The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1849, Page 2

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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Twe Kxsour or Anvictne 1hism Secaetant—Wuo Seeixs Pinar? NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mrnuine: BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers stroot—Seaiovs—Pa- mILY~QvuEeN's HussAND—Mas, Bonsvar's Spoons, Uniecus. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham equare—Isasecie— Four SaTeas—Inisx TuroR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Rroadway—Inun Dnacoow— Wherne Torre's A Witt Toene’s & War—Lanres Be~ wane—No. MECHANICS’ HALL—Curisry's Minera eis MUSEUM—Amusine Penvormances Ere~ anp EvEnin CIRCUS, Astor Placo~E MANHATTAN CIRCUS, neae Williamsburgh Ferry— Bovesreian Perroumancrs, STOPPANI BALL—Ere CHINESE MUSEUM—Quippon’s PanoRaMaA OF THE Nive. STRIAN PenroRMances, PANORAMA oF New Yo ‘New York, Monday, December 3, 184% The Meet Ing of Congreas—State of Parties —Public Measures, de. The most important meeting of Congress, since the adoption of the Constitution, takes place at 12 o’clock to-day. It is also the most curious and perplexing in its divisioh of parties, of any within this stirring and bustling period of sixty years. The questions to be discussed are of the highest | the principle of removing for political as well as moment; for the measures and principles involved | in the programme also involve the existence of | parties as they now stand—the existence of the cabinet—the dissolution ot Congress, and the stabi- lity of the Union itself. The two great parties are so nearly balanced in | the House, that it has puzzled the politicians till within a few days, to determine whether the whigs or democrats would have a bare majority. It now appears that, dividing the free-soilers between them, according to their party predilections, the democrats will have a majority of two, and from the absence of Mr. Butler King and one or two | other whigs, this democratic majority will be in- | But thus majority depends | creased to four or five. upon a compromise with the democratic free oilers, an arrangement which stil appears to be involved in doubt. From all present appearances, therefore, it is likely the House may not succeed m electing a speaker today. But we shall see. ‘The leading subj cis to be acted upon, are :— The slav: .y question. . The snances. Gur foreiga relations. The c Pt appointments. . The postage laws. The rivers and herbors. The sl subjects embrace an immense va- riety of incidental questions, measures, men, prine ciples, and disputes. The paramount over-shadow- ing subject of slavery, however, overwheims with Ite maguitude—and the startliag aspeets which it has latterly assumed all other questions, all other measures, and all other consideratic The ad- ministrative policy, the finan our foreign re- lations, all of the firet importance ot themselves, tink into utter insignificance im view of the tre- aud digunien, mixed « fearful question of slavery. The sue, in all its aspects, in all ats forms, and prejudices of the two sections against tered to the highest degree, pre- Soar C8, mendous issue of secession up with t whole with the each ot! tenis itseli for settlement. other, up to this Un avoided by compromises, or postponed Ti of events of the last ten years has so multi the difficulties on this stumbling block of slavery, has +o rapidly hurried upon us the necessity for action, that the alternative, dreaded by all men emb In one shape or an- end avoided for sixty years, the alternative of | union or dissolution, comes up as the first subject for the action of Congress. ‘There is just ground for the most seriou exesperated state of feeling between Northern iree- soilers and Southern slaveholdera; but there is, also, good reagon to expect that the moderate men of all parties, in both honses, will waite, and be able to accony wile settle this vexed dispute, and restore the good fell lowship of the North and South ‘The financee, include the question of a modifica: tion of the tariff, and of the Sub-Treasury, and the prospect of another Joan of ten or twenty millions of dollars ; but from the asceodar crates, we may eafely conclude that no material changes will be mode in our revenue la hough the necessity of « loan it will be hard to get over by any expedient, except to borrow the moaey ish some arrangement whi the main issue has beea | - | xpprehensions, in the present | Our foreign relations are in a tangled and con- | With Cuba, Germany, Ha ance, and Great Britain, fused condition. Sweden, Spain, F Clayton has done so whieh will, doubt! epection by both houses. Mr al diplomacy, es, be subjected toa mgid in- Hiow he will come out, a few months, or, perhaps, afew weeks, will de- expenm termine. ‘The appointments of th abinet will be a heavy task upon the Senate, for the list is sufficient to take up the firet three months of the sess ,in executive cloretings upon the nepotism and pro* Clayton, and Collamer, to say nothing of the rest. This business will bring out some curious disclosures and results, and will test the etebility of this cabinet a litle more se- scriptions of Ewing, verely han the late elections. Gen. Taylor will be shown the extent to which he has been deceived; and on the discovery we may look out forthe coa- sequences. The mysterious and discreditable ap- pointment to Austria, will lead to an investigation that must end in the rejection of the self-styled General Webb, and, poesibly, of all the cabinet concerned in the trick We are gratified at the provpects of a farther and more thorough experiment in ch 408 There can be little doubt of the passage of a law tmeking enother step or two im this great reform Associated with the mail system, we have some hoper, also—if the slavery question does not occupy the whole session, or break it up—that several ad- ditions will