The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1858, Page 4

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The News, By the arrival of tho steamship Mlinois at this port last evening from Aspinwall, and the North Briton at Portland from Liverpool, we have interest- ing news. The latest dates from the principal points are as follow ‘The Buropean advices by the North Briton four days later than those received by the Africa, at this port. The Liverpool cotton market had im- proved, and an advance in prices of all descriptions is reported. Breadstafts and provisions continued depressed. Consols at London on the 17th were qnoted at 977 a 95. Severe gales had prevailed on the English coast, causing many disasters and loss of life; but no American vessels were among the sufferers. The steamship Indian Empire, which left Halifax on the 29th ult., had not arrived at Galway at last accounts. A ship from Australia, with a million and a half of gold on board, was overdue at Liverpool, and some anxiety was naturally felt in consequence. The Continental news is anim- portant. Earthquake shocks had visited Seville, Spain, and the island of St. Ubes. ‘The Hlinols bronght $1,816,532 in gold from San Francisco. The news received by her has been to some extent anticipated, but the letters of our cor- respondents, which are published elsewhere, con- tain interesting intelligence. Notwithstanding the stern lesson recently taught to the Indians in Ore- gon by the government troops, another union of the hostile tribes was apprehended; and eccording- ly a council of war had been called by Geu. Harney, to concert measures for a new cam- paign. In Washington Territory the Indians were again becoming troublesome; while in Northern California a battle had taken place between @ portion of the State militia and the Indians, im which the latter were defeated, with loss of several ot their warriors. The great Alma den qnicksilver mine case had been decided in the United States Circuit Court. The Judges granted against working the mine, and it was auppo 'y would appoint a receiver a# soon as the report of the commissioner appointed to ex- amine the property was made. The decision is regarded as by far the most important ever ren dered in California, as it would injuriously affect the whole mining interest of the State. The important points of the case are given in another column. ‘The news from Central America is interesting. Our Minister, Gen. Lamar, remained at San Jose, Costa Rica, but was about to return to Nicaragua, The Congress of Central American Presidents will take place in the city of Guatemala in December next, when a special agreement will, it is said, be made, by which, in case of invasion, the five Cen wal American States will act in concert. Mr. Young Anderson died at Catargo on the 9th ult. Business war, a wnal, excessively dull at Greytown. The ain frigate Roanoke was to proceed to Greytown from Aspinwall as soon as Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley bad had an interview with her commander, Com- modore McIntosh A severe gale commenced at Aspinwall on the 10th inst., and continued till the 20th. During the storm the ship Telassar, of Boston, drifted against the steamship wharf, part of which was destroyed and received such damage that she sunk. She had five hundred tons of coal on board, which, together with the vessel, would be a total loss. The schooner Wide Awake went ashore, and would be sold. No intelligence of the steamship Washington from thie port for San Juan del Norte, had reached Aspinwall. The steamship Hermann, which was to connect with the Washington at San Juan del Sur, arrived at Panama on the 9th, and the next day left for San Francisco direct. Such at least is the report, but it i# to be hoped that she stopped at Sao Juan, on her way up, for the Washington's passengers. From the South Pacific we have the important news that General Castille, President of the repnt lic of Peru, had declared war, with the sanction of Congress, against Ecnador. A train had arrived at Callao from Lima, bringing « number of officers, who proceeded to Pura, Huarez, &c., to raise troops. General San Roman had also come down to despatch the Peruvian ve of war in port at Cattag to! H 1 ‘ ee NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1858. War preparing for a stout resistance, and it was thonght that the contest would lead te serious complications with New Granada and other States. Gen. Echeniquo, it was said, encouraged the Beuadorians to war, in order te overthrow Cas- tilla in Peru. Movements towards revolution were observable in Chile, A fire occurred recently in Valparaiso, and the loss sustained was estimated at $60,000, The copper mines of Copiapo and Coquimbo coatinue to yield abundantly. The President of Chile had issued a decree directing the purchase, in behalf of the republic, of all available shares of the Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad. ‘Trade was very dull, and silver coin exceedingly searce. Reports had reached Valparaiso of the dis- covery of very rich gold mines in the Argentine Comederation, about seven leagues from Mendoza, at @} Lce called Canada Honda. y arrival at this port we have advices from Rio Janeiro to the 12th ult., but they contain no general news. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, writing on the 17th instant, says:—Fine rains have fallen through the country during the lsat two weeks, resuscitating the canes, yams, &., to an unexpected degree, and they now give promise of yielding a medium crop. There is no- thing doing in American produce, as the saarket ix completely giutted and no export demand. Cod fish and pickled fish, except mackerel, of which there is none in the market, is in fair supply, aud the demand has fallen off. White pine lumber is abundant. Pitch pine lumber, cypress shingles and red oak staves continue to be inquired for. The health of the island is generally good. The immi- gration of coolies has so far been attended with success to the planters. Since the 24th of Septem: ber last 954 have landed here, and work most sat- isfactorily, being quiet, sober, saving, and very in Sustrions. They are well pleased with their new homes and masters. In another co!umn will be found some additional particulars respecting the suicide of Mr. Edward J. Dickens of England, in Jersey City. From the testimony of Dr. Edwards, who made the port mor- tem examination, it appears that the deceased was in the habit of taking cyanide of potassium, for the purpose of alleviating the pain of a severe cough which he was afflicted with, and that taking a strong- er dose than usual, on an empty stomach, death resulted. We publish the statement of Mr. P. Rd- wards, British) Vice Consul, who is of opinion that the deceased did not commit suicide ‘The trial of the three Portuguese sailors charged with serving on board the alleged slayer Haidee, was postponed on Saturday, in consequence of the illness of one of the jurors. Judge Edmonds delivered a discourse on “ the Heaven agd Hell of Spiritualists” last evening, in Dodworth's Hall, which was attentively listened to by a large audience. The discourse was interest- ing, embodying nearly all the peculiar tenets of ihe spiritualists. A report of it appears in another column. The second of the series of regular services being held at the Academy of Music on Sabbath evenings was duly performed last evening, when an impressive and eloquent discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of which we supply else- where an abreviated report. The cotton market continued firm on Saturday, but sales were restricted by the reduced supply of stock in market. The sales embraced about 1,000 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 12c. 9 12igc. per Ib. for middling uplands, with little to be had under the latter figure. Flour was steady and in fair request, while sales were moderate. Wheat was sold to a limited extent, em bracing the better descriptions, which were firm. Corn was ip fair demand, with sales of Western inixod at Tic. « Tic.; Southern white at 8c. a 83iKe.; Jersey yollow at 85c.; and prime round yellow at 8%. Pork was some- what leas buoyant, while sales of mess wore made at $17 30 4 $17 40, with a lot, check on the day, at 817 3734, and primo at $13 26 a $13 75. Sugars were firm, whilo the sales embraced 300 a 400 hhds. Cuba and 700 a 800 boxes. Coffee was firta: Kio was quiet, while sales of 1,800 bage of St. Domingo and 800 do. Maracaibo were made at steady prices. Freighte were firm to Englith ports, but engagements were moderate. The Next Presidency—The Politicians vs. the People. The caucus and convention jugglers, and the Presidential aspirants of the various cliques, factions, parties and sections of the country in every direction, are actively plotting and coun- terplotting, scheming and intriguing for the spoils and plunder of the next Presidency. The curious complications of our late elections, their astonishing results, the late remarkable speeches, North, South, East and West, of some of our leading political aspirants, orators and philoso- phers, democratic and republican—the unsettled, confused and conflicting views and opinions of the party press, slavery and anti-slavery, and the intense anxiety which evidently exists among all parties in reference to the President's annual message, and the developements of the approach- ing session of Congress, furnish a schedule of causes, events and circumstances which very clearly indicate, for good or evil, a new epoch in our political history. Of all this, the scheming politicians and ra- pacious spoilanen of the country are fully aware; and with all their ingenious devices to cover up their tracks, we have discovered enough on all sides to satisfy us that their plans and purposes are wholly directed to the spoils, and utterly regardless of the peace and harmony of the Union. For example, it now requires but a limited intellect to understand that the original Kansas-Nevraska bill was nothing but a desperate Southern game of Douglas and Pierce for the Cincinnati nomi- nation of 1856, and that the subsequent anti- Lecompton rebellion of Douglas was an equal- ly desperate experiment on his part for the Northern democratic balance of power in the Charleston Convention of 1860. Nor less trans- parent ix the motive of the late Rochester mani- feeto of W. H. Seward, or the movements of the slave trade agitators and the Walker filibus ters of the South. On both sides of the slavery line, among these party ultras, the paramount object is a sectional division of parties, and a sectional agitation for the benefit of the section- al demagogue leaders concerned, who have little to expect from the reign of law and order, and nothing to lose, though they should drive the country into the chaos of revolution, disunion and civil war. Against these reckless sectional conspirators and party spoilemen we would solemnly invoke the attention and resistance of