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WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— bun ltence of the tor Santa Tosa been commuted to perpetaal banishment. upfortupate man has, ic is said,a family somewhere in the United States, The sabseripti to the extra stock of the Spanish Bank, which, together with the premium, auounted to $1,400,000, were tu be paid in during the week, and a centinued stein: gonoy in the money warket was predicted The police had made important discuveries of extensive arrangements for an issue of counterfeit notes of had The | she Spanish Bank, counterfeit coin and counterfeit postage stamps The revelations implicated, it is alleged, the cashier of the bank, who was arrested upd sent to prison. The postage stampa were man ufactured in New York. Our correspondent gives fall details of these matters, The health of Havana was remarkably good. The sugar market con- tinued inactive, and freights had not improved, Severe storms had visited the south side of Cuba, and serious damage to the sugar crop Was appre- hended. We have accounts from San Domingo to the 19th ult. The revolutionary movement at Azna had been effectually quelled by Vice President General Abad Alfau, to whom Santana had temporarily re- signed the Presidency. Ten of the conspirators were shot, and quite number were banished to New Granada. It was believed that the revolt was- the work of the partisans of ex-President Baez, and not of the Haytiena. Through the effurts of General Cazneau, the special agent of the United States government, the port of Samana has again WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Waeck Asuoae— | been opened to foreign commerce, much to the To Pais aNd Back. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Wirr’s Brcnut—Nouma. 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By the arrival ofthe Asia at this port and the Hungarian at Portland, yesterday, we have details of news from Europe to the 2d inst., and later in telligence from China, India, Japan, Australia and Brazil. The Italian question continued to be the all ab sorbing topic in political circles throughout Eu- for rope. A letter has appeared, purporting to kave- { been written by Napoleon to the King of Sardinia, urgivg him to carry out the arrangements of the treaty of Villafranca. We give the substance of this important paper in our compilation of the news. In it Napoleon says that France demands that the Duke be recalled to Modena, that Parma be united to Piedmont, and that Tuscany, with an augmentation of her territory, be restored to the reign of the Grand Duke, and that the pro- jected confederation, on the basis of moderate re- forms, be carried out. The policy of Napoleon is ably vindicated by the Constitutionnel, in an arti- cle a translation of which is given in another column. Garibaldi was making rapid progress towards the perfection of a general revolution in Italy, provided the Archdukes were returned by force of arms and the inhabitants did not receive the full measure of freedom earned by their sacri- fices during the war. Naples and Parma were in a state of complete demoralization, both social and political. Much importance was attached to the meeting of the Czar of: Russia and the Prince Regent of Prussia at Breslau. It was thought they had agreed to advocate the union of Central Italy to Piedmont. A brief but interesting account of the visit of our Minister, Mr. Ward, to Pekin, is given in another column. The English affect the belief that Mr. ‘Ward's reception was not only humiliating to him- self but also to the nation which he represents, Oar readers will form their own opinion upon this point when they have perused the narrative re- ferred to. The Circassian arrived at Galway on the 27th ult., with news of the outbreak at Harper’s Ferry, and it was telegraphed to Liverpool that “the insur- gents had sent off carts loaded with muskets from the arsenal to Maryland and other places.” The San Juan Island question was again can- E in the London press, in terms adverse to the in claim. Spain was in a state of intense excitement with respect to her anticipated victories over the Moors. It was thought the war, if prosecuted with energy, ‘would eventuate in serious European complication. France and England had, it was said, agreed to send a force to China next February, but the French contingent would not be so large as at first spoken of. Terrible storms had prevailed on the coast of England, but the loss of only one American yes" sel—the Charles Holmes, bound from Liverpool to Mobile—is reported, though several others suffered more or less damage. The papers contain very full details of the wreck of the steamer Royal Charter, after a fine.ron from Australia, when endeavoring to make Liverpool from Queenstown. Out of four hundred and ninety-four souls on board, only thirty- nine were saved, leaving a total of four hundred and fifty-five persons lost, either by drowning or being killed under the falling decks, timbers and iron work of the ship when she went to pieces. In Japan the dispute between the natives and foreigners on the currency question has been tem- porarily settled by the former agreeing to re- turn to the original nnderstanding on the subject. ‘There was an active demand for money in Lon- don, and consols on the 2d inst. were quoted at 96} for money. At Liverpool there was