The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1851, Page 3

vdeos, of shrieks of laughter, of the clattering of taney by slmply exploring the or being latin ty tenes SBA, Re Cente of SRE ves = and Vt erro One ~4 eiektneere but odie aly Giect as ounced inour last report, id pet Produce a7" very one 3 . toa Winoglcted be Parlvuntne Sunday, snd’thas | after day, aad for long hous, in rosilty thoy never ie gel ey ap ay epee Per pm ped house of God.—Correspondent of the Bri- | once d on. Mrenay rate; Thi ‘acting on the advices prr Baltic, ‘We may be sure, therefore, if the tide of whieh, oper anid bad tewnges oxh cus-quariee cunt ris Bi tion for a time set ia posamey by tered ge go from New York, our transactions acquired @ certain ani- ‘Whe Effect of the Discovery of Gold in | conditions of the adventure be known by dire ex; ation, 1.000 bales changing bands occasionally at one- reste, rience, (which dissipates many a pleasing rad half to one frane higher for ¢rés ordinaire and below; Fri- {From the London News, bag aad dream,) the tide shall soon turn back again, or | day, Liverpool coming a shade lower, and the advices per Telative to the discovery leave, what is more to be desired, @ $F | Baltic not & ‘the one-quarter cent advance given +of gold in Australia, is necosarily imperfect; settle permanently, and turn their skill and indus. | Wt the day before, demand slackened. and prices some respecte the accounts try to more laudable its. In the tim: were Jess evpported, in comsequence of which our o ie tion being the invariable wom prepared to hear of a great deal of: | have not altered quotations, and the sales ~concomitant of all discoveries of mineral treasure— | misery and privation. A sudden enpvetiohan me | aid. not 3; but, eoveral ther Sufficient evidence for belie the | all concumable articles, tho want of such conve- | ke: to renew thelr mpalice thera atportvel. bp which fact, And in due oowse we expect not only the | nienees of life as must ensue to thote rushing into | cur ries were slightly’ affected” Sunday the? Liver, , te be substantiated, if that be er ae an unpcopled district, must sproad for a time a | pool weekly circ lar ots very important. transas- ra eeaae snd. specie, deneripnien col rian Seal cf weetcdticee helt thew Gal will, | Hous on specuintion as well as for consumption and ex. fare Anrep andl ‘of fiodiog some gold, due course of time, cure themselves. As to aa pi ninth a Loony fe previous «dust imbedded in the saud of rivers, is not cient proof sf such abundance as may reward the entor- prise of adventurers, or eventually enrich the colony and mehor country. Peraaps the most interesting collatem) testimony is the goueral resemblance of the Toe features of tne district where the gol on found, to tiovs of the valley of the Sacramento and its tribucaries I: is this atlarity pricy Lava first to have suggested the idea of , gold 6 in that part of Australia; aud thus it is pleasing to find science become the guiding star to results which may eventuuily prove of great conse- quence te Great Britain ‘he produce of California has tarnedout no delu- sion, but a “great fact,” and if individual Adven- turers have not acquired that suddea weal:h which their golden dreams anticipated, still we cannot - overlook tle fact tha: miliions of treasure have been dinto the fording there- by inwwe to new enterprize in tho ditferont walks of industry and iw provem But in the recovel amouut of gold which Cali- fornia jed and stili yields, there is obviously ore of barbarous uuskiltuluess ia the process, we fully expect w 1) aut be thecaze in Austra- lia. Instead of @ labor of tudividuals singly or in gange being directed solely :o she recovery of the eadure, if such there be, and with tools and ap- pliances the reverse of sctuutifio, an] with all that misery and privation, recklossuess «nd immortality, incidental toan isolated com nuaity, governed by one idea—that of gain—wo wacic'pase in Australia a wisely dirceted use of capitul aud skill which shall concentrate individual ene gy, ard introduce some xind of saeionatia procedure In this manacr may, in some degree, ba obviated these evils conspicuous in Californ’ , disgraceful to mankind, if not oppro- to the country which p-oduces them, and which, if regarded by us with indifference there, cannot, if repeated in ove of our own colonies, be viewed by « people sober and decent, without some soraples of remo: nd indiguation. We have ao sloubt of the law being held in respest by Uiaglish- emen, evon when employed in so questionable a pursuit as gold findwg--in its very mature de- moralizing—but we expect tae government of Ingland will do more thun the United States have lone ina s'milar ease—lowk afver the welfare of the people, and introduce suca local auvhority as may ent such scones of vice, depravity and irroligion as may reflect on us as a sober aud religious people. ‘There is very little gained by warning our colonists, or thoze here who may be disposed to emigrate ia yuost of treasure. They would not listen, eron if one rose from the dead, to point out the disappoint- ment they shall suffer, the priva' ions they shail ea- dure. Much less can any reasoniog or argument, founded on example or experience, bo supposed to deter them. The idea of acquiring woalth with- eut labor or industry is owe waoica has and will alwaysdelude the human wiod. [he expectation of finding gold by 20 amples process as washin; the sand of ariver, or by oaly looking for an picking it up, as a child picks up pebbies on the sea ehore, istoo alluring to be overcome by the cold dictates of caution and experience. The ima- gination, ruuning riot in a fivid so pleasing as this, colors and distorts every feature. making the wish father to the thought, and carcfuliy conceals from view Os penta! accessories which have so ofien 0 most camped ardent aspirations of the Califor- visa er-—the cost of living in an artificial v0! the bodily labor nevessary to obtain