The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1859, Page 4

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The Daniel Webster, from Aspinwall, which port she left on the 4th inst., arrived at this port last | evening with the mails and passengers that left San Francisco on the 20th ult. on board the steamer Uncle Sam. Nothing had been heard of the North | Star, then fifteen days out from New York, when the Daniel Webster sailed. An unusually severe storm had ewept along the enure coast of Ventral America, and several vessels in the ports were compelled to put to sea for safety. At Aspmwall the heavy sea caused by the gale had seriously damaged the wharf and buildings thereon, and the railroad track also sustained some injury. E.H. | Hamm, a passenger on board the Daniel Webater, | is missing, and is supposed to have fallen over- board. The Daniel Webster brings news from Havana to the 9th inst., one day later. The markets were unchanged. Five hundred and sixty-five Coolies bad been landed from a ship from Whampoa. Forty-five of the original number died on the voy- age. The steamship Mexico had arrived from Vera Craz—date not given—with the usual reports of civil convulsions in that country. Our correspond- entatates that Gen. Concha had expressed a favor- able opinion of the policy of his successor, Gen. Serano, and hoped that he would endeavor to main- tain a friendly feeling towards tho United States. ‘The system of slave certificates was abrogated a3 ‘utterly worthless for the purpose of identifying the negro population. Its introduction was loudiy ad- vocated by British abolitionists asa means of check. ing the slave trade, but more Africans have been landed since its enforcement than in any equal space of time previous. By the arrival of the overland mail we have ai- vices from San Francisco to the 24th ult., four days later than the accounts brought by way of the Isthmus. Business exhibited no improvement. The clipper ship Mastiff, bound from San Francisco to Hong Kong, when five days out, on the 15th ult., was destroyed by fire. Her passengers and crew, and $100,000 in specie, were taken to Hono- lulu by the ship Achilles. We have received files of the Comercio of La- guayra, Venezuela, to the 25th ult. The papers contain intelligence of the capture of the town of Carnupano, after a bloody combat, which lasted twenty-seven hours, The rebels were dislodged from their positions, and dispersed on all sides. ‘The principal chiefs of Cumana—forty-six in num- ‘er—on receiving the news were seized with terror, and attempted to escape to foreign parts, but they were apprebended by the war steamer Union and Bent prisoners to Laguayra. “The republic,” says the Comercio, “is saved. The wicked fall under the enormons weight of opinion. Venezuelais about to occupy sgain the first place among the repub- Nios of Spanish America.” The place was defended dy over 450 rebels, well entrenched, and the govern- ment force that defeated them numbered over 800 men. Coro was tranquil in the occupation of government troops. Some rather sharp corres- pondence had taken place between the government of Venezaels and the commander of the French Raval squadron in reference to the imprisonment of a French subject and the retiring of the exequa- tur of the Consul of France. The tone of the com- mandant is high, and that of the government very firm in upholding its rights. The rebels wore every- where in a woful plight. Reports from Hayti, dated at Port aa Prince On the 22d ult. state that twenty persons kad been convicted of engaging in the late conspl- Tecy against the government, and that sixteen of them were executed. Many military men were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for ‘the same offence, but most of them had escaped to pase President Geffrard had issued a severe de- ‘Sgainst persona engaged in promoting civil disorder or diswensions amongat the people. When Soulouque, in J » heard of the assassination of Geltrard’s r, he requested a priest to offer ap 8 high mase of thanksgiving, but the clergyman acfased. This horrible fact greatly enraged the A ‘aytiens against the extled Emperor, Onur Buenos Ayres files, dated of the 27th of Sebi ace the terms of tho basis of peace Argentine Confederation and Buenos Ayres proposed by Mr, Yancey, United injgters bq Ong renders aro aware, the medintht | Park avenue. ot Me. Yancey fitiled. President Lopez, of Para” pvay, bad yiven his passports to the Beitish Consul, was in Buenos Ayres waiting the orders of his government in London, Tue difficulty arese concerning the arrests of English subjects made hy Lopes sgan after the signing of tae Bowlin treaty. Cuptrin Bargess, of the bark Palestine, from Kingston Jainaiea, on the 12th ult., has handed us Ales outed in that city au the Lith of October. The Jove bark Laura, captaved by toe British steamer er on he constof Africa, was in portada py As she wus under Mexican colors at the line of her arrest, she was to be sent to Vera (cuz for condemnation. Three handred Chinese immigrants, who had previously demanded a bonus of #0 each betore going te work forthe planters, widoned their claim, and