The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1859, Page 4

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PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street — Bor 8ANTS. == ry. aon! ~hecd New York, Wednesday, November 9, 1859, 7 ae MAILS FOR EUROPE The Sew York Heraid—Edition fr Europe. ‘The Cunard mai! steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will loave this port to-day for Liverpool. ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city at half- past eleven o'clock this morning. ‘The Evrorgas Epriow or tus Hear will be published = fbten o'clock in the morning. Single copies in wrap- pers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yors Hezsip will be received at the following places tn Burope:— Lowpow., ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous woek and up to the hour of Vhe publication. The News. The elections yesterday passed off quietly, and we lay before our readers this morning such results as we have been able to obtain. The vote of this | city is much less than was looked for, whether | owing to the action of the new Registry law or tho general apathy which prevailed we oro usec w say. The vote in the city bas been favorable to baht +-re Sbout twen- Socemrcrt vie wales their success throughout the State is problematical Elections were also | held in New Jersey, Maseachusetts, Wisconsin, Tisois and Louisiana, from which we have partial retarns, indicating the success of the republican ticket in all except Louisiana. ‘The Harper's Ferry trials still maintain their hold upon public attention. A bill of exceptions and a motion for arrest of judgment in the case of Cope- land, the free negro, who was convicted on Satur- day, were put in by his counsel on Monday. An indictment was found against Captain Cook on Monday, and a motion made to bring on the case immediately for trial. This was opposed by his counsel, who preferred that Stephens should be tried first. A jury was then partly empannelled for that purpose, when a despatch from Governor Wise was received by Mr. Hunter, suggesting that Stephens be handed over to the Federal authorities. Mr. Hunter stated that a number of facts important to the developement of the case were unknown to the public; and he felt assured that enough would be ascertained by the trial of Stephens by the Fede- ral authorities to criminate a number of prominent Northern abolitionists and bring them before the bar of justice. Stephens was then handed over to the United States Marshal, to take his trial at the next term of the Federal Court, at Stanton, which will not assemble for some time. Cook was placed on trial yesterday morning, and his confession read by Mr. Hunter. A report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. Late advices from Mexico state that a conducta with $3,000,000 was expected at Matamoras from the interior. Volunteers forthe relief of Brownsville, Texas, were organizing in New Orleans. A party num- bering one hundred men will leave New Orleans for the former place by the steamer Arizona. The Coroner's jury in the case of the seaman George Ritter, who came to his death f om injuries inflicted by a man named Cooper, on board of the United States steamship Brooklyn, on Monday, after rendering their verdict against the accused, paseed a resolution of censure against the captain of the vessel. The particulars of the transaction will be found elsewhere, Parsuant to a call of the Preliminary Committee appointed by the Society Unione e Fratellanzi Ital- iana, quite a number of our Italian residents assem- bled yesterday evening at the Stuyvesant Institute. After some enthusiastic speeches a committee was appointed to collect subscriptions for carrying into execution the measures for securing the purchase of muskets for the soldiers of Garibaldi. among the engagements were soni 36,000 Wiehale wheat te Liverpool, in ehip's bags, at Gd., and Moar at 2s.; to London, flour at 28, 10341., and to Glaagow 2s. Od. Tho State Elections Yesterday—Slender Results all Round. The elections for 1859 closed yesterday, and today we enter upon the groat Presidential campaign for 1860, A glance at the returns, which we publish elsewhere this morning, will show the little ta- terest that bas been taken in this State in the election that came off yesterday. Not only have the accounts come in very slowly, but those which have been received look as if both parties had been ashamed of their candidates. The vote thrown exhibits a great falling off on both sides, and estimating from the partial returns now before us, it would seem that throughout the State the black republicans stayed away from the polls in rather larger numbers than the democrats, but yet not gufficiently to prevent ite being very doubtful which ticket hascarried the day. ‘The chances of Jones and Leavenworth, out- side of the city, forthe office of Secretary of State, seem to be pretty evenly balanced. This ie.no doubt owing to the fact that Jones, the democratic candidate, was endorsed by the Know Nothings, and