even one day's subsistence, the misery of “life in the diggings,” the precariousness of the pursuit, the dread of murder or robbery, and the exposure to perilous changes of burning hea: and piuchiag cold, without the power to escape from the one, or Gnd '@ from the other. Al ing, therefore, as a hopeless and thank- less task the vocation ot adviser to mea in pursuit of, gold, we call upon the goverament not to stem che tide, but to regulate it by a wise aud prudent and, so that what should prove a blessing may not become a curse. And if the expectations of great treazure be actuslly realived, a thing highly proba ble, wo can perceive no better mode of turning the discovery to cnr advantage, without shame or re proach, than by encouraging tho direction of !.ag- lish capital to the scene The results, by skilfuc means, may not only prove far more lucrative, bus in the oxieterce of respectable mining companies properly organised, we have a guarantee of a peaceable and indastricus population; and we see no reacon why, in the neighdorhood of Bathurst the miping population may not live as harmoniously us in Wales. In the first instance, whon men ar crazed by wi'd notions of sudden wealth, there may be, we grant, a Ree | in binding them by the eober laws of indust pursuit; but when a few saenths experience shall teach them, as it has done in Califorma, that ordinarily all that can be ex- ected from individual adventure is a precarious jiving, they will be glad to unite themselves with of men, associated with whom they will secure ction and the sure reward of well: fated industry. " a the meanwhile, the certain result of this sud- den discovery of gold will be to excite the commu- uity in Australia, and seduce them from their quiet ordina ureuits. And, in all probability, the gal- v Fesoce will extend to Great Britain, aod induce many to seck their fortunes in our own colony who have hesitated to trust their lives to the lawless community in California. At this moralists may shake their heals, wire men look grave, divines sigh with reproachrul eorrow, whilo politizal econo- mist ,and tho money power, reason, speculate and anticipate a deviation from that pleasing equili- brium which keeps etocks steady and exchanges regular; still such discoveries, with all due revo- rence, have somewhat the aspect of providential ageney, inecnsibly but surely acting on the destiny of the ‘buman race. The love of country is one of the strongeet influences whish sways mankini, and were there not come more powerfal mctive to coun- toract it, ation would be an event unknown. Poverty wery are evils which drive mankind from their country, because self preservation is a more poworful instinct than patriotism; and if tinding Ps induce Irishmen to leave their Rechertar: , endeared to them with all its social misery, #0 shall we find the love of gain in- duce cur own population to seek their fortune in Australian. Avarice is a stronger passion than Jove of een And it may be added that all the great discoveries of modern times, bearing on loco- motion, do not only tend to civilize the haman race, to enlighten ani instruct them, to enlarge their sphere of enjoyment, but to disperse mankind over i lobe, aud second the effets of mi- 0 the sau past. as the El Dorado which, by the mages sound, opened up the unknown regions of the Ame- riean continent; and who can foresee 1. nd now and in ages perity of Australia, in tempting undecided e ‘| grants thither to bend their steps! The ovil tending e alluring a Serer are anquosti | great, but they are only transitory. There aro few without compensating good; and we angur te osperity to Austr greater jod by Englishmen and go- above all, peopled by those who know, as a fundamental pri vernment of their country depends on themse! a tespect to tho laws, ani to those who admin them. } The attending eo alluring a diseovory cannot be pormanont; because, in the nature of things, all men cannot be diggers. Those who work with the | epade and cradic, or ply the pickexe, must eat and | be clothed; and diro necessity must discover a way plying their wants Mankind must atill sow and reap, Weave aod epin. Moveover t thirst beyond meacure for the bitter waters shall be the first, porhaps, to discover that the El pathurst is like fortune, capricious and d that whilo one obtains more than a ety-nine obtain lees, and that ia hope and inty and confidence. Sach is the | uistery of rnian diggers. ‘The hard-wor std tndustrious are sure of a liboral subsistence; but then, it appears, bard work and indastry are necertary. In tho valley of the Sacramento, thore th unbounaed hopes, wo etill foel those laws annexed to the aeqviro- er yoont of wealth. We can no more escape their ranny than we can escape the law of gravi- | tation, of any other nawral iav which binds tho 2 rit with dospoti ’ mit be the ease in are ie pot eo lavish of hor ind with gold ax with eto. m view, doo in ja qaariz herd as | r imperviows 10 ang blastit 14s duet ean © sme tons must ba tured over aud weatiog digger can realien bi wardofl t avd irda ge. But at body of gold seekers look for taoy expect @ living, may @ for bike meadicaata ciple, that the go | * * on Tuceday crime and Lynch ‘aw, let them not, in the words of St. Paul, “be so much as heard amongst you”— amongs’ you, the immediate offspring a a race of men who fear God and honor the law. Whatever be thought of the discovery, in a moral or economical point of view, it is somewha: siogular that eo important a discovery as the real treasures of California should be so speedily followed by ono for more directly interesting to us. It is woll known that many diseatisfied with the peaceful, unexciting labors of commerce and agriculture, have fled froa Australia to tuke their chance in California; and ‘at must be their surprise when they learn that in transportiog themselves sag had turned their backs ona second California lying at their feet tempting to exploration. Ifno other benefit