The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1852, Page 4

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By far the most interes!ing information we have wy telegraph to-day is contained in the dos- | yeteb from one of our special Washington correspon- dente, in which it is reported thet the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. John P. Kennedy, has ordered Capt. Porter, of the steamer Crescent City, to proceed te Washington and give an account of his recent trans- eeticns at Havana. It is understood that at the re- ‘mest of the Spanish Minister, the President and | Cebinct have disapproved of the course pursued by Capt. Porter, and are determined to withdraw him from his present vessel, and order him to sea imme- diately, Should the intelligence detailed by our «errespondent prove correct, of which we have not the least doubt, it will raise a storm of indignation throughout the country unparalleled in the history of any administration. The people, from one end of the Union to the other, will sustain Capt. Porter \im his manly resentment of the insult offered to our national flag—the President and his cabinet to the eentrary notwithstanding. A very large and enthusiastic meeting of the “un- terrified” democracy of the Third district, was held | Jast evening in the square at the corner of Weet | Broadway and Franklin street, fer the purpose of vatifying the nomination of General Walbridge for Oorgrese. Jt will be seen by our report of the pre- ceedings, what has been the effect of the attempt to | bribe the American press with British gold, and | what is likely to be the effect on the 2d of Novem- | ber. Speeches were delivered on the occasion by | Senator Atherton, of New Hampshire, and General Walbridge, and a letter was read from the Hon. R. J. Walker. As the time approaches for casting the vote for the Presidency, the old line democrats and free oilers of Massachusetts evince a more friendly feel- iwg for cach other. The two factions yesterday met | jp eenyention, in Middlesex county, and after a short debate, formed a coalition ticket for Senators, | eoneisting of three democrats, and three free soilers. Notwithstanding this fraternization, the democrats | adopted 2 resolution declaring that they approved and stood by the principles laid down in the Balti- more platform. | Charles Francis Adams, son of the late ex-Presi- | dent, is the free sci] nominee for Congress in the Seventh district of Massachusetts. According to the latest returns from Ohio, the Gengreesional delegation will stand thus :—Eleven democratic candidates for State ‘officers, it isnow certain, have been elected by thirteen or fifteen *hourand majority. In Pennsylvania, the demoeratic majority, it is now thought, is at least eighteen or twenty thousand. Full partienlare of Gen. Seott’s departure from New Jersey and reception in Philadelphia, are given inanother celumn. His epeeches yesterday sre very similar to al] his previous harangues. He * praised ihe soldiers of the Keystone State, to whom he declared he wae solely indebted for his present exalted porition—begged his friends to deal gently with his bands, which bad been squeezed into ajelly, | and said that he had been overwhelmed with the | honors conferred upon him by the people throughout hie tour—he should have added, particularly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, where they xp- pearto have covered him so deeply in glory that they could neither find him nor his friends, at the election, the other day. The General showed his goed taste, by attending Sontag’s concert in the | evening, instena of remaining at his hotel to listen to the partizan songe of diecordant glee clubs. He will proceed as far 2s Baltimore to-day. By reference to our marine intelligence, a further record will be found of the disasters to the ship- ping during the severe gales that recently pre- vailed. It is much feared that the list will be greatly increased when time has allowed the par- tieulars to arrive. The one which occurred in the last week of September extended a long distance, it having been severely felt at Turke Island and St. ‘Thomas, and seriously damaging the shipping. At the former place, the bark Grace Clark, from this city; was driven ashore and totally lost, while get- ting under way—s similar fate nearly attending the brig Helen Jane, of Boston, which, however, succeeded in getting to sea, with a comparatively | trifling lors to some of her gear. At St. Themasa | number of vessels foundered, various buildings were vlown down, and several lives were lost. The storm there is deecribed as “ a perfoct hurricane.” In addition to the disasters alluded to in tho | above paragraph, a derpatch from Halifax will bo found under the telegraphic head, stating that twelve veesels, lying at anchor at Prince Edward | Island, were sunk by a tremendous gale on the 15th instant. What renders this ca’amity still more distressing is the ennouncment that all persons on board went down with the vessels. The same geile is reported to have been felt with great seve. rity at Sidney, Nova Scotia, and at Sandy Cove, at both of which places various crafts were driven arbore. We clsewhere publish some late and very inte- resting intelligence from Utah territory, of which we have spoken at some length in another article. By reference to the telegraphic despatch attached to the details of the news, it will be observed that the Mormons are enjoying al] the dap rrowered e Chr We, down uper DE | the products of the Queen of the Antilles. | opulence, will im futare give to their mutual comm ‘an abundance of food, the country was heaithy, the Indians were quiet, and Brigham Young gave every