commenced labor uncer the terms of the original bargain. A severe ‘hunder storm had passed over the south side of the island, but, generally, the October season was very mild and propititious fur planting. We have a letter from our correspondent in Monterey, Mexico, dated on the 28th ult. [t con- tains the usual reports of highway robberies, party divisions, and civil war. Troops had left the city to defend Swttillo against an attack of churchmen. A specie condacta from Monterey for Brownsville waa about to be attacked by robbers, bat a rally of citizens insured its safety. ‘The canvass for the charter election fairly com- menced last evening. The Mozart Hall Convention for the nomination of candidates for Mayor and Almshouse Governor met, but there was a formi- dable crowd of “roughs” on hand, and they took such 2 lively interest in the proceedings, and gave euch vigorons and vociferous oxbibitions of their feelings, that the delegates, after choosing a chair- man, decmed it advisable to postpoue further pro- ceedings, and accordingly adjourned till thiseven- ; ing. Itis stated that the ‘‘roughs” aforesaid were armed with deadly weapons, that quite a number of freo fights took place, that the meeting was broken up by the bruisers, and that if st th 43 the exploits of the Baltimore “Blood- Tubs” may be re-enacted in our city on election day. The Tammany Hall General Committee met last evening, and appointed Wednesday evening next for the election of ward delegates to a Mayor- alty Convention to be held on Thursday evening. A resolution was unanimously adopted that the General Committee should neither recognise nor support apy candidates for office at the ensuing election vot emanating from Tammany Hall. Thus a fusion of the democratic factions seems to be out of the question, The Republican Central Commit tee met at their headquarters last evening, and ap- pointed Thursday evening next, at half-past seven o'clock, 4s the time for choosing delegates to the varions conventions for the selection of candidates for municipal offices. The Board of Aldermen did not organize last evening, for want of a quorum. President McSpe- don declared the Board adjourned to Thursday next. A special convention of the Board of Aldermen was held yeeterday to appoint clerks for the va- rious District Courts. The Mayor was not present, because, aa stated by Alderman Peck, the demo- cratic members of the Board refused to meet him (the Mayor) in caucus on the subject of the ap- peiptments. The law relative to the power of the Board to make these appointments in the absence of the Mayor was read, and the Board forthwith elected the following named gentlemen to the clerkships:—First district, J. R. Batchelder; Se- | cond, Samuel Osgood; Third, E. Smith, Jr.; Fourth, Thomas J. Munday; Fifth, Charlies A. Denike; Sixth, John Waite; Seventh, Michael McCann. There was @ large amount of ‘routine business transacted last evening in the Board of Counoil- men. Several general orders and papers from the Board of Aldermen were laid over. An application from the Deaf and Dnmb Assinm. far ramiaaion of taxes, was referred to the Comptroller with power. A resolution was adopted directing that that part of Fourth avenue between Thirty-fourth aad Fortieth streets shall be designated hereafter as The Board concurred in a resolution to build 2 county jail in Ludlow street, between Grand and Broome streets, on lands owned by the Corporation, and also to regulate and grado the Eighth avenue between 102d and 114th streets. Tbe Councilmen’s Committee on Steam Boilers held their final meeting yesterday afternoon, An abstract of the views advanced by a number of en- gineers may be found in our report of the proceed- ings. The committee intimated their intention of reporting upon the question withia a week. The case of the alleged slaver Emily was brought up before Commissioner White yesterday, but the examination was further postponed till Wednesday next. The suspension of the house of Slate, Gardnor & Co., a highly respectable firm in South street, was announced yesterday in Wall street. For what amount, or whether temporary or otherwise, was notestated. Neither was the cause of their embar- rassment publicly known. According to the City Inspector's report thero were 402 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 41 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 14 more than occurred in the corresponding week of last year. Of the whole number 74 died of diseases of the brain and nerves; 163 of affections of the lungs, throat, &c.; 32 of skin diseases and eruptive fevers; 63 of disorders of stomach, bowels, and [other digestive organs; 24 of diseases of the heart and blood vessels; and 22 from violent causes. The deceased embrace 108 men, 82 women, 115 boys and 97 girls The na- tivity table gives 265 natives of the United States, 86 of Ireland, 32 of Germany, 8 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 3;700 bales, including some 600 in transitu. The market closed without quotable change in prices. Flour was less active and buoyant, especially for the higher grades, while com- mon and medium brands closed