The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1860, Page 8

Wews from Baenos \yres and Montevideo. A UEPPUe CLOUD TY THE POLITICAL SKY¥-—WoOOL— MONEY MARKET STORM, BTC, Hy Mio dark La Plata, Cayt. Crowell, arrived yesterday, WelMave dates to October 24, The La Plata brings bome weipearongers Commander Page and several other ufticens ef he tate expedition for she wurvey and exploration of We weters of the La Plata. AWbough Une detention of the onmat of Uke expe S@iion on dugy—otanected with the squadron against Par ‘vaguay~—livmited in some mows ury exten which the exploration would deherw ise Baye by rrivd, we are assured tint its labors when mapped and presented to dhe padlic, WIL exbinee an interesting and Unportant addition Wo geograph, snd prove, as did the previews ex: ploration of thoes waters dditional wUill further exter omuueree South Ameries nowntive to the heart of wto the ‘The most inaportant pe Ligence breaght by Plate is th tbe mm of the labors of jon of Santa Fe, whereby the province of the States of « has become una fide one ne Confederation, ‘This dina! act was officially done on the morning of October 21, by the «temn oath nor, General Mitre, before the asse eity, in Ke Plaza Victoria, after which (he venemos conviuded by the performance of the n «athe At night taere Was Gn #X! freworks e) ended by ihe reunion at Beauty of the city, the G in the government bos it ten day news reached Buenos Ayr die, political changes in Chit re uniry however slight, are the 1,) Baving oecarred in the province of San iagodel Estero, The overnor, taking advantage of bi official position, attempted to intuence or comtrol the porilar ¢ 1s, Which caused great dissatisfwetion, and sat(er an ctual remonstrance from Dou Maauel Tabo- ad: and bis friends, they resorted to roree, and being Iarvely in the majority Mey cansed the Governor to tle Whe country. Quiee was soon vestored by the appoint Meat of the President of the Sense, Don Jose Galyy, pro- “vic jonal Governor, ‘The wool crop had pot ¢ she La Plata’s sailing as th MW ore ante market at the time of Lipping takes place 1a Novem ticipated. Hides er, but a gaily ces—within # fraction of = 2 United Btates—that there were The United States t nder Stedman, nails f 1, Vie Montevideo aud Rio Janet Come r have returned hor od headth, having comple 6 laborious in and difficult work of Surveying the prineipal branches ot the Rio de la Plata o the distance of over two thousand miles above Buenos Ayres, leading to many very impor- fant towns, located ina rich and fortile eovntry, which will in future prove « great benetit to the public at large. Already we can see Hie effect of it in many different ways, one of which is that a fe ars ago there was hardly known a steamer in those waters, now we see them threading their Way up-the extensive rivers thou sande of miles, where a Short Uime ago no ope supposed gable, received by the above arrival files of Buenos 6 papers to October 2, abont thr n over # bill provi ars’ arrearage Of pension what is termed the payment ene Don Bernardiae Vic under the Dictator KR e " hame Was ee ri asant sound to many ef the worthy Senators who ha cn xed to the decrees which banished them from and countey ip days gone by, but not for ms, however that Don Bernardino, being marriage with Gen. Ureniza, and having ail his influence at Parana, Uraguay, the pacification of. ted by ined to use where he still resides, towards Buencs Ayres, during’ the late troubles, on con- dition that the stign lied by the refusal to pay the pension which he removed, and the Commissioner then at arstiell, having promised that such sb obnoxious bill Passed it without indignant, and ver became 7 utter was ¢ a pension for one year only Mair, the Ce vial Rimes rem (ulations, and the day in our political ao not go on qiite 86 smooth! desire, being, as we are just now, on the eve of the day which is to mangurate a new era in Argentine history ; ‘on the eve of the day in whieh all previous eampacts an vnsnmumated by the formal acceptance # of the national constiti Affairs Lat this pr crisiz, it would have to expect that a most pecoliar an d peacefulness would have characterized dings of our Iegistaters, Unhappily snch has apple of discord has fallen into th in the shape a pension question, about the ears of the way insestive, sare mmauhe whieh hes taken th by murprise. Iso the Kenators giving oe he wool clip an pay Ruch hile prsces 100 t $110 paper eu! pounds). for good qualigies of the present eli 4335 currency per doubloon, stands in twenty tw when it is known that wool costing over twenty cents per pound, are eutyect to an import daty of twenty per cent in the United States. This ean oniy be explain ed by the fact that at the United States Consale eeriibeates fo inveives are given at the rate of eh wontd rake it ap. pear that the dout) is worth $400 instead of $3 reney (Which bas been the average price doring the le three months), thus making the cost of the article appear A per cent lower ghan it is in reality, and at the tting Che merchant at the expense of the Deubloons have not been worth March, 1858. It ix well known that currency te thy at $334 to $3db'4. Doing a slight adva Fx United States, nominal; England, 67s. huang France At Montevideo, on the Mth of Oct: Sher, there was a violent stormealled there a pamp geveral disasters t piping French and one Shglidh—were driven ashy ous situation of the erew af dhe Engtish v son. of Liverpoal—pratuced capsiderable ex anxiet The oerrespendemt of the Commercial Times ie anxiety was 1 r the } ome thine corvette crowel of louke by the way wires Lt not to rise again: bi ’ emaider af the data € be had knows ne auch exer ben, to get the lot pet, though sew believed that any boat he sea City Tenet octet y—Smmun! Sermon. The annual seru ehatt » preache euing Dr Ad equare. Th was ® ® " og perform he org et he Rev. pastor (Pr. A ttheen rewl a por i r Jth Hymis was gven ont ‘ 1 as (olde Wwe Wher of singing Flo Dr ADAMS DEXt atlore upon the Saciet Di Liteh howhl ts did not want more y thousand seate tilled veal be thea ) ; e and Iny volunteers. heen the ¢ of inducing four thoneand peopl at ‘ vice, and had been the meané of ‘ hundred persons from their evil ways ont that mumber had been mede members of churches. The ¢ wn» brotherhood had this work to <0. ane with a nee wonld be whle to do it effee tually. After yak ‘Iisions to the present po Ditieat or the preacher closed his remarks with prayer, The 616th ilymn was nest sung by the eongre: eon How bewtoon Who stand Rnd the cervice endMd With the be Tun Pane ov Wiume’ pX08.