an advancing tendency {in the cotton market, and prices had improved one- “sixteenth to one-eighth of a penny for clean fair ‘and middling qualities. Breadstuffs were quict, wiiile provisions were dull. The steamship Granada, Captain Griffin, from ‘New Orleans 5th, and Havana 9th inst., arrived at this port yesterday. She brought fifty passengers, “the Havana mails, and $160,000 in specie from New Olean. General Concha was to lcavo Havana in afew days. It was not expected that the policy of his uccessor, General Serano, would differ mate- vidl'y om Guat of Comba, The dow seu. way lobby <fliliations of the Albany va- + corporation under pimilur guurapwos, oglong | ply of jt on lund for all comers, and Bos! Four steady, with smalls salen at P45 nc gratification of the Dominicans. It is said that the government has agreed to reduce the tonnage dues on American vessels, but the decree had not been promulgated at last advices. The claims of Ameri- can citizens upon the Dominican government were in progress of adjustment, and they will no doubt be satisfactorily settled as soon as there are funds in the exchequer. About half of the cargo of the - riety shop with the Seward. maaugers of tbat locality, it was manifest from the outset that the State ticket adopted by Rich- r, Cassidy & Co, was’ adopted simply to keep up appearances, and to deceive the party in other States. Had those unseru- pulous intriguers for the spoils and plunder, who assume the right to dictate the law of their party, accepted the reasonable peace over- tures of the Astor House faction, and agreed to postpone the election of the State delegation to Charlestou till after this November contest, and bad they further agreed that their said de- legation should be elected by the single dir trict system, so as to give the hards the dele gates to which they ure clearly entitled, we dare say that the democratic State ticket would bave polled at least thirty thousand more votes than it has received. But this arrangement formed no part of the Regency programme, which was a solid dele- gation from the Empire State to Charleston, with » view to the ultimate control of the Coa- vention as a balance of power. To sccomplixh this paramount and exclusive object Mr. Wise ‘and bis friends were first betrayed; and then .s hue and ery was raised ‘against’ him, under cover of which the Syracuse Convention was’ packed to order, and a solid gelegation ap- pointed to Charleston as completely under the tbumb of the Regency as Confidence Cassidy himself. We have the first reaultot this treache- rous programme before us in the humiliating defeat of the party; and the next thing in order is a settlement with the guilty centrivers of this disaster. Governor Wise is ready, in this view, to pro- mond, Cag, schooner California, wrecked on the island of | ceed to business; Fernando Wood, with poor Saone, while on her passage from New York to ! old Tammany on the hip,is prepared to second Aux Cayee, had been saved and sold at auction at t the motion; and what with the beautiful im- San Domingo City. The Captain of the California ; stated that his vessel had been robbed by the natives during his absence to procure assistance, and the government had promised to investigate the matter. The Rev. Dr. Cheever repeated his discourse on the sin of slavery, which was delivered a short time ago before the American Missionary Asaociation at Chicago, at his church in Union square, last even- ing. The weather was very unpropitious, cold and cheerless, and the congregation was therefore not as large as usual. We supply a sketeh of the ser- mon in another part of thig paper. Rey, Francis Remington delivered an address last evening at the Calvary Free Church, Brooklyn, on the Harper’s Ferry affair. Unlike the pulpit orators who have heretofore favored the public | with their views on this topic, Mr. Remington, who is an Episcopalian, condemns the attempt of Old Brown and his associates at Harper's Ferry and elsewhere to stir up insurrection at the South, A report of the address may be found in another column. The committee of firemen and others having in charge the arrangements for a funeral pageant in honor of the late David C. Broderick, United States | Senator from Celiforniz, iad announced a grand } Protession yesterday afternoon, and an oration by | J. M. Dwinelle, Esq., of Rochester, at the New York | University; but in consequence of the heavy rain | storm yesterday, it was decided to postpone the whole affair until Sunday next. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 2,500 bales, 1,800 of which were sold in transit, closing on the | basis of 113¢c. a 115¢c., chiefly at the inside figure. The | news of the advancing tendency in prices at Liverpoo, | seems to have been counteracted by accounts of the large receipts at the Southern ports. It may be remarked that the extension of railways, which now penetrate the principal cotton districts, combined with the navigable condition of the Southern rivers, has afforded unusual faci- lities for getting the crop early to market. At last accounts | the receipts since the Ist of September had reached 753,000 bales, and by the first or second week in January they may reach over 1,000,000 bales, or fully, if not over, one-fourth of the whole estimated crop of 1859, a result without pre- | cedent. It is this enterprise of the Americans in grow- ing