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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

PUBLIC AMUsEMENTs-PROsPERrT OF TEE
OPERA AND THEATREs.-If the condition of pub
lie amusements can be taken as an index Of the
times, we must be in the initiating era again.
During the past month all the theatres have been
crowded and at one period we had three Operas
in full swing. On Saturday, which is not
a regular opera night, both Burton's and
the Academy matinee were full, and the
prospects for the present week are even
better than that. All the theatres will be
open-thc veteran Wallack taking the field
on Tucsday-and there will be two Operas, TIA
liam and English. We have never before had
such an array of dramatic and musical artists az
will entertain us during the next six weeks, and
the extensive oDfches OF the managers show that
they expect busy campaign. Everybody is
busy with new plays or new artists, or tremen-
dous combinations .entirely regardless of ex-
pense," and quite in contrast with last year,
when all the theatres were under short sail. and
the poor knights of the sock and buskin starving
on short pay, or none at ALL The present week
will be lively one in amusement matters; but
our grand excitement, exceeding anything since
Jenny Limbs day, will be reserved for the arri-
val of the Piccolomini, who may be expected on
Saturday or Sunday next, and whose debut under
the auspices of Ullman, will probably eventuate
on to-day, fortnight. So the broadway dealers
can prepare their Piccolomini hats and things.
She's coming
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Nkw ostsass. Oct 2, 1868,
Cotton unchanged sales today, $500 bales
SAVANNAH, OFT. 2, 1858.
she sales Of cotton 10 day 4to bales unchanged
prices.
CscTsSsr, Oct 2, 1868
Flour dull and unsettled at ~ rs Tor supernc and a. s
- tor extra. Wheat-A declining tendency Corn dun
and unsettled Whiskey steady at lsc. Provisions
changed.
CmcAeo Oct q 1853
Flour quiet. Wheat dun at nc Corn declined ic
bbis four n 900 bushels wheat shipments to svrgo-
- 900 bushels wheat Receipts 400 bbs nour 1000
bushels wheat, 70 900 bushels corn
BCFrsIo, OCT 2-sPM
Moderate business ~ nour; no changes % quo
taons sales 400 bhs at % 12 for choice Wisconsin;
" 70 - 30 for good 70 choice Indiana Michigan
Ohio and Canada ~ rs FOR double extra Wheat IN mo
derse demand, market heavy and lower sales III 900
bushels Milwaukee club al 81 800 bushels red ninos
winter, and 23D bushels ordinary white Kentucky At
VI ~; 5000 bushels red Ohio, nj 81 ls-markct closing
dull and heavy. Corn dull and lower sales 5000
bushels nj 81 Nc 62c Barley firm and nominal nj Soc
eoc. Rye Al csc Oats At a5c aoc. whiskcy quiet:
sales 100 bbs. az 20 Canal frcighis unchanged-ior
nour, lie. ON wheat, and 1OC. 70 New York
Rec.ss-i3 oss boas Hour ~ 5ss bushels WHEAT n sSs
bushels corn.
Oswpoo. DC. 2-sPM
Flour unchanged, demand moderate. Wheat Quiet
sales 600 bushels white Canadian NJ s1 y Corn dul and
held above the views of buyers. sales 900 bushels
damaged NJ Uoc. Oats rye aud barley quiet Frptghta
steady ~ We on hour, Sc wheat. &c on corn o.
New York. lake imports-2O 600 bushels wheat Canal
exporis-ls 900 bushels wheat, 800 bushels oats.
AIRaNY. Oct 2-6P. ~
The only figure worthy ~ noicc IN market continues
70 b. the barley trade large sales wsre made OF ID to
day, privately, 10 on orders The the sales id
not transprc but sales Of seventy thousand
bushels are reported at advanced We quote four
rowcd state at from 81 no 81 49, 10000 bushels Lake
shore 70 arrive sold al 81 10 Canadian sold NJ Al 10,
~ arrive and on the spot Tho market closed buoyant
and with tendency still upward. Shipments b. tows.
$500 bushels corn. 1900 bushels barley
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John McGowan will leave this port tomorrow afternoon,
at two O'Clock for Aspinwal.
The mails for California and other parts OF the Pacific
will close a, O'Clock TO morrow afternoon.
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containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the
world vii he published at ten O'Clock in the morning.
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as the law Of the party when expediency may
point in another direction Granted that Mr..
Douglas will he defeated in Illinois, the result of
the election will doubtless show that the restora-
ton OF the State to the democracy will depend
upon his full restoration to the party camp. Let
this be done. and from the present manifestations
of Southern leaders and organs, We may con-
clude that Mr. Douglas will be restored into
line as prominent, if not the most conspicuous
democratic candidate for the succession.
These views. we apprehend, cover tho calcula
tons of the Southern Douglas fire-eaters in refe
renee to 1860. Those ultras have discovered at
length that their disunion and secession hobbies
will no longer serve their purposc-that without
Northern balance of power they can no more
elect President in 1860 than they could have
done it in 1856. And thus, finding the key to all
the rami6cations Of this sympathy for Douglas
open and disguised. North and South, we can
only await for more definite Developments from
the general results Of our October and November
Northern elections.
Meantime. as Mr.. Buchanan is not and will
not he a candidate for a second term, and as he
has 10 especial fayoriic upon whose shoulders he
desires 10 place the mantle Of his administration,
he can have no other object in view than q salts
factory account Of his stewardship. To this end,
from the factions and decentralization of his par
~, he may find it necessary at the next session
of Congress, as at the last. to depend for the
success of his most important measures upon the
patriotic men of the opposition camps. Thus,
too, with or without working party majority
in Congress his administration will be success
FIJI from the merits Of his general policy. But
still il is most remarkable fact that while the
administration has shown that it can prosper in
spite of democratic traitors and disorganizers,
these very disoreanizers themselves, in many
quarters pretend to be among the most ardent
supporters of The administration. They know.
or they will discover in the end, that the demo-
cratic candidate of 1860 will he compelled to
run ard can only he elected upon the merits OF
this administration.
From the increased democratic vote in the
late elections, this conviction is rapidly gaining
ground; from the resolutions of the Douglas
managers at Syracuse il is too strong to be re-
sisted; and thus the necessities of the party be-
fore the end of another year may prove that this
new Douglas movement in the South and in the
North was commenced too soon, and that The
democracy fol 1860 must be reorganizcd under
different arrangement
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04
soatory idea for those who dread the descent OF
Mr. Schell's guillotine ON their necks. thieves
a silver lining to every cloud"

