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WASHINGTON CITY. | Tl'ESOAY MORNING, NOV. ?, 1867. ^ tarUt IfeiUB. ?. Jaju*, of I'Uiloilelftlia, it our tfeucral Uavellluy ugvui, uuutu by Jassa lmuutm Jou* Comm, J. Hojuutt, Kdhu.m> W. Wnanr, J mm H. Dnwwi, E. A. JSrasa, R. 8. Jamm, T. Amman, F, ! A. Davu, R. T flowsmt. ?JTMr. C. W. Jam, No. 1 Harrtoon street, Cincinnati, Ohio, la our j general *?llectti)( agent for ttra Wesloru Stales and Taxaa, aMlctod by II. J. Tuonan, WiuoojI H Tuonan, Tiion M. Janm, Dr. A. L. Onus, Uiobok Mintus, and Ricauao iouu Receipts of either will bo good. no-Mr Can. W. Burr la autboriwd to collect mouey? due the I'nlou Offlcc for subscription* and advertisements la the Dlitrict of Columbia. THE ELECTIONS. Tho election in New York for State officers, members of tho legislature, judges, etc., takes placo today. Alt election will also be held to-day in Illinois for county officers, and for a judge of the supremo court, in tho place of Judge Scates, resigned. The election in Now Jersey to-day is for members of the State legislature. The election in Maryland for governor, members of Congress, and members of the State legislature takes placo to-morrow. THE BANKING SYSTEM, ITS DEFECTS AND ABUSES?CONCLUDED. Having, however imperfectly, attempted an analysis of the dofects and abuses of our present system of banking, we shall conclude our scries by a few general observations. It has been intimated to us by some of our friends who agree with us perfectly in our general principles that we have not treated the delinquent banks with that respectful courtesy duo to institutions authorized by law, and with whose management so many respectable and estimable citizens are associated. That we have not handled them with gloves is certain, for there aro times when the truth should be told without disguiso or extenuation. To apologize for offences is to eucourago them, and we consider that man as recreant to the happiness of his fellows and tho best interests of society who makes tho dignified position of the offender an apology for the offence, or who attempts to diminish that salutary horror of crime in others which is one of the best preservatives of virtue by prating about tho temptations of the world, tho infirmities of our nature, and bringing them forward as palliatives for the worst of crimos. We think we havo too much of this cant already. The most atrocious criminals are now not guilty, but "unfortunate" men; tho murderer has becorao an object of pity instead of his victims; women make pilgrimages to tho prisons to gazo with admiration or prostitute their sympathies on somo wretch who has disgraced his Maker and his fellow-men by a violation of all laws, divine and human ; and speaking generally, it cannot he doubted, wo think, that the moral senso of tho people has been blunted not only by attempts to diminish tho onormity of crime, but by a squeamish unwillingness to bring it to punish!ment, especially iu capital cases. Swiudling is softenod down into speculation; murder into homicide; and in many communities it is almost impossible to find a jury who will inflict tho penalty of death on a criminal who has wantonly deprived more than one of his fellow-creaturcs of life. The prerogativo of mercy, which was conforred on our high executivo officers to bo exercised only in ortromo cases, has been grossly abused by letting looso tho most, abandoned criminals again to prey on aocioty. In short, there seems almost a general combination to screen depravity and oblige honest men to rosort to lynch law for protection or rodress. We confess we feel no sympathy with this species of philanthropy. Wo are accustomed to call things by their old-fashioned names, from a conviction that names are things, and that to clothe vice in the garb of virtue is to divest it of everything that renders it abhorrent to our feelings. A horror of vice is one of tho greatest safeguards to virtue. We believe tlxero is scarcely one man in the United States who does not acknowledge that, from itime to time, if not at all times, the banks liavo been the means of inflicting the most grievous and wide-spread calamities on the people, most especially that portion best entitled to the protection of government. Within less than half a century they havo four times taken the bread from tho mouths of tho laboring classes by depriving them of work, and debasing tho medium through which they wore compensated. All this was done as if by ono spontaneous impulse. as swift as tho operation of tho telo graphic wires. If it was really for self-preservation, we can only say it wan carrying the doctrine to extremes, by sacrificing the many to tho fow, and, under color of saving themselves, inflicting a deep wound on tho honor of their country and the gcnoral welfare of their fellow-citizens. Why, we ask, was it necessary, because the Ohio Life and Trust Company exploded, that the thousand and one banks, dispersed among the cities, villages, and forests throughout the whole extent of tho country, great aud small, should suspend specie payments 1 They must have been at half-cock to go off so readily ; they must have stood with the match ; at the touch-hole. They wero hundreds, thousands of miles apart; their capitals, if they had any, wero ( totally distinct from each other ; they could have i had no legitimate business connoxion ; yet they shut 1 their doors, as it were, at one slap, and tiuubled in, j one after the other, like a house of cards. Tho 3 failure of the banks of one city was the signal for ' those of the country ; and the panic, as it is called, , which in reality originated with themselves, was made the pretext for bringing those evils, which had only been anticipated, in all their stupendous reality on the heads of the people. Whether this spontaneous combustion was brought * about by a gonoral combination for political pur- 1 posos we cannot say. Such things liavo happened 1 before, and once at least during the groat contest for 1 the establishment of the sub-treasury. The banks suspended, and bankrupted government, with a ' view to coerce it into subjection to their interests. Itlooksasif it had some political object in view ' when we see the failure of the banks ascribed by ' that priucc of philosophers, tho editor of tho Tri- ' bune, to the tariff, and attempts niado to throw the responsibility on the democratic party. But if such ' was thoir object they have failed most signally. The ' addle has been placed on the right horse, and . the Tribune furniehos a second edition of tho celebrated 1 archer who shot at a frog, but, missing his mark, \ shot Into a bog. But to resume our apology. i If these periodical collapses of tho banks are the l natural aud ineyitable result# of an incurable chron- ( ic disease, beyond the roach of cure or alleviation, I then the creation of such rickety, artificial bodies 1 [I ' w Uf !?