The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1849, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Borthwest corner of Fulton and Nassau sts. JAMES GORDON BENNET®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. “AMUSEMENTS THIS RVENING. ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, Astor Place—Oretzo, BOWERY THEATKE, Bowery—Tue Tunez Guanpa- wen. BROADWAY THEATRE, Droadway—Nonma—Oun Ma- ay Anne. BURTON’ tioas—A Biky oF Pass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ALLY Croaken—CHnisT NATIONAL THMATRE, Chatham equare—Teppy Rox— Joan oy Anc—Puantom Baxakrast. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway—Tims Trims ALi— Devin tN Panis--Amy ‘Ler. MECHANICS’ HALL—Cyaisty's Mixsra ere: AMERICAN MUSEUM—Awvetra Penronmances Eye By ArrenNoon anv Br SOCIETY LIBRARY ROOMS—Camnece’s MixsrRuns, OIRCUS, Astor Placo—EquxstRiaw PERFORMANCES, MANTATTAN CIRCUS, near Williamsburgh—Eqves- TRIAN PERFORMANCE?, rf , Chambers stroet—Arx No Qu as- 9 SERATES: s- OLp Dutem Govennon, adway.—GoLpen Farmea— MinsTRELS, w York, Wednesday, Novemb European News, The Caledoma is due to-day at Halifax. The wires to that city were in good order when our paper was gent to press this morning. The Territories, and the Slavery Question= A New Compromise. The exciting and over-ruling question of the next Congrese, will be the subject of slavery in reference to the new territories. The difficulty, if the actiqn of the people of California and of the Mormon State in the Great Basin is approved by | Congress, is narrowed down to the territory of New Mexico. This terntory covers an immense surface of sandy plains and barren mountains, and 1s to ull intents and purposes a desert, excepting the narrow ribands along the banks of the Rio del Norte and a few of its principal tributaries. But the abstraction of the slavery question gives even to the desert the first rmportance. It is the principle involved, and not the value of the territory, which constitutes the great difficulty to a compromise, or division of the territory between the North and South. If the doctrine 1s admitted, of the power of Congress to exclude slavery from the territories south of the Migsouri compromise line, 1t may be excluded from all future acquisitions, including the island of Cuba, To carry out such a policy, would be to give the balance of power to the North, and it would place the institution of slavery in the South at the mercy of the free soilers and the abolitionists. It is this danger menacing the Southern States, which has driven them to their present desperate attitude in opposition to the Wil- mot proviso, and gives to their resistance not only a show of justification and expediency, but of sagacity and foresight, which cannot be dis epected. Neither will the South be content with the ac- tion of the people of California in their State organi- gation. The territories of Oregon and California include the whole of our sea coast on the Pacific side. The boundary of California, as defined by the Monterey Convention, takes in the whole of the coast 1o the Mexican line, at the 32d degree of north latitude, or four degrees and a half south of the compromise line of 36 30. The South will ob- ject to this boundary of the new State, for two Teasons. Fu ‘That 1t excludes the South entirely from the Pacific corxst; and, secondly, because a State extending through ten degrees of latitude, and filling up as rapidly as is California, must soon be divided mto two States, which would give the balance of power to the North, in the Senate. The South are the more jealous of this, inasmuch as Minnezota, Oregon, and Deseret will, in due seacon, come in as non-sleveholding States, to say nothing of the prospects of the annexation of Ca- nada. The last foothold of the South, for the security of their institutions, is in an equality of representa- tion in the Senate. The States now stand fifteen to fifteen, or thirty Senators each from the North and South. With the prospect of three more States, within a year or two, from the North, without California or New M balance in the Senate to be preserved? Here lies the whole difficulty. It appears from the Washington letter-writers, including the letter which we publish from our | own corresponnent, to-day, that a proposition will be submitted to the Senate, on the first day of the session, (probably by Mr. Foote, of Mussissippi,) providing for the division of California, by the line of 36 30, between the North and Sou for the division of the State of Texas, south of 36 39, into two Southern States; for the admission of the Territory of Deseret, and for the submission of the boundary of New Mexico to a board of commis. sioners. Cur correspondent thinks that some such compromise will settle the whole dispute ; but the probability is that it will only increase the existing embarrasements, and prolong and exasperate the existing agitation to the most dangerous extremes. ‘The resolutions of annexation provide what “new States of convement size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State,” be admitted into the Union; and that in all such States,so formed within the limits of Texas, above the line 36 30, slavery shall be prohibited. There is no obstacle, then, to the division of Texas into ceveral States, except her ‘own consent; but it will be many years before she will have the necessary population to be divided into more than two, unless her claim to New Mexico is allowed, which will admit of another. Above the line of 96 30 she has no habitable terri- tory, unless New Mexico be included, and the Rio Grande as the implied boundary of the annexation. But this aseumption involves the most perplexing difficulty in the whole dispute, and the identical point upon which the main battle is to be fought between the free soilers and the South Any proposition to reject the constitution, the State organization, and the Members and Senators ico, how is the | | to sanction