The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1851, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BE T?. PROPBIETOR AND BDITOR. QeTIG@R BH. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NasSAU STS THE DAILY HERALD, 2 cents per copy—8T per WEEKLY HERALD, at 6 Sea a78 or $3.90" anawem ear oncom edition, . The postage. PPaloneaky vont ssFaxo Ree ms eee ‘solicited from any quarter , "will be icherally pat . Ovn Forniew Comnas- ts fanricteamer aaaveetso To anal an snd Pacuaons SENT TO ° TTER: Subse " A we idl aeerbells of the pecans colll be | coah in advance. RINTING executed with neatness, cheapness, ny WOTICE taken af ot return those rejected. ERT ISBMENT® renewed every merning * communications. —=— Wel xvi No, 350. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. BOWESY THEATER. Bowery—Girreve—Txe Muri- Baers—La Town om Nesin. A Naw Wav ro BROAD TRE, Broa¢way—. Par te Des pens Mopar Masanceico. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Breadway—Miex cr Vivarone— Rore—Mazv tm. nT ‘THRATRE, Chambers stree}—Sreep ras a—Wre Was. NATIONAL THEA’ ‘TER, sire), — i gomaR— Warton Doos—Manuue Maren. WEEUM, Broadwey—Kivo Havay rae os BOW SRY AMPHITHETRE, Bowory—Sacrersiay Pam FoRmanoas. MRISTYS MINSTRELS, Moohsnies’ all, é7) Sroadway ES Rrworae Mivernecsy. ¥SLLOWW MINSTRBLS, Follows’ Musioal Uali, No. 44 Broatway—Eraiors Minernecsy. AMBR(CAN MUSEUM—Amveme Penroan oan Pee voor a> Bi Bowes? CiROUB— STOYVSSANT [NSTITUTE—Paiwtixe oF Wasuswe- Pos Caosiwe tux Detawane DOUBLE SHEET. Bew York, Thursday, Decom'r 15, 1851, Riay PEavoRMarces. This Morning’s News. Tho obief feature of Kossuth’s proceedings yes- terday, was his remarkable speech to the deputa- ton from Tammany Hall. It will be read with deep interest througheut the country. Tho whigs Dave had their turn of Kossuth. Now is the chance Ofthe domoerate, who appeared to slumber, but are evidently now awake. “ Young America” is mp, and asserts his prior right to the intervention platform, which he says was stolen from him by the genias of whig abolitionism. Which party will bid most for Kossuth? Both want to have their maa next President. The cause of Hungary isa trump gard, and may win the White House, if skilfully Played. It seoms that the ladies are so much in love with Kossuth that they wanted to kiss him, Mauch in the same fashion a3 they used to kiss Henry Clay In the Senate, yesterday, several important mes- Gages were received from the President in relation to the case of Mr. Thrasher, the affair of the Prometheus, and other questions connected with our foreign relations, but nothing extraordinary is disclosed in hfs information—the particulars of Which wil! be found in our Congressional reports. He wituheld the instructions to Mr. Lawrence in Teference te the outrage at San Juan, awaiting, Meanwhile, an answer from England. No doubt Mr. Webster talks as gently to my Lord Palmer- ston as a courtier; but the protest was a duty from Which there was no escape. We rejoice that itis Bo, for it will force upon our Cabinet that other duty of exacting an interpretation and a faithful ob- Bervance of the Nicaragua treaty, or its rejeotion by mutual consent, which would be quite ss ad- yavtegeous to us as anything else. Mr. Walker, of Wisconsin, has submitted a | fesolution in the Senate, proclaiming the whole of Kossuth’s doctrine of nomintervention, even if it has to be enforced by intervention and an appeal tothe sword. He urges the revolutionary aspect of things in Europe as the ground for this declaration by Congress. Mr. Walker bas a very large pro Portion of Germans in his State. This resolution | will gratify them. It is a Buncombe resolution; and wo seppose, after a flaming speech from the patriotic Senator, it will all go to Buncombe. But the signs of the times for 1552 are full of | the portemts of war. Congress should forth- | With strengthen our navy by new steam- Ships to the number of at least twenty, besides giving duc notice to the ocean Sompanics to be ready at ® moment's fut in the Paixhans, and the long forty-two's. u Mexico. “ What is to become of Mexico? We have recent- ly, on several occasions, adverted to the distracted, deplorable, and hopeless condition of that wretched republic, in the hope of attracting the attention of the government to the subject. At length, the ad- ministration appears to have determined that our political and commercial relations with that quarter of the American continent are entitled to somo consideration. Our minister, Mr. Letcher, has ar- rived at the Mexican capital just in time vo disco- ver that—from the bankruptcy of the government, from the revolutionary condition of the various miserable cliques and parties into which the coun- try is divided, and from the overwhelming indebt- ednees of the goverpment and the industrial inter- ests of the country to British capitalists—the go- land. ‘The late imperative demands of the British min- ister, Mr, Deyle, for payment of moneys due, which Mexico, naturally one of the richest countrics in the world, has become too wretchedly poor to pay, indicates the speedy foreclosure of the English mortgage, unless, by a firm and judicious policy, our government shall prevent the consummation of this design. England has threatened that, unless those debts due to her subjeots are paid, she will blockade the Mexioan ports. What would be the natural consequences of such a proceeding? What could be its object but the subjugation of Mexico, by cutting off her revenues, absorb- ing her scanty supplies, and reducing her to that last extremity of despair, a complete sur- render to the British government? The long established colonial policy of England, that is, her policy of acquiring new colonies, warrants no other conclusion