The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1852, Page 4

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This is a matter which somewha’ affects those of ourcitizens carrying on mercantile rela- | tions with that empi: nd for their enlightenment, as well as for the information of all interested in the progress of society there, we translate the document referred to. Bat to supply further evi- dence of the spread of civilization among the black subjects of the puissant Emperor Soulouque, we give the translation of a full aud graphic account of the execution, in Port-au-Prince, of three noted crimi nals, who met their doom with a sangfroid which would have done honor to Jack Sheppard, or any of the “‘ knights of the road,” in Queen Anne's time. Who, after at thie, will doubt of the enlight- enment and progress of the Haytiens? The correspondence which we give to-day be- tween Senator Dodge, of Iowa, and Colonel Benton, concerning the public lands, is of some interest, in view of the general grab game of the last three or four years for the public domain, and of the tre- mendous fight which may be expected of Old Ballion against the “land speculators” in the House of Representatives a twelve month from next De- cember. Our Washington correspondent writes that the contract for the brickwork on the capitol extensioa was yesterday awarded to Mr. Burshe, at the rate of $2 49 per thousand, which was the lowest bid. It is estimated that twenty million of bricks will be required, consequently this contract alone involves an expenditure of about $50,000. The Cabinet was again in session till a late hour last night. The President’s forthcoming message was probably the theme of consultatioa—wonder whether the “ indi- vidual” named Smith will figure in this document. The Clerk of the House of Representatives yester- day discharged fourteen of the clerks who have for the last three years been preparing an index to claims. Senators and Represeatatives are flocking into Washington, and all will be prepared to com- mence the labours of the ehort session next Moniay. Hon. W. F. Dessaussiere bas beeu elected to serve as United States Senator from South Carolina, till the 4th of next March. From the South we learn that mail and telegraph communication has been cut off in many parts of Georgia, and some of the adjoining States, ia con- | sequence of the heavy freshets produced by the re- cent storm. The ungathered crop: have been great- ly injured, and the rail and other roads have ia several sections been rendered unfit for travel. On the South Carolina Railroad the track was so much impaired as to cause a train of cars to be precipi- tated over s bank, in consequence of which the venerable Colonel Richard Singleton and his grand- son, lost their lives, and a number of other pawen- gere were considerably injured. The telegraph turnishes an account of the com- miseion of a murder last Saturday, near Louisville, under very singular circumstances. It appears that some forty persons, on horseback, were returning from the funeral of an Igishman, when they over- took Dr. Campbell, waom they knocked down, and ins antly killed. One of the party has been arrested Steging was yesterday dispensed with, for the time, on the railroad between Philadelphia and Pitteburg. Our neighbors are rather late ia the day with their improvements. The inhabitants ofthe great West, finding that the Pennsylvanians were mot disposed to accommodate them in the transmission of goods from this city, and also that they were annoyed in various other ways, have | found it greatly to their advantage to come and go by the way of Cleveland, Dunkirk, Baffile, &3., and they will be apt to stick to these routes re- gardless of any effurts that may henceforth be made to resuscitate the prosperity of the roads in the Key- stone State. / The steamer Boetona, with a valuable cargo, re- cently sunk at the junction ot the Ohio and Cumber- land rivers. The vessel was worth thirty chousand dollars, and will prove a total lose. Another onslaught from the pulpit, upon the memory of Daniel Webster, was made last Sabbath, by Rev, Samuel J. May, at Syracuse. Singular | metheds of gaining a little notoriety are sometimes resorted to Considerable apprehension exiate in Baltimore in conseqaence of the high-handed proceedings of dif- ferent f rowdies. On Sanday evening, a walking with a party of ladies was svvacked by « party of rufians, when he drew a pistol ALD itwo cents per copy- $7 perannum, | At last accounts, Mr. K. had nearly recovered from RALD. coery Saturday ate cents | his late eevere illness. ld; if used, | The Minister of the Interior | and thot one of them down. An efficient police would soon do away with riots both there and in Philadelphia. The remedy van easily be obtained, if the citizens will pay for it. A rumor is said to have been curreat in Richmond, Va., yesterday, that Hon W R. King, Vice-Presi- dent elect, was dead. This is evidently incorrect. The Baltic’s news produced no change In the price of breadstu@e, while it tended to depress the cotton { market Freighte were again firmer, and flour wae | | engaged for Liverpool, at 33. 