The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1852, Page 4

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New York, Thursday, December 23, 185%. ‘The News. @ur special lent at Washington writes that there is no foundation whatever for the state- ments pat forth from that eity, that the democratic @ongresemen contemplated placing » large sum of money at the disposal of Gen. Pierce, for the pur pese of guarding against European aggression—that Beoretary Stuart had concluded not to make any mere contracts for building materials, &c., during the remainder of hie term ; and also that a delega- tion of the whig Congressmen had waited upon the President, and protested against this alleged deci" sion of the head of the Interior Department. Well, well, this is denying other people’s assertions by the wholesale ; however, we have no reason to doubt the correctness of our correspondent’s information— particularly with regard to the continued amicable relstions existing between Mr. Stuart and other members of the whig party. As to the rumors respecting the fund for Gem Pierce, it is hardly probable that a measure of that kind would be mooted in Congress at this early stage of the ses- sion, although it is likely that it has been the theme ef conversation in private circles. That sucha plan, im case of necessity, ie far preferable to that of call- ing an extra session of Congress, no person of reflec- tion can have any reasonable doubt, especially when it is recollected that much trouble and expense ‘were saved during the early part of President Polk’s administratien, by the adoption of this very system. By the way, a word to Washington letter-writers— if the majority of them would oocasionally hunt up Sects, in order that they might mix up a few grains eftrath in the bushels of ehaff they seatter to the winds, they would subserve not only their own, but the publie interests, fully as well as they now do. Give facts, in all cases. In the United States Senate, yesterday, the Com- mittee of Conference on the bill granting a pension te the widow of General Worth reported that the House kad receded from its amendment proposing te give her thirty dollars per month for five years. According to the way in which the bill now stands, the lady of that distinguished officer will receive about as_much as will defray the rent of a tolerably good house—no more. Will net this special in- stanee of parsimoniousness of the public funds bring a blush to the cheek of every American, as he turns to the past history of his country, and brings to mind the heroic deeds and glorious triumphs achiev- ed by those under the direction of the chivalric Werth? Thousands upon thousands of dollars have Deen squandered fer purposes of mere partizan ag grandizement—millions upon millions of acres of the public land have been placed at the disposal of avaricious speculators—and yet, when provision is to be made for the widow and orphans of a great soldier, our national representatives evince » dispo- sition to cut them down to the smallest amount upon which life can be sustained. Out upon such belittling legislation. Mr. Gwin yesterday introduced a bill in the Senate for # railroad, with branches, and for the establishment of post routes, between the Atlantis and Pacific Oceans. After debate, this new propo- sition was laid on the table, and similar bill, re- ported at the last session, was made the special order fer the 10th of next month. fhe people of the | country are beginning te loek upon the construction | of this proposed road as something that cannot be dispensed with much longer, and when they have made up their minds upon the subject, we may soon | expect to see it completed. A bill was passed, pro- viding for the removal of the raft and keeping open | the mavigation of the Redriver. A bill was intro- dueed to surrender to Ohio the wafnished portion tf the Cumberland road in that State. The same State is also asking for all the unsoldand unoeeupied public lands within her borders. Ohio certainly bo- longs to the progressive scheol. What will she re- quire next? Right of way threugh tho military ro- servation was granted to the Sackett’s Harbor and Ellenboroug Railroad in this State. | After an interesting debate in the Senate, the bill to change the method of compensating Congross- men, by paying them two thousand dollars per year, was postponed indefinitely, by a majority of two votes. That there were. many imporfeotiens im this bill cannot be deniod; nevertheless, it was calculated to operate much more ad- vaatageously to the public tham the present miserable system. Had the salaries ef members been fixed at, say three, or even five, thousand dol- Jers a year, the actual cost of national legislation would, in all probability, have been reduced, while, at the same time, the most learned and capablomen pf the land would have been willing to act in the capacity of Representatives, whereas, the majority efsuch men, under present