The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1852, Page 4

7 ee “< * @hthree nn _t NEW YORK HERALD. JaHES GORDO NNETT. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ~~ ee BPW H.W. CORNER FULTON AND NASSAU 8T8. A eeeeee BEGG? ATT WEEKLY HERALD, Fishery Question, and the new American Minis- ter, &o. : ‘The examination into the cause of the death of the man Fortune, on board the steamship Franklin, is still pending before Mr. Commissioner Bridgham. The evidence of the surgeon gives a different phase to the occurrence; but without offering any epinion ry » coery Se +hyng Sig conte onthe merits of the case as it now stands, we have wekper aumum s the European Edition, $4 per on- | every confidence that the sound judgment aad calm Steen heh include he pataner SYP) Geitcrarion which have always guided tho doct y eoltetted freee ban att Rane 4, | sions of his Honor, will mete out justice, in this ia- any quai be for. 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The pressure of the advertising ‘dusinere is so great upon our journal that this rule is wandere] necessary, in order to give them « good and sonspicvous place in our columns next morniug. ‘The circulation and advertising business of the New Youx Hxratv is now larger than that of say other jeurval on this continent, and strict rales as to time, fin everything, We whole pu! 1 be mecessary, in order to accommodate feirly and equally Malls for Europe, THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD The Collins steamship Atlantis leave this port at noon, to morrow, for Liverpool. The Evropean mails will elose at belf past ten o'clock to- wecrrow morning. The New York Werkty Henaro will be published at half. past nine o'clock, Single copios, In | ‘wrappers, eixpence. The The question is settled. The issue is decided. The fiat of public opinion has gone forth. Franklin Pieree needs only now the formality of an election %o be caried by an overwhelming majority into the | Presidency. Ever since the nowination of General Reott by Seward and his allies, the publi voice, North and South, baz been swelling and strengthen- hg against the unholy alliance, which, at Salsimore, @oomcd the whig party to destruction; and now, from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Maryland, “the people, in a clop of thunder, have scattered the hopes of Northern abolition whiggery to the winds. Pennsylvania, the sheet anchor of Greeley’s estimates, rolls up from ten to twelve thousand demoeratie majority. Ohio, alike indispensable to the success of General Scott, caps the climax of bis cleetioncering expedition at the public expense, in a democratic majority of from ten to | twenty thousand. Indiana responds to that ‘‘rich Trish brogue,” by from ten to fifteen thousand ma- jerity for the democrats; and even Maryland echoes peck upon the North the same terrible music, in a waje riggsainst the whigs of Baltimore, of upwards jougand! What a blaze! How it has Sept M¥m the Potomac to the Dela vare—from the w@P to the Ohio—and from the Ohio to tho age a roging fire under a high wind among dr¥eress of the praiies! How awful to behold! en PYorida, away down among the everglades, Weikcewhig or democratic, has gone against Gen Poort. 41: is the sun of Austerlitz!” Oaly look e8% the majorities, and the unprecedented success of e terrMle and “ unterrified democracy.” Pennsvivania —Btote officers, and a gain of two mem- bers of Congress ; 10 000 to 12.000 majority. Onto —State officers, and @ gain in Congress; popular majority fram 16 040 to 20,060. Isptana, = Almost a clean sweep. Dextiocratié: Go- Wernor Wright re-elected by a Very large majority. Manytasp—A democratic Mayor clected over a very popular Whig, im, Baltimore, by the extraordinary majo. rity of more than 3 000. Reader, consult our telegraphic edvices and an- sWor, Wha} meaus all this but the eolemn wara- i%E of the total rout and dispersion of Goneral Boott and his picbald higher law party, onthe awful second of November? Our socialist philoso- | pbers aud infidels cannot be permitted to rule in thie country. Read the returns Our special Albany correspondent writes that one of the largest and. most enthusiastic democratic meetings ever held at the State capital was con- yened last evening. It is said to have fully equelled the spontaneous demonstrations in the palmy days of General Jackson. John Van Buren made a speech, which was received with the most unbounded applause, in the course of which he very eptly remarked that General Scott, since his tour throngh Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, had received a *‘ fire in the rear” that ho would be Tikely to remember for come time. The vast mul- itude seem to have been perfec ly wild with exvite- ment. There were no bounds to their exultation ; and when the time comes to vote, they will oome up to tho mark with a unanimity that wiil even aston. ish themecives. The anti renters of this State yesterday assombled in convention at Albany, and after considerable marouvring, passed resolutions condemning the eorduct of Goy. Hant, and avowirg their determi- pation to support the demosratic nominees for State efficers. According to our report, they followed the example of similar bodies of the different political parties throughout the country, by exhibiting a great deal of bitter feeling towards cech other. The telegraphs today, chronicle three or four more speeches made by Genoral Svots yesterday, viz: one to the adults and one to the eshool chil- dren at Lockport, and another to the inhabitants of Rochester. Jt will be seen that large bodies of per ple still turn out to greet bim wherever be goes; | but then this is no vign of politicnl popularity, as fs clearly demonstraiod by the results of the oleo- tions Jast Tacsday, in three of the States through which he has been travelling and spoech-making. The people who welcomed him ov hiz tour, have evinced their capability of discilminating between the Generai’s civil and military quelitications— while they disapproved the firsi, they honored tho Iset Read his speeches of yerterday. Quite a spirited convention of those who sre op posed to the Maine Liquor law