The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1859, Page 4

4 s NEW YORK HERALD, | T: ™2zz7tan4 Bicction—The —— day. Such fe the bypooriay.and the hambug JaMBs CORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DEPICE N. W. CONNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON srs. ETS ca” Poanae danpe at rectioad as subscription “tne D, 1, $1 per annum Te Wide MPA Lt Decry Sr fet ec ae} PTRIEY HERALD on Wednesday, ot four cents per se Bute path. FING everett with neatness, cheapness and de +. Me. 208 AMUSEMENTS TU-MORROW EVENING, AOAPEMY OF MUSTO, Fourtconth streeg—Trantax On. @a—ttouan Vesrens. NIPLO’E GARDEN, Broadway.—Rory O'Mone—Aw Four ‘BavuLe. HSM ahs YY THEATRE, bowery. —Tunee Emas us tus Line or 4 FinkMas—HRLPHRCOk—Ma. ap Mas, PERE Ware, WINTEE GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Bue ALLACKS THEATRE, Broadway.—Pasr Max ov one Some rr Bux. 7 LAURA KEENE'S THRATRE, 64 Broadway.—Manace Bxant. ‘eW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uavca Tow’ chieevAasuae ano comin os BABNUM’S AMERIOAN MurEUM, Broadway.—Afer- nooa—Wxeck Asnong. Evening—Honnery rus Best Pou oy—MaRRIED AND BURIED. WOOD’S*MINSTREL’S, 444 Broadway.—Ezazorts Soxas, Dasces, £0.—hionarD tue Tain, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica Hall, 472 Brosdway.— $ party there, is the significant bearing of this + BoENrS AT Pratons. ge NIBLOS SALOON, Brosdway.—Gro. Cunurr’s Mur stuns 1 Sonas, Nances, Bueiesqoys, &0.—Misroxzunes Or DoLiMER SwieRs, COOPER INSTITUTE—Rav. Da. Scuppan’s Lrorcre om Huspoeras axp 18 Hurvoos. ss eT TS SS SS_<—— New York, Sunday, November 6, 1859, The News. The European matls to the 22d ult., brought by the America, reached this city from Boston at a late hour last night, and will be ready for distribu tion at the Post Office this morning. Our files do not contain any news of im portance that was not embraced in our telegraphio summary, pubiished yesterday merning. ‘The Cuhawha arrived here yesterday morning, with Havana advices dated the 30th ult. The city was very healthy. Sugars were quiet in the market, with one hundred and thirty thousand boxes on hacd in Havana and at Matanzas. Freights were steady at last advised rates. Exchange on New York was at from four and a half to five and a half per cent premium. The long litigated case of the American bark J.J, Cobb had been decided, and the vessel declared a derelict, not a slaver. Govern- ment will not require United States mail steamers to exhibit consular certificates of manifests of cargo for Cuban ports. Two vessels from Portland had got into difficulty with respect to customs dues. An Havana letter of the 30th says there is a report of a conspiracy or something of that character hay- ing been discovered amongst certain military offi- cers and the soldier at Matanzas. Various arrests | are understood to have taken place, but no farther particulars have been permitted to reach the pablic ear. By way of New Orleans we have advices from Havana to the 2d inst., but they contain no- thing of importance. " We have news from British Honduras dated at Belize on the 13th ult. The market was abundantly supplied with provisions. Trade was dull, with Prospects of improvement after the holidays. The sugar crop of the year was very large and the cul- tivation of the cane a decided success. Cutters of mahog@py, logwood and fustic were much favored by the weather, being éry to cut in, and rainy enough to float down the timber. The New York schooner William H. Sandford had been sold to an English master. An American slave schooner, captured in Africa by the British, was in port as an English war vessel, and looked very well inher new trim. The weather was very hot, with heavy rain. Official letters to the Colonial Secretary from Eng- land having been read in court during a trial, it was shown that the British government had directed its officials to carefully cultivate friendly relations with the United States. Last evening a report was circulated that anoth- er riot bad occurred at Bergen, and that the Erie Railroad was again blockaded. Onur reporter im- mediately r2paired to Hudson City and ascertained that the report was entirely groundless. The ru- mot was occasioned by a friendly row among a party of the tunnel men. 1 Leach and Bishop, who are charged with perpe- trating a forgery upon the Nassau Bank of this city, and whose arrest on board the steamer Europa, just as she was leaving for Liverpool, has been heretofore mentioned, were yesterday again brought before the Boston Police Court, and after & further hearing were recommitted to prison, in default of bail in the sum of eight thousand dollars each. The steamer Ocean Queen sailed from this port yesterday for Southampton and Havre, with 148 Passengers and $948,567 in specie. The Kangaroo tailed yesterday for uiverpool, with 230 passengers ‘and $170,000 in specie. The steamship Vanderbilt, from Havre and South- Aampton, is due at this port with European advices to the 26th ult., four days later than the accounts brought by the America. The North American, from Liverpool, is due at Father Point, with news to the 26th ult, ‘The cotton market yesterday was more active. The Sales embraced about 5,860 a 6,000 bales, including 4,200 intransitu. Among the latter was New Orleans middling at 11%c., with freight at 9-164. The market closed firm, ‘but without