The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1859, Page 4

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New York Herald—Califormia Edition. ‘The mail steamsbip Aric] will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific wil! close at one o’clock to-morrow afternoon. ‘The New Yore Waxaiy Hrratp—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the werld, will be publighed at eleven o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappors, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents wilt please wend in their orders as early as pos- “® The News. ‘The steamship Canada, from Liverpool on the 6th and Queenstown on the evening of the 7th inst. arrived at Halifax at an early hour yesterday morning. She will be due at Boston this evening. Our telegraphic despatch of the news is very meagre. It is stated that France and England have vagreed on a basis for the settlement of the Italian question, and that England will join the Congress. A report was in circulation that Garibaldi had declared to Victor Emanuel at their late interview that Italy was betrayed, and that he would head a revolation. Cotton was firm, and rates had advanced. Wheat and corn had slightly improved. Consols at noon on the 7th, were quo- ted at 96}. The Virginia Court of Appeals yesterday refused to sward a writ of error in the case of John Brown, being of the opinion that the judgment of the Circuit Court was correct. A despatch from Charles- town states that all was quiet there, but that the military forces were augmenting in view of reports of armed men from Ohio having crossed into Vir" ginia. The excitement and alarm throughout the State is very great, and it is ramored that the abo- litioniste will “beg” Governor Wise and other pro- mineut men, and hold them as hostages until Brown is released. ‘Troops are to leave Richmond this morning. The barns and other property burned belonged to Messrs. Burns, Tate and Shir- ley, abof whom were jurors in the late trials. A meeting for the purpose of obtaining fands for the relief of Brown's family was held at the Tremont Temple, Boston, yesterday, and very fully at- tended, The politicians of the city were busy at work yesterday. The Tammany Hall Convention met apd nominated Mr. Win. F. Havemeyer for Mayor and Mr. Samuel J. Tilden for Counsel to the Cor- poration, Mr. Havemeyer held the same office for two previous terms (which were then annual), namely, in 1845 and 1848. Mr. Tilden was member of the Convention which framed the State consti- tution of 1846. The Billy Wilson faction of the Mozart Hall party also met at the Stuyvesant Insti. tute and nominated Mr. Havemeyer for Mayor, but did not trouble themselves about the office of Cor- poration Counsel. The old line whigsheld a meet. ing in some private parlor on Friday last, and put in nomination for the Mayoralty Mr. J. Depeyster Ogden. The American Convention last night no- minated Mr. Andrews for Corporation Counsel. ‘They adjourned without making a nomination fur Mayor. The following candidates are now before the people for the office of Mayor of the city of New York: — -William F.Havemeyer. ‘Fernando Wood. J. Depeyster Ogiten. uncon Draper. ty Convention imcets to- morrow evening at ee Broadway. Wecontinue to receive conflicting accounts of the state of affairs on the Rio Grande. Cortinas, with fifteen hundred men and nine pieces of canon, is reported to bein full possession of the country from Brownsville to Roma. Communication west of the Noeces river is cut off, Captain Tobin, wita ane hundred men from Corpus Christi, is ssid to have suffered defeat. The latest reliable accounts, how- ever, from Brownsville to the 4th inst., state that affairs were unchanged. Eight companies of Uuited States troops, under command of Colonel Brown, have been ordered to leave Old Point Comfort for Brownsville. General Vidaurri had arrived at San Antonio. Our Buenos Ayres correspondent, writing on the Sth of October, states that both the State authori- ties there, and the executive of the argentine Con- federation dreaded to begin the war, each fearing the consequences of a fresh disaster in battle. ‘Urquiza's army is represented as badly armed and poorly equipped. His treasury is said to be empty. Buenos Ayres would make a peace treaty if Urquiza retired from power. The difficulty be- tween England and Paraguay on the question of English, citizen rights is explained. There were ‘one hundred and ten vessels in the port of Buenes latest date, but trade was still depressed. b Bir Stephen Lushington, R. N., was about to Yetween Buenos Ayres and the Con- federation. ) mails from Califorais to the 2sth October Louis. Governor Weller had appatiel Jadge H.P.. formerly of Ken. tocky, United States Benator, to fill the vacancy cansed by the death of Mr. Broderick. Colonel ander, superintendent of the Fort Kearny and “~~ wagon road expedition, having com. EEE EEE EOE OEE EEE Oe ‘ hEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, — NOVEMBER. 