was held io Trentoa yesterday. The resolutions and epecches ou the covarion seem to have been to the parpose Tie European sails brovght by tho ateaaship | America, renobed this city yesterdiy evening nis ot the mort iuterosting portion of the news are given On another pege, the most arriking © hich the article from toe Pu Loudon Times re hog to © Wowudn's Rghte? tm thle comary; the extract Lom the Liverpoul Mercury, concerning tho Coptain Weat, will | stance, between the accuser and the accused. We olsewhere publish a lengthy document ad- dressed by the committee representing the Movess of New Jersey to the bishops who are now sesem- bled upon the presentment of Bishop Doane. This important paper will be read wish deep iuterest by the Episcopalione, as well as by Christians of other denominations. z not being a quorum present in the Asst: ant Alvermen’s room, yesterday evening, the board had to be adjourned till to day. Our columns to-day contain many telegraphic despatches, and much other interesiing matter, to which we have no room to partioalarly refer. The following are simply the heads of some of the most important articles to be fynnd on the ivside pages: —General Seott’s Religious Views ; Letter from Hon. R. 8. Malony concemicg Ulinois Po! Bounty Land Warrants; Particulars of the Fire at Cleveland ; Reports relative to the Pair at Castle Garden ; Baptist Missionary Society; Various Courts, Ke. ae The Japan Expedition. We are giad to learn that, a new impetus has been given to the Japan expedition, aad that it mow bids fair to start under the most favorable auspices. The mportance of the movement bas been generally ac- knowledged, and its results wilt be regarded with interest, not only in this couatry, but throughout Europe We spoke, some days since, of the growth and importance of the China trade. Intimately connected with it, aud not less important, is the ob- ject of the proposed expedition to Japan, under | Commodore Perry. The vast fleet of steauiurs dus- tined ere long to cover the Pacific ocean, laden with the products of the Exst, can only be euseessfally maintained by the establishment of coat depots in Japan. And rot only is the expodition of the greatest consequence in this respect; but, whea we consider the vast trade which Japan iteclf may open to us, the mind is almost lost in realizing ite importance In addition to the vessels already attached to Commodcre Perry's squadron, orders have been given to prepare, with all putsidle des- pateh the line-of battle ship Vermont, carrying | 100 heavy guns, the razce Macadonien, mouating | 80 heavy eight and ten-inoh shell gang, and the | sloop of war Palmouth, 20 guna. The squadron will thus consist of the Vermont, carrying... | Susquehanna (steamer | Miseserippi, ° do., Frinecton, do Macwonian, razee Piymouth | Falmouth. | Buxatoge, Giving a total | ef guns gives no adequate idea of the strength of | the expedition, unless the calibre is also taken iato | 10) gune. force of 219 guns. B. consideration. Thus, the Susquehanna bes nine ten-inch shell guns; the Mississippi carries eighs eight-inch shell guns, and two ten inch shel! guns; | the Princeton, ten e¢ightiach guos; the Mace- donian, twenty-eight eight inch shell guns, and two Aa § inch +he. empty, | An8 inch rolid shot ‘Au 11 ineb shell, empty, A 10 ineh shell A110 iveb setid shot A 1w | ‘The weigh of a frigate’s broadside ts 872 pounds From this it will be seen that, as fur as metal is | concerned the expedition will be truly formidable, | [tie not of couree contemplated to use force towards | Japan, unless her conduct should be of suca ana | tureasto demand it, But, aithoagh Commodture | Perry wil! proceed to that country with the most | peaceable intentions, it must be rowembered thas we have already serious complaints to wske, which call for immediate redrees. By a barbarous pottoy of Japan, our seamen who may chance to be wrecked upon her coast are instantly seized, pat in sages, and kept in a state of the most wretched impcioa- ment for an indefinite period. Sach treatment | would not fora moment be submitted to from any civilized nation. Who cao doubt that were Kaglaad or France to imprison American citizens who mighs be shipwrecked on their coasts, ample satiefation would be demanded and enforced! Asd the fuss that Japan is io this respect a barbarous asioa, | forms no more exemption in her behalf thin the | natives of the South Sea ielands ova claim, wo seize, roast, and eat our sailors, because they like | the savory viand. But inasmuch as Japan is comparatively a woak | country, our government, notwithstanding the eavr- | mities which Japan hag practised wad is daily prace | | titing towards our citizens, desires to h@ve thom stopped in @ peaceable and friend’y ma: ie | will, therefore, be Commodore Perry’s duty to en- 4 deavor to effect an arrangement by wien these ill be put an end to, and also, tf povslbla, to | abuzes will | open a friendly commercia! intercourse with tham In order to effect this, a sufficient force mast be placed at his command to carry with it tha respect which eemi-barbarous nations always pry to pow | der, where without it, eloquonse would ba thrown awey. In connection with the Japza expotitioa, and next | in importance, is the expedition no¥ organizet an- | der the orders of Commander Riugsol, for tae re connoissance and surrey of the Ubina aod Jipyn | seas, Bherings Straita, &e. We trast tho Sovratary | of the Navy will equip aod send this en‘erprise forth, with that liberality which aloae cin ensare ite evocess. The vessels should be adapt | peculiar service, aud a steam propeller wou be an important auxiliary. The offivers should be telected because of their peculiar qualif:ations and readiness to join in the arduous duty. The bis- tory of the Exploring Expedition shows, that in contequencs of the manner in which it waa hurried off, come two months hud to be spent at Rio J meiro, | in repai alterations, &c., which ought to har® been effectually done at our own dock yards. An expedition left England recently for the par. pose of making farther researches im toe Sata Seas. According to the description given, aothing éceme to have