The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1859, Page 4

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Broadway.—After- noon and Kvening—Our or Tae Durtus—Baiter Divexriese- mat. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Daxexs, &¢.—Kaukoan 8 Broadway.—Erusorian Sona, su UP. BRYANT’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bracesquss, Songs, Vancrs, dc —lle Wodid BE AN Acton. H MOZART HALL, 663 Rrosdway.—Tmopon’s Turater or * Ants. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Dr. Roywron’s Leorcee on proces MAL ANIMALS LiveD Mutions or Aco: Keroxs AN. HOPE CHAPEL, 7: Broadway.—Wavcu’s Iraua. jew Work, Monday, October 10, 1859. The News. The news from California brought by the over- Jand mail is of an important character. A duel had taken place in the vicinity ot San Francisco onthe morning of the 13th ult., between Senator Broderick and Judge Terry, which resulted in the death of the former, who fell, pierced through the Tongs, at the first fire. We give elsewhere a history of the affair. By an arrival at New Orleans we have newsfrom California to the 20th ult. The steamer which left Ban Francisco had on board $1,850,000 in treasure, Business continued depressed. We have accounts from the City of Mexico to the 23d, and from Vera Cruz to the 25th ult. A con- piracy among the officers of Miramon’s army to overthrow him and recognize the liberals had been divulged, and the traitors were to be executed on the 26th. The steamship Quaker City, which left New York on Wednesday last for Havana, had her engines dumaged on Friday, when about forty miles south of Cape Hatteras. The passengers became terribly frightened, supposing the ship had sprung aleak, aud nearly one hundred of them went ca board the bark Dunbarton, which happened to be in the neighborhood, and were landed at Norfolk yester- é:y. Twelve of the passengers remained on board the Quaker City. The ship was perfectly tight, gnd no serious danger to those remaining in her was apprehended. Some very interesting extracts from our Euro. peer files by the Canada are givento-day. We also puiish a report of the fight between Sayers and Brettle for the championship of England. The City of Manchester, from Liverpool on the 19th and Queenstown on the 23d ult., arcived at this port yesterday. She brings no news. ‘There are four steamers due this morning at American ports, with news five days later than that brought by the Canada. They left in the following order:— c Quebec. New York. New York. ‘New York. the 15th ult. recount the continued successes of the constitutionalists. ‘The rebel forces in Chorini, commanded by Almeda and Aguala, surrendered all their arms and men on the 8th of September. A strong force was on Za- mora’s track, and 1,600 men had left San Carlos in pursuit of Falcon. Victoria, a post strongly gar- risoned by the rebels, had fallen before the govern- ment soldiery, the cavalry of Carabolo taking an active part in the attack. The locomotive of the Petaré railway had at length been got out of the dangerous position into which it had fallen near the Bea. For several days the waves battered it furi- ously, and at one time it was thought that it would not be recovered. The works were progressing favorably. We have files from Bermuda dated on the 28th ult, On the 26th the session of the Legislature which commenced on the 18th of May last was brought to aclose by the Acting Governor. A couple of dangerous fires liad occurred in Hamil- ton. A number of convicts were to be sent from the Gockyards in Bermuda to Cork, Ircland. Our special Washington despatch states that a member of Congress of the South American party has written a letter to somebody ann td arrangements bave already heen made for the or- gavization of the next House of Representatives, It is to be effected by a coalition of the republicaus and Americans, the union of course being based upon the cohesive power of the spoils—that is, the offices are to be divided between the contracting parties. Col. Frank Anderson and Captains Maury, Scott and Faysoux, of Walker's filibuster party, have been held to bail at New Orleans in $3,000 each to an- ewer. They allege that they were on a fishing ex- curaion when arrested. The rank and file of the party were placed in the barracks below New Or- leans; but as there was no guard to detain them, they decamped. In the Supreme Court, general term, on Satur. day, the case of the old police force was taken up, and atter sume slight discussion the Court anggested that counse! should agree upon some form of judg- ment which could be taken, pro forma, as a basis of an appeal to the court of last resort. The case was finally postponed until Saturday next. As the steamboat Thomas Powell, which left this city for Poughkeepsie on Saturday afternoon, was in the vicinity of Caldwell’s, she ran over p small row boat which was crossing the river at the time. ‘The accident happencd about seven o'clock. The boat contained four persons, three of whom were drowned. We experienced quite a change of weather yes- terday in comparison with the mildncss of the atmosphere on last Saturday, ‘was overcast, and a strong, chilly northy the entire day and evening, which made thick shawls and winter clothing quite desirable, At six o’clock in the evening the thermometer in- dicated filty-two degrees—pretty cool for this gea- son of the year. The Berean Baptist church, in Bedford, near Car- mine street, was crowded to excess last eveni: the occasion being the delivery of a secon course by the pastor, Rey. Dr. Dowling, on th geasity of honoring and observing the 9 Liverpool. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCT Sabbath, Ewery available prominent sent was filled at an early hour of the eveniag, and by the time thut the service was about to comaweuce the church was crowded to repletion. The discuurse was much the same as many others op the sawe theme. The cotton market on Satarday was without a on; tho sales embraced about 600 bales, without change ia quotations. There seemed to be disposition to await the receipt of private letters due by the Cana‘ta before do’ much, Common grades of flour were rather extras were firm; sales were pretty freely ing some purchases for export; Southern wae in demand and rather firmer for the lower and 1m. qualities, Wheat was without change of inoment; among the sales was prime Kentucky white ai $1 4, Corn was firmer, with a sale of old Western mixed at 8c ; new was hei at 980. Pork was steady, with wales of meee at $16 652 $15 624, and of prime at $10 65 a $10 6245. Peef was unchanged, and lard was firmer, Sug were active aud Grmor. The advance on the weok's salen amounted to about Yc. to 340. per Ib. ‘The transactions embraced, with molado, about 3,500 hhda., 508 boxes and 2,648 bags Pernamnbucos, Cofes was fruily held, but quiet. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were unchaiged. The Presidential Question—The Demo- coracy and tho Administration, The cal ond dispassionate article on the Precidential question which we publish this morning, from a conservative opposition paper of Tennessee, comprehends several important points, to wit: first, that the democracy, as usual, will contrive to harmonize at Charleston upon the basis of the spoils and plunder; se- cond, that from all the signs of the times there is little or no prospect of the union of the op- position elements; ani third, that “it now seems more than probable that the battle of 1856 is to be fought over again.” Upon these three propositions let us take a passing review of the field. Admitting that the “cohesive power of the public plunder” is very great in the democratic party, tis yet a “fixed fact’ that this party of spoilsmen has been torn to pieces by the slavery agitation, It came back into the government in 1852 with a popular majority of both sections of the Union, which promised an uninterrupted tenure of power for twenty years to come. Thus restored by the people as the party representing the great compro- mise acts of 1850, all that it was required to do was to stand fast to that settlement of the slavery trouble, and to administer the government within the bounds of a moderate degree of economy, de- corum and progressive activity. But in 1854 the Pandora’s box of that Kansas-Nebraska bill was opened in Congress, and in a moment, we may say, the apparently solid and impreg- nable fabric of the democratic party tumbled to the ground, with the weak administration of poor Pierce. Mr. Douglas, supposing that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in securing him the graieful suffrages of the South, would secure him the Cincinnati nomination, introduced his bill in the Senate. Poor Pierce, after a hard | struggle in his Cabinet between Marcy in op- position to this dangerous experiment, and Jefferson Davis in support of it, surrendered to Davis and the Southern fire-eaters. But had Marcy made the suppression of that bill the condition of his continuance in the Cabinet, Pierce would have yielded, and the democratic party would have escaped the terrible disasters it has suffered. Marcy, however, was not the man for the crisis. Trained in the school of the Albany Regency, he equivocated, hesitated, submitted, and yet endeavored in his submis- | sion to leave both the Northern and the South- | ern democracy with a doubt in his favor. He was indispensable to the administration, of which he was really the master ; but he lacked the moral courage to take the position which the occasion invited, and which would have crowned him with the lasting approbation of he country. The consequences thus indicated need no re- capitulation here. They will suggest them- selves to the reader in the narrow escape of the democracy from a crushing defeat in 1856; in the factious demoralization of the democratic majority of the last Congress; in the existing conflict of discordant aspirants, leaders, cliques and factions, and their dirty intrigues in refer- ence to the Charleston Convention, and in the heavy opposition majority elected to the new Congress which will meet in December. Mr. Buchanan, who saved the party from the very jaws of destruction in 1856, would have restored the party to its ancient