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BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—-Porrixe rue | Quasrior—HEk RoVAL Hickwess—Youne Covrie—Man- rep any SeTriar. e Deviz—Diverrisement— xs. DechaLuMEAU, Lapy asp NIBLO xp SETTLED Marnie BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street.—Forruns's Frovic—Pa cnicias ax Panvenv—Oxe THousann Mur aurene Waxren. RATIONAL THEATRE, Yawn Prixcess—Byremei Coreies. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Two Can Pray at TeAT GAME=ParRiciAN AND PARVENU—Hiow Lire Burrow Strains. WHITE'S THEATRE OF VARIETIES, 17 and 19 Bowe- y.— Tx Toonzes—Jack Smerranp—MK. anv Mins. P. W. atham etreet—Eva, THE Doc oy GuentT—f asker F AMERICAN MUSEUM.—Afternoon tna Evening—Tur Laer Nau. OBRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, Mavers evey ey CxRist STRELS. 'RELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- ondway—ErHi0rran CIRCUS, 37 Bowery.—Equasreian EXTER TAINMENTS. DOUBLE SHEET. Rew Yerk, Saturday, November 27, 1852. Mails for Europe. HE NEW YORK WERKLY HERALD—OUR AGENTS IN LONDON AND PARIS. ‘The Collins steamehip Pacific, Capt. Nye, will leave this port at noon to-day, for Liverpool. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Hrnaxp will be received at the following places:— B. Eanford & Co., London. Wiliam Phomas & Co.,19 and 21 Catherine street. B. H. Revoil, 17 Rue de la Banque. Paris. | Livingston, Welle & Co., Paris. ‘The European mails will close at half past ten o'clock this morning. The New Yorx Wesxry Henarp will we published at balf-past nine o'eloek. Single copies. in wrappers, sixpem ‘The Hews, The Cherokee wil) not carry the mails to-day to Havana. Orders were received yesterday from Washington, by the Postmaster of this city, not to deepatch the mails in the C. if Purser Smith’sname was on her list of officers. What isto be donenow? Was ever man more persecuted than Purser Smith ? It was not sufficient that the Cuban authorities should set their eyes upon him and their signal Eghte on Moro Castle; our own government, elect- ed by twenty-five millions of free people, to protect Americans abroad, aleo turns upon him, and threat- ens utter destruction to any one who may employ him and enable him to support his family. We are Hiving in strange times. Talk of the weakness of the Mexican republic! What will the world say of the American republic if such imbecility is tolerated? One of our despatches from Washington states | that the administration have become satisfied that the private business letter written by Lieut Daven- port to his consignees was not written to the Cuban suthorities, but that he was wrong in appending | “United States Navy” to his name. It must, how- | claims ever, be satisfactory to government to know that a letter to “Drake|& Co.,” was not to “Gen. Cafieda.” ‘This will relieve the captains of our merchant ships | im foreign ports of some responsibility; they can now write to their eonsignees about their vessels with- | out the danger of being turned out of employment on their return home. To complete the summary of Cuba matter to-day, we publish in another column the last of the batch of official correspondence relative to the purchase of Cuba, lately printed by our government. They are not only worth reading, but worth preserving. Since the election of General Pierce to the Presi- @ency, we have been receiving volumes of corres pondence from politicians in all quarters of the country, proposing to form cabinets for the Presi- dent elect, suggesting the proper policy to be pur- ued by the incoming administration, and giving a world of advice on matters and things in general. We publish, this morning, selections of some of | the most sensible and pretentious of these docu- | mente, which willno doubt make very acceptable | reading for any day in the week. It is more than probable that the writers of some of these letters are eonsiderably ahead of Gen. Pierce in their cal- culations and hopes. Ast was anticipated, the Senate of New Hamp- shire almost unanimously concurred with the House in the selection of Charles G. Atherton as United States Senator, in place of John P. Hale. In con- nection with this election we elsewhere give the wames and very interesting biographical sketches of those who have served as United States Senators from New Hampshire, since the adoption of the constitution. But little intelligence was received over the tele- graphic wires yesterday, owing to the heavy storm which set in on the night previous, and continued without abatement up to the hour of putting this paper to press this morning. From New Orleans nothing has been received since Wednesday fore- noon. The lower line, however, was in eommuni- cation with Macon, Ga, last evening, and the We: ern, or National line, was working as far as East- port, Miss. Throughout the day and evening the House wires to Boston were in admirable condition, and, we are informed, forwarded and received be- tween three and four hundred private messages, be- sides two public reports, several thousand words in length. Owing to a heavy fog on the Delaware river, the hbalf-past five o’clock mail train from Philadelphia, last evening, was obliged to go by the way of Kensington; consequently it did not reach this city till midnight. Several fights took place among the rowdies of Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day. Two of the rioters were shot, and fifty of them were arrested. By a despatch from Dunkirk, it will be seen that an immense amount of every description of produce Is on ite way to the cast from that point—more than was ever before known. Provisions will perhaps be chesp after a while, if lake and canal navigation only remains open a short time longer. Comegys, the fireman on the Baltimore railroad, who acknowledged having robbed the mails, was yeeterday sentenced to five years imprisonment, by the United States Court at Philadelphia. The Virginia Legislature has rejected the bill to permit the State banks to ierue notes of a less de- pomination than five dollars. The Indians are reported to be still quite trouble- some in Western Texas and New Mexico. The troops located in some of the forts of that region are so few as to be almost useless for the purposes efdefence. From EF) Paso we learn that Mr. Bart- lett, of the Boundary Commission, has gone on an expedition to the lower Rio Grande. ‘The trial of Shipfer for setting fire to the dwell- ing boure of Henry Rohde, in Monroe Hereet, occu pied the Court of Oyer and Terminer al) day yor serday, and had not concluded at 7 o'clock. It will | | which cost the holders over thirty six millions, | been converted. This immense amount of indebted- be reeumed this morning. The crime is punishable by death. Mr. Thomas D'Arcy McGee delivered an eloquent lecture last evening, at the Stuveysant Institute, upon the subject of the ‘Reformation and its In- fluences upon Modern Politics,” for which see ® full report. 