and sending so largo a yield to market in such a brief space of time, which gives the United States the markets | of the world for the most important staple over growa— | an article on which is based the chief commercial ex- changes of the civilized globe. Of the receipts at the ports we have, since the first of September last, exported 315,- 000 bales, which, at the average value of $50 por bale of 450 Ibs. each, amounts to the sum of $15,600,000. To con- ‘vey this cotton to Europe would give cargoes to 156 ships, of the capacity of 2,000 bales each, which, at an average freight of 34d. or 1 cent per Ib., or $450 per bale, would yield an aggregate freightage of $1,404,000 received, in about two months and chief ly by Northeyn ship owners. Tho demand for cotton ships has also caused freights to advance in this market. ‘This large shipment of cotton, in such a brief space of time, by augmenting the supply of foreign exchange» has reduced the rates below tho specie exporting point, and relieved the New York banks of any further geri- ous drain for the present, and emboldened them to suddenly enlarge their loans, in a week or fortnight, to between one and two million of dollars, thus securing ease and confidence in tho money market. It ig only about six or seven months since the seed were planted. In that period the crop has been cultivated, picked, cleaned, packed, and delivered in market and exported to the extent stated. Flour was firm, but less active. Tho lower grades again closod at a slight advance, while most other descriptions were unchanged. Southern flour was also firm, and in good demand, Wheat continued in good demand, while prices ruled firm. Corn was scarce, and firm for yellow at $1 02a $1 03. Pork was steady and in fair demand, with sales of mess at $15, and of prime at $10 50. Sugars were steady but quiet, the sales being limited. Freight engagements were quite moderate, while previous rates were sustained. Our State Election—The Albany Re- gency—Views of Governor Wise. What is the trouble with our New York de- mocracy? The Richmond Enquirer, the official and confidential central organ of Governor Wise, reveals the secret in an article discussing our late election, and seizes the occasion for administering a stunning blow to the Albany Regency, as follows:— The fact is that a number of the leaders of the soft democracy, who have been enjoying an undne share of foderal patronage from the last two administrations, and have consequently been enabled to wield an undue amount of political influence, are strongly inclined to black republican doctrines. fiad tho Cassidys and Rich- monds of New York displayed the same energy in bat- tling black republicanism which they have exhibited in intriguing against the majority of the democratic party, the result of the late election might have been changed. As itis, we see no hope of winning the State from black republicanism until these traitors shall be ousted {from our own camp. Now, if this extract does not satisfy every in- telligent New York democrat that Governor Wise is thoroughly conversant with all the weak points of the Albany Regency, we are very much mistaken. It is true that “a number of the leaders of the soft democracy,” who have become fat and saucy on government pap, are among the black sheep of the flock; it is true that they have sacrificed the party and the State in order to secure a lodgment in the Charles- ton Convention; and we concur in the opinion of our Richmond contemporary, that “until these traitors shall be ousted” from the rule of the democratic camp, it is perfectly absurd to talk of defeating our formidable and disciplined New York republican party. From the treacherous proceedings of the said Regency towards Governor Wise, and from their contemptuous treatment of the peace proposi- tions of the Astor House wing of the party at Syracuse, in reference to the Charleston Convention; bnt worse than all, from rail- broglio of our approaching municipal election, and the resolute purpose of the hards of the State to hold their ground, we anticipate a complete failure of the Regency at Charleston, with their solid delegation. Surely the unseru- pulous lobby and caucus schemers of Albany and of this city, who have been faithless alike to the administration which feeds them and the party which they profess to serve—surely such unworthy men must be ordered to stand back, after having been heard at Charleston face to face with their accusers. At all events, it is now perfectly clear that the democratic party ef New York, so long as the burden of the Al- bany Regency remains upon its back, will re- main fast in the mire. Governor Wise bas given the signal. Let this selfish, reckless and faithless Regency be brought to a final reck- oning. The Union Ferry Gouge—How to Stop It. We recently took occasion to call public attention to the history of the Union ferry mo- ropoly, and to the extortionate character of its operations. We did so in the expectation thatas the leases of this company are about to expire, they would be provoked into coming for. ward and stating tke grounds on which they base their pretensions to a renewal of them. To justify the concession for a further term of such valuable privileges, yielding, as we have shown, returns to the amount of more than a million and a quarter annually, they should be in a condition to prove that