The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1850, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRISTOR ANE EDITOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. DAILY MERALD, 3 bab yl nS Td Rey partes Great Hritaim, and Sbte amy part of the Cont: te the postage. LETTERS by als for eubserigtions. or ith adver be Puller the’ portage all te Uadoctel from VOLUNTARY solicited from. seNT TO Us. NO-NOTICE takeen of anonymous communieations, Wede return those rej: od. Te renee Oh ieamecs, cheapnere and AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY TILCATRE, Bowery—Snowaauen oy TowLovsn Dow Cavan ve Baza BROADWAY THEATRE, Piarosic Art Achéa NT! NIBLO'S GABDEN, Broadway—Tiour Rovye—Graxp iT Kacu THEATRE, Chambers sireot—Sunsovs Fa- 8, NATIONAL THEATRE, any Wivxs—One Burs—t CHRISTY'S MINSTREL: —Brmorian Miner KELsy. FELLOWS’ OPERA HOUSE, 444 Broadway—Brworias Musrns 18, m Square—SweerkeaRTs INGLE, Mechanic's Mall, 472 Broadway AMERICAN MUSEUM—Amvumwe Punronuances Ar- wesNeon AND Eventxe. NEW YORK AMPHITHEATRE, 37 Bowery—Equesrzian Pwrronminces. MINBRVA ROOMS— WASHINGTON HALL—Panonama oF Pironim’s Paow en PANonAma ov Cuma. DOUBLE SHEET. ‘ew York, Tuesday, November 19, 1850. Important Intelligeree from the South— Adjournment of Che Nashville Convention. ‘The celebrated Nushville Convention adjourned yesterd sy sine die, ina rather unexpected, but we ahould say, most agreeable manner. Instead of passing a series of revolutionary resolutions, and adopting an address breathing secession, dissolu- ton, and everyth.ng else, a number of resolutions were cartied by @ vote of six States to one, declar- img attachment to the Union, and containing no- thing tha’, as far as we learn, can be consid- ered objectionable. The proceedings will be found under the telegraphic hea’, nnd wiil be read with imterest. Now that matters have taken such a course im the South, it 1s to be hoped that every exertion wi!l be made to deprive the abolition fan:tics of the North of the power of continuing the slavery agitation. In good faith towards the Southern States, who have thas, notwithstanding all the ag- | greseions that have been heaped upon them, patri- | tically come forward in favor of the Union, and | signified their attachment to it, we should do so. Let a similar feeling pervade the North, and the whole weld combined cannot prevent us from felfilling the glorious destiny which Providence | bas, evidently, in store for oar country. Those patriotic resolutions were opposed by only oae State—Tennessee. ‘There is another important point connected with | the resolutions thus passed by the Nashville Con- vention, which is worthy of notice. It will be seen that they recommend the Southern States Rot to go into a national convention for the nomi- nation of President. The eflect of this will pro- bably be, as we stated some day# since, to make the | nex! contest necrub race, and to throw the election mto the Louse of Representatives, where they will hold the balance of power, and use it in such mapper as may se to them best, and most con- ducive to their own interests. The great Union and Constitution meeting, purport of vaxpea ey He says, the treaty “de- nies to Great Britain any right im future to colonize, fortify, or assume or exercise any dominion what- ever over any part of Central America or the Mus- quito coast.” Such language would be thought to cover the whole ground. Yet there issomething wrong—a screw loose somewhere, and certainly a great deal of mystery over the whole matter. Mr. Webster, we believe, has a special agent somewhere in Nicaragua, at this day, on the busi- ness of another treaty; while the British authori- ties at Greytown are iaflicting their outrageous police regulations as rigidly as the black emperor enforces his decrees at Hayti. Mr. Clayton throws the onus upon Mr. Webster, and it would certainly be very gratifying to the public if the sleepy or- gans at Washington would give us the slightest official assurance that our foreign relations in Central America will all come out straight, and why it is that the outrages of the British police at Greytown have not been attended to. With respect to the life, character, policy and services of Gen. Taylor, his late premier bears the most ‘honorable testimony. It was, probably, Mr. Clayton’s identification with his policy, and his hostility to Mr. Clay’s adjustment, which con- tributed to the late whig defeat in Delaware. But whether it did or not, the division between the sage of Kentucky and the champion of Delaware is complete. Mason and Dixon's line is drawa between them. But the best has yet to come. All that has been “touched is only “the hasty plate of soup,” pre- ceding the reast beef and wine. A toast by Morton MeMichael, of the North Amertcan, in favor of Gen. Scott, brought Mr. Clayton to his feet again, in a brilliant offhand stump speech, in which all the triumphs of Scott, from Niagara toChapultepec, were recited, amid the greatest enthusiasm. This amounts to the nomination of Gen. Scott, for 1852, by the whig party of Delaware. Very good. We can’t begia the Presidential movement too soon. It will divert public attention from nullification and secession to President making. It will help to settle the fugitive agitation. Let, then, the move- ment of Mr. Clayton be followed up. Let