The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1851, Page 3

great that have of been are ify poor and imperfect copies t's which ages may be now go immense- ly surpassed. _ Therefore, the unceasing disputes, Sbether Collng % Cunard’s lines of Leg gto are may ‘isposed of in @ trice; for the inte: st of all other ship owners, and of the ee lie rally is now diereputably held io y- ance, and as unworthy consideration, engines and boilers may be constructed, thet will not explode, and be in every reapect of such superior efliciency, of lese weight and cost, yet of greater value, and perform equal voy ages in equal time, with tess than one-fourth the fre now ucnecessarily, ignorant- ly, and wastefully consumed by both these lines of steamers, That equal verages may be made in half the time, with only one-half the fuel now so unnecessarily wasted, and with perfect security against explosions, and the stowage occupied by useless fuel would afford equal space for rapid and most profitable freight. The ngers would be- come more protitab! half the present rates, and every locomotive or gor engine may. be pro- portionally improved, by substituting this newly discovered, much more efficient, safe, and ecoaor- ical element, stame for steam. Ena inegr. The California Bubble in SHIPMENT OF FRENCH WOUDS AND WORKMEN TO THE PACIFIC—IGNORANCE IN ENGLAND OF THE QUARTZ ROCK. (From the London Chronicle, Dee. 9.] There is a portion of the French newspapers which, at the present moment, is considerably more entertaining—we venture to add, considerably more instructive—than the reports of debates from which the stagnation of party spirit has banished the aai- maton of tumult, and, the ¢xcitemeat of suspense. ¥f we turn by chence to the scanty advertisement sheet, the eye lights upon colossal capitals, dispos- ed in graceful combinations, which prove, upon a nearer scrutiny, to be neither more nor less than the business advertisements of the Culifornian mining compaces. A close analogy is observed between the jerm and the matter of these notices. Immensity is their characteristic. The size of the ye: is adequately matched by the inflatioa of the language aad the bigness of the promises. The English reader, whose lot bas beea cast in these evil days of exploded Hudsovism, fatigues him- self with conjeciuring the extent of the gullibility to which they appeal. Is it possible that there ex- ists a civilized European people of whom char- jateniem 18 so sure that iu permits the hook to peep thus shamelessly from behind the bait? How it that the genius which reigned over Capel ‘ourt in its worst days, has found a refuge in Paria from its Enughsh bankraptey? The secret is not remote. Freaehmen always hoard, Observers of Mienetaty phenomena describe their couatry as a bottemicss suk of bullion. At periods of political convulsion the precious metals are more exten- sively secreted than ever; and it is oae con quence of the cra of money bags in France are just now swollen to bursting A temporary stimatus is thus admio tered to the slender enterprise of the nation, and men take advantage of returning trraqniliity to a ubout timi diy for secure tittle iavestuea's. t is strange, no dout, that people should choose, under the circumstane Caiforian adventure. Bat they rill inistrust the permanence of everything Frenet every thing Europe and there nation in these promuecs of goldea ingots, which English 9, #ith large experience and ia- etiuctive perspicacity in mercanule matters, can scarcely comprehend. The same i frst principles of comanerei.d economy out in the French Assembly every ame it debaics arclway or tanfl question—aud which seems to be shared by every Frencimaa, high or tow, who | is pot practically w trader—is now bhadiag these purchasers of Culiforvian shares to the most ob- vious elements of tisk, and to the plamest mdecre of swiadiing. As in the .*“acy of commerce, they are taking go!d to be th ¢ Nest of investments, timply because 1 is gold; aud we recognize, in their eagerness to send their hoarded caputal half across the world, the same delusion which male Raleigh wasie his lite iu the quest of Eldorado, and which engendered the balance of trade—a sul | surviving imposture. The interest created by the i gang of the companies which are shipping French goods and French workinen on so vust a scale for the Pa- cific, is causing France to overtiow with a sort of California literature. We have before us a com- Plete host of pamphlets vpoa the resources of the auriferous State, and perpetaal dissertations on the pame subject may be read ia the French ewep.