arise from the discovery. at least emigration to California will in all probability cease; for what can be more pernicious and exhausting to a rising colony than the logs of its population in such a cause. China. The accounts from Hong Kong are as follows:— Her Majesty’s steamer Salamander has returned ‘rom Formosa, whither ehe had been despatohed to convey the presents and thanks to those who had protected and entertained the three men_ belong: to the chip Larpent, lost jest yeae on that island. It would seem that the Hill tribe, the murderers of the remainder of the crew, are held in great dread by the Chinese settlers. Piracies in this neighborhood against native craft, scem to be on the increase, and this island continues to bo the safest asylum for the most des- perate characters. The police, with the assistance of men from her mi rey veseels in harbor, are on the alert, but small and well armed steamers are required to keep down piracy effectually. Several Lorcha vessels, fitted out here, and for- midable from the number of men and guns they carry, have been committing piracics on the coast, and ey aro sufficiently powerful to take European vessels. A letter has been addressed by the Superintend- ent of Trado here to the chairman of the Canton British Chamber of Commorce, acquainting him, for the information of the mercantile community, that tbe Chinese Imperial Comwissioner had refused the demand on the part of Her Majesty's Plonipoten- tiary here to abolish the duties, charges, and re- strictions on tea, but tbat he had consented to transmit Hor Majesty's Plenipotentiarie’s note on the subject to the Imperial Cabinet at Pokin. A letter has also been transmitted from Mer Mojesty’s consul at Canton to the Chinese Superin- tendent of Customs, informiog him that in future all interference on the pait of the consulate in the collection of duties will cease, and that British merckants will therefore ba allowed, like other foreigners, to arrange their business with his excel- loncie’s officers through a lioguist. A similar no- tification wilJ, no doubt, be mado by tho consuls at Shanghai and the other ports. Jt seems strange thatthe duty of British consuls at any time should have been to assist the Chinese authorities in the collection of duties. The extensive system of smuggling that has been practieed, and [ar keacoa at Shanghai, wy tho eed majority of foreigners, resorted to, no doubt, y come in self-defence, has led to the adoption of the above measure. The system has been allowed by the Chinese authorities themselves to become so established that it scems to have beon the only metkod that could be devised by Lord Palmerston to protect the British merchant, and compel the Chineze authorities to adopt more stringent mea éures with all. It is currently reported that tho rebels ia the RNwangsi province, near Canton, have succeeded in taking the capital thereof, and Piastering it of a great amount of property. Tho Imperial commis- sioner Sea Epa to march to tho scone of re- volt with 3, mporial troops. The tea market at Canton has not yet opened. The quality of the new tea gonerally is considered much inferior to that of last year. Markets. Livenroot Corton Marker, Sept. 19.—There je little change to notice in our cotton market during the past week. A spirited demand arising on the arrival of the steamer. prices slightly hardened, without enabling us however,to make any quotable advance; this extra in qviry having the Inst day or two fallen off, though still eech day tl has been a fair and steady business doing we now resume our former quotations, closing in ail respects at the rates of Friday last. 1,190 Americans, 1(00 Surat, and 40 Egyptian have been taken on epecu- lation ; and 6,040 American, 1,790 Surat, 70 20 Egyption, 420 Pernam, and 80 Smyrna for export. Sales for the week, 86 860 bales, Liyenroon Conn Manxer, Friday, lar change cecurred in the value of avy article of the grain trade the last two days, Indian corn and Ameri- can ‘cur have attracted mort attention, and a fair business has been transacted inthem. At the Corn Ex- change this morning we had a good attendance of scme from Ireland, and rather exvensive purchases wheat and American ‘lour were effected for shipment in that country and coastwise, at fully Tuesday's prices. Oats declined 1d. per burhel, and cal . per load. {ndian corn was in healthy request ; we have scarcely apy quality offering on the spot, and it was 64. per er, Two or three cargoes of Galatz and [brail corn, floating, changed hands. Livenroor Manxcts, September 19 —Ashes are steady in value, at 278 €d. for pote, and 29s. for pearls, at which rates amall parcels have been Motals—The market continues Inactive, though are not gene- rally lower, except for inferior qvalit Foreign orders are not soabundant as usual at this time of tho year, Pig iron contines to > and 8s, to 93s 6d. must now be quoted as the nominal price. The market closes beavily. lower prices being expected. In tin plates, eo er, and lead no change. Naval Stores—Of rosin 7 Barr ls found buyers at ds. 24. for common, In raw tur- yentine notbing has been done. Of spirits of turpentine anal! percels cf American have been sold at 33s. per owt. Provisiens--Atmerican—We eanuot note any improve- ment in the market for beef, except for the finest brands eales are diMeuit to effect, the stock of other iptions being in exeers, and the dealers, in censequence, much sought after by ecliers, In pork, for want of assortment, the transactions have been trifling. There has been for bacon, and the stock is now ms bare not improved,aud shoulders further advance of 2s. to 3s. per bout cleared of good lard, and ded for some «mall parcels, light; hence the sales have jearer, With an active de- het bas beon heavy since very moderate business has Sept. 19.