The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1852, Page 5

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As necessary consequence of the resent sencentee be- Decome firm at $17 per barrel; beef also is in pe at full dridhag hance all provisions, * “Boott leeds the column !” We" overs brave and | The influence of newspeper is in exact proper- | all events, if we were, as there is bat one house “| tween Captain McLane and Colonel Roberts, in Waslpg- JANES GURDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR AND BDITOR, A OFFICE H.W CORNER OF FULTON AND NAY ce srs. enemas 08) im advance, FRE DULY WERILD 8 conte THE py nis HERALD, rf every > pata « phe od Great Britate Continent. te VOLUNTARY CO. peo Mi ei 1 be Wbetaly pate for © su enarier af the worle s ee. ane Panricviaany ”, 'B Forsién Connesronne: a3 Pusan? Se Peeemenie mail, iption, or with Adver~ tebe pee Patt of the postage wail be detacted from él iShen ef anonymous communications, We uturday, at 64 cents wand §h te amy Sane) te Zt TICP do not retern AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manxvet -La Bara- Dene. “O@WAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Duxe's Wacen— | > axp Seerien. Ma WIP f.0's.—My Yeouxs Wire axo xy O.p Umnneine— Ba Vata ve Sevitie-Ker vy. | T/ERTON’S THEATRE, Chambers strect.—Crey Peziy | Fi ore—Broone Dow Canx-Oxm Txovsanp¥inuraas Vgawrno. WATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham otreet.—Oun Toru was Eva, THE (mish PRinomss—-CONIJURIR—SHOW- wan any Monxry. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Witp Oars— Wanpsome Hussann. including butter, cheese, &o , command higher rates than at the same period last year. Flour and upward tendency in prices; in fact, the demand for Richmond flour for export to gold mining districts, haust’d the ability of the millers % meet it; it fs also®aid that the coopers have exhausted the supply of flour barrels; the last sale of Haxhall was made at $7. Cotton was firm yesterday, with = light stock in this market. Freights were also firm, and promise more yemunerstive rates for thip owners. For particulars, we refer to our trade report in enother column Both boards of the Common Council met last evening at the traal hour; but wo basiness of pub- lic importance was transacted beyond what is re- | | corded in the official report elsewhere published. Ju the Board of Assistants, 2 potirion, presented on behalf of the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company, praying fer an extension of the road to Vesey street, was referred to a special committee of three. Tire Aldermen adjourned until to-merrow, and the As- sistants until this evening. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, and ap- proved of the proceedings of tho previous meeting, | after which, there being no business of importance to transact, the body edjourned till next Monday. ‘Mrs Elizabeth Oakes Smith delivered a lecture | yesterday evening, at Hope Chapel, Broadway, on “The Dignity of Labor,” for which see our re- WHITE'S THEATRE OF VARZETIES, 17 an4 19 Bow- | sport. —Yarure Woor Draven—La FILLE pu ReGinenT —iaus Daacoon—Yours Wmow, Bowery—Equesraian Feats any ATHim AMERICAN MUSEUM.—Amvusine Perronmanoes In v= NOON AND EVENING. OHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brosdway.—Ernror1an Miwernetsy wy Cunisty's MinsTReLs. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wo wey.—Ernrorian Minerneisy. DOUBLE SHEE’ lew York, Tuesd: s Musical Mall. 444 Broad- N mber 9, 18 Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. Phe Cunard steamship Niagara, Captain Stone, will Weave Bostom at noon to-morrow, for Halifax and Liver- pool, The European mails will close st one and three e’cleck this afternoon. The New Yorx Werx.y Kenatp ‘wilt be published at balf-past nine o’elock this morning. ‘ingle eopies, in wrappers, sixpenee. The News. By the arrival of the steamship Star of the West we have fifteen days lator intelligence from the Pacific ‘The news is not important, but contains the usual | ‘amount of interesting reading, The principal event that has occurred, is the mass meeting of the mer- chants of San Francisco,to take into consideration and | remonrstrate against, the action of a late order of the Treaeury department, prohibiting the roevipt of assay office stamps at the custom house in payment of duties. It will be seen that the collector, Mr. King, has consented to disobey the order, on cer- tain conditions, and a memorial has-been sent tothe United States Treasury, asking the department to approve of his action. Politics appear to have ab- ®orbed the attention of the people of California to wach on extent that all other considerations were of minor importance, and consequently were | but little heeded. The whig nominations for muni cipal officers in San Francisco will be found among the news. ‘The telegraphs have furnished quite full returns of the election which was yesterday held in Massa- ehusette, for State and Legislative officers, and for three members of the present, and eleven of the ea- suing or Thirty-tbird Congress. The result, so far as known, confirms the impression that but a few of the candidates have been successful, owing to the fact that it requires a majority to eleet, and that | fall tickets were nominated by the democrats, the whigs, and the free oilers. Every scheme was ro- The proceedings im the different courts in this city | yesterday were characterized with unusual interest, as will be seen from the reports eleewhere given. In the Oyerand Terniiner, Patrick McCormick was found guilty of marslaughter in the third degree, in having caused the death of Jobn Heavy, in Mey last. Mc- Cormick was sentenced to three years and ten months’confinement in the State prison. The Court of General Sessions was oceupied with the investi- gation of a riot which occurred on Sunday, the 12:h September. The fracas grew out of a religious con- troversy. The highly important and interesting case re- specting Mrs. Lemmon’s slaves, was called on yes= terday, at 12 o’clock, in the Superior Court; but on the application of Mr. Lepaugh, the counsel for the claimant, it stands adjourned until to-day, at 4P.M. See our verbatim repert as to the applica- tion for postponement. The report of the City Inspector, published