The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. PAMBRe GORDON CONNKTD, ETOH ANT PROPRIETOR DEFTON NK. F. OUUNEN OF HASSAU AND POLTON 7H. Ey cxah tn atone. AOE ie sowter "Pranut tame WE DAIL Abia Ul, We conn per TAR WEERLY HERALD cvery & tony, oF SR per unnany, "he BS cay part ote a to OF the Galifornia €ititiom om the Sth and BH of sah Minny sont b nat rae , BY per annson hay ts cor Weds reweun Riidon on puseerd ih Se anne PPT Se TERALD on Wetnesday, at four conte pee MOC ERTISEMENTS. reneinedt every day, advertiooments sorted Weexiy Hanan Fawicy Hemain, and dn the Catirorate und Ewropean 6 Neo. 310 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIULO'S GARDEN, Groaaway.—Koyy O'Mous—Aw Tove iy Bevuss. Mus Petes Wiare—ltener, rer WINTER GAKDRN, Brosaway, opposite Bond street. — Bux. .CK'S THEATRE, Broxdway.—Fase Maw outs Tne sdowe tt Bag radian Pa KKENE’S THEATRE, 624 ‘Bovadway—Minace kane, NEW SOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Usas Tom's Onnur—VAINATINE AND ORSON, THEATRE FRANOAI®, 685 Broadway.— pet Cab BuviUs Lacnm Osan Y= Boumuxay — BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway. —Afer. pow —MARRIZD AND. Bente M oer itaunac. Roane Horners tax Beet Pouey—Marntzo ano Bontep. | ayrean army in the field amounted te about nine thousand, They were well ted ang promptly paid, bot the reverse was the case with Urgquiza'n troops. Tr wus currently reperted at Buenos ayres that the Be Ayrean squadron, consisting of five #team: ers und & Lig, was off Rosario on the 2st af sep- temter, with the desigu of bombarding the city Urqmen had & steamer and two brigs to defend th iisce, and four steamers and a bark ot Monte- video. The United States brig of war Bainbridge wus at Korario on the 23d of September. Ac arrival ut Boston from St, Hcleea reports two sluvers at the latter port, which had been captured by a British cruiser on the African coast and con- deed by the Adwiralty Court. Oue of the slavers was the Samuel H. Townsend, of New Orleans. By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis St we have news from Sar Francisco to the Lith ult, | Blackwell's Island, shoulder hitters, gougers, and later intelligence from Oregon and Washington Territories, San Juse and the Fraser river region. | bonds, are members of the General Committees BOWERY THUATRE towcry—Nutomecon—Me, ann | PTPAutions wero making atSan Franciseo tgive | which control primary meetings; and, out of General Scott a grand civic and military reception on his arrival in that city. Business continued very dull, The xecounts from the mining districts state that the miners were gashering an unusually rich harvest. San Juan was perfectly quiet. A new Governor of British Columbia was expected. The | Thus nominees for judicial and legislative Fraser river miners were doing very well. The gold | Mices emerge from the same sewer of iniquity shipments for September amounted to $110,000, | which produces inmates for our State prisons Captain Walicn’s and Lieutonact Mullen’s wagon: { and penitentiaries. road expeditions had beer heard from. Both corps were in good heulth, and had experienced no | four great institutions. These are, the two trouble from the Indians. Late accounts from the Rio Grande represent af- fairs there asin a deplorable state. Cortinas and NEW YORK HERALD WOOD'S MINSTREL — i i A t Sa /m. st6. Broadway, ‘Ermortax Soncs, { his band of Mexican bandits, reinforced by a num- earned, and nominated an infertor lawyer in his place. At the same time, they nominated Chas les P. Daly to the Common Pleas; a maa who belonged ta the very meanest class of ad- vooates which the city contains, and who is as unfitted for the high position he holda, as Judge Roosevelt was calculated to reflect honor on the Bench. How can it be otherwise? And what pros- pect is there of a change for the better, while the rowdy cliques that have usurped the right of nominating party candidates to office, be- long to the most depraved and abandoned olf scourings of the metrqpolist Keepers aad owners of dens of prostitution, proprietors of low groggeries, graduates from Sing Sing and maimers, thieves, bullies, gamblers and vaga- these latter, bribed, pre-paid conventions are created, which nomiuate candidates for office, io accordance with a concerted plan, devised by the leading wirepullers of different parties. The State of New York possesses, in fact, State prisons, at Auburn and Sing Sing, the B ackwell’s Island penitentiary, and the Capi- tol at Albany. They are too nearly alike in , TUESDAY, NO RRYAMTS MINBTRELS, Mechaiicn Hall, 472 Rroadway.— Scests at Puatons. ips NIBLOS SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Go Cunrerria Mr. mrems co Sones. Manoms, Buuresques, £0.—Misrontunes or Dewormers Swirgs. NEW OVERA HOUSK, 720 Rroadway.—Drarton’s Pa: tos Oreass ap Lraic Provenns, HOPE CHAPEL, 729 Breadway.—-Wavan's Iraua. Now York, Tucsday, November 8, 1859, ‘The New York Heraid—Edition for Europe. nard mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will port to-morrow, for Liverpool. The mails for Europe wil! close in this city at half. | past oleven o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The Evrorray Enron or raz Hrnatp will be published at ton o'clock im the morning. Single copies in wrap- pers, etx cents. Subsoriptions and advertisoments for any edition of the Naw Yorx Genarp will bo received at the following placea Jo Kurope:— i Loxpon,,.,Sampeon Low, Son & Co., 47 Ladgate Hill. Tanaing, Starr & Co. 74 King William street. » Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 8 place de la Bourse. | +Lawaing, Start & Co., No. 9 Chapel stecot. RB. Stuart, 10 Exchunge street, Kast Haves... ..Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille. Humsvec..De Chapoauronge & Co. | The contents of the EcRorzax Eprom ov mm Hexacp ‘wil combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the oiico during the previous week and up to the hour of the publication. Laveneoon. The News. Eleotions are held to-day in New York, New Jer- | ‘sey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Wo give in to- dsy's Heaacy a list of the names of the candidates in nomination for office in this city and Kings coun- ty, together with a mass of information important | te voters. | The Vanderbilt arrived at this port yesterday noon from Southampton, bringing eour European | files to the 26th ult, containing the details of the mews telegraphed from Father Point after the | North American passed there, published in the Hezaip yesterday morning. The Vanderbilt brought three hundred and seventy-three passen- gers, and had an exceedingly wintry voyage. Various severe comments on the position of Eng- land towards Italy and Europe in general had ap- peared simultaneously in the rural papers of France. It is said that they proceeded from an of- ficial source, and were purposely directed against the enténte cordialz. Napoleon finds his Italian policy rather embarrassing, it is said, having Eag- land disapproving of it on one hand, the republi- cans Of Italy on the other, and the clergy of France as a third and distinct party. Onr Paris correspon- | dent states that the Emperor is to grapple boldly | wilh the bishops, and remarks that even now the clergy are satirized on the city stage, and | the Monitewr warns the people against “proud and 1 | } i | i provided the former complicates the question Itar with her hostile operations in Algeira. Schamyl was greatly delighted with his reception by the R: in Court and people. A terrible gale prevailed on the British coast on the 26th ult. It is reported that the steamer Royal + Brownsville on the 20th ult., and created great con- ber of escaped convicts, were ravaging the country quality, if not in quantity. Could the secrets in every direction. They entered the town of | of the lobby be impartially and judicially 4 Unfolded, it is probable that large num- sternation. On the 24th the citizens,to thenumber , bers of the members of the State Senate of one hundred and twenty, with artillery, attacked the bandit, but were subsequently drawn inte an ambuscade, when a desperate fight ensued, which resulted in the totel defeat of the attacking party. Cortinss threatened to destroy Brownsville and its inhabitants with fire and sword if his demands were not complied with. The Mayor of the town has appealed to New Oricans for help in this orisis. The wrecked steamor New World was yesterday towed down to the Jersey flats, opposito the city, by the tugs Columbia, Dr. Kane and Satellite. After being stripped of her tackle, furniture, &c., she will be taken upon the balance dock, foot of Pike street. The November term of the General Sessions commenced yesterday, but there was very little bu- sipess transacted. Judge Russell rendered his de- cision denying a motion to quash an indictment age'nst Henry Karples, Jr., for embezzlement. The Board of Supervisors met at the usual hour yesterday afternoon. A ¢ommunication was re- ceived from the Commissioners of the Metropoli- tan Police asking for an appropriation of $800, in order to pay a force of special policemen during | the time the county elections were going on. Su- pervisor Stewart moved that the money be appro- priated from the fund for election purposes, and that the Police Commissioners be desired to em- ploy a sufficient number of mon, not exceeding four hundred, at the sum of two dollars cach per day, and recommending that the men so employed he selected from the members of the old force. The motion was lost for want ofa constitutional vote. Threo writs of mandamus were served upon the Board, tho first requiring that tho bill of Mr. J. Frost, for services 3 marshal in talking the census | intho Thirteenth ward, Fourth district, in 1854, amounting to $158, be audited and allowed, and , the two others, commanding reductions of assess- | ments upon the property of the New York Life Assurance Company, were referred to the Commit- tee on Annual Taxes, with power. President Par- dy offered a resolution directing the Committee on ; Annual Taxes to report what compensation should | be allowed to the registrars and thoir clerks, and the rent to be paid for the places occupied by the | registrars of voters, which was adopted. The Board then adjourned to 11 o'clock on Tuesday next, 15th inst. The Board of Aldermon did not transact any bu- siness last evening for want of a quorum. The Brooklyn Common Council last evening adopted resolutions which definitively settle the long standing dispute between the Water Commissioners and the water works contractors of that city. The details of the arrangement are given ina report of i | the