The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-29

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RsslyiDg, and held an inquest anon i ren.i1-
TIE testimony went to show . aa the man who fred
lie pistol at deceased was .anei paidy Battles,
" DO has not YET, however been arrested. The Jry
rendered verdict in accordance with the "a rs
e|iced on the inqu 81 Ion. Brattes is cocceale in
the neghooEhooa, I'd viii, ii is hoped, be soca ar.
rested as the CIR GERS Of the law are close upon lis
rack For Sar.s Of room We are obliged I, leave
ost on fuLi '.eport Of the inquest until our next
ieue.
NEWS From SOUTH AMERICA.
We publish in another part of to days paper some
additional items Of South American news. The in
telligence by this mail owever, DOES no. present
any fe AZURE worthy Of especial common. We give
IL addition interesting extracts from the jour.
nal of Mr. j. A. Talbot, who has recently completed
al exploration of the rivers Marmanen d Amaze N,
and their tributaries Nh b information will be
found in them regarding the interior Of Peru aud the
gold mines of the Amazon, no. Hitherto published.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Tie extensive car house belonging 10 the Nv
YoIs and Harlem Railroad, situated al the corner
CT Forty-sscona street AM Fourth avenue, vas DE-.
stroyec by FIRE last night; several new cara ~sre
consumed and the loss IS estimated - b. up Tari,
OF $50 600.
Our telegraph, despatch from Ceves .ad, Ohio,
gives the ,Tticulars Of destructive ire whi;u
Cured there early yesterday mcrni, g Iuyplog III
loss OF the Ne England Ho.el and sbe ,Lre squire
on The hui where it stood. rbe loss u property is
estimates ~ over a mill on of dollars.
Our State Canvass and National poiitics-'rhe
Administration Counted Out.
With oil the complexities add perplcxities,
the baIrassmehts and ADVERTISEMENTS the in
consistent divisions aud iucongruous comtina-
tiops-with al the rantaukerous cross-fring
between ''wooljy heads" and silver grays, be-
tween the hards Of Stuyvesant Institnte and
the soits Of Tammany H.!l--with all the agi-
tati,ns, the fusions and confusion which have
resulted from the Nebraska bi]l-with all The
inexplicable wrauglings which have followed
the division of the spols, and with all the plot
tings and counterplottings of parties, factions
aid political hucksters to supplant each other
with al the excitements which have been
aroused upon the slavery question, the liquor
question ARD the Know Nothings-and notwith-
standing the fact that there are several momen-
tous schemes on f,ot for the Presidency, the
administration at Washington does not enter
into the merits Of this most extraordinary State
canvass.
THIS lie, indeed, remarkable thing. The
war RACES hot aud heavy from COMFY Island to
Buffalo on the liquor question-wbigs, demo-
Gratis and outsiders, natives aud foreigners, are
rallied on both sides upon this issue as
paramount to all others before the people
And there is something of the same conglo-
of the old parties and factions
for the Nebraska bill or against the Nebraska
bill, as the great question of the day. Aud then
we have new, 0ysterious ami powerful,
though ephemeral organization, who's platform
consists OF eternal hostility to the election or
appointment of foreign born citizens to Office,
and to the head and the hierarchy and the re-
ligion Of the Roman Catholic church. Aud yet,
though the administration OF Washington has
carried the war into Pennsy lvania against the
Know Nothngs, and is supposed to be uoani
mously dead set against the Maine Liquor law
and occupies both sides Of the Nebraska bill, and
continues the spoils in the hands of John Coch-
rane a Co., il Is a fact, and the most remarka-
bic fact Of all in this important State canvass,
that neither the President nor his Cabinet, nor
DOR their merits or dement's, have anything
more TO do with the real business of this cleo
tion than the administration Of Joho Tyler. In
a word, all partie. consider the present execu-
tive establishment at Washington as practically
defunct. 1t has been tried, condemned and SEN
fenced already, and il is ignored by all parties,
dropped by common consent, and counted out
let IIoo n x,e,,s.
two years of its Official term still rem aiming?
Has il not trained band of otliceholders add
organs from the st. Lawrence to the Rio
Grade, aud ready majority, for one more
session, at least, Ia both houses of Congress- to
back IL! Why, then, should Gen. Pierce
ard his Cabinet he over .hadowed by the
liquor question in the great State of New
York and by the Know Nothings? Simply
because tie administration Is OF no further
use 10 amp body excep. the spo.lsmca hold.
ing The spoIls. All the Stste elections of the
last twelve months have rendered the same
verdict; and since the more recent judgments of
reEnsy lvania, Ohio aud ludiaaa, all parties
here hole IL 10 he q fixed fact that Pierce
81 bis Cabinet add Kitchen Cabinet are done
for tina they have only now to close up their
books and fall back toto the retirement of Mar
in Van Bnien. Aud hence, by common con-
sent. they afe counted out
", therefore, by an extraordinary cohjunc-
Ia " anti Maine Law forces upon Governor
SeymCar, that gentleman shoald be re- elected,
Il via bc 10 more a victory for General Pierce
osn triumph FOR Captain Tyler. 1t
s.n h. sssalt achieved utterly regardless
~ The admi,lstra'ion. II Dauiei Ullmao, by
! woneeIial concentration Of Know Nothings
4 All Paf'scs In his support, shoald successfully
un tn g4aa,lct, Il viii be nothing IN re than
. kSos Ncihing triumph resulting from the
iisorganizing policy Of the administration. If
Ironson should be elected, IL will not be upon
AZ mstlt. OF his nnArrcl With Gnthrie for