—The only disagroeanle ine! cent eounceted wi tmasage of the Prince's party New turough Pivimes: to his Royal Highness joonlland deg “Cabot? Ac ording to the Piymouth Heralt, Ae this dog was being fought ssbore along the Man ag Pond The was ge by anot °F Newfoanciiand dog. » + Dowalig, the m ‘enent. This latter ah ws are unable to cades or othor wh iroult round a weg bh tage A Sprang ipow ine worite. He © | Of, and aa he returned to Ue @hargs, « WN getting She worst of it, a man dn the enpioy of ME Downing Pusher one « warehomge and dashot a Wndtul of Popper int at he ve Phe a Brent te on wee felt at tye comune Y thowe wlio w tr tive 10 ea Russian Policy in Barope. FMANCIPATIOUN OF THE SBRPS—IMPORTANT BEMI- OPPICIAL DECLARATION, ‘ There is m the Jrwrlide Ruse an article apoa the inter: view at Wa: coming from *0 tan organ of the ernment, demunds special atten: tion. ‘Vhe writer addresses himself to tbe subject of the Statement, conveyed hy teleg to “ondon, that « Warsaw questions bad Been put by Avstria to Russia as to whether the labier wyuld Tecognise what bad passed it Maly; and secondty as to ber attitude in case of Pred mont being supported by another Power? Professing to discuss hese questions in the light of mere hypotheses Me writer points to he withdriwal of the Russian em assy from Turin yf of dissatisfaction. But be tween lame of principles and ts when they become accom a wide differe f the “unifir 1 become & fact through the will o people there would be no good fo recogmese it, for it world mot be prsti lations with so important & passed, within hati a cen tery. through, ‘of government, which nether pre of actual Powers por of te rights heirs. With regard to fae seron Venetia and the possi- r gle alliance ot France ae? Piedmont, the writer remarks That F val re that, should Piedmont { attack’ ¥ is. do so upod ber own responsibili- | ty the supposition @f Venice be. ng at | Iss © Austria her claim to that provinde, tbe le, upen the other hand, speak im favor of Italy. Why irope, however, be called upon to interfere by wrmes in favor of Austria and against the Talian population’ The writer answers—The history of this pro- vimer ) known, To the end of the eightemth contury it Was an independent Italian republic, Napoleon destroyed and seized it. When coalesced Europe vanguished the Emperor, Austria, in her turn, and by right of conquest, seiacd upon French possessions in lialy. To-day Venioe desires to be annexed to It pvor, then, for the sake tria, ought Europe to be re- nd, although we do pot Cabinets to the ques: ne ean dowbt that Prussia, and y any serious interest in Venice, make. war on account of this is conclusive upon the sub- Neither Russia Prusaia will draw the sword for trian on account of Venice. Sono more peed be said he Warsaw meeting, The Russian semi-official organ, the Journe? de St. Pe terstourg, in reply to some observations in the Nord, poe lishes a long document explanatory of the poliey of Rus- sia in these latter times, which Inay be thus summa- rised:— The Russia! government i some have been pleased to call those of 1815, or retro: grade. The reforms which have been resolved on ant commenced throughout the whole of the Russian empire. prove that it shares to a great degree in the general ideas of real and regular progress, At home its poli nothing to call to mind errors which have been tor and everywhere condemned, Abroad it has liberty of action, and has proc to follow a national polic: country, and fonnded on the and respect for that of oth rds Piedmont, Russia only entertains for that State the most friendly feelings; her traditions naturally lead her to it, and as to Haly “no Russian national interest is irrevocably at- tached to any particular solution to be given to the pro- blem of her destinies.” However, says Prince Galitain , who signs this dectrinal declaration, the question which is debated in Italy is not merely a local one, as it regards the fundamental prineiples of European society. should toree us a of its rights of the facts Which have been accomplished since he treaty of Villatr a reproach on th justities the reeall rupture of diplomatic So much for the p rdinian policy, which, but be remarks that, wp to and rational solutions pro mised have not taken pla the plan for emaneipating the serfs is actively at work. under the presidentehip of the Grand Duke Constantine, to bring that important reform to a successful issue, and at will probably be carried into execution at the ing of next vear, At least, itis hoped that the fall ubmitted to the Council of the Expire weeks. Other reforms of not lees im the jndicial tribunals and of n preparation. stalked of as in four or tive as, for example, v Orloff as President at Paris NEW YORK journal, in the first place, states that the inspired by any of ‘the ideas which ‘The writer, starting from that point of view, alludes to most nea, and does not hesitate to throw y . he declares, f the Russian simbassador and the lations between the two coun- As to the future, Prince of the system intended for that of the federation, which ‘The Nord reports from St. Petersburg that the Superior Committee, instituted for the detinitive examination of to sneceed » Council, will