the contract, will make them public. A more audacious demand we never beard of. | Is there any chance for a compromise? Is there any prospect without one? Plans are abundant enough, but what is to be done? We are approach- ing the breakers, and our ony reliance is in the prudence of General Taylor, as the pilot, and in the forbearance and discretion of all the moderate men of both sections, to save us from a wreck. ‘Taxation and Gas in New York—City Re= forms Needed. There are several reforms connected with the municipal affairs of New York, under discussion at the present time, which it is to be hoped will not be lost sight of or abandoned until they have been secured. The most important are a more equil system of taxation, and the supplying of the city with gas by the corporation instead of by private companie:, in the same manner in which we are supplied with water. These reforms have been much talked of of late, and we are perfectly well satisfied that, if they are kept before the public, they will be secured before another year shall have passed. The present unequal system of taxation is justly complained of. Every species ot property—real, per- senal and chatte!-real—within our corporation |i- mits, should be taxed for the support of the city government. Itis protected by the city govern- ment, and should, oa every principle of justice and y, be agsegsed, and the owners made to pay their share of the city expenses. Under the present system, many merchants, transacting a large busi- ness in the lower wards, and having in their stores property amounting in the aggregate to many mil- lions of dollars worth, are exempted from tion, becauce of their living in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, and other places contiguousto the city. To avoid taxation, all that merchants have to do is not to live in the city. ‘This 1s clearly unjust. Such people are, to all intents and purposes, residents of | New York. It is quite immaterial where they | sleep, when it is notorious they do busi ness 1n New York, and their property is under the | protection of our laws and police. Such men have | in their stores goods and property to the amount of | several thousand dollars each, and they are ex- | empt from taxation, because, forsooth, when the business of the day is over, they take the boat to Brooklyn, instead of the omnibus to the upper part of the city, while the mer- chant who sleeps in town is taxed. This ope- rates injuriously intwo ways. It gives the non-resi- dent dealer an advantage over the resident; and, secondly, it deprives the city of a portion of its le- gitimate revenue. Aguin, there are a great many agencies of insurance companies, banking houses, and other institutions, foreign and belonging to other States in the Union, located in this city, which eseape taxation, but which ought, 1 jus- tice to our citizens, to be assessed prorata as other property is. The object of taxation is to support go- yernment—the object of government is to guaranty the security of life and property. It follows, then, that all property, within the pale of government, should be assessed for the support of the govern- ment which protects it. But it is not so, as wehive shown. It is estimated that there is property, with- in the limits of the city of New York, to the value of hundreds of mullions of dollars, which escapes taxation in this way. The result is, that the remain- ing property is unjustly and unequally assessed, to the amount probably of fifty per cent. The remedy lies with the Legislature of the State; according to a recent decision on this subject, the city au- thorities are powerless in the premises. On the subject of supplying the city with gas, public opinion is unanimous that we should be re- jieved, as soon as possible, of the extortions prac- tised on our citizens by the New York Gas Com- pany. The article which is now furnished by that close monopoly, is not only given in insufficient quantity, but is of an inferior quality, ands charg- edforat arate double and treble that for which good gas is provided in other cities. In fact, the people of New York are completely at the mercy of this institution, as far as the lighting of the city 18 concerned, and they demand redress. Why should our citizens be compelled to deal with any monopoly, for any artiele that they require, and to pay a price greater than they can get it for from other sources?’ Why should the stock- holders of any institution be allowed to get rich, and become bloated with wealth, extracted from the vitals of our industrious people? The remedy in this case is simple, and within our reach. Let the Board of Assistant Aldermen retuse to ratify of making a new contract for twenty years with hat monopoly. How that company, with its im- versation, and with five years of its present con- tract unexpired, had the eflrontry to ask for an- other contract, to extend twenty years, we do not for such a favor, he would be hooted out of doors What can we think of the Board of Aldermen making such a contract? We fear there is something rotten and unsound in this business, and we hope that such of our citizens as are in possession of the circumstances which induced these gentlemen the action of the Board of Aldermen, in the matter | positions on the public the theme of general con- | koow. Certain itis, that of an individual applied | Tus Misrortungs anp Fina Trivmrn or Couonet Wers.