The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1852, Page 4

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WOOD'S MINETRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- | way —Ernsoriay Minerrevsy. Bew York, Monday, October 25, 1s53 The News. Daniel Webster is dead. He breathed his last at ‘twenty-two minutes before three o’clock yesterday Morning. This lamentable event, at the prosent mement, is uppermost in the minds of the larger portion of the American people. A general gloom pervades the land. In thus parting with the last ef the illustrious trio of intellectual giants-- @lay, Webster and Calhoun—whose statesmanship aad oratory over:hadowed all their colleaguoe—our eountrymeh keenly foel that a vacuum is left in their Iegislative and administrative councils, that may mever again be filled. We elsewhore give a mi- | uate account of the last moments, together with a | @orrest biography, of Mr. Webster. Of his emi- ment qualitics we have spoken at considerable length im another article. The peculiar construction of @ur rotary presses will account for our non-com- Dlianee with the general custom on such occasions— that of dressing our paper in motirning. Jn our columns to day, will be feund the electoral | *ickets, which are to be voted for on the 2d proximo, ofeach party in every State of the Union, exeept | Bosth Carolina, whose electoral college is selected | Dy the Legislature, instead of being voted for direct- | by by the people, asin the other States. Through | phese electors, the voters of this great country cast | their euffrages for the individual they think most fit. | ting to fill the highest office which can possibly be | bestowed upon aman by avy country. The electors are presumed to entertain views corresponding with | those from whom they receive their support, and it | Se supposed they will cast their votes, when elected, #0 elevate the man for whom the masses of the party e which they belong have announced their prefer- | ence; but there is no legal restraint upon them—no- | thing obligatory except their own sense of honor— | to prevent them from voting for whoever they may | think most fit. We believe there never were but two cases, where an individual has proved recreant to the high confidence reposed in him im this parti- @ular—one of which was in Pennsylvania, in 1796; «nd another in this State, in 1824—which proves | that the trust has been vory generally confided to ight-minded men, and men of sterling integrity and honor. And we know of only one instance where an electoral candidate has refused toacknow- ledge his preferamce forany particular individual, for the office of President, and that is the case of one of the present free soil candidates in Massachu- setts, who publicly stated after his nomination, that ‘#f elected, he should vote for either of the candi- dates, without regard to the preferences of the party by which he was nominated; but as there is little chance of his succeeding, no fears need be enter- tained that any bad procedont will grow out of the peculiar notions of this eccentric free soiler. [a oonse quence of tlie death of Mr. Webster, the va- vious tickets put forward in support of the great statesman for the Presidency, ine number of the | Btatee, have, of course, been withdrawn, and the ontest is now more directly between the candidates of the democratic, whig, and free eoil parties. A Southern Rights mevement was begun in Georgia, with Governor Troup at its head, but its existence was ephemeral, and it nover gained sufficient strength to form o full ticket, but three names hay- ng been presented of the ten electorsto which that | adjustment of tho Oregon dispute, which, as is woll | Btate is entitled. A despatch from Baltimore announces that a rather curious flare-up took place at the whig bar- beeouc last Saturday. The lion. Daniel I’. Jenifer, formerly a membir of Congress, and afterwards Minister to Russia, presided in the early part of the day. Eventually, to the utter amazement of the Beott men in the assemblage, Mr. J. aroze and re- marked that he “' “ wished to make kaown why he | could not vote for Gen. Scott.” This was enough— the ehairman was not allowed to proceed further, but was immediately hustled from his position. All | attempts at explanation proved abortive, and the Gentleman was finally compelled to leave the ground. By telegraph from Baltimore, we have accounts Of disasters to two or three more vessels, by the ro- Sent storm on the Southern coast. B. Sperry, a young fireman at New Haven, was yesterdsy killed by the falling of the chimnoys of a house that had been set on fire by an incendiary. According to our telegraphic reports from New | Orleans, a pretty brisk business appoars to be doing im cotton, at steady prices, while at Charleston, prices are declining. The presentment of the Grand Jury, which we publish to-day, should be read by every citizen. It will be seen that the patients and children now being taken care of at Bellevue Hospital, Randall's | Island, Lunatic Asylum, and the Almshouse, number 3,141 persons, and the convicts and vagrants in th® | Penitentiary amount to 1,133, One hundred and seventy-two true billa wore found during the session ef the jury. The majority of the jury make many @aggestions relative to the regulation of municipal | affairs, which is protested against by the minority, but which nevertheless should meet with the prompt | Sonsideration of thote officers whose business it is to Book after the moral aud sanitary interests of the sity. By turning to our inside pages, the reader will Gad an interesting review, by a Southerner, of ‘Mrs. Stowe’s work entitled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin;” | Letter from our Boston Correspondent, giving an utline of political and other events in Massachu- setts; Statement relative to the American Squadron im the Mediterranean ; Extraordinary Letters from the Black Policitians of the North to President Almonte during the Mexican War; Letter from | General Pierce during the same war; Aifairs in the Haytien Empire; Seduver Shot by his Victim, in Milwaukie; Decisions, &c , in the Court of