The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1859, Page 4

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Broadway.—Aner noon—TwE Stuances. kvening—Prorss’s Lawreu—Con- suGat Lisson. ; WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Krmioran 8oxGs, j Pamous, £0.—Mask Bae i BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hail, 4/2 brosdway.-- 3 War Dows Sour ix Duis. ia renee: NIBLO'S BALUON, Broadway.—Go. Cxnustris Mis. © Tarces, ‘STRELS iN SaNcs, Bueuesauas, &0.—MisrouruNes j or Duicusn Swires. NEW OPERA HOUSE, 720 Broadway.—Matinee at Two 0'Clock—DRaYTON’S Pancon OreRas amp Lreio Paovmana, CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Afternoon and Evening— Equesraiay Prnrokm ances, Comic Pawtomiars, &0. New York, Saturday, November 19, 1859, The News. ‘The steamship Canada, which left Liverpool on the 5th inst.,had not reached flalifax up to the date of our latest accounts from tnat point. According to our despatches, the fresh alarm at Charlestown, Va., was caused by the operations of incendiaries, who fired some stacks of wheat, and who have escaped detection. The hasty action of the commander of the soldiers at Charlestown in calling upon Governor Wise for troops, led to the belief that he was aware of a plot to rescue the conspirators confined in prison, and this belief augmented the excitement till the citizens became almost panic stricken. The Tammany County Convention met last even- ing and renominated Mr. Patrick McElroy as Go- vernor of the Almshouse. There was a lively time between the members of the contending delega- tions from the Nineteenth ward. A full reportmay be found in another column. Letters in New Orleans papers, from Corpus Christi, dated the 7th inst., state that Brownsville was taken by Cortinas on the 31st ult., after a hand- to-hand fight which lasted five hours ; and the War Department has received a despatch from General ‘Twiggs, Commander of the Texas Military Depart- ment, dated San Antonio, 12th inst., which states that an express had just arrived from Rio Grande City, with intelligence that Cortinas had laid Browns- ville in ashes, and killed one hundred American citizens. It was further stated that Cortinas, at the head of eight hundred men, was marching towards | NEW + Thomas, which ishind she left th the West Lodie mails, sixyy 10.000 su freight, bound to South: re on Sonday inst, ia a leaky cis in quarantine, having er on board. Two of ‘Two deaths had oo 4. She may leave to-morrow mvening.” The paper mids, with regard to tne Harper's Pere “That Captain Brown and his comrades: j Wall torteic their lives for the part they have taken "this outvage, cannot be doubted. As little need vied that every effort will be made by the party to lay che responsibility of fdais tthe dour of the republicans.” emacr murderaus the cotton ui ay closed rather tamely, While tbo sales Cuubraced about 1,200 bales, ou thy basis ot Myc. tor midd 3, though sume lots were re- on above this tigure. ‘The receipts of ported wt a fea Wester whilo the market closed duil and 6c., and in some cases te brands of our were to a fair extent, Lic, por DbL. cheaper. Wheat was less active; prices for 4 to prime qualities, however, were unchanged. Gorn was in good supply and the market easier, with moderate nalcs, The receipts of Qeur for the week euding yester” say embraced 193,700 bbls, of which 93,974 bbls. came by canal, 69,307 bbls, by railroad, and 40,360 bbis. by other routes, chiefly coastwise, rom the South, The receipts of wheat embraced 448,590 Dushels, of which 380,019 came by canal, 63,012 by rail- road, and 5,000 by other routes; those of cory amounted 26,244 bushels, 40,000 by canal, 5,000 by railroad, and 25,024 by other routes, chiefly coastwise from the South; those of oais amounted w 224,668 bushels, of which 190,720came by canal; and those of barley to 86,151, about 75,000 of which came by canal, and 10,987 by rail- road. Pork was iw fair demand, and the sales included mese at $15 1235, clear do. at $17, aud prime at $10 50 a 10624. Sugars were firm, with sales of 900 hhds., 130 boxes and 5,600 bags Manila, at prices given in another column. Coffee was quiet, with moderate gules at steady prices. Freight engagements to English ports wero fair, while rates were firm. The Presidential Issue—The Northern Republicans and the Southern Oppo- sition Party. What is to be the order of the great Presi- dential battle of 1860? Will it be a sectional conflict, limited to the republican anti-slavery party of the North and the democratic pro- slavery party of the South, or a contest be- tween the democracy, as a national conserva- tive party, and the republicans, as a sectional party?