| p | > m would teem to he an aot of legislative folly or cor I r up tie a, We know?everybody know*?the means and appliances brought to bear on legislative bodies ? whenever applications are made for bank charters, nerr; and, indeed, every species of corporations, whose of thi object is exclusively pecuniary. Lobby members "na ( aire set at work to dog tire legislators at every step, and seize them by the button as they go in. and out s " of their halls?men who make corruption a profrs- j sion are at work day and night laboring in their vo- i Th cation to deceive tire unsuspecting ami seduce J at tin those who are perhaps just struggling betwixt i mton wind and water, roady to fall, but not yet fallen; and ; . ^ legislators are assailed by temptations often too j strong for their integrity. We deal in no libels. , than Ask any experienced, obsorving man?we don't settle care who he is?if the ease is not as wo have repto- ! 8 111 souted, and, if he docs not expressly assent, ho will ; At answer with a significant Bmile, not of incredulity, (<tinp but acquiescence. Is it not the duty of every citizen who values the ) latior prosperity, happiness, and freedcln of bis country, | In aud who cannot but know that the corruption of our i tack legislative bodies will be fatal to them all, to de- I : their nounce a system which directly aud inevitably leads | UJ. ^ to tlieso consequences? If these institutions are, as i tbeei it would seem, beyond the control of the laws, or j was < too potent for the virtue of law makers, the only ro- ^nie source left is to bring them before the grand inquest i A I iinmp of the people, and, if they cannot be otherwise cor- I ^ rooted, make thorn ashamed of thomsolves. | imoUl If the calamities periodically inflicted on the whole i chief people of the United States, scarcely one of whom is agree exempt from them in a greater or lesser degree, can brata be distinctly traced home to the banks, is it necessary or proper to speak in measured, lackadaisical terms of a system fraught with such injurious couse- ftuq t qucnces? And if these consequences are the result was a of ignorance, wilful mismanagement, or grasping cu- the b pidity, shall we not "call a spado a spade," but treat 6?^' the delinquents with respectful deference because their number is legion and their position in society tu renders their example only the more daugeruus. That there are many higli-mindod, upright luon concerned in the management of banks, wo have not the slightest doubt. But they belong to a body corporate, and must partake in its fate. They have already of th( privileges beyond their follow-citizens, but among iast a theso, wo believe, is not an exemption from personal Res censure on the ground of an act of incorporation. States They must take the consequences of being found in ttiC n , , next, bad company. Such is our view of tho subject. Wo liavo treated tho banks and their managers precisely as we would a citizen who had been convicted of similar offences. ye8t< We see no difference in this respect between the most "1 humblo individual who is obliged to submit to the j ex|gtj laws and the most powerful corporation which holds j an ar them at defiance, or, if anything, feel it a more im- | perativo duty to pursue tho more dignified delinquent the u with imrelcuting severity. We have spoken of the be fui conduct of tho banks as wo thought they deserved, and have labored to bring them up to judgment be- abate fore tho last great tribunal of the people who have so often been their victims. We have spoken frank- prcce ly, fearlessly, and wo bclicvo truly. Wo have "1 "nothing extonuated nor set down aught in malice," and have spurned the idea of sprinkling the rotten one fi carcass with rose water to make it smell sweet. them _____________________ who 1 A NATIONAL EXAMPLE. Tho subjoined letter, placed in our hands by the pjle ( kindness of the county committee, and the tenor pondi of which explains tho purpose for which it was written, is so characteristic of the well-known national condi sentiments of tho writer, and so aptly illustrates the re*t^ position and enforces tho duty of tho Massachusetts p,)K0(j democracy, at tho present crisis, that we take cape- muni cial pleasure in reproducing it in our columns. gorln Were tho honored sire now living, whoso lifo and and o labors were devoted to the preservation of that con- tricvt stitiition and Union around which the national men of tho present day aro emphatically called upon to rally, ?un there can bo no doubt that he would fully endorso ProP' tlio political views and relations of (he patriotic son, v*tio whoso cordial sympathies and hearty co-oporation are 0,,U enlisted in the cause of national democracy. ,,ow Thero is, moreover, a touch of tho grand concep- Pro'c tion and vigorous expression of national ideas in this tiona letter which forcibly reminds one of the palmy days a of Wobsterian eloquence.?Lawrence Sentinel. deed Boston, October 1, 1857. ^'ie ' Okak Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter written, on behalf of ,the democratic point committee of Roxbury, inviting me to be