The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1850, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. pe Rreteeieeinon \ oo JAMES GORDON BENNE?®, PROPRIBTOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAU STS. ILY HERALD, 3 conte per THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Par ig rents per , or $5 per annum; the ‘edition, $4 per answer, art of @reat Britasn, ‘$5 to any pas gia bo inefude auepe Sy a Rr pontape tb deducted from stn Bain ING executed with neatness, cheapness and , conta Py oer hn contatoiun wapertens Ther ally paid’ for. Fornien ‘Gon! ESPONDENTS ARR Tyan — nl isavrer re Seal all anD ‘ADVERTISEMENTS VTS reneioad every morning, AML SEMENTS ' ‘THIS EVENING. YTALIAN OPERA, Astor Place.—It. 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One Week Later from Europe. ‘The American steamship Baltic, Captain Com- etock, will be due to-morrow night, with one weck’s later news from Europe. The B. was to have left Liverpool at four o’elock ia the afternoon of Saturday, the Mth inst The Patent Laws—The "Proposed Amend. ment. Among the unfinished business of last session, which is now e engaging the attention of Congress, ie a bill amen the patent laws of the Umted Siates, which certamly need emend ment, as every cially if he be a patentee, knows by sad experience. It is the opinion of nine-tenths of the community that our presegt system is imperfect, that too much power is placed in the hands of the Commissioner, and that if no fraud or corrup- tion is practised in the granting or renewal of patents, e door is open for both. Wedo not say that ery Commissioner of Patents who has ever held office has been guilty of conducting the busi- ness of his department in an unfair manner; but we do say thut, es the law stands, they are liable to the imputation of ruling and deciding, in patent cases, not according to justice or equity, not with the determination to do right, but through motives anything but creditable. This imputation, or rather the cause whiclr produees it, should be re- moved. We should like to see those whose duty itis to decide upon such important business placed in a position thet the breath even of sugpicion could not reach them. This cannot be the case under the prevent patent laws, as every one acquainted with the subject is aware. If it were, we would not hear, se much as we do, of the patent office not being conducted in a proper andequitable man- ner. Great care must be taken, however, that in amending the patent laws, to speak paradox- ieally, we do not amend them for the worse—that in endeavoring to remedy an evil we do not commit a greater one. Legislators are liable to do so, as the piles of statutes in every State library will testify. The evils complained of should be carefully investigated and ascertained ; and when they are made apparent, they should be corrected, leaving the rest of the system—known to be good—uatouched and unimpaired. We do not eee that the bill now before Congress is of a cha- racter to remedy all the evils which have been complained of, for 80 many years, in connection with the patent laws. We like some of its features, but there are others which we do not agree to. We like, for instance, that portion of it which takes awey from the Commissioner the absolute power which he possesees over patents and patentees. In the infancy of our republic, wher the patent business was of but small account, the present sys- tem was, perhaps, good enough. But the case is very diflerent now, when we are a nation of nearly thirty millions of people. In this respect, we go farther than the proposed bill; we would like to see a Court of Patents organized, to be presided over by two or three judges—certainly more than one, be- cause many of the objections which apply to the present system would also be applicable to the proposed one, if there were but one—and these judges should be selected from among the best and soundest legal men in the country. Our Commissioner of Patents should be a lawyer.— What do mechanics or scientific men know about Jaw, as a general thing? And it is the business of the Commiesioner of Patents, who is always one or the other, to interpret and pronounce upon laws ‘as important as any on our statute book. There are other features of the proposed amendment that we dislike, and cannot perceive the necessity of intro- ducing. We allude to one particularly, which, on asecond reading of the bill, we think decidedly wrong, because it is against all statute and common law. [t is the provision requiring that, whena patentee institutes a suit against a person who pirates on his invention, the pirate shall have the privilege, by scire facias, of compelling the inventor to prove the validity of his patent ; and until that i, done, the patentee’s proceedings shall be stayed. We do not see the object of this, except it be to protect the pirate. Under the present system, it would be absurd for an inventor to institute pro- ceedings against a person for infringing on his patent, unless he knew that his rights were indis- putable; but if they were not valid, the defendant has the privilege and right of showing it, and, if he can do so, he gains the suit. If a man commences an action of ejectment against another, the defend- ant has the privilege, if he can do so, of showing that the plaintiff ’s title to the property is unsound: Let him prove this, the action fails and he wili get a