The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1859, Page 4

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This ‘Yhey can accomplish by sending in their advertisements at as carly an hour in the day and evening as possible. 4 advertisements should be handed in before nine o'clock at Wight, Those handed in after that hour will have to tale their chance as regards classification. The News. The steamship Hungarian arrived in the river St. Lawrence yesterday with four days later news from Europe. The dates are to the afternoon of ‘the 21st ult There is no political news of importance, save the announcement of the resumption of the Zurich Conference onthe 19th, anda report of a minis- terial crisis in Naples. The investigation into the causes of the explosion on board the Great Eastern failed to fix the respon- sibility of the disaster upon any one, and in regard to | the killed the jury rendered a verdict of accidental death. ‘The great prize fight between Sayers, the cham- pion, and Bob Brettle, resulted in the former win- ning the battle in twenty-three minutes. No change of importance had occurred in the { London money market. Consols on the 2ist were | 954.8 953. At Liverpool the cotton market was | duli, at a further decline of one-eighth of a penny on the inferior qualities. Breadstuffs were quiet at slightly higher prices, while provisions were firm. It is reported that the crops in France have fallen off greatly as compared with last year’s yield. The steamship Circassian, from Galway yia St. Johns, N. F., arrived at this port last evening. The steamship New York sailed from this port yesterday for Bremen and Southampton, with 203 | passengers and $107,000 in speele; and the Borussia, | which sailed for Southampton, Havre and Hamburg, took out 156 passengers and $823,678 in specie. | In the Supreme Court yesterday, in the case of | the West Washington Market controversy, a ver- dict adverse to the claims of the city was rendered. ‘The jury, moreover, found that the value of the | premises during the year for which Brennan and Taylor held a lease from the State was $47,360. A full report of the proceedings will be found in another column. The Coroner's jury called to investigate into the circumstances attending the steam boiler explosion atthe Girard House on Friday morning, whereby Jobn O'Connor was killed, and three persons were seriously injured, concluded their labors yesterday. We give elsewhere a report of the testimony taken, and the verdict rendered. The jury censured the engineer, attributing the disaster to his negligence. They also adopted the suggestion of the Hxranp, and recommend that the Common Council pass 4n ordinance requiring owners of steam boilers to have them inspected at least once a year. The Common Council meet to-morrow, and the public expect that the subject will receive that prompt attention which its importance deserves. The case of little Ella Burns, which has been be. | the natural and inevitable enemies of the black fore the Supreme Court for some days past, and with which the readers of the Heraxp are tolerably familiar, has been amicably arranged by the friends of the child. She is to be placed at boarding j-zation of the school, under the guardianship of Mrs. Burns and J.S. Thayer, isto take the name of her father, Whitten, and is not to exhibit in public without an order from a Justice of the Supreme Court. A fatal accident cccurred at Jersey City on Fri- Gay night, caused by the explosion of a newly in- vented apparatus for making gaslight out of a cer- tain description of patent oil. While testing the gasometer at the machine shop of James Ligh® body, in the rear of 106 Newark avenue, the ap- paratus exploded, covering Thomas Carswell, the foreman of the machine shop, with the oil, which became instantly ignited, and before the unfor- tunate man’s clothing could be removed he was so sheckiagly burned that he expired the next morn- ing. Mr. Lightbody was severely burned, and several persons who were witnessing the experi- ment were also injured. Judge Russell presided in the General Sessions yesterday to hear a motion to quash an indictment against Henry Karpel, Jr., who was brought from Canada on a charge of forgery. He was subse- quently indicted for larceny and embezzlement, and his counsel denies the jurisdiction of the Court to try him on these charges. The Assistant Dis trict Attorney replied, and the Judge reserved his decision. Frederick Dempsey, convicted of an assault and battery on Wm. Shannon, was sent to the City prison for thirty days. The Aldermanic Committee on Railroads had no querum at their meeting yesterday, and they ad- journed till Thursday next in consequence. ~ A large number of parties interested in railroads were in attendance. Professor John Wise, the celebrated aeronaut, contemplated making his two hundred and thirty- ‘fifth ascension in his favorite balloon “Ganymede” vt four o'clock yesterday afternoon from Hamilton ark, Sixty-third street, but in consequence of some ileged unexplainable financial arrangement the flair was indefinitely postponed, ‘The weekly mortality