The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1859, Page 4

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The steamship Baltic, with advices from Califor- nia, Central America, New Granad3 and the South Pacific, arrived at her wharf at an early hour yes- terday morning. The Bultic was detained some forty hours at Aspinwall, in consequence of a heary gale in the Gulf of Tehuantepec preventing the Golden Age reaching Panama. The news from San Francisco is to the 4th inst. The Baltic brought a large nomber of passengers and $1,721,352 in gold. The Northern Light arrived at Aspinwall on the 16th, baving been detained by an accident to her machinery and the vessel taking fire at sea. Among the passengers by the Baltic are Judge Haan, Bailey Peyton, H. F. Foot, Judge Sinclair, the Bri- tish Consul at San Salvador, and the relieved ofi- cers and crew of the Saranac. The Golden Age, while on her way down to Panama, was boarced in the vicinity of Cape Lucas by an open boat from the ship St. Marys, lying at Guaymas, and important despatches from the commander of the St. Marys to the govern- ment placed on board. These despatches pro- bably related to the occurrences which had taken place at Guaymas between Captain Porter and the authorities of that place, relative to the non-recog- nition of Colonel Alden as Acting United States Consul during the absence of Judge Rose, as weil as the treatment received by Colonel Stone's sur- veying paity. The circumstances were detailed in this journal yesterday, in our advices from Sonora. From Central America we have news dated at San Juan del Norte to the 13th of November. The entrance to the harbor had become somewhat deeper, there being eleven feet over the bar, and @ New York bark had gone in, to the great joy of the people. A good deal of dread still pre- vailed with respect to the Walker invasion. The little steamer Laura Frances had made a most in- teresting trip from Sen Juan to Providence Islands, of which our correspondent gives a graphic account. The astonishment ef the colored people at the sight of the veasel was very great. From the South Pacific we have news dated at Valparaiso on the 2%th of October. Chile re- mained quiet, but fears were entertained of an- other political outbreak. The officers of the frigate Merrimac had entertained all the principal inha- bitants of the place at a grand ball on board the ship. The news from New Granada is dated at Panama ‘and Aspinwall on the 19th of November. No let- ters or papers had been received from Bogota. Some eighty men on both sides had been killed in the late revolutionary battle of Mompas. The Panama Isthmus was qniet. A number of French artillery officers for San Salvador, with some Sisters of Charity for Guatemala, had reached Panama. Recent advices from Mexico intimate that Juarez intends asking for an immediate armed intervention by the United States in the affairs ot that country, ‘There had been great rejoicings at the capital on account of the defeat of Doblado. Miramon is re ported as having commanded personally in the ac” tion. Degoliado was concentrating troops fur an attack on Guanajuato. The conservatives had de- feated the liberala at Tepic, killing General Coro- vado and four hundred of his men: The liberal par- ty at Mazatlan had refused to recognise the Ameri- can Consul at that port, but after the arrival of the St. Marys all difficulties were satisfactorily adjust. ed. The reported imprisonment of the British Consul st Mazatlan is confirmed. He was subse- quently released by Captain Maxwell, of the Am- ethyst, who blockaded the port, and seized two veapels loaded with cotton, Captain Stone has left for Vera Cruz, to appeal to President Junrez againet his expulsion from Bonora by Goveruor Peaquiera, By the grant of Comonfort, under which Stone wag making sur- veys, be would have beon entitled to twenty mil- lion aores, or one-third ot the public lands, Elsewhere is given a fall and interesting account of the disaster to the steamship Indian. Not a ves. tige of the vessel is now to be seen. All her sur. NEW YORK HERALD. GORDO’ BENNETT ae pi a PROPRIETOR. 5 OFFICE N. W. COBNKE OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. 5 | | \ viving pawengers aud crew, together witu the nubile, have arrived at Halifax, The steamship North Briton, from Liverpool, due st Portland, hud not arrived at a late hour lust evening. The extensive military preparations for the pre- servation of order at Uhariestown are auid to have grown out of % conviction on the part of the Vir- ginia officials that an attack and altempt at reacue of Brown and his comrades would be made last night, both Governor Wise and Mr. Hunter having received what they belioved to be reliable informa- tion to that effect. There is much excitement in Virginia, and every railroad train is thoroughly searched for armed men at the stopping places. ‘The thirty-sixth anviversary of the New York Bible Society was held at Dr. Adams’ cbarch, in Madison aguare, last evening, and largely atteaded. The annual report showed that the receipts of the year have been $16,361, and the expon- ditures $15,581, leaving the society free from debt. Both the