arrangements, prefer attending to their private business rather than to accept of situations that will not remunerate them. The House of Representatives, yesterday, finishod percelling out the President’s message to the va- rious committees, after which an avalanche of peti- tions were presented;—among them was one from Ohio, asking for the removal of the seat of govern- ment to gome more central place in the Union. Our Western friends are moving rather late in the day in this matter, for railroad and telegraphic en- terprise have, by almost universal consent, rend the Capitola fixed fact at Washington. A - tion was also presented, asking for aid in the os- tablishment of « semi monthly steam line between Brooklyn and Glucketadt. After a somewhat spicy debate, pay and mileage was granted to the venera- ble Mr. Talliferro, of Ve., while contesting a seat in Oongress forty-one years ago. Similar favors wore granted to two or three disappointed centestante of more recent date. Hon. W. R. King was muoh better at last ao- | counts, and hopes are now entertained that he will recover sufficiently to be able to attend to his duties in a few weeks. General Pierce comprised one of the large ass | a whose body has been found with the head badly Deaten, his garments torn into shreds and the pock- ets rifled. On Monday last he left home, in » wagon, accompanied by his wife and eldest son, since which time nothing has been heard of the two latter, and the general supposition is thst they also have fallen by the hands of assassins. Our telegraphic colamns this morning contain ac- counts of numerous maritime disasters, among tho most distressing of which is the announcoment that ‘a Gloucester fishing schooner, called the Henry A. Holbrook, is believed to have gone down, and that the persons composing her crew have been drowned. We algo learn that the ship Affghan, which reached Boston from New Orleans yesterday morning, with nearly eleven hundred bales of cotton and twelve hundred kegs of lard, caught fire in her hold last evening and was scuttled. Her cargo was valued at fifty thousand dollars. No United States Senator has yet been chosen by the Legislature of North Carolina. General Dob- bin, demosrat, lacked only one vote of being elected on the last ballot. General R. M. Saunders gave way and voted for him, and on the noxt trial he would prebably be elected. The master’s mate of the sloop-of war St. Marys was last evening rebbed of about thirty-five hun- dred dollars, in the vicinity of the railroad depot at Baltimore. The steamship Ganada is overdue at Halifax, with one week’s later news from Europe. Tho American steamer Washington and new Cunard steamer Andes, both of which sailed three days before the Canada, may new be looked for at this port. Cotton was quite active yesterday and the day before. The sales for the two days reached 8,000 bales, at an advance, since last Friday, of sbout one quarter of a cent per pound. The recent ad- vices received from New Orleans, are said to have led to this change. The chief sales were said to have been made for shipment and on speculation. Flour was also firm, and vory little State could be had under $5 50 per barrel. A small lot of Gene- see wheat brought $1 34. Corn was inactive, and prices unchanged. Anthony J. Bleecker continued the Corporation eales yesterday, before a large and spirited compa- ny. Most of the lots brought prices far above those anticipated by the shrewdest eperators, many of whom stood aloof. The sale will bo continued to-day. We elsewhere give the result of the whig primary eleetions for committees, which yesterday took place in the various wards. The politicians are already furbishing up their arms and preparing for anothor contest. In the Board ef Aldermen, last evening, a report was made and referred to a special committee, (now sitting, engaged on the subject ofthe deep cut) on the unsafe condition ef the bridges on the Harlom Railroad. The Committee on Finance reperted a further appropriation of $3,000 to pay for the en- tertainment of Kossuth and his associates, making thirteen thousand paid at the Irving House alone, or about $30,000 in all. An exciting debate sprung up, marked with much personal asperity. For this, and an abstract of tho report before men- tioned, see our special report in another column. Yesterday was the two hundred and thirty second anniversary of the landing ofthe Pilgrim Fathers on the Plymouth Rock, in 1620. The event was com- memorated by the usual anniversary celebration by the New England Society, of this city, and the de- livery of an oration, in the Tabernacle, by Rev. Dr. Adams. The proceedings are reported in another portion of our columns, and will be found extremely interesting, particularly the closing eulogium pre- nounced by the orator on Daniel Webster. Last evening Mr. Michael Doheny delivered, at Metropolitan Hall, an eloquent leeture on ““Demo- cracy,” being the first of a series, by several oraters, before