—If any one man has been more unfortunate, among our cotemporaries than any other man, it ‘s Colonel Webb. The sum of $52,675 374, from the United States Bank, was a lucky hit—the Bankrupt Law was another; but, to secure the benefits of that act, he was compelled to take a shot in the leg from ‘Tom Marshall, of Kentucky.” Since that time, he has had a con- stant run of the worst kind of bad luck, and has been bamboozled beyond all endurance. Human sympathy, by an infallible instinct, takes the side of the persecuted party, wherever there is persecu- tion. ‘Thus it is, that our sympathy impels us to protest against the persecutions of Colonel Webb. Just look at them. During the Mexican war, fired with a patriotic ardor to serve the country, he applied to Col. Polk for a Brigadier General’s commission, and, for some time, was decoyed into a cordial support of the plans of the admimstratjon. But the commis- sion was not forthcoming, and Father Ritchie turned the whole affair mto a cruel hoax. It was quite natural for Col. Webb, or any other man, to feel it; but it was a piece of cruelty and tampering with a man’s feelings and his honest patriotism, that is not to be excused. It was in bad taste for Father Ritchie to chuckle over it as he did, although the old man has found out since that Colonel Webb 1s not to be trampled on with impunity. But the tnek which Mr. Polk and Gov. Marey played off upon their victim, was nothing to what afterwards occurred. Mr. Polk knew that Colonel Webb was a candidate for the mission to Berlin, and had all his papers and vouchers made out ; and yet, Mr. Hannegan, on the last night of Congress, was slipped in and confirmed by the Senate; just at the moment when they would do almost anything for the Executive signature to the General Appro- priation bill. ‘This was adding insult to injury upon Colonel Webb. But did he give up? Nota bit of it. He cast about him, and put in for Spain. Madrid is a nice place—Spain is a fine country, full of beautiful senoras and senoritas, and classic and romantic associations. The Moorish ruins of Alhambra, and the old monastic castle of King Philip of the gridiron, to the fine, imaginative and antiquanan mind of Col. Webb, just to see them, and to write about them, would have been equal to the outfit and the embassy of nine thousand a year, to say nothing of the moonlight evenings on the Guadal- quiver. Col. Webb, therefore, put in for Spain. He was tantalized from day to day with hopes and promises and provisoes. He went to the same church with the President; he puffed the cabinet servatim ; and in the aggregate he had never seen such a splendid administration, from the President down to George W. Crawford, of the War Office. But it was time wasted, puffery wasted, and pa- tience wasted, all for nothing. Mr. Barringer, of North Carolina, got the mission to Spain. The forlorn hope of the committee of three failed to shake the decision of Old Zack, and Col. Webb failed. ‘This was enongh to break down the faith of any man in the delusive promises of men in power. It shook the nerves of our cotemporary, and he was compelled to travel tor his health. He took the tour to Chicago, for his blood was heated, and might be benefitted by the cool fresh air and cold fresh water of the lakes. But while his mind was yet agitated, he stopped at Detroit,and dined with Gen. Cass. His report betrayed the extent of his sufferings, and the unspeakable agony of his wrongs, from his confused account of the grounds of his respect for Gen. Ca: But he finished his tour, and returned to his post, resolving for once to ren- der good for evil, and to support the administration, as the only chance. Occasionally, on the subject of nepotism, he has run off the track ; but, upon the whole, he has done better under the circumstances than enybody had any reason to expect. * But this does not end the chapter of Col. Webb’s grievances. It would seem that the Hudson | River Railroad Company have taken him in hand, end victimized him. It appears that our cotem- porary granted the night of way through his lands near Tarrytown, on certain conditions, one of which was, that himself and family and friends | should be among the free list of passengers; and | that now the company say they can’t allow it; that | the family and friends of the traverser are too nu- | merous, and that the list must be limited. This | | is the last infliction, and,as one of the friends of | our amiable cotemporary, we protest against it. But justice does not sleep forever. The vir- tuous and patriotic, if they have faith, will one day | get their reward. So it is with our cotemporary. His faith has stood the test of the crucible ; and in his final triumph all Wall street will rejoice. One | editor of the Courier has been elected the presi- dent of a university ; a second has been elected to the Legislature ; and the third—the Apollo Belvi- dere—the head of the firm—is appointed to Vienna. “The golden dream is out.” Our cotemporary | has the commission in his pecket, and a draft on the sub-treasury for the $9,000 outfit. Good. | Seriously, however, for once—this last act of the Clayton cabinet is the most laughable they have yet perpetrated, and they will find it so before the next Senate adjourns. Let the Board of Assistants, then, refuse to concur with the other Board in this the lighting of the city with gasa department of our municipal government. Why should not the city government supply gas as well as water to our citizens? A handsome revenue is derived from the one, and would be from the other likewise, if it were under municipal control. We again hope that these subjects will not be al- jowed to rest. Every inhabitant of New York, rich or poor, has an interest in demanding these reforms, and we trust they will be agitated and kept alive, until they are accomplished. | Polk, and upon the former opinions of Father | of California, in dividing the territory upon the | line 36 30, will most likely be defeated. The people of California have acted consistently with | yyy Clayton. We have been given to understand, | the doctrine of Gen. Case, in deciding upon the slavery question for themselves; although the re- servation to Congress of prescribing the boundaries of new States admits of a compromise. But the proposition to make the compromise line the southern boundary of the new State, so as to re- | serve the residue of the territory for a Southern State, cannot, we apprehend, by any possibility, receive the assent of