20, 1859, pleted his tubors for the season, was about ty re paw to Wa-hington, The Colonel bus on hand an xpected baltnce 0f-$76,000, arising tein we ule sale of government stock. Favorable xeeconnts from the vew miues ia Carson Valley and Waker river continued to mvrease the excite ment ip Sua Francisco and numbera were leaving for those localities, The new mines are da the east tide of the Sierra Nevada, and are snppored to-extond a distance of two hundred mites to the south, Large quantities of silver ore had reached San Pranciseo trom Carson Valley for shipment to Europe. Business was more active, witout in. provement in prices, ‘The official returns from all the counties in this State except three seem to indicate the election of Skinner as Canal Commissioner by a very amail majority. The steamebip Vanderbilt left this port yesterday afternoon for Southampton and Havre, with 137 passengers and $907,920 89 in specie. The City of Baltimore, for Liverpool, also sailed, with 212 pas- sengers, ard $227,000 in specie. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 3,000 bales, about 1,800 of which were sold in transit. The market closed on the basts of 113¢¢. for middling uplands. Floor was éo fair demand, aud the market for medium grades of State and Western flour was rather @rmer, while extra brands were uschanged. Southern flour was firm, while sales were moderate. Wheat was bcavy aud dull for common qualities, while prime 1 of white were unchanged. Among the sales reported wae choice Kea- tudey white at $1 60's 8163, tho latter an outside fgure. (Corn was beavy and one to two cents per bushel lower. Pork was firmer, with sales of moss at $15 124; 2 $15 25, and of prime: at $10624; 4 $1076. Sugars wore steady, with sales of about 500 hhds, at full prices. Coffoo was more active. The cargo of Rio, ex Wave Crest, consisting of 5,666 bags, was @old on private terms, and 150 Mara- calbo sola at 12ic. Freight engagements to English porte were fair, while rates were sustained, and ia some § cages rather frmur. To Brempn 400 bales of cotton wore engaged at 1c. per Ib.; apples at $1 50 per bbl.; 300 bales of tobacco at $1 25, and 5,000 Ibs. bone at Ic. perlb. Advices from Antigua to the 3d inst. have been received, but the papers contain no items of inter- est. The weather had undergone a favorable change from extreme sultriness to cool and delightful breezes. Moderate rains had also fallen, and the country locked beautifully verdant. The appear- ance of some of the fields of half muturea sugac cane, however, indicated a waste and exhaustion of the gaocharine properties of the plant. The New Congress and the Vote of New York on the Presidential Question. We have shown, from the results of the late State elections, North and South, that while the democratic party are morally certain of the vote of every Southern State upon the Presi- dential question, they may also seoure the vote of New York, which will give them the victory, and another four years lease of power at Washington. We have shown, too, from the divided honors upon the State ticket in our recent election, and from the oue hundred and fifty thousand or more of our popular vote held in reserve, that the Presidential vote of the Empire State is in the hands of a conserva- tive balance of power; and we are daily strengthened in our belief that this balance of power can never be brought over to Wm. H. Seward or his revolutionary Rochester mani- festo. In order to impress these opinions upon the minds of the democratic leaders and managers of the uew Congreee, we will put them in another form, to wit: Without the vote of New York ghe democratic party will almost as cer- tainly be defeated in 1860 as with the vote of New York they will be victorious; and as this decisive vote is within their reach, all other considerations upon the subject should be ren- dered subordinate to this paramount idea—the vote of New York. All the troubles and quar- rels in the camp between rival candidates, cliques, factions and sections should be set aside, and every candidate, clique, faction and section of the party should be prepared for every sacrifice and any compromise necessary to carry the vote of New York. Ye this end it will be folly to await the ac- tion of the Charleston Convention. The de- mocratic members. of the new Congress may supersede that Convention, or dictate its po- licy. As the authorized and responsible rep- resentatives of the party from all quarters of the Union, these democratic members of the two houres may command, if they will, the re- spectful acquiescence of the party, North and South, to any reasonable and practical Presi- dential platform, in reference to the decisive vote of New York. These Congressional chiefs of the party, however, must, in the first place, harmonize upon the Administration and among themselves. Thus consolidated, the le- gislative and the executive representatives of the democracy at headquarters will be com- petent to reunite the broken battalions of the party throughout the Union, and competent, also, to dictate to the Charleston Convention the proper policy for winning the indispensa- ble and decisive vote of New York in the Pre- sidential election. But, as the loss of New York will inevitably involve the defeat of the republican party, we may be assured that they will not neglect this field of their labors. They may, perhaps, be carried away by their delusive estimates of Seward’s popularity; but in any event, we shall soon be able to form a definite opinion of their prospects, from the general course of the party in Congress. A violent anti-slavery republican programme in the House against the administration, the South, the “Northern doughfaces” and the slave oligarchy, will leave the balance of power in New York, “subject to the decision of the Charleston Convention.’’ On the other hand, a moderate and conservative national course on the part of the republicans will be some- what difficult, inasmuch as this will require the repudiation of Seward and his eternal war upon the South. Possibly his whippers-in may force him or his sectional crusade upon the party, even in the face of this overwhelming anti-‘Seward popular vote of the Empire State. But therein lies the hope of the democracy. We submit the subject to the careful atten- ion of their Presidential arithmeticians of the pew Congrese. As New York, between the anti-slavery heresies of the republican camp and the ultra Southern pro-slavery abstractions of the democratic camp, stands in the position of a doubtful neutrality, and us the vote of New. York will in all probability decide the Presidential election, is it not worth every- thing? for does it not involve the issue of life or death to the democratic party? The late third party of this State has disappeared. It has ceused to exist, But, whig, demogpat and American, there is a body of at least one hun- dred thonsand men in this State awaiting the final arrangements ot the republicans and the democracy for the Presidential battle; and these arrangements, involving the defeat of the one party or the other, will probably be de- termined within three months from the mect- ing of Congress. than the late gutbreak at Harper's Ferry, The republican feaders in Congress and in the press, and above all the lights of the pulpit, are preparing the way for the coming events which are casting their dark and ominous shadows before. They all endorse John Browa as far as they can, aod some of them make him 4 hero, a d@emigod, second only to Jesus Christ. They mix up religion with the move- ment, and thus add another combustible and dangerous elewent to the political fanaticism of the “bigher law.” Take, for example, the sermon of Rev. Rdwin M. Wheeloek, of Dover, N. H., published in yes- terday’s Hxraty. This wan, who boasts that he is “of Puritan blood on both sides-—blood thet is always revulutionary’’—says thatthe Bunker Hill of our second revolution has beea fought and won by John Brown, the second Warten, wha. has paid the glorious forfeit of his life; and that “his echeme is no faiture, but 2 solemn succese;” that. “from the martyrdom of Brown dates a new era of the anti-slavery cause—to. moral agitation will now be added physical, to argument action—other devoted men will follow in the wake of Brown, and will carry on to its full results the work he has begun.” “I think the time is fast coming,” con- tinues this apostle of treason, “when you will be forced to do as be has done.” Such are the sentiments and the very lan- guage uttered in the pulpit. Nor is this all. } We are told that “John Brown had a live reli- gion also, and that to be hanged in Virginia is like being crucified in Jerusalem, and that the gallows from which the sainted martyr ascends to Heaven will be a sign and a symbol in our politics as the cross is in our religion.” Wher we couple this inflammatory harangue from the pulpit and similar appeals of other traitors, lay and clerical, with the fact that a collection is now started by the same parties who raised a former subscription of $100,000 to purchase revolutionary rifles aud pikes, to be used in Kansas by John Brown and his associates, we can come to no other conclusion than that the money now collected will be applied in the same way, and that the phrase “Joha Brown's family” is to be understood figuratively, and as meaning his followers, like the expression, “the family of Christ,” so often used by di- vines. According to Rev. Mr. Wheelock, Joha Brown has a very large family in the metapho- rica) sense; for, says he, “if an honest expres- sion of the wishes of the North could be taken to-morrow, John Browa would be the people's candidate for the next Presidency, and he would receive a million of votes.” And this is the family for whom the subscriptions are et to metamorphose them into a million of men in arms, Sike the dragon's teeth which were sown of old iii the earth and sprang ap a crop of armed men. By some of the sympathizers with the cause of John Brown he has been pronounced insaue, because they are not yet prepared to fully identify themselves with the overt acts of trea- son at Harper's Ferry. But Rev. Mr. Wheelock