satisfaction in the performance of his ardaoue duties as Governor of the territory, and busband of some sixteen or more wives. Several Neva Scotia fishermen are reported to have been detained at Port Hood, by the British steamer Devastation, for alleged informality in their papers A verdict has been rendered by the jury in sho United States Cirouit Court at Philadelphia, award- ing to the heirs of Stephen Girard eleven tracts of land, yalued at $1,100,000. The reason given for thus setting aside the will in this particularinstance, is, that when Mr. G. signed that docament he had not obtained a full title to the property in question. As in the case of the heirs of the late Mr. McDo- nough, of New Orleans, Mr. Girard’s relatives are, after all, likely to reap bandsome fortunes out of the estate, despite the wishes of the man who de- vised the will. We learo from Albany, that in consequence of a broken lock on the Erie canal, near the Upper Aque- duct, the boats are blocked up to tne distance of four miles on cach side. There were eixteen deaths by yellow fever on | Monday and Tuesday, in Charleston. The frosis, which are now beginning to make their appearance nearly every morning, in this, as well as more eoutherly regions, will soon cause this dreaded dis- ease to seek 2 more congenial latitude. A locomotive yesterday ran off the track on the Hudson river railroad, near Aloany, and the engi- neer was instantly killed. ‘Two or three interesting items of religious intel- ligence are given under the telegraphic head. From Cincinnati we learn that Judge Leavitt, ofthe U.S. Court, bas decided adversely to the claim of the Methedist Church, South, and that an appeal has been taken. The Pennsylvania Presbyterian Synod met in Harrisburg on Tuesday, and the Old School Presbyterian Synod im Philadelphia yesterday.— Nothing beyond routine business appears to have been transacted by either body. The Pennsylvania State Fair was opened at Lan- caster yeeterday. The display of articles of ali kinds is said to be magnificent. The proceedinge in the murder cases, in the Oyer and Terminer, in Hudson county, N. J., aro rather interesting. It will be seen that the jary have returned a verdict ef murder in the first de- gree against Thomas Pierce for killing Thomas Blum with an axe. The evidence in the case of Robert W. Cranton, for causing the death of the colored waiter at Hoboken, last Fourth of July, was yesterday closed, and counsel on both sides summed up. It will be seen that the Court con- cluded not to hold the prisoner for murder in the first degree. On reference to our maritime columns it will be teen that over twelve hundred persons yesterday | left this pert in the California steamers, viz :— seven hundred and fifty in the Star of the West, and four hundred and eighty-eight in tho Illinois. Among those who went out in the latter vessel was Miss Catherine Hoyes, the celebrated frish vocalist. Turn to the inside pages for a series of unusually interesting letters from Utica, Wisconsin, Michigaa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Santa Fe; Descrip- tion of the Sale of Mr. David A. Comatock’s Pro- perty, at New Brighton; the Agricultural Show, including the prizes awarded for Horses, Cattle, and Sheep; Theatrical and Musical; Commercial Reviews; Court Reports, and many columns of mis cellaneous reading and advertisements. Cuba and the United States—The Crescent City Question. “Controversy, sir,” says the lawyer in the play, “every poesible proposition is susceptible of contro- versy.”’ We must bear thie carefully in mind when we read the conflicting opinions of our cotempo- rariee on the recent outrages on the American flag in Cuba. We must constantly repeat to. ourselves, that if @ paper in Wall street were to assert that | Millard Fillmore is President of this republic, a paper in Nassau street would be found to deny is. If the Courier were to assure its readers that the sun shines at mid-day, the Journal would forthwith bring a battery of logic and precedent to bear on the rash statement. We cannot fancy a clearer case than that of the | Crescent City. This country is on the most perma- | nent terms of amity with Spain. Weare, if not the best, at all events a very considerable purchaser of The treaty of 1795 is still in force, and centains the fol- lowing express provision:— The twe high contracting parties, hoping that the good correspondence and friendship which happily reigns be- | tween them, will be further increased by tmis treaty, and that it will continue to augment their prosperity and + all the extension and favor which the advantages of countries mey require, Towhich may be added the firs! article of the Florida treaty, as follows:— ‘There shall be @ firm and inviolable peace, anf sincere friendship, between bis Catholic Majesty, his successors and subjects. and the United States and their citizens, without exception of persons and places. Under these formal treaties, and under the reli- ance placed in the good faith of both governments, | a Jarge and important trade has sprung up bet Cuba and this country. A line of mail s ers plies regularly between New York and Havana, not less for the convenience of the residents of the island than for the use of our mercantile community. notice or warning to our government, the Captain General of Cuba breaks off the intercourse between the United States and the island, and refuses to al- low the mail steamer to enter the harbor of Havana. Such being the state of matters, suddenly,without any | this country, he is answerable to our courte; for whatever viclations ef the most tyrannical of ihe Cuban laws and police regulations he has committed at Cubs, be ia lisbie