—No particu Father mere inquiry nearly eabausted. B zemaln neglected. At cot. the merket bas be extrcmo rates are Bi The rupply of che deen limited. ‘Tallow wend. Irish—The butt our ‘ast report, and nly been done; the dealers buy with caution, expecting prices to give way, but hollers are firm, and no change can be made in quotations, Belfast 75s. to 8¢s., Waterford 74s. to 80*., Carrick and Clonmel 75s. to 7%.,” Banbridge Coleraine 768. to 788., Limerick 70s, to Tie,, Sligo 728. to 70e., and plealed Ccrk seconds 7 per cut lawted, ime porled from Ireland from the Sth to the Ith instal Soth inclusive, 8.000 firking, 207 kegs, 1423 crosks, O44 Doxes 216 bestels Lutter, and 45 bales bacon. Qnereitron Merk—There are only retail rales to report, at 7s, 6d to , for Philadelphia, and 68, 7',d. fur Baltimore, Mice= About 3,000 bags have Leen sold at 84. Sl, to $8, 94, for tusil broken to low, aud 7# 6d. for eatgo. Balt—Ehere js no material shange in prices, which keep firm. and the rd moderately g ocd. Tuliow—A very large bust n done at adv: prices, 1,200 carke P.Y. to dle, perewt. To- As. 100 of a stemmed bur dant — pri eight, Oa Go 12° per tom: fine j earthenware, 0+. Gd ; fle goods, New Orleans- *, 16s; hardware, 158 4-07 bbls, Montreal ume l ep upward tendene: have been meade 4 avaabers at GPx, to 40s. per ton, The market ia mmon Welsh bars, at £1 its, to £4 124 6d., tnedr ese dot ada better ate at ns have been of little en obtained on the «68, to £14 5a trivel, Tin met with 1B. and a farther reduotion has taken place Todie, salee of Barca baying beem made at 80s, ® at 784 to Fie; for , however, to Bis, for nad bar. in with o Ce yuh £14 per ton block emsin 6d 8 at 2a, i Hames ore only in limited de. ha duil ple ; pi aud Hamburg, 408, to and in fair demand ; te. The value to fa ; and American, 464 2s, to 44; Ue I dem Che hie, per owt. Manne er 17 Cotton night ouch caution, and | for Irteh | trish | } 6s, to 62a; Ham | and | Septem!) We received | our weebly advices Grom the Uaiteg | rise of %c. in New York, bave rendered our holders more exacting in their de- mands, and several look for lf. rise for stock on tale, which has put @ cheok on our transactions ; never- theless 600 bales were dis] nd yesterday, after learning by the English papers the tenor of the Canada’s advices, bringing *» from New York to the 4th inst., per telegraph, announcing a new rise of ic. om rece; ion of advices from Europe by America, the sales reach- ed 700 bales, and prices were well supported at quota- ions. Tucrsoay.—The market was more calm ; prices still very firm. fales up to two o'clock, 600 . The following were the sale: effected, vis. :— one bales New Orleans. Mobile. 5,601 bates. No imports, Ashes—We have to notice a further decline in Amerl- can potash of Sc. to If, particularly for stock tc arrive; the last advices from the States not having been inter- preted fairly have caused im) nt sales to deliver in the Jaat months of the year, vis. 75 bbls. in Soptembe end October, at 41f., and 150 bbls. in November and De- ccmber, at 40f. 600° Casun peariash remains neglected, the former at 41f, and the latter at 44f per 50 kilogrammes, duty paid. Beeswax—No alteration. and price» quite nominal. Lard—Our transactions are quit null In the absence of stock on hand, and rates nominal Quercitron Bark—This article is ratheron the dectino; no sale, however, in Philadelphia has transpired, but we notice that of 800 bag Baltimore at 12f. 60 per 60 kil., duty paid, effected some time past. Rice—The sales o the week are completely nuil in East India. and are con- fined to 53 tierces Carolina, at 28f. 50 to 29f. per duty 4. We notice no alteration in the article, Whaiebone—We have no transactions to report this week, and our stock being almost, exhausted, prices re- main’ well supported at 200f. to 280¢. for Southern and North Western, and @of. for Polar. Vaue, or Prorrzty in Ansany, N.Y.— The valuation of the property of citizens, subject totaxation, as appears by the books of the Assos- eors, has been for the ke shee years as follows:— re « $10,039,838 84 1849 Real eatete..... ++ $9.051 362 00 Personal property. 2.019,012 S$ TOG... ssescccre ener cence euevee te ceee SLL9TL 274 38 isso) atin Real estate. $9,450,100 00 Personal 8,171,989 85 Total... $12,601,680 86 ‘Tho Mor ng Express says that the assessment for this year will be about-- Realestate, oe + $15,000,000 Personal propert; . , Totel....0.:.se 0s teen es ee see e$19,000,000 It says tho rate of taxation will be about, but less than, one per cent. We suppose that this is the far and county tax, and does not include the half- mill tax, or the now State schooltax. The aggre ad ef all these wil! be ity tax. ai one per cent 190, Hatmilter. 0800 $199,500 ‘The water tax is added to all theso, and falls on city proporty. The Stato school tax is over one r cent on valuation of last year.--Albuny Al- las, October 1, Arrzst or a Svrrosrp Kipnarrrr 1x Norta Caxoutxa —On Wednesday last, a waite man ar. rived in Raleigh, N. C., with a horse and carryall, and two negro men, one blaxk and the other a mulatto, whom he offered forsale. That day or the next he gold his horse and carryall at auction, ata heavy sacrifice, asho said he wanted money. On Friday be engaged the two negroos to a gen man in Ralsigh, for $1,400, promising to ver them on Saturday morning ; Gi Slatardag morning they wero both gone, and he hired a horse and set out, as he said, to look for them. The circum- stances being of a character to excite suspicion, a warrant was obtained, and the Sherifl succeeded in arresting him a fow miles west of Kaleigh. Tho mulatto man was also taken, and is now in jail, but the black boy had not been caught at last accounts. The Raleigh Register says they are both likely a —worth between $700 or to each. The white men are his name as J. J. Wood, and said he was from Pittsylvania county, but it is undorstood he passed by other names, and it is belioved his real py e is Marshall. Becatiaiued oth of. sale ne @ Negroes, purpor em: rom Mr. Sayles; but the Reari is Raleigh, deoming the pa ype held Mr. Wood to bail ia the sum of $1,000, and as he could not give it, ho was, s ee committed.