- 13. The “latest inteiligeace” from * . theatre be gold seeking, seems to be greedily sought for, | and plenty of itis accordingly supplied. A good deal is evidently crtra mare rarwm; and it miy fairly be doubled whether ite authors were ever #0 much earick. Part, however, of the resi due strikes us as more trustworthy, and is certaia ly much later in its date than aaychiag which has yet been given to the world by English or Ameri- can hands. We are disposed to point in particular to the letters of M. Derbec, which ore extensively read in France, as wearing all the marks of the most scrupulous accureey. From these aad other sources of the same character, we have gathered the information on the present prospects of C; fornia mining, which we are about to lay before our readers m & form a3 condensed as possible. | M. Derbec, we may premise, was formeriy a compositor in the printing office of the Freach rine to,which his communications are now ad dre: J, and the conductors of that respectable Serna undertake to vouch for his striet veracity. he last of these eters was written so recently as the end of last July, and is dated from a pass | in the Sierra Nevada. The principal inference which we draw from the matter we heve collected is,that the chances of suc- cessful adventure in Culifornia are rapidly aod sen- bly diminish Lis necessary both tomake this etly, and to explain its grounds, becauee such warnings, heving been offered be~ fore, and having failed to arrest the curreat of emi- gration, are very geuerally regarded as ebuilisions Of pessimism or timidity. Oar readers may recol- lect that they were heard ou all sides about a year and three quarters ago, but that, Ere eapeenlenn seemed to be taking efleet, they suddenly ceased, end the rush to Califormia bevame more violeat than ever, These phenomena were, doubiles pee by a change in the character of the ia- formation which reached us trom the Paeitic, but such information filtrated to Europe through dis- persed and private channels, so that the general Rewepaper reading public were obliged to consider the variations which it ceused as an nointetligible anomaly. We are now, ho vever,enabied to desery epoch in the history of wold-mining which ex- ns its ebb and reiiox. This point in time is the discovery of the placers—auriferous strips of land in the more elevated regious of the provinee, and Loge od on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. p to the period when the existence of tre sures in the higher country became generally known, the labor of the immigrants had beea exclusively applied to the banks of the rivers near coast; and ia the almost complete exhaustion of the lower regions, we ve the true explanation of those dishearte accounts, and of that great reaction of wn. | on the subject of California, which distinguish the early mining season of 1819. But want, hope, and the pressure of constant arrivals, drove a suc- cession of working parties to explore the uatrodden ravines of the i id sierres, and very shortly afterwards the multitudes clustered round San Francisco were Pg pat the intelligence t inexhaustible stores of metal nad been discovered about the upper waters of the Yuba, the Stanie- Jaue, and the Agua Frio. A general movement to wards the mountains commenced; news of im mense successes followed, and it was not very long before Eastern America and the Europeaa Continent were again astir with the wholesale de- parture of adventurers for California. The im- pulse communicated to emigration at this epoch is still operativg, and it is probable that every one of the uncounted thousands now on their way to the Pacific commenced his journey under its inflience. Unfortunately, itis bur too well established that an enormous ake was committed in assumiog that the treasures of the mountuinawere to be woa the same way and with the same ease as those of the eea-bonrd. Laborin the Sierra Nevada is infinitely more difficult sod uaremanerative, and we veheinently fear thet the hosts of Germans and Frevehmen who bave quitied our hemisphere are doomed to encounter privation and disappointment from the very moment of their arrival at their bourne. A In the parts of California first explored, the gold contained in the loowe ool, on the river banks, lay almost universally ne the surface. But it otherwise ia the movntat ‘The otreams, which are of immense rapidity, size, aod force, m the Tainy seoeon, seem to hve carried down’ all the fictal gold from theit benke, and from the gtovnd covered by the winter floods, to the regions which have been already raosacked near their mouths. The grains and filameats which temata appear to have penetrated by their own Weight to a considerable depth, and ere seldom or never found, except in the immediate vietmity of the Tocky e'rata Whieb underhe the incoherent surfaces soil. Thus a totally different method of ext y ia requited from that ot fir-tin vogu x cava’ bas to be made till the eat the firet stratum of evfficient density to exciote water. By tar the berger por of the soil taken out is thrown aside, es too poor for analysis. Tt is only the part in immediate contact with the bard sebstratum whieh is worth putting into th * rocker,” or washing employed by the miners with the view of econe mizing their labor. Whatever gold the p is genera'ly extracted from this modi but the upper surface