The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1851, Page 2

ORIGIWAL ARFICL ES | bad more busines than they could attend to, and ‘ RR hence there was no motive to diminish the rates. Fresent State and Progress of Telegraphs | This line is frequently interrupted, and occasional- In the United States and Canada. ly for days toget Hence, if it were not for a ‘The length of telegraph lines built andin oper® | second line to New Orleans by the way of the tion in the United States and Canada is estimated | West, communication between New York and New ‘at front 12,000 to 15,000 miles; The most distaa | Orieanswould be much less frequent and the pub- points in communication are Halifax, N.'S., and | jie much worse accommodated. Quebec with New Orleans, near 3,000 miles inter | The recent decision of Judge Kane, of the United vening between them, following the circuitous | states District Court, im Philadelphis, against routes of the wires. The towns and villages which | Rain’s electrochemical telegraph, as an infringe- ‘are accommodated with telegraph stations amount | ment of Mome’s patent, has excited much surprise. te betwen 450 and 500. As there are two or three ‘The great latitude of reasoning and broad grounds Yanes, under different companies, between New York | assumed by the judge, if confirmed by « higher aud other priscipal cities, many of the towns have tribunal, effectually cuts off all and every kind of two or three separate telegraph offices. improvement in telegraphing. We understand he ‘The first line erected was im IS44-’45, between gives Morse pretty much the exclusive use of the Washington and Baltimore. The next was from | lightning of heaven, and the use of electro mag New York to Philadelphia, which was opened early | netism, a motive power discovered long prior to im 1846. This line was soon after extended from | Morse’s firs: dream of a telegraph. According to Philadelphia to Washington. The next lines of | such a decision, no improvement, however great, importance constructed were those made by Henry jmportant or beneficial, can be attempted. O'Reilly, connecting Philadelphia with Pitts- | Even a thunder cloud, passing in the air, burg and Cincinnati, and another eonnecting | if sentient being, could have an injunction served New York with Boston, aud another connect- against it for an infringement. A similar decision ing New York with Buffalo. New Orleans is | would have kept the steam engine and printing connected with New York by two lines. The press where the first patent improvers left them: first passing South by the way of Washington, | On this principle, if oue man could patent steam, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Macon | another air, another water, and another electro” and Columbus, Ga , amd Montgomery and Mobile, | magnetic motion—four powers, or elemente—four te New Orleans. The other passes via Pittsburg, patentees could become the exclusive owners of all Cincinpati, Louisville, Nashville, and thence | the steam engines, wind sails, windmills, water through Mississippi, to Now Orleans. Each of | wheels, and telegraphs in Christendom. We had these routes intersect with other lines, and give of | slways understood, until Judge Kane’s decision, Jateral branches to many places not on the main | that a man could not patent a principal or natural routes. The distance traversed by cither line from } element. We have reason te believe that the New York to New Orleans does not vary mash from | Jearned Judge did not scrutinize the evidence very sbont 2,000 miles. Messages passing from one o | closely; otherwise, how could he have decided that thete cities to the other have usually to be re writ- | Stienbiel’s telegraph was only a visual telegraph ten jour or five times at intermediate stations; | when it was proven in evidence that it was a re thengb, by an improved method of magnetic con- | cording telegrapb, and made dots similar to Morse’. nections, the seaboard line has, in good weather. | plan, and anterior to Morse’s patent? And yet the tracemitted communications direct between New | Judge decides that the dots made by Bain’s ma York and Mobile, without intermediate re-writing | chine infringe Morse’s patent. Wonderful acumea, @ distance of near 1,500'miles. By the Western or | this! A patentce has a right to his inventions; bu Cincinnati reute to New Orleans, steamers’ news | he has no right to shut out the public from the handed in at 5 A. M, bas reached New Orleans, | benefit of allimprovements. Neither has a pateate and the effects produced on the market at that a right to use his discovery for the oppression of point returned to New York by 11 o'clock A.M. | the people. A patent is given, rot because he has Short messages forwarded from New York have | discovered a mode of injuring the people, but on frequently beaten time in reaching St. Louis ani the ground that he has conferred a benefit, and not New Orleans a curse, a8 a telegraph exclusive monopoly granted One important function of the telegraph is not’! on the broad decision of Judge Kane would prove probably understood by many readers. The cur- | to be. rent of electricity is made not only to carryames-: We shal! have more to say in our next regarding rage from one distant point to anotber, but, like a telegraphs in this country, giving further details of tkilful letter carrier, it can be made simultaneous- their management, charges, general rules, regu- ly to drop copies of the same at the intermediate lations, Kc. stations through which it passes. This is done by | ene New York State Senators Elect-Per- putting the instruments at each station in the gene. sonal Notices of the New Senators, vel cireuit. To illustrate our meaning:—The Con- | We gave, a few days since, in the HeRaup, a list greseional reports put in the office at Washington | of the members of the New York Legislature elect, are usually reosived simultaneously in Baltimore, Jp the Assembly, the whigs have a bare majority Philadelphia, and New York; and all that isneess- | o¢ two, Suffolk county, for the first time in ‘ary, at the intermediate stations, is for an opera- | the history of that democratic community, sends ‘er or clerk to be present and receive the message as % ie developed ec paper