the House. Viewed in any light, from any point, and upon any plan of compromise whatever, the settlement of thie question of slavery in the territories is likely to be a most ugly business. The new plan foreshadowed by the Washington letter-writers is but a modification of the propositions of Mr. Un- derwood, Mr. Douglass, and others, heretofore de- feated in thi nate. Whiatever may be the dispo- sition to a ecmpromise of Mr. Clay and Mr. Ben- ton, the northern members of the House, and northern Senators, have received their instrue- tions. Free soil and abolition are the ruling ele- ments in the North. The course of Martin and John Van Buren, and Benton, on the democratic wide, and of Seward, Weed, Greeley, Root, (id- dings, and others of the whigs, and their eonces- sions to the abolition spirit, have made free soil the predominant question, and blended all parties upon the proviso in the North. All sorts of com- promises have been tried and rejected, and, in the jnterval, the anti-slavery sentiment has been ra- pidly gaining strength and resolution. There is mo use of blinking the fact. The long threatened ersis on the slavery question is upon us, with the meeting of Congress. How is it te be settled? —— andes Tur Nicaraara Question, ano Tre Wastrve- ron Oneans.—The organs at Washington continue to edify the public with long and prosy reviews on the doctrine of Monroe, and the opinions of Mr. Ritchie, on the question of non-intervention, as discussed in the Congress at Panama, some twen- ty-odd years ago slightest inkling disclosing the present position of the Nicaragua dispute between Mr. Crampton and by other advices from Washington, that pending the unsettled bagatelle with France, Mr. Claytonis | | disposed to compromise with the Mosquito King, | out of deference to the importance of our pacific relations with Great Britain, and in consideration of the personal respect which our Secretary of State entertains towards the British “‘goveinment. Why does not the Republic take hold of the direct question? Who cares for the opinions of Father Ritchie of 18267 Does Mr. Clayton intena to stand ap to, or back out from, his position on the Nicaragua diepute? That's the question x or Canat Street—Taunteen Troveann Dorzans Saven.—The subject of the bill of costs of the Commissioners for extending Canal, street, which has occupied the attention of the public for some time past, came yesterday from the referee before the J udgesof the Supreme Court It appears, by the referee's report, that the costs of the Corporation Counse! amounted to something about €10,000. This, together with some other charges, of $3,000 more, was disallowed by the referee, and the claimants came, by appeal, before the Supreme Court. The decision of the Judges, given yesterday, is, that the charge of $13,000 was illegal—thus concurring in the views of the Herald, the expositions of which caused this matter to be thoroughly investigated. The city is thus saved a considerable amount of money. It was the opinion of Judge Jones, that the Commissioners were com- petent—or ought to have been—to make out their own report, and that the services of an attorney The Ext matter, and let | measures be taken, at the earliest moment, to make | But we look in vain for the | Inrernat. Lurrovements—Rai.rdan tx Broap- way.—At the meeting of the Common Council on | Monday evening last, the Board of Assistants ap- | pointed a special committee, to report, at an early | day, a suitable plan for a railroad in Broadway, | and such other streets in the lower part of the city, the publie interest and convenience may require. | The proposition passed, and we have no doubt that | | our ettizens wall await the report with a good deal } | of interest. * We look upon this as an excellent movemelt, j and the best one that has yet been started for re- | lieving Broadway of a portion ef its immense travel. {t is asettled fact, that that great tho- | roughfare must be relieved at an early day. The | | travel over it has become so great, that it is posi- | tively dangerous for pede¥trians to attempt to cross | The business of the city is increasing so ra- it. pidly that the work cannot be much longer delayed. | Let West Broadway be continued to the corner of | Courtlandt and Greenwich streets, in a direct line ; let Laurens street be widened to Amity, and ex- tended to Washington; construct a rhilroad in Broadway, from the Bowling Green to Union Square, and the work will be done. We shal] then hear no more of the obstructions in Broad- way, for all the necessary relief will be obtained. | There is another advantage that would be cer- | tain of attending the construction of a railroad in Broadway, if it were carried out properly. Let it be constructed at the expense of the city, and be manoged by the Common Council. At six cents a trip, a vast revenue—sufficient to pay expenses, and yield an interest of twenty per cent on the out- lay—would be derived from it. We hope the com- mittee will make a note of our suggestions. There is no constitutional difficulty in the way of this new system of internal improvements; there can be no distinction made by our municipal Daniel Websters and Martin Van Burens between salt water and fresh, for there is no water in the way ; and all will agree in the necessity there exists for constructing the work. Axorner Sreamnoat Exriosion.