strength through the general policy of his administration; but there were too many aspirants for the succession inthe party camp, and they were too eager to rule to consider their present necessities. Hence the existing discords and divisions in the camp be- tween the cliques of Wise, Douglas, Davis, Hun- ter, Brown, Slidell and others, and allupon the most contemptible slavery abstractions. And if these rival leaders and their cliques, or any of them, go inte the Charleston Convention re- solved to rule or ruin upon their respective negro obstractions, still ignoring the adminis- here will be a dissolution of the Con- d of the party, in spite of the “cohe- sive power «i the public plunder.” We have xeuson to believe that Mr. Buchanan, in his annual message of December next, will reiterate his recommendations of last year, with such modifications as intervening events shall have rendered expedient. His schedule of recom- mendations, thus adapted to the practical wants of the country and the progressive spirit of the age, will furnizh, a platform upon which all the scattered fragments of the democratic party may combine. And should the President further recommend a diligent inquiry into the ways and means for the reformation of all the fla- grant abuses which have crept into the several departments of the government, he will enable the democracy to silence the batteries of the opposition on question. Much legislation will, perhaps, be required to correct the cor- ruptions resulting from the loose and reckless administrations of Pierce and Fillmore; but Jet Mr. Buchanan, to this end, take a still wider range in his suggestions of retrenchment and reform than in his good counsels of the last two years, and much may be done to arrest the opposition hue and cry of retren¢gh- ment and reform. In a word, the democracy—defeated as they have been for the last two years, almost every- where, and divided and demoralized as they are, and standing, as they do, in a feeble popu- lar minority agsinst the whole opposition forees— may still be reunited into a powerful army for the great battie of 1860 upon the common basis of Mr. Buchanan’s administra- tion, Otherwise, we may count upon the dis- solution of the party at Charleston, or upon its finishing defeat, whether the next President shall he elected by the people or by the House of Representatives, A New Excitement in Canada—How the Grand Trunk Corporation is Squeezing MM Into Revolution, Canada ic in a ferment of conflicting interests which threatens to produce some important political results, The immediate etfect seems to be the probable abrogation of the existing ity treaty with us, and the ultimate, the possible annexation of Canada to the United States. Our Washington correspondence refers to the efforts that are being made to divert the trade of Western Canada and our Northwestern States through the commer- channels of Lower Canada; and we ieprint to-day in another column an arti- {cle from the Toronto Globe commenting on the effects which these efforts are producing on the practical working of the reciprocity treaty with this country. It refers to the fact that Mr. Hatch bas lately been appointed by the Presi- dent to examine into the causes of the general dissatisfuction existing all along our northern frontier in view of the altered character of the reciprocity treaty by the recently adopted tariff of the British provinces north of ua. When that tariff was enacted the Hera pointed out the peculiar character of its provi- sious, and showed how it was made to bear fa- yorably on certain interests of a private nature. ‘The fact is, both Upper and Lower Canada are fast becoming the mere instruments of a vast moneyed corporation which extends its ramifications to both sides of the Atlantic. The Grand Trunk Railroad holds a continuous line of communication from Detroit through Upper < Canada to Montreal, and thence over the At- - lantic and St. Lawrence Railroad—which it has “leased for ninety-nine years—to Portland, ' Maine; and it is prosecuting its schemes every- i where to divert trade and travel into its own | cbunnels. For this it has procured the passage of the new tariffact by the Canadian Li ture, thus cutting off the trade to pictured by the Toronto Globe, and endanger- ing the very existence of the reciprocity treaty. For this it has advanced a portion of the money that was receasary to complete the Great East- ern, making it a strict condition of the bargain that the ocean monarch should go to Port- land-the ocean terminus of its vastline. For this it has taught the English press to regret, as one of the journals recently expressed it, “that the Ashburton treaty bad given up to the United States so large a portion of the State of Maine, with the magnificent harbor of Portland.” For this it is stimulating the British govern- ment to survey and open the summer route to the Pacific ocean, along the Saskatchewan val- ley, and to quarrel with us now for the island of San Juan, which happens to command its outlet through Puget Sound and the Strait» of Fuca, Thus is this great railroad corporation, with- out