The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXV No, 28% atti iniilisatinieree neem ——eeeeSeeee= AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Au Tuat Guirrens Bot Gow—Brace Even Bysax. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, oppostie loud sireet— Gur Masnaninc—Barsr Baxna. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus Fine 4ND THE Pusgos or Loxvon—Mr Box Diana. WALLACK’S THEATRES, Broadway.—Piaring Wire | Fins. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 64 Broadway.— Aitasy AKON NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fast Wourx oF gas Moosss Timp—Asrsopen. ARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brondway.—Day and | pyenag James axp Hus Bastaasa—Livixa Cyniosi- rR, YANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Brnumavne, Sexas, Dances, £0.—Scanxs at Puavon's, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broads cxsTea.’s ox Ergiorian 80x08, iaGixta MoM, NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham sireet.—Me. ano Mus. Peree Waite—Frirxr Copsiax—Nrcko Bioxpess. —Hoowey & Camrnett’s RLESQUES, DANCES, 0.— CANTERBURY MUSIO HALL, 663 Broadway.—Soras, Dances, Bomiasques, ac. TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Tuesday, October ‘FOR EUROPE. 1860. MAILS Wao Sew York Herald--Kdition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will Jeave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. ‘The Buropean mails will close in this city to-morrow morning at a quarter to ten o’clock. ‘The Ecrorsas Eprmon ov ras Haaaty will be published at nire o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrap- | Pere, six cents. The contents of the Evrormay Enrriox ov ras MwRaip ‘will combine the news received by mail and ielegraph at the office during the previous week, aad up to the hour Of pubdiication. Tne News. The largest and most enthusiastic politica! demon- | he present exciting Presidential contest | was that which took place last evening at the | Cooper Institute, to ratify the Union Electoral | Ticket. The vast hall was crammed to suffocation, | and the adjoining streets and avenues were crowd- ed with the overflow. Meetings were organized, and speeches made outside, as well as inside of the hall. The principal meeting was presided over by the Hoa. John A. Dix, and addressed by the Chair- man, by Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, James W. Gerard, Charies O’Conor, Hiram Walbridge, James Brooks and others. One of the outside meetings was ad- dressed by the Hon. John Cochrane. Mr. Gerard, while denouncing abolitionists, confessed that he would not declare himself in favor of slavery in the abstract, but that he would to-morrow, if the Southern States consented, and if he knew what to do with them, emancipate every African slave. As to Lincoln, Mr. Gerard said, that if he looked like his picture he would split a rail by looking at it. ‘Let Abraham,” said he, “as a lawyer, split hairs: as a backwoodsman, split rails; but | protest against him trying bis hand, as a President, in splitting the Union.’ He appealed to all patriots to vote against Lincoln, and trust to Providence for & President. Mr. O'Conor declared that the ques- tion for the American people was: ‘Shall this great and glorious Union cease with 1861, or shal! it be perpetuated forever?” It was not to be believed, he said, that the people of the South would submit peacefully to subjugation, and asa necessary con- sequence, this Union must be dissolved, a line must be drawn between the North and South, and that glorious Union formed in ‘76 must perish in ‘61. q report of the committee appointed at the Union meeting held at the Cooper Institute on the 17thof September was adopted, and the names vin presented as electors were ratified. The were harmonious and enthusiastic. By the arrival of the overland pony express we have oews from San Francisco to the 26th ult., and later advices from Oregon, British Columbia and o. Trade at San Francisco was active, with a healthy and steady demand. Six or cight vessels were due from Atlantic ports. On the 224 ult., while the British frigate Termagant was being placed on the government dry dock at the Navy Yard, one of the sections gave way, and ina short time the entire dock was a complete wreck. The dock cost $200,000, and it will require several months to replace it. Nothing had been beard of the steamer John L. Stephens, which feft San Francisco on the 11th ult., and which had mot reached Panama on the 30th, the day of the departere of the Northern Light for Aspinwall. ‘The political imbroglio ia the Oregon Legislature Conti at last accounts. There was some talk of a fusion of the Douglas and Breckinridge dem- ocrats on the question of electing United States Senators. The mining news from Oregon‘and Brit- ish Colombia is highly favorable. We learn from | Japan that the French Minister had resigned, as his representations in respect to the treaty met with | no ation from the Japanese authorities. The Infidel Convention closed