—It appears | that there has been another steamboat explosion neor New Orleans, by whieh several persons were | killed, and many wounded. It 1s to be hoped that | the proper authorities will investigate the matter, and punish the person or persons through whose | negligence the explosion took place. It is rarely, | indeed, that calamities of this kind are the result | of accident, and we feel confident that if the guilty | parties were properly punished, in one or two in- stances, there would be fewer of them. The au- | thorities of New Orleans owe a duty to society, to be prompt im investigating the recent explosy and inflicting punishment on the guilty, Affairs in Washington, ‘Wasnixeton, Nov, 20, 1849-5 P. M. ‘The Hon. 8. F, Vinton, of Ohio, and Breck, of Ken- tueky, arrived here to-day. Hugh Bernard Sweeny has been elected Teller and Notary of the Washington Bank, and Mr. Venable Dis- count Clerk, Later from Mexico. Barrimone, Noy, 20—9 P. M. By the Southern mail, we have dates from Mexico to the 28d inst, It is stated by El Siglo that the Governor of Queretaro had tendered his resignation, rather than publish the deeree re-establishing the Jesuits. The Legislature refused to accept the resignation, prefer- ring an impeachment. ‘The cholera is disappearing from Chihuahua. Steamer St, Paul Sunk, Sr. Louis, Nov. 20—A. M. The steamer St. Paul, from this port, bouad for New Orleans, with a large cargo of produce, struck a log off Hat Island, on Sunday evening last, breaking every timber larboard, aad, running on a bar, sunk to her wain deck, She was valued at $20,000. The Wreck of the Ship Tuscarora, Partaperrnia, Noy. 20,1849—P, M. ‘We learn from Lewes, that Capt, Tuol carora, left that place this morning for Indian river. Slight hopes are entertained that the vessel will be saved from total loss. The cargo has been nearly all secured, but in a damaged state, The Steamship Southerner, Cuanceston, Noy, 20, 1849, The steamship Southerner arrived at 9 o'clock this morning. Markets, New Onceana, Nov. 19, 1849, ‘Thero is a moderate inquiry for cotton, at the decline last noted (\), with sales of 1.500 bales. In suger there has been considerable movement, and prices are * embrace $00 hhds , inoluding fair algo in active request, with sales of ality at 20e. Bautimonr, Nov. 20—6 P. M. ‘The market for flour is dull, and Howard stroet is offered at $4 87)5. The es are only for the regular trade demand. In grai d provisions there is no- thing of moment doing. Sugars are steady, inquiry; about 300 bhds, changed hands at $: for Porto Rico and Cuba, and $5 a $5 25 for leans, 4 mos, 5a $6 15 New Or- Aunaxy, Nov. 20,1819--6 P.M. Receipts since yesterday :~ Flour, 26,000 bbls; wheat, 6,500 bushels; corm, 15,000 do.; barley, 34,000 do. ‘The weather continues to be very unpleasant, and the trans- actions in flour limited, The market, however, is slightly firmer, and about 2,000 bbls. changed hands. Genesee wheat is a tritle stiffer, and some 3,000 bushels changed hands at $1 17 a $1 18. There is more doing in corn, with eales of 9,000 bushels, mostly mixed W; tern, af 61 a 620 ; rye is quoted at 580., with sale e demand for barley is active, sales reaching $2,000 bushels, includipg mixed at 57 a 580; two-rowed 63 a €0c.; four-rowed at the caine price, Oate are in active request, and firm ; fales of 10,000 bush: 40 a 40450, Ohio aud Prison whiskey is quoted at 20); @ 270. Shipping Intelitgence. New ORLEANS, Nov 12. Arrived- Ships Emperor, Boston; W A Cooper, Philadel- hie. be Cuan .esron, Nov 16. Arrived--Brig Tybeo, NYork; 20th, 9 AM, steamship South~ erner, do. Parapetenia, Nov 20. Arrived--Steamship Columbus, sermgteas jostoNn, Nov 40. Arrived--Schr Oregon, Newark, N. Cleared--Ships Hannibal, San Francisco; Reindeer, do; brigs Ceorge Ryaa, do; Matamoras, Havana; Judge Willams, Nov ly. 208, », Noy 12. Barr Arrived--Brig Frances, Warren, and ali {or oT’ Bailed--Schr Ei ete ree Ponrianp, Nov 18 Arrived--Schrs Wm B Peters, NYork; North Carolina, Wiscasset for Savannah. es's Hour, Nov 16. Hou: ig Poconocket, Philadelphia for Boston; schr Cana A th, barks ida, Baltimore for do; Ava, Phila~ hia for Gardine brs Rubicon, N York for Boston; Pic= Dorohester for NYork. ‘San Francisco. Arrivi delp "Salted, Mith--Schrs Resannah, ¥ liam, and O' Bri Liberty, Relief, Wil- — ee Annivat or THe St. Desis.—The splendid packet ship St. Denis, Captain Howes, arrived at this port, yesterday, after a fine run across the Atlantic, She left Havre on the 18th ult. Among the passengers in the St. D. is Colonel Blein- ker, who commanded « numerous body of insurgents in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and the celebrated Heinzen, the agitator; Madame Jenny Lazare, the ce- lebrated French harpist, who visited the United States two years since, is also among the passengers. ‘The republicans of Europe, in, crowds, are en route for America, Inrerestine Lerren rrom Paesipent Roperrs, or Liogria—Provaste Apoutrion or THE SLAVE Trape.—The following letter from President Ro- berts, of Liberia, upon the condition of that re- public and the probab'e abelition of the slave trade on the coast, to Rev. Wm. McLain, of Washing- ton, will be read with interest :— Govensment Horse Dean Sin—A few days ago |’ addressed y land, a short note, announcing the arrivai that the immigrants had all been health and fine spirits, and much de- Hgbted with their new home and the prospects before them. They are, indeed, as far as | am informed, a fine tet of people, industrious and enterprising, and will, no doubt, prove a great acquisition to Since, and Liberiain general—just the kind of people we need. I hadalso the ble the rapid ext tion. The ave actually delivered ty's ship Alert, all the t have been collected there for exportation, hundreds, to be taken to Sierra Le- slavers have also taken advantage of aindness, and lett the Gallinas in one pro- jor the ‘aptein Dunlop of her Majesty's veseela for Sierra Leone, havin mised Captain Donlop never again to retarn Purpese of engaging in the slave trade. | bave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letters by the Liberia packet, which vessel arcived here on the isth, all well. Mr Gurley is now with nT requests me to present bis kindert regards to yor may that he would be pleased to send you a lin cannot now, for the want of th goon by ti 1 will write you fully 8. ship Decatur, via Porto Prayn. by the packet. 