The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1859, Page 4

4 — NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT! EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE X. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 8TS. TERMS, advance, Money madt rill be ot the Pe ovis Seg ae Sot Aen pec pe “TOR DAILY to conte 1 $1 per anwem. THE WHERLY HERALD: coo Renchep cc ce starr pyc SB per annum; the European Bslition cvery Welnes key, conta per copy, $4 per annum to any part of (read Britain, a Ar) of the Continent. both #0 lacus a lon om the Sth and xh of each or ey PETE FAMILY MEIALD on Walienlay, at four cenla par or annum. SSPONDENCE, containing tnportans Rar rag RY Faw paid for, Rar Oor FoRKian Cogursroy' ABTIOULARLY Reouesren to Skat aut Lerrens ct sip conte AGES BENT CS. We do wa ‘ Bi taken of enonymous correspontencs, We NO NOTIC) emmgnn retury com i i I y Si ered every dity; advertisements im. fornia ion, OT UINTING ceaculed with nastnes, cleapnen and dm AMUSEMENTS TIS EVENING. 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New York, Monday, October 31, 1859, MAILS FOR EUROPE The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch, will leave Boston on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close in this city to-morrow afternoon, at balf-past one o'clock, to go Dy railroad, and at three o'clock to go by steamboat. * The Evroraan Enron or raz Hararp will be published at ton o'clock tm the morning. Single copiea in wrap- pers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yours Huns will be received at the following places to Europe:— Lexpon... . Sampson Low, Son & Co. 47 Ladgate Fill. Lansing, Starr & Co., 74 King William street. Pans...... Lansing, Baldwin & Go., 8 place de la Bourse. Lavauroot. Lansing, Starr & Co., NO, 9 Cha 1 street. The contents of the Evrorgay Eprrom ov ras Hesatp ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of the publication. ‘The News. The steamer Nova Scotian, which left Liverpool on the 19th inst. for Quebec, arrived off Father Point on Saturday morning. The news is two days Jater than that brought by the Jason, and is quite interesting. Atreaty of peace between France and Austria waa signed at Zurich on the Ist inst. It is said to be simply an elaboration of the terms agreed upon at Villafranca. Other treaties were, however, to be signed in a few days. Great preparations were being made for the assembling of an European Congress, to be composed of representatives of the five great Powers, and Spain, Sardinia, Sweden, Portugal, Nepies and Rome. To this Congress is to be con- fided the fate of Italy. It is reported that Great Britain demands the complete independence of Centra! Italy from foreign control as a sine qua non of her sending a plenipotentiary to the Con- gress. The Pope would soon, it was said, issue a general manifesto on the questions connected with Italy. Changes in the French Ministry are again spoken of. The difficulty between Spain and Morocco has been amicably adjusted. The news of the arrival and courteous reception of our Minister, Mr. Ward, at Pekin, is confirmed. ‘The intelligence was brought to Shanghae bya Russian gunboat, but no letters were received from any of the United States legation. «Mr. Ward ex- pected to arrive at Shanghae by the last of August with the ratified treaty. The accounts from Japan state that the currency question remained unadjusted, and trade conse- quently continued suspended. The steamship Great Eastern was still at anchor at Holyhead, but nothing was actually known as to the time of her departure for the United States. The London money market was very buoyant, and consols had advanced, the closing quotations being 96] 8 96} both for money and account. American securities were without change. Cotton was unchanged in Liverpool, and holders offered stocks freely. Breadstuffs hada downward tendency. Provisions were dull. We publish to-day letters from Mexico, dated at Guadalajara and in the city of Mexico on the 17th of September and the Ist of October respectively, which give full details of the progress of events in that republic. The news of the captare of Tepic by the constitutionalists is confirmed. A fall ac- count of the murder of Consul Ormond Chase, of Maine, is given, with a variety of intelligence re- specting the local and sectional squabbles in nearly every part of the country. The trial of Old Brown, at Charlestown, Va., is rapidly drawing to a conclusion. We give in another part of to-day’s paper a full report of the fourth day's proceedings before the Court. The evi- dence offered on the part of the defence was main- Jy as to Brown’s considerate treatment of his pri- soners. The prosecution desired to submit the case to the jury without argument, but Brown insisted upon his counsel making an appeal to the jury. Accordingly one of the Commonwealth’s attorneys addressed the Court and jury, and atthe conclu- sion of his remarks the Court adjourned till Mon- day, when the counsel for the prisoner will sum up. The prisoner has three lawyers to defend him, namely, Messrs. Hoyt, of Boston; Chilton, of Wash- ington, D. C., and Griswold, of Cleveland, Ohio. Brown still exhibits the coolness and fortitade which have characterised his demeanor since his capture. A couple of military companies from Frederick and Winchester visited the prisoners yes- terday, and an interesting conversation ensued be- ‘ween Old Brown and the Virginia soldiers, a re- Port of which is embraced in the despatch of our special correspondent. It is said that Cook is en- gaged in writing his confession. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Rey. Dr. Peters, (white), and Rey. Mr. Garnett (colored), made the Harper's Ferry affiir and the « irrepressible conflict” the subjects of their pulpit discourses yesterday. We refer to our reports for the record of their views on these important matters. The atmosphere yesterday was quite cool, the sky overcast with heavy clouds, which, judging from their peculiar form or strata, indicate a coming snow storm. The city was unusually quiet, ‘a SEER VOLES i: octet wos apron sai and the travel o raileoads and the fercics | The Harper's Forry Treason Justified by between the pik of & moderate busiaess. the Abolittontete—The Issac of Our State Tue sales of coWon on Saturday reached about 1,200} Blecwtions. 8 1,500 tales, closing steadily on tho basis of about While some of the abolition and republl: t14c. for middling uplands, Flour was heary avd more | can journals which formerly endorsed the freely aie, and clezed sa divine of Fo be. hiryee] actions of the uufortunate Old Brown ia or WOL. for common and medium brads, while tap extie Hire, anglerornty Wheat se ye Kenans, now desert him in his fullure and lower for eatao deacriptiona, while cales wore toa far ox. | Misfortune, onll him a madman, and attempt to tent, The supplies of corn wore light, and Lolders quite | wriggle out of a Justification of the Harper's frm, with sale of mixed and Southorn yellow at $1a | Ferry conspdeacy, others, more bold, of the $1 ak bee bushels Tork as dully with the (ura q/ int { ultra stamp, openly defend the motive and the mar’ i favor urchasers, with sales is $15 16.0815 29, and pete ee #10 804 810 09, sugars | 86% Which characterised the bloody scenes in were firm aud in good detnand, with sates of about 1,200 | Virginia. In these sheets, treason to the gov hhats, Cuba at steady prices, and 7,600 bags Manilla at | ernment, on the part of John Brown and every Pp. t. With later intelligence (rom Rio, the market for | one else, is fearlesaly preached and sanctified, boetcta meee ial setae cae tal ae with @ daring that puts to shamo the sneaking Freights oe hanes calee pedro while engage. | desertion of Brown by the republican organs, ments were moderate. here and elsewhere, which spirited him on to his traitorous acts, For example, the Roaton Liberator, the organ Peace in Kurope—Triumph of the Satis fled Nationalitice—Is Garribaldi to Gar- of the Garrisonian school, pron his rison Rome? ble one, which “will receive the The news from Europe, received yesterday | PUTPOSe & Nol ‘ from Pathe Point, Goegh without pean i plaudits of every manly and generous heart.” A : i Now, what was his purposet Was it not to full of weighty matter in regard to the political J Malte ee dat ceca arm and organize tho black population of the A treaty of peace has been signed between South against the white, and spread rapine and France and Austria ; another treaty was about | murder throughout the on Lg it aot to be signed between France and Sardinia, and rebelKon against the constitution gad govern a tripartite treaty between these three Powers | ent of the United States? Yet this is the very would be signed subsequently, In Italy mat- | PUrPOse which Seward avowed in his Rochester ters, too, are assuming a more pacific aspeot. speech, and which Wilson, and Giddings, and Deputations from Parma and Tuscany had had Chase, and Gerrit Smith, and the other leaders satisfactory interviews with Louis Napoleon. of that class, have been all along fostering by The Archbishop of Bordeaux was about to visit | Word and material aid. The Liberator com- Rome in order to press upon the Pope the | pares its hero, Brown, to Lafayette and the good necessity of reform in his government. The ! Samaritan, in a way that leaves these two { Emperor is supposed to have promised not to , illustrious instances of humanity and self- 3 no longer necessary, and it is announced withdraw the French troops from Rome until a ' sacrifice under very little compliment for the change in the government renders their presence § Comparizon. We are tald that— ages, culogized by Jesus a4 the modal of human excel- that Louis Napoleon and the Pope will address , lsiee for helping one whom he chancvd to dad in need ‘i ‘ outs Ni seek those who were lost, that he might save them. Ai oe sc regeGd uovilorideary arta And we are remined that Lafayette is perfect master'o Pe | ag woo unbounded praise andgratitude, and a lofty place The terms of the treaty of peace be- bebalf of an oppressed people, at the darkest hour iu their fortanes, and with evory prospect of losing what he to be substantially the same as those of | risked in thoir behalf. He offered his aid tm this desperate the armistice at Villafranca; that amounts | pcple‘act, aud tho glory which has followed hia success is Central and a part of Northern Italy, and | Could not reveive ® message from bim or wend an answer secures the erection of an Italian power. In Asmay be expected, Governor Wise comes in order to appreciate fully the magnitude