in another part of our paper, shows an increase ef twenty-five deaths, as occurring during the past week, over the number reported for the week end- ing 30th October. This inereased mortality is evidently attributable to the foggy damp, and un- wholesome weather which we have had for the last eight days, as the deaths were caused by diseasor, which are either induced or aggravated, by such a state of the atmosphere. Thus, there are sixteen more deaths from consumption, and seven more from inflammation of the lungs during the week. The tame influencing cause, reduction of temperature, has diminished the deaths from cholera infantum to eight for the week, and rendered the infant popula- tion more healthy generally. Tho sanitary state of the entire population of the city is very good. Our inside pages are to-day filled with a great variety of highly entertaining matter. of a portion of which the following are merely the heads:—Con- fessions of a Seward Organ, and Movements for 1846; Letters from our Albany, Washinston, Que- bee and London Gorrespondents; Thrilling Sketch of a Hunting Expedition in the Interior of this Btate. Those fond of chasing panthers, wolves, deer, and other game, should not fail to read it Personal Memorials of Daniel Webster; Theatrical and Musical; Monetary and Trade Reports; a great quantity of local intelligence of all kinds, and many columns of advertisements. Confessions of Sewardism- The Whig Party Defunct—What Nextt? The Seward organ, par exvellence, the greater Ajax of socialism and abolition sedition, after beating about the bush like a man strangely be- wildered since the Presidential election, comes up at Jast and looks the real issue full in the face. We sorted to by the leaders of each party to bring outa | fall vote, and the contest seems to have created far | more interest among the people of that State gene- | rally than did even the Presidential election last | Tresday. Inthe city of Boston, the Webster and | Scott whigs in a measure, manoged to patch up | their difficulty, and gave Mr. Clifford, their candi- | date for Governor, nearly three thousand majority | over his competitors; but elsewhere throughout the | State, the vote of the party falls greatly short of the poll last year, when Mr. Winthrop lacked some | ¢ight thousand of being elected. Inthe Fourthand | Fifth districts whig Congressmen have been elected, but in seven of the remaining nine districts thore was no choice. The Legislature is doubtful. The ap- pearances are decidedly against the whigs. We to-day publish some late and very interesting intelligence from Mexico, including a letter from our correspondent at Acapulco, in which he gives gome new and curious information concerning the American consulship at that place, and also with regard to the moyements of the eurveying party | sent out from New York. According to the state- | ments of the surveyors, thero will be no difficulty | in constructing a road from Vera Cruz to Acapulco | over which tho mails can be carried in three days. What is likowize of considerable importance, actual | observation has rendered it certain that the river | Mercala can be made navigable for steuzboate by a | very trifling “outlay. Humboldt appears to have committed several material errors in laying dowa the topography of Mexico, especially on the Pacific? | coast. | Lake Erie was swept by another terrific gale on | Saturday and Sunday, and the consequences to the | shipping, so far as ascertained, have been most | disastrous and heartrending. Many vessels are known to have boon entirely wrecked, and others Were either driven ashore or else damaged to such an extent as to render them unfit for use. But tho most melancholy part of the announcement is the fact that several lives were lost The bodies of some of the dead have been washed ashore. Fer full par- ticulars of the damage experienced by the different vessels, read the telegraphic despatches from Buffalo and Erie. Late accounts from Antigua represent the inha- bitants as suffering dreadfully from an epidemic diarrhea. The crops on the island had been se- riously damaged by drought. Great mortality is said to have been occasioned by the cholera in the vicinity of Nassau, N. P. Adjutant General Jessup has ordered a court martial to acjudicate on the recent personal assault on Colonel Roberts by Captain McLane, in Wash- ington city, and in accordance with his directions the military court sesembled in the quar! er-master’s Office, State street, in this city, yesterday; but as one of the members was absent a quorum could not be formed, and the court was therefore adjourned to ten o'clock this morning The forty-sixth anniversary meoting of the New York County Medical Suciety was to have come off yesterday ¢ refer our readers to the article copied elsewhere in our columns to-day from the New York Tribune. It is worthy the attention of the reader. It sustains and endorses all that we have said for the last ten years of the baleful influences of Sewardiem, and youches for the literal fulfilment of our oft repeated predictions that it would be the death and destruo- | tion of the whig party. We have felt satisfied that the philosophers of the | Seward organ would he compelled to face the | music, before they could satisfactorily to them- selves account for the terrible tornado of public opinion which has swept over the country from | Maine to Texas. It was uscless to plead the plea | of free trade, or the Catholic vote, or the disap. | pointment of Mr. Webster, or the coldness of Mr. Fillmore, or the “democratic frauds’ of the can- | vaee, or the Halo movement, or the ‘‘treachery” of | Joshua R. Giddings to the whig party, or anything | of this sort, ora!l things else, as the cause or causes of the crushing defeat of the Bultimore whig ticket, £0 long as the question of § led. Asthe eocialist philosopher ¢ se it at last, Sewardiem was the part of Hamlet in the tragedy | upon which the whole plot of the play rested, and to which alone can be attributed the fearful and indiscriminate slaughter of the closing scone. The people recognized, all over the land, one prominent and paramount issue in the canvass, and | that issue was between the Union, the constitu- tion, and the compromises based upon the constitu- tion, on the one hand, and