they have fulfilled honorably and fairly the stipula- tions under which they were originally granted by the Legislature. How ts their continued silence to be interpreted, in a position which demands at least a show of deference to public opinion? What is the world, moreover, to think of their reserve, after the serious imputa- tions that have been thrown out against them? Taken in conjunction with the charge publicly made by Mr. Kelsey, now member of the Assembly, of their having employed bribery to defeat his nomination and to secure that of their own candidate, their care- ful avoidance of all controversy or discussion would lead to the conclusion that they dare not venture into print. They no doubt pre- fer working in the dark, trusting rather to the additional strength gained to their interests in the Legislature by the weight of their money and to their chances of buying up the Common Council, than to their character as a fair deal- ing and useful public company. At is to be hoped that such efforts will be made by the people of the two cities as will defeat all the underhand scheming and corrup- tion by which it will be sought to carry the re- newal of the present ferry leases. While we admit the force of the argument that the union of several ferries in the hands of one company is likely to insure their better administration, we contend that under no circumstances should this consideration be allowed to lead to the creation of a monopoly. The city, in granting these leases, should look less to the amount of money that it is to get for them than to the character of the applicants, and to the pros- pect of their keeping faith with the public: But, more than this, the leases themselves should only be granted on such conditions as would prevent all possibility of the hold- ers levying, at their pleasure, an unjustifiable amount of taxation on the public. From the facts stated by us the other day, it is evi- dent that on the Union ferries a cent fare and a low commutation would leave a large annual profit. Under what pretence, therefore, can a company which has greedily duplicated its fares and abolished the commutation principle, with- out offering any corresponding increase in the facilities of the traffic, come forward and claim a renewal of the trust which was granted to them merely for the public accommodation? There is no mistaking the game which is being played by this monopoly. They will try to bribe their way first to their object; and if they should fail in that, they have another card which they look upon as almost equally sure. Lately, just as their leases are approaching their termination, they have commenced adding largely to their usual outlay in new boats, the extension of slips, and in their working mate- rial generally. The motive for this is apparent. They want to defeat the chances of rival applicants, by increasing the amount of capital that would be required to purchase out their improvements. It would take a million of dollars on the part of any new company getting these leases to enterupon possession. Formidable as these combinations are, it would be easy to break them down, if the honesty of the incoming Common Council could be depended upon. One effectual means of doing it would be by letting the ferries separately, and providing by stringent clauses against a coalition. But, as we have Just observed, as there is a positive advantage in giving the ferries to strong companies, two, or even three of them, might be granted to one ONDAY, as there ave independent ferries reserved from the combination and located between its routes, there will be ample security in the com- petition for the public interests, There is a simple means now of upsetting the monopoly of the Union Company, if the Common Council would give its sanction to it. A slip at the foot of Battery place having been voted by the Boards for the use of some of the Stuten Island boats, we should think that the whole of the latter would find it to their iaterest to concentrate there, thus leaving the slip at the south side, now ured by them, for a new Brook- jyn ferry running to the foot of Harrison street. If the Common Council would give its assent to this arrangement, we believe that the purchase might easily be made of the Staten Island Com- pany. This new ferry once started, it would at once bring down the fares of the Union Com- pany to their old amount; for, intervening as it does at equal distances between the Hamilton avenue and South ferries, it would expose the latter to a ruinous competition. As to the amount of capital required, we believe thatit could be raised in a week, so strong is the feel- ing of hostility inspired by the present mono- poly. Let the Brooklyn people at once atir in the matter, and leave the question of the re- newal of the preeent leases to stand on its own merits. The plan we suggest is one that will require no very large amount of muney to carry through; and it has this additional re- commendation—that it meets the Union Com- pany on ground to which they have not direct- ed their combinations. The Misetssippt Valley Movement—The ‘Went Getting Jealous. The Mississippi valley, it appears, is growing jealous of the prosperity of the great Atlantic States und cities, and has inaugurated a “move- ment” by which the Western and Southwest- ern States design to assert their claim to a larger share of power