us see who are the friends of Clay, of Webster, of Fill- more, end of Vass, Buchanan, and Houston; and of Benton, of Sewar#, or Chaplin, or Fred Douglas. It is only by preparations for, and agitation of, the Presidency, that we can stop this outery of nullifi- cation and secession It is high time the nags were entered for the scrub race of 1852. The movement of Mr. Clayton is a good begiuning. The barnburners of this State are preparing a similar movement ia favor of Sam Houston, of Texas. Nashville has also made a movement. Now isthe time. Let's all go to work. The Napotecon of the Press—Tho Courier and Enquirer and the London Times. We verily believe that we are the Napoleon of the Press. The ex-Minister to Austria came out, yesterday, in two articles in the Cowrter aad En- quirer, furnishing most conclusive evidence thit, in his opinion, we are the greatest personage that | has been conrected with the press since the in- vention of printing. Good! It appears the ae | nister believes that we regulate not only the afPurs of this mighty, great and glorious republic, but | that we are also wielding the destinies of the whole of Europe, and pulling down and raising up national cheracter and national destinies through- out the civilized world, as Napoleon did at the close of the last century. In this view, the New York Courier and Enquirer and the London Times both concur—the ene from one motive, and the other from another. The articles from these journals are so curious and so singular, and at the same time so funny, not to say absurd and ridica- lous, that we publish them to-day in our columns, and recommend eur readers to pyruse them, con- template them, and reflect upon the course of this journal since the Ist of May, 1835, to this day. Seriously, however, we never believed that Colonel Webb, our respeeted associate in the which was held at Cixcinnati on the Mth instant, ‘was very enthusiastic. It is said thet Mr. Fillmore has written a letter to the owner of the fugitive slaves, Crafts and his wife, who are in Boston, in which he states that whe law will be enforced, and that, if necessary, the power of the government will be applied to | that purpese. This is no more than what he would be obliged todo in case the law was obstructed; bat whether he wrote the letter in question or not, is evother matter. | Speech of Mr. Clayton—More Developments —Avother Presidential Movement, | We publish, to-day, the speech of Hon. John M. | Clayton, delivered at Wilmington, Del., on Satur- | of the late Sydney Smith. | crank or wheel in the intellectual machinery of day evening last. It is evidently the result of care- fel preparation, and as the official history of Gen. ‘Taylor's policy, it is a very interesting and im- portent document. It is elso highly creditable to the late Secretary of State, for the ability and elearness with which his chain of facts and argu- ments is put tegether. The retirement at Bueaa | Vista appears to have thoroughly restored all the vigor of intelleet for which Mr. Clayton was dis- tinguished in the Senate, and which it was feared he hed entirely lost in the puzzling perplexities of the State Department. The speech is, therefore, refreshing in every view, and in several points of paramount importance Mr. Clayton, after an apology for the whig de- feat in Delaware, begins his official deposition by saying that the election of General Taylor consti- tuted a new era. It was but the prelude to a new era—the overture to the opera—the mere prologue to the grand drama which is now e@onvulemg the Union. Ile next proceeds to the all engrossing slavery question, and laments, very maturally, the death of the celebrated “* Claytoa Gompromice” in the House, as the source of all eur subsequent disasters and our preseut multife- rious d ulties. Following the thread of history, President Polk and his messages are cited as the , origin and basis of the policy of Gen. Taylor—the non-action policy—and the true policy of the govern- | ment. Being perfeetly incredulous of the danger to the Union, to repeatedly pointed in such awful co- Jors by Cley, Casa, Foote, and the Commi'tee-of Thirteen, and being himeelf a passenger in the opposition line, Mr. Clayton, of course, | covsiders that Mr. Clay's Omnibus bill was a@ humbug—a reguler Barnum humbug—and a gull trap. This brench of the epeech places a high | wall and deep ditch between Meser ton and Olay. The daring Kentvckian having ch dia the Senate the cabinet of General Taylor—and par- ticularly the Secretary of State— with an intermed- ding and oflicious opposition to the Omnibus, im geting up a certain hostile meeting ia Delaware —a charge which Mr, Clayton says was “ abso- lutely untrue,” though “persisted in,” and “never retracted "—of course, there is a eplit between Mesars. Clayton and Clay, and Mr. Clayton makes Jove to another hero, as he did in 1848. Inthe | meantime, Mr. Clayton thinks it the beat policy to sustain Mr. Fillmore and the laws, and is alto gether satisfied with the Union as it is, which isa very sensible decision. Short work is made of the California mission of Mr. King, of which there is | doubtless something etl to be learned, and Mr Clayton slips over the subject of proscription ina hop, skip and jump. The least said on that score the soonest mended. But it is proper to eny that