than this—that the designs of her officials in Mexico look to the acquisition of that country as another jewel to the British crewn. A right to build a fert, or a trading house, or a treaty of protection, is sufficient foothold for per- manent occupation to England. The tenacity ef her grasp, when she fastens upon a desirable loca- tion, is strikingly Ulustrated in the Mosquito pro- tectorate. After surrendering her pretensions to that country by solemn treaty stipulations with the United States, and all her assumed rights to occupy, fortify, colonize, or control in any way .he territories of Central America, she remains in the the soil. She fortifies the port of Greytown bya vessel of war, and exacts her illicit port charges of refractory American vessels at the cannén’s mouth. The audacity with which she maintains these law- less usurpations in Nicaragua, will justify the mos} vernment, the people, and the country are in a | fair way of being turned over as a colony to Eng- | actual occupation and authority as the sovereign of | advertisement; but, as the tax is equally imposed ‘The New tort and Lendon Newspapers. New York, London, aod Paris are the three great capitals in the civilized world, where daily jourvalism, in the shape of newspapers, at all ob- tains anything like a healthy, positive, and perma | nentdevelopement. In Paris, journaliam has some peculiar characteristios of ita own, and p resents como | features in its history and developement whioh differ materially from the newspapers and their history, both of Londonand New York. At another time wo may take up Parisian journalism, aad illustrate its peculiar characteristios, comparing some of its prominent features with others of the great capi- tals; but at present we mean to confine ourselves more particularly to the journals of London and New York, as having some features more common to each other than those of Paris, arising, most probably, from the faot that both capitals are filled with people lineally descended from the same Anglo-Saxon stock and race. In some of the recent English journals we find teveral tables giving the ciroulation of the Lendon newspapers, a8 made up aad collected from the re- turns of the Stamp Office. ‘The following are some of the most prominent of the daily journals in Lon- don, and their circulation, under their respective dates :— CIRCULATION OF LONDON NEWSPAPERS, 1849. 1850. 38,019 | 1,860 | 4,051 2915 2.666 3,639 1 2.645 | 2.064 1751 | THE FOLLOWING 18 & COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE TIMES | AND OTHER JOURNALS. | ‘Times .. 283.504 20409 96225 36102 33.019 Other Pa; 88,009 38,945 34,508 26,547 24.116 | _ It will be observed from these tables that the Times, which is an old established journal, and | which has been conducted as anewspaper indepen- | dent of all parties, for many years, has s oiroula- tion far surpassing that of any of its ootemporaries —acireulation, too, which has grown with great | rapidity during the laet few years, while that of the | other journals has been decreasing or etationary. | Some havesupposed that this growth of the Times | must have been occasioned by the system of news- paper taxation which existein England.-being about | a penny per sheet, and two and sixpence for every | upon all its contemporaries, it is vory clear that | | this cause is not sufficient to account for the great | disparity exhibited in the rapid growth of the great | | circulation of the Times, as compared with other journals. Weratherattribute it to its being awell | extreme conclusions respecting her designs upen | conducted, talented, and independent nowspaper, Mexico. It is tho part of wba ot eonad beyond or above the mere influences of regularly | policy to act in this matter as if she had openly T8*Bited parties in England, denominated whig avowed the intention of seizing the country, for the | “24 tory. The Times has frequently, in the course satisfaction of its English creditors. of its existence, attacked the popular errors of | It is surely high time for President Fillmore and °*¢h of the great parties, as well as the popular | Mr. Webster to proceed to active measures for delusions that at anytime sprung up in the course counteracting the intrigues of British agents in | f it# career. This spirit of independence bas Mexico. ‘The Tehuantepec contract with Don Jose | ¢YeT been imitated by any of the other daily Garay & Co., which the Mexican governmont are Journals, which gencrally belong to or are the PaesiventiaL TRainina.—The Washington Re public, weeks and months after other people have known the facts, has just comp out with the disco- very that certain arrangements have been made among the various interests of the democracy—free soilers and secessionists, North and South, in New York and in South Carolina-te run General Wil- liam O. Butler as the demooratic candidate at the next Presidential election. There is nothing new or wonderful in this disco- very. We have seen these arrangements, er con- centration of opinion, growing up for months past, all arising from the neesssity of the case—the weak- ness of all other candidates, and the strength of General Butler. But a union for the spoils between the democratic free soilers of the Nerth and the Union or secession democrats of the South, would not be more « violation of pelitical morality thane similar union between Seward and his troops in the North, and Toombs, Stevens, Dawson, and others, of the South, in favor of a whig candidate—that candidate being supposed to be General Scott. In point of pelitical morality, the whigs and demecrats —we mean the leadors—are just about on a par. But the great point evolved by this disoussion is plain enough, viz., that Genoral Butler, of Kon- tucky, on