Appeals; Address to the Citizens of New York relative td the Pretervation of the Public Health, and numerous Jocal and ‘other paragraphe—add to all which, there are many columns of advertisements which eontain a great deal of valuable as well as curious Seforwation of every description | sign of the republics, now known and honored through | the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and tro | the Mexican war, through the fear that new acces- | sions of territory might endanger the | skill as a diplomatist and a statesman. Death of Dantel Webster. Ere the ink with which these lines are traced shall © NETT. Dave ceased to moisten the page, the spirit of one ofthe greatest of Americem statesmen will have | fled from the earth. While we write, circle of - agonized friends surrounds the death-bed at Marsh- field, who have just contomplated the !ast workiugs of that prodigious mind whove influence over our history has been surpassed by no other states- | man, eave only the immortal Washington His voice has ceased to fatter hiradieux : his fading pulse no Jonger throbs : # thrill—the intuitive perception of the fatal close of the struggle—has shot through | the hearts of the bystanders, and Daniel Webster is | no more! | To estimate the loss which has fallen upon the | country, we shall not need to invoke the laudatory | opinions of biographers, or search the volumes of the historian. Every child among us is familiar | with the deeds which have raised Mr. Webster to | the first rank among our grent men Every citizen | can recall, without effort of memory, those sublime | acts which have earned for him the proud title of “Defender of the Constitution.” Written on the | most conspicuous page of our annals, they figure | aswell in every feature of our national greatness, | and are revealed in every incident which reminds | us that the constitution is intact, and the mighty | Union unimpaired. Whenever the statesman shall proclaim his freedom from sectional bias, he will but avouch his adherence to those pat- riotie principles which are inseparably son- nected with the name of Webster: the pledge | @ the aspiring politician—that “he kaows no North, no Seuth, no Hast, no West, but the whole Union” — will go down to posterity as a promise of adherence to the Webster principle; for he was essentially | the man of the whole country, despite the section- al influences of his early education, and the atmo- sphere of narrow prejudice in which he first acquir- ed his notions of politics. In the teeth of angry re- monstrances from his constituent State, and furi- ous attacks from zealous partisans—from the very first his views were large and liberal; his heart sufficiently capacious to embrace the whole of his native Jand. That memorable speech, which muy | fairly challenge a comparison with the highest-efforts of ancient or modern oratory,tke sssond reply to Col. Hayne, on Mr. Foote’s resolutions on the public lands, is Jess a defence of Massachusetts than @ vindication of the indivisibility of the Union; and though the men from Boston burst tike children into passionate tears, when their Senator told of the land “where American liberty raised its first voice ; where its youth was nurtured and sustained; where it still lives In tho strength ef its manhood, and full of its original spirit,” the rush o feeling among his hearers was still more impetuous, when, with flash- ing eyo and swelling voice, he uttored thoee im- perishable words: ‘*When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the gan iu heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of our glorious Union! oa States dis severed, discordant belligerent! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous en- phies streaming in their original lu:tre, not a ctripe erased nor polluted, nota single star obscured ” Nor does his speech in reply to Mr Calhoun, on the Force Bill, afford less conclusive evidence of the deep devo- tion with which he regarded the great work of our forefathers. Less brilliant, less ornate than his re- ply to Col. Hayne, it is more calculated for close study in the cabinet than for the hasty perusal which is usually bestowed on political speeches. Bat it breathes the same sentiments of comprehensive pit- riotiem as its more popular predecessor. On the same broad grounds, Mr. Webster always opposed sting bond of union between the geveral States. In short, from | 1830, when he rebuked the assailants of the East, and raised the banner of the whole country in oppo- sition to that of a part, to his last combat with | nullification, secession, and disunion—to his ever | | memorable speeches on the compromise measures— | be hag never once belied his grand ruling principle: ** Standing on the platform of the general constitu- tion—a platform broad enough and firm enough ‘to | uphold every interest of the whole country—I shall still be found.” tude to his memory. Who knows, if he had not stood on the floor of the Senate, and the platfora, | when the Union was assailed, whethor our national | flag would have been spangled with thirty-one { stars to-day ? | new war against the Dominicans, and present | ers have bern frequent, and thouge not very san- We cannot over estimate the value | of thie virtue in Mr. Webster, or our dobt of grati- | cvuncils of the nation, or in the tribune. We cannot contemplate their lose without other feelings then mere grief No American can call to memory the rervices of these great mon, and recollect the msa ner in which they have been requited, without keen iwingeof remorse. It wasthe boast of Eugland that if the life of her greatest hero had left no daty incom plete, it had likewise left no honor uabestowed. No such consolation is allowed to us Both Clay an4 Webster have gone te the tomb with a large debt ef graritade still dueto them, which thiscountry might have repaid ; both, after spending 4 life of untiring energy and devotion in the publio service, lived to witvers their own contomptucue rejection, and the preferment,of men unquestionably their iaferiors, to the office to which they bad parawount claims. Hayti and | Emperor. The royal negro who rules