4 In another column, our readers will find » fall re- rt of the edings of the thirty-ninth anniver- cay of the y poner for the Relief of Aged Indi- gent Females. Dr. Tyng’s address will repay pe- nn James Bailey, for some time past assistant operator at the New Orleans and Washington tele- graph office in this city, has been appointed chief operator. Those who have every epportunity of knowing, declare Mr. B. to be eminently qualified to perform his new duties in an acceptable manner. Fresh news from California may now be expected at any moment, by the steamship Promethens; and the Arctic will probably be along to-morrow, with four days later advices from Europe. Tn connection with much other reading to which we have no room te specially refer, the attention of the reader is directed to the interesting correspon- dence between Switzerland and the United States relative to the Washington Monument; the political and gossiping Letters from Paris; Message of the Governor of New Hampshire; Official Presidential Vote of Maine, Alabama and Tennessee; Mr. Thack- eray’s Lecture; Local Reports, &e. Important Movement in Regard to Cuba— Spanish Indebtedness and Cuban Filll- Dusteros, Since the failure of the Lopez epedition to Cuba, and the trial of several of the prominent individuals concerned in that movement, in the courts of the United States, much progress has been made in the organization of secret gocieties having for their aim and object the foreible acquisition of that fertile and valuable island. The basis of the pre- sent organization is much stronger than any pre- vious one. It has been the object of those engaged, to do nothing involving the government, by infring- ing upon existing treaties. At the trials alluded to in the Cireuit Courts of the United States, the government failed in fixing the charge of fitting out hostile expeditions against a foreign govern- ment with which penceful relations existed. To the absence of sufficient evidence, circumstantial or di- rect, the parties implicated owe their escape. Measures have been taken to guard against fature dangers and defects, in the plans arranged. During the past six months negotiations have been going on between certain financiers in Europe and prominent parties here, for the purehase of those inst the government of Spain which have for £0 many years been floating about in the hands } of capitalists, at an enormous depreciation. A large amount has already been secured, and remitted to thie country. Itis in such hands as will make it most available at the preper moment, and there is very little doubt but that it will constitute a good defence for those who may hereafter be arraigned before any American tribunal, charged with being connected with /illibustero expeditions. Half a million of dollars would purchase the entire uncon- verted debt of Spain, and it will not interfere with, or retard in any way, the progress of the proposed plans, by appropriating from the funds of the nume- rous societies that amount, for such an important purpose. Independent of the effect upon public opinion such a claim in the hands of our citizens will have, and the aid and comfort it will command from sources which have heretofore been dormant or unavailable, a8 an investment it cannot be other- wise than profitable to those who may enter it solely with such an object in view. As a political movement it is of the most vital importance. This portion of the Spanish debt has never been repu- diated by the Spanish government. It is a good and just claim, and amounts, with interest since 1820 and 1823, to upwards of eight millions of dollars. An expedition from this country against Cuba, backed with such a demand against the government of Spain, would be powerfully supported at home, and ultimately successful abroad. It would strengthen and consolidate any position that might be obtained, and would neutralize all opposition from any European power: It could, in fact, be made acasus beli. This is, undoubtedly, the in- tention of the master spirits engaged in the enter- prise. The policy pursued by the Spanish government in relation to this portion of its public debt, hag been so unjust towards its ereditors, so outrageous in ite character, that little sympathy exists im the minds of the great capitalists of Europe, and little régret would be caused by any coercive measures on the part of our fillibusteros, having nominally in view the conversion of such an amount ef liabilities into am MRive debt. Within the past four or five | months, the government of Spain has established in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, offices for the con- version of this debt; and notwithstanding the terms proposed were of the most detestable character, nearly eighteen millions of dollars nominal capital, ness will eventually be redeemed by the Spanish government in monthly purchases, at its own prices, | fer, perhaps, less than one million of dollars. That such an enormous sacrifice should be quietly submitted to, no doubt seems strange to people in this country, but whem we consider how little can be effected against a government in Europe, and what little assistance can be expected from other European powers, the pliability of European creditors may ap- pear less