AGRICULTURAL FAuss-Our annual State fair
will be held at Syracuse this week, and pro-
misses to be well attended People have begun
to appreciate these gatherings, and our agricul-
turists particularly seem to realize fully the
benefits which they derive from seeing the best
specimens of the produce and stock of the farms.
They acquire an immense fund of information
from this commingling and competition, and are
stimulated more and more to study the arts of
husbandry and cattle raising. We have Dor
rowed the idea from England, where agricultural
fairs have been a long time in vogue, and where
they have had great influence in improving the
breed of cattle, introducing better modes OF
husbandry, and giving to the farming and labor
ing classes more refined notions of cleanliness in
their persons their dwellings and their farm yards
But though the plan ofholding agricultural fairs is
not Of very ancient adaptation here, it is by no
means backward in its developement On the con-
trary it has entered largely into social policy
and forms quite feature in rural life. We have
extended it up to national fairs, and down to
county fairs, so that from the poorest of our
small New England farmers to the wealthiest Of
our Southern planters, all have place at which
their various products can be represented and at
which they can acquire information as to the
most approved plans of cultivation the best
breeds of cattle and horses, and the newest in
vcntions in agricultural implements
In New England, particularly, does this taste
for agricultural fairs prevail and to such an ex-
xavt thnr aIr cd hu tha
people, that the naturally sterile lands of Massa-
chusetts are got up to point of productiveness
little, if at ALL inferior to the lands of the most
favored State in the Union. Their public men
are not above this popular sentiment in honor of
agricultural demonstrations; hut, being for the
most part farmers themselves, they are identi-
fled with them, and add not little to the at
tractiveness and advantages of the fairs, by the
addresses which they are called upon from time
to time to deliver at these gatherings of the
people.
The movement is daily gaining force, and is
spreading throughout the whole extent Of the
United States-East and West, North and
South. County and State fairs are held in the
harvest months and farmers with their wives
and daughters, flock to them from all localities,
and leave them more or less enlightened on sub
jects of their every day life. We have already
had several national fairs in Springfield, Phila-
delphia and Louisville. The next will
be on the 25th instant, in Richmond.
Canada, too. is not behind hand in this
movement, but has her agricultural and in
dustrial exhibitions. In more views than the
improvement in husbandry are these annual
gatherings of our people important They serve
to cement the bonds Of union and fellowship
among our citizens, and we trust they may be
ever encouraged and appreciated a. they now
are.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