verdict. It is the same with patents. In all eases the defendant has the liberty of showing that the patent is illegal, or void from some other one, € enuse. In the one case, it would be unjust and improper to allow the defendant to turn round, stay the plaintiff's proceedings, and commence an action against the plaintiff which might last for fivedyears, and, in the meantime, en- Joy the rents of the property. To allow him such 8 privilege, would be to commit a gross injustice on the real owner. In the other, it would be equally tnjust to allow a man, who is sued for infringing patent, the privilege of instituting proceedings againet the patentee, which, like the other, might last for five or ten years, the infringer, in the mean- time, feathering his nest by his piracy. In both cases, title is in iseue, and if the defendant can show the title to be bad, it is all the defence he needs. ° Now, when we amend our laws, let us amend them for the better, and not for the worse. This feature of the proposed amendment is absurd on its face ; and members of Congress are greater fools than we take them to be, if they sanction it. ‘Thousands of persons are interested, and many millions of dollars are‘involved, in the granting and reissuing of patents. Let us have a Court of Pa- tents, and let the old and good common law prac- tice prevail in litigations concerning them. Let the patentee not be disarmed of his rights, or infringere encoureged in their piracy. | Tur Awerscan Art Unton.—The objects of this {mstitution are praiseworthy, national, and good. ‘The manner in which it is managed has given rise to complaint from year to year; and it is argued that, under a better regime, ite affairs would be in a more flourishing, healthy condition, and both the artists and the public would derive far greater benefit from it. One cause of complai and itseems to us, a just one, is that the self-constituted managers appear to have installed themselves for life at the head of the inetitution. It is true, there is a rule that seven of the committee shall go out every year, and seven subscribers shall be elected in their stead, or the old members shall be re-elected. The farce of electicn takes place, but it is done with all the ra- pidity of legerdemain, and before the audience are aware, the seven members whose turn it was to go eut are re-elected without casting of votes, and by the decision of the President alone. The idea of officers being elected by such an assembly as filled Tripler Hail on Friday evening, is preposterous. It consisted of men, women and children, and a large number were not subscribers, but were at- tracted there by curiosity. How was voting on such an occasion practicable? No doubt many persons would propose a different set of men for the management, and insist upon the votes being taken on the question, but from the palpable impracticabi- lity of the thing, and no man wil! venture to delay an audience, including ladies, full of anxiety for the result of the drawings from the wheel of for- tune, by proposing anything that he knows and every body knows, cannot be accomplished. Even when the proceedings are allowed to go on smooth- ly and without opposition, they occupy six or seven hours, and a man would make. himself rather un- pepular that wou'd do aught to protract them toa more advanced hour. Thus,@he evil has been al- lowed to grow from year to year. Now, this ground of complaint can be easily removed, and if the managers are disinterest. ed, they will readily consent to the following proposition:—Let the practice pursued by the Mercantile Library Association be adopted, and let en election of officers take place by ballot, on the day before the drawing of the prizes, or on the same day, closing at sunset, and let tickets be made out, containing the most eligible names. If there be no opposition, and there be but one ticket, why let it be unanimously elected; but if there should be opposition, and that there wre better men than those whose names ap- opposition have fair play, and have an opportunity to test the feeNng of the subscribers would give universal satisfaction. But as the mat- ter now stands, allis dissatisfaction and distrust. In public institutions, opposition is necessary to keep them pure and preserve them from corruption; and where on opportunity is never given for an op- position to develope itself, there is room for suspi- cion, and public confidence will be withheld. But it may be replied that, in point of fact, the manegets are deserving of public confidence, and terests of the institution. are they afraid to appeal to the ballot box? Let us satisfactory as they pretend. Is it satisfactory to have only 500 prizes for 16,000 subscribers, giving only one chance in 320 to each! Is it satisfactory, with this paucity of prizes, to invest thousands of dollars of the subscribers in the accumulation of property? What has the investment of $4000 in real estate to do withsuch an institution as this? To whom does the property belong? The sub- ecribers of this year are not the subscribers of the next, and neither have any legal right to it. is foreign to the design of the institution and highly improper to invest the money of the subscribers in the purchase of buildings. It ought to be applied to the purchase of pictures, in order to give more extensive encouragement to artists, and to give the subscribers a greater chunce of drawing a prize. The sum of $50,000 per annum is rather too much money to be placed at the absolute disposal of men who are not responsible for the manner in which they expend it, and who act as if they did not re- cognize any kind of responsibility. If the institu- tion should continue in existence for ten or twelve years more, and the receipts of subscriptions should average the same amount as in the past few years, the committee will have received the enormous eum of one million of dollars! Exhibiting lump sums in @ treasurer’s report, is not enough. It is very important to know the details of this vast ex- penditure. We might point out other objectionable things, but this is sufficient to justify the subscribers tak- ing the management into their own hands, and electing their own officers in future. We trust they will doso next year, and that the usefulness of an institution so important and so valuable, will not be marred or impaired by the selfishness and vanity of a few individuals. Pronxoorarny anv Reronting.—For almestevery winter for some years past, a great commotion has phonographic system of reporting, and its virtues have been extolled tothe skies by persons who have managed ere this to make a snug living out of the verdancy of our young men. Ithas been stated over and over again, that it is 80 simple that achild can learn it; that after a practice of.a month or two, the student will be able to report the most rapid epeaker, and that its superiority over steno- country. The whole of this is nothing but humbug. Phonography has its advantages, and so has stenography. Some of the best reporters in the United States, living and dead, are and were ste- nographers. Neither system will make a youog man a reporter who has not peculiar mental abili- ties, which are not possessed by all men. Every person can learn to speak, but how few are our ora- tors? Hivery person can learn to paint, but how few Raphaels there are! Every persoa canlearn to act, but how few Keans there are! Every per- eoncan learn stenography, or phonography, but how few good reporters there are—we mean re- porters who will follow a rapid epeaker fer two or three hours with precision and accuracy. How many young men, of the numerous classes in pho- nography, that we have heard of within the last few years, have turned out to be good reporters? Not one out ofa class on an average. The truth ie, there a vast deal of humbug in praising one system of repor ing over another. Some of the best reporters in the English Parlia- ment uee neither phonography or stenography, but an abbreviated system of long-hand writing. This shows that it is not the syetem alone, whatever it may be, thet makes reporters. We venture to say, too, that, take five hundred young men, and teach them either phonography or stenography, and let them spend two or three hours a day for two or three years in practising, not ten of the lot will make reliable and accurate reporters. Reporting will always be confined to the members of the presse, whose business keeps them in constant practice; and if young men indulge the hallucina- tion that there is any royal road to this department of knowledge, they will discover in the end that they are a little mistaken—that besides drudgery, | / something elee is required. We have had some- thing to do with reporters and reporting, and we know what we epeak of in this respect. Now-arnivat, of Tre Ono.—This steamship had not arrived at two o'clock this morning. She hae, a8 we stated yesterday, unquestionably been detained at Havana by the non-arrival of the Pacific from Chagres. It will be recollected that the Pacific was detained a short time at Havana, and had not arrived at Chagres when the Cherokee left that port, on the %h inst. The Falcon will take the place of the O, and leave this port at three o'clock this afternoon, with the mails and passengers for the Pacific. pear on the ticket of the old administration, let the | This course | that they have done everythieg to promote the in- | If they have, then why | just see, however, whether all their acts are so __ It} been made about the beauty and excellence ef the — graphy is admitted by the best reporters in the | Grrxrr Swrtu’s Manrresto ro THe Woowr Heaps.—We have perused this precious doew ment, and find that it is like all other documents from the same source, @ treasonable, fanatical, and ridiculous afiair. A vein of supericr wisdom and phiJanthrophy pervades it throughout. Seward and his associate demagogues are not good enough for him, it appears—so he has concluded to give them the cut direct. This is the best feature in it: That clique must be despicable indeed, when even Gerrit Smith and the woolly heads repudiate them. Jerrit laments over the infatuation of his colored bredern. He says that of all the colored votes cast at the last election in this State, there were not fifty fer the abolition political party, of which he is so shining an ornament. Now, if Mr. Smith were not in his ideas blacker than the hlacks them- selves, he might draw a moral from this fact, which might be of some service tohim. The ne- groes know better than he does, whether the car- rying mto practice of the doctrines which he pro- fesses would be of.service to the Southern slaves or not, and by only fifty of them voting for his party, if party it can be called, they show they know bet- ter what is to the interest of their “* bredermin bon- dage,” than he, with all his whiteness, does. Abolitionism must be at a very low ebb wheneven the colored voters will not support him. It is hardly worth while to refer to this matter at all. Gerrit Smith and his coadjxtors have reached the length of their tether—they are as flat as Seward himself is, and he had better reconcile himself to his fate,and die decently, for there is more comtnon sense afloat than he imagines. Tne Musical Mania in THE rep Srares Revirw- ep— [xstRUMENTALISTS AND Vocatisrs.