The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1859, Page 4

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YANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— * panyAbus sanas Dancts, Acie WOULD BE an ACTOR, | MOZART HALL, 663 Broadway.—Turtopon’s TueatRe or Axrs, NIXON CIRCUS, corner of Thirteenth street and Broadway.—R@vasiniaN PERFORMANCES, &c.—Afternoun aad Evening. COOPER INSTITCTE.—Dx. Bornton’s Lrcrcns on Max, AND Paesxst Race OF ANIMALS. New York, Friday, October 14, 1859. The News. The steamship Quaker City arrived in Hampton Roads on Wednesday evening in tow of the steamer State of Georgia. Captain Shufeldt’s statement of his progress after the accident to the ship’s engine is given elsewhere. The steamer Star of the West, from Aspinwall, with the California mails, broke her shaft before she put into Key West, at which port she has arrived. She has on board $2,360,000 in specie, aud she may be expected to arrive here on Sunday or Monday. The Cahawba arrived at Savannah yesterday with the passengers of the Star of the West. She was obliged to put into Savannah for a supply of coal. The City of Washington, from Queenstown, Ire- land, on the 29th ult., reached this port yesterday. Her advices are one day later than those brought by the Indian, published in the Heraup of Tuesday last, but are not of great importance. Affairs in Italy were again conflicting. A Euro- pean Congress was regarded as certain, but it is reported that Austria and Piedmont were again arming, and that the French army of occupation ‘was about to be reinforced. The Pope had ad- dressed an allocution to the Sacred College, in which he expressed a hope that the people of the Romagna would return to their allegiance. Some interesting details of the late events in (China are given. Admiral Hope continued in a very precarious state of health in consequence of his wounds. It is again asserted that the Hon. Mr. | Ward, our Minister, was in Pekin, but that the entire American Legation was kept confined in a house, and not permitted to "see the city or country. The correspondent of the London Zimes at Van- couver’s Island writes a long letter respecting the San Juan Island affair, recommending a decided re- sistance to General Harney’s occupation. Cotton quotations by the Indian were barely Maintained in Liverpool on the 28thult. Flour was steady and corn deolining. Sugar was very dull in London on the 29th ult., but coffee was held at firm rates. Consola closed in London vu te 29th at 95§ for money and 95} 95j for the account. The Paris Bourse experienced another decline on the 28th ult. ‘The great diamond wedding, which has been the talk of the city for weeks past, took place yes- terday at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The edifice was crowded almost to suffocation, and the streets were Bo thronged as to be rendered almost impassable. It ‘was in fact the greatest affair of the kind that has ever taken place in this city, and the full and gra- phic report which will be found elsewhere will be Tead with much interest. 7 We have advices from Havana to the 10th inst., but they contain no general news of interest. The Btock of sugar on hand amounted to one million boxes. Freights bad slightly improved. There wasa large and enthusiastic meeting of democrats at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. We give areport of the proceedings in another column. The Tammany Hall Convention for the selection of candidates for State Senators was held last even- ing. Bernard Kelly was nominated in the Fifth district, Richard Schell in the Sixth, and Richard B. Connolly in the Seventh. The Mozart Hall democracy last evening nomi- nated Messrs. Robertson and Aiker, the Tammany Candidates, respectively for Judges of the Superior and Marine Courts. John R. Briggs was nominated for Supervisor. The Hon. Benjamin Brandreth was nominated yesterday, at Cold Spring, Putnam county, asa can- didate for re-election to the Senate by the demo- cratic party of the Eighth Senatorial district, The Convention which met at Topeka, Kansas, on the 12th inst., nominated Charles Robinson for Governor, J. F. Root for Lieutenant Governor, and M.F.Conway for Congress. The election takes place in December next. Professor Mitchel delivered the second of his peries of lectures on astronomy last evening at the Calvary Baptist church, to a crowded and fashion. able audience. We have another statement of the arrest of Mr. Warren Leland from the Hartford Post, which we are obliged to leave ont this morning. A meeting was held last evening in the rooms of the Historical Society, corner of Eleventh streetand ‘Third avenue, convened for the purpose of hearing statement from the Rev. Dr. Waddington relative to the “Memorial Church” in London. W. M. Evarts, President of the New England Society, oc- cupied the chair. It will be remembered that some months ago the Rev. Dr. Waddington visited this City en route to the New England States, and, at a Meeting lield for the purpose, stated the object of bis arnvai in this country. That object was to col- Hect funds for the erection of a “Memorial Church in London, to commemorate the early