been omitied ta makiog every depurt- ment perfect. As the United S ates are embarkiag in 4 pimilar ecientific recearch in euotour qiarter of the globe, we feel that justice to our oflivers de- mands that they should bo placed on aa eqaal foot- ing with thoir Muropean rivala. We lovk for important rosalts from this otpedition Coal, wood, ard ovbor naval aod commercial i 4, stould be sought for, good ports of refuge fa tae adjacent istande shonld be marked ot, aod ine in tricacies and dangere 9 should be Mid down rs tha oom | merece of the United States will All tho whale Pa, | cife ocean, and our hardy sailers will bo able to | thread the iunnmerable islets and chauncle with o, | much ease as they now do our own const, if thu | scientific expedition now wader way properly fuldls the mission it is charged with Wenerrr Movements —In addition to the active Poecediogs of the independent friends of Mr. Web tier in Gorgias, North Carolina, Magsachasetts, ant | New York, they sre also moving in Penusyivanis, New Jerey, ond Wiseoneit. These wovemen’s, wo ave reason to beliove, willnow be rapidly exteaded rit fe manifert since the tato elections in Penney! wvie, ludiana, and Ohio, that the chanoer of the ge for vleeting Mr as thore of Gen Keott Webster, are abvat as good The Webs or men of Ma iu high feather; wnd yosterday or to day, to fire one huadred guosia hon ral tieket un * usettee a Webber el ion of wa ihe friendy of thee enemies to (he wall. Good. The Primary Elections—Theis Natural Effects. It ir related of Demosthenes that after delivering the most brilliant of his philippies, he withdrew to 2 retired rpot, where he was econ to bury his face in the folds of hie robe, and heard to cry, in an agony of grief, “*My country! my country! hadst thou been content with less freedom, thou wouldst not have been a slave to-day!” Though the last strag- gles of Athens are too far romoved from us at the preeent time to oxcite any immediate interest— thovgh our recollections of the great orator depict him pouring torrents of resistiess eloquence, rather than grieving in solitude over the downfall of the Brate, whose sole deiender he was- few can contem- plate the deep anguish with which conviction burst on his mind, without some sympathetic pang. Thero are none who cannot conjecture, if they do not wholly realize, the awful misfortune involved in lors of Jiberty; no Americen, at al! vents, ean tam coldly from the derpuiring appeal of an unsuccess- ful patriot. Dresmy and distant though ont mental image of the old Greek republice, it nesds not un antiquary or 4 poet to picture their sad do- cline, and to mourn over the gradual absorption of civil freedom in the slough of despotiem The least | imaginative among us has often wished it had been bis lot to oppose one dowatiess breast to the Mcce- doxian coberts, and give to Athens the energies of one honest man. Many a youthful student at oar schools and eolleges has ** th@ught himself aooursed ho was not there,” to set the example of inflezi- ble integrity, white the whole multitude, from the Acropolis to the Payx, were bartering their freedom for Philip’s gold. For something more than mere sympathy for # ruined etate attracts us towards “the city.” Tho fellow feeling which bids us shere the triumpbe and disappointments of any race that is struggling for liverty is almost @ selfieh sentiment when applied to Athens. In the nation Which Porigles avd Cleon exceessively ruled, we can | trace no slight similarity to our own national chir- acterisiics and institutions. From the days of whe former, Athens became a pure demooracy ; the ariz- tociacy was effyotpally crippled, and the whole power of the State centered in the popalar assemolies. Professor Heeren thus dessribes the result—** Ia tuch democratic State, the squandering of the public money was no unevoiduble evi This ev) was produced much less by the peculations of individual State officers, than by the demande of tae demagoguer, who, for the most part, lived 2b the expense of the State treasury.” ‘ What more truthful picture of our own politival condition could be drawn? Taking the State of New York as an instance, how lamentable has been the resuit of the amendments which the lass few years have introduced in the constitution! We doubt whether Athens herself, ot the most depraved period of her decline, exhibited a more gloomy proepect. The centralization of patronage in the bands of the maeses, in this city, who ar- obri- ously mnsompetent to bestow it judiciously—she fa- ta! influence thus conceded to demagogucs and aninefective and corrupt police organization is na tions, where one rowdy"s vote is equal to that ofa hundred zens—the venality of the nomicating eoatentions, where every man hes his prics—a2nd finaliy, the ostentatious profligacy of tbe candi- dotes, who seem utterly dead to any respoct for them- felves or sentiment of public honor—aro foatares for 2 pareilel to which we might explore the whole an- nels of the world in vein Our elvotions would bave disgraced the temple of Gaschus, or tho Furamia itsworst days Gold and violenca are tue oaly avail- titles tosuccess. Tae ringleaders of ihe ongan- rowdy clubs are bough: by the espisents to inctions—the rowdes are bought by their w—the delegates tothe uo! veutions are bonght by the candidates | dutes themselves are bought off by one s: ead the ruccea-ful ones aze bought, at last, by chose ; Who contract with tho State, or who viclate-her jews From beginning to end, it is aesr f bare | gaine and sales. He who bas the longest purse is tare to win, and the people are sure to pry his prio2, Political honors heve their market rate, like stocks. They flactuste— not im proportioa to the violenes of party spirit, but in barmony wit the amount of | peculntion which ie believed to be within the grasp | of the future incumbent. Some day we shall have the rominations for mayor, eldermon, aad other mucicipal officers, quoted in the papers, a3 a legiti- inate aiticle of mersbandiso—like the prices of cod- | fiwh or salt mackerel These things aze no secret. | They are necessarily familisr to every zen | j No one hes the equeamiskness todeny that bo has bought