report of the City Inspector sows that the deaths for the week ending on Satur- ay last numbered 420, a decrease of 66 as com- »ared with the mortality of the week previous,and13 esa than occurred during the corresponding week of ‘ast year. Of the deaths last weok 80 were men, $9 women, 153 boys and 128 girls. Of the total number 234 were of the age of ten years and un- -der, being 38 less than the week provious. The re- port states that there were 104 deaths of diseases ef the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 79 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 11 of the beart and blood vessels, 108 of diseases of the lungs and throat, 19 of skin and eruptive diseases, 37 stillborn and premature births, 44 of general fo- vers, 6 of old age, 5 of the urinary and generative organs, and 4 of the bones, joints, &c. There were also 18 deaths from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 294 were natives of the United States, 76 of Ireland, 29 of Germany, 6 of England, 2 of Scotiand, 3 of France, 1 each of Poland, Swe- den, Switzerland, Wales and British America, and 5 unknown, . In consequence of the Hungarian’s news the cotton market Was quiot yosterday, and tho sales confined to 400 bales at unchanged prices. Wour was again heavy, and for somo descriptions from Ge. to 1c. per barrel lower. Wheat was inactive and quite dull for common grades, while prime new was steady with moderate sales, including Kentucky white at$1 45, North Carolina $1 35, and Towa Spring $1 0d. Corn was nominal at 92¢, a 93c. for mixed Western, with limited sales. Sugars continued frm, with sales of 628 hhds, at full prices. There was a moyoment in molasses yesterday, and the sates of Cuba muscovado footed up about 3,000 hhds., chiefly in the range of 220, a 27c., with some lots clayed at 2lc. 4 22c. Pork was steady for mess at $15 80 a $15 8714, holdors gonerally demanded tho latter figure; primo sold at $10 50a $10 6244. Coffee was in good demand, with sales of half the cargo of the Parama, comprising 3,134 bags, and 4,500 do. Santos by another vessel, chiefly on private terms. Freigh's were firm, while engagements were quite limited, Ps Tho Now Congress and the Next Presl- dency—Policy of the Opposition. From the elections to the new Congress which have taken place, and from an impartial estimate of the few scattering elections which have still to come off, we dare say that the House of Representatives, on the first Monday in December next, will be found divided nearly as follows: — Thus it will be seen that while half a dozen recruits from the anti-Lecompton democrats or Southera opposition men, or from both these factions, will give the republicans the ascend- ancy, the democrats will require all the anti- Lecompton faction and nineteen of the South- ern opposition members to make up a majority. Still we believe that in the preliminary cau- eusing for the House organization the demo- cratic leaders will earnestly endeavor to win over the anti-Lecompton faction as members of the same great national party, and try also to secure the Southern opposition members as republicans and their abolition programme. But if the Southern democracy are thus be- ginning to feel the necessity of conciliation, the Southern opposition elements are actively agitating the ways and means for a general fu- sion of all the opposition factions upon a com- mon platform of hostility to the democratic party. Thus, while on the democratic side Mr. Senator Toombs has been lately urging upon his party in Georgia, in a very earnest and remarkable speech, the duty of brotherly love to the North- ern democracy, including Mr. Douglas and his anti-Lecompton followers, Mr. Henry Winter Davis, an opposition member of the last Congress from Maryland, and a candidate for this new Congress, bas recently, in defining his position, bold!y argued that to the opposition of all sections the policy which points to suc- cess in 1860 “is the highest of duties.” His plan, to this end, is very simple: “the union of the whole body of those opposed to the administrations of President Pierce and President Buchagan upon some man of ability and character not offensive to the North or the South,” and upon a platform ignoring the “irrepressible conflict” of Seward, and bring- ing into the foreground the short-comings, ex- | travagances and corruptions of the party in power. In view of this movement, Mr. Davis contends that “our interests (Maryland) re- quire us to unite with the opposition of the North, rather than with the democrats of the South,” and that upon his union programme the opposition in 1860 may carry, not only all the free States, but the conservative slave States of Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Delaware and Maryland. In the next place, in view of this opposition coalition for the succession, the Richmond Whig, a leading and influential organ of the Southern anti-democratic elements, has com- menced boldly and zealously to urge a practi- cal fusion in December next. Thus, in said paper of Wednesday last, the editor repeats what he has before said, “that the