remain as candidates talked of for is exhausted, it''s impossible, on the other, to ship ' sent parchases of bills at Charleston and Savan- cotton from New Orleans to Europe at present , mah; and the suspension of the banks in those prices without a heavy loss. In other words, cot- Btates naturally tends to still further discredit ton must full still lower before busines Southern bills. witi revive. It is argued im some quarters The following table will show the course of the that there will be no further fall imcetton, hecan-» stock market for ‘the past week and month: the plonters. by simply deferring payment of ther te N “a ™, 24, De, 2. ar Missour) 6 sdebts, cam old back their crop, Unifertumate: | QQ York cent 2 3B ig 10: ly for the planters, the drought of last summer has | P . x ix Se hs so reduced their stock of food that they must | {" 7° bb nou 43. either sell cottom to Duy corn and bacon, or let | s Wy A ) a) i 1h 665, «62H SBNG their negroes starve. Tt is not in the mower of the 5 oy Oa BON | Alabama, Mississippi or Georgia planters to held | 5 SL BTM 8 AS | back their crop. A few heavy planters who have he Bh, AK BA ee outside means may be able to do so; bat the le Huds in 88 AM # $4 a proportion of the cotton growers—the men who produce from five to a thousand bales—imust sell or starve, It is said by some that the immense manufacturing activity of Eurepe and the United States must create a large demand for votton, and that the price must rise on the news of the decline in the receipts at the ports. This reasoning was well enough efore the present revolution, If there had been no political trouble, the South would probably have sold every bale of its cotton on the basis of 13 a 14 cents for middling uplands. But we heve changed all this. The factories of New England are at.a stand still, and need little or no cotton. Tf the present dead lock continues, or civil war breaks out, there is a market for 700,000 bates gone. The factories of Manchester and other English towns must also reduce their force and their consumption of cotton, for the political has forced every Northern importer to Surope is beginning to send us the first of the yoke or suspend ‘his orders for British | recoil from our political crisis, Thus far, the goods. Here is a market for other 750,000 | rrench seem incapable of understanding what has Dales gone. How is it possible that there can | happened, and the English are incredulous as to be any recovery in the price of the staple in the | the secession of the Southern States. Lord face of so wholesale a decrease of consumption? | Perby’s organ in London half intimates that Eng- We confess that, in'view of all the facts of the case, | jand will interfere to prevent revolution in the there seoms to bea great deal of force in the rea- | South. Private letters express the confident soning of those cotton factors and merchants who | belief that the Southern States will not perse- expect in the course of a few weeks to buy all the | vere in their declared purposes, and nearly cotton they wantat 5 a 6 egnts @ pound, every London banker sends orders for the The prospect illustrates in a remarkable manner | purchase of American stocks. The number the theory of commercial compensation, and the | of orders which arrived per Asia was considera. solidarity of interests existing among all branches | bly larger than usual; they can be filled at prices of commerce and industry. A few weeks ago, | about ten per cent lower than were contemplated when exchange first fell below the legal par be- | by the parties who gave them. We shall not Te- tween this country and Bngland, we pointed out | ceive decisive news from England, however, until that the fact was evidence of the supremacy of New | the arrival of the Europa, which will be due at York in the commerce of the world. For the first | Halifax about mext Wednesday. Before she time in history the United States were a creditor | sailed, accounts showing the imminence of seces- of Europe. Had no accident happened we could | sion, and the first orders for gold for this country, have maintained for a long time, perhaps perma- | Will have reached Great Britain, Her mails will nently, the vantage ground our enormous produc: | settle the question whether our revulsion is to tion and our frugal consumption had thus won for | prove contagious, or whether the English, fore- us. We were selling our staples at very high seeing the fall in cotton, will take acool view of prices; and the North was supply food so | the matter, and avail themselves of our troubles freely that the British cotton market was not in- | to buy the wheat, corn, provisions, tobacco, cot- jured by the short harvest. Snddenly, in the | ton and stocks, which they need, at the extremely midst of this startling transition, revolution | low prices produced by our political troubles. breaks out at the South, and, as a neces- | As the time approaches for the absolute seces- sary consequence, in the course of a few days, | sion of South Carolina from the confederacy of the cotton falls two cents a pound. In a few days { United States, the leaders of the disunion move- more it falls another cent. Ina few days more it | Memt are compelled to devote some attention to is unsaleable at the decline, and the planters at- | the practical bearings of the revolution. Among tempt the futile game of holding back their crop. | Other questions which have arisen, it has been ‘The country thus loses all the advantage we had | asked how secession will affect the commerce of won in the commercial contest with England, and | the port of Charleston. The Charleston Mercury matters fall back into the position in which they | answers this question in the following article:— re ‘ ri oli We take it for granted that the general government’ were before. No sooner will the English learn | sete ine secession of south Carolina from the