Sewardism, the “ higb- er Jaw,” the revival of the slavery agitation, sec, | tional diccords, civil strife, the horrible atroci‘ies of St. Domingo, and the dissolution of the Union, on the other. This was the prominent issue of tho canvass. Tho people have met it, and their solemn judgment againet the agitators of the higher law and abolition socialists has struck them with con- sternation and confusion, like the continuous vibra- tions of a heavy earthquake rolling under their feet. And we are hore reminded, that when in | any of the voleanic districts of South America an earthquake comes on, and the inhabitants of a town suddenly find it undulating and toppling into ruins, from the upheaving waves of subterrancan fire, and great chasms are opened in the earth, and houses and temples are swayed to and fro like boats | upon the stormy ocean, thet then may be seon | men, women, and children, flying in consternation to the nearest sanctuary, or dropping upon their knecs in the streets, confessing their sins, and the | juet punishment of heaven, but pleading for mercy, as they urge their submission and repentance. Not lee# striking has been the moral judgment of public opinion sgainst Sewardiem and the Seward faction ; but though they are in much tribulation they de not humble themselves, as they should do, in sack- eloth and ashes. On the contrary, it is manifest that they are plotting a renowal of their mischief, in some shape, of more open and undisguised hos- tility to the South than heretoforo. » in the grand jury What is now to be done? The Seward faction ad- room, at tho Tombs; but in consequence of there | mit that the national whig party is destroyed, and being only nine members prosent, the chairman, | that from the hostility among tho elements of Dr. Rockwell, on the suggestion of the s | which it was made it can be amalgamated retary, Dr. Van I moved that the | into a homogeneous body agaic. We think so too Ang be adjourned until tho first § We believe that Mr. Webster's prediction is falfilled, the anniversary of the Medical Acad fis to take place early next month, stance will ensure the at of members. In the cox took place, the i e of a quoram & conversation that d that since 1843 snd that after the second day of November tho | whig party, as a national party, practically consed It is broken up, dispersed, anuihalated- biance of vitality, the delusive, galvanized e of life which it sustained during the destruction before? He confiding old soldier led so DU ary into the jaws of ? 4 his calculations, it is wheat wore also firm yesterday, and elosed with on | Bow evident, upon & / te basis Estimating the rd faction in “yew York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, to be th» iting clement of the whig party in ard other southern tropfeal latitudes, has quite ex- these State”, e unfortunately believed that, in bar- Dg s€c¥’.0d their support as the starting point, the rest of the werk would be comparatively casy W*th these three States at his back, he and hi® Yrienda went into the Baltimore Conventien cure of the nowinetion, and rather sare of their power to knock @ewn any platform upon whick the South might attempt to plant him. But for once the well deviecd plans of Seward, Johnstea, and Troman Smith, were frustrated. The whigs of the South had placed themselves in an attitude from which ‘there was no retreat but in @isgrace. And they went into the convention resolved to bring Governor Johneton and company toa distinct understanding in advance ef any nomivation. They would have, and they di@ have, the whig platform laid down be. fore they nominated the whig eandidate. The sixty-six votes—nearly all from New York, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio—against the platform, openly dis closed the real seat of the fatal disease of the whig party It was Sewerdisem Without the platform, the party would have been split into two conven- tions on the spot; Eut with the platform the final rupture was postponed to the day of the election. Wich the adoption of the platform, and the ac- ceptance of the nomination by General Scott with the resolutions annexed, a portion of the South were teeonciled to the sacrifice of Mr. Webster and Mr Fillmore. Bat the subsequent Webster movements | in Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and | New York, soon betrayed the fact that the expo- dient had come too late for any pragtical purpose. | It was a pis aller—the last revortthe last expe- | dient of sheer nocessity—and ceased to be regarded | aw little better than a fiddler’s oath at a irolic, | when the leading organs of Seward did “ execrate | jt.and spit upon it,” with that vindictive bitterness which admitted of no reconciliation. Thus the platform, in connection with the ma- licious rejection of Webater and Fillmore, for mili- tary and anti-slavery availability, operated as a dead letter in the South. But it was different in the North. General Scott had endorsed the Com- promise platform. With the honest anti slavery fanatics of the North, with whom principles ate a matter of conseience, and conscience the supreme law, that was enough. If General Scott was sincere, he was with the South; if not sincere in his written word, then he was notto be trusted. Hence, in spite of the hopes of Seward, the schemes of John- ston, and the wishes of Greeley, the anti-slavery or free coil party set up a ticket of their own; and the result in Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania, will do much to explain the astonishing majorities in those States for Pierce and King. ‘ Between two stoole,” is a musty old proverb, but in this way has General Scott and the whig platform fallen to the ground. It was soon enough to alienate the sincere whig free soilers of the North, but too late to re- move the distrust and suspicion of the South. In that quarter Seward overshadowed the platform, while in the North the platform scared off the rank and file of Seward, in spite of all his efforts and all | the efforts of his organs to dram them back. Now, whatis tobe done? Sewardism, ina fair open trial before the people, has broken up the whiz party, root and branch. This is the entertainment which he bas been preparing for them for the last twenty-five years. It is the inevitablo reward of corrupt