bis offive, or to affect any prudish reserve Ward peliticians aro hosid to boast that thay clear enough in Qetcber and November to keep them in | comfortable ease during the rest of tho yeu | police drive » lucrative tra'e by winking az orine | Aay villain who can Wield ap stick ato pri election is secure of the charitabie interrentioa ofan | wldermun,'if he ie devested ia thefts or marderoas jvence. Dells and mock auc | Most profitable establishments in the eity. Where is thisto end? At Athens, th» firsh sap tom of decay was a disaster in war. Tues followod, in quick suceession, th Tevolatica—the overttrow of the démocracy, the college of the four hundred: the commiitee of dive t and the reign of terror~—en: restoration of Selon’s system of goverament | ibe Athenian spirit was dead. Demagogaiem and co profigeoy hod produced their Athing, ess, indifferent, and degraded, sapincly throw galphed | Lereelf into the arms of Philip, and was ex | im the Macedonian conquorta. Dare we carry tho paralicl so far ag this 7 we expect that a time will come vitizens will refure, en masse, to vote, nob only at the primary elections, but evory | election, and the possossion of unbounded liberty will prove to have been the commencement of an | era of rowdy despotiem? Ruefally as we contem plate tuch @ prospect, it is no ehaiowy vision. Un- lors the authority of the noninatiag oonveations of Doth feetions is repudiated by the poople at large Sunless bold and decided measures are taken by ths rubstantial citizens to put down rowdyism—some such result is inevitable. It is not yet too lace. Gove and true men may yet amputate the deformity trom the body politic, and canterize the sora. The re-ou!ls who trade on our liberties—-wne plundor th public money, instead of earning an honost y hood--who filch the hard won dollars of the Irieh peor for #ifevegawmon rebellious and Hungarian re voluions—may yet receive the punishmoas duo to their offence. But no time is to bo lost, Every year consolidates the evil, and provracts the wasting diveaso If there is yet any spirit in New Youk, les us be np and doing when ont at ' Tne Baivisn Bi Nk —The letters which we have published cone t the attemot of evein British etockjobbers and ubslitionists te bribe thie journal te their ineondlasy narposer with regard too} 7 ave ororted jon iu this community. The tiret im- pression entertained by some ineredalons persone, that the letter from Willinme & Lookhart, onclosing a ncte of fifty pounds sterling, Was a hoax, has sub- Udel, and that it fa @ genuine dosament is no longer tioued. Is ie proved by the loster of Beof Williams to Hon. B.S. Hors, the ‘retiring member” of our Third Congressional Gictiist, It seem that there ise coterie of aboli tionigis and “ euteide” stovsjobbers in Lo Om, org ized for the purpose of promoting their aboli- thor mee in this country through the agensy of 'y and oorrnption in our poiliival eleccons, this instence, whit io most astonisy 1 i Ir hat thir Loudon abulttiou and stookpsddiing eover hould beve selected Me. Hert, » den ges, a2 ® proper too! fh Av wrepu ward politicians—the prevalence of rowdyism, whieh | able to check—the mockery of the primary elec: | when a reasonable bid is male for vis owa vote. | Mast | letters on the same sudject? Hae he, toc, got the offer ef a bribe of nest, for it involves = question of the importanee to the purity of our elections. — The nomination of Gen. Walbridge in Bowen's pipe-laying district, is suggestive of more pipe; but when we find the pipe-layers on both sides of the Atlontio, there ie ren! matter for alarm exd indignation. Is W.H Serard now in London? Is he the “* American gentloman” roferred to with such an air of confidence and good fellowship, by Ieckhart & Willisme? Can Mr. Hart inform us? for, if it should turn out that Seward is the man, we shall understand at once the stripe and scope of this British abolition sonsp'racy, to control by bribery and corruption our Congressional elections. Jn the meantime, we have two hundred dollars of our fifty pound note still on hand, and are deter- mined that every cont of it shall go to tho blessed cause of charity, We trust that some friend of the suffering and the destitute will furaish us with a list of our most needy and deserviog benevolent ias:icu- tions, 80 that we may dispeose thia fond to the best advantage in the cauee of humanity and religion. Great Men—How Mann tactured. Obloquy isof-en the surest road to fame. On thie iateresting road, Winfold Soott and Franklin Pierce, 28 Presidentia! candidates, and, by way of novelty, James Gordoa Bennett, as a newspaper editor, are in full drive, covered with tho dirt and dust and filth of the party press. Most great men have risen to eminence on a ladder of abuse. They have first earned the unreasoning hatred of their fellow-citizens, end afterwards, as the mist of pre- jadice cleared away, have been exalted as eagerly 2s they had formeriy been debased. The old rale, that nothing thrives withou: persecution, is peou- liarly true of groat mea. To'some it has been allot- ted to witness the revalgion of public feeling during their life time; but most die erethe world bos done them justice, and reap no- fruit from thoir labors seve the sonsciousness that ono day their memory will be honored, and respect prid tothe descendants of those who, while living, were jabs Eavy and jealouty— frailties which cannot be eradicated from tho buman heart—are gonerally the original source of the prejudice; once created, it tukes test hold on men’sminds and years of meritorious services cannot always who'ly effaceit. So invariable isthis rule, that when the world obatinately hates a mano, it is safe to conclude that there is something in hin which will somo day strike the pablic in a now light, and be the means of his clevation to fame daring life, or render his memory illustrious after death. We Britain, im the case of Swift, (who at that time had not published Gulliver, or his greater works.) Wilkes, and others; and in our day with Girardin and Walter. A few more attacks on Mr. Bennett’s character, and a patent of greatness wil! be forthwith seoured to him and his descendants: Why not 1 Many men. who"have done loss for their profession and the public, have earned statues and ap apotheosis: we really cannot find it in our hearts to blame our socialist cotemporaries, and their allies "hroughout the country, for wishing to confer upon him a long lease of greatness. Sxonerary Corwin AND THE GARDINER CLAM — Some of the mere party journals in this city are, with & greater show of partisanship than of reason, at- tempting to defend Secretary Corwin’s reputation from apy stain whieh might chance to bo affixed there- to by the report of the Gardiner committee, while admitting that that celebrated claim, which has so long attracted public attop:ion on this ooatinent, is nothing more or lese than amsgnificont fraud Kat these journals, one and al!, show themselves little expert at the office they have assumed They all adinii the justice of that portion of the commit- tee’s report which declares the Gardiner claim to be, ab initio, a fraud, bat very ilogically deny the con- sequonces which must flow that decizion, namely — thet Soeretary Corwin, as the consulting ¢oansel, and as the shareholder, ia that feaudulent specala- tion, was cognizen’ of its real character. Now, we do not see the compatibility of swallowing dowa, at one monstrous gulp, the belief that the Gardiner claim wag, in ita inception and throughout all its ramifications, a magnificent swindle, and that the counse] who prosecuted that claim, and from his relations with it, both as lawyer and shareholder in its profits, must have been supposed to know every- thing about it, was perfectly innocent of ali know- ledge ofitsfraudulency. Certain jugglers may evince a wonderful talent and facility at swallowing long forks and stilettos and lighted flambeanx; but that is no reason why all mankind ehould venture to imitate them So we cannot, with a due respect to our internal conditioa, gulp down tho absurdity that sll the evidence snd documents necossary | to sabstantiate this claim were perjurics and forgeries, and that the lawyer who prosecuted it—and who has a characver for legil astute- ness and capacity—was verdantly igaorsnt of | the value of the testimony adduced in its sup- port. Such stories may do for the marines, and probably are in accordeuce with tie veracicus at- tributes of a committee of the House of Representa- tives; but old salts will be excused from placing im- plicit belief in thom It seems, therefore, that those journals who manifest ruch aon interest in Mr. Corwia’s reputa- findit to have been the caso in former times, and a couple of thousend years have not altered the print ciple. Confucius was unkcown otherwise than as a ski ful, zealous minister, until he was forced to ex himself from court, and had become the butt for the jests of the capital. It was while the emps- rorend his mandarins were teaching the populace to revile him, that he raise@ bis monument of im perishable fame. Mahomet was nobody until forty | sworn men—one Out of each tribe—were commis sioned by an indignant people to do justice on the impostor, and satisfy the public antipathy; then he became the Prophet of God. The | history of Greece afurds @ striking illustra | tion of the process of refining in the | crucible of unpopularity, by which heroes were manufactured. Aristides was ostracised, and the | wext day Athenians bethought themselves of him, who wes the purest model of integrity produced by the republic His country refused to render justise to Themistocles, until he had beea once ostracized, and finaliy driven to geok a refuge among the Per- | signa. Cimon, ons of the greatest generals Athens ever produced, was villified'and nooted out of Athata: four years afterwards the highest honors the State could bestow were lavished on his head, and the glorious eppollation of Father of his Country wes tendered for the acoeptance of theexile Tuerule | was the same, whether the hero was genuine or an impostor. I: wes the taunts of the aristocracy and tho vituperation of poets which raised Cleon to the chair of Pericles. Ic was to the violent rebukes and scathing censure of the old republicans that the fickle Alcibiades owed his astonishing popularity. | So in Reme. It was necersary to be well abased, and thoroughly hated by a largo and influential class, before sucseis was certain. Tae name of the | Gracchi would not now have beer ingoparably con- nected with democratic liberty and agrarian reform, had not the wealthy citizens of Rome banded them- | have atteived the consulate had he bovn less obnox- ious to the aristocracy Other men, with les: claims to cclebrity—a gladiator, like Spartacus~a bold demagogue, like Clodius—tho wealthy Crassus— | raised in like mancer to the summit of fame by the spcers aud abuze of the maltitade. : Nor does modern history belie the propoeition. In Franot, in‘Brithio, in Germany, in this couutry, the ness has alvays isin through # thicket rywhiere, thote who rive above the commdn herd, and who, by the novelsy of their | opinions, their energy, talents, or courage, have sbown'themselves entitled to the firet rauk, have | been warked out as og targets for the poisoned | skaste of malice sad dander Some, with perhaps ne less real merit, have passed through life uoassail- | edand unmolested: those are they waom modern historian phers agree to call unsuccessfa) greet men. Those who, by common consent, are styled heroes, have, if they were sensitive, invari- | ably & life of misery, owing to the constant ard unsparing vituperation which was showered up- onthem. Whatman was ever more perseveringly ‘landered than Napoleon ? whose share of ubuse was bil LY | larger than lord Brougham’s? A man who, by the | vastness aud scope of hie varied powers, is well ea- | titled to the first place among the men of the time; and yet, to-day, to one half the world, he fz as well knowa by tho attacks of the press as by his splendid achiev: ments in letters and science. His first etep in the ladder may be fairly assribod to the bitterness with which he was aseuiled by Me Can- ning’s friends. Tho burst of grief which announced to France that Armand Carrel was no more, was a poor compensation for the obloquy which had