the loyal and in dependent masces of the American people. They have the power, and theirs is the right and the duty of electing our next President, in defiance and in contempt of all sectional organizations, or party juntas, or caucuses, or conventions We know that all the evils and mischievous conse. quences which the country has suffered from the slavery agitation may be justly charged to tha: infamous caucus machinery which has made our existing political parties to “stink in the nos. trils of the people.” We know that our only source of relief isin a reaction and revolution from the people themselves; and, from recerft events and the signs of the times, we can all per- ceive that the public mind is ripe and ready for this grand and wholesome work of reform. At the last session of Congress, with a power- ful numerical majority in both houses, the de- mocracy, frown their intestine demoraliz: ypon one pretext and another, were reduced to a Practical minority. Thus, but for the in'erven- | whatever objections may exist to the conces- tion of a sufficient force of patriotio members from the opposition side, the government at Washington, ere thie day, would, perhaps, bave been reduced to something like that horrible c»0- dition of anareby prevailing in Mexico. And why this debasing party demoralizationt According to the Congressional debates, it aro e from acon- flict of principles and constitutions’ embarrass ments; but, in truth, it was all the fruit of the « nflicting plots, intrigues and schemes of rival demagogues for the spoils and plunder of the Trcsidential succession. In the approaching and closing session of this disorganized Congreas, we may safely anticipate still broader developements of the kame demoralizing character, and which will still more broadly disclose the fearful re- volntionary dangers to which these party and sectional demagogucs are driving the party machine, As matters now stand, the choice of the peo- pl. lies between three political parties—the de- meocratic, the republican, and the rump of the Know Nothing party. The first named, step by step, has become so intensely pro-elavery in its composition as to monopolize the Southern States; the second, so intensely anti-slavery as, with an exception or two, to monopolize the Northern States; while the third, as between the upper and the nether mill stone, has been pul- verized and reduced to a mere floating balance of power. This isa very unsatisfactory condition of things on all sides; but it becomes still more so when we take into the estimate the promineut candidates of these parties for the succession. First, the democratic list includes Vice Presi- dent Breckinridge, Wise and Hunter of Virginia, Slidell of Louisiana, Jefferson Davis of Missis- sippi, Toombs and Stepbens of Georgia, Bright of Indiana, and a host of others, including Douglas, whose position is exceedingly equivocal, uncer- tain and perilous to himself and the party. Next, tbe republican list includes Seward of New York: Banks of Massachusetts, Chase of Ohio, Bissell of Illinois, and perhaps Fremont, although his name in this connection, of late, appears to be mentioned more from courtesy than from any serious design of running him again. The rump of the American party, upon a sort of “old line whig” platform, slightly seasoned with anti- Romanism and nativistic Ideas, look to a general opposition re-organization upon Crittenden of Kentacky, or Bell of Tennessee. Each of these men, of all these parties, has his peculiar party claims ; each unquestionably has a body of in- terested followers at his back, in Congress and out of Congress; but not one of them can count upon an election, or even a nomination, in 1860, without a series of new movements upon the political chessboard, which will put him in a position to command the issue of the game. With perhaps one or two exceptions in all this catalogue of Presidential aspirants, the first necessity is now, as it has been, the rule or ruin of Mr. Buchanan's administration. Hence the party diseords and rebellions at the last session of Congress, and the more sharply defined per- sonal conflicts which we may anticipate during the session which is about to meet. But another great necessity with the leading sectional dema- gogues of beth the republican and democratic camps is some new issue of sectional agitation. In this view the American people have only to fold their arms, and let our sectional party caucus and convention managers go on without interruption in their work, in order to secure by the year 1860 a new sectional conflict, which may shake the whole fabric of our federal sys tem, and all the solid interests of the country, into a common mass of ruins. The only way through which some such des- perate party and sectional expedients for the spoils and plunder can be arrested is in a return to the real principle of “popular sovereignty” in the election of a President by the people in their primary capacity. We have indicated the plan. The work can be accomplished only by anticipating the managers of our party cau- cuses and conventions; but they may be antici- pated and superseded by scasonable popular movements in favor of this, that, and the other candidate, in every available locality throughout the country, and without regard to party tactics or party machinery. Indeed, a system of popu- lar movements upog one such man as General Scott, whose name, fame, public services, expe rience and character would be for his support- ers, North