astonishing. The holders of the uncomvert- ed portion of this debt, both in the United States and Europe, have, inorder to reserve their rights and to place themselves in 2 proper position before the world in the event of decisive measures of a hostile character emanating from this side of the Atlantic, most energetically protested against this gross vie- lation of faith. This protest has been forwarded to Bravo Murillo, the present Spanish Minister of Fi- nanee; but we have no idea that it will be noticed in any way. So far asthe American creditors are concerned, this will better suit their views and in- tentions. This protest is part of their policy, and became necessary to reconcile future events with the past. It will have an important effect upon other movements going on in every part of this eountry. We annex, for the benefit of those already interested, and these who may hereafter become in- terested, copies of the English and French emissions of this Spanish deb: COPY OF A CERTIFICATE OF THE ENGLISH EMISSION. Harp PBrastres 4,000. Public Debt of Spain Certificate of Loan without Interest. Certificate No. —. ‘The bearer hereof is entitled tothe sum of four thou- sand Spanish dollars, in specie of script, not bearing interest, entered in the private register of that loan. ‘1B urrusnce ef « royal deeree of Hi, C M., the King o dividea dated 2ist February, 1831, this certificate is ito forty debentures On the 2d of Jam ' 1882 first debenture will be comverted into steci bearii in interest of three per cent from the lst April mext ensuing; om the 2d of January, 1838, the second debemture will alee be converted inte the same three per cent stock, and so be comtinued each sueceed- img year, im a similar mamner, until the complete conver- sion of the said forty debentures, Madrid, February 21, 1831. LUIS LOPEZ BALLESTEROS, Secretary of State for the Financial For the Director of the Royal Slakiag Fund snd of the Great Book. JOSE ANTONIO DE URIARTE, pal Book 4 VICTORIANO DE ENCINA Y PLEDRA. Direetor of the Royal Sinking Fund. As government banker. A. AGUADO. COPY OF & DEBENTURE ACCOMPANYING THE ENGLISH 188UE. Certificate royal decree of H.C. M.. Fel 21, 1831. No. 4th 40th, ef 4,000 hard doliars of with- out interest. ‘The bearer hereof, w) ota, Present deben- ture, will become entitied, om the 2d of ee 1836, te sn inseription representing one hundred hard dollars of nominal capital, bearing interest at the rate of three per cent trom the lst of April, 1836. Payable in London, COPY OF A BOND OF THE FRENCH EMIBSION. Pinetree Fortes 400, ETTE CERTIFICAT Certifieat No. — Le porteur e @ fortes Ge dette raws int/ Poniique p'Beracxe. DETER ANA INTRRET, & someme de quatre cents plaetrer tao Livre epocial de cette dette, dont Jes certificate d’aprie le décres de 8. M. du 21 Pév- | United States Senators from New Hamp- | the Senators in the firet Congress. In the Senate, hype ee Ey he drew the term of four years, which expired publicité qui designera ia série qui sera alors convertic We have announced the election of Charles G. | in1793. Daring his term, he acted with the Fy pte rage Saggy pen nee neo Atherton to represent New Hampshire im the Senate | friends of the administration of Washington, ead Taare ee ated, 3 Peter rage St liem | of the United States, for six years from the fourth | and sustained the measures of Hamilton and Le Secrétaire d’Etat au it des Finances. LOUIS LOPEZ BALLESTEROS. Le Directeur de la Caisse @’ Amortirsement, VICTORIANO DE ENCINA Y PIEDRA Caisse @. a1 Pour le Directeur de la nt, CS aeur du Grand Livre, Le Te! JOSE ANTONIO DB URIARIE. Comme Banquier du Gouvernmente, A. AGUADO, By the famous decree of Porte St. Marie, King Ferdinand VII. of Spain, declared all debts created by the Cortes null and void. Consequently, those loans negotiated in Europe, principally in London and Paris, inthe years 1820 to 1823, were repudiated by the absolute government of Spain. In the year 1831, that government, however, in order to revive its credit at the different exchanges in Europe, proposed to acknowledge these loans, and offered to convert them in the following manner:— For the five per cent stock, one-fifth in three per cent stock, and four fifths in deferred stock; and for the unpaid coupons, the whole in deferred stock. This proposition was refused with indignation by the committees of Spanish bondholders in London, and pronounced by them, on the 16th August, 1831, as “ most unjust, paltry, and contemptible.” In consequence of the English oreditors declining to accept the conversion—for which, however, they obtained in 1834 an infinitely more advantageous settlement—only a moderate quantity of these secu- rities were offered for conversion according to the proposal of 1831, and those offered were principally held by inhabitants of the continent of Europe. These consisted in— $18.335,000 in bonds and obligations, four- fifths of which is deferred debt # And $9,338,800 unpaid coupons, do. do. Making a total in deferred debt of.. i The certificates ieeued for that deferred debt were divided into | $9,827 certificates, 823 do. 600 do. Forming the above-mentioned........... $24,022,800 According to the arrangement, one fortieth part of this indebtedness should annually pass in active three per cent stock, which, on an average, would convert the whole in 185] into an active debt, bear- ing three per cent annual interest. With this arrangement the government complied during the years 1832, 1833 and 1834, and in each of these years one fortieth part of the deferred debt was converted into three per cent active secu rities; and, consequently, deducting these three onversions, the whole of that deferred debi. d, in 1835, in at $400 each, French issue. $15,930,800 the Span- ish debt was organized, the question how this debt should be treated was discussed by Count de Ray- neval, then French ambassador in Madrid, and by the Count Toreno, at the time Minister of Finances of Spain. While discussing the question, the law of 16th November was adopted and promulgated, where not the least mention was made of that particular debt; and so the matter