distribution of the Soriptares and the money expended were less than the year pre- ceding. The address was delivered by Wm. Allen Butler, and is sketched in our report. ‘The Missionary Church of St. Paul the Apostle, on Ninth avenue, was opened yesterday for divine service. Archbishop Hughes was expected to be Present to open the geremonies and bless the un- dertaking, but owing to illness the venerable pre- ate was necessarily absent. In the absence of the Archbishop a sermon was preached by Father Preston from a text appropriate to the occasion. Evening services were also held, at which, as in the morning, great numbers were present. The Whig General Committee hold an adjourned meeting on Satarday evening. The committee no- minated the American nominee, Rafus 8. Andrews, for Corporation Counsel, but deferred the nomina- tion for Almshouse Governor, in order to give the Americans time to act. A report of the pro- ceedings is given elsewhere. John Leary, who was stabbed by Mortimer Shea in an affray on Wednesday last, died yesterday at the City Hospital. The perpetrator of the act was committed by the Coroner to await’ the action of the Grand Jury. There is a strong probability that the seats of Messrs. Davie and Harris, members elect to Con- gress from Baltimore, will be contested in the next Congress, on the ground of fraud in the late elec- tion in that city. Asupposed murder was perpetrated on Satur- day evening on board the schooner John M. Clay- ton, lying in the East river. The subject of it, being still alive when discovered, was able to relate the circumstances, and designated a man named Dow- ney, who was subsequently arrested, as the indivi- dual who had shot him. An extremely destructive fire occurred at Taun- ton yesterday morning, involving an estimated loss of property to the amount of $150,000. Highteen buildings were destroyed in all, principally stores. The district over which the fire raged comprised the most active business portion of the village. ‘There was an insurance on the property destroyed to the amount of $86,000. The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 1,600 buleg, included in which were 600 in transit. ‘The market closed without spirit at 11*(c. for middling uplands. Flour was active and firmer, with sales of about 24,000 bbls., in- cluding purchases for export, Southern flour was active and firmer, Wheat was in goo demand, and the advance of ycsterday was sustained. Corn was in good supply, and prices favored purchasers. New sold at 75c. a 80c , and old yellow Jersey and Southern at 6c. a 98c, and old Southern white at 96c. Pork was heavy and lower, with sales of meas at $16 and prime at $1] 124; a $l1 25, Sa- gars were firm, with sales of 600 a 700 hhds., and 5,500 bags China sugar, for refining, at 6c. The sales also em- braced 280 boxes molasses sugar. Coffee was quict. Freights continued firm with a fair amount of engars- ments—among which were flour to Liverpool at 2s., whoat at 6d. in bags, and cotton at 3-16d, a 7-224. The Black Republican Programme of Revotution—Its Effect om Northern In- terests. The revolutionary aims which have been clearly announced by a large numbér of the most prominent leaders of the black republi- can party should awaken the earnest attention of every man whose interests are involved in the social and industrial organization of the country, and who hopes to leave to his chil- dren the rich inheritance we have enjoyed from our fathers. We published on Saturday last several ex- tracts from a book on the impending crisis of the South, with a copy of the secret circular recommending it, and to which the names of many men of substance in the North and mem- bers of Congress are attached; and to-day we give elsewhere in our columns further por- tions of the same work. Its proclaimed and undisguised object is the abolition of slavery at the South by force, which is to be exercised by the federal government as soon as the republican party shall have ob- tained possession of it, while the South- ern States are to be forced to manumit their slaves or submit ‘te a servile insurrection. If the Southern people should resist this they are to be held in subjection by the federal forces of the Northern States, or driven to abandon the Southern States to the negroes and the white abolitionista. Such is the pro- gramme to which are affixed the names of sixty- eight Nortbern members of Congress, Go- vernor Morgan, of the State of New York; James Kelly, Chairman of the New York Republican State Central Committee; Thur- low Weed, of Albany; John A. Kennedy, Ho- race Greeley, Johan Jay, Wm. Henry Anthon, and many others, who may be found among the wealthiest citizens of this city and State. 