the Young Men’s Democratic Union Club. The lecturer gave a graphic account of the republics of Greece and Rome, and the mediwval republics, and lastly of the United States—showing that arts and arms, and the happiness of the people, flourish- ed more under democracy chan any other form of human government. The Rev. Dr. Wise delivered a lecture, last even- ing, before the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Asso- ciation, at the Stuyvesant Institute, on the ‘‘Pro- gress of Civilization.”” See our report. doctrines, the Union was on the very brink ef solution. Already F reduplication of the past. What during the last few years? The Tribune has led the van of the abolition press, and, by holding out false lights, has lured -mapy & frail bark to destruction upon the rosks. It has disorganized and destroyed is own party. By encouraging every im, and “every wind of doctrine,” it broke the whigs into numerous sects and fragments, and when it wanted te eombine them in favor of Boott it miserably failed. The freescilers, the liberty-men, the sgrarians, the anti-renters, the Maine Liquor law fanatics, all kicked against him, as a traitor to their principles and to his own convietions, while a large number of the Union whig; refused to eail in the same boat with the organ of abolitionism and social- ism, and were thus soared from the support of the candidate who, by tho intrigues of that Mephis- tophilee, William H. Seward, and his tools, obtained the nomination of the Whig National Convention at Baltimore, and who had the misfortune to be sup- ported by journals that openly advoeated the viola- tion of the Fugitive Slave law, trampled upon all the compromise measures, and ‘‘excerated and spat upon” the very platform upon whieh General Sooit was nominated, and upon which hoe took his stand. The whig candidute was, therefore, ‘‘killed” by the advocacy of the Tyibume, just as the whig party had been destroyed by its teachings. To complete the work of destruction, that journal daily uttered against General Pierce, the demo- | cratic candidate, the foulest calumnies—charging him with drunkenness, eowardieo, and roli- gious intolerance, and blackening his character with all the filth that a malignant ingenuity could rake from the gutter. Nor was this desperate vie- lence enough. The sanctity of private life was violated, and even ladies were dragged before the public, and stories were artfully concocted, in which trnth was mingled with falsehood and ‘threads of candor woven into a web of wiles,” in order to give plausibility to tho fabrications of bafiled malice. The result was that evory high-minded, honorable man in the community was disgusted; and the effects produced were the very reverse of what was calou- lated—ruin to the whigs, ruin to the whig candi date, and ruin to the short-sighted journalis; him- self, who, at last, in hisfrenzy, cursed the ship and all her crew as they sank together in the waves. The course of the silly, samby-pamby Z'mes, was just as reckless and unprincipled, though it lacked vigor and opportunity todo the same amount of mischief as the Tyibune. In the Kossuth inter- vention movement it bore # cosspicuous part, and Jampooned the officers of the navy because they | did not lend their countenance to the antics of the Hungarian leader, who attempted to embroil this country in a war with three of the great powors of Europe together, and Hoaven knows how many of the smaller fry. Both journals led thousands astray, and aesisted to getup a revolutionary fund \bich was to supply ‘‘the sinews” to demolish, en the Captain Bobadil plan, the governments of Austria, Russia and Franee, at one fell swoop, and to give republican freedom to Hungary, Italy, Ger- many ard all the nations of the world. The shining bubble, which dazzled for a moment, burst as we predicted, and vanished into thin air, but not till many of our citizens, of all sexes, ages and conditions, were humbugged and deceived by it. The Times, as well as the 7ibume, indulged in the lowest abuse against General Pierce, but wound- ing only itself and its party, like a five dollar Bir- mingham gun, which bursts in the hands of the sim- pleton who medi terrible destruction upom the game, but only kills himself and the friends who were foolish enough to accompany him. Both the Tribune acd Times, from poverty of invention, re- peated again and again the same odious slanders as often as they were fepelled. Both— Bhot their bolts away. Till their exhausted quivers yielding none, They glean'd the shafts that had resold, yn’d the shat! ‘d them at the rhield of Truth again, The Times, like the Tribune, when the ship was going down, got into a emall boat, and immediately condemned the gallant vessel as unseaworthy, which hie own pilotage helped to drive upon an iren-bound lecshore ; but the preeumptuous helmsman and his ceckboat have shared the same shipwreck with By turning to the inside pages the reader will find interesting letters