lives, <cvcgles and triumphs of the Pilgrim Fathers. ihe reverend Doctor is thus far on his way bac to England, and from the statement made by hire last night, it appears that his mission up to the present time has been to a very great ex- tent a failure—some $3,000 only having been col- lected. The Rev. Dr. W. Adams, the Rey. Dr. Aga Bmith, and the Rev. Dr. Storra} addressed the meet- ing, and pledged themselves to renewed efforts in fhe cause, and they expressed their belief that Dr. ‘Waddington would ultimately bring back with him fo England successful account of hie mission to NEW YORK HERALD, FRNSAY, OCTOBER 14, 1859. the land of the descen ini ta of the Pilgrim Fathers. Want of space compels the exclusion of the speeches delivered during the proceediugs. Counterfeiting coin is 4 profitable trade in New York and Brooklyn, but the wretches who thus prey upon the poor are sometimes caught ia the meshes of the law. There are now several coun- terfeit coiners uodergoing imprisonment for this nefarious and mean offence agalast society, and we perceivo that the Grand Jary inthe United States District Court yesterday found bills of indictment aguinst four persons for counterfeiting or passing base money. The only case tried yesterday in the General Ses- sions was a charge of grand larceny against Mary Graham, who was accused of stealing ten pieces of satin, worth $150, from the store of Fraucis Bild- win, in the Bowery. She was convicted of petit larceny and remanded for sentence. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, a resolution was adopted directing that an advertisement, describing the new election dis- ricts, be published for two weeks ir the Metropo- tlan Record. Resolutions expresaivg the sorrow of the members of the Board npon the receipt of tidings of the death of Senator Broderick, and culo- gistio of his private and public career, and signifying & willingness to take part in any public deimoustra- tion of respect to hia memery, were adopted. The Board of Councilmen did not transact much ‘portant business last evening, the papers din: posed of having reference to routine matters, A resolution was adopted directing the Clerk of the Common Council to affix notices ia each election district in the city at the places where the polls are to be held, notifying citizens that the Board of Registration meet there for the purpose of register- ing the names of the legal voters in the district. A report of the Committee on Sewers was adopted, in favor of building a sewer in Norfolk street, between ; Broome and Delancey streets, The City lospector H replied to a resolution of inquiry relative to cleaning the streets, by stating that he made a temporary arrangement with Robt. A. Smith to clean some of | the principal streets for a certain sum. The Street Commis-ioner replied to a resolution of inquiry as to why he does not proceed with the rebuildiag of the Fifteenth ward station house. He renews bis request to have permission to proceed with the work without contract, and volunteers an opinion to the effect that the Common Council cannot, even by a unanimous vote, legally name either the per- son to be employed to do the work nor the price which isto be paid for it. The paper was laid on the table. The Board concurred with the Alder- men in awarding a contraet to Owen Farley for flagging and repairing Fifty-third street, between Third and Fourth avenues, he being the lowest bid- der. The amouat to be appropriated is $2,014 85. They also concurred in the passage of res>lutions eulogistic of the late Senator Broderick. The as- sessment for b uilding a sewer in Second avenue, from the proposed sewer at Fifty-third street to Sixtieth street, was confirmed, the amount to be assessed being $11,372 74. A report of the Com- mittee on Finance was adopted, appropriating $11,400 for expenses of the Fire Department. They concurred in directing the Croton Aqueduct De- partment to pave Fourth avenue from Seventeenth to Thirty-second strect with Belgian pavement. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 400 a 500 bales, closing on the basis of quotations given in another column. The City of Washington's one day later news showed that there was some more movement in Liver- pool, which, howover, produced no effect upon the mar- ket. ‘The flour market, owing in part to increased re- ceipts, was less active, and closed at a decline of 5c. to 0c. per barrel. Wheat was less buoyant and active, while good to prime and choice Kentucky white brought $1 4234 2 $1 60, amber colored Michigan $1 27 0 $1 28, good white Southern $1 36, and Milwaukee club $1 03. Corn was firm, with sales of Western mixed and Jer- sey yellow at $1, white Jersey at 981c., and Southern white to arrive at $17. Pork was less buoyant, and the tone of the market was in favor of purchasers. Mess sold at $15 36 a $15 60, clear at $17 50, and prime at $10 75 a $11, uninspected mess} at $15 50, and 500 bbls. mess sold at buyers option, all the year round, at $15 60. Sugars more active, with sales of 1,500 2 1,600 bhds. ana 200 boxes at prices given in another column. Coffeo was quiet, with a sale of 500 bags Santos and some Laguayra at rates given in