repudiates the idea of this “God-fearing Puri- tan” being mad; and, indeed, so does Brown's wife, who declares that he had this tragedy in contemplation for the last twenty years, which is from the time the anti-slavery agitation be- gan. He is, therefore, no more mad now than when he was being prepared for college and the gospel ministry by Rev. Moses Hallock, father of the editor of the Journal of Commerce. From all the indications of the times there is an evident design, a settled purpose, in the abolition element of the republican party, to follow up in due time the blow struck by Joha Brown, and to plant another servile insurrec- tion in the South, more comprehensive in its character and more enduring in its effects. They do not disguise their intention to achieve the dissolation of the Union, and they are la- boring hard in their vocation—the propagaud- ism of the gospel of Join Brown, “the living Washington,” whose “banner bears no uncer- tain sign.” All the conservative classes, therefore, no matter what may be their party designation, ought to lay this perilous condition of the social and political fabric seriously to heart, and consider what is best to be done to stay the fast spreading revolutionary plague which threatens to sweep over the States as a tornado, carrying away with it the Union “like the baseless fubric of a vision,” and leaving “nota wreck behind.” When bad men combine good men ought to unite, and when the bloody ban- ner of fanaticism is unfurled to the breeze, and when treason, grown audacions and de- fiant, no longer skulks in secret, but with shameless front proclaims its principlesand ob- jects to the world, it is high time for the friends of law and order at the North to rally around the constitution, and to raise aloft the flag of the Union, while yet we have a constitution, a Union and a flag, aud before the revolutionists, encouraged by the silence and inaction of their neighbors, inangurate a reign of terror with a massacre like that on St. Bartholomew's night in France, or the carnage of St. Domingo—be- fore the federal republic of North America, rent into fragments, has become athing of the past, a fact only in the page of history. RepusiicaN Wink Ponsa We understand that Mr. Burlingame, representative in Con- gress from Massachusetts, who haa just returned from an extended tour through the West, re- ports that Mr. Seward has no strength worth mentioning in that section. The ticket de- mapded by the republicans of the West is Banks and Bates—Mr. Banks for President, Mr. Bates for Vice President. Revivan, AMonG THE Scounprets.—Confi- dence Cassidy, who has receutly come to life ogain, prints a long article directed against the common practice of spending money on elec- tions. The chief reason for this outburst may be found in the fact that the Albany Regency could not get any money to spend during the late canvass in this State, and therefore Cassidy and several other political editors have sud- denly ascertained that it is very wicked and very wrong to use money for electioneering purposes. They advocate the passage of laws to prevent it; but that is all bosh. We have the most stringent laws to prevent legislative cor- ruption, both at Albany and Washington, and Jet it is notorious fuet that there are more votes of members of Congress und the State Legislature for sale every yoar than there are funds wherewith to purchase them. In all our Another Insurrection ta Preporation at she North, From all the signs of the times, from every- thing that we can sve and hear around us, there appears to be anasher servile insurrection 00 | gooundrels in the country. Our people are so Joo. at the North, but on a larger and more ex- busily eagaged in getting ric an: saving their teusive scale, and of a more violent character, #oula that they b have av time for politics. politicat ye RQ 60 called, we begin at the wrong en@ We should have a different order of men io office, Political affairs are managed or mismenaged by the most consummate Tux Cuanten EuKorion A Fanox.—-All the excitement among the differeat factions about the approaching charter election is expended for nothing. As for any improvement io our municipal government resulting from it, it is all nonsense, for it is evident to us that things are destined to go oa in the old way, if not in a far worse one. There is a great deal of planning and maacwuvring about the Mayor and the Corporation Counsel, just as if the Mayor, were he gifted with the pecfeotions of an archangel, cuuld do aaythlag under the present system, with all the power aad aa- thority vested by Albany legislation in the hands of a set of irresponsible beads of depart: ment, bureaus and commissions, aud the ebief magistrate himself, a. mere cypher, while “the parties. who: really exercise power are the .toola of the: lowest clasa of politicians in the city. When a,woalthy and: inflyentiat oltizen | O12, ne paked | for whom he would vote for Mayor, e answered that if the sole exsoutive au- oh was placed in the hents of Fernando Wood for