stood until 1851, when the Spanish government again compelled its creditors to debt, the holders of its bonds had again to submit. The proporale made in 1861, by the Spanish go- vernment, in reference to this claim, which, to the holders, cost over two hundred per cent, were so mean that at first most of them declined accept- ance of the same, and have since publicly and ener- getically protested against it. But the protests against the wrongs committed by a European gov- ernment towards individuals, even if assisted by the powerful aid of such men as Lord George Bentinek nd Lord Palmerston—who once most warmly es- oused the cause of these creditors .vailed them but little; and, despairi aining justice from the crowm of Spain, the greater part of these claimants submitted, within the last months, to the immense sacrifice of their property, by converting eighteen millions of dollars, which, with interest added, cost them ever double that amount, into s stock called amortizables, which brings about six per cent ig the market. The latter ecurity the governmen: of Spain promises to with- draw from circulation, by redeeming monthly a cer- tain amount, at its own price, and which the Junta in Madrid shall determine at the end of every month. In this manner the poor creditors of Spain have | been swindled by its government to the tune of nearly thirty-five millions of dollars, in this particular debt alone, since, by surrendering their original docu- ments, and accepting the compromise, their claims against Spain have virtually become extinct. The remaining unconverted four millions of dollars, however, are in the hands of parties in Europe and in the United States, who will not eubmit to such wholesale robbery, and will never eonsent to com- promise or surrender their just claims against a | government able, but unwilling, to redeem its ac- knowledged liabilities, since it must be understood thatthe Spanish goveramont in no way denies the justice of the claim; but, notwithstanding the im- provement of the public finances within the last ten years, that government is still pretending to be un- able to fulfil its engagements towards its foreign creditors. Exopvus OF TRE REIGN or TeRRoR.—The epoch of free theught im religion is this day, Nevember 27th, to be inaugurated at the town of Salem, in the State of Ohie. The Garrisons the Whipples, | and the lesser lights ef spiritual progress, and ee- | laborers in the eause of redeeming this benighted country, are “‘to come together,” says the aanounee- ment, “and sit down like’brethren in « eommunion | before the altar of intellectual and spiritual freedom, Without distinetion of sex, eolor, neet or party, fer the purpese of fully and freely canvassing the ori- gin, authority and influence of the Jewish and Christian scriptures.” Three days are to be devoted to this momentous question by these ehoice spirits, who are to canvass the origin and authority of our holy religion, ma mixed convention of mon and women, black and white, who will, no doubt, set aside the divine precepts of Moses, and give to the werld 8 new ordor of things for its guidance, fash- ioned after the notions and views of Garrison and Douglass. Death OF tHe Inrant Sex or Ma, THomas Francis Mracnen.—The following appears in a Hobart Town paper of June 16:— Died, at Stanfield, New Norfolk, on Tuesday, the &th inst., Henny Emer Fitzcenat, the infant son of ‘Thomas Francis Mesgher, Esq., aged 4 months, Mr. Meagher fortunately had not heard the afflicting news when he delivered his lecture. Marine Affairs, The steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, leaves at her usual hour to-day, for Liverpool. She will take stout sixty passengers. Curren Prorsoat Warten Francis.—This beautiful vessel, which has been leading for the last few days for San Francisco, will sail to-day, under the command of Onptain John Sweeney, for her port of destination. She iss splen- did looking eraft, but looks rather small for 0 long a Voyage. However, she is expected to make a very quick run to the land of gold, where she is intended to be sold either for a pilotboat or pleasure yacht, for either of which she is admirably adapted. She was built in this city, by the Iste Jacob Bell, and fer strength, finish, and beauty of model, is unsurpassed by any pilotboat aflont, Bhe has liveoak tope and ends, coppered and copper-fas- temed above ber load line, and is intended for heavy weather, Her dimensions are as follows, viz:—Length of deck, 74 feet; breadth of beam 19 feet, and depth ofhold 9 feet—and is about 113 tons. The pilots of San Franciseo would secure a prize by purchasing her. Moxky For THE IxbIANS.—The Van Baren, (Ark,) Intelligencer says that Col. P. H. Raiford, Creek agent, tay yg the Sth inst., from New Orleans, with about $1,200,000 im gold coin, which hus beem turned over to Co), John Drennen, the Superinten- dent of Indian Affaire, st Van Buren, for distribution to the Cheetawe, Cherckees, C arawe, Creeke, and Bemi- Boles of March next. He succeeds John P. Hale, the well known free soil Senator, and candidste of that party for President of the United States at the re- cent election. Mr. Atherton is a lawyer, of Nashua, N. H., and has before represented the State as Senator for six years—from 1843 to 1849—previous to which he had been one of the Representatives from New Hampshire in the other branch of Con- grees, viz : from 1837 to 1813. His Congressional service has therefore been twelve yeare, up to 1849. He is a son of Charles H. Atherton, of Awherst, N. H —a distinguished lawyer, of the federal school’of politics. His son, the ator, we believe, started in public life as a democrat, according to the pro- gramme of principles laid dewn by the late Isaac Hill, who was for many years the dictator of the w Hampshire democracy. Mr. Atherton distin- guished himself in both houses of Congress, by his business talents on committees, and in debate, ways ac'ing with the national democrats, in opposition to abolitionists, free soil men, and various other factions which have arisen from time to time. He is understood to be the con- fidential friend and adviser of Franklin Pierce, the President elect, (after the first Wednesday in December,) of whom he may be said to be the political counterpart. He is, we should gay, rather over fifty years of age, slender in person, shrewd and cautious in his movements, and said to be of exemplary habits in morals. The following is a list of the Senators who have represented the State of New Hampshire in Con- grees since the organization of the national govern- ment, in March, 1789:— Commencement Termination of Service. of Service. March, 1789 2 John Langdon (repub ).March, 1795 i bea Paine Wingate (fed.)