4 Noman can disguise from himself that the advent of a party to power in this country which proclaims such principles aa these would result at once in a civil war that would rage from Delaware and Chesapeake Bays to the fartherest limits of civilization in the valley of the Mississippi. Even a canvass for the election of a President on such a platform would produce servile rebellion in the South, and the consequent arming of its white citi- zens for self-preservation, with the necessary accompaniment of hostile array against the North, to resist the incendiary attacks which the Northern republican leaders already threaten and defend. The circular of these leaders, and the book it recommends, are the proclamation of an armed revolution from one end of the Union to the other. It is not for us to view such a contest in its effect upon the negro alone, but we should first, and above all, contemplate it in its reactive effect upon our own interests at the North, and upon those of the whole civilized world at large. The entire fabric of social organization at the North, the value of all our public works and private property, our houses and lots, our farms and gardens, our mills, our forges, our manufactories, our ships and steamers, the ex- tent of our imports for home consumption, and our exports to foreign markets, and the mighty throng of industry and trade that courses along our railroads and ‘our rivers, are all bound up for life or death with the social organization and prosperity of the South. This will be evident to every man who will look without passion upon the daily movements of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, tt Ae oe trade and industry around bim, or at the course of the great commercial revulsions whteh have swept over this country at two distiact periods of time. The crisis of 1837 was brought about by the expansion of the United States Bank snd its gigantic attempt to control the cotton crop. Its efforts were more particularly directed to the South, and when the crisis came the whole commercial and financial fabric there was rot- ten to the core. With the crash everybody there was ruined, and so great was the effect throughout the country, that evea the North could not recover from it until a long series of years had passed away, and the South bad re- covered, by a succession of good crops of cot- ton and other products of its slave industry. The financial revulsion of 1857 presents the reverse of this picture. It was the North and West that were then rotten, from over trading and epeculation. But the financial condition of the South was sound, und the manufac- tories, milla, torges, workshops and trade of the North, which were stopped by the revul- sion, were first set sgainin motion by the trade of- the South, Without it we should have lan- guished for years in idleness and unproductive effort to find a market for our industry, while with it we recovered within a year, and are now in the full tide of prosperity. To this prosperous state of affairs the cotton crop alone of the South contributes a vast amount. The value of that crop for the present year will reacb about one hundred and ninety millions of dollars, Of this about fifty millivas _ of dollars come to supply our Northero manu- factories, one hundred millions go to those of England, and forty millions of dollars worth are taken to the looms of continental Europe. 3 In each of these sections of the civilized world the cotton crop of our Southern States is the source of life to a large portion of the most ac- tive industry, and the fountain from whence spring vast rivers of commerce which quicken into life other pursuits and occupations in every part of the world. The abolitionary revolution, which the re- publican leaders propose to inaugurate, would strike a deadly blow at this vast foundation of wealth and values, and cause the whole edifice fo full in disintegrated ruins, We have the commercial and financial example of the fate of the British West Indian colonies. It was not the sugar planters alone who went down with the abolition of slavery there—-all the other interesta sank too, The merchants and traders failed, the schoolmasters and the min isters of the Gospel left the ruined scene of their labors and went home; and, while the rich became poor, the poor sank into pauperism and degradation. The trade which had fostered fleets in’ the exchange of products between the mother country and her colonies dwiadleq away; and to-day the once rich portions.of the British empire in the West Indies are now looked upon by the merchants, manu- facturers and statesmen of Great Britain as the pauper dependencies of her empire. The policy which the black republican leaders have initiated as their party programme would pro- duce results similar, but far more widely felt, ever in its peaceful attainment. But a peaceful attainment is impossible. The men of the South are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Many thousands of them have gone from our own homesteads and out of cur own midst. Like us they entertain the spirit of men. They should and they will defend their rights, and, as we would do in the like case, they will not wait till invasion comes upon them. They must and they will prepare to meet it, and even preparation will strike deeply at’ the sources of Southern industry and Northern trade. But the moment the sword is drawn in fraternal strife between the Northern and Southern States of this Union, it cuts the vast bond twined by thousands upon thou- sands of cotton spindles in America and Europe, and now binding the edifice of industrial and social values throughout a vast portion of the world. Shorn of their national etrength, the sceptre of industry and power would pass away from the United States and England, and the rule of the sword would again be enthroned over the starving multi- tudes. Let every Northern merchant, farmer, manufacturer and laborer bring these truths home to his own case, and ask himself what would be the value of his property or his labor onthe day that the products of the slave in- |. dustry in the South are destroyed. Caxpipares ror OrFice Iv Decemper.