tothe severest punishment the despotic tribunals of that island can award; but to punish him st Cuba, for alleged constructive tresson committed here, is a novelty in juris- pradence which lawyers will scarcely credit. It is the unquestionable right of every American citizen to visit apy country with which we are ailied—to travel over it from north to south, from east to west, carefully respecting its laws and usages; and further, when he returns home, to ex- ercise on what he has seen and heard the Same liberty of speech as he is entitled to enjoy with regard to the institutions, men and mannerg, of hie own country. Any attempt to curtail that right is a direct aggression upon the United Statea; and when accompanied by the aggravating circamstan- cea which marked the treatment of the Crescent City, is, ae we said, tantamount toa declaration of war. Furthermore, it is an undoubted principle of in- ternational law, that while foreigners are always subject to the laws of the country in which they are resident, the arbitrary punishment of a foreigner, ; without the formality of a tria}, and full oppor- tunity afforded him to exoulpate himself, is an ag- gression which will be promptly resented by the nation to which he belongs. This principle was ex- prosely acknowledged by the treaty with Spain, to which we have alladed above, the ninth article of which secures to the citizens or subjects of the United States and Spain free access to the courts of justice of the other in all cases; and provides that all cases eball be prosecuted “by order and authority of law only,” and that the parties shall have liberty of counsel and defence. Yet, we find the Cuban authorities punishing Mr. Smith for an alleged offence, without affording him either the means of ascertaining the exact charge against him, or an opportunity of confronting his accusers, or the assis tanee of a counsel—which, we presume, even in Cuba, is not denied to the meanest criminal. He is tried and convicted in his absence, on the informa. tion of a set of rascally spies, and the punishment is forthwith inflicted. It is hardly necessary to explain that Cuba hes not dared to go farther than forbidding him, and the vessel on board of which he is employed, the access of the island. Even Canedo’s fool hardiness scrupled to outstep this measure of vengeance. But to Mr. Smith this punishment is necessarily severe— it amounts to depriving him of his means of subsis, tence. Ifwe allow the principle to go forth un- questioned to the world, that a foreign power, with which we are on terms of friendship and amity, may inflict punishment on our eitizens for alleged offen- ces, without the formality of a trial, or an opportu- nity of defending themselves, then indoed the once honored title of an American citizen will be a poor passport abroad. In olden time, the most barbar- ous nation shrank back in dismay when a foreign- er, arraigned before their rude courts, boldly pro- claimed that he was a Roman citizen; and in the present day, even Austrian and French tyranny | dare not inflict injury on an Englishman. Shall it be said that we are less careful of the interests of our citizens? Shall foreigners boast of the protection afforded them by their governments, while we allow and punish—for we must bear in mind that this is a Cuba—one of our citizens with impunity? Forbid it Heaven. A Novex Mops or Reconcitine Tut Parsoxs — The newspaper conflict which hae been for several weeks past conducted with sueh acrimony and ferocity between two holy, pious, and reverend pastors of the Christian fold, in this community, involving the question of mutual veracity, threa- tens to shake the very institutions of the church itself, from centre to cireumference. We have | before alluded to this terrible rupture, arising out of a misconception of a sentiment attributed to Dr. Joel Parker, in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” The Docter, in endeavoring to exact from the suthoress a retraction of the offensive paragraph, became embroiled with the lady’s brother—anotker ecclesiastical firebrand—the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Each of these belligerent parties having at his disposal a religious weekly newspaper—the former the Observer and the latter the Independent— bas been assailing through its columns the charac- ter of his antagonist; and charges of forgery and falsehood have been interchanged betwoen them ag freely, and with as little delicacy of Ianguage or sen- timent, ac if they had chosen for their model in this scurrilous war, the New York organ of socialism, Fourieriem and billingsgatism—our philosophical cotemporary, the Tribune. Indeed, it would appear that the infidel notions, circulated by that journal, are not much at variance with the feeling of these reverend men, since its columns have been also very appropriately pressed into their service. But what strikes us as peculiarly judicious, though somewhat amusing, in this affair, is that another of the religious journal confraternity— 7! church from scandal, and reconcile the belligerent prieste, actually resorts to the novel plan of pugning the veracity of both. It seems to think that they lie all round, and that none of them are worthy of belief. Like two naughty boys at schovl, who have been giving each other the lie, their pr ceptor knocks their heads together, telling t that they have been both fibbing; Evang le ist, in a long article designed to pon the troubled waters,” makes use of the fi ing re- | mark, which, eppropriate as it is, must be confessed We do not pretend to be deeply versed in the pria- | | condition of the church :— ciples of international law; but we have a dim re- collection