The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1859, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDOS BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. QrYOE ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, adeance. Money cont by mail will be al the PASRPIS SAS “Poca scans not retool as coerigticn DAIL IERALD. two conta Comma WEEELY EKALD, very Samuel Cis tome Ppa eer ry ed { both 40 include 5 the osu the Sch tnd Mh @ saa movah on tots me "ra Yaniby wheal on Weinasilay, at four cots per or ‘annum. Yorunt. RESPONDENCR, contetning tmportond WY Weqvenran to Sui Alb LETTERS AMD PAdE- Boric mea compos ereomivns Wana ‘cad tn tho AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street —Itansax Ore- pa—ft Poucto, NIBLO'S QARDRN, Broadway.—Warre Hoss or tan Parrext—Law rox Lapies—suiam O'Lrex. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tunrn Bais mr or SFnnaire bose oF Davniz—Poor run WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street — sume—sovos Aerxcus! yt WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.-Wap Oats— Barua. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 634 Broadway.—Wirs's Becnet—Nonma. 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The mails for Europe wil! close in this city at a quarter past eleven o’clock to-morrow morning. ‘The Evroraan Eprrion or raz Henatp will be publishes ‘ef ten o'clock im the morning. Singie copics in wrap. pers, six cents. ‘Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Yous Hxnato will be received at the following placer ‘a Europe :— ‘The contents of the Ectorzam Eprmow or tax Aras will combine the news received by mai] and telegraph at ‘he office during the previous week and up to the hour of the publication. Tho News, By the arrival of the Saxonia from Southampton, and the receipt of the mails of the Canada from Bos- ton yesterday evening, we received papers dated in Paris“on the 4th and in London on the 5th instant, with interesting letters from our correspondents in Pekin and Shanghae, China,and the European ca- pitals. Our letter from Pekin will be found highly in- teresting, describing, as it does most graphically, the journey of the American diplomatic mission from Pei-Tang to that city, with all the incidents of note which occurred to its members on land and water during their travel. Some very fine rural scenery was presented to their eyes, and the coun- try wastilled, seemingly fertile, and teeming with population. At one halting place they found the Chinese kitchens furnished with very fine cooking ranges, in which spring chickens were broiled on a fine coul fire. Some very splendid cattle—cows, bullocks and calves—were seen, and the milk and butter are said to be fine. The Chinese mules are se valuable that men take their ‘place as “trackers” on the canala. The day afer the em- bassy reacned Pekin the Provincia Judge of Kiangsn came to the American Minister officially, in order to.discuss the manner of the interview with the Emperor. This Judge began his nego- tiations by stating his own expertness in settliag knotty questions. Their next interview was with the Prime Minister, Kweiliang. He spoke with great deference of the President of the United States, sometimes calling him “The Great Em- peror,” sometimes “The Princely Ruler,” and sometimes ‘President,’ and explained that whereas envoys from inferior or tributary na- tions were expected to perform the opera tion of the kotau—three kneelings and nine knocks—the envoy from the Princely Ruler would only be expected to go through one kneeling and three knocks. This Mr. Ward, 2s is known, refused. Kweiliang had a fixed idea that the American Minister in London had been seen to kmeel to Queen Victoria; and he declared that if he were to go to the United States, and be required t> * kneel before the President, or even to burn incense before him, he should be happy to doso. After various conferences Mr. Ward sent in the Presi, dent's letter, left Pekin, had his treaty ratified at another place, and has returned to Shanghae. Rev. ‘sAitchison, interpreter to the Mission, died from Sry: on his return towards Shanghae. 3 important extrects from the papers rela- ‘tie to the Italian imbroglio, the progress of the Hispano-M 0 war, and the state of feeling in England’ oir the Harper's Ferry affair, are also given. By way of England we have news from South America dated Montevideo, Sept. 30, Rio Janeiro the 9th, Bahia the 12th, and Pernambuco the 16th of October. Mr. Yancey, Minister from the United States to Buenos Ayres, landed at Southampton on his returnto America. Amongst the cargo of the steamer was specie to the value of £105,246. Business at Buenos Ayres was dull but im Proving ; prices iirm and tending to the tise. News of peace between Urquiza and Baoencs Ayres at the last moment was giving national animation to all the country: The Emperor and Empress of Brazil had gone to visit Some of the noithern provinces of the empire, and were not expected to return before the month of April. A Rio letter says:—We are inclined to believe that good qualities of coffee will main- tain their present value. We quote superior 6.200 ‘to 6.400 : good first, 5.900 to 