—At the charter election, which is to take place on Tuesday, the 6th day of next month, the fol- lowing officers are to be elected, according to official announcement:— A Mayor, in the place of Daniel F, Tiemann. yA Counsel to tke Corporation, in the placo of Hichard steed. ‘Two Governors of the Almshouse, in the place of Wm. T. Pinckney and Patrick McElroy (only ‘one person to ve voted ior for each office, by each elector. The person re- ceiving the next bigbest number of votes to the person elected to be appointed by tho Mayor). An Alderman in each of the aldermanic districta of the city baving an even numerical designation, via: Second, Fourth, Sixth, Fighth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Six: teenth, &e. Two Constables in each ward. Six Counciimen in each Senatorial district. Ove Commitsioner of Common Schools for each ward. One Inspector ot Common Schools for each ward. ‘Two Truateea of Common Schools for eash ward, and such vacancies a8 may have occurred during the past yenr. These offices number in all one hundred and sixty-eight. For the office of Mayor alone there are now in the field five candidates, and these have received the nomination from no less than eight different parties, If, therefore, we take the number of candidates for Mayor as a standard, we may expect to see eight hun- dred and forty aspirants claiming the suf- frages of the electors on election day, for the one hundred and sixty-eight offices to be filled. It would be well, then, to look carefully over all the tickets. Tnx Mrxtine or Concress,—The next Con- gress meets this day week, December 2, and it will, without doubt, be one of the most im- portant and exciting sessions of that body ever held, in view of the coming Presidential elec- tion, the Harper’s Ferry treason, the combat for the spoils, and other interesting events which are déstined'to occupy the attention of the national legislature. The leading ques- tions, among éthers which will be before Con- gress, will embrace the subjects of the orgaai- zation of the House, the election of Speaker, Clerk, Public Printer and other subordinate officers; the contested election cases, the acqui- sition of Cuba, protection of American citizens abroad, the Pacific Railroad, the admisaton of new States and Territories, the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer and the Canadian reci- procity treaties, the Post Office deficiencies, with the matter of ocean mail steamship routes and the abolition of the franking privilege, 1859. the Homestead bill, the Bankrupt law, tho { attempts to rival the Atlantic States in the | ¢wellinge, ke. Drandrell’s block was owned by Wiliam French Spoliation bill, and a variety of mixoel- | shipping, importing or ship building trader, Janeous matier, There is material enough ia all these questions to create a stirring time. Tax Municrran Exection—Tuw Reat Ques- von at Issue.—We are on the eve of danger. The great commercial interests of the city wad its vast property are at stake. Kvents are taking place around us, and other events are thickening «nd in preparation, which are culcu- lated to make the stoutest among us tremble for the safety of the republic. We know not the day nor the hour when a dissolution of the Union may take place, Yet, amidst these perils, we find @ faction in this city, known as Tammuny Hall, trifling with the liberties of the country and the integrity of the Union, squab- bling about spoils on tho brink of a murmuring volcano, whose cogvulsions may at any mo- ment overwhelm all classes in a common ruin. In order to secure tho public plundor, a little clique of its teaders brave all dangers to tho country by nominating a man for the office of Mayor whose antecedents they expected would bring him large republican and abolition sup- port, and prevent the necessity of that revo- lutlonary faction starting a caadidate of their own, Corrupt overtures of bargain and sale were made to that effect. The republicans, however, believing that the democrats would not vote for Havemeyer as they did for Tiemann, who had no guch anti-slavery antecedents, and fearing, moreover, to trust a man who betrayed his own party, started a candidate of their own. Yet Have- meyer hangs republican banners on the outer walls of the Tammany fortress, and still hopes for republican votes. A republican journal is his principal organ, and solicits for him the aid and interest of that party. He is more the rival of Opdyke for republican votes than he is of Wood for democratic votes. One of the re- publican journals of the city backs Opdyke, the otber backs Havemeyer, and both oppose Wood. It is easy, therefore, to see, from the direction in which the weathercock