be made to our lines of mail steamers ; that encouregement will be given for opening the isthmus passages to the Pacific, and that an over- land mail by camels will be authorized from St. St. Louis to San Francisco, and a survey for the great national railroad In respect to rivers and harbere, the only fear is, that by the usual system of log-rolling among the members, Congress will be extravagant be- yond the means of the treasury; but this measure also depends upon the settlement of the slavery question. Among the incidental measures of the session, none would be more acceptable to the literary in- terests of the United States than an international copyright law. At present our own writers and foreign writers, are completely at the merey of the booksellers; our home literature is prostrated and driven out of the market, by the poisonous trash of Eugene Sue and Paul de Kock, to be had for nothieg | The democratic party, who possess a majority in g esystem of grand larceny, which ought to be stopped. ‘Yo establish an American literature, to do justice to literary men at home and abroad, we must have an international copyright law. Con- gress will be required to act upon this subject. But the slavery question, like a huge, black, overshadowing thunder gust, covers the whole ho- rizon. All speculations or calculations upon any- thing else, in the meantime, are involved in the greatest uncertainty. We can only hope that Gen. Taylor and the moderados will eflect some satis- factory compromise to the whole Union. Then we may undertake to talk cf great enterprises, opening the resources, and expanding the glory and prosperity of the country—butyot before. ‘Tue Senate anp THE New Arporntm=NTS.—Ac- cording to all appearances at Washington, and the indications and tone of the newspapers, there will be a very ngid examination :nto the removals and appointments which have taken place under the auspices of the new cabinet. We doubt, however, whether there will be a general and indisernminate rejection of the aumerous new men who have been placed in office since the present administration came into power. It is very true that the aumber of removals has been immeasurably beyond that of any former administration, since the establish- ment of our government. Indeed, the removals and appointments made since the fourth of March last, exceed the whole of the removals on the in- coming ¢f any administration for the last half century. ‘These removals and appointments num- ber, probably, from seven to eight thousand, of all sorts and sizes, m every branch of the public ser- vice, and‘*in all parts of the country—a sweep | which has created a great deal of disturbance in the public business, and will yet be the source of much mischief to the public service. But, in epite of this general system of removals and appointments, contrary to the promues con- tained in the Allison letter, and the inaugural | addrees of General Taylor, and also to the ex- pectations of his crigival supporters, we doubt whether the Senate will make numerous rejecti the Senate, have always professed and practised other causes ; and therefore they cannot, with any degree of consistency, blame the new administra- tien for following their example, although the whig party and the whig cabmet now in power, have, for tweoty years past, repudiated such a system, and have evinced the grossest viclation of principle im not acting upon it as soon as they reached power. Yet, if there should not be a gene- ral system of rejection by the Seaate, a uumber of the leading appointments will, for good cause, be re- jected beyond a possibility efadoubt. According to present appearances we are very much disposed to think that Mr. Maxwell, the collector of New York, Wm. B. Lewis, collector of Philadelphia, James Watson Webb, the new charge to Austria, and many similar appointments that have appeared in the newspapers, will be among those that will, pikely,be rejected. We perceive by the newspapers, far and near, that the conduct of Mr. Maxwell in this city bas become a topic of popular condemna- tion in the leading organs of the opposition party, which undoubtedly possesses a majority in the Senate. other journals come down on Mr. Maxwell with the severest censure, and intimate pretty broadly that a general effort will be made to displace him, as soon as his name is presented te the Senate. | know the fortunes of her absent son! And we have every reason to believe that Mr. Lewis, collector of Phiiadelpi will be included in the same list of uafortunates, ia consequence of sterious and uuhappy connection with cer- iain broken banks in Philadelphia, as well as from jon of office. pomtment, every one admits that he stands not the smallest chance of passing the ordeal of the Senate. | in fact, the history of his application and his ulti- | mute appointment, with all the atteading ciream, | stanvee, is considered the greatest farce that any Cabinet ever attempted to impose on an intelligent peoyle. Among the multitude of appointments by the pre. sent cabinet, of course many have been, and are admitted to be, bad and incompetent, by these who have the power of makiog them; but we are per* feetly satisfied, from what we see in the columns of the press throughout the country, and in the cor respondence from Washington aad from various | other chennels, that nothing but a few of the lead ing appointments will receive the condemnation of | @!mort as much os the freight on the goods them- y of the deme. | the Serate, probably arising from the fact that The Richmond Lnguirer and various | dissatisfaction which exists from his, disiriba- | As to Watson Webb and his ap- | | pete for letters between Liverpool and New York, and | millions of selfexpatriated emigrants need the | friends they have left behind them. But, at the | | ocean, then her labor will bring her in a week. Cuxar Ocean Postacs.