64, and some vessels at the closeasked 43. This improvement in freights checked operations in flour and grain The London Zcomomist notices the supposed ope- rations of Emperor Louis Napoleon in the London corn market, for a decline, with a view of lowering or keeping down prices in France. The report of the City Inepector, for the weck ended last Saturday, exhibite an increase in the | mortality occurring in New York of twen'y-four | enses, comparing the return with the total number | for the week ended on Saturday, the 20th instant. | lzeases incident to the approach of a severe winter j seem tohave made up the exact number. Con- | sumption carried away thirteen patients more last | week, whilst congestion of the lungs, with the va- rious inflammatory fevers, swept off the remainder. The geveral health of the city is good. It is seldom that our inside pages present such a diversity of reading as they do this morning. The annexed is a summary of the contents:—The Trial of William Johnson, charged with the murder of Charies Baxter; Action of ths Supreme Court in the case of the convicted murderers, Sullivan and Clark; Proceedings in the United States Distrist Court in Admiralty; Decisions by Jadge Roose yelt in the Supreme Court; Lectures, by Mr. Thackeray on the ‘Poets of Queen Anne’s Reign,” and by Rev. Mr Shoek on the ‘Alleged Witchcraft of the Biblo;”’ Proceedings in the Seud- der Missionary Society; Various Political Statistics, giving the Presidential Votes of Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Vermont, and New Hampshire; Martin Van Buren’s Opinion of the Election; Letters from Washington; Affairs in Costa Rica; Commercial Reports; three or four columns of nows paragraphs of every description, together with a large number of adverticoments, all fresh, and possessing much local as well as general information relative to busi- nees affairs. Stein! Py? | Our Relations with Spain—The Pablication of the Corresponden: | The newspapers have been publishing 2 nume | ber of letters in reference to our relations with | Spain, dated as far back as the administration of Mr. Adams, and including also the correspondence | between Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State, under the Jast democratic administration, and Mr. Saan- | ders, then our Minister to Spain, containing a apeeific | offer for the purchase of Guba. We are toid that this correspondence had been sent to the House of Representatives, in reply to a call onthe President | to that effect, and in consequence of it we see now | the most confidential communications between the | Ministry and the State Department brought before the world— publications which the best in ts of the country and regard for the pas; administrations, from Mr. Adams down tothat of Mr. Polk, forbade alike What shall we say when we see a letter of Mr. | Everett, of co private a nature, that he did not even wish it puton file in the Svate Department, published in every paper in the Union. The call of | Congress for the correspondence having reference to our relations with Spain, explicitly guards against any communication which might iaterfere with the public interest, and yet the administratien, not sat fied with sending to the House letters and despatches which onght never to have left the archives of the | State Deptriment, authorizes their publication by its organs, at s time when Congresis not in session, and could therefore not sunction this extraordinary proceeding. We can no’ really understand what | could have induced Mr. Fillmore to commit so un- | pardonable an indiscretion, uulegs it is to embarass Gen Pierce in his foreign policy, and particalarly in our diplomtic relations with Spain, already rendered | difficult enough by the weak and vacillating position | taken by Mr. Fillmore’s cabinet in the recent difii- | culties with the Cuban authorities. It isthe more | apparent that such isthe motive which prompted the communication of these important State papers to | the House, and their pu tion at this precise mo- | | ment, from the fact manifest on their faco that the letters of Mr. Buchanan are only given in a garbled | condition. If information asked for by the House of Representatives had, of necessity, to be publish- ed in the government organ, in order to inform the | world of our intentions in regard to Cuba, why this | | incompleteness in its most important portion? After | N | thus seeing ® correspondence brought to light, | ¥) which the best interests of the country required to | N | be kept secret, and which, under any circumstances, | it was not for an outgoieg administration to publish | om the eve of ite being forced by the voice of the people, to give up the helm of State to other hands, it would require an extraordinary amount of charity | V. to believe that these omissions had been made from | a regard to the public interest. Afce: so much has been published as materially to impede any move- ments of the coming adminis:ration in the prosesu- | tion of an object, which, whatever may be the | views of Mr. Fillmore and his cabinet, has doabtless many powerful supporters among our most experi- enced statesmen, we do not see why any portion should be kept back, and, inasmuch as the govera- | ment organs, not satisfied with the injury intended to the future movements of the democratic party, have taken this opportunity to attack the late ad- ministration, we call upon them and upon the Exe- | | cutive for the publication of the part suppressed. Lei tiem publish Mr. Buchanan’s letters in full, so | that the people may ju?ge whether their interests are more conscientiously and firmly watched over under whig or democratic