'I have not time to add more, Yours, truly, J.J. ROBERTS. Rev. Ws. McLain, Washington. City Intetligenc: Fosenat of Ma. Wits H. At afternoon, at three ae mortal A a Greenwood street. The fui d by @ considerable number of his acquaintances and friends, in o 4 Mr. Attree was a man of more then ordinary ability, nd the greatest enemy he had was himself. Like too many literary men, he fell « victim to ill health, super- induced by undue excitement of bis nervous item, and a morbid craving for stimulants to sustein the | flagging energies of over-tavked nature. [le was @ gtaphic writer, an excellent reporter, and had a five memory. Tarcer Excunsions.—The Jefferson Blues, Captain Robert Smack, and the American Light Guards, Capt. Joreph T. Porter, passed the Herald office, yesterday, | on their way to target excursions, Both companies looked well, marched well. As Avram or Howon —Fistiouffs are becoming de- cidedly vulgar, since the last flare. up at @ fancy ball in Leonard street. where two pugilistic gentlemen, known as Yankee Sullivan and Dutch Charley, had « set-to with each other, and which resulted in a lodging in the lice station-houre, Since that time. a kind of feud ns existed between Sullivan and( harley, and, to settle which existed between there two great e don Monday Distance, ten pases. — = All parties then re. to the city, highly gratified with rage ed by the contending parties. We give the above as we heard it rumored about the city yester- day. but cannot vouch fer the correctness of the state- mente, although we have been assured that such are the facta. Fire —At half past 11 o'clock, Monday night, « fire broke out im the porter house of §. Vrooman, 203 West street. It was extinguished with but trivial damage. jo Laowy —Atil @’elock.on Monday night, the lamps im Liberty street wer ot burnisg. What anight to be without light A Tree Serr olice oMicer H: ¢ found five tained belon No. 90 Fulton street. posed the officer was in pursuit of hie dropped them. How trne it t thy ked fleeth when no man pur- eueth, Court of Common Pleas, Before Judge Ingraham, Nev, 20.— Gertrude W. Huyler ve Benjamin Leroy ant others —For Siegal telzure of property belonging to plaintif, Defendants were allowed to amend their answer, they paying the costs of this term. IN CHAMBERS. Before Justiee Ulshoeffer. Divorce —Motion for trial, at the eult of Ano L. ‘Thompron against her hueband, Edwio Relph Thomp- ton, for a divorce, on the ground of adultery, Granted LEGRAPHIE INTELLIGENCE | ge:ce: haaaanaaaaaneanenoa! £6, 669, | commanded their particular Court © Count.—Nos, 8936, 4134, 82, 51, , 1, 92, 98, 94, 95, 98, 96,0. 16. 38" 43. art 2 Noe 35, 88; 60,06, 62, 54, 62) 70, 88, 112, 114, 126, 136,150. | For © desirous of pro- jaliforn’ ceeding to California will find, by reference to the advertise- ment in another column, that the staunch aud fast ain hip “* Manchester,” Captain Job Coleman, has accomm oabin Au inspect et tnipy and an application to [ie Captain, on board, at the atreet, will be duly appreciated. For California.—The very fast-salling brig Emma Prescott, Peckner, master, fh sail for we om Nort Kivgr, foot of Frauklin street, or at 05 Nassaust. California Houses.—Pertable and other California Houses oul eraip, Reuse end Stores, equal to, and as cheap as SAM'L. BOOTH, 58 Myrtle ave., Brooklyn. The Hicheliew Kiver Pointed Gold Pens ave, for durabilit; ity, and fi f finish, hi wely by J. YASAVAGE, 8 Wiiton foot Init Bold : a street, who has also a superior assortment of fine G. Bilyer Watches, which he'will sell very low. Watches and Gold Pens repaired. Henry Clay’s Saqnecves mn tleman is ex) or to visit harloan ya blishment: this day, or to-merrow, ave his likeness tak: by th optical fight.’ Pietures made by tus light are accurate, ar: Ute ant prosty not surpassed nor exccliod by any. HARRISON & HOLMES, No, 250 Lroadway. S.C. McIntyre Kespectfully Invites Public giesiica bis new Miniature Daguerreaa Gallery, No. oud roadway, The first Gold Medal awarded to Daguer= a ho the American Institute, was awarded in favor cf corner of Broadway snd Fulton strest, where strangers and citizens are invite to examine spocimens. re; the y is, beyondall doubt, the greatest among which will bo found the Double Chain pat- tera, so mich admired, Also, can be obtained, avery article appertaining to the toil AL&J.8A UNDER, 807 Bi Walker and White streets, roadws Liquid Hair Dye.— Phalon’s ka Magic Hair Dyo, a new invention, to color the Hair or Whice ers the moment it ia applied, without injury to the bair or oki Key aye iss wiakece dyod i ove at the fc, 197 Broadway, corner Fraublin Hicuse. Por bottle, maall size, $0) 5,000 Wigs and Toupees aiways on hand, at the Wig Factory of Medhurst & Heard, 27 Maiden Lane, where strangers and citizens can select from the largest stock been awarded to Wm. Batchelor, f es, The public are invited to i BATCHELOR'S celebrate. Wall street. Mo keeps the largest thecity. Copy the address, Nox is the God of Night, but Knox the fod of Day; In Bats, in Victorines, in Cuffs, he’s matehless any way. From pole to pole, from east to wost, his fame it docs ro- sound— It travels o'er this vast expanse, and all the world around. those who ha now ledge- hox, Tust co visit our friend K COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. MONEY MARKET. Tuesday, Nov. 20—6 P.M. The stock market opened heavy this morning, and, with the exception of Farmers’ Loan, the fancies were ther quiet. At the first board, to-day, Indiana fell off 4¢ per cent; Mlinois Reading Railroad 4; Erie Railroad advanced 34. The demand for Farmers’ Loan has been principally from the bears, for the fulfilment of several very large contracts, made some time since, which are now falling due. Reading Railroad shares have been in active demand for several. days past, from the same caure, but the bears have supplied themselves with all they want of both of these fancies, and the pro- bebility is that prices will sink in the absence of pur- chasers. It is stated that the regular annual report of the Reading Company will show a steady increase in the conatruction account