proceedings published in another column. to the report of the City Inspector there were 361 deaths in the city during the past week, precisely the same number as occurred dur- ing the corresponding week of last year. The mortality statistics for the quarter ending Slst ult, as compared with those for the corresponding qnar- ter in 1858, show a decrease of 115 deaths, and as compared with the corresponding quarter in 1357, of 563 deaths, and this, notwithstanding the con- tinually increasing population of the city. The | deaths during the past week comprised 84 men, 89 women, 4 boys and 94 girls; of the whole number Charter, from Australia, was shipwrecked near Bangor during the storm, and that of over four hundred persons on board only ten were saved. She had also on board half a million sterling in gold. We have very interesting letters from our naval correspondents on board of the frigates Powhatan and Mississippi, in China, dated at the Pei-Tang river onthe 16th of July, and at Shanghae on the 12th of August. Previous to the receipt of the Im- perisl edict permitting Mr. Ward to go to Pekin he had ceveral interesting conversations with the Manderias and local authorities, all of whom used a vast amount of official duplicity in dealing with him. When aboutto set out they endeavored to have him abandon the overland route and pro- | er; but he would not; so he set ont | ceed by ste with bis box—for the capital. A Shangkae from Pekin anno: where he was attended by 1 r who reached » hundred Chinese ca: valry detailed as an escort for his service. | The Wassian naval officers who arrived at the Pci-Tang from the Amoor stated that the imfluence of the Czar in Pekin was much overrated, ag no Russian envoy could ap. prdach the place without special permission and by the road indicated. He also added, that if t Chinese possessed any real native courage, they could, by their numbers, endanger the Rassjxn set- ticments at any moment. Great efforts were being made to man and arm the Taku forts. The arma- ment was nearly complete, and the Peiho gzain filled with obstructions, So that tho English and French will have to fight hard for victory yet. The Chinese had taken soveral guns from the stranded gunboats of the English, and also purchased twenty-five large ones from foreign traders in Bhanghae. They offered as much as six hundred dollars a month to foreigners having a knowledge of artillery practice who would enter the Empe- ror’sservice. Shanghse and Ningpo were greatly disturbed and trade interrupted. A very severe opthalmis prevailed on board the Mississippi, with pome slight cholera. The Mississippi was under Orders to leave Shanghae and go to the Peiho to Join Commodore Tatnall. By .the arrival of the bark Inman at Boston we have ‘nows from Buenos Ayres to the 28d of Sep» tember. Our correspondent states that Mr. Yancy the . Minister, was expected at Buenos ‘on the 24th from Rosario. He would leave for home by the next packet, via England. Ur- qQuiza, with between twelve and fifteen thousand, mon, was at Rosario, but was to march on the 25th for St. Nicholas, when he would commence offen ive operations. He had been waiting for the rains, as there wae ne grape for the horses, The Bucnog in a wagon without springs—not ina | * cou 4 his arrival there, { 237 were natives of the United States, 70 of Ireland, 22 of Germany, 11 of England, of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The activity in the cotton market, noticed on Saturday, was conti embraced between uded in which was lot of mid- . Corn ey and and lower, with sales 20, thin moss at $15 2274 and $10 59 2 $10 60. Sugars were firm, with gales 2 4500 bide, ut full prices. Coffee was sand a y, with int of engagement: The Candidates for Jadictal and Lecisla- tive Honors, The people of the city of New York will en- | joy the privilege, this day, of voting for can pe for some fifty offices, executive, legisla- dicial. We have carefully looked over the lists of names presented by different parties, and, out of the whole one hundred and ity and upwards, can scarcely flad, at least the candidates for the Legislature, an ndividual worthy of public confidence. They il bad slike, They are dismal, sorry cata- logues, only comparable as bad, worse, worst. Mr. John Mel.eod Murphy, the democratic Sena- torial date for the Fourth district, and William McMurray, the Tammany nominee to the State Senate for the Sixth district, are both upright, intelligent gentlemen, worthy of being elected; but they are the only white spots from the beginning to the end of the array which rotten primaries and corrupt conventions have put forward. It is too manifest that the poli- tics of the city of New York have fallen through the very worst of hands, into the very lowest depths of degradation. Public spirit and pa triotism must.be very nearly if not utterly ex- tinct, to permit such a state of things. The depraved conventions of Mozart and and Assembly would be annually drafted down the river, to work the quarries, where more blundering criminals do peni- tential service to the public. We could tame men who have been engaged in lobby service for over ten years, who are among the candiates to be voted for to-day. There are others of a like stripe, who seek for nomifation at the coming municipal election, and the only claim