administrations. That this opportunity should be seized upon by the 7ridwne fora violent attack upon Mr. Polk, we do not wonder at. Poor Greeley will want seme time before he gets over the effects of the 2d of November, and it would be cruelty not to al- low him this little harmless vent for his spleen; but when we see the Intelligencer object to Mr Polk’s offere for Cuba, because they had not been frst com- municated to the Senate and even to the House, it appears to us so unjustifiable an attack, that we cannot pa sit with silence. How could any nego- ciation with a foreign power, be it for the aequisi- tion of foreign territory or only for the establish- ment of commercial and other treaties, ever be suc- cessfully carried on, if the intentions and limits of offers and concessions to be made by the Executive | were first to be made known to the world by a de- mand upon the Senate and House for authority? Suche procedure would embarrass the movements of the administration to an extent which would render it powerless to effect anything for the public wel- fare. Surely, so enlightened a paper as the Jntelii- gencer, receiving its information at the very foun- | tain head of wisdom, cannot be ignorant of the fact, that even if Mr. Buchanan’s offer for Cuba had been accepted, the constitutional rights of Congress were always reserved, because the treaty to that effect would have had no validity until it received the | sanction of the Senate, and that the Houso had ap- | propriated the necessary money. If, therefore, Mr. | Polk and his Secretary of State made such an offer, and exposed themselves to the humiliation of a non ratification of their proposals by the Senate of the | United States, we must admire the sagacity and foreright, which gave them the conviction that such | @ measure would be eminently popular and that the vole of the people would sustain their action. How beautifully does this one instance, in many, distin | guish the strong and dignified foreign policy of Mr | Polk, from the weak and humiliatiog one pur- sued by the present administration, and which, it not stopped as it has been by the aroused indignation of our people would have lessened and | weakened the American ir fluence in its foreign re- ‘ lations to @m extent which no true lover of our | the poliey of the late democratic administration, the country dare contemplate without fear and hension. What shall wo say the ite Thrasher down to the present difficulties of the Crescent City? Here we see the rights of American | citizens trampled upon by petty tyrants of a foreign | power, who, while she profosses liberal principles at bome, treats Cubs with the iron rod of tyrmany. We see our flag insulted—a versel, carrying the United States mails, and under commund of commissioned United States officers, ordered off without being permitted to Jand her mails and passengers, to the serious loss and inconvenience of general and private interests, all because ehe has an American citizen on board, suspected—suspected only—of some imaginary wrongs to Spain, and this suspicion ho apd his commander, a distinguished and brave eflicer of our navy, son of one of the band of heroes who have thrown an immortal lustre upon our country, deny over their signature. And what does our governinent ip the face of these indignities? It not only quietly submits to them, but, not satisfied, with being & listless spectator, it lends its active aid to the Capain-General, by doing all in its power to induce the Maii Sceamehip Company to discharge a trustworthy and faithful official, and by removing the commanding officers from the Crescant City, who are obnoxious in the eyes of the Spanish authorities. The Intelligencer seems to thiok that the offer of one hundred millions made by Mr Polk for Cuba was very large. Why, apart from the adventages which the acquisition of the island woald give us, it weuld heve been cheaply bought for double the amount, if thereby we had been gpared the humiliation under which we are now smarting. While the Jutelligencer, on one hand, ¢hus attacks other organ of Mr. Fillmore goes to the trouble to deny, upen authority, the rumors published in some foreign papers, thet our present Minister to Spain had renewed the offer for the purchase of Cuba. Really, this denial is quite superfluoas, and it would have moro than astonished ua, if by their following in apy one instance the foreign policy of Mr. Polk, manly and dignified as it was in its actions, brilliant and beneficial beyond precedent in ite results, there had been one redeeming point in the blaadering and vacillating couree pursued in all our foreign re- lations by the present cabinet. Mteting of the Electors —The Election of President and = Vice-President of the United States. bd Wednesday, the first day of Decomber, (4o-mor- row,) isthe day fixed by the Act of Congress of March 1792, for the choice of President and Vice-Presi- dent of the United States, by the electoral colleges, which colleges are the persons chosen as electors by the people of the respective States, and the Logisla- ture of South Carolina, at the recent election, on the second of November. The presidential electors so chosen, will meet at the capitals of the respective States, generally, today, 30th November, and if there are any absentees, they will proceed to choose persons | to supply their places, in order that the full vote ofthe State may be given. On