of the rock it times broived, eince the impalpable dust and minute stringy fibres of the precious metal are not infrequently forced into its crevices and irregu- larities, by their own weigh!, ond by the pressure of the water above. This iast mentioned proves, improvements late cal, meee ner Se bos hoof 1313 that some thousands | to bestow their capital in | dieihe only implement | t yields however, is seldom remunerative At the same time, the condition of the rock, which causes the miners occasionally to adopt it, is well worth at- tention, as bearing upon the question of the amount of gold to be expected from California. The polar eid of the mnanhanstini ty of the mines princi; based upon the extrivagant reports addressed to the American government, by Mr. Butler King. He speaks of a piece of ‘rock, yeined through and through with gold, a he supposes it a specimen of the substance of which the mags of the * Sierra Nevada” is com. posed. It tsndw all but certain that Mr. King’s auriferows specimen ts nothing more than a lump of rock, into the fissures of which the precunss metal has been driven by mechunieal agencies; and we may regard the susyrciom of owr most eminent geo- logists, that no gold worth mentioning would be obtained from Californus afier the superficial débris had been despotled, us at length warranted by expe- rimental research. But whatever may be the intrinsic riches of Cali- fornia, ali doubts as tothe miserable prospects, of i i ‘The success venture will depend, of course, on the Jabor they bestow, and on the profit that attends it. But if ae pe have to be dug, if nothing but the soil at the bottom papeye axama vation, and if amass of hard rock has to be triturated, this is a very dif- ferent thing from the simple lavatory procerses which were all that was required in more fortunate times, and which the emmgrants universally looked for. M. Derbee describes the miners already in the Sierra as barely obtaining sufficient gold to purchase support, and as waiting in terror for the myriads who are ou their way from Europe to compete with them in the search. On the waole, we are exceedingly rejoiced that, in the host of re- cent Californiaa emigrants, so few, cornparatively speaking, of our countrymen are numbered. ConriietinG Jurisviction ~The New Orleans Delta says that Judge Samuel J. Gholson, of the Uniced States District Court for the Sou! ern Dis- trict of Mississippi, has refused to sign au order sued from the United States District Court for Lou- jiana, for the arrest of Governor Quitman, on the indictment found against him for his alleged parti- cipation in the Cuban expedition The matter, it seems, was argued at length before Judge Gholson, by H. J. Harris, Exq., Untied States District At- torney, assisted by other counsel on the part of the general government, and opposed, om behalf of the Governor, by some of the ablest lawyers in the State of Mississippi, on the ground that the app!i- cation was irregular and defective, and that vo isted in the federal courts to make such ave not seen a copy of the opinion of vernor Quitman puts his refuea! to | £0 interfere with the performance of his official du- tits ust peod fora time the executive powers of # sovereign Stat 4 promises to apoear and answer ibe chatgees soon as his tern of offize shall eapire. A Card.—The Sabsertbers will re-open the Alhambra, No. 130 Weter serest, (0 morcow, (Moad | asthe: intend t conduct it on an entire new sys Boat reepeetfully mvt te friends and the pubis to aise them acali te morrow on tho mennerot their néay )aad pase cheir judge ts, Tesion, whieh they wil provide fur the ve vs taking of se jon. tertwioment in theirs wa Way. Don Jinyer's Mansion House, on tue Wil, ing ail the way. ‘To Hotel-kcepers, Heuse Agents, &.—To Leute for a term of years ai vie up stores in 26, 125. 1 Wi the propored ireprov 8 of two ar? presen: buildings; aleo Thirty koms Magnificent Bor recom ean be « 4 Baths. or further paruievlary jaquirs epi Ceorge Levie, erg. O. Barke>, 1! Beekman street, Expressly to the Ladjes.--Cheap Laces and Eo br E. fl Newman, S156 Grong way, revpecttully mn to. ck ‘of the above. which 1s uasue- + 80 Ibe; also, cambric sad Swiss Trivaings ze partioularly worthy of mo.ices Waictoosts, of the iatest fali utyle, from $2 80 to 24 at SORCTIEKD'S Clothing Store, Chemut cvrost,sosoad doo bbove VLiré, Philadelphia. To the Ladies —The most specdy and ef- fectoal cure for chapped or rough hands, the Incia rubier house gloves. er dlyowverod, it Juable aaa | | | { | | Forty Thouvsaud Coats, Pantatoons an¢é { | | | 5 in wearing, owy whicénes. for sale, low, noi Lithtock and Leadoeater, 34 India rubbor stores ia the United “Quiet Restored "--The Excitement of the Holic ays i» past; theres nes every ong who Values their comfort fence, to Call upon Brooks N Ava from his very *, Overshoes, &6. to give perfect MONSBY MARKET, Batunvay, Jan. 4—6 P.M. ‘The bulls are getting the steam up very fast in Wall street. We have reliom