affiliations with abolition and disunion agi- tators, continued and persevered in despite our warnings repeated aethousand times. What next? There is no lorger a national whig party. What next ? It is announced that the life of W. H. Se yard is coon to be published, or, what is nearly the same thing, a collection of all his speeches, from his rise in this State, with the hobby-horse of anti-masonry, a quarter of a century ago. Perhaps this publica- tion ofthese precious speeches isintended for s re- organization of Sewardiem in the North, preparatory to the campaign of 1856. It is the last ehance, and we may therefore expect before long areconciliar tion between Seward and the Hale free soilers, uo Jess, indeed, Hale should prefer to stand his groaad upon his own footing. For the present, let it suffice that the whig party i2 defunct—dead beyond all hope of resascitation— stone dead; and that Sewardism has killed it and eut it upinto fragments. Let it suffice that the leading organ of the arch-agitator proclaims the whig party | annihilated, and announces to the public that Sew- ard’s speeches are soon to be published, te show them exactly, perhaps, that he is the great North- ern anti-slavery whig candidate for 1856; and if he should abzorb all the anti-slavery factions, and all the regged isms of the North, into his ranks, let the | South look well to their defences. The whig party ia dead, but Seward is still alive, though a@ little the worse for the late earthquake. Let us watch his movements. What next? ADVICETO THE FILLIBusTEROS.—Our socialist co- temporary, in view of the election of Gen. Pierce, proceeds to give a good deal of gratuitous advice to the fillibusteros, in reference to the affairs of Cuba, Dominica, Hayti, Mexico, and Central America, and their prospective or probable future operations in al] those fine countries Now, there is no telling what may come to pase within the next four years. The people, in a voice of thunder, have proclaimed the restoration of the progressive democracy in the governmen;. Neither | the most extravagant pictures of tho views of Gen. | Cess onthe intervention question, nor the most frightful exaggerations of the alleged fillibustering propensities of Judge Douglas and ‘ Young Ame- rica,” have at all alarmed the people. Iua solid body they have declared for the Union, above all things ; and next that they are tired of the fee'le, amiable, neutrality, do-nothing, policy of Mr. Fill- more’s administration’ They want something —tomething positive, not negative—somothing that will uphold and advance the honor, the dignity, and the power of this great country among the nations of the earth. We are, however, confident that the administra- tion of Gen. Pieree will be a law-abiding adminis tration, that will respect and enforce the observance of our national obligations, while it will see that our own commercial and international rights are not frittered away. Cuba isin avery interesting | situation--the island of Hayti, with a white repab- lic at one end, and a negro despotism at the other, | cannot long remain so without rome internal and | external difliculties—the affairs of Central America are all at loose ends, the last conjoint treaty with Fogland for the benefit of those States having been rejected—and, lastly, there is a preposition of war with Mexieo pending in the Senate on the Tehuan- tepeo question, to say nothing of the troubles on the Mexican borders. All these difficulties will have to be grappled with by Gen. Pierce. The people expect it. We have been dilly-dallying long enough. But we have no apprehension that all the fillidusteros in the eountry areto be turned loose upoa our neighbors, or that any othor policy will be adopted by Gen. Pioreo than a policy in striet conformity with the national honor, public opinion, and the “ manifest destiny” of the country. Don’t be alarmed. DELAWARE ELECTION.—The State election in Dal- ewaro takes place to-day. A member of Congress, members of both branches of the State Legislature, and county officers, are to be elected. fifty-six members y have died, and | campaign is gone. It bad already fulfilled its mie, | _Lanox Cargo.—The ship John Rutledge, Capt. twenty-six have joined. The toval number on the | slon. Its principles had boon repudiated #o often, idea Cedi ote ter vere TwHthIbO bales sore: books is 525. | its measures had been so completely sot aside by the | and and 3542 do Upland cot! weighing 1,472,896 ibs., The state of our domestic produce markets look | Woiy promising for the agricultural interests of the sountry. Indian corm reached mincty cents per | Dusbe! yoeterday, which is aa ndvangy 9! ton czuss | system of the democratic party, that if left alone it must have died a natural doath The attempt to seouscitate it with a mixture of military glory and Sewordiom, though thickly laid ou and weil rubbed and the whole valued at $159,161 58. Bistiov OF Tuiois Leh. Axd.—Woe wre authorized to say that Dr Hawken declines the Episoopa's o! Kioto Ada AMlany Regivter tion are circumscribed, or whore perceptions are dull, seldom exercises much sway orer the commu- nity. It is denied the right of concealing its weak- ness in the prudent reserve which, in private life, so often veils obtusenees; and, from being compelled to express opinions on all subjects, is driven to pa- rade its own incapacity, and becomes the laughing stock instead of the monitor of the public. It is im- possible that euch a periodical can obtain a healthy popularity. Nor is dishonesty lees fatal to the modera newspaper. We shun the man whose disregard for truth has become notorious; oar aversion warms into scathing contempt, if we have reasen to believe that he 1s actuated by a base desire for private gain. The same motives operate still more powerfally egainst the journalist whose charaster is tainted with the breath of suspicion. He, if he misrepresent facta, mieleads not a single individual only, or a cirele of acquaintance, but, tho whole country—he lies to the world. Thé banoful effect of his want of principle is felt wherever his paper circulates. It is ruinous to the merchant, whose financial operations have been based on its false statements—to the poli- tician, who has sheped his course on the faith of its groundless assertions—to every