Wednesday, * Ist December, the votes in each State will be given by the electors, by ballot, for President and Vice- President, and the result fully recorded by tha per- son acting as secretary of each College. The eleo- tors in each State will then choose a messenger, by whom an authenticated certificate of the vote of | the State will be transmitted to Washington, | to be delivered, under seal, to the President of the | United States Senate, and on the second Wednesday of February the record will be opened in the pre- sence of both Houses of Congress, and the rezult officially declared by the President of the Senate, William R King. The messenger who conveys the yotes to Washington receives twenty-five cents per mile for his compensation. A copy of the certif- cate of votes is also sent by mail. The following are the places of meeting of the Presidential Electors in the respective States, being the capitals of the same, also the number of electoral votes to which each State is entitled :— States. Capitals. BSGaecssben SNES Rhode Island. South Cerolina, laseat tl Senin n 8 é The number of electoral votes required to con- stitute a choice is 149—or a majority of the wholo. It is expected that Pierce and King will receive 254, and Scott and Graham 42. The electors are under no legal obligations to vote for the candidates of@ their respective partics, but are considered in honor bound to do so. The term of the President and Vice- Prosident com- mences or the 4th March next. It will be ob- | served that William R King, who is now President | of the Senate, will declare the result, and of course | announce that he is elected Vice President. John Adams being President of the Senate in 1797, de- | clarcd himself elected President—Thomas Jefferson did the same in 1801, and Martin Van Buren per- formed the same act for himself in 1837. The official statements from most of the States have been so far received at the respective Stat capitals, that we are enabled to arrive at an ap- | proximate result with regard to the popular vote of the Union, the actual vote of the electoral col- leges to be given on the first Wednesday in Do- cember, being already ascertained—in anticipation that the elestoral votes will be given as intended by the people—with the exception of California, which bas not been received. It should, however, be always borne in mind that this government is a confederacy, and nota con- solidated republic. Hence the amount of the popu- lar vote in the aggregate, the plurality or majority of any one candidate over tho other, or over all, is more a matter of curiosity, or an exhibition of popular sentiment, than anything elsa. Strangers to our institutions should not be deceived in this matter, but should know that each State votes by iteelf for Presidential clectors, and that it is quite possible for a President to be elect- ed without obtaining a majority of the votes of the people, while receiving a majority of the whole number of electoral votes given by the reveral States, as is absolutely required by the con- stitution. Neither Mr. Polk, in 1844, nor Generay Taylor, in 1848, received a majority of the popular vote, as is well known, although both received a majority in the electoral colleges, and were of course elected In both cases, the electoral vote ef the State of Now York, by a plurality of the popu- lar vote, decided the question in favor of the suo- ceetfal candidate. At the recent election the demo- cratic electors nominated to vote for Pierce and King, have received @ decided majority, not only sufficient to constitute @ mejority of the electoral colleges, but of the popular vote, over both the whig and abolition ticket. ‘There is one great subject for congratulation in the result of this e!cction, in # national point of view. It is now demonstrated that the abolitionists, or freesoilers, no longer hold the balance of power, as they appeared to do in the elections of 1844 and 1848. There ies ill some uncertainty with regard tothe vote of the State of New York; whether the vote for Hale exceeds the plurality of Pierce over Scott, vis : 26,797. From the re- turns we have received from over two-thirds of the counties, we are satisfied that the vote for Hale will exceed 25,000, and it may reach 28,000; but, setting aside the votes of New York, Connecticat, Delaware, Obio, Michigan, Iilinois, Wisconsin, and Icwa, (giving in all 93 votes,) in each of which it is either certain or possible that there may bea popular vote against Pierce and King, (although the plurality which governs is in their favor;) and we have still 161 electoral votes for them, in States where they have an unquestioned majority of tho votes of the people; and this mejority is 26 over all in the aggregate votes of the electoral celleges The actual vote, however, being, in all probability, 254 for Pierce and King, against 42 for Seott and Graham. There has been a large increase of the abolition vote since the Presidential election of 1844, which is the true date of comparison, the veto for Van Buren in 1848 being largely mado up from the domo- cratic ranks, particularly of those who were dis- satiefied with the nomina‘ion of Cass. THE POPULAR VOTE. NEW ENGLAND STATES, AS FAR ag ASCERTAINED, ere, Hale Maive . 41418 32 208 7 838 29 $97 16.147, 6 605 Vermont ... 13.044 22.173 7,629 Rhode Irland 8.735 7.628 ‘G24 Mastachuretts 44.569 52,683 28.023 Connecticut... 