Union, will that the state of the exchanges enables us to ima- | not attempt, by military force, to stop vessels going out (Ml kinds of securities declined heavily during tle week. The depression on United States stocks and State stocks is from 6 to 8 per cent, and rail- way stocks have fallen about as much, Specula- tion in #tocks is dead for the present. Some capi- talists are buying small lots for cash and putting them away, but there are no speculators for the rise. On the Stock Exchange the worst has been discounted, If civil war were to break out to- morrow it is not likely that stocks could fall mach lower. The interest on United States stocks and the various State stocks will be paid without ques- tion. The leading Northern and Western railroads are earning something for their shareholders over and above interest and expenses; but in the pre- yailing distrust all stocks decline—there are no buyers at any prige. 1 of and Panino; but ort a h h i or coming into our harbor. If such an attempt is made ' ‘ port gold from them py they will also learn that } or eee war, and of course the question, Who are mas’ Tux Reo Sea is ci that the | cotton has declined 2a 3 cents.a pound, and that | ters of South Carolina? must be settled before any con- inquiry as to th £ the Re le has | even if the decline goes no farther, and their con- | #ideration of our commercial operations can be roey ing with Ih & “ fall off * entertained, Suppose our harbors to be unobstructed, harcangement could, how | Swtaption does not fall off, they will save | what is the condition of our commercial relations with ever, be tolerated by governm: THE PRO NIGHT. To Fe RDITOR OF THE HERALD. About half-past eleven o’elock on Saturday wight ABI. on old eater shoes; called at my store and purchased red } Heing able to buy their cotton at a decline vf 25 flann light © and had shirt and white cotton underghirt. He wor 4 felt hat, with several spots of blood upon it gush in his right hand under the thum®, with blood on his finger nails. up to the neck, and he lud apparently no shirt on. cotton bahdkerehief around his neck, and ap. peared greatly confused as to what article he would par chase, “His ‘ax about IS years and beight about tive nd had no Whiskers or moustache. Ir niry as to where he lived he answered hesitation, in the Ninth ward. He traces particniars to one of t facts public. IN PETZPATRICK, 164 ‘ighth avenue. Arrivals and Departures. a young inan, dressed in a dark drab coat, drab pants and His coat was buttoned He parties street murder, I deemed it my other Powers? We will not hesitate to receive the ships of all other nations in our ports free of duties, if such shall be the will of our Legislature, or with such duties fas the State shall require. On the other hand, all yessols of other nations will be free to depart from our ports laden with our agricultural productions. The ouly dit culty isas to the shi owned by South Carolinians, 11 is not large enough t the commerce of Charles. ton seriously, still it is entitled to consideration and pro- tection. Nor will the difficulties, if any, be long—only until a Southern Confederacy is formed. Ax there be no Collector of the United States with * abolition of the United States Custom Houses, It is understood that the banks will not show | aud the State will appoint its own Collector, why will : ‘ ; jot the manifest by the in of a vessel " any material change in their specie average to- | p ce Gaede, wae Oa’ Gatesen nt Oak morrow. Last Monday they showed an average \ foreign ports? If the government of of $18,541,762, & decrease of $217,611 from the eric boned incooamiety tebe memeres week previous. Since then they have lost money South Carolina, it is bound immediately to take means to to the South, but have received a remittance from reduce her to subjection, and to inform the foreign na- tions of its intentions. If the government of the United : 7 ag States makes no effort to reduce the State to submission, California and some from the neighboring cities, | and communieates to foreign nations uo intention to do besides something from the Sub-Treasury, in which institution the balance yesterday stood at $3,125,- etensions, The fact that our waters and harbors are 900, ‘ 3, 702,75 tr +} left to our exelusive use and control is quite suffi- 300, against #3,702,751 at the close of last week. cient to Justify them in respecting the pe ll pth png ; " : First, to 1 the ship on the high seas, by show- increase of $7,019,005 from the week previous. | ing that meer Poy deol nation; and, eotond , to The new bank policy continues to be discussed | Prove that it is engaged in a legitimate trade. Nearly $50,000,000 on their purchases of cotton this year. They will thus perceive at a glance that our revo- lution, while it hurts them on one hand, benefits them on the other, aud that any trifling pinch which may be occasioned by the first shipments of bullion to this side will be more than compensated by the substantial benefit they will derive from per cent, h 80, foreign nations are not bound to submit to their com. merce being interrupted or broken up by mere abstract The discounts will probably show an increase. | passes we may give our vessels, Manifests of the cargo Their last average was $129,537,459, an apparent | are toprevent smuggling, Clearances for two purposs®:— Miss MA Binge, Mis without much light being thrown upon it from any | {lit comstine. trade. Thee, do. not. allow the toes Of Ri ae quarter. It is evident that, when the banks an- | another nation to take cargoes from one of their ports x \p Jamestown—Saml Richards aud | nounced their intention of expanding on the new Z of % jinn Ne = ‘seoumery 6s ee WS EER My | plan, every merchant who had payments to meet | carry out this policy, by showing the port from wie Talley, dM T ponee, E Ralph 1D Markey | APpted for all he could get, and much more than from