been heaped upon him during his life; and when the doo trinnire chief reaches that bourne whence none ro turn, few will envy his dotractors their feelings Like their predecorsors, the heroes of the revolution, their statues would nover have occupied a niche in the temple of fame, had less vigorous and systom- atic attempts been made to coneign them to anigno- minious cbscurity. “You heap infamy on my head,” eaid tho youthfal Camille Desmontines to his ealuwvietors, lintle knowing bow eoon his stir ring life was to end—* you ere but Ieying the corner stone of my triumphal arch ” It is wot pecersury to remind our rendora of the proors by which o at men eearned the title. Jackson, Madison, x Amesicn wild ever glury— rations, the orn 7 Ao —cat we look back on their career wit woblushivgly recall che biscoraess with which their every act was avpailed 7 Iv it a eaffivient excuse to plead, that tho very ingratitude of vheir fellow oiti- gona was their passport to greatnorst—that thoy only fuldilled the common dost Fe qusique arse d homme, L. nest toad homue qu's ea mort? The people of this country are now making frosh greatmen A lit mero ‘lender from the whigs, ax. Pierce’s fame will be eatablished ; he is atroady | “ono of the woat remarkable incn of the country,” Gereral Seott’s monwm onor among foreign hourehold’” Jat chame wud nt is boing oapped wish the crowning store, thanks to his psendo-sapporters 3 | ‘ | let them but vouch for his heviog ineulted a few more ladies, ond though none morta convinotog alll A YW leve tr, bie fi das we have bed Vi ermy of great g ue ifs eisa demand for rele, table mrrauits upon General Walbridge. This ie a trarye feature in Sis wyererious bas nes How | t-, Mort born in correspondence wich thie bo the dirty porty proga are Iehoring of an edit some novell » macof © yout man out Bedterd W. Williams? Ise he any morg | The thing was dene pretty suevesstully im Uren | | wise frionds choose to catch at ? selves together to put them down; nor would Marius | tion, and who defend him on the grounds Jaid down in the report, must choose between the two in- eviteble horns of the dilemma Hither Mr. Cor- win was professionally coguizant of the fraud- ulency of the Gardiner claim, or he was de- fici¢nt in common intelligence. He must have been cither a knowing asd consenting party to the juggle, or an ignoramus who did not show legal acumen or ordinary intelligence enough to fit him to be the solicitor in a suit to recover the amount-ofa grocer’s bill. Whieh horn do his un- For Mr Corwin’s reputation it would be better to consider him as an honest, ignorant dupe: but if it beso admitted, then his character for intelligence and mental capacity must suffer. Bat, after all, Mr. Corwin’s guilt or innoceace, or the frauduleney or honesty of the Gardiner claim, are not the real points which the country expected that the attention of the Spocial Committee would have been principally turned to. The point in which public opinion has peculiarly manifested itself in connection with the Mexican claims, is, whethor it is consietent with tho fuithfal discharge of their duties, for members of the House, members of the Senate, or members of the Cubinet, to connect them- | selves with euch claims, either as counsel or as shareholders? It wae ae to thie featare of the trans- | action thet the committee were expected to en- | lighten the community; but both they and the jour- | nals who defend Mr. Corwin, main:ain an ominous, | suspicious silence in respect to it [t is not in rela- tion to Mr. Corwin alone, that light was desirable, | nor in relation to Mr. Crawford alone, but as being equally necessary to illuminate the dark ways of a great number of members of both houses, and of the Cabinet. It is for their culpable remissness, or, rathor, perhaps, for their studied avoidance of this branch of the investigation that we have particularly ques- tioned the soundaces and impartiality of the report on the Gardiner claim. rendered by the Special Jom- mittee of the House of Representatives. Wo thero- fore continue to regard it as by no means creditable to that dignified body. Tne Party Parrrs Cvrrine rus Tunoars or Tnuem Own Witnesses —Phe antics of the party press in reference to the Presidential election, are of the mbst amusing character. The democrats and their organs have a consciousness of syo- cess, which they: cannot account for. Like peo- ple who have got th cholera, they know thet they have it; or like persons who have tho rhéuma- tism, they feel it in their bones, though they can- not tell how jt came there. They are satisfied of | the fact, withont giving themselves much trouble to ascertain the cause, or to get certificates to prove it to them. It is quite enough for their satisfaction that they have a curious sensation within, amouat- ing to a moralcertainty. The whigs and their organs, impresied with a rather different kind of feeling, are wonderfally busy in gottiog up certificates of character, and yarious other documents, to prore— firet, that they ought to win the Presidential elec | tion, ard secondly, that in point of fact they will win it, beyond “the shadow of a shade” of doubt Among the certificates of character thoy have bronght forward for Gen. Scott, is one from the Duke of Wellington, which they have pronounced to be perfectly conclusive as to the superior eligibility and fitness for office of his brother general of the Anglo-Saxon race at this side of the water. But the beet of the joke is that one of tho small whig papers in this city is now cutting the throat of his own wi'noss, aud at the same time cutting his own | throat, like n hog swimming down the stream Down the river there plied with wind and tide, A pig wish vast ovlerity; And the devil look’d wise as he saw how the while It cut its own throat. « There,’ quoth be, with asmile, “ Goes Kaymond’s newspaper prosperity.” The Presidential cloction will see the last of it, and then it goes down, to riso no more. The Duke of Weilingten, in one of the recont lucubrations of the New York Jimes, is described asa coward. “Billy prido, and cowardice and cruelty disfigure bis years of early manhood;” * collapses of