the democratic side, and General Soott, of New Jersey, on the whig side, will be the two prominent old sohoel sroils gandidates for the next Presidency, and that the regular Abolition National Convention, to be held at Pittsburg next eum mer, will profit by these arrangements, and nominate their own candidate. But more. We published, the other day, front one of the Troy papers, what purported to be a pretty full report of the proceodings of a popular meeting, held there for the purpese of presonting General Wool as one of the candidates for the next Presidency from the State of New York. While the ostensible character of this moeting was to nominate General Wool for the Presidency, the purport of the speeches, apart from the quar- rels among the speakers, seems to be more in the character of an endorsement of the high qualifica- | tions of General Scott, both es # military man, and as e Presidential candidate, than for any other purpose avowed on the occasion. Poor old Governor | Marcy—the originator of the “ spoils of victory’— fared very badly at the moeting. It seemed to be | 8 doubtful question whether he had any popularity ornot. Indeed, the attempt to dig Maroy out of his obscurity, only exhibited great deal of un- | necessary labor. Marey never makes his appear- | ance during any doubtful struggle, or on any ooca- sion of excitement, but prudently reserves his claims for office and the spoils when he thinks the question nearly settled, and victory is certain and positive. General Wool may now be considered one ef the numerous candidates, on the domocraticside, for the | next Presidency. These candidates seem to be multiplying in all quarters and in all seotions of the Union. Alabama puts forward King; Pennsyl- vania, Buchanan; Kentucky and the West, Wm. O. Butley; Michigan, Cass; Illinois, little Doug- | las; Texas, Sam Houston, New Jersey, Stock- | ton, Coney Island, Davis, &¢. &0. &c. All these | now seeking to supersede by the cession of this | °T&*D6 of special local or national parties. right of way to certain English contractors, will, of | Another singular feature in these tables is the | course, receive the first attention of Mr. Letcher; | #dden increase of @ new journal, called the Daily | and it is to be hoped that his instructions upon this Nees, during the yoars 1546-’47, and its equally | point are strong and conclusive. Nor should the *¥dden decrease during the last two or three yoars. — threatened English blockade, » mere national act of imprisonment for debt, be permitted with impu- nity by eur cabinet. Upon the principles of fair | international policy, better arrangements for the eatisfaction of English creditors than the closing of the Mexican ports may be devised. The neighbor- | hood and the helplessness of Mexico demand our in- | terposition against the threats of a domineering power to chastise or coerce her against the policy | alike of justice and discretion. | ‘Such is the present abject, hopeless, and utterly helpless condition of Mexico, that she appears in- | evitably doomed to fall under the jurisdiction of Great Britain or the protection of the United States. Prostrated, as she has been, by incessant | revolutions—harrassed, as she continues to be, by | revolutionary plote and hordes of leperoes and | banditti—cursed, as she is, with the laziest and | most beggarly population on the continent—ex- bausted by famize and war--and, worse than all, plandered and demoralized by a sponging priest- | heod, who are debased, corrupt, and unseru- | pulous in their rapacities to the last degree—what | other alterzative is left to Mexico than to sur- render herself to the mercy ef England, oran appeal to the protection of our government, and | the reviving and health-giving influence of our in- stitutions? How else can the interest of the sixty | millions due to her British creditors be paid!—what | other hope is there for the liquidation of the pria- | cipal in all time to come ! President Arista is an able and clear-headed man. His travels and observations in the United States, and his experience in the late war have made hima practical man. His retension of the reins of the government, in the midst of cliques of thore isa it will be no little war; but a grand display of works from Paris to Constantinople, | aad from Rome ty St Petersburg; and the chances — Are that wo shall be con.¢lled to take # hand in the | game. Let Congress jook to the navy. Our post | Will be upon the sea. : The Senate of the United States will, days, have lost two of its mostcelebrated memba Henry Olay, the greatest statesman in America, and Gea. Foote, the most inveterate speaker in all Christendom. Mr. Clay has resigned, and Gen. | Foote goes home to look after the chances of a re- lection. His mission te Washington, of orgenising | & new party on the compromise, wae a failure. If St had been successful his next move would have been the leadership of anew party. He is botter | as ‘overnor of Mississip: He will make » good | governor, and it would be well for the people of | Mississippi to keep him in that situation His case demande quiet and repose as much a that of Mr | Ci a few Tbere was a pretty brisk running fire inthe Senate on Foote’s compromise resolutions, between Gemocrass, {ree soilers, and secessionists Several curious and unique Kossuth resolutions were submitted in the He , and ordered to lay over ‘ ‘ > ne A couple of interesting letters from New Mexico will bo found among the vast amount and variety | of ontertaining matter which we rpread before our readers this morning. The Navajoe ladians, by time, are doubtless the advocates of non inter tion in their domestic affairs. In the Board of Aldermen, last evening, the Russ coatract was passed, which gives the