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964 Caaal-street KEWS OF llIE DA. 'The atctamship Atrr, from Southampton on tha lftth BlU arrived at this port jeaterday after soon. Her advice hare been anticipated. OurapecUi cxitrespondent on board the Great Ktuttrn auma ap bia reasons for concluding that tha monster ahip fails to eatablUh any new facts in tha pbiloeophy of Ocean Navigation. Premising that tha coat of locomotion depends on the amount of power required, and on the economical generation and application of that power, he inquirea how much horae power the Great Eastern demand a.

Her size, ha asserts, doca not give her anr appreciable advantage orer other veaaela, although gaina a little from her aharpnesa. Then, as her boilers and enginea are precisely of the old aort. It la impossible that there ahould be much economy of fuel. It seema to be also an estab-liahad fact, that her aaila cannot anaist her aa much a they would were aha exclusively a acrewateanv cr, aa they interfere to some extent with the free operation of the paddle-wheels. At high seed they would be of little assistance.

lie regards bar, however, aa to acme extent a mechanics fsuc-eeaa, and belirres that, if aha can be filled, upon long voyages aha will pay, although the anticipated economical advantages may not be realized. Our correspondent at the time of writing waa still of the epinkm that tha vessel would leave for this country on tha 1st hist. The official action which fixed this aa tha day of Bailing had not been reversed. Prince Albert and Prince Kapoleov had both been indulging their curiosity in visiting the vessel. The British steamer Ktrndk, from Havana on the 25th, and Nassau, N.

on the 37th arrived at this port yesterday. From the latter place we learn of disasters to American shipping during the lata stormy weather. The New-York bark, -Aagvafs Maykne, ran ashore on New-Providence laiana, but alter taking out her cargo aha waa not found to be seriously injured. Our Ban Francisco' correspondent writes, under date of Oct. 7, that bnsiness in California was improving, but that the market for various descriptions of Foods continued heavv.

Great interest Was manifested in the competition between the rival lines of steamships, snd wagers had been laid in Han Francisco upon the faster passage of the Baltic An earthquake occurred on the California roast on the Clh October, more violent than had been known for many years. Later dates from Oregon and Washington also reach us, but the news is unimportant. We have received dates from Utah to Oct. 5, with lull particuiars of the horrible massacre of emigrants by the Indians, previously reported. The savages attacked an emigrant train on the night of the 2d September, at a point twenty-five miles distant from Fort Hall, and killed five persona, four of whom were members of a family named If iltimorx, from Buchanan County, Iowa.

Three others are miaaing. The survivors of the party reached Camp Floyd in safety. Developments had been made before the Federal Court in Utah, of Mormon complicity in the Parrish murder. Bobberies and outragea continued to be frequent occurrences in the Territory. -The Kansas Democratic Convention, for the nomination of State candidates, met at Lawrence, Oct.

24. 8 am. Men art was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. Judge Williams waa nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A brisk debate took place on a motion to appoint delegates to the Charleston Convention, but the Convention finally voted to defer the appointment.

The Charleatown trials reached another stage yesterdsy, In the conviction of Edward Corns, upon the aame chargee as those contained in the Indictment agamat Brow. The prisoner's counsel moved as before for a suspension of judgment. The Court having decided not to grant the suspension in the case of Baovnr, that prisoner was invited to apeak before the sentence waa pronounced. Availing himself of the permission, the sturdy old convict declared that while he bad no fault to find with the trial, which was as fair as he had any reason to hone for and while he admitted the correctness of the testimony, yet it was due to himself to assert that he was not guilty of either treason, excitiug negro Insurrection, or of murder, none of those crimes having been contemplated in his designs. He had aunply proposed to rescue slaves and expedite them to Canada.

He closed with a justification of his sctionon philanthropic nounds. The Court then declared its sentence to be that Brow should be hung in public on the 2d day of December proximo. The prisoner exhibited no emotion aa the fatal form waa recited. Of the State Election, which occurred yesterday In Maryland, we have meagre returns. In Baltimore the dav was universally devoted to riot and bloodshed.

The so-called American Party, otherwise the ruffians who rule the city, surrounded the several ballot-boxes, and by threats, or actual violence, prevented the friends of order and reform from depositing their rotes. By noon, the hups iUlity of participating In the election became apparent to the Reformers, and they shortly after abandoned the field to their enemies. The fighting waa not restricted to any Ward of the city, la all bat one the most flagrant acta of violence and brutality were enacted me were wantonly hot, others stabbed, and others so seriously beaten that their lives are despaired of. Mr. Adam B.