6.100. From Pernam- ‘buco we learn that there had been but little doing daring the month, the coffee crop being at an end, and markets without animation. Sugar—white quoted at 3.000 to 3.100 per arroba; brown, 2.600 ‘to 2.700 per arroba. The Dé Soto arrived from Havana yesterday, with dates to the 16th inst. Preparations were be- ing made to receive the new Captain General with due honor. A Havana letter, however, of the 16th says a rumor was prevalent that General Ser- rans had arrived on the evening previous. Sugars NEW YORK bad advanced slightly, with 85,000 boxes on hand. Freights were lower, bat in fair demand. Bxohange on New York was at from three to four per ceat Premium. Some new difficulties nad arisen be- tween the port officials and the master of the brig A. A. Chapman, of New Orleans, A party of Bri- tich officers, bound for Jamaica, had landed in Ha- vana, and enjoyed a very friendly reception, The America | ‘shiy Swallow, which arrived from Whampoa and St. Helena in 128 days, as before re. Ported, had delivered 556 living coolies; lost dur. ing the voyage 83 by ship diseases, and missed five, who, it is presumed, walked overboard. This is the second cargo brought by the Swallow te Cuba. ‘The Vanderbilt mail steamship North Star reached this port from Aspinwall yesterdsy forenoon, She left Aspinwall on the 11th inst., and brings late and interesting news from New Gransda, Central America, the States of the South Pacific and the West Indies. An account of the disaster which occurred to the North star on her outward trip is given in our columns. Our advices from New Granada are dated at Cartbagena on the 7th and Panama on the 11th of November. The United States ship Levant, now flagehip of the Pacific Squadron, was at Panams from Valparaiso. It was said that two or three American -war vessels would ‘soon leave Panama for San Juan del Norte. A number of American sailors had been discharged at Panama, | and went on shore, somewhat to the alarm of the native authorities. The policy of dischargiog the men in such a foreign port was questioned. The English mail steamer from Carthagens, at Panama, brought news of the capture of Mompos by the revolutivu- ists under Nieto. Official reports of the battle, which was fought on the 3lst of October, reached Carthagena on the 3d instant, but the details had |. not been received when the steamer left. Private letters state the slaughter was dreadfal, the fight raging for thirty-one hours. Calvo and his men were in a charch; most of them sre reported «:!I- ed. This is the native report by letter. We huve nothing from Bogota, the mail failing to reach Ow- thagena. Owing to the quantity of Bolivian silver coin which has been introduced into Parama, the merchants have come to a partial understanding not to receive the half dollars for more than thirty cen's in future. From Central America the dates are—Nicaragua the 15th, Guatemala the 22d, San Salvador the 22d, and San Jose, Costa Rica, the 29th of October. Mr. Clarke, the United States Minister to Guate- mala, is said to be very low in health, A Mexican bishop and a number of exiled friars had arrived in Guatemala. The British Minister had left for San Salvador. The cochineal crop of Guatemala was damaged with heavy rains. San Salvador had set- tled her territorial disputes with Honduras. Gene- ral Barrios was a candidate for the Presidency of San Sa'vador. The indigo crop promised to be very small, Nicaragu1 was still quiet. In Costa Rica the Constitutent Assembly was in session, acd Dr. Castro appointed’ its President. Dr. Mon- tealegre had been nominated Provisional President of the republic. One or two attempts at revolo- tion had failed. The coffee crop was not very promising. The news from the South Pacific is dated at Val- paraiso Oct. 16 and Callao Oct. 27. Chile was again quiet, and most of the parties arrested after. the assassination of General Leal had been set at liberty. Copiapo experienced one hundred and sixteen shocks of earthquake in twenty-four hours during the late convulsion. From Guayayu , Ecuador, we learn that the rival chiefs are still quarreling amongst themselves, and Castilla wait- ing patiently to step in duriog the party divisions and gain his own ends. Bolivia was threatened with war by Peru. Castilla was at Paita, with his army encamped at La Fluaca, on the Rio Chira. Some time ago he wrote to General San Roman, commander of the southern army, not to increase the number of his troops, as he would soon return from his expedition against Ecuador and would then join San Roman with his whole force, in order to make a demonstration against Bolivia. Trade was generally very dull in all the ports. A Chilean war vessel towed the United States ship Levant out to sea from Valparaiso—a high and very rare na- tioval compliment. ‘There were nine British and fourteen American vessels loading at the Chincha Islands on the 25th ult. The guano and freight rates are given in our correspondence from Peru. We have received files of the official Gazette of San Domingo up to the 22d October. General San- tana had recovered his health and resumed the da- ties of the Presidency, which had been discharged pro tem. by the Vice