Its sittings yesterday, ‘The proceedings of the two days were of the most nary and yet not uninteresting character. cta as were pronounced by these Pagan phers can scarcely be surpassed in mundane We have a full and graphic report of the whole proceedings, which we purposed publishing t rning: but the press of important matter | an upon oar columns compels us to defer its publica- | of the brain and nerves, | tive organs, 7 and Michsel Ryan were placed on trial, charged with forcibly taking $1 50 from the pero of & young countryman, who was a guest at the board- ing house of the defendant, in Cedar street. The trial will be finished this morning. ‘The Finance Committee of the Board of Educa- tion reported last evening that the balance of funds for special appropriations for educational parposes unappropriated out of the sum appro- priated for this purpose is $5,937 63. The same committee also reported the suni which they recommended to be appropriated for the payment | Of teachers and janitors for the year to be $50,000; the sum for incidental expenses to be $5,000; the | Support of the Free Academy to be $5,000; for re- pairs of furniture, &c., $2,000, and for special ap- propriations $28,000—makin, total of $100,000. The Board adopted the report and transacted some further business of minor importance, and then ad- journed for want of a quorum of the house. Mr. Curtis, the President of the Board, presided for the first time since his return from Europe. According to the City Inspector's report, there | were 442 deaths in this city during the past week, a decrease of 9 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 7 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 77 deaths of diseases 1 of the genera- of the heart and blood ves- sels, 128 of the lungs, throat, &c., 10 of old of diseases of the skin and eruptive $ premature births, 107 of diseases of the t ch, bowels and other digestive organs, 58 of general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, 3 unkuown, and 22 from violent causes. The na- tivity e gives 263 natives of the United States, 6 of England, 101 of Ireland, 31 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun: } tries. The cotton market was steady yesterday, with sales reported to the extent of 4,000 a 5,000 bales, not over 9,000 of which, however, we could fully trace. The trans. actions included purchases by spinners and for export, on the basig of about Llc. a.11 Yc. for middling uplands. Flour in good demand and active, and closed at better prices for common grades of State and Weeterp,, while good to prime extra brands were unchanged. Wheat was active, and firmer for most degcrip'tons. Corn was firm, with fair sales at 703<c. a Tle. a T1 isc. for Westerm mixed, afloat and tn store; fiat yellow was at 76c, a 76c. Pork sold to a moderate oxteut at $19 (61$19 10 for now mess and at $14 60 for new prime. Sugars were steady, and the advance of last week sus taixed. The sales embraced about 800 bhds., at rates given in another place. Coffee was firm; a sale of 1,100 bags Laguayra was made at 14%{c. a lic. Freights were steaty, but pot active. Among the engagements to Li- verpool were about 40,000 bushels, in ship’s bage, at 124., with one smal! lot do., at 123¢d.; and 6,000 barrels flour at $3. a 3s. 34. Flour was also epgaced for London at Ss. 103¢d., and wheat was exported, in bulk aad bags, at 124. a 12344. The Presidential Election im the House of Representatives. Our republican cotemporaries affect to be very much horrified in view of the revolution- ary excitements and scenes of violence which, they say, would attend the struggle for the President in the House of Representatives, should the election upon the three highest can- didates from the people be thrown into that body. But why the supporters of Mr. Lincoln should be afraid of the ultimate result in the House we cannot imagine, for unquestionably Lincoln, by all odds, would have the beast chance of an election there. The House of Representatives, holding over from the last session, would have this duty to discharge, and we therefore know exactly how the House will be divided in the event of no election of a [resident by the electoral col- leges. In voting for a President, each State in the House gives only one vote, so that the one member from Delaware weighs as heavy in this balance as the thirty-three members from New York. Let us suppose, therefore, that Lincoln, Breckinridge and Bell, in default of an election of President by the people, will go into the House. We know, from the party divisions of that body, that the States would be thus divided:— For Lrycors.—Maine, New Hampshire, Mas- sachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecti- cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota—L5. For Breckrsrincr.—Delaware, Virgiala, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Orén and California—15. For Bewt.