another place. Freight engagements were moderate for English ports, while rates were steady. A house in this city received a telegraphic despatch from Mobile, dated yesterday, the 13th, which one: [or cotton to Liverpool from that port at 4d. and to re at 136C. The Republican Party in Trouble—Al- leged Conspiracy Against W. H. Seward. in the contlicting views which we publish to- day from the two miost prominent republican journals of this city, on the subject of their can- didate for the next Presidency, our political readers will discover that the pretensions of W. H. Seward are creating some trouble in the camp. On the one side expediency is made the paramount consideration, and if Seward shall be found unequal to this test, it is flatly recommended that he be set aside. Nor is this all. So absolutely is the organ in question de- yoted to this rule of expediency, that it will pre- fer as the republican candidate its bitterest enemy to its best friend, if the former can pro- bably secure the vote of one more State than the latter. A Such are the views of the philosophers of the Tribune. They appear to have had enough of Seward and his impracticable programme of eternal war against the South; the factappears to be dawning upon them that party leaders and party principle® which cannot bring suc- cess are good for nothing. These manifesta- tions from the republican organ which has heretofore been considered, next to Thurlow Weed’s Albany Journal, the special mouth- piece and advocate of Seward and his “irre- pressible conflict,” are very remarkable; but still more remarkable are the disclosures of the indignant Chevalier Webb. He is astounded to find the Tribune, upon the score of expediency, not only prepared to give the cold shoulder to Seward, but ready to cast overboard ‘Banks, Fremont, Chase, Fessenden, Hale, Wade, Trumbull, Ca- meron, Lincoln, and a host of others who so nobly battled against the slave demo- cracy in 1856,” in order to take up, if found expedient, such a man as Mr. Bates of Mis- souri, who was one of the supporters of Mr. Fillmore, and “one of the most prominent” in the work of defeating Fremont. No man conversant with the peculiar obliga- tions of the Chevalier Webb to W. H. Seward, and of the bond of union which thus binds them together, will be surprised at the indig- nation of the former concerning this suggested republican capitulation to the old Fillmore opposition camp. That “it would inevitably meet with, as it would most richly merit, the most disastrous defeat,” we are not dis- posed to question; but if the republican party, from a sense of respect and justice to itself, is bound to mark, punish and repn- diate, in 1860, every adherent of Fillmore in 1856, can we expect anything better than a repetition of the ridiculous Fillmore farce by the republicans themselves, or anything else than a similar result? It is charged against the Fillmore party of 1856 that their only ob- ject was the defeat of Fremont, and that to ac- complish this end they “did not hesitate delibe- rately and systematically to deceive the peo- ple, by pretending to believe in the probability of the success of Fillmoig, when every man of them well knew that his success was absolutely impossible.” Our Wall street cotemporary, with all the charity of an active lay member of a Christian church, has not the charity needed to cover such rascality as this, The Fillmore move- ment of 1856, however, was only a repetition of the outside Van Buren movement of 1848, But mark the superior wisdom of the democra- cy. At their Natienal Convention of 1852, the followers of Van Buren were received back into the church, and from that day to this they have risen in grace, until they wield at length the whole machinery of the Albany Regency. Let the republican party profit from this ex- ample, and learn the wisdom as well as the virtue of forgiveness. But it appears that this scheme of selling out the republicans to the rump of the Fillmore faction is a thing “which the Tribune has been maturing for a year past, and now has the hardihood openly and shamelessly to proclaim;” and next it seems that this plot “has been concocted for a period of nearly two years,” and that the Chevalier Webb rejoices at the denouement. He rejoices, because he believes the conspiracy will be de- eated. Now, this is a very beautiful quatrol as it stands. But it is only a foretaste of that which isto come. Seward and his adherents have set their hearts upon his nomination as the re- publican candidate in 1860. It is his only chance. He will never have another for the White House. No stone, therefore, will be left unturned to force him upon the republican party; but in the developements before us it is evident that he must submit to stand back in 1860, or be content with the réle of Van Buren and Birney. The philosophers of the Tribune have been long enough outin the cold, and they are getting tired of it. They smell the good things of the kitchen, and to reach them we should not be surprised to find them elec- tioneering for a Southern opposition man for Speaker of the new Congress. At all events, upon the test question of the House organiza- tion, we shall probably find out before Christ- mas whether Weed, Webb or Greeley is most devoted to the cause of Seward. They are all s‘ippery customers, and we ean only pin them upon some direct question involving the spoils. Ove Distrxeuisuep Vistrers—INTERvIEWS with THE Governinc Cxasses—In the course of our journalistic experiences we have the pleasure of receiving many distin- guished visiters. In point of fact, nearly all people of eminence, in any rank of life, have occasion at some time or other to appeal to the public through the columns of a great daily newspaper; and the Heratp is made their me- dium of communication here, as the Times is in Londons We receive more personal visits, however, than the editor of the London Times, who is addressed only by letter. Weare visited by politicians, professional men, litterateurs, Opera singers, blue stocking young ladies, na- vigutors of the ocean and navigators of the air, foreign diplomats, and in fact all conditions of men who have filled or hope to fill any space in the public eye. This week our visiting list has received two very powerful accessions, in the shape of the distinguished Mr. Morrissey, and the no less eminent Mr. Heenan—two pro- fessors of the noble art of self-defence, which means that they make it their joint business to punch each other’s heads or any outside head which offers, for a certain pecuniary considera- tion, and under the operation of certain defi- nite rules known as the laws of the prize ring. The circumstances which led to our enjoyment of the honor of visits from the elevated characters above named are briefly asfollows:— It seems that there existsamong a large and valuable class of the community a radical dif- ference of opinion as to the relative merits, in a pugilistic point of view, of Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Heenan. Im order to decide this ques- tion in a manner most agreeable to all parties, Mr. Heenan sent usa eard, in which he offered to fight Mr. Morrissey so soon as his (Heenan’s) contest with Sayers, the British champion, was ovey. We printed Mr. Heenan’s polite invitation, whereat Mr. Morrissey was delighted beyond measure. He accepted the cartel with all the ardor of a young lady who receives her first billetdoux. He straightway brought a reply to the Heratp office, and turn- ed out to be a splendid specimen of humanity, of quite decorous and gentlemanly deport- ment, so far asexternals go. His card appeared in due course. But afterwards it seems that @ personal rencontre occurred between Mr. Mor- rissey and Mr. Heenan, fn the newspaper ac- counts of which it appeared that the former had endeavered to provoke the latter to a rough and tumble fight in the Park. The finer feelings of Mr. Heenan were cut up by this reflection on the character of his adversary, and Mr. Heenan comes to us to say that he does not wish to publish a card, think- ing, with ourselves, that there have been cards enough; but he will relate the facts, which he does to one of our reporters, who has written them out for publication in to-day’s paper. It appears that Mr. Morrissey only intended to say that he would whip Mr. Heenan in a pro- fessional way, at a professional time and place, and with proper professional pecuniary induce- ments, and that the conversation of Messrs. Hee- nan and Morrissey, like that of other men, is liable to misapprehension by outsiders. Mr. Morrissey will fight with Mr. Heenan after Mr. Heenan has been to England and has whipped, or been whipped by, the “champion” thereof. Till then Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Heenan will treat each other with that distinguished cour- tesy which marked the intercourse of Richard Cceur de Lion and the Emperor Saladin. Both are studying up Chesterfield with the greatest assiduity. Mr. Heenan is, like Mr. Morrissey, deoorous and courteous in his intercourse with meaner men. Both are grand specimens of physical de- velopement, and if there should ever be a “man show,” they are sure of capital prizes, They represent the “governing classes,” and may aspire to any office in the people's gift. In England a retired prize-fighter has sat in Par- liament; and if Congress is no more orderly than it has been of late, it might be a good idea to return Messrs. Morrissey and Heenan to the House. Externally, they are far more gentle- manly than many members of Congress, Tae Frera Avenve Hore. Democratic Meet- tx¢,.