ten years he would'vote for him, as & means simply of protecting his property— otherwise he saw no use in voting ut all; and perhaps he was right, for, shorn of its power as the office now is, the Mayor is no better than a machine out of order. The election of the Mayor, therefore, is a mere farce, and that of Corporation Counsel, about which there is so much fuas, is atill worse. The office of Cor- poration Counsel is only good for the lucky in- cumbent, who is sure to realize a fortune out of it by his sulary and fees, All the city gains by the services of that official, who is supposed to protect its interests, is to be swindled ac- cording to the legal formula of allowing suits to go sguinst the Treasury by default. With proper candidates for Aldermen and Councilmen, however, some good might result from the charter election; but there is not the slightest chance of such nominations being made. The business is in the hands of a set of loafing politicians, shoulder-hitters, grogshop keepers, junkshop keepers, and all that class— the lowest, least intelligent and worst class in the whole community. They will elect a new batch of Aldermen and Councilmen, with whom they expect to share the plunder, and the pro- bability is that we shall see more corruption and rascality in the nextCommon Council thaa ever before. The taxes, which are now tea millions, will most likely be increased to twelve, or possibly fifteen, next year. This is not a very agreeable prospect for the tax- payers, but we see.ao romedy for it. There is no use in trying to etem the tide of corruption, fraud and misgovernment; we have only to sub- mit to be sobbed! and plundered unresistingly. Everton or Scaoor, Orrigens—Loox Our ror tax Rovows.—Sohool Commissioners aad Tras’ tees are to be nominated on Tuesday night in the various wards of the city, and are to be voted for at the charter election in December It is a well known fact that eome of the lowest and most disreputable characters look for, and too often succeed in getting, these places, with no other object in view than the indulgence ot their vicious propensities, The position gives them an influence and control over the female schoot teachers, which they not unfrequently use for the vilest purposes. We are informed that in one of the up town wards there are two candidates for school offices, one of whom was recently divorced from his wife, and the other of whom was proved to have abused the same office by debauching one of the female school teachers who came under his jurisdiction. These are the sort of fellows to whom the con- trol of our educational institutions is handed over by the bullies and rowdies who have mo- nopolized the management of our whole muni- cipal system. Of course it would be vain and useless to appeal to grogshop primaries to put in nomi- nation for school offices none but men of edu- eation and good repute. The machine does not work in that way. It is in the hands of the rowdies, and can produce nothing but what is vile. But there may be a mode of check- mating the primaries, not only in the matter of candidates for school offices, but in respect also to candidates for the Common Council and other municipal offices. We do not see why a few of the decent householders in a ward should not put their heads together and invite by circular the other respectable residents of the ward to meet at one of their houses, where they might canvass the merits of the various candidates and sug- gest the names of those in whom they could repose confidence. If several were mentioned in connection with the same office the candi- date might be decided by lot, and the voters of the ward could then be intormed by circulars, or by advertisements, of the choice made by the real bona fide representatives of their in- terests. We are confident that in every ward of the city decent, honest people outnumber the rogues, roughs and politicians, and could elect their own candidates. Will those who have children to be educated, taxes to be paid, and interests to be protected, take the hint and move io time. Tom Conwrs vor Speaker.—Honest Tom Cor- win, of Galphin claim notoriety, is talked of as ‘a candidate for Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives. He is a conservative man, Corwin is—a very conservative man. Perhaps if the democrats cannot do better they may take up Tom Corwin and elect him. To the lobby he would be invaluable; and when there are any jobs afloat no man is more reliable than honest Tom Corwin. No Pourrican Iyrtvence.—Hon. Massa Greeley asserts with the greatest vehemence, his white coat shaking with passion, and his old hat almost falling off his head, that the Tignratp has no political influence. We believe this statement. We are very glad that such is the fact. We do not pretend to have any poli- tical influence. We consider the politicians to be the greatest scoundrels of the day, and would as soon be considered influential with the inmates of the penitentiary ag with the corrupt echemers of either faction. Tue Cuaracren or THE Next Concress. Without any doubt the next Congress will have a lively time of it; but it isto be hoped that the combats of members will be confined to words, and that the disputants will not resort to knock-down arguments, Baking oat the decks wilh bring belligerents in daxigerous Proximity; but it will be bad work for the party that begios the’ flaticuff business. The peopte have had enough of that sort of thing. Inrense ALARM ano Exerrement is Vinar- nra.