bpthe.testenments, | two whigs, and there are results in other parts of ‘ A |; the State, with regard to members of Assembly, Thus, siso, the usual practice im supplying the which are quite mababions the late closely con. Fress in Buffalo, about five hundred miles from tested election. New York, and at intermediate places, such as Al- | The Senate being equally divided between the dary, tica, Syracuse, Rochester, &¢, is to put whigs and democrats, leaving party questions to be the line in a comtinuous connection with the inter- | decided by the casting vote of the Lieutenant Go- vening instruments, forming parte of the grand vernor, Church, who is a democrat, anda strong Gireuit; hence, the same commercial and general party aii will be the main object of interest with sews is read off simultaneously at every office on | tye poli:icians. In balloting for Clerk and other of- the entire route. The news for the press in that fieers of the Senate, the Lieutenant Governor has rection is usually sent, within certain hours, | 16 vote: therefore, Str. Bogart, the present Clerk, fwiee a day, and charged for at so much per week | a4 the other whig incumbents, will stand a good for each on the line reosiving it. The chance to retain their situations. If the commit- peer” taking precedence of all others are | tees are chosen by ballot—as we believe was the rule Felice and government despatches, messages an- | 4: ihe jast session—it will puzzle the Senators to de- Bouncing deaths, and important messages for the \ cide what names they shall consist of, and if the se- mewspapers. With some of the lines, messages or- | lection should be left to the presiding sfficer, the dering vews for the press arefranked, andalso brie | committees would bethrown into the hands of the ssages between the agents of papers concerning | gemocrate, and of course be antagonistical to the telegraph business of the press Atsembly. ‘The usuad hours of business extend from S and 9 Leaving these prospective difficulties to be ad- A. M. to Yand 10 P. M., on week days. (On Sun- justed by the wise men of the two parties, we re- dey?, wort of the lines open a short time in the fore ‘peat the list of the Senators elect, with their loca- noon, and sgain in the afternoon and evening. On | tions for the purpose of giving brief personal no cr two ef the lines are in the habit of closing altoge tices of most of the new members. Five of the Se- ther on Sundays, except during times of expected pators, vits— Messrs. Beekman, Morgan, Beach, important news, when they open, and keep openal | | pham aud Babcock—were members of the last say, on Sunday, if necessary, to accommodate the | senate, chosen twe years since, and are, of course, press. Although the nominal hour in the evening | known to the public as legislators. Mr. Hunting- for clcring, with most of them, is from 9 to 10 P. | ton, of Oneida, being chosen for the eatra session, M , yet it almoe: nightly happens, and especially last summer, bas been re-elected: — during the sitting of Congress, that the operators SENATE. are kept on duty to a much later hour, and, occa. nm Whigs to Roman; panes Ttalios. sionally, they are employed nearly all night. The lotvicte. Sy-stntee ware rule with the Washington and seaboard New Ur- ee _— Sal } James E. Cooley. leans line ie to keep the offices open at night unti) a. Naya wi all the messages in the offices that day have been Obadiah Newooml transmitted. Hence, it oocasionally happens that ity, James W. Beekman. when interruption bas occurred, and messages hav, 4 Edwin D. Morgan. eat accumulated, that the operators and clerks are em. ployed ali night in bringing up arrears. The usual plan in keeping accounts of messages transmitted j# by daily posting by telegraph between each of the offices. Thisis usually done the last thing a night before closing, or the first thing on the follpw | 13—Wesbingtn, Bar img merving. Each office formsa check upon the | isopt Lawrence, Fram other, asthe office receiving charges the forwarding | 16—Lerkimer,Mont, office with the number of words transmitted. The | y¢_p,,utom Hemiten. great defect in the working of the various lines arises, to a great extent, from the flimay and imper. fect manner in which the earlier lines were con- etructed. The parties embarking in their construc- tion were the middling or smaller class of capital ists, who were compelled to build their lines cheap, #0 as to obtain the greatest length of wires at the leastexpense. Hence, the posts to support the wires 5 ' Atraham B. Conger 9—Orange, Sullivan. 10—Ulster Greene .... | l= Albany, Schenectady. | 12—Reneseiaer... Henry B. Suith Henry E Bartlett. + Harmen Bennett .. Benjamin N, Huntington, Jamon Platt. 2 Br 4—Cayuga. Wayne..... 25—Tompaine. Seneca, Yate Bteulen. Che mun, Momroe.........+ wS—Crleans, Geneeee Fr R Micajah W. Kirby Alonzo 8. Upham. through the country were not much better than Livingston Myron H. Clark. bean poles, and the plan of insulation fragile and Allegany. Wyoming.....John A. MeFiwain. imperfect. They soon found it necessary to rebuild | “1~Erie pmohees sare 6 democrats. ‘The following are the comparative majorities of the different districts, compared with the election of Senators two years since, when the whigs carried many of their lines, and to adopt better plans of perulation. |n crossing streams, gutta percha being discovered to be a non conductor, wires wereevated with itand submerged. By this means communi cation is regu kept up. Hemeath the waters of | seventeen districts, and the democrats fifteen. The the Hudson ft, wires are laid o , ad | democrats now gain the second, third, tenth, twea- in places at a depth of forty or fit ty-third wonty-seventh distrists—total, 5; and Jove disturbed by the anehors of v the whigs gain the twelfth, nineteenth, twentieth succeseful in preserving and twenty fifth districts—total, 4; making a net and House lines crose » of one Nenator, and balancing ing marts on either side seroes the river ata sufficient height to le ls of all kinds pare beneath. The worst objection t De hie srrangement is, that the wires are liebe to broken by sleete or storme in winver } ‘The business of telegraphing has been found + nt with the increase of competition ¢ Highlands, by evect- tretchiog a steel wire Masonrries ATIC ion of lines. Thws, at one time there | }f wat only one (the old Morse) telegraph line, be | 2 tween Now York and Boston, which was pretty weil | 3} 44 . occupied, and at a charge of fifty cents for each ten | us 762 1461 words. Afterwards, two other lines were built, one | %--- He (Whig bn by a company working House's instruments, and | 4) °°) 806 apotk orking those of Pain, making e me. | 2 208 (Whig. 1,178 divms of communcation, The consequence be | potas, 19.905 Total,. 