citizon whore daily avocations are necessarily linked with and dependent on the doings of bis neighbors. Skilfully as he may attempt to conceal his moral deformity, it soon bursts into view ; his victims are oxly too ready to expose him, and ere he is fairly started in his career of misrepresentation, his character is blasted and his power of doing mischief destroyed If he has been only reckless and ignorant, more indifference and obscurity are a sufficient punishment; if he has misled the public from more corrupt motives—if he has wilfully concealed the truth, or circulated falae- hoods with a view to personal gain—he becomes an object of just detestation. Not one of his fellow- citizens but makes it a point of duty to labor for his downfall ; to support him would be to become his ing the progress of a pest whose injuries are equally felt by the public and individuals There is, of course, @ swall clars in every community who, truth and falsehood, and care but little, so they be amused, whether the public be cheated orno. But the pecuniary assistance which these are able to afford is proportionate to their stake in the public weal. They are, in all civilized countries, a unit which may safely be overlooked in general calcu- | lations. . The broad principle that dishonesty and corrap | tion in a newspaper cannot be concealed, and must | inevitably work its ruin, we take to be unques- tionable. We do not think the world ever offered | an example of a prosperous journal, affording men- tal food to thousands, against which a charga of | venality could be substantiated. As readily should we believe that a rumseller who was koown to adul- terate his liquors bad a lerge and respectable class of customers; or that a butcher, who wasin the habit of exposing carrion at his stall, stood at the top of his guild The very supposition argucs an | utter laxity of principle, and an unparalleled degree | of stupidity in the public. That such charges will be make by jealous rivals, | and unsuccessfal competitors, we know but too well. | Something must be forgiven to tha bitter pangs of | disappointment. The malignity which prompts the | owner of a drooping newspaper to accuse his more | prosperous cotemporaries of corruption, is, strictly | speaking, an offence against society, which it may | be imprudent to suffer to pass unpunished ; but, after all, it carries with it its own refutation, and the feelings of the calumniator are perhaps his se- verest chastisement. He cannot delude the public into sympathy for his misfortunes. He may herald the charge of venality against the London Times through every thoroughfare in that city—mention the exact sum paid down, with time, place, and circumstance— clothe his tale with all the incidental semblance of good the indictment; but were his voice ten times as loud, he would not make a single proselyte. The Times will smile disdainfuliy at his harmless malice, and continue to pursue its course, regardless of such ashadow of truth, the public would not have needed his spectacles to detect the fraud; long ere he as- sumed the functions of public accuser, the criminal would have been tried, condemned, and executed. In numberlees instances that are now present to our circles in London that the T'imes had been bought —its fearless exposure of Kossuth was, we believe, the last. Weknew that the Times could not afford to sell its columns; and the revalsion which has taken place in public opinioa since the departuro of that adventurer from Great Britain has shown that the public was of our mind. still more frequently than our British cotemporary. If we praise an author or an actor, his rivals will tell you exactly what tho fortunate man paid for book, the enemics of the publisher have feed us handsomely. If we support @ candidate for Con- gress, the bills ofthe party are to be found in our strong box. There are a class of ingenious | people who actually believe that we could go on selling our good will and censure, at so much a line, from year to yoar, and still main- tain our enormous circulation and character, as no slender authority on matters political, commercial, and literary, inthis country. As a matter of course, allthe whig papers asserted that we were sold to General Pierce during the late Presidential canvass; some hinted it timidly, others averred it knowingly, | and net a few carried the joke co far as to assure their readers that wo had admitted it. A writer in the | Buffalo Advertiser, after a burst of virtuous indigaa- | tion at what he calls the “hypocracy” of the Journal of Commerce, acknowledges that he ‘ prefers” our “unblushing rascality”—as we have “avowed” that | we have been ‘purchased by the democratic party.” | This Buffalo editor is a vast improvemont on bis whig friends of this city. It is not given to every man to see, that as nobody believes what he says, whether he speak trath or falsehood, the latter is by far the pleasantest and surest card. Thore is a trace of genius in boldly taking it for granted that we had admitted our alleged venality. This cuts the gordian knot, and saves vast deal of trouble; but the thing would have been more complete had he given our own words. Let him try his hand at framing a confeesion, in which we admit our “un | blushing rascality,” and suc for forgiveness to the public who have aided and abetted uz, It will be the most amusing thing his paper has contained for many a day. We can assure our cotomporarics that wo rather enjoy their accusations. So long as our cirou lation continues to exceed that of all tho newspapers in the city, we feel pretty confi- dent that their calumnios have not taken root. When we find that wo have crushed the Art Union, brought the wholo public round on the sub- ject of Kossuth, and contributed not a little to the election of a President, wo may safely conclude that, tion to the faith which is reposed in ite judgment | Rothschilds, we could not expect competition for eur and honesty. A journal whose sources of informs | favors— accomplice. Each feels a personal in*erest in arrest- | having nothing to lose, receive with equal indifference | veracity, and pledge his fortune, his honor, to jmake | ambecile foes. Had the imputation been founded on | memory, it has been currently reported in certain | We have been favored with similar compliments | our favor, where the money was handed over, and | into what pocket we put it. If we gibbet a trashy | Non ouivis hominum eontingit adire Corir pom, A Lrerurs Invnration.