over the Empire of Hayti appears to be meditating and preparing for a appearances indicate that to this end he is receiving aid and encouragement from parties in this country. The Republic of 8an Domingo im the eastern portion of Hayti, has long ex cited the jealousy and rapacity of Soulouque and hi* predecesvors avd wars between the two petty pow- guinary, yet their continuance has tended much to- wards the impoverishment of the whole island. It has only been wiihin the last twelve months that the resources of both sides being completely ex- hausted, a temporary cessation of hostilities was ta- citly agreed to through sheer necéssity—ths state of war to be resumed at whatever time either of the hostile powers might eonsider itselt prepar ed to renew the struggle. In this menacing and reinous condition have the mutual relations of Hayti and San Domingo stood for nearly twelve months back. In that interval of time, and profiting by the peace, Soulouque has got himeelf solemnly crowned in his eapital, with all the pomp and ceremony usual on such great occa- sions. He has aizo recruited and re-equipped his army, and placed it on as effective a footing as the resources of his empire would permit. He has been distributing eagles and crosses of the Legion of Honor, and ravks end titles, and, iu fact, imitating, in every particular, the modes resorted to by tho most splendid ausocrats to ensure or to reward the fidelity of hisarmy. The address from the throne to the congregated wisdom of his empire, in Senate as- sembled—a translation of which we publieh in another column—is a dooument worthy of standing side by side with those which are periodically read } Webster. It will be difficuls to fill their place in the | on that occasion Why, the stevedores and porters at our wharves would disdain to commit so huwi- Hating ‘an Betion as that; they have more sel'-re- spect than to address an ignorant savage like Sou- on terms of equality, much leas play the sycophant to him, and address him in terms such only as are used to popes and autocrats by their own subjects, but which true republicans would scorn to deseendto And to whom are such expressions usted? To ® common ignorant negro, who was intended by nature rather to carry a whitewash bucket, assist ip unloading ships at the wharves, work in a sugar plantation, or earn his bread by any other employ- ment of drudgery, than to occupy the position be now bolds, or to be the recipient of such homage a8 that paid to him by the Mesers Mendel. But euch tributes as these, from the merchants of this latitude, to Faustin the First, only give indica- tions of the spirit which is secretly at work among them and the abolitionists, to puff up the importance of the Haytien empire, and, if possible, proeure its recognition by our government. In this, however, wo do not believe they will succeed. No popular government would venture so to insult the national self-respect as to admit a nation made up of igno- rant niggers to maintain diplomatic relations with us. But some of these persons look to another contingency, in the renewal of hostilities by Sou- lJouque sgains: the Dominicans, from which they anticipate some lucky hits in the way of trade; and for this prospective advantage they do not hesitate to commit acts of which the humblest man in their employment would feel ashamed. We would no: fee] at a!) surprised if our next communications from the island brought us the intelligence that the war of colore had sgain broken out in Hayti. If it hes, there will be s grand chance for eur enterprising filliousteros joining the Dominican standard, anni- hilating the black empire, and restoring the ne- groes to that povition in society which alone they are fitted to adorn Cunrovs Letrers—TREASONABLE CORRESPON- DENCE —We publish to-day, two letters, written by two individuals in the United States, to Gen. Al- monte, during the Mexican war. The author of one of them, Mr. Lewis H. Putnam, comes out boldly, and talks of eubverting the American government as easily as if it wore ‘‘ his oyster” which he was about to open aud devour. Mr. P. is a gentleman of color, and is one of the leaders of the black statesmen and politicians who infest New York and elsewhere, and oceasionally create a sensation in meetings and con- ventions in the Shiloh Presbyterian church, and other placesin this city. The author of the other is | evidently of lighter hue—a man of education, know- in the British House of Lords. It gives an anelysis of the condition of the empire, calls attention to the state of the public works, the budget, interual ment, public instruction, &c. In relation to the army and vavy, the address states that they are on a respectable footing, and hints at the precious ad vantages which the country may derive‘from thom ed out in prospectu, it is not difficalt to divine, par- ticularly when taken in connection with a preacding paragraph, referring to the Dominicans, where Sou. significant words :— ‘We hope, then, thet the Eastern inhabitants, uader- standing their true interests, will acknowledge, afer a serious meditation, that their only possible and real bap piness consists in mingling their existence with ours, —Or, in other words, submit to the absorption into that government of their independent republic. The Dominicans, on the other part, do not scem to be much frightened by the hostile indicu- tions exhibited by their woolly headed neighbors. Though much inferior to their adversaries in num- bers, they have confidence in their ability to repol every incursion which may be made on them from | that quarter. The army of Soulouque prebably amounts to some thirty thousand men, while that of the Dominicans is hardly more than two-thirds ef that number; but yet the latter seems quite adequate to protect the republic from the cruelty | and rapacity of the savages who threaten it. Wo | learn, however, that with the design of ensuring their eafety beyond all psradrenture, a scheme is on foot | to promote and encourage immigration to that divi- | sion of the island, and that, at the present momen:, | arrangements are being made with President Baez, ers there. The