quotable change in prices. Flour was heavy, with moderate sales, while the market closed at about Sc. 0 0. decline, chiefly on the common and medium grades ‘Wheat was inactive, and quotatious for most descriptions Were nominal. Small lots of choice white Michigan and Kentucky were sold at $1 50, and ambor colored Jersey at $1 36. Corn was quiet and easier, with small eales of Found and Southern yellow at 9c. a $1, Pork was heavy and easier, with sales of mess at $16 200 $15 25 and of prime at $10 60a $10 6235. Sugars wero firm, with sales Of 1,200 a 1,300 bhds. and 900 bores at full prices. Cof- fee was firm and in fair demand, with sales of 1,204 1,500 bage Rio, in lots, at steady prices. Freight engage- ‘ments were quite lightand rates unchanged. Vessels ‘were scarce, and those of the smaller class were in good demand. ie 3 Onl Nor so Fast.—The Tribune, on the principle of “birds of a feather,” defends the modern Albany Regency from an “attack” of the Heratp which charged them with refusing to Circulate the address of the Vigilance Associa- tion, so well calculated to enlighten the minds Of the people on the designs of Seward and the Tepublican party, and their complicity in the Criminality of “Old John Brown.” We are sorry to disturb the equanimity’of Our philosophical contemporary, but we have Just received authentic intelligence that Cassidy Cagger & Co. have become frightened at ‘what the Herat has said on the subject, and that they have sent for several thousand copies Of the document in question for circulation ‘among the voters, So that all the congratula- tions of the Tribune, and all its praise of the shrewdness of the Regency, must go for nothing. We regret that this intelligence will distress our contemporary, but we cannot help giving the latest news. . ble Conflict” in the South, ‘The late Maryland election, upon a superfi- ciul examination, does not amount to much. ‘The Americans bave carried the city of Balti- more by increased majorities, and the delega- tion fromthe State to the new Congress is the same as in the last—three Americans and three democrats, But when we come to inquire into the returns for the Legislature, we discover that there bas been a remarkable popular revolution in Maryland, as ¢ompared with her last pre- ceding legislative eleetion:— ? LEGISLATORE—1857. Sanate—Americans......16 Houst—awerioavs......44 Democrats LEGISLATURE — 1869, Sunars—Americaos,..... 8 Hovse—Americaps ... 25 sands of democrats and reformers were driven or deterred from the polls. This despotic power of know nothing ruffianism in Baltimore, however, is at length within the reach of reform from the overwhelming ascendency of the demo- crats in the new Legislature; and we have no doubt that one of the first acts of said Legisla- ture will be an act for the enforcement of law and order in said city. But the great point to be considered from this popular reaction throughout the State of Ma- ryland, against the late all-powerful opposition er) —A complete revolution, for we see that the positions of the two parties, in both branches of the Legislature, are completely changed. ‘The general result, however, would haye been the annihilation of the American party, but for those organized ruffian elements with which, by brutal violence and terror, hundreds and thou- of the Sabbatarian parsons, Too Mvcu or 4 Goop Tama Done Baown.— We have received a lange number of communi- cationé—appealing, pathetic, indignant and otherwise—from correspondents of both sexes who have had too much of Brewn. They ob- ject to Brown, They say Brown has becomo a bore. They earnestly request us to demand of Governor Wise the immediate execution of Brown and all his coadjutors, not so much for the crimes they have committed as for the un- warrantable intrusion they are now making upon public opinion. Our correspondents say there is nothing in the papers but Brown, and Harper’s Ferry, and the irrepressible conflict, und other matters connected with the same en- chanting subjects. Imthere nothing else in the world, we are asked, but the irrepressible con- flict? Are we to be continually bored to death with niggers and politicians? We believe there is some truth in these plain- tive wuils, which come, in many instances, from the lips of our fair readers. Itis natural that they should desire to know something about what is going on in the world of art and fashion; that they should be interested in some of the frequent cases of domestic difficulties that come up before our courts; or that the events of the Opera, and the theatres and concert rooms, should be found quite as absorbing, to a very large class of the community, as the proceed- ings of the authorities of Old Virginia against the insurrectionary concern of John Brown & Co. There are plenty of other revolutions and insurrections reaction in reference to the next Presidency. ! going on, and the press pays little or no atten- “Old Brown's” practical interpretation of Wm. tion to them. There’s a revolution among the H. Seward’s “irrepressible conflict” has been | Doctors of Bivinity,and Doctor Bellows’ Broad doing its work in Maryland, as the results in regard to the local Legislature, charged with the duty of providing for the protection of the rights, interests and security of the people of the commonwealth, do most emphatically show. To all intents and purposes, therefore, we