comtractors the right of pa the balance of Hroadway, atan e so of nearly $250,000, to be paid out of the ap- P ations for the coming year. Alderman Grif- fio’s report was adopted, proposing a site for a Usited States mint in New York, to be gratuitously In the Board of Assist | tendered to the government ants, the gas question was taken wp, and the action ° Board of Aldermen concurred in, by @ vote o bt. The contrast is thus confirmed for peventeen years. Alderman Barr, the persevering ee and the author of the position Two weeks later “ alifornia may Lo hourly expected A nollie prosequi wes ) jay entered by the ney in the o all the . oners, at Philadeiph yer’ of Judge Uirier bad made it appare com ye which they we tiated Samuel Name » h for obstructing the Fugt tits Si der of the prisoners will be sent back to Lanonster, to be tried for mar- apts ; ryt arn that another tery severe qrlo has ewept over Lake Erie. One vessel has bern totally wrecked near Coneant, and another as driven achore near Fairport. It ts fonred that mach per damage bes deva dong, revolutionary desperadoes and professional assss- sins, prove him to be @ courageous man. His | management of the affairs of the republic, in their | present deplorable condition, is evidence of his capabilities and patriotic dispositions, But be de- _ spairs, as we are informed, of ever reclaiming Mexico from her worse than savage degradation, except through the friendly assistance of our go- verpment od our people. Now, what is to become of Mexico! Is she to be | transferred asa colony to Logland, with all the great commercial advantages of the Isthmas of Te buantepec, and her various ports on both oceans? | the British lion to guard the continent on the South as well as on the Nerth, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; or, shall we give a helping hand to our neighbor in distress? The internal resources of Mexico bave never been one-tenth part developed. ler extensive silver mines are worked by the laziest peons, with the most barbarow + machinery; hor farmers cultivate the soil with implements as crude as those of the ancient or modora Egyptians. Her indigenous trees, valuablo or the fine qualities of | their timber; her capabilicies for an immense ox- port trade in cotton, tolcoo, indigo, sugar, and coffee, are all neglected. The republic, with seven ‘ons of people for the last twenty years, is { supporting twenty millions. Such isthe oon- n, and such the capacities, of Mexico ‘The manifest destiny of that country, sooner or later, is annexation to the United States of North America. Free sotlism will unquestionably resist the measure, but it lr foreshadowed as on inevita- ble necessity. Nor is it to be supposed that the Wilmot proviso can, inany contingency, be toler- ated in that tropical climate, especially on those rich districts along the Gulf coast, known as the hot lands, or terra cal Porhape the impres- sion that the acquisi Mexico would be ro much added to the eholding territories of the Union, baa render be administration indifferent f to Britith intrige: on that qaarter, aswell as io the States of ( al America. Sut late evonts in both i v4 bave compelled our cabinet to ia terfore sat they may do, or fail to do, will be leterm’ i by and byo. British impadence and when carried to the extremes of on ult, bad faith, and unscrapuloas contrasts, acsed over with impunity eren by Mr all bis English proclivities. Nor + which is threatened to Mexioo, of to a British colony, any longer Vir Fillmoro. It is time chinationt of American ntrig tiona carn Britian y ad interests, are to prevail City Polttios. Whig Generni Committers and th aterdny he twenty dif We m for de m each werd al ward io hare not ro ntereat oe pts It appears that this journal—a sort of a radioal organ—was established on a large fund, and pub- lished at a cheap rate, in order to catch « large | circulation. As soon as they obtained a sufficient cireulation, they doubled its price, under the belief that its supporters would continue their patronage; but facts show that they immodiately dropped | away, and abandored it to a very great extent, leaving @ remnant of not more than one-half or one-fourth of its criginal circulation. This fact shows that the public are too sensible to be caught by such eballow tricks as are practised on ‘change or among horse jockeys. For many years past, in consequence of the posi- tion originally attained by the Times, and held by | that journal, it has generally been assailed by all | its contemporarics, of all partics, and denounced as a weathercock—as@ journal without principle—as the “ Mephistophiles of the press”—in fact, every term of reproech which can be applied to ruccoss- fal journal, well managed, and going a-head. There seems to be a similar resemblance between the history of the London press and that of journal- ism in New York, during the last few years. With regard to the ciroulation of the New York press, the following table will indicate the position of the leading journals, excluding, of course, those ephemeral publications called “penny papers,” which rise and fal! with the price of stooks, or the Omeviatrox avo Procarss of tae Bary, Bovoar, ano Wernir Henacn, rnom 1842 ro 1861. Sundoy. Weekly. Aggregate. 1948 Te = 10,00 B48 1844 000 = 18,880 1845 $890 = 16,500 80/840 1846 15300 ©1500 1847, 170 18.680 1848. 20,160 © 13,680 1849 21600 ©=— 10,30 1850 20,664 1861. S109 14.040 From the méat acfurate sources, we have estimated the daily cireuiation of the o.2er leading journals of this wetropotis, as follows — Tf Da Aggregate of the other leading daily journals.. 29,360 ‘The foilewing ie a etatement of the daily circulation of the New Yous Bt b, Compared with those of the above lending journals -— Daily circulation of the Hrnsco... -. 