which these miscreants possess upon con- ventions and primaries, is that they have so long been concerned in every species of infa- mous intrigue for robbing the publie, which has been earried on at the State capital. Atime may yet come for reform; but the neglect and apathy which hae charactorized heretofore the respectable masses of the com- munity, must first of all be entirely thrown off. They must be, in sober, dead earnest, prepared to enfounter difficulties, to be deaf to slander and misrepresentation, to resist the appliances of intriguers and plunderers, and not to be dis- couraged by defeat. They must set their faces against the howlings for muney of the Re. gency, and of the knavish rowdy plunderers who control the various republican and demo- cratic organizations in this city, and only sub- scribe through their own agents whom they can trust, fer the support of men who are exactly the opposite of ihose who will be elected to office this day. Vor the choico between.the different tickets ix only a choice of evils, and whichever ticket is successful will prove a curse to the people who have so culpably per- mitted their. presentation as candidates. Our Relations with Mexico—The Position. of the Treaty Negotiations. Our Minister to Mexico left here yesterday, on board the frigate Brooklyn, for Vera Cruz; and Senor Lerdo de Tejado, the Moxican Secre- tary of the Treasvry, who has been for some time in this country, has gone to Washington, on his way to New Orleans, where he will take the mail steamer of the 15th for Mexico. Both of these gentlemen return to their posts with the hope of carrying out the new treaty between the two-countries. which shall give to the one valuable transit and commercial privi- leges, and to the other the means of establish- ing the rule of order and constitutional govern- ment in its distracted domain. We have reason to believe that neither the President nor our Minister in Mexico are entirely satisfied with the conduct of the Juarez government in this negotiation. After long discussion between Mr. McLane and Senor Ocampo, the Mexican Secretary of State, of the questions and points involved in the treaty, the aifair had been ad- justed and the terms all drawn up before Mr. Mclane left Vera Cruz. Two days mere would have sufliced to bring the treaty into form for signature, when Mr. Ocampo was suddenly superseded and a new Secretary of State was inducted into office. Whether this proceeding was the act of Mr. Ocampo, as our Vera Cruz correspondent has stated, or of President Juarez, is of little moment; the discussions had to be renewed with Senor Fuente, who could not sign a treaty the reasons for which. he did not understand. If Mexico. has been a loser by this delay, she can only blame her own government for it, We are given to understand thet this event defeated completely the admirabie financial ar- rangements for Mexico which Soaor Lerdo had prepared here, and this gentleman now returas to VeraCru on a large ic for Me tingent upon the conclusion of the treaty be- tween the two count it is goneraldz be- lieved that upon this event turns the result of the coming campaign in that republic. The country has become tired of a conflict wich, from the exhaustion of the parties, has come to be one of simple passive resistance; and if one or other of the belligerents does not soon dis- play the energy necessary to restore order, both will be rejected, and a third combination presented which will insure the defeat of both. The constitutional government of President Juarez has commanded much sympathy in this country from its liberal principles, and from the belief that it represents the popular energies of the Mexican people. In this persuasion our government recognized it But if it should turn out that some other school of Mexican statesmen than those which sur- round President, Juarez represent the true state of the country, Mr. Buchanan, however great his sympathy for the constitutional govern- ment, will he forced to recognise any govern- ment they might succeed in establishingfrom the fact that the policy of this country permits only the recognition of governments de facto. Under present circumstances, the course to be pursued by Mr. McLane is a very plain one. He should, on his return to Vera Cruz, pursue th an arrangementfor resources { xico, but which is con- | Tammany Halls, rejected Judge Roosevelt for | a policy of perfect impartiality, and await the the expressed reason that he was the best man | course of events. Two errors prevail in diplo- they could have put forward. While declaring | matic circles in Mexico, which in some degree him, by a unanimous vote, to have been one of | foster each other, and which he should be care- the fairest, most learned and intelligent men that | ful to avoid. One is a great desire on the part ever sat upon the bench, they deliberately re- } of every American Minister sent there to dis- fused to perpetuate the honors he had go fairly © tinguish himself in making a treaty, and which has generally resulted in oxtinguishing both the Minister and bis hopes. The other is a pre- vailing impression om the part of the public men of Mexico that we are always desirous of purebusing some valuable concession from them, for which we will readily pay large sums of money. Nothing is more