—There, }y at prosent a very remarkable activity ex‘.sting among tho professional lecturers in this fatitude, and great preparations are being mo’se for the winter cam- paign, which commenced regularly in New York last week. The ascutiations for managing these lectures already number nearly half a score, and there fs about as much rivalry betweem them as is generally supposed to exist among theatrical establishments, medical colleges, religious deno- minations, or any of those institutions which con- tend for public favor. First, we have got the programme of a series of six lectures to be delivered by Mrs Oakes Smith, a lady distinguished for her learning, genius, elo- quence, and woman's rights principles. Her first, we believe, was given last evening at Hope chapel— subject : ‘The Dignity of Labor”? Mrs. Smith’s views and ideas and language have the charm of novelty and brilliancy to recommend them, and her identification with that eccentric but beautifal corps of American amazons, who hold their conventions now ard then throughout the country, and shock the nerves of old slow coaches by exhibiting their handsomely proportioned legs in nice pantalettes, is of itself sufficient to aturact largo audiences. Then we’ are promised a series of lectures from the eloquent and enthusiastic young Irishman, Thomas Francis Meagher — subjest : “Australia.” These will no doubt be worthy of the brilliant fame which that gentleman has ac- quired by his oratory and pitriotism, and may, in advance, be claesedas the first in interest and talent of the season. The comic lecturer, Thackary, wiil also deliver his six discourses on the ‘English Humerous Writers of Qucen Anne’s Reign,” and probably give us something less stalo in the way of illustrating some of our numerous varioties of “Snobs ” These are, however, only a fow of the more pro- minent lecturers by whom the good people of this | metropolis are to bo amused, or edified, or hum- bugged, as the case may be, during the approach- ing winter. The committee of gentlemen who have got up what they denominato the series of ‘popular lectures,” promise to introduce to the public, each Wednesday evening, in Broadwey Tabernacle, epecimens.of the best lecturers to be found in Now ton city, which, our readers may remember, azese out of the Osptain’s extraordinary letter concerning the oom duct of General rivroe on the night previous te the with- drawal of the army from Mextoo, the Adjutant Generala Jessup, hay ordered a court martial to assemble and ad— Judicate on this strange affair. At noon yesterday the: court assembled in this city. The members were:— Colonel Plympton, Seventh Infantry, President; Col- Sort i. th A Artil- lery; Major Fou rtiliery; Mejor Sperman, jor Mackull, Astistupt Adjutdnt Genesal; Teylor, Third Artiilery; Capiain Hayden, Second Infan- try; Captain Wertcoit, Second Infantry; Oaptain De- Russy, Fourth Artillery; Lieutenant Becks ‘Third. Arullery; Licutensnt Hardie Thisd Artilléry, court Colonel Roberts avd Cuptain McLane were in — room adjoining the court. ‘The Colonel is a dark- featured, small, but muscularly-made man, and tho Captain, on the contrary, is very sanguine im eom- Plexion and tall. The Court waited several minutes for the errival of Captain Worcester, of the @overn- or's Lslond garrison, in order to form a quorum, and them adjourped to one o’clock in crder to give him ample time. On arrembling egain. ths Japtain was still absent, und, under those cireum}tances, it was deemed advisable to adjourn til ten o’cluck thie morning We uederstand that the triel will in all probavility. occupy omly a day, as there will be but a few witnesses called on behalf of Colonel Robderts, Captsia McLune resting his defence on the peculiar circumstances which occasioned the Tencontre. The Crystal Patuce. ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXHIMITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ‘ALL NATIONS. Orvicn. No. 53 BRoapwar, i ww York, Ost, IL, 1852. T address you, on behalf of the Association for the Exhibi- tion ef the Macatey of all Nations, to invite your ¢o-opera~ tion in the general objects of the enterprise. ‘The building intended for tha prrposea of the Exkibition, ecnstracted entirely of iron and gisss, will be, it is believed, the largest and most beautiful ecitice in the country. It cov~ wise the. ¢ ground floor, two aud a half acres, and, the whole space is four acres. ‘maso1 ced, and is tote completed on the 2s! part of the iron work ‘s contracted for, castings are to be delivered from the 15th Oetober 15th Di We have it in our power, therefore, to as we have alre: i bio, that to the aa- ho ‘ast po ulation of this ssuntry, such of ductionsas yon rend ws, free of all charge of every kind whatever from the time that they are delivered into our eus- until withdrawn. tod, The Association has already announced that their ebjecta. aro limited exclusively to exhibition. They hav ant whater direct or indirect, in ti al disposition to be made of ‘article that may be « d. reeaived all the that we have desired. La you doubt, aware th: assistance from tho public author: The city has given us the lease of gas thoy remain ih it, strongest assurances of rapport fre representatives, in this country, of the principal fo powers; and we ave receiving daily confirmation of th neral iv terest that the subjeot is exciting amoag the manus facturers of Evrope A large number of artieles of high England, New York, or clsowhere. Single tick- ets for this course of twelve aro fixed at two dollars, and double ones—for gentleman and lady—at three dollars, single tickets to the one lecture at two shillings and double ones at three shillings. These charges are about twice those demanded by the committee of the “*people’s lectures,” which are als» to be de- livered at the Tabernacle, once a week, by some of the most eminent men in that line. To this course the uniform charge for admission is twelve and a half cents, a rate at whieh they can afford to remunerate the lecturer pretty highly. The plan they adopt, in that respect, is to give him one-half the gross