of the this class of writers is remarkable—being cour- to the true principles of the war. These were teously alluded to as the “braggart buffoon who set down with great frankness by the Austrian | appropriately holds the Governor's chair in the recent fruitless mission to Vienna, in very | But all this is meek and gentle compared nearly these words:—“A diplomatic arrange- | with the language and sentiments of the lead- ment is impossible; Louis Napoleon pro- } ing article in the same paper, as published in we defend the rights of dynasties and the estab- | folowing paragraphs the very same ideas lished order of things.” On these great prin- | which fill the Rochester manifesto of Senator ciples war ensued, and the chance of battle | Seward, the “irrepressible confilot” allusion which Austria has now signed at Zurich ratifies | By the logic of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill, and the award of the sword, and recognises to some | PY {26 Priutip ln oot oy a eons was 2 net backward in the time-worn claims of kingeraft. | Mtidea'n all tat he aimed to. achieve, howeres, lacking The dynastic assumptions of Austria in Italy | im sound discretion. And by the same logic and the samo hia destruction be necessary to enable hie victims to * ; : wi the present age. pene aS: posed ‘eld by foes ant tra realy warranted The next point where Louis Napoleon shows incarrying rel a toany extent, and securit himself master of the situation is in the Italian | Sivhatever comt, tt will bos terribly losing day for all to the gullows. It will be sowing seed broadcast for a har- a vest of retribution. Their blood will cry trampet-tongued Bishop of Bordeaux addressed him a remarka- Dare en, and a7 =e bexcapaaiea st bis eas ble speech. The world listened, and said there | Sinthern slavemongers to smnito. together as did. thoso of is dissension between the French Emperor and | Belshazzar of old. Ob! that they might avoid all this» . A a timely repentance. the clergy; he owes hia power to their support; ‘And Ghose axe the seniimenta tobe combai. if he loses it now, take care. Louis Napoleon ted—these thé fasues to be met at theNew York wont:—“What will there be in Rome when I | 4 nore in November, the inference will clear- withdraw my troops—anarchy and terror, oF | 1, be that his traitorous doctrines lave been peace?” The question fell on the startled ears endorsed by this State; but if, by all roters who ing electric light on the Italian disiculty, and combining in support of the mixed fcket, the it must have made the halls of the Vatican trem- Seward party shall be defeated, then the result ble. The priestly speaker at Bordeaux hastens will be arepudiation of the Seward prgramme, people before the French troops go. Pio Nono spired against the peace of the country and are talks no more of ~ Sepest to the Catholiopow- willing to drown it in blood to obtain varty su- ers and the aid of Divine Providence, but premacy. Are the voters of this Stae ready to the dissatisfied people of his own States. This is the second victory of the principle of | Bank Famvres 1n Canaps.—Two tanks do- satisfied nationalities in Europe. ing business in Toronto closed their dors last deputations from Parma and Tuscany with Louis | whistle after the moncy which these mtes rep- Napoleon indicate any further progress of | resented. The first that went was theInterna- the Napoleonic ideas in Europe, we shall soon | tional. It shut up shop last Wedneslay, and Austria driven out, and kept out of Italy, we | lonial. The aggregate amount of the atstand- shall not be at all surprised to see Garibaldi | ing notes of the two broken down extablish- take the place of Cardinal Antonelli in Rome, | ments is estimated at about three hundred Pope as the head of confederated Central Italy. There was nothing in the general aspect of By making the Pope the head of the Italian | trade or business to lead to the suspeision of Confederation, two great points will be at- | these banks. The community in whih they out establishing a new dynasty or disturbing | of prosperity. There had been no comnercial any old one; and while an elective choice is | failures, nor had the banks been known {to have secured, the Italian people will be freed from | sustained any heavy losses of late. Fo1 aught den acquisition of the right of an elective | as fraudulent debtors do, when they fouad that government. Such a solution is the only logieal | they had got as much credit as they could ex- answer to Louis Napoleon’s question to the | pect to get. The managers of the one, with satisfaction of the Parmese and the Tuscan de- | the American side of the Ontario without so putations, and prognosticates the entrance of | much assaying “good-bye;” and the managers of Garibaldi into Rome in order to permit the | the other went throngh the operation of “a run” leaving it the prey to anarchy and terror. coolly announced that it could not redeem any The general Congress of the European Pow- | more of its notes. era which will soon meet is said to embrace Both these banks appear to have been of Sweden, Portugal, Naples and Rome. We donot | few years ago, on the same principle with see why those of Holland, Belgium, Denmark, | which we are unfortunately so familiar on this Switzerland and Turkey should be omitted, and | side of the St. Lawrence. That is, a charter is alwaysan aim of the first Napoleon, and we | some speculative genius, aided by lobby influ- doubt not is that of the third of that name. | ences. That charter is then put up for private Such a body will not hesitate to ratify the re- | sale and disposed of to the highest bidder. any of the difficulties attending the unfulfilled | by Mr. Cashier Jones in the Colchester Bank stipulations of Villafranca in relation to the | case, a few weeks ago, are put in practice. return of the rejected dukes to Italy. Finally, after an existence of a year or two, THe Great Easteny.