President, Gen. Alfau. The paper contains some government proclamations, but no news of interest. The late excitement at Charlestown hed some- what subsided yesterday, the presence of the mili- tary having inspired confidence in the public mind. Rumors of organized bands in Ohio and elsewhere for the rescue of the prisoners were, however, rife. Governor Wise is reported to have received assu- rances of the existence of these organizations from Governor Chase, of Ohio, and also from the United States Marslal in that State, as well as from re- sponsible persons in the North and West. Our despatch from Charlestown gives the latest news from that quarter, from which and our correspon- dence, &c., given elsewhere, can be formed some estimate of the state of public feeling in Virginia on the all-absorbing events which have oceurred within her borders. The rumor that the troops ordered to the Rio Grande were for the invasion of the Northern States of Mexico is contradicted. Only such com- panies were ordered to the frontiers as the govern- ment deemed necessary for the protection of Ame- rican interests in that quarter. ’ The overland mail fom California, with advices to the 31st October, reached Jefferson City yester- day. The news is unimportant. Business at San Francisco was about the same as previously re- ported. The business portion of Volcanoville was burned on the 29th, involving a loss of over $50,- 000. General Scott reached Portland on the 2Ist. General Harney left Portland soon after the arrival of General Scott at that place, but on what busi- ness is not stated. ‘The trial of Mr. Warren Leland, landlord of the Metropolitan Hotel, of this city, on criminal cbarges in connection with the Colchester Bank defalcation, was to have taken place at Colchester yesterday, but owing to the nen-attendance of Jones, the defaulting cashier, who was afraid to “face the music,” the case was dismissed and Mr. Leland honorably discharged. Our special reporter fends us a full report of the proceedings. A meeting was held last evening at the Church of the Puritans, Union square (Dr. Cheever's), con- vened for the purpose of receiving a statement drawn up by certain members of the church, with reference to the mission of Miss Johnson to Eng- land for the raising of money for the church im question. A most protracted discussion followed the reading of the statement. The meeting was thinly attended, there being but few more than one hundred persons pre sent, Opinion was pretty equally tivided, however, as to the propriety and impropriety of such an ap- peal’ being made, special umbrage having been taken to the letter of Dr. Cheever to the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, of London, with reference to the alleged hostile spirit manifested against him by 2 portion of his own congregation and the general body of the pro-slavery party of the country. The debate was very animated, and personali- ties were freely indulged in by the sup- porters of the statement (which was spe- cisy drawn up for transmission to England, and with a view t» assist Miss Johnson on her mis- sion on the cue side), and those who were opposed, a HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1859.—TRIPLR SHRET. not only to varibus assertions made therein, but to the ides of seeking “foreign” aid a all. en the other, The proceedings were protracted till mid- night, and eventually it wes resolved that the etate- ment should be submitted to a committee of five, who are tw report upon it to the general meeting te be held this evening, at half past eight o'clock, at the came place. Tee Board of Aldermen met fit evening. Tho business before them was unimporta. In cense- quence of their next regular meeting day falling on ‘Thankegiving, Monday, the 28th inst., was fixed for the next assembling of the Board. The Board sc- cepted the invitation of Major General Sandford to be present ats military salute in front of the City Ball on Thureday net, On the same occasion a stapdard is to be presented by General Paes, of Venezuela, to a truop of the Firat regiment of New York State militia. The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park notified their approval of a special committee to report proper measures for the “prevention of abuses in the. harbor adopted. Professor Lowe tas permitted to Reservoir square two weeks longér to exhibit balloon. The chairmaa of the committee to draft an ordinance tbr the exanifastion of ste boilers etated that he would report next ~ The Board concurred with the Aldermen to rein” state Engine Company No, 5 and Hose Company 49; also in the estimates for building a house in 126th street for. Hook and Ladder Company No. 7. The Comptroller sent in a statement of expenses paid, and of advasces and payments made on various trast accounz prior to December 31, 1858, to contractors for exeouting sundry street and other improvements, to be reimbursed by assessments to defray the cost of such works; also an approximate estimate of the deficiency ex- isting in the trust on December 31, 1858. A reso- lution to appropriate $500 to each of the Presidents of the Common Council for services as Health Com- missioners, was laid