in the federal govern- ment, a direct trade with Europe, a portion of the shipbuilding business of the Union, and sundry other objects of a like character. To further these plans a mass meeting was held in Carroll county, Kentucky, recently, at which it was resolved to effect the desired parpose by a succession of conventions in all the cities on the Ohio and Mirsissippi. The Western agitators complain that although the States of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana constitute the head- quarters of the three great staples of the country—“its wheat, corn and animals ”—and contribute one-fifth of the burthen of govern- ment, their rights are disregarded at Washing- ton, and the “cod catching aristocracy” of the Atlantic cities monopolize the commerce of the country. Among the remedies suggested for these grievances we find the election of Speaker for the next House of Representatives from Mississippi valley; the appointment of im- portant committees to be made from the repre- sentatives of that region of country; and, though last, not least, the removal of the federal capi- tal from Washington to some city on the banks of the Ohio or Mississippi. How all this is to be accomplished by conven- tions is not very clear tous. A somewhat similar movement was that for the opening of a direct trade between Memphis and Belgium, and for the establi-hment of a steamship line between Nor- folk and France, mooted some time age. Na- ture has allotted to the great agricultural States of the West their portion of the general prosperity of the country, and their part in the work of progress going on all over the con- tinent, just as she has done to the States on the Atlantic seaboard, and the cotton raising States of the South; and it is absurd to attempt such a revolution as the “Mississippi Valley movement” contemplates. When St. Louis, or Cincinnati, or Memphis, acquires the geographi- cal position and other advantages of New York, it will be time enough to think of establishing direct trade with Europe, and competing with her in the shipbuilding and importing trade; but just so long as New York stands where it does, and the energy, industry and enterprise of its population continue unabated, its pre- dominance in these respects cannot be broken down. The West, with all its wonderful growth, is not balf developed, and we advise the Western men to cultivate its amazing resources, and never mind direct trade with Europe or the ‘shipbuilding business, at least for the present. Tue Prowirrory Liquor Law 1s Massacne- SETTS AND THE Imprisonep State Acext.—On Saturday the Supreme Court of Massachusetts very properly decided against the writ of habeas corpus for the liberation of Mr. Burn- ham, the liquor agent for the State, who re- fused to show his books of acounts. But we think it is very unreasonable to ask Burnham to supply evidence which might criminate him- self. He will not of course show the books, certainly not the set of books used in his pro- fitable business. He willlaugh at the law and the lawmakers, and with the fortune that he has realised he can afford to endure for some time the restraint of a prison. With a portion of his gains he will be likely to purchase his freedom in some mysterious way. A man so smart will not stay very long in durance vile. This whole affair isa curious comment on prohibitory liquor laws. An enactment is passed prohibiting the sale of liquors unless by an authorized agent of the State, and that for medicinal purposes. One object of this law was to insure the sale of pure and good liquor. But Burnham thought his salary was a poor compensition for his services, and he concluded that he could make a good thing out of the business by purchasing cheap and selling dear; and, as the State gave him a monopoly of the sale, he could charge just what price he pleased to those who were timid enough to fear the penalties of the law. Probably for “perilous stuff’ which might be warranted to kill, even in very small doses, if often repeated, he paid from fifty cents to a dollar per gallon, and on this he made from five hundred to eight hundred per cent. His profits in this way could not fall far short of from $60,000 to $100,000 per annum. . And such is the result of this absurd Maine law legislation. The Prohibitory act—a com- pound of folly, fanaticism and political rascali- ty-- produces no better fruits than the enrich- ing of a politician out of the pockets of the people, while in return they are drugged with slow poison, as deadly in ils final effvels as ar- senic or strychnine. But the best of the farce | is that the appointment of a liguor agent does not prevent the le of liquor by public houses in Massachusetts. In every town there is an abundant sup- NOVEMBER 14, 1859. ton, the capital, Is at this moment the most dissipated city in the Union. It is the same in Connecticut. There, too, there is a prohibitory law. But in every public house in every town and village, the worst kind of liquor is sold openly over the counter. So strong is the law of public opinion, which thus nullifies the im- practicable fanaticism of a statute. It is stated that a movement is on foot to re- peal the prohibitory law in Massachusetts. The Legislature may as well do so at once, for the law is virtually repealed by the people, who are universal drinkers, from the pareons and heads of universities down to the hodmen and free negroes, A prohibitory liquor law, for such a population, is only hypo- crisy systematized and reduced to a sta- tute. The only law worth a fig is the proper regulation of the sale of liquors by license, and the enforcement of the vending of pure liquors under the severest penalty—an enactment very much needed also in this State, and particularly in the city of New York, where liquora are “doctored” to such a fearful extent that it is ‘next to impossible to obtain them genuine and unadulterated from any dealer. ‘Tax ALLEcep Marget Fravps.