present at a , , gathering of democrats in tliat city on the evening of the sixth of October Inst. I shall be very happy to do so if my other rather pressing engagements permit; but, if not able to attend, you W< havo my heartiest good wishes for tho Buccess of the jjj|j meeting and of tha cause which it is to be held to advo- _ cato. Cttr"1 Whatever may bo the immediate and local consequence Tbun of the coming election?and we have reason for hoping Hatuv that it. may la? satisfactory, although our political opponents muster pretty numerously?yet, by giving our uni- " " tod support to our candidates, we shall secure one great ufneo result, the value of which cannot lie over-estimated. We electe shull keep together, in one compact and unbroken ar- party ray, a great national party in Massachusetts?a party that m-elei is not confined in its synqmthics ami associations by State "1C ^a lines, or by other lines short of those of the shores of tho two great oceans. And when, afterthis election, the party, one or the other or both of those |?u ties opposed to us v thai 1 crumble and s<litter, us soon they must, we shall , ' '' present ourselves a central and Integral body around <'owj1 which all the patriotic and Uniqn men must inevitably *lc rally. The glory and tho triumph will be our* to lead move] Massachusetts back again cmee more into harmonious mo- 'RV tion with her sister stars. " To sucli a consummation we will all give our best en- " ' leavori, and the time of its coming cannot be far distant. *- "''rc: Very respectfully, your friend and servant, ously FLETCHER WEBSTER J. P. Scm,i van, Esq. tl,D" The Dutoh brig Walborg, with Crawford's eques- I 1 Irian statue of Washington on board, has arrived in tho James river, and is now at Newport Nousc 1 ^ kwaiting orders. "The arrival of this vessel," says :in<^01 tho Richmond Enquirer, "almost simultaneously with ' 'mn<' tho intelligence of tho death of the artiste whoac goline was manifested in tho completion of his great [ at work ere his light went out forever, will be regarded A ' ay some as a melancholy coincidence; yet it it grati- I Tw lying to know that the object of his latest toil lias f been borno in safety over tho seas, and that Virginia } \ J will be permitted to perpetuate his memory by At kdorning her Capitol with his most conspicuous ! A kohievomont." ' A d ?- I Tw A letter to the St Louis Leader, dated Fort Lara- a d raie, Beptember 14, gives ft most favorable report of Ad the health of tho United States army for Utah. It A ^ lays: "Wo have scarcely any unfit for duty, and have The jot lost a man by disease on the route." Tho pro- viclnll jress of the army lias been at tho rate of seventeen ant? 01 knd three-fourths miles per day. Twenty-five miles 0thoT iave been accomplished without difficulty. kets g DEPARTMENT NEWS. 8TA1S Dkl'ARTlUfirr 'tck.?Iu formation has been received from itt, United Htatcs consul at Nassau, New Provii 6 wreck of the barque "Leo," of New York, I .'ay, near Abaco, oil the 2d instant. The vn Is have taken into Nasouu a suiall portion of th id the materials of the barqufc. INTUUoa DWABTMXBT. ? Nov Meztean Luitiua ?Intelligence has been re : Indian bureau from Indian Agent Stock of a h jsting character, A council was held on the oibor with the Coyotcro Apache Indians a he agency, These Indians are desirofim o* se< k It will be recollected that ut'ey were charged, a year ago, with 'coihmitting depredations up< imentnof New Mexico, though the superintend* Hiuul rcjiort, had exonerated theui front the cl >e oouiudl, the spokesman of the party, Uhino ndod that they were unjustly attacked in th ntgn. The Americans had always been regard friends, and It was their desire to continue tlu is of peace. reply to tliis it was explained to them that tl was made on them in consequence of the mur Dodge and others, and the loss of cattle th depredations. This drew from the spokeam ims which, in Dr. Steck's opinion, leave no do ulpabilitv of some of their men, not only In lirectly charged upon them, but in the kill: Pueblos and Mexicans' at Cubero lout Novemb? frond council of the Coyotero Apaches had beei diately after the fight upon the Gila. After and three nights spent in consultation, It was sly resolved to ask for }>eace. Accordingly hod been deputed to ask for it. In jseturn d to give the United States possession of thi 1 gold inountoins of Coyoteros. icving them to be sincere, Agent Stock (11: > Peno to return to his people, assuring hiin tl sr steps would be taken at present to chastise hat they had peace in their own hands. That lso directed to inform the captains of his trils nited States wanted none of their wood, wuU On the contrary, that peace, and peace only d, and that, if those depredations were furthei d, a stronger forte would be sent iuto tbeir co that which hod just returned. WAR DEPARTMENT. ith of an Army Officer.?The War Departmer 1 the sad intelligence yesterday morning that 1 Jefferson Van Home, capbdn in the third ini ! United States army, died on the 28th of Sept* t Albuquerque, New Mexico. ignalion.?Captain Daniel Iad better, of the t 1 corps of engineers, has resigned his cooiml .signatlon to take effect on the 31st of Dec* THE ELECTION IN BALTIMORE. 