that some authors have construed a lesz grave outrage than this, not as a mere atoned for by an empty apology, but as an ab: declaration of war. It is true that the repre: tive of Spain has not yet been recalled from ington; but we ask it, in all candor, can the recall of an ambassador be a more direct, explicit rapture of our relations with Spain than the refusal te ad- mit our veesels into the harbors of Cuba? From ordering the Crescent City to sheer off, to capturing her, and adjudging her as a prize in the Havana | Admiralty Court, there is but a hort etep; yet a little more forbearance on our part, and we shal have this to chronicle. Let us examine the alleged grounds on which the Crescent City has been erdered off. The Diario de la Marina tells us that the purser, Mr. Smith, has been, during his visits to Havana, in the habit of collecting intelligence of the disafiection prevailing among the Creoles, and communicating the same to parties here on his return. This conduct, it, seems, renders him so dangerous an enemy that the Cuban authorities are justified in to allow any vessel to touch, on board of which he may happen to be. We do not thimk that the whole annals of despotiem can furnish a parallel to this reasoning. If Mr. Smith hes committed any euch acte as those Jaid to his charge, they were committed in the United States, whore courts cam alone take cognizance thereof. Captain-Ceneral Canedo might, with equal show of right, attempt to stop the iseuing of tiis paper, because we have foretold the inevitable consequences of his folly and tyranny, as | to punish Mr. Smith for his conduct at Now York. It is an impudent assumption of authority, which neither law nor reason, nor even expedisnoy, can justify. It is impossible, of course, to draw an ex- | act parallel between a froe country like the United States, and a miserable den of tyranny like Cuba; but if we can overcome the repugnance necessarily attendant on such an hypothesis, let us suppose for ® moment that it was declared treasonable to agi- tate against the Fugitive Slave law. Is there any sene man who would expect fora moment that we would think of excluding the Cunard steamers from our ports because they had a dozen Exeter Hall fanati ce on board ? a very supposition is ridieu- t - 1 F whiteve the Ia Lt 6 veof the rs wag hare yvinmliad ia | | to be by no means flattering to the present mora! We do not believe in the truth of either of the cone! sions sought to be established in nals (the Observer and the Independ This is the most sensible observation, or commen- tary, we have yet read in any of the sanctimonious papers, in reference to this ecclesiastical dispute. We commend it to both the parties; and though, for the sake of religion, we might not have wished it to come under the observation of the laity general- | ly, yet, a8 the harm hasalready been done by tho publication of it, we have no reason, as we might desire, to suppress it. We are afraid, howe this state of things progresses much fartherit will be- come necessary for the Bible Society to organize a new mission to convert the ministry, and introduces among them # regard for the virtues of trath, pr tience, meckness, gentlenese, and brotherly love; } but in the meantime we would recommend to them to commit to memory, and recite, morning, neon, and night, until the medicine operates fully, the little hymn in which the following verse occurs :~- But, children. you should never let Your ai paesions rise; Your little hands were never made ‘To tear each other's eyes.” We have no doubt that if our simple prescription be faithfully followed, the church will have less eauee in future to deplore the unseemly conduct of her ministers. We hope such will be the cage. Mn. WepsTm AND THE Scorr Wuras.—It appoars that the plot by which a few of the trading po! ciane of this city were to transfer the body of Mr. Webster's friends to the support of Seward and bis ticket for the Presidency, has signally failed. Like the Nova Scotians, with regard to their codish, or the government of Peru, in relation to the guano of the Lobos Islands—the inner Lobos and the outer Lobor—Mr. Webster falls back upon his ved rights, and is determined, happen what may, to stand the fire. Seward whigs let the cat cut of the bag too soon, the petty provincial authorities of Cuba to insult | punishment inflicted by the modern inquisition of | Evangelist—in ite praiseworthy efforts to save the | if | | Sate of “increasing and multiplying,” and their game is exploded. Mr. Webster's friends | may keep up their Webster ticket and welcome. He desires them to do it, if we may judge from the tone of hie Boston organs; and from this time out we doubt not he will remaia shut up against all the approaches of the Seward-Scott mer, as tight ar an unopened oyster. Fon Evuncvg.=The royal inail eteawship As Lott. jeft Ler dors ot jareay Vy 98 noon you Liegea. ° ‘ap taln om vent of Mahomet, Chi Some over zoulous Wobster-Scott- | be ¥ Mermon Progress an@ ‘Mermon Newspapers. ‘We have received by the.Jast mail from Utah, the Deseret News of 7th and 2ist August. Curieus papers they are—tolerably well got up in point of typography, and not inferior in style to many of the minor New York prints, such as the Buxpress, the Day ‘Bock, the Mirror, and the Tribwie. As might be expected, they contrast favorably with the Millennial Star—the organ of the English Mor- mons—whieh is published at Liverpool, England. Tho leaders are addressed ‘To the Saints,” which does not prevent their centaining a very fair sample of mundano philosophy and pradence. The leader of August 7th, for instance, begins thus:—‘‘ The kingdom of God is our theme;” but if you run your eye a little