valor;” and “symptoms of asphyxia on tho ficld of battle’— this is the languoge in which tho writer sp»aks of the British ‘hero of a hundced fights;” and the in+ ference is that this sham boro is alsoa liar, as every coward is—lying boing tho natural offspring of fear. This is preeively the reusoning of the whig journals with regard to Pierce They svy bo was a coward on the field of battle, ond pretended that he fainted. The Dake had aleo hie fainting fits, and, of courte, lied siout them. His veracity as a witnoss is therefore impeached, on the well known logal prin- ciple—folous in uno, fulsus in omntbus: “ Palso | in one thing, false in everything.” It is curious enough, too, that the samo journal, in another article, while admitting the great goneral- thip of the Duke of Wollington, denics that he is a great mon. Without entoring into the question whother a dintingatsbed porsonage who bas filled the world with bis fang, is not a great man, beeoure he is not great in all things, we can- not help observing that this ia a: most unfortunate hind of jogie for the Cime. for, admitted that General Scott ita g now hiving-- Welliv debth, but o very i samo prior to big aceesman, and in no litary chief, ron Ege. a te may be a very todiffer ext statesman, and in no other senso, auless as o ‘ ® great warrior ehicf, a great man, which, fom his silly letters and speeches, turns out tobe the fret. Im this respect, Billy Bowlega is great ; but the Semi- nolo chiet would asorry chief magiztrste in the freeest and greatest aod most civilized na- tion in the world Thus is she Times on cae hand using up ¢eneral 8eotr by its eilly stupidity, while on tho other hand the uoxcrupulous Tridne te do- ing him still more injury by the invention of Slieve- gammon stories. which bave as little foundation ig fact, as “ the baseless fabric of a vision.” Chiy Intelligence, Tur Avrnoacuine EvecrionNatunanizarioy wy New Youn .—As the “great and important day” of election ap_ Proaches, the committees and the different courte im the city are busily employed in giving out papers of citi- wenship to the people entitled to receive them. The racks of claimants to the courts is tremendous, and i imereases daily. It has now arrived wt euch a pitch thas the Bupe- rior Court holds an eveniog sersion for that purpose, The scene ef assuming the garh of a republican freeman, by being mede a citizen of the United States, always ime pressive, was rendered novel »pon the evening of ‘Tues: day lutt. before his Honor hict Justive Oakley. Tt oc- curred upon the cccurion of a deaf mute claiming to be admitted Both the applisact avd bis witness were deaf and dumb. and the entre ceromony was conduoted by signs and in writing = ‘The man was mich plexed at be- ing placed upon the ro'l for utrbough visited by physical afihetion he wae not the lesy apxlous to stand: regenerate, The powber nu*ursiized thus far di the month average abc ut one hundied and fitty daily. As it ig mecesbary to be a citizen ten cays prior to the «! we do uot suppose that 1fe rush will di@inish mueb be- fore that tine. The nudmoer veturalized in the Common leas chambers, before Jucye Duly, is also very great, Tir Weattan—Yesterday morning opened gloomy and chilly. Tne fret murmor of a wintry wind was heard amid the tr es of our purks, and the people foand s little cold Stoves were set up in some places, amd the query,‘ have you laid in you: eval 2”? was pretty general in the streets, The therw :meter ing ranged :—At noon, 69 ovgrees; at 3 P.M, 683g de- grees; at 5 P. M., 63 degrees, Between six ond sever o’elock im the afterpoou « heavy rain fell, and it con- tipued to increase up to ten ac night; this there ‘was an even, steady pour and every prorpect of its con- tinuance tiJl daylight, be a was calm, however, aud some flight indication of « flaw day to.day. Senious Arrray ww Wowakp Sraxet.—At half past even o'clock yeste: day ior bmg, a man got into amalter- cation with rome boys Im Lloward at and, after it had progressed for # litde muy. be ma thrast with bis oven the greatest, | cane at one of them. The crn raminto one of the boys? eyes, and immediately ¢e edit. The man was prompt- ly arrested by the ponce»nd conveyed to the Fourteenth Ward station houre, wud the suttoring lad taken to the City Hospital. We bave not. as yet, learued the mame of either party, nor the exact canse of the quartel, Viet of Muitany 10 New Yorx —The Eagle Guards, of Bridgeport, Conueeticut, Ouprain Lacy, arrived at Peck slp, at Lwo o'clock 1 The wt\crocon of yesterday, upon a Visit to this city, They #rre received at the boat landi by a company Of our Von"toeptels under the command Captain ilelme. and (be Gulick Gaurds, commended Captain G.C. Deane the New York Brass Band ed upon the companies As the boat approached ber whart, with the Eagle Guards ia line upon deck, the effect Was yery picturasque A ruiute of cannon was fired upom he landing of the company Chey number about forty inen, and appear well dried and neatly uniformed, The Guards are attended by a yery good band, The three companies formed and marched up town, Awrurty Supper Deatu.—Uoroner Ives hofd an ine quest yesterday. at the house of olary Gallaher, No. 54 Duane street, upon the boty of Jonathan Paul, aged forty-five years, who ar pord Gead suddenly in the estas Diishment of Worrail & Co at -evem o'clock in the morn- ing. It appeared fiom ihe evidence of John Dalton, man in the employment of the firm, that the deceased worked there alro ano up-u witmoss going tahis work at seven o'clock m the mornig. be found deceased sitting Teadivya paper; he bid witvers good morning; witness Teplied. rat down. and commenced reading a paper also; in about five minutes trom tbo time witness came im deceased fell fr¢m his obuic upon his face. and died almost immediately. A physic sn was sent for. but none could be found; the boay of dece used was then conveyed te his late boarding house. McClusky co:roborated this testimony. Doctor Ligell made a post martem CXR mination of the body. found the heart very much en- larged and fatty, its right chumbers full of blood, liver enieged and congested. rp! and kidneys enlarged, the mucons membrane of the stomach was thick and red, three bruises upon the left side of the face, raid to have been caused by fatting: persons saffering under the disease of the heart exhrbited io this disseotion are liable to sudden deaih, there wus sufficient disease of the heart to uccount for ‘besxndden death, Verdtct—'Dentla frcm disease of the heart,” Thy deceased was a native of Pennsylvania, aud leaves a wife and ten children im. Pbiladelphia. Ciry Lamy Licntrve —Assistant Captain Fisndreau, of the Kighteenth ward, mavos very severe complaint, im his offleiai report to The Ub ct, of neglect in Tigheing the city oil amps in his aistries, He says thas, upon day night and Wedoe-day morning, not more than twelva- Jamps Were livhted ater one o'clock: that the citizens are loud in their complaints; and that it seems impossi+ ble to rouse the aitention of the Superintendent of Lamps to the matter. Tickers Fon Carivonnia.