placed on the split ticket, The election in the city basexhibited an equal state of indifference 6n the part of tho people. The vote shows a large falling off from that of laet year, and a much larger one from the number of voters whose names were registered under the new law. Jones will start from here with a smaller majority than was an- ticipated under the circumstances, which adds to the doubt as to the Secretary of Stateship. The difference between his vote as the candi- date of the democrats and Know Nothings, and that of Church, the democratic candidate for Comptroller, who was repudiated by the dark- lanternites, will show the Know Nothing strength. Assuming this to be correct, thore is a falling off from the American vote in 1858 of about four thousand. From Louisiana we learn that the adminis- tration ticket has been completely suocessful in that State with the exception of the city of New Orleans. We have nothing decisive from New Jersey. In Massachusetts, Gov. Banks will have a plu- rality of twenty thousand, the vote of the State, like that of New York, having been very light. From Wisconsin we have no returns. These slender results show the depressing effect which the “irrepressible conflict,” and John Brown’s practical exposition of it at Har- per’s Ferry, have had upon the republican par- ty, The attempt to awaken the enthusiasm of the Kansas excitement has utterly failed, and had the democratic leaders possessed a particle of common sense, or common honesty, they might have swept the State. But the treachery of the Albany Regency on one side, and the corruption and rottenness of Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall on the other, have disgusted the democrats as much as the ultraism of Seward has the black republicans. : Sovrnern Piantation Lavor Versus Norra- ERN Factory Lasor.—A Norfolk correspondent asks with some force, ‘What would our Northern people say if a band of Southern liberators | were to break into some New England factory and destroy it, as destructive of the lives and liberty of free born men and women?” Unques- tionably we should regard this intervention for Fasedem aa m momatmous autmamres mute ---- our domestic institutions. But is not th preaching of Seward, and the practice of Old John Brown, in regard to the plantation labor of the South, as great an outrage upon the do- mestic institutions of that section, and greater because more mischievous and dangerous? The difference between Southern plantation labor and Northern factory labor is in favor of the plantation. The Southern plantation laborer has a comparatively easy time of it, of healthful exercise in the open air; and, when superannuated from age, or disabled by acci- dent or disease, he knows that his master will take care of him. The Northern factory laborer lives in a close, poisonous atmosphere, for many hours every day, on scanty wages, and when unable to work must go home or to the almshouse. Depend upon it that the life of Cuffee in a Georgia cotton field, in regard to labor, health and subsistence, is something bot- ter than that of the poor operatives whose lives are prematurely wasted in our close and sickly Northern cotton factories, Saith the Good Book, “ First take the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thon see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” Tae Best Missionary Freip.—The Metho- dists had a great missionary meeting in this city on Monday evening, when it was stated that the appropriations made by the Me- thodist Episcopal church for India last year were $16,000, and that for the year 1860 $24,000 had been appropriated ; that six additional missionaries had been re- cently sent out; that six others would probably be sent during the year 1860, and that there was a strong probability that in 1861 there would be a regular Annual Conference in the Northwest of the vast domains of India. Mis- sions in India have done very little good. They cost a great deal of money and involve long and tedious journeys. There are Sepoys more savage than those of Hindostan within a few hours’ ride of the metropolis. Why not try the effect of saving grace on the ruffians of Baltimore? Bevoravia on THE Prarrres.—During the past year the hunters of our great prairies have had two notable additions, in the persons of Lord Grosvenor and the Hon. Grantley Berk- The grain elevator of the New York Central | !°y—the latter a famous English Nimrod. Mr. Railroad at Buffalo was destroyed by fire on Mon- | Berkley and his party killed twenty-nine buf- day night, together with some 200,000 bushels of | faloes, as well as an immonso quantity of small wheat contained in the building. The loss is about $250,000. A fire also occurred at Atlanta, Ga., dur- ing which several kegs of powder exploded. One | light of a large audience.” game, and delivered a lecture in St. Joseph (Missouri), “to the great satisfaction and de- An English sports- Person was killed and several others severely | man accustomed to shooting over preservesand ‘wounded. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday ombraced about 1,500 bales, including 250 in transit, while the market closed surrounded bya network of game laws must find a novel sensation in the freedom and (On the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour | thorough demotracy which distinguish the was firmer and in good demand, with purchases for ship- | hunters of the broad American plains; and Mr. ‘Ment to the eastward and for export, closing, ‘however, ‘without change of moment in prices." Wheat ’ H Fequest, wich purchases for milling and for export; the reported destruction of 120,000 bushels by fire in Buffalo, Berkley’s experiences will be read with much was in good | interest on both sides of the water. “Out yonder” they call hima “good hunter—for a Imparted more strength to holders. Corn was compara. | foreigner.” tively quict and sales limited, at 960. a 99¢. for round Jer- @ey and Southern yellow. Pork was heavy and easier, Nor Wort Tatxma Asour.—The Chevalier with sales of mess at $15 120915 16, and of prime at Forney asks, in the Philadelphia Press, “Shall $10 60 a $10 66. Sugars were firm, with hhhds., at rates given in another piace, and 9,000 bags Ma- nila at p. t. Coflee was firm, with salos of 600 a 600 baga Bio, included in which wore 180 bags choice quality, at 180; the whole range of sales was at llc. a 120. Maracaibo were sold at 19740. Freights woro steady; Sales of 1,200 | the democratic masses or the officeholders tule?” When Forney held office he would hardly have ventured to ask such a question, ; and 200 | and now it fs rather late in the day. So far as the primary elections and conventions go, we NEW YORK HERALD, WED. apprehend that the “officeholders” have all, and the mueses nothing to say. Forney himself wus one of the bitterest ot these whippers in, and bis preseat position is as absurd as that of a broken down rake at a Methodist prayer meeting. What Next? The Charter Election. Now that the State election is ended, and nothing remains but to count up the returns, as they creep in from different corners of the States, al! thoughts revert to the toplo of para- mount local interest to our citizens, namely, tho election for municipal officers which will take place upon the firat Tuesday in December. It bide far tobe one of the most eventful in the history of this mefropolis, The results which must flow from it, for good or for ovil, will bo tremendous, Upoa i¢ will depend, whether adequate protection of life and pre perty shall be afforded to the three-quarters of 4 million of inhabitants of New York, or whe- ther we shall be given over to a murderous anarchy, akin to that whioh reigns ia Baltimore. A Mayor, Corporation Counsel, and Board of Aldermen are to be chosen, in whose hands the already monstrous taxation of the community, may either be reduced within proper bounds, or swollen until it eats into the very capital of property holders, Local magistrates are to be elected, who willeither connive at crime, or be a terror to evil doers. We are in the midst of dark days, and eithor light must dissipate the existing chaos, or an abyss lies before us, into which public prosperity must inevitably be plunged. { The political organizations in this city, are as effete, rotten, depraved and disunited, as ; were the parties in the French Republic of the end of the last century, before thoy fell into the 4 hands of a military dictator. Black republi- cans, Know Nothings, Tammany rowdies, and Mozart Hall intriguers, are, alike, corrupt in charaoter, and one is as little to be trusted as the otber. At the head, however, of the Mozart Hall forces, stands Fernando Wood, whose downright, invincible energy has left him without a rival as a local strate- gist. He has succeeded in curling up the pig- mies of Tammany beneath his feet, and even the anti-democratic factions in the city, sucumb, to a degree, under, his ubiquitous influence. Daniel E. Sickles, the only man who ever had the brains and industry to oppose him, is buried in the past. Mr. Wood controls Mozart Hall, and, through Mozart Hall, dictates law to Tammany, in a manner which the Old Wig- wam does not dare to disobey. Fowler, Ken- nedy and their satellites, have eaten each other up with their two-and-sixpenny squabbles, and the late Mozart nominations, not only for State offices at Syracuse, but also for the judiciary, State Senate, and Assembly, were followed with next to blind obedience and subserviency, by the convertions drummed together by the so- called “regular democratic organization.” Tammany has become so completely merged and lost in the sweeping ourrent of its more powerful neighbor, that the rowdy cliques may be safely pronounced united, and firmly held within the iron grasp of Fernando Wood. While the democratic cliques are thus con- trolled and represented by one powerful man, there rises up against them the new move- ment of the Democratic Vigilant Association. ‘The measures initiated by the honest, upright and moneyed laberers, mechanics, manufao- turers, merchants and financiers