the Port Caflscier "of “leat Ieee anvoee F Griggie—and in the steerage. he wanted for some time to come, The banks | both of these purposes? When our vessels arrive at Avues—Bark La Plaia—Commander Thos J.P. NLL OF Johnson, USN, Te Surgeon, John W Tynan, Sd Ass't Engitees, and 4 mie ging (0 the La Plata expedition, RTCKES. A ke—Miss Redman, Prancix . E Smith, B Davis, Mr Weod— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. vay, Dec. 9, 1860, The forvign trade of the port does not, thus far, reflect the consequence of the prevailing panic. Our exports of predace continue enormous; the ratio of inarease over last year has not been ma terially «ted by the in hills or the panic in mes Our imports last week were larger than those of the corresponding week last decline y. that we can learn among importers, the orders that are being sent to Barope for goods are very light indeed. There is really no actual export of specie from this. port at present. The small smounts which are reported as going abroad in tie steamers come from California to be reship- ped to England, and are only here in transit Th» following are the tabies of the trade January | comparative Custom House of the port for the week and chanedte week reported...) Sinee Jamo ory 1... .$188,368,480 Fx 1860. ke werk LOTL 680 a asly rep. 00 616,126 For she wok Previiely sepertes we By 1... A420 68,0993 The dectize in cation and the check which the cotton rey en hae received at the South are among the snost alarming syriptoms of the crisis, The cotton tables show ot present a decline in the receipts at ali the Boutiwen ports of about 240,000 ha! as comporod with Wav year. This decline is hot prodaced by natural # the rivers are high, and ¢ ition is ready # come forward; but ip some © the machinery been #0 disarranged that cotton 6 from the interior to the seaboard, and in others the planters are holding back in quence of the dectine in the price. ft may be questioned whether we are likely to see any improvement in thie matter so long ax the present polldeal crisis Yesterday New Orleans bankers’ «torling . Which have heen selling at 102 4 101, were 4, without takers, at 07, aud simultaneously sight Wills on New York rose to 0044. The mean ‘og of this i that while, on the one hand, the capa- nity of “ow Orioan. to dvew gold frou New York winot be moved laste, will year: but this is not the general rule, From all | omineree has | Havre or Liverpool, their papers will show that they have relied for protection on the high seas on the flag ot the State and the manifest of the Collector of the port thus increased their discounts seven millions in ten days, But, in point of fact, the movement is a mere matter of form. So far as the bank returns p depen . two eee the woe of ve tence show, nothing has been done with the money loaned | of Charlestonecat that time unt ‘in its trade aiaer ont. It lies in the banks in the sRape of deposits, A | the control of the authorities of the State. | Why, under r such circumstances, shoul ‘veesels be allowed trifle has gone to Boston; Wut six and a half of the | fouchsrme their corton or “ic Lier oe gd seven millions remain in the hanks. For the present, | We believe that they will be allowed to land their cargoes, and receive cargoes on their return, But s s foreigu therefore, the movement cannot be productive of | nations, by the hostile influence of the United States injury. As to the future, that must depend upon ng wea prevent our vessels from landing their ith ia . | cargoee, there is a very easy and efficient resort in te the course of political event It the Present revo- | Gonsuis’ of foreign uations in this port. We os ae lution progresses, aud civil war still remains possi- | authority to speak y of them, and have consulted We in February next, it will he impossible for the Of theta; hut we know that it is not usual fore f ation, When thoroughly satisfied of the legiti- y of the trade in which a vessel is engaged with the people he represents, to facilitate the trade by granting to ber sea papers. This will obviate all difficulty, And we do net believe that the Consul of any nation, at a port entirely free from any excited influence or control by any other people, will permit a legitimate trade with the nation be represents to be arrested of broken up by any vague unvindicated paper pretensions. It would, however, be a wise precaution for the State to send, immediately after the secession, consular agents to od wiil be short, oTEADIZALION Of & Seathern confederacy, which will most p the trade with other mations. to know that during the short period our Will not be affected or interrupted, even in our own makers of the paper whieh the banks have dis counted, and are discounting, to meet it at matari- ty. Property is depreciating so fast and merchan- dise is so unsaleable, that if the present state of things lasts inuch longer, vexry4ittle paper indeed | of that which is now afloat will be duly paid. This is more especially the case with the paper of houses in the Southern trade; it is known that y atallis coming from the South, and ns in that section are impossible. market is about as it was a week | | ago. On call, the brokers are freely supplied at | hottome. seven per cent. But there is no market for paper. The Merewry commits some obvions thongh not The Heet gilt edge sells, now and then, at 12 15a | unnatural errors. Vessels sailing from Charleston | 18 per cent: but one must look a long | for Liverpool or Havre, after as before 18th De | time even te find abnyer at these rates. There | comber, will be required, before they can discharge & teas tw believe that the stagnation in | cargo in either of those ports, to present a proper | the _disconnt market is only temporary. | ojcaranee, signed by a United States officer. If they | oe oh rae have money want to see | have no such clearance, they will probably be | the ¢ of our