firm. Wheat was heavy and sales modcrate ,at prices given in anothor column, Corn was firm, with salee of round and Southern yellow at $102 a $103, and some Jersey new yellow at 900.a ic. Pork was in fair request and rather firmer for mess, with sales at $16 0654 for mess and at $10 50 for prime. Sogars were quiet and sales limited, including Cuba mus- covado, in part, at 67%0. a 7c. A sale of 40 barrels new crop New Orloaus molasses was made at 620, Coflve was quiet; o small sale of Rio was mado at 13¢ Froight en. gagements were moderate, while rates continued to be sustained, The Next Presidency—Ominons Signs and Preparations, North and South, It may now be safely predicted that the im- pending Presidential contest will involve a violent and most dangerous sectional agitation and hostile organization of parties on the slavery question. Two months ago there was @ prospect, from the practical settlement of the Kansas trouble, that this everlasting contention between our Southern and Northern dema- gogues would be pushed into the background by the intervention of a new and ‘powerful third party of a national and conservative character, But tho State elections which have since occurred, and the startling and bloody abolition affair at Harper’s Ferry, have changed this pleasing prospect, and the horizon, North and South, ie now charged with the gathering elements of a deatractive tempest. Some two months ago the Richmond Whig, a Yeading conservative Southern opposition paper, was an earnest advocate of «fusion of the Southern opposition members of the new Congress with the republican party in the or- ganization of the House. The editor in ques- tion adv d the coalition from day to day, NEW YORK HERALD, TU ong measures are not taken by the au- / and declared that, in-view of a full exposure oC the corruptions of the democratic party in power, be “would rather vote for the blackest of the black republicans for Speaker than for any democrat whatever.’ Now, to read the article which we copy fromthe Whig of Saturday last, is to be convinced that this project of a coulitica between the republican party and the Southern opposition members of the new Con- gress has been kaocked in the head by “Old John Brown.” There will be no such coalition, ‘The Southern opposition members dare not now venture upon an experiment so dangerous to themselves as this, “Old Brown” kas drawn the line beyond which they cannot pass. Ie has rekindled the late waning fires of the slavery agitation, and every responsible South- ern man will be required, first and last, now and henceforward, to stand by the South as aguinat the ruthless abolition crusaders of the North. We presume, however, that the republicans of the House--lacking only six members of au absolute majority—will be able to pick them up from suck anti-Lecompton democratic re- publicans as Reynolds, Clarke and Haskin, of New York; Adrain and Riggs, of New Jersey; Hickman and Schwartz, of Pennsylvania, aud Davis, of Indiana, to say nothing of the Illinois Douglas members. We may thus anticipate such an organization of the House, and such a course of proceedings by the controlling party of that body, as will be best calculated, not to close up, but to widen, the breach bdetween the North and the South upon the Presidential is- sue, 80 a8 to narrow down the contest to two } parties—the Northern republicans aud the } Southern democracy. | In the meantime, from all the political I events, movements and developements of the day, we can discover nothing, North or South, but the evidences and signs of a general sectional revival of the slavery agitation, which will overshadow and super- sede in 1860 all other issues, however practical, or important, or useful, cr essential to the ma- terial interests of the country, or to the peace and prosperity of the Union. In the North: “Old Ossawatomie Brown” is in a fair way to be canonized as @ martyrin “the cause of hu- man freedom.” Republican poets are chaunt ing his achievements and his praises, and our republican organs, far and near, speak sym- pathizingly of the old cutthroat, and lament his raid into Virginia as a mistake, instead of denouncing it as the blackest and bloodiest of crimes, All this indicates the thorough diffu- sion through the Northern mind of that leaven of abolitionism which such artful domagogues as Seward, and such canting parsons as Beecher, and such ferocious negro worshippers as Garri- sop, have been preaching from the forum, the pulpit and the press for the last thirty years. And what of the South? There we find that even the most conservative of the organs of the opposition party of that section has been brought at last to the belief that the “South- ern States will not submit to the inauguration of Seward as President of the United States;” that they will not submit, in fact, “to the inau- guration of any black republican President whatever;” but that, in any such event, ‘‘all the Gulf States, with one accord, and at the same moment, will go out of the Union, and set up for themselves; and that the other Southern States, Virginia included, will ultimately, if not immediately, take precisely the