—The past year has been one of great musical entbusiasm. Thi nat of Jenny Lind and of Parodi—the frequent sacred and secular entertainments of Anna Bishop—the opera re- pretentations of the Havana troupe, and those of the Astor Place company—the musical entertainments of | Wallace, the compeser—the piano forte concerts of Doctor and his lady—together with the introduction, the names of many persons eminent as instrumental- ists and as vocalists, have kept the public attention on the stretch for many months. New York has given the stomp to all the principal artists in the musical way, and has been yery liberal in the amount and cha- racter of its putronage—trom the beginning of the year to the close. On the whole, the public taste has been chiefly dis- criminating upon the instrumental performers. Wal. | lace, Doetor, Griebel, Botterini, Arditi, Bayley, and others not less celebrated, not forgetting many clever performers of the second and third class, have been appreciated—and to such an extent, that we are liable tohave, in the course of next year, many other new can- Gidates for public favor visiting the United States, Itis said that the celebrated violinist of Germany, Hauser, will be among the first to visit thiscountry next year. His European reputation has preceded,him, and, as he ranks with the most distinguished performers in the world asa brilffant rival, much may be expected in | the way of execution on his psrt, and of enthusiasm on the part ofthe public, when he arrives. In the course of the next spring and summer, other performers will succeed to the triumphs, which it is certain he will make in this metropolis, now marked only by the genius ofGriebel, Winans, Burke, and one or two others, inthe | department of the violin. On the piano forte, of resi- | dent public performers of the first clase, we have only | one or two, and it has been found impessible to forma quarteite on Piresou’s double grand piano forte, though several attempts have been made—a fact long fo bo re- memberrd. In vocal music, the public have exbibited more enthusiasm perhaps, than pure taste, in more | thanlone instance. We have revived the days of | Catalani, who ng with euch wonderful effect, throughout Europe, with her head voice, and | with brilliant embellishments, rather than with that | strict adberence to the composer, which should be the highest praise of @ great ertiete, Catelani and Jenny Lind have sometbing, in their career, common to each ether, Roth are justly celebrated for their charitable Cisporitions, though there was a simplicity about the | unheralded gifts of the former relly charming, from itenovelty ina publie vooalist. Catalanl indulged in the gymnastics of the voice, and, for twoseatons, sang entire operas, with only a few puppets as a show, in- | dulging always in masses of ornament of won- derful beauty, though entirely out of taste, Much of | the same style has been adopted by Jenny Lind. We have been able to scarcely recognize some of the most familiar aire in our admiration of the brilliant embel- lishments with which she has astonished the public. In 1813, it will be remembered, Catalani made the tour of Purope as a concert singer, as Jenny Lind is now domg in the United States, It has been said of her, that she astonished everywhere by her amazing dis plays of vocal power. As soom as she had exhausted, inone place, her stock in trade, she went to another, received with unexampled distinotion, were, ho: like feate upon a tight Tope, and as far removed from pure art. The fact that the 1% the bass song, Non pis Audral,”’ is enough to rhow that rhe neglected her talents for a temporary admiration. The consequence of this was, that on her return to the stage, in 1624, she failed, because, in the interim of her absence, a taste for pure music had de- Parodi is the substan- tial and pertect embodiment, came into rogue, and | RoW retaine, as it always ought to do, the highest ad- miration of the public. The voce di peito must always | be preferred to the voce di taste, The pure, artistioal | style that never sacrifices the dramatic clement, and the poetry of the compesition, for the exhibition of atic briliancy, must always sustain itself against dirplays, however wonderful they may be in themeelves. ice it is, that Parodi, in this metropolis, without atter a patient of the public, vocalist of unsurpassed excellence. She sings from the chest—her cantabile is perfect- her dramatic action is in unison with her pure vocal style--and she stands forth as the highest representative of the con- stituents of true lyric excellence. has charmed, by keeping in view the great principles of Metastasio, who en that whenever music res to pre-emi- © over poetry, she destroys both that and herself. usic has rebelled against poetry. Negleot- ing true expression, regarding attention to words as slavery, in spite of common sense, every sort of ca- Price any otber applause than that which is given to dis- a of