receipts, appropriating the other moiety to defray the expenses of the house, advertising, &e., so that those peripatetic gentlemen who affect such an air of philanthropy in the rostrum, and who generally appear to have no object in their labor of love other than to enlighten and instruct their auditory, aro all the time counting heads— as theatrical stars do under like circumstances— and calculating the value of their lecture in dollars and cents. Besides those enumerated, we are also to have courses delivered beforo the Mercantile Library Association, the New York Historical Society, the legal and medical schools of the city, as well as two series in the city of Brooklyn. It is in connection with the former of these that Mr. Thackary, and we believe Mr. Meagher, ! are to appear, and the society has also en- gaged the Hon. Horatio Seymour, governor elect | of this State, to lecture before it on Wednesday, | the 17th. phase in American lecturing, to see men of rank and | station volunteer their services without fee or re- | ward, though in England they aro accustomed to have such men as Lord Brougham, Lord Carlisle, and other distinguizhed , noblemen and | literati lecturing before their mechanics’ institutes, | admission being invariably free to members. Mr. | Webster has also left a brilliznt exanple in this re- spect and it is not unusual to see such men as Mr. Everett and Mr. Choate imitating that example in New England. The first course in Brooklyn will begin this evening with Mr. Whipple, of Boston, on Martin Luther. We expect, besides, to have a whole host of pri- vate and independent lecturers, ambitious of fame and reward, laboring in the same fertile field. Some of thom, indeed, have already commenced. To mor- row evening a well educated Greek gentleman, Mr. A. Rigopoulos, is to lecture at Hope Chapel, on the recent history and present state and prospects of his native country. The subject is ex- cellent, and we belicve the lecturer is competent to do it justice. A very curious and interesting series, entitled ‘‘ Polyglot Lecturess” has been also got upin the Bowery, by a party of gentlemen, who are to lecture in the various modern language, Italian, German, French and Spanish, four times a week. And to cap the climax of this lecturing furore, we are, of course, to be mystiiied and humbugged by lectures on spiritual manif: tions, electrical psychology, Fourrierism, Rochester knockings, and all the fashionable “ isms” of the day. On the whole, we believe there never was such preparations made for an astounding display of wit, talent, eloquence, research, originality, non- #ense, ignorance and balderdash, as that now ready to be launched on this devoted city. ‘Pray to the gods to avert the plague.” Justice T0 Gen. Scorr —The brave old hero of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane has suffered a most signal defeat by the young volunteer genoral from New Hampshire; but it is gratifying to hear that Gen, Scott proves himself equal to the omorgoncies of this laet and most disastrous battle. According to our latest advices from Washington, he falls bask upon his post of General-in-Chief of the Army, with tho most pleasing equanimity and good humor. There may he continue to flourish, hale and vigo- rous, for the next thirty years, and longer, if he de- sires it. He hasrendered the most brilliant services in the field to his country, and it is a matter of pub- lic satisfaction that he is still the active head of the army. Afterall, he did right to hold on. He stands there, like a reserved corps of the old Imperial Guard, only to be called out when the rappel is sounded for a resistless charge upon the common enemy. He has failed, by an extraordinary con- juncture of unlucky circumstances, to reach the Whito House ; but he may yet prove to be an indis- pensable defender of Gon. Pierco’s administration. Who knows ? nee. Lt. Com. Jas Al- despite the indignation of the Buffalo gentleman, | who isa martyr te the “hypocracy” and “ ras | cality ” of the New York press, we are not generally | eredited with the corruption he charges agaiast us. | Wo apologize to our whig cotemporarios for any rudeness which there may bo in informing them that the American public is composed neither of rascalanor of idiots. The hundred thousand sub- ecribers and the million readers of tho Heraun are | neither inclined to foster dishonesty, nor so obtuse | as to be unable to unmask it. They can soo—what our dotemporaries cannot—that a newspaper which is @ prinoely fortune to its proprietor would be ruined by prortituting its opinions for money. In significant sheets, which havo but fow readers, and | no character to Ieee may very poevibly dud aimp'e | -co 12th ult. from Capo Flattery, Columbia river, and intermediate gorts having om board the astronomical party of G. Davidson, Eeq., U. 8. Coast Burvey, A Propeiier Borxt.—The [ag seal Genossee Olio, was destroyed by fire at anearly hour on Saturday morning. at the wharf, on the cast side of the river at Car. | thoge ‘The vessel was built here last ‘pring by Cram & Knapp and was owned by E, Beiden& Co She plied regularly between this port and Ogdensburg, and waa commanded by Captain Chapman, She came in here on Friday, with a cargo of tan bark. a part of which was echarged. The fire is supposed to have been aocidental, ‘The vessel cost about $10,000, and was insured for $5,000. Rochester American, No Court Cal jar—This Day. It is a good though somewhat novel | value are already secured, aud we have no doubt whatevor- that we shall have a very extersive representation of alk tho branches of foreign industry ‘The measures which we have adonted will thus seeure two great objects we have desired to attnin, viz: the ere f a bvilding which will be a gent architectural our city, and the exhibition, ia thet buildi duets of the industry of the old world; still, far short of our mark if we do not equally in ta'ning the fullest and mo;t extensive co-operation of At rican Industry; our exhibition would be extremely d tive—it would’ be very inferior, both in interest utility, to what we mean to make it—if the great reeoarcea of the'people of cur own country wero not fully displayed, We believe i} to be unnecessary to urge upoa you the arguments on this subject, which we are sure will