and South, a sufficient platform, would be quite enough to settle the issie of the next Presidency, to the complete overthrow of all our existing unserupulous party managers and their rotten and demoralizing party ma- chinery. Finally, from the sectional dangers which we bave escaped, aud from the heavy clouds of dis cord, sedition and treason to the Union, which now overhang the horizon, we are not exagge- rating the perils before us, in repeating the opi- nion that a popular revolution against our reckless party gamblers and epoilsmen is our only security against « revolutionary disraption and collision between the South and the North. The same corrupting spoils and plunder influ- ences and agencies that destroyed the Roman Empire will be sufficient to destroy the Ameri- can republic, if they are much longer permitted to rale the destinies of the country. The only safety of a popular government is in the active supremacy of the popular will. Prooress or THe Morwows Uspen THe Prack Reoore.—All the recent accounts from Utah go to show that the people of that Territory have settled down into state of political quietude, if not contentment. With the ex- ception of occasional quarrels with the team- sters of the overland trains, and a few outrages and robberice committed on stran- gers by drunken rowdies, the population of Utah may at present be considered as peaceable and orderly as any other in the Union. These occurrences are in fact nothing more than the ordinary excesses incident to all communities, no matter how civilized. As will be seen by the extracts in another column, they mect with the strong reprobation of the Salt Lake press, and will no doubt s90n be put down by the firm arm of the law. Coincident with this state of polttical tranqnil- lity, it ie gratifying to find that the people of the Territory are devoting their attention to the de- velopement of its material resources. Just now the pre-emption question is receiving from their journals that anxious consideration which is natural to the altered views which have been the result of Mr. Buchanan's judicious policy. No longer occupied with projects of emigration, the Mormons, as the pioneers of civilization in this rude region, seek to secure that prior title to its soil which it has been the policy of our government to accord to the first settlers in other Territories. They claim to be placed on an equality in this respect with the pple of Oregon and New Mexico; and tion of their demands, the fact is satisfactory, a8 indicating their permanent interest in aod attych- ment to the lands which they have located at the expenee of #0 much hardship and suffering. But it is not merely in newspaper speculation and discussion that we notice the improved spirit which is at present animating the people of the ‘Territory. They seem to be devoting themselves with the moet praiaeworthy energy to the culti- vation of all those arta which, whilst they increase the prosperity and wealth of new settle- ments, shed a refining influence over the manners aud habits of their inbabitants. Thus, at the recent fair held at Salt Lake City, it was ob- served that not ouly were the agricultural and industrial products exhibited of 9 first claws character, but that those branches of the mo chanical arts which minister to the culture and moral elevation of the mind were largely repre- sented. If the skill displayed in the improve- ment of fire arms was more prominent than was to be desired, that feature was more than counterbalanced by the equally admirable apeci- mens exhibited in the fine art department. Taken in connection with the agricultural advance- mente displayed by this singular community, we hail these facts as evidences that their offorts to improve their mental condition will in time be followed by those changes of religious belief which are alone necessary to insure their per- manent prosperity and happiness, Russian Acquisition or TxRrrrory on THE Meprrerrankan— Tie Privciraurry or Mo- waco —Since the close of the Crimean campaign and the signing of the treaty of Paris, Russia has given indications of a very natural desire on her part to obtain a port on the Mediterrancan, The allies look upon this effort of Russia with dis- favor, and do their best to thwart it. The Eng- lish show themselves particularly averse to it. That nation pursues the grab-all policy in every corner of the earth, but does not wish to see any other Power following her example, even at a re- wote distance. And so, when it became known some months since that Russia had succeeded in obtaining from Sardinia the port of Villa Franca, murmurs of dissatisfaction escaped the English government and the English press, although this port is so near to France as to preclude the idea of its being ever strongly fortified or converted into an arsenal of any great importance, and al- though the grant is revocable at any time by Sardinia. And now again we hear the same grumbling in reference to some supposed intention of Russia to acquire the territory comprised within the little principality of Monaco, which lies adjacent to this port of Villa Franca. It is intimated that negotiations have been open- ed with Prince Charles, and that that gay and fast living gentleman has no objection to trans fer his ancestral territory to Russia or to any otber Power that will pay him what he asks for it. He is an absentee Prince, taking more de- light in Paris life than in an existence in the lit- tle town of Monaco, the capital of