of Tam- many Hall points, what way the wind blows over that tainted concern, The antecedents of its candidate are quite in keeping with the arts of harlotry now practised by Tammany, and its apostacy from the ancient faith of the democratic party. Havemeyer’s name is signed to the Buffalo platform, which not only defeat- ed the democratic candidate for President in 1848, but gave a death blow to the party in this State, by engrafting upon it the anti-sla- very sentiment, which has kept it in dis- traction an@ division for the last eleven years, A house divided against itself cannot stand. The Van Burens and the introduction of the Wilmot proviso have ruined the democracy of New York State, by destroying its unity, and denationalizing a large section of it. Mr. Havemeyer is inti- mately identified with these causes and effects. It is no wonder, therefore, that Prince Joha makes a speech for him in the Qld Wigwam, which was once the seat and centre of North- ern nationality, but is now become an ally of abolition and a den of thieves. We are told that Mr. Havemeyer is an honest man. He may be so personally; but he is identified with the filth and corruption of Tammany Hall, and will be held responsible for its ras- cality before the people. It is also said that he is a pious man, a Sabbatarian of the most straightlaced and stiffnecked sect. All the piety he has to spare will hard!y be sufficient to throw into “the Coalhole” as a disinfectant to purify the foul air of that delectable region; and he is much more likely to lose his piety and morality insuch an atmosphere than to make it healthy for humanity. In this contest the real issue is not merely a municipal one. In that point of view it is of little ‘mportance who is elected Mayor, but a question involving revolution on one side, or the preservation of the Union on the other, is to receive its solution on Tuesday, the 6th of December. The intelligence of the people of this city, its superior press, its great commercial inte- rests, have prevented it from falling into the ranks of free soilism, as the less enlightened and more fanatical portions of the State have done. If there is any city in the Union upon which the fate of the country hangs in “the impending crisis,” that city is New York. If New York city is now carried by the enemies of the Union, that will undoubtedly be the prelimi- nary step to their complete conquest of the State. If this State is lost to conservatism, then is the country lost and the Union ‘dissolved. New York city is therefore the citadel of this State, which has hitherto remained true to the constitution. Letit be captured, and a decisive blow is struck against the cause of nationality, from which it will never recover. Lven if the dire results which the times render inevitable were not to follow from New York’s desertion of that cause, its material interests would suffer in their most vital points, and the fate of Boston, from whose port the insulted and injured South has removed its trade, would soon be shared by the great commercial metropolis of the Union. If the threatened disaster should hap- pen us in the ensuing week, the best thing that men possessing real estate in this city can do is to sell off immediately, even at twenty-five percent below the present value; and, as for stocks, they will do well to get rid of them on any terms. Tus Corron Piantera’ Convention ann Di- RecT TRADE WITH THE SovTH.—We perceive by the Georgia papers, that the Southern cotton planters have been holding an extra session of their Convention at Macon, for the purpose of carrying out the idea of direct trade between he South and Europe, at which they appointed two gentlemen—Col. Howell Cobb and Col. J. S. Thomas—delegates to visit the large cities and towns of Europe engaged in the manufac- ture of cotton goods, and gather information on the cotton trade of this country. Very recently a convention of Western mon was held in Kentucky, with a view to arrest the monopoly of trade and commerce in the Atlan- tic cities, and divert it to the Mississippi valley. All these efforts to force trade out of its natu- ral channels are absurd, and never can result in anything. Geographical position and other local advantages will always militate in favor of certain sections of country in the growth of pecullar branches of industry; thus nature hag allotted to the agricultural West its grain and cattle, and to the sunny South {ts cotton and augar. These are the specialities which belong to them, and there is plenty of oppor- tunity to develope these resources to the highest capacity without making anyspasmodic All such efforts to damage the trade of New York are idle. She has no cause to anticipate any decay in her commerce, unless it is to be found in the danger of entrusting her govern- meat to the hands of men who may infuse an abolition and insurrectionary element into her affairs, If our merchants do not vote for a Mayor belonging to-that party the vital principle of which is rapidly becom- ing abolitionism, and support a candidate for President whose aims are directed towards dis- turbance and division, they nood focl no alarm for the continued prosperity of our commerce, and the supremacy of New York over every other city in the Union—‘“Southern Conven- tions” and “Mississippi Valley movements” to the contrary notwithstanding. Tax GoLp AND Sr.ver Crop or THE Usirep Srates.