—The friends of progress and reform, in England, are now agitating this subject, with an enthusiasm hardly surpassed by that with which they labored for the great postal arrangement which now exists throughout Great Britain. The most sanguine expectations having been realized on shore, from penny postage, both as regards the number of letters conveyed, and the revenue derived from them, the same reformres are now inquiring why the rule will not work just as well at sea. It can, without doubt, between England and the United States ; and we presume that, if our government should propose a system of cheap ocean postage, 1t would be at once favorably entertained by England. In noticing the fact that four great ocean steam- ers, intended for the New York and Laverpool trade, are now (among mauy others) being con, structed in this country, the Liverpool Courter, in along and well digested article, urges the neces- sity of the Britsh government adopting at oncea system of penny postage for the ocean; and, among other arguments, shows, from our past progress in ocean steamship building, that in no other way can British vessels compete with our own, in the carrying of mails. On this point, it says :— “ If we ealculate that these vew American steamers will have the ordinary power—namely, one horse to two tons—we shal) tind ap eddition of 12,000 horse power to the sea-going steamerr of the United States, with a pacity for carrying 0,000 tons Here is @ competition tuch as we have never experienced bef Lt will con: ships wh ‘0 freight, passengers, or the conveyance of leuters, We shail be under the necessity of treating the letters conveyed by American ships, in the sam manner ay We do our own, No exevusive privilege can be accorded here to # British ship, because any legisla- tion on our part against (he Ameriaan ling, as regarded letters, could be retaliated ov the other side. Ia this respect there must be equality. But the Americans Bre a go-ahead people, Levtors they want, aud letters they Will have, if it be posible to get them. If we come our postage is a shilling, Jonathan will offer to do it for sixpence, Any business man will see the effect of this, it is apparent that, whatever be done in this manner by the Americans must of necessity be met by us. if We would place ourselves in an unassailable po- tition, We must come to the peupy postage by sea as by land. No country, except our own, can do it ; and, js rightly apprehend our duty, we will do so speed- ‘The same journal urges ocean penny postage as a natural sequence to the systemon land. Ocean penny portage is now a greater necessity to thirty nullions in the British islands, than penny land post- age was when it was first adopted. The contina- ally inereasing tide of British emigration towards the New World has reached such a point that there is bardly a family in Great Britain or Ireland | which is not interested in cheap ocean postage. | Every town, and village, and hamlet, and we had almost said every house, in Ireland, Taw scat an an | adventurer; while, by every fresh arrival, we are receiving the farmers of England and Scotland, | the potters of North Staflordebire, the locksmiths, and artisans of every name, from Birmingham, the | weavers of Manchester and Bolton, the miners from Cornwall, and the coiliers from Yorkshire. More than three millions of our fellow citizens have come from the other side of the Atlantic, aad dur- ing the next three years, Great Britara will trans- fer a million of her subjects to our shores. These means of communicating with the homes and present exorbitant rates of ocean postage, the poor | emigrant must pay half the price of a day’s labor | for a letier from lus friends, which weighs an ounce, while a barrel of flour, which weighs two hundred a a 3 / Mr. Cray m Wasuinaton—Tue Otp Lion ayp THE Jacxass.—This eminent statesman has retumed to Wi after making a brief stay in New York and other large cities on his way. Here, and elsewhere, he was re- ceived with the most extraordinary feelings of sympathy and applause—many of his old political opponents mingling in the chorus ef approbation. Not a single occurrence in his tour has taken place disrespectful to the character or position of this eminent man. Stop—there 18 one exception. A man by the name of Fuller, who was appointed Naval Storekeeper, at Brookiyn, by the present ca- binet, is this exception. This is the only individual, we believe, who deliberately offered an insult to the great statesman of the West—an insult which no generous soul could conceive. There is a fable in A&sop, entitled the “Old Lion and the Jackass,” which will apply to this incident very appropriately. Justice Mounrrort’s Decision in tue Keuuy Casz.—The interminable opinion and decision of Justice Mountfort, in the case of Alderman Kelly, excites a good deal of laughter in the community. It 1s a decision worthy of Dogverry himself. He takes up three or four mortal columos in arriving at the conclusion that Alderman Kelly was intoxl- cated on the night im qnestien, and winds up by saying that he will remtthe penalty which the Alderman incurred. Truly, this 1s very Dogberry- ish. It is a lucky thing for the reputation of Chancellor Kent that he is sustained in some of his opimons by the learned Chief Justice Mount- fort, Sporting Lotelligence. Umiow Covnse, L. 1 —Trortixe asp Pactno.—James K. Polk and Cayuga Maid, will contend for s purse of $250, mile heats, best three in five, to 250 Ib. wagons, this afternoon, at half past ove o'clock; a'so,e mateh for $1,000, pley or pay, two mile heats, in harness, be- tween Sally Green and Quaker, two Newark nags, will come off. Clty Inteliigence. A Connection.