—We learn by the Nova | foundation, gives way, the public are victimized, Scotian, which arrived at Father Point on Sat- | and a new lesson is given in regard to the ease urday morning, that a meeting of the Directors | with which public credulity can be imposed on the 9th inst, when it was thought they | It is not very often that bank failures take would decide definitely upon her time of sail- place in the British provinces; but in the mat- ing. It is to be hoped that they have done so, | ter of banks, as in other things, they are there have been various rumérs afloat which | tem. Here the rise and sudden extinction of a seemed in some measure to throw a doubt upon | bank hardly attracts public notice. Bank her entire success. These reports ought to be | swindles are so common that we scarcely no- we doubt not that we shall hear before long | little to our credit if, with all our boasted that the monster of the deep is in perfectly | civilization, a plan cannot be devised to recon- good condition, and may be looked for in this } cile a system of free banks with the mainte- ‘the picture of the Good Samaritan will live to all future a joint manifesto to the Roman States. ample cf the beavicent Saviour himself, for he went to iu the reoords of history, by valunteoring bis services in tween him and Francis Joseph are said crisig, and came hithor whea itwas accepted. It waea of the claims she has so long maintained in | sufferings of alife,to those who wore so oppressed that they for a fair share of that style of abuse for which gain to Italy and to Europe, we must look back Prime Minister, to Lord Cowley, during his | sjaye-breeding State of Virginia.” claims the principle of satisfied nationalities; | gaturday’s HxraLp. Who can fail to see in the inclined in favor of the nations. The treaty | ang all? extent the rights of the people. It is a step | struggling against fearful odds, not for his own advantage, holder has forfeited his rr have gone back before the political ideas of Ig nt ot 4 ‘oa ieee to freedom siayedom when John Brown and his associates are brought question. It is only a few days since that the replied in few words, but to the point, as is his | state election; for, if the Seward tickst be clect- of the clergy; it spread through Europe, throw- | Fine the peace and prosperity of the Union to Rome to warn the Pope to be well with his | ana @ rebuke to the traitors who lave con- speaks of a joint manifesto with Louis Napoleon for Ghat teous?. Whether the satisfactory interviews of the | week, leaving the holders of their 1otes to know from the course of events. But with | its example was followed next day by the Co- and the late Chasseurs des Alpes sustaining the | thousand dollars. tained. A central power will be created with- | were established were enjoying a high degree the great dangers that would attend their sud- | that appears to the contrary, they closed, just Archbishop of Bordeaux. It accounts for the | their carpet-bags in hand, took passage for French troops to evacuate that city without | onits counter for a couple of hours, and then also the secondary powers of Sardinia, Spain, | recent growth. They were established only a they may perhaps come in. Such a Congress was | procured from the Provincial Parliament by cent dynastic changes in Italy, and thus remove | Then the series of operations so fully described there is a crash—the rotten fabric, having no of the Great Eastern Company was to be held upon by cunning financiers. for ever since the explosion occurred on board gradually becoming inoculated with our sys- set at rest by some official announcement, and | tice them. Still it mnst be confessed that it is country during the fall. nance of perfect safeguards for the public. NEW YORK HERALD, “MONDAY, OOTOBHR: 31, 1850, ‘The Union Ferry Monopoly. The lease of the ferries held by the Union Company expires next year, and the most desperate efforts will be made by the direotors to engineer through the Common Council of New York the renewal of this odious monopoly. There is no doubt that large sums of money are being expended to effect this object, the immense profits ‘made by the company leaving a margin large onough to cover almost any amount of bribery. Unless, therefore, the residents of Brooklyn take somo prompt and effective steps in the matter, they will again find themselves saddled with an ex- tortionate impost which keeps down the value of property in their city and adds materially to their personal expenditure. In order that tho vague gencralities which the Union Com- pany put forward asa plea for their maintain- ing the present extravagant fares, and which will no doubt be again brought up in