—We understand that frau- dvlent tickets to Calif.rnia passengers are again being issued. and warn those bound to the golden regions to buy only from owners of steamers, and not from pre. tended agents. Notice to Srrancens,--Our readets are referred to aR advortivement under the head of » Personal,” in another column, “ ‘Theatrical and Musical. Bowsny Triratae —Schitler's beautiful play, entitied the * Robbers,” is to be presented at this establishment to-night. The character of Charles De Moor will be resented by that ‘nted peaformer, and great favorite, ir, E kddy, that of Francis De Moor by Mr Stevens, and that or Amclia by Miss Heron, Tue concluding feature will be the muh admired drama styled “ Der Freischutz.” which is every night received with the ute most delight and approbation. Broavway Tueatne —Me Forrest, the distinguished Americon tragedian. will appear ia his greatly admired de this evening, in R Oonrad’a ot that name. He will be supported by Merers. Mc‘towan Whiting, Pope. and Mme Ponici, in the other leading characters. The eoncladisg picse of the evening, will be the muoh udmired comodietta entitled “ Navai Engagements ” dir Forrest continucs to attract densely crowds d houses, Nixco’s Ganves.—The amusements announced for this evening at this popular resort. comprise the faree of “My Young Wife aud my Oid Unrbrella,” in which Mr, Browne will appear; « grand divertisement, which wil} inircdiice Senuria’ Soro, Mile, De Melisse. ond. Mie. Povgetd, in several of their moet favorite pas; and the Tomuntic ballet of + Kerly or the Monntsin .jose,’? Which was received with the utmost delight and satisfac» tion on Tuesday ana Wednesday last. 7 Bonston’s Tueatae.—This theatre continues te be filled to overiiowing migh'ly and the performances elicit ‘Treat applause, ‘the wmu~ipg comedierta of * The Novel xpedivnt,’ the comedy of * Grandfather Whitehead,” and the pepular diame of “The Loodies, or tie Farmer's Davgbtcr, are apuconced tor thin eventog. The casts embrace Messra Burton, Plaerde, Dyott, Eicher, John= ston. Skerrett, Norton, Miss Weston, Mro. Hughes, an@ Mrs. Dy ott, Nationa. Tuxathe —Purdy has provided s highty ste tractive of entertainmest for to nigh’. The new Lone don drama entitied the ~Weiting oo che Wall,” isto be repeated Mr. J, Mertayer sul erform his popular pact of Mejor Wheeler in ine I.oghably farce of “New No~ tens,” end Mr. J. Covnor ‘hat of Pat Rooney in the farce of the ‘ Omnibus.” sod Miss M. Partington and Mr. B, Yates will dance the doubie Polka and Le Neapolitan, Warrscn’s) Taratne —Poole's excellent comedy of “Bimpson & Co." 18 to be represented at this establishe ment tonight—Mr. Biake, Me Walcot, Miss Laura Keene, Mrs. Buckland, ond Mrs Brougham, sustainh the leading charncrers The successful oomedietta *TwoCen eisy at that Gane.’ end the laughable farce. of the “Board:ig Sebool.’* wili al-obe played. ‘This is am entertainment which cavnot fail to attract a crowded as- gemblage, Contins, the Irish comedian and vocalist, is on a pro- fessional tour to Boifsio Cuicago and Pittsburg. He will play in New York on bis return from the West, Mrtrororaran Hart, Med Alboni gives her last com cert this ov on which occasion she will celebrated rerna from ‘Norma,’ called Casta Di tbe rendered with snob execeilenoe at ber lest concert. She will #l-o sing “th now Credea.” from “Sonnambuls,?? Mad, Alboni will sisted oy Moacers. Rovere, voon), Arditi and a grana chorus of male and female vos calirts, a8 also @ weil selec ed orchestra, under the guids ance of the celebrated Arcitt Asvon Pisce Orsna House —M. Menchand, the cole brated French comedina, will take benefit at this os. tablihment on Monday eroning next, Mmo. Fleury are to ‘ednes- Jolly, ond the entire French dramatio comp: arp at. Mie Darmont i» to take a benefit oa ay. Amraican Musrnum.—The attraction for this evening Will be a repetition of the suvc-reful drama of the “Or- phan’s Dieaa,” apd the farces entitled Very 5 "* nd‘ Demestic Eeonomy,”* wilt be givenin the afternoon, both of which are well cust, Covisty’s Orsna THovse.—Ohristy’s Minstrels have provided @ very attrac ave programme for fee. ff einging, dancing. imstrumental soloa, . Woon's Mixorrris— Manager Wood avnounces « highly eutertalaing eolec'ion ot Ethiopian performances por this evening, Their hail fe crowded nightly, Wrire's Varurtins Ibis popular resort continues to be filkd nighdy with cenghcd audtenses, ‘The pro- yoomine for Us evening comprives many oxoellong features, Pou Comvrericur Kurerion the foilow!ng is 9 reeapitulas lich of the returns of che towns in Conneotiont, ascocd= ing to the lot eleetion := Democratic town . olf Whig towns mh 3 Divided ...... “ Jobu P Tate eddrosted the free rollers of Chicago, Til. op the Sth instant, Tie Wersten Mover v—Wo etill bavé the most ehreing demonstrations, saye the Wilutogton, N. Oy Commercial, fiom reveral py ts of the tare. ia regard to the Wrboter movement. ned tbe idem of forming an eleoe torol ticket fe by mo means nbenavusd, We have roports of grent novivity ip Peveral Giber Stator, Arulnte of one bnndred pans was fired on Boston Comes Won yerieragy. by the 4$o \oa ardilery, ia honor of tne Webe ef electoral Hebets of New York, y Prone Gat Taw ot Mn ce Demoeratte gains Whg gains...