0500 Daily circulation of the other JOUFMAIS os sees ceeeeeceeeeee 29,300 Excess of the Henaco over all others, per day 11,200 The first thing that will strike the attontive reader of the above table, indicating the position and course of journalism in New York, is the singular resemblance to the position and course of journalism in London, We have not, indeed, an accurate account for previous years of the ciroula- tion of the other journals in this city, beyond the New Yor« Herat, in order to run a parallel be- tween the prees of New York and London as well aa might be expected, but we have reason to be- Nieve that, during the last twe or three years, while the New Yorx Herain, from the same principles which have marked the progress of the London Time t is, independence of all party, and enter- prise in the collection of news—thas the Naw Yore Henatp bas been growing with the growth of the metropolis, jesome of the others—partioularly the New York Lapress—s weak and sickly conoorn— has been declining, and is declining to a very con- siderable extent, in almost as great ® proportion as that which is exemplified in the history of the Lon- don prees. Formerly, wo believe, the New York Express published eoveral thousand more per day than it does now. This, b ir, ia ‘oly one of the colneidences which naturally epring upin the history and progress of the press of two great cities of Anglo-Saxon origin Another most interesting and peculisr resem Lance between the position of the London Time and ite contemporaries there, and that of the New Vork Herald and its fello # Laborer hore, is the gone ral den ation, in almost the same language, whirh pring: up here, in the other jyurnals, against the position, character, and growth of the New Vork Herald. We bare been denounced again and again ournal without principle —without character, voeiliating—fuctuating—belonging to no party snd pastioulasly have we beou denounced aa “ the atanic pres enting almost the same iteas wich tb journala have ievonted to inte ret #, When they call tho Tendow Mm pres efforts of partisans for particular candidates aro | very much like the hired services of theatrical puf- fers connected with the New York press. Tho candidate that pays the highest for s particular puff, receives the largest amount of adulation and prediction. Butler, of Kentucky, at present stands at the head of the Kossutu axp Tux Centra Susscrirtion Com- MITTEE.—The movements in this city for financial aid to the cause of Hungarian liberty, have as- eumed a definite shape. A Central Committee has been organized for the safe keeping and disburse- ment of the subscriptions. It is a powerfal, and, in some respects, a curious committee. Ex-mem- bers of the Irish Directory are among the mem- bers, without having rendered, as yet, any account of the forty thousand dollars collected for the Smith O’Brien revolution in Ireland. Abolition, or free soil, is also represented; and the prince of evccessful humbugs is also enlisted asa stockholder of the Hungarian fund. From Joyo th to the negro turning white—from the woolly horse to the fire annihilator—he has made them go. It is, perhaps, a good arrangement for a deposit of a few hundred thousand into the coffers of the Pequonnic Bank— only let care be taken against placing the money in the same vault with the Slievegarmon subsorip- | tions of forty thousand dollars, or It may disappear as mysteriously as the Irish “int.” By-the-by, where is that fund, subscribed by the honest Irish | working people of New York for the liberation of Hibernia? Is it used up? Ifso, how? by whom? ond what for? Is it at interest? Ifso, where? bow much? and who gets it? Is it to goto the | Koeeuth fund? or is the Kossuth fund to go to it? | If not gone, it must go somewhere. 1s it going? | or is it gone? Now 1s tHe Time ror Action.—We are in the | midst of a sympathetic revolutionary mo’ nt. The purtos as well as the hearts of the people have heen opened to the cause of suffering Europe. Kos- euth has found a key to open both, and to raise con- tributions for the cause of down-trodden humanity in the Old World. Now is the time to make the feeling general, and for the American people to con- tribute liberally te the cause of universal European liberty. Let us not be actuated by narrow-minded views. The cause of Hungary is the cause of Italy andofGermany. In fact, the cause of Hungary is the cause of all Europe. Averzana did as much for the Roman republic as Korsuth did for Hungary, and our people sympathize fully with him. Gara baldi did much in the cause of Italy Again the French people have no liberty. The radicals of England likewise want liberty—so do the people of Germany. Kinkel will be here soon—he is collect- ing funds out West, for liberty in Germany. Nowis | the time for action. We ought to get up mectings | in New York, and every other place, for promoting | & liberty throughout the whole of Europe. Meetings ought to be held in favor of German, Italian, Ro- man and English liberty, and preparations ought to be made for the reception of Kinkel, who will be here very soon. Let there be no half way work about it. The California gold mines ctill hold out, | and the country is rich and prosperous Apouition anp Neoro Symratuy.— We repub ‘Tus Srarrino System.