execution, with the vain inundation of which jas been diegraced, while the drama has been poreastaredir Pleasures which do not gratify the use of their reasoning feonlties Thus it is, that we find Parodi taking her position as the queen of the opera, on the very ary Ground h has recently trembled with the plaudits lavish- sa p+ Jenny Lind. She has that haughty confidenes im the pore oe of her great art, which seems to have nerved her, when there has been even an appa- rent evidence want of taste on the part of the poblic Bhi kept to her stand h % t Inst hae congu pe e public in that endure despite the essions, however brilliant New ‘or to retain, permanently, 60 great Vessels forthe Pacific. Bince the sailing of the steamship Georgia,the follow- leared from the Atlantic ports of the ited States for California and the Pacific. Whale- men ere not included in the list. ‘ Lewrhmen Pe In the report of this oe Martin i, In on many occasions, of much brilliant talent, including | City Intelligenee, CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS DAY. “Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes, let us have good cheer,” in the good old adage. from time immemoria), and it was duly observed yes- terday, in New York The day was universally kept asa boliday, ard “geod living * was religiously ob- rerved,: Some, indeed, livedrather too well—at least as far as drink was concerned—for they deyoted,Christmas eve and yesterday to jollifieation, and to pouring liba- tions to Baccbus. Accordingly,under the influence ot hir godship, bis yotaries might be seen reeling at all hours ofthe day yesterday, and particularly in the yening In despite of these exceses, however, there was much of rational enjoyment, and mirth and hilarity, uptainted with intemperance.{ Old Christma seems to open the heart and to cluster around the hearth the domestic affections and the social virtues, withoat: which life would be, atter all but miserable blank. The return of these festivities, strengthens the ties of friendship and of kindred. and keeps alive the kindly feelings of our nature, ro that while anes ie pome evil. it is well counterpoired by tne g ‘The churcbes, throughout the city, were oraity «1 decorated with evergreens of deseription, and the most imposing of the deca ere those of St. Paul's. The old raying that *a green Christmas makes ae not altogether applicable to bristmas just passed, There was enough of snow to swear by—a sheet of it, aiter nightfall, about half an inch, deep with the prospect, however, of more to tollow it. ‘There were innumerable shooting parties yesterday on target excursions During the whole’ day, you might see men passing over the Brooklyn and Jersey Ferries, with double and single barrel fowling pieces, and rifles, and even old rusty yauskets, Some dashed into the woods and shot at robins, or whatever birds the met, It mattered not whether they were game—it was only necessary that they belonged to the feathered tribe. Uthers shoc at chickens or turkeys for #0 auch per shot, with their chance of killing and winning the bird, The target excursions were very numerous—and amcng them were a host of youngsters, who seemed to be of as much consequence (at least in thelr own enti- ation) ae it they were grenadiers rix teet high. The fol owing companire passed the Herald Office :— Fulton Guard.— Atkinson's B: Capt. William Lang. murtering 73 muskets, on their annual targetiex- cursiou, at Mr Thomas T Jackson's, Harlem; the were distributed #s follows :—Firet, M. Piez- second, John jBuree, a silver cup; fbird, Jacob Blackwell, a silver Gup . fourth, Thomas | H. Bunting. a silver cup ; fifth, Jemes Pollard, gold | pencil; sixth, B anaes, a gold pencil; jseventh, | P. Fitzgerad, «gold pencil; eighth, James Class, fire | cap; ninth, Mullin [ore onp;Stenth, William Luny, Hiver cup; eleventh. D. Motrath, fire coat ; twelfth, | pri erald, @ silver cup ; Guard, composed of the members of ‘0 42, commanded by Timothy Waters, Jr. by the following members:—1st 2d, Matthew Wisner; 34, John fine soldierlike appearance. atham Guard, under command ov muskets. The first prize, a geld pencil, by pri Martin; 2d gold studs by J Jenkins; 8d. a gold pencil. by W. A Day; 4th old breast pin. by R ff Hawthorn; 5th, brilliant pin, £) Licut. 3. McOcrd; 6h, ering by Lewis Ortle; 7th, & tilver medal. by orderly M. Brown ‘The Lype Founders’ Wuard, Captain Primrose —The following prizes, for superior shots, were awarded :~ Ist prize, a rilver goblet, won by Martin Desken, pre- sented by John T White; 2d prize. a bighly ornament- ed musket, presented by James Connor, won by first Hencenapt Willism Aymar; 34 p ® lady's breast- & won by T J. Allen: 4th priz gold pencil wi by Jostah Ward; é cil, won by Thi s; 6th priz r cup, won by John Bar- bil Tth prize a gold breast pin. won by 0. W. Cole; ‘They made Becond compai of Capt Wm A 8th prize, a gold ring, wo by Jobm Duncan; $tb prize, a h, won by A. Chadwick; 10th prize, ® bowon by D. Milligan; ‘11th prize, a sp) . won by W. ©. Lougherty; 12th prize, the target and two wreaths, won by Captain Primrose. This fine corrs was accompanied by Whitsworth’s City Brest Baad to Louis Becker's Hotel, Hoboken. ‘They numbered fifty rank and file. The Franklin Light Guards, apt’ Lewis, made a handsome display, yesterday. while proceeding out of the city, on their annoal target excursions. Twelve prizes were shot for avd won, ar follows:—1 Silver watch