erroneous. We once had possession of the whole country, and gave it up when we could easily have kept it; and if we had any desire to regain that posses- sion tho disorder which now reigns there will conduce to that end sooner than any other plan. The best plan for Mr. McLane, there- fore, is to place himself on the plain common sense ground that Mexico has little she can sell us which will not come to us without pay as fast a8 we want it, and not to try to extinguish himselfby making a treaty which will not pase the ordeal of the Senate. If the Juarez govern- ment, to which he is accredited, does not dis- play more enorgy than it has dono for the past few months, it cannot long continue to exist. The Revolutionary Sentiment am? the Crisis at the Soath. We have hitherto published ictters from our correspondents at the South, and extracts from Southern papers, indicating the state of feeling which pervades the Southern half of the confederacy, excited and exasperated by the receat invasion of Virginia and the applause with which the aot of hostility has been re: ceived by infuential political leaders and jour- nals at the Nerth. The Southern papers con- tinue to be filed with articles evidently written under the highest excitement, and indicating a revolutionary condition of society in the South- ern half of the Union. To-day we publish a strong article to the same effect from a Rich- mond paper—a prominent, well known organ of Southern sentiment. We give it as a speci- men of many others; and accompanying it will be found original correspondence, depicting and illustrating the dangerous pass to which national politics have come at the other side of Mason and Dixon’s line. Tho Richmond paper pointedly foreshadows the secession of the Southern States at no dis- tant day. It declares that local party politics are forgotten and swallowed up in the national question of dissolution of the Union, and that the Southern people ave united as one man in defence of the rights of the South. It says, “the anxious in- quiry is nade every dey whether the Southern Senators will take their seats with Seward, Hale and Sumner, implicated as they have been in this affair.” Whence it is easy to iafer what sort of scenes may be expected at the opening of Congress next month. Jndeed, the effect of recent. events on that body will be tremendous, and the discussion of the question by its members, instead of soothing the public excitement, is very likely to add fuel to the flame, Our Richmend correspendent states that it is the determination of the Virginia authorities to demand Gerrit Smith for trial, and thes a requisition to that effect will be sent to Gover- nor Morgan, of New York. This will be like oil to the fire. If Governor Morgan should re- fuse to surrender the accused, the excitement at the South would be increased tenfold, and: another argument would be given the seces- sionists in furtherance of their designs. If, on the other hand, Gerrit Smith should be de- livered to justice, the anti-slavery feeling at the North will be wound up to the highest pitch, and it ishard to say whet: dangerous conse- quences may follow. But the refusal to surren- der him would involve still greater peril, and & responsibility which, we think, the Governor of this State would be unwilling to incur. The requisition, however, should come from the federal Executive, not from a State Executive, and he should be tried in the federal courts for treasonahble conspiracy. Another Southern correspondent writes from Norfolk in the following alarming strain :— “The deepest interest is taken here in the New York elections; and if they should go for the black republicans there will be an almost universal sentiment in favor of immediate seces- sion, ‘peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.’” ‘There can be no doubt that if the re- volutionary ticket of Seward should he elected in this State to-day, the effect on the public mind of the South will be most disastrous, Already the exasperation is very great. Let the ingredient of a republican victory in New York State be thrown into the cup of Southern indignation, and it will be sure to overflow. It will show that either there is no conservatism at the North worth mentioning, or else it is one that can render the South no practical service in the hour of need. It will demonstrate that a majority of the people of the Empire State— the leading State of the North, the State of Wil- liam H. Seward—eondorse the “irzepressible conflict” which he has proposed as the only solution of the slavery question, and endorse the practical interpretation of the conflict given by John Brown, whose act of war against Virginie is either excused, defended or applauded. by the whole republican press and the leaders. of the party. If the black republican revolutionary ticket should be clectad in New York and New Jersey, the news will fall on the ear of the South like the knell of « departed Union, and the excite- ment will speedily reach a crisis and assume a practical shape which will appal and astound the people of the North. If, then, there be any conservative elersent in this community, let it boldly look the peril in the face, and not skulk away from it, like the poor ostrich which hides its head in the sand or in the bush, ima- gining that it is safe because it does not see its danger. It is the duty of the conservative classes to come forward, one and all, and rally around the Union and the constitution, that they may no longer lay themselves open to the imputation of the Richmond journal, that “they are cowed and trampled under foot by aboli- tionism.” Now or never is their time to come forward. A small effort will extinguish a fire in the beginning. It is haré to quench it when it gains the ascendant. ‘Thr Battor Box as Practicaniy Luuosrratep To-psy.