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6 WEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, pnctd nt tse OYrICE ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON GTS, TERMS, adeance, Money vont by mal wilt be ot the oie mS Saka Postage same at rected ns vabeription 7 Au Se stesanal cents por Per annum to any Britain, cor $5 fo any. 0 per annum. PTY FAMILY HRRALD on Wednesday, at four cents per copy, oF $2.per annem. Wolume XXIV..,. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBIO'S GARDEN. Broadway —Tae Famy Cincta—Ax ‘Bove uw Bevais Latest rKom New Youx. BOWERY THKATRR. Bowery.—Doxn's Jestex—Dor aun Canny 0—Keoss Crer. ‘ INTER GARDEN, Broadway. opposite Bond strect. STE E vuine Cuanoos THe TAIRD. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Fast Mex or Tax ‘Ovpex Tiae—BaTuixa. LAGRA XEENE’S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Mivscu mau Nigat’s Danan. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sreiia DeLonue— Wurnuigig Haii—Rgp Caow, THRATRE FRANCAIS. No. 585 Rroadway—La Cuowot- wesst—Lz Cuarsav D'Ux Hontocer—Unr Fue Teeeisie, BARNUM’S AMERIOAN MUSEUM. pete baer ov rae Darwus. 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The trip from San Francisco to New York was made in nineteen days and seven hours. There is but little news of special importance from Cali- fornia. With regard to the United States Senator- ship, it is reported that the Governor will make no &@ppointment to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Broderick. There had been an outbreak at the State prison, which was quelled by the keepers af- ter killing two, mortally wounding one, and injuring several of the prisoners. Business continued dull at San Francisco. . We have late accounts from British Colambia, but they contain nothing of interest respecting the San Juan affair. Our news from New Granada is interesting. Gen. Mosquera had raised the standard of revolu- tion, and taken possession of Sartagona and other points. The revolution originated in opposition to the elective law. The President was actively en- listing men for the war, had placed the country under martial law and closed the ports. Neither Panams nor Aspinwall, nor the railroad route, ap- pear to have been affected by the outbreak. The intelligence from the Central American States is unimportant. Mr. Dimitry, our Minister, had arrived at San Jose, Costa Rica. Nicaragua had recognized the new government of Costa Rica. In the last named republic mach confusion pre- vailed. The advices from the South Pacific republics are interesting. Full particulars of the news will be found in the letters of our correspondents, pub- lished elsewhere. A grand rally of the Democracy of Kings county took place last evening, in the form of a large and enthusiastic mass meeting in the City Hall park, Brooklyn. Speeches were delivered by John Coch- rane, Senator Spinola and other prominent men of the democratic ranks, and the proceedings were enlivened by the music of a band, the firing of a field-piece, the discharging of rockets, &c., &c. We give a full report of the proceedings. Yesterday the atmosphere was clear and plea. sant, and partook of an Indian summerish character. Overcoats that were brought in use the few days previous, were quite oppressive to the male pedes trians, and furs and heavy mantillas were not very le by the lady pedestrians. During the day ya was at the height of its glory, being rsed from one end to the other by fashionable promenaders, who appeared to enjoy the geniality of the weather. Business men and merchants speak very highly of the healthy condition of trade, and just now New Yorkers in general are doing a pretty brisk business. The Aldermanic Committee on Railroads met yesterday afternoon to hear parties in reference to the widening and extension of Wortn street. Many gentlemen interested in the project spoke for and against it at considerable length. The subject of extending and widening Gold street was then taken up and aegned against by one of the gentlemen present. An abstract of the proceedings of the Committee may be found in another column. There was not much important business trans- acted in the Board of Councilmen last evening, a large number of reports having been laid over till the next meeting. A resolution was concurred in directing the Second Avenue Railroad Company to have their rails between Forty-ninth and Sixty-first streets removed from the curb to the centre of the avenue. The Croton Aqueduct Department was directed to have all the pumps in the city putin Order forthwith. A communication from the same department, submitting awards of five contracts for Bewers in various portions of the city, was wopted. The ity Inspector was in- —" Pema the Board why he has dhn aea for proposals for remoy- >‘ Soil. The Mayor returned ‘Pproval resoluti that the Fulton, South and Phe ind Hamil tharine and Wall street ferries, ae salen Buction together, under One lease, for the term of ten years from the Ist of May, is¢1, His Honor ‘Objects to the adoption of the resolution, unless the lease of the ferries directed to be sold’ should not be disposed of, unless they shoula bring a rent not leas than their present total rent, and also be- ause pome of the ferry slips do not belong to the part 4 Po estar Cae pea | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY,, OCTOBER 25, 1859.