soul, and looking only to the selfish prose- cution of its own interests, twining its boa con- strictor folds around Lower and Upper Canada, and casting its slime over the relations be- tween both the Provinces and the mother coun- try and the United States. Its policy has de- stroyed the popular satisfaction that existed with the reciprocity treaty, and it aims at de- stroying the treaty itself, as the large trade of Upper Canada with New York will then be forced to seek an ocean outlet through Mon- treal and Portland, and pay tribute to the lines of the Grand Tfunk Railroad. The Globe opines that Messrs. Galt and Rose seek to carry out their old scheme of annexation by enforc- ing their present unpopular commercial policy. Messrs. Galt and Rose are active men of the politico-commercial school, and if the Globe will look a little deeper into their motives, we think it will find that they are intimately con- nected with the managers of the Grand Trunk, and that they have no design of pushing their old schemes through such a deep policy as is intimated. They merely wish to make the Pro- vinces tributary to the corporation they be- long to, and if the Upper Canadians do not move soon and sturdily in the matter the schemers will succeed in their projects. They should move at once, and in various directions. By agitation they should show to their own people how their interests are being intrigued and bartered away; they should send a commission here to confer with our New York merchants, who are deeply interested that the people of Upper Canada should have a free transit to the nearest ocean port; they should send a committee to Washington to ex- plain to the Cabinet the true state of affairs before it resolves to recommend to Congress the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty; they should send an agent to London to open the eyes of the government and people of Engiand; and they should declare their unhesitating de- termination not to be made the serfs and tri- butaries of a selfish moneyed corporation. A few months, and it may be too late. What does Upper Canada say? cial Tae Trrry-Pxoprertck Duri—Socrety ann Poxrtics ww Cartronsta.—The result of the hos- tile meeting between Judge Terry and Senator Broderick, mentioned yesterday, and given more in detail to-day, is one of the consequences of the present peculiar state of society in Cali- fornia. There has been no State in the Union where so large a population has been so sud- denly developed as in that territory. The peculiarity of its character, and the continual activity and constant excitability of the people of that region, growing out of sudden ac- quisitions of wealth, have led to more gam- bling, more insanity, more duels, more murders, more crime, than have characterized any other part of the Union since the Revolution. These events are the natural result of the sud- den congregation of thousands of persons from all parts of the world, whose sole object has been to become rich in the briefest space of time. Vigilance committees were the conse- quence of this state of things. All the per- sonal and private griefs of individuals haye, therefore, sought relicf in these committees, and latterly in politics, and hence we are in- flicted with speeches like those of Gwin and Broderick in the late campaign, two United Siaies Senators, which were hardly fit for ut- terance in the e Points, and hence we have to chronicle such events as the recent duel between Messrs. Terry and Broderick. Time, however, will correct all this. Decency will yet prevail in California, and the recent result of the election in that State may be con- sidered as an indication that the public senti- ment of California will improve, and the better portion of the community frown down all fur- ther attempts to demoralize the richest terri- tory in the Union. The gold crop of California ic rapidly becoming regular in its production, like any other crop, and instead of hav injurious effect on the morals of the people, as | fluence might raise him to the height he aspires hitherto, it will produce no other result than ihat of corn, or cotton, or tobacco. Then the sudden acquisition of wealth will cease, and society revert back to its normal condition. William H. Sewrrd the Mode! Man—But Not for the Prosidency, It is deeply to be regretted that Mr. William IL Seward is politically committed to so much that is bad, when it can so easily be shown that, in other respects, he is nearly everything that is good. He is, in fact, a good man. He smokes rather too many segars; but they are of the most fragrant tobacco, and correspond admira- bly with the aroma from the cut glass, out of which he drinks success to tee-totalism and the Sons of Temperance. There are very few of our statesmen more decorous, staid and reapect- able than Mr. Seward. He neither fights, gam- bles, nor is addicted to debauchery. He isa model of private virtue. We do not believe he swears much. His dress is propriety itself—a combination of semi-ecclesiastical gravity with an every day business look, which instantly in- spires confidence. THe is the