scen so much excitement among speculators. The bears are im a tighter place | than they have ever been befor: A the prospect ahend is gloomy enough for the shorts. The advance ip prices, during the past three days, is unprecedented. At the first board, to day, Erio Income Bonds improved | 3g per cent. They touched par for the first time ‘Three and a balf per cent interest is payable on the first of February. Exle Bonds, new, went up 1 percent; Fermers’ Loan, %; Canton Company, 1%; Morris Canal }; Portsmouth Dry Dock, 34; Reading Rall. road, 34; Stonington Railroad, \; Erie Railroad, 2, but fell off 14 before the clore, Norwich and Worcester advanced %{ per cent. More than three theusand shares of Morris Canal were soliito-day. at an advance There bas been no movement of consequence ia thi» stock, for some time part, and prices have been very orm, The etock bas by #0 held that apeoulation bas, for a time, been checked, A certain houre in the stroct bas been trying to control the market for this stock, but not succeeding. it brought ont its whol supply, for the purpose of deprersing prices, so tha might come in sgain for a larger lot, at lower rates In this they bave been dirappointed The distribution of the stock bas reised prices, rted the npirit of fpeculation, and ve may now look for coasiderable activity, and a rapid advance in prices. The party who sold ont, will bave to pay much higher for the stock than they received for it, if thoy want another supply ‘There is a wide margia for an improvement in prices for thie stock. It bas remained qviet, while ali other stocks have advanced ten, fit nd twenty per cens. ‘There is no doubt but that « dividend of two dollars and fifty cents will be paid on each share, at the close of thie year’s business, This will be equal to six per cept on forty-two dollars. A rise of twenty dollars per sbare wowld still make the stock a six per cent Invest: nt. Those who have realized large profit: other stocks, should now take hold of those which have not vicen much, and carry them up to points corresponding with the large leading fencies. Portsmouth Dry Dock was active today, and the transactions were princi- pally for cash. It wasin demand at ont quotations. Reading Railroad is rapidly progressing towards the polmt predicted. It is our impression that it will sell at eighty per cent efter the dividend I* paid. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port to day, amounted to $574,715 67; payments $78 010.49; balance $1764 807 52. ‘The Reading Railroad Company brought down for the week ending the 2d inst., 25 587 tons of coal. Total this year, 150670 tons, against 76,903 tons for the samo period iart year. The receipts of the Erle Raflrond Company, for the month of December, 1850, were $140 035 85; for the same month in 1849. $89 601 73~1 im 1850, $00,804 07. Total receipts 1850, $1600 173 20; total 1849, $505,068 47—Inerence 1860, $795 119 82. Amount of treasury notes ontate 1950, $192. 101 64, most of whieh was of issues prior to July 22, 1846 The Providence Journal states that a steam mill of tbe largest clacs, for the manufacture of mouseline de laine, in to be erected in that © The company is to conaist of meresatile firme in Providence, Boston, New York, Phitadelphia, and Baltimore. They will petition the Rhode (sland Legislature for inoorpora- tion, With a capital of baife miilion. Fe KW Ind Canad preted 34 bendy Mt bdr, 70 79 ads \*70 90) ineomes {46 Hoteon River RR bs 1 Tae m) Portsmouth » Dock Y sar tein y's, 1063 ee Bo de by 9% BD ehas Del ® bud Cal 10% 49 do ¢ Ucern Bh hi 100 Mertem RR zie Fat wn do vio 75% 1709 = do 7 AMUSEMENTS. ) ATKE.—MON D. events in ‘he tife of DAVID CG! PBXPIELD.— Davi: perfie’d, Ist act Miss 8. Lenin; 7 ce : ee ree renner NG, JAN. 6th, pore Ee igre % RE perfeld, 2d and Edward Eriav, oawver, &. Fen! 28 irele and Parq: Orchestra Boxes £0 eon cents. Gallery, RAMBERS SURE: see py 4 or THE 'LO's GARDEN.—TIOKE' house tity conte iTS 10 ALL PARTS OF alt 7. Doors ADVER TING VPRO AL MOROME FRICE OF THE NEW YO: December 246cn, 18°0.—1 he Direovors of this somuany wi > ; Seinio, Mr. Blan re Ruel. Boxes, Dres Femily Circle or Secoud ANONAL THEATRE, CHATHAM STREET.—A. H- Jan, 6th. will be ASTOR PLACE.—1 xes, $150; 4 mpbi cht. Firat PERA Boven, rey-eonond subeoripick 108 Oo! ori Teresa P Piidaderpiine. Monday dann: ds MIGHT COMPANY [tALIAN 0! ai Biection Aus rodi, sines her return from To be followed by t Cole, Mr. C. W, Taylor: Kerwinka, Mrs. &. 0. Qi eden ITT, Reemstary AT CUARDS, ATTENT! at 23) William stre t, fo'clock, P.M. Pan x revious to tue Bali. Senacort, Seoretar, ammsny Wail, on Thursda, 02 N— Aid bat tt LIGE bY Ny A MEAT. ido, Signor Giu- ven. To commence {Ach gueczle, Mr, Thompson; fam Wax, Mr. Dana; Ema, ROUGHAM'S LYCBUM BROADWAY, NBAK BROOME Monday evenic, w ax cos will ¢omme: NA ‘The Ball comes off at ECHANICS’ HALL, NO. 472 BROADWAY, versa performers,” undor themma- Whose eoncorts im this city for + REWARD. —LO&T L. : received with favor wich treet, between diences. Tickets oes at half. past bighly respectablb me idow womnn, & bun¢le of newly wash of thrve shirts, + 2 JENRY LIND—Mr. Grav) Leatherlongs, Mr. B. © collars, one white hi uml Seturday afternoon com for the fusure. un Lo any person returning corte will be disconti: SIY—NINTU SBASON, 1850— HARMONIC FOC ASL.