Southern opposition members of Congress should not hesitate a single moment about unit- ing with the republicans in the organi- House.” “Not a single moment.” Andwherefore? Because, says our Virginia cotemporary, “we think the public in- terests would be most effectually subserved by this next House devoting one-half or three- fourths of the coming session in ferreting out and exposing the corruptions and rascalities that have been practised by the officials and employés of the administration;” and because “with a democratic organization of the House all the enormous abuses and profligacies of the party will remain hidden and concealed from the public view.” In this connection, the enormous items of spoils and political power involved in the House organization must not be overlooked; nor can it be denied that the series of investigating committees suggested would, to the opposition, be a master-stroke of policy for 1860. These committees could furnish an amount of ammu- nition for the Presidential campaign which would be as destructive to the democracy as the Congressional records of democratic ex- travagances, profligacy and embezzlement which were used in the campaign of 1840. Upon this subject we have already shown that Mr. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, developed the plan by which the Presidential election of 1860 may be virtually decided, be- fore the expiration of the present year, in the organization of the House of Representatives. Shall this be done, or shall the overwhelming resources of the opposition be again frittered away upon slavery abstractions? Upon this little question the whole issue depends; and, upon this stumbling block of slavery, the re- publicans, with all their apparent advantages, may be swamped in Congress and in the Presi- dential election. The Organs of Cant and Fanaticism against Truc Religion and Common Sense. An article against the Herap in the Bil- lingsgate vein appears in a journal which claims to be “Christian” par excellence, aud the organ of Christians of superior sanctity, but whose language seems better suited to the re- gion of the Five Points or Tammany Hall than to a moral or religious atmosphere. It is call- ed the Christian Intelligencer, much on the same principle as the Latin word lucus, a shady grove, or dark place, is derived by contraries from Juz, light, or luceo, to shine. The Intelli- gencer is called Christian, from Christ, because tisthe opposite to him in its doctrines, its pharisaic spirit and its sectarian intolersuce. It is one of that class of religfous journals which have no religion, or charity, or truth about them, and which are in the habit of de- nouncing the Hzratp as “infidel” because its views do not square with their fanatical or hypocritical notions, which are like the reli- gion of the Pharisee of old with his broad phy- lactery, or of the Monk with his cowl, or of the Roundhead with his hair cropped. It is put on and off with their Sunday clothes, and some- times troubles their consciences very much when they are afraid of dying. When the devil was sick the aint would be— When the devil was well the devil a saint was he. Religion is continually on the tongues of these Mawworms, but never in their lives. If their hearts were dissected, re- ligion is the last thing that would be found there. Judging them by their works, as we judge the tree by its fruit, we find them to be an ungodly crew, who make a reli- gious profession a cloak for every kind of ras- cality. They lie, and slander, and cheat, and seduce their neighbors’ wives and daughters, and yet claim that they only are religious or Christian, because they put ona long face on, Sunday, and make a toil and trouble of a day intended by the Creator to be pleasant to the sons of men. The Henavp has done a thousand times more for religion than the whole of the miserable weekly sheets called religious. It has reported the religious anniversaries for twenty years, and thus given a stimulus to the various socie- ties, by which they have been enabled to col- lect large sums of money, which they never could otherwise have obtained, for the purpose of spreading the civilization of Christianity over the face of the earth. And now a poor weekly journal, professing to represent some of these sects, sacrilegiously and blasphemously arro- gates the attributes of the Almighty, puts on his habiliments, and sits in judgment ‘on our religion, and calls the Heratp “Satanic,” just as his prototypes of old charged Christ with being in league with Beelzebub, “the prince of devils.” Because we agree about the obsorvanco of Sunday with the great majority of Christians in all ages, and because our religion is practical, broad and charitable, and not narrow-minded, sectarian and illiberal, like the religion-of the Joseph Surfaces, they brand i! with the namesf infidelity. These men resemble not Christ, who set an example of for- bearance and humility, but the devil, who was driven out of heaven for his spiritual pride, and because he attempted to exalt himself above his peers. If their power were only equal to their arrogance, they