0 xoiiowing appears in me uaiumore 01 irday morning: t is with the Utmost gratification that we nun noruing an amicable adjustment of the dlffei ng between the State and municipal authorities mngemcut, based upon tire efficient measures 1 by Mayor Swann, for the preservation of the y, whereby the governor is induced to proelaiu se of the military enrolled under his order wil rther contemplated at the ensuing election, instituted the basis for an announcement to th< esterday afternoon, which led to tlie imirn mcnt of the prevailing excitement, and the ult ration of a state of serenity and absolute quieti trecta unusual in our city for some time post, an dented on the eve of an important election, "he details of tire Arrangement above mention?, ntcd In another part of the Bun this morning . They Include a proclamation from the mayc rom the governor, with the correspondence 1*1 , and brief letters from other distinguished ci lave been active In the support of the governoi personal fricuds of the mayor, earnest in their < ect the satisfactory result which has been atb and id and mutually conciliatory tone of the e ;neo can but exort a corresponding influence uhlic mind, mid will unquestionably meet witli lonscfrom the orderly citizens of Baltimore as ice to the suppression of violcnoo and the con ation of the civil and political rights of tho pen iVith this us ttie ultimate result of the measure. , we shall have occasion to congratulate tho ty upon something infinitely better than a trii Iter party?the triumph of law over lawlussnc nment over anarchy, and the dawn of that rdor out of which we may look for the abundai il of the name and fame of our beloved city." 0 sincerely hope that the expectations o will be fully realized, and that the nioa. osed by the mayor of Baltimore for the pi n of tho public peace will bo faithfully ca All that tho democratic citizens of Balti nsk for, all that they have ever asked f iction whilo in the exorcise of thoir com 1 rights. Tho mayor lias assumed rosponsibi very grave character ; if lie fails in wo , wo are satisfied it will not be for the wc lonest, hearty, orderly co-operation of that i fellow-citizens who, regardless of past d ments, are again willing to reposo coufiden Eficial assurances. DEATH OF HON. WILLIAM HILL. a regret to announce the death of Hon. Wi for nearly fifty years secretary of State of J ina. lie died at his residonce in Raleif sday morning last. The Raleigh Stauda day says: Ir. Hill was in his 86th year, and had hel. of secretary of State forty-six years, being din 1811. For many years past, 110 matter was in power, lie was again and again ununim stod by the legislature. This is a high tribu ithful officer and honest man, and as rare a d. It is seldom, indeed, that party rancor partiality is so effectually disarmed and broug villingly to the demands of merit. [e died not of disease. The muohinory of lif - the vital principle was gradually exhausted eatliod his last without a struggle, with on ment of a muscle, in our next wc hope to 1# before our readers a short biography of ids' soful career. he funeral took place at the Mc.thnlist. Epb h to-day (Friday) at 11 o'clock, and was m attended. In respect to the memory of th I the principal stores of the city were closed FRU1T8 OF THE DEMOCRATIC) VICTOR MINNESOTA. e St. Paul Pioneer is of opinion that Hon. Ramsay "is probably elected governor rod votes," and then posts the hooks as fo' what the democracy of Minnesota have sec s late election: lemocratic State senate. lemoeratlc house of representatives. o democratic United States senators. ree democratic members of the United .States 1 nesentatives lemocratic Hrutmisnt-governor. Icmocratie secretary of State lemocratic State auditor. lemocratic State treasurer. lemocratic chief justice of the supreme court. o democratic associate justice# of the supreme . lemocratic attorney gene nil. lemocratic dolep;ate in Congrewr. temocratic-clerk of the eupremo court ? Iowa City Republican eUton that farmer* ui ty arc offering their wheat at forty ccnta a hi mnot find purchaaer*. The Republican add* ?un? Mate of facta i? reported of the Mneentlr river inarltofa; and, indood, we may say of th< enerally of tho State." m y #*1' jf*- f 'i FFOM IIR HEW MKJUCO c<j|0lta4ivMDliNT. KMTTA FX, (N XI.,) vJL 30, 1*37 J. J. 71 the RJihr <tf tht UMm I lence, i The mail which usually reaches hetu on the !2d of I tt M? | mouth diil not arrive unljl the ifJVth in*t. It wag i rolling toiued by a Unwanted attack frotu the Chcyeune lndii ic war- at the crossing of the Arkansas, midway between Sat Fe and Independence. They numbered about 100 w< mounted warrior#. They kept tire mail party in dur from sundown until midnight. Two or three coun< ceived werB held to decide whether they would maesatre I iffhly- party or only rob them of their provision#. The lat 4th <>f course wa# determined upon, which they executed m X th* effectually, taking every jrartlcle of food they had. 'J ;uriug rcturired about fifty mile# to join a team, and tk 1 m(m' travelled with that until out of danger. Tire lndii )n had been attacked by Col. Sumner a sboj-t time prevh ;"t, i" to this occurrence. Ten of their men had baen kill and all their provisions destroyed. They were det "??i mined on revenge, and nothing but the United 8tu ie late |uajj ^uycj ^e party from a bloody butchery. Col. Su "* ner ha# acted w ith criminal inefficiency in this whole in :#e re" ter, for which he should he held to a stri'd accountable In my letter of tire 14th of June, I urged the nec ,e slty of establishing other military poet# between F ?ler of uuj0ll anj Council Grove, lids hostile demount tat1 rough imperatively calls for some such provision of our gove in ad- ment. Fort Atk'uisou, on the banks of the Arkans ubt of has been destroyed, when tlrut is the most Important ] what sitiou for a military post on the route to the States, nig of ear nestly hope some effective steps will be taken to me ,r- life aud property more secure In traversing the plains, t held jg a t.aj| 0f humanity, to say nothing of the binding e throe ligation of the United States government to protect 1 unan- gubjecta. their There Is now liohestiy due this peoplo, on account , they Xmllau depredations, a million mid a halfdiJlart?