may safely conclude that Maryland, the only Southern State which in 1856 gave her electoral vote against the democracy, is henceforward with the other Southern States and the Southern de- mocracy, whatever, in 1860, the shape which may be assumed by the Southern opposition elements as a Presidential party. The gauntlot thrown down at Harper’s Ferry from the point of the sword of “ Old Brown” is taken up, in Maryland, as the challenge to an “irrepressi- ble conflict” from the anti-slavery North against slavery and the “slave power” in the South. Thus, the last remaining Southern State, on the opposition side, has been driven into the Southern democratic camp; and henceforth, at least until after the next Presidential election the South will be a unit. In a word, the question of a military protec- torate over Mexico, our Northwestern bound- ary question, the tariff question, the Cuba ques- tion, the Pacific Railroad question, and all other secondary questions, have been set aside by “Old John Brown,” who, in a single coup d'etat, has made John Brown the paramount and overwhelming question for the next Presidency, North and South, in connection with the “irre- pressible conflict” of Seward’s Presidential platform. Perhaps something may be done by New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to give a different shape to the Presidential contest; and we anxiously await the action of their people upon the startling question before them. Scnpay Laws anp Sunpay Recreations.—In another page we publish an account of the manner in which Sunday is spent in London, morning, noon and night. It is not very credit- able to our intelligence and love of freedom, civil and religious, that the citizens of this great me- tropolis of the New World are so far behind the cockneys in the practical disposition of the so- cial question of Sunday laws and Sunday re- creations. From London, railways carry the population in thousands to the fresh air of the country in every direction, and the day is thus spent in an innocent and moral manner, while health and spirits are imparted to the drooping frames of the poor mechanic and ar- tisan, shut up for the previous six days in the corrupt and fetid atmosphere of a large city. And we further learn that, from the operations of the Sunday League—an account of which will be found in our columns to-day—active measures are being taken to extend Sunday recreations and amusements to a still wider ex- tent. Now, here in New York, which boasts to be the empire city of the United States—the centre of its light and civilization and liberty—the population are pent up in obedience to Puritamical laws and prejudices which ori- ginated in England, but are long since exploded in that country by ihe advanc- ing intelligence of the age. The American Tract Society even denounces the visiting of friends and neighbors on the Sabbath day as a grievous sin, for which the offenders should do penance in sackcloth and ashes. The re- sult of such a restrictive system is that our people are driven to drunkenness and other vices, from which they would be com- paratively free if Sunday were observed in a rational manner, and if nature and its laws were allowed to teach them wisdom, instead of being subjected to fanatical despotism and the perversion of their own passions turned in upon themselves. Acommunication in another column shows up the hypocrisy of those who labor to impose cruel restrictions on’ the working classes on Sunday. It will be seen, that while they preach they do not practice, for the clergy or their agents collect their rents on Sunday, while they would denounce as sinners of the deepest dye,and worshippers of the filthy god Mammon, landlords and merchants who collected their accounts on the Lord’s day; and as for a poor man taking recreation in the pure air of the country, and deriving lessons of profound wis- dom as well as pleasure from the contemplation of the works of God, that would be the most horrible profanity in the eyes of the Mawworms. We might point out numerous other in- stances of the inconsistency of the Sab- batarians; but we will confine our- selves to ome. The clergy who preach greatest severity and austerity in the making it ao gloomy Jewish Sabbath instead of a day of re- joicing, are most anxious to have their special sermons on Sunday reported, and send notices to that effect to the newspapers. In order to publish them next morning, reporters, who might otherwise have “no manner of work” to do, are compelled to labor hard, and the observance of Sunday, church is olearly a treasonable religious move- ment. There is also a crinoline insurrection, which bids fair to revolutionise the entire millinery world. Commencing at Paris, this dangerous movement aims at nothing less than an entire change in the style of female costume, by which new beauties will be brought out, and the old ones put away to dry on a high shelf. The question of crinoline itself is to be handled in the most Jacobinical way, and some of the radicals demand the total, immediate and unconditional aboli- tion of hoops from this time forth and forever- more. The announcement startles one by its boldness. It really can’t be possible. At any rate, there are to be new styles, new goods, new everything in the dry goods tine; and the ladies prefer to read about that than John Brown, of Ossawatomie. We presume, however, that Brown will last till after election. Like other topics, he must have his run. It is not quite certain that he would be extinguished should Governor Wise hang the party offhand. However, the experi- ment might be tried. It would have a fine moral effect to string up some halfa dozen abo- lition and fire-eating politicians at the same time. They do all the harm. They are respon- sible for all the fuss made by the Old Browns of whom our correspondents have too much; and if in every State of the Union a half dozen of politicians were taken out and hanged every morning, it would tend mightily to pre- serve the peace of the country, and savea great deal of trouble whioh we are preparing for our children. Tue Iratian Question—Tux ConGress.