—The panic which seized upon the people of Harper's Ferry when Joim Brown and his crazy followers took and held possession of the Armory seems to be on the inerease and to be spreading throughout the entire State. Our Richmond correspondeat, in a letter which we publish elsewhere, describes the excitement of the people aa surpassing all comprehension, and as producing 4 condition of bewilderment. Ridiewlous rumors are spread from mouth to mouth, and eagerly ewallewed and believed in, of there being another abolitionist incursion om foot, with the design of seizing upon some of the leading citizens of the border counties and holding them as hostages for Old Brown's are arming and enrolling themselves in volun- - teer companies, and are, in fact, preparing for civil war. The fact of geome accidental burning of a corn stack is magailied inte visions of armed hosts mntine ‘fire and sword into the and straightway, on the tele, | grapihto requisition of somie thoroughly scared .cominander, the whole avaitable military force of the State is put in movement, and its march only stopped when it is ascertained that nothing terrible has occurred, or is likely to occur,and that the visions of burning home- steads and slaughtered families were evoked by a chance spark from the pipe of a careless negro, or the segar ef a rollicking militia man. We regret to see evidences of auch a panic on the part of the people of Virginia. If Col. Davis und his commund were withdrawn from Charlestown we believe that Brown and his fel- low-prisoners would be perfectly safe from any attempts at rescue on the part of Northern abolitionists. The only apprehension for their safety would come from an entirely different quarter, All these ridiculous stories about contemplated rescues, and incursions to seize hostages, and incendiary bands encamped on the mountains, are the silliest bugbears, and ought not to frighten 4 party of four-year-old children. Let the people of Virginia, strong in their own consciousness of strength, pay no heed to the imaginary fears of a few thorough- ly seared militia men, but rely on their own ability to repel all lawless invasions, and at the same time feel double security in the power of the federal government and in the patriot- ism and good sense of the people of the North. Tae Sunpay FAnaricism IN A New Paast.— The Presbyterians, the strictest and most stiff- necked sect of Christians, the followers of John Knox, have taken up arms against Sun- day funerals, The Presbyteries of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Donegal have passed strong resolutions On the subject, and call on the clergy to counsel their pedple to resist, by remonstrances presented to the Legislature, any attempt to repeal existing Sunday laws. But theré {gs movement o# fsct of a more singular and daring nature, and which is of the same stripe with the anti-slavery fanaticism which threatens the overthrow of the Union by civil war. An account of this movement will be found in a letter in another column, from which it appears that it is now found out by the fanatics that the constitution of the United States, and nearly all the State constitntions, are against them, and that they are resolved to have the federal and State constitutions changed, so as to meet their views, and enable them to pass strong penal laws to enforce their gloomy Sunday observances on the whole com- munity, and to carry out a number of other tyrannies too numerous for detail. ‘This is a portentous sign of the times, Such is the audacity of these men that they coolly declare that those who do not like the proposed change in the constitution must leave the country. They talk of bringing it about, and maintaining it, if necessary, by force of arms. Such is the peril in which civil and reli- gious liberty is involved by a rampant fanati- cism, which menaces our institutions with destruction and meditates the restoration in the New World of the times of the Roundbeads, This evil springs directly from the toleration and encouragement given to the anti-slavery agitation for the last twenty years in the North; for there is only one step between interfering with the rights and institutions of distant States and the overthrow of civil and religious liberty in our own—between the despotism which would compel other communities to adopt our political views, and that which would coerce our neighbors in ourowa community to swallow, under puins and penalties, the bitter pills and draughts of a religious dogmatism in which they do not believe. The effect of the tyranny of Sunday laws in London has been to disgust