—The Baltic, which arrived at this port yesterday, brought from California one million seven hundred thousand dollarsin gold, be- sides, perhaps,a quarter of a million in the hands of passengers. The gold crop of Culi- fornia exhibits no diminution in its yield, not- withstanding the immense returns of the pre- cious metals it has been pouring out for the pastten or eleven years. Indeed, it has been steadily increasing of late. We find that the imports of gold for 1859, up to the date of the Baltie’s arrival yesterday, amount to nearly thirty-six millions, with three more shipments yet te be received between this and the end of the year, which will doubtless bring it up to forty millions, and will show an in- crease over the shipments of 1858 of about four millions, while the increase during that year over 1857 was close on twe millions. The returns of gold from the Australian fields, it may be remarked, do not exhibit so favorable arecord as this. Then, we bave the Pike’s Peak and Fraser river mines, both giving pro- mist of a rich harvest in time. Up to the present Pike’s Peak has yielded from half a million to a million, and the work has not fairly com. menced there, while the Fraser river mines, which are longer in operation, have given from two to three millions, Arizona, meantime, opeas to us her fruitfal fields of silver, which promise to be abun- dant, and perbaps that Territory only requires the aid of machinery, mining skill and a ready transit to render it as valuable as California in the bardly less precious metal. When the con- templated road from Arizona to Guaymas is opened, we shall probably have such another rush of emigration as the gold discovery in California produced, and it is not unlikely that silver will soon come pouring in as plentifully from Arizona as gold from Callfornia, a fact which will effect some change in the relative value ef the two metals, Before many years, then, we may be counting the gold and silver crop of the United States onan equal footing with our cotton crop, in value and importance. Tux Mayoratty.—Now that we have got five or six candidates for Mayor, there seems to be dome abatement of the question as to the respectability and integrity of the nominees, and the party journals are beginning to talk about Seward’s election, and discuss the Mayoralty question, as if it was a national one and not a local issue. If the Mayor is to be selected for his national pelitics, and not for his honesty and efficiency, the contest would ap- pear to be narrowed to Fernando Wood and Mr. Opdyke. Wood is the truest representa- tive of the democracy in the field, because Havemeyer is & free soiler, and Mr. Opdyke is profecsedly an out-and-out republican. Is that to be the issue? NEWS FROM WASMINGTO} Difficulty as Regards the Members Eleet of Congress from Baltimore—Uaptain Stone Gone te Vera Craz—More About the Harper's Ferry DiMiculty, &e. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATOH. ‘Wasmyatox, Nov. 27, 1869, Preparations of such a character are boing made in Baltimore to contest the seat of Winter Davis, that it is believed it will be impossible for Congress, whatever ita political character, or for any committee, however favorable, to resist the overwhelming evidence of fraud in the election. Mr. Davis has just returned from New York, whore it is faid he bas been in conference with Chevalioe Webb and others of that political school. It is alao understood that Mr. Preston will contest strongly the seat of Mr. Harris, the other Baltimoro member of Congress. A mass of evidonco will be produced in these cases that will startle and disgust tho country. Captain Stone and Mr, Isham have just left for Vera Cruz, where they have gono to appeal to President Juarez against the act of Pesquicra in cjecting Stone’s eurveying party from Sonora. - By the grant of Comonfort, under which Stone was making surveys, the company would be entitled to twenty million acres of land, or one-third of the public Iands in Sonora, there being sixty millions. Governor Willard, of Indiana, who bas beon in Wash- ington some time, has gone to Richmond, it is said to exert hiniself to save Cook, his brother-in-law. Tam assured by good authority that this new insanity movement of the rebublicans to gave old Brown wiil not stay the execution. "a There is quite a little excitement again here by the ar- rival of more Virginia troops, on their way to Charles- town. In this body are one hundred and seventy-five men, composed of Augusta Guards, Mountain Guards, and Charlottesville Light Infantry. They havo to romain in Washington till morning. Gov. Wise is determined to Prevont any further breach of the peace, by calling out force enough to overawe the fanatics. TER GENERAL NEWEPAPRR DESPATCH. Wasntnaton, Noy. 27, 1859, Tt is understood that tho President's next annual mes- sage will not be more than two-thirds the length of that of 1868, It ia now ready for the press, Whatover designs France and Spain may