—If any one wants to know the real value of the glorious privilege of the ballot box, and how inestimable that institution is at the present day in executing the frceman’s will-- “As Nghtning does the will of God,”* he has only to cast his eye over the list of can- didates for the Legislature, published in our columns this morning, and seo what are their positions in the community. If that does not disenchant them with the reality of their “glorious privileges,” we are afraid they must be sot down os incorrigibly wedded to old ideos. VEMBER 8, 1859. Metropulitan Politica=The Groat Magi- clan of the Day. Tf any man deserves the name of the great political magician of the day, it is certainly Fernando Wood; and never, perhaps, was the scene of the devil in a thunderstorm more faith- fully pictured than in bis course at the present time. In the last campaign, two years ago, Wood was defeated by a strong opposition, and every one said that he was gone forever—that his days of triumph were over. But on that occasion he had quarrelled with Daniel E. Sickles, his former friend, a man of great politi- cal genius, and at that time exercising much influence. When Sickles and Wood worked to- gether victory perched upon their united ban- ners; but at the last election Sickles wanted the Corporation Counselship, and Wood, unfor- tunately, thought he could make more out of Busteed; se he deserted his old friend for a new ally, whe proved only « bag of wind after all, and Sickles was converted into an enemy— a bitter and epersevering one. His influence, thrown in with the opposition, defeated Wood. But since that time Sickles }yas suffered social, political and moral death. We hear of him no more, and we believe there is a tombstone erected to him semewhere. Since his demise there is no one with pluck or influence enough to lead an opposition against Fernando Wood, and now Wood is found suddenly bursting upon the astonished public with all the my chinery of the election of to-day ready for operation—the Judges, Senators and Assemblymen for this city all nomi- nated. Tammany, iike a poor crippled beldame, can do nothing but hobble around, faneying that she is making herself useful, and mumbling over the work already done for her. The life has indeed gone out of her.. There is not one within the old Hell to take the place of Daniel E. Sickles. Fowler is effete,.Rynders powerless,and Kennedy a mere driveiter of the Pewter Mug school. To-morrow, then, when this day’s battle is over, or in a few days at farthest, Fernando Wood will be presented as the only available candidate for the Mayoralty; and then what buzzing around there will be in all the little cliques and factions. But to no purpose; for the machinery for the charter elvetion in December is all in order too. Wood will begin to turn the handle, and out of the wheel will come Aldermen and Councilmen, aad all the rest of them, readypro- pared, and the people of this city may be asto- nished to find the. man who wus supposed to have been annihilated two years ago now turning out the great political Mogul—the mas- ter spirit of the times. Tue Frexcn: Mission axp Oreer Dircomarte Pxizxs.—The death of Mr. Mason has left the French mission vacant. Mr. Preston, it is re- ported, will soon return from Madrid, and do- liver back his commission to the President, and Mr. Dallas may possibly be compelled to re- turn home from lendon before long, under the belligerent pressure of our Northwestern boun- dary dispute with Kngland. Here, then, we shall have three of the most important Kuro- pean missions vaeant, and the question may then well be asked, who shall fill them? For the mission to France there will be the greatest struggle and the most contestants, as this post is the most desirable prize. According to & Washington correspondent, Judge Roosevelt occupies a very favorable position among the several candidates named; and, considering his high character, his fine attainments, his politi- cal experience, and his consistent history as an honest democrat and an honest man, the Presi- dent might choose-him with the fullest confi- dence in the best results. In this view the ob- jections of such Tammany politicians. as Captain Rynders, Sanders, Herrick and Fowler simply mean that Judge Roosevelt has not stooped to conciliate the bruisers of the dirty Old Wig- wam. We hope the President will take this item into consideration when he shall come to consider the claims of his old friond, Judge Roosevelt, for the French mission. With re- gard to Madrid and London, it will be time enough to agitate the question of filling these important places after they shall have been relinquished by Mr. Preston and Mr. Dalles. Jn any event, we presume that the vacancy at Paris will first be filled; and in selecting his man from the various can- didates indicated we irust that the President will apply the true construction to the late treat- ment of Judge Roosevelt by Tammany Hall, which is simply this—-that he has been rejected by the lawless and ruffianly elements of the Wigwam as too much the Judge of law and or- der to suit their purposes. Wuar 1s to xx Do: Cranceston!