avowed repreeen- tative of the whole moral law, tempered by overflowing indulgence for every failing and peccadillo on the part of his fellow creatures, and especially of the niggers. What a pity that such an ideal for a future President, should be gangrened with the heresy of “irrepressible conflict!” Mr. Seward does not weara white cravat, If he did, he would be taken for a Protestant mi- uister. He might, as ii is, pass very well for a priest. No one can question thet he is a pious man, and a tember of the church. We are not sure to what chureh he belongs; but be is “a burning and shining Light’? somewhere. He nay be x Methodist, and be would be an ex- cellent ete of that persuasion. He u Northern Methodist, however, in le confliet” with their wealthier t ihe South, who “hold in bondage heir fellow creatures.” We know that he likes the Methodists and gives largely to their chari- tics. Yet his cold water theories may, very possibly, havemade Mr.Seward a Baptist. His praise of the aqueous element, if interpreted as an external application, would remove many traces of inconsistency, between what he has said and what he hasdone, The chances are favorable for the Baptists, and also for the Episcopalians, whose absolution of Bishop On- derdonk would meet with his warm approval. His kind heart would pardon everybody for everything—we mean that is wrong. He can- not be a Presbyterian. Their sour, anti-Sunday law fanaticism is too bounded for him; though, if he should turn out to be a Roman Catholic, we shall not be surprised. His intimacy with Archbishop Hughes, whom he once made a whig, is great, and there may have been a reciprocity of conversion on that occasion, Mr. Seward, like us, subscribes to build Catholic churches, and is, very likely, in full “odor of sanctity.” We should pronounce him, positively, a Catholic, but for a suspicion that his large and compre- hensive heart, has affiliated him with both Ca- tholics and Protestants, and that he devoutly cherishes all of the doctrines of all sects—ex- cepting the Mormons, whom he denounced in the Senate, and who are also damned in the black republican platform. With such un- bounded sympathies for every stripe of godli- ness, what an ornament to the Presidential chair Mr. Seward would be! And, were it not for the execrable dogma of “irrepressible con- flict,” who knows but he might have attained to it? But the safety of this great Union is too valuable to permit even a model man to des- troy it. Mr. Seward is not only moral and religious— every action of his private life radiates bene- volence. His donations are indiscriminate, and nothing is too undeserving for his aid. He delights in establishing needy young men in business, and gives up a principle for charity’s sake, in order that their profits may be as large as possible. Thus, in spite of his known tem- perance proclivities, and the large support he has received on account of his indentification with the tee-total cause, he kindly advanced four thousand dollars to some pious protégés, at Auburn, to open a liquor store, mixed with oils and paints, and cheerfully ac- cepted a share of their gains. We do not doubt that a pathetic appeal from Mr. Weed would induce him to assist worthy, deserving youths in filting out a slaver for the coast of Africa, and that he would experience relief at being able to indulge sympathies in private, which, in his stern capacity as a legislator, he would be compelled to condemn, even to the point of an “irrefressible conflict,” which should rend the Union to pieces, and destroy all the interests of this and other States, As a patent-rights man, a railroad man, and a supporter of every kind of internal improve- ment, where is Mr. Seward’s reputation un- known? Including Mr. Matteson and his “free wool” brother of the lobby, who has ever in- voked Mr. Seward’s aid in vain? In spite of persecution and opposition, he has never swerved from obedience to the Scripture rule, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” throughout his entire finaneial career. Thus, when’Governor of New York, in 1839, he, at once, at the solicitation of contractors and OBER 10, 1859. jobbers, mortgaged posterity for the benefit of the present generation, to the tune of $25,000,- 000, and he has declared that he would have increased the State debt $60,000,000 more, if he could have carried out his own generous impulses. This noble conduct as Chief Magis- trate of a State, would be his model, were he to become Chief Magistrate of the coun- try, and in a few years, were he President, the national debt would at- tain the proud and glorious elevation, which gives such renown to Great Britain. Mr. Sew- ard is justly, therefore, worshipped by the mighty army of the lobby; and, but for the odious platform of “ irrepressible conflict” upon which he placed himself at Rochester, their in- to. His war against the South would destroy the country. : Far and near, Mr. Seward is admired for his learning and skill as a lawyer. In patent right cases, he is justly considered unrivalled, and his management of railroad interests is go shrewd and reliahle, that the Ne tral Railroad alone, allow hi thousand dollars a ras the sel. Not only Mr. Weed, but als ing, Richmond and Case and eould openly : stead of doing so priv the “ irrep! York Cen- feo of three Corn- nd wust him odium w! theory has attac ible. The tine to Mr. Seward ; but we hope that the justice we have now rendered to his moral, religious, pro- fessional and social worth, will be considered as disproving this charge. Like the rest of the world, we must oppose him for President, how- ever, on account of his destructive “ irrepressi- ble conflict” and disunion principles, Tne Mystery or Sm Joun Franxuin’s Fare Cixarrn Ur.—While the interesting discoveries recently made in the Arctic regions, by Captain McClintock and the crewof the yacht Fox,set at rest forever all hopes and fears as to the fate of Sir John Franklin and his brave comrades, they stamp upon the records of Arctic investi- gation a melancholy tale of suffering, and an instance of fortitude and devotion to duty al- most without parallel. Stimulated by the un- dying love of woman, the hopeful nature, the unyielding energy of a fond wife, the little band of the Fox set out to make the final search for the remains ef the crews of the Erebus and Ter- ror, that history might at least be able to tell where and when they perished. In this endea- vor they were successful. Falling in with such traces of the missing ships, and such informa- tion from the Esquimaux as they required, the adventurers were enabled to discover the track of their predecessors, and follow up the trail accurately, meeting at intervals the mournful traces of their last journey from the abandoned ships across the desolate regions of snow and ice. The records found by Captain McClintock at Point Victory, a full account of which we pub- lished yesterday, establish the fact beyond ques- tion that Sir John Franklin died in the midst of his faithful companions, on the 11th of June, 1847, and that the ships were abandoned ten months later, on the 22d of April, 1848, more than eleven years ago. Turning their faces southward, the surviving adventurers, num- bering a hundred and five out of the original hundred and twenty-nine, com- menced their march over the-ice towards a region where they expected to find deer shooting, and doubtless, also, with a view to carry out, if possible, the object of the expe- dition, by ascending Fish river. All the traces found of them intimate that they were not short of provisions, ammunition or fuel; for, in or around every cairn were evidences of abun- dance; yet they dropped away on that desolate path, one after the other, until the last one perished. The skéletons of some were found lying in boats, others bleached upon the snows, surrounded by the relics of home and friends. How long they held out against the terrors of their situation after the 25th of April, 1848, the date of the record, will never be known; enough, they perished one by one, and they have mouldered where they fell, in the midst of silence and desolation, under the snows of eleven winters. The fate of these gallant men, as now ascer- tained, bears out the assertions which Dr. Rae made after his search in 1854, that Sir John Franklin and his crew were not the victims of Esquimaux treachery, but had probably taken acourse to the southward over the ice, and perished on the journey. All uncertainty as to their fate being now set at rest, it is pre- sumable that the expedition of the Fox is in- deed the final one to the Arctic regions. With the discovery of the Northwest Passage or open sea by Capt. McClure came also the conviction that it was impracticable for purposes of navi- gation. No discoveries have since been made to afford any hope of better results from Arctic explorations, and we trust that the solution of this twelve years’ mystery will be the signal to abandon all further attempts demanding so heavy a sacrifice of gallant and chivalrous ives. Tue Fine Arts Down Easi.—The Bostonians like the Greeks of old, are given to statue wor- ship. They believe that by illustrating dead celebrities they will render themselves famous, It is a pity, however, that in their manner of doing things they should fall so far short of their Athenian models. They have got the am- bition, but they lack the simple grandeur of ideas that distinguished the latter. A couple of years since they inaugurated with a great deal of fuss a statue of Franklin. There were certain features connected with that ceremony which the philosopher, had he been living, would probably have regarded as rather a doubtful compliment. When, more re- cently still, they set up the statue of Webster in their shabby little State House, it was done in such a manner that the tribute to the memory of the dead statesman was rendered equally equivocal. They could not make up their minds where to place him, whether indoors or out of doors, and he was finally consigned to hi: present pied de terre, as to a sort of refuge for the destitute. To be sure the occasion was celebrated by a stereotyped oration by the standing Demosthenes of the Bay State, but in all this it was