present themselves to the mind of every intelligent Amerioan pro- ducer—rour position in the world of Ameriean industry, your cwn interest, end what is duo to aa enterprise devised and meant ty be carried out with no narrow views, but on a largo seale of public urefulness—all entitle us ta ent {pln the fullest conviction thet. you will se:d us some of the choicest specimens of your skill, aud that you will urge your friends to do the seme. We do not doubt thas snch will be the result when the subject is once broucht fairly and fully before you, and our only reason for addressing you thus partion matter may not he overlooked ii nes, and that you may giv be fully prepared. We énclore our general cirovlar, and aleoa cation for space, to which we b of there, or of this letter, if you desi friends or correspondents. can be hs In order oa at this offi ‘ at we may know on what oxtent of e0-epera- tion we may depend, the favor ofa reply onor before the loth day of November is nsked I have the honor to be, “on with groat respeet, Your obedient servant, E£ODORE SEDGWICK, President. Brady, from the dals for ‘ion, as well as the pi awarded in jon, at the World's Pair, deems it ui sary to expatiate on the superiori*: vites the attention of the pablis to led collection ef dacuerreotypes, now oxhibiting at his a 205 Broadway, corner of Fulton street. x een Only One Place.—Those Beautifal Crayon ¢aguerreotypes, for w! ich the prize m of the American Institute bas just boon awarded, are taken only by ROOT, at 303 Broadway. Cslland see them, Pictures a im any Weather—fair, clovdy, of rainy. pestis Parties en 1 Singer's Sewing Machines, within the last lew ii oh weeks, have reosived premi of Mactan ‘inms of the firet elass, from Insyitute, New York, Frank! Inst deiphia, Maryland Tastiveto,, Malti morse Fair, at Indianapolis y are the tion of the timo, doing al! kinds of atitching aato- dity, etrencth, and beauty Call and see them rincipsl offi ‘New York, 258 Brosdway. hia, 57 Sout) rect. Boston, 19 Harvard Btate inv Fourt! ——— New Class for Ladics.—The Wednesday afternoon classes for Indies and children, having become 60 large, Ihave detcrmived to forto 2 new class, whioh wild joons at iss P. M.. for Indies and Monday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, oan Eeaine ny, crest Yulee ote arranged on & new rinciple, caleuluted to facilitate the progress ef th > ee published cireufar to be had at the academy, ne PUPIL ALLEN DODWORTH, £06 Brondway, ree Unie Sah Saabldesie hs Fashionable Clothing, so essential in & eountry like this, where the rich and the lowly +] Gress so highly, san,» ims, he found at HL. FOS- TER'S clothiog Establis! 27 Cor‘landt street, where every article of dress can Ha eas purchaood on the most poason- United Stat Miltary and Na <a BORGE P. POX, 533 Broadway. —U. wa. L 8. Now me the pleasure of placisg my sire ir notice, at the same time offering you my best gervicen. apa ree riggther. bien the rorouroes of m: store, for the supply of mi ivy and navy unilo: J mite sopply of mllienry y uniforms, United States Consul George P. Fox, Tatlor Cloth Importer, includes in the various listo stomers, gentlemen, the heads of the Executvo departments, members of b houses of Congress ; also Ministers Plonipotentiary, Seoreba.- ries and Attashes of Legations, the English, Frénch, and other foreign military and navy services} To the Public.—We feel it our duty te re- mind our frionds and the public particularly, that we have opened a cheap clothing store, where overcoats of \~ scriptions can be bought from ‘: pantaloons from $1 to $210; vests from &) cents to 109 Nasana street, near Ann, » THOMPSON, goin fe Teneo heine Cheap Clothing for the pubite, at the old choap store, where you can tind afull and fashiona- sortmont of fall and winter clothiay of overy descrip. ‘To tho man of moderaie means, I of for an assortment and substantial clothing wnsorpassed in the city; of shen While tho tect taetidieus. sities can be suited to ral tastes, 4, ftreet, corner of Beekman. cb] Carpetings—Smih & ‘earl streot, are now omprising eb tapes Lounsberry, prepared to exhibit their fal sa complete and de: oi] tm: of ry, Bru ail of watch they are oferta all of wi 10) challenge competition, ne Paris Clonks ard Mantitins for Nevember. The enbecriber has jvet rece! inspection this day. twelve o: surprisingly besutfin! garmen: brated Parisian artists, in velvet, Ind! ol mere. Ke. all of which he offers on the ab moderato terms. GEO. BU Em- mo’ PIN, Paris Cloak and Mi Porium, 361 Broadway, sh spas In pleasant weather prepare for the se= vore, orin other words, Indies, Li § your furs"for the ap- Prosching winter, now. KNOX has, as w > arsortment, and his pric Toom, where can be procu: tlemen, and caps of overy di 125 Fulton street Genin to fome yoars upon Genin regard» deavored to m: Pe isle for 1852, he is confide: tard material, clogance and fivieh, all that he has herevotore ae ecmplished, and this idence is justified b: GENIN, 214 Broadway, porite Wedding and Party Cards Beautifully En. graved and printed, on the finest Froach, Ei and Amo- Tien ri conte of arms, crests, &o., 1 soala: m Taege’ and. eplondid wen @ boxes. MYATT & CORNELL. orner of Broadway. 292. Greenwich pe envelope, wi 1 Warner and Undergarment Depot, street. corner of Chambers street.—Lamb's Wool, merit rik, and ootton undershirte and drawers, of all sizes, #0 the Teviot woot undergir nents, so highly recommend by Physicisne. Vino shirts made to ord in the best man- ner, Collars, cravats, stocks, scarfs, glo hosiery, Shirts that not merely satisfy, but de- light the moat fastidious; abiets in whi in deer ont keon- eyed connoste: ioh; abi which fit ne if th eannot dotect bad been made for them, re mado to order at Git $1,000 Challenge to any Shirt Maker, male er female. Amorioan or French, Sauige by m: valor folentifien! principles, who p01 rhirts. J. W, CHARPENTIE! the same eetablishmont; garment: Imitation of French St eof the Meg! ingtoremenie ves ma Ay made inthe facture of ladies slippers, is shown to CANTREL 0. 436 Bowery, for Burrnion Count Tria oon 477 188. 199 fi bb4, 068. 540, 661, 6¢8. 664 +29, %, 107 LCR, 109, 420, 244, aed, Lud, 630, 002, LL of of tho French slipper. 80 close it niohavebesn in the of Mapifeld Lovell, Fourth Artillery, Judge Advoeate of the