—We notice that thera is a general movement among the journals all over the country, since the re- cent demonstration in Virginia, in favor of the renomination of Mr. Buchanan, whether he will accept the responsibility of the canvass or not. Jt is thought that such a movement would unite the conservative element in politics, North and South, East and West, und give the coup de grace to the crazy fanatics who are en- deavoring to undermine the Union of the States by their fulse teachings and treasonable examples. Ja anyevent the action of the Con- vention at Charleston assumes, on account of recent events, a newand grave importance, and the result of its deliberations will be looked for with the utmost anxiety. A Remarkanin Por Revoturion. ~ ‘The recent fanatical demonstration at Harper's Ferry has made a most wonderful revolution in the political affairs of the country. A whirl- wind has passed over the republican party, upsetting all its plans, and burying nearly all its leaders in their political graves. Seward is completely crushed out, and Douglas, with his abstractions about popular sovereignty, is no longer heard of. His colored namesake, Fred. Douglass, has found it convenient to make a trip to Great Britain, where he will stir up the sympathetic hearts of the old ladies at Exeter Hall, and extract many a half sovereign from their pocketbooks. Fred. has printed a long bulletin in his own paper, in which he abuses the South roundly, and acknowledges that he would rather run than fightaay day; ho also accuses the government of cowardice in endeavoring to arrest him when “other and more popular men happen to be equally com- promised” with himself. The fact is, that the radical abolitionists are shaking in their shoes all over the North, while the republicans of the Thurlow Weed, Greeley and Matteson stamp look upon Old Brown as a special machine in- vented to plague and destroy their party. On the other hand, the conservative men of all parties, North and South, speak highly of en Governor Wise, whose stock bas gone up one hundred per cent since the Harper's Ferry affair. It is a grent pity that Mr. Seward ie oof at band to witnd&s (he blasting of all bis fondest hopes; but he and Mr. Summer will retura im time to be arrested by the United States Marshals. There can be no doubt that the Harper’s Ferry affair has put an entirely different complexion upon the political affairs of the country, destroyed in a fortoight* the best laid schemes of years, and made a com plete overturn of alf the opposition cliques What the result of thisnew order of things will bo we shall know in due time. —_—_— INTERESTING FROM WASHINCTOM. The Vacant French Missiom—Who is to Fill tt—Some of the Camdidates—Judge Roosevelt—tits Treatment by Tammany Hall # Feather in his Oap—Mr, Bolment and the Spanish Mission—Prospects of Anether Vacancy at Londem, dc. OU¥ SPEOIAL WASHINGTON DRSPATORL Wasaunaton, Nov. 1, 1860. ‘The vacant French mission eecupics much of tho atten don of our diplomatic and democratic circies hore. It woll known that the Hon. John Slidell bas horetemes been offored this post, and could have it now if he desired. it; but he prefers to remain within striking distance of tho Charleston Convention, and intends to have a hand im that game. Some of the Virginians are operating in be- half of Mr. Faulkner, who, as the democratic candidate for Congress in thw Harper’s Ferry district Isat’ epring, was defeated by Mr. Boteler (old line whig); but the South Carolinians aro opposed to Faulkuer, as one whose record is not altogether cound “on the goose question.” Allusions are frequently made here to two New York. gentlemen as among tho most availabic candidates ter this beautiful post at Paris—Goneral Dix and Judge Reese velt. General Dix had received the promise of it from poor Pierce, when the Virginians interposed the cry of “free goil,” and thus cut out Dix and slipped in Mason, Perhaps the samo objection from the samo quarter com bo raised again if the claims of General Dix wore te be seriously preszed. With regard to Judge Roosevelt, I be- lieve the const is clear. For many years a fast friend of Mr. Buchanan, and possessing all the requisite quaitt- cations of an unsullied character, learning, political knew~ ledgo and the general reepect of the community in whials he lives, Judge Roosevelt would fil the mission im ques- tion with eredit to himself and to the government. Te be sure, he was recently set aside im the matter of ajudi- cial nomination in your city by Tammany Hall; but this- will be rather an advantage to him than otherwise with Mr. Buchanan, when it is understood that for this Tam- many tranzaction such democratic federal office holders a8 Captain Rynders, Postmaster Fowler and Deacem Herrick aro ehiofly responsible. It is understood that Collector Schell and Surveyor Hart were warmly in favor of a re-election of Judge Roosevett to the office he now 80 honorably fills; but Deacom Her- rick, who, upon a trial before tho Judgo