crisis on England befor | seized and detained as suspicious craft. Neither | they pert with it. They want also to see some the government of Great Britain nor that of France will recognise any South Carolina collectors, South Carolina is not, and will not for some time be known in Enrope as an independent nation, And any vessel which goes to sea under her flag, and with papers signed only by her officials, will be a lawfal prize hy ony cruiser, and will not be «affered to enter any commercial port, The Mercury says that the government of the United States must either make war apon South Carolina or recognise her independence instantly and immediate! The government of the United States will, prob: bly, take other advice than that of the Mereury on so important a question. It is likely that it will pursue a policy of calm forbearance and mas- terly inactivity, It may or it may not station a of 1 Civil war would, put an end to commerce altogether, a break a large number of firms now con- sidered undoubtedly solvent. This contingency st be ont of the question before there will be nd for y {f the politicians at ded in arranging a compron which the eventuality of civil war was ren- red impossible, it is probable that the secession oor mere of the Cotton States would not im- pede a general reeovery in onr markets, Mo is very plentiful here, and people will tire, ¢ leng, of allowing it te be idle without earning any interest | Foreign oxchange cloeod yesterday at 4 decline from the price whieh had ruled for the Conard | ship-of-war to collect the duties at the port of | steamer of Wednesday. The closing pricea were | Charleston. If it does not, it will pot on that about 100 a $4 for banker's Lule, and 100.4101 for | account be any the awifter to recognise the inde- mercantile exchange. The decline ix due to the | pendence of South Carolina. And until it does, very light demand for bills fron the importers. | South Carolina cannot carry on any foreign trade Importing houses are inno huerg £0 remit at the | with any commercial nation under the san. The prevent time. They owe very little, a¢@ rule, to | Mercury makes an appeal to the foreign Consuls the other side; and until a settlement he effected at | at Charleston. It is apparently unaware of the Woshington they generally think their money safest | fact that these Consuls are accredited to the | in their own hands. If political matters coutd bo art | Pnited States, and that their functions cense the ranged We should probably witness a lively ad- | jastant Charleston ceases to be a United States vance tn foreign hills, as the supply fromthe South | port. From the hour of the secession of South wth reduced, The procee Caroling It will not contain a single foreign 0: daylight at Washiv course would ny active dew Washington sneer by w | | “an HERALD. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1860. to be evaded with impunity at the port of Charles- ton, there will be nothing, after secession, to pre- vent asmart import trade at that port. But the merchants of Charleston may as well anderstand at once; that from the hour the United States Col- lector resigns to the day the independence of South Carelina is recognized by the United States ‘and by the rest of the world, not a bale of cotton or a dollar's worth of any other produce can be ex- ported from Charleston. pest CIvry COMMERCIAL REPORT. Sarcrpay, Dee. 8—6 P. M. Asnes.—The market exhibited no change in prices, while sales were confined to small lots of pots at be. aud Total. Isat 53sec, The stock embraced 769 bbls. pots aud 276 do. pearis—total, 1,045. Steamships. Breapsturrs.—Flour—The low rates of exchange and | Ships....... stringency in money matters continued to influence the market and to check the demand for export, while the local demand was moderate, The transactions footed up about 7,000 bbls., closing within the following range of prices:— Supertine State... .. wo Extra State, good to cl 4 465 Superfine Western. 440 a 450 rommon to choice Western extra. 465 a 650 St. Louis extra. 516 a 6 60 Mixed to straight Southern. . 450 a 490 Straight to good extra do. .. 500 a 700 ie family and bakers’ brands... 700 a 8 60 Rye flour.......+ Her 320 a 400 Corn meal, Jereey and Brandywine: 316 a 3 50 —For extra State, check to-day, $4 50 was bid. The mar- Ket closed dull at quotations. Canadian flour was heavy and dull, ‘The sales embraced 200 a 300 bbis., in lots, at #4 50 4 $6.50, Southern Jour was in some better request, ‘but the market was unsteady. The sales footed up 800 a 900 bbis., closing within the above range of quotations. Rye flour was unchanged, with small sales at our quotations, Corn meal was dull and nominal at our figures. Wheat—The market exhibited no change of moment in prices, while sales were moderate, ‘The same causes which influenced operations in flour also tended to check sales - of wheat. The transactions embraced 20, a 2° Seve 35 Notice to Mariners. bushels ai $1 20for fair white Canadian, $1 30a for good’to choice white Michigan, $1 20 for fair white | ‘The Brenton’s Reef Honan sdiliieiies Canadian, red State at $1 10, and amber Wisconsin at | her station. The lights will be exhibited as fore. $1 08 and Chicazo spring at 98%sc. Corn was heavy and | By order closed at lower rates. ‘The sales embraced about 35,000 bushels at Ske. a 592sc., Western mixed, in store and affoat, with yellow Southern, at p. t. Barley was quiet. of the. ae A. M. PENNOCK, Lighthouse Ins] ir 3a dist. New York, Dec 8, 1860, wing as (CHRSAPEARE BAY AND ITS TRIBUTARIES—POTOMAC, RAPPAMAN- Rye Was nominal. Oats were heavy and lower, with NOCK AND JANES IVERS. sales of Western, Canadian and State at 35¢, a 360.’ a 38¢, | | The Upper and Lower Cedar Point Lightvestela, Potomag ‘Covvex:.