from Cuba, Nisaragua, Venezuela and Texas; continuation of the Diploma- tic Correspondenee relative to the Expenses of Liv- ing Abroad; List of Marine Disasters in the vicinity of Key West during the past year; Communication ofthe Governor of Virginia to the Legislature ef that State relative te the Lemmon Slave Case; Lectures by James T. Brady, Esq , and Rev. Sam’l Osgood; Commercial Affairs, &e. The Socialist and Abolition Press—Its Dan- gerous Dendency. “The affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of the women of England to their sisters, the women ef the United States of America,” pub- lished in this journal a few days ago, has furnished the abolitien and socialist journals of this country & text for defaming the institutiens of the Bouth, and toadying “‘tho flower of the female aristooracy” of Great Britain, including “‘the Queen’s late mis- tress of the robes.” According to the Tribune, an ddress from such a quarter “must command atten- tion” smeng the republican women of the United Btates, and, as 2 consequence, negro slavery is doom- ed to extinction. Well, we shall see what weight this god-send fer such journals as the Tribune, the Times, and the Post, will have with the women of America, coming, as it does, from the wives, and sisters, and daughters of an aristocracy who grind the mass of the peeple to a degree of misery com- pared with which the state of the eolored race in this country is happiness itself, American wo- men are not ignorant of the relative condi- tion of the two classes of human beings, and if they should ever deem it necessary to respond to that address, the answer will be—‘‘Oharity be gine at home—kind physicians, firat heal your own body politie, which has po health nor soundness in it, then try your skill upon ours.” It is an unclean bird that fouls ite own nest; and the way in which the abolition press have dealt with the libel upon their country from the other tide of the water is characteristic of their want of patriotiem, and their strong sympathy with the English abolitionists, who, to accomplish an imagi- nary freedom for a race, who are as incapable of | realising or appreciating it as the French are inca- pable of realising or appreciating republicanism, would rend this Union asunder, and inflict an antold amount of suffering and calamity upon the whole population, including the slaves themseltes. The rebuke given by the nation to these journals, as in- dicated by the result of the late Presidential cleo- tion, has not cured them of their treason—it has happened te them aecording to the old preverb: “The swine that was washed has returned to its wallowing in the mire.’ Sooner could the black livered Ethicpean change hie skin, than the white livered agitators and demagogues of the press abandon their designs to overthrow the constitution and the Union of these States, or cease from their dark deeds of disorganization, fomenting mischief in the eommunity, break- ing up the soeial tics which bind man to man, nullifying the obligations of marriage, ealling pro- perty a species of robbery, and sapping the founda- tions of all morality and religion. These covenant- breakers and disorganizers will be comtent with nothing short of the dismemberment of the great “model republic,” the hope of mankind—the bright plage who yesterday listened to Jadge Perley’s eu- | and morning star that heralds the dawn of froedom logy of Webster, before the Now Hampshire Legis- lature. The General was afterwards entertained by « delegation of the Boston Common Council, to to the oppressed nations of the earth. The Tribune, the T'imes, the Evening Post, and all journals of the same ilk, are, therefore, dangerous whom be announced his intention of accepting | to the country and to society. By their dovtrines the tendered hospitalities of their city, when on his way to Washington. From Buffalo we have the particulars of a moat and teachings—by abolitioniam, socialism, and other | itms—they bave led men and parties astray, and | what they have dono is but a sample of what thoy atrocious murder, near that gity, of a Mx. Drown, j iniwnd to do egaia, In 1860, by their pepnicious those who trusted in him. The Evening Post, on the other side, followed the example of the whig party journals, and assailed the character of General Scott in the most unscrupulous and ferocious manner. Fortunately for the party whose cause it affected to espouse, it had little circulation and less power, and being counteracted by more potent influences, it effected comparatively but little harm to its party in the late election. From its former treachery it was not trusted, and, therefore, eould not betray. But in its will for evil it has never been behind any other journal in this country. In sodition, and treason, and its tendency to break up the Union, and involve the country in civil war, it has ever been in the front rank of the domestic foes of tho country and its institutions. All these journals, as we have said, are dangerous to the nation and to society; and, by continually keeping up agitation and strife, aro diverting the people from the pursuits of industry, and retarding the growth and prosperity of the country, while, at the same time, their writings tend to demoralize the people, and to bring about a political convul- sion which would shake this Union from its centre to the two oceans, and lay in ruins the fairest and most glorious political fabric ever devised by human segacity, or ever reared by human hands. Tho snake is scotched, not killed. The anti-slavery sen- timent is at work, and as active as ever. ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is more widely diffused than any book that ever preceded it. The seed sown by its teach- ings will produce fruit in due season. We have no doubt that in the campaign of 1856 the iseue will be presented more directly between treeson and patriot- ism than it has been in 1852. The battle of the compromises of 1860 must be fought over again. The struggle will be thus: the freeseilers and abo- litionists, who now cling to the skirts of the demo- cratic party for sake of the spoils, the freesoilers and abolitionists who clung to the late whig party from the same motive, and all the rag-tag and bob- tail of tho outside seets of abolitionists und other ists, will be consolidated into one phalanx, under the leadership of W. H. Seward & Co., while on the other side will be arrayed all the friends of the Union and the Constitution, both whigs and domo- crate, and betweep there forces wil] the great and decisive battle be fought, the result of which will determine whether the peace of the country is to bo continually disturbed by fanatics and traitors, if not completely surrendered to them as their lawful ‘ey, or whether its institutions will be preserved m the contact of profane hands by the fidelity and devotion of its sons, and abolition shall receive the fizal blow, from which it oan never recover. GengraL Scorr and 118 New Ti7LE —The reso- lution of Colonel Clemens, bestowing upon Goneral Scott the title of Lieutenant General, having passod the Senate by » vote of thirty-four to twelve, it is to be hoped will not be overslaughed or defeated by any factious opposition in the House. We are informed, however, that the reeolation lies under a pile of two hundred other retolutions and bills, and can only bo reached out of its order by a two thirds vote. But let the wiseacres of the House romember that some- thing is due to General Scott as @ salvo for his late extraordinary battle of Waterloo; and that the title of Lieutenant General, with its perquisites, will be to him what the cross of the “ Legion of Honor’ was to a soldier of the Old Guard—a perfect cure for the loss of an arm, or one or two legs. Lot the House of Representatives be just and generous to the old soldier, and give him his title. It will not cost much, and will serve to beguile the old chief from the crushing effects of Sewardiem ina race for the Presidency. Give us the pleasure of F mceocag * word of congratulation to Lieutenant General Winfield Beott,,U. 6. A. Givo him his title. “ Scott leads the colump.” French Occupation of Samana. We understand from s captain in the French ma- rine, who arrived yesterday from St Domingo, that there ie a fleet of the Emperor already im undispu- ted possession of the harbor of Samana. It is far- ther announced, that it is the intention of Louis Napoleon to send all the necessary reinforcements to keep tho prize he has seeured; and there is not the slightest doubt among tho French residents of the island, that the greund taken py Napoleonwill be defended by the whole forse of the empire. This is most important information. It confirms the previous accounts of French usurpation, and is a distinct avowal of the new continental policy of tho Buropean powers on this continont, and in the Gulf of Mexico, of which our government is bound to take notice, and act accordingly. The people are now far in advance of the administration, and as soon as the French occupation of Samana ia made positively certain, their indignation will be aroused to a pitch hitherto unprecedented. Let all oon- cerned look to the matter with courage and firm: ness, for there is an event at hand. Spanish Movement in Dominica.