Spirit, who spoke through trance medium. mis-
represented the sentiments Of the abolitionists
present himself and Stephen S. Foster; that
spirituafist from Missoui Mrs. Britt, aposo-
gized for shareholders, and-worse than all
that eoiored man declared that though slavery
might be an evil, radical anti-slaveyy was much
greater evil.
On the whole, therefore, Brother PfltsbuTy was
not pleased with this Utica Free Love Couvea-
ton, and comes to Brother Garrison fo1 coEsOlar
ton. When abolitionism is tabooed and ridi-
culed in such gathering Of eccentricfties, we
are afraid there is little hope for it anywhere
The few aboitionists that are left in New England
will have to mount another hobby. There n No
future for them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

COMMERCIAL FAuUREs-larnoyENES n
last year 80 far at least a. they are indicated by
commercial failures in this city seem tn he yield
ING to the improved condition of trade which
has been apparent toT some time past.
The first crash Of the revulsou came on the
Gath Of August. 1851. with the failure OF the
Ohio Life and Trust Company: and from that date
90 the III o. October following. the commercial
failures in this city amounted to one hundred
and lwenty-six. For the same period this year
the failures number only twelve. and from tho
LIST Of April to the present date only afty-two,
aud many Of these are doubtless houses which
have been dragging along since the crisis Of last
fall. The scarcity Of failures this year, however
cannot he attributed much 20 an improved
trade a. to the fact that most Of the large houses
in the city which were destined to break-all
which bad expanded too much--have smashed up
long ago. and il was only the small FRY that re-
maincd to be finished of this year Besides. II
must be taken into account that there is not
more than half the trade doing now that there
was nj this time In lsji-although Il i rapidly
reyivinQ-and what trade l. being done l.
conducted with more caution: cash and not
ruinously long credit Is to a greater extent than
ever before. The medium OF trade Business men
have had q wholesome lesson. which will proya-
bly, last them for the next five years when, &C
cording to previous experience. we may expect
o return TO the old system Of rccklessncss and
expansion the certain precursors Of another
financial crisis in ten or twenty years to come.
While this Is true Of the state Of affairs in the
city Of New York other Atlantic cities show
similar record. The failures from April |. 1853
TO October |. were:-In Boston. eight; in Phia-
delphia eighteen and in Baltimore thirty-four.
The total number Of commercial failures
throughout the Union for the same period was
nine hundred and ninety-six-a great decrease
from last year. The aggregate amount Of the
above failures l. probably less than half what Il
was in 1851 These facts we learn from the
well organized commercial agency OF McKillop
4 Wood Beekman street; and they are very in
teresling ~ indications Of the curreot OF bust
uess throughout The country
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THE LATEST NEWS.
Non-Arrival Of the Nova Scotlan.