—Richmond, (Va.) Times, ct. 1. Covrt or Apreats, Syracrse, Serr. 29, 1851.— The Court of Appeals assembled at 12M. Present, Justice Ruggles, Chief Justices Gardner, Jewett, Foot, Paige andGray. [t isunderstood tha; Judge Mullett, on account of illness, will not be present during the term. Several motions were made. The ing causes were called:—No. 1. Docree reversed and bill dismissed, with costs, by dofault. No. 2and 83 argued. No. 4 called, and passed. Nos. 5,6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, called and reserved, Tho Court having called ten causes under the rule, ad- journed until Wednesday morning, at ten o’clook. City Intelligence. Cri. Desention. — OnWedpesda) infant, about six weeks old, was f¢ ‘Mr. Thomas Bennett's houre, at Hudson streets The be:! at the hall the door opened, when the occupant of covered a bundie lying on the steps, which be moved with his foot, and soon ascertsined it was a “little 'w drested ina very neat manner. It ¥as brought stationhouse, and placed in eharge of the ‘one of the police officers, and will be sent house thie morning, THE LATEST ADVICES RECEIVED aT THE SEW YORK H#RALD OFFICE, Gow. 2, 1854 sets Pate Ceylor Constantinople, Costa Rise, ©. A, Seca Blut, N Fo Port Laram y Fort Simps a liitsyt. Oe. fis Quodaioure. eee Eee ee eS ELL Led Marine Af airs, Axotnen Scazw Steamenr Ling—Two enterprising merchants of Baltimore have concluded arrangements to build a first class screw steamship, to trade between that city and Liverpool. Her owners intend her to combine ‘all the recent improvements that have been adapted in this class of ocean steamships, and contemplate, if the Une prove succesefal, to increase it, by the addition of other vessels. ‘The Builder of the America. TO THE EDITOR OF TAE NEW YORK HERALD. New York, Sept. 22, 1851. Sin—I have noticed there has beon a remarkable silence in tothe person wh» built af pene America. You are always williog to give or and credit to those who deserve it, no matter whether they are hard working mechanics or million- aires ; and when J see a man whe works hard for his livelihood, that has ahead to plan anda hand to form such a model as the America’s—a model whoee equal, in my estimation, has never been seen either in England or America—passed over, and the pee given to othore,I think every one should pow Who that man is. Perhaps if it had not been for the liboral offer of the New York Yacht Club, the America never would have been built, but the club well know who could build them a vessel that could beat all Eagland, Why, only thiuk, sir, sho has beaten the world. Can any man, much less a poor man, afford to dis- pense with any of the credit to which he is justly entitled? The previous Terformances of Mr. George Steers in building fast vessels, convinced cortain gentle- men who had the meanz and the spirit—for which Thonor them—that if any one could build them such @ vessel as they woutcd, he was the person. Ho is the builder of the Vana, a smali sloop-rigged yacht, which bore away the prize from the Maria on two different occasions. He built the Cygnet, Siron, Cornelia, Sybill, Gimcrack ; pilot boats Mary Tay- lor, Hackstafi, M. H. Grinnell, andthe Manhattan, for years the pride amd boast of every island wo The writer of this has never exchanged fitty words with Mr. Steers in his life, but he cannot forget with what delight he looked on the beautiful proportions of his apeenpesc a in their beyish days. And now, when the uagebode of their performances has in- creased with his years, he cannot be silont when he sces his well earned laurels taken by rae 5 - ‘The Yacht Squadron, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK MERALD. Dear Sin:—In your articlo of the 20th ult., on “Tho Yaohts of America,” you omitted to name one of the flectest of your own citys the Silvie, owned by Lewis A. Depau, Esq., of Locust [sland, NewRochelle. This beautiful craft is sl oprigged, and 105 tons burthen. She was built under the eu- Perini dense of Mr. George Steers, at tho same me and alongside of the America; and, “twin’d at a berth,” as they were, is considered, by those “‘who know the ropes,” as in ne wise inferior to her more | celebrated sister. Hor spirltedowner, at least, at- | tests the purity of his own convictions, on this point, by his avowed willingness to sail her with | anything of woodand canvass afleat. n cceasional guost on board the Silvie, the writer—whose object, when he commenced, was | aan tosupply an omission—cannot, in his ad- | miration of her sailing qualities, refrain from sa ing that, like her owner, he yet hopes to sce the America again inher own waters—that the un- known cutter may obtain the pores sho covets to dispute the rightto the laurels won so well and worn £0 gracefully by the victorious schooner. Witkout in any way subscribing to your quaint notions that the pilots of New York ever had any- thing to do with the models of the American yachts, [ beg to join you, hand in hand and heart to heart, in your earnest pride and admiration of | these manly playthings—these antelopes of the ocean—the yachts themselves. EPTUNE, THH YACHT CLUB JUBILEE. The Complimentary Dinner to | Commodore Stevens, SPEECH OF THE COMMODORE. Incidents of the Recent Vietories in England. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, Cie Bey See A sumptuous dinner was given at the Astor House last Wednesday evening, by the Yacht Club of this city, to Commodore J. C. Stevens, W. E. Stevens, and Col. J. A. Hamilton, on their return home from their triumphal cruise in the yacht America. The company assembled at half past five o'clock, the members of the club mustering in great num- bers. Among the guosts invited were Commodores Kearney and Perry, ofthe U. S. Navy. the Presi- dont of Columbia College; Dr. Kane, Surgeon of the expedition that went in search of Sir Jehn Franklin (Captain De Laven, the commander of the expedition, was unable to be presont); and Capiain Comstock, of the U. 8S. steamer Baltic, with whom Messrs. Stevens and Hamilton returned to the United States. At six o’clock dinner was announced, and the chair was taken by J. Prescott Hall, Nsq., having on his right Commodore Stevens, on his left Capt. Hamilton. Mr. Edwin Stevens was prevented, by indisposition, from attending. At the head of the room, the American and English flags were inter- twined. The tables wero decerated with various devices emblematic of tho occasion, and the dinner and wines woro such as at the Astor House they know how toserve. Occupying a conspicuous po- sition on the table facing the President, was tho cup won by the America in the regetta. When the substantial part of the dinner was over, the presiding officer, Mr. Haur, rose, and calling to order, thus addressed the company:— GENTLEMEN or THE New York Yacut Civn:— Weare assembled here, this evening, upon an occasion peculiarly gratifying. It is to welcome back to their native shorcs Commodore Stevens and two other distinguished members of this club, who have recontly played an interesting part in the drama of human action. During their absence, many sarching eyes have the meee hearts the contest, certaminis, are all our own, and ‘we are to rejoice in a triumph. We rejoice in it, not in vain glorious but in the pride of our descent—in the fairness of our Ce gti the thought that we have met even Ei sh competitors wee English seas, and that our fing has never been lowered, ex- cept in the graceful courtesies of success. “When Greek meets Greek then is the tug of war.” ‘Loud cheers.) entlemen—But for the zeal, the energy, and Perseverance of our gallant Commodore, the club would never have come into existence, for he breathed into it the breath of life. And if there had been no New York Yacht Club, then there had been no etruggle for nautical superiority upon Bei- tish waters, and no triumph to bring us together upon this festive occasion. Born almost upon the sea, Oommodore Stevens has from his youth sported with its wav y degrees he imparted own taste to others—to others he cannot impart his owo kuowledge and power. ‘That which to the scientific is the consum- Bis pleasure is to stroggle wah the winds’ and is asure ) tl and waves, and overcome them by his skill. By bis influence this Club. been established, and upon it the nation has been 1d to bestow a legal existence. While our models are open to in- spection, we are permitted to carry an e1 which is be respected ever our eagle flies upon the At- lantic or Pacific coasts. By law we are authorisod toe repre + ‘nearly identical with that which has “braved the and the breeze” ever since we became @ nation; and who will say, that under the charge of our gallant Commodore, one star has been dimmed, or one stripe staincdor de- faced? (Prolonged cheers.) We welcome you, sir (turning to Commodore Stevens), back to your native land. 'e woloome you and your companions to the fair scenes of your youth, to the fields ef your manly years, and to the solace of kindred, friends, and countrymen. gentlemen, as a sontiment :— “Commodore John C. Stevens and his distin- | ere associations in the-late voyage of the yacht merica. Have are welcome, ever welcome, to thoir native land.” The address of Mr. Hatt, was received with re- yeatedcheers, and the toast was drank standing, and with three times three woll uttered. Commodore Srzvens, sensibly affected by the warmth of this welcome, as tho tremor of his voice and hand manifested, read the following reply:— GxntTLEMeNn— Before commencing my reply to the flattering and overwhelming eulogium of the honor- able and cloquent chairman, I will claim your in- dulgence to make a brief statement in writing, to tho end that there shall be no misunderstanding, if a question should ever arise as to what I did or did not say. Have I your consent? (Aye, aye, from all quarters.) In the diplomatic notes of invitaticn forwarded to me, there was a let- ter enclosed from the chairman, assuring me that no harm was intended, begging me not to be afraid, and pledging himself and the committee, if {should be knocked over or stunned by the gun they were to fireat me, they would be in readiness to pick me up and put mo on my legs again, and to support me until Ishould recover sufficiently tostandalone. (Creat laughter.) Remembering tho awful risk I had tun éome three months since, on an occasion somewhat similar, from an unexpected explo- sion, the alarming offect of which I barely es- caped by a lucky dodge, I determined to come to an understanding with the committee as to what the amount of danger really was. On ascortaining this, I concluded, after mature reflection, to make the following effer, viz:—I would agree to stand, (if possible without flinching,) one discharge from the biggest gun they could find, loaded with small shot, and filled to the muzzle with cannisters of tropes and figures, of any sort or sizo, best adapted to their purpose, provided I might return tho fire (if I survived) by a single round shot, billetted with the simple and heartfelt expres. sion of my simcere thanks to you for your friendly attentions and unvarying kindness. Jt was further stipulated that I was at liberty to reply to any other discharge, however more or less dangerous it might prove, either by making one of my best bows-- which ! was to practice for the occasion—or by retreating to the shelter of some friendly ram- part, armed with metal as heavy as their own. How tho committee bavo carried out their part of the bargain, you havo seen and heard. I owe my acknowledgments to the chairman, which I trust he will accept, for not risking the bursting of his gun by putting in a heavier load. I owe, also, a debt of gratitude to the Colonels Hawilton and Stevens for the great care they teok that I should have nothing my own way, without their full approval and assent. I wanted, at first, to play commodore @ lq Uncle Sam. They would not listen