his prineedom; and although his family has reigned there ever since the year 968, he hasgio compunctions about alienating it now. And so if the Emperor Alex- ander had only to do with the Prince Charles, there would be little doubt about the few thou- sand subjects of Monaco soon becoming Ruesian subjects. But unfortunately, perhaps, for them- selves, the transfer is not so casy. The title of Prince Charles to his territorial domains is questioned by Sardinia, under whose protec- torate they lie. Ever since 1848 Sardinia has laid claim to and occupied the towns of Men- tone and Receabruua, asserting that the right of the Grimaldi princes extended only to the town of Monaco and suburbs. The population of the whole numbers only some seven thousand, and among them the desire is pretty gencral to be relieved of the exactions of Prince Charles, who las no care in respect to them except to get as large a revenue a8 can poasibly be squeezed out of them. Sardinia might not object to cancelling the claim of this Prince by money, but that his demand appears altogether too extratagant. He, in his turn, has appealed to the other Towers to sustain his title; but beyond some diplomatic correspondence with the Coust of Turin, nothing has grown out of it. We have not heard that any definite arrangement has been come to between Victor Emanuel and Prince Charles. While this cloud rests upon his title, it is quite natural that he should be ready to ac- cept the liberal terms of Russia; but it is not so likely that the latter would treat with hin at all. Sardinia could not consent to having a Rassian camp established within her own borders, for Monaco is actually @ part of the Kingdom of Savoy. We think, therefore, that there is no cause for English or French alarm on the subject of Mus covite influence in Italy. Their apprehensions are evidently groundless. Russia wants a port upon the Mediterranean, and that port she has already got voluntarily from Sardinia. She does not want this little strip of territory, and if she did she could not get it. But even if she wanted it, and could get it, what right would Eogland or France have to grumble about it? Would it not be merely an imitation on a small seale of their own operations in Asia and Africa, and all over the globe? But, as we said, England is despe- rately jealous of any other Power but herself getting anything. She was not at all pleased with our acquisition of Louisiana, or Florida, or Texas, or California. She does not like our territorial expansion, and is now doing her best to block up our game in Central America, She did not at all like the idea of our getting pos- session of the bay of Samana, on the island of Hayti; she wanted it fora conling station; but England and France became so alarmed at the bare idea of our getting a foothold on any of the West India islands that they managed to prevent the Dominican government from carrying ont that project. They were also alarmed about our getting a coaling station on the Mediterrancan; and yet they are themselves making aggressions. in India and Cochin China, and picking up islands wherever they can get them. This is extremely relfich on their part; bitt we do not think they have any cause for the exhibition of that quality in regard to Russia and the Principality of Mo- naco. Tax Exminition or ran Warn Benoois.— Dar- ing the past week an exhibition of the ward schools was held at the Peter Cooper tnstitute, and it appears to have heen the most enccessfiil affair of the kind that has taken place in this city. The drawings and specimens of penman- ehip were admirable, and elicited the most un- bounded praise, The display was exceedingly gratifying, and it is to be hopod that this is but the beginning of a series of regular annual exhi- hitions in which all, instead of half of our schools, will participate. Gratifying as such displays must he to those who take an interest in the pro- grees of our ward schools aud the profigtency of the pepily, It is, nevertheless, discouraging the triends of papular education to see the disre- pute jato which the eystem is rapidly and inevi- through the corruption, incompe and dixreputatile character of too many of who have been entrusted with ite care and management, MN has been converted iato a poli- tical machine, while one-half the school money is appropriated by Gishowest officials and contract- ud the whole system must eventually go to ruin if the people do not redeem it from the bur ds of designing politicians, or Tay Prexc Press ayp Our Commercun Maxinx.—-Our excitable brethren of the Paris press few off at a tangent when the news of the burning of the Austria steamship reached them, and they made it the text for long newspaper artioles that were anything but complimentary to our merchant service. It did not secm to have occurred to them that the Austria was a Hamburg vessel, commanded by a Hamburg captain, and manned by a Hamburg crew. After some days, however, the error was cor- rected by La Patrie; but that paper, while point- ing out the mistake, justified the aspersions of which that mistake was the text, and gravely in- formed ite readers that American vessels could never be well ofticered or manned, because we had no navy ia which officers or sailors could be disciplined. The cool impudence of these Paris journalists is really amusing. It is French aH over. We would not detraot from the personal bravery and the professional skill of the captains snd crews of French merchant ships. We have often