the statement of the late Secretary of State regarding the fraudulent and swindling Calphin claim, relieves him from any svuepicion of being particeps crimimis in that enormous operation vpon the Treasury. pears, | that had the cabinet known of Crawford's interest | in this magnificent haul, the claim would not have been allowed. De that oa it may, let it pase. Pass ing by, also, that insufficient Hangarian mission, | avd the Ouba business, in which the cabinet and Mr. Clayton did well as could be expected,” we eome to that complex Mosquito net, and the | Wienregus treaty. Nothing could be more emphatic or more clear | thas My. Clayton's s:atement of the import and . | noi only supported principles, ir management of the Cowter and Enquirer, from 1£29 to 1832, could utter so much absurdity with ashe has done in some recent ar- ticles in relation to the New York Herald, and par- ticularly im those two last ones relative to Thomp- son, the English abolition missionary, Barnum and Jenny Liud, and even stirring up the remains Some very important the Courter and En rand its managers, must have given way, to occasion it. There must be a collapse in some of the boilers of their perteranta— they must have reached a premature old age in newspeper existence, or they could not utter so much absurdity, and shut their eyes, as they have done, to the light #f the sun at noonday, and cry out, “ what a dark night it is! Why don’t the Cor- poration have the lamps lighted, so that we can see our way at twelve o'clock at noon?” Now, what hes the New York Herald done for the Union, since the day of ite first appearance, to the present? While the Courier and Enquirer and kindred sheets were the mere orgens and spokesmen of parties and of party leaders, the Herald has boldly ‘advocated the rights, and interest, and honor, and prosperity of the United States, in its foreign and domestic relations. There never was a measure or a principle advocated or proposed, which tended to the advantage of the republic, with which it did not identity iteelf. As an independent jouraslist, we praised and censured each and all parties, ac- cording to their merits or demerits, and sifted from ell what was good, and applied it practically to the benefit of the country. Peiat out a single measure, the adoption of which would tend to the benefit of the republic, that we have not advocated. We have tive of men and of party, but we originated many which are now in eperation and exerting their influence in favor of the continuance of this republic, and of the cause of self-government throughout the world. We favored the annexation of Texas to the United States, knowing that it would be beneficial to the country. We gave our undivided support to the government during the war with Mexico, and, through our enterprise, placed important despatches end information in the hands of the late President Polk, considerably in advance any other way. We identified ourselves with the doctrine of free trade, to which, in a great degree, we owe the great prosperity which we are now en- joying asa people. We supported the government in of their receipt in | fought against, and will do so to consequences what they may. We see iniquity, we shall attaek it, ex- pose it, and destroy it—whether it exist in the ge- neral government, in the municipal government of acity, in the selection of candidates for offiee, in the pulpit, on the bench—no matter where it may gloves; and we shall continue to do so as long as we live, caring nothing whom such a course may offend, and trusting in the good sense and opinion of the virtuous and patriotic portion of the com- munity for the vindication ef our motives, We ean inform the Courier and Enquirer that we feel confident of breaking up and scattering to the four winds of heaven all the cliques and coteries of abo- litionists, higher law politicians, and other dema- gogues, who are united for the purpose of convert- ing this happy, growing, and prosperous nation into a nest of weak, jostling, and perhaps hostile com- munities, like the States of Mexico, or the South American republics—its particular friend, Wm. H. Seward, included. Knowing the seat of the dis- ease, like a skillful physician, we shall attack that point, and not cry health, health, when there is no health, and when the Courier and Enquirer can- not but know there is a canker eating away the very vitals of the body politic. That journal may seek to connect us with Thompson, the English abolition missionary, as much as it pleases; but what journal in New York, we would ask, was the firet to denounce him, and to rejoice at the recep- tion which he met with recently in Bostont Was it the Courter and Enquircr? No; it was the New York Herald. If such has always been the course and policy of the New York Herald, i: is clear that the Courier and Engutrer has other motives and other reasons for assailing this journal, than those which it men- tions. What are they? We can enlighten the public in this matter. Our emiable cotemporary, Col. Webb, has witnessed with surprise and as- tonishment the unexampled prosperity which has attended tiajp journal, and the tremendous influence which it exarts in the United States and through- out the world. The ex-Minister has recently re- turned from the continent of Europe, where he spent a year, and