—The points of the Zurich treaty, as given in the cor- reepondence of the London papers, would ap- pear at first sight unfavorable to the indepen- dence of the Duchies. It should be recollected that in the hurried despatch that gives them the wording of the different clauses is so confused that no definite construction can bo placed on their meaning. Assuming the fifth clause to be correctly described, it still does not amount to an undertaking that France will concur in ap armed intervention to restore the dethroned princes. Neither does it infringe the consistency of the declaration said to have been made by Louis Napoleon, that he would not permit such intervention by another Power. The treaty, as far as we can under- stand it from the brief summary given of it, is merely an amplification in words, without any material alteration of the terms, of the original armistice. Up toa certain point the French Emperor undertakes to unite his good offices witb those of Francis Joseph to effect the ob- jects therein specified. It is not conditioned that if peaceable efforts fail he is to take up arms to carry them out, or that he is to he de- barred from preventing others from em- ploying force for the same purposes, The clause in reference to the reforms in the Pope’s civil administration, we think clearly indicates the limits to which the Emperor has undertaken to push his interference with the States of Central Italy. If they reject hisrecommendations, urged in conjunction with Austria, he will stop his diplomatic efforts, and, as there is reason to be- lieve, will not visit them very heavily with his displeasure. Hiswhole course, in short, since the vote of the assemblies, proves that he will not be sorry to see the Italian people defeat those stipulations in the Villafranca treaty to which he was obliged to give a reluctant as- sent. We see that the London papers, more espe- pecially the Post, take rather a desponding view of the cause of Italian independence. We think all such anticipations premature until we learn definitely the basis on which the,Con- gress is to be convened, and the powers that are to be represented at it. If these are as un- favorable to the Italians as represented, we believe that ere this body has held its first sit- tings the latter will themselves have cut the knot of the difficulty. An Orenatic Sensation.—The sensation which the habitués of the Academy have been pining for comes nearly at the end of a season which has been a very eventful one, although its events have not been always fortunate for the manager. The sensation is the new opera, “the Sicilian Vespers,” which is to be pro- duced on Monday, and sung on every regular opera nightnext week. The “Vespers” is one of the latest and strongest of the works of Signor Verdi, the most popular composer of the day. It has never yet been produced in America, though all the managers have talked about doing it, They have been deterred, without doubt, by the heavy expenditure required for the mise en scéne. Napoleon Ullman, however, isnot a manto be frightened by small matters, and has staked the fate of the season on this opera, which is to be magnificently done. Those who have been admitted to the printers necessarily set up the type on Sunday | rehearsals speak in the highest terms of the ar- by which these discourses are printed on Mon- # tists to whem the several réles have been al- loted. There is a “brisk demand avd some speculation in places for the first nights, and the fashionable world is as much excited as a due regard for the proprieties will permit. War Suourp nor Joun Brown px Hanaxpt— A vast amount of sympathy has been expended on the fate of John Brown, and great exertions are being made to save him from the gallows. A thief,a murderer and a traitor, becomes a hero and u demigod, and the lives of white men sacrificed by him are ef less account than if they were so mapy dogs, and for the surviving rela- tives of his viotims no tear of sympathy is shed, not a word of commiseration expressed. From the statement which we published yes- terday, from the Lawrence Herald of Freedom— a black republican organ, whose editor was in- timately acquainted with Brown and his doings during the reign of terror in Kansas—it is very clear that no greater fiend in human form re- mains unhung than this same John Brown. Ra- pine and cold-blooded murder were his delight, and the names of five citizens, heads of fami- lies, are given, whom he took from their beds at dead of night, and deliberately massacred, after the most shocking mutilation of their bodies. “Up to that period,” says our