the dis- cussion of this question, may be estimated at their just value, we think it necessary to briefly recapitulate the facts of their position in regard to the public. The old South Ferry Company was ea tablished by a grant from the Le- gislature on the express condition that the fares should be kept down as low as was consistent with a fair return on the capital in- vested. That understanding was fairly and honorably obeerved, a cent only being charged to foot passengers, and a low rate of commuta- tion fixed, not only for individuals, but for vehi- cles. Ona capital of about $196,000 the com- pany managed to pay its stockholders an an- nual interest of seven per cent, and to lay by a handsome reserve to meet all losses arising from damage to the boats and other contingen- cies. Finding their affairs in this prosperous condition, they took the leases of the Fulton street and Hamilton ferries, and although the latter did not pay its expenses under their man- agement, they not only continued to full all their pledges to the public, but they paid to their stockholders something like 42} per cent over and above their regular dividends. This state of things, be it borne in mind, co-existed with the one cent fares and the commutation arrangement. Finding these ferries thus handsomely re- munerative, Mr. Cyrus P. Smith, one of the most active members of the company, withdrew himself from it, and purchased, first the Cathe- rine street and then the Rutgers and Roose- velt, ferries as a private speculation. Finding that they did not answer as well as he expected, owing to the establishment of other ferries, he manceuvred to burthen the old company with them, and with this view began by procuring the reorganization of the original association, under the title of the Union Company. |The men who had managed the old concern, iu the interest of the public, were shoved out of the direction, and persons of more pliable character put in their places. From $196,000, the capital stock was raised to $800,000, a sum much larger than was needed to work the ferries that were really likely to pay. After a brief interval the direction, under its new organization, began to exhibit the true nature of the elements of which it was composed. Under the pretexts of an increase in the price of coals and of the Rutgers, Rosevelt and Wall street ferries rupning away with the profits of those which the public knew were making profitable re‘urns, they raised the passenger fares'to two cer ¢,and abolished entirely the commutation system. Of course a great outcry was raised against this proceeding, and the most persist- ent efforts were made to draw from the compa- ny such a statement of their receipts and ex- penditures as would satisfy the public as to its necessity. The men who had the management of its affairs were too wise to be provoked into such confidences, and in spite of the bitterest denunciations on the part of individuals, the most unequivocal condemnation on that of the press, and imputations on all sides, which no men of any spirit would have submitted to, they continued to maintain a discreet silence. As goon as the public indignation was calmed down, and people became resigned to a mea- sure to which they could apply no remedy, the company again showed its hand. They gave up two of the non-paying ferries brought in by Mr. Cyrus P. Smith, keeping that of Wall street, which they asserted did not pay, but which every one knew must dosoin a little time, and they have continued to levy the increased impost of two cents on passengers, notwith- standing that the remaining pretext to which they have resorted in defence of it—the high price of coals—has failed them every succeed- ing season to that in which it was first ad- vanced. The actual position of the company is there- fore this, and we challenge contradiction of the facts: The three ferries—the Fulton, South and Hamilton—two of which only paid expen- ses in the time of the old association, are now all making large profits, while the Wall street and Catherine nearly balance the expenditure. The deduction from these facts isa simple one- Af the old South Ferry Company, withonly two paying ferries out of three, and less than half the amount of traffic, managed at one cent, and with low commutations, to pay seven per cent interest on the capital stock, and bonuses of 424 per cent, the Union Company, with double fares, double the amount of traffic, no commu- tation, and the worst of their ferries nearly covering their expenditure, must be realizing fabulous profits. Of their exact amount of course no estimate can be formed, for they take care that nothing shall leak out which shall af- ford a clue to them. Is it not monstrous, that by trickery so mani- fest, a moneyed clique of this kind should be allowed to defeat the expressed conditions under whioh it originally derived its powers from the Legislature, and plunder the public after such a wholesale fashion? The wonder is that, with facts so patent, a whole community should suffer themselves to be fleeced thus un- scrupulously without raising such a storm about the ears of their spoilers as would com- pel them to yield from fear what they will not concede from shame. One thing is certain, that unless the Brooklyn people move very speedily in this matter the legal remedy, which is shortly attainable, will be placed beyond their reach, The Union Company are working heaven and earth with our Common Council to secure the renewal of their leases. The influ- ences by which the members of that Board are moved are no secret, and unless measures be at once adopted to deter them from voting away for a corrupt consideration the water rights at both sides of the river, this vile mono- poly will be again saddled upon the public for a lengthened term of years. Ponto Iscagvoury on ras Harrun's Feuer Arvrain.