we venture to say that in every place that he visited—no matter whether it was a city, town, village or hamlet—he saw the New York Herald; while, in all probability, he did not meet with his own journal in one out of twenty ofthem. He sees in his exchanges that all the leading journals of Europe quote liberally from the Herald, and that the greatest newspaper in the world is not ashamed to term it its ‘able cotem- porary,” as the ex-Minister himself admits. We allude to the London Times. Ile knows that we circulate ten thousands to his hundreds; and that, in comparatively a short time, we have built up by our enterprise, energy, tact, and ability, an estab- lishment, the fame of which hes penetrated the whole world, and the limit to which is commen- surate only with the extent of civilization. These are the motives—not very magnanimous, as every one will admit—which actuate the ex- Minister in assailing us ; but for his satisfaction, we aseure him that his assaultsare perfectly harmless, and that if he has patience we will be able to point him to a list of subscriptions, before ten years, which will be as much greater than our present one as that is to his. Let us not hear again of such absurdities as the accusations of our diplomatic neighbor against the New York Herald. They pass all credulity. Better proclaim to Wall street, that the principal and interest of some $52,000 were paid over to the United States Bank in California gold dust. God save the Union and the constitu- tien! Gronor Tnoxrsoy’s Srercues AND Lacrures.— In another part of our paper will be found the cu- risus speech that George Thompson of the Tower all its territorial controversies with Great Britain, | and, to the best of our ability, advocated the rights of the United States in opposition to that haughty and insolent power. We have supported the union of thege States, and have denounced its open foes, as well os its secret enemies. We have labored industriously, and, we flatter ourselves, not un- profitably, to put down agitators, fanatics, dema- gogues, and ultras, of all kinds, who, if suc- | cessfal in their echemes and designs, would pre- pare the way for a dissolution of this great republic. We have advocated all measures having for their object the developement of our resources. Bat what use is there in referring to these things, and to much more that we conld point out? that the New York Herald has invariably been national and American in its tone and priaciples, and ite course has been approved of by the Amert- cen people, as our long list of subscribers and out immense circulation abundantly prove—a cireula- tion of nearly one hundred thousand copies, in every part of the civilized world. What is the New York Herald doing now? We are engeged in the prosecution of a great, a noble, and patriotic cause. We have declared war—un- compromising, deadly, and exterminating war— against the abolition fanatics of the North, and the disunioniste of the South—against two sets of | demegogues, who, although as opposite to each other as fire is to water, yet are united on one de- structive principle—the dissolution of this confede- racy—each taking @ separate method of accom- phishing ite ena. It is wonecessary to say more thin | | These disunionists we have e Hamlets, London, wasto have delivered in Boston, recently. It has ail the characteristics of his style, logic and argument. It abounds in the same com- mon-pleces, which filled the Westminster Reviewr for twenty years, and of which the industrious Perronet Thompson was the author—a writer more gifted in constructing new fashioned guitars, and in discovering the enharmonic scale of the an- cients, than in working out the problems of public economy. Educated by the Westminster oracle, George Thompson is well supplied with anecdotes and illustrations of his favorite themes, and makes quite a show as a speech maker. His political pro- genitor, Col. Thompson, however, ought to adver- tise for his lost thunder. Thisis not to be the end of the speeches of George Thompson. We perceive that he is going into the British colonies, at the north of Greytown and the United States, to deliver a series of lectures on British colonial history. This is an eminently shrewa design. These lectures will serve as threads on wheh to string any quantity of facts. As most of the British colonies of aay importance grew into prosperity through the introduction and traffic in slaves, of course full justice may be ex- pected to this portion of the subject. The proba- billity is that this orator, who has astonished the coal heavers of the Tower Hamlets, and the fish women of Billingsgate, into sending him into Par- liement, will find occasion to refer to our early colonial times. He will not fail, of course, to paint, and in glowing terms, the means which the Jritish government adopted to plant the slave-system on our soil, and to continue it successfully, and profitably, to the last moment, while they also reaped an immense advantage, fora long series of years, from the slave labor of the West Indies, till nearly every member of Parliament became a proprietor in the East India Company's stock, and it was deemed advisuble to throw “a sop to Cerberus,” in the shape of twenty milllions of pounds sterling, as the price of destroying the prosperity of the sugar- growing