Kansas contemporary, “nota hair of Old John Brown’s head, or that of any of his sons, had been in- jured by the pro-slavery party.” From this authoritative testimony it further appears that he wished to prolong the Kansas difficulties, and keep the Territory in a constant ferment, in order that he might fish in the troubled waters. He opposed every effort to establish peace, law and order. He became a bandit and horse stealer, and he entered into an oath bound league to murder in cold blood every man elected under the Lecompton con- stitution. This man of blood attempted to make the whole population of Missouri respon- sible for a murder supposed to be committed by one of its citizens; he made a coup in that State, murdering Mr. Crew and carrying off his slaves and other property to Canada. It is in evidence that he designed to defray the ex- penses of the war in the South, of which the Harper’s Ferry massacre was the first blow, by the sale of plundered “watches, jewelry and plate.” And this is the demon- robber and cut-throat held up to admi- ration by Greeley, Wilson, Phillips, Beech- er, and other republican leaders. He is religious, we are assured; and it is in virtue of his religion that this Puritan Praise-God-Bare- bones robs his fellow creatures or puts them to death. His piety is like that of the Italian and Spanish highway robbers, who, when they de- liver a priest or bishop of his purse, reverently ask his blessing before they depart. Why should such a criminal be allowed to escape unwhipt of justice any more than a mid- night burglar, or a Baltimore plug ugly who murders his neighbors in the streets, or any other rowdy who stubs or shoots down his fel- low citizens? Worse than ang of these, the chivalrous “hero,” aided by an armed force, takes defenceless men out of their beds by night and assassinates them in cold blood. Sympathy for such an incarnate fiend argues a want of moral sense and a love of depravity which is symptomatic of the times, and is one of the strengest evidences of the fanaticism which threatens the integrity of the Union and the establishment of a reign of anarchy upon its ruins. i CommoporE Vanperuir in Covurr—Caucat tae Wrona Man.—It is not all people that are born to-good luck, like Barney Williams’ Irish- man. Some, on the contrary, have an inheri- tance of misfortune, and no sooner emerge from one scrape than they tumble into another. This seems especially to be the fate of our un- happy contemporary, the Hon. Jefferson Brick, whom Commodore Vanderbilt has just lugged into Court on a charge of libel. No sooner does he reach his native shores, after being be- fogged amidst the elbows of the Mincio and scared nearly to death at Solferino, than he falls into the Commodore’s clutches. Never was a poor Pickle subjected to so many terri- ble sensations. If his doctors don’t imme- diately put him on a course of quinine and Hostetter’s bitters, we fear that his nervous system will not carry him through these re- peated shocks. * We seriously put it to Commodore Vander- bilt, whether, as a man of position, influence and character, and an old Knickerbocker and millionaire to boot, it is worth his while to let fly at such small game as_ this. What has he to gain by squeezing the breath out of the body of a poor unfortunate who is already in a half-dying condition from the shock which his nervous system sustained from the fright of that terrible Solferino day? There is no use breaking a fly on the wheel, and we think that it would better advance the Commo- dore’s object if he were to take the principal man of the concern that libelled him, one Wes- ley by name, a descendant, we believe, of the famous John Wesley, and himself otherwise dis- tinguished. This person ‘ts said to be a clever financier, having gone into Wall street as a small broker and come out of it, after the panic of 1857, with a marked name and—his stock- ings down at his heels. He is a dealer in dead men’s bones, Puritan relics, church sites, old building materials, and second hand arrange- ments of all sorts. In business versatility, cheek and pluck, he is an opponent after the Commodore's own heart, and the latter would gain more in self-esteem by a joust with him than by a dozen triumphs over his skeary col- league, Tue Cootest Tine on Recorp.—In the course of a somewhat extended experience we have come across some refreshingly impudent things, but nothing equal to the article headed “The Bulletin of Victory,” and printed in tho organ of the rowdy party in Baltimore. That party, we are told, have no desire to wound any one’s “sensibilities;” it is hoped that the result of the election will have a “salutary” effect, Further on it is called an expression of “popular will,” and then comes the climax, in the following handsome offer:— We, therefore, call on all our feliow citizens, Amori- cans, democrats, reformers, old line whigs, and what not, to lay aside the sword-cane for the sickle, the irons for the irums of Wade and commerce, and fo let “us all 300 how far wo can shove old Baitinore abead, for the next twelve months, in the race of material and spiritual prosperity. Considering that this journal had not found out anything abont the riots, and that at the time the paragraph we have quoted was writ- ten there were two vielims of ruffanism lying dead and others in mortal agonies, wo think the elegant extract may be submitted withont farther comment than that contained in the fact that the name of the gentle journal is the Patriot. NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY, NOVEMBBR 6, 1889. Our Retarions wrra Exouanp—Anz Wu ox pity Eve or 4 Rorrvrs?