—T REP LK SHEET. | Corporation. The paver was referred to the Com- | all these Convention jugglers, gamblers and | The Follies of Party Organs—The True | Mittee on Ferries, The vetoed by the Mayor, were adopted, notwithstand- ing his objections, the vote being 17 to 7. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the week ending October 24, the wange of the barometer and ther- | Mometer, the variation of wind currents and the atate of the weather, at three periods during each Saturday—Clear all day. Sunday—Clear all day. Monday—Cioudy, with light rain, ‘Tuesny—Morning, overcast; afternoon, clear; night, clear and bkowing freah. Wednescay—Clear and blowing freeh all day. Tharstay—Morning, clear; afternoon, cloudy and 00:4; night, clear and blowing freah. Friay—Clear and cold all day. Saturday—Morning, cloudy; afternoon, overcast; night, overcast. The cotton market was steady, while the sales em- Dbeacre 60) a 806 bales, closing on the basis of about 114c. for middling uplands. Some brokers quoted them 11%c.a11Xc. Flour was Sc. to 10c. per bbl. higher; the enharced views of holders tended to check sales which, however, were to a fair extent. Southern flour was alo go d demand and higher, with some sales for export. Wheat was firmer; prime Kentucky white gold at $1 50 and Canadian white at $1 35 a $188. Corn was less booyant, with sales of Western mixed at $103 a $104, and $1 034; « $105 for yellow Jersey, and round yollow $1 0434. bees pork was easier, with sales at $15 20a $15 26, and of uninspected at $16 15, and prime at $10a $183{. Sugars were active, with sales of 2,300 a 2,400 hhbds. and 260 boxes at rates given in another column, Coftee was quie: and sales limited. Freights were firm, with moderate engagements at full rates. Presidential Nominations—The Conven- tion vs. the Congressional Caucus Sys- tem. Some of our Southern democratic cotem- poraries are beginning to ventilate the two- thirds rule under which their regular can- didates for President and Vice President are nominated by the National Convention of the party. The journals in question have thus discovered that the democratic Southern States, which have become almost the sole reliance of the pany, may be overruled in the Charles- ton Convention by a two-thirds vote chiefly made up of oppesition States. Against this equality in the Convention, of States which have never cast a democratic electoral vote for President, with those States which have never cast a vote against the party, the central organ of Governor Wise in Virginia earn- estly, and we think justly, complains, and seems to be driving at some such new rule as a majority vote of the democratic States in be- half of their Presidential ticket. And why not? Why, in a democratic Na- tional Convention, should New York, an op- position State, be allowed to weigh down the votes of Virginia and Georgia? Why should Massachusetts and Vermont be allowed to overshadow Alabama and Mississippi, when we all know that in the practical results of the election the first named two States are as cer- tain to go against the democratic ticket as the last two are to support it? Or why should Ohio, in a purely democratic arrange- ment, be permitted to neutralize the com- bined vote of Kentucky and Tennessee? These questions cannot be answered. They establish the justice of these Southern com- plaints against the two-thirds rule. But the remedy hinted at by the Richmond Enquirer points to a very uncertain way of reaching the difficulty. It will require a majority of the Convention to repeal this two-thirds rule, and supposing that Mr. Douglas should have a Northern majority of votes in the Convention, his party might agree to set the two-thirds rule aside in order to secure his nomination by the simple rule of a majority. Any attempt, therefore, to modify the two- thirds rule in the Charleston Convention will bea dangerous experiment to the Southern States. If they go into the Convention, they must be content to adhere to the rule as it stands. But why go into the Charleston Con- vention at all? We are not aware of any law compelling the democratic party to await and abide the issues of that Convention. We be- lieve that the Cincinnati Convention of 1856 passed aresolution that the National Democratic Convention