—Tho first that was pub- lished of the seizure of Harper's Ferry by John Brown and his elghteen followers was treated by the community at large as a bit of romanc- ing, or at all events as a sample of the highest sort of exaggeration. The thing was so pre- posterous on ita face that no one could believe it. A riot or outbreak of some kind there might have been—probably a strike of the workmen for higher wages, or something ofthat sort—but as to the seizure of the United States Armory by a band of insurrectionists, as to stopping the trains, cutting the telegraph wires, fortifying the bridge, holding the citizens as prisoners of war, levying contributions upon them, and establishing a state of siege there— why, such a thing could be nothing less than a Munchausenism of the grossest kind. Days elapsed after the first news before the people began to realize the fact of its being true in all its main features; but since then incredulity has given place to amazement that a score of people could be found so desperately sense- less a8 to take part in such a movement. This is the first instance in our national history of a real overt act of treason committed against the general government. Burr, to be sure, was tried for treason; but the allegations against him went no further than to the fact of his having had arms collected with the design of seizing upon some portion of the Mexican territory and combining it with a few of the Southern States in an independent re- public. Sam Houston afterward carried outa part of the programme in effecting the inde- pendence of Texas. But here was a premedi- tated invasion of federal territory, a deliberate seizure of one of the arsenals of the general government, an expulsion or an imprisoning of the officials of the government, a general setting at defiance of the laws, and the establishment ofa provisional form of government something on the French model. It was no wonder that the first intelligence of the affair was treated as a romance, or at most as an ordinary riot grossly exaggerated. It was almost beyond belief, and yet was never- theless strictly true. Let us hope that due punishment being meted out to the conspira- tors,and to all who aided, abetted and en- couraged them, it may be long before another attempt at insurrection is made within the borders of our republic.. Tux Cost or an Inpran Hunt in THe Norra- west—War ow THE Unrrep States Treasury.— Among the claims that have been pressed upon Congress for the last two or three years, and that will be pressed at the next sexsion, is one for what is called the Oregon and Washington war debt. Many of our readers may not be familiar with the mode of getting up these In- dian wars ; and yet it is a regular system in the distant Territories. Some act of theft or murder, perpetrated by, or imputed to, an In- dian, is made the pretext for getting up an In- dian hunt, whenever the ordinary occupations of the settlers fail them and they want either excitement or a haul on the Treasury. Volunteers are enrolled; they sally out in pursuit of some unfortunate band of Indians, probably have a fight, and then the hostilities are exaggerated into a war. When the regular government troops get to the ground they usually find that there is nothing to do, that it was all cry and little wool, and that for them Pu-ku- mux-mux, or whatever other barbarous name the head man of the Indians bore, had made a treaty of peace, smoked the calumet and buried the hatchet. But that is only one phase of the war. The next phase it assumes isin the shape of a tre- mendous attack upon the treasury. In other words, the whole people of the United States are called upon to pay the expenses of this Indian bunt enjoyed by only a few. As the object is to get all that canbe got from the general government, every one is allowed to put up his bill at the highest figure; and con- sequently the aggregate claim is rather start- ling. ; F Wesee, by a recent report from the Third Au- ditor of the Treasury, that the Oregon war hunt of 1855-6 is set down as having cost something like five millions of dollars, and the Washing- ton Territory branch of the same at between two and three millions, although the highest number of men enrolled at any one time in the former Territory was but 2,124. The reports do not show how many men were in actual service at any one time, for how long a period the service continued, or how many fell in the war on either side. It is clear, however, that the hunt was rather an expensive one; that, as the French say, the game was not worth the candle, and that it is rather a cool proceeding on the part of our friends in the Northwestern Territories to ask so many millions of dollars for killing a few Indians. The matter will have to be disposed of by the next Congress, and we only wish that the bill could be compromised at a million of dollars, and that would probably be double as much as the thing cost. Tux Democratic ViaILant Association AND ‘mut Jupiciary.