—a triangular struggle, involving the democracy and the republicans upon the slavery issue, and a new third party of a na- tional character, or a scrub race of four or five conflicting parties and factions? Who can tell? If things remain as they are, there will be but two parties in the field, and the battle will bea sectional one, upon the everlasting ques- tion of slavery. The Charleston Convention, however, may possibly give to the democratic party a national cause and character, which may render it strong enough to defeat the sec- tional republicans single handed. But while this is possible, the probabilities are all in favor of a pretty stiff pro-slavery platform from the Southern controlling wing of the dismantled democracy. Thus we apprehend that Mr. Douglas and his “popular sovereignty” de- mocracy of the North will be left out in the cold, with the full privilege of submission or resistance to the Charleston lawmakers of the party. The republican party, on the other hand, having nothing to hope for in the South, will most unquestionably, we think, leave the Southern opposition elements to take care of themselves, and limit the republican order of the campaign to the occupation of the Northern the Nueces river. The War Department were not | disposed to give entire credence to the report of General Twiggs. Moreover, we published a de- spatch from New Orleans yesterday morning, stating that Brownsville had not been captured up | to the 4th inst. The reports from the Rio Grande | respecting the movements and objects of Cortinas are generally highly colored. A meeting of property holders opposed to the proposed widening of Worth street took place yes- terday afternoon, at Appleton’s Building, Broad- way. James Kelly, Receiver of Taxes, being appointed to the chair, reported that the commit- tee appointed at the last meeting had procured the names and affidavits of nearly half the number of property owners interested in the alteration of the street, in opposition, and that they can procure Btill more names to assure the Court that the open- ing of the street cannot be authorized. They then adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday after- noon and granted seventeen licenses. They then adjourned for ten days, to give the twelve thou- sand truant liquor dealers an opportunity to take States. The elections of last summer in the South, the late autumnal elections in the North, and the sectional issues which, North and South, have carried the Northern and Southern States (with one or two exceptions), leave very little hope for any other than a sec- tional character to either of the two great parties of the day. Thus, standing aloof from the North- ern republican party, we may have a national or a purely Southern opposition party in 1560; and, seceding from the Charleston Convention | democracy, we may have an independent “popular sovereignty” democratic party in the North. In any event, we think it may be safely declared that “Old John Brown” has rendered a coalition in 1860, between the republican party and the Southern opposition elements, utterly out of the question. We think so, first, because it is now manifest that the Southern opposition would not be able to carry a single out licenses before closing their commission for the present year. The Police Commissioners met yesterday and ‘transacted some unimportant business, The quar- terly reports of General Superintendent Pilsbury and the Superintendent of the House of Detention ‘were presented and placed on file. We give the substance of the last named document, and Mr. Pilsbury report in full, in our account of the pro- ceedings, which may be found in another column. Extracts from files of late South American papers which are published in another column, exhibit the progress of the war between the Argentine Confederation and Buenos Ayres. Up to the latest Accounts several skirmishes had taken place, but without important results to either party. It is Tepresented that Urquiza’s army was daily aug- menting, and that he confidently expected to bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion within two Months. It was reported that France, England and Brazil had offered their mediation, and also that Paraguay had made a similar offer, but that the belligerents were determined to fight out the quarrel. We have advices from Hayti dated at Port au Prince on the 26th of October. The republic was greatly excited, and fresh revolutionary disturban- ces were hourly dreaded. A general military en- rolment in Port au Prince had brought trade to a perfect stand, and most of the stores were closed. New coffee had been brought in, but ft arrived slowly and was lower in price. Notwithstanding the execution of the conspirators and murderers of his daughter, Geffrard’s life was far from secure, as he was surrounded by enemies. The army, how- ever, remained true, and expressed much sympa- thy for his recent griefs. A violent hurricane had passed ever the south, doing much damage a Jeremie and Hainault. Sixty houses had been thrown down at the last named place, and some lives had been lost by the overflowing of the rivers. We have Bermuda papers to the 12th instant Southern State, under any coalition with the republican party. Secondly, because no such coalition is possible, of any practical value in the South, inasmuch as any change of the repub- lican programme calculated to be of any value in Kentucky or Tennessee would risk the loss of half a dozen Northern States. Upon this question the Cincinnati Gazette, a rather moderate republican journal, says “that the true men of the South, as well as of the North, have no reasonable ex- cuse for standing aloof from the great work in which the republican party have enlisted, of regenerating the federal government, and of preserving every foot of territory now free from the encroachments ofslavery.” This is the ultimatum of the republican camp, for, says this calm and earnest Cincinnati organ, “in desiring the union of all the opposition elements, we have never entertained the purpose of abandoning this conservative position, and saying to the ultra- ists of the South, ‘ Go on, and revolutionise the whole slavery policy of the government, as you will, without hindrance or interference from us.’”’ No! This will not be conceded. The delusive idea, then, of a possible fusion between the republican party and the Southern opposition elements should be abandoned by the latter, without any further delay. They have been waiting upon Providence long enough; and they should now remember that Pro- vidence helps those who help themselves. Our Southern opposition journals should cease to call upon the Northern Hercules to lift their cart out of the mud, and should put their own shoulders to the wheel. They have now the choice between a new national opposition par- ty, or the organization of a new Southern op- The Gazette of that day has the following items of | position party; and, as upon a national plat- news:—“The British war steamer Gladiator, Com- | form they could command the balance of mander Hickley, which vessel left here on the 10th | power between the Northern republicans and ult. for St. Thomas, St. Domingo and Jamaica, re- | the Southern democracy, turned to these islands on Thursday last, twenty-two cases of yelow fever. She had pro- ceeded as far as St. Kitts, having coaled at St. ‘Thomas, when the disease made its appearance. At that island she landed four men ill of the fever. Two days afterwards, when off Tortola, other cases occurred, and one seaman died. She proceeded at once to the north ward, calling at St. Thomas to land despatches for Jamaica, and arrived here as above stated. One death, that of a petty officer, oc- curred on the passage up. A couple of days’ ran north will carry the Gladiator into a temperature which will soon purify her and place the sick in aconvaleacent state. The mail eteamer ‘ @ new national party with | is the thing. Let the Southern opposition members of the new Congress prepare the way. They may do it in the work of organizing the House. Look Berorz You Lear.—The Brooklyn people, who have a very laudable ambition to imitate the metropolis in all its good works, are talking about surrendering a large space of their territory for a chain of public parks, which will afford them altogether a drive of ten miles. It isa very good idea, that of pub- lic parks; but there ig such a thing as overdoing ihe best idea; and the Brooklyn people will do well to count the cost before they proceed to evchain themselves with a load of taxation grealer than they can bear. It would be much heuer for them to try and keep thelr streets clean, and after that, if they can afford the luxury of parks, let them have them. The city is already heavily in debt, rivaling the metropolis in that respect, for which we stand so pre-eminent among all municipal corpora- tions. CanpipaTes FOR THE SPeAKERSHIP,—There are a number of members of Congress, of all par- ties and sections, who are very anxious to serve their country in the high and honorable post of Speaker of the House. Foremost in the demo- cratic ranks is Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, an ac- tive, honest, intelligent maa, thoroughly posted up in all legislative matters, and well trained in the business of the House. He has been a prominent member of the Committee of Ways and Means for two or three Congresses. Last session he was the chairman of that committee, and the preceding session he was quite as much 86, although the nominal chairmanship was in Mr. J. Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Phelps would make-a capital Speaker; and as he is highly popular among all parties, he would be almost certain of getting the caucus nomination if that nomination were anything more than a feint or blind, tobe kept up for a few days and then removed to allow the demo- cratic vote to be cast for the candidate of the Southern oppositionists. Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, is understood to be % looking for the democratic nomination, and it Sis not unlikely that, under such circum- stances and with such an understanding, his vanity may be gratified. Mr. John } Cochrane, of New York, is also regarded as a prominent candidate, and if there were any chance of a democrat being elected, the strug- gle -in caucus would probably be between him and Phelps; but as matters stand, they might as well withdraw their pretensions, and make room for seme lesser light, who would be satiefied with the empty compliment of the no- mination. The contest in the republican caucus will be between Grow, of Pennsylvania; Sherman, of Ohio, and Corwin, of Ohio. Grow received the caucus nomination in the last Congress, when there was no chance of his being elected, and he has a sort of half recognized claim, therefore, for the next caucus nomination, when there might appear to be some chance. He is a clever, offhand sort of a fellow, and has been recognized as one of the leaders of his party in the House. He is principally dis- tinguished, however, for his pugilistie encoun- ter with the chivalric Keitt, in the session be- fore last, for his idiosyncracy about Kansas, which he manages to lug into every speech he makes, and for his having charge of the Home- stead bill. Sherman is more sedate and digni- fied, and is great on figures andon governmen- talexpenditures. Corwin was Secretary of the Treasury under Fillmore, and made a nice thing out of the Gardiner and Galphin claims. His sole prospect of getting the nomination lies in the hope that he may be selected so as to get over a few votes from the representatives of the old line whig party, now known as Southern oppo- sitionista. We would not be surprised, how- ever, if the choice fell on neither of these three, but on Stanton, of Ohio—an able law- yer, a good debater, and a man of great influ- ence and popularity in the House. As to the Southern opposition party, rumor does not say much about their prospective candidates. None of them are known as hay- ing qualifications for the post, excegt it be Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland; aad as his election will probably be contested on the ground of intimidation to voters, ard as the whole Baltimore election may and ought to be vitiated on that ground, he will hardly be put forward. Etheridge, of Tennessee, is spoken of, but he is entirely unsuited to the pcsition. In the meantime parties and cliques and in- dividuals are hard at work forming plans and combinations for the Speakership. Eow they will all end would puzzle any political wizard to foretell; but we should not be surorised if, as we intimated yesterday, the Speake: of the next House of Representatives be chosen from among the Southern oppositionists. Romsettina Accorpine to Law.—That re- markable body, created by the no less aston- ishing Liquor law, the Board of Commissioners of Excise, held one of their spirited sessions yesterday, and granted no less than seventeen licenses, to fit and proper persons, so endorsed in each case by twenty-five freeholders. This industrious board is composed of three persons— Messrs. Kerr, Haskett and Holmes—who are obliged by law to hold fifty sessions in each year, and they are paid four dollars each for every one of their days of weary toil. They have held, so far, forty-eight sessions, and have granted altogether three hundred licenses, for which the endorsed liquor dealers paid thirty dollars each to the county. There are in the city twelve thousand places where intoxicating liquors are sold publicly, so that there must be eleven thousand and seven hundred unen- dorsed dealers in alcoholic poisons. Under the law it is the duty of the Board of Excise to in- stitute prosecutions against the unlicensed deal- ers; but it appears that there is some difficulty about getting the money from the county to pay the necessary expenses of bringing the suits, There is a provision in the Police law which provides that it shall not be lawful to under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence. This operates about as well as the Excise law. Nearly all the grogshops in the city were open during the last election day, and we have yet to learn that pious Pilsbury has caused the arrest of a single offender. In any other city in the world those persons who openly violate the law would be promptly arrested, their shops shut, and their trials promptly moved on in a crimi- nal court. But in this blessed city the re- spectable people are so busily engaged in buying and selling that they have allowed the government of the city and the administration of the laws to fall into the hands of these twelve thousand liquor dealers, who, with their chief customers, the bullies and blacklegs, are the governing classes to all intents and purposes. As the illustrious eleven thousand seven hun- dred rumsellers outside the law arenow engaged in deciding for the people who shall rob them officially for the next year or two, it is pro- bable that they will not attend the remaining sessions of the Board of Excise, and that the Commissioners will earn their pay in the usual easy, light and agreeable manner, sell liquor on the day of any general election,, Srnarox Bnoperick’s Ovskquiss—Remon- STRANCK OF THE SappaTarians.—In another column will be found a document of a singular character, being no leas than a remonstrince from the Sabbatarians against the selection of Sunday for the funeral ceremonies in honor of the late Senator Broderick. Itis signed by nearly six hundred of the wealthiest merchants in the city, and is addressed to the Firemen’s Committee of Arrangements. The remon- strants are the same persons who have distin- guished themselves by various similar move- ments against the sale of the Sunday newspa- pers, the running of railway cars, and Sabbath recreations generally. They are, for the most part, men who live in fine houses, and who eat sumptuous dinners, drink costly wines, and en- joy the pleasures of society on that forbidden day. They do not spare the labor of their cooks or diminish the work of their other do- mestics any the more because of their Sabbath doctrines, On the contrary, in the families of many of them the day of rest is a day of the severest toil to those who minister to ther wants. Ridiculous, pharisaical and intolerant as have been the arguments which these self-satia- fied and self-righteous gentlemen have brought forward to sustain the various other restric- tions which they have sought to impose upon freedom of conscience and individu- al liberty, they fall far short in absurdity and inconsistency of the reasons which they put forward for their present modest demand. Let us just see what the proposed ceremonial is to consist of, in order that we may do full justice to the common sense and piety which have dictated this remonstrance. In the first place the procession is to be strictly mortuary in its character, and will be conducted with all the solemnity and decorum which are observed by our people on such occasions. The banners and badges that will be used will have relation solely to the personal merits and connection of the deceased with the department, and will be free from all political significance. We see no difference between such a ceremonial and the obsequies of a military or naval officer, and these Sabbathday observance gentlemen have not as yet ventured to object to the perform- ance of the latter on the Sunday. Can it be the organization simply which constitutes the impiety? Is there no place for firemen in Heaven, or are their services specially reserved for a region in which they may prove useful? The other features of these obsequies, by which, according to the remonstrants, the Sabbath is to be desecrated, are—first, the prayer which is to be offered up at the Univer- sity; secondly, the funeral oration; and thirdly, the benediction. What a jewel is consistency! Can anything be more natural for those who are unable to “find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything,” than to detect sin in prayer and impiety in benediction? As this communion of souls with heaven is to be effected on the broad guage principle, and not according to the modes and forms practised in fashionable up town conventicles, it is properly denounced as revolting to the religious sense of the community, Pushed by such logical and convincing appeals to our consciences, we shall soon find ourselves moving within rather tight limits. If it be sinful to eat, drink, exer- cise and pray, we do not see why (admitting the force of these gentlemen’s views) it is not equally improper to die on the Sunday. Vore on THE Stats LoaN—APATHY OF THE PEO- pLE.—The friends and managers of the canals, of both parties, have been for years past ope- rating with them in such a fashion that a canal debt of nearly forty millions has accumulated, and every two or three years.an application for a loan of a few millions has been made, upon which the vote of the people was to be taken. At the late State election aloan of two millions and a half was to be voted for, and the result presents a curious instance of the indifference of the electors to this financial question, in the face of all the grumbling about the onerous burthen which the canals have become. In no single county, as far as we know, has the vote on the loan been anything like as large as that cast for the candidates for office, and in several counties no vote seems to have been cast on the loan at all, although one might sup- pose that to a heavily burdened people like us any proposition to increase the State debt would excite the liveliest interest. While, in some counties, the votes for Secretary of State amounted to ten and eleven thousand, the votes cast for and against the loan numbered little more than as many hundreds. The following table of the returns from eight counties where any vote at all wasgiven on the loan question shows a singular deficiency of interest in it:— In the first four counties there was a majority for the loan; in the other four, against it. We have no official returns from our own county yet; but we have no doubt that the vote on the loan question was exceedingly small here as elsewhere. The inference to be drawn from these figures is that the people who do not take the trouble to express an opinion upon a finan- cial issue of this kfad, by which the State debt may be diminished or increased at their own will, have no business to complain of its grow- ing magnitude. Terriete Times tN Orv Vircrnta.—The tele- graph informs us that Charlestown—where the condemned leaders in the Harper’s Ferry affair are now lying under sentence of death—is strictly guarded, and is really under martial law. <A large body of troops is ready for service at Richmond. A battalion of riflemen and a battery of artillery have been sent to the seat of war from Alexandria, and by this time Colonel Davis, the officer detailed by Governor Wise, must have a considerable force under his command. It is stated in some of the papers that there have been several incen- diary fires in and near Charlestown, and that the country people labor under the idea that the incendiaries are the advance guard of a body of abolitionists who are to come from the North and rescue Old Brown and his fellows. We do not be- lieve that Governor Wise or Colonel Davis has any such idea, because they are men of common sense. The concentration of troops at Charlestown is a prudential measure, and they may be useful to protect the prisoners from YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1869. the rampant chivalry, some of whom might be tempted to anticipate the action of the law. As for the “rumors of attempts to rescue,” they are sheer nonsense, There are not many old Browns even among the most rabid abolition. ists, who generally keep a good lookout their necks, and, like Fred Douglass, ren ter than they fight. Coquertixa ov Parties Anovt tum Maron- ALTY.—All parties and factions in this city are greatly exercised just now about the Mayoral- ty. Tammany Hall in particular is in the crisis of the fever, and we may expect some great doings at the meeting which comes off there to- night. A curious phase in this Mayoralty ex- citement ia the fact that the republicans are coquetting with old Tammany, and, it is said, are willing to make a compromise with that democratic section, provided they can secure the Corporation Counsel in lieu of their sup- port for a Tammany Mayor. The following Dames are spoken of in connection with these two offices: — Robert 3 Dion, Van Buren, Won fF Havemeyer, Baus Jide, It is believed that the republicans would ac- cept the nomination of Mr. Dix for Mayor from Tammany, in connection with John E. Devlin, the republican candidate, for Corporation Counsel, Mr. Dix being considered about half republican, from his freesoil proclivities. Then there are several lesser lights of the Tammany school, such as Godfrey Gunther, Kennedy, Fowler, and others, also spoken of; but the in- tention seems to be to nominate what is called a respectable ticket from Tammany—if any good can come out of that Nazareth—for the purpoce of forming a strong combination, as was done at Tiemann’s election. With this view quite a number of the lead- ing republicans from Albany are in town, and they are, curiously enough, to be found around the haunts of the democratic wire- pullers. There is a good deal of planning and schem- ing going on all round, and we may see a very singular issue yet out of the municipal elec- tion. Now the great struggle comes off in Tammany between the great unwashed huge paws of the democracy and the ruffled bosoms of the party. for bet- TREASON IN THE PuLprt.—We transfer to our columns to-day, frqgm the Boston Liberator, Gar- rison’s paper, some extracts from a discourse recently pronounced in the Unitarian church of Dover, N. H., by the Rev. Edwin M. Wheelock. We do so in order that the intelligent, conserva- tive, Union-loving people of the Northern States may realize the imminence of the danger threat- ened to our institutions. They cannot expect the people of the South to be true and loyal and devoted to a political system which binds them to a section where their domestic insti- tutions are reviled, and where servile insurrec- tion is preached up as one of the highest and purest Gospel works. ‘his Mr. Wheelock announces that the disso- lution of the Union dates from the 7th of March, 1850, when the Fugitive Slave bill was passed; that we have had no constitution since; that freedom has now become the assailant and has gained the victory; that the Bunker Hill of our second revolution has been fought; that John Brown’s scheme is no failure, but a solemn suc- cess; that he has shown that it is no impossible feat to plant a permanent armed insurrection in Virginia; that he has succeeded in rendering lavery insecure; that from his martyrdom dates anew era of the anti-slavery cause; that tomoral agitation will be added physical—to argument, action; that other devoted men will follow in the wake of Brown, and carry on the work he has begun; that John Brown would be ac- cepted in the North as the people’s candidate for the Presidency, and would receive a mil- lion votes; that his gallows will be in politics what the cross is in religion; and that from his sacrificial blood the temporal salvation of four millions of our people yet shall spring. We submit this sermon to the calm con- sideration of the people of the North, and ask them whether it does not call for such an ex- pression of the real patriotic, conservative sentiment of the North as will rebuke those abolition priests who disgrace the religion which they profess to teach, and will at the same time give assurance to the people of the South that such doctrines find no response or approval here, Sanctimonious scoundrels in the pulpit should receive as little toleration as is given to sanctimonious scoundrels armed with Sharp’s rifles and murderous pikes. CanpipaTrs FoR THE CLERKSHIP oF THE House or Represenratives.—Candidates for the fat office of Clerk of the House appear to be quite numerous and quite industrious in drumming up members. Prominent among them are Mr. John W. Forney, of Philadelphia; Mr. B. B. French, of Washington (both of whom have en- joyed the sweets of the same office before); Mr. Underwood, of Kentucky, an opposition mem- ber of the last Congress; Mr. Hoffman, of Ma- ryland, also an ex-member, and Mr. Allen, of Illinois, the present incumbent. The nominal salary is only $3,400 a year, but somehow its annual value is estimated at between twenty and thirty thousand, with some little risk and trouble from possible investigating committees. The offices of Clerk, Postmaster and Doorkeep- er will all be contingent upon the bargain to be entered into for the Speakership. So it will be, also, with the public printing, which is worth, at the lowest calculation, half a million for the Congress. Thus we go. Political Intelligence. ‘Tue Srmakersmp.—It is said that Thomas 8. Bocock, democrat, of the Fifth district of Virginia, and Galusha A. Grow, republican, of the Fourteenth district of Penn- Sylvania, are to be the opposing candidates for the Speak- ership. Tux Prorix’s Party Conaressmey.—The Washington States is assured that none of tho eighteen members of Congress clected in Pennsylvania by the opposition or people’s party will participate in the republican caucus for the organization of the House. Cuancxs IN Ti New Youre Lxcistatcre.—Only four of the members of the last Senate return next winter— Messrs. Williams. Prosser and Truman, republicans, and Spinola, democrat. Mr. Ramsay was in tho Senate of 1856-57. The rest are all new men. In tho Assembly there twenty-two of last year’s members re-elected:— ‘Messrs. Collins, of Albany; Payne, of Cayuga; Miller, of Erie; Moulton, of Geneseo; Wiley, of Livingston; Pond and Perry, of Monroe; Conkling, of New York; Van Horn, of Niagara; Powell, of Ontario; Littlejohn, of Oswego; St. John, of Otsego; Polton, of Putnam; Coleman and Bing- ham, of Rensselaer; Crocker, of Steuben; Lee and Hub- bell, of Westchester, republicans; and Messrs. Woodrutt, Gover and Masterson, of New York, and Cornelius, of Suf- folk, democrats. Fowny.—An opposition meeting, in Norfolk county, Va., held at Deop Creek on the 12th instant, resolved that the mantle of Heury Clay had fallen on the gboul{ers of John Minor Botta, EL LTS ee i! were apy differences as to the vousequeaces of the deo- (wines of either. Ward's {readily intercourse with the Chinese authorities, Commodore Tatnall’s Sagship, the ; Mi f eit i ft ‘The Germantown and Mississippi, of the East India Bquadros, have completed their torm in that service, may be expected home by neat spring gage, the seizure of the Northern States of Mexico, is « pare invention. We are negotiating © treaty with that meat, it is expected Mr. McLane wil! be able wo send, ‘the meeting of Congress, or shortty after, such a treaty, Tetified, as will meet the views of the administration. ‘TAR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DERFATCH. Wasuxoron, Nov. 18, 1860. Mr. Dickey, the late Postmaster of Buffalo, was not re- moved on political grounds, there being no charges of that eharacter against him, but that the cause of his removed ‘was inattention to the requirements of the Sub Treasury act. Cortinas Said to have Laid Browsville im Ashes. and Killed Ome Hundred Americans. Wasmsoron, Nov. 18, 1869. The War Department bas reccived a despatch from General Twiggs, dated San Antonio, Nov. 12, saying that an express had just arrived from Rio Grande City, stating that Cortinas bad laid Browusville in ashes, killing some one bundred American