—In another column we give an account of the proceedings of the gentlemen who have initiated a reform in the democratic party in behalf of the respectable portion of the com- munity, in opposition to the rowdy influences of the Tammany and Mozart Hall factions, and of the pernicious doctrines of Seward, which his followers are endeavoring to cram down the * the people. It is believed that fifty thousand do, 'lare will be subscribed by the gentlemen who have formed the new associq- tion, and that, in co-operation with the Work- ing Men’s Reform Association in Tamnzany Hall itself, it will accomp\'sh an entire revolu- tion in our State and municipal politics. The Chinese Account of the Battle of Taku—An American Among She Prison- ere. The mails from Hong Kong, by way of England, bring us the Chinese account of the cause and result of the battle of Taku, which, in view of the results that may follow, are of an important character. According to the China Mail, published at Hong Kong, the news of the disaster” was known at Canton, and probably also at Hong Kong, before the arrival of the British steamer from the fleet, the advices having come over- land. The Chinese troops were commanded by Senu-ko-lin-sin, a Mongol Prince, about thirty- six years old, who is said to bea taciturn, energetic and determined man, much dreaded by tho Emperor. The Mail representa the Chinese as being unanimous in thinking that the Emperor was afraid of being ousted from his capital by a.large force of foreign soldiers. The printed Chinese account of the fight states that the barbarians on their arrival communi- cated with Prince Senu, “end allowed him three days to take away the wooden and iron obstacles in the river; and he answered that they must stay in the outer ocean until the Commissioners arrived at Pekin, when they would be invited to go to Pekin.” We do not see how British and French di- plomacy can get honestly over the difficulty that is here presented. Commissioners were appointed by the Emperor to meet the allied envoys, and these refused to see them at Shang- hae, but pushed on at once for the Peiho. Had such a thing occurred in America or in Europe the allied envoys would have met quite the same reception that they encountered from the Chinese military commander, and not a voice would have been heard to censure the chas- tisement inflicted on them. From the latest in- dications of the state of feeling among the English merchants in China, and with the pub- lie in England, it is evident that Lord Palmers- ton’s policy in China is likely to be pretty well ventilated when Parliament meets. The truth is, a vast Asiatic war is growing up on the hands of England and France, springing out of Palmerston’s browbeating and bragging poli- cy, and in which, from present appearances, we may judge that France will take the lead, and England come out something as she came out of the Crimean war—with a sadly diminished military reputation. There is one other point in the Chinese ac- counts which should claim the early attention of our own government. The official reports speak of two prisoners captured, onean Eng- lishman and one an American, whestate that during the action they had come in with the re- serve in the boats from the bar. When the Eng- lish attacked Canton some years since, an American Consul mixed himself up in the affair by wrapping the American flag round him and following the attacking party into the city. For this act he was severe- ly censured by the government. Now, when one of Commodore Tatnall’s men is found among the two prisoners taken by the Chinese, any excuse which the American Minister can offer must seem to belong to that same class of crafty diplomacy that the Chinese themselves are so liberally accused of using. The world is rapidly learning to believe that the Chinese are not so far wrong as Palmerston’s diploma- cy would make it appear; and our experience of the unreliable character of the British and French reports during the Crimean war, and other conflicts, should lead us to receive with many grains. of allowance the English accounts of proceedings in Asia. SeELF-SrvLTIFICATION AND OVERTHROW oF TAM- MANY Hatt.—On Wednesday evening Tammany Hall made its judicial nominations, and stulti- fied itself in the most egregious manner. It passed the following resolution in relation to Judge Roosevelt:— Resolved, That the Hon. James Roosevelt has discharged the duties of the office of Judge of the Supreme Court with eminent ability, and that his ability as a Judge and his integrity as a man cannot be questioned. This resolution was unanimously adopted, and yet Tammany Hall had not the courage or honesty te carry out its own judgment, but fol- lowed the lead of Mozart Hall, thus playing second fiddle to that concern, as it did at Syra- cuse, There the Mozart Hall party made its State nominations, and Tammany Hall and the Regency obsequiously adopted their ticket. It is the same now in the Judiciary nominations. Tammany Hall is compelled to admit that Judge Roosevelt has discharged his duties with eminent ability and that his integrity is un- questioned, and yet it rejects this able and up- right Judge and adopts the nominee of Mozart Hall, as it does in the case of so insignificant a Judge as Daly. It is thus clear that the days of Tammany are numbered ; it has succumbed to a rival faction whose avowed mission was to work its overthrow. Both factions will be soon superseded and swallowed up by the combined movement of the honest working classes and the wealth of the city And soon shall cease in the Old Wig- wam that war-whoop more savage than the red man’s, and the tomahawk and thescalping knife shall be forever superseded as inconsistent with the white man’s institution of the ballot box. The political crimes of Tammany Hall have pre- cipitated its natural decay before the advanc- ing intelligence of the times, just as the Indians on the borders of the extreme Western States, destined to be gradually absorbed by the pro- gress of civilization, are prematurely cut off by retaliation for the outrages they commit on de- fenceless individuals of the superior race. The revolted sense of an outraged community has arisen against Tammany Hall, and its savage dominion is at an end. throats o, IssPECTION oF STEAM Borters.