to it; but insisted, as free and indepen- dont democrats, thatthe majority should rule. This conduct I considered mutinous; but as flogging was dono away with by law, and they had contrived to | ¢ct the captain and crew on their side, [ thought it est to wink at it, and let them cut, and carve, an alter, and smend—consoling myself with the old adage, “that discreasion was the better part of valor;” and with the reflection, that if anything went wrong in the conduct of this business, I might pe it to the iron will of this stony hearted majority. You ma is somowbst perhaps, have observed that my hair grayer than it was when I last met you. J'll toll you how it happened. But | am trea- poniog on your good nature. (Go on, go on, from all sides.) In coming from Havre, we were obliged, by the derknees of the night anda thick fom, to anchor somo five or six miles from Cowes. Inthe morn- ing, carly, the tide was againat us, and it was dead im. At nine o’clock a gentle breeze sprang up, and with it came gliding down the Lavereck, one of the nowest and fastet cutters of herclass. The pews epread like lightning that the Yankee clipper bad arrived, and that the Lavcrock had gone down to show her the way up. The yachts and vessels in the harbor, the wharves, and windows of all the houses bordering on them, were filled with thon- sords of spectators, watching. with oager eyes, the fol trie! thee Saw we COL!d hot eseaps; for the beon turned towards their trackloss path; many an apxious thought has beea fixed upon their adventa- | rong voyage, while many silont, but doep-breathed | aspirations have gone forth for their welfare, safety | and success. | They have beon abroad to unfold the American | standard where tho ensigns of all other nations were to be displayed—to contend in harmonious | rivalry for the palm of superior skill upon that ele- ment, which has been bostowed with an impartial | band upon the people of the whole earth as their common property. The flog which floated at their mast-head, bore upon its feld on eagle grasping arrows and carry: ing an olive branch. But those arrows were not | potroned by batred, malice or national revenge: | while tho olive branch, over greon and boautilul, was an emblom of that peacefal plant, which the | dove brought to the ark, to show that the turbu- lent waters had subsided. Thotr orrand wos no mission of war, in which kindred blood was to stain | } the fair surface of a pacific soa; bat the contest was to be tho strifo of art, of scienso, of skill, of manly | daring, and noble self control. Llow interesting, geatlemen, was the spectac when an American yacht glided quiotly into a B Ish harbor, to take up a gago which had there be thrown down to all the nations of the ctvilired world. But Van Tromp comes no moro {eto the Unglieh Channel. The sailors of sunny I'rance lock ont upon the shores of their reighb: as has | been their wont for many a weary year, morely to | sco the ‘moter flag of Hagland”’ still wave upon | f the waters, now becor The cngles of the north will not to ehow a fF @ upon 1 the bold dofianes raust be ore who epeak the Innyrungo | same blood ions, follow ic hearts, the the narrow seas; oct, if met at all of tho challeng: Laverec cck to us, sometimes laying to, and sometimes tacking around us, oviheeiy phowng the had no intention of quitting us. We were leaded with extra sails, with rk, aod bread enough for an East Indi ‘age, and were some four or five inches too deep ix tbr We | ‘ot up our enils with heavy bea: ¢! ind ad inereared to © or ex knot broez after waiting wi we were ashamed to longer, we let hor get about two hundred yards abead, and then in ber wake. I have seen | od many exci trials at sea | jo the match with Jclipse | bad — swas, both for depending upon the re | fret hoat ond four-fifths ne hundreth part of | ut suffering orc-hun- the trepidation I feit et the i y the Laverock ia this five minutes, not a aw Eclip te } out of th b ager eyes a a fixodnoss and natural. The pen- i secme tal cil of an artiet might, perb ts pr convey the oxpres- sion, buto words can desoribs it. {t could aot, nor did not, last long. We worked quickly and y to windward of her wake. The erisis was paat; ard me doren of deep-drawn sighs bat the r enme to . perhaps, a | @ third ofa milo ahead, ond trent mates after poh ns dc ¢ 1 rand bis t fog ef ¢ ¢ (er | situated with himself, | a tonat ¢ tion, any shape or way, would The Admiral, in expressing pleasure it gave him to do us a service, endeavored to prevail Ks us to believe the obligation to be altogether on ide. I trust, with confidence, that if occasion should occur, this delicacy and feeling will be aa Promptly and as delicately reciprocated. In the race with the Filssle, | mepest—ouneeae I do not know the fact—that too much of her bal- last was taken out. It gave her an advantage im foirg before the wind, but told very much against er inreturning. There waza steady breeze and @ good sea running, and she fell so rapidly to lee- ¥ to be hull down, and nearly out of sight. We beat her, according to the for ight or minutes in , On & . Inthe race for the Queen's con there wore, I think, seventeen entries, most of which, I believe, atarted. cighty, or perhaps ove hundred" sader wetghy $8 OF; ONE and i sg the Tarbes 5 — such tool no other country, save En, |, can fe Our directions from the saillog committee simple and direct ; we were to start from the ° ship at Cowes, keep the No Man's buoy on starboar and from thonce make the best of our way round the island to the flagship from which we started. Wi off before the wind, and in the midst of a that we could not get rid of for the first eight or nine miles; a fresh up that soon cleared us from and sent us rapidly ab yacht in the squadron. At the a first is nosecond”—was literally true. After passing the Needles, we were hop mergge i Ro} acht Victoria and Albert, ier family on board, who had ness the trial of botween by the Old World and those of the