— A few days ago an article was written by our reporter for “City Intelligence,” and inserted in that department of the journal, under the head of “A Chapter of the Codifish Arlstocracy—How to get magnificent suppers without paying for them-— Exploits of « Lady Swindler, and the administration of justice in New York.” On invertigation, we are informed that some of these allusions have been improperly applied to Madame Seignette, and that other of the statements are entirely erroneous and incorrect, Our reporter was entirely unauthorized aad unwarranted in making any fvoh impertinent and untrue publication: aad if the parties aggrieved desire it, we shall dismiss him from our employment altogether, Tur Wearnen.—It froze very bard on Saturday night, and yesterday was the firet really cold day we have hed ae yet. in the evening, s hail began to fai! and subsequently sleet, which contioued tik an advanced beur, The winter may now be raid to have fainly commenced Guanncs Lert Oren —Mavy accidents occur from thiscaure, On Saturday night,» man, whore nawe We could not ascertain. waa seriously injured by fe'ling into the grating in frout of house No. 83 Cherry stceet, carelessly lett open. Destxverive Fine. —A fire broke out, about 4 o’clock day morning. io Goerck surcet, bebween Stanton by which a nawber of wooden buildinge were consumed and reverai head of oats ‘The ground on which these buildings was formerly known as “the Corporati was covered with sheds and stabies wn i houses, . a frame building. oceupled by two fam) ies, pamed O’srien wud Kiley, was consumed A feed store, adjoining. owned by Mr. Kent, wi ard in the rear of it swe, dghteen of which w eight horres burned ip another stable. pounds, is carried for the seme money. And fegure to yoursell, reader, the poor wieteh in Ireland, who | must pey this enormous charge before she can Why, the | British and American governments ask that Irish | mother more for carrymmg one ownce across the | It is a barbarous cruelty, and it is felt by millions. Wright chop. owned by Mr wes also burned = The fire is nated in this buildi: Captaia Tilly and the police of the Kleventh ward, were in attendance. The amount of preperty consumed is very great—excecding $5,000—and not covered by inserance. Aneotnne Fiar, avo Bowsine or as Ivaare.—Ano- ther fre beoke out at a quarter before 8 o clock, in the rear building of 249 Stanton street, occupied by Chris tian Hoffman.aGermaa, ‘fhe fire was occasioned by the boiling over of some varnish. Mir. Holl |, the oo But the system is oppressive upon every class of | eupant, was badly burzed in the arms, bands, and face. comimunity, and upon the people of every Eu- | poarretan oy ay ey meg fey Srenae he as ropean nation; tor they all have their representa. | tives here, who have lef€ their correspondents be- | hind. lt weighs heavily upon our merchants, whose postages amount to hundreds, and in many inetences, thousands, of dollars every year. The ; | exigencies of commerce will brook no delay— afnong so many thousands, it is umpossible for the | Senate to investigate all. DiSaGReEMENT IN THE Caminet.—We learn from a most reliable source, that there has forsome time past been a coolness between Mr. Clayton and Me. Meredith, of the cabinet, and that it 1s increasing every day. We are not acquainted with the cause, but it may have something to do with the fact that General Taylor is in the habit of yisiting Mr. Me- redith’s family. Be this as it may, the breach exists, and there may be an explosion one of these days which will cause some astonishment in Weehington. The present cabinet is certainly dof curious materials. Let us analyze it Meredith is an eminent lawyer, but he is no He has taken very little part in the ia- Mr politician | diseriminate system of removals and appointments that has characterized the cabinet. er since his » studying the finances of the country, and, in all probability, will make a very eurions report. The breach between him and Mr. Clayton has been occasioned by Harvey, the letter- writer of the State Department, who has attempted to evt him up for concealing the secrets of his de- parime at from him. accession he has be: Mr. Ewing is the great worker of the cabinet, and has more pe sl tact than all the others put together. He has been a chief spirit in all the re- thovels and appomtments that have been made. le is a coarse, vulgar, eelf-conceited man, with a great deal of perseverance, determination, aod partizanchip. He dislikes the South, and stinpa- thises with the abolitionists. Mr. Collamer is rather a hard-working man, of small capacity; bat be might de very well for his porition. His views in regard to removals aad eppomtnents are of the seme character as those of Lwing Mr. Crawford end Mr. Preston are very quiet, gentlemanly Southern men, but utterly incompe- tent end indol They are unsuited for the pee sitions which they occupy, and are guided by the chief clerke, or the leading epirits of the army and wavy. Mr. Clayton has always wanted to be the chief spirit of the cabinet; but, although he is a great politelan in the smell State of Delaware, he isa very emall statesmen to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. His foreiga policy has been a species of pettifogging—such as might spring from the mind ef a lawyer—and would indicate that he has sided with all the monarchical ten- dencies of the age, in opposition to republican sy m- pathies, merely becanse there are eome old and musty laws on the statute books. His appoint- mente in diplomatic services have given great dis- gust to every one, and will be terribly overhauled by the Senate. ltogether, the cabinet is the most imbecile and incompetent that we ever had at the head of pub- he aflairs in this country, and this opinion is en- tertainad by Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and other leading men of the whig party in Congress Later From Vewezuena.