—We had occa- ion some time since to congratulate the Com- mon Council on the introduction of a resolu- tion calling for the annual inspection of steam boilers in use throughout the city, in accordance with the suggestion of the Herstp; butsince then we do not perceive that any action has been taken in the matter. It is not a matter for delay. While the Council Boards are fiddling, dozens of people may be blown up. The ne- cessity of such an ordinance has become pain- fully obvious by repeated loss of life. Is the Common Council going to wait until another Hague street explosion, prectpitating some twenty people into eternity, shall stimulate its members to another spasmodic movement towards insuring public safety? Gems from California Tou BAle—A Cree of Fresh Duels Hipem."S* Any one who takes up the Sa. clsco papers, ana "reads the gross personal abuse with which they teem °° the subject of the Terry-Broderick duel, will be 200" vinced that in so far as social order and the amenities of life are concerned, that city is in a condition fully as disorganized and demoralized as it was ten or twelve years ago, when it was little more than a camp of lawless adventurers. The California press has never been distinguished for good taste or decency. The staple topic for editorial comment has usually been the abuse of rival newspapers. Still, there was a limit to scurrility and black- guardism, But now all bounds of decency are utterly disregarded, and the editors of the diffe- rent journals appear, in the excttement pro- duced by the Terry-Broderick duel, to have set their minds upon go villifying each other as to leave no hope of ning personal conflicts, Regardless of the consequencee which their acts may have in the way of diminishing the stock of journalists, they go on, day after day, to indulge in the most abominable abuse of each other; so that if one tithe of their asser- tions were true, it would follow that a greater pack of rascals than the editors of California had never graced a gibbet or commended them- selves to the attention of a Vigilance Com- mittee. Let us give a few specimens of the gems with which the leading columns of the San Francisco papers are profusely studded. The Times, which is owned in part and edited by a brother of the Washburns who form a frater- nal trio in the House of Representatives, is one of the most violent of these abusive journals. It espouses the Broderick cause, and denounces Terry and his friends as base conspirators and murderers, I calls all democrats who were opposed to Broderick “false hounds, carrying the hod for Southern taskmasters,” “contemptible dough faces from the North, ashamed to own their birthplaces,” “spewings of the States which nurture freemen,” “ white- livered, thin-blooded, cringing wretches,” and “cowardly, mean and mangy Yankee curs.” It is no less liberal or complimentary in the epithets which it applies to the chivalry. It sneers at them as “sweet-scented Mandingo admirers, first fmilies of Virginia, whose Bible is a nigger bill of sale, and whose New Testa- ment is the slave code.” It intimates that “ it was the understanding among the conspirators that whoever should kill Broderick would be appointed to the vacancy by the Governor,” and expresses the conviction that “ all the lead- ing chivalry in the State had counselled and caucused with Terry before the challenge was sent.” It speaks of Broderick’s political oppo- nents as a “crowd of the most desperate, bloody-minded men in California, who were ready to take his life on the slightest pretext.” The Times then pays its respects specially to its contemporaries the Bulletin and the National. One of the editors of the last named paper killed in a duel a year ago a StateSenator named Ferguson. This editor the Times de- scribes as a “mere mouthpiece and serving man of Gwin,” as one who has since that duel “spent his miserable existence in giving utter- ance to the most ribald falsehoods,” and as having been “put forward as the jackal to find prey that he could not himself encounter.” It represents Simonton, of the Bulletin,/as the Jidus Achates of Senator Gwin, “dancing at- tendance upon him, and holding his handker- chief when he (Gwin) wishes to blow his nose.” In another issue the Times denounces a state- ment of the Bulletin as a “ miserable, tricky, Simontonian falsehood,” and speaks of its writer as “the miserable thing that is attempt- ing to conduct it.” On the other hand, it may be taken for grant- ed that the Times gets its full share of abuse from its cotemporaries. Indeed, the National is, if poseible, much more offensive in its language than its opponent. It brands the editor of the Daily Times as a “malignant, wilful and deli- berate liar;” as a ‘vile creature, lavishing his stores of filth on pure character;” as a “low