had occasion to commend their skill, their courage and their humanity in rendering assistance to shipwrecked vessels of our own nation, and espe- cially in the case of the burning of the Austria, But the officers and crews of our own merchant vessels are no whit behind the French in those high personal and professional qualities, even though they may not have had the advantage of naval discipline. We cannot, therefore, see the force of the reasoning of La Patric on this subject. Within the last ten or fifteen years various attempts have been made to establish French steamship lines; but from some reason or other, which perhaps the Paris journals might discover if they tried, these attempts have all resulted in failure. We have had French steamship lines to New York, to New Orleans, to the Antilles, and to Brazil. What has become of them all? France has an immense commerce—why can she not support her steamship lines, particularly since the officers and crews of her merchant marine have had the advantage of training and dis- cipline on board her men-of-war? Here is a problem for the French journalists; and when they have solved it to their own satisfaction, they may give to the world the results of their speculations. It might aid them ia their search to recollect the incident of one of the Mrench line of steamers to New York putting into Hali- fax on one occasion; and when the cause of her doing eo was inquired into, it turned out that the steward had been rather stingily supplied with sugar, and that it was to procure a few pounds of that article that the ship put into Tlalifax. This little incident may afford a key to the solution of the problem as to the univer- sal failure of French steamship lincs, —_———_—_. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Spectal Washington Despatch. THR NEW YORK OFFICK HOLDERS—THH MEXICAN IM BROG LIO—-THE YRENCH AND ENGLISH MINISTERS ON ‘THE QUI VIVE—THE PANAMA MAIL STEAMBH CON- TRACT—THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COM MITTER OF WAYS AND MEANS—THE FINANCTAS POLICY OF THE ADMINIATRATION—RETRENCHMENT IN THE DEPARTMENTS, BTC. Wasimweron, Nov. 28, 1868, The guillotine cannot be brought to work in the case of Mr. Schell, partly because the New York politicians aro not agreed upon a successor for him. A large portion of them are in favor of the appointment of Mr. Taylor, the tate unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor; but Mr. Sickles and his friends insist upon the appointment of F. B. Hart ag Collector, and will not accept any other name. But it is eaid that the President does not seem dis- posed to haye his administration Bronsonized, and 60 Mr. Schell stands a very good chance to remain where he is. Mr. Maguan will call upon the President to morrow, and |. lay before him his budget of information about Mexico. It ts doubtful if the administration can accept his proposi- tion for a loan, taking lands in Sonora or Lower California a security. Tkaeema he bas full powers from President Juarez, and a loan at this time of a few millions would be most opportune. Perhaps, however, the administration will take such @ chance of getting Lower California or Sonora. Mr. Worrall, who accompanies Mr. Maguan, was ex- pelled frum Mexico for not submitting to the forced loan. He is an English subject, and holds s large number of English bonds. Me is on his way to England to submit the whole matter to the British government, ‘The British and French Ministers seem to manifest great interest just now in regard to the Mexican imbrogho. ‘They are seeking every avenue to enlighten themselves ‘upon the subject. The extraordinary activity around and attentions to the gentlemen jurt come from Mexico, by Lord Napier and Count Sartiges, is worthy of note, and ie regarded as sig- nificant. itis said by the foreign Ministers whoee gov. ernmenta are surrounding Mexico with numerous war veesels, that it is simply to press their claims, and to obtain justice. Why did they not do this beforer Why wait till there is no gov: ont with sufficient means and power to give satiefact Why press especially upon the constitutional government of Juarez? The answer will give a key to their designs. Parties connected with the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany are here to urge a renewal of their mail contract, In view of the state of the Treasury, and of the conduct ‘of this company in its echemes to break down rival lines and heavily tax California passengers by subsidizing Van- derbilt, and in other ways, it is not likely that these par- ties will be able to get a renowal of euch » heavy subsidy from goverument. Mr. Phelps, of Missour!, has arrived, and will confer with the administration om (he financial condition and Proepeeta of the country. Tt is understood he will be Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, of the House, in place of Glancey Jones. It is considered hia former position on that committee, and be having beens mort active member of it, entitle him to the position It ia thought there will be no positive recommendation for any, or if any but alight, modification of the tariff, Tho gradual and hendihful inerease of the business and con- sumption of the country will, probably, shortly bring up the revenue to the exigencies of government, Besides, there ie » disposition in the departments to retrench, and to ack for a lees amount of money. As an example, it may be noticed that in the Indian Departinent several heavy sume demanded by Superintendents