—'The second convert. of at the Apollo Koom: ‘The yrircipal, pieces’ t RY 2, ON TAB WEST sou oF @mamraca colored “tik O8T—ON JANU ELLOWS' OPERA HOUSE—THR MANAGER OF FR lows’ Minstrels, in returning th the public {cr the unprecedense: popular Con serts tor the last nine m beltner pains noi most perfect in A Liberal rowan it at tae Kond street douse, * OST -~HEUWEEN BaSy FOUR PF ENTH SURERT AND Broadvay,a Gold Watsa amd Chain, will he pared to t st tinder, by leaving denx Journoss,” by Cherw ovived at the music stores of Messri fenderg ® Luis, New York, aud Mr. @. K. Weitzel, Brook H. ©. TIMM, Proaident, tua ked~" Pe rent d J 1. EnsiGy, Secretary. Ibe reworded by lew 12 ast Four cen 2. t Benefit of S.4. Wells, Prima Basso. JURE, & 80'S ot atre, 37 Bowery. ey JAMES LOW, TRE—CHAMBERS £ ‘37 ~On €ouday, the ef RICH BY LOPE: or Ww. YORK AMPUITHE- PRAYED FROM Pf he 2d inotaut, » Bay Saitoh tail, «star on th inene of the fore fe F 40 LEONARD dixtoon haute Monday evening, commence with the of equivation by Mlle, truly astonishing Nobles of ungary. Master Wm. Arms ping ect. Mile . Mr. Nixon .CORNER BROADWAY AND the Las seetion con vot Bavepe, Avia Mt Nubia and Arania will be reptar the course of some Weeks by new equally D AWAY—ON THURSDAY LAST, to hive lost her way, CATABRS pasrencer oa ‘boaed tho sh f tod with hor will ceresting ner. » indictment on the groued that it would | %, CHAMBERS STRESS —ta ‘and experionce of DAVID COPPE dramatied from Dickens’ las rienced the mest brilliant aucce: be played every evening, + ‘Pho who 4 sud popniar company ts included im the cast. Seate may be scoured for suy day of the wi thoevening. Bxhibitions at & and at LYCEUM THEAT. ake charze of & pairor more ot horses ta ueat orier families iv Lusope, axe ior pearly throe years with & 2 gored, and frou nonialy of chara san be had by apply~ © AMUSICMONTS EN PRULAD GPA, | M’S MUSEUM, PHILADSLPHIA — anager; Henry Sandford, Assicw ROOKLAN MU ary 6, 181, wil num. Proprieter ard tant Maxsger-—third week ern fairy show and competency. ing at the dewk of the FANTLD—IN A DRY ‘@ young mau as iieh: p useful, "Address, postpaid SALBAMAN, IN A DAY ve A so besutifully er. to mauke bins B, &. NIGOL30N BY THE CRLEGRATED Wer. Sigih BLIZA VALEN Cliel—$> ter ot twenty four i EBAY SINGING CLASSES, TANTED—A PERSON BAVING There aro two daily perfor 21.600 OR $2,000, A oo 2 cente—chilc rew wader tea years, ninvsos, for lad - eichants: dxeb OR & BMOADWar SILK JOBUING Ply, by letter, stativg terms, ete., to {EINER ViOLIN—A 6 vy two hundred years evation, Wik hae ld fe curd Who en Anpreciate ay inetrumen, of euch rarity, may Musio Bad Musical Instro~ No, 404 Pears street, of ariiticial dower sant employment will be given. eee 2 i street; George Godfrey, No. YTED—A RESPRCTABLE BNGLISU WOMAN, AS wlily Wucerstands ber business ia all The family is quice she muet produce undoubsed ra. ¢ will fiad & good home, mally wt 145 Grand street NTED-ASTIUA SLEIGHS, CARRISGTS, &. &e. PINE DOUBLE Si RIGH PUR 541.6 to WOOD. TOMLINSON & Be cok, whe thoro ¢ AL FANCY DRESS AND CIVIC Nono ether treated with. A 11 be AND LIGHT wale, choap, a» the own- Apply to WOOD, TOMLINSON DOUBLE SLEIC Fh, all in goot order, aad for w er has no vse for them, & Co., 410 Broadway. INE DOUBLE WANES, A 1ON, BY A VERY COMPETENT city references, to coon, was: of would do all_t ean be had of avy of the me 222 ibroadway, and at frou fora privave tamil one girl is employed. naework Apoly at 74 Sixth avenue, der, VAN BUREN, Prost. PROTECTION TWELFTH ANN WANTED L¥MEDIATELY, A GOOD Hand Prevsinan, whe is acqnatnied Et W. L, HORRUUGHS, US Fa YOUNG MAN FROM THE O1.L COUNTRY, OF GoD xious to'od ain em= UAL BALL OF will take pl th e}liader jod wer has no use for them, Apply to 3 LUANKOUS, Ixwins, Neere tary. Midiess and by SALES BY AUC NTHONY J. BLEECKER & C will sell, at pubi ity of New Vork, on the good living, call wt Clinton Market, wh and mountain Mutton ean eve market will do well to call self generally useful, and wou! One Wanting such a pece Would be oats commencement ITUATION WANTED— turned from Ban Pranei AUCTIONEERS, Merehents’ Bxohaage, nth) day of January, the capital stock of nt ¢ Erie Tesegrapn coming to the Aanine . BROADWAY, ‘anal aud W ashingson sts, AAWPRENE, BURNING PLULD, hol,&e.—ihe shove arcisles, of tured and for cule, im deere y GENTLEMAN JUaT RB res of the eapits! PAY, depenited as seourity. D NABH, AUCTIONEER. —BY HARMON & NASH, store 310 Broadway—Hot a good deal of busi- he parties Ond it to yawned dovlare in one will to Cooke & Adems, ure—on Thursday, ou favorabie terme. MULLER, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, 18 AND 2) airs.