-deprcr s celc- tions committed since It has been a Territory of tlie U tod States. Before they came under the jurisdiction rocted oljr (jovemment they hod an efficient militia organ! rat no con, and when the Indians stole their stock the citizc tbcm, ingtantly sought redress, rescued their property, and mi ' chi?'f the Indians pay for their rascality and robbery. Sin 9 that however, they lravo depended upon our government r' ?r | "protection, they not only lose their stock, but their elair ' when jirenonted to CoDgres*, are hooted at. The con 1 0011 quence U, that there In not now one-tenth part uutry jj,,, Hto<'k raised here that there was twelve yearn ago. the Indians were located on reserves - an efficient ru tnry force stationed near tlienx to chastise them irame ately on their invasion of the rights of tho cjtixcni trevet people would again turn their attention to stcs . . raising, and be enabled to furnish cattle which cost i mber Kovcnunea* f" per head for $15. Surely it is not f policy of the government to see those who owe allegiai hiited ^'le ^"8 ?f our country, and whose blood and lives i anion eVer ,ca^-v *? ^ B,t,kod >u defence of its honor, tramp mbe' "I10" an'' outraged, and, when redress is petitioned f to be insulted and rejected as if aliens. Hie peopleNew Mexico are loyal to the United States go vein mo and their just demands should be heeded and respectin ol I gave you in uiy last the result of the election in gr in this Territory tor delegate to Congress. 'J'he follow! Is the official vote of the counties : ounce eucee Counties. Otero, (D.) JBaird, (' i, and Bio Arriba--- 1,049 1,091 pro- Santa Anna 17ti 415 peace Socorro - - 802 26S i that San Miguel-: 1,500 301 1 not Taos--^--- 2,104 1,405 This Valeum 1,052 450 : pub- Dona Ana 100 611 filiate Santa Fo - - - 745 725 incite Bernalillo - 850 806 ide in d un- 8,498 5,98f 5,986 4 arc offi- Otero's majority - - 2,512 " and Thi* is exclusive of about 300 votes thrown out tizens Otero's returns on account of clerical informality. 1 - and Jute majority is over 2,800. efforts Mr. Otero isa young man, just twenty-six years of or lined, is n Mexican by birth, but was educated in the Stat iic iuho nmiTiuu an uiieiiigciu ami ncuunipiwnvu you "I*"'1 lftily of 8t. I?uis. He loaves with the mail that can "will t'1'* letter for the States. lpletc Yoii have boen informed that the expedition of C'oloi >plo. Bonneville to the Gila country to chastise the Apache ! s pro- dians has accomplished its mission. About thirty Indir com- wero killed and about forty women and children tak -IS prisoners. Some 5,000 sheep were retaken. Three peace "IC Coyotore Apaches came to the agency of Dr. Stock at re- sue for peace. They acknowledged that they had stol sheep, and that ono of their men had killed Agont Dod| f (he They also stated that the murderer was in their cai sin es w',cn attacked by Col. Bonneville, and was killed. Tli said that all their captains had held a council, and agrt to give up all their lauds, their water, their grass, sto< rried an(j their gold mountain for peace. Their agent inform moro them that he wanted none of these ; if they would bchr or, is themselves, they could have peace ; but If not, they woi stitu- t>e still more severely chastised, They left in the fin lities humor, with a promise to bring their captains. The pi r(j ^ oners have been ordered to be released. 1 have been kindly permitted to' examine the offic 1,11 rcjiorts of the Gila expedition, but have not time at pr class ont to give you a synods of their contents. The cm; isap- try in wliicli the expedition operates is included in t iC0 jn Gadsden purchase, and is a portion of that which u form the Territory of ArUonia, if ever created. Tho rep sontations I have seen in some of the southern papers the mineral wealth of this eouutry are in n great meusi Uiuni erroneous. There are some old silver mines there tl forth have boen worked for many years, and made bankrti] of numberless speculators. Indeed, it is nothing m< * 1 0,1 nor less than profligacy for men to ask for a torritor i'(l of government for the Mesilla for years to come yet. It e only be a useless expense to tbe govennucnt. There i il the some fertile spots of land in the region traversed by C first Bonneville, but generally unfitted for the habitation what jj,e white man. Tho movement for a new Territorj ously tju. >Vl)rk 0f lk f0,v political mouutclxuiks, and never v to to . s it is CT,>ntUHte 111 any good. H1J(j I have been ]iermitted to take a copy of the followi ;ht to letter, which I transmit to you as furnishing the most vorable feature of the country here alluded to : e im! ;>*!cta Fs, Nsw Maxia>, t' September 22, 1857 , Desk Colonel : Heturuing a few Jays since from < long depot on the Gila, I met your frieud and agent, 1 Kteck. Ho made much inquiry respecting the Gila count icopal Would that your views in regard to locating the Aj>n< ' de~ Vidians 'n Puebloa could be effected on the waters of 1 for a Gila He appeared desirous that I should converse w you on the subject; believed any information in relati to this hitherto unknown region would be deeply int osting, and perhaps some day might be useful in ossi ing the operations of your superiiitendency with th Alex- people. by a We were ojieratiiig In what has been known as I Hows Gila country for more than four months; had detm ,urcd ineuts of troops scattered in every direction, bringing on their return, sketches of tho country and infoimuti from every quarter. I established my clejvot on the e bank of the Gila river, a beautiful spot about fifteen mi from (he Mogollon mountains. This valley is aliout douse miles by fO, basiued by the Mogollon to the nortb, 1 U VI 4.. 