of 1860 should be held at Charles- ton; but as the Cincinnati Convention was a mere assemblage of irresponsible politicians and spoilsmen, we cannot imagine how their decrees can be considered as binding anybody or anything. Certainly, from the way in which most of those law-making politicians of the party have conducted themselves since Mr. Buchanan’s election, and especially in reference to the Charleston Convention, they are only entitled to the scorn and contempt of every honest man. We say, then, that the honest men, and espe- cially the responsible Southern managers of the democratic party, are under no obligations to the Cincinnati Convention, and that its proceed- ings to bind the party in its future action are all stuff and nonsense. The responsible repre- sentatives of the democratic party in both houses of Congress may speak with some au- thority upon thesubject. They have thus the per- fect right to supersede the Charleston Convention by a Congressional caucus nomination of the democratic members of the House and the Senate. This, under Mr. Jefferson, was the original system introduced into the old repub- lican party, until that party, and the remaing of the old federal party, were divided into four separate camps, upon as many different candi- dates, in 1824. A scrub race followed, and an election (J. Q. Adams’) by the House. In 1828 Jackson and Calhoun became the ticket of the then new democratic party by a species of spontaneous combustion throughout the coun- try; but in 1832, for the special benefit of Mar- tin Van Buren for Vice President against Cal- houn, the present system of National Conven- tions was fairly inaugurated. This system, having been dragged through all the demoralizing and debasing trick- eries, treacheries and juggling contrivances which the wit of seedy, greedy and unscrupu- lous politicians could invent, has fallen into disgrace. The very men heretofore the most active in these Conventions are now the most suspicious ofthis one appointed at Charleston, because they know from experience that neither promises, principles, honor nor truth will there be allowed to stand in the way of the spoilsmen who shuffe the cards. But way, those States which are incurably opposl- tion will be sufficiently represented in not be ing represented at all, and such fluctuating States as New York, Ponnsylvania and New Jersey will bave their proper voice im the cau- cus in the democratic Congressmen which they may be able to muster. Thus, too, thereliable democratic States of the South will have, as they should have, the responsible representa tive authority to nominate the democratic ticket and the democratic platform for 1860. We throw out these suggestions to the South- ern members of the party in the new Congress, and we bope they will take the plan of opera- tions involved into serious consideration at the earliest opportunity. With a Congressional caucus Presidential ticket, the Southern demo- cratic members of Congress, House and Senate, may supersede and cut off the Charleston Con- vention and the abrupt dissolution which it threatens to bring upon the party. We believe, too, that the responsible representatives of the democratic party in Congress are a thousand times more entitled and better qualified to put forth a party ticket for the Presidency than the irresponsible loafers, yagabonds and political vagrants who enter so largely into the dirty elements of these national party Conventions. What say our Southern democratic cotempo- raries to this proposition of a Congressional caucus, instead of the proposed Charleston Convention, for the Presidential work of 1860? A Daguerreotype of European Affairs— @ur Correspondence from the Centres of News. We publish this morning a large batch of correspondence from the leading European capitals, the variety and interest of which jus- tify the space that we devote to it. In our let- ters from London, Parisand Brussels the reader will find such statements in connection with the Italian question as will enable him to ap- preciate its exact position at the present mo- ment. Written by persons who have access to the bestsources of information, they show that at the Tuileries, as well as at Turin, the great- est doubt still prevails as to the mode by which asettlement can be arrived at. Austria is hanging off in the expectation that the pecunia- ry embarrassments of the provisional govern- mente of the Duchies will lead to some turn in affairs that will prove favorable to the restora- tion of the exiled princes. The instructions sent from Rome to the French bishops to bring the pressure of their collective in- fluence to bear on the Court in favor of that measure, evidently had their insti- gation in Vienna. Hence the desire manifested on the part of the Austrian plenipotentiaries to delay as long as