—For some two years past, the arrival of each stoamer in this city has introduced to public notice, by puffing in weekly newspapers and other journals, artiata whose abili- ties were never equalled by any who preceded thom; but when the time arrived that a fair and impartial criticiam was to be given, the qualities of mind which the dramatic public were induced to believe were incomparable, resulted in the impression of | their being nothing beyond that of medioority; and in good truth, several members of the etook company | could be found to possess more intrinsic abilities, than tho Magnus Apolle, orstar, or blood horse, of | the evening. Notwithstanding all this, the efforts of managers were exolusively directed to newspaper puffing—often, no doubt, by interested parties who hang round those establishments, and like Iago’s | advice to Roderigo, desire the proprietor to put | money in bis purse, and that they will be sure to carry the great artist through, even though his calibre be not of the brilliant stamp. Managers, | we know, have complained of the onus of the star- ring system—bow grievous it was to be obliged to give noarly half the receipts of tho house to one person, while they had to pay nearly two hundred persons salaries averaging, perhaps, from ten to forty dollars per weok, and paying, | besides, for the rent of the house, some fifteen | or twenty thousand dollars per annum. Now, in a great moasure they have to blame themeelves; | for if they would for a moment consider that the salaries of the best actors, on tho other side of the , Atlantic, only average from two to ton pounds per | week, they would immediately resist such oxor- itant *harges. Thia picture ia a true one; asit | willbe found tha‘ the stars, ao called, have pocketed to disburse the various claims made upon ‘2 by tems for advertising, puffing, and other expendi- , tures. How, thon, can managers blame artists for emanding such sums, when they find they aot aly receive them, but are, besides, written up as — ossessing all those refined characteriatics which | re necessary to constitute a star. We believe thore is but one man inthe city who has acted dif- ferently, and his managorial offorts have been crowned with success. Ho has found many artists, both male and female, in the city, who possessed sterling abilities, and between whom and the star | there was no observable disparity. He engaged them at a respectable salary, reserving to himsolf the right of judging what characters they should fill, in order to their success and his own advantage. By this arrangement, all the members of his com- pany are, comparatively speaking, stare in their respoctive departments of the drama ; and, by this plan, be is making monoy fast. The aa tuitous cirewmstaccee seem to surround the mana- gor of the Italian Opera House. Ho is compelled, by the same rule, to pay from eight to fifteen hundred dollars per month, each, te vocalists who could not get one-fourth of that sum on the con- tinent of Europe. Now, Maretzek has worked hard in the cultivation of musical science in this city— he bas, from a small beginning in New York, by great activity and real, succeeded in some what establishing the Italian Opera. But what profit has ho realized by his indefatigable exertions? Has be or the artists received tho benefit? This is now too well known to require an answer time, then, that managers should look to their in- terests, and begin to make money for themselves. It must not be understood that we are opposed te give to talent a proper remuneration; but the idea of one man’s receiving two or three hundred dollars per night, while another, very little, if any way in- ferior, is receiving five dollars, is sufficiently pre- posterous to be condemned by every sensible mind. We like to seo Shaksperean picces produced in splendor, to see elocutien encouraged, and that actors should feel the spirit of their personations. The poet must be affected by the creations of his own fancy, if he would give to them a place im the sensibilities of his readers; and the principle is just aa true in regard to histrionic representations. The artist must understand his author, and nover over- step the bounds of nature. Mere declamationis just as idle in song as it is in poetry or prose. It is not enough to have a fine voice, unless it is made to modulate agreeably to the sense, and this requires education, without which all efforts will be unavail- ing. By these remarks we merely give a hint to gers; if they prove seasonable, as a word to the wise, all w desired will be accomplished. Kinkeuism @ last accounts, the famous Dr. Kinkel, the great |.berator of Germany, and the apostle of democracy for central Europe, is now in the northwest, engaged very prosperously in collecting money ard filling up bis loans for the revolution next summer in Europe. It appears by the reports published of his doings, that after re- publics shall have been established all over Europe, he and his friends are coming back to this country to liberate the slaves of the South, and purify the Amorican republic of its errors of principle and practice. Is not this very kind and patriotic? Those European liberators, if they do not take care, will fall into the hands of bolitionista and abo- lition agitators before the year is out. It is Onper or Tux Lone Stax —For some time past considerable has been said st the South, about a new association, or order, known as “ The Order of the Lone Star;” but heretofore the uniniatiated have been uninformed as to tho objects of the as- sociation. The following cireular letter has lately been published, and widely ciroulated all over the South and West:— Crry or Laravarte, Le, Nov. 17, 1861. --Some time since, the Parent Division of the the “ Lone Star” addressed @ circular to the people of the United Btates, ex 7 of the order. In that ciroular it was stated, without any minute ex- planation, that the order was instituted for the purpose of extending the area of Liberty. This expression hb ven occasion to partisan priats to oppose the order, and for bringing it into disrepute ‘We now state, the order is purely republican. History teaches us that all republics which have