33.249 30,559 3,100 Total New England.. 171,012 161.196 58 899 D WESTERN STATES 239,350 26,000 202 147 44.203 Michigan (vatimated) Wieconsin ...... Towa (estimated) Total free States, in cluding Delaware and exclusive of California. .1,071.045 945,412 Pierco’s majority over Scott im these States. Scott and Hale over Pierce..... peeeeeeee eee The above States give 175 electoral votes, viz.:— 157 for Pierce, and 18 for Seott. (The plurality vote governing in each State.) To these electoral votes for Pierce are doubtless to be added the four votes of California. Biavenoupine Srates Maryland. 4 82,008 Virginia. 57 275 North Oarolina , 39,058 South Caroll Georgia 83,407 16,080 Florida, 4500 3,000 Alabama . 14.985, Miteiasippi Louisians Texis. (est ) Arkansas, (€8t.) ‘Tepneseee Kentucky Missouri Total slaveholding States Mojority for Pierce. The above States, (including South Carolins,) give 117 electoral votes—viz: 93 for Pierce, and 24 for Scott. Comparative View or tHE PorvutaRr Vorr. ierce. é Scott, Hale, Free States.. 1,07L.045 945,414 147,096 Slave States. 422089 350,828 - Total.....-.+..+s000 1.493.134 1.205740 147.096 Pierce's majority over Scott, 197,394; over Scott aud Hele, 60,498, In 1848, the popular vote stood thus Taylor 1.261 321 Cass,. 1,222,463, Van Buren . 202 823 Total......s.eeeeee 2,871,612 The total vote for the three candidates, (Pierce, Beott, and Hale,) according to the above estimate and returns, is 2,835,970, to which add 43,000 votes for California, (the number polled at the last State election,) “and the total vote of the Union ts 2,878,970 The abolition vote for Birney in 1844, eight years ago, was 63,192; increase sinoe that time, 83,904 There is no doubt, however, that Scott re- ceived: many abolition vot secn from tho following letter, that the decision o¢ Judge Payne in the case of the slaves of the Lom- mone, is producing its natural results in the | South :— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Drar Mx, Bexnett—The decision of Judge Payne in the Lemmcn ease is producing a wide-spread discontent throughout the South. Measures are now in train for taking up the case for argument before s higher tribunal; ands bandsome fee was pledged to a gentleman of the bar. at alate ieultural dinner in one of che counties of Maryland. It is believed the ball requires only to be put in motion to renderthe movement a general one; that a fund will be raised in other counties of the State; ond that counsel also, in cther States of the South, will speedily be retained. The indemnification of Mr, Lem- mon is no security to the South; nor does it reverse & principle which already weakens tho title to property covering many millions of dollars. Will you put the press ot the United States in motion ? Nov. 26, 1 MARYLAND. The subscription raised here has tended in some measure to convince the South of the loyalty of | New York to the constitution and the Union; but, as Maryland says, it ‘is no security to the South.” Something more must be done to mani- fest the honest feeling of the North, against the injustice and the inhospitality of sizing and ecnfiscating the property of Southern men, upon @ mere legal quibble, because they had the m‘sfortune to Le sojourners in a Northern city, while on their way to another State; and we know of nothing that is better calculated to give that expression, than | what is recommended by our correspondent. Judge Payne, no doubt, gave the true interpreta- tion of the law of the State, and his decision is in conformity therewith; but there was another Inw which he ought not to have overlooked, and which is paramount to any State law, and that isa sn- preme fundamental law of the United States. By the constitution of these United States, the whole Union is made one brotherhood, and it is pro- vided that the rights and immunities of the citizens of the several States shall be main- tained in all the States. According to this principle, therefore, the Lemmons hail a perfect right to travel through this State, on their way toany other, without losing their property. They did not come to reside here. They were passen- gers, and their rights of property, as citizens of Virginia, could not be lawfully taken away by the mere fact of passing through the State of New York. Keeping in view the supreme law of tho constitution, the act which deprived them of their slaves was simple robbery and spoliation; and the law of the State which authorized it is null ané void, ard the sooner it is wiped away from the etatute book the better for all parties. The Le- gislature of Pennsylvania has had the good sense and the honesty to repeal a State law, which con- travened and paralyzed the opsration of the Fugi- tive Slave law adopted by Congress in 1850, to carry out the provisions of tho constitution of the United States. We trust the Logislature of Now York will imitate this good example. Meantime, it is the duty of every citizen who desires to uphold the constitution of the United States, and to preserve the integrity of the Union—not by mere profes. sions, but by deeds—to support the movement sug- gested in the foregoing communication, or some | other that will be eq expressive of the souad sentiment of the North. Tne OLp Brewery, onthe Points, continues to draw. Fivethousand persons were there yesterday and last night. Ladies visit that locality, to the utter astonishment of the dust and stonos they walk upon. Such souls were never there before. Such soles never trod upon those stones till now. The Five Points and the Fifth avenue—curious coinci- dence of numbers—vie with each other in attrac- | tion. What a contrast! Millionaires and misory. Inportant Correction.