born miscreant, who cannot insult a gentle- man;” as a “moral felon; belching bile and billingsgate from his editorial tripod;” as a “beast, of which it would be difficult to tell whether polecat or puppy most predominated in its composition;” but the Times man thinks that puppy is a little ahead. And, to clapan ex- tinguisher upon the unfortunate Washburn, the National winds up by calling him a “cowardly calumniator, whose dastard soul slinks down into his ungainly boots at the thought of dan- ger to his hang-dog face and ugly carcage.” We do not believe that anything in the his- tory of journalism can furnish a parallel to these disgraceful chapters of scurrility. They are utterly degrading to the profession, and the only explanation that can be made of them is that the fellows who wrote them are mero vulgar poli- ticians who, to farther their own petty schemes, have contrived to get control of newspapers. If their courage is equal to their blackguard- ism, they may do the State some service in shooting or bowie-knifing each other, and may thus save future Vigilance Committees the trouble of exhibiting them as pendants to the end of a rope, or banishing them from the country. In the meantime it is evident that much trouble is brewing in California, and that these foul-tongued editors are responsible for @ great part of it. The next mail will proba- bly bring us news of more duels, Tae Baurmore Exzctioy.—Our readers will remember that a few weeks ago a mass meet- ing of citizens of Baltimore was held with a view to rescue that city from rowdy rule. A committee was appointed to nominate a good ticket for city officers, irrespective of party. Thereupon the American party assumed the rowdy side, as if to prove the truth of all the disgraceful charges that had been laid at the doors of their leaders, The election took place on Wednesday. The Mayor and police proved, as before, recreant to their duties and“false to their special promises. In some districts the reform ticket was excluded altogether from the polls. In the latter part of the day there was so much violence at the polls that many per- sons were intimidated from voting. All this told as a matter of course against the reform party, but the American majority was greatly diminished, and the reformers carried seven wards. In one ward, “where most of the respectable voters were maltreated,” the nominee of a notorious club was defeated after a close contest. Our despatch says the “reformers are greatly encouraged;” and well they may be. If in the face of all their difficulties, deceived by the Mayor and left by the police to the tender mer Fran- cies of the rowdies, they did so well at polls, they may take heart of grace. Ni the rowdy is a coward, and fights only --+ oppose to him a force of respectab! +. * > links int urlign, citizens and be mp ohne id Baltimore reformers do nov tile work the redemption a fact useured. Inrenzsrmng’ Pow StetweEn tHe Street Cou. MisstoneR AND CoiMon OUONCIL.—Some weeks ago the Common Councf? pasm“d 4 resolution dJ- recting certain repairs and additle, to be made to the Fifteenth ward station honse, They ap- proved and accepted the plans and spec. fca- tions according to which the work was to be done, named the person who was to be charged with the execution of the work, and the price which was to be paid therefor, and ordered the Street Commissioner to enter into a contract which would carry the resolution into effect. The Mayor sent this resolution back to the Common Council without approval, because it was, in his opinion, illegal for the Common Council to exercise executive power, maintain- ing that under the charter no contract could be entered into except upon sealed bids, after due advertisement, and that all contracts when awarded should be awarded to the lowest bid- der. The Common Council immediately passed the resolution over the Mayor’s veto, by a twe- thirds vote of both Boards and sent it to the Street Commissioner, On Monday night last this officer stated to the Common Council that he could not make the contract as directed, and assigned reasons similar to the objections urged by the Mayor. The Board of Councilmen, to whom the report of the Street Commissioner of last Mon- day was sent, returned the communication to that officer, stating that his reasons were not satisfactory and requiring further answer. The Street Commissioner submitted another report last night, in which he adheres to the position previously taken, denying the legal right of the Common Council to direct him, even by a unanimous vote, to make a contract with a named person to do any given work and fix the price to be paid for it. His report concluded with a distinct state- ment that he would willingly yield obedience to a decision of the courts of law in this matter, from which the inference may well be drawn that he will not yield to the Common Council; and there is, consequently, a strong probability that the question will soon be set- tled as to the power of the Common Council, under the charter of this city, to order con- tracts to be made with individuals of their own choosing at prices named by themselves. Let o mandamus be applied