further down, your will find that other themes, (such as the obligation to pay tithes,) usurp afair share of the article—in fact, that between ‘travelling elders,” and ‘working elders,” and “public works,” and “the saints,” the ‘kingdom of heaven” gets rather the worst of it. It appears that even among “ the saints,” the tax gatherer has ahardtime. He says, poor fellow, in the naiveté of his disappointment, ‘‘ the public works most pro- bably will be suspended until such time as the brethren can feel and understand that mon cannot live without eating.” Ah! there’s the rub. The “elders at home ” have been driving such a proit- able trade with the California emigrants, of late, that tithes are wofully in arrear. The editor oftho Nas is proportionately eloquent. Like the apos. tles of all previous religions, he wields the fulmen divinum. ‘Without the complete ordinances of the House of the Lord,” says he—meaning until the temple is roofed, shingled and plastered—‘ there is no perfect talvation!”’ A cart load of shingles “‘covereth a multitude of sins,” and a week’sateady labor at the walls makes a man As sure of heaven as if he'd criboed ‘Th’ impression of St. Peter’s keys in wax. We find ample traces of the animosity which pre- vails between the Mormons and their accusers: Whenever opportunity offere, we are slashed by the News. Allusions to the profligacy of New York, and the riots in Pennsylvania, are constantly made, and the speeches at the 24th of July celebration are very spicy. President Brigham Young care- fully abstained from these exciting topics; but the speakers who followed him evinced less prudence. General Wells is very severe on the late James K, Polk and the United States government. He winds up in an appeal to the people to “drive from office | every ingrate, high or low, who shall, under any pretence whatever, desecrate by his polluted pre- sence the temple of liberty,” with the following fine peroration :—“‘ If this is sedition, then I am not alone guilty; and if gentlemen peliticians feel themselves aggrieved, all I ask is for them to hold me alone responsible, and not, as heretofore, seck to bring down condign punishment upon a whole com- | | munity for the honestly-ex, d sentiments of a | tingle individual.” The Hea. Geo. A. Smith, a | portion of whose speech we give in this day’s paper, was, as will be soen, still more pointed in his at- | tacks on the government ; and it cannot be denied | that his language was eharacterised by a high order | ef eloquence. Indeed, when we look back on the | past history of the Mormons—their persecutions in | | New York and Missouri—their cruel sufferings in | Mllinois—their ead fate at Nauvoo—the fatal termi- nation of the career of their high priest, and, final- ly, their present position, isolated, in a vast desert, mid-way between the civilization ef the East and | the nascent civilization of the West—we can readily understand how the most unlettered should utter words of fire on an occasion such as the anniversary of their arrival at Salt Lake. We, too, may leara a lesson from Hon. Geo. A. Smith’s pertinent iater- rogatories; and though we cannot admire the pro- | sody or the style, we may appreciate the practical truth of the Mormon song :— Let whige and democrats agree To atir up party strife ; Aud thus shall opposition be The very hinze of life. Dut hark’ee! now the time ie nigh ‘When righteousness shell reign : The Mormon vote will cast the die ‘When they eball vote again There ie a good deal of quackery in the letters | published in the News, from travellers returning thanks for the kindness they have experienced in Salt Lake Valley. They may, of course, be genu- | ine, like the Earl ef Aldborough’s certificate in fa yor of Holloway’s pille and ointment; but one is al- ways inclined tosuspect a man who summonses wit- nesses as to character. Polygamy is delicately handled. One of the News's correspondents says | that “he docs not know whether Brigham Young has sixteen or sixteen hundred wives,” but supposes “the has no more than he can make tolerable provi- sion for;’* and the editor himself, in alluding to the proposition of some mad Shakers to abolish matri- mony in Massachusetts, remarks that ‘‘there is but one short step from the one wife system tothe no | wife system, which,” he adie, ‘‘would be more re- spectable and christi ike’ than the fashionable immorality of the ent day. Jolly times we should have, if Shakers or Mormons had it all their own way. In the sermon preached by Elier Orson Pratt, | Which ocoupies several columns of the News, there ismuch eloquence, mingled with nota little pro- ity. The first sentence isa fair sample of the he- neous compound :— e been requested to preach the fun { |rother Levi Savage, who died iast Decem- ming to this place this morning, I have each the funeral sermons of severti have died in Bugiand; and I have con- iting my address to any one inii- ch whet may be considered a general ) the saints that have died in all | ages and generations. with elithat ehall die heres end the funeral nof all thore who are not gai and wlso the faneral ccrmon of the beavems and tl earth.” The preacher goes on to remark that Brandre' pills cannot cure sin, and expounds how, after the | rerurrection, al} men are to inhabit this earth, when | “farmers will have great ferme,’ and all the blessed will be so accommodated that exch man shall have a hundred ond fifty sores of land, in that mil lennialera. Salvation being thus measurod by the , Elder Pratt describes the style of dress which be worn in hie terrestrial heaven: ‘ Flaxen | robes,”’ it seems, are to be the fashion. To fill up the “spare portions,” which the sagacious Elde: | foresees