11.668 heen ‘hat the public is greatly beneOtted. Mes | aggregate whig majority on Senators (in 1851).. 1,363 e ten words are now sent for twenty cents, Bo do (in 1949) e business hae ec now dees as much line did at the comm increased that each line an the single Morse The public have a Whig lowe and democratic gain ‘Thic is Mar. Conger’® plurality ever Benedict (hig) Dr | about 1.400 were given by democrats deep interest in th cation of lines ould t is to be observed that the vote on Senators dows the whole business of telegraphing be mengpolized | not in gil cases, ompross the true party strength. by @ single company, it Would become anenorinoms | Thos in Ki gs and Monroe counties, where the ard intolerable oppress ne line bet we ' > | whig State ticket has majorities of $43 and L to aoe ee ae ee ee \ respectively, on Attorney General, the Jem commodate the public. When there siculd be | sisct their Senators, owing to the defection of the | enly one line to depend upon, and nication | wiver gray whigs; and, on the other band, the Bp Dat Rae Be taterruptes, the | ld be | winige lect their Senators in the Twenty sevond Geprived of its benefit ; , dietrist (Onondaga) and the Twenty fifth district | For inetance, the reaboard line from w York Tompkine, &#), where the deeoorate have majo to New Ovleans, passing through Charleston, is the only line by that route, aad is managed by a sing's company. They charge fora through mes sage $2 50, for ten words, and fifteen cents for each additional rd. Tho president was asked why “—e tee cneees he did not reduce his charges, ae it would augment on ed to bave sperened #0 us to 7 the aggre- Sie busipers | Lijs reply woe, Vhat they already gate sorult of thy Whig rial piagalities 0 0% nm the Attorney # have been aff ) cnuses; and in kman and Mr. Newoomb ( thig) having becn placed om y, Mr. Be 6 ce ticket w Brandreth (dem.) received 1614 votes, of whieh | Various othet | ceed that of the democrats the above table, and then given to Doctor Brandreth, im the Westchester dis- trict, apportioning 1,400 to the democrats and 214 to the whigs, we have nearly the same remarkable close vote en the Senate tiekets in the whole State, as appears in the vote for Attorney General and ‘Treasurér, on the State ticket. We now proceed to give some personal notices of the Senators clect. The. first on the list is Jam and representing that county, Suffolk and Queens. Mr. Cooley is the first boookseller who has been elected to the Senate since 1832, when Mr. E:bene- Yer Mack, of the firm of Mack & Andrus, of ithaca, Tompkins county, was chosen to represent the old Sixth district. Mr. Mack made avery good Senator, and was a zealous promoter of the Erie Railroad and other internal improvements, particu- larly those affecting the interests of the southern tier of counties. He had more pretensions to litera- ture than is often found in booksellers, being the author of a good life of La Fayette, and other works. Mr. Cooley is the author of a book of Travels in Egypt, but it is not supposed that his reputation aé a traveller or an antiquary had any peculiar influence on the democracy of the Island district he will represent. The question asked on Staten Island, and in Old Suffolk and Queens, was not, does the candidate for Senator agreg with Champollion, Young, or Gliddon, in the interpreta” tion of hieroglyphics, or with Manetho, Bunsen, or kings, and the object and age of the pyramids; but, mitting of ne deubt, Mr. Cooley had no difficulty in S-votes, asthowa by | He was more respected” by the country members the 1,614 votes | than some of his meam and illiberal colleagues, who did wuch by their opposition to retard works of utility, particularly we remember in de feating an application from some of our most enterprising citizens, for a charter for a line of steamers between New York, Havane, and New Orleans., Mr. McMurray did not aid that applica tion, as bis party were considered opposed in. prin- ciple to such incorporations, although they hat ‘occasionally varied in their views and actions, as in the case of Mr. Levi S. Chatfield, the presont At- torney General, thenaleading democratic member of the House, joining with the whigs, in voting for the renewal of the charter of the North River Baak. The country democratie members were generally more liberal respecting charters than the city dele- gation, composed of Grout, Weir, Hickok, Miller, Swackhamer, and others, at that session. The late Mr. Bryson, son of David Bryson, one of that dele- gation, had an interest in hie liberality, as he and his father had an axe to grind in the amendmentto the Phoeaix Bank charter, rendered necessary by the losses of that institution, under the management of that distinguished agriculturist, John Delafield, now retired from financial cares, and residing on the romantic banks of the Seneca Lake. Mr. McMur. ray was again returned to the Assembly in 1812, and 1843, and co-operated with Michael Hoffman, andother radica democrats, in the passage of the laws which arrested the increase of the State debt, and suspended the work on the canals. In 1844, he Colonel Vyse, im the dynasties of the Egyptian | declined afourth nomination, although his constitu. ents tendered it again unanimously, and established was he regularly nominated! The latter point ad- | himself in the successful practice of his profession, holding for three years the appointment of Master securing hiselection, after his unexpected nomina. | in Chancery. [n 1848, Mr. McMurray was nomi- tion. He bad previously co-operated with Mr. Richard Adams Locke, and other orators, in addressing the democratic maeses on Staten Island, so that he was not unknown to them, and the democracy of Queens and Suffolk having yielded the nomination to Rich- mond, we