Dominicans also exhibit much anxiety for the establishment of « line of steamers between San Domingo and one of our ports, by way of Jamaica. If these measures are carried out, the | effect of them will be to guarantee the safety of the But his renown asapatriot is balanced by his | We nood not allude to his well known share in the measures | adopted by General Jackson to counteract the dis | unionist tendencies of South Carolina ; nor need we remind our readers of his noble co op on wi Clay in the settlement of the disputes of 1850. Tai Country will ever regard him as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, forciga ministers she has ever had. No public honors paid to his memory could adequately discharge our obligation for the | settlement of the vexed question which threatened a war with Great Britain in 1841: an achievemeat equally creditable to his heart and his head. t! the treaty of May, 1842, must be classed the fiaal known, was mainly due to his able letter to Mr. McGregor, M. P. for Glasgow ; and while we bear testimony to his strenuous exertions to preserve peace between this country and England, we must | not forget that the blessing was never purchasod at any sacrifice of principle or honor ; that, while he | loved peace and appreciated ite value, he nover shrunk from a just war. It was in consequence of his bold deportment that we can boast that we have | extorted from Great Britain what the rest of the world | might have sued for in vain—two unconditional apologies for affronts offered to our national flag. | Nor was he deficient inthosenoble sentiments which teach us that we cannot look with unconcern on the | | fate of our fellow men: it was to his intervention | | that the Sandwich Islanders owed the recognition of their independence by the principal maritime powers. As an orator, be will go down to posterity side by side with the Chathama, the Burkes, the Vergniauda, he Broughams. In him, brilliancy of diction and warmth of color did not involve « want of profandity | cr logic. When you heard him, you pronounced | him to be emphatically a man of feeling: when you read hie speeches, you were pot Jess strack with the faultless precision of the reasoning, the unerring ac curacy of ihe deductions. His chief characteristic, if one quality predominated over the other, wae his | earnestness of purpose. When Mr. Bell observod | that it was high time the people of this country | should know what the constitution was: “Thou | by the blesting of Heaven,” replied Mr. Wobster, | | ‘they shall learn this day, before the sun goes | down, what I take it to be.” There oould be no doubt that this man was, in tho language of the old | English republicans, ‘‘ thorough”—he felt what ho said, felt it deeply, and clothed it in words which | his hearers could not help feeling. It is told of one | of his bitterest opponents, that during a powerfal appoal of Mr. Webster to the Senate, he affected to disparage him, sud pretended to read a newspapor while the ‘“Expounder” wos pouring forth words of fire ; but the flasked check and trembling hand betrayed the device, and loft little room for surprise | | when it was discovered that the newspaper was up- | side down. This country has not produced a truer friend of | liberty than Mr. Webster. At homo, he was tho uncompromising foe to any measure in which his eagle eye detected seeds of invasion upon the rights | of the people: abroad—let Greeco, roused to a new life, let South America, for whose infant States he | has stood sponsor at the font of nations, bear wit- | Bee to his noble sympathy with the oppressed, and his 9 for the oxtension of liberty throughout tho world. Within « very brief space of time, Americs hag Dominicans, and perhaps reverse the attitude of the Haytiens, by rendering it necessary for them jo | confine their energies to defensive operations. Soulouque and his government have been indirect- | ly encouraged and supported by those at the head of | style. He says—‘* there is something really amus- the affairs of this republic, glthough the latter havo | | not yet gone so far as to recognise officially the em- | | pire of Hayti. Mr. Green was sent to the island by | didates. When we tell them that by voting for General Taylor’s first cabinct, as a special minister, | to examine and report upon the condition of | | affairs. He seemed to have taken sides with | ; Soulouque, but his report was never acted upon, | | but set aside after the death of the President Since then, however, certain influential ‘chants | in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, speculating | | on the interests to result to their firms, have been | | secretly endeavoring to influence Mr. Fillmore and | his cabinet to acknowledge the independence of | | Hayti. These speculators look forward to a contin- | gency in which they might secure for their firns | some exclusive priviloges in the trade with Hayti, | and they descend to the meanest kind of flunkeyism | | to propitiate the favor of the mighty Emperor Sou- | | jouque. One firm has had flatteriog likenoczes taken of bis majesty, his smutty consort, and band. | some family, and of the chief offizers of the empire, aud has bad paintings engraved and published ia a | very expensive and elegant style. Othershave paid | their court to him by making him presents of this | or that article most likely to gratify his savago tastes and bumors. But decidedly the most con- temptible and humiliating exhibition made in thi | way, was that on the occasion of presenting him with some bauble in the shape of a dagger, by the agent of a commercial house in this city. The ad- dreas accompanying it is characterized by the most abject and servile sentiments, that we have over seen emanating from American citizens; it is u:ter- ly unworthy of any men haying pretensions to. self respect or independence of mind, and isan in | sult to that respected, honorable, high spirited clase | of the community who were, to a cortain extent, re- | # few days the ship will return to Havana, and if Prosented by its subscribers. Here is the address alluded to, which we some | time since extracted