same step.” What, then, is the proper course to be pur- sued by the friends of the Union, anxious to prevent this sectional conflict in 1860, which, unless arrested, will inevitably drive the ex- treme South to this last extremity of secession? The first effort, we think, should be made with the democratic party in the new Congress; and this effort should be directed to bring the demo- cratic members of both houses into “a happy accord” with the wise and conservative policy and measures of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. Let, this be done, and the next important step—a conservative national ticket and plat- form from the Charleston Convention—com- petent to save the country, will be, oompara- tively, an easy task. But, in default of demo- cratic harmony in Congress, it will require no prophet to predict the most disastrous dis- cords to the democracy, and a black republi- can victory in the Presidential election. Let the democracy come in to the safe anchorage of the administration. It is their only hope, and they have no time to lose. The administration can get on without the party, as we know from the experience of the last Congress; but the party vill be swamped with- out the administration, as we may see from the opposition majority in the new Congress. Tre Next State Lroistaturs.—The State Legislature will meet in the beginning of the new year, and, judging from the greater part of the recently elected members, it will be the most rascally and corrupt that ever congregated at Albany. Owing to the large majority which the republicans will pos- sess in both houses, they will have the control of everything, and opposition to their corrup- tion will be of no avail. In conjunction with the republican lobby, which was bad enough before, but will be now ten times worse, the Legislature will be able to achieve an amount of rascality which will cast the deeds of pre- vious Legislatures into the shade. The sum total of the plunder in contemplation would startle New York city and the whole State, if they could only realise it now at a glance. Yet the play will be per- formed exactly as arranged in the se- cret programme. The plot is already con- structed, and the gctors designated for their reapective parts, and the amount of pay for their services fixed. All is settled beforehand ; many of the artists are rehearsing their rdles, and it is only needed to lift the curtain on the first of January to commence a performance which will far outstrip in interest and schemes of robbery the farce of “ the Forty Thieves.” CanpIpaTES FOR THE Prestpency.—The two leading republican organs in this city—the Times and Tribune—are indicating their desire and wish that Mr. Bates, of Missouri, should be put forward as the Presidential candidate of the black republicans. If Bates should be the man in place of Seward, it is expected that Greeley will be Postmaster General, and Ray- mond Minister to Solferino, in the elbows of the Mincio. If Seward should be selected, neither of these worthies will receive so much consideration as the Chevalier Webb, who will certainly be made Secretary of War or Secrér tary of State. We expect soon to see a furious war among these organs in reference to the Presidential candidate af their party. The ia- terbsts of the organs lie in different directions. The Last of the Old Beaux Gone, The guy world of New York had a passing shock last week in bearing of the death of Mr. Frank Waddell, the Beau Nash of the chief American spa, Saratoga Springy, Ho was « curious character, Waddell, and seemed to belong to the era of powdered wigs, dia- mond sboe buckles, satin breeches, velvet coats, ruffles and highflown compliments, rather than to these practical days of railways, telegrapbe, revolvers and reaping machines. He was the man to write a sonnet to a lady’s eyebrows, to concoct a form of compliment a week before the time came to drop it in the ear of some blushing belle orexu- berant matron, who always said it was only “that Waddell,” and he was “so fuolish;” but still they liked it, and be was always welcome in his great field, the drawing room. He was 8 poet, too—a troubador, a Sir Amadis de Gaul for the Fifth avenue, a Sir John Suckling for the United States Hotel at Saratoga. Although often urged to give hia rhymes in print, Waddell religiously refused to sully hia muse by such vulgar contact. They. were retained in manuscript, tied with blue ribbons, and hidden in the seoret drawer of scented boudoirs, or reposing under preased geraniums, inscribed on tinted paper, enclosed in morocco covers and resting upon tables of buhl or marqueterie. In the old days of Washington Hall, Frank Waddell was one of the fine and rather fast young mea who made that famous place their recort. Among the “bucks” no one was more buckish than Waddell, nO manner more gentlemanly, no clothes more elegant, no equi- page more stylicb, no horses faster and hand- somer than his. Washington Hall laid down the law in these matters, and Frank Waddell had ahigh place upon its bench. We are not quite sure that he was not Chief Justice of the Court of Etiquette twenty-five years ago. He is almost