find the majority of Mr. Cooley, a New Englander, over Mr G. P. Disosway, a native of the district, and of an old Huguenot family, ox- ceeded that of Mr. Wright, (demoerat.) for comp" troller, on the State ticket, by 36 votes, and that of Mr. Chatfield, for Attorney-General, by 14] votes. Such is the force of party and the system of regular nominations. Mr. Cooley was formerly an auctioneer, of Boston, and came to this city about the year 1835, when he entered into the book auction and commis. sion business, engaging periodically in the regular trade sales then established. He was afterwards a special partner in the book auction house of Bangs, Richarde & Platt, and established the house of Cooley, Keese & Hill, in 1846, in the same business; the third partner, Mr. Horatio Hill, (brother of Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire,) retiring from the concern, after a year or so, avd the business continuing under the firm of Cooley & Keese, until 1850, when Mr. Cooley zetired. The popularity of Mr. John Keese, (who isa natire of this city, and a well” Brown scholar, critic, wit, orator, and democratic politician,) as an auctioneer, greatly promoted the success of the book auction establishment, and the | trace sales of Cooley & Keese, backed by Messrs. Appleton, Putnam, and other prominent publishers, were always well sustained by the book trade throughout the country. Toadd to the attractions of the trade sales, Mr. Cooley introduced the cus- tom of giving champagne and edibles during the noon recess at the sales, which custom being highly approved of by the trade, was soon imitated by the rival auction houses. The new Senator will find thet asimilar custom is prevalent at Albany; but there the expenge falls on the lobby, and not on the members of the Legislature. Mr. Cooley is, we should (think, about forty-five years of age, and may be known by his tall, slender person, and “ spec- tacles on nose.” ‘The Second District, the whig county of Kings, is, strange to say, to be represented by a decided domocrat, Mr. John Vanderbilt. The circum- stances which defeated Mr. Edwards Fiske, the whig candidate, and entombed him be’ a terrible mejority, are well known. Sufficient to say, that Mr. F. was identified with the Seward interest, and wae marked by the silver grays for destruction. | } | nated at Tammany Hall, for the office of Surrogate of the county of New York; but, although he ran ahead of his ticket, he shared the defeat of his party in that campaign. The new Senator, on national questions, has always occupied consistent ground ; he was a supperter of Cass and Butler in 1848, and although a decided hunker democyat, yet his course has been so uniformly manly and straightforward as to have secured the respect and confidence even of those who may have differed with him. He is personally and politically popular, and every way qualified to fill, honorably, the post of Senator of the State of New Yerk, to which position the united democracy of the district, aided by the Cas- tle Garden and temperance influences, have elected him. He is of a slight and slender person, with light complexion and good address. His age is about thirty-five years. Frem the Fourth district, (comprising the Seventh, Tenth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth wards), we have a whig Senator; in the person of that old stager Obadiah Newcomb, who, at the age of nearly three score years and ten, for the first time enters the legis- lative halls at Albany. He has been in former years elected an assessor of the Thirteenth ward, which bas been his residence, time out of mind, and where he was known in the days of John Quincy Adams, as one of a set whose names always came up top in the choice of delegates to a ward or general nomi_ nating committee, by the unhappy non-office seeking followers of that impracticable President, but great statesman. John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel J. Boyd, Obadiah Newcomb, Dr. Henry G. Dunnell, and Ira B. Wheeler, were the leading Adams men of the Thirteenth ward, in 1827, 1828, &. Tne late Alderman, James Palmer, was the first succes- sful man of the anti-Jackson party in that ward Mr. Boyd was one year in the Common Council, Ira B. Wheeler was chesen Alderman, and after; wards Coroner; and Dr. Dunnell was appointed City Inspector. The working men and native Americans ef the ward had a hand in some of these matters in assisting and finally amalgamating with the whigs. Mr. Newcomb is a man of sterling integrity, and much esteemed by the old citizens. His con. tributions to the whig funds have, it is said, been too much of the homeopathic order to render him popular with the electioneerers; and his temperance views, lectures and actions, have doubtless hitherto retarded his progress as a politician, by their ef- fect on the keepere of the numerous temples of Bacchus located in the district which be represents, | where, however, more of the steady middle classes Added to this, there were ferryand other questions | than the aristocracy of our city have their resi, which aided to effect his defeat. The successful | geno, But there is a large floating population in candidate, Vanderbilt, is one of that lucky firm of | these wards who bave been always apt sab- democratic lawyers in Brooklyn, Lott, Murphy | jects for the mission of Father Mathew. & Vanderbilt, who, uniting im their persons the | ‘Being a carpenter by trade, the Senator of the interests of the three races of English, Irish, | fourth district will, we think, be useful in assisting and Dutch, to whish they are allied by blood | to form a new platform for the whig party, and ex- and association, have long had the affairs of | pisining the nature of close joints, which will come the democratic party of Kings county in their | jp play in the action of the Senate on numer Thus, Mr. Lott has been sont own keeping. and held various offices to the Legislature, of honor and profit ; (he was in 1849 the democratic | \, candidate for Comptroller of the State, then un- | successful ) Mr. Murphy has been sent to Con- | gress ; and now the younger partner, Mr. Vander- | bilt, goes to the State Senate for two yoars—a po- | sition certainly not unfavorable, in which to serve — his friends. There