of the city of New York, to throw off the yoke which brutal MUAY wen neers wv aannperrwrnn pean vio VUUKULULLLLY » have thrown terror into the hearts of the shoulder hitting, depraved monopolists of power, whose tyranny has, heretofore, op- pressed the industrial masses, The great up- rising of the disinterested classes of the people against misrule and plunder, is not an ephemeral one. Were every man engaged in the work which the Vigilant Association has undertaken, to withdraw from it, others would take their places, and the law of self-preservation would cause it ultimately to prevail. But there will be no such fickle- mindednesg and faltering. The leaders of the movement are constantly receiving the adhe- sion and subscriptions of citizens of all parties who have an interest in the public welfare. Republicans and Americans, promise them mo- ral support and pecuniary aid, to an extent which was not calculated upon, and letters from the interior of the State, express the deep- est sympathy with the patriotic enterprise. It cannot be sneered down, nor will intrigueing cajolery divert it from its purpose, nor wheedle the funds from its treasury. In fact, the very individuals who, with one breath, denounced the Vigilant Association as a scented, kid glove, silk stocking, poodle-headed aristocracy, bow down, the next instant, and humbly crave the smallest contribution in dollars and cents, for their own selfish purposes, The Democratic Vigilant Association has maintained a wise and prudent reserve during the past ten days, in order that no premature action might interfere with the result of the State election, but it has neither slumbered nor slept. It is now, however, about to issue an address to the people, and to rise, in its might, against the abuses which have so long been dominant, Thus, we have two great powers arrayed in the field, preparing for the coming municipal election. At the head of the one, stands, alone and all powerful, for mischief or good, Mr. Fernando Wood, and if the sagacity of that in- dividual could but extend beyond the experi- ence of the past; if his vision could embrace the vast, beneficent future which might lie be- fore him, in cordially embracing a pure, up- right, high-minded policy—sucha one as should cause an administration in his hands to be iden- tified with the uprooting of past evils, and the establishment of good government upon a sound basis—we have no hesitation in declar- ing that he has ability and energy for the work. Does he, however, possess the will? By the side of the cliques which his influence over- shadows, rises, in colossal proportions, ready to overmaster them, the integrity of the indus- trial majority of the people, who are resolved 4bat honest men shall not have built up the country in order that a handfull of rogues should destroy it; that painstaking tofl shall not have accumulated municipal and national wealth, in order that dissipation, profligacy and vice should expend it; that the consequences of the Fourierite axiom, “property is robbe- ry,” shall'no longer be exemplified by the legi- timation of public plunden It remains to be seen whether there will be a conflict between these two forces. If there is it will be a fear- fal one, the consequences of which must be felt for many years. But if they were to unite for the public good, what nigh! Le ob @n immense reform NESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1859. Tho Prestdential Campaign=—The Open- ing of the Groat Contest. Yesterday our State oleotions, North and South, for the present year, were concluded, and today we are upon the threshold of the Presidential campaign. How stands the order of the battle? Looking over the instructive schedule of these elections of the present year, we find the all powerful Northern section of the Union im the almost unbroken occupation of the anti-slavery republican party, and the in- dispensable Southern section in the almost ab- solute possession of the pro-slavery demo- cracy. Between these two overshadowing seo- tlonal parties the conservative elements of tho North and the South have ‘struggled in vain, and thus the controlling party managers of the the two sections stand as. flercely opposed to each other as the belligerent houses of York and Lancaster. No friend of the Union—no bellever in the principles of popular government—no ad- vocate of peace and harmony—no man in- terested in the prosperity of the State, county, city or town in which he may have established his home, can contemplate this fearful state of things with indifference. Nor is there an Indi- | vidual within the boundaries of the United Seates, however secluded his place of habita- tion, or however obscure his position, whose immediate interests, for good or evil, may not be be affected by the issues of this impending sectional struggle. For good or for evil we are entering upon the most momentous political conflict in the history of the Union; nonean we imagine how this conflict, limited to the anti-slavery crusaders of the North and the pro-slavery