evident that our modern Athe- nians were influenced more by their own vanity than by reverence for the memory of the great statesman or by any great love for art, Notwithstanding these two stupendous efforts, enough in all conscience to immortalize any moderately ambitious community, we see that Governor Banks has come down with a mes- sage recommending the erection of another statue to tho memory of Horace Mann. They will be at no loss to find an orator for the in- auguration, as Wendell Phillips will, we are certain, be happy to take the established place of Mr. Everett on au occasion so congenial to his feelings. From the turn which things are taking, we should not be at all surprised to find the Bos- -tonian statue-worshippers rushing, by-and-by, into the opposite extreme, and distinguishing themselves as iconoclasts, After this last freak, it would be a natural revoluiion of things for them to find fault with and demolish the images of Webster and Franklin. When the pagans of old Japsed again into their heathenish practices, one of the first things they did was to destroy the symbols of the true faith and to restore the effigies of tbeir false gods. Our modern Athe- nians, uninflnenced by an earnest love of art or settled convictions on any subject, are not likely {o be arrested in the gratification of their caprices by a regard for consistency. Torrey City News. A Man Misaxc—Svrrcexn Korn 1 alarm ie felt for the safety of Mr. Dani Veen missing from his how lust. On that evening he let —Considerable nan, who has since ‘Thureday 1, on the Ne gh a piece of wud in the vi he was k ther with t ' NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. The Organization of the Next House the Offices—The Next Spoaker—Moev ments of the President—The Captati Gencral of Cuba—What the Canadia: are About, dic., &e. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasurarow, Oct. 9, 1869. A letter has been received by a gontleman in this from a leading South American member of Congress, which he states that the republicans and Americans effect an organization of the House without any trouble delay. The matter has been arranged by an cqual divi sion of offices and spoils betwoon the two parties. As fa the anti-Lecomptonists, he says neither party have confidenco whatever in them, and they will do nothing conciliate them. He also states that either Wintor Dar or Mr. Eldridge will be the next Speaker. . ‘The President will return to Washington on Tuced: evening. As the election in Pennsylvania takes place ‘Tuesday, he will probably cast his vote boforo loaving.| He, it is well known, is a great stickler for exercising franchise. ‘The Secretary of War will return on Tuesday. Ho nearly recovered his health. The intelligence of the death of Senator Broderick occasioned much excitement in political circles. Collector Scholl and Surveyor Hart arrived here morning. Tho Furopean news yesterday slates prematurely appointment of General Serrano as Captain General @ Cuba. I have authority for saying no appointment ‘been made up to the latest. date when the Canada sailed. ‘There is no doubt General Concha asked to bo recalled! and that his successor will shortly be appointed. It thought that either General Serrano or General D'Alano will receive the appointment, probably the for. mer. General Serrano was for some time Minisier Paris. His wifo is an intimate friend of Empress Eugenie, and a very beautiful woman. Should tho useless appendage of the Patent Office, called] the Agricultural Bureau, be dispensed with, as recom. mended in the Hxrarp, and as probably it will be, it estimated a quarter of a million dollars yearly will saved, ‘Tho last coup de plume of Attorney General Black Senator Douglas has set the whole pack of his sup) howl'ng terribly. The disappointed office seekers, dis missed government employés, gamblers, lobby-men, trading politicians, and scheming, cheating contractors: for whom this is the great centre, are all for Dougt ‘There are come deep plots, based on the rule or ruin prim: ciple, which will soon be ventilated. ‘The Consul General of the United States for Can: writes to the Department of State that gigantic efforts are| ‘on foot to divert from American, into Canadian channels, | the prodricts of the Northwestern States that seek an out. let to the occan. ‘The Secretary of the Interior has decided adverse Harbach, who lays claim to a portion of Omaha City, in| Nebraska. The Secretary decides that the land in ques- tion, being within an incorporated town, is not subject to} pre-emption, nor are the authorities of Omaha entitled to} it, but that it can only be disposed of at public sale. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. $1,850,000 in Gold en Route for New York—| The Election in Nevada Territory—The| San Juan Island Affair—The San Fran- cisco Markets, &c. California advices of September 20. The steamers John L. Stephens and Orizaba, which! sailed on that cay for Panama, had $1,850,000 in treasure. During the fortnight business had ruled dull. Arrivals had been numerous, and the market was weaker, though no decline was noticeable except in candles which were heavy and lower. Provisions were less firm, and the turn was in favor of the buyer. Sugar quict, and reflhed lower. Dry goods, boots and shoes depressed. The Star brings a large mail, and governmont des- patches. Sr. Loris, Oct. 9, 1859. ‘The overland mails which left San Francisco on the 16th ult. reached this city last evening. ‘The olectiom in Nevada Torritory came off on the Tih ult. The constitution framed in July was adopted by 400 majority, and a full Territorial ticket elected, headed by Isaac Roupe as Governor. Victoria dutes are to the 7th ult. The Colonist says that the United States troops on San Juan Island were throw- ing up a fortification on the summit of a hill below the Hudson Bay Company’s station. The Portland (Oregon) papers of the 10th publish areply by Gen. Harney to Governor Douglass's letter of Avgust 30, in which he accepts Douglass’ explanation as an apology for his past conduct, but evidently reposes no faith in the Covernor’s professions, and declines to with- draw his troops from San Juan until the Pleasure of Pro- sident Buchanan is known on the subject. ACCIDENT TO THE QUAKER CITY. The Panic on Board—One Hundred of her Passengers taken off and Carried into Hampton Roads. Norrorx, Oct. 9, 1859. Nearly one hundred passengers of the steamship Quaker City, Captain Shufeldt, from New York bound to Havana, havearrived here. On the 7th inst., fifty miles south of Cape Hatteras, her engino was “smashed.” The excitement was very great, and the boats were manned, provisioned and equipped, as it was supposed the ship was leaking badly. The pumps were immediately set to work, and ten inches of water was thrown out of the ship, but it was found that she was not leaking. The ensign was set “Union down,” which brought to her relief the bark Dunbarton, Captain Chadbourne, of Boston, from Turk’s Island bound to New York. She took on board the passengers and plenty of provisions, undor charge of J. Z. Hargous and Dr. Finnel, surgeon of the Quaker City, and arrived gafe- Jy in Hampton Roads last night. Terelve of the passen- gers and all the officers preferred remaining on board the steamer, which was last scen forty miles south of Cape Hatteras, near the Gulf stream, the wind being light, though a very heavy sea was running. No serions dan- ger to the ship is apprehended, and.no logs of life has oc- curred. Mesers. Davidson, Woodworth, Dr. A. Wilson and Fd- monston, rel:ite the following particulars of the disaster:— On the morning of the 7th, fifty miles to the southward of Cape Hattoras, the passengers were awakened suddenly from their slumbers by a succossion of severe and alarm- ing shocks, which on investigation proved to come from the engine room. Mr. Edmonston gives the following details:—On hearing the shock sprang up. The crosstail had firet parted on the port cide, disabling the engine, which, aided by the swell of the sea acting on the cranks, and from this, on the ¢rosstail, had thrown thé whole duty on fhe starboard side lover, which in turn parted about two thirds of the distance from the fulcrum, the weight of this broken part carried the cross head air pump to this side, bending the rod and guide rods, and carrying away the gland bolts of the stuffing box. The croestail being freed from the control of the side levers, and under the action of tho swell of tho sea, carried the cranks over the centre, and they swaug in & succession of heavy strokes sgainet the fore and aft columns sup- porting the main shaft, and parted the bed plates in two or three pieces close by the two after columns; the starboard cro#stail links being bent by the strokes of ‘the side lever, struck the steam pipe with force, tearing off the felt from the cylinders the end did not escape ecient, the lever being united atthe crank pin, the breaking off of the port journal crosstail caused the cylinder crosshead to deviate from the tevel, and the side rode to move out of their vertical lines; the crosebend struck the deck beams on the port and starboard sides successively, splitting and tearing them into atoms, and raising part of the upper deck; the piston side rods were also. bent; the cylinders and air pump were both apparentiy sound, but amore general sinash up has been seldom witnogsed. were hi pdiately extinguished, and the onm- 8 set about the wreek. Great anxiety by the passengers to know officially the condition of the ship, as it was re- ported she was making water fist when they saw the prompt manning and prov of the boate, and the working of the pumps by p ers by order of the off- cers. 5 This painful anxiety continued till the captain returned from the engine room and ed on deck, where he to know their ater, but he had fit did, he would 4 immediate re 0 plunps were no longer ni Kefforts wer igo her cour 1 0, » wheel n but owing to the buckets ng found impracticable, nothing ined but to wal for daylight and relicf. “At about eight o'clock in the morning a sail wae dfecovered bearing towards us. Capt. Shufeldt genta boat on be Chadbourne, of the Dy foon made to tranefe lya Meuity the heaving and lnrghi d attended with