lands. Oa this point, we hope he will be evenmore explicit than on the manner in which slavery has been forced upon the United States. He will not forget, of course, to show how the twenty millions of pounds went directly into the hands of members of the British Parliament—we beg pardon, into the pockets of British philanthro- piste—and how that portion of the British govern- ment known as the East India Company—part and | Parcel of the British army, navy, end civil organi- zal was saved, by the act, from baakruptey, while the firet great blow was strock at the com- mercial prosperity of the United States. Skim- ming along on these outekirte of history, he may find an opportunity to sketch the sincerity of Bui- tish movements against slavery in Brazil, and on the coast of Afries, and conclude wich a magnifi- cent peroration, in which he may depict the possi- ble glory of the East ladia Company, when Britiea ‘ors forget the naked women and childrea who—never blessed with the light of heaven, ot aware of the existence of a sun, moon, or stars— toil, day after day, in the miaes of England, ina more lamentable condition than the worst treated slave of this country, and who, leaving these suflerers, visit us to reform evils, conceraing which the very bowels of England, could they speak, would send a cry to heaven, piercing the ear and heort of all hamanity. Let him not fiaish, either, without desigaating the meoner in which it is hoped to retard the commercial prosperity of this country, by raising a sectional strife, to be, eventu- ally, subversive of our institutions, our enterpriae, ovr commerce, and of that career in the history of nations now promising to be without a parallel in the annals of mankind. The field is extensive. Let George Thompson do the work of gleaner thoroughiy. Let him not skip end hedge about, but toil etendily from the commencement to the end. British colonial history is fall of faete; and, at no distant day, Australia will farnish another truth, as will many other dependencies which have lightened care of the mother yeorge Thon has finished asion, let him ote a portion of riamentary du nd do some- thing to lift the yoke from those inthe mines and Q,ille. Awznican Pourrics axp Tux Aumrican Parse.— It is now manifest that a new political epoch has commenced. The revelution is upon us. One of two conclusions is inevitable:—the Union will come out of it with a more splendid career of glory and prosperity before us; or the existing uproar, excitements, treachery and fanaticism, must termi- nate in disruption, dissolution, anarchy and civil war. We are firm in our belief of the first alter- native. The Union is etrong—the attachment of the peo- ple is strong; but there is mutiny at both extremes. Nallification in the North, has already torn the two Great politi¢al parties into fragmen’s. Secessionin the South, is rapidly effecting the same disorgani- zation in that quarter. Old issues have become ob- solete. The bank question, the distribution of the proceeds of the puvlic lands, and the repeal of the sub-treasury, are among the extinct doctrines of past history; and the tariff, with all the efforts of the party press to revive it as a party question, is dormant, if not @efunct. Old landmarks and plat- forms are ewept away. The deluge of agitation covers the land, and everything is adrift. While the democrats of the South are complimenting Webster, the ultra whigs of Massachusetts declare him a traitor. A New York President, for sus- taining the constitution, is condemned by the New York elections; and a Mississippi Senator, for his attachment to the Union, goes home to be burnt in effigy. A South Carolina member is defeated for voting appropriations to Charleston; and Gen. Cass is overslaughed for disregarding the detestable doctrines of abolitionism. In short, while nullifi- cation has swept the Northern elections, secession is contendiog with moderate counsels in the South. We have Benton in St. Louis, seconding the efforts ef Garrison in Boston; and Sewardism in New York adding fuel to Southern agitation. Par- ty leaders are prostrated; politicians are para- lyzed; patriotic men are confounded, and brawling fenaticism and hot-headed treason are driving head- long all parties to confusion. Our hope of deliverance lies in the Presidential election. It is the safety-valve which alone can avert the threatened explosion. The real diflicul- ties between the North and South were adjusted in the late compromises. But they lead, of necessity, to a new state of things—to new issues, new ques- tions, and new organizations. The two old politi- cal parties in both sections, are undergoing this in- evitable transition, as in 1823-4. The danger is in the present crisis. The convulsion is fearfal—the shock may be too strong for the Union. The South are getting sick of it, and the aboiitionists; North- ern fanaticism revolis at the’ connection; and these two opposing elements are now in the ascendant, controlling the elections, organizing conventions, inflaming sectional hatred, and paralyzing all ef- forts ateonciliation and peace. The final resolu- tions of the Nashville Convention, in the meantime, confirm our predictions of the prospects of a scrub race for 1852, and the intermediate dissolution, not of the Union, but of both the old parties of