and chain, by James Lee, Ist Lieut ; 2. Silver goblet, Henry Dervek; 3 Silver cup, Captain EB. Louis; 4 do, John Freley; 5. do.. John Jackson: 6. Gold go- diet, J. Rurdle; 7. Gold pencil, Thomas Robinson; Gold breastpin. N. E. Lewis, 3d Lieut; 9 do.J BE. c. Murphy; 10. Bilvereup, M. Caden; 11. do., Christ Mo- nohen; 12. Gold penoil, M. O'Brien. Artemrren Burer terday morning. at four o'clock, efficers Hicks and Jobnson were called into the houre at the corner of Charch and Vesey a to take charg an named Kdward Burke, who bad swallowed dose of laudanum. A vial was found on bis person. with # amali quantity remaining. He was taken to the Hospital by the officers. AG vas Box. —On Christmas Eve. at half past teven o'clock, @ male infant was found on the stoop of Mr Shell's houre, No $3 Clintow Place, by one of hic corvente. It was breught to the Fifieenth ward Station House, A Cunistas Baer ix Bromentars.—At 11 o'elock in the forenoon of Chritim: yn named Jobn Larkin, was found by th Kleventh ward police iv among the log: one of the ship yards on the Bast Riv y frozen to death, was dressed in his and bad been at a bal The night before, performed the honors as one of the mana- He was himself floored, aud home, was Icst among the vy Grave —Noate Conpver Last evening, Thomas Robinson fell into cued by officer Staves, of the Fourth ward police, who bi zed into the water. cold as it was. and bro ‘This officer, who is an eld sailor. and is known ob ¢ tollowimg circumstances :—It seem: deceased was admitted. on Tuesday — as a eae jn the Seventh ward station hou: morning it was arcertained the as eruptions bad broken out all was accordingly procured, and ¥ to the Bellevue Hospital. But, on arriving there, they refured to admit him. and the police, in order to have him committed to the Small-pox Hospital on Biack- well's Island, found it would be necessary to convey him before # magistrate, and in returning for that par- to the Eseex Market Police, the man ex on t, Cer one Ea ch be ol of Ive medica) aid and exposure to tl The deceased is believed to be assem An inquest will be held this day at the dead house, Bellevue. Senrovs Accipent be ye or 4 Scnoonen.—Yester- small. body. ra | fe deceased con bb, was in ot the ce ates near Hester street, with ruch violence that the former was broken down and so disabled that the driver ed to abandon it and leave it by the way- vide. TI were some pine or ten passengers all of whom escaped uninjured. That our thes adm! have greatly induced; your present paste! them ela Cailformian: Feturaiog to their their friends, and valuing integrity and worth. which = acknowledge in your o! cannot yam at parting, to tender awe thelr sincere 4 beat wishes for all the ge which 'y Ruler vouchsafes a noble = wemerous Bigned on behalt of the ses WM. B. ALMON®O. Chairmen. J. W. Bironan, } Secretaries. ape! ge | bey 21st Inst., by Mr. Samuel Lag soap called the Tornado, be commanded by ship Bamonet. This is the s the ship Bee at firet intended should be called the bi hy and od D wie oo 5.8 ps acne ne guider rat fr Oi Tickinen, of | ‘ef Salem. California trade, stores at the of Movements bear el the Sat People. ‘The Ly? cary Webster the Astor House yes- bags md = L. ‘Bul still ty wer is at U 1, with his suite, and will not my tor y Wochingien before eatunteg news. le Salisbury, i Springfield, were among the arrivals ai the Howard Hotel. Montgemery, Connectiout; J. Haven, Philadel- pits: G. Carpenter, Providence; and W. Bennett, ar- rived yesterday at the American Hotel. N. amet Philadelphie; Hon. J ¢. Winthrop, R OC. Winthrop, 8. Gardner, Boston, C. Gage, Mobile, were among the arrivals Astor House, B Manie, Jamaica; ot piseay , 3 Hotehitiee, do. D Porter, Philea ’ ord, Bermuda; M, Brooks, ™ ork * F.D: Lowell, Mass., arrived yesterday at the Union Place Hotel PIN Sesh, Sane S B. Wheeler, Boston; BE. 8. os Hudson; T. A ‘om, Boston: 8 Wade, ; 8 N. J. Gorges, army, do; Hon. D. ‘Russell, Salem, u Cincinnati; W. V. May, Albany; W. R. Hi. Pat terson, Troy; John arrived yesterday at the Irving House f TELEGRAPHIC METERIOLOGICAL RGISTER. Wroxespay, December 25—8% A.M. Boston—Thermometer 30; clear; good sleighing. Providence—Thermometer 14 lear and cold. mford— Cold; cloudy; looks like snow. eport—Cold and frosty. -Rorvig —€loudy; cold. FROM THE ASTOR HOU: New York Superior Court; Before Justices Oakley, Sandford, and Paine. DECIMIONS. December 21, 1850.— Thomas 2ddis Emunett, receiver, dant, vs. Almet Reed, respondent —Judgment. pecial term, affirmed with costs, Bark Jenny Lind.—dlevander S, Cartwright, appel- lant. ads. the Masters and Wardens of the Port of New York, respondents —Judgment reversed, with costs, Bark Jenny Lind —Samuel Candler, appellant, ads. the Same.—Judgment reversed, with costs, Bark Velasko—Same appellant, ads. same respondents, — Judgment reversed, with costs, and judgment entered for defendant. Bork Velasco—Alexander J. Cartwright, appellant, ads. ondents. -Judgment reversed, with costs, t entered tor the defendant M. Peck. ads, Elisha Bur+ report of referee granted, stoabide the event of the suit, aud rule of refer- ence discharged. unless the plaintifis consent to reduce the report of $137 95, with interest from June 2 1846. The Tennessee Marine and Fire Insurance Company, a Elkanah H. Hodges. respondent.