chivalry of the South, can end in anything but the revolutionary ex- periment of disunion and a Southern con- federacy. The responsibility for this threatening sectional organization of parties may be equally charged upon the vagabond, unscrupulous and reck- less politicians, demagogues and fanatics of the North and South. Henry Clay and his pa- triotic colaborers in 1850 gave us a satisfactory treaty of peace on this vexed question of slavery; but Mr. Douglas, Mr. Pierce, and other mousing politicians, eager for the spoils and plunder of the Presideney, were not content with this treaty. So, to win the sweet voices of the South, these desperate political jugglers reopened the whole agitation with their repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the wise men of the South were foolish enough to enter into the fatal bargain. Almost as in an instant, the late powerful democratic party of the North was destroyed, and from its ruins and the ruins of the old whig party the present grim and formidable anti-slavery republican party has risen. A corresponding pro-slayery excitement in the South has carried the politicians and the people of that section faraway from the line of national harmony; and thus, while fugitive slaves are spirited away to Canada by abolition kidnappers, other slaves from the coast of Africa are introduced into the Southern States, with the same contempt of the constitution and the laws. Thus we see that while our Northern anti-slavery agitators are protesting that there shall be “no more slave States—no more slave Territories,” and that the war between free labor and slave labor shall continue till the one or the other is put down, we find the pro-slavery agitators of the South crying aloud for a slave code for all the SULT Aba aig ca apr ang air Pec aesnmeme trade, and for other equally impracticable pro- jects for the extension of slavery. In the midst of this confusion of tongues, “Old John Brown” ventures, at Harper's Fer- ry, upon the -practical inauguration of the “irrepressible conflict” of Seward’s Rochester manifesto; and while the country is startled by the audacity of the old Kansas abolition cut- throat, the South is given in this act a warning which cannot be disregarded. The inevitable result must be such a shaping of the Presiden- tial question by the Southern democracy that it will sweep away all such Northern trimmers as Mr. Douglas, and all such trimming in¥en- tions as squatter sovereignty. The Northern allies of the Southern democracy at Charleston must be prepared to reject all such half-way men and half-way expedients, and consent to stand by the South in 1860, or there will be an independent Southern democratic party in the field. Indeed, we may now predict that the platform of the Charleston Convention will be so decidedly pro-slavery as to furnish the cue to the republicans as an anti-slavery party, and that thus these two sectional parties will he fairly pitted against each other. With no other parties in the contest the result would be the overwhelming defeat of the South- ern pro-slayery demoeracy; but there is still the hope for a third party of a national charac- ter competent to wield the balance of power. The materials for this party in the North and in the South are abundant, and only require a sound, practical, national organization to bring them out. The Southern opposition members of the new Congress will form the best nucleus for this national organization, and we hope they will set about it on their arrival at Wash- ington, especially as “Old Brown” has totally spoiled the plan of a fusion of these South- ern opposition members with the black republi- cans, A Goop Tina vor Western Raruway StocxHoLpers.—Mr. Gladstone in a recent speech quoted Dr. Johnson's aphorism, to the effect that whatever induces a man to live more in the future and less in the present ex- alts him in the scale of creation, and said:—“If that be so (and I am inclined to believe it is 80), the position of the railway shareholder must be an exalted one.” Some people who have dipped into La Crosse and Erie will pro- bably wish that their stock could be exalted, rather than their position, —$<$$ Acapexy ov Mustc.—Tho “Sicilian Vespers,” which has ‘been elaborately reviewed by the leading journals, with favorable conclusions, is up for repetition this evening. Now that the election is over, such a work as the “Veg. pers”’ should —<—_______.. Lavra Kxuyn's Tixatam—Miss Keone announces for Production on this evoning, a play, ‘The Wifo’s Secrot,’” which was very popular in this country, whero it was first acted by Mr. and Mrs, Charles Kean, who have since produced it in London with marked '. Bt ela ovat att, pane and made the version of “Ingomar,” is a guflicieat guarantee for the merit of the work. _ ‘Twa Drarton Parton Ormra.