possible the signing of the treaty. From the measures which are said to be.in contemplation to counteract the protests of the bishops, it is evident that the Emperor is determined not to allow himself to be influ- enced indirectly into steps of which his better judgment disapproves. He will soon lose pa- tience with this trifling, and, as is his wont, will bring matters to an abrupt issue. All well informed persons in France are of opinion that unless Austria promptly signs the treaty, the Emperor will call a Congress of he European Powers without her concurrence, and compel such a settlement of the question as will prove satisfactory to the world. As soon as the Vienna Cabinet finds that matters are about to take this turn, it will, of course, prefer sending its representatives to the Congress to incurring the risk of being a second time condemned to political isolation. In any event, therefore, the main difficulties of the Italian question will be decided by the only tribunal that is com- petent to deal with them—the plenipoten- tiaries of all the leading European governments in congress assembled. In view of the decla- rations made by Lord John Russell in regard to the settlement of the Duchies, this will give the world a guarantee that the rights and wishes of the people of Central Italy will be re ted. e view given by our Berlin correspondents of the present political aspect of Germany seems to be fraught with trouble. It appears that, owing to the intrigues of Austria, some of the petty governments are commencing prose- cutions against all who have been concerned in the national movement which has been agitat- ing Germany for the last few months. Unless Prussia takes a stand against these proceedings, the reactionary faction will again have the upper hand in Germany, and the only alter- native left will be revolution or wholesale self- expatriation. Although this country would be largely the gainer by the lat ter, it is still to be hoped that the Prince Regent, and the able advisers by whom he is surrounded, will have firmness enough to counteract the foolish and suicidal measures which the federal rival of Prussia has suggested with the view of fortifying her own position. The industrial interests of Germany have suf- fered so much of late years by these reiterated political shocks, that we would gladly see her spared the trials which fresh agitations must bring upon her. From St. Petersburg we have a graphic ac- count of the Imperial birthday fétes, which were celebrated with all the enthusiasm and semi-barbaric pomp which characterize such ceremonies in the Russian capital. The Czar’s speech to his nobles on the emancipation ques- tion gives the assurance that this great measure of justice and political expediency will be per- severed in. We see by the Journal de St. Pe- tersturg and the Invalide Russe, that the charge made against the Russians of co-operation with the Chinese in the late affair at the Pei-ho is contradicted by the government. It is curious how fond the English are of systematically charging bad faith against the Russians. The conduct of the latter has, generally speaking, been marked by more diplomatic honesty and a greater reverence for truth than that of their calumniators. It is this tendency to depreciate the moral character of the other nations, and to unduly exalt their own, that has led the English into the grave political errors which they have committed in India and China, Not the least interesting of the letters to which we call attention are those which give an account of a visit to the recent battle fields of Italy, and which were written, not on the wing or ventre a terre, like the famous narra- tives of the Hon, Jefferson Brick, but leisurely, coolly and deliberately. They may not be as exciting as our cotemporary’s descriptions of his hairbreadth perils and escapes, but they have at least the merit of being written with teady nerves. Position of the Repmblicam Masses. The party journels, both demooratic and black republican, wre.doing their utmost to lead the public mind astray, and to hoodwink the people as to the true cause and responsi- bility of the late bloody and treasonable at- tempt at Harper’s Ferry. The democratic papers, with the Washington Constitution at their head, maintain that “the republican party endorsed and approved Seward’s bloody mani- festo at Rochester,” while the black republican journals, as the Tribune, the Times, the Courier and Enquirer and the Avening Post,insist that it is under the guidance of such leaders as Seward, ‘and upon the principles laid down by those leaders, and endorsed by the party,” that they expect “to become in 1861 8 great nation- al party, in possession of the federal adminis- tration.” So reiterates the Tribune what the Constitution asserta, It may seem difficult to find a logical reason why these two party presses should unite in impressing upon the world that the whole re- publican party is responsible for the traitor teachings of Wm. H. Seward, and the treason of Ossawattomie Brown. But a moment's reflection shows that the short sighted policy of party is what moves them to the strange union. The Tribune insists upon the fact, because it wishes to force the whole republican party to adopt its fanatical ideas, when it well knows that, from its limited circula- tion and the constant protests of many honest members of that party, there are thousands upon thousands of its members who refuse to admit that journal as the exponent of their po- litical faith. The Constitution follows in the same track, because it has not the grasp o! in- tellect required to rise above the dirty run of party abuse, and clasp the great and true is- sues which are alone dealt with in leadership. In thus prostituting its columns to give cur- rency to what it should have the wit to know is not the truth, the Constitution stains the ad- ministration it assumes to support; for, from the relations it is supposed to hold to the Pre- sident and his Cabinet, the pettifogging party zeal, and the ignorance of great truths which it exhibits, are at once attributed to those who are popularly supposed to be its masters. That the brutal and bloody teachings of Wm. H. Seward and other leading abolitionists are the true causes and incentives of the trea- sonable acts of Brown and other crazy adven- turers, is logical and conclusive. The one is the complement of the other, and both together constitute the “irrepressible con- flict” proclaimed at Rochester. Such a conflict cannot exist in theory alone, nor can its prac- tice come before the existence of the idea. But to assert that the whole republican party pray, with the Zribune, that John Brown’s epitaph shall not yet be written, or join with Seward in believing that the fields of the North must be given up to slaves if these are not driven from those of the South, is absurd in the highest degree. Every man of sense knows that such is not the fact. There are hundreds of thou- sands of men in the ranks, and scores among the leaders of the republicans, who do not affiliate in any way with the traitor teachings of Seward and such black republican organs as the Tribune, Times, Courier and Enquirer and Post. These form the black portion of the re- publican party, and they of course labor to make it appear that all the rest are as black as they themselves are. But let every democrat look around within the circle ef his own personal acquaintance. There he will see republicans as pure in their metives and as patriotic in their aims as he him- self claims to be. Men who oppose the rule of the democracy, not because they care a fig for slavery or its future, not because they sympathise with the abolition por- tion of the party with which they act, but because their reason and the bias of what they esteem the highest interests of thelr coun- try, of themselves and of their children, impel them to oppose the corrupt practices into which the democratic rulers degenerate as soon as they feel themselves strong. It issuch men as these who constitute the balance wheel of popu- lar opinion in all free governments. Without them, an elective government would degenerate into a blind party despotism, which is the worst of all despotisms. The party organs accuse the Henatp of supporting one thing to-day and another to-morrow, without reason for its course; but they make the accusation because their devotion to party interests alone blinds them to truth. Independent of all party bias, we look at questions as they come up, without bias or party prejudice; and we hold them up to the light of truth and reason, careless alike whether they favor one organization or the other, because we know that the truth is the greatest good of all. From this practice is it that we are found bat- tling one day on oneside and another day on the other. The same reason brings about the alternate triumph of parties in our govern- ments. Whenever one party becomes thorough- ly corrupt, or its leaders mislead it into error, the men whose only motive for taking an interest in party matters is a patriotic one abandon it, and permit its op- ponents, purified by fasting, to triumph at the polls. Such a case has come up at the present time. The selfish and demagogical leaders of the republicans have resorted to the promulga- tion of treasonable doctrines and the practice of traitor deeds. They would arm the North against the South—State against State, brother against brother—and the silly Constitution would help them to do so. Therefore do we to- day call upon the honest and patriotic masses in the republican ranks of the State of New York to abandon the brutal and bloody doctrines of Seward. Itis for them to pronounce judg- ment at the coming election upon the iniqui- tous idea of an “ irrepressible conflict” be- tween brethren. So far as regards men, there isno difference between the two tickets for State officers; in principle there is small difference between the two parties in State politics; but in the broad and deep re- sults to the whole country there is a distinction, and a wide one. Let the republicans throw out, therefore, the present nominees of their selfish leaders, and thus give a stern rebuke to the traitor who would rather see his country bathed in fraternal gore than that he himself should fail to be President. Tax Granp Jory ann tHE Exxctton Laws.— In his charge to the Grand Jury yesterday, Judge Roosevelt took occasion to refer in a marked manner to the duty of that body with reference to offences against the election laws. As the State and charter elections are approach- ing this subject becomes one of somo import- ance. Heretofore, the moat flagrant violation of these laws has been quite common, and the | and under the circumstances Judge Roosevelt justice meted out to the offenders very scant, | thought thut the convict was entitled to a new Political influence bas been brought to bear so | trial, to afford bim an opportunity of producing strongly in cases of this kind, that it is @ rare | such testimony as, from hie ignorance and thing to see parties who obstruct the free use | poverty, he was unable to present on a former of the franchise, or otherwise pollute the as- | trial. sumed sanctity of the ballot box, brought to Tas Tria or Brown anv His Conrepe- condign punishment. Tt isnot at all Ukely | trey Newararen CoRMESPONDENTS TAKING that offences of this kind will be less frequent | rus azany.—We' understand that somé of the than usual at the coming elections, and we reporters and correspondents at Harper's Ferry, hope that the Grand Jury wit profit by the | wig are attached to abolition and black repub- counsel of the Court, and indict without flinch- Moan newspapers published in the North and ing every one against whom substantial West, have been getting scared lest the people charge of violating the election laws may be | opine Ferry, who are terribly nottled and oha- presented. grined at Governor Wise’s commentaries on IngunrecrioNARY CoRRESPONDENCE OF Ossa- | their valor, should take it into their heads to waATomE Brown anv His Conrepxrates.—It will | molest and ill use them. Some of them got so be recollected that after the defeat of Ossawa- | frightened at this imaginary danger that they tomie Brown and his party, by the United | have actually sought a safe retreat at Balti- States marines and the militia regiments of Vir- , more, a8 if that city was not the most daa- ginia and Maryland, 9 domiciliary visit was | gerous place in the whole country. There paid to the headquarters of the conspirators— | seems to be some apprehension, also, that ro- ahouse occupied by Brown some few miles | porters may be excluded from the court at from Harper's Ferry. Search was made, | Charlestown, or only admitted on condition of and 6 quantity of printed documents and | making a garbled report, omitting everything written correspondence was discovered. Some | calculated to reflect on the peculiar institution of it found its way inte the hands of | of the South, or to elevate John Brown to the the Attorney for the Commonwealth of Vir- dignity of a hero or a martyr. Finally, ginia; some was carried off to Baltimore by | wo aro informed that while counsel from the the Maryland troops as trophies of the fight; ; North will be allowed to defend the insurrec- and still another portion was placed in the | tionists, they will not be permitted in their ar- hande of Mr. Ould, Attorney for the District of , guments or harrangues to use language deroga- Columbia. tory to the system of domestio slavery as exist- From among this mass of documents we have | ing in the Southern States. procured copies of various,letters, forming a We are not inclined to lend much credence part of the correspondence which was carried | to these representations. They evidently have on by Brown and his sons with their friends | their origin in the excited state of public fuel- and emissaries in various parts of the North | ing which has been produced by the late out- and West. These we publish elsewhere. | break. Newspaper correspondents and report- They are, to the last degree, important and | rs will not be molested or interfered with in startling. They reveal the existence of a Virginia in the fair and impartial discharge of vast conspiracy, aided by the funds of| theirduties. Itis their duty to represent all wealtby men, and encouraged by black that passes before them, without fear, favor or republican politicians and other fanatics. affection, and as