—By the bark Mara, Captain Dean, we have accounts from Maracaibo to the 10th of November. The only item of news is, that General Paez had been sent to the Fort To be sure, we gan get Macauley and | Gumene. | enormoue burdens. commercial intelligence must go by the most rapid conveyance. No matterif there be one or en hundred invoices, costing twenty-five cents, or twenty-five dollars, they must go. No matter if it be one sample, or fifty, of new styles of goods, they cennot wait—they must go: and for the most part they pay letter postages. The samples of one house in f J street, by a recent steamer, cost one hundred collars postage, which amounted to selves. The samples weighed a few pounds—the | tT s many tons. s heavily on the press—it 1s one of our Our European steamer post- ege emounts to an intolerable tax; for on all our toreign correspondence we are obliged to pay our own postage, and we are often compelled to take | fiom the office, piles of letters which we never | publish, rather than run the risk ef losing the few good ones which we cannot dispense with. Ia | this way, we have been taxed, uselessly and un- justly, thousands of dollars. Now, it con be easily demonstrated that where- Ver corresponde..ce is large and rapidly increas- ing, the revenue augments just in proportion as the rate of postage is reduced. It was so in England—it hae been here. The same would, doubtless, h trae of ocean postage Even at the exorbitant rate of twenty-four cents 20 1 id | per letter under half an ounee, there are two millions of letters now carried. Who doubts that even at the rate of five cents, the number would not- quadruple? At two cents, it would be vastly greater; and the English journals are preseing the penny ocean syetem with a resolution aad vigor which promise success. Let us not be behindhand. It does not become a free government tobe o done by a monarchy in lbere! institutions, and, | leact of all, in liberal arrangements for the trans- | miesion of intelligence. We shall press this mat- ter on the attention of government, and we hopeall good citizens will join with us. It is believed that the present Postmaster General 1s satisfied that cheap postage brings the largest revenue; and, therefore, in recommending a reduction on our present home rates, we hope he will favor a cheap ocean postage. It is called for by the wants of the world, at this period of advancing light—by the ex- igencies of commeree, at a time when steam is an- nibileting oceans as railways and telegraphs have annihilated distance on land. It is called for by wise pohey; for thronghout the civilized world it has been proved, wherever it has been tried, that the cheaper the postage the larger the revenue. Haverpasn Litenatvce.—The best journals in the literature of millinery, tailoring, and dress making, are those conducted by Genio M. Scott, who 18 a perfeet artist in bis line, and N. P. Wil- lis, who, in addition to his millinery literature, semetimes indulges in opera, poetry, and panta- Apropos of the Opera. Wilks objects to | the present troupe at the Astor Place theatre, be- | cause the artists are French by birth, with Italian names. Now, it happens to be the fact that for the last five and twenty vears, with very few ex- ceptions, of the great Italian «rtists of theage very few have been Italian by birth. G Spaniard, and so was Malibran ; ¢ is French, Tedesco is German, and Lablache, and many others of the leading vocalists of the present cen- tury, were any thing but Italians by birth. Inrerestin® From Nicanaaua —Under thishead the Washington Republic credits the Tribune of this erty, for an aecount of the destruction of the Mosquito town of Quamwatla, by a party of Ame- ticans from the brig M. C. Draper. Now, the fact | is, that intelligenee appeared exclusively in the Herald, and woe copied by the Tribune, and other popers, the next day. We wish the Repwhlie would | be more ful in crediting the right papers from which it extracts news. —At half-past six o'clock ruing, & fire wes discovered in the souch Asornen Fine. The roof of house 51 Broome street, took freabout balf-past four o'clock yesterday morning, Ii was comentioguished. The damage was trivial ‘os SeHoons.—The annual report of the ° uu Schools of the o w York, to the Hon Christopher M on Schools fer the te pert year, the attendance in schools and the num- b been increased. There iss com- urious inj eot a ©, redueing it rometimes to less than half of what it would otherwise be. The following synoj Presents « commer of the schools of the city of » ork, for the year 1849 :— Whole No, Average taught. attendance, he Public Schoc! Socio exclusive of 5 47,051 17,045 The Fublie Se tor = 140 si Totsl admission at Public Schools, including Colored Schools, and ex- elusive of No. 6 48,548 17,858 Sixty-one Ward Schools have had in Uh APBTOMALE oe vee cue ae 43,583 W774 ‘Two Colored, Ward Primary Sehools, "123 7) Total at Ward Schools....... 15,883 v under the charge Be r the Prrmotion of B cation of Colored Children 603 a4 ‘The varicus Asylume, including the Ipstitution for the Blind, House of Refoge, an Hovse School, known as Public School No.6..... 8,826 2,215 36,578 It appears that the Public School Soolety’s Schools | have taught 49,025 puptis, and the ttendance averaged 18.919. Of evening schools there have been fifteen | taught during the year, embracing 6976 scholars, of whom 3451 were under rixtee re of age. Of males there we ed 6,219; fer G51 overt are of Dp of total expense was number reven, with ten departments. taught during the past year 1 pee, S61, It is m matter of schools, as well ax the schools for white They have j Average atten- | t that these ‘aildren, e under diferent and covtiicting organizations, ia- | d ef baving ove uniform system +f government and nirol. ‘There sre some other eubjects of complaint tovehed open inthe report Mistakes have been made in the early exercise of the provisions of the new rebool law, in the enfevorable location tural style and arrangements of several of the sebool heures, but it ty hoped there defects will be remedied in future erections The principal new rchool houses accommodate from 