from a Haytien papor :-- | New Youx, July 6, 1852, | Sine—-The MWustrious and marvellous acts which your | Majeety has exhibiled to the world, and the unbounded enooursgement thet your government has given to the | commerce of all nations, and the protcetion of their citi- | zens under the wise administration of your laws, have for | a long tine excited the admiration of your humble ser- yants to euch # dogree that they beg to offer for your Ma- Jenty’s noeeptance the accompanying small homage, con: visting of a dagger mounted in procious stones. | We take the liberty, Sire, by the atistance of Major | Fanzoni. the representative of our commercial how os in | Fated empire, to approach the throne of your Imperial | jajecty, and to place at your august fort the accompany: | ing present, asatoken of our admiration to confer on us the honor of accepting | We sholl be always wiling t place at the dispo:at of | ir Majesty any article contained in our commercial jouses, and to carry out the views and p:omote the hap: piness of your Imporial family, 1f your Imperial Majesty has any immediate orders to | seni us, plones to forward them through our representa: | tire. May Almighty God protect your Imperial Majesty and your august family. and may you continue, for many years to come, to hold the government of the empire. With that hope and with sincere exprossions for your welfare we have the honor to subscribe ourselves, ‘Your most humble and very obedient servants, MENDEL BROTHERS, To what unbounded depths of flunkeyism do not spe- culators sometimes descend, for the purpose of pro- curing some privilege in trade! Placing at the august feet of an odoriferous nogre a token of admiration may be estecmed an honorable feat by the house of Mendel Brothers ; but we much misunderstand the public spirit of our merchants if they would not re- Deign, Siro, lont three of her greatest sons—Calhoun, Clay, aug ! pudinig the bare ides of having boon represented and external trade, custom houses, the crops, the | army and navy, the foreign relations of the govern- | What those advantages are. which are thus shadow. | Jouque intimates the direction of his policy, in thess | for the immigration and settlement of foreiga- | | of his regular ship, the Georgia ; but that is of no ledge, of experience, and of close information in po- | | ities and State affairs. He has had the sense to | guard against the contingency which has occurred, of the publication of his correspondence, by with- holding his name. He is a good whig, a thorough- going abolitionist, and a man of unbounded philan- | thropy. The two letters speak for themselves, aud | show the feeling which existed between two classes | in the country in common. At least, they are fair exponents of thore of two of the classes, and perhaps these are as good as inany of them. The history of the letters is as follows :— When the American army entered Mexico in 1947, the Post office was seized, and the letters | found there were examined Amongst them were | many from people in the United States to Mex” | jean functionaries, especially to Almonte. This | individual was at the time, and had been for some months previously, under surveillance, by | the order of Santa Anna, and therefore failed | to receive his correspondence. The mass of it was sent up to Gen. Scott, who retained or destroyed it. The two letters which we publish to- day eecaped this fate, and we think may be interest- ing to the lovers of history, especially of that of the Mexican war, which, some hope, will prove the mother of Presidents for some time to come. We should like to see the rest of this interesting cor- respondence, and suggest that Gen. Scott should bring it out, if he has not destroyed it. It would givea very fair idea of the estimation in which his exploits were held by some of his supporters, ay well as of their own patriotism. Frep. Dovenass aNd Horace GRreELEy.—With | all the violence of Fred. Douglass, and all his | amusing impudence, he sometimes tells a good deal of tratb, particularly in referenee to the insincerity and hypocrisy of those white abolitgnists who | identify themselves with anti-slavery principles for the purpose of influencing the colored vote, and the henest portion of the white section of the party, in favor of whig or democratic candidates in State, | Congrersional, and Presidential electiens. In a epeech of six columns, delivered at Tthaca, and pub- | lished in bis own paper, Douglass shows up the anti- | slavery whigs and Horace Greeley in admirable ing in the evolutions of the anti-slavery whigs who have brought theméelves to vote for the whig can- | | General Seott they vote for the Baltimore platform, they say-—‘Not at sll; we vote for the candidate, not the platform.’ Douglass justly attributes the authorship of this theory to Horace Greeley, ‘a man,” he says, “‘ whose moral convictions aro al- ways kept beyond hearing distance behiad his po- litical action.” In Greeley’s defying, repudia‘ing, and spitting upon the platform, he says it is “ like spitting to windward, it comesstraight back in Gree- ley’a face.” The gist of the whole speech is con- tained in the follewing pithy extract :— Von this theory. the whig slaveholdere may vote for Scott because he is on the platform, and the whig aboli- tioniste may vote for him because he is too good to be on the platform, and because he wiil cheat the South, if he thali be elected. Now I hold this to be @ desperate pivce of political aishonesty : eating the devil, while piously re- prdiating his broth, is nothing to this, Very truce, and very expressive! Tae AFFAIR or THE Crescent City—Carratn Lor “s Ineravcrions.