heretofore ox isted, were, in their early existence. pure and uncor rupted; that so long a4 they continued in the p: marl out by their founders, they were prosperous and + bay irony ‘also teaches us that they have all fallen, And © answer, they Bg Sy ton terrupted perity 5, we january, luxury, coorupton, corruption, aristocracy; aristocracy, monarchy. Ageinat all these evils this Order will main- tain incessant warfare, One object of the Order is, to reserve our institations pure and uncontaminated, ag lich to-day the address of the deputation of negroes who waited upon Kossuth one day last wook, at | his hotel, to express their admiration of his charac ter and their sympathy with his cause. It will be eoon that, naturally enough, they identify their own causo with that of Hungary. This, and similar proceedings of the white abolitionists, may woll astonish the South. They are all alike. The abolitionists have taken the sole control of Kos euth, and the liberties of all Europe, into their bands: all over Europe this will appear to be perfectly consistent and proper. The republicans of Europe—indeed, the whole people of I: «rope—are not only abolitionists, bat amaigamationiats, ia » practical sense. Thoy intermix and assimilate with the Afrioan race as readily as Canadian poyagewr cress with the Pottawotomies. The abolitionists porbape, in rallying upon tho cause of Zuropean liberty, are playing a deep stratagem. FE berated, they may expect somo as wiping out the slavery of tho South Kinkel meetings in Ohio disclone that plan of opera tions, Upon no other theory can we accomnt fo thie abolition veal in behalf of Hungary [ only a change of diet for a few days The lat Stare Covonizarion ALABAMA meeting to fc Turpore of thin Biate t gomery, wt wi wing Pnme Pranemitted to us by our forefathers. and to perpetuate the same—to hand them down in their primitive slmpli- city, from father to son, from generation to generation, and to avoid, if possible. the fate of all republics h bave preceded us Our Order being purely it follows, as a matcer of course, that we with the down trodden and oppressed of ali ations for liberty and a republican yur eympathy is not tatended to fc, but that we will freely offer out f liberty, amd tae of government Savio, bn odvantages attending and do ail euch things We have ro connection with the parti day. We with to keep the fires of sepublicaniam burning brightly on the altace of liberty ee eopecttedly INO. V. WREN, President Jous Puncers, Cor Bee'y jo Curex —A. S. Mol Farlow. grocer, corner of eta, Boston, who absconded |aat eda ot a check for $1,400 on the 1 to him by hia employer to collect day at Berlin, Mars. and brought to man named W Stevens King waa an aocomp : rk cf Mr. Jobo > North B ank. ent ws arrested yen A | ped him #0 mote jaik —Bostom Travelin, Lath. U the money, while the a: “agers were often oom- | Dow yelled to draw on private resouress ‘0 pnable them their actors, landlords, and also to meet the heavy * ‘Theatrical and Musical. Travian Orexna.—Last evening, Meyerbeor’s grand opera of “Robert le Diable” was produced, with new scenery, dresses, and mechinery, and was witnessed by one of the largest amd most fashioesble audiences we have ever seen within the precincts of the Opera House. ‘The vocalization, generally speaking, was honored by the most enthusiastic cheerr. The artists seemed to have been well drilled in their respective parts, end the choruses were excellent. The orchestration was im keep- ing with the high character which the conductor bears, as regardsgreat musical ability ; and with the exoeptioa of afew minor considerations, “ Robert le Diable”’ ce- ceived. last evening, all that the directorship of the Opera could give to it, in order to its favorable impres- sion on the minds of a discriminating eudience. ° Rey le é Mr Eddy end Mrs. Parker sustaining the characters of Gisippus ia. The celebrated drama of the * Mul and the grand romentic drama, jeale,’? will also be presented, both of; are excellently cast, Brospwar Taearar.—The eminent tragedisa, Mr. G. V. Brooke, will appear as Sir Giles Overreach, in Mas- singer's celebrated play, entitled A New Way to Pay Old Debts” He will supported by Messrs. Fenno, ing, Mrs. Abbott and Miss Orocker. The Davidge, Whit! . burlesque of the Modern Model Masaniello” will be the terminating feature. ben r Ganvex.—The os rol Family and the French veu le compan” are to a) again this evening The vaudeville cf * Miel ot Vensl will be the com- piece. This will be by the Ravois’ | wond tight rope evolutions; and the whole will con- clude — the grand fairy comic pantomime, ontitled * Masul Benrox's Tues tix — Another fine bill of entertainment is offered, by Burton, for this evening, which will om- body nearly the entire force of his powerful company. Morton's capital comedy, styled Speed the PI G and the excellent farce, called “ Wig Wag,” erethe e |. A densely crowded house may be anticipated. Natiowar Taxatre —The celebrated romantic drama “Ingemar,” the ular drama entitled the “ Watch ,”” and the comic pantomime of the “Marble Maiden,” the amusement to be given at this estas~ lishment to-night. Mr. J. R. Scott's benefit will take place to-morrow evening. His bill is very attractive. of tic | Hens t theatre mig! alstaf. Mr. 0. hs. , Mrn Bkerectt as L <i, Perey, yagi! ba a juickly. The laughable fa.* | H will also be given, with Brougham as Pa. “0paey. Baanum’s Musrum.—The comedy of “ Portection,!’ and the farce of “ No Song, no Bupper,”’ are the pisces rovided for this afternoon; and comedy of “ Paul Pry » will be given in the evening Kowrry AmpxitHeatre.