... “ 1793 March, 1793. .Samuel Livermore (: “ 1799 March, 1795..John Langdon (re-elec. «1801 March, 1799..Sam’l Livermore ‘* ~Res'd, 1801 June 17, 1801. .Simeon Olcott (fed )....March, 1805 March, 1801..James Sheafe ‘ ....Res’d, 1802 June 17, 1802: . WilliamPlumer(repub.). March, 1807 Mareb, 1805..NicholasGilman “* , ‘* 1811 March, 1807..Nahum Parker ‘‘ .Res’d. 1810 June 21,1810. .Charles Cutts“. March, 1813 March, 1811..Nichs. Gilman (fed.) re- elected; died ve 1814 April 2, 1813. .Charle: , appointe by the Governor; superseded by the Legislature o - Res'd 1817 David L. Morrill rep. ohn I’. Parrott (rep ) jamuel Bell (Adams) “ new sacrifices, to which, with the exception of this | Henry | March, 1837..Franklin Pierce (dem.) Res’d 1842 March 1, 1842. .Leomard Wileox (dem ), by Gevernor. June, 1842 Jnne 9, 1842. .Leonard Wilcox | ee larch, 1843 by Legislature eaneig Noy. 12, 1845..B. W. Jemness (dem ), | Fone by Governor........ | June 13, 1846. ..Josoph Cilley (whig)...March, 1817 March, 1843..C G. Atherton (dem ).. ‘* 1849 March, 1847..JohmP. Hale (free soil). ‘* 1853 March, 1849..Moses Norris, Jr, (dem.) 1855 | March, 1858..C.G. Atherton (dem.). “ 1859 We add a few brief notices of the above Senators, remarking that the State of New Hampshire has not been generally represented in the United States Senate by the ability which has distinguished most ofthe old thirteen States. The exeeptions in her favor are, Jeremiah Mason, Levi Woodbury, Frank- lin Pierce, John P. Hale, (in the opinion of the free soilers,) and perhaps three or four others, about whom there ould be much difference ef opinion among New Hampshire men, if we were to name them. All the othera wore of moderate talents, or not above mediocrity. New Hampshire ratified the constitution of the United States on the 21st of June, 1788, and wasthe ninth State that adopted that instrument, which re- quired that nine States should adopt it before the federal government went into operation. ThusNew Hampshire had the honor of completing the federal Unien. The States which lagged behind were Vir- ginia, which, however, adopted the constitution June 26, 1788, and New York, en the 26th July of until November 21, 1789, and Rhode Island, last of acted at the organization of the government, in March and April, 1789. The Senators elected to represent New Hamp- shire in the first Congress, which met in the city of New York in April, 1789, were John Langdon and Paine Wingate, both remarkable men in many re- spects, although not distinguished for talents as legislators or orators. John Langdon was born at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1740, and was a descendant of Tobias Langdon, Langdon family were settled in Boston, Mass., Langdon was a merchant and mariner, of Ports- mouth, N.H. On the breaking out of the revolu- tion he took an early stand on the patriotic side. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to°1777, and to the Congress of the Con- federation in 1786. During the war of the revolu- tion he commanded a company of volunteers, and served in Vermont ani Rhode Island. In 1776 and 1777 he was Speaker of the House in the New Hampshire Legislature, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He also acted as continental agent for building vessels for the navy, at Portsmouth. In 1787 he delegates from New Hampshire to the oconven- tion at Philadelphia which framed the United States Constitution, and, with Nicholas Gilman, affixed his name to that memorable document. In 1788, he was chosen by the Legislature as one of the Senators to represent New Hampshire in the first Congress; and the Senate, on forming a quorum at New York, (April 6, 1789,) elected him president, | pro. tem , of that body, before the arrival of John | Adams, the vice-president. He was several times re-elected to preside in the Senate, and continued to serve until March, 1801, making in all two full terms, or twelve years. Although a friend of the constitution, Mr. Lang- don joined the republican party in Congress, after voting for the funding system, and ether measures of Washington and Hamilton which were demanded by his constituents He joined in the outcry against Jay’s treaty with England, the alien and sedition laws, and other measures of the federal party. He, of course, was a decided advocate of the election of Jefferson and Burr, and was thrown into the repub- liean minority in New Hampshire. On the change of polities in the State, however, he was clocted Governor, by the democratic republicans, in1806, and was re-elected until 1809, when the federalists were successful in electing Jeremiah Smith for one year. The next year (1810) Mr. Langdon was again elected, and served his last term as Governor. In 1812 he received the democratic republican nomina- tion, from the Congressional caucus, for Vice Presi- dent, on the ticket with James Madison, (for re- election a8 President,) but he decliged on account of his advanced age, and Elbridge Gerry received the nomination, was elected, and died in office. Governor Langdon died in September, 1819, aged seventy-nine years. He was a professor of religion in the First Congregational church, of Portsmouth. His habits were social, and in his manners he was easy, polite, and pleasing. Paine Wingate was born at Amesbury, Maes., in 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. He was ordained as a Congregational minister at Hampton Falls, N. H., in 1768, and was dismissed from his society in 1771—afterwards removing to Stratham, where