—According to our tele graphie advices from Washington, Capt. Porter, | late in command of the Crescent City steamer, has | been blest with any quantity of good advice, in re- ference to eur commercial relations with Spain and Cuba, from the mouth of Mr. Kennedy himself, the | Secretary of the Navy, and the author of ‘* Horse Shoe Robinson.” As for as we are informed of thi import of these instructions, Captain Porter's pro- tests cgainet the late outrageous exclusions of his ship from Havana are not approved ef by Mr. Ken- | nedy. On the contrary, the Captain-Goneral is jus- tified as having the right, under the circumstances, to refuse admission to the Crosoent City. Well, in Mr. Smith is not on board, we shall understand it at | once. Captain Porter will return to the command material consequence. The issue to be mot is, the right of the Creecent City to enter the port of Havana with Purser Smith on board. We shall see how that issue is settled. Perhaps it will be evaded—perhaps. Nous verrons. Grn. Scott's Srgrcurs —We have preserved all the speeches of Gen. Scott in his late expedition, “by the nearest route,” in search of a site for a military hoxpital at the Blue Licks in Kentucky. They amount to fifty-three in number, on the way out and on the way back, or one for every week in tho year. They aro not so magnifi- | cont or convincing as the speoches of Henry Clay, nor £0 profound, or grand, or great, as the speeches | sof Danicl Webster; they are not so elaborate or | classical asthe speeches of Kossuth—they aro | hardly upto the etandard of Zachary Taylor’s cam- paign letters of 1848—but they will do. In order, therefore, that they may be appropriated to the best advantagt for the public information, we shall, pro- | bably, publish them all in a lump, in a day or two. | They will be invaluable, all in the lump. | Naval Intelligence. | Derantune oy tie MissismrriThe United States steam frigate Mississippi, Com, Perry, left her moorings jm the East river, om Saturday, and preceeded for Annapolis, where she will await the arrival of the remain- das of the Japan squadron, m THs Barties or Mexioo.—We re “thie morning, foem the columns of the Courier and Enquirer, & letter written by General Pierce from the city of Mexico to a friend in this city, immediately after these splendid opening battles in the Mexican basin, of Contreras aud Churubusco, in August, 1847. As a specimen of familiar corres- pondence this letter is an elegant production. It gives a lucid geversl description of the two battles in question, nnd of the part which General Pierce himself performed in them ; and, what is botter still, his account o! himeelf particularly, is strikingly corroborated by General Scott’s official report, and all the other official reports of those brilliant opera- tions of the month of August. The historicul veracity of General Pierce’s letter being thus firmly established, no wonder the silly and ridiculous charge of cowardice, brought against him by the most unprincipled of the Seward-Scott organs, bas recoiled upon them to ‘plague the in- venters”” Ina dark night, in the van of the bat. tle, leading his column to the charge over a field of lava, General Pierce’s horse falls with him, within the full biaze of the enemy’s lines, and being crip- pled by the fall, he is charged with cowardice, whereas, bad he been killed, he would have been immortalized as the particular hero of the field The only wouder is that he was not killed. His preservation secms almost 2 miraculous preservation for the performance of far more responsible duties than those of Contreras and Churubusco. In one important particular, however, we must do justice to Gen Scott. He appointed, after the vietory of Churubusco, Gen. Pierce as one of the threo comunisrioners to negotiate an armistice with Santa Ansa. Now, it is notorious that Gen. Scott was egreg'ously tricked by Santa Anna in this armis- tice; for it cost our army ten thousand dollars in cash down to the enemy, and the loss of some two thousand men in killed and wounded in the bloody work at Molino del Rey, Chepultepec, and the Garitas. The responsibility rests with Gen. Scott, although it appears that his commissioners, or at least one of them, according to the letter of Gen. Pierce, also expected that peace would be the result of the armistice. But the single fact of General Pierce’s appointment, asone of the commissioners to settle the terms of the armistice, amounts to a posi- tive effpreement of the most eatisfactory kind, by General S:ott, not only of: the courage and bravery of General Pierce, but of his capacities for the most important negotiations. Strict justice, therefore, to Gen. Scott will admit of no other conelusion than that General Pierce sustained the character of a brave soldier and able civilian in Mexico. The contrary judgment would make a fool of the General-in-@bief of the army ; and the great fear is, that, in more respects than one, the suicidal course of the Seward organs and mana- gers will have produced the impression that more gunpowder availability is not exactly the thing for the peace establishment. But, in a word, the partiality of Gen. Scott for Gen. Pierce in Mexico proves that if the former is a man of sagacity, the latter isa manof merit. The letter of Gen. Pierce, of 1517, is not necessary to establish this point. We only give it as an inte- resting and truthful reminiscence cotemporaneous with the events described. Crosino uP THE Ranxs.—We learn that one fine evening last weck, at « ‘‘ private” room in the Astor House, a commitice of Gen. Scott’s most industrious friende met, and had along consultation upon the ways and means of securing the western counties of Pennsylvania, and the Western Reserve of Ohio, from the gripe of the free soilers. We are also informed, by the Washington Union, that Truman Smith and his agents are very busy there, in raising contributions irom the office holders of the several exeoutive deparmonts. Pat the two movements together, and we may form a guess at the probable dieposition of the sinews of war. They are closing up the ranks. Tar Wratnes.. yesterday. The morning opened like one in advanced spring. As middsy spproached it became warm, and up to three o’clock im the afternoon we experienced a great heat, The thermometer at the Hraan building ranged at noon, 72; at 3P. M.,73; at5P.M., 71}; During the evening, and up to late night, we had calm, mild woa- ther, and « promiee of its continuance for rome time. City Politics, ‘The Hon. Horatio Seymour, the democratic nominee for Governor. has becn on a visit to this city, He leaves to-day, to attend the Democratic