the last of the Washington Hall “swells,” who would have looked upon the fashionable youth of the present day with profound contempt. Waddell gently patronized them, for under his inevitable white waistcoat (he was one of the last of that brigade, too,) there beat a simple heart and glowed a genial spirit, After the glories of Washington Hall began to pale, and three bottle men grew scarce, Wad- dell withdrew from the turfand the road, and de- voted himself entirely to the service of the fair. He was found at every party, he was a constant driver out, he never missed a society night at the Opera, and at Saratoga he was one of the fix- tures of the season. What the United States Hotel piazza will be without Waddell it is diffi- cult to say. Probably a dreary waste. Of late years, however, things at Saratoga have changed. Ten years ago the Springs were visited by throngs of people in society, well dressed and wel bred persons. Then the late Mrs. Rush of Philadelphia headed one clique, and a New York matron another. Waddell was an adnerent of tho lattgr clique, but alsoa courtier at the throne of Mrs. Rush. But last summer the queens who had reigned so long at the Springs were gone, and Waddell was almost alone. The places of these dainty belles and imposing dowagers, who had lived abroad and had the foreign polish in perfection, wore filled with new rich people of the prairie school. Chicago, and Peoria, and Little Rock, and St. Paul, sent women with awful things on their head, and nothing on their hands—women who wore silk dresses at all times of the day— women who didn’t speak French, and didn’t know how to flirt, and young girls as awkward as if they had just broken out from a country school. The men wore dress coats iq the morn- ing, chewed tobacco, and didn’t know Waddell— generally bad never heard of him. This irrup- tion of the Goths and Vandals threw our Beau Nash into a fit of the deepest melancholy. Once he had given the law: now he was onlya cypher. Once he wasgrand chamberlain, master of the ceremonies, and so on: now there was no ceremony to manage. In the metro- polis, too, fashionable society was found to be very much demoralized. Queer people somehow got asked to parties, and when a man went out to dinner he might be shocked to find himeelf next to a tailor or a bootmaker. People talked about politics and stocks and things in Wall street, and the ladies became so dreadfully clever as to snub Waddell some- times, to pooh-pooh at his verses, and to say that the same compliment had been paid to “ma” by the same chevalier twenty years ago. With men so vulgar and practical and wo- men #0 exigeantes Frank Waddell had little in common. Hé was, in fact, always out of his epoch. He should have lived in the eighteenth century, and flourished among the courtiers who whispered soft nonsonse ‘in the cars of de Maintenon, or la Valliere, and handed to the Grand Monargue his illustrious shirt, bis divine coat, or his puissant breeches. He was the last of the old type of beaux, and went gracefully out from a scene on which he had lingered after the prompter had rung the bell, the lights had been extinguished, and all the actors but he had made their final exits. For him who sighed so long and so innocently at the shrine of beauty, we may ask at least the tribute of a gentle tear—tlugete veneres, Oupid- inesque Taxe Care or Your Tax Recetrrs.—It is @ matter of common occurrence for tax- payers to be applied to a second time for taxes already paid, and not accounted for or entered by the collector on the books; and it is notorious, as we have ofton stated, that property is not discharged from liens imposed upon it for arrears of taxes, long after such arrears have been paid up. All per- sons, on paying their taxes, should be careful to put away the collector’s receipt ina safe place, or they may find themselves in difficulty, and perbaps have to pay double taxes. So miserably and fraudulently are many of our public departments conducted that the tax- payer has no safeguard against imposition ex- cept his own prudence in preserving the record of bis payments in black and white, Prister to Conoruss.—Some of the papers are making a fuss about Forney being printer to Congress. But these papers may save them- selves all trouble on the subject, and Forney himself will orfty have his labor for his pains if he pursues this prize any further. Ho caanot get it, however his teeth may water. The printers to the next Congresa will be Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley. They have not had any pickings from that quarter for a long time, and now it is their turn. Their party will have the largest number in the next Howse of Representatives, and neither Forney nor any of his faotton oan get their fingers into the treasury. ESDAY, NOVEMBER. 15, 1859, Toe MemewaL Execrion anp raw Crry Le- OsLaTURE.