Xtlx, a respectable merchant, was killed, receiving a pistol shot In the brain i and Mr. Wi. P. Jetost was so beaten with a bludgeon, that he ltea In a critical condition. Tb work of correcting the City registers (or voters waa completed last evening, and the result Ial Interest ex-amtted to have the names of electors placed upon the records of each voting district in accordance with the requirements of the Law.

To afford the JhjWIc an opportunity of lodginx how tj the new Ovulation has been complied with, Mr. Superind-mt PlixaraT gave the order to have the total number of voters reriatcred In each Ward reported sU head-qoartera. The order was promptly execuu ae far as the police force was concerned, and, with three or four except ion all in the Four teenth Ward, the required information waa aa 2romptly given. The motion to quash the return put ht by the Faperviaora, to the mandamus sued out bv the printers employed by the Becord Commissioners, to enforce payment for work done under their contract, waa argued before Justice Irora-Ja. of the Supreme Court.

decision was ren-4cred. In the iliui rrau sued ant In behalf Richaedsov, who stand accused of embezzlsw rr.rM, la Instigating Little, the clerk of Wkslow, Coto give him money of his employers, Jo IseaAMAM nee directed firHher evidence to "Served on the point of Uttlr's age. If he i 1 01 ls woul he ruilty of embexxle-mO. BicaAJtssoaT la to be tesnanded. inniuiiu.

Hon. Thomas Corwtb, amber of Congress elect of Ohm, delivered kmg address so diene of about two thousand persons at Masleil Hall, Brooklyn, embodying his views of ths doctrines of the Republican Party. He argued that the Irreceeseiblc conflict betweenfree and slave moor entrinaled with the Sooth Carolina rmlUncatkm, coonseltad obedsason to alllsw. Including the fugitive slsve law, end defended WEBSTER, Clat and Fillmore from the charge of being iavorable to slsvery because they recognized snd acted on their duty as sworn officers of the Government. At the meeting of the Board of Wucation a communication was received from the Sixth Ward School Officers stating that in order to avoid dte-cord they had directed the teachers not to read the Bible in the schools under their control, and asking that the salaries of the teachers be paid, with the exception of one, which they desired should he left as a test of the law before the Courts.

A desultory diseur sion ensued, and fina'ly the President declared the resolution to pay the salaries not properly before the Board, as it had not been referred. The citizens of the Eighteenth Ward who support the Hon. Gronoa UrDTH for Btate Senator from the 8ixth District, and CoL Job 8. Coces for Assemblyman from the Fourteenth District, held a mass meeting at the Demi It Dispensary, corner of Twenty-third-street and Second-avenue, last evening. Speeches were made by Brmjami if Warder, Hon.

James Brooes, Chas. Q. Mcrch, and Geo. G. Bellows, and resolutions indorsing the Dominations were adopted.

In the Stock Exchange Market yesterday, there was an improved tone to the dealings, and a fairly distributed demand for Shares and Bonds, at an advance on the lormer of about cent. Ia Money rates there was no alteration. The supply continues free for Discounts and on Demand Loan. Since the Boston mail, there is not much doing in Foreign Exchange. Low and Medium brands of Flour were in good demand at unchanged prices.

heat was in fair request at steady rates. Corn, Bye, Barley and Oats were rather lightly dealt in. CoUon was inquired for end wss firm. Provisions, Sugars, Bice, Naval Stores, Metals, Tobacco and Whisky were moderately sought after. Coffee, Fih.

Molasses and Whisky were inactive. Hay, Manilla Hemp and new Hops attracted considerable attention. The freight engagements were restricted, with 449 vesaels of all classes in port. The Live Stock markets continue to be over-supplied. The receipts of live animals of all kinds designed for slaughter at the regular City yards, for the week ending yesterday, number Beef cattle, 5,579 veal calves, 817 sheep and lambs, 14,785 swine, 19,970 also of milch cows 21 a total of all kinds of 38,345.

At yesterday's general market, beef cattle sold fully ic. esiimated dressed weight, lower than "last week's ruinous rates the beat animals oflered going at scarcely 10c, and the poorer grades all the way down to 4c. Veal calves of rood aualitr sold about as well, as last week, but kittens" snd large grass-fed calves were abundant, and sold very low. Bheep and Iambs were also in excess ol the demand, and about 25c. per head lower than last week.

Swine are very abundant, fairly glutting the market, and causing a decline ot near lc. II). live weight. The best corn-fed hogs were scarcely bringing 5c. John Brown's Speech.