State Councik at Utica. | The Young Men’s Democratic Union Glub, who have chartered the steamboats Isanc Newton and New World for the occasion, will also leave to-day. The hour of de- parture will be six o'clock P. M., and previons to their embarkation a grand salute will be fired In the Park. The demoerats have their great mass meeting in this city tomorrow night. It will probably be the most noisy, the most brilliant, the most explosive, the most uproarious meeting, ever held in or around old Tammany, for the last fifty years. ‘The Doctors of New York are in the fold. Although they get their living out of the sick, they havo come for ward patriotically und neighborly for the preservation of the health of the city, wholly regardless of the feos They have nominated one of their number for City In- spector, and their address io the public is worth reading Wegiveit im another column. Our physicians are self. sacrificing men. Police Intelligence. THE CAPTAINS OF POLICE—THE MYSTERY SOLVED. A fow days sgo we noticed the fact that « private mest ing was called by the Captains of Police, to muster in caucus at the Eighth ward station house, on business of importance, Some few of the members were aware of the rearon for calling the meeting; but we under- stand the majority were not, and many were the curmices. Some supposed the meeting was intended to take into contideration the propriety of making a “ strike,” either for more salary or more power, Lither one, no doubt, ‘would be acceptable, and meet the approbation of th® wojority, Since the first meeting we have learned tha the real object of the “call” was in fact to collect sub- scriptions for the purchase of « silver pitcher to be pre- rented to Mayor Kingtlend as a token ot respect from the Captains of Police The pitcher is to cost something like | sixty dollars, and to boar an appropriate inscription. Stabbing with a Knife — Officer Rovs, of the Nineteenth ward ES arrested, on Saturday night, a man named John McMahon. on a charge of stabbing John Hail in the body, near the pit of the stomach, with an ice pick, in- flictibg a dargerous wound. It seem§ that the two men were engaged in an altercation in # porter house, kept by McMahon. at the corner of Sixth avenue and Forty third street, where the affray commenced, and McMahon stabbed Hall as above desoribed. ‘Tne accused was taken before Justice Stuart, who committed him to prison for trial Passing Counterfeit Money and Theft,—Offcer De Long, of the Second ward police. on Saturday evening, arrested @ man named Frederick Hurger, on a charge of nttempt- ing to pass @ spurious $3 bill, for some goods purchased of Mr John Desmond and, while endeavoring te pass the bad money, the accused was detected in stenling a gold ring. The accused was committed to prison for trial. Surrendered by Bail—One of the on of B. 8. Isight, surrendered bim yesterday to the ree author- ities, Officer 8 ayer took Mr. Haight custody, who was held until other bail could be T procured. The required amount witl no doubt be obtained today. It wil be recollected that Mr Haight was one of the firm of td oh am lleged charge of selling spurious poseage Hcket edon am! charge 1g spurious p: ickets for California, From Turks Is.anp —A file of the Royal Ga- zette, published at Grand Turk, to the 6th instant, con ra dicts a statement, which it quotes from a Boston paper, of a destructive gale having occurred there Augost 19, which destroyed 100,000 bushels of salt. It annoances that there has been no blow there, and that they have on a iad for shipment, many hundred thousand bush- els of salt. Marine Affairs. ‘Tue Steams Soutnersen, Capt. Foster, arrived yesterday from Charleston, bringing our usual files of papers from thut sity. Political. Abelard Guthrie isa candidate for Congross in what bas been known as the Nebrarka Territory. When the election is to take place is net stated. pine ects Calendar—This Day. Uniren Srates District Count.—Nos, 49, 29, 91 to 100, by inate Covnr—Gerenat Team.—Million trust case still om. ‘Comme Part 1.—1 to 16, appeals from justices court Part 34.—-Adjourned to Wedueeda i BSurxnion Counr—Cwo branches —Nos, 450, 18, 458, 1064, 468, 400, 246. 294, 339, 472, 470, 482, 483, 484, 487, 480, 400, 402 404. 407, 499, 085, 218. 368, 271, 503, 506, , 669. 610 to 520, 166, 327,105, 122, 23, 121, 404, 141, 438; 96, 62, 198, 169, 379, NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. ee eee u Flare-up Among the Maryland Whigs. A BARBECUB—MUTINOUS CH AIRMAN OUSTED AND NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK, BTC. Bartimone, Oot. 24, 5862: ‘The whig barbecue yesterday was pretty well attended: ‘The speakers were Z. ©. Lea Thomas FP, Bowe, Hom. Rev. J, Bowe, and Mesery. Kilgour. Yellott, Carlile and Car- rington, Early in the day Hon Dauiel P, Jenifer presided, and himeelf wished to speak frim the tend, He said he was awhig and wishea to -how why he could not vote for General Scott, Z. C, Lee withed Mr Jenifer to be heard, and promised to reply 10 him. but the mevting would not allow Mr. Jenifer to epeak ‘Mr. Jenifer uried to eprak elsewhere, but some whige ousted hi and » uld nox J-t him speak unless he pro- mired to yore for Scott, ir J. then left. At the rsilrouc devot on impromptu discussion wasgot up between Jos. H Brudiey, whig, and Phil. Bartone Key, democrat. The Florida Election, Onancesto, Oot 24, 1852. Returns from Holmes avd Walton counties, Florida, have been received, exorpt a single precinct, im which: Ward’s mjority is 65 ana Cabell’s 135, reducing Broom’s majority to 212 apd Muxwell’s to 63. Items from Baltimore, EFFECTS OF THE LATE GALE—DISASTERS TO THE SHIPS NATHANIEL KiMBaLL AND AVALANCEE— DEATH OF A BALTINOKE COUNCILMAN, ETO, Bavtiore, Oct. 24—P M. ‘The mail is through from New Orleans, by which we Jearn that the ship Naibaniel Kimball, Captain Howes, from New York bas arrived «i New Orleans, with the loss of masts and spars and greatly damaged. She expe- rienced the gale on the {0:h of September, and was om her beam ends for thee days Captaim Howes reports seeing a large ship and two barks dismasted, the day after the gule The ship Avalanche. Cupta‘n