since last July, anda more unfavorable state of things than appeared in the report of the agent of Eastern stockholders. ‘There was @ fair demand for sterling exchange to-day; for remittance by the packet leaving Boston to-morrow, Wednesday ; and drawers made a further concession in favor of buyers, The closing rates for the best bills on London were 9 @ 9; per cent premium. The Bartlett Mills, of Newburyport, have declared a remi-annual dividend of three per cent; and the Jamos Mills, of the same place, a dividend of three per cent. The value of merchandise imported into Boston, fo, the month of October, 1849, was $2,008,862, against $1,596,067, for the same month in 1848, For the week ending Noy. 17th, the value of exports was $123,264 27, agninst $278,204 49, for the same wook last year, The receipts of the Galena and Chicago Railroad, for August, amounted to $2,743 12; September, $4,272 78; October, $7,104 93, The income is pretty equally di- vided between passengers and freight. The receipts of the Central Railroad Company ot Georgia, for the month of October, were $79,755 10, sgainst $68,516 87, for the same month last year, show- ing an increase of $16,238 73—equal to about twenty- six per cent. The amount received from up freights is more thitntfty per cent beyond that of the correspend- ing month last year, while the parsage money up and down exhibits a handsome increase under the reduced rates. We hear great complaints from stockholders in the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, in relation to the management of the financial affairs of the concern. It is now more than two years since the capital was paid in and the line went into operation. \d no report has ever been made of the earnings and expenditures of the company, and the stockholders, therefore, remain in blissful ignorance of the value of thelr property, or the prospect of dividends, The Washington and Her m have made many very profitable passages to and from Southampton and Bremen, and we have it from the highest authority, that they have more than paid expenses on their most expensive voyages. If that the case—and we do not doubt it—there must be a large surplus of earnings somewhere, and the stock- holders would like to know wi it is, even if they are deprived of the pleasure of a division. ‘The recent meeting of the stockholders of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company was probably one of the greatest farces of the kind we have reported. The proceedings and the result that we are net surprised the managem: Prevent their publication. The report of the com- mittee appointed to investigate the affairs of the com- pany, and to examine the report made in August last by the Board of Directors, was read and accepted; and it is one of the most curious and extraordinary @ocu- ments any committee of investigation ever manufact ur- ed to our knowledge. It is, in fact, neither one thing or another; it has neither head or tail, beginning or end; Dut is, in fact, one of those mysterious affairs #0 fre- quently exhibited in the management of mort of our railroad companies. We cannot do justice tothe report of this “ investigating committee,” without giving it just as it cane from their hands :-— New Yous avy New Havew Rai Report of the Ineestig ‘That immediately after thei menced a rigid scrutiny, not onl: dition of the company, but also resting to the stockholders. from the present time. Its books and acco ted by the directors and officers, acareful and attentive examination made by the committee. in regard to these, the committee acknowledge they ate full and complete in every respect ry traneaction, ‘no matter how trivial minutely set forth. The receipts and disburrements of money have also tention. and in no case have they discovered any trans jon that will not bear the most thorough investigatl ‘The committee have gone further than the resolution to authorize of the etockbolders se: ‘tories from individual ia H best assortment in ite commencement to its were submit They have received interroga’ stock holders relating to the affairs of the ov Tn these ¢ aces. the persons referred to ha’ before the committee, ered fully put to them vote Nothing, however, was elicited in these ¢: ae tions that rubstantiated or rendered proba! charges made The committee would submit a detailed report of these interrogatories and answers, (whieh would em- bri ery material charge or insinuation against the ‘ment of the company) did they believe a of thie character might contain matter that veafter would ¢ business operations of company, and be detrimental to the interests of the ttockholders To give, in brief, an ides of the extent of the inves. tigations entered into by the committee they submit most Important items that fon, vine nd those that 2d Alterations amd construction of erades, curves, embankments, cute and superstructure. a4 Sn a in laying track th Changin, ¢ line of the road at Bri t. Oth. Amended line at New Haven. sats 6th Loeation of th lem junetion. 7 ¥ road of the Washington bridge. Bridgeport steamboats, Hartford ratiroad, 10th, Contract with the 1ith, Change in the weight of the rails, 12th. Purchase of locomotives. 