—There ig a great deal of noise made about the election to the Mayoralty and the post of Counsel to the Corporation, But these municipal offices are of ne importance as cum- pared with others which the people and the press appear to have completely overlooked. ‘The Mayor of New York is of no account beyond the city, and from the mapner in which his hands are tied up by absurd laws be has very little power even within his limited jurisdiction, The best estimate of the picayune character of the office may be foundin the fuot of tho salary being only $6,000 per annum, whereas if the power and responsibility of the Mayor were what they ought to be, he would he cheaply paid by four or five times the sum. As the luw now stands, the Mayor is little better than a head clerk to do the bidding of his masters, who, if he objects, can do it without bis permis- sion. He is but a cipher, of no value standing by himeelf, and possessing weight only when he follows the lead of the city legislators. Hence the difficulty of getting any reapectable man to accept the nomination. Neither is the office of Counrel to the Corporation of any practical account; it fs only an office for making money and feathoring the nest of the holder. For all the good he does, the city would be better without him, Now, the officials to be elected: in the first week of December, who are of vastly higher importance than these, are the Aldermen and Councilmen. They will constitute a considera- ble part of the city legislature, who hold in their hands the strings of the people's purse, and cao vote out of it just what amount they please, and for any and every purpose, however corrupt and even injurious to the interests of the city—the Buttery enlargement, to wit. While, therefore, the public attention is fixed on the offices of Mayor and Corpo- ration Counsel, there appears to be no notice taken of the election of the two boards of the Common Council. So disreputable has this body become that hardly any decent candidate will subject himself to the imputation of being one of a den of thieves. It is notorious that the great majority of those who seek to become Aldermen and Councilmen are without means or character, and go to the City Hall with the deli- berate design of plunder. Whatever their nomi- nation and election costs them for bribery, they are gure to amply reimburse themsalves out of the city treasury, s0 soon as they can got an opportunity. Hence a good man fears to iden- tify himself with such an assembly of rogues and rascals. There are exceptions to this goneral rule, but they are as rare as black swans, Judging from the kind of men recently elected to the State Legislature, there is every pros- pect of the election to the city legislature of the most corrupt set of corporate knaves that ever plundered this unfortunate city. The taxes are ten millions this year; there is a strong probability that they will be increased to fif- teen millions in the ensuing year. Thismatter, therefore, ought to be taken in hand imme- diately by the honest, enlightened and respect- able portion of our citizens. As for the Mayoralty, we are informed that a special committee, said to be “appointed by the citizens witbout distinction of party,” has selected from among thirty the names of four persons as candidates, whom they describe as “distinguished gentlemen, eminent for their at- taioments, business qualifications, energy and integrity.” This is a high sounding eulogy; but it so happens that two or three of them are strong partisans, and there is hardly one who answers fully to tho description given. But how is the choice to be determined between four? Simultaneously with this movement “the people’s party” (a German faction) have nominated a candidate, and Tammany Hall is said to be in search of one, but hitherto unsucceseful, while the repub- licans are at sea without rudder or compass, tossed about by every wind, and know not whither to turn or what to do. All that we know for certain about the Mayoralty contest is that Fernando Wood is in the field, the candidate of Mozart Hall; and in making their calculations all parties ought to take this fixed fact into consideration. But as we have already said, the right choice of the candidates for Aldermen and Councilmen is the all important point in the coming elec- tion, and deserves the serious consideration of the people a thousand fold more than the office of Mayor. 3 Fie Prosrrets ror Porsricat Orsrors.— It ie supposed that the two parties—the demo- crata and republicans—during the next year, up to the Presidential election, will expend about ten millions of dollars, in electioneering of all descriptions, in the central debatable States of New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Mllinois. Let the seedy, ragged political ora- tors brush up; there is some business in prospect. Renative Srrenxera or tux Portrica Fac- tions 1n New York Ciry.