—The market was quiet, and in the absence of | River; ¥ zrtaris Hace vessel, ock River, and sales of moment quotations were nominal, 3 | mt nnn ‘Gemeircaasl gad Jones, aed Corrs. —The market was quiet. There was a fair in- | their stations for the winter between the 15th int and the Stl, quiry from the trade, but at rates below the | of January next, and their stations will be marked by Spar Views of buyers, ‘The Jow and unsettled rates of ox- | BUOFS. Os un puoys inthe abor aici veie change, together with impaired confidenoe in time sales, iron Can and Nun Buoys in the above named rivers feudal tocheck transactions. ‘The movement was con- removed at, the same time, and Spar Buoys will be substt- tuted during the winter. ‘Due notice will be given of the return of the Lighivessels and Bucys to their stations in the spring. fined to a few hundred bales (3004 400) at nominal quotations. Frnents.—Rates wore steady, with a fair amount of q en, &e. engagements, To Liverpool about 70,000 a 80,000 bushel pean Satan worn Gagighd cbiedy wWhest, ab 183. 0 lad, in | panenenle Wei e maak oe eee nee Duk and bags, with cof at 124d. a13\d. Flour was | Ship Ade Hitrdge, Culéman, from Callao for Bampton eng at 3s. Sd. a 3s. 6d., cotton at 3-8d. 16d. , is, Now iat on on beef and cheese at previous rates. Rates to one Davis, from Havre for NOrleans, no date, lat London were steady, while engagements were moderate, without ebange in quotations. By steamer to Loudon, 180 boxes bacon at 45s,, and 40 bales cotton at 3-8d.; 300 firkins and 100 bbls. butter at 60z.; 100 bbls., 100 kegs and 5 cases lard at 608.; 25 bbls. pork at @8., and 15 tierces do, at 10s.; 31 bbIx. copaiva at 5c. a gallon; 500 Ship Isané Newton, from NOsleans for Boston, Nov 22, off iatabilia Ship Esther, of Philadelphia, from Richmond for —, Oct eo 26 42 N, lon 36 2 W. ACM B Harriman, steering W, was seen Nov 19, lat 2617 Jon 82 42, bis. rosin at 4s., 40 cases measurement goods at 703.5 | ye World) from Algxundrie, for, Bogton (not aa r6~ 600 bags clover sed at 50s., and 1,600 boxes cheese Mine TN Iocniign from Ccaluscentine tor NYork, Nov 38, Gs. A good deal of Sugar has been shipped recently to } Jat 3040, lon 7925. Liverpool and London, chiefly at 45s. to the former port. | Schr Lightfoot, from — fer Porto Rico, Nov 22, lat 38, Frvrr.—The market for all descriptions continued to rule quite dull. The last sales of moment comprised on gohght MD Lane, steering W, was seen Nov 19, lat 24 17, lon layer Faicie at §2 224 a $2.25 per hox, and bunch de. S Foreign with halves and quarters in proportion, with sales . Now Street, f Of Valencia do. at Gio per Ib. Citron was selling at | sct2 erkine ip, Mgvensom or Streane ta oath 20c. a 2040. Turkish prunes at Sige. The last sale of | Hero, Loveland, for NYork soon; Asia, Duncan, for do currants: Fo aera 2 eeien sig pr ge : pong ag Boag iy (Aus), Florio, for ony ee Fis.—The market was heavy and dull for all deserip- at, a tions. Both dry. cod und mackerel, in the absence of | WMcf the month; Mahlon, Williamen, Rehalfenorh. tr sales, were nominal. " which arrived at Flusbing 19h, will Be put on the berth to Hay.—With less Southern shipping demand the market | return. oo1 1 ont shine ha ‘i om ic ratively qu " _ ales ing were MBAY, f—In ps N Wife a se, por lOU ihe, Srlectimns of good to prime for | Liverpool Nov 7 waken up to oad ‘at Ee ba; Clarigen city nse were selling at 90c. a $1. aoa Inman, Crandall, for China at 19 a 2) rupees Tlors.—Owing to the suspension of the demand for ex- | *Repxos Avnes, Oct 24—In port ships John Bunyan, Carver, ort, prices were heavy and nominal. ‘Stall lots new for | and Taran Belehen, from Nvork, ding: barks. Vigo, Talbots ea nse at 3Oc. a 350. The outside price for chy in | from Maine, do; Archer, Lewis, from. Boston, do; Wenham, small lots, was 40c., and 250. ll Of 1859. bn from a ne WH Hazard, ‘Killman, Trox.—The market was heavy and dull, Tn the ab- | fiom 8York, wis fat; Hf B Emery, Pern ee ee eae gener of sales quotations for Scotch pig were nomital. PP Nellie Hunt, Deshom, for Boston, unc; sebrs Lame was heavy and lower. Within two or three days | Florence, Avery, from NYork for Valparaiso; Geo H Town- sales of 800 bhis. have heen made at $0c. for common, \erson, for New York few days, with bone aah. Bid and at $1.05 for ump Rockland. Norris, Mont to load for Balti- Motasses.—The market was heayy and irregular. yg roy 4, Staal! sales of New Orleans were made withiu the range A re i fare oy . Smyrna for Boston, windbound. Srone®.—Spirits turpentine was quict at 81.942 | “Guany'Cay, Th, Nov Sb--8id brig Bearer, Gott, NYork, latter for New York barrels; 600 bbls, rosin E Trout, Ames, for NYork g dgages, Sok 26 tn port bark ays. Menow 26—In port ship Beverly, Chase, for Cal mieten 6 ~ nd 10 do. at $118, Crude turpen- ‘Ons.—There was nothing doing in evade whate or | NP. Nov 11 on agerta. Linseed was beats an lower, Sales of ctiy | micheal Uc Bee Soba aed y saeeee, em crushed were made at cash, and within two or three | Philadelptiay for Texas about Dee 1. days 50,000 gallons have been sold, to go out of market, i OccB—In port, brig Nantasket, Dunbar, from ata figs below 5: % r ; Provisions.—Pork—The market*was heavy and dull pet A ages ieahonhc: leon Gar" estan WE The sales embraced 300 bbis., in lots, cloning at $16 75 for mess, and $10 75 4 $11 for prime—the latter figure he- 8 NA, Now O—Arr bark Palmetto, Whelden, Venice. an outside price. Beef was about the same, while Tonks Istanas, Nov ort brig Golden Johnson, files “embraced 160 bbls at $8 60.80 15 a $10. for re. | from Demarnra” just aer, ee ae. Upton, pocked mess, and $10 50 u $11 for extra do. Prime mess i ———) Sinith, of and for Sag Harbor, and beef hams were dull and nominal, Cot meats were im Ports, quiet at 64gc. a Te. for shoulders, and 9'ge, for hams. ALEXANDRIA, Dec 7—Arr. schrs Minerva, Jeffe Fall Lard was « River; Surprise, Case, , |, With sales of 75 bbls. at 1c. a 10sec. Butter and cheese were unchanged. Tuce: was doll and nominal. Sresns.—Sales were under 100 hhds.—not sufficient to make a market or to establish reliable quotations Sens were dull. The last sales of clover comprised about 200 hags at Se. a 815¢., closing dull at that, The Jast sale of Culeutta flaxseed, in Boston, fr store, com- prised 2,000 bays ex Coringa at $1 574g. A ‘small Jot of rough sold bere at $1 50a $1 56. Wiuskey.—The market was unchanged. Sales of 700 bbis. were reported at 174¢. wIT!e. SHIPPING NEWS. NYork. Sid schrs Moses Van River: Port of New York, December 9, 1860. ARRIVED. a San Post, ‘Savaunah, with mdse and pos. ve, to HB Cromwell & Co. Pe Steamship Jamestown, &kinner, Riehmond, with mdse and passengers, 10 Ludiain & Heineken. ys Mbip Napelech (of Boston), Currier, Caleatta, July 4, with wate th Fading Steamshi linseed de, te! master. Crossed the Eq a 0 3 = ont; o Good Pee nniengu a fee geet eee at rm aly 17st de tebe trig eer etd frie ably ta a'Bivtbe Go Hale, from Mauriting in, she had experienced & very Bepe it, main toy and all her to it oe mig. to, Martie Get 8, lal Pst . ont, ja 8, lon 27 18 W, ‘of and for Boston from Algoa Bay, OG1 Shoppy, New Orleans, 17 days, with ootton om Has been Sdays N of Hatteras with turn bark Mary MeNear, WeNear, Kerman (lr), Brook, Wrightington, Thatebe pi ec , Parker, Ports. A, with mdse, to Dun. mouth, NII, 5 Bark 30 ku 1.4 es, Glasgow Semon, ata tite May Quesn, tk Made the passage to the t MARLESTON, Det 5—Cld ham & Dimon. @ Bauks in 8 days, and ‘Lenor, fran that palvt had bear westerly weather. On ‘the hight pa; sehr L-angion Gilmore, Cheat het is of Now wear the war run inte ‘1 1 ‘ Chase, ky carrying away the ends of KA ede | Bhue, Georgetown Bt con es yards on the mainnast, main mizen topanl- ne . Thizen rigging, aod doing oiber Mil L Retd, WB ere Conk, Marseilles, 85 days, with mdse, io Har. | Warren Fisher. Daley, for NY , for H ck ACS, Milton, Bradford, h % yun: Mark La Plata (of Salem), Crowell, Buenos Aytes, Oct 24, | pinglam, i the suesin; Neruia Rausiters, abd tales. with wend Bc to HUW Ropes & Co. The ship tnabella, Norris, | City, Kelley. off the bar; sehis J W Allen, Grant; May, and oh ‘or Monter fore te fini ing for | J Boston, x Velaoeo, “pu no Tar amis fr ing fot | Jobs ; York; Velaseo, Benj Strong, and Republic, ships bound W, N, 8C, Now 20—Arr Hampden, Wiswelt, B Strong, Mott, Charleston, Cid in, New York; Dee 8, FF Ran- to; Ath, brig Windward, Ginb, do; ‘sche HA Rogers, Lee, do. GREENYUET, Dec 1—Arr_ sloop Suffolk, Tuthill, NYorks 4th, schirs GW Cummings, Weldon; Panthes, Clark, and W W raja, Bow diteh, Boston; ath, «mack ' Chief, You New York: th, Harriet & Hannah, Vallance, NHaven. Black Dininond, Young, whieh sid Ist, rewurned 4 leaking, and bauied ont to repair, HARTFORD, Dee 6—Arr sehr Ni Brunswick, | Sid Sth, Un L Miller, Beker rk. 2a, 18 days, with molasses, to Fs, with eott 3 das Fite Bsian ”n in hats spoke ercorep rn, jew Mexico, Burnett, New *, Bates, NYork: schrs T and AG Pease, Hulee, N MOBILE, Nov 29—Arr ship JG Richardson, Lewis, Rio Ja- e (Br), Harvey, W Des olf Wal 15 days, with (Br), Chisam, Windsor, NS, 10 days, with plaster, to master, Sebr Col Fox, W neiro; brig! W Drisko, Drisko, Boston: Mab, ship Thirty-one (renin si Dart, 8 ; sche Win Rt Beebe, Au (or P nh Nth, New Beal 7 Franklin, Me, vin New Bedford 8 days re, Rockland, Taye 7 —_ Sherman, Reekiand, 6 days 4 henel, fechawes: © Haskell, Korkland, ? days, * Nieael: G pn thew ig yo fs tek ; tea, Haverstraw; Califor NEWBERN, Nov 28—Arr schre Laura B Johnston, Wallace, #5 Wh, Catharine, Buglich, do. Old 28th, sebe Réwin,, ogee UrORD, Deo 6—Arr sehr Niger, Harding, Ellaa~ pe fee em Ronee NEWBURYPORT, Dee 5—Sid sobre Ametia, Bayley, Maya~ Jobn W Dodge, French, Malt! br Gintetenar ites NEWPORT, Der @-Arr sohee Ht Popter, ‘Vinatha- Sehr Larkin, Sn ven for Philadelphia; Potomac, Franklin for pig Behe Myers Kt Tib—Sidsebrs Chase, Corbuls, Del Nowe, Leone. fone RM Bh sa, W Baker, K Hewitt, E W Benton, W Dyer, 11 Steamer, Be . iy. Regen. andothers, All that sid this AM except sehr Steamer Pes ase, have ret ame AL a a y= Steamer We rh p5 i cn Pa eke Re SATLED. 5 fe ¢ West, Havana and New ntabie, ia we Br) M . cork. oe Dee fart suip South Carclina, Kempton, Wind at sunset W ment sche 9 He Mitchell, Morrie, Ellen? - a ramer,, Huntley, XJ: Orion, Miscellaneous, ee al Rive; Seo Ladin’, Troe Parser Post, of mshiy Hovey m satan furnished wa with papers from that place in advance of the mail, for which he must accept onr thanks x NY ‘ viata mg “ecu a cm tg Conte ie wor itoidon, Hav ‘brige Minna, Wessels, Bremen: na; sobre May Queen, Barnard, Br Bere Jives Hesey, MeMahon, from Boston for Char. ». Brown, NY ork. Jottetown, PEF, has bee wed in the o SALEM, rr scht DS Mershon, west n Wreeked in the vieinity of Prince . - Pid Goltven Ti Allen, Philadelphia, Ls. 14, before wed ashore near was tion on Wednesday Inst to Thaw Vag River Yi a the vetehiborhood of Ga. Me Ki at went dow iz last te aaa aetna ean ent down on Friday will RANRREW, ROUSE, Oy EIGHT STREET, NEAR é ns! oper C Inter. Accomm dations: tot ines fa oe DE gore, Vornado ares tard | OF gentlemen pnd {helt ladies oF alngla goni in Apererve Wonsneed City Point on | QT TAWRENCE TOTRE, BROADWAY AND RIGHT vee RSE ‘ate Wage oe Mint nang ata | SS cet woe, Nok: onda om toe, Serapenm pam, 0 brig freee Now Tan wasigued ER GB Davenport of wali, $8 to 912 yor” Week; ingle Kowma 82 to ga ind: Richmond, to whieh piace was bound. On the 2h tT 150 Wis of ree, whieh fe UME the deck, were pieced Lp and carried to He MU the erg fn the hod will ns donbt be aaved, SEGARS to the Boston ae Ine ex ot South Carolina and Georgia hove in | sul within (*@ borders. If the United States gov. toting hankepe fe otspemd Ur thy pre | epmment shows’ resolve to enffer the revenue laws The Marine Station Esehange that the Aimion (before Heed, Coif Istana, Ane netive, ISL of the abore, in boxes of 500 TD 4, box S80 Lawer Pos: office, alt ‘ the + °°8VeR Is gor” Fou i ih we SUPE DFM Sampaon«