New. steamer slowly passed us, we had the grat of tendering our to the Queen, fashion of her own people, by taking off o1 and dipping our flags. At this time the fallen t afin breeze, and we did not arrive at flag ehip until dark. I could not learn oorreot- ly at what time, or in what order, the others mare. re “> beef ig ae eePey of that day's tory. mised, half pos I, when I at ted with you, to bring it home to you. The performance of this promiso is another exemplifcation of the truth of an old saw, “that what is oftentimes saidin jest, is sometimes done in earnest.” I am requested, by the gerti owning this oops to beg your acceptance of it asa testim: of their jitude for the interest yeu have so keenly felt, and so often and kindly ox- pressed, in our wi e and success. I have but to regret that the late ay” at hig I re! up my mind to attempta reply, has put it out of my power to make i wine it ought to be, (and, but Be , 5 for that, what it might be,) moro worthy of your acceptance. With sour permiscion, I will propose, asa tonst, “The Hoaith of the Earl of Wilton.” The Commodore's toast andapeech were cheered enthusiastically. His admirable description of the intentness of expectation on beard the America, om hor Srst trial with the Laverock, spellbound all Hstenors, and almost transformed them into the statues to which ho likened his orew. Each al- lusion in the address to the courtesy and manly fair- flay of bis competitors, during his stay at seme nd especially the Hberal and prompt conduot tho A ‘al of the station, in putting Hor Majesty’s dock and workmen in requisition rept an accident to the America, called furth very exprestions of gratification. HS phy se Earl Wilicn was drank standing, wit ‘oe times throe. Mr. Gxozaz Tazatan, first Vioo President, after s¢me complimentary remarks pn tke Lies 9 courteous and manly reception given to eur in England, and to her o 4, proposed as 8 toast, “Tho Royal Yacht Squadron of England. Here another explosion of enthusiasm, and the toast was cheered te the echo. ‘Tho Paxsrpent, 2! fow aj ‘te prolimi nary remar TO} he meakeoh United States.” ) propos> “Tho President of the This was drank standing, and with all the honors Commodore Stevens thea said, ho was sure te have the hearts of the whole company to tho toas: be was about to propose—that of the Sovoreign of England, whose gracious visit to the America was not one of tho lenst memorable incidents connected with the afais—he proposed “ Hor Mofesty tho Queen of England.” The audience rose to their feet at once, and drank this toast with prolonged cheers. The Prrstoxnt next referred to the arrival with- in twenty four hours, in our port, of ono of the Yessels fitted out by the munificence of a New York merchant, who, was bapey, to add, was also a member of the club. We all sympathized—as what gencrons heart would not—ia tho fears or im the hopes of the J.ady Franklin, and all rejoiced when one of our own citizens, a retired merchant, determined to fit out, at his own expense, another expedition of humanity. The government had co- operated with him. Gallant epirits, belonging to our navy, were found eager to embark on ths peril- ous enterprise, from which they had now returned unsucce! —but not unsuecessfal from any lack of daring or skill, or cf endurance, but because the elements were stronger than maa. Woe had for the pleasure here to-day of the com: Capt De Haven, bat, ucfortunately for us, ho was unable to attend. We havo among our guceta, however, him to whom was committed not the least interesting or responsible ol ¢ in this oxpe~ dition—the surgeon—on whose skill and care so much was to nd, and who har the satisfaction | bce back, without loss of li li | human being that sailed with them. | propose “The bealth of Surgeon Kane, of the United States Navy.” This t was warm!y welcomed | Dr. Ka to reply, | that ho way a @ speak, upon him for ech was Very unex; | could rot, however, but attempt, in jes and himself, to express the grateful he entertained of so warm a welcome; the whole | scen, and, indeed, the occurrence to which it re- | lated were elmest ‘ike a dream tc him, for more than a ycar had been out of reach of the civi- lircd world, cut of from all communication with it, and uninformod of all i edings. Within this time, the Collins steamers, the Sying clipper shipe, and the yacht Am hal eprong into existence, and won their triumphs; and no one, unless could at all appreciate the 3 of strange nose and novelty, aa woll as of de- Vg: which ho ys ne = things. oe ed in every:hing showing the enterprise liberality of his co men, and would beg to coa- clude with a toast to the names of Grinnell, Col- lins, and Stevens, a¢ worthy of all remembrance . He ebalfot bis feel! u and honor. Hearty cheers d the remarks and toast. M . Cuas. A. Davos, second vice president, af 2 of the builder of im to tho re snip builders geae- ter calling attention to tho m the racht Ameri od refi bio ah . totimert:— 5 anics an! artisans empioyod in the of the at America—By Lave added he- 0 tonst of the ing was mers warmly ro- hen the appluuce bad subsided, on & turn thanks in bo~ Uer and care skill JRINNE™ 1, Pose tO hose good 4 | ats bo Anew so mneb; there were others in the room | who could co this better than bimeolf, but bstog | cal upon he would not bold back from doing hut he thought this a just complimont to ourship- who bad no superiors either in character, il where. Mr. Grinnell h, end with mach oara- ¢ bent fite which our city and cow ed, an ¢ always d og, from cloes of car citizens; and conelnded hisremarks with one of the mort eminent among thom:-< iam Hl. Webb.” rank with aroat applanse quiet was restored, the President gavo— tod States.” “Ww When hough somewhat takes aback, Ho did it very well, nover- tm the chair was— United States.” reat applruse, aad afia by May ajor Fraser, Vice Commodore Wilkes, Mr and Mr. Bookman Finlay, the of tho Now York Vaoht Olub, wire nesoclated jn (ho parokave gad oquip-