—We stated the other day, in noticing the fact that Governor Seymour and Erastus Corning were both up at Concord, that the former wasa soft-shelled barnburner, and the Jatter a hard-shelled old hunker. This, wo under- stand, is a mistake; and that Corning is also, in those latter days, a eoft-shell, and an ally of Ex- Secretary Marcy, against Dickinson and the hard- shells, Let the hard-shells see to it, or tho soft- shells will held the inside track in the spring. Musica Prosrrcrs—An Irauian OPzna.— ‘We must bave an opera—no bastard opers, with halt. ing verse, and mangled music, but the real thing— “Don Giovanni,” in all its moving tenderness; “Somnambula,” in all ite brillianey; “Norma,” with a genuine priestess; “Lucia,” with a veritable Edgar; *Roberto,” with a terrible Bertram; « re- rpectable “Figaro,” and a sparkling Rosina.” Managers may think themselves fortunate if we let them off v-isheut the *‘Huguenots,” or tho ‘*Pro- pbété;” and prima donmnas must put the best face they can upon the matter. There is an old alage about the folly of resisting the popular will. We recommend it to the attention of Madame Sontag aud her friends. ‘3 We seoa number of respectable people raising their hands to heaven, and inquiring how an I:aliaa opera can be got up for fifty cent spectators. We rea)ly do not know. Manegers understand those matters hettor than editors. All that we csn say ig, that the public want an opera, and if they cau- not have it for fifty cents, they musi give more for it. In America, as elsewhere, the laboreris worthy of his hire; and it is perhaps right that the master- pieces of “‘Mozary” and ‘Rossini? should be a more expensive treat (hana dramaatthe Broadway, or &@ rebesh of the last French vaudeville. This is the care ail over tho world. In London, a stail at the opera costs about a3 much as a small es tate in [reland; and though the people of Italy have never suffered the prices at San Carlo or La Scala to be raised above the mechanic's parse, the comedy theatre prices have ranged even low- er Neither the aristocratic oxclusiveness of the one, nor the musical furore of the other, are to bo found in New York ; but here, as in England, the taste which can appreciate the highest flights of operatic mueic, and the means of paying a sufficient price to remunerate the first artistes, are generally found combined in the same person. ever some of our friends may say to the contrary, is pretty fairly distributed among us. The golden shower from California, and maay years of prospor- ous trade, have placed the citizens of New York in & position to deny themselves none of those luxuries which are enjoyed by the inhabitants of European capitals. Our merchants can afford to spond, and do in fact spend, as much, if not more, than the higher classes in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or Loadon. The bills of our fashionable ladies at Stewart’s are, in all probability, fully equal to those of the leaders of ton who astonish pedestrians in Kensington Gar- dens and Longehamps. Private residences in New York are not a whit inferior, either in point of com fort or elegance, to those in Paris or London, I’ there be any difference, the excess of luxury is pro- bably on our ride. We can gee no rcagon why poople who are so ready to spend money on their other pleasures, should with to cconomise at the opera. We have always advocated the one-price system for theatres of comedy and drama, because we believe it to be more congonant with the framework of our society and our republican habits than avy other. But as it is obvious that there is only one Sontag and on> Alboni in the world, while dozens of pretty, spark- ling actretses can be bad for the asking, it is por- fectly natural that the former should decline to throw their treasures at the feet of the public on the same terms as the latter. Let us then agree to poy what these divinities requro. No ono will grudge a dollar to hear “* Norma” or the “ Pari- tani.” There never was a time, probably, when wo had the matériel of @ good operatic troupe so close at hand. We may roam the world over for a soprano of such exquisite sweeetness and so rishly cultivated as Maiame Sontag’s. We need not recall the scenes of phrenzied applause whieh used to await her appearance at the Paris, Borlia, or London opera; nor need we romind those who heard her Rode’s Variations, last month, that her voice has lost nothing of its former charm. What ought we tosuy of Alboni? The Ah! non credea is yet ringing in our ears; and often as that sweet air has figured in the programmes, its fame is not #o exhausted but that it would still draw a crowd to Metropolitan Hall. These two stars cannot, we are teld, be set in the same firmament. An infinite variety of excellent reas»ns—similar, probably, to those of the Irish lady who borrowed the teakettle— will deprive us of the delight of hearing Sontag and | Alboni on the same stage. To the volley of con- clusive arguments launched at our head on the subject, we, mero outsiders, can only say, with deep regret, amen. But if we cannot bave both, we would still be happy with cicher. We aro sure we are expressing the sentiments of