The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1852, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE BLACK WARRIOR, | their very great probability, may eventually turn sain (From the Diario. Nov. 11.) General Franklin Pierce is now President of the United States. This candidate, whose success we Rever one moment, hesitated in predicting, was ebanged into an official nomination, as e000 a3 Ge- neral Scott alose became designated as his rival This conviction of ours never flagged for one in- stant, even, when, towards tho end of the contest, our well-informed correspondents began to express | their doubts as to the issue. What is, however, calculated to astonish us some- what, is the complete rout of the whig party; for this, we were to a very great extent prepared, but | we did not imagine that it would ever reach that point. Zo find anything at all analagous to it, we must go as far back as the clection of Mr. Monroe in 1820, andeven as on that occasion, the couplete pe tang of ~ old federal Lanta Agta Slee, | manifest, co this last occasion clearly shows, accord- IN HAVANA. | ing to the best judges, a similar ruin of the whig gnanaane aes: party, erroneously called the heir of the former. Such are the words, or at least such the prediction, atiributed with sufficient authority to give such a report credit to Mr. Webster, on his death bed. Viowed in this light, the recens eleotien is of very | considerable importance in the movements of tho | home policy of the United States All the causes which contributed to this result deserve to be plained. Before all, we must record the fast t! the so-called democratic party is tho true and logical representative of the ideas prevailing in that society, whereas the whig party was @ bastard as- sociation, without fundamental doctrines, without aim, withont any fixed will, aud therefore devoid of all vital force, and of the very first eloments of existence. Besides, that conservative instines pro- vailing in the U States, and relating to every- thing connected the p-culiar spirit of the in- stitutions of the country, coutributed not a litsle to the victory obtained by Mr Pierse. With Mr. Fillmore as their chief, the whigs weuld have disputed their ground; with General Scott aud his supposed tendencies to the free soil creed, any serious contest was out of the question. Bat though the doctrines of thas sect appear to be disposed of, and although the Wilmot proviso has disappeared from the political arena, it were a grave errer to suppose that their influence is entirely an- nibilated. Almost every society contains within itself some danger constantly weighing on the minds of all, but with regard to which silence is the more | profound in proportion as the peril is greater; and ie this reason the greater guarantees offered for the maintenance of the Union, by an obscure candidate like Mr. Pierce, bave had a share, and by no means a small one, in the result of the recent elections Bat if, with regard to domestic affairs, Mr. Pierce’s nomination and election offer a theme for serious reflections, we repeat once more our former assertion, that their influence ia entirely nugatery as regards intervational policy. The demonstration of this apparent paradox ism task which we havo, for some time, set down for our pen, and which we shall, before very long, fulfil to the best of our very limited abilities. ONE WEEK LATER FROM CUBA, SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA. Total Loss of the Schooner Sarah Emma, Waval Preparations to Head Of the | Crescent City. HB EFFECT OF THE ELECTION OF GENERAL PIERCE. MILITARY PRACTICE Manifesto of the American Government. Onslaught of George Law and the Fillibusters, ic., Ken, dice ‘The steamer Black Warrior, R. W. Bhufeldt, U. | 6. N., Commander, from Mobile and Havana, arrived | and anchored inside the Horse Shoe at half pasttwo | e’clock yesterday mor She left Mobile at 12 M. | on the 9th inst , and arrived at Havana on tho LIth, | at4do’clock P.M. Ssiled for New York at noon, on the 12th inst., with thirty-five passengers, and a large freight of cotton, tobasco and segars. On Tuesday evening, ith, about half past 8 o’clook, Barnegat light bearing west northwest, standing to the northward, the steamer Black War- rior, in charge of a p' made the schooner Sarah Emma, of St. Georges, bound from New York to Philadelphia, on the port bow, standing to the south- east. Tho Black Warrivr immediately put hor helm hard a port, stopped t ne, and backed it strong; the schooner stood directly across the steamer’s bow and cau collision, carrying away her bowepri: and doirg other damage. The schoo- ner was cut down nearly to the water’s edge. Tho steamer was rounded to, and her boats sent along- side, when the capiai: he schooner, having de- termined to abandon her, the crew were brought off, and tho schooner left at anchor in about nine fathoms water. We learn from Havana that the Crescent City dif- fioulty had been revived, at the instarce of somo of the old Spamards, who represented to the Captain- Genera! that his retrogression in the matter would have the appearance of cowardice, and finally | persuaded him to insist that his understanding with Judge Conkling only had reference to one voyage. When the Black Warrior left Havana, a Spanish | man-of-war steamer was cruising off tho Moro, to prevent the Crescent © from entering, with or dors, it is said, to stop her at all hazards; but we bave good authority for believing that the Captain- Goneral siready regrets a renewal of trouble, and, if she persists, she will be allowed to enter. 2 on, f © The Preparations for an Invasion, (#rom the Gaceta de la Habana, Nov. 7} OFFICIAL. Anny or vie Isuanp of Coma Genersl Order of Nov. 15, 135 the Captain General, has been plow jafantry regiments of Spain Batlea and ja Corea, each and all of them. eend in succession and by turns, one of their companies to the place des'insd to practice target firing, in the immediate neighborhood of Atarco Castie, with a view to perfeoting themselves in this important and useful exercise | without distinction of feast days. company of the sai; és treops, to be derignated by the Brigadier General of the In regard to other American vessels there have | Plaza, will repair for the purpose aforesaid to ths said been no difficulties; Stention | Pot. The suid company so deaiguated, will leave its no difficulties; on the contrary every attention | Rarters eo that the firee shot may be fired at nine ovslook has been shown them. The American steamer and the last at ten; the method and system observed in Ometepe, belonging to the Nicaragua Company, — this exercise to be the most advantageous and convenient put into Havana for coal and water, without a bill of health, contrary to the Quarantine regulations of the port. She was, however, given every facility, and having obtained her supplies sailed on the morning of the 12th inst for San Juan. Tho British steam frigate Highfyer and two sloops of war, with } three French men of war, were in the harbor, but