—Our Washington oor- respondent sends us some further information in regard to the sharp despatches that have re- ceatly been exchanged between Washington and London, and the flutter they are causing in diplomatic circles. It is a part of the old Palmerstonian game to raise a breeze whenever he can; and in this matter of the San Juan island Lord John Rus- sell is only following out the policy that Pal- merston has always observed in the British Foreign Office. We have repeatedly shown, from the text of the treaty, public documents, and logically conneoted facta, that the course Gen. Harney has pursued in Washington Terri- tory is perfectly right and proper. The whole country ll rejoice that Mr. Buchanan and the Cabinet have taken a proper view of the inso- lent communications from the British Foreign Office, and replied to them with a epirit and energy becoming to our position and our rights, Nothing can be gained by a spirit of condescension and soft speeches while Pal- merston is at the head of affairs in England, and the more moderation we show the greater will be his arrogance. Our correspondent intimates that Mr. Dallas, our Minister in England, may close his legation and come home in consequence of the ill feel- ing which has been excited by the tone of Lord John Russell’s communication. We hope he will do so. It is quite time that we hada pointed fact in our intercourse with England. She has bamboozled us long enough. The Clay- ton-Bulwer folly alone should have been enough to bring us to our senses. For years England has olaimed it as binding on us, and as not limiting her; and on she goes, pushing the claims of the Mosquitos down to Boca del Toro, and the limits of Balize, far over towards the Pacific. The country wants a war. Our sol- diers are getting rusty, our people restive, and hundreds of interests are languishing that would resuscitate with a war. The Presi- dent may be assured that he will be maintained by all parties, on all sides, in insisting upon Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell ad- hering to decency in language and moderation in tone, when they talk of an American officer who has very properly occupied an Amorican island. —_—_———— THE LATEST NEWS. Nom-Arrival of the North American. Fanuxe Pout, Nov. 5—11 P. M. There are as yet no signs of the steamship North Ame- rican, now fully due off this point with Liverpool dates to the 26th ult. Weather clear, with a strong northwest wind. Our Relations with Great Britain, OUR BPROIAL WASHINGTON DKSPATOH, = ‘Wasnrnaton, Nov. 5, 1869. ‘The state of our relations with England is causing con- siderable talk in diplomatic circles here. It is well known, as I bavo already informed you, that the tono of Lord John Russell's last despatch in reference to San Juan Island and the course of Gen. Harney was not only un- pleasant, but it was dictatorial ina high degree. Its pe- rugalin Cabinet council gave rise to a good deal of focl- ing, and the impression of all the members was that it should be replied to clearly and pointedly, in the same spirit in which it was couched. General Cass’s letter to Mr. Dallas on the subject, Iam assured by those whobave seen it, is a masterpiece of logical reasoning, and clearly proves our right to the island and sustains the gallant Harney. You need not be surprised to hear that sharp words have passed betweon Mr. Dallas and Lord John Rusgell, and that our Minister has determined to clove the legation and come home. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOH. ‘Wasuinaron, Nov. 6, 1869. The State Department is advised that the Spanish’ gov- ernment has continued the exemptions granted to the im- portation of mineral coal into the island of Cuba, by the royal orders of December, 1853, and November, 1864, Pennsylvania Politics. Purtapecruta, Nov. 5, 1859. The reported political action of the Pennsylvania oppo- sition telegraphed to a New York paper arisca from a meeting held at the St. Lawrence Hotel, by the State Central Committee, on Thursday night. This meeting, according to the Transcript, was called to determine when the State Convention should be held, and what action the party should take in regard to the Preeidential nomina- tion. After some debate, it was determined to awalt the action of the National Opposition Committee, which meets at Washington in December, when a definite time for the meeting of the State Convention will be fixed, which will doubtless be the 22d of February. A resolution was passed, instructing the S.ate Convention to express their preference for the Presidontial candidacy. The New York Bank Forgers in Boston. Bostox, Nov. 6, 1859. In the Police Court to-day there was a further hearing inthe caso of David Teach and Adolph Bishop, charged with the forgery recently perpetrated upon the Nassau Bank, of New York. The case was further continued till Wednesday next—the bail required being eight thousand dollars for each. Fallofa Four Story Building at Hartford. Harrrorn, Nov. 6, 1859. ‘The four story brick store of S. Rockwell & Sam, corner of Morgan and Front streets, in this city, fell between eix and