of Indians aro ent down. Superintendent Henly, of California, aeks for three hundred thousand dollare for the uso of the Indian reservations. The department recommenda fifty thousand only: and eo ‘a other cases and departments of the service. Superintendent Henly is to be removed. It is supposed the War Department will net require as mach for Utab and other extra services by two millions as last year, Mr. Guthrie, ex Seeretary of the Treasury, came to Washington last evening. His visit is a private one. He speaks vith coniidence of the prospects of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, about which be has been laboring arduovaly since be left the Treasury Department. Mr. Pheips, of Missouri, is determined to push the Pa cific Rallroad eheme throngh this session if porsible The report of the Commissionve of Indian Affairs will bo upusaally intoresting this year. It will exbitit the acini table working of the presemt system of oducatiog, in teaching the red men the arty of husbandry. All who have come immediately under these influences are rapilly Approximating toa stato of civilization. The Register of the Treasury reports that the sale of public lands this year will amowit to three wi'tions of dol are. nn it The Wreck of the Brig Amanda. Noawrs, ow, 27, 1858, The brig Amanda, from Providence, bound to Witming- ton, is aahore ov Nor Beach, N.C, and « total lowe, ‘The Weather tn Boston, , Boron, Now. 28, 1958, Snow bas ben failing steadily since @wo o'clock. The weather this evening ie mild, with iedications of rain, Southern Gecan Streamer Muvements. CuaRawroy, Now, 22, L The steamsbip James Adger, Capt. K. Adauna, from Now York, arrived hore at 11 o'oiock Friday exit. ™ mismnssip Bianchina Beate re by he 6 slewee ar of the South arrived here York in 64 bours. Ai! well. payee Lod tleamenip Plorida icaves for New York af twe 'eivel Market rm od EW ORIANS, Nov. 27, 1868, yp lotton—-Sales to-day 3,500 balea, at tuebanged Mest pork ore Freights—-Cotton to Liverpool, 4., Nov. 8,1 ) He. Moncey, Cotton—Sales to-day 2,500 bales at 11'a 11 %4e, for arid. Giog. The aales for the Week {oot up 25,600 bales, the receipts 13,000, agninst 17,500 bales fast year. - cepts ahead of thst ‘year, 162,000 Dalen. Shock, 9 Be te—Colton Liverpool ki Havee, 1440. In port, nine ships. ae Rae Cuarteston, Nov. 26, 1858, Cotton—Salee to-day 2,400 bales y ‘xc.; middling fair, 10! helenae tail ors Avuusta, Nov, Cotton —The market is excited and bsetsteds more bay ere lore, receipts from. rapidly dectining. . oe irony ae Savaynan, Nov. 26, 1868, Cotton—saies to-day 1,160 balea, tho miurket closing an ‘The sales of the week foot up 6,100 bales, and the mec 16.600. Teceinis st ths port’ ahead of last year 100,108 alee, do. at al uthern ports, 571 bates, Stock, : 500 bales, Sterling exchange, Fed big ‘Cixcewant, Nov, 27, 1858, ‘Tho bog market was leas excited to-day, but closed tras; sules at $6 63 a $6 76 for thone averaging’ 200 pounds, amé at $6 85 a $7 for heavy. The receipts of the woek add up 71,000) and the receipts to-day 16,000. Meas pork 917 for fulure delivery ; more bugers than sellers wt Vile price. n—Shoulders G3x0., aud sid . Lard Brm. Whiskey active at ade" sidney: ‘ Curoaco, Nov. 7—6 P.M, Flour steady. Wheat—A declining tondency: salos at S8c. Corn dull: salee wt $2c. Oats iim. Shipmoute te Buffelo—16,500 bushels wheat. Receipts—600 barrels flour, 4,590 bushels wheat, 4,800 bushels corn. 5 Bervato, Nov. 27, 1868. moderate demand; market firm; sales 00 bbe. $5 50 for goon tochokwextra Indiana, Michigan, ‘anada; $$ 75a $6 for double extras, Wheat in moderate demand; market firm: sales 22,000 bushels a Tic. for Chicago spring: $1 09 for red Intiana; c. for Milwaukie chub; $1 12% for white Wabash, aad #1 20 for prime white Indiana Corn dull and nomuial ab ic. Marley dull, and held st 6c. a 676. itye, Oats firm st 5de., but only email sales, Wiss. key firmer: beld at 213g¢ a 220. beter: sales at $5 34a $6 38. “Weather mild and eanal in good order. Receipts—7,819 bbis. flour, 44,544 bushels wheat, 1,000 bushels rye, 3,268 busiieis oats, 6,000 bushels corm! Oswnao, Nov, 21--5 P. M. Flour market steady; demand moderate for the local and Fastern trade: sales 500. bbls, at $5.0 $5 75 for good te choice extra Oswego brands, and $6 for doubioextra Mich. igan. | Wheat in active milling demand, with gales of 4, 000 bushels at $1 124 a $1 14 for red’ Ohio and Indians; $1 17 for white do. ; $1 15 for red Michigan; 87 ic. for Ra’ cine club; 72c. a 76c. for Chicago spring: 80c. for choice do. Lake imports—1,960 bbls. tlour, 3,250 bushels wheat. Canal exports—4,400 bushels wheat.’ Weather milder, ‘Tur Gatway Line oF Sraumers.—It is believed there i@ no cause of approhousion in relation to the Indian Em- pire, notwithstanding the report brought by the Africa, that she had not been heard of for three weeks from the day of her leaving New York. Sho had been at sea but fifteen days from the time of ber leaving St, John’s, and being light sparred and not a very fast ship, might easily have been kept back by the weather, which has been unusually boisterous. Sho is considered as gafe a vessel as foate. The Circassian, which loft here on the 19th at 2P.M., reached St. John’s at 5 P. M. on the 2{th—making a very short passage to that port, and was expected to make a good run to Galway. The Princo Albert, with full freight and passengor list, was expected hourly Inet evening. Exraxpine Rartroans axp Aveyvxs Ur Toww.