is, by the way, a parallel case at Buffalo, in the law firm of Fillmore, Haven, and | Hall--the first being President of the United States; the second was last year elected to the Thirty-eecond Congress ; and the third, after hav- ing held various offices in Erie county, being called into the Cabinet at Washington, by the senior part- ner, and now exercising the power and receiving the emoluments of the office of Post Master General. The trio will, therefore, all be ina bunch at Wash- ington this winter. The parties in the last case are all Angio- Saxons, and, consequently, received no benefit by the union of races in their persons, #0 significantly displayed in the Brooklyn case. Is not this parallel worthy of the historical inquiries of that astute ethnologist and antiquary, Archbishop Hughes! Mr. Vanderbilt, who bas been a Judge in Kings | » of good | He is of Dutch | | county, is about thirty-five years of personal appearance and address. ancestry, a native of Flatbush, Long Island, which branch of the family are considered mere aristocratic, and better entitled to honor and pre. ferment, than the Staten Island \anderbilts, who were principally distinguished in the oyster trade, until the renowned steamboat commodore arose amorg them, ard among other achievements which will perpetuate his memory, hasopencd the short: est marine pathway to the E) Dorado of the I’acii The Third district, which comprises the six lower wards of the city of New York, and contains more Wealth ond enterprise than any similar spot on the continent of America, will be represented by Mr. William MeMortay, who succeeds that veteran whig politician and merchant, Richard $. Williame. Mr. MeM. ie a ton of the tate Kev. Dr. McMurray, of the Market street Presbyterian Church, in this city, “ whose praise was in all the churches.” The family, although emigrants from Ireland to Ameri- ca, are not of Celtic origin, but of that numerous class of Lowland Seotch who inhabit the north of | Ireland, and who that distinguished antiquary, Pinkerton, (backed by the Edinburg Review) says, are of Pictish origin; while the Koglish are de- scendants of the cognate race of Belgw, both Picts and Belgw settling in Great Britain about the thirdcentary before the Christian era—the Celts and Cmbri having preceded them for ages. The Senator of the Third rict, though still in the | prime of life, has, for a period of the last ten yeast, ecovpied a considerable position in the public eye | Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, he received bis carly education under the auspices of his reve. rend parent in this city, and graduated at an early occasions, equally divided as that august body is, with ooratic handle, however, in the hands of ding officer. Mr. Newcomb is, we believe, of New England origin, and of course belongs to the American branch of the anglo-Saxon stock, to which Archbishop Hughes refers in his attack on the great Hungarian leader. | Passing! over the Fifth and Sixth districts, com- | prising the upper wards of this city, and the resi- this commercial emporium, and represented by the re-elected whig Senators, Beekman and Mergan, we enter ‘the rural districts;’ and first in order comes the Seventh district, “the neutral ground” of the revolution, rendered famous by the genius of Cooper, in his romance Spy.” ond by the research, taste, and artistic skill of Lor in bil which latter work, by the way, a good map of this very district appears, in a sketch of the scenes of | the affair of Major Andre, ‘‘the purple flower of the revolution.” The counties of Westchester, Rock- land, and Putnam, forming the Seventh Senate district, were, it will be recollected, represented for the last two years by Dr. Brandreth, who, having amaseed a fortune by the manufacture and sale of “nis grandfather's pils,”’ built asplendid mansion at Sing Sing, in Westohester county, avd started ona | career of politice. We are not aware what were the political views of the Doctor in England, previous to bis embarkation for Ame but, since hie sojourn among us, he has professed demo- cratic doctrines. In Sing Sing, hie lavish ex- penditures fer the improvement of the village made bim popular with the people, who placed him at the bead of the Board of Trustees, as Prosident of the village. His contributions to the democratic funds commended him to the favor of the leaders, particularly of the hunker section. Hoe was sent as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention, pledged to Cass and Butler, in 1848. Notwith- | standing the sneers of that anti-pill, anti-canal, and anti-slavery organ, the New York Evening Post, we find Dr. Brandreth receiving the fall vote of the bunkers as one of the candidates for election on the Cass and Butler ticket. Having received the nomination of a State convention, and the votes of more than 100,000 of the people of the State, what wonder ie it that we should find the Dector aspiring to the office of State Senator! Accordingly, we find him elected a member of the Senate in 18#%; but differing with the barnburner section of the party on the canal queetion, he re fused to resign with his democratic colleagues Consequently, he was thrown overboard at the no- minating convention th’s fall; but hinking himselr ill used, he determined to rue as a stump candi- date against the regular democratic and whig no- mineces. Accordixg to the Lvewing Post, he cn- trusted the necessary operations to defeat the do mocratic nominee to Mr. A H. We'le and th, age at Columbia College. Having completed te | A416 of the whige for State Prison Inspector, and study of the law, he entered public liens a epoaker | sepmied to be ohtifal in euch mate Ths | at Temmary Hall, previous to and daring the ex mensitatioes tinde by the & “en citing Presidential compaign of 184) He was that | | i eat placed on the democrati: tick nd elected & | demoer the Assembiy, #00, We believe, « angoat | member of | he was | F * Me a UrTRy War cOLep in debate, particularly | 9g quertions sfeourg the rights of bis consyitagnte dence of most of the aristocracy, par excellence, of | of ** the | Field Book of the Revolution,” in | and was nominated, and ran on the electoral ticket, | him. 1 be between forty and fifty, and he is as ready t members of