—-The Democratic Vigilant Asso- ciation is capable of doing an immense amount of good, and we hope that it will use its power to thatend. There are any number of men in nomination for judicial offices in the various courts of this county. Some of the nominations are good, some bad, and the most indifferent. As there can be nothing of more vital impor- tance to any community than to maintain the purity and integrity of the Bench, we call upon the Vigilant Association to make selections from among the nominees of the various parties, and recommend the best of them for the suffrages of the people at the coming election. The Wreck of the New World. LATER FROM THE SUNKEN 8TEAMER—AKRIVAI OF MORE FREIGHT. By the steamer Columbia, which bronght down yoster- day a load of freight picked np as it floated out from the steamer at ebb tide, we learn that no material change had takon place since Saturday. She had been hauled closer in shore at the last flood tide and eccured by a line fhs- tened to the dock, instead of boing held by steamer or pro- peller. ‘The Columbia brought down a large number of cheats of toa, dry goods boxes, barrels, bales of cotton, Liquor casks, swoot potatoes, &ic., but none of: the passen- gers’ baggage. Captain St. John came down in the Co- jumbla, to hurry up with all possible despatch the der rick, which was to go up last evening at flood tide. The steamers Columbia and Satellite both went back yester- day, to stay by the sunken steamer and save the cargo as it floated out. Several policemen are on board, keep- ing aneye to the Jersey buccancers, who seom very anxious to assist in paving freight. Tho covering of tho hollors has been stripped off, stoam pipes disconnectod, and everything in readinoss for tho derrick whon it ar’ rives. cost of tie derrick is LJ an hour Whilst at which is, perl & reasonable charge for suc! pas h machinery tdi: doesioks had, bee employod in raising the sunken steamer Long Island, at sands’ Potut, otherwise Captain St. John would have had. hin steamer up and on the balance dock before this time. Now that the dorrick has gone up, we shall soon know 11@ worst concerning the damage done to tho stoamor, a3 well as to the cargo aud passengers’ baggage — NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, acta aaeaaaaeneel The French Miselol—The Territory o Dacotah—Vespatcha from Our Minip tors im Central and Chile—In. creased Mail Facil Between New. York and New Orlouns, déie., de. OUR SPECIAL WASHINTON DuSsPAToR. ‘Waurnoron, Oct. 30, 1868, It is understood that the Prettens will not appoims Minister to Paria till the mecting ¢ Congreas, corver of Towa to the Red Rivor othe North, have fim- inhed their work, ready to be submitted te Congrosa, It { believed that Congress will imtediatoly establish = territorial government over the parbut off from Miae- our flag oF to afford protection to Amerign intoroate of Additional advices have been received y the Depart- ment of State from South and Central Americ, Protesser Dimitry had arrived at bis post. He coymunicates nothing of general importance, not having boemhere long enough to ascertain tho exact condition of maters, He was received with every attention due his poition by the people, and he states that tho very best foclhgs are entertained for the United States. Mr, Bigler, our Minister to Chile, is succeeding admi- rably with the Chileans. All outstanding difficulticsare afair way of a speedy and amicaple adjustmont. To has asked for leave of absence to return to the United tates, which will probably be granted him. ‘The presidents of the various railroads from Mane to Now Orleana are here, for the purpose of making profosala to tho Postmaster General for transporting the United ‘States mail from Portland to New Orleans. The tims re- quired by the Department for carrying the mails, ta which contractors agree to fulfil or’ forfeit their pay, is three days between New Orleans and New York; aad is further étipulated by the Department that in the event of failure or detention at any intermediate point, the con- tractors shal! be obliged, upon tho arrival of tho mail, te despatch the same immediately by spocial train, instead of awaiting the usual time for the departure of the next regular train. The proposals for bids will cloge on Tues- day next at three o'clock. ‘THK GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOS. ‘Wasuxatox, Oct. 30, 1859. Intelligent gentlemen who have just arrived here from | the Pacific coast, say that the people thero will be sur- prised at the visit of Licutenant-Genoral Scott to San Juan, as only in the Atlantic States has that island boon magui- fled to the importance of a continent. While it belongs to the United States, and will be retained, thcy add that it is really not worth quarreling about, and that its value bas been surprisingly over estimated. It is certain that the tone of the British Ministry on this subject is not over agrecable to our government; but an explicit declaration that General Harney was not instructed to occupy the island, and a calm and dignified explanation of all the