not an American ship of war. Havana was healthy, but.business dall. Whe Pre idential ty onde gry in the United tates. | (From the Diario de ia Marina, Nov. 8.] | It is now certain that not only the great electoral eontest in the neighboring country has been desid- ed, and the person designated who is to fill the Pre- sidential chair forthe coming four years, to begin from March next—but also, thanks to the rapidity of communications and ‘he activity of the telegraph, the result of the battlo, with all its minute datails —has been fully gecerta ned. The-votes that were it into the ballot box on the sccond inst. only othe names of the elevtors who were to elect the President; but th: orgauization of parties in the Anglo- America racy, renders this last act but a more vain, sevs-lvas formula The Presi- dential electors are desigoated by the majority of the people in all the States except South Carolina, which last we might ca|] almost a stranger in the body of the Union, snd vhich seizes every opportu- nity of perpetuating and manifesting its moral he- terogencousness. The clectors, therefore, are a mere instrument of the democratic will and their suffrage is known beforehand There is but one single caso in which it might follow, that even afier the popular election, the reeult of the same might remain enveloped in doubt, and that is where there being several caadidates, | neither of them should obi «in the majority of votes requisite, and the election should therefore be sub- | mitted to Congress “Of this incident, however, there have been but two instsuces; the one at the time of Jefferson’s first election, and the other at the time of John Quincy Adums, in 1824. This incident bes not been reproduced since that time, however, nor is there much probability of its being renewed. The spirit of the institutions of every country becomes more mauifest with the lapse of | ears, and the tendency of those of the United | ‘tater is clearly to increase the decisive influence of | the masees ¢ combination which, in 1824, was able to place Jobn Quincy Adams in the Presiden- tial chair, with a smaller ounber of paraies votes, ®rould perhaps no: be tolerated now by the fierce democracy! A divisicn of votes would therefore indicate # wide breach in the tendencies and desires of the multitude, and would perhaps presage other | and more serious events Such a supposition, how- ever, is very far from being likely, as any one who has studied the real etate of public affairs, public epinion, and the probabilities of the fature, will readily acknowledge. ‘ | Tf, then, the deprried Mr Webster retained any hope of producing such a result by persisting in sus- taining his powition ar @ candidate, be had pre rea for himeelf another deception and snother Tvsppointment to be added to the many and serious oves that marked his public career, and which con- tributed to embitter, if vot to precipitats his last moments. We would vot. however, do his lo‘ty sa gacity the injustice of believing that he nourished such desires. His coudact, we think, caanot be considered otherwire thun as an act of pique agaiast General Scott, similar to that which indaced him to prevent the triumph of Mr Fil'more, whore triumph Would bave been almog certain in the whig conven- tion, ii the friends of the Secretary of State had lent their frank and hearty support ‘to the head of government, when they saw that their owa hopes were forever dee royed It may perhaps be, that Mr. Webster aspired 'o promote the more rapid dissolution of the whig party under its present form, an object which no few chiefs of that party have in view; that it must, however, soon be realized is a perspective that presents itself with all the appoar- nce of inevitable fatality But be all this as it mav, the death of the great orator has effaced even the last trace of dissidence Nove ot the minor parties toat bad put forward a candidate, neither the States’ Rights. nor even the Free Soilers, have at preteens anything formal or systematic about them, nor do they coneeive a shadow of bope that their caudidate will carry even asingle State. The free ssil party may be endowed with very great importance considered. in the light of the results which it is likely to produce in fatare, but et present its action ie ro limicved that it does not even allow it to injute, and prevent the triumph Of, this or that candidate The fight is between Pierce and Scott exclusively, and we cannot, there fore, doubt but tox: the next arrival from the Caited States will aonounce to us which one of the two bas definitively cor the day ‘The final event is ro o! * band that it appears hardly worth while to anticipate the receipt of facts by mere supposivions and argaments supporting them Still we must repeat our drm conviction that Pierce depends end sir good reason—with almost entire rap tooo on the victory What ie most im- rtant for us, however, in our capacity as a foreign cea ncighbering nation, is not the roth of thle or that individual, but the ideoe which each may rep- Tesent, or be supposed to represent Under this view of the care we cannot do ers than repeat our inti- mate conviction that on whatever side fortune may incline the soales, the reeu't muvt be ent'rely indit ferent to us, in the olution of the problem which has been laid = Sucbs bi lef though warring appa- rently with common éense, rests on two fandamental pringiples, to wit, that the necessities of goverament moderate the impetus vf the more Gery orators of the people, and that the whig party in the United States is very far from being a truly conrervative one, and as such from olfering desirable guarantoos. Were we here to record the name of Mr Clayton, we might find a text for the most diffuse and ox- tended arguments, but we vould prefer, nevertheless, to set forth, at greater leogth, the reasons several times insinuated in our cole with regard to this por’ matter. But av the certain resait will vory shortly be known ‘o as it is better to put off the argument till that time. than to found our cal- which, mot leney. The foregoing provision will begin to operate on Mon- day next, and the corps whose tura ft may be to sead a company, will do #0, even though it have made arrauge- ments for a militery parade or be on service in the Piazs. The captains of each corps will give a monthly account of the progress of their troops His xcellency, with a view to prevent any unforeseon mistortune, has further ordered that the above order bs published in the general order of the day, and tha: it be | mcecover inserted in the newspapers of the Plaza in or- der that it may be known to all, and particulerly to the laborers and fishermen who frequent the neighborhood of | the raid spot, LUIS FERNANDEZ DE CIRDOVA, of Goldin. Havana, November 5, 1 Fete on Board the Highflyer Steamer. {from the Diario, Nov 10} In order to celebrate, with the true spirit of chi- valry end re: %, our monarchy, the birthday of the Prince of Wales, heir appareut to the Engiish crown, the commander and oflivers of the beaucrfal steamship Highflyer, took advantage of that vessel’s Tmanent stay 18 our port, to get up a sarae or all, on board of her. Notwithstanding the inclem- eney of the weather, there waa a large concourse of beautiful ladies present, numbering among them many of thove who compose the flower of our aris tocracy, both in point of birth, and in point of beauty; they formed the nucleus of @ renaion, which will leave pleasant souverins to all who were present. Among these we must men:ion the brilli- ant etaff corps of officers of the Freach war steamer. The bali room, formed of an elegant tent, spread over the deck of the veesel, combined simplicity and good taste, aud we, who bat two days before, and thanks to the amiability of Captain Macson. had visited that imposing array ef guns, could hardiy bring upon ourselves to believe that we were in the same place. Nor bad the whole warlike ap- peratus entirely disappeared. for at the extreme end of the room stood the crown of feathers, emblem of the principality of Wales, placed on elegant trophy of arms of every description, and sustained on both sides by the pavilion of the United King dom the flags of different nations, among which the Spanish banners occupied the most conspicuous place, and the same epirit of gallantry was to be noted in the ornaments of the stage occupied by the orchestra; this latter was covered with penne and red colors most gracefully arranged he re- freshments, provided with the most sumptuons pro- fusion, occupied a sort of ante room, formed by the | prolongation of the deck, and oa whish all the ac- cidente of the focal wore most sxilfully takon advantage of to heighten the effect. * Such, then, is a sight sketch of this agrecable | féte, in which shone at ove and the same timo, the tone of the most refined society, and the amiable frenkness which, if it is inpate ip the distinguished officers of her Majesty's navy, dees not, on the other hand, badly agree with the type of our Cuban cus- toms. We should be very higoly pleased if the stay of the foreign war steamers in our port wore pro- longed to the national celebration in honor of our august eovereign. This celebration is already close at band, and we should like, on that occason, not cnly to have our guests witness the profound respect with whieh the Spavish nation looks upon the 1 authority and its sacred traditions, but also a them asintimate friends and brothers, to our domestic hearth, and return, as far as our scanty means would allow, an acknowledgment of the sympathy and fricudship for which we are indebted to them. As to the rest, if, a8 appears certain, his excollency the Captain General received on Sanday last, at his table, the commanders of the four English and French vessels anchored in the bay, we are coali- dent that ne nes not only fulfilled, in» bassmin, manner, his pleasing duties towards the heirs of our Queen and rovereign, but also that he was the wor- thy interpreter of the sentiments of profound cor- diality which our nation entertains for these acoom- plished genUemen and the brilliant officers under their command. Statement of Purser Smith, In connection with the news from Caba, we girs the following aflidavat of Purser Smith, of the Ore- cent City, eworn to on the 21st October:— Cory OF AN AFFIDAVIT OF PURSER SMtTT United States of Imerica, Southern District of New York, ss —I, William Smith, Purser of the Untied states mail stenmnsbip Crescent City and sey, that the allegation or manifesto. signed M. G ment of the [sland of Cul fourth day of Septewber, 1852, and reocated in the official paper at Hevawa, thst I beds “published the moat grors calumoies against the goreroment of said Island.” and the further allegations which I understand have been made Cfiieially t the govermment of the United States, thet I bad heid communication with disaffected persovs in the port of Havana, in the island of Ouba, aud hed been tue bearer of letters orfmessnges to and from such perros, are all utterly without foundation, I have niver written nor published apythiog sgainst the gorernaont of the enid island of Cuba, nor bave I over carried letters or mereuges to and from disaffected persons in said Jsland or the proceedings of ita authorities. I have con- fined myreif etrictiy to the discharge of the duties of purrer ofthe ship. and have demean-a myself ascordiagly- Burthermore 1t has been the express command of Usotein Porter, and of the Mail Steawship Uompany, that no offt- cer oF person employed on the ship should be atlor- ed to carry letters outeide of the mati, other tusn thove belonging to the ebip’s busicow, amd. when lecters have beep sent on the steamer after the matis have been closed and received om board, they have beea placed in charge of the purter. and in ail oacws delivered to tho postmarter at Havana, farther depose and fay, Uhat I bave never been im avy manner convected with ¥ arecolation or expedition for hoctile purposes in re- © he isiend of Cubs, or for annoying, resistiag, or ‘nterterivg with its authority, (Signed ) WILLIAM Swit, Bet day of Ootober, 1862 beforn me. United States Comintseioner for the Dis- ‘ork, an officer of the govern. di dated at Havana the Bworn to, Jovep Brigh: trict of New The Spanish View of the Crescent City Affate, (Yom tho New York Cronica (Spantrh érgan), Nov. 12] We do not know what impression may have been produced on the minds of oar readers by the peru: sal of the letter direoted to the Secretary of State by Mr. Roberts and by Mr. Law, the former tho agent and the latter the prevident of tue company to which the Crescent City belongs o by enat publbbidin « r by Mz la by potucces, rivaiteadiag . ity PAP Every day therefore, | a for the furtherance of the end proposed by Elis Excel- | The roof ot this tent was composed of | of the “secret colonization” of St. Domingo. They were all of them translated in our numbers of No- vomber 3 and 10, without any further commentary than what muet naturally result to every reader from the perusal of the contents of these opistles We shall now say a fow words on those documonts, however unworthy rome of them may appear sven of the robe attention which we purpose Bestowiog upon them. The first point which cannot but call our atton | tion im Mr Roberts’ letter is the official p: | Which he apparently wishes to assume, as agent of the United States Mail Steamship Company, ani | the stand which he seems to take as reprosentatiro rights of public vessels of the United States, ming, at the same time, the immediate action of the federal goveroment in the vindication of avy damages to which it may have been submitied by its own private conduct. Mr. Roberts claims tha’ his vessels should be considered, in foreign ports, a8 war vessels of the Union, and he iavokes tho law of nations ard international treaties to support the exemptions and immunities to which, a* suoh, they would be entitled. Those claims were first laid in the protest of Mr. Porer. Oa the occasion of our alluding to this protest, we already stated our opiuion, that Mr Por- ter was in no respoct to be considered as dif fering from a captain in as merchant vessel. | nor the verse! under his command as being entitled to privileges and immunities other than thos) ap- pertaining to vessels of the sams class. Whatever | may be the exemptions which the company may | have ob ained from its goveroment in the poris of the Unien, as a recompense for tho services which the former may render in accordance wish its con- tract, no foreign authority can be compelled to ac cept @ private agreement between the North Am»- | rican government and any of the citizens, and to regulate its port arrangementa and police rules with 8 view to its observance. The steam vessels of tho company reach Havana, after having beea dss- atched from the New York and Now Orleans custom ouses, in the same manner ag any other meroitat vessel; and like tae latter they are subjost, imne- diately on entering the waters and harbors within the jurisdiction ot Spain, to the laws and naval and other regulations which that country may hare deemed proper to sanction. They are consilored precisely in the same manner as the United S:ates consider the steamors belonging to the Roya! Mail Co:npany plying between Liverpool and New York, some of which have already mors than once been into a reasonable ground of quarrel, still less of war What publicist—what man of common senwo— denies to a country the right of enacting and en- forcing such police regulations aa its rulers may deem necessary to its perce and safety? Franca, ip seasons of domestic trouble, decrees that certain suspected individuals and classes shall not cross her boundaries; and neither Ledru in nor Louis Blane sees her right to do so, however little they relish the hardship it occasions. Whon Ireland was in @ state of incipient rebellion, England se and cast into mn American citizens who were euspected of fomenting mischief; and though Mr Bancroft remonstrated against the harshness of tle proceeding, neither he nor Mr. Buchanan, the then Seeretary of State, disputed the right on which it rested At this moment South Carolina asserts her right to hold in duress colored subjects of Britain entering Charleston harbor in British vessels ; not because they have committed felony, but because their color brings them within the range of the police provisions, which the local au- thorities hold i6 be essential to the good order of the city. Still more: South Carolina and Lou- isiana claim and enforce the right of imprisoning— and, under certain contingencies, selling—colored citizens of Boston, New York, or Philadelp! sail ing as servants on board of morchant ships or steaum- er#, when they trespass aguinst local laws; laws not levelled against theft, or drunkenness, or riot, but simply against the presence, in particalar ciroum- stances. of free colored individuals Surely, thon, the right coneeded to England in times of peril, and exerted cven now by France and by States of this Union, may, without impropriety, be claimed by Spain, aud be exercised by her in any precautionary measures she may adopt to maintain her colozial possessions intact. It is the right ofself defence, and nothing more. If Cuba, having a disaffected popa- lation amongst the Creoles, be menaced by organiz- ed bodies in the United States, her government is | | clearly justified in declaring who shall and who shall embargoed by tho local authorities of Now York | and Bosten for smugglio, nd yot tho proprietors of that line, though receiving from their govern ment @ heavy subvention for tho public services which they ronder by virtue of their coi ot, have neyer dreamt of asking thut the English govern- mnt should interfere in the consequences of their own private transgressions in the said ports And had the cause of the embargo, and even of the ao- tual contiscation, been an evident or strongly pre- sumptive attempt levelled againet the institutions or the public peace of the country, the same measure, other still more severe, on tha part of the local authorities. would not warrant the ion of the British government, provided the punishment inflicted did not exceed the nature end proportions of the offence, and provided, too, the enid reports were not treated in an unjust or ex- coptioual manner by reason of their boing Eaglish | or belonging to any foreign nation. If even tho United States havo an undeniab!o right to punish foreigners or foreign vessels who infringe their lawa and general and local regulations while within the limits or their jurisdiction, under what pretence can Spain be denied the oxercise of the same right within the limits of hers? ut this simple question has been disposed of by good American authorities, and the Journal of Commerce of this very day supports our “position in en article which wo translate from that paper. What we desire is, to gather the practical facts that occur to us to prove the error of those who believe that the United States, by reagyon of their peculiar organization, do not recogaise the right belonging to every nation to punish or to ex- clude from its territory those foreignera who injure it in its peace, its safety, and its public morals, or its political institutions We desire to show, too, how vain an attempt it would be to seck to make | the United States a party to the settlement of a dif. ference provoked by the disrespectful and offensive conduct of the employces of a commercial company towards the Spanish authorities. ‘There is one matter, however, on which we would express our opinion, before abandoning the subject | of the steamship company. We think that neither Mr Roberts nor Mr. Law aro unaware, at heart, of the extravagance and madness of their pretensions, particularly of their opea threat of waging a private | War against Spai Perhaps, however, it were as well for us to men- | tion the causes which public rumor attributes 20 noisy conduct of these gentlemen Mr. Roberts, [herein agent of the company, when he wrote his ‘otter to the Secretary of State, and offered, with an ioperial tone, to put down the ‘ obstinasy” of the Spsnich authorities ia Cuba, had presented him- self as a candidate for national reprecontation, and his neme wes at the corner of every street, among those of the other pretenders other hand, according to reliable reports and our private sources of information, has in his possession a certain number of muskets, by some laid as hgh as one hundred and fifty thousand—this number, however, we take to be exaggerated. Those m kets were purchased of the governmeat, which dis- | pored of them at & nominal price, they uaving been diecarde 4 on the introduction of some change or im- provement in the mode of constructing them Mr. Roberts, then, must needs ingratiate himself into the favor of a certain class, aud nothing was better calculated to do this, and to throw renowa on his name, than the humiliation of Spanish pride by his powerful aud terrible anger Mr. Law, on the other bend, could not well keep his muskets, and as there is not much money and but little war in the His- pavo-American provinces—some of which have more arms than they know what to do with—he tmaust, of necessity, create a movemont, or ‘foment one already born, and then undertake « ‘private war,” which would ee @ ma for tho sale of his muekets. Both of these motives were, it must be confessed, amply sufficient to justify the exciting of popular enthusiasm in favor of a certain invasion, to avenge “the insults and outrages heaped upon the com pany by the Spanish authorities ” If it be really true that such were the causes as- _ tusting the company in their somewhat obstinate and irritating line of conduct, it is to be hoped that now that jts directors have perceived their error, and have écen that to persevere would only tend to injore their own interests, they will withdraw their inadmissable pretensions, and thus open the way to the prompt re-establishmont of free intercourse of the company with Cubs. If the authorities of tho Island persist in excluding Mr Smith and the vessel that beare him, no one, pomessed of his senses, can d: ny that the right is undeniably theirs. The Cou- rieravd Enquirer, though admitting the right te ex- clude Mr Smith, denies the right to exclude the vessel that carries him into a port within Spanish juritdiction, contrary to the express aud reiterated probibition of the Spanish government. Such an error in so sersible a paper is inconceivable. We do no more than copy the public rumor, nor is the opinion which we entertain with regard to the | merobers of the company, (Mr. Law excepted) dif- ferent from what wo have elways manifosted, nor would we desire that tho character attributed to tho latter, nor the imminent “private war” of Mr. , Roberts should bave the least tendongy to ombittor | in the slick*sgi Gcgree the authorities of Cuba, or divert them from the just, dignified and secure | course, which they have thus far followed. We must leave to somaother opportanity the mention of the few reflections suggested to us by the letter of Mr Green on the inattor of the “secret | colonization” of San Domingo. Views of the American Goverament tn Re« gore to George Law, Marshal OU. Ro Purser bmit i the American IL [From the Washington Republic, Mev.) There is a manifest determination in cert ters to misrepresent the action of the adminisiration in regard to the Havana difioulties, and to use thom as material to strengthen fitlibustering influences throogbout the country. The Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, for example, has the following edi-« torial in the number Inst received :— wenacerut.—It appears from the despatches pub- lished yenter’ey in regard to Cuban affairs, that ths ufscrable, despotic Captaim Geveral of Cuba xtill insists upon rier rquisition in regard to Purser Smith and vorter Captein Davenport, who now hes com: Orescent City. who. afer along parley goon shore on evrtain restrictions, on his late trip there, | bat he refused to avail himseif of this poor privilege Ais correspondence with the eonsul there brought ont the via: that the Spant-h minster at Wa: ained an assnrance from Mr. Conrad, acting Secretary of State, that noither Vay Purver Smivh should be permitted to return to tio istand. Shame! shame! upon euch cowardice wud pusilianimi Delta announces that arravgementa are in proge to give Pureer Smith a hae. dinner, on tae next return of the steamer to that city. be Plan Devler’s * itoportant fact ” was shown this paper ov Monday to bo a groundluss inven mm of Mr. George Law, and to it, thorefure, we pay no further atrention. Still it may be worth wae to inquire once sgain wherein the admiaistration bas * forgotton the rights of our citizens and the honor of our governwent,” and what distioguishod services Purser Smith bas rendered to his country that New Orleans should esteem him worthy of a | public reception ¢ The Crescent City affair is wholly undesorving of the importance that has been attached to it. and would never have excited attention, if reckless peculatorein powder and politios had not magnified and perverted the fasta relating to it. The governe ment of Cuba acted indisereetly, it is tras, aod ia | a manner which one dosiring to maintain friendly | relatione should have avoided: hut thers was no- gz in ite ugtion, after a?) tisfactorily | Mr. Law, on the | a With the Caben authorities was graciously permitted to ain Porter nor | Ap administration that will thus tar forget the rights of | our eltizens and the hovor of our government, ought to hurled from power sane ceremome S| Writing on the same subject, the New Orlans i | not be permitted to land upon her shores; and this country bas no ground of offence if one or another of our cidaens be excluded by the arrangement thus devised. If Purser Smith availed himeelf of the visits of the Crescent City to Havana to obtain information which he communicated to parties in New York, who afterwards | | ed it to the prejudice of tho | Havans authorities, they committed no offenca | against cur rights or honor when they prohibited hie returo. They did what the government of the United States, or of any other nation, would have done in similar cirenmstances We do not say that Smith did what he is alleged to have done; we are | willing to believe that he did not, after what Liou. tenant Porter has gaid upon the subjeot; but so long as the authorities of Havana consider that their grounds of suspicion against him are valid, neither he nor we can complain. They are to be satisfied of his innocence, and he must abide by the consequences of the suspicion until the evi- denoe adduced be sufficient to remove it. They now ask jor his own disclaimer as the only proof required; and we cannot but think that Passed Midshipman Davenport was needlessly punctilious, when, on tbe last visit, he refused to allow Smith tocomply with thodemand The testimony of the superior ¢fficer should be enough; but the Captain General having decided otherwise, we are at « loss to perceive bow the national honor could have been compromised by humoriog his dignity. Passed Midshipman Davenport may claim to fix the charac- ter of the tribunal which should administer justice in Smith’s cage, with as much reason as he claims to decide that the written disavowal of Smith is not necessary to meet the requirements of the Havana law. Sucha claim, if acceded to, would reduce the | sovereignty of nations to a nonentity. Whether the Captain General exceeded his pow- ers in excluding the Crescent Cit; obnoxious individual was on board, is a question on which we do not propose to enter. But this we do sy, that the exclusion violated the spirit if not the leiter of the treaty existing between Spain and the United States, ‘Lhe course uniformly pursued by Mr. Fillmore’s administration—its efforts to rigidly enforse treaty obligations, and to preserve relations of enna have restrained the Cap- tain Genera’ volved in the refusal to mailsand pastengers. That was an act which ad- mits of no justification, It was offensive to the government of this country, and calculated only to excite a retaliatory temper on the part of the American people. Asa matter of policy, it was al surd. As a blow aimed at our o1 commercial intercourse, it was singularly indisore because the | from the unfriendly manifestation in- | permit the landing of the | But the Ceptain-General has not played the only | absurd and indiscreet part that figures in this con- | nexion’ Mr. George Law, or the steamship com- Bry of which he is the head, excels the Captain- eneral in both particulars. In attempting toforce | Purser Smith into Cuba, Mr. Law has done what ad- mi's of no excuce. He has arrogated to himself a right from which any upright government would shrink; and if bo fis in pressing his position, he will be permitted to extricate Mimecl? from the dilemma that may resul; as best he can. Suppose the United States to be threatensd with ineurrection, or war, and a Spanish steamer plying to New York had on board an officer whom the Mayor of New York or the President of the United States, suspected of being a spy, we want to know how often the steamer would be permitted to enter dock with that officer on board. Would more than a tingle warning be given to her commander? Wo think not. Or, suppose that the British Anti- Slavery Society were to send a steamer to Charles- ton, with George Thompson citizens permit him to and; or would tho steamer its purser, would the © be permitted to repeatthe visit with the same in- | cendiary a8 its officer? Or, suppose that the Bos- | ton Anti-Slavery Society were to make Fred Dou- Jas captain of a schooner, freighted for New Or- jeans, would he be allowed to anchor alongeide of the wharf where Purser Smith is to be weloomod to Spas dinner ? Still we answer, no. 1, black ally wers to attempt to force himself into Charleston or New Orleans, wo imagino that the authorities or the people of the city would roseat the impertinence summarily and effectually. We dare say that in such a case Mr. Georges Law would call as loudly as anybody for vongeance. And yet Mr. Law's proceeding has be: 2 ‘ur peice was told that he could not enter Havana; til deny the charge pending against him. Ho senthim And if, not , allowed to land, George Thompson or his | | vessel. en 23 offensive | | as that of any of these imaginary instances Mr. Law sent him, with instructions not to | a second time—a third time—and, for aught we | know, @ fourth time yet awaits him. What is this but sheer bravado? What but a disereditable at- tempt to bully the Captain General into the sur- render of ® position rigbtfally held? What but a filibustering device to fan the flame of public ex- citement, and if possible to involve the two coun- tries in the horrors of war? Of Mr. Smith’s title to the honors promised him by the Delia, it is difficult to speak with « grave countenance He may be an effisiont purser and a most estimable man, though the public dinner is not intended as a recognition of him in cither caps- sity He ia to be elevated into martyrdom, and to be feted asono who has struggled to emancipate Havana! We éhall bo curious to learn who and bow many consent to compromise themselves by participating in a display, which would befridicalous if it were not so obviously designed for mischief. While, then, the administration is prepared , to uphold the rights of commerce, and to vin- | days from Now York. dicate all thé proper petrileaes of our citizons, | it is neither prepared nor sed to call in question the prerogative claimed by Cuba with regard to the exclusion of Purser Smith. Tho administration wi! maintain to the fullest exten’ the right of Amerioan vessels to trade with Havana; and will guard unflinchingly the personal rights of Amerisan citizens visiting Uiba who do not compro- misé (Remselves by an infraction of ths local laws. Further than this it will not—cannot—go. It will not enter into war to gratify the caprices of an indi- yidual or 8 company—to eubserve the purposes of desperate adventurerse—or to punish Spain for an act in which she is sustained by the common law of nations It etands where it stood fifteen moaths ago—uninfivenced by clamor at home, unawed by tbreats abroad. It wili adhere to tho priuciplos of honor and honesty, and will carry them out at eea or on land, without referonoes to consequencos Such a ed may not receive the approbation of those who cheer Mr. Law or fele Mr Saith; bat it will be sustained by the country ag that most likely to advance its interests, and to maintain its ia- fluence in the councils of the world. TELEGRAPHIC, RATION, ITS ORGAN AND THE DiP- FIOULTY WITH CUBA. SPFCIAL CONMESPONDENCE OF THE NEW TORK ITERALD. Wasnineron, Nov. 17, 1862" The Republic of this morning contains an article on the views of the government as regards Cuba, which confirms the truth of my derpatch to you at the time tho outrage took place, but which the Repnstic then denied, It now endeavors to defend these views, Its formor articles were, it is believed. unauthorized. The article of to day is official. xX. DINNER DECLINED AT NEW ORLEANS, \ Bauristonn, Nov, 17, 1352 Lieut Davenport and Purser Smith, of tho Crescont City. declined the pabiic dinner tendered them by the cf tizens of New Orleaus. THE ADMING Toast rrom Geyerat Picrog —A Pew Leer — The democracy of Nashua, N. A. had a celebration of their tiiumph im the election of General Pierce, a few evenings since; the Fon. Charles G, Atherton presidt: atthe rable The ‘th regular toast bore rather har upen the coalition demoorats im Masrnchnsetts, as fol- lows Itis small broadside from Pierce himse “The Union Democrats of Massachusetia—It is grati fying to know that there are a few in the old Bay State who bare not bowed the knee to Bast, but stand ereot, flinging to the Wreexe the brgad flag of constitutional kber'y, and the covereign’y of The Ataves.”” | | this route? Whata | Colon, and ha ARRIVAL OF THE UNITED STATES, EIGHTEEN DAYS LATER FROM JAMAICA. Our Kingston and Aspinwall Correspondence. INTERCOURSE WITH HAYTL | TIE LATEST FROM THE I8TOMUS, Siow, Sor des The steamship United States, Capt. William C. Berry, arrived yesterday afteraoon from Aspinwall, whence she sailed at 6o’olock P. M. on the 8th inst., via Kingston, Ja., leaving the latter port at 4 P.M. onthe 11th. The United States brings Kingston papers te the 11th inst. Our thanks are due to Mr. Geo F. Barney, the purser of the U. 8., for the latest papers. The House of Ascembly of Jamaica was opened on the 9th inst., by the Governor, whose spooch was duly delivered. The Royal Mail Company’s steamship Medway, arrived on the 6th inst , with the mails, which were transferred to her from the La Pista. The prospects for next crop wore fair as far as vegetation was concerned; but, mevertheloss, tho exports of next year will not exceed those of the past, even if thoy reach the same amount. The health of the colony was fair. The opidemics has disappeared, and the ordinary cases of disease of which we hear, were not of a severe character. A correspondent writes from Vero, under date of 2d November, that “there was ® very sharp shook ot earthquake felt here yesterday morning about ten | minutes to eleven o'clock.” Christian Bang, a seaman on board the American brig Monica, was drowned at Kings:on, and his body was found on the 9th inst. The Vivid, #rom Halifax to Port Maria, when in latitude 36 degrees 03 minutes, longitude 61 de- grees west, fell in with the wreck of the schooner Felico Destino, from Lisbon for New York, out sixty- seven days. Captain and crew, consisting of ten men, were taken on board the Vivid. and proceeded to Port Maria. A few casks of wino were all that were saved out of a valuable cargo, consisting of blocks of marble, wines, &¢. Tho schooner weat down almost immediately after being abandoned, her deck being all that was above water when tho Vivid took off the captain and crew. Our Jamaiea Correspondence, Kryesroy, Ja, Nov. 11, 1852. Meeting of the Legislatwre—The Rains—Health of the Island. Thero is no particular news. The Legislature hag | just commenced its session—nothing has yet been doze to report. The Goyornor, Sir Charles Grey, has officially announced that ho will soon give up | the offiée he holds, which has been recived with | much pleagure by the publie. The House has com- menced the reduction of the expenditures with their own officers. The island is now healthy, aftor the recont rains; influenza is rather prevalent, as is also ague and fe- ver The rains are still coming dow: The steamer Medway, with the mails for Hogland, etait morning, and H. M. ship Calypso, for Bar- | acdoes. 1 regret to report the death of Hon. Daniel Hi avery popular gentleman in this city. He dit d much regretted by all classes. This is all the news I can send you. Arrival of an Haytien Vessel of War. {From the Kingston Journal, Nov. 4.] The Haytien brig Charlotte, eighteen guns, came up the harbor and anchored off the Ordnance wharf pledged and is, we aro told, to take on board from one of the wharves in this port, a steam engine, which has been purchased from some throwa-up os- tate in this island, by a party in this city, for one of Emperor Soulouque’s estates in Hayti. Estates havo heretofore been dismantled, and their machine- | ry sold to Caban planters; but this is tho first timo that Hayti has taken advantage of the depressed state of this Raat Bed purchase thrown-u; ome”, to osrry on the cultivation of sugar in that island: The Haytien brig-of-war Charlotte, which arrived at Port Royal on Tuesday evening last, saiuted the British commodore’s ship and the fort at an early hour yesterday morning The compliment was rs turned from the Imaum aad the fort, in duc form The discharge of ordnance, at such an early bour, caused come Jittle excitement to kaow what wastho cause of it, many persons believing tha: the Admi- ral’s ship had arrived at Port Royal; and othora, after the firing of two guns. that the steamer with | the mails. due te day, had come in before her time. ‘The new Emperor is treading in the path of hia fair- faced cotemporaries, and way should he not havo his national ships too? The Departure of the Highflyer. [From the Kingston Journal, Vot i) Her Majesty’s screw steam frigate Highflyer, Captain Matson, left Port Royal early yesterday morning, and went alongside Messrs. Hitchins & Co.’s wharf in this port to coal. That vessel will leave in a day or two for Trinidad, touching at Port- au-Prince, to meet Vice Admiral Seymour at the former port. Weunderstand that the Admiral ia- tends visiting Venezucla for the purpose of demand- ing payment of an amount due by that government to a Britisa house in Caracsas; and afcer touching | at a fow ports, the Cumberland will come on to Port | Reyal veral persons of this city visited tho Highflyer yesterday, and wero highly gratitied at the reception given to them by the commander and othor officers, ag well as at the appearance of that Markets; Kixcerox, Nov. 10—Cornmeal ~288 by retail. Can- les.—'be stock is accumulating, aud further receipts are anticipated. We report some operstions in Jackson's Tied. per lb. Corn.—About 600 bags at 8s.. and since, | as been refused Flour —400 barrels Baltimore at | 80s. Cd. Smaller parcels at 31s. Gold American 3¢ to 1 | Premium, Lard.-Market well supplied with atid per lb, Lumber —White pine looking down; stock ample. The same with white c shingles Oil, % jor gailon Pork —Sfees bas declined fr very ample. Of rump, heavy sup- with almost @ total cessation of be i it 10s Od. a ; Patna 178, Od. ‘0 is not any Cerolina ia first hends. Tongues.—American pigs’ are very abundant, with little inquii Our New Granada Correspondence, ASPINWALL, Noy. 5, 1852. The Progress of the Railroad— Health of the Isthmus —Treatment of Americans. I arrived here in the good steamship Illinois, | Lieutenent Hartstein, commander, in less than cight In point of comfort and sail- ing qualities, the Illinois can’t be beat, and a pas | sage inher is rather to be enjoyed than dreaded, as as is usually the care in steamers running to this port. J found the weathor quite dry, and the plage very boalthy, which bad been represented to me in New York, as agrave yard. Daring the months of July and August, there was considerable sickness on tho Isthmus—the cholera prevailing bere at that time— but at this timo, there is no more danger in crossing the Isthmus, than thero would be in the middle of the dry season. To be sure, the road betweon Cruces and Panama ia not in the bost state, though Theard a man offer to bot he would go from this place to Panama in one day. It was predicted by , that the rainy seeson would render the rail- road impastable, but, on tho contrary, it is gotting better every day. The trains aro running regalarly, | and making good time. The road, I understand, is progressing towards completion rapidly—there boing two thousand hands on the construction, aud tho force increasing every day. Success to the enter- priso. Whon we can get into tho cars, and pass through to V’anama in less than two hours, who can estimate the amount of travel which will pass over reat becefit will Americans have done te tho world, aud to this nation in cs ticular. Bat will they bo recomponsed for it? One Would ruppore that an undertaking, 80 productive as thiamust inevitably be to this country, would bo cherished, but, on tho contrary, there is @ jealousy existing, which will either end in defeating this magnificent work, or will require Uncle Sam to pro- | teor the incerosts of hia citizens abroad. By the consent of the citizens unanimously, tho place was called Aspinwall, after ono who, by his | untiring zeal in the cause, well merited the oompit nent intended to bo paid him. Bat the Americans were not to be gratifiod in their wishes; tho junta », tived tho ceodings, calling it bP agers fm 4 je aie to make use of the | word Agpinwall in auy public documsat Also, the Wiived ‘compaby seoured the privilege of fixing port charges, evidently with the right te appoint a | barbor master; bnt the governmens has renee one, and, if [ mistake not, it will be a bad bone of contention before the matter is over. There i rowing dispositiun on the part of the | authorities provoke the Americans, both hore | ond in Panama Some of the most respectable | Americans have been arrested, and confined ia jail, | without the slightest cause or offence. In one case, ip wos eegerted that an irdividual had Jaughod ay Ca) A. Turnure, ex cm Maloney, . 5 they want t , and looked on, and saw the of our lan defiled by the contaminating tor the officers of this lanimous government. don’t pretend to the right to fly here; but we denounce the manner in which it was done, when a request to have it taken dowa would have been immediately complied with. Thore is an order of the Lone Star soon to be started here, for the extension of the area of American os RSKINE. INTERESTING POLITICAL GOSSIP, Names of the Candidatis for Office—The Taik About the Country. We give another list of candidates fer office, ready to go to work on the 4th of March. We do not en- dorse any of them. They are altogether too many for us. We performout port in giving the amos: NATiONAL OFFICERS FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. James Buchanan i ec aa io ‘Massachusetts. + New York Daniel 8 FOR SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Howell Cobb.. i Robert J. Walker William L Maroy. Albion R Parris. RM. T. Hunte Jobn R. Thompson. Daniel 8 Dickinson. R M. Saunders... Thomas H. Bayly - Charles J. Ingersoll. - Pennsylvania. John GC. Breckenridge. - Kentucky. Jesse D. Bright... Indians. FOR SECRETARY OF WAB Thomas H. Seymour James Shields... A Bael..... William Allen. James L Orr.. William O. Batler. M OC. M. Hammond. Augustus C. Dodge. Thomas J Rusk. Gideon J. Pillow... FOR SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. John McKeon. New York. Sam. Houston. - Toxas. Edward K. Coll - Now York. Robert '. Stecktor George Bincroft. Edward ©. Marshall. Fred. P. Stanton.... Charles O’Conor... Charles H. Peaslee John Van Buren. Benjamin F. Halle Pierre Soulé. Jefferson Davis Henry A. Wie Armistead Burt. ppi. Virgiaia. South Carolina. MASTER GENERAL. - New Hampshire. ‘Tennessee. Edmund Burke.. Cave Johnson Linn Boyd - Kentucky. Edson B. O! Ohio. Armistesd Burt. - South Carolins. J. W. Davis... . - Indiana. Emory D. Potter. « Ohio. FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS. Caleb Cushing, ee + Minister to France. Henry A. W Pierre Soweé, La... wd od bos H Seymour, Conn. % Moxioo. Gideon J. Pillow, Tenn Spain. Lewis Case, Mich...... coed England. James Buchanan, Penn * “} FOR NEW YORK orTy. U. 8. Distriat Attorney. “ < “ John MeKoon.. James T. Brady. Lorenzo B. Shepard. “ “ “ J Ring « « “ John Co “ “ « | B. Y. Cutler. “ “ “ Anthony J. Ble J. 8. Marshal. “ Enoch E Camp lJesiah Rynders ©. J. Bogardus Daniel B. Delaya: veyor of the Port. -Colleator of the Port. Wm F_ Havemeyer. Aaron Vanderpool. Augustus Sebell. Nelson J. Waterbury. STATE OFFICERS. FOR HARBOR MASTERS. Ten to be appointed. Gregory Thomas, Captain C. Mills, “ ‘Post Office. Me . Rayner, J.C. Ratherford, Heory J. Allen, Adee Minor, Joseph Rose, Jr., 5 Captain Brennan, Reuben Bann, James M. Smith, Thomas Farren, Wolter Joyos, Hiram V. Mason, . J. Brown, E. L, Donnelly, Interesting Discoveries In Persia, [from the Boston Chronicle, Nov. 15 ] We have had the pleasure of listening to a letter written in Persia, to a gentleman in this city, which ives an account of some recent aud most intersst- ing discoveries in that couatry. The wrivrisa fclentific gentleman of the highest sianding, an American, and one whose position in Persia isa pledge of the correctness of his details. The lino between Persia and Turkey has been defined with that exactness which poace and seca- rity demand, and soldiers have, by both gevern- ments, been placed upon the disputed to defend the rights of furkey and Persia. And for many years the soldiers have been in the practice of coming into collision ‘To avoid this bloodshed, and settle definitely the boundary line between the nations, England and Russia have induced Persia to cousent to @ mixed commission which should em- | brace England, Russia ond Persia. That commis | sion is now epgeged in baa cis the line be- tween Persia and Turkey. Col. illinms, well known to many Americans, and a man of character and talent, is the English commissioner. In the prosecution of this work the commissionors have come upon the remains of the ancient palace Shurhen, mentioned in the sacred books of Biker snd Daniel, together with the tomb of Daniel, the Prophet. ‘The locality answers to tho recoived trae dition of iis position, and the internal evidence, aris- ing from its correspondence with the description of , the palace recorded in the sacred history, amount ale most to demonsiration. Tho reader osn turn to Esther, chap. i , v. 6, there he will read of a “‘pave- went of red, avd blue, and white, and black marble inthat paloce.” That pavement still exists, and, as described by Colonel Williams, corresponds to the deseription given thus in the sacred hiatory. And in the marblo columns, dilapidated ruins, the ecu)ptore and the remaining marks of greatness and glory that are scattered around, the commissioners read the exact truth of the record made by the sa- cred pepman. Nor far from the palace stands a tomb; on it is | sculptured the figure of a man bound hand und foot, with a buge lion in the act of spriagiog upon him to devour him. No history could speak moro 4 cally the story of Daniel in the lion's d he commissioners have with them an able corps of en- gineers and ecientifio men, and moat interesting dis- coveries may ba wagesies Tho Persian arrow sre found upon tho palace and the tomb. Giass bottles, elegant az those placed upon the toilet table of tho ladies of our day, have been discovered, with ather indications of art and refinement, which bear ont the statements of the Bible. fhns, twenty-five bundred years sftor the historians of Esther and Da- nic! made their records, their his aro verified ed the peaceful movemenis.of tho nations of our y« Superior Court--Part Second, . Before Hon. Jnege Campbell, Nov. 17—George Oscar Bartlett, against The New York end New Haven Railroad Company —This was an setion brought by the piain’iif, a tobacconist, against the above named © avy. to recover damegen for injuries received: Gay of October, 1851, in oeprgmnes s collision, at or nese Williamavridge, im Wostohester county, between the train coming down and the ome fn lor suit was brought in this eame court, last spring, by ore Patrick Carroll, for Injuries received at the same the fame collision, which resulted ip a ver. favor ageinst the company, for the sum of Brom the evidence, it appears that it was @ ¢ #400, frightful collision, by which two or three omployess ware instantly kiled, but mo parrengers injured Damage: are lid at $10 600,” For defence It war contended hy Meure, dames T. Brady, ond Alexander Hamilton, Jr., that the piaintift wan w contributor to bis own tojury’ by being ime pro aif of & begaage cer at the time of the rovidemt. agains: the rules ond regulations of the compaay, foe which the defen tance were not liable, 2 _