the day, roct end branch. Still there is danger of driving the South to the wall. One of the most significant features of this crisis is the imbecility and stultification of the newspaper press. There is scarcely a public journal in the country, outside of New York, which has the cou- rage, the dignity, or the patriotism, to meet the dan- ger, and to tell the whole truth. The party organs poseess neither sagacity nor perception sufficient to gresp the magnitude of passing events, ina broad, comprehensive, fearless, and philosophical treat- ment. They continue blindly fiddling to Presiden- tial favorites, when searce a man of them remains to tell the late disasters. They continue harping upon old party platforms, when the party is dis- persed; or they stupidly close their eyes to the im ending danger, like the camel, with his nose in the sand, till the storm blows over. Foremost in fee- bleness and gelf-stultification, are the party organs at Washington. The Natronal Intelligencer and the Republic exult or grumble over the late elections, according to the luck of party candidates; and whether elected or defeated by abolitionists or nullifiera, it is the loss or gain of a vote for the Coa- gress printing. While harping the lullaby of con- ciliation, they are grateful for abolition support, and neither have the courage nor honesty to send the traitors adrift. The North American, with its abo- lition instincts ; Thurlow Weed, and Philosopher Greeley, with all their detestable heresies and abo- minations; the New York Courier, and the Bos- the champion of nullification, are all inthe same harness with the organs at Washington, for the whig cause. They may scold each other like billingsgate, but they harmonize for the spoils. Father Ritchie blows hot and cold, but works patiently, with a little hard ewearing, alongside of the Evening Post, the organ of Benton and Van Buren. Such is the enslaved condition of the party prese—steeped in party corruptions, servile and submissive, and ready to trade with nullifiers, anti-renters, or abolition- iste, votes may be needed. Not one of them pretends to know what is going on. The recent elections have only confirmed the corrup.ion of their principles and the extent of their stupidity. They still tramp the old treadmill with the same old song, while the incendiaries have lit every- thing eround them in a blaze. ‘When such is the condition of the country—the confusion of politice—the danger to the Union— the feebleness and stupidity of the party organs--the only reliance of the independent, thinking people, for true and faithful information, is the independent press. The Nive York Herald, the slave of no party, the tool of no man or set of men, is just in that independent pesition which enables it to be useful. Our political platform is as broad and comprehensive asthe Union. Our duty is plain and straight for- ward. We shall record the history of the times, politics, politicians and demagogues, as they are. ‘We theli treat of political measures and intrigues without fear, favor, or affection, giving the rea- sons, the onalysis, and the philosophy of every important movement. Neutrality and indepen- dence are two different things. The New York Hoald is not a neutral, but an independent jour- nal—neutral in nothing—independent in every- thing, and of every thing, exbept the independent people. A broad field of active service is before us. The most iateresting, important, and momen- tous events are athand. Weare in the midst of them. It soon must be decided whether this splendid republic shall go forward in its noble career of glory, grandeur, wealth, happiness, and power, or whether it shall be broken up, followed by all the calamities of civil and servile war. Independent of parties, party schemes, cliques cr leaders, the platform of the New York Herald is the Union, against all schemes, all enemies, all movements, all sections, all plots opposed to the restoration ot the Union and good will betweea the States. We have spoken. Hox. Danie. Wenste Aanivan is New Yors.—Mr. Webster was expected yesterday afternoon at the Astor House, and dinner was ordered for him; but he did not arrive till half past eleven o'clock last night, by the New Haven traia It is expected he will have a talk with the citizeas of New York before he leaves. Axotner Sgxaton tx Tie Fie.p —One of the anti-elavery journals has nominated Thurlow Weed for Senator, to take Mr. Dickinson’s place. This is a very choice movement. Thurlow Weed would meke an admirable candidate. We like him vastly, and must pause to weigh the merits and ropacities of each eardidate. We have taken up Fich firet—bnt whether it shall be Weed or Fish, or Fieh or Weed, we cancot determine precisely. Tish is very good in ite proper season, and “The fat weed that rots on Lethe’s wharf” is not to be despised. We consider the re- spective cepacities of both Weed and Fish—Fish and Weed, and give an opinion hereafter. One of the two we must have, and, in arriving at » con- clusion, we shall “ Nothing extonuate, Nor et dora avght ja matige ‘Unirep Srarzs Saxaror AMD que Sreanen or me Assempty—C aims oF Tue Crry.