—Tennessee—1. Srares Egcauty Divinen, on Tiep, wy tae Hovse, petween Brecxivrince ayn Bet Ma- ryland, North Carolina and Kentucky— 3. There is still one State remaining, whose dele- gation in the House stands five for Douglas and four for Lincoln—the State of Illinois, the vote of which, Mr. Douglas not being before the House, would probably be cast for Bell. RECAPITCLATION. Whole number of States..... eee os 3 Necessary to elect. esteess For Lincoln For Breckinridge. For Bell 5 Tied . 3 This is a difficult snarl, turn it and twist it as we may. It will be seen at a glance, howerer, that the issue is between Lincoln and Breck- inridge in the House. Give to the latter the casting vote of the delegation each of Mary- land, North Carolina and Kentucky, and he would have sixteen votes. Could he get these, | Tennessee would fall in and elect him; but is it probable that the Southern opposition party would thus consent to furnish the stick for tion to a future day. Bot branches of the Common Council were in stevening. A communication was sent rds inviting their co-operation in the | of the Prince of Wa The Aldermen to appoint a committee for the pr a Councilmen received the comm tion, | Dut took no other actic theeubject. The semi. | annual report of the Street Commissioner was | fn. The document be found in our report ¢ the proceedings. | The stockholders of the Artisans’ Bank held a private meeting yesterday, for the pur « certaining whether the business of the instit wou'd be resumed. It is understood that a com ttee was appointed to confergpith the creditors the bank, with a view to obtaining an extension t me to settle their affairs, so as to avoid the ex- ttendant on the appointment of a receiver. The case of William Warren and David Hall, the f ns arrested on board the ship Erie, which Wes captored on the coagt of Africa in August last, with nine hundred slaves on board, was 0 of ‘ p broughs ap before United States Commissioner | Movrell yesterday. The accused are charged with | piracy, an ofnce punishable by death. Lieute- | naot Donnington, of the Marcy, who brought the | Erie home, was examined, and detailed the circum- stances of the capture. Before he had concinded his testimony the case was adjourned to eleven | o'clock this forenoon. A full report is given in gnother column. At the opening of the Court of Oyer ond Term wer yesterday, twenty-one men, most of them young in years, were arraigned to answer for va. | rious crimes, including marder, hom , forgery, and offences of a vicious grade. da the General Sessions yesterday Joba EB. Earight breaking their own heads? No. They would prefer to sit itout till the 4th of March, and so with the Breckinridge party, leaving the issue to the Senate. But how about Lincoln’ He would only need the additional support of two States to elect him, and the odd member of the Illinois delegation and the member from Delaware or Oregon would be engygh to give him these two needed States. Between permitting the elec- tion in the House to go by default, in which event General Lane, elected Vice President by the Sei would become the Presi- dent, and the alternative of voting for Lin- coin, it is quite likely that the odd mem- Ler of the lilisols delegation would, asa last resort, go over to Lincoln, himself an Illinois man. Granted that such would be the case, | would the patriotic member from Delaw: er the gentleman from Oregon, permit the election ofa President to hang Gre for want of one vote! Perhaps aot. With the election of “Old Abe" thus broadly foreshadowed in the House, why is it that his friends entertain such a lively sense of fear upon this alternative’ They are afraid that these Northern conservative coalitions will lose them the next House of Representatives in the loves of various Congressional districts. This is the real fear of the republicans; and all the con servative forces opposed to them, especially in New York, should remember that énly second | to the Presidency itself is the importance of the is the next House of Repre- | Shakspere tells us, “which makes us wondrous balance of power sratatives, | The. Coming Crises and the Stock Mar. ket—The First Drops of the Thunder Storm, Historians have remarked thatin all great crises of human affairs the crash which con- vulses a nation acd brings venerable institu- tions to the ground is invariably preceded by a season of extraordinary confidence, of wide- spread indifference to all signs of the times, and of apparently irrepressible prosperity. Not to range too far back into the chronicles of the past, our own times and those of our fathers formidably illustrate the truth of this observa- tion. The great Parliamentary conflict which cost England her American colonies, and loosened the foundations of her ancient oligar- | chy, broke out from a season of absolute peace, and of then unexampled national progress, won for the empire by the successful and magnifi- cent policy of the elder Pitt. The Reign of Terror in France took the most astute of her philoeophers and the most keen sighted of her politicians by surprise. When Louis XVI. | convened the States General of the kingdom, after an