attendant circumstances will, it is thought, produce a better state of fecling on the part of our transatlantic neighbor. The President has recognized Robert Guilhorme des Santos as Vico Consul of Portugal at Norfolk, and Eugene Esdra as Vice Consul of the same kingdom at Charleston, 8c Sie es ae Extensive Fire in Boston. Bostox, Oot. $0, 1859. A sugar house six storics high in Gooch street, owned and occupied by Soth Adams, was totally destroyed by fire this evening. The loss on the stock is $80,000, and om the building and machinery $59,000. The insurance om stock is $59,500, of which the following is in Now York offices :—Fulton $5,000, Humboldt $2,500, Metropolttas $2,000, Mercantile $5,000, Fireman’s Fund $5,000, North American $2,500, Irving $1,000, Empire City $5,000, Excelsior $5,000. The remainder is in Boston. Tondon and Springfield offices. The insurance on the Duilding is $12,000, and on the machinery, $12,000; of which the New World Company of New York has $3,000, tho Manhattan of New York $3,000, and the Latayetlo of Brooklyn $1,000. Very little stock was saved—not over 200 bbls. of sugar. The fire was probably incendiary. ‘Two houses in Crescent place were slightly damaged. A fire occurred about four o'clock this afternoon im the sixth story of Banker & Carpenter's store, Nos. 107 and 109 State street, dealers im and manufacturers of paints, &c. The entire loss is about} $1,000. The building is owned by Ievorott Sal- tonstall. The cause of the fire is unknown. < Fatal Affray in Baltimore. Baxtmwone, Oct. 30, 1859. J. Marshal Hanna, reporter of the Baltimore Sua, whilst in the Fire Alarm Telegraph office to-night, got into 4 difficulty with parties present, drew a pistol and shot Wm. L. McPhail, President of the Second Branch of the Cty Council, at present Acting Mayor of the city, during the sickness of Mayor Swann. The ball took effect im the th.gh and produced a serious wound, which will probably cause Mr. MoPhail’s death. Funeral of the Late Minister Mason. Ricanonn, Va., Oct. 30, 1869. The funeral of the the Hon. John ¥. Mason was vory imposing. There was a military escort, and an immense concourse of citizens. The remains were buried in Hol- lywood, near thoso of ex-President Monroe. The Steamship Quaker City. Pum.apeuewma, Oct. 30, 1869. A Ketter from Norfolk reports the steamship Quaker City as having received new pieces, to replace the damage to her machinery, from Philadelphia. She will soom depart for her destination. Destructive Fires in New Orleans. New Onunans, Oct, 30, 1869, Portions of three squares in the Third district of this city were burned last night. Seventy-four poor families were burned out. oss $100,000. A large fire ia raging this afternoon, at the corner of Poydras and Levee streets. ataeciite DT sealers Bae Fire in Richmond, Va. Ricumonp, Oct. 30, 1869. ‘The extensive planing mill of J. & C. Gibson has boon totally destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $25,000. Frost in the South. New Ortmann, Oct. 30, 1850, There was a killing frost in various parts of Louisiana and Mississippi this morning. Markets. New Onveans, Oct. 29, 1860. Cotton unchanged: sales to-day 6,000 bales. firm at 634¢. a 7c for fair to fully fair, Molasses, now crop, 890. a 40c, New York hay $20. 4, Oct 2, 1980 to ; sales to-day 3,600 bales. Cotton unchanged; enles to-day 3,800 Dales, to-day 3,600 balev. Tho turn is in favor oe Crrceerar, Oot. 29,1850. Flour depreased. Provisions unchanged. less pork fT dull at 283¢0. $13 75, Lard 10c. Whiskey Fou ine. Flour unchanged. Wheat firm, and above buyers’ views; sales Cae ‘bushels Milwaukee club No. 1 at $1 04; 8,000 ts white Canadian on private torms. Barley, rye, and oats arc quite, Pras firm; sales 2,000 buabols ‘of Canadian at 670. to arrive. Freights nnchanged; flour, 36c.: whoat, 10c. to New York. Lake importe—200 bbls. of flour, 82,400 bushels of wheat, 9,100 bushels of barley, 8,606 bushels of rye, 10,000 bushels of oats, 500 bushels of peas. Canal ¢: j—4,000 barrels of flour, 26,300 bush- els of wheat, 6,400 bushels of barley. Cincago, Oct., 29, 1859. Flour has a declining tendency. Whoat quiet and le. lower; sales at 88340. 0 89¢. Corn has a declining ton- dency. Oats dull. Receipte—7,600 bbls. tlonr; 100,000 busbois wheat; 9,000 bushels corn; 17,000 bushela oats. Shipmentsa—6,000 bbls. flour; 60,000 b-shels wheat. MILWAUKKK, Oct., 20, 1850. Flour dull. Wheat quiet and Ic. lower. orn and oats unchanged. Dwrrorr, Oct., 29, 1869. 2 clon dal, | Wheat stondy: Corn steady. Receipts 24 bis. flour; 4,800 bushels wheat. Shipment bbls. flour; 3,300 buehels wheat, sim - Toreno, Oct. , 29, 1859. Fiour very dull; no gales. Wheat very dull; no gales; Recelpts—7,500 bbls. flour; 17,000 bushols wheat. Ship ment#—1,000 bbis flour; 16,000 bushols wheat. Deatit or A Teuxcrra Orerator.—Mr. Arch. L. Cook, one of the oldest Morge operators in the United Statea, died of consumption at Baltimore on Thursday last, having beom absont from his post of duty but a singlo day, and that im- diately preceding his death. Mr. Oook was for many years in the employ of the Magnotic nnd Southern Tele- graph ‘Companies, and commanded their respect and es tom. Ho was also very much bedoved by his brother ope- rators, and they sincerely lamgnt hig Wwst. Ho leaves & wife and two little children,