over. General Sandford in- vited the Mayor and Councilmen to receive a march- ing salute on Evacuation Day, and to attend the presentation by General Paez, of a standard toa troop of the First tegiment, New York State mi- iil litia. The Aldermanic Committee on Streets had the subject of widening Nassau street before them yes terday, but did nothing farther than to examine a map in reference to it, which was submitted by the petitioners. The plan of this map is describedin our report. The widening of Laurens street was also taken up, but nothing further was done than to hear the parties in reference to it. A very important seizure of diamonds, jewelry and wafth movements, amounting in their agregate valne to $60,000, was made a few days ago on the arrival of the steamship Asia at Jersey City. The property belonged principally to two Spanish gen- tlemen. Another party is also implicated in an at- tempt to smuggle some ten dozen sets of valuable shirt studs. The Asia arrived on the 13th, but from the unwilingness of the authorities to make the matter public, the particulars of the transaction did not transpire until yesterday. Dr. Wilson, the physician charged with attempt- ing to poison his wife by chloroform, was admitted to bail yesterday by Justice Welsh. His examina- tibn was token, when he arserted that he was en- tirely innocent of the charge, which he would shortly prove by witnesses. A lecture was delivered in the Cooper Institate last evening, by Dr. Scudder, on the late rebellion in India, to a very large audience, an abstract of which will be found in ancther column. A trotting contest was commenced yesterday af- ternoon on the Union Course between Flora Tem- ple and the Bashaw stallion Geo. N. Patchen, but darkneas coming on before the affair was settled it will be finished to-day, beginning at 2 P.M. Three heats were closely contested by these celebrated trotters, Flora winning the two fimt in 2:28—2:23, and the third was given to the stallion in 2:24. The ime made on this occasion, the weather, condition of the track, &c., &c., considered, may be set down as the very bestever made. Flora went in harness, the stallion under the saddle. By a recent inspection it appears that Brooklyn contains 4,483 tenement houses, or dwellings con- taining more than three families, with an aggregate of 76,764 inmates. The first mortgage holders of the Erie Railroad have applied to the Comptroller to advertise the road for sale under the law of 1845. The matter has been placed in the hands of the Attorney Gene- ral, who will proceed at once to foreclose the mort- gages and sell the road. The City Inspector's report of the mortality in thie city for the week ending on Saturday last, shows aslight increase in the number of deaths over the week previous. The principal causes of death are to be found in diseases of the lungs and throat, numbering 192 cases, the brain and nerves, 92, and the stomach and bowels 51, out of a total of 417. No particular complaint appears to pre- yail at present. The city is uncommonly free of fevers, with the exception of scarlet, by which there were 26 deaths. As usual, the greatest gene- ral mortality was amongst children of ten years of age and under, numbering 224 deaths, or rather more than half the aggregate. ‘The foreign news by the Canada, which contained ac- counts of a firmer and more activo cotton market in Liver- pool, owing to the large receipts at the South, failed to ex- ercise any decided influence on prices here. Tho sales embraced about 2,600 bales, 2,000 of which were sold in transit, closing, for lots on the spot, on the basis of 112{c. Flour was better, with some demand for export and the market more active, closing at an advanoe of Sc. per bbI. for State and Western. Wheat, owing to the character of the foreign news, was more active, and closed with in- creased firmness. Among the sales were several cargoes of Milwaukee club at prices given in another column. Corn was in good supply, while sales were moderato and prices easier. Rye was sold at 8Se. and barley at 78. a ‘70c, per bushel. Pork, under the influence of a specula- tive feeling, was moro active and prices firm. Mess sold at $15 250 $15 40, and prime at $1075. Segars were steady, while the sales were confined to about 410 bhds., at rates given in another place. Coffee was quiet and prices unchanged. Freights were firm for English ports, with a fair amount offering. Among the engagements to Liver- Pool were 2,600 bbis. flour at 2s,, 8,000 bushels wheat at ~64. in ships’ bacs; and to London 1,000 bbis. oilcake at 23, 6d., 75 tierces rice at 27s. 64., and cheose at 40s. ‘To Glas- gow 200 bales cotton at 1d. The Position and Prospects ef the Re- publican Party. Thirty years ago a small knot of enthusiasts, following in the footsteps of the English fa- natics of Exeter Hall, started the abolition party in this country. Asa party it has never been a snecessful institution. Beginning its career at a time when the abolitionists of England were about to achieve their triumphant destruction of the industrial, social and moral organizations of the British West India colonies, its fallacious theories have bad to encounter in their propa- gation the hard facts of failure in practical ap- plication, set forth in the history of the decline — and her sister islands. In addition to impediment, the tide of abolitienism begar. to in’ Europe, and the fact has naturally reacted upon its progress here. For these reasons it has never attained in this country the dimensions of a great party, and it never will. The mania of philo-negroign has run its couree in the world, and has achieved all the triumphs it will ever obtain. But this shadow of a party has been a convenient instru- ment which disappointed politicians and am- bitions demagogues have frequently availed themselves of to further thelr own schemes, In 1840 it cast seven thousand votes, and did no special injury to amy one. In 1844 the cne- mies of Mr. Clay seized upon it to defeat his plaims to the Preeldeno , which it did by giv- ing New York to Mr. Po k. On this occasion the abolition vote was sixty-two thousand, since when ithas never een presented in au unadulterated state. In 1848 Mr. Van Buren took possession of it for t ¢ purpose of defeat- ing Gen. Cass, which was done by giving the vote of New York to Gen. Taylor. During this con- flies the abolitionized or free soil vote reached two hundred and ninety-one thousand through- out the Union, After this the whig party was entirely broken up, and the demagogical por- tion of its leaders sought a fusion with the abolition sentiment, the effecting of which left the old’ whig statesmen, who would not stoop to such @ course, high and dry on the sands of politics. In 1862 the abolitionized or free soll portion of the democratic vote was reduced to @ hundred and thirty thousand, a large portion of which went over to the republican camp in 1856, In that year the demagogues were dis- appointed in the effort to foist their candidate on the opposition elememts, and they contrived to Géfent Fremont in the election. ‘Bver since that tims they have bepn at work abolitionizing the elements and principles of the republican party, and carrying it nearer and nearer to the verge of the precipice, from which it must inevitably fall into tho gulf of treason, disunion and oivil war which is so openly proclaimed by the apostles of aboli- tionism. These fanatics unblushingly curse Washington, denounce the Union as a league with hell, and proclaim open treason to the constitution. But there is, in the honest por- tion of the opposition ranks, a vast number of patriotic citizens, who love the Union and the constitution, and who are not willing, and never will be, to give up all the great material and moral benefits which the Union and the constitution guarantee to the country, North 28 well as South, in order to cling to treason and disunion with the demagogues. They have seen the danger into which the republican party has been led, and the recent State elec- tions show that there are a million of conserva- tive voters in the Northern States who have not followed, and will not follow, the leaders to the precipice of disunion. Thus the dema- gogues, in abolitionizing the republican party, have shorn it of its beauty and its strength, as did Delilah the giant Samson. The honest and ‘earnest elements of the op- position now look round for their old leaders. There is a hankering after the men whose names were cheered of old, and whose steadfast loyalty to the teachings of Washington and the obliga- tions to the constitution, was a beacon to pa- triotizm and a safeguard to the Union. Many of these have passed away, but no small number still remains. There are Everett, of Massachu- setta; Hunt, of New York; Rives, of Virginia; and hundreds of others, who, if they would come forth and buckle on their armor, would rally at once hundreds of thousands of voters to their support, who do not wish to go into the democratic camp, and who will not follow the republican leaders in their treasonable ten- dencies. We call upon these men to meet to- gether and consult upon the condition of the times, and to organize the conservative ele- ments of the country for the preservation of the Union. The republican party, under its present organization, has become abolitionized, and is undergoing the rapid dissolution which must ever attend every party seeking to adopt the insane teachings of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. Tuvuriow Weep’s Apotocy.—Thurlow Weed’s apology for his personal abuse of the editor of this journal, from time to time, through a pe- riod of some twenty-five or thirty years, is that he believed in hig accusations, though he could not undertake to prove them. Why not, then, make a clean breast of it by saying that all these accusations, accepted without proof, and circulated in the face of all the evidence and facts in the premises, were libellous assaults, and within reach of the strong arm of the law? Waiving all objections upon the subject, However, we now submit the basis of an armis- tice to the Reverend Mr. Weed, in the single proposition that he will join us in our ap- proaching winter campaign against the rogues and rascalities of the Albany and Washington lobby gang. Let him say “yes,” and we shall give him the right hand of fellowship. But there must be no reservations in regard to “free wool statistics” or the Congress printing. What says our venerable Albany scene-shifter? Loox Ovr ror Tae Rats.—We admonish our fellow citizens not to be led astray by a tri- angular or quadrilateral struggle for the com- paratively unimportant office of Mayor, while all the old rats who have been fattening upon the city spoils years and years are devoting their energies to the Councilmen and Alder- men. Let our honest taxpayers combine to clean out the jobbers, strikers, pugilists and grogshop decoys from these two rotten branches of our city government, and let honest men be put in their places, and it will matter very little whether Tom, Dick or Harry is elected Mayor. In this connection the Fifth Avenue Democratic Vigilant Association may, if they will, do good service in the work of re- trenchment and reform, Tue OrGanization or Conoress—WHat’s IN tae Wrxp?—We clip the following oracular paragraph from the Baltimore Patriot, which, it is said, speaks by authority of Hon. Henry Winter Davis,a leading Southern opposition member from said city:— Bennett transfers the Southern opposition and seven of the anti-Lecomptonites over to the democracy, body and bones, and makes them all vote for a Southern opposition- ist for Speaker. Just wait, sir, till the 6th of Decomber, and you'll see a far different ‘state of things from that, though we Know that's Secretary Cobb's plan. | Tho Southern opposition are not to be dictated to by the Rich- mond Whig or the New Yorx Hana. What can this mean? Mr.'Cobb’s plan isa union of the democrats upon a Southern oppo- sition member for Speaker; the plan of the Richmond Whig is that the Southern opposition men shall stand, first and last, to their own can- didate as an independent party. Mr. Winter Davis, we know, on the other hand, has urged a coalition between the Southern and Northern wings of the opposition. Perhaps, then, some of the Southern wing are prepared to go shares with the republicans in the organizatién of the House. Who speaks next? Tur Rariroap Stavoarer at ScuaGHTicoKE— Wuar 1s tHe Distrwor Arronvey Anovt?—On the Coroner’s investigation into the causes of the wholesale slaughter in this State, at the bridge of Schaghticoke, some two or three months ago, it appeared that the railroad officials kwew of the rottennees and unsafe condittoa of the bridge, and yet permitted the runaing of the trains over it, which resulted in the loss of 80 many lives, [t was the universal opinion of the public at the time that these men ought to be indicted. As yet there is no indictment and no eign of one, What is the District Attorney of that district about? Has he been bought up by the directors of the Central Railroad? The Panic in Virginia. The people of Virgioia appear to be the easy victims of some practical jokers in their midst, who, if once discovered, should receive no more consideration than if they were the most truculent abolitionists. The Charlestown aid-de-camp of the Commander-in-Chief of the naval and military forces of Virginia appears to have been selected by these malignant jokers as the butt of their ill-timed pleasantries, All sorts of ridiculous stories are palmed off upon this unfortunate Colonel Davis, and \ through him upon the Executive authorities at Richmond and upon the people at large, until, as our Richmond correspondent asserts, the oltivens have been worked up to a atate of alarm that passes all comprehension, and are as bewildered as if thoy were ander the infin- ence of a professor of the black art, ‘This bewildertment assumes a variety of shapes. At one time it is a hostile encamp- ment on the mountains. The colors of the in- vaders can almost be discovered in the dis- tance. The alarm drums are beaten, and soon the military are under arms prepared to meet the foe. Some one brings a telescope; and lo, the delusion is dispelled. The motion that is seen, and which suggested the idea of riflemen on march, proceeds from the waving branches of a few sombre pine trees. All present feel the ridiculousness of the scene, but no one ventures to laugh openly; for such an offence would be construed into an act bordering on treason. At another time a joker rides into Charlestown at foaming speed, announcing that a band of several thousand abolitionists have crossed the Ohio at Wheeling, and are marching to the res- cue of Old Brown. A trooper is instantly de- spatched to Harper’s Ferry, with telegraphic despatches to Richmond, Washington and Bal- timore, imploring immediate reinforcements to repel invasion, and the troops are actually on their way before the joke is discovered. Other equally Mughable though very impro- per jokes are perpetrated. The burning of a corn stack is magnified into the laying waste of the Old Dominion with fire and sword, and portentous are the preparatiens made by the military under Col. Davis’ command to emulate the three hundred Spartans under Leonidas, and make one of the passes of the Blue Ridge a new Thermopylw. Doubtless they would do it; but their patriotism and valor are not put to the test. The spark from a nigger’s pipe or a freeman’s segar caused all the trouble. And then comes that cruelest of all jokers, Smith Crane, Esq., who tells the Leonidas of Charlestown that he had overheard a conversa- tion about a “band of five hundred” preparing to ride— Into the midst of death, Into the mouth of hell, —for the rescue of Old Brown. If Smith Crane, Esq., has not been appropriately punished for the last “sell,” no time should be lost in giving him his deserts. He is one of the practical jokers of Virginia, and he ought to be taught that there is more cruelty in such jokes than there was even in the Harper’s Ferry invasion. They keep up a needless and very deplorable alarm and excite- ment throughout the State, and under that excitement very inexcusable things are done. A Richmond militia man, for instance, is threatened with imprisonment and prosecution for treason because he ventures to have an opinion of his own on the subject of the irre- pressible conflict, and to be manly enough to express it. A Norfolk dry goods man, who, in the confidence of his’ business, happens to say something which his customer construes into a want of admiration of the peculiar insti- tution, is brought to a summary settlement and banished from the State. And a Virginia gen- tleman, whose fidelity to slavery is unques- tioned, comes very near being mobbed because he has the imprudence to present a Massachn- setts bank note in payment for drinks at a tavern.» The passport system is established in its most repulsive form throughout the State. Strangers are dogged and scrutinized, and menaced wherever they turn. The censorship of the press is more rigid and intolerable than was ever dreamt of by a Napoleon or a Bour- bon. Governor Wise has a project for getting up a Landwher on the plan of Russia or Hano- ver; and, lastly, all residents who are known to be in favor of free, as opposed to slave insti- tutions, are notified by resolutions of county meetings to depart in peace within sixty days, or abide the consequences. When it is recollected how close the contest was on the question of emancipation at the last Consti- tutional Convention of Virginia ten years ago, this last movement will be seen to be fraught with immense mischief to the interests of the State. While making every allowance for the natu- ral exasperation of the people of Virginia at seeing their State invaded by a band of crazy desperadoes, we cannot but regret that their excitement and alarm should have carried them so far as to subject them to ridicule. We be- lieve that since the capture of Brown and his party, not an abolitionist has crossed the Poto- mac or the Ohio with hostile intentions, or is likely to do so; and that fact is one of the strongest evidences of the little sympathy felt with Brown by the masses at the North, how- ever much abolitionist presses and abolitionist preachers may try to get up such a sentiment. Let somebody take care of Colonel Davis, and let Brown be hanged without any more fuss. Mx. Jevrerson Brick Harp to Piease.—Our quadrilateral cotemporary, only a few days ago, if we are not mistaken, was sorely dis- pleased on account of the alleged neglect by the administration of Brownsville and the im- mediate Texas frontier occupied by the filibus- ter Cortinas. But, upon hearing that Mr. Bu- chanan had resolved not only to clear out these flibustering vagabonds, but to march an army of occupation into the Northern provinces of Mexico, Mr. Brick can hardly find terms sufii- ciently strong in which to express his indigna- tion and disgust. What, then, does the running hero of the quadrilateral want? Is it a limi- tation of our military operations to “the elbows of the Minclo,” or “a foreign fleet suddenly coming up on our question of citizenship,” or 2 ia ing of that sort? Speak out, ic ‘The Municipal Biection—The Mayoralty and the Common Ovuncil, Between the pominations of the different parties we bave plenty of candidates for the Mayoralty, and in choosing from amongst thea there can hardly be any failure in getting ao acceptable man for the office, if that were a matier of much importance; but, with the litte pewer now in the hands of the chief magistrate, it unfortonately is not. These candidates are all respeotable and able enough. Fernaudo Wood is an efficient man for Mayor; so is Havemeyer; @gden and Draper likewise are efficient enough; but their abilities cannot be counted good for anything under the present municipal system, On the other hand, the so- leotion of the Aldermen, Councilmen and School Commissioners is a matter of vital im- portance to us all; and as these nominations are not yet fully made, there is time enough for the citizens of each ward to pick out a respectable class of persons for these positioas, and oust the nominees of the gropshop keepers, rowdies and pugilistic governing classes. What is the Democratic Vigilant Association doing on this subject? This is just the time for them toact. Let them select such men for Al- dermen and Counollmen as W, B. Astor, Hamil- ton Fish, Luther Bradish, tho Grinnels, Moers. Minturn, Blatchford and others of that class These men would insure an economical govern- ment; but the persons nominated by ‘the shoulder-hitter fraternity go into the Common Council to plunder the city. They cannot afford to take office for any other purpose, and they readily accomplish it by means of corrupt jobs of all kinds—opening and widening streets for instance—in which the epoils are divided be- tween the contractors and the members of the boards, and for which property owners are ruinously assessed. We have no doubt that the campaign of jobs for the next Council is already mapped out, and the plans laid. Among other jobs in prospect, there is the widening of Nassau street, on the pretence that the business of that locality requires it, while it is notorious that Nassau street will be too wide for the trade down town in a few years. Then, Washington Heights is to be cut up, and ite picturesque beauty obliterated to satisfy a few rapacious speculators; the city is to be over- run with railroads, which it is confidently ex- pected will net some millions to the parties in- terested; the revenues of the city from ‘mar- kets, ferries, and other sources, are to be made matters of profit, not to the city itself, which sadly needs them, but to the harpies of the Corporation. Such operations as these it is that have formed the principal business of our Common Council for many years past, and it is the scent of the spoils to be shared which has allured all the corrupt and ignorant loafers to seats in the city legislature, like vulturea to a feast of carrion. But this tide of corruption and rascality can be stayed if a respectable class of men, such as we have named, are elect- ed to the Common Council; and the time is now ripe te accomplish that desirable object. Candidates should be chosen in every ward for their honesty and good standing in the com- munity alone, irrespective of party preference or prejudice. There is no party issue involved in the municipal election; no question of North and South, abolitionism, or niggers in any shape—we are not afraid of niggers here; neither as it anything to do with the Presidential eleo- tion. What we want is simply a good and eco- nomical local government, protection for life and property in our midst, fair and equitable taxation, deliverance from the hands of the rowdies, loafers and vagabonds who control everything, and the utter demolition of the fraudulent system of jobbing and speculating at the expense of the people, for the benefit of a few miserable politicians and the worthless ruffians who elect them to office. All this, we believe,can be yet accomplished by the selection of respectable citizens to the Common Council and School Board of next year. What says the Democratic Vigilant As- sociation? What say the property owners and admirers of good government, law and order, in every ward of the city? A Voice To THE OPERA Manacers—Don’r Miss a Ficure.—Aboat thirty years ago it was our good fortune to hear the celebrated John Randolph, of Roanoke, make one of his best speeches in the federal House of Representa- tives. He closed a most eloquent forensic effort,in which he had dwelt upon the circum- stancé that the virtuous career of many great men had been arrested by some apparently trivial mistake, and pointed his moral with an allusion to the Russian expedition of the great Napoleon, wherein, said Mr. Randolph, the greatest eaptain of the age missed a figure. He made a blunder, whieh was worse than a crime, and never recovered from its effects. If we look atthe career of many men in various paths of public life—warriors, states- men, diplomats, journalists, politicians, and even down to opera managers and showmen—- we shall find that the missing of the very smallest figure is frequently attended with’ the most disastrous results, upsetting in a moment the schemes and calculations which have cost many days of anxious thought, as well as the expenditure of large amounts of money. Among other instances we may select that of the illustrious Barnum, who from small beginnings worked his way up to a high position and superb fortune. He missed a figure when he dipped into the clock business, and sustained a Waterloo defeat. He found his St. Helena in Connecticut. A number of other very clever people have met with Barnum’s fate, and the present managers of the Opera in this city have hada very nar- row escape from it. No opera season ever opened under finer auspices than this. Con- ducting separate companies, and frequently in warfare with each other, Messrs, Ullman and Strakosch had high reputations with the public. They had both done a great deal for art in this country, and had brought over some of the best performers that have ever visited us. ‘They were known as clever men, who had the confidence of the operatic public, and were perfectly well acquainted with its tastes. When, therefore, these impresarii, so long rivals, joined hands as co-partners, and com- menced operations with o guaranteed capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, furnished by the stockholders, every one naturally expected that the Opera would flourish as never had flourished before, and the fushionable world was as joyful over the delightful prospect a8 the rules of propriety would permit. But Strakosch, olever as he was, missed figure, He went to Europe, and his Italian in- vasion was almost aa disastrous as Nepoleonjs