If any doubts still linger in the minds of thoughtful mm as to the real character and aims of John Brows, or as to the best way of dealing with his crime, they must surely be resolved, on the reading of his brief speech, made before sentence was passed upon him by the Court, and published in our columns to-day. Since mad Lord Gkorck Gordon fanned the Protestant fanaticism of London into flame, 80 years ago, and for three days held the metropolis of England at the mercy of a frantic mob, the civilized world had seen no outbreak of individual passion against organized order at once so grotesque and so alarming as John Brown's imeute at Harper's Ferry. And certainly, since the crazed Scotch nobleman pleaded his right to do the Lord's work in his own way at whatever cost to all the world beside, there has been no such calm assumption of the sword of Gideon" as John Brown's clear, downright, and fearless proclamation of his convictions and his aims In reply to that dread and formal query of the Law Prisoner at the bar, what have you to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you But Lord George Gordon, though the niiscliief which he set on foot wa far more formidable than the actual work achieved by Brown, was a coward at heart as well as a fanatic. John Brown is as valiant in soul as he is vagrant in mind. After a trial which might well have shaken the nerves of a man in the flush of health and strength, and which he was forced to undergo while racked with pain and faint in every limb from many and serious wounds, with the moral weight pressing upon him by day and night of a deeply -cherished purpose desperately wrecked, and with the fatal verdict of a Jury ringing his death-knell in his ears, John Brown speaks for himself and for the cause to which he had given his life and the lives of his children, as calmly, as openly, and as earnestly as he could have done in the supreme hour of victory itself.

It can hardly be possible that any man, whether at the North or at the South, however deep bis detestation of the. crimes for which Brown has been by the law condemned to suffer, should read these words of the brave old fanatic without a glow of half-compassionate admiration for the strong and sterling qualities of the nature which loads their every syllable with honest force. The case of the South and of the Union would be really perilous were the Americans become incapable, through sectional passions or local fears, of doing justice to this brae old man's unshrinking faith in what he deemed his duty, and to the courage with which he bears that faith aloft to-day in the shadow caffold, as he has borne it through border and the hot strifes of civil war. If the statesmen who profess to love the union of these States, and the citizens, Northern and Southern, who are so eager to uphold it, will but take pattern of unflinching firmness and out-spoken singleness of purpose from this devotee of Abolitionism, that irre. pressible conflict," of which we hear so much, will hardly be left to run its course unchecked.

But if John Brown has all the moral qualities of an ancient covenanter, he shows tho mental features, too, of his prototype. The blood of his sons slaughtered (let our Southern kinsmen for their own honor and the country's peace remember this) by madmen foraying the land for Slavery, and the meditations of many years given to the passions of religion and, liberty, have gone up into the brain of this old man, and made hurt intellectually blind to all the ordinary checks and balances by which human decisions are modified and human actions determined. As a psychological study, John Brown 'a speech is one of the most curious on record. In the face of his own. admission made on the trial, thai he was the author of a certain Provisional Constitution" found among his papers, and thai by this Constitution his proceedings were to be regulated.

Brow earnestly, and with altogether unmistakable sincerity, declares that be never Intended to take life or to destroy property to carrying out his plans. My design," lie MTv to free slaves, not inciU lion to releUiom or insurrection." Then he appeals Ith a simplicity almost touching in Its Mrf disregard of the probable opinions of bis hearers, to his past experience in Missouri, to show that be had reason to think himself able to carry off a great many slaves from Virgin ia to, Canada without wanapping a Im his Provisional Constitution be had, nevertheless. saade elaborate amrnagetnents for, organizing an army for' the "execution of enemies" in certain contingencies, and for the confiscation of their property." His men were all to go armed, and bis abundant store of Sharp's rifles, ammunition, pistols, and weapons of various kinds, might certainly, be construed, without any extravagance of inference, to mean thai if guns were to be snapped at all during this singular Exodus, Capt- Baovnr did not mean the snapping to be confined to his enemies" the slaveholders. The enormous and obvious inconsistency between the whole scheme of his plot, with the incidents inevitable to its developement, and the aversion from the shedding of blood which all his prisoners agree that Brown manifested during the hours of his brief authority" at the Armory, and which he now so "strongly reiterates, does not seem to have so much as occurred to him. Clearer proof could hardly be asked of the utterly refractory state of his intellect, or of the extreme unwisdom, to call it by no harsher name, of treating such a man as the agent of a party, or making him the unconscious martyr of a cause.

Brown 's speech classifies him at once, and in a class of one. He is a fanatic, sui generis. lie shows neither the sophistical grasp of mind nor the malignant unfairness of temper which would be necessary to rank him with agitators of theoretical Abolitionism like Wendell Phillips; nor the astute coquetry with explosive passions which alone could affiliate him with Bepublican Party leaders. lie is simply John Brown, of Kansas a man logical after the narrow fashion of the Puritan individualism a law unto himself, and a believer with all his might in theological abstractions as applied to human society and politics. He hates Slavery, and thinks all fclavee ought to be free.