the ns i profession, jongs. Although belonging to the wealthy class in Rensseiser coun- | | ty, he is a favorite with the anti-renters, and has votes ahead of that county. Bat were inexorable—they erers: his boball iadigeastly fro: 4 Yi jigaaal by » and by giving Mr. Conger, the demo- ‘ minee, the majority of 590 over bis wbig competitor, elected the former, and placed ¢ Senate of the State in the hands of the demo- cratic party. So much for Dr. Brandreth and this {tle of the Neutral Ground 1 successor of Doctor Brandreth is Abraham r, of this city, B. Conger, son of Does J.8. Gongs fe East Broad ber Of Shet army : ho and Be venth ward, and ‘sdainister to the ‘nredioal Sadpa the respectable of our population, called the middle classes, who inhabit that section of the city. Senator elect of the Seventh district received a classical education, gradi at bia Col- lege about the same time his celleague from city, Mr. McMarray. He studied for the [acne but having married a daughter of the Timothy Hedges, a connection me Col. Hi Rutgers, and of a wealthy family, he retired to hie nt residence at Nyack, in Roskland county. re he was pox upon by the barnburaer oppo- nents of Dr. Brandreth, asa proper, person to suc ceed that gentleman, was nominated, and elected, as we have seen. le is, we believe, rather uader forty years of age, is a man of good address, pleas manners, although not cut out for a de- = r, is, no doubt, well qualified for a State Sena- Or. The Eighth district is to be represented by a democratic Senator, bearing the cognomen of Otis, #@ name somewhat celebrated in the annals of this ecuntry—James Otis of the times of the revolu- tion, and Harrison Gray Otis of the present cen- tury, standing conspicuous among our statesmen, to whom might be added @ host of others of the name of Otis, who have made their mark as eminent in commerce, science, litesature and the arts. We cannot forbear meationiug here, that Mr. Joseph Otis, an old merchant of this city, anda friend and cotemporary of the late iner (+. Howland, having retired in his old age to Norwich, Conn, hae established the Otis Library at that place, erecting a handsome building, and filling it with a collection of valuable booke, thus giving to Norwich an institution of whicn the inhabitants were sadly in want. The family of Otis were among the early emi- Brauts to Massachusetts from Lagland—ihe name originaliy being the same as the celebrated Titus Oates in the timos of Charles the Second Richard Otis came to Boston as early as 1635, and his de- scendants are numerous. The pedigree of the Sena- tor elect is unknown to us; but Mr. Horatio N. Otis, the transfer clerk of the Erie Railroad, who has pace a valuable essay on the genealogy of the Otis family, has set on foot an inquiry which may lead to the discovery of the truth. Suffice it to say, for our purpose, that Mr. John H. Otis isa native of Dutchess county, residing in the town of Clinten. He is now an agriculturist; but being originally a carriage maker by trade, he went in early life to the South, where he followed the busi- ness of his mechanical profession until he had accu- mulated a handsome property, when he returned to his native county and purchased a farm. His education is but limited; but he is self-taught aad well read, and being a man of sound sonse, will be, it is believed, able in council as a com- mittee man, rather than as a debater, He is considered by the democrats one of the first men in J)atchess county. In 1548 he was one of the bunker delegates to the national democratic convention at Baltimore. He is a democra: of the old school, never turning to the right hand or to the left, and may always be relied on by the party. He is below the medium height, of a dark complextion. black eyes and hair, and has a highly intellect appearance. His age is about forty-five years ; but he has not, before this time, been in public life, ex- as supprvisor or delegate to conventions. _ The Ninth district—Orange and Sullivan coun- ties—will be represented by Nathaniel Jones, a man well known to the political men of the State, havin, represented Orange county in the Assembly, a1 that district in Congrees, from 1537 to 1841, having algo acted as Canal Commissioner for a short time, by appointment, in 1444 or 1545, ander the former constitution, (before those officers were elected by the people.) He had proviously received the ap- pean of Surveyor General from the Le, ature, and acted in that capacity in 1843. In those State offices, he was remarkably popular wi:h all doing business with him. Among other offises he has held in his native county of Orange, is that of Judge of the Common Pleas. He is now about sixty years of age, of light complexion, good address, and took the barn- burner side in the late division of the democratic party. The party in the district have been in much trouble of late years from the quarrels of their leaders, and two or three candidates were brought forward tor the support of the democracy last month, with a fair pect of defeat, and the election of Samuel J. Wilkin, Esj., the popular whig nominee. Finaliy, the difficulties were adjxsted--the Senatorial Convention met at ()tis- ville, ard not agreeing on @ candidate, adjourned to Bloomingburg, when, @t the instance of John |. Mumiord, (who publishes a democratic paper ac Port Jervis, and was one of the secretaries of the convention) Judge Jones was taken up, and the democrac, ing reconciled, he was elected, mali — ¢, who will represent the tenth ict, al democratic lawyer, of about 35 years of , residing at Evopus, in Ulster county, (near the model farm of Rebert Pell, I formerly lived in Poughkeepsie, where menced the practice ef the law, and came out asa litician in 1540. He is, we believe, a native of itchess county, which he represented im the As- sembly a few years since. is seat wae unsuccess- fully contested by his rhig, coponeat. He took the stump in 1544, against Jo Hoxie and other nd orators, in Sheng the tariff letter of Mr. Pol to Mr Kane of Philadelph: hich letter, with Mr,, Buehanen’s explanations satisfied the tariff democracy of Pennsylvania, and induced them to ‘ive the electoral of that State to Polk and las. Mr. Pierce nearly six feet io his stockings, being of slender form, with