18th. Employment of Mr. Mason, instead of Profes- sor Twining. Mth Alieged connection ef contractors with direo- Tih Alleged’ unemployed funds and unem, re up calls of stock. ay os fag officers or directors, in an; onnected the construction, 'losetion or m at of the oF Thow thst pecsocel and eouslary sections hae tees and pecun! ve made by them, which are rarel: itnessed mh Ty a mn o 4 stockholders passed ‘with them pens ‘nie oe a soarehing: in tion, they would cordially unite: in awarding to the officers and alesotass the ‘credit they MOST Os coker of the Comuiites iy ‘ommi 5 Whereupon, after full discussion and By re i hn tram rg al e following resolutions were then offered, and were ‘unanimously passed and ordered to be printed the reports of the directors and of the committee, ved, That the thanks of the stockholders be, hereby tendered tothe Special Committee 8] at the last meeting, for thelz t the taskbalan Pd an fi , That at ers: ntire cont dence in the President and Board of Directors, beli ing them to have executed the important trust Toon mitted to them rt with high tutatlipences Liuasinice initabuateasia The committee content themselves with merely ents merating the items which they have investigated, an® summing up the whole of their Jajors,in the remark+ that the report of the directors is correct in every par- ticular, and that there is no foundation for the charges made against the management. In a list of eighteen items presented for investigation, not # fact ora figura is given as evidence in fayor of the correctness of the directors’ report. The committee's report was, as ap pears by the resolutions (which, it is stated, were una- nimously pa: , accepted. After these resolutions were offered and passed, ano~ ther set of resolutions were presented by a stockholder, which were not even seconded —showing the complexion of the mecting, and the predominating influence of the directors. For the purpose of showing the character of the resolutions referred to, and comparing them with those which were wnanimously passed, we annex them, It could hardly have been expected that a meeting of stockholders, so disposed as to pass such resolutions as are given at the close of the report of the investigating committee, would listen, for a moment, to resolutions. so searching in thelr operation, and so detrimental te the interests of the management, as those given bee ved, That the managers of this company be, they are hereby, respectfulls requested co to re sone and arrange the business of the compasy, that The President of the company shall be 6 sepaeated from the interests of other railroad companies, that his whole time and best energies shall be given to pro- mote exclusively the interest of this company. Second, That the servants of the company, from the superintendent down to the porters, be supervised with strict reference to the qualifications of each individual to fili in the best manner, fer the interests of the com- Pay. the place he occupies. Third, That there be made up monthly statements of the business of the company, showing as follows:—- 1st, The whole amount of the earnings of the com- pany. 2d, The expense of operating the road, including in- terest on the debt. ‘i . shave * Sd, The several amow aid under the various con- tracts or agreements existing between this compa and the Harlem, Naugatuck, anal and Hartford and New Haven Railroad companies; also, vr the con- tract with George L. Schuyler, F.sq ,and his steamboats, specifying the amount paid under each of the several rae! statement to be furnished as Oth day of each month, embracing the receding month; and placed in the office of the company, for the fuspection of any shareholder who may omg Le ourth, That the beard prepare a full and detatled account of the business of the company, to be sub- mitted to the stockholders at their annual meetings, held for eleoting the managers, and that said accouat ‘be accompanied by atabular statement, showing the name of each of its offloers, agents, or servants employ- ed in its service, specifying their names, ocoupation, residence, time they entered service, and amount of annual salaries, fees or perquisites, Fifth, That ail free tickets now outstanding be au- mulled, and that xno free tickets or passes be granted by the board of mai ‘8. Offlcers or servants: of the company, that it be distinctly ugderstood | no gh ‘be suffered to pass the road e, excep’ rsand mani and then only during the peri sy shall be Ip tho service of the company, pting also stockholders attending tho a “9 and other meetings of the company, regularly Sixth, That the office, of the com be removed from its present location in Hanover street, to the de- pot of the company on Broadway or Canal street. There is not the first requiremont in these resd- lutions whieh @ fair and honorable board of manage- ment could, should, or would object to, There is not the first item of information called for which the stockholders are not entitled to, and should regularly receive, without passing special resolutions to bring it out, And yet these resolutions were not even seconded at the last meeting of stockholders. If the efforts of stockholders to ge ght into the financial affairs and operations of railroad companies are smothered in this way, the public will never know anything about the actual condition of any company, and investments In them will be made bilnd!y, and in the dark. No one will know whether the stock of a railroad is worth par, or good tor nothing—whether the company is solvent or insolvent—and the good will be injured by the bad. The public will be suspicious of all, and all will be condemned. Any attempt to exclude the prese from stockholders’ meetings— every attempt to prevent publicity being giv: railroad compante holder becaure he may ask questions which the policy goment requires kept secret, only gives the s $5000 U 3 6's, 1868 an do 800 do 1867 1000, do coup 1862 112 1000, Feptecky. 6s 800 Indi 18) 3% OO 6 Wokad RR ‘Si0~ Koad Mtg Bis 2 ————— ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED EVERY DAY, Answers ety paid, or they w: Advertisements sent by Mail must be ‘ne batt Office. ey ww Vora, COLUMBIA HOTEL, Crresur staent, Patanenema, wer BALTMoRe. Sraeer, Bosrov. BARNUM'S HOTEL, Cauve TREMONT HOUSE, T RUST'S MOTEL, Byaacver, New Your. REMONT SPORTING. ENTREVILUR COURSE--TROTTING—TAURSDAY, f ovelock, P. teh for $1,000, mile hents, best three in five, FH tween the two bert golts in the world. ames ay colt Johnson Colt J. Wheiple colt Reindeer. [tis universally admitted that the fas f ia the frorid, and the t ot 5 lino. cars lym, at | o'clock, P. M., return= cents. fare each wa: CONKLIN? 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