That anybody should think it wrong for him, so hating Slavery and so thinking, to attempt to set free the greatest possible number of slaves in the shortest possi ble time or that any organization which xnay appear to him necessary for carrying out this object should be regarded as treasonable, John Bkown cannot understand now that he is to be hung for it, any more than we believe he understood it when he made up his mind to set about the work, and others flocked after him, who now, less brave than he, endeavor to throw their own more rational guilt upon his shoulders. We own ourselves at a loss to see ia what way the execution of such a man can be bo brought about that it may not be converted to the inflammatory purposes of sectional partisans with whom John Brown has plain ly nothing in common and who will be as eager to make him a profitable martyr when dead, as they are to repudiate him while he still lives. The Election in Baltimore. The election in Baltimore has resulted very much as we ventured to predict yesterday, in bloodshed, disorder, and in the triumph of the fiug ugues." xne tieiorm rarty, alter a feeble resistance, quitted the field and withdrew their ticket, leaving some dead and many wounded behind them. The rowdies have been victorious at all points, having car ried out to the letter the programme announced on their placards and transparencies" at the mass meeting on Wednesday evening last.

The votes have not been counted the Re formers have been "dared to vote," and in most of the Wards have not dared." In short, the ruffians of Baltimore, having chal lenged the respectable and orderly portion of the community to an encounter, have met them hand to hand, and routed them, and are at this moment as complete masters of the city as ever the Goths or Vandals were of Rome. Early last evening we were informed that nine men had been shot, and one was already dead that in the Third Ward the polls were blocked by rowdies, and the Tolice were doing nothing in the Tenth Ward 44 the Reformers had been driven off in the Fifteenth Ward 44 a man was shot dead," and his brother, 44 coming to his assistance, was dan gerously wounded the Fourteenth Ward there was a desperate struggle in the Sixteenth 44 a man badly beaten," and a Dr. Richardson, a leading Reformer, pursued through the streets by the chief of an obscure Club, armed with a drawn sword, and that on his taking refuge in a shop it was stormed that the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Eighteenth and Twentieth Wards were in possession of the row. dies ail day, and that in the last-named they were using artillery and finally that William P. Preston, one of the candidates for Congress, was lying in a hotel, having been badly beat en about the head with a billy," and the Reformers, 44 finding it impossible to do anything, had all withdrawn." When we commented a few weeks ago upon the remarks of Judge Stcmf, of the Baltimore bench, in which he stated his inability to detect much difference between the culpability of persons who commit rape or robbery on board a steamboat, and that of the captain who admits them on payment of their fare, in ignorance of their propensities, we were charged by one of the Baltimore journals with a desire to draw away the trade of that city by exaggerating its disorders.

We were also as sured by one or two correspondents, whose lot is cast in that quarrelsome locality, that we were entirely mistaken in our estimate of its morals and manners, and that, taken for all in all, it was as desirable a place of residence as any in the Union that like other cities, row dyism had of late years grown rather rampant, but that a Reform Party had sprung up, which was speedily going to set everything to rights- We knew then, however, and we know now better than ever, that it is the elections, and the elections alone, which can indicate the value of Baltimore reform movements. Until the time comes for going to the polls, the rowdies appear to treat the decent inhabitants with a sort of contemptuous indifference. They let them prattle and resolve at public meetings, talk glibly of law and order, and denounce anarchy and violence as vehemently as they please. Mo amount of patriotic spouting makes the 'Plug Uglies," or Red Necks," or "Thunderbolts," a whit less truculent or blood-thirsty than before, or saves a single victim from their knives and pistols either by day or by night. The reformers have never 1 proposed to improve the police in any other way than by a reform of the municipal administration, to be brought about by voting at the polls but as long aa the rowdy organizations could hold the polls against all comers, reform was impossible.

The strength of the two par ties has once more been tested, and the row dies' and ruffians are once more triumphant. The Sheriff did nothing, the police did nothing. and the result is that the reformers have done nothing. Flow long this state of tilings is to last remains to be seen but thus much is certain that as long as the result of yesterday's proceedings remains unchanged, ruffianism ram pant in the street, reepectabOity cawed and suppliant ia the houses, no citizen of Baltimore ought to show his face- in any part of the Union without paying patriotism and courage the compliment of aa unmistakable blush of shame. There are in Baltimore at this moment thousands of men, well-born and well-bred, and weO-etlucated, who would not brook a look of insult from any man living, and who plume themselves, above all things, upon their personal honor.