dark hair and complexion. His manner as an orator is ve bement and e: and is highly relished by the democratic masses when he addresses them. in politics he is a most bitter and unsempromising de- mocrat, and took the Van Buren side in the Presi- dential contest of Isis. He will be found, doubt- lese, emeng the most fiery and constant debaters in the Senate on the democratic side. He is a won- derful favorite with his party, who expect great things from the young Senator. The Albany district has elected one of the most popular whigs inthe city of Albany, where he re- sides, viz: Azor Taber, |.2q , a whig lawyer of the old school, but, ike Judge lra Harris, so popular with the antirenters as to receive many of their votes. Mr. Taber is a native of Knox, Albany county, ard is about fifty years of age. In 1828 he was in the first Young Men’s State Convention ever assembled in this State. That body met at Utica, and consisted of over three hundred members, among whom were William [. Seward, (who was choeen president of the convention;) John ©. Wright, now a democrat, and elected Comp- troller of the State; Lewis H. Sandford, also turned demcerat, and now one of the able judges of our Superior Court; William Inglis, appointed by Governor Seward, in 139, Judge of Common Pleas, and who is now a whigs; John Bryan, of Cattaraugus, i 8 zeal to oppose Jackson and Van Buren, removed to Ohio, turned Jackson man, and was made by the democrats of Ohio, Auditor of that State. Many other politicians date their first start from the Young Men's Adams Convention. The address to tke peopie, on that occasion, was drawn up by Mr. Inglis Te return to Mr Taber: He has not been much in public life, but has alway a coalous whig. He has, we believe, represent sembly. He will, doubt viee and enact measures ca renterr, and power #b : mente of both our great political par' Mr. Van Schoonnoven, of Troy, has been so often in the L, at we need say but i é. twice received their aid, with that of the whigs, in electing him to the Senate. He is not much of a favorite with the whig leaders, n kindly in the harness of party dictation Doctor Daniel S. Wright, a retired druggist, of Sandy Hill, where Mr. Benj. F. Butler formerly complained that the stated preaching of the gospel was much wanting, is one of the most reliable friends of Thurlow Weed. telligent, and has represented Washin, in the Assembly, and acquitted himself age ie about forty-five: he i ard of dark complexion ton county, viz and James Wright, well. His tall, well proportioned, bree men in Waehin, gh nol lated, have for their personal ro- one being freyaentiy jo. Daniel S principal supporters of the ly crushed bas been one of the Whitehell Chronicle, @ by « mortgage beld by crjem® Huntingtom, of is a plain farmer, son of the late Henry Huntington, who wae one of the weait mon in Oneida county, President of the Utiew Bank, and was one of the founders of the vil t brothers, nm Henry, Ge Crardon jamin Mant ington, emigrated to this from Norwich Conrectiont, at the clove of t century and the early pert of the pi Ail bat the last settled at Kewe, in On u enjamin was lotg a merchant and broker in this oly; one of bie | is the distirguished painter, another is @ Pause ite clergyman, (if not Cashoiic,) author of “Lady le about | always working | He is shrowd and in- | ton county | "Daniel S Wright, John H. Boyd, | Ith Wright | rest. The father of wich was Benj min “of the Continental Con- woge district, ity of Oswego, and abou’ hie 9 bee her of the 9 Platt, who, for many years, officiated bench of the Supreme Court of this State, cid the federal. sOver~ nor Tompkins, in ction of the appearance of the new Senator in pubiic life ere this, excepting once, as an unsuscessiul po a oe i Ses 1 ieeitt he jathan itol_will represent the district composed of the counties of Broome, Tioga, asd Cortland. He resides at Factoryviile, (a place very inaptly named, and we recome mend the innabitants to change it,) Tioga county, on the Erie Ra'lroad, about four ae fom int where the Chem s its waters with the Susquehannah. ile. “pater formerly resided ia Harpersfield, Delaware county, whieh county he represented in the Assembly iG 1540. He is @ gentleman of Bog, personal appear- ebster, and we @nce, much resembling Daniel havea high opinion jis talents, good sense, inde- ase sterling integrity. He has. fine iterary taste, and isa zealous advocate of public instruction’ We presume he will bring forward some plan for the completion of the Cheaago and Chemung canals, by connecting them with the Pennsylvania canal at ‘Tio; ‘Point, a subject of eee interest with his constituents of Broome and ioga. Josiah W. Williams, the Senator elect fro ‘Twenty-fifth district, is, we believe, a aod told Ithaca, not much known in public life. Micajah #1. Kirby, of Monroe county, will be rara avis in the Senate. He is the first democratic Senator from that county, since the days of the im- mortal seventeen senators of 1521, when John Bow- man, of Monroe, laid himself on the political ehelf " voting against the choice of electors by the peos Pt i, and for the removal of De Witt Clintoaas anal commissioner. Mr Kirby is a merchact and farmer, of Henrietta; about forty-eight years of 0. We have not room for farther sketchos of the new State Senators, but cousiude with the remark that the bew Sevate promises to be superior to the last in point of talent We bope they will find time to attend to the interests of the Srate and of their constituents, aside from party quarrels and intrigues. Theatrical and Musical. Bowrny THratre bill presented for this even- ing's amusement consists of two excellent pieces. The first is the famous drama of the “ Scalp Hunters,’ which: has teen written by Mr Eddy, the favorite and excel- lent actor attached to this theatre. It has been played for four vights, and bas been witnested with eatnosiasm and delight. The scenery is magnificent.and the dressees io most superb Reccripcrid > my the taieated st company appear piece; Mr, Eddy taxi the principal cbaractet, @upported by the sterling actor and excellent manager. Mr Stevens and Mr. Tilton im other leading features. The coucluding piece will be the drama entitled * Richard of the Lion Heart,” with Eddy, Cony, and Taylor in the prominent characters. mae very attractive Dill must result in an overflowing cure. Brospway THeatae.