Barker, also arrived from New York, experienced the gate, and lost mainmast and sails. She arrives leaking bad y, Edward Doff # wesly rlected member of the Balti- more Couneil, died this morning. Fire and Loss of Life in New Haven. New Haven, Oct, 24, 1852. An incendiary fire was discovered at four o’elock this morning in a small umbrella chop and extended to, and destroyed a large dwelling adjoining, occupied by several families, While the roof of che house was burning, the large centre chimney fell over crushing a front chamber, Jn ‘which wore men One sprang out of the window spd was the other. B. . twenty- one yeare of oge, was cauph’. and killed, Ho is'e brother. in-law of Mr Thomar the proprietor of the City Hotel, aud wes a fine young mav, be chimney had no founde- tion, except the beam of a chamber floor. The colors of the engine boures are rai-ed with mourning emblems, Markets, New Onirans, Oct. 22, 1862. Cotton was very active to-day. after the receipt of the America’s letters. with sales of fully 12000bales. Prices were full without any positive change. Middling in quoted at 9}ge The sales of the week were 46.000 bales, Ddeing the largest of the season. The receipts of the week were 41,000 bales, New Orieans, Oct 23—Néon, Cotton is firm and active to-day and there have’ been sales of 4000 bales, The stock on hand is 148,000 beles, ard the increased receipts over last year, 61,000 bales. Mess pork is declining daily, amd is nominally quoted at $16 50a $1675 Molasses has to 250, New Onveans, Oct. 24. 1852, Cotton was steady yesterday. with rales of 5,000 bales goed middling. at ¥3jc Prime molasses lower, and quoted 260. Meas pork dectined $1; sales 300 bbls. at $15 £0 Bacon sides me minal, at 8 to 8¢0. Rio coflee— sales 2.000 bags, at 84 a BX ARLESTON, Oct, 22, 1852, ¢ Sales cotton to day reached 1,600 bales, at 934 @10%0., being a decline of 34 to ye Crarveston, Oct 24, 1852, The sales of cottom yesterday amounted to 900 bales, at 7% to 10%, A Small business doing, at declining Prices. Provipence, Oct 23, 1852, The tales of cotton have been moderate, at 5 ices §=‘There has been a fair demand for fleece wool. less inquiry for pulled, of which the stook is light. There is an upward tendency for all descriptions, The the week are 125500 pounds Iu printing cloths the sales have been light, owing to the small quantity in market. The stock iu the bauds of printer: is also light. Prices are firm with an upward tendency. The sales of the week aro 35,400 pieces. Mails for Europe, THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. ‘The Cunard steamship America Captain Shannon, will leave Boston at noon, on Wednesday, for Halifax and Liverpool. The European mails will close at one and three o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The New Yore Werxiy Henarp will be published at ha!f past nino o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six- pence, To Advertisers, Again and Agaifi. We beg, we entreat, we pray, we request—nay, we wild godown on our knees to our kimd patrons and adver. tleers, and most earnestly sgain and again call upon them tobring in their advertisements before seven o'clock in the trening, or at least before eight o'clock. The pressure of business is so great upon our columns that we cannot get our paper to press and served at the proper hour in the morning, unless this request be complied with by the Return.—Oa 1d the Freach up- Bamberger, 16 and weil will be patronage she has received during onvinced of being Sf it asvlection of millinery Be ould the weather on Wednesday prove for ladies’ visits, the goods widl be opened and sed on ‘the fret succeeding clearday. MADAME BAMBERGER, 46 Eighth avenue, French Milliner. -way, all the lato style © magnificent K’haban, and prace'tl paletot. Thocloths, one simeres, and vestings pow on are of the most importation, and of the most costly material, The cu are always on hand from 8 A. till 8 P. M., rondy for ders, 0. LANK, Morchant Failor. bald the crdluncy prises, and ‘Those open-worked caps the French woven chemisettes at 3734 eente, worthy of particular attention. To Manufacturers of Ladies’ Cloaks an@ Mantillas.—Singer's sewing machines will do all the stitoh- ing on cloak: oh ud sewi dispatch. C Cperation oo Al tion ab office, No. "sthaRe & CO.” Ladies’ French Kid Gloves—Just Imported, & large sesort: t, all sizes, from No. 6 to No. Moe ich ae nple: Ken only Ss 6d. and de. 9 at BURDET?'S oheap dry goods md mantiline, with » per d with most Parisian Cloaks and Ifantillas.—At the Paris Maatilla Emporium, 561 Broadway, bin! now be seon s col- ooh inetylo and richness, any hing previously anbigt in stylo and richness, to an audinit' the discriminating taste and niger of the ladics of this metrorolis, ‘The proprieter, Mr. GEO, RULRLN, having the advantages of & thorou; aly acquired European kno of his business, covabined with many yours experience im th justly be conriderod as at the head of this Pa Ly ‘& velvot one from thirty to fort} leet tly ombroid ope from ty vow hundred : ment Splendid Silks, Very Chea May Be fe it Hitchcock & Lesdbraters, 47 Broadway, corner rd street —They Uns this morning, one of the wsortments in the city, of silk richest and de Inines, plain de laines. ‘cashme rit . Ls 4 hawls, of eve thillings piece cpwarda. Rich Carpeting.—Smith & Lounsberry, Ne, Ud Pearl ince, are pared 40 exhibit thelr * and desirable neat There is not more difference between the sad the smooth reand fee of ronth, OD ata: work of those who. the human frame, Another Triumph of Rich’s Salamanderst, ane Oxdensburg Great Fire —Ond Y., Oot, 21 iasd—Mesern, STRAIN to Rioh & Co. 6 OW 5~ Gentlemen one of the m ocurred in this sect ond story of the bail Di lentructi 4 0 ell ‘throagh the twe stories lato. the trronty-f0 inten: ig it from the ruins in front of our store, 0 um citizens A quantity of valuable I were in the anfo, all of whi steam ‘of the Wiemsceer, naetee butassound and Hom, 9 on our. pe le, and onl, he wood wor! colored fro inside was: or gafes on atreot, and at the factory, corno place New York. bf The only makers in th States ot der’ dltasnadesunfese wit Rick ipreveaen’ | n