seven o'clock this morning. It was nearly new and contained 1,500 bbls. flour, large quantities of graim, pro- visions, &c. No one was killed, although one half of the building {s a wreck from cellar to roof. The loss is esti- mated at $8,000. Fire in Winthrop, Mass. Boston, Nov. 6, 1859. ‘The kerosene oil manufactory of Spear, Burke & Co., in Winthrop, Mass., was destroyed by fire last night. Loss $8,000; mostly insured. The Cape Breton Fishermen. Cars Barton, Noy. 1, 185% A great many of the fishermon now passing homewards are sald to have very slim fares. Salling of tho Anglo-Saxon. Quanxc, Nov. 5, 1859. ‘The atoamship Anglo-Saxon sailed from Quebec for Liv- orpool at ton o'clock to-day, with 102 passongers. Wind strong from tho cast. The Columbia at Charleston. Cuanuuston, Nov. 6, 1859, United States mail steamship Columbia arrived here at ono o’clock this (Satarday) morning. All well Commerce of Mobile. Momur, Nov. 4, 1859, Exports of the week $1,200,000; Marine Disasters. Caantesion, Nov. 5, 1859. The schooner Dorcas, Ircland, from Philadelphia, is ashore in Beach Channel. The bark Leland, from Plymouth, is in the offing dis- manstod. Mi ota. PHILADELPHIA STOOK BOARD. Purapmieima, Nov. 5, 186% Stock steady. Ponnsylvania State fives, 9354; Railrons, 1574; Morrie Canal, 434; Long island " 4; Pennsylvania Railroad, 37}. Yori teen Cotton acti advanced %0.: sales to-day 6,500 es; middling sce. 0 1030.5 dies of the week 28,500; 22,60, against 22,000 Iast year; stock: 111,600 Bartiworn, Nov. 6, 1869. Flour heavy; no buyers over $626. Wheat dull; no dull. ‘isions quiet. quotablo change. Cogn ver Provi aly Seen all; {ine offered freely at $5 25. Wheat 20. Lore saiee of 4,000 bushols at $1 87 a $1 40 for red, and $1.80 for white. "Corn lower: sales 7,000 bushols old yel- low ab 940., and new do, at 78)ie. “Onis dull. Whiskey + Bales at 26),01 a 28c. o ama ” Burraro, Nov, 5—1 P. M. Flour quiet and steady: sales 300 bbls. Whoat dull and heavy; Milwaukee club and rng ie. a lye. lowor, Corn quict: sajos 2,609 bn ‘No, 3 Ilinais at 996, A visit to the Central Park now, before winter sets cannot but prove @ pleasure and gratification, since changes which nature and art have worked in the genaral appearance of this grand breathing spot of our city with- ‘if the last month or two, must strike the most casual el- server. The shrubs and trees in and around the Pai ‘are now dressed in their autumnal foliage, wearing that rich and variegated hue peculiar to our American weeds, ‘The walks and carriage drives begin to havea finished yok, and in all probability by the timo that the sereriigr of the weathor will oblige the euch werk as skating pond. It is expected that water may be floede@ in towards the end of this month, and so a great numbes place in tbe winter, but by lotting in an additional three eet of water, it becomes in summer an ornamental lake, Ite depth in winter ia to be not more than four fect, se that in case of the breaking of the ico no serious reoulte may ensue. A fact well worthy of notice, in connection with all the work going on at the Park, is, that while architectural beauty is of course uppermost, substantiality is not lowé sight of. Thi is particularly to be observed in the cea- struction of the bridges, of which there are quite a num- ber. One of them, called the “Turret bridge,” under which foot passengers when going to tho lake pass, ap- pears, although not far advanced in its construction, te be avery solid and unique affair. The arches are to be faced. with brown atone, and the interior walls and floor to be lined with Egyptian marble. At the lower end there is to be a handsome jet d’eau, and some of the most charming wallas are to be laid out here. Although the season has pretty well advanced, and the air has become rather biting, quite a large numbor of visiters are to be mot with daily, sauntering about the grounds, stopping to inquire of the police every little par- ticular connocted with the various improvements, evi- dencing the universal interest folt in the advancement amd completion of this great enterprise. Numbers of car- riages, too, and Ren ae ig be seen driving |ci along, 60 as to give their inmates an opportunity of ad- miring the beauties of the Park. © ‘i ‘The total number of men employ i presont om the Park is 2,282; of these 1,52 are laborers, tho reas being composed of mechanics and teamsters. age the improvements are as yet confined hat portion ying the new Croton Reservoir at Seventy-ninth strect, yet this large number of men are profitably employed." The avi number that will be engaged during the winter seasom uncertain, and must depend on circumstances. ‘The public will regret to learn that at least four-fifths of the trees ——— during the last spring have failed to take root. it of one hundred and thirtyfour elm trees brought from the woods near Sing Sing over cae hundred have fuiled. These aro, however, being remey- ed, and others put down in their stead. ‘The new ones, is to be hoped, will be more successfully tri ted. On account of the near approach of the winter the Sa- turday afternoon concerts have been discontinued, only to be resumed, however on the first approach of curly ‘sum mer. copcerts were most popular, indeed were becoming quite fasbionable. ‘ It bas not yet been decided what is to be done with the old State Arsenal within the enclosure—whether to coa- vert it into w'sort of Sydenham , Or tear it dowm and erect a more suitable structure in its place. Tt was expected that there would have beem music tm the Park yesterday afternoon, as usual, and there were consequently no fewer than five or six thousand people scattered about the Ramble at half past three o'clock. ‘Tho scene was quite as inspiriting ag during some of the warmest months of summer. There wasa great number of dashing equippages on the ground, aud as for equestrians and equestriennes, they were to beseen sweeping in Girection, in some instances giving really ‘tolerable ‘exh bitions of proficiency in the ‘management of “the noble Police Intelli, . Pasatva Counterrait Mongy.