will exist, the bleesed will have every oppor- votil “the earth is filled up.” Bat enough of such stuff. To be serious, a glance at the progress of Mor- mons ought to beget other thoughts than mere pleasantries. The strides which the sect is making entitle them to grave consideration. Thousands of teams are constantly leaving the settlements in the Western States for Utah. In Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Greece, Malta, Hindostan, Australia, and South America, countless missions have been } | established, and are prospering. But a few yoars ago they were 2 mere family ; they are now counted by hundreds of thousands, pnd the zeal for prose- lytism is incrersing instead of flagging. To us, especially, is their progress a matter of deep import; if they continue as they have begun, a very brief period will elapse before the neighborhood of Utah Lake contains a poworful nation. For our part, All creeds ve view with toleration thorough, ‘And bave a kerror of regarding Hearen ‘As anybody's rotten borouga. But, looking at Mormonism rather as a polity than a religion, we think its advancement is one of the most alarming features of the age. Were this country, through any extraordinary combination of adverse circumstances, to fall into the same state of decay as marked the Asiatic nations at the ad. istians might, indeed, view | the progres of Mormonism with jealousy and dread. In the midst of an active and intellizent people, | with an orgsnized government, it never can do much harm. | been reque: of the sain cluded, inste vidual cate, to pre funeral termon wa One ofthe branches of the Corporetion has pass- | eda voto authorizing Joha P. Hale te occupy the Go- | yernor’s room, 90 called, to see hie friends on his | orrival in this city. The next motion will be to open | ase, and every uneway negro bas OF ecarwe y ae tt Te ol! | the Southern Press. a great difference in prices. | beem to the different offices ‘Tar Re.arivs Paices oy Apvenrisinc—WHICH 18 THB Cuxzarse?!—We find that very extensive ignoranee prevails in the community in reference to the relative prices of advertising in the different newspapers of this city, and of the United States in general. There is, in many quarters, total mis- apprehension as te the value of the work done, and the cheapest and best mode of obtaining the object of the advertiser It is imagined by many persons that if an advertisement is inserted in one journal for less money than in another, it is, therefore, “quite a bargain,” while the journal that charges the higher price is set down as exorbitant in its de- mands. It is never taken into consideration by these Solons, whom the chambermaids could teach ® little common sense, that advertising in some journals may be dear at any price, no matter how low, while in others the value given is so great that an advertisement would be really cheap at twice or thrice the amount charged. Ob- jections are made from time to time to the bills of the Hzna.p, by those who labor under this dolusion, while those who understand the matter in its proper light, cheerfully pay the prices, believing that they have got more than the worth of their money, ani that in no journal in the world is an advertisement inserted so cheaply as in the columns of the New Yorr Henard. Inorder once for all to remove mis apprehension, and to set the inexperienced right, we select two cases in point. The first isan adver- tisement of the Navy Agent, which was inserted fourteen times in this journal, and for which $12. were charged. The account was as follows: creer ged Rt bean. for Coal and Wood, Sepa ND Sra ‘14 times... Perrreerrirr ire The advertiser “Ohjectod to the al tee, on pee ground that the Courier inserted the same for $13; but when he was made to understand that the cir- culation of the Heraxp is 40,000, while that of the Courier is about 4,000, and that, therefore, he had received ten times the amount of value, he at once paid the bill, and, we presume, was satisfied that our charge was by far the mcre moderate of the two; for, if we had made out the bill aecording to the ratio of our circulation, as compared with that of the Courier, it would have been $180, instead of $42. The second case is that of Mr. R. J. Moses; and the account of the HERraLp was presented as follows :— June 1, 1852. Advertising Bill for Partition, Franklin Cir’ cuit Court, in Chancery, Mordecai Myers vs. Wm. Howland, &.. &c. 30 lines, 8 times, at $3 50 per insertion.. + $28 00 Mr. Moses, it seems, was dissatisfied, and ad- dressed us the following communication, enclosing the bill of the Sowhern Press for the same adver- tisement :— Oorumnvs, Ga, Oct. 14. 1852. Drax Sin—I find, in comparing your bill with [nes of ave here. and they think that your clerk must certainly have made an error, I enclose your bill, and that of the Southern Press, for examination and correction, lease, in your answer, return the bill of Seuthern Press and let_me know the amount of yours, and I will send you a check on Salters & Co.. of yourcity, for that and a year's subscription to daily Henao, which please forward tome. Yours truly, . J, MOSES, Solicitor, Columbus, Ga. To Jars Gonpox Bexnerr, Esq., New York. R. J. Moss, Esq. To Southern Prees, Dr For eight insertions of am advertisement entitled “ Sill of Partition,” in the Seuthern Press, between the 10th June, 1852, end the 9h August, 1852—and ccompy'ing f four squares,...... 