nine-tenths of our readers, whon we say that the news of Salvi’s appearance in opera would be hailed with delight. A Mario or a Duprez are rare windfalls. We shall have the former some day ; meanwhile, the Jadies of New York have not for- gotten Salvi’s sweet tones, or the graco of his ac’ ing. Nor has any one co short a memory as to be unable to recall the rich manly sounds of Badiali’s baritone. Tho last time we heard him, his Largoal Factotum was voviferously applauded. We pass over a host of highly reepectable performers, who could fill the ecoond réles with credit to themselves, and pleasure to the audience. With their aid, Sontag or Alboni, Salvi, and Badiali, might get up a trovpe unsurpaseed in any of the European capi- tals. We ought, porhaps, to add a word, in closing, to thore who deny that the musical taste of New Yorkers is sufficiently elovated to support an opera. No opinion, at the present day, is too absurd to find adberents, and many a man trusts to the strange- nees and utter absurdity of his views for a share of notice which he could not otherwiss expect to gain. If the overflowing houses which filled Metropotiten Hall, at Madame Alboni’s and Madame Sontag’s concerts, the splendid receipts at Niblo’s, and the excellent attendance a’ the innumerable private con- certs and musical sowrees which are given nightly, do not evince as fair a proportion of musical taste aa any other city of the size of New York can boast ef, we are ata joss to imagine what constitutes a test of musical taste. Add to this the fact, that upwards of $35,000 are spent every week in New York at places of amusement, and Rv will proba- bly admit that the man who cenies that a good opera troupe could secure a remnnerating share of this sum, must belong to that interesting class of individuals whore only claim to notise is the se- riousners with which they defend the most nonsensi- cal paradoxes. AmeRIcAN AvuTuoRS IN- Enguanp —John G. Whittier has just published in London a new poem, entitled ‘* The Chapel of the Hermits.” Dr. Gris- wold’s “ Poets and Poetry of America,”’ illustrated with numerous engravings, is advertised in the last Atheneum, as in press. Emerton is bringing out in England ‘ Impressions of Europe ;” Pro- fessor Hitchcock, ‘The Geology of the Globe Iiustrated ;” J. T. Wallis, of Baltimore, “ Insti- tutions, Politics, and Public Mon of Spain ;” Mies McIntosh, “ Good in All, and None all Bad ;” Alice Carey, ‘* Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West,” in tvo volumes, illue- trated; Saroh Jane Clarke, her ‘ Grace Green- wood” books, (probably imported copies ;) and Mra Stowe, a new work, of which Sampson & Low have bought the manuscript. Mrs. Stowe’s old magazine papers have been reprinted, agsinst her wishes, under the title of “* Four Ways of Observing the Sabbath—Sketches from the Note Book of an Elderly Gentleman.” The new volume of Ban- croft’s *‘ History of the United States,” is pub- lished in London, and liberally reviewed. It has not yet appesred in this country. Benavor Borianp, or ARKANSAS —We stated on the best authority we could find, in our sketches of Arkansas United States Senators, that Solon Bor- | land was a Southerner. A correspondent informs us that ho is a native of the Btate of New York, being a son of the late Judge Borland, of Mon‘go- mery, Orange county. Thanking our correspondent for this correction, we take ocaasion to say that our SenatoriaPand other biographical sketches are fre- quently made up in heste, from such material as wo postoss, and as the occasion requires; and wo shall be plensed to receive any information with regard to the nativity and peraonal history of our public mon which will cnable us to make our notices of thom entire'y accurate. . Wealth, what- | Tt is vot fn Tndia, alone that English ann-soatioes. is progressing, but we find the same spirit equally active in South Africs. War for more territory has not yet ended in that region Our last aosounts, re ceived by tho Baltic, indicated that poace is yet afar’ off. The Cape of Good Hop» was first occupied by the English in 1620, bat no permanent ssttlemeat was made. The Dutch afterwards colonized the Jape im 1650, and extended their settlements inwards to Saldanha bay, and elsewrere. In 1795, the English re-took possession of the Caps By the treaty of Amiene, however, in 1800, 15 was again given up to the Dutch; but in 1806 the English again re samed tho occupation of it, and to them it waa fully and finally ceded by the Datch.in 1815. Is bas ever. since remained permunens English territory. The Britieh goveromens placed its chief value om it asa naval and military depot. It hus become » sort of Southern Ocean Gibraltar to the Baglishs and is considered the key to thelr Australian and Indian possessions. Is isa kind of half way house. between England avd her distant colonies in Asia and Australasia. Ac the Cape of Good Hope steame ers can re coal; and sailing vessels water andre pro~ vision or repuir dammges, if necessary. Av s marke time post, its possersion is invaluable. Within come years past, the Eoglish cvlooists at the Cape, sustained by the home governmeat, have looked to rp PN of thoir territory 1a South Africa, with « view of building up a considerable. addition to the British ompire. The grazing and frontier population is compozed chiefly of Duteh grazors, or farmers, called * Boor,” varying in man= ners and civivilization