—Mereantile Book and Maca mm & superior style, at the low want Pier and Mancel Giasses, damask Win- Chandeliers, marble top and Wash Stands, mahogany ‘on and other dining he i» Competent to teach ~- Ling. exeoute: to A.B, No.1 St. Mark's prices. All plates insured. E& A. PARKAN, 12 PAKK hixts after the Pari joking uteasile, Cute Also, sarge quan= mM SALW AND G 5 ~ Depot of the celebrated Longue’ Ok SALE, OR Y The DIES OR GENTLEMEN D&s] KOUS OF CONVERT. ing into cash their superiluous eects, sa clothing, costumes, fire nm will ob.ain frome FOR CIti PROPERTY— Howard Fince, cont LEGAL NOTICES. ‘RICT ATTORNEY'S ry 1% CHEAPEST AND BEST LIQU ms, is in goed condision, Geecription ean be had owch houses, stadling for 12 be #6 ‘ons of the latgert barns on the isla: | Houston street, a saving of full Proprietor asks IMORGS, Importer and dealer segars, S31 Bows red OW DITCH BLUNT, District Attorney. OURT OF COMMON PLEAY—GEORGE EDWARD ornelia A. durr.—On re} UI dismissed with cos ‘OLORING —THE ty aud *bundance of water, besides eav; port of referce, divorce denied, and ry wiatly invite the aviation of his friends entirely new specime: t hemutifal mow printe, would part! aud the public to his Tepreeemting the m the seme ume, m: i a2 a pres one of tie mont teal: orchard of abe he selected grafted O-PARTNERSHIP NvTIO: r red into eo- partners liquors, ab Mos. isan’ if Unis Synecnraags wi he manufacture yf wil rT own and the peighbe rin; quality is oonet uty deporiting eR TH, TRRTI, has thi teeth beyond. Time three hours b: the first of February, it wi Terme mo¢ erate, Femain oa tou" ane m kK tinue to meet the same confidence cna Treth om the best gold plate, $4 $% pivot, 7c. to sl bh bo; silver, We.; rt If not wld eutire by be divided and sold 4 most of the purchase moucy can be hopes to © bas enjoyed vo many KD, Irving House, N of the Stace of teeth, We. to a See the office of the subseribers, on aud af ver Mom d ary, DAI, K Principal depot shes t snd aleo shall every conver iene Such mamos may ¢ispense with List, These loeches are enler, cleaner, and osu: ° othe present propristor is Apply for particulars to embarking in some other haaire at, Park Kow, New York, cron ee Epgiane, So: = and Weien “E. HABICHT, 4 Wall street, N.Y. 2 1 RURER, LEXING- money bought and R. H, WENDOVER, South Upper street: TO CONTRACTORS, 2 BLAKE & WARD, Tepresentatives ef Joha Verpool, sole agents in the oor Iron Company, are care exercised in it toctere, wo well og th in ite manufacture, ae wellas the use, tases, of the eame ores, taken fro or by letter, post pai PROPERTY FOR 8 <! Tee mu R, 4; "ENDOV ER, Excuance + tor, Ky—all kinds of uncurre told on the best terme. fe mannfaetory. For further particulars, eet, Brooklyn, f FOR SALE—Tu Possession given on the N.—GILMORE, yt, lie the bed: bugs thicker chen havl; m the Company's own lodged Tet fa —ineures an invariably waiform 9) eam confides ily be recommended iron ef extra quality. LOWMOOR CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE TT Bnd wrought i Finch & Willey. Bi Ward. Bank ap 4 0 0 0 10 Liberty place, near Maiden lane, ne of ze irom; A STEAM ENGINE, also, oh er it. ALply to MAISSON & CO., S7 Wall street. THE Wi1OLR OR PART OF A GRY- and ferviture for seie—loe: A t wirengt hens the whas the oat» or news comes from, all hundreds to one of OUSR TO LET, AND FURSIIURB FOR SALE—A * leave for hurope, offers for eals his try as in Great je prepared to sacoute all ere ry wo. do APARTMENTS FOR Now by 2,000,005 TO RENT ~ FU gentlemen, withort board. Kefere JS IRON OF © te * osters Janeway, Loribiard 1 the faculty generally nd groaers sheougt sat This ts the only | fre prepared to take ord it” dare, hoop, sheet, bo qyware, famey chapes Staffordshire ir OFTS TO LET, IN MAIDEN LANK-POSSRSSION And one on the fret of Be the Unived Ste the wonlthy cirele beir nd their sonstant endeavor will be to apply no iron but what is of good quality YOR £448, & NEW Vaan 1s DePBKMIGED (0 amber, by eorling Caccees INDIA RUBBER GOODS. UBBER Coote War R10US® —DRALER'S TRA Frhemieix and # helf nude Fo rm LES W. COPELANE Ona bottle has TEW FUUNDLA eanined Kubver Goods aver fered every articly inthe roober line maaufactwoel by this Company, which will he rol ountry and expert deale: dove stark well adapted 10 te ardsome profit furnish ed to dealers when reqnired. ¥ articles in ene and which will pay NG ON TALa 18 TRAV ELL MMS TER, EW YORK AND | PBILADEE PUTA SNRW YORK on Gow TO WIN 4 and hew street Now York at 6 4. M 9A. wand OP r heerte may de streote ae Sand JA. Mand S Po M., from Coot of Walnat DAND ROOM WANTS ) oret + that detection aW PON, Boaton, M taden from the Post Off-a wnlow the peer OALIPORNEA. 1FORNIA—TKs NSUORTATION AOR hmus ef Panama. Asma, are now fn, oF tmke It but exch psokage m a transpor: freight across the Lathe hronah to San Franctecs, at shippers AUKAWANNA COAL Art . iy eine and w AT THR DELAWARE now Prepared to voll fone aod upwarle m beard, and at 6f OUR, Treasurer, OM WANTED, TOR A LADY, IN A a, Wi D partioulnrs ee, | presumption of a bargain is insepar % OO. % Wail stron, 6 nnd loeathom, A. NEW Y THE MAILS: Affaire in the National Capttal. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Wasutnaton, Jan. 2, 1861. The Progress of the Union Party—The Plot De veloped—Georgia Comimg—Bad Prospecte~ Everything Adrift—Sectronal Parties, and Party Cliqwes--Any quantity of Candidates—Plan of the Scrub Race for 1852. The publications in the New York Herald res specting the movements in Washington, looking to the organization of a great Union party, and @ great Union ticket, for the next Presidential came paign, seem to have struck some of the old wire< workers and all the old organs “ all of a heap.” The National Intelligencer throws eold water upom it, the Republic gives it the cold shoulder, and the Untom is down upon the conspiracy, as if it were the Trojan horse, so graphically referred to in the recently published graphic letters of Gen. Jacksoag (those letters on the management of the game which brought Father Ritchie to Washington > The democratic outside papers are taking up the alarm—they dislike the idea of blending the demo~ cratic with the whig conservatives on a Uniom platform and a Union ticket. Andwhy? Because the whigs just now have all the offices; and, if Union ticket succeeds, the office-bolders, being ald Union ren, will expect to stick. The democrats; in that way, will get the worst part of the bargaimd They will furnish the votes, the ammunition of the election, and the whigs in the oflices will carry off the spoils. The outside democrats are, thereforeg opposed to the motion fora Union party. They wolud prefer, and do prefer, the chances of am eleetion by the House of Represestatives. But what was to be the plan of organizing thie Unicn party! Simply — ths:—A _ preliminary, meeting was to be held ia ‘ashington, from which a call was to go forth for Union. meetings, with a view to the organization of & Unien party all over the country. At the came time, the Constitution, a Union paper, irrespeetiver of old party land marks, Was to be set in mo ion im Washington, as the central organ of this Union party. The prospectus of this paper has been ise sued, but we believe the sinews of war have not. et deen supplied. Letiera from the Umion Safety” Sommittee of the Castle Garden organization, wer have reason to believe, have been received by several of ine most distinguished men of the whig and democratic parties in Conyresa, suggestiag the foregowg chain of a geueral Union organization. hat answers have been given, or will be given, has, of course, pot yet transpired. ‘They will pro- bably be read at ‘be great Union meeung in Washe ington, on © i February, if it shall take places as originally intended. The Union men of Georgia have appointed dele- mates to attend a Neaviontt Union Coavention im ‘ashington, on the Pebraary ; bat this is the only practical movement by any Siate towards the orgenizanion a » beginning with a National Convent y Now, we give these details as promising a pretty plausible busis for the reports of the projected Union ticket for 1852. Such wes the scheme— such the pro; ganization. With @ junction of tty er’ North and South, of both the old parties, su in 1852 would be a sure thing. But the project does not work. The free soilers and nullifiers save cooled down. The seceders ot the South have cooled dowa. There is not agitation enough to diive the whigs and de- mocrats of the Union men, isto each others arms. A good stifl nullifaction excitement might do it— a movement by South Cirolina to set up @ separate establishment might do it. But there is ® calm. Everything is chaotic; but there isacilm. When the tremendous volcanic upheaving, which lifted from the sea the North American coatinemt west of the Rocky Mountains, subsided and cooled down, there wasacaim, but lakes, rivera, and mountains were ail in confusion fora long time after. There wasacalm, but there was chaos. So of the late excitement on the slavery question. The eruption has subsided ; but there is a chaos, and a re-organization is slowly evolving iteelf out of the confusion. Old parues may straggle, bata new state of things is inevitable. The work of transition is perceptibly going on, and whether the new epoch is fultiiled ina Union party or by a serub race, it has to come. The chances are in favor of a scrub race. There are cendidates suflicient for all purposes. The ad- ministration is not to be concidered a8 @ mere tem- orary thing—a mere convenience for the time ‘ing. Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster may be counted among the probabilities. Olay is old. al- though the most popular maa in the country. Yes, he is old ; and the friends of Scou are getting to the warm side of the old man, just as the nephews of a rich uncle labor to coneiliate his good will as he gets far into the val of years. The democrats have an abundance of Presidenti«l timber—no telling ~ who they are to choos, or whether there is to one or two of them, in addition to a separate Southern cendidute, and afree avi! Northern ticket or two. ane the whigs, there is a strong under-cnr- rent in favor of Gen. Scott; but Seward and his set threaten to fasten themselves upon him, and will probably bre» k him dowa Mr. Webster holds a good position before the whigs and the couatry 5 but while the nullitiers would relly all their forces against him in the North, we see no indications in the South in his support. The late remarks of Mr. Clay in the Senate on the letter of Mr. Webster, im y to the Austrian minister, appear to indicate a disposition to keep Mr. Webster from sanning too far ahead with the glory of the country. Mr. Clay thought Mr. Webster had made a mistake in assa- that po foreign aurhority had a right to com- plain of our domestic publication of our diplomatic instructiot It was very often made « matter of diplomatic interference. We had done it ourselves. ‘e take it, therefore, that this exception of Mr. Clay to the splendid letter of Mr. Webster, involves the policy of keeping the Secretary of State from taking the vantage ground over all other whigs in the popular opini of the country. Some of the coun papers, especially io Virginia, have put for- ward the name of Me Fillmore for the suceeasion 5 and as he stands forth the practical executor of the late compromises, he has, with the patronage in hie hands, the command of a considerable force of the rank and file, of the whigs in the event of any movement made in his behalf. In fact, if a whi convention should meetin Philadelphia, Mr. Full more has the means, if employed with f tact, setting aside all prudish scruples, of conwrolliag the nomination. As far as the whigs are concerned, Clay, Scott, Webster and Fillmore overshadow, just now, all other aspirants, expee’ants or proba~ ilities. Mr. Clay is old but formidable still. Gen. Cass holis the front rank with the demo- cracy—the conservative democracy ; bat defeat in kL and the consequences of that defeat, have raised @ strong opposition to bim among the ultras, Nerth and South He is, however, regarded here as the rightful heir to the demoer. nation, if they are to have euch a candidate. He is the cheice of the conservative democrats of the North; but oe pa in_ the South would fer Buchanan, or Dallas, or Woodbury, or Gen of Indiana, to Gen. Cass. His interpretation, last session, of his Nicholson letter, has finished his. ruin in the South, if he should atiempt to run there upen own hook, and upon his old platform. But there is another man, who may —_— supercede Cass in 1852, as Taylor did Clay in 1848. Gen. Houston is that man. And if he comes for- ward as the declared advocate of the purchase of the Island of Cuba from Spain, he will supercede all competitors, as Polk did in IS44, upon the ques tion rh Soe of ——.- But there is still another who may carry u rize—namel Gen. Wool, of New York. . ” We have, in all this, to suppose that there will jonal Democratic Convention at Baltimore, nd a National Whig Convention at Philadelphia— hat each will nominate a candidate, upon a na- ional platform ; and that as far as these nomina~ ions go, they will preserve the remains of the two old parties. Butt his is not Col. Benton, ia @ series of bills, and speeches upon them, shapiog, out an independent policy of own—in favor o specific dutes—in favor of fre farms and pre emp- tions to actual settlers on the public land ; in favor ef a grend central railroad and commoa highway to Sen Francisco, with lateral branches to Oregon and New Mexico ; in favor of a Westera armory 5 and in favor ot the most liberal concession to our d pian of o tive Spanish and Mexican born ecitwens in California and the new territories. And patting all these things together, with the remaining fragments of the Buflalo platforn be is eric the preeump toa is good that vd that by some one elae, flato nomination. The ultra abolition: ts, as usual, will doubtless have a candi~ date o their own. The Seuthera ultras will ran a candidate of their own, we have no doubt of it, whetherthe Union mea of the South of both parties shall join with their allies in the North or not. Divide the Uvow ry ia the South, between a whig and a demo cret, end the ultra ticket, we suspect, wil carry the South, from Virginia to Arkansas, and from Trnnes to Florida This will throw the na~ tiopal whig and demoeratic vommnations eanrel upon the middie and Northern States. The result mall the aspects of the field, a mixed sending he House of Represen= tivesa Southern witra, a Norihern whig or demo~ erat, and a Northern tree soiler. Such, we take it, are the prospects of a scrub race, and the probabi- lines of its result And the casting of euch con- flicting materials into the House, deties all esti~e mates os to the election they wil make. The are rangemen's for the patronage of $50,000,000 a year, the political platform made up, and the promi advanced to members, wil sae. The from aa