The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1859, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8407. MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1859. PRICE TWO CENTS. NEWS FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Ocean Queen off Cape Race, FOUR DAYS LATER INTELLIGENCE. WRECK OF THE AMERICAN SHIP BEN BOLT, The £12,000,000 Russian Loan Taken Up. BAPROVEMENT IN THE COTTON MARKET. BREADSTUFFS AND PROVISIONS DECLINING, dic, &e., de, Sr. Jona, N. F., Sept. 20, 1889. ‘The Vanderbilt steamship Ocean Queen, Capt. Seabury, frem Havre via Cowes, passed Cape Race at five @elock this (Saturday) morning, on her way to New ‘York, where she will be due on Wednesday next. "The Ocean Queen was boarded by the news yacht, by which meang the following summary of her nows was obtained: — ‘The Ocean Queen sailed from Havre on the Sist of Au- gest, and from Cowes at two o’clock A. M. of the lst of September. She has 800 passengers, a large cargo, $40,- (000 in specie and a heavy mail. ‘The Purser’s report says:—September 1, three o’clock P. M., passed steamship Fulton, from New York, off the Tizzard, bound ix. September 4, lat. 6012, long. 21 30, passed steamship Vanderbilt, from New York for South- ‘empton and Havre. ‘The Ocean Queen experienced heavy westerly gales for three days. Our Liverpool correspondent says:— ‘The steamships Anglo-Saxon, for Quebec, and Kangaroo, for New York, were detained till the night of the ist, ‘the stormy weather preventing the embarkation of their passengers. ‘The whole amount of the Russian twelve million loan had been subscribed, and exchanges on St. Petersburg bad fallen three per cent. A Bavarian loan, for the purpose of defraying the mili- tary expenses of the country, had been issued at 96}4 per cent. ‘There was nothing of importance known respecting the ‘doings of the Zurich Conference. Advices from Athens report the dissolution of the Greek Chambers. ‘The steamship Kangaroo, from New York 18th ult., arrived at Liverpool on Sunday the 28th. Tho steamship Teutonia, from New York 16th ult., arrived at Southampton on the 30th, en rou/e to Hamburg. The steamship Nova Scotian, from Quebec 20th ult., arrived at Liverpool on the 30th. ‘The steamship Circassian, from New York 18th ult., via St. Johns, N. F., arrived at Galway on the 30th. ‘The American ship Ben Bolt, from Havana, bound to Falmouth, was wrecked at Brendos on the 25th ult. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘THE LONDON MONEY MARKET. Consels were steady, and closed on the 3ist at 9534 2 OX. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. ‘The sales of the three days ending the 30th ult. in the Li- ‘verpool cotton market were 23,000 bales, of which specula- tore and exporters each took 2,500 bales. The market closed firm, with an advancing tendency, and in some ‘cases prices were one-sixteenth of a penny per pound Aigher; middling Orleans was quoted at 7 1-16d., and middling uplands at 6 13-16d. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER. ‘The Manchester market was firmer, and in some cases prices were slightly higher. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. The Liverpool breadstuff's market was very dull. Rich- ardeon, Spence & Co. state that the woather had been stormy and unfavorable for the crops, but the harvest ‘was almost over. Flour was very dull and easier, but quotations were unchanged: American, 10s. a 12s. Wheat very dull: red, 7s. 6d. a 98.; white, 9s. a 9s. 6d. Corn steady; mixed and yellow, 5s. 6d. a 6s. 9d.; white, 7s. a 7s. 6d. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. ‘Tho Liverpool provision markct had a declining tenden- cy. Beef was heavy, and holders were pressing on the market. Pork heavy.and nominal. Bacon dull and no- minally unchanged. Lard quiet, but steady. Tallow slow of sale, but prices unaltered: Butchers’, 558. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. Rosin was steady at 3s. 9d. a 3s. 10d. for common. Sugar steady. Rice quiet. Coffee quiet. Ashes quict, at 27s. a 28s. 6d. Spirits turpentine steady, at 34s. 6d. Quercitron bark, sales unimportant. LATEST MARKETS. Lavervoot, Aug. 31—Evening. ‘The cotton market is steady; estimated sales to-day 8,000 bales, including 1,000 each to speculators and ex- porters, holders offer freely, but do not press sales. Breadstuffs dull. Sales unimportant. Provisions very dull. In the London market wheat and flour were dull; tea unchanged; sugar and rice heavy; coffee and tallow firm. The Great Eastern. OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. Loypon, August 26, 1859. The Destination of the Great Eastern—The Additional Offers Of Mr. Lever—His Efforts to get the Ship—Will She go to New York, dc. ‘The great ship, about which I wrote you week before Jast, is now an acknowledged mechanical success, and now, as usual in great joint stock enterprises, there is every probability that the managing directors will mako it commercially a failure. One of the two managing di- rectors was a contractor under government for blowing down the granite rock at Holyhead to make a safe har- dor of refuge for vessels bound out and in, to and from, the dangerous harbor of Liverpool. Another was once M. P. for Weymouth, and they are desirous of grinding their own axes, and sinking the interests of the share- holders by taking the ship to their little one-horse towns, to make political capital out of. In the midst of it all the money is all spent, large liabilities incurred, and the ship that they boast can carry ten thousand persons has only ‘accommodations and berths for five hundred passengers. Right on tho face of all this, Mr. Jobn 0. Lever, M. P., the spirited projector of the Galway line of steamers, has Mnrgely increased his first offer of £20,000, making his offer £25,000 cash down for the use of the vessel for the one voyage to America and back—find coals for the round trip, pay harbor dues, &c., and put up berths and fittings for 1,000 more passengers; so that he will have to give hock at once for not loss than £40,000 (say $200,000) to charter this monster craft for a single voyage. Of course he has to victual the ship, effect his insurance, and go to muumcrable other expenses. This ship under charter on these terms to Mr. Levor would net the share- holders at least $100,000 for the round trip, and stump the sehemo as a commercial success at once. How he is to make money out of it he doubtluss kauws; aud at any Fate he has greater facilities for beoking passengers tian any man jn the United Kingdom. One of the vessels of his line, the Jason, took out lust week from Galway some passe’ be 650 ngers, being a larger number than ever left Europe for America in a steamer. How, then, will you prepared for tho fact that the directors lave seen fit to decline this most splendid offer? No mortal Ddolieyes that the Great Ship Company, who are not in the business of booki1 Passengers, and not in the trade atall,can get oue-halt a many passengers aa Mr. Lever can. There are 3,000 sharchoulers to the Great Fastern, and they will hold the directors to a rigid accowntability for their action in the case. In tie mean- time, the great ship leaves her anchorage for her trial trip ‘nest week, the 3d of September. The pressure on the mi ment by the stockholders is already very Imavy, and it anticipated that the ship will yet. bo char. tered to Mr. Lever. If 80, you will have the privilege or seeing her at New York, or as near that vil lage as old Noptune will allow her to go. The Conference at Zurich. [Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser. ] Zor, August 16, 1859. ‘The Conference “met in eunder, fire aud drenching rain’—a frightful hurricane that deluged the country. {No wonder,’ said the knowing ofd German porter with the golden mace this morning, “ that the elements should have been squally ever since, It was asad omen. We have a proverb in our country which says, “ nothing goos right ina storm.’? ‘ Not,” exclaimed he, quickly recov. oring the brealh of responsibility, with 4 umgst diplomatic shrug, “ that I say any thing goes wrong in the Council. No! not 1” ind ve outsiders are no wiser than the berry of the door; for nipotentiaries keep their secrets well. The federal the cantonal authorities are courteous and hoa: Dinners and soirees are Frag weap but there is no ‘truth in wine” this bec i ‘ly and Villafranca are no more mentioned All we certainly know is, that Cabinet messengers are kept constantly on the run to and from Paris, Vienna and ‘Turin, as i ere ree —_ mon Piped to the tel 01 evi service, A Yankee thy sioghemint might" guess that Messrs, Dew Am- brois and Nigra have not been able to digest the terms, an Messrs. Colleredo and de Bourqueney begin to feel that the French Alexander must cut the gordian knot which no human skillseems able to untie. Was there ever such rg Not in history, certainly. ‘They say Mons. Oavour on with eager eye from his retirement near Geneva; that he looks sober, and detects, probably hb the advices of his old col- league, M. Nigra, traces of further mischief. But the friends of the ex-Minister of the Piedmontese Counci have hitherto failed to induce him to speak. Tho day to tell his experience has not arrived. But it is sure to come. It would be interesting if we could have both the Emperor and the Count in court together. We shall surely bave one of them in Parliament if liberty is ever ré-established in Turin. And then he may speak. Mean- time he must stand and wait. ‘We found the hotels and lodgings generally well occu- pied—rather more visiters, they say, than usual, not on account of the Conference, it is areuithetically adted, Bs of respect to the y, but hotsummer. I sec the weather table of the hotel that Fahrenheit has not. been above ninety the season. At sunrise this morning we were up to the amorous old sun caressing the hills; it marked seventy-four degrees—two degrees below summer heat. Fancy @ night here in the dog days! The lake air is delicious—quite corroborates the exiilarati 8 Virtue of the view, for the eye drinks re- freshment at every glance. Beyond the panorama there is nothing now poetic in the ‘birthplace of Gessner, unless there be poe- try in steam. The ingenious eld pastor, Levater, is the nearest So to romance ever - duced here, though they do say that Pe did here teach the young idea how to shoot. But po- lemical Protestants, who almost swear by the graves of Hammerlin and Zwingle, seo in these brick factories and this thriving moral population full confirmation of the rich promises of their faith. It is, in truth, this living old asylum of freedom, the busiest place in all Switzerland. ‘We were conducted h some half dozen silk and cotton factories yesterday, which discoursed most excel- lent music, though not to the tune of “Old Hundred,” be- side a machine establishment with a republican force of seven hundred and fifty. But I am not in the humor for statistics, being on the wing for yonder inviting looking hills with a party of five Yi pursuit of the picturesque. One of the number, whose réle it is, pro- Tires you a report of the chase. Au revoir. The Plenipotentiaries are not in session to-day, waiting orders; and some half dozen of their a#achés join our party. Fire in East Twentieth Street, and Loss of Life. ONE MAN SUFFOCATED AND A CHILD DANGEROUSLY BURNED—SEVERAL FIREMAN INJURED—ONE HORSE AND SEVERAL SWINE BURNED 10 DEATH. Between eleven and twelve o’clock on Saturday night a fire was discovered in the charcoal yard of John Rob- bins, in Twentieth street, between avenue A and the East river. The wind was blowing somewhat fresh at the time from the southeast, and spread the flames instantly to the lime, brick and lath yard, No. 277 East Twenty- first street, owned by James L. Black & Co., and thence to a two story frame dwelling house adjoining, owned and occupied by Herman Dabl. Before the flames commun- nicated to the building the family were aroused, but the smoke; from the coal yard filled the house to suffocation, Mrs. Dabl awoke her three children, took them to the window, and told them to jump to the sidewalk, a distance of about eight feet. She then went into the back room and awoke a man named Patrick Gallagher, who was. stop) at the house for the night. While she was get- ting Ge out the smoke choked him, and he fell in- sensible to the floor. She then made her own to the street and soon learned that one of her own children, a boy aged eight years, was still in the building. Efforts ‘were at once made to rescue the unfortunate child, and several persons entered the room, when the child was. found insensible on the floor. It was removed from the aides, and taken charge of by its its. Its face and ly is considerably blistered and it is feared the boy is ‘burned inwardly. attending physician says it cannot possibly survive. A horse owned by Mr. Robbins, in the stable on Twen- tieth street, was burned to death. Five large hogs be- Jonging to itr. Dabl were also burned to death, aly ire originated, said, among some pulverized charcoal in the building of Mr. Robbins, and thus com- mupicated the flames to the building. Mr. Rubvins” loss will be about $500—not insured. The entire stock of lath, lime and hair in the yard of Black & Co. was destroyed; Joss et te OT ae oe a ds over the stone yard of Mr. Sbiff, together with considera- dle stone, was much damaged; the loss could not. be as- certained. Mr. Dahl’s loss in stock, furniture and build- ing will be about $1 insured, Several firemen were injured by the falling in of the sheds of the stone yard, but not seriously, as far ag could be ascertained by our reporter. Gallagher’s body was taken to the dead house at the Bellvue Hospital, where the Coroner held an inquest yos- terday. The deceased was about fifty years of age. He resided at the back of Greenpoint, Long Island. He leaves a wife, but no children. It seems somewhat remarkable that the deceased should have Jost his life. The place where the fire origi- nated was over one hundred feet from the building in which he was suffocated. The following will show the reader at a glance the true position of the pre- mises:— EAST TWENTY-FIRST STREED. ee Lime Yard Dah?s | Oflce. Dwelling ‘House. Lath and Lime g Yard. 2 “eras, 1.9 Stone Yard. Robbins’ Coal Yard. Brick Stable. 8 EAST TWENTIETH STREET. Coroners’ Inquests. Surcrpe at Frencn’s Horet.—A boarder at French’s Hotel, named J. K. Kearney, was found dead in his bed about eight o'clock yesterday morning, by one of the chambermaids. A post mortem examination was made by Dr. W. Boach, and the stomach was found to contain a dark colored fiuld strongly resembling laudinum. The organs generally, with the exception of the lungs, which were slightly diseased, appeared to be in a healthy condi- tion. An inquest was held by Coroner Gamble, and after a due examination into the circumstances of the case a verdict of “suicide by laudanum” was rendered. From the appearance of the body of deceased, which was marked in several places with Indian ink, after the fashion of sailors, itis supposed thathe was a seafaring man; and judging by his evident respectability, it is presumod he must have been a captain or above the ordinary class of mariners. He was apparently about forty-five years of age. There were no papers about his person to indicate the cause which impelled him to put an end to his ex- istence, Avnomiee Svrciok.—Henry F. Wood, residing at 152 East ‘Twenty-fourth street, committed suicide yesterday after- noon by taking laudanum. The deceased, it appears, had ‘been addicted to the intemperate use of alcoholic liquors, and had been for some time in very low spirits. He had repeatedly threatened self-destruction, but no notice was ever taken of him. On Saturday afternoon he was found lying in bed in an insensible condition, and medical aid was Immediately sent for, but every effort proved useless, An inquest was held on his body, and a verdict rendered in accordaace with the facts. Founp Drab tn Her Bep.—On Saturday afternoon an in- quest was held on the body of a woman named Mary Lynch, who was found doad in her bed at her residence, No. 90'Trinity place, at half-past four o'clock A.M. ‘The Jrusband was arrested on suspicion of having a hand in the matter, but it appearing from the testimony that do ceased was of intemperate habits, and the jury rendering a verdict of “ Death from compression of the brain,” he was honorably acquitted. DTH FROM OVBR-APPLICATION OF Hkat.—A few wooks ago a German woman named Seresa Limberk, sixty years of age, was attackod with bilious colic, and had warm iron plates, wrapped up in towels, applied to her abdomen fur the purpose of affording her relief. On removing the plates it was discovered that they had been overheated, and that the abdomen was intensely inflamed. The con- sequence was that gangrene set in, and the patictit finally expired on Friday evening. An inguest was held on the brag and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with facts, City Politics. DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES FOR THE SYRACUSE CON: VENTION. ; ‘The Tammany Hall Fifth Assembly District Convention, for the clection of delegate and alternate for the Syra cnse Convention, after failing to eloct at two preceding meetings, met again on Saturday night at No. 143 Morcer stroct, and elected Richard T. Compton as dologate and John R. Ryer as alternate. The yote stood for Compton 9, for Delavan 3. This makes the Now York dologation to Syraquge complete, The Recent Celestial Phenomena. THE AURORA BOREALIS, A8 SEEN IN CUBA, BERMUDA, MISSISSIPPI, TEXAS, KENTUCKY, AND FROM 8EA— VARIED AND INTERKSTING DESCRIPTIONS. The beautiful display of northern lights which illami- nated the heavens on the evening of Sunday, the 28th of August, and which was repeated with more or less splen- dor throughout the remainder of the week, appears to have awakened admiration and awe from one end of the republic to the other. The papers received at our office from all sections of the country declare its glory, and maany of the sbips that arrive here report the same celes- tial phenomenon. The citizens of Montreal and of New Orleans gazed with equal wonder at the ‘ merry dancera’” in the northern sky. ‘The people of St. Louis and of Ha- vana were alike witnesses of the spectacle. The various descriptions given of it are deserving of notice. ‘We find, for instance, in our maritime intelligence of yesterday, a report from the bark Pride of the Sea, from Cuba, stating that on the Thursday night of the week in question, * At twenty-five minutes to 1A. M., 8 bright star or the north’ oud in wost, which shot up rays r¢- footing the suroca at the nortR In wintor, aud Ja Yolray or forty minutes formed an arch across the horizon from was very clear, the ween, The arch passed over to the southward at 2:26, when it became dark again, ‘The bark James WW. Paige, which arrived here on Thurs- day from Monrovia, on the western coast of Africa, made the following report of the aurora and of a storm which preceded it:— Had fine weather to latitude 34, longitude 69 30, when on the Ist of September took a very heavy gale from W.S.W., with very heavy squalls, accompani by thunder and lightwing; at eleven A. M. was struck lightning; the first flash struck the foremast and f down the lightning conductor, which was boomed out ten feet from the side; the second flash struck the mizen mast and descended down the lightning rod, which was not boomed out like the other, and went through it to the mizen chains, and magnetized them so that it affected the compass and caused it to revolve with rapidity. ‘The man at the wheel was stunned and not see for ten minutes after the flash. Atuight, by bearing of the North star, found that both of the compasses in the bin- nacle were affected three points to the wostward; they kept der: Ull the 3d inst., when they got to be nearly correct. same it observed a it phenomenon. From eight P. M. till @ A. M. the wi horizon was as light as any sunshiny day; the peculiarity of it was that the sky was completely overcast with very black clouds, and at times it in torrents, All hands forward were very much alarmed. ‘The Havana correspondent of the Noticioso de Nueva York says that on the night of Sunday, August 98,0 physical phenomenon appeared in the sky and attracted great attention, the eastern horizon being covered with a mantle of blood-red hue. ‘The general belicf,’”” ho con- tinues, ‘‘is that it was one of those northern aurora so rare in these latitudes.” It was also seen from the deck of the steamship Cahawba, from New Orleans to Havana. It seems to have presented as brilliant an appearance to the islanders of Bermuda as it did to the dwellers among Canadian snows; and that is what makes this phenome- non so very remarkable, it being at rare and long inter- vals that it ie visible in southern latitudes. The Bermuda Royal Gazette says of it:— This singular phenomenon (the aurora borealis) made its appearance in our northern hemisphere on Sunday even- ing last. It appeared to ascend from a few degrees above the horizon towards the zenith, assuming a variety of shapes and beautiful colors—sometimes in tremulous sheets of a pale yellow, changing gradually into a deep crimson, or shooting upwards in streams of light resem- bling those frequently observed from the covered at times the entire space between N. W. and N. E,, leaving the sky, from the horizon to its apparent base, ‘perfectly clear. ds ten o'clock it gradually died away, when the whole of the northern a. threw out a light resembling the pale light of the moon, which was sufficiently bright to cast a deep shadow from every object on the land. This light continued until dawn of day. ‘The last time, we believe, that we were visited by the Northern twilight was in the year 1839. Acorrespondent of the same paper describes the au- rora in this manner:— First, there was ared glare as if thrown upward by a biaz- ing ship; then this seemed mixed with gigantic stripes which ee into — ene bea ms ge ier ben by the it burst world; ‘agoltdhus ehanged Wito wie lentowhag nearer nears moon, wading her nightly course in azure heaven; and then, as if the east irradiated was by Sol, while the light of night held ber sceptre o'er the far stretching north. Still other changes take place in this shifting scene, for the northwest reflects a burning Vesuvius beautifully studded with glittering stars, and during all this time might be be- beagle ed dark clouds shooting upwards between it and the sky, forming a striking contrast to the illuminated ‘opaque above. ‘The Natchez Courier says that the display of Thursday night was still grander than that of the preceding Sunday night. Its editor observed it from one to three o'clock, and thus describes it:— Due north the beavens were of a silver glow, resem- bling the early gray dawn. Northeast and east, it was as ifasun of fire was about to rise, to usher in a day of warmer light than mortals were prepared to expect. ‘The rich red giow of morn sprung up in a cone of light almost to the zenith, warm with deep red colors, and brilliant with electric phosphorescence. Nor was’ the shape or color of the light steady. At one moment it sprung into a broad band of white, like a silver bow, darting at once into existence, fitful in its display, and disappearing in a sea of biood, Like the Borealis race ‘That fit e’re you could point the place. At another, it was the deep red glare that gave the warning of an earthly conflagration. In the due west a dark cloud was observed, while from its jagged edges sprung forth the same strange illuminating light. From time to time rays darted forth with almost the rapidity of thought, and extended to and far beyond the zonith. white as snowy pillars and scarlet as the fervency an zeal that betokened their aspirations to a heavenly home. ‘At two o’clock, although no moon was at the horizon, the light was sufficient to read the common print of a book. Bells on plantations rung the hour for work, while our good people in the neighboring town of Fayette thought the world was to be at an end and the general conflagra- tion at band. It was indeed a magnificent display of the light of the Omnipotent. The electric arm was extended, and it was evident that beyond the “two great lights’ there was still other and richer light in the hollow of His great right band. At Galveston, in Texas, the aurora of Sunday night was equally magnificent. A correspondent of the Galveston News, who witnessed it from the Observatory, says:— ‘The whole sky, from Ursa Major to the Zodiac in tho east, was occupied by the streams, or spiral columns that rose from the horizon. Spread over the same extent was an exquisite roseate tint, which faded and returned, and tmaoved from one extreme to the other of the panorama. Stately columns of light reaching up about 45 deg. from the horizon, moved in grave dignity westward, about ene degree for every ninety seconds of time. Some of the groups of towers preserved their form sufficiently to be identified in their march from the Milky Way to Ursa Ma- jor, or some forty degrees. At 9P. M. the whole of the streaking had faded, leaving oats sort of twilight over the northern sky. We ceased observation. It. is proper to remark that there were frequent flashes of lightning, apparently from distant clouds, not less than 100 miles, along the whole extent of the aurora; but no clouds were visible, except a single streak near the horizon, which I at first mistook for the arch on which the pyramids of au- roral light usually rest. It is not probable, however, that the atmospheric disturbances and general rains along the northern sky had anything to do with the production of the aurora. On the contrary, I mention it merely to show that the meteor was not cut off or impaired by the intervention of a storm; but had such an altitude, and was rt of 0 extended a phenomenon, as not to be disturb- by any local atmospheric movements. At 3 A. M. (29th) I awoke, and perceiving that it was very light out- side, rose, and found the whole northern heavens again on fire.’ Ascending to the Observatory, I was repaid by a display T have never seen equalled ‘since the memorable aurora of Sept. 1, 1839. The whole distance before named was tinted with the rosoate hue—darker, nearly crimson- ed, at the two flanks. In tho centre, near the meridian, stood a stupendous pyramid of white light, with ita apex near the zenith. On either side, at some. twonty degrees, stood @ pyramid of rosy light, euch about sixty degroes in height, and in exactly symmetrical positions. “The Palace of the Sylphid Queen,” described by Drake, must have seemed like this sublime architecture— Its fofty columns gleaming bi ‘Were streamers of the noriherd ight, Scarcely had I sketched the outline of this noble specta- cle, when it faded, and suddenly rent the columns into small spires, as if by magic. All drifted westward and faded; returned, and faded again and again— Till morning spread her rosy wi ‘And rolled ber chariot wheels of ight, ‘The needle was agitated, trembled and danced during tho display, showing its Well established magnetic or clectric character. Tt would appear, according to @ Cinainnati paper, that a Kentucky man has been outdoing Meriam in auroral Munchausenism. It is stated :— The attention of Mr. Adam Kiger, of Covington, on stepping into his lawn on Friday morning, was arrested by a vast quantity of silky, fibrous floss lying scattered at hap-hagard upon his shrubbery and grass. Upon touching ® tress, or portion of it, he received a very sensible, although slight shock, of electricity or galvanism. Hig attention being thus arrested, he immediately sum- moned his domestics, and they proceeded at once to gather a considerable aoe, of the dew-spangled fibre, which Mr. Kiger found, by actual weight, after desicea: tion, to be two ounces seven grains, some of which he bottled for future inspection and experiment, and some ho made into skeins of silk. ‘This corroborates the theory af the Sago of Brooklyn Hoights in regard to the sitkery of the skies, ‘We have beforg alluded 19 jhe simpler elves of the nor. thern lights upon telegraph operations, The Boston ope- rators found that during the continuance of tie auroral influence their only plan af sending messages was by dis- connecting the wires from the electric batteries and work- ing them entirely by the auroral current. The following is recorded as the conversation between the operators of the Boston and Portland offices: Boston (to Portland operator ease cut off your bat- by Sate ly from the line for m minutes. D—I will do $0. It is now disconnected. Bostor—Mine is also disconnected, and we are working hr) the auroral current. How do you receive my writ- ‘Better than with our batteries on. Tie current comes and goes gradually. Bostox—My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately , making the current too strong at times for our relay magnets. we work without batteries while we are affected by thie trouble? Portiaxp—Very well. Shall I go ahead with business? jo ahead, Bosrox—Yes. G . The Boston Adas, alluding to this circumstance, adds that ‘the wires were worked for about two hours without the usual batteries, on the auroral current—working etter, as the operators state, than with the batteries connected. The current varied, increasing and decreasing alternately, but by graduating the current sufficiently steady effect was produced w work with but little interruption.» ‘The same remarkable effect was noticed at several other telegraph offices. Mr. E. W. Royce, the operator at Wash- ington, thus relates his experience:— I did not know that the aurora had made its appear- ance until cight or half-past eight o’clock. I had been working ‘‘combination” to Richmond, and had great diffl- culty from the changing of the current. It seemed as if there was a storm at Richmond. Concludi that this ‘was the case, | abandoned that wire and tr to work the Northern wire, but met with the same difficulty. For fie or ten minutes I would have no trouble, then the cur- rent would change and become so weak that it could hard- ly be felt. It would then gradually change to a ‘ground’ 80 strong that I could not lift the magnet. While the au- rora lasted the same phenomena were observable. There ‘was no rattling or cracking of the magnet, as is the case in a thunder storm. I looked at the r between the arrestors, but found no holes. iladelphia divided cireuit at the request of New York, and we succeeded in getting off what businces had. The aurora disappeared a iittle after ten o’clock—after which we worked through to New York and had no difficulty. Duri the display I was callin; Richmond, and had my on the iron plate. Happen- ing to hei Lora the sounder, Med is wall, my fore! grazed a ground wire which runs down the wall near the sounder. Immediately I received a very severe electric shock, which stunned me for an instant. An old gentleman who was sitting facing me, and but a few feet distant, said he saw spark of fire jump from my forehead to the sounder. ‘Thus it seems to be proved, beyond all cavil or dispute, that the aurora borealis is not a simple reflection of the sun’s rays from the cones of icebergs, as was so long supposed, but decidedly electrical in its origin and charac- ter. It appears to be, in fact, a subdued form of light- ning. Will the savants brush up their wits and try to give the world some reliable and well defined theory of the aurora? We have furnished them, in this article, with the necessary data. Our Norfolk (Va.) Correspondence. Noxrorxk, Sept. 7, 1859, Destructive Conflagration—Loss of City and Theatrical Pro- perty—The New Opera House—The Weather, cfc. Our citizens were surprised last night, between the hours of one and twoo'clock, by the breaking out of a large and destructive fire on Main street, which resulted in the consuming of Mechanics’ Hall, a large and commo- dious building, containing on its ground floor several handsome stores, and above a well constructed and spa- cious concert room. The fire was supposed by certain persons to have originated in the latter by some mis- management in the extinguishing of the lights, Messrs. Briggs & Co.’s “‘ Excelsior Opera Troupe” having, afew hours previously, concluded their evening performance there; while others conjecture it to have been the work of an incendiary. ‘The flames broke forth from the rear of Mechanics’ Hall extending across Boush’s lane to Peppen’s restaurant, en- ve it; also, besides the stores of the Hall,” Fe- tor ines rant’s merchant tail Tomy panorama of China and Australia, which was in an upper room of the hall; the whole outfit, stage Eng Pyeng sar he musical instruments of Messrs. Mr. ’s restauraunt, and Ullman’s s! HOF,” Mechanics’ Hall was buift sorte ron years many the ics’ Association of this city, at a cost of somo $20,000, which is covered by an insurance of $14,000. Walters & Oo. saved many of their best and are amply secured by a policy of $6,000. Mr. ured 00 Crores: & De Buce lose $6,000, on lose between $2,000 and $3,000, and Mr. Bonean’s loss is 000; no insurance. Mr. Peddle is a iargo loser, both by fire and water, with no insurance, and Hamberger & Co., next to him, we should state, suifered $500 damages by water alone. Our new Opera House is just completed and presents a fine interior. It is a little singular that just as Mechanics’ Hall received its finishing touch, the old Avon theatre should be consumed by fire. This new hall will be opened to-morrow night for its initiatory entertainment by a grand concert under the direction of Professor Soulkerd. The weather is as cold as October with us, and the clouds heavy and wintry in appearance. The mosquito war not yet on the wane. Sporting Intelligence. MORE AMERICAN KACEHORSES FOR ENGLAND, The City of Washington steamer, which sailed from this port for Liverpool on Saturday, took out two recent pur- chases of Mr. Ten Broeck, to add to his present stable of American horses now in training at Newmarket. They were purchased of the well known breeder of racing stock, A. Keene Richards, Esq., of Kentucky, who is at present in England, and consist of the celebrated three- year-old Albion colt Sherritt, and a yery fine looking filly by Lecomte, dam by imported Glencoe, named Pretty-by- Night, and which is consequently half sister to Umpire, which has lately been so successful on the English turf for Mr. Ten Broeck. The performances of Sherritt in this country were of a very high order, as at the Lexing- ton (Kentucky) Spring Meeting he won the Association stakes for three-year-olds, mile in 134734, 1:453¢ and 14634, beating a field of eight horses. At the same meeting Ihe also won the Citizens’ stake for three-year-olds, two mile heats, beating four others in 3:433¢—3:42. He is by im- ported Albion, dam by imported Leviathan, out of im- ported Anna Maria; stands fifteen and a half bands high, of asorrel color, with a plainish head, good neck and shoulder, capital back and barrel, and remarkably strong quarters. He will make a capital handicap horse in Eng- land, as he has altogether the appearance of a horse not easily to be stopped by weight, while he bas shown here that be possesses both speed and endurance in an extra- ordinary degree, The two ycar old is a nice looking filly, with good legs, small head ‘and strong shoulders. ‘They were both in excellent condition for the voyage, and it is probable that we may hear of Sherritt making his débit onthe English turf at one of the Newmarket October rings in some of the numerous handicap plate races then run for. It is currently stated that the great success of Mr. Ten Broeck in England will induce many of our Southern turf. magnates to take out some of their best stock there next year. Naval Intelligence. ‘Tes Brooxtyn Navy Yarp.—The dismissal of workmen from the different departments in the Brooklyn Navy Yari continues daily. It is thought that five hundred men Will be sufficient to keep .the work going, on hand, during the coming winter. The work now under way is only such that is imperatively necessary for the exigencies of theservice. The aspect of things in and about the yard have changed wonderfully in the last few months. Ther? is to be seen no crowds of idle, listless workmen saunering in groups around the corners, in the streets, or sidewalks, but every man now works—something that was almost unheard of before—not knowing at what mo- men: he may receive his ticket of leave. Our reporter was ld by an officer in the yard that there had been more work done since the issue of the Naval Investigating Comnittee, with-five hundred men, than was doue by a thousand men when politics ruled the roast. This state of things is truly gratifying, and it is to be hoped that the exanple which Mr. Secretary Toucey has introduced will ‘be imitated by his successor. The work now going ahead is onthe new stone ways under the eastern ship house, which is nearly completed, and fluishiug up of the steam. ers Wyandott, Mohawk and Iroquois, the balance being coniued principatly to the shops. The two former vessels have only a few minor jobs to be done on them, such as adjusting machinery, painting, &c. Their’ officers have mostly reported for duty. The marine guards for these two vessels wil be detailed from Philadelphia and Washington, the balance of their crew from the United States receiving ship North Carolina. No particu- lar day has been set as yet for their going in commission. ‘The Iroquois (new gun-boat) is having her rigging set up, and machinery put in, all of which is nearly completed. She will not remain in the hands of the workmen more fortnight. The steamers i pect and Niagara ing in ordinary, covered with canvass, no orders having been received as yet relative to their overhauling, but it is thought workmen will be put on them after the completion of the Wyandott, Mohawk and Iroquois. The following midshipmen in the United States navy haye been warranted by the Department as masters:— George A. Bigelow, Robert T. Bradford, Robert L. Pythian, A.P. ook, W. P. Evans, George 8. Shryrock, Leroy fitch, J. W. Harris, FH, Rastman, RR. Wallac, Chester Hatfield, C. J. McDougal, T. R. Porter, J. @ Moseley, G. H. Perkins, @. M, Blodgett, W, N, Allen, and DNaibauiy) Gapen, Political Intelligence. Kxves County Pounies.—-The Hon, 8. D. Morris, County Judge, who was a candidate for District Attorney, has Publicly repudiated the proceedings of the County Con- vention, aud declared his intention to run counter to their ction im all and everything they have done, upon the alleged ground that the delegates represented only the rowdy and shoulder-hitting portion of the ‘‘unterrified;’’ and it is boldly stated that an entirely new ticket will be Presented to the democratic electors of the county for their endorsement and approval at tho ensuing election. New Jxnexy Repvsuicans Noy Ext.—What has become of the republican party of New Jersey? In the Oppo- sition State Convention, at Trenton, on the 7th, not a word ‘was said about the everlasting niggers, free Territories, bleeding Kansas, or any of the clap-trap arrangements of that party. On the contrary, when a resolution was of- fered recommending Wm. L. Dayton for the Presidency, it was immediately put down by the tumult it raised from, all parts of the house, They alao overhauled the rubbish of thé old whig party, and brought forth a candidate found slumbering in its ruins—one that has not taken any active part in the politics of the State for six years, but hag voted against the republicans. Their organization is gone. Until a reorganization takes piace the republicans will be without amy distinctive party machinery in the State. ‘Tus Two-Turrps Ree at CuaRLeston.—Newspaper par- tisans of Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, says the Washington States, are busily engaged in efforts to prepare the North- ern (democratic) popular mind for an attempt to ignore the two-thirds rule in the approaching Charleston Conven- tion, The fidelity with which that rule has been adhered to in Democratic National Conventions has secured victory after victory to the party, when, had the conventions ‘been less wise and persistent in that matter, defeat would surely have been the party’s portion. It has never yet prevented the nomination of any man who could have been elected by the party to the Presidency, and is the rule of Democratic National Conventions, because in it exists a surety against the nomination of any one who, having numerous adherents among the politicians of the party, is still deficient in strength with the people. Nvturicanion iv Massacuvsstis.—The Boston Post states ‘an important fact. It says that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts has Drafted a new constitution, to be submitted te the Le- gislature and the people, in which he proposes to give to the General Court the power “to impose and levy reason- able duties and excises upon any produce, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within the same,” &c., and to the Governor the power ‘to encounter, repel, re- sist, expel and pursue, by force of arms, as well by sea as Agee within or without the limits of this common- weaith, and also to kill, slay and destroy if necessary, and poser) by fitting ways, enterprises and means whatho- ever, al any time hereafter, in a hostil the army and navy, the law martial, in Buch person or persons, with their ships, arms, ammuni- tion and other goods, as'shall in a hostile’ manner invade vi or attempt the monw¢ ane Tux Coxconn Cuqus.—The Concord (N. H.) Standard , conquering or annoying this com- says the Concord ‘‘clique’’ are bold in their assertion that they will oppose any candidate nominated at Charleston for the Presidency, unless it be Douglas or Franklin It is said that Mr. Pierce is quite confident that he or Douglas will get the nomination if things are Pierce. shrewdly managed. Tus New York ConGressionaL DeLeGanion.—The man- ner in which the Secretary of State has issued the usual fall election notice, settles, so far as form goes, the elec- tion of Congressmen last year. No informality has been noticed by the Secretary on account of the alleged erro- neous endorsement of ballots, which was for “ Member of Congress” instead of ‘‘ Representative in Congress’*— so that Messrs. Sickles, Barr, Maclay, Cochran, Briggs, and Clark, members from our city, will all take their Beate without objection. Tae Sovruern Orrosmmox.—The principles of the Southern opposition, says the Louisville Democrat, fit as loosely as a Zouave’s trousers, and are as easily put on or off. They are fickle in their affections and not over parti cular. The favorite of yesterday is to-day a discarded courtezan. “On dits of the Day,’ for the Washington States, say that it is “a fixed impression upon our mind that Emerson. Etheridge will be the presiding officer of the XXXVIth House of Representatives.” Omo RePvsticay Trovutes.—The Republicans in Ohio are not as harmonious as doves, Giddings denounces Corwin for uttering anti-republican doctrines, while the strife between the friends of Chase and Corwin, in nomi- nating candidates for the Legislature, in view of the choice of United States Senator, is also very sharp; but Chase has the inside track, they say. Wourn Exronce THe Law.—Mr. Dennison, opposition candidate for Governor of Ohio, used the following lan- guage during his discussion with Mr. Ranney, at Tiffin:— He wants to know what I think of obeying the fugitive slave law. I will here state incidentally that the silly use the bayonet” to resist the execution of this law, is utterly false and without the slightest foundation of truth. So long as the law, odious as it is, stands upon the statute books of the nation, I will not resist its execution, but will do my duty under the constitution, as an officer of the State, should I be elected, and I would look for my remedy story about my having declared tha “I will in another direction. Dow’r Want To InFRivGE.—The Cincinnati Gazetlesays:—~ Since Douglas has copyrighted ‘‘Squatter Sovereignty,” ought we have no right to comment on it- ‘The rights of authors ought to be respected, and we know it may be of no one on whose rights we have less desire to infringe. Av Oxp Story.—The same paper says:— Senator Douglas made a speech at Columbus yesterday afternoon, which, we are informed, was mainly a repeti- tion of his views as already fully and frequently published. This is the speech that the ‘‘quadrilateral” paper pre- tended to get by telegraph at an enormous expense. ‘Wisconstxy Repusuican Trovstes.—The Chicago Times says:— It is almost certain that the republican party in Wiscon- sin is hopelessly disrupted. The event which has effected this result was the nomination of Randall for Governor a second term. His nomination was brought about after a hard struggle, one wing of the party—the German wing— desiring the nomination of Carl Schurz. Muserssirrt_versvs Dova.as.—The following resolution ‘was passed unanimously at a meeting’in Noxubee county, Mississippi, and may be regarded as the true position of Mississippi on the Douglas question: Resolved, That while we have hitherto abided by the usages and supported the nominee of the democratic party, We, @ portion of the democratic party of Mississippi, deem it not improper to declare that should the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas bo the nominee of the Charleston Con- vention, as a candidate for the Presidency, we cannot and will not support him. Hon. W. W. Boyce oy ram Stave Traps.—This gentle- man, in a speech at Ebenezor, North Carolina, said:— As regards the revival fof the African slave trade, I think it is a most unfortunate issue. . Being clearly impos- sible in the Union, I cannot see what good can possibly result from its agitation. Besides, the tendency of this poe is to divide and distract the South, when, above all things, we need unity, harmony and concert of action atthe South. But if these considerations are not conclu- sive, I think the objections to the revival of the African sla ve trade insuperable. To go no further, we now haye 4,000,000 of slaves; in twenty-five years we will have 8,000,000, in fifty ‘years we will have 16,000,000, in seventy-five years we will have 32,000,000. Surely, in the face of such an increase as this, in periods so short to Anation, we are under no necessity to plunge into the ‘ocean of difficulties which will have to be overcome to add to our slave population by new importations. Thomas B. Morse, editor of the Lexington Statesman, has been made a Secretary of State by Governor Magoflin, of Kentucky. Fucilis decensus Averni. How Dean was Exxcrep UNANIMOUSLY.—Mr. James H. Sutherland, Postmaster at Darien, Genesee county, writes: a letter to the editor of the Batavia’ Democrat, whieh raves quite a knowledge of the “ways and means” by which Dean Richmond secured hiscertificate as dalegate. to the He oat Convention. The following extract tells the story:— Post Orrick, Darmy, N. Y., July 29, 1850. = ao Om THR BATAVIA Dasboear— pine notimproper, perhaps, that! inform my demo- cratic friends of a lah reoenely paid me, Yesterday Mr. pacbog Haskell, receiver of the Suen ad road Company at Batavia, aud Mr. Qui ins, - tempted to palm himself off as a secrot agent of the Post Office ‘tment, but who is really nothing more than a route agéMt on such rafroad, called on me to ascertain my position in reference to democratic local politics. After Some conversation I was told that I must support Dean Richmond as a delegate to the next State Convention or Jose the Post Office. They both told me that Mr. Rich- mond controlled ali the post offices in the county, and that unless J helped elect him to the Convention I should cer- tainly be removed. They also informed me thit they were all wrong at our County Convention last year, but. we must nevertheless all go for Mr. R. this year, ‘Mr. David Couderman has been chosen delegate to the New York Democratic State Copyention, from the Third Assymbly distrigt, is, wares, and every such person and persons as shall at ile manner attempt or enter- prise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of this commonwealth; and to use and exercise over over the militia in actual service, time of war or invasion, and also in time of rebellion, declared by the Legislature to exist, as occasion shaj! necessarily require; and to take and sur- prise by all ways and means whatsoever, all and every IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO, THE NEW TREATY. Arrival of Mr. McLane at Wash- ington. INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR, ke, ko, &o. SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘Wasuinarow, Sept. 11, 1859. Minister McLane arrived here to- day from Mexico. ‘The pointes of the treaty recently made by him with the Juarez government are the same as those published in the ‘New Yoru Herat on Wednesday aa ‘The treaty contains certain ingiaies= ef{palations in re- gard to the transit by Tehuantepec, which will form the basis of all our future interoceanic transit arrangements, including security of the route, free passage of closed mails, ports of deporit on either ocean, and neutrality