1.. Ik. ....I IV... U,nu, .nS i I.I HW1 y KVUto IU ?uc rnov, vuu vuitv ?niu munn|uv w > south, and to the went, by Patos and .San Franc In These mountains enclose one of the most, fertile ? healthy spots on earth?beautiful to perfection So mi was It the admiration of all who saw It, that our e curt, ployees, every one, would lmre remained to have raadi their homes, had it Iwcn safe to have done so. Lieut. Whipple was sent into the Mogollon mountsj He remained in them near twenty days, visited the hi I hat w*tPrH fhe (lila, and describes it as a most clove lirl and tumbled up region, perfectly worthless except a li itod S]>ace on the northwestern slope of the mountn icnnd n,:lP". made from frequent rending* of the eompaw . ,uar. look upon as very correct. Kvory detachment fm nisi mc with a map of tht! country traversed. These I hi ? ? - ^ w" \ I #Mh?mittcd, with 147 t? tl>? departmfl?t head| quni t>-rs, to which I bare no doabt Uic general will readj H> give you occv*. ! a .' After pursing thfc Dcpft voMtjy, the river continue it* course muiUi, and outers the Cohorts of a low range of Lava mountains, connecting the Buno and Aliuoque uut mountains. Lost, as it were, for atxmt tweaty mi lea iu l,a the eafloue, it fulls Into a large open country, extending from the Buuo mountains on the east to the Altno<|ue on ' **" the west, It continues westerly till U meets the tSieneta ' -il? Jornado, a low range of caftous from the south ? forces tha he river among the issues and precipices of its northuru ex- j l,'r tiemity, when, seeking again its western direction, itilows ,JI,t for from sixty to one hundred miles through a valley about forty miles wide, 'lliis valley was remarked by all I len as most fertile?extensive bottom lands, a rolling country in" on either aide, offering the Anuat grasing to tlio very foot 'u- of the mountains. This valley, like every other capable ; sd( of being cultivated, gives evidence of a former people, ag- | ?r" ricultural in their pursuits, and no doubt far more civllk** lscd than the present race who desolate It. We find to ni" the north the Almoquc and Patos mountains, with a liaot" Baltic range of low mountains, connecting these with the V- Penal range. To the west the south span of the Penal j **" mountains stand as a harrier to all ogress. To the south j ur' we have the mountain ranges of Trumbull and Oraluuu, ' 'ou and to the east the Sicneta Jornado. Within these liounrn" darics we have a spot large, fertile, healthy, and wellwatered by the Uila, bedded in tlte uiouutaius, distant P0" from all roads and pass-ways, and without a probability * of any ever being inuUe uirougu 11 u uountrv, hh ii ll<0 were, isolated. This ap|>eais to nie to lie most admirably '' adapted for tlio houieti of tlie Indian, llere established J''" in hie pueblo, his fertile planting-grounds at his door, ' aer good water, and healthy climate, his flocks, herds, and stock futtening on the mountain slopes, he would be hap- i i>ily situated. The maguey, the favorite food of the In- I diaii, ia here found in abundance. 1 am aware that oh- I Jectiona may be urged to assigning aucli fertile countries . 1 ?f to (lie Indian ; but this valley, with all its health, its zn~ delicious water, and rich lands, la not such as 1 fancy ,,ul would lie desirable for the settlement of our people, who seek the great thoroughfares, and reject what so coinpletcly isolates tliem from the busy world. Here, inileod, 1 man may live and grow tat, and huve nothing to disturb j ns> the quiet of a whole year; but this is not in sympathy ] se" with busy, active, and enterprising American citizens. So that the fact of its great isolation is an additional recommend- | "" ation to its Indian adaptability, when, under the parental | careof Ida agent, he may easily supply all bis wants, with , *11" the certainty that his improvement, though slow, will be : 1? constant. To the north of the Gila tlio country is j broken, rising as you go north into high mountains, j "IC Small streams rise in these mountains, and, running through tlio cations, at times open Out into small valleys lce of the greatest fertility. On the south the country Is Brt' rolling to the mountains without tubulanes. It is a pel?d culiarity to this, as to all the Gilu region, that springs j or> commence in all the mountains, so as to afford abumlance of water for all stock purposes, and sometimes evon n'> for irrigation ; but these springs lose tlunibeh os in the loose soil of the valley, and tind the river under ground. oeB I have made a rough sketch of the subject, desiring UK simply to draw your attention to it, and if it should have the uierit of any usefulness I shall lie satisfied. Tim 0.) Siencta.Iornado, I omitted to mention, is about one Inili' dred miles due west from Fort Thoni. 1 am, Colonel, yours, &c. I i? r o luixrvovrtr i v xj. aj. u. wi^nut | Colonel United States army. ! I Col. Jamks Ij. <'olli>s, Sup. Indian Affairs, Santa Fc, N. M. ' The re|K>rts, which I have been |>crinitt<id to cxainino, ' ?eat in by the officers coiuinunding the different scouting an 1 exploring detachments, state th'at tine timber, consisting of walnut, oak, ash, elm, &c., is found in nearly all the valleys. Having occasion to ride in the vicinity of the " Pecos of church," 25 miles east of this place, I stopped to examine His its ruins. It is believed this edifice was erected in the Monteznraiun reign, over 200 years ago. It is spacious, ;e ; and its stylo of architecture Gothic. Tho wood work is es. elalK>ratcly carvod, evidencing the use of iron instruments ng and the attainment to a very correct ideu of the bcautiies ful. The internal arrangement is much after the style of the Cathedral at Georgetown, D. C. There are signs that ncl it was enclosed with a high adobe and stone wall. It is In- on an elevated spot. There ore also tho ruing of a pueblo ins or town. I turned my horse upon the luxuriant grass, .en and spent several hours in examination of these relics of of a past race of people evidently more civilized and more to humanized than the savages of the country, len There arc many interesting indications of nn ancient je. people in this Territory, which I shall inure fully descant tip upon hereafter. Yours, truly, ley 8. M. YOST, ed x [Our Now York Oorrespondonc \] 1C(J THE DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK. 'V, Nxw York, October 30, 1857. ild . New York County in Council. est ,jg On Thursday the great democratic rati tic.) tion meeting was held in and out of Tammany Hall. The evening was jRl glorious ; the crowd was immense; the enthusiasm unCM. hounded ; the confidence of tho redemption of the State (n_ jubilant. Rands of music, illuminations, Bcngold lights, j1(, Drummond lamps, the masses of men, the crowd, and tho .jH excitement made the Park a marked s|K>t. Hon. Elijah ro. K. Purdy presided. Hon. DaidelE. Sickles, Josinli Randall, lt)f Thos. F. Mcaglicr, Col. Wright of Boston, and Hon. John j lre Kelly addressed tho meeting. An outside organization j m( was held, ami speeches made and songs snug. Hitters ptB were read from Reverdy Johnson, Hon. I). 