—The excellent entertainment given last evening, forthe benefit of Mr. Collins, will be Tepeated to-1 ight, and as it is the last appearance of this eral favorite aud excellent vocalist, we presame the \oure Will be crammed in every department. Tne pieces are the operetta of the “Waterman,” with Mr. Voilias as Tom Tug, in which he will sing the ‘Jolly Young Wa- terman,” the “Sea ” and the fine old song Cf the Bay of Biscay; Mrs Vernon, Miss Kate Horn, and Mecsrs. Da- yidge and Whiting in the other characters. The next feature will be the new comedy called “Irish Genius,” which bas been completely successful. In this piece he will sing the ‘ Bold Soldier Boy,” and “Widow Maoiree.?? The concluding piece will be “How te Pay the Rent,? Deep. my Boye and" Whut Night-eo Long ‘This bil “p. 8, a 60. This is ppg and we have no dou! Collins will, at bis de- ure, receive & convincing proof of his worth as aq jaish delineator and excellent vocaliet. Nivxo’s Garp ‘The Ravels, as usual, present a v. attractive entel ent. The first in order is the exeel- lent pantomine of th loopers,”’ with nearly «il the Ravel company in the cast. next festure will be the amusing and beautiful exercises on the tight rope. This | the entertainment Is every night witnessed by undreds of spectators, whose warm and enthusiastia cheers give convincing evidence of the pleasure they en- joy. The military ballet of action, entitled the “Soldier for love,” Francois Kavel as Jobard, and the other parte by M. Axel, M. Marzetti, the Lehman family,and a fall and efficient corps de bullet. The intermission will next follow, and the entertainments will concluds with the new Chinese pantomine, entitled “ Kim-Ka” No doubt this beautiful establishment will be crowded to-night. Boston's THeaike.—The usual vi attractive and excellent enterta'pments are offered the prince of —— Mr. Burton, for this evening. The famous comedy of “the Serious Family,” which bad such aw unprecedented run when first presented, is the first piece; and it is simost uunecessary to say that the ree- etive characters are filled by the most ated mem- Bors of the dramatic profession. To those are inthe habit cf vieiting Burtoc’s Theatre this fact is very ndmis- sible, as, if bappy countenances can give evidence of «xceeding pleasure, Burton's audiences give thie testi- m ry every evening ‘To see Mr Burton as Amisadab Beek, avd Mrs. Liughes as Ledy Sowerby Creamiy, ie worth the price of admission The new oduity called * The Firet Nipht.”” will be the commencing feature and the laughable farce of The Ai gel of the A.tic” coude entertainment. Oo Monday a new comedy, evlled * The Hopslers Passion,” will be prodused. Natronat Taearee —A fine bill is presented this eve ning at thie flourishing theatre. The perforaen ses givem here lately have attracted densely crowded asemolages, who have attested their approbation by loud «ai con- tipved epplaure. = Mi ie to the ut mest support because never ceases working. to the utmost of bis ability, for the amusement,of bis a The commencing piece for to night will be the entertain- vg drama of the Deserter aud his Dog,”’ in which Blan- chard will perform. Chis will be followed by the new dramatic spectacle of the “Female ee seem and the whole will terminate with the of the “Flying Dutchman.” Brovenam’s Lyceum.—This bet of the celebrated Rousset tisters, @ expe ballet of “La their moat favorite have always elicited 0 the last eppearance Tonight they sill appees' te toe erent ‘o-night wi in the Bayadere,” aud “Le Fete de Fees,’ two of manors, and in which they |. The farce of “an Alarming Sacrifice” will likewise be p-rformed. Who can revist the alluring temptations prepared by Brovghem for this evening. Travian Orena Ho ‘This evening. the German Dra- matic Company commence @ series of dramatic enter- tainmente at this establishment The opening piece will be* Wall natein's Camp” a apiendid represen:ation of the war of thirty years, It is int with songs, tad mithesy evetuiions, hs, testing enone, sustained by Messrs Warret, Haym. a tein. The terminating frature will entitled the “Ugliest of 0 Daughters,” M — Stein, Lindaman, Mee Stein, in the piiacipad el Cynty's Mixerneis —This unrivalled band of ny performers have provided an excellent gern! this evening, embracing sitging, dancing, wi burlesues. a ‘. on the violin and guitar are excellent, Fre an afternoon and eve- jay when they will introduce some of we and dances, aud the new buriseque opera. Mr. Siiter, the great champion dancer, will 4 pear this afternoon sid evening. He is sail to be | greatest dancer in the tortainments at thi in order to oblige opportunity. O1 will be put off be reprodaced with its original + uty. Mr. 0. W. Clarke, Miss Mes- apd Dir Henkins witi app at ing performance will t- tited om both cceasiona Bowery Asrunwrarne.— A grand equestrian telnment bas b ted for this afternoen a: | img by Sandeand company Never indeed, buve we | large arsemblages better pleased than th: | meseed the performances ot this highly tal eqvestrians. They will ali the meet difficult pei form: Trivcen Ui r being her first appear said to porsese great veoal ability Brevvssant In Washingtrn crossing th 7 rl continu: crowds cf admirers to this plac: Squarere apovr Tie McDonoon Esrare.—[ addition to the various parts of the late John MsDonogh, which have been joined relati ty, we find that, between the executor and between some of the execu‘ors an: , there promises to be several pretty » jusbbles ¢ of these episodical fights was set for tria! yoster day, before Judge Such but was not account of the adjournment of the court y, heirs, represents that R. R. Gurley, B.C toward) ard Brantz Mayor, were reco; mined ase the will of the late J Pp ntly; attended any of the meetings of the exe uuerous datic the executors of estates | themselves, these gen ‘eo Joned their trast; wherefore, he pra removed and their letters recalled. ‘or at here, anewers for th are permanently porary absence they appointe em, who have airujss bee tes ally have been at ntereace eft state in Baltimore hat the properly bas been taten « bend: of the executor: by the Legiv!a a will come up for trial peat Sata cans Delia, New 9. ie