he emgaged in agricultural pursuits. He was descended from John Wingate, who settled at Dover about 1666. The family were from England. Honorable Paine Wingate was a member of the Congrest of tho Confederation in 1787, and in 1788 was choren by the Legiviature one or the same year. North Caroliva did net come in | all, May 28, 1790. Consequently, only elevenStates | one of the early settlers of that town. Some of the | about the middle of the seventeenth century. John | acted as one of the | the federal party. Previous to the expiration of bis term as Senator, he was chosen by the people as one of their representatives, in the other brsnch of Congress, where ho served two years, (1793 to 1795 ) In 1798, he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and continued in office until 1909, when he had attained the age of 70 years. He survived all others who were members of the U.S. Senate a! the time ofhis taking bis seat in that body, upon i's first organiza- tion ; and he was for some years the oldest graduate of Harvard College. He died at Stratham, N. H, in his 99th year, March 7, 1838. He was® man of good talents and extensive information, highly es- teemed for his character and his honorable and use- ful life. His wife, who eurvived him, in her 95th year, was a sister of the Hon. Timothy Pickering. He had lived with her in the marriage state sbout three quarters of a century. Semuel Livermore, born at Nassau, in 1752, was a member of the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783, also of the Congress of the Confederation in 1785. He was elected to the House of Representa- tives in the first Congress, and served two terms in that body—1789 to ‘93—nfter which he was trans- ferred to the Senate. He was Judge of the Supe- rior Court of the State from 1782 to 1790, and for several years its Chief Justice. Two of his sone, Edward S and Arthur Livermore, have been Judges of the same court—the latter Chief Justice, and also representative in Congress six years. The family of Livermore settled in New Hampshire early in the seventeenth century. Simeon Olcott does not appear to have been par- ticularly distinguished in the political annals of the State. We believe he acted uniformly with the ‘federal party. The ancestor of the Olootts, from whom the eminent financiers of Albany are proba- bly descended, wae John Olcott, one of the Council of Massachusetts in 1692. James Sheafe was a man of wealth and marked ability. He belonged to an old commercial family of Portsmouth, N. H., of high standing. Their an- cestor was Jacob Sheafe, who settledin Massachusetts about 1643, and was one of the pillars of the chursh. James Sheafe was not lopgin public life. In 1799 he was elected to the House of Representatives in Congress, and in 1801 he was appointed Senator, but soon resigned. In 1816 he was the unsuccessful federal candidate for Governor. William Plumer was long conspicuous in the | politics of New Hampshire. He was descended from Francis Plumer, who came from Wales to Massa- chusetts, in 1683. Hon. Wm. Plumer was a warm friend of John Quincy Adams, and being one of the Presidential electors in 1829, voted for hie friend Adams, when he was not @ candidate; and this was the only vote which was given against Mr. Monroe for re-election, in any of the States. Mr. Plumer was a decided democrat, and indueed Mr. Adams to believe that the New England federalists at one time contemplated a dissolution of the Union; but the leaders of that party treated the idea as an idle fantasy of the two democratic Dromios. The re- publicans, having a majority in the Legislature of New Hampshire, in 1802 elected Mr. Plumer to the United States Senate, in place of Mr. Sheafe, re- signed. His term of service was nearly five years m that body, during which period some of the most prominent measures of Jefferson’s administration wereenacted. In March, 1812, being three months previous to the declaration of war with England, Mr. Plumer was eleeted Governor of the State, but the next year he was defeated by the federal aandi- date, John Taylor Gilman, the last federal Governor ofthe State, In1816 Mr. Plumer was again elected Governor, and continued in the office, by re-election, till 1819, when he retired, and was succeeded by Samuel Bell. Nicholas Gilman was one ef three brothers, son of Hon. Nicholas Gilman, of Exeter, N. H., each of whom was distinguished in the political annals o the State. The family were descended from Ei ward Gilman, who early omigrated from Norfolk county, England, to Massachusetts. One of th brothers, John Taylor Gilman, was a leading federalist, and often elected Governor of New Hampshire. Nicholas—after serving in the old Congress from 1786 to 1788, and in the Federa Convention which framed the United States Censti- tution, of which he was one of the eigners—took | the republican side in politics. He must have acted | for a time, however, with the federal party, or have | coincided with the friends of the administration of Washington, as, after being elected to the House of Representatives in the first Congress, in 1789, he ‘was re-elected to that body, and served eight years, viz., until 1797. While his brother was Governor | of the State he was President of the State Senate, in 1804, while John Langdon was Speaker of the House, and co-operated in the passage of reso- lutions approving of the measures of Jefferson’s administration. Mr. Gilman was elected to the United States Senate in 1804, re-elected in 1810, and died in effice, in1814. He was succeeded by Thomas W. Thompson, a federalist, who had served one term in the other branch of Congress, viz., from 1805 to 1807; and the term of the vacancy he was called to fill in the Senate in 1814 expired in 1817. This gentleman does not appear to haye figured much in public life. The same may be said of Nahum Parker, re- publican, who served about three ycars in the Senate, from 1807 to 1810. Charles Cutts, who also served about three years—1810 to 1813—was of the republican school in politics. His ancestor, John Cutt, (or Cutts,) came,from Wales before 1646, and was an