8. Dickinson, 3re Judge Parker, Gideon Tucker, and John Van Buren. No ;al ono can doubt where New York county will Is: found on r[]j the second day of November. The republicans see the ire handwriting on the wail. The Tribune sounds the alarm, j ?] It announces that defeat is at hand, of Knraa County in Council. is Tlie (leinocrary of Kings county met in council this i rill night to ratify the county ami State nominations, and, In i the words of the call, to begin those efforts which are to | [tig "result in the redemption of the Empire Stab' from the \ fa- misrule and abuses of the republican party." The meeting thus called was nobly responded to. It was held in the elegant Assembly Rooms, one of the finest j halls in the State. The " Kings Comity Association" is ; klie composed of all the active democrats in the county. [)r. They arc as wide-awake sot of follows as one would w ish | ry. to see this side of Mason and Dixon's line. he The night was propitious ; the hull jammed to the tit- ' the ; most. Mr. A. Bayard, es<p, presided; and Hon. J. Cooh- \ 1th iw, Gen. 11. Walbridge, Judge Morton, W. J. Rote, ion Matthew Hale Smith, and others addressed the meeting. ' er- I have not time to report the speeches of many of Die at- gentlemen. But 1 will send you a short rojiort of th? ese speech mode by Matthew Hale Smith, <wa|., of New York. ' When ho came forward he was greeted with an entluisithe astic reception, for he is well known in Ktagx county, and lb- did many a hard day's work over there lust fall. Mr. in, | Smith said that it was a pleasant sight to s-e the demncion I raev in council. The woik before us. said Mr. s . would est seem to Ik- on easy MM. Wo find ? party in power that Icn h&x not the confidence of itself, and its track is marked 2ft by the foulest political wrongs--a janty disponed liy its lie own record. Trim to its ?*ii instincts, the moment the I he anti-democratic elements combine, and keep still long eo. enough to act, they commit some great outrage on the md popular rights. In this country wu linve never had hut ich two parties- the party of the money |H>wer und the party tn- of the people. It Was so i? the time of Washington. He J It turned away from the jealousies, the calwtls, the rivalries, j the Intrigue* of the so-called great to the mighty vote* n*. | and strong arm of the people, as he would have turned ad ! from the hot, fetid alt of the crowdod room to the fre ih ted ; winds that moved the forest at hi* loved Mount Vernon tn- Tito people carried Jeffevsirn through the great contest, in. It was this arm of strength, this confidence in the I mn-scs, that made Gen. Jackson tmhmiitahle In the right. >ed Amid the fanaticism, sectionalism, untl disunion of the *vc party that sought to divkie nod rule us, the dear ryo and cool judgment of Che gical ihrcf?our standard betrcr the elected head of our nation- rented calmly on i|l(, good sense and tiriu faith of the js-ople of the cot^. tfy, and the great pHhetjlea of ouf fw'tv, tb?> have sustained tie, run like the (iulf stream in mid oeagg unchanged and discernible. The municipal law by which Albuuy attempted to rule Hew Vork, My. 8, mud was a work of malicious calculation. It was the iiUant of ita (tamers to run so chwe to Mir constitution aa ahuwi to ilefy tire eftort to detect the wrong to keep the of the fundamental law, hut violate the spirit, hi ? country governed by law, and not by force, all laws should bo so dearly within the power of the law-making to# vcutlon as to lend to no dispute The democracy give I be* constitutional laws a wide berth , but the trainers of tl.ii outiage drove the car of legislation close up to the ?dg( of the prcciiaoe, whilst the road was miles wide on the other side. He said the decision of Judge Drnio wna u? more than this : that by great study and art the republj cans lunl contrived to keep within the iwtar of the law. and a judge who will not bend one jot to meet his own [lersonul wishes, and who, iu the duty of bis judicial fim, lions, dare offend bis frieuds, is a judge for such lime as this. When the laws of Home deiasml ed that the laws made by the Emperors should l? written and nailed up in soiue public place, Caligula caused the laws to be written in flue hand, so that t)u-y could not be read, and then nailed theiu on a column low feet high ! A judge friendly to the people would have la-en compelled to decide that the Km|ieror had kept the Itiirr of the law. Hut the infamy of the outrage would have becu dee perns I by the malicious arrangement |u evade popular rights and strike down popular liberty. Of the election of l'residuiit Huchanan Hie spenker Mil it was one of those marked contests that indicate a gn-at crisis and a groat popular triumph ; that It tvns ialf-ulald to settle gi oat issues for firtlf a century to come, li lie given usalive President, and those "plug-uglies" who went on to Washington to aid in the election, and weut on u know-ixSAniyr, came back knowing tmMtkmg. The re. spouse ot tut- people u> miv cumou iiiki mom or i resni. hi Buchanan have lieen emphatic, l'cunsyh unl*. Ohio. Georgia, anil Connecticut trucli that the people believe thin to be a nution lor trhite men ; tiiat they wish (he negro well, hut are nut quite ready to give their (laugh tera in marriage to them, nor trend them card* of invitation to eneli levee. Our people can endure occasionally the rule of black republicanism ; but a musll dose in usually enough. They are like an old hunter ai Shoal Water Imy. He was fouud one day dining ou * roasted crow ; when asked if he was fond of crow, mud. "I ken eat crow, hut hang nic if I faafcr arter it." Of those democrats who joined tlie republicans, the real they display against the national cause and the sudileu blackness of their republicanism