—Mr. and Mrs. Drayton commenced @ new compaign at Hope Chapel last night, Two of their very agreeable operottas were pertormod to be ine Onorans ng large nd joneigens audience, politan ontertainments, and have tat a prt suc- cees. They will be goutinued eyory night tll further ? THE HARPER'S FERRY OUTaRES®. Proceedings of the Court—The Case of Copeland—Trial of Cook—His Confession Read in Court—Stephens Handed Over tothe Federal Authorities for Trial, do. ¢ Cuanuastown, Va., Nov. 7, 1860. ‘The excitement in regard tothe trial of the Harper's Ferry conspirators still continues, and fair progress is be- ing made by the Court in tho disposal of cases. ‘The caso of Copeland, the free negro, was brought to a close on Saturday afternoon, the jury finding a verdict of not guilty of treason, as charged in the first count of the indictment—he not being recognized as a citizen—but guilty of corspiracy with slaves to rebel, and of murder, as charged in the second and third counts. ‘The case was ably argued by Andrew Hunter, Eaq., on behalf of the State. The prisoner was defonded by Geo. Sonnott, Eaq., of Boston, who labored with much zeal for bis cliont. A bill of exceptions and a motion for arrest of judgment wore entered by the prisoner's counsel, and will be dis- posed of to-morrow morning. ‘The Court assembled at tea o'clock on Monday, and was called to order by Judge Parker. The Grand Jury was then sworn, and immediately proceeded to thelr room to consider the case of Captain Cook. A number of witnesses wore summoned, and the jury were abgeat for about two hours. ‘On the reassembling of the Court, Mr. Hagoma, the prosecuting attorney, stated that ag a number of the wit- nesses in the case of Cook, who would-net be in the Ste- phens case, were present, he would, if agreeable to the counsel on the other side, move to take up the case of Cook first. ‘Tuomas C. Grusn, Eaq., one of the counsel for Cook, said that, as counsel, he had not yet had time to read the indictment, and had not yet decided what plea to onter to tho charge. He was unable to proceed in the case, and vrould prefer thatthe Commonwealth should proceed with the cage of Stephens, which would allow m time to prepare for the case of Cook. AD. ‘was accordingly brought into court Placed a mattress. He looks and hia ‘abstinence from food and the of medicine taken by him Sing had a He up under we with much fortitude, and isseldom heard to murmur. His Mr. been ob- i" id that he had just re- ceived a despatch which would probably interfere with the further proceedings in em} ling a jury. Ho then rons the following tel despatch from Governor ise — RuoaMonp, Nov. 7, 1859. a Howter:— ‘Draw Sin: think you had better try Cook and hand Stephens over tothe federal authorilies. Respectfully, Mr. Howrmr stated that he had for sevoral days been {n correspondence with Governor Wise, and had in his anumber of facts important to the devel ment of the case, which were unknown to the , and which would for the present remain BO. He had, since his last letter to the Governor, come into porsession of other tacts which pointed to Stephens as the most available party to be handed over to the federal authorities, as be felt assured that enough would be ascer- tained to result in be 3 before the federal bar a num- ber of the prominent abolition fanatics of the North. Mr. Harpinc objected to ee 2 , and insisted that the case should be proceeded with. He was not in league with Gov. Wise, por any one olse, and was not feed by apy one. He would only receive as a compensa- tion for his arduous labors the small pittance allowed by the Circuit Court. Mr. Sewnott remarked that be had not consulted with his client, and as the jury had partly been chosen he would not consent that the State should hand the prisoner over to the government. For what purpose it was to be done was known to Gov. Wise, and had been fore- shadowed by the remarks of Mr. Hunter. If time had been allowed hia the trouble had in empanelling a jury would have been dispensed with, Mr. Hunter then remarked that he would proceed im- mediately with the case of Stephens, and hand the has not yet been indicted, to the imnt to him whether Stephens would prefer a trial of not. Mr. Seynort then asked a delay of a moment for con- sultation with Stephens, after which he announced that the prisoner accepted the offer of the State to hand him over to the federal authority, and would therefore prefer to be remanded to jail. Mr. Harpixa desired the Clerk to enter his earnest pro- test against the whole proceedings. He considered the proceedings ‘wrong, and wished. it to be shown on the ket. dec! ange se ee etic no such thing. I wish no such protest entored on the docket of this Court. ‘The er was then handed over to United States Me Martin, and lodged in jail, where he will remain ‘until the term of the federal Court at Stanton, which will not meet for some time. The jury was then discharged, and a large number of freeholders of the county summoned to appear to-mor- row morning at nine o'clock, when the case of Cook will be taken up. will excle & large degree of interest. Cook will be defended by J’. ald, Attorney trict Attorney of Indiana, Seperal,, 20d Mr Voorhion, District Attorney of Indiana, own bar. The prosecution will be condusted. by ‘Andrew Hunter, Feq. The prisoner scems to bo in fine spirits, and is not without hope of a verdict in his favor. Governor Willard and Mr. Crowley, bis brothers-in-law, will be Present during the entire trial. Cuantastown, Nov. 8, 1859. Cook’s trial commenced this morning. Tho opening speech was made by Mr. Harding. Cook’s confession was read in open Court by Androw Hunter, A jury was then empannelied. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED INSURGENT. Mexrnm, Tenn., Noy. 8, 1859. ‘W. R. Palmer, an alleged insurgent, has been arrested on a requisition from Gov. Wise. News from Washington. ‘Wasmrvaton, Nov. 8, 1859. As the chief, if not the only, difficulty in the way of the consummation of the pending treaty between the United States and Mexico is in relation to the proposed transit Toutes, Several [influential parties have submitted to both governments a basis of compromise. It is, that which- ever government may have forces nearest any scones of obstruction or disturbance shall promptly interfere for that purpose, each with the privilege of -ontering the ter- ritory of its neighbor, and that both, in case of emergenoy, should act unitedly. The assistance recently afforded by the Mexican troops from Matamoras to the peoplo of Brownsville is stated as anexample. Such a proposition, however, to be incorporated in the treaty must come from. the liberal govornmont. This, it is is understood, is favor- ably regarded by our own. ‘There is no doubt that both the governments of Great Britain and the United States are decidedly in carnost in presenting tholr respective positions or convictions of right, In relation to the San Juan question, although not maro so than they were fon the Oregon question; but the latest foreign official advices do not justify any apprehension of serious difficulties between the two countries. Captain Paine, of the Navy, is hore, and dangerons- ly UL Interesting from Pennsylvania, COMPLETE TRIUMPH OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE STATE CONVENTION— ADMINISTRATION DELE- GATES TO BE ‘SENT TO THE CHARLESTON NA- TIONAS, CONVENTION. Pmapeipata, Nov. 8, 1859. ‘Tho Democratic Convention which meets to-day will be entirely in the interest of the present administration. Philadelphia, which gives a complexion to the whole body of delegates, sends twenty-one delegates. Of these se- yenteen aro Buchanan men; in one district thero is a tie; two are doubtful, and but one is opposition. Ex-Collector Charles Brown, ex-Postmaster John Miller, the present District Attorney, James Van Dyke, and Lewis Cassidy, did their utmost to dofeat tho good causo, but their efforts were foiled completely. The State Con- vention chooses delegates to the Charleston National Con- vention, and will bo guided entirely by the prosont ad- ministration. —_—_—_ Burning of a Grain Elevator. Burrato, Nov. 8, 1859, Tho grain elevator in this city of the New York,Contral Railroad was totally destroyed by firo at oleven o'clock last night, It contained over 200,000 bushols of grain, all of which was destroyed. ‘The loss on tho building and machinery is about $50,000, which is uningurd@. The loss on the grain is is fally insured. ‘Tho extensive. froight depot ar the eo “4 ing, but ly . The of the fire is unknown. . By ‘The ship Kato Howe off Harding’s Rocks at 9:30 A. M. Sodag penn Lov conrte on ‘of water, and J : ie jov. 8, 1860. siaphan Roberta Now York bulk beet, won in twenty a minutes and thirty seconds, ¥ —— @ The James Adger at Charleston, , Nov. 8, 1 ‘Tho steamship James Adgor, Captain R Admes treet New York, arrived bere at twelve o'clock int (ionday).” night News from the Seuth, Naw Ontaame, Nov. 8, 1869, A party of one hundred mon ts raising to go to Browns. swille by the steamer Arizona. onduota of 98,000,000 ts expected at the ates 1" of Merlo. ua A lot of x00, reloasod at Viotoria, wore expected te Join Cortinas, Cotton firmer: sales to-day 1,900 balan,” NOT" T> MB i i E: f 83 L Be tt i : H f 1 | B é i f £? i i if 5 i j F ; Fit i if F : 5 £ ! i E ZF ; i 3 ; i i rs & 2 ? i ff i it i i i Fi iG i He ie Lee Hee he ie i i FFE 000 i # = FE Derrorr, Nov. 8, 180. |. Wheat steady. wheat. Mrwavene, Nov. 8, 1819. et, Wheat frm at oe $2; for lub, Pec ull. Receipts—2, flour, 18 wheat, 600 bushols corm, 2,200 bushels vatm Shipments—87,000 bushels wheat. Flour, $5 25 for superfine. celpts—6,000 bbls. flour, 24,000 bushels wheat. Toronto, Nov. 6, 1840. Flour steady. Wheat firm at $116 8 $1 21 for wiiter, and 950. a $1 for spring. Oats steady at 850. a 360. ley quiet at 700. a 740. F. Fine Art Items. Church’s fine painting, the ‘‘Hoart of the Andes,” ow- to see it at once. Tho subscriptions for the proof wa- gravings of the picture have been nearly all taken w. ‘The painting iteelf has been sold for a very large sun, ($15,000, it is said,) and will not permanently leave the country. ‘The admirers of Rosa Bonheur’s works should vist the two noblo compositions by her, @hich are now on exhibi- tion at Goupil’s, in Broadway. In Los Borriquerosthoy will find