have on Moxl- co, with & view to fix its future form of government, there is nothing to warrant the suepicion that Great Britain ia united with them for that purpose. This aubject of the affairs of Mexico will doubtless be prevented prominently to the consideration of Congreas during the onsuing ses- mn. gue the recent arrivals hore are man} persoms who held office in the House of Representatives, and who arc waiting the new organizations in the hope of being roin- stated. The more than usually large namber of aspirants for the positions of clerk, doorkeeper and postmaster of the House, have drawn hither a corresponding number of place hunters, Destructive Wire in Taanton. KIGHTKEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED—TH8 BUSINESS RART OF THE VILLAGE IN RUINS ~1.088 $150,000. ‘Tavwton; Mass., Nov. 27, 1860. A fire broke out early this morning {n tho coofectionery whop of Ara Waterman, and rapidly extended from Wier Btreet to Woodward's lane, causing great destruction of Property. Fifteen bulldings were destroyed on Main street, and three on Wier street inciuding the Concert Hall, ‘The burnt district extends on the south side of Main street, from Weir strect, to Babbitt’s block, and embraced the most active business portion of the village. Among the property deatroyed are two clothing stores, two book stores, two drug s.cro#, two hardware and fur- aitare stores, three hat stores, two boot and shoe stores and twojewelry stores, two printing offices, two carpet etores and four saloons, togethor with offices, Groceries, B. Drandrell, and was totally dest/eved, ‘The total leas is cetimated at $150,000 and tho insurance pt $86,000, Non-Arrival of the North Britom. Powr.anp, Me., Nov. 27-11 P.M ‘The Canadian mail steamship North Briton, from Liver- Pool, has not yot arrived bere, Markets. Cotton Sates today 4,000 bala Priow to ievoguiae and nomioul, ivy Cuanusrron, Nov. 26, 1869- Cotton—The sales of the week added up 17,000 bales, aad the recoipts 22,670. Rice duil and declined |e Pgh to Liverpool, 4d. Kxchaage—sterling, Cotton—Sales to-day 3,400 balen nt a'dscling of ge, om midaling, but fair unchanged at 16%c a 10%0. Ba x Cotton—Bales to-day 2,000 balew guod iauulize a tae, A Nov. ‘ 1,200 “erry Noy. middling. Reds I ton OL 16; whi ol 16 8 $128 ‘Whiske; . a 5 white, a 3 Provisions fre ‘m, but not much | Moss pork, $10.60, - Hogs ere held firm at $8.0 $0 25, but ho suien ore reported over $6. 2, , 1868, ion bushels corn. Seen Nov. 26, 1868. bushels ~. Oswnao, 30: higher on Upper takes sue 13,06 pens ae . wet fon. eneee Sree spring, No. 2 Bt 81 GS $1 6, 1 $1 05, aud bushela Milwaukee olub, No. 1, at SL $1 07 afloat and to arrive, Hy ‘at the ‘lateow quotations. Other grains quiet. few canal boats are loading, and freights are nominal. Lake imports—58,708 bushela wheat, 4,000 bushels corn, 12,000 buabols barley, Canal exports—i,549 bbls. flour, 6,600 bushels wheat, 14,600 bushels Darley, 1.400 bushels peas. Weather plea” sant; wind down ‘The provail . bbie. at $4 76 for extra State: $4 80 a $5 for extra Wizcoa- sin ; $6 37.86 60 for extra Ohio avd Indiana ; $5 76% $6 60 for double extra ditto, $6 60 for double Michigan and Canadian. Wheat firm and quict; sale ope car lone Canadian club at $l 04. No. 2 ‘spring ie bold at $1 03 and Milwaukie club at $1 08. sales 5 000 busbels new at 6c. twenty four hours—86,746. bbls, wheat ; 7,798 bushels corn; 620 bushels oats; 16,143 buel- cls barley. Canal exports. the same time—T71 bbis. flour, 79,012 bushels wheat 7,679 bushels corn. , Nov. 26, 1850, Flour steady. Wheat steady; white winter, $1 20 $1 26. Corn—spring aiv: changed. i a 2c.; other qualitios un. Biographical Sketch of Adelina Patti. Close of the Academy Season—Tne Opera in the Provinces—Festival of the St. George's Society—I'nings at the City Theatres—Debut of Sam Cowell—A Pa- thetic Appeal from Mr. Burton~Thea< tres Eluewhere, &c., d&e. One of the most remarkable events in the operatic his- tory of the metropolis, or even of the world, bas taken place during the last woek at the Academy of Music. We refer to the début of Misa Adelina Patti, whose career bids fair to rival those of the most brilliant queens of song. Her début on Thursday has already been described. The success which attended that porformance was endorsed. on Saturday by the largest audience that has aseombled for a matinée since the Piccolomini crushes. Miss Patti ‘savg the mad scene from “Lucia” in such a superb way as tostir up tne audience, which is usually chary of ap- plause, to the bearticst demonstrations of delight. The prima donna was twice called before the curtain, and the ‘stage was literally covered with the flowers which wore throwa before her. The success of this artist, educated and reared among ‘us, with all the vocal gifts of an Italiaz and all the clever- ness of a Yankee girl, has made evorybody talk of her, wondering who and what she is, where she bas been, aad 80 on. ‘To gratify this very reasonable curiesity is eminontly Proper, avd we have collected a few particulars for that purpose. As Miss Patti has always been in this country, we state facts within the knowledge of noarly every one who is acquainted with musical