—Judgment at term affirmed, with costs, *Pyoseph Concklin. ads’ the Corporation of the First Prese byterian Church —Motion for new trial granted on pay- ment of the costs of the trial and subsequent pro- ceedings. Eliza Ann Ridgway, respondent, vs. Alfred Ogden and others, appeliont.— Judgment for the defendants Joseph W Hancez va. David Jacques. —Judgment for the plaintiff, for the net amount of wharfage collected as reported by the referee. Wikiam Hepburn and others, appellants, adsm. William Linden and John Fritz, e.— Judgment Bt the special term affirmed with costs. The Masters and Wardens of the Port of New York vs, Samuel Candler— Third Suit — Judgment at the special term aflirmed with cos at court Calendar—This Day. Uniren Br. Disraict Couxtr,—Nos. 11, 27, 33 to 41, 17 to 120. Bvurexion Counr.—Nos. 20, 21, 135, 108, 105, 85, 149. s $8 10, 175, 189, 141, 100, 18, 45, 176 to 180,182 to “sy esterday being Christmas, the several courts aud principal offices of the Uity Hall were closed. THE WEEKLY HERALD. The Weexty Hexavn will be publiched at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. Its contents will embrace the late European news, the Forrest Divorce Case, the Niles Trial, the Navel Court Martial on Com. Jones, the recent Fugitive Slave Case, the Speeches of Mr. Webster and Sir Henry Bulwer at the New England Dinner, the Speech of Mr. Webster to the Union men, at the City Hall, &c., &c. Single copies, in wrappers rixpence. animals, from the remi y of tl Gifts tor the Season.—A large assortment ff Gold Lockets snd Haney Cases, Dagwerseotyves insetiod | fo Tooker i ‘also,om Ivory, at the Nex tonal Gallery" 03 free an’ i ery over the Rociety and Leonard street. Continent of Ei eee corner They wore recently bro al nt Present!—Knor, akes beautiful display of his furs, aud gen. select & mor jemant sont than a him, at 128 Fulton ss. Holtd: Combs, Papier Mache Wort Boxes am Dressing Cases, Odeur Boxes, Card Cases, Port oiler, Portfolies, Etationery sete, the most beautiful asrortment of America in this city, staanders as ing Case Factory, Factory, 147 and There bine iat \vantagos ovos feat, and rer the latest fall $2 Wo $10, at Clothi (hr ‘treet, second tory, 387 Broadway.—The Ase Po meh mequalied inthe racing the finest quality of the tm oe well se home manafecture. The cA made 4s caretaken te surpass any hitherto made Gombe made os ordet. es Pairing done, AD way. Cha er bart eta eae tat nell Erm ries pope cae eeeat ee ee, eae —Batchelor’s Genuine couae ‘only be ois ehogid pear neal ee ee pape Bett Wigs and 8 wisht Bape ramen, a auld mall. 0 Baten all otis will bem é Laem creer tact he knows Eibeatogm and business of it. Copy hie Mactéeee, Gouraud's Her witl bry ot i fling ia nd'only sh ae a ior ks ia 7, } bY, ewm: ‘owler & Wells, 131 street. the Irritabilit; brainy rove to chance or alter the te to which charmed aid iSenrrd bythe ween Au Tass Ss perienced the won= ® Retvous Atte per _ Becbowmes the the a6 that book was written { pen the bra Vrainand note uson Blise’s Compound Cod Liver On _ At jourralis(s, we ows i See to the pari, to yhatever we d 7,01 Patronans in Whoae. Price 9 sente, Bor ‘aaie, at ROR ey a run stores, 80d 110 and 183 Brosdway. 1 MOEBY MARKET Weoresnay, December 25—6 P.M. This being Christmas, business was almost entirely suspended. The board of brokers adjourned, yester- day, over te Thuraday. and we therefore have’no sales of stocks to report. The market closed firm yester- Gay, at our quotations; and judging frem the sales, a larger portion were for essh than usual. Erie Income Bonds have advanced rapidiy with- in the past week, and it is our impression they Will touch par before the payment of the next semi- annual Interest. Three ® half per conte are dus om the Ist of February, 1861, and quotations now cur- rent, Include the Interest already acoumulated. The opinion we expressed some time since, relative to the bonds and seourities of the Erle Railroad Company, has been partly confirmed, and we have no doubt our Predictions will be fully verified. The first and second mortgage Erie Railroad bonds, are among the best securities in the market, and should command a mush higher premium than they do. As regards the stock, allj is uncertainty and doubt. Ninety-three per rent for a railroad stock that has not yet earned the firet dollar of » dividend, ie an enormous price, and holders ‘will find it out one of these days. It is our firm belief that, six months after the road is opened to Dunkirk, de ¢ ill move to T: borhood of fifty per cent. This result will doubtless be realized the first six months the company have to de- pend upon the net earnings of the road for a divi- dend. Reading Railroad fell off a fraction at thesecon® board yesterday; but that is not of the least conse quence, except to those whe are compelled to realize. ‘The large dividend, payable on the 14th of January, will set prices for that stock all right. Morris fe look= ing up again, The tolls, this year, will exceed the esti-. mate about five per cent. The improvements and enlargement are progressing rapidly and substantially,. and no doubt will be ready by the opening of naviga- tion in the sprin, Norwich and Worcester ie ageim moving upward; so is Harlem. It is expected that tho- freighting business of the New Haven road will ad@ largely to the receipts of the Harlem another year. Annexed are the receipts of the Pennsylvania Rail- road for the months of October and November :— Pennsyina: Cenrrat Rartroan, October. ..