would crucify true Christians as the Scribes and Pharisees did Christ, or hang or burn them as their predeces- sors, the Puritans, did in Massachusetts, where Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists and Catholics suffered in turn, and four Quakers, who protested against the Sabbath superstition, were hanged, and their remains now repose in Boston Common, martyrs to the cause of civil and religious liberty. It is not to be wondered that the same fanaticism filled the prisons with supposed witches, and that many were executed in the vicinity of Boston for the crime of witch- craft. The following extract from the laws of the old Bay State will show what manner of men those Puritans were:— Whoever shall profane the Lord’s day by doing unne- cegeary work, by unnecessary travelling, or by sports and recreations, ho ‘or they who so. transgress shall forfeit forty shillings, or be publicly whipped; but if it shall ap- pear to have been done contumaciously, such persons shail be put to death, or oiherwis punished at the discretion of the Court. No one shall run onthe Sabbath day or walk in his garden, or elsewbere, except reverently to and from meeting. None shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, swoop house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath day. No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath, or fast- ing day. If any man shall kiss his wife, or wife her husband, on the Lord’s day, the party in fault shall be punished at the discretion of the magistrates. The same superstition still cleaves to the Puritanical Pharisees of the present day, though they have not the power to enforce it by pains and penalties. As anexample of it we may refer to the fact that the Sabbath Committee at- tributed the great New York fire of 1835, and the commercial revulsion of 1837, to the aboli- tion of some Sunday ordinances by the Com- mon Council in 1834. As anotheg instance of this fanaticism we may state that at the time of the clerical opposition to the Sunday cars in the neighboring “City of Churches,” a year or two ago, Dr. Storrs declared at Brooklyn City Hall that the Norwalk tragedy, in which some seventy persons were killed, and all the em- barassments of the New Haven Railroad Buchanan has nothing to fear. His official record vindicates him. He has done what he could; he has labored earnestly and constant- ly, through good report and evil report, to restore the ancient principles of honesty and economy in all the various branches of the government. But the costly legacies and the extensive and deeply seated corruptions which were transmitted to his supervision from the loose and reckless administrations of Pierce and Fillmore, have been too much for Mr. Buchanan, and can only be remedied and re- formed by a great popular revolution. This is the true state of the case. In a word, the universal corruptions of our democratic politicians and spoilsmen, as in 1840, have placed that party completely again within the power of the overwhelming opposi- tion forces of the country. They have the road to vietory pointed out by Mr. Winter Davis; and our Richmond cotemporary, in the pre- liminary programme of the new Congress, has Company arising out of the Schuyler frauds, were Divine judgments for the running of a Sunday train some time before by the same com- pany and the same engineer. Similar judgments were predicted in the event of Sunday cars be- ing permitted to run in Brooklyn. Yet neither in that city nor in New York has any Divine judgment visited the people since the auspi- cious commencement of that new era. Even in Boston cars are now permitted to run on Sun- day, and the Mayor of that city, in a letter to Mr. Thomas, of Philadelphia, recently bore testimony to the good effects of the change. He says:—“The railroad (on Sunday) is gene- rally used by people of all denominations, al- though he had heard occasionally of a clergy- man or some other conscientious person object- ing to this mode of conveyance.” He also states that the evil apprehended of the day being spent in dissipation in the country and suburbs “has not been realized in fact.” No Divine judgments that we have heard of haye fallen | on Boston for this “prolutiaion of the Lord’s day.’’, The truth is that the days of religious in- tolerance and persecution are numbered, sud nlightened spirit of the times~-the sun of the nineteenth century——is too bright fur the moles, and the bats, and the owls of the Dark Ages, of which such papers as the Christian Ja- teltigencer are the fossil vemains. ihe Humanizing Lafluence of the Central Park—A Metropolitan Want. Now that the Central Park bas become fixed metropolitan fact, an institution duly cherished in the hearts of our people, and properly appreciated by visiters from other sections of this country and from Ua rope, it is interesting to notice the sileat yet sure manner in which its bumanizing influences are affecting the habits and manners of all conditions of men and women who have been brought within its sphere. The Central Park is the first great public attempt that has been made to