—The Legis- lature of New York will meet in January; and as they have a majority of whigs in both branches, ene of the first interesting steps will be the move- ment with respect to the choice of Speaker of the Assembly; and, subsequently, the election of United States Senator in place of Mr. Dickinson, whose term will expire next March, will bring about quite an excitement. There is no hope of the re-election of Dickinson, as not more than a dozen, out of the forty-six democrats in the Assembly, will be found to be in his favor. Thus the chances for Governor Fish for the United States Senate are remarkably bright—and we can urge his election, on behalf of this city, as a candidate of the metropolie, with a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. Mr. Fish has been a Lieutenant Governor, and a Governor for two years. He is on the best terms personally with Seward and Weed, and also with the“ silver graye;” yet we think he is right on the slavery question, and is no ultra. Though we can- not congratulate him on having reeeived the anti- rent vote at any time, yet we are very well satisfied that any scrupulous anti-rent members of the As- sembly, who desire to compliment the city by se- lecting Governor Fish as the object of their choice, may receive all possible satisfaction by holding a little conversation with Thurlow Weed, who is abundantly able to settle that difliculty. Though Governor Fish is not celebrated for his oratorical powers, he would be of great service on commit- tees; end as he will run both in the Seward har- ness and “silver greys,” he is adesirable man. Be- sides, he is descended from revolutionary stock on the one hand, and on the other, the maternal side, from Peter Stuyvesant, of the old Datch times, con- cerning which full particulars may be found in Die- drich Knickerbocker’s history of New York. Onthe whole, therefore, Governor Fish’s claims should be respected, not precisely on the ground of his being a New Yorker—for only a “ sign” of him remains in Nassau street, where ia established the agency for his large city property, while his unoffi- cial residence is somewhere in New Jersey—but that our country friends, under the circumstances, can do more justice to the metropolis and pay a fu!l compliment to us by his election. We are entitled to him on every ground of fair play and decency. Troy has a Canal Commissioner—Jeifzrson eouaty has a State Prison Inspector—Niagara county has the Governor—Orleans, the adjoining county, has the Lieutenant Governor—and Herkimer, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals. This is pretty well for the country; and the city, which comprises one- fifth of the population of the State, onght not only to have the Senator, but the Speaker of the As- sembly, also. Now, there will be several candidates for the Speakership. There wi'l be Allen of Erie, Lesley of Rensselaer, Wheeler of Franklin, Stevens of Onondaga, and, it is very wisely suggested, Heary J. Raymond of this city. Allen, of Buffalo, will probably be preferred by the “silver grays ;" but he will stand no chance, as the friends of Seward and Weed have a large mejority in the Assembly. The only chance seems to be for Mr. Raymoad; and as the country will desire to do the right thing Raymond's election should be secured, as a fair and hberal act towards the commercial me- tropolis. We claim for him on this ground, though we ere not unmindful of his claims from cther causes. The city has not had a Speaker for several years, and Col. Crolius, one of the best Speakers the Assembly ever had, and father of the present Senator from this city, showed that we can supply as good and im- partial candidates as any found in the rural dis- tricts. Mr. Raymond has been re-elected by the city to the Assembly, knowing that he was with the country for anti-slavery, and that ought to be an assurance of his fitness for the trust. Born, it is said, in this State, and deeply imbued with clas- sical lore at a college in Vermont--thoroughly college bred—he unites in a practical manner the polished New Yorker to the shrewd Yankee. There is, we believe, no Dutch blood in his veins. He is not only devoted to the Union, but to the Art-Upion. Brought up in his editorial career in the Tyibwne office, but only taking one of its isms along with him, he has been valuable to the Cou- rier and Enquirer, to which he has been trans- ferred, and has more leisure this year than he had during the last. IJlis friend and coadjitor, James Watson Webb, has returned from his celebrated Austrian tour, and can keep the Wall street jour- nal straight, while Mr. Raymond calls the country membersto order. Asa city map and an edits7 we claim for him, and are in hopes that no jealousy on the ground of the free schoo! question, in which the city taxed the interior for the future correct be- havior and education of country urchins, will have any efiect towards deteating Raymond’s election. Any little experience that he may need will be always supplied by the ready advice of Seward ind Weed. If the country does not elect him, the me- tropolis will remember the slight, Wanp’s Istaxn Doinas—Tue Commissioners or Emioration, Tux Press any THs Prorie.