—George Merwine, a native of Boston, found himself in rather a peculiar situation. On Saturday he bought some jewelry at the store of Hen- ry B. Melville, 76 Bloccker stréct, and gave in payment therefor a $10 bill on tho Farmers and Drovers’ Bank of tho State of New York. On Monday ovening he paid « second visit tothe jeweller’s and made a bargain to ex- change watches. Morwine agreed to pay a difference ef $11 between his watch and the joweller’s, and handed the latter another “ ten’? on the Farmers and Drovers’ Bank, and @ bill of the same denominatton on the Citizens’ Bank. of Baltimore. Mr. Molville took the precaution this time to send the bills toa broker's office, waere the money was pronounced counterfeit.’ Finding that ho was dig- covered, Merwine attempted to escape from the store, and in’ his efforts to get away he actually jumped through the front window. Policeman Williams, of the Fifteenth precinct, was attracted by tho noise, and hastem- ing forward caught the Accused before he had proceeded many pates. On ted searched a pair of gold sleeve buttons were found in his possession, which were identi- fied by Mr. Melville as having beenstolenfrom him. Jus- tice Quackenbush committed the prisoner for examina- tion. Merwine states that he received the bills from @ friend of his, in Twenty-first street, in exchange for a $58 note, and denies all knowledge of their worthicss charac- ter. A Darina Gana or Burctars.—Andrew Stramph, Jas. Farrell and James Gallagher were arrested by policemom Mershon and Warren, of the Eleventh precinct, on the chargo of having burglariously entered the produce store of John Lewis, No. 86 Houston street, and stealing thore- from two tubs of butter, valued at $66. The officers, it appears, received information that the stolen property was gecreted in an outhonse in Houston street. On searol- ing, they not only hit on the property, but thoy caught one of the thieves, who confessed his crime, and gave the officers such information as led to the arrest of tne re- mainder of the gang. The prisoners were brought before Justice Brennan youteraay when three fresh complaints were mado against them by persons whom they had re- cently robbed. The proprietors of the dyoing estab- lishment, No. 99 Columbia street, were rol of $134 worth of silk and woollen goods; Peter Hines and James Coyle were among the victims, the former losing a horse and the latter a. wagon, all of which is al- leged to have been stolen by the prisoners from the pre- miscs No. 218 Pitt street. The magistrate committed the prisoners for further examination. Suxecion oF Grasp Lanceny.—Margaret Chilton, of No~ 98 Governcur street, charges Charles Kehoe with having stolen a gold watch and chain vahied at $75. The valuable was ina bureau drawer and dissppeared in ~ Lg ied torious manner while Mr. Kehoe sit complainant's rooms, Justice Brennan committed Charloa. for oxamination. Row Roerxwry at AN Excnanar Ovmice.—As Mr. Bur- roughs, exchange broker, of No. 152 South street, was opening his office yesterday morning, an old man named By White, entered unperceived, and seizing a bomat spools coutiatag $990, ran off with the same. Fortw nately, a gentleman who was passing at tho time obseaved tho movements of the thief and gave the alarm. Mr. Burroughs chased tho fugitive some distance, whan he was joined in the pursuit by policeman Baily, of the Fourth ward, and aftor an exciting run, White wasoap- tured, with the stolen monoy in his possession, Justice Osborne committed the prisoner for examination. Army Intelligence. A Board of Officers will assemble at the War Depart- mont, Washington, on the 10th instant, for the purpose ef examining and reporting upon a manual of forms for parades, reviews, inspections, &c., prepared by Rrevet Brigadier Genoral 3. Churehill, Inspector General United States Army. ‘Tho Board will bo eompased of the following officers>— Brevet Colonel C. A. Waite, Fifth infantry; Brevet Colonel R.E. Lee, Second cavalry’, Brevet Major 1, Smith, Righth infantry; Brevet Major W. A. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant “Capa 'W. F. Stith, Gotpeot Mopogeagbieal knglooer#s . Corps of To is nssignod to duty aa Secretary of the Aighthouse Boards and will report to the Scoretary of the Treasury @0 Houtetant 6 H. Derby, Corps of ‘Topographieat utenant Geory.e H. , Corpa of Engineers, is relio vod from iighithouyo duty, and directed to report (pr or@ors to tho chief of his corps. The cit eka: of Captain John W. Phelps, Fourth af; Ulery, bas been accapted by tho President of the United States, to tale offoct the 2d inst. Leave of ‘absence for six months has been granted @ Mojor W, EL Emory, First cavalry,