But if we know anything of what honor means, no man fin the City, who looks out of his window upon the armed bands of blackguards, who, as the telegraph informs us, were last rright parading the deserted streets in triumph, without determining to abate the nuisance at all hazards, can fairly ask the world, to give him credit for possessing it We can forgive -people for calling themselves patriots while succumbing to a political faction or a foreign enemy, and waiting patiently for better times but we know of nothing which can palliate the base submission of a large, wealthy metropolis to bands of drunken thieves, pickpockets, burglars and assassins, the refuse of its jails, and the spawn oHta slums and brothels. It is impossible to acquit the Mayor and other officers of Baltimore from the severest censure in regard to these outrages. They had full warning that they might be expected. The respectable portion of the inhabitants bad been alive to the danger, and had tried in vain to arouse the city officials to the necessity of taking measures to ward it off. They obstinately refused, and treated the remonstrances of the citizens as an impertinent interference with public aflUrs, They made no provision for the emergency i and when It came, were either powerless in the hands of the mob or winked at excesses intended to perpetuate their political sway.

In either case, they merit tlie most emphatic censure of every lover of republican freedom. Siege of the City Treasnry The Ing xhalanx. Amidst the disheartening records of public measures and public interests always tried by and often sacrificed to the standard of party union, it becomes an agreeable study for the admirer of civic economy to analyze the votes and motives of those ten members of the Board of Aldermen who have distinguished themselves by always voting together on one particular class Of measures while just equally divided five on each side on ail other measures appearing destitute of the cohesive element. We look for subtle reasons of patriotism to explain their wonderful unanimity when the ayes and noes are called on questions having private interests behind them yea, and doubtless if we look long enough, and probe deep enough, we shall be able to discover very weighty and solid considerations. It is a fact known and recognized that Aldermen Henrt W.

Genet, of the Seventeenth Al-dermanic District Francis A. Boole, of the Twelfth Michael Tcortet, of the Sixth Thomas Stephens, of the Fourth, and Thomas McSrspoN, of the Sixteenth, were each and all regularly nominated by Democratic Conventions, and regularly elected by Democratic voters. They are true and active party men, prompt in assuming all Democratic responsibilities, unrelaxing in their hostility to all abstract Republican theories and certainly these five are not the least influential members of the Board in which' they have seats. In like manner it may be stated that Aider-men John II. Brajt, of the Fifth Ahlermanic District George Starr, of the Seventh John Ltnes, of the Tenth James Owens, of the Fifteenth, and Henrt Smith, of the First, are collectively and individually pure, prominent and potent members of the Republican organization and that their votes in the Board of Aldermen count for just as much as the votes of their five Democratic brothers.

United these Ten are nearly irresistible, forming a decisive majority of the Board for all common occasions and when it becomes necessary to rope in a few more members, for the purpose of overriding a veto by a two-thirds vote, or abolishing the necessity for a contract with the lowest bidder by a three-fourths vote, we commonly find that our ten Aldermanic engineers rise up to the magnitude of the motive and succeed in accomplishing their object. But the refreshing feature of their operations is the surprising unanimity which they evince in voting for particular Resolutions. Carefully read their proceedings and analyze their votes for the past nine months, and there win be no difficulty in foretelling how they will vote on every future measure having a large private interest to be subserved at the expense of the public. On all questions in which the public only are concerned, they will stand five against five, wrangling, spouting, gesticulating, and bandying fragrant epithets, with a zeal and grammatical recklessness to delight the hearts of their respective constituencies. But let any one of the Ten introduce a resolution to have a sewer built for the benefit of private property, 44 the City paying two-thirds of the expense," or to lease a valuable pier at a nominal rent.

or to have a contract made with a specified party, to do certain specified jobs at specified prices, and you may, in their own vernacular, 44 go your pile on it that the remaining nine will lend their most sweet voices to mulct the City in the amounts proposed. Las( week we had occasion to notice the at tempt made by these gentlemen, with some few outside Aldermen, brought in for special duty, to establish, in the case of the Fifteenth Precinct Station-house, an authority in the Common Council to override that provision of the Charter which orders all work, exceeding 250 In valae, to be duly advertised for ten days, and given out on contract to the lowest bidder. Our Aldermanic Decemvirate, as we learn, were highly and justly indignant at the boldness we may say the contumacy of that exposure but, nevertheless, they did then and there back down and retreat from their pre vious assumption of having power, by a three- fourths' vote, to order the Head of a Department to cause a job to be done by a specified jobber at specified job-price and, as a grace ful and RRfe means of covering their discomfiture, they then and there ordered, by a three- fourths' vote, that the work ahould be not by a specified jobber at a specified price, in violation of the Charter, but by the Head of the Derjartment having legal charge of the busi ness. 1 This was a practical concession of our whole argument all we asked, all we de manded and the policy of abusing our logic, while obeying its force, ia not obvious outside of the hazy atmosphere in which the Fathers of our Citydwen. In that article we stated that behind the pre cedent to be established by the success of the Common Council in the case of the Fifteenth Precinct Station-house, there stood a mighty array of civic Iniquities, ghastly as the armies of disease rallied behind King Death, all of which would depend for success and fruition on the ability of the Common Council to override the united 'resistance of the Mayor and Street Commissioner.