for peculation of public money, narrowly escaped conviction, and Sanders, Rynders, Fowler, and such, whose sympathies are with the rowdy elements of Tammeny, wanted the position held by Roosevelt for a more flexibie man. All this, when thoroughly examined by tho President, will operate in favor of the claims of Judge R. tothe more distim- guished post of Minister to France. Mr. Preston is expected shortly to return from Madrid, leaving that mission vacant. Under thie idea, it is supposed that Mr. Belmont will re new his application for the place. But before doing so he should soften down the harsh and somewhat abusive terms in which he, has spoken of the President Mr. Belmont should not have forgotten that he was really indebted to tho friendship of Mr. Buchanan for that ap- pointment, under Pierco, to the Hague. From the belligerent shape which our Northwesterm. boundary question is assuming, it is: possible that Mr. Dallas may soon reccivo his walking papers, and thus, by the meeting of Congress, the three important missiens te London, Paris and Madrid may all be-vacant. Meantime, the President keeps his own counsels. concerning theas things; and, indeed, he appears w be tov much absorbed. in the important work of his annual Message to pay much attention now to any secondary affairs. Ho is in no hurry to fill these diplomatic vacancies, The various expectants, therefore, must wait a little longer, perhaps till the meet- ing of Congrosa. ‘THE GENERAL NRWSPAMRR DMBI'ATCH. Wasnxorox, Nev. 7, 1860. Cuptain Lavellette, in a letter to the Secrotary of the Navy, dated Naples, October 14, says: that he had takem the American Consul, Me. Nichokon, to Tunis in the steamship Wabash. It was customary to salute the Hmg- lish and French Consuls whenover-they arrived or de- parted, but no other such officers were similarly honored but as our treaty with Tunis placed owr Consuls'bn a foot— ing equal with those of tho most favored nations, and thie fact having been explained, the axthorities cheorfally ac- corded the salute to both Capte Lavollotte and Consut Nicholson. The carriages of the Bey were in waiting at the landing, whore our officors were received by persons of the highest rank and escorted to tho palace. The inter- view Was very satisfactory, the Boy saying that he would endeavor to cultivate the most friendly relations with the United States. Capt. Lavallette adds: “I clearly discovered: that our presonce was having a beneficial effect om the how government, especially with reference to the position of ovr Consul. Iam satisfied that the short trip to Tunis: ‘will condnce to the best interests of the United States.” Gwin will, at (he carliest period next seesion of bring forward the Pacitic Railroad question, with more thax bis usual energy. IMPORTANT PROM THE RIO Hattle Between the Hoxican Bandits and the Texans—Dofeat of the Latter—Ane. ther Attack on Brownsville Expected, en, dew Now Orrxans, Nov. 7, 1850. The steamehip Arizona, trom Brownsville, Texas, om the 2d inst., has arrived here. Cortinas and his bond continued their dopredations, threatoning the inhabitants with fico and sword. On the 20th ult. thirty men entero the cily and fired one round, whon they were disporsod by the artillery and fled. Om the 24th a hundred and twenty men, with cannon aad howitzers, marched ageinst Cortinus, and drove to guard from his house, ‘They subsequently woee surprised by an ambuccade, and lost a cannom and howiter, and iinally wero entirely defeatod. Four were wounded and nine killed. Cortinas loa d. Ho afterwards cont a letter demanding of the M evailed at Brownsville. The city wae barricaded and trenches dug for defence. An attack was hourly expected. It was roported that afer taking Brownsville, Cortinas would attack Brazos, ‘The Mayor of Brownsville appeals toNow Orleans fer a hundred men, a3 their citizens are worn out, and the Rangors had not arrived from Northern Moxico, Sixty felons, [released from tho prison a} Victoria, had joined the Guerilla band, and wero devastating the country. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. Arrival of the Overland MallePrepara- tions for the Reception of Gem. Scott at. San FranciscoActivity im the Mining Districts—Tranquility at Sam Juan, &o Sr. Loma, Nov. 7, 1860 ‘The overland mall, with San Francisco dates of the 14th. ult., arrived last night. Great preparations were making to reccive Gonernd Scott, All the military companies and soldiers of the Moxican war would mact him cn his arrival and eseort. him through the city, where all classes of the people were proparing to pay him their tribute of respect. ‘The creditors of Chappenniog & Co., mail contractors be- twoen California an@ Salt Lako, had attached thoir stock. and other property for debts amounting to $90,000, 1 “wns fearod that the mailé would be suspended from this cauae. ‘The water courres throughout tho State were at tho lowest stage, 2nd tho minors holding claims in tho beds of tho streams wero gathering a rich bo ales gold. Arrivod Oct. 12, ship Bonpero, Bor: ; 14th, stoamer Unclo fam from Panama, Salled Oct. 19, ship Viking for Hong Kong. Bupiness at San Francisco was slow. Thoro was idle doing from first hands excopt by auction, Sales of India goods that way wero quite heavy. Provisions were Groping, Crushed sugar waa Alo. per Ty, Ooilve wae