—A beautiful programme ts vertised at the Amphitheatre for this ing ‘The Bras! Ape,’ the “ Banditti,” and the ongath Cavalcade,” are inoluded in the entertainments Curraty’s Mrverni xcellont band of megra performers announce e fine programme for to-night Fe.iows’ Mireraers —The entertainments offered by this popular company for to night, are very attractive. Bliter will appear. Tarrcer Hait.—M'lle de Lile gives her first concert ia poy this evening. The musical selection is om- ce ent. Faasex Famrcy —This company of Beottish vocalists commence a series of concerts, at the Society Li- brary, on Monday next. ‘The Panorama of the World's Fair is attracting vecy large assemblages at Stoppani Hall. { — Mowatt and Mr. Jamieson are playing in &&. Madame Bishop gave « concert at Nashvilis, T: the @tb inst. pipe pe Madame Birceccianti’s comcert at Carroil Hall Baité- more, on Thursday cvoning, was largely and fashionsbiy attended. Truffi, Vietti, Beneventano, and Beneditti, are stilt cining at Charleston to audiences who seom highly do- lighted with their performances. Parodi and troupe ha’ ust concerts tm Nashville reeched Louisville onthe "Oi inst. Bhe was to sing in Frankfort and Lexington, Ky , after she bad given one concert at Louisville. Jenny Lind gave a concert in Philadelphia last evening. Miss Charlotte Cushman is still playing at the Chest- but street theatre, Philadelphis. Miss Catherine Hayes received # letter a fow days ince, of which the foi is copy:— Provence, Dee. 8, 1861. Miss Catnenive Haves — We have jus: launched a ¢. tightly appearance, and have taken the Iberty of using 6 a) an 6D eur ee for her apd trasting it will meet pe eppro- bation, we remain yours, most respect{ully, r& , MAURAN Use of Coal in the Chagres Steamers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HRRALD. Six :—Boelieving that the samo is of importaace oyour many readers, I have taken the liberty to pen, for their information, the following, whiob, if you will allow it # place in your paper, [ thiak it will not fail to interest many :— 1 was informed, some months » Of the exist- ence of extensive beds, or mines of coal, of the best’ kind for sea steamers, inthe northern part of Seath Amorica, easy of access, and from ten to twelve miles from a seaport, and within somo 600 miles of Cha, and capable of supplying, at de- creased cost, for all the steamers navigating to the West Indies,South America and Chi « Conceiving an intorest in this, 1 spent much fine, trouble and money for the purpose of ee aod information in regard to those mines, together with the bearing that the same might have upen the steam na jon of the West Indies and South America, found many facts both inte resting and of great importance. first found that the coal used by all tho West India steamers and our Chagres line for theic return ¢, was purchased at Jamaica or Ha- vana, at @ cost of from $5 to $8 per ton, and | found, upon a caleulation, that coal couid be delivered from the South Américan mines, at Jamaica or Havana, #0 @4 not to exceed the cost of $2 per ton, and could be sold at $3 per ton, making « handsome profit; and farther, that the number of steamors in the Wost Indies, exclu of our Chagros lino, was about fifty, consui oh day they run, osok abont eleven tons vorage, and that on the average they run 265 days each year, whioh would make 13,250 o> po service, consuming 145,750 tons rps = we ee ofp ay roeure in the hsm tt }, at the mar! joe per ton, cos! $564,325. Now, this amount of coal could be fur nished by the South American mines at $150,000 loss expense, and at a more convenient place, as de could be established in most of the West | l, thus saving more room in the steamers, which could bo used for additional freight. Another fact, which is of much — importance, is, that from taese South Am mines all the Pacific steamers could be lied with their coal by means of the Panama Railroad from Navy Bay to Panama, at an average cost to the stesmers of not over $4 per ton, which now costs them about, on the average, $7 per ton. Depending now on no regular supply, they are obliged to accept whatever coal is for eale, no matter of however poor quality ; and pursuing the calculation farther, | find about 500,000 tone of coal could be disposed of to the steamers, which, put it down at a it of $1 50 per ton, (and it will exceed it,) would make the bandsome sum of $750,000 it in one your's operation, which, I think, equals, if not oatrivala, ony other regular operation in the known world. Kespectfally yours, IDS New Yorx, Doo. 15, is5t Political Intelligence, Ata democratic meeting beid ta Howard county, Mo. on the Irt instant. resolutions were passed im favor of the compromise measures @f Congress One rosolution which van adopted was to tbe followiog «flect That we che rich the union of the St nud the rights ofthe Btates the dearest of ell posed alike to the by foliation, feder being at war wi tnomt, and, we eu put down at all besards, A democratic meeting was held at Lawrenceburg, Tenn. on the Ist insta t, to appoint delegates to the State ‘Couvention, on the #th January, The meeting pas ed resolutions in favor of Gon Gideon Pillow for the ‘ice Prenidency jn Monday, wee heid # moeting at Paris’ and ate convention. The 4 —Newport (Ky) Flog Desocer atic Natiowar Comre lature bas rejected, by & vot & proposition to eall on the ; dv .egatus tothe democrat io i'r voracy of Bourbon, Ky, intel delegates to t ter ere all for Gea Bat the dei ® ton —Th Georgia L gis- ety-Lwo to twenty. six, to unite in reading idewtial convention. Manav Eee Veet. —The & story of @ sodue- A Beovern Oomrruce Rioomington (ia) Kepr tion enee, Which ends! aw The girl had eon at the boarding under ao aecumed name, fod we of ® child, . The el not yet aagnifiad vaday night he wodindy board clerk of the made er The, ad told in emp sand thea om for th deve wotd tak nen 4 was feapoctauly prt