matters:— Miss Adelina Patti was born at Madrid, Spain, April 9, 1843. Her mother, Madame Barili Patti, was tho prima donna of the Grand Theatre at Madrid, and on the cvea- bg preceding the birth of Adelina, the youngest of a large family, Madame had sung “‘Norma,” in which réle sho had a high roputation, Curiously enough, after the birth of Adetina, Mme. Patti lost her yoice almost entircly, and has always believed that it was given to the child. » Madame Patti loft Macrid as soon as possible after Adelina’s birth, and revarned to Milan, the permanoat residence of her family. Here tho impresario Strakogch made the acquaintance of the new prima donna, then only four montha old. The Patti family emigrated to thie country in 1844, whea Patti pére joined Sanquirico, the buifo, in the managomunt of the Ralian Opera, Chambera street. There were four daughters of Mme. Patti, all artists. Tho eldest, Clotiida Barili, married tho son of Colonel Thorne. Amalia, the noxt, ie the wife of Mr. Strakosch; Carlotta resides in this city, and fa an ac- complished teacher of music, and the latest edition of this fair musical libretto is Adelina, tho subject of this sketch, Adelina was what is called a precocious child. She could sing almost before she could speak. She caught up at the age of four all the gems of the oporas, and sang them correctly, Her flrat public appearance was made at the age of vine years, when Mr. Strakosch, Ole Bull and the infantile prima donna made a tour in the provinces, where Adclina aang all the great pieces made familiar by denny Lind, Sontag, Bosio and others. The little lady created the greatest enthusiasm, and hor share of the profits amounted to twenty thousand doliars, which hor father invested in a country seat, the summer residence of the family. Although so far advanced in art, Adelina had not for- Gotten to beachild. She always took her doll to the thentre or concert room, and onco refused to sing unless s‘Maurico’’ (Strakoach) woultl allow her to carry it om the stage. Once she bad sung a very difficult cava- tina in such a way as to “bring down the house’* with tremendous applause. When the calm came after the storm, Adelina having recognized on one of the front benches a child of her own age, said in a clear, smooth vote, ‘Nelly, come to my room right away; i've got such @ beautiful doll to show you, and we'll have suck fun (7 ‘The effect of this naiveto upon the audience may bo imagined. At this time our prima donna recelved the highest com. Plimenta from Sontag, who told her that she would be one of the greatest singers in the world, and from Albon!, who enld if she went to Paris she would make sucha furore asia coldom seen there. After the concert tour with Strakosch, Mias Patti wont to the West Indiea with Gottschalk, the pianist. In Hava- na she sang, in costume, the duct in the “Barber of Se- ville,” with her brother, Bariti, The enthusiastic Bava- hese made such ® row in recalling her that ehe ran away frightened, and could not be persuaded to go upon the Btage again. Throughout the Indies she divided the bon- ore with Gottschalk, and at Porto Rico had an offer of marriage (she was thon fourteen) from the richest pro- prietor in tho place. But that diamond wedding did not come off, Adelina is still in “maiden meditation, fancy free,’” and is devouse only to art. She was brought out at the Acadomy to save the season. The mausgors bad a good opera, plenty of fine artists, everything required for fine performances, but the great outaide public, always thirsting for something new, wanted, a sensation. They have it in ‘little Patti,” who not only pleases the connoisseurs, and is the cepecial favorite of the fair, but has ali the’ material for 4 great popular pet. She bas two of tho last etx nights of the seagon, the brilliant ending of which will obliterate the gloomy com- menoement. The programme for tho week includes “The Sicilian Vespora’”” to-night; Tuesday, “Lucia” (Patt); Wednesday, “The Huguenots,” with new. mése en scéne; Thursday, “Lu Sounambuiw’” (Patti); Friday, “The Hu. guenots” aguin, and on Saturday morning and ovening here will be agrand furewoll festival, which will close « Beason of over thirty porformances, Tho artists G0 hence to Philadeiphin, . ‘The sisters Heron Natail go to Havana to. sing in the Spanish Opera, Tho Maretzok troupe ia doing finciy at the Taoon, and Cortes! has made a sensation in “Saifo.?* There are two opera companies now in the West—the Parodi (Italian) and Lucy Escott (English). Tho Opera at the old house in Now Orleans opened: on the 19th with “Robert le Diablo."” ‘The Delta of the 20th says Owing to the non-arrival of some of the company, the new Opera house will not be opened bofore some time next week, When the public curiosity will ‘be gratified to its fullest extent. The immonse capacity of the house (feats for from eighteen hunared to two thousand por- tons), tho admirable arrangements for tho comfort of both. Audienee nnd operatic company, the promenade roomy boudoirs for the Indica, and, in short, the many modern “umprovoments introduced, are the chief topics of conver- sation ip fosblonable circles i the meantiny the ladles must wait until tne opening