—The public markets have always been used asa source of corruption and fraud by the officials connected with them, and recent developements have shown that a system of blackmail is pursued which is discreditable to all parties concerned. The markets, it is well known, ought to bea means oflarge revenue to the city: that they have not proved so is equally notorious. Nor is this fact to be wondered at when we consider the class of persons to whose care they are entrust- ed. A batch of affidavits has just been sent to the City Inspector, showing that sums of money have been extorted from various parties for permits for stands in the markets by an individual not entitled to interfere in such matters, and from the whole com- plexion of the case it would seem to impli- cate the Superintendent -of Markets, more or less, either by connivance or direct partici- pation in the transactions. This official is the appointee of our model reform Mayor, and it is but just to suppose that his subor- dinates have been selected from the bruiser and shoulder-hitter fraternity—not exactly the olass ot men to be entrusted with the guardian- ship of any portion of the city’s revenues. Under such management it is not to be expect- ed that the markets will prove very profitable to the treasury, and we hope that a thorough investigation into these alleged frauds will eventuate in the substitution of a set of officials a little better qualified for the duties of the Market Bureau. We see’by an account of the sale of stalls in one market at Philadelphia, on Saturday, that they realized a premium over their actual rent of nearly a hundred thousand doliars. There is no reason why our markets should not be proportionately profitable to the city, and they certainly would be under proper management. We trust that the City Inspector, the other branches of whose depariment are so well conducted, will sift this matter to the bot- tom, and that the Mayor will purge the Market Bureau of the rowdies and fighting men who have it under their control. —_—_—_——— THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival of the Steamship North Star at Aspinwall. Cuantaston, Nov. 13, 1859. Intelligence by the Isubel from Havana is to the effact that the steamship North Star had not arrived at Aspin- wall up to the 4th of November. The New York State Election. Annay, Noy. 18, 1859. The Aflas and Argus’ footings up to-night give Leaven- worth 803 majority. Affairs at Charlestown, Virginia. ALL STRANGERS UNDER SURVILLANCE—MESSRS. JEW: ETT AND HOYT ADVISED TO LEAVE. Bartmors, Nov. 13, 1859. Considerable excitement still exists at Charlestown. The Mayor has issued a proclamation, and appointed a committee to lool: after strangers, and bring them before a justice of the peace. Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Jewott received notice from Col. Taylor that they were not safo, and ac- cordingly left. Arriving here today, Mr. Jowett was ac- cused of being the correspondent of the New York Tribune, whose letters had caused considerable ill feoling. Mr. Jewett represents himself as one of Frank Leslie's artists. Ex-Governor Brown, of Mississippi and Mr. Seward. Cuarteston, Noy. 13, 1859. The Mercury's special New Orleans correspondent says that Ex-Governor Brown, of Mississippi, delivered an ad- dress to the Legislature at Jackson, oxpressing moro ro- spect for the opinions of Mr. ‘ard than for those of Judge Douglas. Critical Condition of Mr. Douglas. Wasmxarox, Noy. 13, 1859. An unauthenticated report obtains general credenco that Judge Douglas is in a critical situation to-night. News from California. ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL. Sr. Louis, Nov. 13, 1859, ‘The ovorland mail, with San Francisco dates of tho 21st ult., has arrived. Almost the entire business portion of the town of Coul- terville was burned on the 20th ult. The Sacramento Standard states that Governor Woller had decided to appoint a Senator to fill the vacancy causod by the death of Mr. Broderick. Business was dull at San Francisco. Sailed 20th, ship Commonwealth. News from Rio Janeiro. Barmmors, Nov. 13, 1859. Rio Janeiro advices to Oct. 6 have beon received via Pornambuco. The English steamer had arrived. Tho stock of coffee was firm—90,000 to 100,000 bags. The sales of the last five days were 15,000 bags; prices un- changed. Exchange on London, 25%. Freights—Nothing doing and rates nomial. Flour dull: Baltimore extra, $18; do, superfine, $17; rates nominal. The New Postmaster of Buffalo. Wasinxctox, Nov. 13, 1859. The President has appointed Ex-Congresaman Israel T. Hatch’ Postmaster of Buflalo, in place of Mr. Dickie, re- Marine Disasters. CutaKteston, Nov. 13, 1859. The atoamabip Isabel reports having passed ashore on Florida Beach the ship Charles Crocker, with cotton and tobacco. She was on twenty-five