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The parties in search of Cook have not yet succeeded in finding him. Governor Wise appears to be dreadful- ly mortified at the disgrace put upon hia State by the fact of fourteen white men and five negroes taking and holding possession of the United States Armory and subjugating the whole population of Harper's Ferry. Our special reporter gives a verbatim re- port of the interview had by Senator Mason, Con- greseman Vallandigham and others with Brown, with the questions and answers in full. Brown says he received his wounds after he had surren- dered, but this assertion is flatly contradicted by the military men. A telegraphic despatch from Richmond states that the Episcopal House of Bishops on Wedaes- day evening terminated their consideration of the question of Bishop Onderdonk’s restoration, by voting to permit him to withdraw his petttton. Tae House of Delegates will probably adjourn to-day- ‘We have in type reports ofthe tenth and eleventh Gays proceedings of the Convention, but owing to the lack of space are obliged to hold them over. The Post Office Department has given notice that the single rate of letter postage between the United States and the Grand Duchy of Baden, via Bremen, will hereafter be ‘fitteen cents, instead of twenty-two cents. This reduction is the reauit of a reduced rate of German postage to five cents the siogle letter on American correspondence trans- mitted via Bremen, which went into operation on the 15th inst. The De Soto arrived from Havana yesterday morning with news to the 15th inst., and $245,875 in specie, brought from New Orleans and Cuba. There was notbing of interest transpiring in Hava- na. Great anxiety was felt respecting the fate of the Quaker City. The Executive was much pleased at the reported seizare of the Philadelphia on ae- coant of her alleged filibuster arrangements. Su- gars were held firm at previous prices, holders refusing to lower the rates. Freights were uoalter- ed, but in fair demand. Exchange on New York week's pales of fully an Ye. a Xe. per tb. Wo quote middting uplands at 2%c. @ Mie. Flour was better for most descriptions ander extra qualities, but less ac- tive; Southern brands were also Griner and in good de- mand, with some sales for export. Wheat was irregular, and gales were fair for lots on the spot, iacludiug prime Kentucky white at $145, and a largo lot of Western apring WAS reported sold to arrive, om private terms Corn wae scarce aad firm, with small gales of woixed and yellow at $1, Pork opened steady, but closed with loss spirit; the gales were fair at rates given in another place, ‘Tho sales of sugars were confluad t 390 bhds, 14 120 Dexes, at rates given elsewhere? Copper was firm, but quiet, In freights to English ports ratow were fustained. Among the engagements were 2,000 bile flour to Liverpool, ab 28.; 2,000 do. London, at 23. 6d. Asmal lot of cotton was engaged for the former port an O52, Tho Herpex’s Ferry Abolition Outbreak and the Republican Party. The newspaper organs of the republican par- ty, somewhat embarrassed and discordant in their treatment of the late xbolition outbreak at Harper's Ferry, ageee at least upon one point, the plea of insanity in behalf of “Qld Brown” and his deluded confederates But it will be seen from the newspaper ex- tracts from some ef our anti-slavery cotempo- raries, which we publish in another part of this paper, that that pious Peter the Hermit of the Kansas Emigrant Aid Societies, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of the Independent, while adopt- ing this general plea of insanity, pute it in a somewhat broader light than usual, to wit: that “unless his (Brown’s) movement was part of a widespread scheme of insurrection, now frustrated by a premature outbreak, it was in every point of view the height of madness; and even if itstood related to such a scheme, it would seem to have beeu both foolish and criminal.” { This nice distinction “would seem to be,” to | most people, a condemnation of the affair only as a “premature outbreak,” and as involving a mental reservation in support of the movement had it really been “partofa widespread scheme of insurrection.” This conclusion is supported by the general tone of the article in question, including the specific declarations that “ blood will have blood,” and that the crimes of Southern aslaveholders will yet work out a fearful retribution upon their heads.” Such explanations as this of Mr. Seward’s {irrepressible conflict” can be universally understood. The dullest compre- hension will thus perceive that this “conflict” means “a widespread insurrection” among thd slaves of the South, and a general state of anarchy and civil war. Our republican journals, which have been taught some lessons of prudence and caution in regard to the agitation of slavery, are disposed to evade the discussion of thisaffuirat Harper's Ferry, or at least to whistle it down the wind as nothing more than an insane scheme of ven- geance against “the slave power” by an old man “goaded to insanity by the wrongs in- flicted upon him by pro-slavery rumans tu Kan- sas, and wildly rushing upon certain self-des- truction in quest of revenge.” It will be well for the peace of the country, and certainly a godsend for the republican party, if this shall | turn out to be the sum and substance of this \ fearful and mysterious conspiracy. We apprehend, however, from the disclosures | and discoveries already made, that a full inves- tigation of this matter will result in some damaging revelations to the republican church. We think that this scheme of insurrection and its terrible results may be justly charged to the bloody instructions of W. H. Seward and other anti-slavery agitators of the North. These | agitating leaders have furnished the ideas upon which the minds of such inflammable and reck- ess fanatics as Brown and his associates take fire. Seward, and all such slavery agitating de- magogues, therefore, are the guilty instigators of these outbreaks of treason and insurrection, was at from five to six per cent premium. ‘The investigation in the case of Warren Leland, charged with defrauding the Colchester Bank, was concluded at Colchester, Conn., yesterday, result- ing in the discharge of the accused by Justice Lamb. Mr. Leland was immediately re-arrested on the same or similar charges, and gave bail in the sum of $10,000 to appear for trial on November 21, at thesame place. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- Gay a report was adopted authorizing the issue of $416,000 stock of the Central Park Improvement fund, and directing the Comptroller to advertise for bids. A remonstrance against the extension of Worth street, from Baxter street to Chatham Square, was received and referred to the appropri- ate committee. A resolution, proposing an appro- priation for a market on the Lowber property, was also referred. The report granting ground on Lud- low street for anew county jail was adopted. The Board adjourned t lay next. There was a convention of the Board of Alder- men and the Mayor held last evening for the pur- pose of appointing District Court clerks, but after some little disputation the matter was again—for the fifth or sixth time—adjourned to a future day. There was very little business transacted in the Board of Councilmen last evening. A petition of the New York and Yonkers Railroad, for the privi- lege of laying rails in the streets named in their act of incorporation, was referred. A resolution to have 5,000 additional copies of the proceedings of the Sanitary Convention printed, was laid over. The nomination of E. E. Sellen for the vacaat scholarship in Columbia College, was confirmed. A communicntion of the Street Commissioner, asking for an appropriation of $5,500 for atationery, was referred to the Committee on Bepaira and Supplies. The report of the Fire Department Committee, concurring to confirm the award of contract to Edward Gridley for building a house fot Hose Company No. 43 was adopted, as was also a report of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies, in favor of confirming a contract for sup- plying 1,500 tons of coal to the city. A large num- ‘ber of reports and papers from the Aldermen, all of which were devoid of general public interest, were laid over till the next meeting. Governor Morgan has mede and appointment with the special committee of both boards, to meet them this evening at half past five o’clock in the Metro- ‘politan Hotel, relative to the disbandment of the ‘Twelfth regiment. The steamship Atlantic sailed from this port for Aspinwall yesterday, with a fall complement of passengers and two hundred and fifty United States Soldiers, sent out to reinforce the Fourth and Ninth regiments, under Gen. Harney, in Oregon. A democratic mass meeting was held at Buffalo Jast night, at which Hon. W. FE. Fargo presided, Supported by twenty-six vice presidenta. The Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson made an able and effective speech on the subject of the irrepressible doctrine, and was followed by Attorney General Tremain, See our special report. Recorder Barnard yesterday, in the Geuor, sious, sent Thomas Kelly, a desperate ees i ri the State prison for twenty years, he having leon convicted of an attempt to shoot officer Davis, ‘Owing to the advent of frost-like weather, which it was believed would extend to’ th¥ cotton region of the South, the cotton market yesterday was firmer and more active. ‘Tho sales embraced 3,000 bales, included in which wi 41,700 in traneitu Prices closed at ere an advance on the and their bloody consequences; and these guilty men should be held to a prompt respon- sibility at the bar of public opinion. It appears, from the discovered private papers of Brown, that Gerrit Smith (white man) and Frederick Douglass (black man), both of this State, were deep in the confidence and plans of Brown, and that Smith, in all proba- bility, was a liberal contributor of the sinews of war for this Harper's Ferry enterprise. But Smith could not have furnished all the fifteen or twenty thousand dollars which Brown must have expended; nor can we suppose that Brown came away from his rough and expen- sive campaign in Kansas with funds sufficient to enable him to change a quiet country farm- house in Maryland into the military magazine which he made of it. The legal investigation into this business will probably disclose a con- siderable lst of contributors to the military chest of Brown, and some very extensive and astonishing ramifications of his exploded pro- gramme of a general revolutionary conspiracy. Enough, it seems, has been ascertained to justify a requisition from Governor Wise, of Virginia, upon Governor Morgan, of New York, for the delivery over to the hands of justice of Gerrit “mith and Fred. Douglass, as parties implicates: in the crime of murder, and as ac- cessorie: \ ‘ure the fact, That Governor Wise will make these requisitions is highly probable; for itis evident that he intends to probe this whole matter to the very bottom; and that in doing so he will put the good faith of New York and other Northern States to the test, there can bewery little reason to doubt. We trust that the experiment, should the facts war- rant it, will be tried with Gov. Morgan, and to the extent of not only two, but of twenty requisitions, ehould so many be required. In the meantime, we are on the eve of @ State election, which, upon the heels of this treasonable foray at Harper's Ferry, will be, as it may be justly, regarded by the people of the South as decisive of the question, whether we are or are not to have a Northern President in 1860 elected upon the sectional platform of hostility to the “slave oligarchy” and the “slave power.” Upon his test, let our November election establish the ascendancy of Seward and his revolutiona- ry doctrines in this State, and we shall soon Tealize the fact that this ascendancy is full of dangers to the Union, and to all the social, financial and material interests of this city and commonwealth which depend upon the Union, Let the people of New York, of all parties, who have any such interests at stake, prepare for the important day of our November eleg- tions. ‘ DEVELOPEMENTS IN ReGarp To Our Banxixa System—Tie Corcnesren Bank Case.—The judicial proceedings that are now going on be- fore a magistrate in Connecticut, growing out of tke management of the Colchester Bank, are bringing out some curious developements in regard to the modes of procuring bank ghar- ters from the Legislature, of getting up sub- | scriptions to these enterprises, of organizing the financial system, of discounting paper to apy amount and without any tangible security, of getting off the notes of the concern, and of otherwise making a bank without expital ap- pear quite a flourishing institution. In view of the importance of making the community tho- rougbly familiar with this banking system, we have bad all the evidence in the Colchester vase fully reported ; not because it is rare or exceptional in its way, but rather because it affords a capltal illustration of the beautiful mode in which banks in this country are estab- Uched and conducted. Hx uno disce omnes. The Contest In China—Our Policy and Our True Position, The full and complete correspondence from Japun and China recently published in the Heraxp, bringing the history of events there down to the latest dates received, is unequalled in grephic description, clearness of detail and fulness of information by any other correspon- dence from those countries that has been pub- lished in Europe or America. Between European and Asiatic polity a con- test is now going on fraught with import to the whole world. For ages the commerce of the East made powerful the State or city, how- ever sinall, that controlled it. Tyre, Palmyra, Alexandria and Venice, all drew their great- ness from it. About the middle of the fifteenth century Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, but it took nearly a hundred years for the slow ships of that age to pene- trate all the waters of those Eastern seas. For another hundred years the French, Dutch, Spanish, and lastly, the English adventurers, sought the thronged East, and followed that career of trade, settlement, dominion and con- flict which marked their first appearance on the shores of Asia. India was torn by the contest between Moslem and Brahmin, and the throne of China was held by the dege- nerate descendants of Gengis Khan. The mer- chant and the missionary prosecuted their work each with varying success, and the marts of Asia seemed to be on the point of being opened fully to the commerce and the religions of Europe. The Japanese first took the alarm, and before the middle of the seventeenth century expelled Christianity and its professors from their ter- ritory. Only the Protestant Dutch succeeded in retaining a precarious foothold by tramp- ling on the crucifix. A sterner race from Mon- golian Tartary had, meanwhile, seized upon the empire of China. Fora while they, too, favored the Christians ; but in the early years of the eighteenth century their policy suddenly changed. Whether the cause of this was the political dabblings of the missionaries, or the proceedings of the French and English in India, , can only be known when the records of Asiatic diplomacy shall be opened to us. But suddenly a contest rose which has assumed the character of a political, religious and social conflict. All the theories of Asia were ranged in self- defence. In India they have been slowly crumbling away before the arts and arms of Ergland; but in China the warlike Moguls have for a century anda half followed the policy of jealous exclusion towards the Europeans. To-day their dynasty exhibits every symptom of decay. Domestic insurrection pervades many provinces of the empire, the red barbarians menace them in fire ships from the sea, and the forces of the White Czar are crowding down upon them landward from the North. Recent events have given energy and ac- tivity to the contest between the European and Asiatic civilizations. We know that Russia is pushing her progress down the centre and the eastern shore of Asia, crowding her posts through Saghalien upon Japan, and through the Amoor, Irkoutsk and Kiachta upon China, awakening less jealousy, because she comes with some appearance of similarity of race from* contiguous territory. The nations of Western Europe are forced to follow the ocean track. There are indications in the present state of home affairs that France and England will not exhibit that perfect and active union in the cenflict which was supposed a short time since to exist. While England’s preparations are being made with activity, those of France lag, as though her sober second thought led her to doubt that her interests lie in the dis- tant struggle. But England must prosecute it, though she do it alone. She must advance or recede in Asia; and the shock of opposing poli- tical, social and religious rule must be endured in China. The outspoken memorial ofa Chinese noble shows the feeling that animates at least a portion of that people. It breathes war to the hilt against the advancing Powers. It is not worth while to speculate upon the probabilities whether the struggle will be a short or a long one. We know that if it is short, and the exclusive policy of the Tartar Mongols in China is overthrown, the sudden opening of trade with three hundred millions of industrious people will quicken the pulse of industry and commerce to fever heat. If the struggle is a long one, the efforts which England must put forth in the war will have an equally quickening impulse upon the in- dustry and trade of Europe, for a time at least. Thus rising events in Asia bear an intimate relation to the scenes of labor on the shores washed by the Atlantic. In this contest we have neither art nor part. Our policy is commerce, not conquest. The compliments and thanks which the official des- patches of the British Ambassador in China express to Mr. Ward, our Minister, and Commo- dore Tatnall, our naval commander there, prove that these officers have committéd a wrong. The gratitude for services rendered, which one belligerent expresses; proves that we have failed in our duty as a neutral nation to the other. Our government should look to this, and so revise and re-establish our policy in the waters of China as to save us from all entangling complications, Step by step we may be led into a false position, which will entail upon us extraordinary exertions and sacrifices, which no possible fruit could recom- pense. A TrrancuLar Corporation Fronr—Saarp Corresponpence Between City O¥rIcraLs.— A remarkable, though not very singular, illas- tration of the smoothness with which the ma- chinery of our city government works was furnished the other day in the Supreme Court. Tt was in the case of Jacob Sharp against the Commonalty of New York, in which a judg- ment for some twenty-seven thousand dollars and seven years interest had been entered on the report of a referee, A motion was made at the instance of the City Comptroller to have such judgment opened for review, on the os ground that it was egainst Jaw. This motion NBW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959. Tux Track Quystion wy New Yorx.—The as opposed from two sides —4rst, on behalf of ; real difficulty about the settlement of the Ita- Sharp himself, and second, on behalf of the Corpvration. So that the curfons spectacle was presented in the case of “a house divided against Seelf’? We do noé know what may be the merits of the claim. Mr. Sharp may possibly have had a good cause of aetion against the aity, and it is also within the Sounds of possibility that the report of the referee was fully justified by the law and the facts. But it must be admitted, from all the developements that have been made within the last few years as to the man- ner in which collusive suits have been got up and adjudged by referees invariably against the city, that the presumptions are strong the other way. The system has grown much into vogue within the last few years, and the city has been grossly victimized by it. Ciry Dest Unrrovipep For—An Important Financia Quesrion.—It may not be generally known to our citizens that a floating debt has been accumylating against the city for many years past, which now amounts to between two and three millions of dollars, and\for the ex- tinguishment of which no provision has been made. From a variety of causes—the non- payment of taxes on personal estate, the remis- sion by the Supervisors of sums charged in excess, and the failure of tax collectors to ac- count faithfully for the moneys collected by them—it invariably results that the revenues of the city government are below the amounts estimated for. The system on which the city’s finances are administered is to borrow money on revenue bonds in anticipation of the receipt of the annual taxes, and then to redeem these bonds with the money received for taxes. The closing up of each year’s business leaves a number of these revenue bonds unredeemed, and these are paid out of the next year’s taxes. They have been going on increasing in amount from year to year, till they now reach between two and three millions of dollars. The interest on them, amounting to about two hundred thousand dollars, is regularly paid, but there is no provision for the payment of the principal. What is to be done with this debt? That is a question which we understand will be brought before the State Legislature at its next session. There are two ways of providing for the redemption of these bonds. The one is by adding them to the regular funded debt of the city, and paying them off out of the sinking fund. The other is by including them within the next tax levy. If the first named mode be adopted, the payment of the debt will not prove very onerous; but if the latter plan be carried out, it will have the effect of iacreasing next year’s tax levy to thirteen or fourteen millions a dollars, and the rate of taxation, from the pre- sent high figure of a dollar and seventy-nine cents per hundred dollars, to about three per cent. This consideration makes the question one of very great importance. It is said that the plan of making up similar deficiencies in Brooklyn is by including the deficit of one year in the tax levy of the next; and this plan has the twofold advantage of rendering unnecessary the creation of a debt, and of allowing the tax collectors to pocket all the arrears they can manage to pick up. We fear that our own collectors of taxes and ar- rears imitate those of Kings county in the lat- ter point. At least Alderman Franklin’s re- port, presented to the Common Council a year ago,and by that body quietly laid at rest, would justify such a presumption, for it showed an aggregate of some six millions of dollars that passed into the hands of our tax collec- tors and never found its way out. Wonderful are the mysteries of our municipal financial system; but the immediate question now is as to the extimguishment of the particular debt that we have specified. It is an important question for our citizens. EprscorpaL Osiiviovsness IN Money Mar- ers.—A suit has just been concluded against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Rhode Island, which, if the facts are correctly stated, is any- thing but creditable to that prelate. It is an action for the payment of a note of $3,000, given in 1853 to a Mrs. Hannerty, by a for- mer bishop of the diocess, for money lent to aid the erection or decoration of the Cathedral. The note having been lost, and the drawer drowned by the wreck of the steamship Arctic, there is no physical evidence of its existence. Two witnesses, however, testified to havingseen the note in the possession of Mrs. Hannerty, and one to having seen the deceased bishop sign the instrument and count over and deliver the money to the defendant. Mrs. Hannerty her- self testifies that the present bishop told her when she demanded the money that the funds of the church were exhausted, but that he would see about it afterwards. If this statement of the evidence is to be relied upon, and the na- ture of the defence, which wholly denies the debt, is not distorted, we must say that'a more shameful case hasnever been brought into a court of justice. We have reason to believe that there are but too many of these instances of mis- placed confidencg in connection with the build- ing of ecclesiastical edifices. In the majority of them the victims have too much of what they call regard for religion to bring their grievances into court, and they quietly put up with the loss of their property sooner than bring a scandal upon the church. In our opinion there can be no greater iujury to religion than such serupulousness, for it only tends to compro- mise it more seriously by encouraging the wrong doer to persevere in his evil courses. Tux Boston Journats 1, Great Disrress.— Some of the Boston papers are in exceeding great distress because the New Yore Heratp has recently devoted some attention to Massa- chusetts politics, treating the subject from a novel point of view. One journal denounces New York in unmeasured terms as a Babylon, aSodom, and a variety of other awful things. The metropolitan press come in for a full share of these denunciations at the hands of the Bos- ton editor. Another luminary of the modern Athens—the organ of the skeleton of the whig party—is especially savage with us for “being too credulous of a great deal of insincere and mystifying twaddle daily poured out, diluted fyy the benefit of such as are weak enongh to take it in, by a variety of wishy-washy Boston jour- nals,” So far as we can see, all the Boston journalsare “wishy-washy” enough, and it is for this reason that we give the Bostonians, from time to time, some light on their own affairs, We have neither time nor space to-day to enter upon a detailed review of Massachusetts af- fairs, but intend to do it very soon, and for the especial benefit of the “wishy-washy Boston journals,” as one of their number appropriately galls them, Han question in Italy geenz* to be, thut the Italians ¥ery naturally desire $0 select their own rulers, without the intervention o.' wire Austria, or azy other off,the European Pow." while the idea of the great Powers seems to be that the liberation of Italy can be best ob- tained by distributing its crows among the unattached German and French pr'iaces. The Italians disagree with that view a the case altogether, and insist on the doctrine ot’ non-in- tervention. Hence all the trouble among the diplomats at Zurich smd elsewhere, and hex'ce the circumstance that the Italian question wit! probably remain an open one for some time to come. The Italian question in New York is artistic, not political; but in its general aspect it is quite the same sort of thing. The managers of the Opera have come out with a declaration of independence, go far as London and Paris are concerned, and have resolved to select their artists for themselves, and avoid paying the enormous salaries demanded by the usée favorites of the great cities. Ullmann, who occupies the position of Victor Emanitel, has hardly made a succeas in his first stroke for operatic freedom. In point of fact the cam- paign opened with a terrific defeat, which paled Uliman’s star, and made everybody angry with the managers for doing what everybody said beforehand was a clever thing. That’s the usual way. Opera managers who fail are vic- tims of popular ingratitude, the same as broken down politicians who have sacrificed every- thing for their country. But our Italian question is not settled yet. The pioneers of artistic independence gathered their scattered forces for a new effort on Wed- nesday, and brought out a new singer, a bari- tone, who was very fine, and made a gratifying success. The connoisseurs were in a measure mollified, and the Italian question in New York looks brighter than it did. But one baritone does not make an Opera troupe, any more than one swallow makes a summer. There is as yet no new prima donna who is satisfactory to the public. One is on the sick list, and the other does not seem to answer the requirements of a firet class metropolitan Opera audience, which the manager says we are, and which we willbe in good time if we are not now. To settle the Italian question beyond dispute, we must have a prima donna. Where is she? ‘ Tue Onpverponk Cask Fivatty Disposep ov—Tur Premtion vor Restoration Wrru- pRAWwN.—Our special despatches from Rich- mond inform us that the House of Bishops hav- ing refused to restore Bishop Onderdonk to his office, even on the proposed condition of his resigning his jurisdiction over the diocess, leave was asked and granted, on Wednesday evening, for the withdrawal of his petition. Thia amonnta virtually to a conclusive ter- mination of the case; because, fortunately, the House of Bishops is unlike a temporal court or legislature in that it is not subject to our poli- tical system of rotation in office. It is not like- ly, therefore, that the House of Bishops, having so signally rebuked Bishop Onderdonk and those clergymen and laymen of the diocess of New York who shamelessly voted for his,resto- ration, will be ever more troubled on the sub- ithe despatch from Richmond intimates that the decision of the House of Bishops was con- siderably influenced by the articles which ap- peared in this journal in relation to the mat- ter. However flattering that fact might be to us a8 a journalist, we prefer to believe that the House of Bishops consulted only the welfare of the Church, the cause of virtue and good morals, and the reputation of their own body, when they sternly refused to place the great diocess of New York once more under the spi- ritual direction of a man who had been shown to be so unworthy of such a trust. The House of Delegates had a long debate on a series of resolutions asking executive interfe- rence on the part of the general government in the matter of the religious intolerance of Spain and other Catholic countries. The principal difficulty appeared to be the dislike of the Con- vention to take any step that might possibly connect the body with political questions; but that was got over by dropping the resolution calling for the interference of the general government. The House of Delegates has voted to adjourn to-morrow. REWS FROM WASHINGTON, The San Juan Affair—The California Senatorship—The President's Private Secretary, &c. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasiinatox, Oct. 20, 1859. The reply of our government to Lord John Russell's despatch on the San Juan affair is nearly completed. ‘The British Ministor here is in oxpectation of receiving @ number of important documents from his government by the next Boston steamer, which is due in a few days. As soon as these documents arrivo a spocial express will leave for California and Oregon by the overland mail route via St. Louis and Fort Leavenworth, It will not be surprising if Gen. Scott is recalled within ashort time. The President is anxious to have the benefit of his sage counsels and advice during the next session of Congress, and should no unforeseen event occur iv the meantime, it is very poesibie thathe will be in Washington again early in the month of December next. Ihave tho very best authority for stating that the Geno- ral has left voluntarily for the island of San Juan. He received no instructions from the government, but will act in the disputed matter according to the dictates of his own prudence and judgment. Tam algo informed that at one of the Cabinet mectings held here, prior to the departare of General Scott, and at which he was present, onc of the membors suggested that tho United States'troops should vacato the island of San Juan and preserve a neutral position until the matter could be settled by both governments diplomatically, But General Scott warmly opposed the proposition, and his remarks met with the cordial approval of the Presi- dent and Cabinet. Private advices just received from California stato that Governor Weller will appoint either Volney E. Howard or R. Augustus Thompson to the vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned by the death of Broderick, The con test for the Senatorship before the Legislature is between Denver, Weller and Gen. McDougal. The President has appointed jj nephew, James Bu- chanan, a young lawyer of Philadelphia, his private sec- retary. Mr. Shannon, who has been acting tomporarily having beon detailed from the Treasury Department for that purpose, will resume his place in the Department, ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasimncron, ‘Oct. 20, 1859. District Attorney Onld and Gol. Leo have returned from Harper’s Ferry, The former soon after his arrival had a conference with the President, and the latter a long inter- viow with the Secretary of War. United States Marehal Johnson, of Ohio, now here, says one of the parties engaged with Brown was prominent in the Oberlin rescue. Judge Black bas returned, after un absence at his home in Pennsylvania. James McMaster, of Pittsburg, has been commissioned aa ap assistant snrgeon in the navy. Edmund 8 De Luce bas been commissioned a Chief Engineer in the navy, Parties bayy bewa arresigd beve for uttering counter: | fet gold dollars and halves, remarkably well exocuted Dut lighter than genuine ones. It is suppoped that severe thousand dollars’ worth have beon thrown into cirouls tion, They were brought from Pennsylvania. Re aaa ee mn INTERESTING FROM ALBANY. Vain Efforts of the Albany Regency t Ra jee Money—Ctroular of Oagger=-**t® of Wa tte Sherm: oq Im portance the Comins Election—Efferts to bo By the New York Democratic Vigtiaay Association—PTospects of Success in thy "Coming Canvass, Ac. . OUR SPECIAL ALBANY DESPATON. Ausany, Oct, 20, 1860. ‘The heads of the democratic party here foe! that theg are scarcely appreciated. Notwithstanding the move- ments of tho leaders of our sagacious wirepullors be, tween Atbany and your city, their pockets remain empty, ax'd they are at their wis’ ends ‘m relation to tho coming ‘Sta‘e election. They met with a flat refusal to all of their appl, *ations for money, and, from New York, hai scaroa'y Collected a dollar, It will bo recollected that tha| followin,’ Clroular was recently addressed to a large num- der of ind\viduals, from which were entertained sanguine) hopes of #6 Curing « considerable capital—gay from thirty) to forty thon sand dollara:— lation of campaign and political documents Ftey =| out every county in State. All this will be attended | with a large expense, whieh can only be eovorod by an appeal to the liberality of such of our friesda in the State as are able, and who are supposed to be willing, to oen- tribute towards the objects indicated, Am assessmont was made upon you by the committee cf $100, which may be remitted to Dean Richmond, Exq., its Chairman, or to the undersigned, Respectfully, yours, - ?. CAGGER, Secretary. ‘The writer saw many of these circulars, im which the amount assessed varied from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars. ‘The round sum of one hundred dollars was exacted from the majority. Alas! nono of the heretofore thick fleeces of the “ paying men” of the party geem ap- | proachable. The crop of wool is small indeed. Most of those applied to have treated their notices with silent con- tempt. A few, more courteous, have sent written re- ‘sponces to the secretary of the State Central Committee ; | but they mostly run in the vein of one which I selest, be- cause it happens to be written by the chairman of the new organization of respectabie men which has recently | been established in your metropolis. It reads :— New York, Sept. 30, 1850. Farrenp Caccer—I have your pleasant little missive of the 28th inst. Of Inte yeurs I have not failed to find seve- ral of the same character as often as an election proaches, and I bave anoually contributed a protty re- spectable sum for the benefit of “ our party,’ which I do not by any means regret. What I do regret, however, is that when offices and places are to be disposed of —where measures and policy are to be disc and decided— there are a few who monopolize and dictate in everything. | ‘The ears of those in high places are shut to all but “the few," and the existence or influence of others is ignored. oP Mt'propoee to Pay for tho perpetuation of such ion’ to pay for the of ry state of things, much ag I desire the continued success of the democratic party. Sincerely Trt as P. Cagaan, Exq., Albany. ¢ f After rebuffs similar to these what can our friend Cag- ger do? He is not so badly off as Cassidy, whose hat and coat look fearfully seedy; but neither of thom can pre- tend to accomplish avything towards carrying the State at the coming election, and if we have no aid we are lost. In fact, our eyes are turned towards New York city, and to the Fifth Avenue Hotel movement. Uniess they ‘‘do’” wo shall ‘“‘die.”” Lettors received here this morning state that they are preparing pamphlets and documents to be distribetcd cverywhere—especially in relation to the recent effects at Harper’s Ferry of Mr. Seward’s “irrepressible conflict” programme—which, if sufficiently circulated, will undoubtedly de- monstrate to the people of the interlor the political dangers that hang over the State and country, and be the means of a triumph at the beginning of next month. A victory then would settle the question of the next Presi- dential election, and to the wise forethought of the gentle- men who have 80 nobly banded together in the city the entire glory of tho result will be due. As Albany is 80 powerleas New York ought to act, and to your intelligent and industrious classes will be attri- buted the whole merit if the end in view is attained by your endeavors. Tunderstand that Messrs. Cagger, Richmond and Cas- aldy havo signified their warm approval of the progrese, hitherto, of the association of which Mr. Watts Shorman is the chairman. They have also appealed, more or lees directly, to it for peeuniary succor. Under the circum- stances, I have no doubt that the organization, just started, ‘will prefer to dispense ite funds at their own discretion, and this may, perhaps, bo their wisest course. THE NATIONAL EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. The Onderdonk Case Finally Disposed of by Permitting the Withdrawal of His Petition, &. SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD. Ricuxoxn, Oct. 20, 1859. ‘The House of Bishops last evening dlaposed of Bishop Onderdonk’s cage, by granting leave to withdraw his peti- tion. This is tantamount to arefusal to reinstate. Aftera long discussion for some days-they refused to reinstate him, even on the condition of his resigning his juriadic- tion. The Hxratn’s editorials are said to have done much towards influencing this result. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOS. Ricumonn, Oct. 20, 1859. ‘The House of Delegates to-day resolyed to adjourn on Saturday next. A despatch was received from Dr. Clarke, of Connecti. cut, declining to accept the nomination of Missionary at the Northwest. It was presumed that he had not heard of his subsequent election. The Missionary Committee reported back the resolu- tions on religious intoierance in Cuba, striking out all ro- lative lo memoriaiizing the President on the subject. The report of the Committee on Canons on ministers offl- ciating within the parochial cures of others, was debated at great length, and the canon reported by the majority of the committee was finally adopted. ‘The House Jast, after a long debate, adopted the resolu- tions requesting the House of Bishops to reconsider their action in relation to the use of the Book of Common Pray- er, and throw the a into such a shape as to admit of the joint action of both Houses- Non-Arrival of the Europa at Boston. Bostow, Oct. 20—11 P.M. ‘There is as yet no appearance of the steamship Europa from the lower telegraph station. The weather is clear, and there is no prospect of her.arrival at her dock untit considerably after midnight. News from the South. FROSTS IN MISSIS8IPPI—YELLOW FEVER IN TEXAS. New ORLEANS, Uct. 20, 1869. There was a frost near Vicksburg, Mixs., yesterday ing. vee steamship Empire City sailed this morning for New ork. Advices from Houston and Galveston. to the 8th, siate te the Fae eunabeiades dopredationa on th © Indians continue on the frontior of Texas, and families were fleeing tor safety. CHARLRsTON, Oct. 20, 1859. ‘The Courier's special Now Orleans correspondent tole graphs that the yellow fever is increasing at Galveston where has been & frost in portions ‘oft ere has been a in portions of Mississippi Texas, Dot the crop liave not been injured et and ———— The tines Snow, UNKIRK, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1859, ‘Tho first snow of the season fell here this snorning, and there are indications of more. Disaster to the Bark Augustus Mayo, NeW ORLEANS, Uct. 20, 1359. The ship Antarctic, from New York, reports tho bark Augustus. Mayo, from New York, bound to Havana, to have been ashore on the Moselle Shonts, and boon got’ off by wrecker, ‘The brig Dow has arrived with her crew and a portion of Ber cargo. e schooner Ellen Buch, from Philadelphia for Galv ton, sprung # leak at sea aud sunk, pee eee Tenry McCauley, the well-know city today, after a protracted Change in Knownothing Joarnalisin. ALUANY, Dol. 20, 1850 sedod. tomo: oman Was BOL CO} Mr. Biack, the shipping m yecht Wanderer, but wre re of the harbor. He reports enid he was going to Africa for a Vermont Mos The Legislature to-day made the choice ¢ Stute officers :—2coretary of Stato, Benj. W ton; Sergennt-at-Arme, FE & camp, 0 Auditor, Win. BM. Fingrew, of Weachersfield: end of State Prigor, itary Larlaa, of Wiudso