RIVER Du LOUIE, Z. f., Oct. 3, 1868
Up TO seven O'Clock this evening there no signs OF
the steamship Nova scotian, now fully due with Liver
pool dates Of the 22d u The weather very dark and
rainy, and there is very little probability OF her arrival
before TO morrow morning
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

. Troy, Oct. 3, 1858.
Theodore Durkin, OF this city, formerly OF shcltors
HAND Of Now York city, accidentally Killed at about
one O'Clock this morning while riding with friend IN
wagon near Eighth street. In attempting to turn agound
the horse and wagon were prccipatcd down precpsc,
nfty feet ON 10 the Troy and Boston arosd track killing
the horse and driver
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

THr BEsr RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OfFicE.-Dis-
missal from the Custom House seems to be just
now a trump card in the hands Of candidates for
official position in THIS city. Several Of these
ex-oficeholders have been recently grati6ed
With other posts, That Is something Of . coa-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

Hobbs, and also Mr.. Locke. the government board
ing officer The evidence principal, tended to show
how the Quarantine establishment had been
managed and the iaxity eynced by the officials IN
admitting parties 10 the grounds without permits
or passes
The Reverend Francis Burns. African Bishop
elect Of Liberia. delivered a sermon yesterday
morning in the Twenty seventh street Methodist
Episcopal church to large audience report is
given elsewhere.
In another column will be found report Of the
dedication Of the Mcrtuary Chapel Of our Lady OF
the Rosary. The proceedings were very interesting
and large number Of influential Catholic citizens
were in attendance
The Local Preachers Association OF the Metho-
held its fourth anniversary meeting in the Allen
Street church yesterday. Delegates were present
from different sections Of the country. large con-
gregation was in attendance. which was addressed
by the Rev. DR.. Harmer. of Baltimore. and others
very interesting meeting was held in the
Jane street church last evening to bid farewell to
The Rev. Mr.. Baldwin, who sailed this morning for
China, as missionary See report IA another
column.
Mr.. Theodore Durkin, a member Of Shetons
Brass Band. OF this city. was accidentally killed al
Troy, yesterday, by his horse and wagon being pre-
cipitatcd down steep declivity in the upper part
of that city.
The ceremony Of formally consecratng the
corner stone for the new lighthouse on Minots
ledge took place on Saturday last at Cohassct. As
the weather was too rough to admit of proceeding
to the ledge the Masonic exercises took place on
shore, the Grand Master officiating. Mayor Lin
coin, of Boston, Hon. Edward Everett and others,
made speeches appropriate to the occasion.
The sales OF cotton Saturday embraced about 900
bales part in transitu The market closed firm at Is
FOR middling upands. The -four market was again de.
pressed and closed al further concessions in prices
most descriptions, while in the absence OF any oonside
rabe export demand supplies have increased sales
were moderate, chiefly to the home trade. Wheat was
inactive and to great extent nominal Corn
tied and quotations favored purchasers. The sales in
claded Western mixed 60 &c for nforior tic II &c
for fair, and parcel Of prime choice quality was
reported at .5c, with Southern white at sSc PORK
lrm and i'll rather better demand with sales
at $40 20 Sl7 and OF prime sli 10 SIS Sugars we're
steady and in fair demand with sales of about 700 a
hdds. without change in prices Coffee was quiet but
firm. freghts to Liverpool exhibited tone wheat,
in bulk, taken at Sad rosin at Is Cd and cotton
532d To other ports engagements were light aud rates
unchanged
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04
The Yellow Fever NJ savannah