miles north of Capo Florida and had bilged. Tho jd Heidelberg, from New Orleans bound to Havre, with cotton and $31,000 in specie, was soen azhore twelve miles north of Cape Florida. ‘The ships Eliza Mallory, Jupiter and Juliot had bilged. ‘The brig North, with cotton, and the burk Mary Coe, from Mobile bound to Havre, with cotton, were also ashore. Markets. Cixcnxamt, Nov! 12, 1859. Businees of all kinds was checked by severe rain. Flour unchanged. Whiskey dull at 223¢c. Bacon firm, and more sought for. Pork in better request} at $13 50, ‘Hogs unchanged, with few transactions. Torxpo, Nov. 12, 1859. Four firm at $5 734 for superfine. firm at $111 a $2 20. Recoipts-day—4,700 bbls. flour; 5,000 bushels wheat, Nov. 12, 1859. Derrorr, Flour active. Wheat dull at $109 for red. Receipts to- day—5,260 bbls. flour, 2,800 bushels wheat. Shipments— 7,000 bushels wheat. Mrowavreg, Nov. 12, 1859. Wheat firm. Corn—a declining ten- Reecipts to-day—1,400 bbls. flour, ‘hia 1,000 bushels Flour steady. dency, quiet. 18,000 bushels wheat, 200° bu oats, Shipmonts—49,000 bushels wh Omwaco, Noy. Wheat quiet and un and deolined dc ; sales at 4c. Oni to-day 240 bbls flour, 40,000 corn, 3,800 bushels oats. — Re 86,000 bushels wheat, 41,000 hnshols ont Flour firm. 500 bbls. flour, yushels corn, and 3,400 | 0 from * Ehicago spring, .Wheut firm, but there is leas . alco feet wight 15,000 bushels Mactue club st Bl er t- day 4,300 bushels choice Canadian club at $1 04. Othor grains quiet. Canal freights less firm: wheat was taken to-day at 18c. to New York, but the regular lines are asking 160, ‘Lake imports—600 bbls. flour, 9,000 bushels wheat, 3,000 bushels oats, 4,800 bushols ‘barley, 10,708 bushela rye, 9,600 bushels peas. Canal ex; 284 bbls. lou? 43,000 bushels wheat, 14,800 bushels barloy, 6,000 bushols rye, 8,300 bushels oats. Borvato, Nov. 12, 1850, Flour in moderate demand, market steady: aalee bbls, Wheat advanced 10. # 20.: sales 9,000 bushels Nes 2 Chicago spring at bc. a $1, 5,000 bushels Canada club at $1, 15,000 bushels No. 1 Milwaukee club at $1 = bushels red Michi and Obio wt $1 18a $1 2 erates quiet. Whiskey nominal at 25c. steady, imports—9,000 bbis. flour, 10,008 br Faecal "eat cai Wt dae . Canal 2,000 bbls. flour, 26,000 bushels whoa, 12,000 b corn. : 12, 1868, utes ‘Toronto, Nov. Flour quie\. Wheat dull, and deslined lc. Bar dy at 700. a Thc. Cate steady at Bho. a STKC. Operatic and Dramatic Matters. ‘The Opera is going on much more prosperously than the opening of the season seemed to indicate. The “ Sicilia Vespers” has attracted four full houses, and, as a preat of ite gucceas, conclusive even to the business mind, the receipts wore greater on Friday than on the first night, There are various opinions as to the merits of the music, but only one as to the splondor of the satseenscéne. It is the theme of universal commendation, The “Veepers”’ will be. given to-night and on Wednesday; @ large number of places for both nights bave already been secured.’ Jie more than probable that this opera will not be given after Wednesday, as the season is drawing te @ close, and the managers have several new sensations for the publico—among others the per- formance of Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” which is announsedl for next week positively. On Thursday of this week there will be an extra performance, for the purpose of in- troducing to the public’ Madame Albertini, an artstof high reputation in Europe. Mme. Albertini is considered a3 one of the first dramatic singers of the day, and the réle Bolected for her début, Leonora in the “Trovatore,” will give her an ample opportunity to verify the favorable accounts of her from European critics, Beaucarde will sing the tenor part in tho ‘Trovatore’’ on this occasion. ‘The managers of tho Acadomy are also preparing for the détut of Miss Adalina Patti, who rehearsed Lucia a dag ‘or two ago, and received the highest compliments fream @ select audience. According to all accounts, Miss Patel will commence a brilliant artistic career on the Amerionm stage. Tho theatrical record of the week presents no actual novelties. The revivals of “The Wife's Secrot’” am@ “Tho Wreck Ashoro’’ at Laura Keene's and Wallack’s theatres have beon quite successful, and ‘“ Smike’’ is stil attractive at the Winter Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have finished the fourth week of their engage- ment at Niblo’s Garden, and thero is no apparent dimina- tion in the number of the audiences. At the Thea- tre Francais, the ‘“‘ Demi-Monde,”’ a celebrated drama by the younger Dumas, has been successfully produced. M. Mauinstein and M’'lle Laurette were very successful im the principal réles. Mr. and Mrs. Drayton have attracted. large and delighted andiences to their new Parlor Opera House, tho upper hall of Hope Chapel. ‘The entertainment is not only exceedingly good from an artistic point of view, but entiroly unobjectionable even in the eyes of the most straitlaced Sabbatarian. We hear that extensive prepa- rations are being made at Palace Gardens for Van Azm- burgh’s zoological exhibition. A building forty by twe hundred feet, especially adapted for the purpose, is now in course of erection on tho easterly side of the grounds. It will be opened to the public in the course of two weeks. The panorama of Italy, known as Waugh’s Italia, ia still on exhibition at Hope Chapel, and is largely and de- servedly patronised. ‘ Mr. Sam. Cowell, the celebrated English comic singete is a passenger by the Asia, and his début in this city may be expected very shortly. Mr. Bourcicault is preparing a new five act play, upom an American subject. It will be produced at the Winter Garden about the 1st of Decem- ber. De Lave, the Rochester rival of Biondin, is preparing to give some exhibitions on the tight rope at Hoboken. Tho theatres offer for to-night the following named pieces:— At Nipvo’s Garvey Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams will play in Mr. Walcot’s farce, ‘‘ The Customs of the Coum- try,” the drama ‘Shandy Maguire,” and Latest from Now York.”’ At the Winter Garden “ Smike”’ will be repeated, with Miss Agnes Robertson, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Johnston, and Sar. A. H. Davenport in the cast. At Laura Keene’s theatre the very successfull play, “The Wife’s Secret’’ will be repeated, with the burlesque of ‘Norma,’ in which Messrs. Mark Smith and F. A. Vincent are the prime donne. In the first piece, the acting of Miss Laura Keene and Mr. Jordan is exceedingly good. At Wallack’s theatre “The Wreck Ashore,” with Les- ver, Blake, Walcot, Mrs. Hoey and Miss Gannon, and “ Te Paris and Back,’’ with Mr. Sloan, will be repeated. At the Drayton Parlor Opera House the operetta “Never Despair,” from the touching story (Pauvre Jacques), and ‘Better Late than Never,’’ operatic pro- verb, will be given by Mr. and Mrs. H. Drayton. At Barnum’s Musoum this afternoon tho clover drama, “The Flowers of the Forest,” will be given. In the evening “The Lady of Lyons,” with Mr. Delman Grace and Mrs. J. J. Prior as Claude and Pauline. At the New Bowery theatre to-night the favorite ac- tress, Miss Fanny Herring, will make hor rentrée in a now local piece called “Fast Women of the Olden Time.” ‘The pantomime ‘‘Raoul’’ will also be given. The Bowery theatre management will produce Mr. Plunkett's new drama, ‘Three Eras in a Firoman’s Life.”* Itis apropos to the careor of the late Senator Broderick. The “Doom of Deville” and “The Laughing Hyena’? will be added to the new pioce. The National theatre will be opened to-night for circus performances, under tho namo and style of tho Chatham Amphitheatre. The Sherwood family, Walter Aymar and the clown, Tony Pastor are among the porformers en- gaged. The colored opera companics—Wood’s, George Christy’s and Bryants’—announce the usual varicty of ontortain- ments, in which the three stars, E. Horn, George Christy and Jerry Bryant, will havo prominent parts. Coxcert.—Mr. C. Ferguson, the performer on the Irish union harmonic pipes, will give concerts on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week at Mozart Hall. Alsea morning performance on Friday. ‘Tuearnes Eisrwnene.—The Ravels aro’ at the Bostom theatre. The Gazette of the 6th says;— Mr. Brougham’s olla podrida, “Old Friends in New Phases,’’ was brought out this evening at the Musoum be- fore an audience large in pumbers but ehary of applause. It is a pleasant and witty trifle, and well calculated to dis- play advantageously the versatile talents of Mrs, Barrow and Mr. Warren. Mr. Lanergun and his company of Amorican actors were giving very succossful performances at George- town, Demerara, at the last accounts, The Australian papers chronicle tho joint appearance of Mr. G. V. Brooke and Miss Mary Prevost—an American actress—as the latest sensation there. Piccoromint 1N IngLanp.—The following letter has been received by a few young gentlemon in Dublin, who pre- sented the fair artiste with a suporbly bound copy of “Don Giovanni,” to mark thoir enthusiasm of hor per- formance of Zerlina:— Paras, Oct. 19, 1859, GenTIXMEN—I have been favored with a handsome and elegant copy of the “Don Giovanni.” Should Heaven ao- cord me the power to revisit the city of my sympathies, that dear Dublin, I hope to be able to express im words better than in these hasty lines my lively sense of gratitude towards thoso gentlemen who have conceived tho graceful idea of giving mo so beautiful a present. I encourage myself with the flattering hope of assurl them in person hereafter how much I prize their gift. could wish that my dear Irish know that I can never for- et the proofs of kind sympathy they have given me, and it neither time nor distance can ever obliterate them from my recollection. Believe that I si; myself, with sentiments of much esteem, your most obliged MARIA PICCOLOMINI. Political Lligence. New Jersey Leaistatvre.—Tho latest returns of the members olected to tho Logislature of New Sersey look decidedly better for the democrats, According to the Trenton Gazdle (republican) of last Saturday the Souste and Hougo will stand as follows:— = ‘Am. Senate, 12 1 House 31 a 2 ‘Total 6 : Texas Unrrep Stars § Houston to the United states Sonate is regarded as cor- tain. If he is chosen by the Legislature of Texas he willl take the seat now occupied by Hon. Matt Ward on the 4th of March, 1863, 3 owa Exzcnion.—Returns from all the countics—nearty all official—give the republican majority for State officers about 3,000, In the Legislatare the republicans will have two majority in the Senate and fourteen in the Houso—® joint majority of soventoen. Messieur14.—The Mivsissippt Legislature was organhwod on the Sth inst, The now democratic Governor, Howe John J. Pettis, Wil be inangurated ow the 21st ina