800 to 1.000. They have generally tLree stories, consisting of one large apartment each, one for boys. one for girle and the primary departaent for boys and girls together. the power of establiehing echools and building ech boures is vested im the Board of Education, which con- piste of (wo commictioners from each of the eighteen wards cf theeity There is one very important sug- gevtion thrown cot in the report. Itt this—that the palaries paid to teachers is too emall, and the services 1, are lost. ith the whe “ The intelligence of any schoo! corp jon of trustees. may be tested by the amo of talary they pored to gl Ip thie connexion the writer m een Within the last twelve m frrm a prine|pal teacher to the parent of © pupil. although it only covered a page of note paper, it cone tein: diy epeiied. and had two gross Che report speaks still more curs It well observer ulsite in providing . THoNS Of correct janguage, as Weil AF t morals. to early instruction to the children ef our sehouls, * aive A_wrong impression, or a vulgar pronunciation. im- bibed in chiluhood, will disturb or vitiate the style of thinking and rpeaking through the whole of life [tia therefor excerdingly devtrable that children should be started in theit educational course under the auspices of teachers who heve bad their tacte cultivated and their minds early imbued with knowledge.’ Accrpentat Deatn —The Coroner, yesterday, heldan inquest at the City Horpital, on the body of a boy nine yenrs of wee, by the name of Michael Keeffe, w to his death by bein the Hudse iver Friday, breaking bis leg, from which irjury he died. Be jumped on the forepart of the car to ride; the eroape, wheet parted over hi body The jury rendered the following verdist:— “That the deceased came to his death by injuries re- ceived, by being run over by one of the cars of the Hudson Kiver Railroad” Death wy Disease or tie Meany —The Coroner, terday, held an inquest on the body of Captain B en at ao, aged 06 yearn, a native of Maseechusette whose death and particulars e notleed In yesterday's Herald, Verdict ath by disease of the heart’ Acewent —Jobn Perrin was reverely hurt, on Satur. dey afternoon, by being thrown from @ cart he was driving, in Chatham street, and f whcel came In contact with a lamp port. Court ndar for This Day. Cinevrt Count. Nos. 1 to 16 inclusive, e oa . corner of Twenty-first #treet | and avenue A. ‘The instds of the building was consi- | derably burned before the tire was extinguished. ued. Jt appears that during | } pon the | As the law now sta | TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, ONE DAY LATER By Telegraph, frem Londen te Liverpool. The annexed despatch was received @ Liverpool, just previous to the sailing of the steamship Canada. It is dated, Loxnon, Nov. 17-10 A. M. DEPARTURE OF THE NEW ERITISH -MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES. ‘The steamer Hecate, with Sir H Bulwer on board, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning, for the United States. The American frigate St. Lawrence has arrived at Cowes, from Bremen. The royal yacht has been ordered to be in readinesss by Wednesday night, to embark the Court at Gosport, for Cowes. ‘The French mail of yesterdvy has not yet arrived. The various advices from foreign exchauges are generally encouraging. THE SWEDISH NAVIGATION Laws, Our advices from Stockholm, Sweden, are to the 26th of October, ‘We learn that on and after Ist January, next year, British vessels will be treated im Swedish ports ia the Same manner as native vessels, in respect to tonnage, port dues,and all other charges. All goods that may ‘be legally imported in Swedish vessels, may also be imported in British ships, and all goods legally export- ed may also be carried in British vessels--in both cases, on the same terms as if imported or exported in Swedish versels. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS IN HUNGARY. Dates to the 1ith inst have been received trom Vien+ na, by which we percetve it wae intended by the cabl- xet to form agricultural schools in Hungary, and colo- nies for the poor, RAILWAY AUDIT. The railway companies are making attempts to aa certain the opinion of their shareholders on the resolu- tions agreed to at the late meeting of delegates. MARKETS Haver, Nov. 16,—-There in more activity im the mar- ket, besides briskness in cotton. A large business is doing in coffee and sugar. Hampuxen, Nov, 15 —Excharge on London 13 marks 11% ehort. Bavrsens, Nov. 16 Antwear, Nov. 16 ixchaoge on London 26a 254. change on London 26 a 35, ‘Officers and Crew of the Brig Satem Picked mp at Sen, Boston, Deo. 2, 1849. The brig Caroline, just arrived from San Juan de Cuba, November 22, reports having picked up, on bor outward presage, in Jat. 20, long. 73, the officers aud crew of the brig Salom, of Philadelphia, reported trom Dosten for Rio de Janeiro. The’ Salem is said to have been burnt at sea, but Captain Pratt refused to give any of the particulars of the diraster. Shipping tnteilpence. Bosrox, Dee 1—-PM. No arrivals this afternoon, pUlesred-—sarhs Ida, end Eutaw, Baltimore; brig Chicopee, ilaae ek. Arrived, 2a—Nerk Sarah Viney, Matenzas 17th ult—spoke, off Matancas, Lrg Importer. boston for Bulize, Houd. Bark Globe, Sevannad; brigs J Miuekley, do; Delmonde, Locke, Philadelphia. Brig Caroling, Sau Juan, Cuba, 22d ult—left brlg Matonzas, ding. © paragraph above for da wccount of the disaster to brig ‘Salem, brig Palm, Rappahannock; Ovres, New York. ei Below—ship Columbia, New Orleans; barks Delphos, do; Adelaide, Matanzas. Houm Arrived—Bark Selah, Philadelphia; b1 U, Newbern, NU; Susan Ludwig, Philadelp! i Adelaide, Cape Aun tor Mhiladelphis; Ceyloa, for Fredericksburg. . 