the population with religious services. In @ recent sermon by Dr. Cumming of that city, it was stated that more people went out of London every Sabbath, on excursions of pleasure, than were found in all the churches and chapels of the city, and that out of the population of three millions there were only 150,000 commu- nicants in the churches, of all evangelical de- nominations. It is the same in New York. More of the people cannot go on Sunday ex- cursions of pleasure than go to church, for they are effectually barred, but it may be safely said that for every one who attends di- vine service five stay at home. The London- ers at present have the udvantage over us, for they both gain health und strength, and at the same time see the power and wisdom of the Creator reflected in his works, instead of being besotted by vice and crime, and their heatth ruined by continued confinement ia the dark and filthy dens of a great metropolis. The kind of religion promulgated by the Sunday fanatics is a libel on the goudness of God. | Tak SABBATARIANS AND THE Voters—A Hist To THE Prorie.—The absurd attempt of the fa- uatical Sabbatarians to put a stop to the reli- gious and funereal ceremonies in honor of the late Senator Broderick, because their solemn performance is appointed to take place on Sun- day, shows to what an extent these dogmatic day-worshippers will carry their tyranny over the people of this city, if they can once fasten upon power. It is time for our citizens to look to it, and see that some of their most valuable political liberties are not taken from them un- der the specious cover of religious motives, The neurer the church the further from God is a ripe old adage, full of wisdom, that may be truth{ully applied to muny of the sanctimonious sinners who pass six days of the week in pur, suit of lucre, through all kinds of chicanory and safety. The consequence is that the citizens | crooked paths, tating care always to keep om the sufe side of the lew, and on the seventhdey sit with solemn faces in richly cushioned pews ‘woder the outpourings of a fashionable who éreads lightly on the toes of evit at home, but consfgns distant millions for constructivesia to everlasting flames, and who then roll home ie. shining couches to sumptuous dinuera, good wines, and a self-congratulatory feeling thas they are not like other men, who desecrate the holy Subbath by seeklog elsewhere that self enjoyment which their more humble hemes cannot afford them, The attempts of these fanatics should be meg at the threshold, and the moment of action ie | new. Nominations of candidates for the olty government are being placed before the pee- | ple and their suffrages are solicited. Let each candidate be called upon to declare in bis position on this momentous question, and let their letters go at once before the also, so that ail men may know who and whaé they support with thoir votes. ‘Poor Forner Down at tims Hent.-—The re- cent elections: seem to: show very: cleurly: that the position of Pennsyivanis will be @ matter | of very little consequence in'the coming Pre- sidential convass. So poor Forney may as well tet up his interest in Pennsylvania politics be knocked down to any bid, however small, that may be offered. We of the Empire State will settle the next Presidential election, with- out regard to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or amg: other State, North or South. ——_—_ THE LATEST NEWS. Affairs at Brow: Despateh~ ed for tts Protection. ‘Naw Onveans, Nov. 19, 1858. ‘The Indianola Courier of the 12th says that an expream from the Sheriff of Nueces county has arrived, and re- Ports Cortinas, with 1,500 men and uise cancon, in fell possession of the Rio Grande from Brownsville to Roma. His ‘orces are scouring the country. All communication ‘west of the Nueces is cut off. Corpus Christl, however, is not threatened. Capt. Tobin, with 100 mea from Corpus Christi, has been defeated, and it is feared is cus off ‘The reports, however, are conflicting and probably ox- aggerated. No Brownsville dates aro given. The latest reliable accounts are received by New Orleans merchants, direct from Brownsville, to the 4th inst., when affaire were unchanged. Gon. Twiggs has telegraphed to the government concerning the matter. Brazos advices of the 4th have been received. Browas- ville had not been taken to the evening of the 3d, Barriers, Nov. 19, 1869.9 ‘The Picayune, of Tuesday, says that the merchants of New Orlenns should, and that immediately, fit out at thebr own expense & hundred armed men for the protection ef Brownsville and the adjacent settlements. ‘The redoubtable ex-Governor Viduarri has arrived ab San Antonio, Norvoux, Va., Nov. 19, 1869, Eight companies of Federal troops, under Col. Browa, have been ordered to leave Old Point Comfort for Browas- ville. Four Days Later From California, ABRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAU Sr Louis, Nov. 19, 1868. ‘The overland mail has arrived, bringing California dates Of the 28th ult, ‘The scounta from Tareon Valley and Walker river