If the power were established or confessed in the tost-caae first raised, that three-fourths of the Common Council could fix prices, make contracts for jobs, and specify the favored jobbers, irrespective of the civic Heads of Departments and the provisions of the City Charter, then we ahould soon bave seen the work of building a new gate to the Croton Lake reservoir taken out of the bands of the Croton Board, Broadway ripped up and paved with Belgian pavement at prices about equivalent to a dollar an Inch, and contracts made with such moderate bidders as Charles G. Waterbcrt, William B. Reynolds, Thomas K. Downing, Waltermeter, Conover, Fairchilds and Johnktor- for cleaning the streets, repairing the roads and avenues, and keeping piers, wharves and parks in order. In fact, the whole programme of the 44 awful contracts," running for fire years each, with the awful contractors, could, under this precedent, have been securely and successfully' put through.

In the Board of Councilmen the Aldermanic Decemvirate has worthy allies, enlisted under the same great and shiningly attractive banner, and cooperating in all things needful with the distinguished Ten whose names have been set forth in these previous paragraphs. In the Councilmen, too, will be found the same delightful unanimity, irrespective of party ties, on the same class of cases which awaken the fraternal emotions of the Board of Aldermen. Perish the bonds of political union, wbea the great claims of private benevolence and the' desire of doing good to individuals is at stake I Much is we may differ on the dry theories of public policy, it is bliss to know that In our City Councils there is at all times a perennial bond of cohesion varieties of checks moderating the fury of partisan rancor, and arguments of a sterling nature which at once address themselves to the affection 'and under. Mumiug of our City Fathers. The whole sub ject is bow unifwoinir thorougu investigation, and the forthcoming volume of Mayor.

Tix-mann's Vetoes and Messages will do much to aid the civic student, and clear up all the mysteries now banging, cloud fashion, voluminous and impenetrable, round the City Hall. As we shall have a new Corporation Counsel before many months, it is well to have the whole matter investigated. The Alleged Conspirators. We appreciate fully the pressure which constrains our Democratic brethren to make the most of the Harper's Ferry affair just on the eve of the State election. We are not in the least surprised at their love of the Union, nor their detestation of any project, however foolish and contemptible it may be, for compassing its overthrow.

This would be natural enough under any circumstances. But their fierce determination to fasten the responsibility for this outbreak upon prominent members of the Republican Party finds its sole and sufficient explanation in the emergency of the pending election. It is an old and established custom of political parties to spring some fearful mine of iniquity upon their opponents just on the I eve of an important contest. The Glentwortb explosion came off just before the election of 1840, and was expected to alarm the people into reelecting Mr. Van Bub.

ex. The Roorback disclosures, at a subsequent date, were of the same sort. In this case, although we do not suppose that the Democrats had any hand in getting up the invasion at Harper's Ferry, or that old John Brown consulted their interests in fixing the time for it to come off, it certainly hapl Iened at a very fortunate moment, and may have an important effect upon the popular vote. After the election is over it may be possible to fix attention for a moment at least upon some of the absurdities into which the Democratic journals have fallen, and some of the injustices which they have allowed themselves to perpetrate in this connection. And it may be well enough meantime to remind the Journal of Commerce of one or two points which seem to be forgotten in the following paragraph 44 The statement of Foacas that he explained fully the whole matter to Senator Ssvtabb, who expressed regret that he had been told of it, makes that gentleman moral reftnuible for the acts of these 4 whose madness he Aa fas aa wis attempted to restrain, but, on the contrary, has urged on by his incendiary speeches." Col.

Forbes, it should be remembered, was particeps crrminis with Bbown, and separated from him merely on the ground of his private interests. He visited Senator Seward and others, in pursuit of money which he claimed to be due to him from their political party, and he now reveals the facts which he has given to the public, partly to revenge bis losses and his griefs. It is only fair, therefore, to bear in mind that he is not likely to tell any more than will serve his purpose. Perhaps, if he would state fully what he did say to these gentlemen, and what they said and did thereupon, he might relieve them from some of the odium which he has managed to throw upon them. Meantime it should be borne in mind that his interview with them was in March, 1858, that Brown was then in Virginia, and that 44 he was going to put bis plan into execution." 44 Every day," says Mr.