eminent merchant in Portsmouth. He wae President of the colony of New Hampshire in 1679. The family have been noted for enterprise in commerce and ship building, and some of them have held various public offices. Jeremiah Mason, in his day, stood among the men of New Hampshire like one of the select chiefe of King David among the Israelites—ono of the few whose pre-eminence was admitted by gene- ral consent. Asa lawyer, at the bar of Portsmouth, when Daniel Webster, Jeremiah Smith, Sullivan, Bartlett, and others, contested the palm of legal victory, he was second to no one. As a» states- man of the old school of federalists, he was alike eminent in council and debate. He was descended from John Mason, the celebrated Pequot warrior, who came early to Massachusetts. It will be re- collected that Jeremiah Mason was, for a time, President of the United States Branch Bank at Portsmouth, and the refusal of Nicholas Biddle to remove him, at the request of Isaac Hill, was said to have induced the latter to take measures to pre- vent the re-charter of the United States Bank, in General Jackson’s time. David L. Morrill and Clement Storer were both elected Senators by the same Legislature, in 1816, when the democrats were in the majority. The latter was an obscure politician, the former was a friend of Isaac Hill, and selected by him, in 1824, to supersede Levi Woodbury, (Governor, who had been elected by an union of democrats and fede- ralists against the regular democratic candidate. Mr. Hill never forgave Judge Woodbury for his course on that occasion. John F. Parrott was a man of respectable talents, and of an old family, which emigrated to New England as early as 1640. He entered public life as = democratic republican, and in the Legislature, in 1815, introduced resolutions | eulogizing the naval and military officers of the war with England, which passed a federal House, in & modified form. While ho was member of the United States Senate he incurred much reproach for voting with the South on the Missouri question, jn 1819 and 1820. Mr. Parrett died at Greenland, N. HL, in July, 1896. Samuel Bell, 6f Chester, a lawyer, was of an old and respectable family, of Scotch origin, which ori- ginally eame from the northfof Ireland, and settled at Londonderry, N. H. He and hig brother, Joh and devoted to the fortunes of John Quincy Adams They were finally put down by Hill, owing to their deficiency in tact, not their influence and talent. Ichabod Bartlett, William Plumer, Jae cob B. Moore, (now Postmaster of San California,) and a few others, formed this demoora- tic Adams clique. They at first made Levi Wood- bury United States Senator, against the wishes of Isazc Hill; but Woodbury, when elected, refused to co@perate with them, and went for Jackson ang Van Buren. Senator Bell was a remarkable min, full of talent, but destitute of political tact. He closely resembled Henry Clay in personal appoare ance. We have not time nor space in these sketches te follow out New Hampshire men and politics in all their phases. Our materials at hand would fll many columns of tho Heratp. We shall dismiss the remaining names on our list with very few words. The career of Levi Woodbury, as well as that of Isaac Hill, are sufficiently familiar to most readers, and have been heretofore given in this paper. Henry Hubbard was originally a federalist, but not member of the Hartford Convention. He took part with a majority of the democrats of Now Hampshire in supporting the administration of General Jackson, after the State had voted against him, in 1824 and 1828 John Page, had @ brief service in the United States Senate, suo- ceeded Isaac Hill as Governor, in 1839, and was twice elected. Franklin Pievce, the next on the list, is by this time well known to the people of the United States, and will doubtless be better known after the fourth of March next. Benning W. Jen- ness is of a commercial family in Portsmouth, ot vicinity, but has not been much known as a politi- cian. Leonard Wilcox is a lawyer of Orford, Grafton county, but not of much note or ability. Joseph Cilley is a deacendent of Gen. Cilley, q revolutionary officer. The family are wealthy, ine terested in agriculture, residing in the vicinity of Lake Winipissiogee. John P. Hale, a lawyer of Do= ver, N. H., was originally a federalist, but became a democrat about the time that Henry Hubbard and other federalists took the same course. He qaare relled with the leading democrats on the slavery question, and became a free soiler, or abolionist, and was elected to the Senate in 1846 by a coalition of the whigs and abolition democrats. He had beey previously elected by the democrats to Congress, iq 1843, and served one term in the House of Repre= sentatives. Moses Norris, Jr., (about 55 years of age,) is @ lawyer ot Pittsfield, Merrimack county. He wasag crigiaal democrat, is a man of moderate abilitios, and wai litical disciple of Isaac Hill, when he was considered the grand teacher of democrati¢ principles and policy in New Hampshire. City Matelligence. Tue Over oF THE Lone Stan —The members of tho nee Division, No. 1, of the above order, met last night, in their magnificent room, at the house No. 600 Broad~ way. Notwithstanding the unusual severity of the even- ing. a large number of members were present, and the following divisions were fully represented :— Excelsior Division No, 2 Lafayette Division Union do. & Kossuth a Quitman do. 4 The room of meeting was decorated with the insignia, of the order, interwoven with the national flag. At half- past eight o’clock the various committees brought up their reports, and the members organized into a regular lodge meeting. At this period of the proceedings our reporter came away, as itis not customary, and against the rules of the order, to admit reporters to the cclinery meetings of lodges. He is, however, indebted to some of oh leading members for their courtesy upom the occas jon, Tux Weatuer.