improve the grand natural advantages this and above the chief cities of 1 everything is cultivated to the hig’ Neither Paris nor London have su cent surroundings as those of thi a Compare the Seine or the Thames with the lordly iludson or the swiftly rush’ st river. It is vastly in our favor. Our facilities for al! aquatic sports are unequalled by any European city. Neither can you obtain so splendid a view from the Bois de Boulogne or Hyde Park as from the Observatory in our Central Park. On the south you gaze with de light upon the great city, with its countless buildings, its splendid churches, its forests of masts, its eternal bustle; while locking to the north, the eye is charmed with rural beauties, hill, dale, river, here a lordly mansion, there a quiet rustic cottage, and far away the majestic Palisades, standing out in bold relief, to tue wooded heights of Fort Washington. The Cen- tral Park, with the free concerts, the drives and rides for equestrians, the quiet rambles for pe destrians, brings to the enjoyment of suburban luxuries thousands of people to whom such things have before heen denied. Previously, New York had no drive worth mentioning. The Bloomingdale road was always dusty er muddy, and made a rowdy pandemonium. But the Central Park drives, already partly finished and now a favorite resort, will give us this valuable desideratum. Equestrians can here enjoy their morning canter, and owners of fine equipages find an opportunity to display them to the best possible advantage. Well, then, we have begun to humanize the people by giving them a charming park, where they may enjoy fresh air, exercise and all healthful amusemenis, without money and with- out price. These will give # sound mind inu sound body. Now we must look after the sus- tenance of the body. Thousands of people, citizens and strangers in this great city, are every day asking: “Where shall I dine?” The hotels are good enough in their way; but every- body don’t like their way. There is too much ceremony about it, and through the system of bribing servants which prevails in all of them more or less, a stranger i never quile certain that he will have a good meal. Board- ing houses at the best are meager places, and the down town eating houses are places where a man seizes a hasty lunch, bolts it and runs off as rapidly as Mr. Brick and the French sol- diers ran away from a supposititious Ausirian hussar. What we want is the Paris café: Ex- actly the Paris café, one of the most remark- able and entertaining features of the gay capi- tal. We want the dinner at a fixed price, (not the table d’héte), say fifty cents for soup, fish, meat and dessert, and the dinner at any price that the diner’s purse will allow, with good light wines at a reasonable tariff. The nearest approach to the Paris café is Delmonico’s; but that is beyond the means of many people who would like to dine well. The prices here are something higher than in Paris, while the cooking is not so good. But, admitting the ex- cellence of Delmonico’s, that is only one res- taurant, and for late diners too far down town. We should have in upper Broadway several restaurants like those on the Boule- vards and in the Palais Royal, where you may dine at any price, but where your table furni- ture will be uniformly good, your napkin and cloth immaculate, your attendant intelli- gent, clean, active and respectful. A café where the proprietor is not too grand to wait upon a customer, and where the half dollar dinner is cooked as well as the ten dollar a head banquet, is what is wanted im New York, down town and up town, around the Park and out upon the Bloomingdale road. If half a dozen Paris restaurateurs should come out here agd set up cafés on the French plan, they could make fortunes by the labor which now secures them a bare subsistence, The café business in Paris has been overdone; here it has never been properly begun. The prices here should not be higher than in Paris, mar- keting being nearly the same in both placesfor meats. Game, fish and fruit are more abun- dant and cheaper here than in Paris. We have, in fact, every good thing with which to make good dinners, plenty of people to eat them, and nobody to cook them. We must dive into oyster cellars, or be bored at hotel tables, or disgusted with dirty table cloths, unclean and stupid waiters, simply bo- cause everybody does it. It is a great shame that in such a city as this, with so much to en- tertain and delight citizens and strangers, one is ata loss to know where to dine well at a moderate price. To the men who supply this m¢ want the road to fortune is avoya! one. The Paris speculators who tried to regulate our omnibusses would find it to their interest to getup a company to give us our breakfasts and dinners. fi and. tropolitan Tae Nort River Norsan out the up-town piggeries and bone-boiling establishments. our public authorities concern- ed are eniitled to the grateful remembrances of the whole population of this island; but there still exists, in full blast, near the North river, between Thirty-first and Fortieth streets, a fac- tory of animal substances of some sort, which may be set down as worse than twenty pig- geries all in a row, and as a most intolerable nuisance. To the passengers in the Hudson river cars, with the wind from the west, the stench from said establishment is positively sickening. It appears to be a “compound of most villainous smells,” the concentrated es- sence of Coleridge’s numerous “distinct stinks” of the dirty city of Cologne, Ong might sup- .—In clearing OCTOBRR 2, 1859, a of their wenehes, eek maa with his musket in one hand end his nose in the other, so power- ful is the odor of this North river nuisance. Can- not the evil he removed? Will Captain Down- ifg go half a mile to the leeward, eat an early breakfast, and then report his opinion? We suppose that the residents of the neighborhood have but one opinion upon the subject, to wit: that this thing is a great nuisance, and ought to be abated. Individual interests, in all such cases, should be made to give way to the pub- hie good. Where is Captain Downing? Tux Invupext Beacars or tax Recency.— We published yesterday a circular letter, frank- ed by the Hon. Erastus Corning, and signed by the notorious Peter Cagger, the brother-in-law of Confidence Cassidy, summoning moneyed de- mocrats of the city of New York to subscribe large sums of money for the benefit of the edi- tors of the Atlas and Argus. Thus it is that the Confidence men, who: sold the Wise letter as Judas Iscariot did his Master, scrape means together to pay for their bread, meat, whiskey and champagne. This is the way in which honest, wealthy, respectable democrats are ex- pected to permit themselves to be imposed upon for the benefit of a gang of greedy politi- cal spoilsmen. We have seen since yesterday several more of these letters, The scale of as- sessments in them, which the impudent beggars of the Regency are trying to collect, is so skil- fully adapted to the supposed gullibility or means of their victims, that it is evident that the Albany conspirators keep a black mail ledger, in which accounts are opened with everybody who can be made to contribute from 4 dollar up to a thousand. In fact, the amounis inserted after the words “You are as- sessed $: ;’ are filled in with different ink and ina different handwriting from the rest of the circular, The penalty for not submitting to therobbery is loss of favor with the Regency, and to be denounced with every species of low vituperation in the columns of the Atlas and Argus. And in addition to this burden which the payiug men of the democratic party are ex- pected to bear, under the plea of printing “campaign papers and political docu- ments” for the benefit of Cassidy’s back and belly, they are ordered, not only to hand over the money, but also to hold their tongues about it. The circulars are all marked “Private” It is exactly the method which highwaymen employ to escape being denounced before the authorities and punished. After the robbed traveller has gone through the “your money or your life’ ordeal, he is compelled to take an oath not to tell who carried off his pro- perty. Can anything more infamously corrupt and scandalous be imagined than this stealthy, foot-pad existence of the Regency swindlers. They are even worse than the open burglars and rowdies of Mozart Hall and Tammany Hall, who make no secret of their political ras- cality. It is fortunate, indeed, that a movement has commenced among the moneyed and intelligent men of this city, which will have for its immediate object the crush- ing out of all of these odions and mis- chief-making cliques. The first step taken by the hundred gentlemen whose names have appeared in the Heratp as determined to put an end to the vile system of misrule, ter- rorism and brutality which characterizes the existing political factions. has been to refuse to contribute one cent more of their money. Poor Cassidy will be left to starve or to live ona | pose this suffocating exhalation to be the pro- duct of an ixumense factory of the horrid ca monflet, or chemical bombshell, used by the Russians at Sebastopol to drive the Allies out The receipts of coffee were trifling, and the sales were mostly for France. The stock was 60,000 bags. Flour was firm, and the stock was 65,000 barrels. tion at Nazareth to-day, and unanimously adopted rosolu- tions recommending Andrew H. Reeder for Governor. pect that his real object is a political coaliti with the black republioans, which will secut him once more the fat office of Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. Douglas travelling on another road, and so he and For- mey, as it appears, have parted, at least for a — seaeon. yt eines The San Juan Island Affair—Names Officers Appointed to the New Ste . Sloop Iroquois—The Bids for the acaghl Transportation Contracts, &c. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wamnnaton, Oct. 1, 1869, Tord Lyons had a proteacted interviow with the Scorge tary of State to-day, The English government bas nog yet made known ils views to our government respecting ; the San Juan affuir, Until that is done of course tho ade ministration will not move in the matter, The next 1 val from Europe will probably bring something from hem Majesty’s government in regard to the matter. ‘The following officers have been ordered to the steam sloop-of-war Iroquois, preparing for sea at ‘York :—-Commander—Jamos §. Palmer; Lieutenant Higer, Harte and Houston; Pursor—R. H. Clark; ? Fogineer—D. B. Martin; Second Assistant Engincer— Harris; Third Assistant Engineers—Fishor, Boyton, Noaler and Miller; Gunner—Lillston ; Carpenter-~Dixon. It is understood that a demand has been made by our government for the surrender of Lemontour, who is now in Mexico, and who has been indicted in California for forgery in connection with his land claim, ‘Tho bids for the transportation of supplies for the army for the next two years were opened to-day at the Qnar- tormaster General’s office. Colouel Drinkard, Acting Se- cretary of War, requested the President to be present at the opening of the proposals, inasmuch as the Secretary of War und General Jesup were both absent. The old contractors, Russell, Majors & Co., were underbid on all the routes, und will @mrcfore bo superseded by new parties in this profitable work. Irwin White & Co., of Pennsylvania, are the lowost bidders for the freighta on the Utab line, including Forts Laramie and Kearney; and the bids are so close for ihe New Mexico freight that the result can only be known after a careful calculation. if The President bas recognized Friedrich Kulne as Viee Consul of the Duchy of Saxe Altenburg, to reside at Now York; also F. N. Hutwalcker as Consul of Prussia at Sa- vannah, News from Mexico, CHaRuEsTON, Oct. 1, 1859, ‘The Courier’s special correspondent says that it was re- ported that the Mexican Bishop was willing to guarantee — a loan of five millions to Miramon by pledging the church property. The Archbishop and clergy were bitterly op- posed tothe policy. It was reported that Vidaurri had joined the church party. News from Texas and Mexico. New OrtRANS, Sept. 29, 1859. | ‘Tho fevor is slowly increasing at Houston and Galveston, where more deaths aro reported. Major Neighbors, Indian Agent, whose death has already roached us, was killed at Bolknap,on the 15th inst., by two citizens, without a chanco of dofending him- solf. The murderers were not arrested. Much anxicty was felt at Indianola for tho schooner Margaret, Johnson, which was fifty days out from New York. The schooner Vickery, from Philadelphia, had ar- rived at Indianola, after a long passage. News from Rio Janciro. Cuarixston, Oct. 1, 1869. ‘Advices from Rio Janeiro to August 17 aro recoived. ages 4 Pennsylvania Politics. PAMLADELPMA, Oct. 1, 1859. ‘The opposition of Northampton county held a econyen- New York Politics. yi TaRRyTOWN, Oct. 1, 1859. 5 Mr. H. D. Robertson has not declined the nomination of the Americans of the Eighth Senatorial Convention. | The English Cricketers. Aupanr, Oct. 1, 1859. ‘The English cricketers left here this evening in tho six o'clock boat for New York. Firo in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1, 1859. Wm. F. Hughes’ hay press on Jefferson avenue, was ! destroyed by fire this afternoon. His loss is wavy. ‘The surrounding property, chiefly dwellings, was also burnod, owing to the scarcity of water. The loss on the hay press is from five to ten thousand dollars, which is in- sured here. pension from the Central Raflroad, and the same will be the fate of all of the underlings of the Regency. Cagger’s circular of September 28 will be the last occasion when the attempt to black mail the community will yield enough to pay for the paper it is written upon. The Pennsylvania State Fair, ‘PHILADELPHTA, Oct. 1, 1859. ‘The Hibernia steam fire engine was awarded tho first premium to-day, for throwing a stream of wator 254 fect horizontally and 188 feet vertically. The steamer Wash- ington received the second prize, and the Good Intent the third. In point of steady action the latter was superior. Tse Oyster Fever—Resu ro tae East River Pracer.—Gotham is in the height ot an oyster fever just iow, since the discovery of the new bed of that crustaceous bivalve in the bottom of the Sound, and thousands are rushing to the locality of Eaton’s Point, armed with dredges, with as greata furor as they did in former times to the California and Australia gold placers, or more recently to Fraser River and Pike’s Peak, armed with pick and shovel, seives, cradles, slouched hats and portable cooking stoves. From every dock and pier adventurers are pushing off in every kind of craft that floats in search of the piscatorial nuggets; but we are afraid that the placer will be found as unprofitable as Pike’s Peak. This oyster bed has been lying there for years—no one can divine how many; the bivalves are overgrown, watery and insipid, and can no more compare in flavor or nutritiousness with our cultivated Shrewsburys, Princes’ Bays and Rockaways, than a venerable porker can with a tenderly raised sucking pig. or a swill milk cow with a well fed South Down heifer. This fact appears to be well known in the oyster saloons, where the new discovery is exhibited as a curiosity merely, hung in baskets at the doors, but by no means recommended to cus- tomers by conscientious landlords carefully scrupulous about the stomachs of their patrons, and by some haye been pronounced unfit to eat. The oyster, like other animal food, and unlike others of the fish tribe, requires to be carefully fed and fatted for the market. Nature will sup- ply, but art must cultivate oysters, and it is unreasonable to suppose that those just dis- covered, and so eagerly sought after, can be in as good condition’ as the fish which has been transplanted and properly fed in the old oyster beds whose reputation is world-spread. New York has an established character for delicious bivalves which we fear may be damaged by the introduction of the baser arti- cle from Eaton’s Point, if our oystermen en- courage the mania now raging. The Eastriver oyster at best is bohind what we may call the other brands, and if these insipid monsters get mixed up with them, as they are likely to do, their character will be gone altogether. We are tenacious of the reputation of New York as an oyster-raising as well as a great commer- cial place, and we do not want either Governor Wise’s celebrated Virginias, or those ill-raised strangers from the Sound to depreciate it. The Affairs of Blake, Kingsley & Co. Boston, Oct. 1, 1859. Blake, Kingsley, & Co., whose failure took placo last week, and whose liabilities were half a million of dollars, have made a special assignment for the benefit of all their creditors to H. K. Horton and R. W. Newton, of Boston, and John H. Huddleston, of New York. The Alabama at Savannah, SAVANNAH, Oct. 1, 1859. The steamship Alabama, from New York, arrived om Friday night at eight o'clock. All well. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PmLapEwrni, Oct. 1, 186. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania State fives, 934; i Railroad, 2214; Morris Cunal, 504: Long laland Railriad, 11; Pennsylvania Railroad, 40%. Sight exchango on Kew. York, par a 1-10 premium. Baurimorg, Oct. 1, 18%. Markets unchanged. Savannau, Sept. 30, 180. Cotton declined one-eighth of a cent:’ sales to-day. 630 bales strict middling at Lic. vaustAa, Sept. 30, 18/9. A Cotton unchanged: sales to-day 450 bales. } Burrato, Oct. 1—1 P.M. Flour dull and heavy, but prices unchanged: sales|,400 bbls. Wheat dull and heavy, a large amount afloaj and holders offering No. 2 Chicago spring frecly at 860. Wwith- out buyers. Corn quict and steady. Oats firm, steady: gales 150 bbls, at 2540. a 26c. Imports—0,000 bbls. four, 272,000 bushels wheat, 32,000 busheis corn, 3,000 bushels barley. Exports—1,200 bbls. flour, £2,006 bushels wheat, 8,000 bushels corn. EEE Music ty THs CENTRAL PARK.—One of the largest rowds: that has ever been seen in the Central Park was resent to hear the ravishing music of Dodworth’s Band Iaeven- ing. The weather certainly was not very proitions, The skies lowered and the storm-clouds gathered, ut yet tho fiuyial god was merciful towards the spos and sportsmen, The attraction of a public concert ad its natural effect. The people of the city and its erirons, tired of continuous and harassing labor, determed to show thomsolves at the Park—the great contre ofashion and amusement. Upon tho smallest averago,, tha wora between five and six thousand persons present. Boldest. inhabitant of the Park declared the attendance | be un- recedented in point of nambers. The music w excel- yt and the popular spirit buoyant, and were itot that, vhe clouds began to threaten rain, wud the appesince of things seemed (o get darker and darker, the atndanco would have been greater. The Ceatral Park isow the point of attraction, aud everybody inust go there Lacrors ON Drax Swirt hy T. F. MgaGiEr.—Mihomaa Francis Meagher will deliver a lecture at the Coor Insti- tute on Tuesday evening next, tho 4th inst., foro the Tom Moore Club, 9 literary association compod prinol- pally of young men occupied in lawyers’ officead mor- cantile houses, on the life and times of Dr.jnathan Swift, the eccentric but gonial Dean of St. Patri. Mr. Meagher designs, we belicve, that his lecture ail be, in a measure, areply to Mr. Thackeray’s comméries on the charactor of Swift, in which he scemed tove mis- conceived, if not misropresented, the nature 4 genius of the Dean, who, it is well known, though bitter satirist and merciless onough to his foca, gonial humor and a charitable hoart for all humani joro- | over, ho was not moroly a satirist of uncqual power 4nd a humorist of wondrous brilliancy, but a fo-mind= ed statesman, and perhaps the boldest and mc fearless Politician of his times, In this light the placo his remarkable fellow-countryman befomis aut ence. Itisa fruitful theme, and onc peculia fitted tho gonius of the lecturer, of whose merite as is unneccesary to speak, and to whom it Provo a grateful task, as well as a highly repast for his audionce. | Tne Caevatier Forney Siackentne Frre.— The Chevalier Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, has of late slackened his cannonading for Mr. Douglas very considerably. Somesup- pose that the Chevalier has returned to his first love, of Concord, New Hampshire; hut we sus-