an episode of Pyrennean life which, whither regarded in its landscape aspects or in ita figure and ant- mal delineations, is equally characteristic and striking. Noxt tothe “Horse Fair,” we look upon this ploture aa the best specimen woe bave seon of this painter. “Morning in the Highlands,” by the same artis, is softer and soberer composition, but yet characterized by the same richness of coloring and unerring fidelty to nature, which are the prominent features of hor other works. Both pictures were sold from the easel, ama belong to foreign collectors. In noticing these productions of Mile. Bonheur’s ponoll, ‘we take the opportunity of stating a fact which wehave no doubt will give great pleasure to her numorous ad- mirers on this side of the Atlantic. We have it om good authority that she shortly intenas visiting America, with & view of studying the lite of our prairies and backwoods. Sho will unquestionably find subjects there better adapted to the masculine vigor and boldness of her genius than any that she can meet with abroad. Powers’ statue of ‘(Washington at the Masonic Altar,!? which is also on exhibition in the same gallery, is work poorly calculated to sustain the reputation of the sculptor. Asa conception, it is devoid of morit, being tame and spiritless, whilst anatomically speaking itis faulty in ita Proportions. The nationality of an artist should not pro- vent the truth being told him; and though Mr. Powers’ famo is dear to us as Americans, we aro in common ho- nesty bound to state that this last offort of his is unworthy of his genius. Tho French and English collection at the Academy of Design will close this week, after ‘a season which, on the whole, bas been an unusually Prosperous one, A great many pictures have been sold, some of them of very high price, and none have ranged lower than three hundrod dollars. Tho “ Bohemians,” by Knaus, one of the most renmrkablo pictures ever exhibited here, brought $5,000. Tho © Duol after the Masquerade,” by Jerome, another work of ex- traordinary merit, was sold for $2,500. Couture’s ‘¢ Evening Prayer,” a picturo fine in sentimont md bril- Nant in coloring, fetobed $1,500. The “ Toilette,” by WiL- Jems, a charming composition, was carly whippel up for the price fixed upon it—$1,000. « Going to Marit,” a Picture of singular effect, by Troyon, was bought by Mr. Cunard for » similar sum; and the “Charlotte Crday,!* by Schlessinger, was also purchased by tho samegeatle- man for $750. Pago’s “‘ Venus,” the work which has created ach an excitement in social, religious and Uterary circlg here, goes to Boston next week. Tho sum taken by thi paint- ing is larger than has ever before been received onthe ex- hibition of a single picture, with tho exception of Curch’s last work, There is some idea“bf purchasing, by subsciption, Troyon’s largo plcturo—A Scone in the Selne’ (at Present in the English and French collection), fer tb New ‘York Historical Society. The matter is in the hnds of soveral influential gentlemen, and will probably car- ried through. Our attention hag been lately called to the new )rocess of photographing upon porcelain cups and vases which is now exhibiting in the rooms of the American Proolain Photograph Company in Broadway. The iikenees are Perfect, and they are rendered permanent by aecuitar mode of glazing, which disponses with the burninjn, In England Mr. Fox Talbot and others have taken oupatents for photographing on fist porcelain surfaces; & they have not succeeded in transterring the images to und or uneven bodies. Tho patents held by this compat claim the exclusive discovery of this latter process, id the portraits that they produce by it derive, as may ima- gined, a peculiarly soft and pleasing effect from thérans- parency of the porcelain. ‘Tho private view of Messrs, Rosalter & Mignol'darge work, ‘The Home of Washington After the War,’takes place on Monday evening, the 14th inst, We hav seon this picture in progress, and we speak favorably cto ita merita. Brooklyn City News. ‘Tam Gaanv Juny oF Tan Court or Over axp Tenn. — The Court of Oyer and Terminer met on Monda and after organizing the Grand Jury as follows, adjrned til next Monday:—John H. Baker, foreman; Diol BR. Schenck, David Buffum, Jaques R. Stilwell, Semuel J. Garrotson, David Fithian, William M. Adrian Bergen, John Schenck, A. C. Baldwin, gar J. Bartow, George G. Borgon, Hondlow, Ryder, Zebulon R. Combe, "Neuen @ Carn, en lL Daniel Bedell Bout ‘Baldwin, Garret J. dene. sate Foormva rom Jusncs.—Samucl H. Cosgroveas ar- rested on Monday by detective Frost, on the ége of fale protonces, whereof he stands indicted irbaffhlo, N. ¥. The alleged offence was committed abon year ago, and on his way to that charge of be ceoaped. from the trains ie tae se reoese, ‘The accused was committed. Arraurren Hiouwar Rospary.—Mrs. Demer whilo Passing through Court street, near Paoific, at | carly hour Monday evening, was attacked by a gang @wdies, who knocked her down, one of them gagging while another robbed her of hor portemonnale. . officer ~~~ ahd hy mic