—The city returns of the late State election present a curious view of the relative strength of the different factions in the field, as indicated by their respective votes, In tho Fourth Senatorial district the Tamma- ny candidate received 9,381 votes, the Mozart Hall 1,831 votes. In the Sixth Senatorial dis- trict the Tammany candidate polled 13,368 votes, the Mozart Hall 4,233. In the other two Senatorial districts--the Fifth and Seventh— there were but single democratic candidates supported by both halls, and the figures foot up for the united democracy 14,957; but by giving Tammany and Mozart Hall the same re- lative proportion of votes which they count in the other two districts, the result would be, for Tammany Hall in the Fifth and Seventh dis- tricts, 11,257; for Mozart Hall, 3,700. It would thus, appear that the vote of the whole democracy in the city amounted to 32,658, of which 24,625 must be assigned to Tammany Hall, and 7,933 to Mozart Hall. The vote of the latter faction is, there- fore, not quite one-third of the rival shop. The total nomber of Senatorial votes counted by the republicans in the four districts of the city amounts to 19,622. It would thus seem that if at the municipal election these factions should vote in the same proportionate strength, the Tammany faction would nearly equal both the republicans ond, Mozart Hall together, thus:— ‘Tommany Hall. Mozart Hall, Wepalicans.. o5. 24,025 883 77455 Majority for Mozart Hall nnd the republicans...” 9,830 ‘This is a curious exhibition of party strongth. Mevart Hall, ‘and the republicans combined can beat Tamp any Hally a vote of 2,330 votes, The SRR total democratic vote, on the contrary, being 32,558, ontpumbers the republican by 13,066, or in a greater ratio Lban three to two. But though the vote of Mozart Hall is not quite ove-third of that of Tammany Hall, yet the former holds the balance of power, and by coa- leseing with the republicans would defeat the Ola Wigwam, Powrrwat Linet Surrs.—-Cbevalier Webb announces that Thurlow Weed is about to ia stitute a libel suit against the Hxrax, on ae count of something that appeared in ower columns relative to the revival or prospects of the slave trade in connection with Thurlow, As the heat of the Presidential contest has net yet approached—and that is to be fought abous slavery and the slave trade—this movemeat may do very well in dearth of other intell& gence, We doubt, however, whether Thurlew Weed, who is a very shrewd politician, im the midet of mighty prospects, is silly ow mean enough to do any such ridiculous until the Presidential election ls decided. he waata to play at libel suits, wo have ample materials for a hundred of them against Thus low for attacks upon our character for the lags twenty years, Probably during that peried not @ month bas passed that he has not im dulged in three or four egregious libels against the proprietor of the HeraLp—attacks whose only effect haa been to increase our circulation, advance our Influence, and enlarge our buel- ness, until tho Hxraup has now become an fa- stitution of some magnitude iu these United States, Chevalier Webb also says that Senator Seward, when he returns from Europe, will im stitute libel suits also against us for what we said of him with reference to his knowledge of old Brown’s purposes, and his speech at Roches- ter. Senator Seward is also a very shrewd man, and he will probably wait until he sees whether be is to be President of the United States. If Webb’s Maguus Apollo is elected President, he may be made Secretary of War without making a fool of himself in advanea Apropos: how are his prospects with reference to that diamond snufbox from the Emperee Napoleon? NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, The President's Message and Our Rela- tions with Mexico—The Quarrels of the Chicago Politicians, d&c. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. ‘Wasmyorox, Nov. 14, 1658, It is sald the President is preparing to make a compre- hensive review, in his annual moesage, of the affairs ef Mexico and our relations to that republic, particularly ag to the insecure condition of our coterminous frontier. It is expected the constitutional government of Mexioe will make a treaty upon tho conditions we have proposeds but if it should not, the duty will devolve upon Congress to give the President tho power and means of protecting American interests, ‘Tho President is again occupiod w'th the disgracofut squabble between the politicians and officeholders of Chi- cago. Itappears that Postmaster Cook has been agaia overhauled by the Department for misconduct in his office, and is again cited to Washington to answer the charges. He had successfully refuted hia enemies up te this time, but the Poetmaster General's agent, sent receas «ly to Chitago, bas accumulated a large amount of evidenoo from the officeholders Cook discharged. Cook's dismissal would create great joy among tho Douglas party. Tae President wil] not sacrifice Cook to this feeling, nor @a~ mies bim without clear proof of guilt. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ‘Wasmnaron, Nov. 34, 1869, ‘The number of patents issued from the Patent Office for tho first nine months of the present year is 8,834, and the amount of fees received $188,500. Private advices frem Boston state that McDonald, re- cently arrested here on suspicion of being connected witle the per’s Ferry conspirators, is well known there, and is undoubtedly tnsanc. He is stitl dotained here, though nothing has as yet tranapired to establish his gullte Our Washington Correspondence. ‘Waumnsaron, Nov. 13, 1859. Project of an Investigation in Regard to the Harper's Ferry Movement, ‘The republican prosses and republican orators in differ- ent parts of the country intimate-~and I see cause hore to credit the intimation—that in addition to the various investigating committece which the next House will be sure to create in reference to alleged frauds and peoula- tions in army and navy contracts, postal jobs, &c., there may also be a special committee created in the matter of the Harper Ferry movement. They say that tho deme- crats have managed to make out of it much more political capital than the thing was really susceptible of, and they desire now to try their hands at it and endeayor to tura the tables on their political adversaries. ‘The project for this coup d'état ia quite simple. The anonymous letter gent to Secretary Floyd, informing hina of tho preparations of Ossawatomie Brown to seize on Harper’s Ferry and create a servile insurrection in Vir- Ginia is to be made the basis of the edifice. A resolution is to bo introduced in the Houso directing the Judiciary Committeo, or a special committee to bo raised for the purpose, tw investigate the circumstances and to Feport the facts—whether and when Secretary Floyd received the letter in question; whethor and whom he communicatod its contents to the Cabinet or the Presi- dent; {1 not, why not; if Le did, what was the course offi- cially determined on by the President or Cabinet; whether inquiries set on foot through government agents did not verify the statements mado in tho anonymous lottor, and convince Secretury Floyd and the President that those statements were materially correct; why then had ho not taken measures, if not to explode the plot prematurely, at least to defend the arsenal and the public property by sending a file of marines there; and finally, and as the up- shot of the whole inquiry, whethor tho course of Floyd and the Cabinet in taking no measures to provent the fatal consequences of the outbreak was not dictated bys desire to make party capital out of the movement, instoad of act- ing on the nobler and higher motive of public duty. T have no doubt, from all that I have boon able to learn hero, that this programme will bo decided on, and that a movement towards its execution will be’ made immediately alter the organization. If the re- publicans carry tho speakorship, it will follow, a8 & pariiamentary matter of course, that they ‘will have the chairmanship of, and a majority in, every standing or special committee of {mportance; and there- fore it may not be entirely out of their power to derive advantage trom this project. MR would open up @ nico question, howevor, if Secretary Floyd and other members. of the Cabinet refuse to tatify before the Committes om the ground of privilege, and because Cabinot discussions are not a fit matter of investigation for legislative bodies. ‘Woe might then have tho liveliest and most exciting times, a3 it woukl not be unlikely that the republican committee and House woul! proceed againet the Secretaries a3 con- tumacious witnesves, bave them at the bar of the House to answor, and put them through the same course that Simonton, with bis moral convictions, was put through a few years since, Of course I do not moan to intimate thas sucli a stato of facts is at all probable, but { merely mou- a ee of speculation for the ur. In repployrersrtsnrs rien cerry ory (blish the anonymous letter reoelv vernor Ploy, aoe tea benno onoknows whom. 1 tale itfrom pout own files: Intely recelved fag wd Teel it to be my duty to impartit to you {[ have discovered the existence of a secret, or rv Z Tee the movement ‘Old Joba Brown, late of Kansas, Ho has been in Canada. Guing tho winter, driling the negroes there, nnd they are oniy, walling bis to etart for the South to assist ihe alaves. dave one of their leading men, a white man, in an armory land; where tt is I bave not been able to learm As soon 38 Dice ore tg ready, those of their number who are tu the Northern and Canada aro to come in small com| les to thelr rendezvous, which i fu the mountains of Vi ‘They w! down ania and sey TE at a Harpers Perey. treme teh he three or four weeks ago, ud will arm tho the blow ip 2 few weel gv Crxcusatt, August 29, 11 information ofa orombat ot we tand, and negroca aad strike ad eirike ; #0 that whatever isdono must be deno Aonce, thoy havo a iize guaaily of arma at Ut rondo and ‘are disurib iting thoua already, Yauty'éa thotr confidence, this is all the Information T can gies. ou. I dare not sign my name to you ign thia, can oe but trast thas you wi Mg on that account The Health of Judge Douglas. ‘Wasmyarox, Now. 24, 1860 Indge Donglas’ carly recovery of health was on Salus day anticipated by some of his moss intimate friends. 1 i, howover, rekably ascertained that ho has been ex- tremely ill for the beet threo Gays. His ie ysicians ro. mained with him throug) out lart night, and 3 morping regard hia condition as nbont tho same na yesterday, though, erbups, « litte more comfortable. @am Corwin and the Speakerwaip. Civcrimatt, Nov. 14, 186% Tho Dayton Journal makes an authoritawre denial of Tho statement that Governor Corwin in not 0 candidate foe tho Speakerebip of the next House of Representatves, and