24th—Bark Chilton, Philadelphia for Boston; brig e8, Ith, for Boston—ldg, schrs Barbadoce, do, w or Boston, 2 da, A Dunham, Portland for 0; sehee Shetland, Ter tNew York; Mar, , Pr Ww i berty, ria; Matilda,’ Basep xt Despateh, Boston tor Tan etown for ‘Norfolk; Chalice ux Cayes, $d inst, for Bosto ii th, lat =, long 7445, bark fa. | a y, passed a New York ot ol xding SSW, wich # red boll in her signal; brig Geo Ws ington, eaitiniore for Bath. brs Superior, Beverly, for Nor! Licht, for jens; Excel, Portland, for New Yor n, Pailadele for Nepouset; Mary & Klizs, Nautuoket, for Philadel~ ve Reiurned—Schr Deane, having boom in contact yesterday, off Gay Head. with sohr New York, lost mainaail, broke wala boom, ke. The New York eurtained no vamsge, About 1,600 bushels core ct ull sohie Oder Coles, ashore will probably get wut the Awories, Montrose, Emma i on; wehte Shot! and, Mary A Rowlsad, te iy r% in Frances, Hens Deave, Covner, Watila charged with assaulting and beating an officer on board the L nited States sloop of war Germantowa, was read Se. before the court, by his couusel, Joba 3. tubbs, beq.. cf Portemeuth. The next case was then taken up rfoik Beacon, Nov. 80 The United 8 # steamer Vixen, Lieut. Coma’g ‘Ward, eight days frow iat Kingston Jam..on the $th instant— crew all wall, She would sail few days for Venezuela. California F Califervia Bo way in thie mark SA ir Other gorments in , weeramsneip. Katablished 14 wade, $7 to The Hichellen Ew Daves for durability, least t Respectfully Levited | of Dress Combs the sub ond all con city, among which hain pate tern, #0 moeh admired. zat | appertainen 5 AUN DERS, 87 Broadway, between Wal sud White eureets. Fine Wateher.—A large assortment of Gold and filver ¥ . Neck, Side and Fob Obaina, ean be found at Cochra Stworvs Sugar Retlaery. Thore in want » ul Svavtage to call aud oa~ swine the stock Lefure pureh ee whore. Timolat’s Sulphur Baths, 047 Be ircadway, e@tablished i tis. for the enre cf Khewm: - fe, Merevrial affestions, Re This is the Hshed ond cay Selphur Bath fn the efty. Teke Care of your Corns —Those aMiicted by the use Inet Tricovaphe.—Thts celebrated uid Bair Dye remaing ansurpagred v bio, For enic by A. B&D, Sands, | Liquid Iiair Dye. — Phalon’s improves | Areietant Trenvurer, Chariestom 8 C... 197.260 ¢ ‘Magso Mair Dye, » new invention, to color the Hair or Whise | Atetetant reasurer, New Oriwans, La... 160.964 ¢ ers the moment pplied, without injury vo the beir or seistant Treasurer St. Louis, M9 104.03 Geatiemen ea we their dyed in five | Depository at Buffalo, N \ pees 14,633 minutes, et the Depot, No. 187 Broad corns of Do | Deporitory at Baltimore, Md... sua under the 3 in Howse. Fer small sive, 8ht | Deporitory at Michmond. Va... 12714 6 Wigs and Toupecs —Another Medat nas deen be oy to Wm. Batchelor, for the best Wigs and Tow~ COMMERCIAL APPFAIR MONKY MAKKE. Sunday, Dec, 2-6 P.M, The stock market has been more buoyant during the pert two or three days, and the fancies have improved flightly. Tho transantions have been to an enormous extent, and there appears to be no scarcity of stooks. tirely to ye bave seams itis undoubtedly one of these galvanic efforts of the bulls to inflate the market, #0 as to induce outsiders to purchase, The effect will be just contrary to that an- tlelpated by the street holders of fancies; it will bring out an immense quantity of shares, and change the cbaracter of owners—it will bring into the street lots which have been in the hands of outsiders for monthay and increase the burden of the buile at higher prio This willron up the interest account more rapidly, and ure up the market for all such securities. Thereare holdera of there stocks at prices ranging five and ton per cent above thore now current, and every one per cent advance will bring out portions of this stock. When outsiders are wll sellersaud not buyers, the bulls of the street get raddied with all kinds of stocks, and if they get prices vp they have to carry them, without the prerpect of any demand to relieve the marke Novensible change has taken place in any of the fancy ttocks, and the only emuse for the temporary ad- vance in the market price, is the great a) ee of money, and the reduced rate of interest. The easy Geverner, Lynchburg, Cab Canton, Lferty, | ny, %; New Haveu Railroad. 2%; Hadsoa River Ral! . ern Light, Dispateh, ann Maria, Saperior, Ha. | Ns * oes | Vouo. Larkin, itary Eliza, John Shamose, Mary, B | Tad, 4; Erle Bouds, old, and Ceylon. The ot! led. ‘The rebooner ( barran, at New Orleans, from Branc Bank Div | Sapport of Deaf and Dumb wehools . | Rowuoke money market enables speculators for @ rise to money on the hypothecation of fancy stooks, and them carrying lafge lots, which, other would be impossible, But wha can these speculators gain by such accumulations They may get into their beuds the bulk of every fanc: in the list, and at times may get the bears in a co but they cannot get the stocks out of the street int: the hands of those who will take them out of the mar ket and relieve speculators The fancies are now b died about between the bulls and the bears. The in crea-ing loss of public confidenee is pressing dewn th: value of fancy stocks to an alarming extent, su! the slight inflations which, from time to tim take place, are nothivg more thay those nervous distor tions which frequently precede dissolution, Whil these galvanic operations are going on in Wall street it would be well for speculators not to lose sight of th movements going ou iv the madagement of the affair of the companies which thes stocks represent. I] prices for ehares fluctua'e from day to day—up to- de: and down to-morrow--there is no such vaciliation i the business of the concerns themselves, There is steady (slow, in some ins*auces. itis trie) depreci: tion going on in the property aud resources of thes companies, particularly raitroads, and there appears t be no possibility of resisting it Reduced receipts an increasing competition ure wot caleulated to eabane the market! value of wny saiioad etook pornaneutl: An easy money marker aud low rate of iuterest ma; favor speculators; but thow who purchase aay stoc! fOr permanent jnvestivens, beyond the prese: abundance of money, avd trust to nothing bat the tual siste of the compacy, Lhe stock of whiek they rn ceive in exchange for thei eapival, ‘The extravagant! 