mines continue to excite great attention. A stampedo of Californians in that direction has already commenced, aad Promises to equal the emigration to Fraser river. Theas mines are on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, and are Gupposed to extend from Honey Lake on the north to Walk- er’s river on the south, a distance of two hundred miles, ‘The principal discovery yet announced is catled Gold HIM. It is @ mound sixty feet high, five thousand long and twe thousand wide, and lies twenty miles north of Carson Val- ley. Itis traversed by veins of auelferous quartz, a part of ime » When decomposed, realized from $500 to $2,508 por Large quantities of silver ore continued to arrive from Carson Valley at San Francisco, for shipment to Europe. Emigration in the spring will probably result in the com- Plete exploration of the whole country east of the Sicrra Nevada, and the discovery of equally rich mines to anyin Calidbrnia. Gov. Wollor bad appointed Judge H. P. Hann, formerty of Kentucky, United States Senator, to fill the vacanay caused by the death of Mr. Broderick. Tho new Senater was to leave for Washington on the steamer of Nov. 6. ‘The loss by the previously reported Coulterville fire amounted to $50,000, ‘Tho committee appointed at the recent Pacific Railroad. Convention had published a report recommending the tm- mediate organization of a company to construct a road from San Francisco to Stockton, with a view to its ulal- mato extension to the boundary of the State. Colonel Lander, Superintendent of the Fort Kearny and Honey Lake Wagon Road Expodition, had comploted his work for the season, and was about to repair to Wash- ington, havivg on band an unexpected balance of $75,000, his stock, purchased in Miseouri last spring at $130 per head, havingybeen sold for the benefit of tho government at over $200 per.head. Business was more active at San Francisco, but without improvement in prices. Some of the leading staples by recent arrivals had been sold at a low Ggure; 5,000 boxes of adamantine candles had beea sold during the week at 1934c. a 200. Coffee was firm, with an upward tendency. Rice 15c. per pound. Goal steady, with indications of improving in price. No stock of Fastera syrup. Pre- visions were lower: mess pork quoted at $16, without sales; extra clear, $18; bacon slow cales at 12ifc, Ame- rican eyrups heavy and lower. Sugar declining. There was & speculative movement in French wines. Later from Havana. New Oriana, Nov. 19, 1859. Tho steamship Habana brings Havana advices of the 16th inst. Sugars wore firm and active at 9 reals for Ne. 12. Lard steady at17}{c. al8Xc. Sterling exchange 15 16 per cent premium. Exchanze on Now York 3 and € per cont premium. The State Election. RETURNS FROM TWENTY-ONE COUNTIES. ALBANY, Nov. 19, 1850 ‘The returne from twenty-one counties are now on file at tho Seerctary of State’s office. Several crrors occurred in the first reports of official figures. We have now cor- rected official returns of the vote for Canal Commissioner from all counties except Kings, New York, Orange, Stou- ben, Sullivan and Yates. The majorities stand as fol- lows, With the counties named estimated on the vote for Jones and Leayvenworth:—Skinner, 44,376; Chapin , 44,169; majority for Skinner, 205. The Hoenung Journal figures are slightly lower, owing to the difference on the estimated counties. They make Skinner 173 aheal. Their Agares are:—Jones, §66; Richmond about 1,100; Skinner, 173; For- rest, €00. Tho vlection of Skinner is now considored Pretty certain here. Suruvan County.—(OMeial),--Secretary of State—Tea- venworth, 1,670; Jones, 3,102. Comptrolier—Denniston, 2,663; Church, 2,804. Attorney-General—Meyers, 1,603; Tremaine, 8,071. Treasurer—Dorsheimer, 2,456 Poel, 2,208. Canal Commissioner—Chapia, 1,66 3,100. Prison inspector—Forrest, 1,679; Elderkin Clerk of Appeals—Hughes, 2,467, Lewis, 2,095. Sen Davis, 1,704; Grant, 2962. Judye of Appeals—Davies, 2,380; Johnson, 2,422, Supreme Gourt—Hurris, 2,066; Peckham, 2,635. This adds 182 to Jones’ majority and OF to Skinner's, over the footing sent at noon. The town wot canvassed will further increuse Skinner's majority 80. Aunayy, Nov. 19, 1869. ‘With official returns from every county except Now York, Kings and Steuben, Skinner is 414 ahead of Chapim. ‘The published voto for other candidates remtias wn- changed, except that Forrest's majority is reduced to 45 Dy the returns from Sullivan, — The Fagitive Slave Case at Hyannis. Barvsrancn, Nov. 18, 1859, ‘The evidence in the fugitive slave case was finished om “Thuraday evening, and the arguments of counsel com~ menced this morning. Me. Caleb Cushing and Mr. Sam- ford spoke about an hour and a halfeach. In closing, the defence relied entirely upon the want of local jurisdiction as the chief position, and the charge of Judge Allen falig” sustained the views of tho counsel om this potnt, The jury Wore out about two houre, and retarned a verdict © “Not Guilty.” The verdict gives general satisfaction. The second sadictmeut, for procuring tle rotura of the fugi-