by the locality thay hupponto live at. These Soors found no difficulty in enoroach= ing upon and enslaviog the Hottentots, a chocolate colored, feeble, stunted, and imbecile race of Afrl- cans, living to che north and northeast of the Cape. All territory taken by the Boors became, by conse~ nee, English ground, the Boors themselveg: being held to be subjects of her majesty. There were found in South Atrica, besides Hote tentots, whom the farmers had enslaved, s free negro class, or a cross of Datch with the Africans, called. Africanders, and the powerful African race knowa as the Kafirs or Ciaf:és, (pronounced in India, Koffore) They occupy a large and the most fere tile tract of couatry in South Africa. Their terri- tory lies on the eust side of the great African penin- sula fronting the Indian Ocean, and to the east of the Hottentots, and to the northeast ef the Cape of Good Hops. The farmers gold Hottentots with their estates, flogged thum when rebellious, and treated them in all respects as slaves are tronted in Cuba or elsewhere. Tn 1829, the English government, with a show of: philanthropy, interpoeed in favor of the slaves. They wade rome changes as to the extent of flog- ging, &c ; but to this day, slavery exists there to all intents and purposes. The enslaved and robbed millions in India, and tho enslaved Africans in Cape Colony—with the enslaved and bartered Coolies, all amcunt to nothing. It is all Godly in Boglish eyes. The Irieh may perish by the way. Her own. poor may etarve in the streets of London, and her miserable, ragged, destitute and infirm die in her ille contrived poorhouses—it is all nothing. But, oh! what psroxysms of horror seize them when they think of American slavery! They can shed tears over American slavery; but the cries of the sturving aad. oppressed peor, at their own doors, cannot reach. their ears. Hindeos may sink into death by thoue sands, when starved by Eng ish oppression, the Boors: of the Cape may enslave and destroy Afrieans by scores, and the voice of humanity pleads in vain. There is no pity, no sympathy, within their pious hearts, except for American negroes. Away with such stilted hypocrisy»- Their affected sorrow is poli- tical. They look upon the agitator as an entering wedge to the dissolution of our Union. But, to the annexation question. Tae Boors found in the Kaflirs a peogle who proved an over match for them. When they invaded their territory with a view of appropriating it, snd, making the Kaflirs slaves, as they had done with. the Hottentots, they found themselves overmatched. The Kaffirs are a tall, well made African racey, of a light chocolate colored skin, and with. features avd crania approaching nearer than. most African races to those of the Europeang. and, strange to say, practising the rite of circame cision. Their civilization, as well a3 warlike courage, is far in advance of the Hoitentots. - Taey are well armed with bows and arrows, as well ae with spears and firearms. Being encroached upon by the colovists, as we have stated, they, in 1835, turned upon their enemies, invaded the colony, carrying havoc and destruction in their path! Since that period to the present, there has been no permanent peace. Tho Kaffirs have held out till now, against the bravest and most experienced British generals, in command of well-appointed and . brave troops. Their indomitable couraze defied the skill of Sir Harry Smith, and is yet. holding out against Earl Catheart. So disag- trous have been English reverses, at times, ag tocasta gloom over the English public at home, and to depress the funds. The English now find that the only means of se- curing peace to their country, is to make a com- plete conquest of the Kaffirs, and to annex their territory, which is the richest and most ‘ruitful to be found in South Africa. With the possession of Koffirlond and the territory of the Bushmen, they look forward to the easy annexation of vas’ regi to the north, approximating to the equator, de- ascribed by a line crossing Africa in latimde sbout 20 degrees couth, while the Cape of Good Hope is in about 34 degrees south latitude. Once in tersion of the territory deecribed, it would ere longe become practicable for the English to construst an overland route from the Atlantic to tae Indian ocean, which would be important, as it would. be smal a country under their immediate con- trol. this echemo we do not object We say, “go ahead,” ye British saxons—your sway, per- haps, will all be the best for Africa—at the sane time we would exclaim, hands off—let us and our Union alone; and if we wish, in an honorable way... to extend civilization and free government by ur- nexation, is’s none of your bi 188. Something Wron; Every where.—Caution to the publi jun fro! recol where you tuy it, withou! Nervout ie A that tion of this artio'e no further eflort i the United States. 1 Rey ‘ork, Gov. Whitcomb, of [ hire, Robert Fact ir. 1884 Clay and Daniel Webster, formerly Secretary of the Navy, besides rs in all parts of the United States, No be presented of the estimation in which fact that the sa'es have increased. ix months as to require the en~ as fu phe to double the ori 01 th ey a1 0 Farialy wil Jorgement of manu! jayl ti ‘takers for the retail busi nn of the RAYMOND & CO. Dr. Heaton, of Boston, ha flice at 568 Broadway, may be consult d Saturday of each week ed move than from ove bo four b HY a: Depot Wa'Naseau sureots 2 PF