citizens, and, with eight hundred men, was marching towards the Nueces river. Full credence is not given to the report. The New York State Election. Aunasy, Nov. 1810 P.M. ‘The following are the majorities according, to the Aflas and Argus figures:—Jones, 929; Richmond, 1,100; Skin- ner, 127; Forrest, 500. Carefully made figures, however, show as follows om the vote for Canal Commissioner:—The majority for Cha- pin, as published this morning, with one or two amond- ments from official returns, gives him 22,138, and other counties heard from add 8,397, making Chapin’s total ma- jority 30,538. Skinner's majorities in all counties, as re- ported, is 30,556, leaving him a majority of 21 ouly, In this calculation, Chenango, Steuben and Yates are unoi- cial on Chapin’s side, and Kings, Now York, Orange and Sullivan on Skinner's. Terrible Railroad Accident. THERE MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL WOUNDED. Gyawxan, Nov. 18, 1860, A terrible accident occurred on the Indiana Coutral Railroad, near Cambridge City. A rail had been takee up from the bridge for repairs, and before it could be re- placed, a train drawing eighteen cars, filled with hogs, came along at high speed, and before it could be stopped the engine, with thirteen cars, plunged through the bridge into the river. A. J. Smith, of Indianapolis, conducter; Green, a brakesman, and a drover, named Nowby, were killed. Several firemen were injured. The enginoer jumped from the train and escaped. It is said that over five hundred hogs were killed. The engine, cars and bridge are piled up in one horrible wreck. Non-Arrival of the Canada. Sackvium, N. B., Nov. 18—8 P.M. The steamship Canada, fourtcen days from Liverpool and overdue, has not yct arrived. The weather is rather clear. Gale in Mobile Bay. DAMAGE TO THE SHIPPING. Wasmixatox, Nov. 18, 1869, Mobile papers of Wednesday have been received hore, During a severe gale in Mobile bay on Tuesday last tho steamship Jamestown became a perfect wreck, and the ships Curling, City of Mobile, Lafayette and other vessels, were damaged. Fatal Affray at Nashville. Nasuvittx, Tenn., Nov. 18, 1869. Allen A. Hall, editor of tho News, killed G. G. Poindex- ter, editor of the Union and American, in a stroet rencon- tre to-day, The origin of this shooting ailray was an editorial quarrel. The Yacht Wanderer Trial. Savansan, Nov, 17, 1860. Six witnesses have been examined in the Wanderer slave case, but nothing new has been elicited. The America Outward Bound. Sackvitte, N. B., Nov. 18, 1859, ‘The steamship America arrived at Halifax from Bostea at two o'clock this morning, and sailed again for Liverpool shortly before noon. Fire at Mohawk, N. Y. Herknnm, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1869. ‘This morning a fire broke out in the steam flouring mill of George Broomball, in Mohawk, which was entirely de- stroyed, together with all his planing mill, saw mill and malt house, containing a large quantity of grain. A largo amount of lumber was also destroyed. Mr. Broomhall’s Joss is at least $50,000, and there is no insurance. The sash and blind factory of J. P. Faulk was also entirely destroyed. Loss $5,000. Several others suffered to some extent, The Fire at Griffin, Ga. Avausta, Noy. 17, 1859, By the recent fire at Griffin the Empire State printing office, Masonic Lodge building, Phillips & Co.’s dry goods store, Cherry & Brother’s grocery store, Sherman & Co.’s, McWilliams & Robert’s, Samuel McWilliams’, and Farraa & Reed’s stores, and several law oilices, were destroyed. Five hundred bales of cotton were burned; insured in the tna office of Hartford, and North American Com- pany, for $32,000. The total loss is unestimated. Erection of = Bridge at Freemansburg. FRREMANSHURG, Pa., Nov. 18, 1859. The Lehigh and Delaware Water Gap Railroad have commenced the construction of a bridge over the Lehigh at this place. It will be completed in April next. ea Operations of the United States Coast Survey Service. Wasinyatox, Nov. 17, 1859. The reports of the Northern Coast Survey purties havo all been received and made up in Professor Bacho’s office. Among these operations many interesting facts are worthy of note, The primary triangulation of the Eastern coast bas been extended by the Superintendent’s party during the Past season tothe boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. The closing results hayo been looked for with much interest by Professor Bache, who has con- ducted personally the work of the triangulation from Massachusetts to the Eastern boundary, This part of the triangulation is the work of fifteen years, the summer Seusons only being favorable for field operations on that part of the coast. From the Massachusetts base, near Boston, which was measured in 1844 by Mr, Blunt, and which isnearly eleven iniles long, to the base of verification on Epping Plains, * the distance through the triangulation ia 200 miles, The