9 00 Now, the cireulation of the Southern pa Wag somewhere about fifteen hundred, or at most two thousand, and if the Henan were paid in the samo proportion, according to its circulation, the amount would be one hundred and eighty dollara, instead of twenty-eight—the number of sheets issued by us being at least twenty times as great as that of the | Southern Press, when it had an ephemeral exist- ence. That journal is long since dead, and the idea of putting the value of an advertisement in its columns, or in the columns of similar journals, of Isttle or no dirculation, on @ level with the value of an advertisement in the HERALD, with its forty thousand daily impreeeions, and sixty thousand of te Sunday and weekly circulation, all over the United Stetes and the world, and read by probably half a million of persons daily, is simply ridicu- ou, and in a mercantile and business point of view shows profound ignorance, or, certainly, great want of consideration on tho part of those who fall into such a mistake. They might just as well go to a job printing office, and ask its proprietor to print 40,060 handbills at the same price for which another printer had dene 2,000 or 4,000 of the same kind. It is thus plain that the thing will not stand the test of examination, and that, ofall journals in the United States, the Herav is decidedly the cheapest and beet mode of communicating with the public ; and it is a fact that reflects creditably upon the growing intelligence of the age, that the majority of advertisers, including the sensible chambermaids, have found out this secret, and more and more aro beginning to find it out every day, to their own in- calculable advantage. Mraxyeas op THE Party Press.—Among that portion of the New York press which deals in per- sonality, in default of argument, and not eontent with assoiling its opponents with the nobler wea: pons of debate, &teeps its shafts in the venom of private malignity, the Evening Post and Daily Trilune axe unquestionably pre-eminent. Whether from unwillingness or inability, the Post and the | Trivwne seldom probe a question of political econo- my or statermanship to the bottom—a superficial notice of the points at issue amply satisfies them, and they straightway relapse into the more conge- nial department of perronal abuse. We have a beautiful illustration of this feature in , the Post, in its recent controversy with Governor Hunt. The facts are as follows:—In 1839, Mr. Hunt was a large stockholder in the North Ameri- cen Trust and Banking Company, and obtained from them a loan of $85,000, for which he gave his bond, with collateral security to tho amount of $50,000. Though the bond wag enly duo eleven months afterwards, the company, being pressed for money, disposed of $40,000 worth of the collateral securities, at » heavy discount, while the bond had yet seven months to run. At its maturity, Mr. Hunt refaeed payment of the bond, claiming that | the stocké, and other collateral securitios disposed of by the company were a set-off to the full amount. ‘The litigation which ensued turned .on this point; but Mr. Hunt’s attorney, as every pradent legal ad- viser would have done in the like circumstances, raised a second minor issue, on a plea of usury The referee reported in favor of Mr. Hunt on the first plea, viz: that the disposal of the collatera securities deposited by Mr. Hunt, before the bond fell due, was equivalent to a psyment ofthe amount. edyanced. Willit be believed that tho editor of the Post, who has got hold of the report of tho case, blunderingly asserte that Mr. Hunt attempted to avoid payment of ® moral obligation ona tech. nical plea of usury, and eharges the Governor with a want of probity ? We should be doing the Evening Post an injus- tice, were we to aceuse it of wilfully misconstruing and misrepresenting the report of the suit. It is por- fectly clear that it was utterly incompetent to un- derstand s word of it. The Post saw the word “asury,”” and, in its reckless anxiety to fur- ther ite party views, forthwith conjured up an imeginary case of dishonesty. There would be a degree of unfairness in making a crime o¢ ite want of diveernment; the editor, after all, is perhepe not perronally to blame, if he could not comprehend what every man, however slightly verted in legal proceedings, can soe at once, viz: first, that the plea of usury was a mero formal precaution on the part‘of Mr. Hunt’s counsel; and, secondly, that the judgment did not turn on this | point at all. Par be from us the barbarity of taunt- ing any man with his mental deficiencios. But whatever indulgence we may oxtend to mere ignorance, the animus displayed calls for severer censure. Itis a disgrace to the Post, to the press of thie city, to the party whose organ tho Post is sup- posed to be, t thet s man like Washington Hunt can- | not come forward for o political office without see- i) harpi ‘at of sear | 'e laid tog bie yrivaie ven to pil ty, eed ale elk @lack the publi feelings, that the highest offices in the State will bee eome tho prey of the callous, who redeem their want. of capacity be an inexhaustible fund of brazen im- pudence—men whose cheek vould be unconseieus ef ® blush, if they knew that the most intimate de- tails of their private life, their family seorets, their wives, their sisters, were common topies of scandal in the pot-house and the barroém. Witness the- articles which have appeared in this Presidential canvass! Pierce painted by the Tribune and its imitators as a drunkard, a gambler, a coward— Beott reviled by the democratic press on similar grounds—the leading men on either side openly charged with every stain which can defile humanity and manhood—the lie, and imputations of vesiali- ty fastened on every whig, who conseientious- ly stood forward as a supporter of the hero of Chepultepec—a gross invasion of the domestic life of one of the leading editors on the other aide, - by the Hon. John M. Botts and his organs. Will the people of