—A cor- respondent suggests that the Central Park bids fair to bo completed before proper means of accosa to it are afford- ed by railrouds or the othor thoroughfares, which look 40 pretty and straight on the maps, but which as yot oxist only ‘nthe imagination of expectant contractors. Ho says: “Tho Eighth Avenue Railroad Corapany is obliged by its charter to lay down its rails and run its cars as fast and as fur az the avenue shall bo fnishe¢—ovon up to the Har- lem river."’ Then he thinks thero aro some vory myste rious hindrances to the completion of the avenue, which are quite a coincidence with the fact that the company makes money by it. He wants to aco the Fifth avenue opened, too, and makes sundry personsi revelations of the cause of the delay, which, of course, we cannot pub. ish, By all means let the avenues be 0; The Death of Mr. Edwin L. Dickens. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS—DR. EDWAKDS’ RKVORT OF THE POST MORTEM BXAMINATION- 11% DOKS NOT BELIEVE THB DRCEASKD INTENDED TO TrOL4ON HIMSELF—STATEWENT OF MI. PLERMEVONT sD- WARDS, H. 8. M. VICE CONSUL, On Saturday last we published a report of the suicide of Mr. Edward L. Dickens, in Jersey City, but have since been furnished with some information respecting the melancholy occurrence, which loads us to suppose that the deceased did not commit svicide. For somo time back Mr. Dickens was suffering from a severe chronic cough from plouriay—a cough which a sedative would re heve—and occasionally took cyanide of jolassium, aad it is supposed that he incautious!y took an overdose on an empty stemach, which caused death. We have been favored with the following statement the. purpose of being used, ant" fo sated etek cing as it ts the first Wath the motes wend hove’ sickeness of the stomach, and be was known to be in the habit of using it. From the evidence of Surgeon Edwards, wlo made post mortem examination, it appeszs that the mixture & peculiarly powerful effect, owing wo thy empty state of bis stomach, aod that, possibly, the powon would not have acted had he taken it on a full stomach. His last visit to in this city on Tuesday even- ing, and his mauner and conversation, would not lead any one to suppose that he intended comm.tting suicide. address was always at the Astor, and no reason can be assigned for bis giving @ fvigned name at the American Hotel, in Joreey City, except that he desired @ be private, He always stated that he wascennccted with the Londoa Standard, and there 8 no reason to doubt the assertion. ‘The following is Dr. Edwards’ report of the post mortem ‘examination Naw York, Nov. 27, 1958, Thave this day made a poet mortem’ oxam|nation, direotion of the ritieh Cohont, of the boty of kawin J Dickeus, at No. 6 Prospect sireut, Jeraay OMY. in prosence of Piorrepont Edw. Heq., Her Brit ‘” Vice Conanl, and Mr. MeCune, inedical stadent. The body was not decomposed in the slightest degres, and no wounda Were discoverable upon it, exeept a sight abrasion on the left cheek bono and at the odgo of cack. lip. On first opening tho abdomen an other cavities, a very faint odor of bitter almonds waa peweptibie. The loft lung was quite healthy, while the right had beon the seat of severe plourisy, the whole surface being ste’ adberent tothe ribe, 'The heart healthy, except two the valves, one of which was abnormally ‘thickened and the other contracted from inflammation; but these wero not sufficiently affected to influence tho goneral health, unless onder great exertion or oxcitement. The book throughout in the body was fluid; none was found \- lated anywhere. The stomach, externally, was healthy, dat internally contained only ropy moeas (no fowl of any kind); the lining membrane was sotaewhat softened, co vered with this that tenacious mucss,aud highly injected, in all (ta extent, but not corroded. Other orgare oom A showing no eilects of mtemperauce, vice or nese. That the deconsed diet of an overdose of cyanide of potassium T have no donbt; but that he intentionally pob- soned himself ido not believe. He was eu'foring frou a chronic cough from his pleurisy, a kind of cough which sedative would relieve: cyanide of potasinn is used for this purpose, and the dors evidently » from one of the Votties containing the wenkesd solution, while a suicide would have chosen the strongest: only ® rmall quantity could have been taken, or moreeffert would have been por- ceived and a greater odor of prussic acid boon detected, stomach being cutirely empty (be had arrived too late for dinner, and not having appeared table), there was neither food nor uid to ity Of medicine taken, and it war at ones absorbed, and the full offoct—e total {ors of muscular power—imme. tely produce, which would, probably, mot have the case had the stomach coutaiard Wood. tthe feet ot the body being still when found at ten o'clock the next morning proves, conclusively, that the medicing was cithor taken in small quantisies during the night, ana Ab leat produced death by awnmulation (as eyanide of Saas Mil < cae, é bat one dose was ie ‘was not until a late hour int the morning. My conviction is that he evidentally tank an overdons of cyanide of potaseium, which he was taing asa medicine, ¥. 8 AROS, M1. UST Weer Twrvry eronen srr, The expenses of the post mortem examination and the funeral have Deon defrayed by the Englieh Consul, Ez Poltee Intelligence. Fiany verwees Fromtxy.—ames Martin, © noticed in our issae of the 26th inst., in nassnalt pon John Willy, of Ricins cote na to state thathe is catircly (nmgceat relogroet bia,