+. . Hreigi 16,786 November. . Total two monthe, $96,655 12: The cost of construction and ‘equipment of that por tion of the road now in operation, east of the moun- tains, is about $4,500,000, and assuming, the foregoing figures as the average monthly receipts, in the present: incomplete state of the road, it would afford a dividend on the investment, after deducting-40 per cent for run— ning expenres, &o., of about 744 per cent—a result ex- coeding the most sanguine expectations of the warms est friends of the road. The value of merchandise exported from Boston, for the week ending the 2lst inst., was $135,788 12, of whieh $112,710 42 was in domestic products, and) $23077 70 foreign products. Same time last year;— Domestic products, $217,384 49; foreign producta>® 942.925 94, The receipts from tolls on the Erieand Wabash Canal, for the year ending November 30, were $157,- 170 60, sgainst $134 659 03 in 1849, showing an increase of $22,511 62. The receipts from sales of land, in 1850, are $100,000; land hela by the Trustees amounts to £56,498 acres, at an appraised value of $1,973,512 53. The present length of the canal is 268 miles, to be im- creased to 385 miies—ninety miles being under con- tract for coustruction—the whole line to Evansville, on the Ohio, to be finished in all next year. The trustees will have surplus lands of the estimated value of $1 000,000, equal te 25 per cent on the debt. It appears by the annexed extract from the ‘Newark: Advertiser, that the construction of another road, in- dependent of the lime alluded to yesterday, in- tersecting the Erie railroad, is in contemplation. through Pennsylvania: To bring the travel and the agricultural and other products of the great West to the Eastern aad South- ern seaboard of our country, bas been matter of !wuda~ ble competition tor so: me between different points, particularly thore embraced within the 5 bounded on the east by Boston. und on the south by Baltimore. New York city, besider ils other great local advan is 4 nearer point, adopting the line ot communication through New Jersey, than other port on the east- ern slope ot the Atiantic seaboard. Already on tho east, has Boston, to a considerable extent, carried off the palm from their neighbors further South, and om the South are @ variety of plans projected and pro- jecting to bring the West, with both Philadelphia and New York, together ‘But a more direct route than any is that through this State; one great link in the chain of whieh is now in succestful operation We mean the Morris and Essex railroad. the present termination of which ie- Dover. Morris county. A recent survey between Do~ ver and the Delaware Water Gap, which has been pub- livhed, with an accurate and elaborate map ef the country bet woen those two polaote. shows at » giance the gtest advantages to be gained by the adoption of thie Toute for the extension of that road; and in that account: are to be taken, os it has over any lirectly, amd at & ith the great coal regions of Penn- eurate surveys, it appears that the between the cit thirty miles, enabling ines upon the same care City. Besides these two that shall deliver it at Jerse: greet points to be reached by the cireumscribed dis- tapee, and the profits that would accrue therefrom, there are Intermediate advan to be derived be- tween those pointes, the value of which are not to be overicoked * The country theongh which it would pass is fertile in a high degree, forming one of the richest agrioulta- al districts in this or any other State, embracing: nearly all Sussex and igtesd portion of J par ita Tesort. Schooley’s Mountain, command: sive summer travel to and from It, of New a on Phi delpbia, and intermediate points. Should this exten~ sion be aa Into effect, it a. ewe ae vast ipplying a it number of vel SSehaceer ed “Sear elnee veal ested ure the construction of lateral roads, tending to A the business of the primeipal one.” The Owego route will be completed long before the line intersecting the Erie R: b cereful Operation within a few years, By the route interreoti Erie road at Elmira, that place wilt be brought Bundred miles nearer this olty, Alb the traffic of the Erie road west of Elmira, destined tor- New York, will leave the Erie road at Elmira, an® take the route through Pennsylvania and Jersey. Alb the traffic of the Erie road between Owego and El- mira, will leave the Erie road at Owego, and take the nearer route through Pennrylvania and New Jersey, to New York, All the travel from west of Geneva will also take this route, About one hundred miles of travel and transportation, three or four dollars by each passenger, and four or five hours in time, will be saved in reaching this city from the West, by taking either of the roads diverging from the Erie, at El+ mira or Owego. Railroad competition will work won- ders in the value of this kind of property as invest- ments. and it would be well for those who depend upom incomes from such investments for support, to lool about them in season SD ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED RVERY DA SPECIAL AOTICKS, Note ote NEW YORK. DRcewaae: will close at 8 ae on ase ore aes vere for M4 rv. 3. CEARERAU, COnprenEs, - A Me 4 Sevenhes tak nee re pete’ peg pay.’ " itaway. Novick —T1k alan’ MAtrie.n ‘wall, orPuas of Warren. stieqi sehr at the Grand Secretary's office, City order of tae Jun, aed abe a a? Ldedse ut the Sate ot ‘New York 14 Lodge will assemble nt the ly hour, rt to the Ore Foot at 9 clock eit aie ge partie et ete