interval of a century and a half of un- | restrained autocracy, it was the opinion of the | shrewdest observers that no more favorable moment could have been asked for inaugurating the great political and social reforms become inevitable in the progress of the eighteenth cen- tury. All the world of France and Europe was of this mind. Paris was crowded with students | of politics and seekers after pleasure. The com- merce of France made head on every sea against thatof its great rival, and all went mer- ry a8 a marriage bell—the coming spectre of the guillotine casting no perceptible shadows upon the brilliant and varied animation of an excited and enthusiastic people. On the Ist of January, 1848, what throne in Europe seemed more secure than that of the Napoleon of peace? What exchange was more busy, more speculative, more reckless, than the Bourse of Paris? Who then would have dared to prophesy that within three short weeks the citizen king, the royal millionaire, who had ruled by the ledger and transacted the affairs ef a kingdom on the strictest commercial prin- ciples, would be flying from his capital in a sixpenny cab, to seek a refuge on the shores of England, under the ignominious disguise of Mr. John Smith? These examples, as we have said, are mear our own days. They stare us, as it were, inthe face. For four years past the course of our own political history has been forcing the lesson they inculcate on every thoughtful man in the nation; and yet what is there in the present aspect of our commercial and social world to warrant the belief that this lesson has made the slightest impression upon any conside- rable claes of the’American community? We do not now insist upon the darkest possibilities of the great political conflict through which the United States are passing. We are willing to ad- mit all that optimists can ask as to the uncer- tainty of the course to be taken by the South- ern States in the Union in the event of the election of Lincoln, and of the triumph of the great sectional party, avowedly hostile to Southern institutions and to the influence of the South in the national government. Weare content to allow this course to be an uncertainty, for the sake of our present argu- ment, however clear our own convictions may be as to the real drift of events; but we main- tain that, viewed simply as an uncertainty, the contingency of armed resistance by the South, or by apy considerable portion of the South, to the inauguration of a regularly elected Pre- sident, involves consequences so tremendous to the industry and the finances of the whole na- tion that nothing short of a positive judicial blindness can explain the reckless expansion of our whole system of commercial credit in the face of such a contingency. That this con- tingency exists, that it is immediately upon uz, to be decided, for good or for evil, within a few short weeks, no man in his senses, of any party, will deny. Would not the most ordinary prudence dictate at such a time a more than ordinary circumspection to every practical man of business in regard to the risks which he ac- cepts, and the chances to which he commits bis fortunes’ To &rgue this point really seems to be a sort of insult to the common sense of mankind. Yet what do we sce! If we take simply the transactions of the past week on the New York Stock Exchange—that sensitive barometer of the atmosphere of public confi- deuce—they will demonstrate that never be. fore in the history of the country have the commercial and financial classes been more obstinately bent than they now are upon staking the higher stakes and playing the largest game on this great faro bank of the nation. Nerer have the operators who control the ebb and fow of this great moneyed maelstrom possessed a stronger hold upon the credulity of the public. No warning of the real nature of the operations in which they are invited to risk their capital—whether it come in the words of the press or the more eloquent revelations of corporate dishonesty—appears to have the slightest effect upon the financial community. In the brief space of a few days the discredita- ble failure of a prominent banking institution in this city bas thrown its sudden light upon the secret of the money facilities which enable the operator in stocks to accomplish at will his magical alternations of depressing decline and dazzling inflation in the value of his wares. The equally discreditable failure of a great railway direction at the West to make good their loudly trumpeted proclamations of the profits achiered by their road has laid bare the por- tentous fact that the very men upon whom the community relies for the sound and faithful ad- ministration of great corporate properties are foremost in the game which makes these proper- | ties the continual sport of reckless and irre- sponsible speculation. Is it not little less than idiotic to suppose that the Artisans’ Bank can have stood alone among the banks of our city in the practices which have prostrated ite credit and ruined ite stockholders? The system pur- sued by the Artisans’ Bank in its loans and dis- covnts dees not date from yesterday; it has been going on for years. During all this time this baok has been involved in continual transactions with other banks. Its rejection from the Clearing House even did not immediately alienate from it the confi- ence of all its fellows. Is it credible that the history of the Artisans’ Bank, as the public read it to day, should be revelation to all the | other bank directors of New York’ Why, then, should this bank have been suffered so long to | impose itself upon the confidence of the com- munity’ There is “n fellow feeling,” as kind,” and it oeeds, unfortunately, but a very NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. limited knowledge of human nature to justify the suspicion that the financial charity which has been so long extended to this erring sister must have originated in a common position and in common perils, rather than in the pro- verbial tender heartedness of the dealer in money. In like manner who will venture to aseume that the directors of the Rock Island Railroad are the only directors in the East or in the West who have been engaged in the business of fabricating a false financial reputa- tion for their road, under cover of which they might so manipulate its stock as to secure great personal profits to themselves at the expense alike of those whom they represent and of the general public’ In ordinary times the Artisans’ Bank and the Rock Island Railroad would not have spoken in vain. Sensible men would have supplied to themselves the simple con- siderations which we have here suggested. In the light of these instances they would have re- viewed the whole circle of institutions to which this bank and this railroad belong; they would have measured the actual enormous inflation of all corporate values by these standards, and, without rushing to the extreme of such an in- discriminate panic as followed upon the Schuy- ler fraud and the fall of the Ohio Life and, Trust, they would have seriously considered the immense probabilities of sudden and sweeping disaster flashed out upon us by these catastro- phies. They have now done nothing of the aprt. This apocalypse of frand and chicane fisees over in a day. The ranks close up, the dead are carried to the rear, and the jubilant army of speculators resumes its march. Once more we repeat that such phenomena as these, da the face of the actual political condition of @ country, may well remind us that whom the “gods are determined to destroy they first make mad.” The Volcanic State of Earope—Progress of the Struggle Between Revolution and Reaction. Events are developing daily, with increasing clearness, the proximity of a great struggle in Europe, in which thrones and even society itself may be again shaken to their founda- tions, as they were in 1795 and 1548, The centre of all the hopes and fears of that continent is now Rome. There the conflict- ing elements of the Italian revolution are about to meet--Garibaldi personifying the ultra revolutionists, Victor Emanuel those who desire a conservative regeneration, and Pio Nono clinging to all the forms and theories of the dead past. As the Italian question has ad- vanced to a eolution consonant with liberty and the spirit of the age, two distinct policies have grown into existence in the achool of re- volution. The conservative policy of Count Cavour, who aims to cement the walls of the Italian edifice as they rise, is not rapid enough in action for those enthusiastic haters of the old order of things. These wish to see all the timeworn and motheaten structure that has cramped society for so many centuries swept away at once, and the ground cleared for the new crea- tions they imagine they can bring into ex istence. Cavour and the statesmen of the libe- ral movement know how vain are these hopes, and they strive to moderate the zealous policy of the ultra revolutionists. Hence the strife between Garibaldi and Cavour, which the re- actionists look to so hopefully. If the ultra policy succeeds, we shall have a general fever of revolution all over Europe, followed by ex- haustion of the popular element, and a return to the tried organizations of the past. There are numerous evidences in the late advices from that quarter of the world of the sctivity of the revolutionary elements there, Garibaldi exhibits a significant persistance in his extreme views, with a marked oppotrition, tempered by forbearance, on the part of Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel ;"Mazzini and his followers seem ubiquitous in their restiess- ness; with unmistakeable signs of agitation in Hungary, Kossuth adopts the Napoleciic poli- cy of preaching peace to his adherents when war is the object in view: and we shall not be surprised at any moment to see a vast re- volutionary conspiracy develope itself all over Italy, Hungary and Germany, and even involving France. Its outbreak may be as sudden as was the explosion of the Orsini bomb, and a thousand times more destructive. That the time is ripening for such a grand commotion in Europe may be deduced from the analogy of history. Since the time of the political revolution that was initiated by Lu- | ther, and out of which sprang the Protestant dynasties of Northern Europe, it is a noticeable fact that every revolution has absorbed the energy of its generation, and no one generation has been able to accomplish more than one great movement. After the Protestant up- heaval the popular element subsided iintil Vol- taire and the Eacyclopediaists again awakened it. Their efforts culminated in 1789; and since then each generation has exhibited its peculiar energy. The first Napoleon exhausted his, and gave its successor to the rule of the Bourbons. ‘The next tired of these, and the revolution of 1850, obeying the guiding hand of the patriot Lafayette, confided its hopes to Louis Philippe. He failed to satisfy the necessities of the age, and a following generation overwhelmed him in 1848. The direction of this movement has been seized by Louis Napoleon, who prides himself vpon being a man that understands his epoch. Whether he does so the course of events | will determine; but in addition to the notice. | able activity of the revolutionary elements all over Europe, it is well known that in the French army there is a growing dislike to what is known as the imperial clique. Waar Suocup ve Doxe Were tae Parsce mv THE Merroro.is'—The Prince of Wales—as we may as well, considering the semiroyal state in which he travels, call him—will arrive in this city on next Thursday afternooa, and will have but two clear days in the metropolis. On Thursday he can see but little except Broad- way, in its gala attire, and the military parade, which will undoubtedly be very fine. On the | next day the Prince should be taken to see the | city sights, beginning with Broadway, end, coming down from Twenty third street, stop at various points of interest, the great shops and bazaars which are,externally, the most splendid in the world. He would probably be pleased with a look in at Ball & Black’s and Stewart's. We have no art gallery open now, except Brady's new photographic establishment—(the finest in the world)—a visit to which would un- doubtedly be very interesting to the Mayor's royal guest. The tour might be continued with profit as far as Wall street, where the bulls and bears are having grand times just now. That will answer for a zoological garden until the uptown affair is finished. This, with a peep at some of the churches, would probably suffice for the day, and in the evening we are to have the grand ball. On the next day a ride through the Central Park, a run through the suburbs, and a visit to some of the benevolent institutions—such as that for the Deaf and Dumb at Washington Heights— would be the proper thing to do. The royal party would also be much delighted with the Std ltor the ist day’ of Totters be seat to the in Like manner as other dead . New Oncaams, Oct. 7, 1860. By the arrival of the schooner Potomac, from Vora Cruz, we have Mexican dates to the 18th ult. Tne Potomac brings $60,000 in specie. Senor Mata, the Juarez Minister to Washingtoa, arrived at Vera Cruz om the 14th uit, 3 The United States steam frigate Susquehanna arrived out Sth, and the Powhatan 17th, The whole subject of the condemnation of the bark Maria Concepcion, was referred to Madrid, The Spanish Minister bad advised a conciliation of the Juarez government, ‘The liberals were succeasful and hopefyl of takiag the capital. ‘Thé English Minister had proposed to mediate for peace between the contending factions, but this offer was re- jected. The steamer Pocahontas, with later news, is expected. The steamer Empire City, from Havana, has boom quarantined ten days. Passengers all well. ‘ New Oaueans, Oct. 8, 1860. The schooner Red Fox, from Tampico 26th ult., has ar- rived. She brings dates from the City of Mexico of the 17th inst. aad $63,000 in specie, Miramon was still in the capital, with 11,000 men, The Liberals still occupied Queretaro as their headqurters. Wasntycton, Oct, 8, 1860. The New Orleans Picayune of Friday gives a verbal report that Captain Jarvis passed a note tothe Spanish Commodore, in which he mot only condemned his threat to bombard Vera Jruz in case the Maria Conception was not restored and damages paid, but declared he would consider the first shot fired upon Vera Cruz as a shot vpon the American squadron, In consequence of thia note, further action in this matter was euspended, Three Spanish vessels of war have returned to Havana. view from the most elevated point of Washing- ton Heights. It has been pronounced the most | superb panorama that this country or Europe affords. Here there would be an opportunity to embark the Prince on a small steamer, pro- ceeding under the High Bridge, and thence round to the East river, where the party could be transhipped to the Harriet Lane. Then the cutter, passing the city institutions, should run down to Staten Island, where, from the wooded heights, the Prince ‘could have a splendid view of the bay and city of New York, pro- nounced by travellers to be unsurpassed. On Sunday the Prince will attend church, of course. Trinity should be selected, on account of the historical associations connected with it, if for no other reason. On Monday morning the Harriet Lane will take the royal party to West Point, whence they go to Albany, Boston and Portland. By adopting some such pro- gramme as that we have indicated, the Prince's entertainers can show him as much of New York as it will be possible for him to see in | the limited time which he spends here—so limited that he has been obliged to decline all private parties without exception. State Prison Biens ww tae Leotstatcre—A quondam member of the Assembly was recently sent from this city te the penitentiary, where a too limited imprisonment is meted out to him, considering the revolting nature of the offence. There are members of the last Assembly now seeking a re-election who ought to be sent to the same place, and we trust that the people will keep a sharp lookout for them. Sing Sing does not cage any unclean bird worse than the scoundrels who, by various flagrant schemes, plundered their constituents and the public at large in the last Legislature. Ee NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Presidential Campaign—Activity of the Africam Slave Trade—Titles to BMimes im New Mexico, &c, &c. Wasarxotoy, Oct. 8, 1860, THE POLITICAL CANVASS IN PENNSTLYANIA, NEW YORK AND Tm soCTH, It is impossible to exaggerate the degree of interest which the politicians and the people express abon| the State clection in Peansy!vania. Greater hopes are in dulged, by most democrats here, of democyatic gains of four or five members of Congrees, than of the success of Mr. Foster. The nominee in Mr. Florence's district will very likely be beaten. Mr. Curtin, in my opinion, ‘will be elected Governor. Now for New York. There is the real battle ground. ‘The highest hopes are eutertained by the opponents of Lincoln that New York will not permit him to bechosen President. The repud)icans, however, are bosstful that no fusion can save the Empire State from them if they carry the Keystone State. Nous verrons. Senator Wigfall, of Texas, is here, and gives the most encouraging accounts of the South to the Breckiaridge men. Senator Hunter, of Virginia, passed through the city also, and said that the Oii Dominion was sare for Breck- inridge. DEPARTCRE OF SECRETARY Cone. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury left this city for Georgia on Saturday morning, on a matter of purely private ba siness, All the other members of the Cabinet are at their posts. DESPATCHES FROM THE AFRICAY SQCADRON. The Navy Department have received despatches from the African squadron, and also despatches from the com- mander of the Niagara. The Niagara’s news fe antici pated in the Herato's special correspondence from that point, It appears that our squadron are doing a profit. able and romunérative besinees in capturing slavers. Tne vicinity of Congo river is literally alive with vessels engeged in thot inhuman trade. AFFAIRS IN NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS. ‘Tue War Department received a large mail thie mora- jog from the departments of New Mexico and Texas. Act ive preparations are !n progress by our troops for a riger- cus campaign agaiost the unfriendly Indians, who are constantly making incursions upop the white settlers. Application having been made tothe United States Sur* veyor-Ceveral of New Mexico for the recognition of mi ning claims founded upon denouncement, the Commission ot the General land Office, Mr. Wilson, bas despatebed lnstroctions to the Sarveyor General, inform ing bim that bo present discovery or denowncement of mines is recogoized by the laws of the United States, the syrtem of Spain and Mexico ia regard to mines not baying been incorporated into our land system. The du ties of the Surveyor General in regard to filing claims are confined to the reception of private land titles lawfully derived from Spaia and Mexico La ‘BE OF THE HARRIBT LANE FOR NEW York. The revenue cutter Harriet Lane returoed last night j Sud left this morning for New York, In considering the present volcanic conditiost | of Europe, there fs: another phase of it that must not be forgotten. Much reliance is placed upon what is called “national developement;” but the “nationalities” of the present age are nothing but forms of diplomatic expression. Europe to-day is not divided among race na- tions unknowing of each other. The intercom- munication that characterizes the age las, through commerce, the press, railroads and telegraphs, fused all the peoples in one great mats. That mass is divided into two great hos- tile camps only. In one revolution is inspired with the popular cry of liberty and equality; in the other reaction appeals to the conserva- tive fears of society. The conflict between them is inevitable, although it may be delayed by wisdom and partial concession. Louis Na- poleon now rides upon the rising tide, and if he can he will control it; but to do so he must understand it and sympathize with it. The present struggle is one of the governing classes, each being desirous of securing to its own camp the frults of victory. | sold, they would, under the declaratory notice of settlers, MINNESOTA LASS SALee Nemerovs and urgent, but tneMectaal apptications have beet taade for the further poriponemeat of the Minnesota land saics, on the ground that the settlers «re unable to make pay meats for preemption cl withia 11 preseribed time. According to an official statement of the Secretary of the Igqqgtor, the pre-emptors will inevitably lose their Ian@g@ sold and paid for by other parties; but if not bave the benefit of a years’ credit allowed by law for paying for lands, thus become subjected to private entry. OFFICERS OF THER SLOOP OF WAR TANDALIA. The following named olicers have been ordered to the sloop of- war Vandalia, of the Fast India squadron —Com- mander, 8 P. Lee; Licutenaate Collins, Webb, Wilson, and Fieming; and to the sioopof war Saratoga, of the African tqcadron, Commander Taylor; Lieutenants Guthria, Hays, Madegan, Dalton, and Ramsay. PREPATHENT OF POSTAGE The Postmasier General today tered aa order of which the following is a copy — ‘Whereas, by the act of the 84 of March, 1955, the upon all letters except such as are entitled to pare yween places in the United States, is roquir ed to be prepaid; and, whereas, the Departments, through courtesy, hes hitherto at considerable iabor ani expense notified the parties addreesed {n all instances in which the writers failed to prepay that their letters would be forwaried on rece: the postage due thereon; and whorens inatead the number of such let. ters costiaue te to owing the omission to Troubles in Florida. Savaswan, Oct 7, 1369. ‘The Quincy (Fiorida) Republic says that the peopie of Gadsden, Liberty, Jackson and Washington couaties are organizing a force to operate against a band of dospers does who are committing outrages in Calhoun couaty. Many murders have been committed. Ia Jackson county the militia have been called out. News from Havana. New Onugans, Oct. 8, 1360. The steamship Empire City, from Havana 2 inet., baa arrived, The sugar market at Bavana was quict, aad quoted at 65; reals. The total stock in port amounted to 160 000 boxes. Exchange on London, 16 a 15) per ceat premium; on New, York $a 43, per ceut premium, News from New Mexico. Lypargxpance, Mo., Oct, 8, 1869. The New Mexican mail, with dates to the 2ith ult., ar- rived this evening. The preparations for a campaign sgainst the Indiang has not intimidated them. A party of them wot into Fort Fauntleroy a short time ago aad ran off eighty head of cattle belonging to B. E. Connolly. The volunteers for the war against the Navajoes have marched for the piace. ‘The election for members of the House of Representa- tives passed off quietly, J, A. Hubbell was elected to aul the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Baird. ‘There is no news from the Plains. But few Indians were seen, and they were friendly. ‘The Lady Franklin at Philadelphia. Puitapiirara, Oct. 8, 1360. Lady Frankfin arrived in this elty this evening and ta stopping at the Girard House. Mail] Facilities between New York and Boston. Boarom, Oct. 8, 1860. Mail trains are s00a to be rum between Now York aad Boston, lenving each city at eight P. M. Death of an Arkansas Pioneer. Fort Sarr, Oot. 8, 1860. Captain John Rodgers, an old and esteemed citizea, and one of the original proprietors of this city, died last aight of paralysis. The Late Gov. Willard, of Indiana. Lypianarotss, Oct. 8, 1960. A committee of citizens of this city, with the remates of Governor Willard, arrived yesterday morning oa a special train from Chicago, accompanied by Gov. Ramsey, ex-United States Seuator ice, Major Cullen, Mr. Cochraa and Hon. Wm. A. Bowles. Ther wore met at the depot by military companies, and a large number of citizens, who received the remains and conveyed them to the executive mansion, where they remained during yester- Ha - nelle G 2 #3 va ie fli } f 4 for We i H j iz A el i #88 i iy irttt z 3 i z E i g big FY 5 z f. i ¥ | a8 rd ih d i i i i i z : f 3 i HST a 8s ‘$6 50 for extra for ext 7,000 do. No. 2 Caicago sales 2,100 bushels Indiana at 0c lout. me, ‘ importa—T32 bbls flour, 99, amhels barley, 1,000 bushels rye, 6,000 b Canal exports—0 455 bbis Sour, 40.000 bushels 24,300 bushels cora, 24,900 bushels barley, 1,700 Omcaco, Flour dull, Wheat frm, aad Me. sales 109000 bushels at S9%c. & 1, and 86)j5c. & . for No. 2 ia Active aad steady: sales 20,000 bushels in store, Ooate’ firm: sulee 20,000 busneis 20c. afloat Receipts 6,500 bbis. four, 139 bushels wheat, 49,000 do. corn, 14,000 4,000 bbia. flour, 125,000 bushels Freights active at 10. on corn Talo wheat. Sight exchange oa New York i ee ome ie Flour dull at $5 8 66 10 for supertine. mteudy Tao ; Shoulders Oc, Mess pork firm at $i7 15 « $13. Bight oxchangs oa New York unchanged scat.