this country never rise from their apa- thetic indifference, and teach such men as Mr. Botts, and euch papers as the Pest, that personal abuse is not only unbecoming, but directly fatal ta him who uces it? We care not whether Mr. Hunt is a whig or a de- mocrat. Wo are not dependent on the papof either party for our support, crave no favors, and show none. If Mr. Munt’s policy has proved detrimental to the State, let him be superseded ; if he has dis- charged the duties ef his office efficiently, let him be re-elected. But, if from no higher metive, at: Teast for the honor of the press—for the name ef the people of New York abroad—let not the discussion of his merits be disgraced by allusions to details of his private life which are of no public interest what- ever, and can only pander to the prurient taste of degraded demagogues. More Muxc Manner News —Our highly respectable and conecientious contemporaries, the Commercial Adver- tiser and Evening Post, gave in thelr last evening's issues atelegrapbic despatch. dated “ New Orleans, Oct, 19th.’? which commences thus :— The demand for cotton is less active than it was,” &c. Our own despatch, of the same date, which may be found in another column of thig morning’s Hrra.p, say * Cotton has been in active demand to-day, and the sales reached nime thousand balee, at firm prices.”’ The despatch, as published in thy Commercial and Post, is @ mere rehash of our own dezpatch of the 18th, published by us yesterday morning, day THURLOW Waep has been very much troubled o¢ late. He hae been running all the time between Albany and New York, trying to manage Joha P. Hale and the abolitionists ; also, Daniel Webster and the congervatives; algo, Minthorne Tompkins, and his half dozen of freesoilers. Greeley is alsoranning at large, trying to manage the Irish, the Germans, the socialists, the epirit-knockers—to say nothing of the Hero himself, making forty speeches, pronouneing, the pronouns ‘I myself, I,” two hundred and forty- ene times, and a trifle. But all wont do. General Pierce will be elected by a tremendous majority, and no mistake. United Si 8 Marshal’s Office. Ocr, 20.—arvest of @ Cuban Vessel in this Pert.—The United States Marshal bas arrested the bark Jasper for violation of the laws of the United States, she being in. this port under the American flag, and with an Ameri- can register, whilst she fs alleged to be a Cuban vessel be- longing to ene José Mora. Court Calendar—This Day. ie xp States Pare 1 Nes rity 18, 91 to 100. . 09, 12; 4, 656, 508,500, 604,508,608, 810, 872, 1. 290, 366. 874, 576, 10. 14 ee Court—Gerera, TerM.—Million trust case etill on. Svrenion Covrt—Two branches.—Nos. 379. 444, 450, 153, 288, 200, 245, 269 372 836, 248. 18. 451, 452, 453, 454, 458, 461, ‘464, 485, 465, 1064 488. 469, 246, 324. 333, 356, 478, 479 482,483, 484. 485, 500. Fine Cutlery.—The Subscriber's Assortment ma 471, 472, 473, 477, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 492, 494, 495, 496, 497, 499, 985, of pen, pocket, and sportemen’s knive all the diferent styles’ of Joseph Rodgers & tare making the richest display of the kind *o be city. SAUNDERS, No. 7 Yautor House, and ‘hy Broadway. Parisian Cloaksand Maentillas.—Atthe ype Mantilla Emporinm, 361 Broadway, may now be ecen lection of novelties inthe above name: cote vepesios Poth in style and richness, to any th: eubmitted to the dirrinivating taste nd Judgment of the idles of thie metropolis. The proprietor, Mr. GEO, BULPIN, having tho Sdvanceres of & thoroughly soquired European know! of bis business, combines ith many years experience in th! city, may jnetly be considered as at the hoad of this par- yy branch of trad d we sarnestly § Lae Mya 4 friends, whether they want a trave bs ollars, 2 velvet from thirty to forty. deters broidere: one from ay ton Hund red dole = tate to pay & vieit to this esteblie To Manufacturers of La Mantillas - on ae Giepaten. Caiband see these ‘Machines in. o operation’ te the offiee, No. 25 SINGER & CO. Singer’s Sewing Machines at tire lage Crowds of persone sre constantly gathering abcot the durious and Ingenio sy now exbibiting at the Pate Grave American Institute. Principal office fof the sale of Ahese machines is 80S8 Broadway. Rich Carpeting.—Smith & eee on mo M8 Pearl street, are now prepared to exhibit their fi shyles, yter tag and desir: rich volvet tapestry, Brussels, threo: ets. Also, a choice as to the carpet trad ee that challenge Housekeepers, Look to your Interest,—The great English and American carpet de depot, and regulator of trade pri: HIRAM Thy el wet ny En tapertr il, ofothe, lis carpets, 78., Lah 4 6d., 88., Be. 6d.; Ingrain reieeias at 38 62., » Ot 5a. Grvggets, four yards wider and tiireo ply carpet, Os Ga.,"fo., 80.y--tho greatest bargains ever offered ia this ef Take heed—whisper low.—! lessly, fit~ fully ftutters her breath, hope seems a vain folly—this mus th. “grits one cheerfully, “look not so tenr- 52, a.8 balm, in agora; that, wilt calm reatore—health’s glow roplage,” MRS JER- VIS’ cold candy, is admitted to Hee Sts for saimeieee complaints. Sold by Mrs. W. Jer: ‘Broadway. pGalters for 12 and 14 Shillin Ts je griters, of handsome and exceedingly Somforeable to the feet, a1 TR. Sos Beyrory, A¢ the above low prices. Ladies, call and make a purchase. French Imported Shoes.—Messrs, Hill &. COLBY have uate reosived, per Franklin, © new sortment of handsome slippers, among whioh is new sty e of (Jeanne Mat) gaiters of all colore, bu and every other stylo of walking shoo that is No. 622 Broadway, third door from Spring The Striding Progress of things generally, in this country. seems like & dream, but the pers of MRS. 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