6 Uoaccs of chose who are infor tunately entrusted with the mauagement of our rail road companies, have, oo doubt, induced many purchase chore stooks et prices am above those no: current, and the renuit of (he basiueas of the prese: year, Uhus far, has be a «nytnivg bus satisfactory, a far from that antielpated (with~- Youestly or for int: rested motives) by thore whove gv sitlon was such as tive theie calculaio # we ght. As an instazes, it only neces ary to re'er to the traffic of the Erie Rai road Company for the past two months It was estlunate, that ihe gross recei, ts for October aud November wou! ‘be $250 (00—$125,000 each vherens, they have on. deen about $170,000. vis., $10,000 for Ootober,and $50,07 for November, show! -Setency im the estimates $80,000, Then there is the (ariem, The estimat: made at the e.ore of lois put down the gross earain for 1819 at $512,000 ‘The vstinvetes made last Jur reduced the ineome ‘or the year to $420,000, of wh’ $191,000 were received in the drst six mouths, leavin $200.00 for the las’ six mouths In the estimate fi the last six months, the caroings for November wei put down at $40,000; whrrvas the actual reveipts ba: deen lers than $35,000 In ix & eompartson of the est mates with the results, that has opeaed the oyes holders, and shown that litle faish oan be placed the calculations of railrond directors, In estimates « costs, the result isim the otoerextreme The reeetp: generally amount to about one haif the estimat while the cost invariably amounts to two or three tim the orginal calculations, |f. in the face of such resul: the bulis manage to inflate prices, outside holde } should not fail to realize betore a reaction takes plac and the c Jlapse reduces prices below the startic point. ‘The annexed statement exhibits the quotations f/ the principal speculative stocks, for each day of th past week, anda: the close of the week previous, — | will be perceived that prices have tended upway throughout the weck and cloved yesterday at an vance ranging from one-quarter to two per cemt: — Sroces i waa Ni 1 igignut SRV Bi sis gr22e4i eSeee PEOEECEEPEPEE EEG Soli gous! S553! 8! ig! phat S251 ae A comparison of prices carreat at the close of ta} market yesterday. with those ruling at the close ot th. previous week, exbibits an advance in Indisua 5% of ? per cent; Reading Railroad, 2; trie Railroad, 1M ita: tem, fi; Long Islwnd. 1; Mohawk, 23; Canton Compr St. Sago, brought $108 763 86 io apecte, and the steamer at Mobile, from Vera Craz, brought $71,740 41, fc, hourcs in New Orleans. i ‘The aggregate :evenue and expenditures of thetren fury of the State of North Carolina, for the year eadin, November Ist, 1840, were as amrexed:— Finances or Noatn Cayouva—Ravenve axp Bx | Pesuoitnes f id's: Int. op Rel and Wiiwitryten do. Cape Peat Navigatton Dividends, bleral € oltege, Interest en loam... Wake Foret, ‘. beth © igation Dividends. - Tavern tax received trow Sheriffs. . Avetion tax..... Fapenditure } Support of common seh! $90.149 | . Deaf and Domb, 18 600 ] Caldwell and Arhe tury 1,200 | Fxpenres Literary Bd & lero i Soperintendent Deaf aud Dumb 1.600 @ Burne, for ao, pov A @8-110803 4 Bolavce on hand, Nov 1, 18 q It will be reen by (his statement, the buik of the ir ereare is detived from dividends on the bank and rai) read rteck held hy the State, theonly items of tax: tion being public | ouses sod auctions, We do mot ov emoug the items of expenditures, anything on ageou of the Legislature, or fo- exiartes Of civil offlerrs, Ti - balance cm hand at the clese of the lest ficeal year, » $11,506 14 Joes thaw at the clorw of the year previow The epoexed statement exbidite the amount to tr credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in ti Giflerent deporitorive, om che 26th of November, 181 Unive Staves Tarsscny—Amount oF Deroatrs. | vt Tn what place. Treasury of United States, Washington, Dirtriet of Columbia + (302.765 ¢ Hstant Treasurer, Borton, ines. ..... L1G I34 ’ ant Creasurer, York. N,V... 3,800.005 et nt Treasurer, Philadelphia, Pa... 1306001 ¢ Depository at Nertotk, Va, Deporttery at Wil Deporttory at Savannah, Deporitory at Mobile. Ala. Depository at Na-hviile | Deperitory at Cineinnatt Depository at Prtteturgn, Depository at Cinoiwran. | Depository at Little Kook Deporitery at Jetierson rviis Depository at Chieago. (it Deporitory at Detrett, Mi > Deporitory at Little Reek. (Inte) Mint of the U. 8.. Philadeiptia, Breneb wint of the i ibaton, N.C. a. oe 28 BGO 8 Orleans, La. 100,000 @ $7,000,000 2 } Transfers Ordered From A raletant T) er, Philadelphia... $200,000 6 To Treaeury U. & Washingtom.... 200.000 ( ¥ In the estimates which have been formed of the a4 clency in (he Treasury, the amoupt on deposit in th different deporitorios is inctaded in reventio, Th fact of its being om band ix ne dence that it isa sud plus to that extent. Every dollar of it is appropriate: and, in many instances, dae The report of the Serr tary of the Treasury, that will be presented to Con gree as soon as the hhouce is organized, will show the inetend of there being a surploa on band, there will ty & deColency to provide for, During the list sosston « Congress, application was made, by the frieads of th present rdminictration. for an ieue of five militons « treasury notes, to provide for any deficlency that migh arise in the Treacary, The resvintion was lost, and o application iM, during tae Approaching session, b jade for an iteve of at least double that amount. W are toree that our ruggestion that an issue c ‘Treasury notes, bearing a nomtna| rate of interest, fo general cireulation, be made, meet with almost an! versal epprobation © trust Congress will tale th matter into considera: