is now chartered to carry cotton to Hamburg. Gen, Walker left Mobile Saturday. Judge Campbell ar- rived there on the same da; Senator. Ivmtanaroum, In., Nov. 24, 1858, The Senate has passed a resolution, by « vote of 26 to 22, declaring the election of Mesers. Bright and Fitch to the United States Senate, illegal, unconstitutional and void. The same resolution is pending in the House. Cmcaco, Nov, 24, 1868. Hon. Thomas L. Harris, member of Congress elect from the Sixth district of Illinois, died of consumption at six o'clock this morning. The Case of McMahon, the Murderer. Newana, Nov. 24, 1458. Last evening Chancellor Williamson announced to the counsel of the murderer McMahon, that he had decided ‘Rot to allow a writ of error to secure anew trial, This settles the matter, and McMahon will suffer the penalty of. the law on the 17th of January next. He still preserves the same stupid demeanor that bas characterized bim from the first. Rescue of Twelve Shipwrecked Seamen. Avavsta, Ga., Nov. 24, 1868. A ship letter received here from the engineer on board the steamer Victoria, plying between Santiago and Hava. , Ba, reports the saving of twelve seamen on the 16th inst, from a castaway veese! sixty miles out from Port Spain. ‘The name of the veesel is not given. The Weather at the Northward. Bowron, Nov. 24, 1864. The storm here partially abated this morning, bat it still continues cloudy. At Montreal six inches of snow foil last night. It is snowing in the northern part of Vermont, and at Vortland and Eastport New York Canal Navigation. Seunsectany, Nov. 24, 1858. The weather is again quite mild today, and boats aro moving freely in the canal The Florida at Savannah. Sav anvan, Now. 24, 1868 ‘The eteamehip Fiorida arrived here from New York at nine o'clock last evening Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pimtapeurma, Nov. 26, 1858 Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State 6 8, 06; Reading Rail roa’ Morris Canal, no sales ; Long Island Railroad, 115 ; Tennaylvania Railroad, 43. New Onueaxs, Now. 24, 1868, Cotton firm and unchanged. Sales to-day, 13,060 bales. Flour advanced 124e. Corn advanced: sales of mixed at 72e. Sterling exchange, 107%. Drafts on New York at simty day®, 1X per cent, and at sight 1 per cent discount. Moms, Nov. 24, 1858. Cotton market active: sales to-day , 3,000 bales at Ie. Chantaetos, Nov. 24, 1868. Cotton—alos to day of 3,000 bales, the market clos with an advancing tendency. We quote middling fair ot 1146. Crworwsatt, Nov. 24, 1854. Hogs dull at $6 25 9 $6 50 for those a 20 nde by 4 to-day 14,000. Provisions lower— Miese pork, $16 50; green meats, Se. a Te. a 8e. Lard, in barrels, 10\¢¢.. with a good » vanced to 2le. "Other articles unchanged. measure, and 4,000 Fast at 520. — Sales 1,760 bushels at TOc. for 56 pounds. Whekey—Sotes 100 bbls. at 224¢0., to arrive. tm qunailons: wales 800 bln at $8 98 6 96 06 for t ., at $5 26 wo to chiles extre Ono, Indiana and Canadian: 86 75 oa Wisconsin at $1 20, % 1,000 bushels at 62. Nothi in other ; rates nominal. Whiskey frm 1 eg ES, Soa! ing at $5 50 0 $6, in 700 bbls, four, 18. Cana! shipments—23,860 bushels Flour sales 700 bbis., at $4 Wheat without : males bushels, at 750. for Chicago spring, $1 iis for red ‘and $1 06 for a Toshets wheat, 4,600 bushels vate, burhels navigation Is clear, end afew boats are lea water. The rates are unchanged. Weather mild. Ouaeace, Nov. 24, 1858. Flour steady. Wheat dal ai 6%. Gorn dectined Onte firm. Receipts to day—1,100 bbls. flour, © wheat, 9,900 Wishes corn, fe Deh,