for, requiring the Street Commissioner to sign a contract with John B. Gridley to repair the Fifteenth ward station house, for the sum of $5,580, as required by resolution of the Common Council. faing nor falter of their fair city Tue Late Stare Execrions—Pennsylvania, as was universally expected, has gone for the opposition by default and “general apathy,” as there was nothing involved in the contest cal- culated to bring out the people. In Ohio, the question of a United States Senator in the place of Pugh, democrat, operated to bring outa com- paratively large vote, and the natural conse- quence, in that strong republican State, isa de- cided victory of that party. In Indiana, also, the republicans appear to have been very ac- tive, though the result, practically, is of very little value to either party. In Iowa, General Dodge has given his republican opponent for Governor a hard fight, with a result which some. what shakes the idea of a permanent opposition: ascendancy. But we have no doubt that in all these States, from Pennsylvania to Iowa, Mr. Douglas and his peculiar crotchets have been a serious drawback to the democracy. He is to them what Seward is to the republicans— anincubus of which they must be relieved be- fore they can count upon harmony or success. From Minnesota we are anxiously awaiting some definite intelligence. Tae Nowmatioss ror THE LEGISLATURH.— The nominations for the Senate and the As- sembly of the Legislature of this State aro now being made by all parties and factions, and with these nominations are mixed up schemes of public plunder, including the Broadway Railroad and other speculations. If the party organizations do not look sharp, and appoint good men, they will find themselves defeated by the nominees of the formidable independent party, which unites the moneyed influence, and education, and intellect of the city with its bone and sinew. The men of mark in the democratic party who have hither- to contributed the funds to carry on its elec- tions are not only determined to do so no more, but to start candidates in opposition to the nominees of the rotten Tammany concern, unless they are good and unobjectionable men. Let Tammany Hall, therefore, and Mozart Hall, look out for their nominations to the Legislature, if they will not bear the strictest scrutiny. Their plundering schemes are watch- ed and willbe exposed, and their nominees will be opposed and defeated by the uprising of the public virtue and manhood of this great metropolis. Nipio’s SaL0ox.—Mrs. Junius T. Stagg roceived here last evening a complimentary concert, and made her début as a public singer. The saloon was crowded to excess by the friends of the débutante, and tho pecuniary result of the concert must have been highly gratifying. In view of the peculiar circumstances under which Mra. Stagg appears before the public, a rigid criticism of her artistic qualifications would be out of place. It is sufficient to say that she is a very agreoablo amateur vocalist, who only needs a little more experience to be a popular con- cert singer. Mrs. Stagg was by Mr. Perring, Signor Rocco, Mr. Saar (pianist), and a small but very good orchestra, cond by Mr. Anschutz. Surrogate’s Court. Before Edward C. West, Surrogate. MR, CHARLES M. LEUPP’S WILL. ‘The will of the Jate Charles M. Leupp has boen filed in the Surrogate’s office, upon an application for probate. It was executed on the 24th of October, 1867. The attesting witnesses.aro Charles E. Southmayd, Charles E. Butlar and J. Edwards Tracy. William Hopkins Leupp, the Brother of deceased, David Williamson Lee, and Wiliam M. Evarts aro named executors, and Mrs. Isabelle. Leo guardian of the children. The provisions of the docu- ment are few and concisely expressed. To his daughter Jane the testator leaves the family Biblo, and Bibles of equal value to each of his other daughters, to be previded. by his executors. Ho leaves in trust with’ his eyeutors, for each daughter, $20,000, free from the control.of any: husband she may have. The daughters respectively te re- ceive the income of this $20,000 during life, tho prineipal with all “acoumulations”” to be transferred at the, doath of each to her next of kin, according to the sta‘ate of distri- ‘butions in case of intestacy of this State. Ho releagns to his brother, William Hopkins Leupp, all debtedue by gaitl brother to himself or his firms. He loaves to his daughters Laura, Isabella and Margaret, all his printed boaky,, plato, silver, and household furniture, equally share ae d’ share alike; and to Mrs. Tsabella Lee his pictures and engrav- ings, His marblo busts of Bryantand Allston be leaves to the New York Gallery of Fine Arts. AN tho Yost, residuo and remaindor of his estate Mr. Leupp. gives to and di- vides among bis three daughters equally, with the simple restriction that the executors are to act’ in the manage- Inent of the respective shares of the estabe till the daugh+ tere respect attain tho fultage of twenty-one years. Laying Car 9 TONE OF WILLFAM AND MaRY.— The cap stone of the now edifice for William and Mary College in Virgiaia, was laid on the'Lith inst., with Mason eremouigp,, ‘The Grand Lodge of tho State were pre-