reminded the speaker, of in incident that is connected with adventures on tin- I'm i?, coast, near the Washington Territory. Some of the Indiana oil that coast have the real Gaelic hrogue. On tli? arrival at the port of Bridgetown, a Hibernian was h*IM by two negro boatmen, who offered to take hiln oil shore. Supposing them to have come from the old country, he asked the boatmen how long they had been there "Six months, yer honor!" The astounded passenger eriel out, "Six months! six months! only six months' nn-l turned as black as me hat! Jnbers, what a climate !" Mr. (Smith closed by a reference to the future. The Eiiiropean worm is ruiea ior mo icw ; me aae nixn n<n ernmont won founded for the many, and for all time. It is now one of the nuxtt potent in the world. An election in America excite* the attention of the whole civilian) world. A crisis in Wall street shakes Throadiicudle street, ami makes the bankers of the Old World give heed. NY have a President whose long life of statesmanship, whose commanding talents, unwavering fidelity to the cause of popular lights, tolls its own tale when crowned liewU meet for consultation. Hy Ills side stand counsellor* whose early home was in the forest wilds, and whose slumbers were disturbed hy the savage war-whoop, suit whoae commanding ability the country has often called into action. Wc have a flag so frail thrit an infant's finger may rend it-so mighty that the combined despotism of the world dare not touch it; and we can defend it with our cannon against the world. We have a crop Rt the South whose abundance or sterility affects all the wsnts of the world ; a crop at the North of granite and ice, with the ability to transmute our ice into gold and our rocks into bread. Our institutions are elastic, and can stretch over the whole country, broad u? the land, till Americans, in the l<cst sense of that abused phrase, sluill rule America. And here we intend to live. And here we intend our children shall live. Under the tree of constitutional freedom, planted with toil and watered with the best blood of the world, we moan to sit. Nor shall any foul hands guide the tree. We like the institutions of our fathers. Better wc do not need. We like the old chart, the old Jhtrd light-liouse on the shore, and we intend to "abide by tire ship." And wc intend also to restore the Umpire State to her rightful place among other democratic States. Bleeding Kansas has lieen played out, and the republicans aro like the famous bulls of Barondalc, who made themselves mad with their own licllowing. Wo say to the gentlemen at Albany who propose to rule us from that rural retreat that they are too ignorant of 11s to rule us wisely?too jealous to rule us justly?too fur from us to rule us at all The union of the party is now complete. Our best men arc in the field. The Niagara tone of the west will Ite responded lo by tiro deep anthem of the Atlantic bil low, beating on the Atlantic border of the eastern boundary of old Kings at Kockaway. The Valley Forge of tire I Mist political year will lie followed by the spring of victory and the surrender of the enemy. And on the night of victory wo will meet and celebrate with gladness the triumph of the democracy over sectionalism and tyranny?a victory achieved by tire democratic hosts, who sie many as the billow, but out! na tho sea. MANHATTAN. Itr.m.vnK.Mti.K Inktascks or Hmmss.?The Rev. Nr. Humbler, of India, ill a letter to the Christian Intclligrti ccr, gives the following instances of heroism called forth l>?the Indian mutinies: 'did. Americans never la* ashamed that Kiiglislmieu are their forefathers. Kimluml is a noble cotuiti v lb,r sons arc hen*'* anil her daughters arc heroines. This i? Is-llion haw brought out deeds thai deserve to lie asm wis ted with those valorous actions which we, with throbbing pulses, read In history lu cue placo, a lady and her has lutnd fled In their carriage. He stood upright. She took the rcintl. She lashed the hoiwea through a Iwnd of mutineer*. while he, witli cool nim, shot dead one who wind the horse*' head*, and auothor who climbed upon the ferriage behind to cut him down. On they fled, till attain they found tlieinHolve* among foe*, and a rope aUwtcbed across the road made further progress appear Impossible True to herself, she dashed the horses at full *|ieed sgainst the rope, and as they, bearing it down, stumbled, she. by rein and whip, raised them, while her liiiflwiid's woap ons again freed (hem from those who succeeded in leap iag nputi tliem. He was wounded, but both escaped witli their livoa. In another place, a yonng lady, the <U"Rh tor of an officer, shot seven mutineers Is;fore they Killed her. A captain, pressed by his sepoys, with bis g'**l .wold slew twenty-six of them liefore he full!" I>h. Dim * Opinio* or nnt Indian Havoi/r. Hr Dull, tlie missionary, has said in a recent letter : " -1 have no hesitation in saving, wiili tint utmost emphasis, that the whole is the result of ? king-COBOOCbd Mohammedan fonaplriity against tlie British powi-r, with w view to the ie-estab)ishiuelitof a Mohammedan d)nasty I instead. h- " Kor the last hundred years Ihev have btvti sighing | and lonjdttg Mldpmjring, not old} it) private, but in tlnir }>ut>li<- niiMMjuus, for the prm|Ki?y uf llio Honae of Ti roour, iu tin- pernon of it? representative, tlm titular Kin;: or Ktupornr of I>?*lhi. But tin- prosperity of flint ho"* in Another inn no for llio downfall of the BiIUhIi, anil the ream-ending of MohamnedMi power." Woman Bonn no to Dnatii by Bvbniko Ku in at * o'clock Hnturifay evening tho wife of John Biwloerf, re Hilling on Klin ftreet, met with u fnt.il accident. Killin< h tiuid lamp while lighted, nlie spillewl a portion of tli fluid on the tah|e, and undertook to wipe it off wilh In f apron, when her clnthcM suddenly took fire, and M'?<' the tUmcH could lie extinguished the poor woman had tier akin burned completely off from tlie cheat to the feet. M"' lingered until ft o'rloek the next morning. [Bllffrtlo f ti'.io