—We have received a letter from John W. O'Neill, for- merly a resident on Ward's island, called forth by the refusal of the three commissioners to admit our Teporter to the investigation on Ward's island, on Thureday last. The writer says this is just of a piece with the whole regime of the commissioners, and gives a case in point in which he himself was concerned. He witnessed a violent assault on the night of the 6th of January last, by a night watch- man, upon one of the inmates, dragging him out of bed and beating him dreadfolly. Next day, O'Neill addressed a letter to Dr. Greene, the then warden of the island, preferring a complaint against the officer. Finding there was no redress in that quarter, he addressed a letter to the commissioners, detailing the outrage. There was not the slightest notice taken of these documents. We regret that their length, and our want of space, prevent their insertion; but we have given the pith of them in the three facts—that an outrage was committed by an officer—that a complaint was formally made, and that no attention whatever was paid toit. This case is but another illustration of the protection affor led by the commissioners te the poor emigrants Maced under their guardianship by a law of the State If the commismonere desire to discharge faithfully the trust imposed in them, why is the press excluded from their meetings? They are as much a public body as the Common Council; and it is unconsti- tutional and audaciggs to shut out the reporters, and consequently the public, from their proceedings. The people have a right to know how the con- treets are disposed of, and whether the Commia- sionets themselves have not a pecuniary interest inthem. The people have farther a right to kaow how the Commissioners deal with outrages uyon the pereons, or the most sacred feelings of the ha- men beings over whom they have uadertaken to act a8 guardians. In short, they have a right to see how the institution is managed in all its de- partments, and whether, under its present rulers, it is not a curse instead of a blessing, and woald be for better abolished than continued under the prerent mismanagement, corruption, and fraud. The public are looking forward to the report of the Special Committee, which isto be rendered at the next meeting of the Board, and to what notion will be taken upon t. [f the Commussioners do not ad+ mit the press, will they give the document to the newspapers? We shall are. Tennirony or Ur —Our readers will find in encthrrjcolamn,a communication from an Utaviaa, relative to education in the new territory of Utah. 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Elegant Musical Boxes.—J invoieo of fine large M ‘Fam vorite, Lucresia Dive tow Noreen Lacie di iment, I Puritani,and Serious Lawmermoor,La Fille du Family Polka, as plaved of Horton's. A. VAN VALKENRURGH, 187 Pearlt., upstairs. Ladies’ Cloaks, Jenny Lind Sacks, Cloaks, Wantilles. &o., of all kings of goods, well made, ehes per than you urehase in Broadway, at the “ Hive,’ an New York. Also, @ ‘assortment of straw goods, ribbons, &e. 8. D. street. weddin, nie i cake, rdell hes ore nt Il street, for the accom s. Saunders’ , 147 and: S87 Broadway. many advan' over the imported, being mace with the view for he hent quality of articles in the smallest cont e RS. 147 Troadway, corner of y UNDE! tne Sor Bronte Saunders’ Mctaliic Tablet Strop, favo: public: the frst preminm the different of tl erioam Insti an awarded to the inventor. UN DBRS, 147 SST Rroatway,and 278 Stra Watches and Gold Pen: the attenti wholonale deators and beautiful assortment ‘of fir o for sele by J. Y. is also the sole manuf ft éver pointed Cold Fens, which are particular. and ochaes to the larze old and silver ight Stout Cork sole, sit Shoes, Leauber Overshoas, yle of wear fer the feet. to be RROOKS'S New York Boov ‘The cheapest place Brady's Dagrerreotypes on lvory.—The Fiprites tue actention cr tne public to hig rece ony which prodnce ine aes ae of 4 az type. mens 0} Gaalaey, No. 2 Brady's Brosdwa: Reoth Br brietle: ri ‘i new principle, aa rauted not to come locse in the morth. Comb Factory, 387 Broadway.—The ase if Sh y oisesta) lehment is not equalled ras to varievy or qwelity; the greatest oare fitting ef each, so that they fit the head im the most perfect marner. A. & J. SAUNDERS, 397 Broadway, 5,000 Wigs and Toupces. — The ehes pest and bert 9 ct Wigs half Wigs, Foupocs, are to de found a6 Sew York, and Wigsand To —Th Pontie <vetuvine® % ine Bateheio: syle of W Are renliy the most ropert articles of the Kind a4 nd present #u) ior attrastio jm Mair Mperetntdheles, Geomipe Bate Oo ee Rd thonl guned nentusttesitanioesy” See Berson whi hes a SS Re ee a rected by onlling az abrse. Orny the addzegm The Best Hair Cye—Ballard’s or sppll utes, and warrant a ‘orine from other éyes ra~ 0. 183 Fultom sireet, up 628 Broadway, the tn= atmosyherie prossure iato Rarionlar” attention to . Tis popular lictle work, Can the be; of P ary edtarmed on ‘araiication as hee saentn (First Prew ied. The M. Levett, Dent: frodueer of the privet i per steam ci ; iY all i: Gor- Bea cis Re INGTON, avuc= Ree PY the stock of Toys fell, this ay ° street, 20 caren Toys ant Pipes, old Windsor So . tve Coameran’ *, Re. Also, at WZ Teys, 10 groe: in taar Soap: # ney Goods, in Tote tranit parehasare + and Pon Knive: at Cases sanorted a \. @ large 1 Patty vl betog m laege and Hepdenme esrortment of frow) manutastured ¢ tine of mofis, vietorines, mad cut, in pe ine Pitoh tabi, bendon lasten y goaee ole vir badger, ete the otty retail’ lined bear pnd ty anne, bends fe ed ia the eatalrgue em ; nya ai Even ow the morning of tales