a general thing they know too In one letter, dated from West Andover, Ash. | much of party politics ever to be partisans. tabula county, Ohio, Brown informs his corres- The reporters whom we have at Harper's pondent—whom he addresses as his “friend Ferry and Charlestown are men of honor Henrie”—that “our old friend J.R.G. took | and intelligence, free from bias and pre- stock to the amount of three hundred dollars, | judice, and resolved to do their whole and, as he was just starting for Ravenna, said duty, uninfluenced by fear, and certainly having he would form an association there.” As the | 20 sympathies with the fanatics who got up the initials and the familiar description given hap- | outbreak. We therefore expect for them every pen tocorrespond with the name and familiar | facility that can be reasonably extended, te title of no less a personage than the Hon. enable them to place before the country full Joshua R. Giddings, we reckon that “our old | and reliable reports of the judicial proceedinge. friend’s” denial of complicity with the out- We feel convinced that neither Governor Wise break will not avail him much. nor the Justices would think of imposing om This correspondence proves him to have been | #ny representatives of the press such conditions an accessory before the fact. or restrictions as have been referred to. ‘We expect, therefore, that it will be the duty"| As to the restrictions to be placed on coun- of Governor Wise to send a requisition to | sel for the defence, that will be a matter to be Governor Chase, of Ohio, for the body of the | regulated by the laws and practice of Virginia venerable abolitionist, Joshua R. Giddings. | 2nd the discretion of the Court. We are sure He lectured last evening at Philadelphia, and | that the prisoners will havea fair and impartial is probably on his way to Peterboro’, thence | trial, and that Virginia will not be the first to depart with his friend Gerrit Smith for the | State to set the example either of unfairness British dominions. If requisitions are to be of | toward accused parties and thefr counsel, er of any avail, they had better be sent immediately. exercising a censorship over the press. The correspondence of the conspirators re- is veala many other secrets; and we understand | OU®SkAboanpDerences.—We yesterday called that still more disclosures have been made, | tention to the bare state of our defences om and others will be made in the course of the | the Atlantic seaboard, and to the necessity of trial, which commences to-day. retaining some portion of the regular army for The excitement at Harper's Ferry, instead | its protection. We are glad to learn that Col. of subsiding, is daily increasing. Arms were | Magruder’s battery, which had recently been being distributed, guards sent out with the ordered to the West, is now likely to be de- railway trains, and rumors of incursions from | ined at Fort McHenry, Md. Nothing could fresh abolitionist forces were keeping the popu- | b@ more judicious on the part of the Secretary lation in a terrible ferment. In fact, Harper's | War than to station this battery at a central Ferry may be said to be in astate of siege. point like this, to be used in case of necessity. For this “Kansas work” of John Brown and | 2¢ is the enly light battery now on the sea- Gerrit Smith how much responsibility attaches to Wm. H. Seward and his doctrine of the “ir- repressible conflict?” board, the other six having been attached to schools of practice at the West. The recent outrages at Harper’s Ferry show how important it is that the government should have a force REVIVAL OF THE OrERA.—The “three hungry | of this kind, uniting the greatest efficiency with Frenchmen,” and various other evil disposed | the smallest numerical force, always at hand te persons, exulted last week over the unfor- | protect the public arsenals, armories and stores tunate opening of the Opera season, and | from seizure and plunder. the untoward issue of the first attempt] In regard to the officer who should be kept to make New York a first class operatic | at the head of such a force, it must be admitted city, entirely free frem the intervention or | that no better selection could be made than patronage of the autocrats of the London and | that of Col. Magruder. As commandant at Paris theatres. But campaigns apparently } Fort Adams, Newport, he has not only given lost have been redeemed before now, and the | universal satisfaction to the thousands who visit prospects of the Opera have so far improved | that agreeable place of resort, but the high state that the joy of the doubters has been of very | of discipline and efficiency in which his com- slight duration. Some of the new artists, the | mand has been maintained, has shown that to baritone especially, have been very successful | the character of the finished gentleman he with theaudience. The prima donna—Colson— who has as yet no European reputation, has been very successful in “Rigoletto,” the performance of which opera has been unani- unites that of the perfect officer. Scurritous Lrverature in THE METROPOLIS— More or THE DiaMonp Wepvina.—We alluded movsly pronounced to be a very fine one, and | 9 day or two ago, to the public rumor of a worthy of any opera house in the world. So | difficulty between Mr. W. A. Bartlett, father of that the “three hungry Frenchmen” will have | Madame de Oviedo, and a person named Sted- to recant all their savage diatribes against | ™an, who had lampooned all the parties con- the Opera. Then Madame Gazzaniga, a | cerned in the late Diamond Wedding through grand artist, who has made her reputation the medium of some scandalous verses, which chiefly in this country, has been engaged, | Were printed in the Tribune. It appears, by the and will sing to-morrow in the “ Poliuto.” | Correspondence and statement of Mr. Stedman's There is a great deal of anxiety on the part of “friend,” which we print in another part of this the public to hear Madame Gazzaniga in this | Paper, that there is to be no duel, but that cof- opera, and her rentrée will be greeted with a | fee and pistols are to be replaced by com- first class audience. After Gazzaniga’s début, | Plaints, rejoinders, pleas, demurrers and all the the long hoped for Speranza is promised, and forms and ceremonies of a suit for libel—Bart- then comes the new opera, the “Sicilian lett against Stedman—the latter to be sued for Vespers,” which is to be brought out a publication false in its statements, and tend- in great style as the piece de resistance of ing to ridicule and degrade the Bartlett family the season. So the Opera is on its legs again, | in the eyes of the community at large. and the habitués have a good prospect for the | Thisis o very disagreeable state of things, winter season, when the audience is more ex- | 92d has been brought about by the blunder- acting and the artists are more careful than at | ing stupidity of a few Bohemians, who pick any other time of the year. Now isthe time to | UP ® scanty subsistence by retailing enjoy the Opera in its fullest and best shape. the second hand scandals of the metropolis for the delectation of country editors. These fel- Tar Case oF Qurmno Apro.—An application | lows, in lounging about the Broadway shops, was made in the Court of Oyer and Terminer | found that Genin, Ball & Black, Tiffany and for a new trial for the Chinaman, Quimbo | others had large orders for the outfit of a bride Appo, now in the Tombs, under sentence of | who was to be married to a man of great re- death for murder, and Judge Roosevelt yester- | puted wealth and somewhat older than herself. day delivered an opinion in favor of the appli- | Thereupon the literary loafers waxed eloquent, cation. We have often been compelled to de- | and invented various romances, which went the precate the leniency so freely extended to | ounds of the press. They puffed the shop- criminals in this city, for itis notorious that | keepers, and probably received a hat from the course of justice has been arrested on too | Genin, or presents or douceurs from others. many occasions upon frivolous pretences, and | The public interest was excited to a great great offenders have been permitted to escape, | degree, and the newspapers gave elaborate ac- very much to the discredit of the execution of | counts of the wedding in various styles, In criminal law, and to the manifest encourage- | these accounts—for the facts of which some of ment of crime; but in this case, the Court | the writers drew heavily on their imaginative seems to have arrived at o fair as | faculties—there were errors, some of the most well as a humane conclusion. The unfortunate | gross of which were corrected by Mr. Bartlett convict is a foreigner, ignorant of our customs | over his own signature. There the matter was and institutions; the deed can hardly be pre- | dropped, apparently forever, when out come sumed to have been premeditated, as the blow | the verses of Stedman in the Zribune. He re- which produced death was inflicted in a scuffle, | produced all the stale slanders of the loafing and under circumstances of intense excitement. | correspondents, and, with a degree of effrontery Judging from the papers laid before it, the Court | to which even they are not equal, he placed his decided that had the prisoner been able to | name over the head of his latnpoon. Acting make a more perfect defence, the verdict would | upon the impulse of the moment, Mr. Bartlett most probably have been manslaughter instead | commences a correspondence of an apparently of murder, if not a clear verdict of acquittal; ’ hostile character; but subsequontly, acting upo®