—The rain which commenced to fall here, on Thursday ei continued to descend without: cessation yesterday. We had rain at day. break, morning, noon, and night. There was a dense, foggy, warm atmos phere, and the day was, perhaps, one of the most dise- gt le of the seaton. The thermometer at the Heald building, ranged: At noon 473; degrees; at 3 P. M..49 de- grees; at 5P. M4934 degrees At ten o'clook, night, it ‘was still pouring rain {with a low. murky atmosphere and a heavy fog hanging over the city and rivers. The streets are, however, receiving a complete washing. At eleven Grelock, night, dark, with rain and same stave of tempera a} No. & 0. — «& re. Scatpep to Deatn —Ccroner Ives held am inquest at the house No. 40 Cherry street, yesterday evening. upom the body of a child named William O’Gorman, which was severely scalded three wecks ago, and died, in conse- Thursday afternoon Anne O'Gorman sworn @ mothcr of the child; it was scalded three weeks ago; there was a kettle containing fish and toes on the fire ins fireplace; deceased was sitting neat me onthe hearth; I went to remove the pot; asidid so it capsized, and the water flowed around his and body had him attended ty a physician; and he lingered unt Spe! , Thursday, when he died. Thos. O'Gor- man er of the child, corroborated the testimony off his wife. Verdict, death trom scalds accidental, vod by the upretting of a pot of boiling water, chilg ‘was about tix years of age. AnotHer Desertion OF 4 Deap Crxp py 118 Parents — Yesterday morning a deal box was left at the office of Coroner Ives in the New City Hall. It was unlocked, and, upon opening the lid, was found to contain the body ofa fe le child of about ten years of age. The Coroner made inquiry relative to the case, and having empannel- led a jury, recorded the following testimony :--Williaas Erbach sworn—I am clerk im the Emigration office; de- ceased was a passenger on board the ship James H. Shep- pard; she came from Antwerp; arrived here the 25th; de- ceased was taken from the ship to a boarding houte, No, 69 Greenwich street; she died shortly after; fam inform- ed that the parents went on to Philadelphia atter the child died; the mother remained only half an hour in the boarding house; the child was very sick when taken from the ship: IT understand its e was Johanns Keller. Dr. Liddell made a post mertem examination; found a con- siderable quantity of serum in the cavities of the thorax, and abdomen; spleen large; intestines rather empty; py- ers plates rained, redened, and ; mesenteric nds — redened, and softened; death was pro- ably caused by typhus, want, and experure. Verdict, death from typhus, want, and exposure. The child was from Germany. Rescvep FRoM Daowstnc—Exrraonpinany Coxpuct.— ‘The very old adage of “ resoue @ man from drowning and he'll cut yeur throat,” was nearly verified Pee gages! at the dock, foot of Fourth street. It appears that a stylish young gentleman had observed the day of Th ng to enthusiastically that he could not see the end of the street, and walked straight into the water. He would have inevitably been drowned but for the exertions of Officer rarkeraon, of the Eleventh ward, and others, who fished him up. Once upon terra he immediately turned round and commenced to abuse the officer, him “tbat he thould. never meddle with s matter that did not concern him.” and other language to that effeot.. = this he was locked up in the station house for the night, where he had a fire to himself at, and time to ruminate upon the day's exploits. Pury ot, Wiliams ‘shilst walking ith: is wif, ‘ury, ; wil accidentally fell into the dock at Peek all . He aie imminent . whem rescued by officer Holden, of the Fourth ward police. Tiiness in THE Braeet.—On ofd lady. named Ann® Miles, was found on Thurs evenii lying it im @ fit, at the corner of Twenty fifth tiaect and Second avenue. When she was a little recovered, officer Young, ape ward, took her to Bellevue Hospital. Officers Wiley and Debenders, of the Seventeenth ward, found = man, nemed Orcar apg ob dis in a fit, mear the cor- e ner of Fourth street Bowery, on Thure . He was at at the ste- tion house, and so far recov that his friends were enable to remove him home in a few hours, Seniove Accinent.—A young lady, Miss Concklin, ac- cldentally fell, Thursday afternoon "hate the sidewalk, corner of a eaten street and Fourth avenue. She susti bad ture ofthe arm. Officer Grovensteia, of the teenth ward, assisted her to her residence, No, 91 Twenty-seventh street. Suppen Deatu man named Gael, went two days ago to lodge in boarding-house No, 26 Theme» street. In a little time he did not appear well, and, Re teenie eo the owner of the house advised the propriety of tothe hospital. The man said he would go to his in Brooklyn, and was sitting im the kitchen to prepare, on kg evening, when he dropped dead. The Coroner will hold am inquest thie bes > Fine Atanw.—The City Hall bell rang out sn alarm of fire in the Seventh district at 4 o’closk soe te Ean not find a fire. @The Post we iret note, }) Cireult Court, Before Hon, Judge Betts. Nov. 26.—Warren Hall vs. Alanson E. Brooks.—This was am action brought by the plaintiff st the de- fendant Brooks. for an of letters: it ited to Warren len Goedman. of for a macl and a, Mase., on the 22d day of July, 1845, ‘maki orte The jury. after receiving the charge of the ratte rendered a verdict against the de- fendant for $2 355 77., which for damages of one machine. iy ankoytons ey Military Parades. Om Thankegiving day, the Lafayette L! juard, a ores ut commend by Cac 2, went on their seeond annual target to Mott Haven, whore they had a very happy time. After target practice, fifteen beautifuljprizes were awarded the best sharp shooters. The ocbapan . Md ance creditable to the captain. by twenty-four pieces of played some beautiful airs, Dartmoor Prison.—Tho fol padi Ka (pena tw uae fea ee ortland Wirgus 24, who were prion in the war of 1612 :-—Uaptein Jes Weel Ss bone John Carl, of Rawticeehee 2 foros 5 ot of imouth; tain aos Soule, of F ; and Captain Michael form( a resident of Boetland, now of Charleston, ing Lad Court Calendar—This Da: Svpnewte Count—Oinev , ‘ 190 789, 168, 721. 760. 991, 708 toate 1a aes Burenion Court=Motions, 1y made an appear- ey were aecompanied® New York Brass Band, whicl