Forbes, -1 ex pecting to hear of Capt. Bbown at Harper's He waited at once, therefore, upon the gentlemen whom he has named and here is his own account of the effect of his revelations i I consulted two Abolitionists of very high stand ing, and one of them. Sr. Baiuy, of the Era, became alarmed; at the mischief which Bbown would bring upon Abolitionism and himself. Dr.

B. consulted other, cko urged an mt ta atop Brawn. My reply was, I cannot stop him, for I bave no Influence with his backers; stop kirn That the impression of my earnestness might be more felt, I sent copies to all the parties concerned hd by hammering; and hammering on the same spot I did stop them ia their career of folly. Wko atoUem Dr. MaOep aided ma ra this work I am not very rv, except that one was a gentleman of great Influence Eastward, and with whom I had two or three Interviews.

To him Dr. Baxlbv communicated me matter I did aot tell him." In one of his previous letters he mentions Senator Seward as one of those on whom be called and exposed the whole affair. According to Col. Forres, therefore, his revelations ta these gentlemen were made a year and a half ago, when Brown was on the spot, and when he expected 44 every day to hear of him at Harper's Ferry. They were afi alarmed, and fan-plored him to stop the movement be refused, and told them to stop it themselves It teas stopped, and nothing more waa heard of it for eighteen Even Forbes himself says be heard nothing more of it during all that time, and supposed the whole project to be dead and buried.

Is it not probable setting all prejudice and party feeling aside, that Messrs. Seward, Bailrt, and the others of whom CoL: Forres speaks, diet atop movement the moment they heard of it Somebody did CoL F. says he did not i aad attributes the result entirely r-. -K' A to the men whom xxeeded is etJIstin opposition. What reason Is there, then, for at-trftntinf to them a result which they warded off for nearly two years, from which tbej thesnselves bad the most to loee, aawit which they are not shown, by a particle of evj.

dene, ever to have bad the slightest eoeutee-tion? Perhaps theVewmoi will give an answer after the election. The Hey lata Kx.Kaaawrwr autal the Jsusatfen Wea-rees. The Ex-Emperor of all the Haytis baa abdicated bis powers and retired into private rife, honoring the city of Kingston, ia the Wand of Jamaica with hie -imperial Drives tothe last extremities, the pertly PArsriS Was Indebted to the magnaminity of the General by whom he was overthrown, for permission to leave the country and it is scarcely necessary to add, that he was taken off and carried to Jamaica by one of Hat Britannic Majesty's vessels, which seem to nasi abundant employment ia carrying disappointed Americaa fillibusters and black raonarchs front place to place in the Carribean See. At Kingston. uvvi.vwb wh iTCCTvea, hoc vna me usual weL come of indifference for which British soil pre-verbial in case of political refugee, but with considerable excitement on the part of the population of Kingston, one-half ef whom are as black as Facbtw himself, three-eighths being colored, aad about one-eighth whits, pur Bang-.

The black and colored inhabitants of Kingston were delighted at the opportunity of seeing a sable Emperor, and they turned out mass to enjoy the pleasure. It will not, however, be out of place to look a little Infi the feelings of the Kingston negroes whs thus numerously signalised the landing of Boc locqtjr on British soil. Persons who are not acquainted with that peculiar class of people might suppose that they were Induced to the demonstration which hailed Somorqcx either by aymputhy with his cateer, regret for his downfall, or glee at the extinction of his tyranny. The character pi" the Blacks in tha Island of JamaU- however. loruiaa oeuei in eiuuv "TZkiment.

-i This ta not. tho first time that Monarchy has 44 called" in the City of Kingston. Some years ago, his Majesty the King of Mosquito a real Simon-purs Klne risited the Island of Jamaica and wasc7d and mads much of in every possible way. Then, if ever, the negroes of Kingston might have manifested African or Creole pride. There was man almost of their race and entirely of their color; addressed by all the whites who officially ap.

proacbed him as "Your Majesty." But the blacks did not care for black majesty. They voted it droll, and made fun of it, and yelled when it rode through the streets, snd laughed in its fsee when it went to the theatre. They thought a negro King a laughing-stock, and they so treated the sa ble monarch. They will not be likely to act very differently now. Fallen Majesty will not be apt to excite much sympathy with a class of people whose interests, being almost entirely animal, may be said to be wholly selfish.

They will therefore care no more for Soulocque than they did for King William of Mosquitia end will probably regard the one as about aa good a joke aa the other. Meanwhile, SotrLorqri himself will, in all pro. bability, take a "pen," as a country-house Is called in Jamaica, keep his horses, Isy in a stock of good wines, command, thereby, an tntria into the higlU est circles ofaoctatvin Jamaica. Ilva Ilka a mI old Hsytian gentleman, and regard, with supreme contempt, the Ignorant and half-savage 44 niggera whose names fill the poll-books of that happy country. The more he looks down upon them, the more they will be likely to look up to him so that if Soclocq.ce makes up his mind to drop the imperial dignity altogether, purchases a few of the best racing-horses in the country, and drives a handsome 44 turn-out," he will live far mors happily than he has ever done before hi all his life.