im time of war; it alao opens a route from the Gulf of Qali- fordia to Arizona, and provides for a commission to ex- ‘amine and settle the claims of our citizens against Mexico. For the privileges conceded to us we are to pay Mexico four millions of dollars, one half of which is appropriated to the settlement of claims, and the ether ‘will be paid to President Juares as soon as the treaty ia ratified by the Senate. ‘Thistreaty secures to us a perpetual transit over the ‘Tebuantepec isthmus, which was vainly sought when the treaty of peace was made with Mexico, and for which twenty millions would have been paid then; and im addi- tion, it secures to the silver producing district of Arizona a free route and porton the Gulf of California, which ia all important to it for supplies and emigration. Under the stimulus which this stipulation will give to the indus- try of Arizona and Sonora, it is confidently stated by well informed persons that they will very soon send as much silver into the markets of the world as California now sends gold. ‘There has been no actual signing of the treaty, owing to one or two points being still held open for the final de cision of our government. There is no doubt the treaty will shortly be signed, sealed and delivered. ‘Mr. McLane left Vera Cruz on the lat inat. The aspect of affairs in Mexico had not materially changed. General Degollado was concentrating the liberal forces at Morelia and San Luis Potosi, to move upon the city of Mexico. Nothing could be better than the spirit of the liberag party; but pecuniary resources are indispensable to main- tain military organization; that secured, the liberal party ‘would triumph in less than sixty days. Mr. McLane is stopping with his family at Willard’s. He will remain here some days. ‘THE GENKRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ‘Wasninaton, Sept. 11, 1859. Mr. McLane, Minister to Mexico, arrived here to-day, having left Vera Cruz on the Ist inst. Our government had previously granted him two months leave of ab- sence. Reliable accounts just received mention that Senor Fuente, who held a Cabinet office under President Comon- fort’s administration, has been appointed Minister of Fo- reign Affairs, the duties of which were heretofore dis- charged by Senor Ocampo, who remains in charge of the Home Department under the constitutional government. All our Consuls, with the exception of Mr. Black, at the city of Mexico, are everywhere officially recognized. ‘The most friendly feelings are expressed by the liberal- ists for the United States, from which they expect assist- ance in their struggle against the reactionists. The Ame- ricans in Mexico, however, utter their surprise that so much indifference is manifested in this country towards the liberal party, who continue to be enthusiastically ani- mated by the hope of success, the immediate want of money alone crippling their energies. Notwithstanding this, troops continue to be raised for operations against the city of Mexico. Mr. McLane has returned without a treaty, but the mat- ters at interest between the two countries are such as to leave no doubt of an early accommodation. If Senor Lerdo had been in Vera Cruz, it is probable, according to the accounts from that city, that a convention or treaty would have been concluded. Eight of the crew of the Brooklyn had been tried for desertion, in running away with the ship’s boat and leay- ing her among the breakers. Tt was reported in Vera Cruz that Miramon had called a junta at the capital to appoint a Vice President, or substi- tute, as he himself contemplated taking the field against. Degollado, who was at San Luis Potosi organizing hig forces, which amount to sbout 12,000 men. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. We have received files of La Reforma Social to the 20th ult., being one week’s later mails than have been re- ceived from Vera Cruz, but not so late from that country as brought by Mr. McLane, who left Vera Cruz on the Ist inst. In La Reforma of the 20th it is stated that Don Juan Antonio de la Fuente had arrived at that city four days previously, and had been appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs by President Juarez, to succeed Senor Ocampo. Senor Fuente was Minister of Foreign Affairs under Presi- dent Comonfort. The patriotic junta of Tampico, for the celebration of the National Independence on the 15th and 16th of Soptem- ber, had been appointed, and great preparations were being made for the same. General Huerta had withdrawn the convocation which he had issued to several of the Governors of several of the interior States, and the meeting will not take place, as General Degollado has resumed command of the forces. Bishop Espetillo, of Puebla, has protested against the laws confiscating the church property, and the famous Padre Miranda has published in the same city a pamphlet on this subject. Several priests have been banished from the city of Oajaca for opposing the operation of the law, It is stated from the city of Moxico that private partica had been preparing a charivari for the French Ministers but the government obtaining information of the affair, tho Chief of Police stopped it. THe FIRING wro THE Bark ARwENra—The first officer of the bark Armenia sends the Boston Courier the following communjeation in regard to the firing into that vessel at Tarifa:— be As ad last, as the La ‘erg Passi in fact had .d—Tarifa, going some eleven Searve esc the i of that anctent locality fired a gun, whether in compliment to us or to » small ‘ish cutier in the offing we were macariee pe before I could set the flag, we were enlightened by a heayy shot that struck the water on our quarter, and riochetting, inflicted barbarous wounds on our 3 sail and foretopmast studdingsail, Crome cheely bead of the mainmast, and causing some of us to perpe- trate a grand salaam in honor of her Catholic Majesty. Before they could ‘come to time,” the bark had run out of range, refusing any more of bonbons. ‘This may be fun to them, and might be death to us; but fs it fair, is it right, is it Wattel-tc,or are we “poor wanderers” not only ¢3 to the “4 storm?” and “Heaven's bolt,” but also. open ge for a tens steal to all the fag-ends of humanity. ‘The master, as well as myself, has been in the trade for Fae oiele atone nara nnocent of any premeditated - any otherwise; and the fate vbneds moitirersenis, national or may benighted mariners, and teach passing the hedges of that Tih equa Buble high way. S., Firat Officer. —$$___ ‘Williamsburg City News. Fire.—About four o’clock on Saturday afternoon s fire broke out in the rear part of the two story frame house No. 161 North Eighth street, E. D., owned by Owen Don- nelly and occupied by several colored fumilics. Tho fire Spread to No, 169 adjoining, occupied by Thomas Gill. Both houses were partially destroyed. Damage to No. 161 $500—insured in the Williamsburg City Insurance Company; to No. 160 about $200—insured in the Hamilton Insurance Company. The origin of the fire wag acci- aental,