There we're six inermcnis day, Of which three were
from yellow fever
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THE PARAGUAY ExPEDiTIoA.--We give to-day
in another column. a concise history of our Diff
culties with Paraguay, and of the expedition
which has been prepared and will be sent out
under command Of Commodore Shubrick. to pro-
tect the interests of our citizens and the honor
of the country The expedition is composed of
eight sailing vessels and eight light drail steam
ers. equipped and armed in the most thorough
manner; and We have not the slightest doubt that
shey will give good account Of themselves. if
President Lopez should not see the folly of his
conduct before they show their teeth
A peace commission will accompany the expe-
diticn in order to give the Dictator Of Paraguay
an opportunity to do what is right before his
forts are knocked to pieces. should he lie 81 in
clined. Judge Bowlin. Of Missouri has been
selected for this purpose. and il we may Judge
his probable course in Paraguay By the harsh
style of diplomacy he adopted in New Granada
there will be very little palavering in the Pa
rama river He will be instructed to demand an
apology for firing upon the Water Witch. indem-
nifty for American claimants. and the ratification
of the treaty negotiated by Lopez. and which he
refused TO ratify because he objected tn the title
OF ''thc United States of America Another
point will be made in thcsc demands, which il a
new and remarkable one, bu; which will no doubt
he widely followed hereafter by all nations IN
view of the peculiar and despotic system Of
government in Paraguay, our government will
insist that American citizens in that country
shall be placed in all respects upon an equal
footing with Paraguayans in the United States
This stipulation is worthy clause in the high
American policy which the administration Of Mr.
buchanan has elaborated, and ii will. no doubt
become one Of the standing clauses in all future
treaty negotiations between nations. The cxpe-
diton IL now in an advanced state and will he
on it, way by the middle Of the present month.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-04

TAX COLLECTING N DEAD bo,K.-Thc col
lcciion Of taxes for this year is at a dead lock.
and the taxpayers. who are anxious to acquit
themselves of their legal obligations to the city
treasury, lind themselves unable 10 do 80 when
they make application to the tax receivers This
unusual state Of affairs is due 10 the Commission
ers Of Record. II appears, who have laid an in
junction on the Board of Supervisors, restraining
them from delivering the tax books into the
hands Of the Receiver of Taxes. The Commits
sion of Record. like all other departments Of the
municipal government. has a pretty lavish ex-
penditure attached to IL. which the Board Of Su-
pcrvisors have undertaken to cut down and
hence the Injunction. The Legislature granted
the Commissioners Of Record the large sum Of
$500 900 out Of the tax levy for their expenses
tlss year. which the Supervisors thought was too
much by s2j0,O0O; 50 they reduced the amount
to 100000 wbcrcupon the Commissioners got
out an injunction. a. above stated. What Is TO
lie done In this contingency How is the mis-
government of the city TO be conducted without
funds? The money must be raised by loan. VIC
suppose. unless this injunction be speedily re.
moved by process Of law Meantime tho taxpay.
crs must submit to O temporary inconvenience
Further than this however, they cannot suffer for
of course they cannot be held responsible for not
paying what the proper authorities will not re-
ceive. This little episode il another beautiful
example OF the efficiency II our city govern.
mpnt
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-10-14
N EGRO e UALITY!l
AND
EGR SUFE== RAGE : J :
In the selection Of the Hon
O. T. VsaBHsanGzzgzRazna as their
Reg preventative In congress-

loway has been rendered iliustrious by
the Spontaneous testimony Of countiess
multitudes. The voice of skcpticisul
has been husheJ, and the specious ar
guments Of professional dogmatists con
founded, by the introduction Of his Pills
and Ointment iuto the medical institu-
tons Of the most enlightened nations.
There may possibly be here and there
a logged disciplinarian Of the old
school. who 1coNt see what is patent to
the whole worid-some fossil specimen
of a bygone age Of medical bigotry, who
closes his cars to the great fact that
IIolloway's vegetable remedies are dis
placing and superceding the mineral
poisons. once considered all in all; but
such instances Of confirmed aud hope
less cold fogyism" are fortunately few
and far between. They will probably
be remembered when Holloway is for
gotton-and not till then.-N. T"Ntt.
Pei. Gac=Uc.