The only drawback upon bis felicity will be the fearfully bad French which he will have to listen to when the nobs of the island visit him, which they will assuredly do, and the obligation upon him to force his struggling sentiments through the broken English peculiar to Haytian exiles. Abundant largesses to the Catholic churches of the Island will secure to him the affection of a certain number of the population, and the rest will love him more and more in proportion as he spends more and more money. But beyond this, there Is nothing to be expected from the recent demonstrations. Soclocqcx. Emperor, will be of much less account in Jamaican eyea, than Sotlouqur, rich black man, spending his money freely, and so keeping up the 44 respectability which the Jamaica negro believes to belong of right to the position of a "colored gentleman." SB Issnrevsaaea la Telegraphies.

We had an opportunity of examining, yesterday', an Invention which can scarcely fail to prove of vary great Importance In transmitting -messages by telegraph. At present, as every one is aware, a message can only be sent aa rapidly as one operator can spell thm vnnli and nmml thm lHar hv lHM I ik- characters used. If the rate of tranimlsatoa Is to be increased, it must be by multiplying the number of wires, of Instruments, and of operators. One eaa es-ly transmit messages as rapidly as one person can write. The invention to which we refer consists applying the operation of printing to the process ef transmission.

The message Is first put ta type, the letters being substantially 1 the same as those now-used. These types are placed in very simple natal cases, each being about a foot ta length. These eases are then placed opon the Instrument In such way that, on being carried forward by a revolving band, the projecting points of the type strike a BMtal-lie plate and complete the electrical circuit, precisely as the same result Is effected In the ordinary methrf by the touch of the operator's anger sad the letters are recorded with corresponding rapidity at the other end. The machine makes very nearly the same change la telegraphing which the invention of printing made in the multiplication of manuscripts. At present message ot tea thousand words over a given lios eaa only be transmitted as fast as one person eaa record the successive letters.

By the use of this Instrument, a hundred persons can first put tt la type, and then the whole can be transmitted ia leas thaa aa boor. It thua multiplies the power ef the telegraph- tamaaea Ir, and this of itself will (and very ereaUy to increase In, Imnunt a Kndn.u waiJt will Im Iranaai lail through its agency. The process of setting the type is very simple and easily learned, aad require stuck: less skill than the ordiaary kind of typeeetttag. Tss invention seems to ca oae of apeelal important calculated to effect a eoaaplete revolution la the neaa oi eiegrapning. it ia we work ot a remit named Bbablbv, wbe has a working mods Inspection at his rooms ia Tammany Halk Acadebt of Mcsic; Donizetti's opera of the 44 Favorite" was given here, last night, with aa ana- anally powerful cast, and with a degree- of which will, we think, insure it repeUtioa.

assarts whose voice has gained In sueugta and freshness, and whose method Is rapidly Improslay, was thoroughly admisable as csasrs. has always bees one of her most successful isapersonsHonsv ami a fitting vehicle for the Infinite womanhood wfaicla this great dramatic artist always Infuses Into ser rsVrs. Slgnor Asone recovered some of his former popularity as Alpha, aad sang so discreetly that It was a pity he did set know all the music Stgnea Jsnoa was the Baltnarar. The event of the evening was of coarse the diout of Sigaor Bsababb la the part of The antecedents' at this lae artist justify me 1 fidenee of the management la his sucee denes nhich It mast be confessed has seen asaprr demonstrative aad painfully explicit. For nanay yean Slgno BsAeeASB has' mstntstasxl a leading position in ate best theatres.

af Italy, and mate rate! has sung Is Farts. Be la without deubt ess sf the best educated tenors vue have seer had Is this country his style ta grand and saaaly sis sasthnil perfect, These specialties are soasess at asvsr sad-rag pieasars, and must, of uetr own aaerlt, lasers a success. For the rest, 81gnee Bbabsarm has been ao long before the pfclle that his vessels eamewhat wers. It waa peesUarry hard and assarisfeetory fat quality last sight, owing ta a severe cold from the effects of which he Is said to be suffering. Desi-W this drawback his sueceis was encouraging, and triS.

we have so hesitation ta saytna. rapidly Isnsssse Hats a great artist, astwUhsguaiing his vavr esag-gerated and absurd tatsnwetauoa of Bpirja Oentil. On Friday "Lucrexla Borgia" win 'oo given, and we shall haveaa opportunity of healing eUgaar Bbas-.