—Tho un- checked and unrestrained faeility with which tho recent French movement, in taking possession of the peninsula of Samana, and establishing a pro- teetorate ever the Dominican republic, was effected, has, it would seem, encouraged and invited « like manifestation of Spanish poliey in tho same dirce- tion. Our special correspondence from Havana, which will be found in another portion ef this morn- ing’s HERALD, announces the fact that the war- steamer Isabolla Segunda had been despatched from that port te the principal port of the Deminisan republic, having en board an envoy from General Cafiedo, commissioned to negotiate with President Baez for the frustration ef the grand scheme— hitherto eneouraged and supported by him—of in- trodueing several hundred Amorican emigrants into the eastern portion of the island of Hayti, for the purpose of developeing its resources, and keeping in check the black emperor Faustin I. If this secret embassy, in connection with the preponderating French influence on the island, be successful in diverting the ideas of Prosident Baez from the ad- vantages which such an enterprize premised, we may expect that Mr. Duff Green and his colonists will find themselvos excluded from a participa- tion in the benefits which the colonization mani- festo issued by the President had induced them to look forward to. Instead, therofore, of a friendly and flattering greeting, on their arrival at the island, these colonists will meet with a cool and unfriendly reception, if, indeed, they be not treated as outlaws and /illibusteros, and prevented by the French and Spanish cruizers from effecting a landing. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion whieh these concurrent movements forse upon the mind: that they are the unmistakable indications of a great concorted plan, agreed upon by several of the European powers, to rostrain the progress of our republican prineiples, and piace limits to our power on this continent. But it yet remains to be scen whether these hostile intrigues and interventions of deapotic governments will be tolerated by Congress, or whether they will not, at least, provoke such ree taliatory movements, on the same principle, as would effeetually carry the war into Africa. Thore are many countries blest by the sovereignty of European powers who need protection quite as much as Saint Domingo. News or rue Musica Wor.b—Targe Oreras. —Some time ago, wo were wondering whether we should have an opera; now, it seems settled that we areto have three. I: is really a surfeit of good thinge--too much bliss for people who gould not sup- port a single opera a few years ago. First, we shall have Mad’e Alboni, who makes her debut on Monday in ‘‘Cenerentola,” with M. Rovere and Sangiovanni, and the whole strength of the Italian chorus. Whatever doubt may exist as to tho vocal abilities of her male assistants, Alboni isa host in herself, and with the aid of the chorus, she will carry off an opera brilliantly. We long to hear hor non piu mesta on the stage. Loud- ly asit was applauded at her first concerts in this city, its fall effect cannot be given without a cho- rus; this desideratum will not now be wanting. She is also to sing “Norma,” “Sonnambula,” and, we trust, one or two other operas. Those who have heard her Casta Diva and Ah! non credea will net need ® pressing invitation to listen to her magic sirains once more. Weare glad that the “Hugue- nots” * Norma,” ‘Sonnambula.” and ‘“Lucrezia Borgia” are im the programme. The “ Pro- phéte,” toe, in which Mad’e Alboni achieved tuch a wonderful success, after a gouplo of days notice, in Paris, would have been socep‘able; but the gods forbid, it seoms, and we must needs be content with what we can get. The soale of prices has beon fixed—te use the pepular term—to suit purses of every length. Reserved seats in the parquette and dress circle will eost a dollar and a haif; seats not reserved, a dollar; and those whose means are not commonsurate with their love of music can be accommedated in the family circle for a mero half dollar; and, still higher up, for twenty five cents. Rumor says that Madame Alboni has only been engaged for a fortaight; but wo doubt not that this period.will be extended te @ month, or still longer, if she meets with the success we anticipate. Th addition to the opera at the Broadway, there will be a grand ballet. In January, however, she will meet with a formi- dablo rival at Niblo’s. Madame Sonteg is to sing in opera thero, with Badiali and Pozzolini, and her troupe is, in point of talent and cultivation, uaques- tionably second to no other en the continent. Tho gteat prima donna is unrivalled: the hand of time has pressed lightly on her, and years of refined ease have mellowed, without impairing, her doli- cious soprane. Badiali needs not a word of excemium from us. When his name is mentioned, the pub- lic is ready to supply appropriate epithets. We have not heard what opera isto be the first on the programme, but it has been whispered that the “Noaze di Vigaro” and the “‘Barbiore” will be given, with the wholo available musical talent. There are people who profor the mellow tones and tich wantonness of Alboni’s voice im wna voce; but you may roam the world over in vain in seareh of ®@ more artistic rendering of the duet with which Son- tag and Badiali have se often ravished audieneos at Metropolitan Hall. Madame Sontag is not alone a singer, but an actress of great power and /inesse— her Rosina is probably the most perfect rendering of the part that was evor witnessed on the stage. We hope also to see “Don Giovanni” produced at Niblo’s: and if “La Figlia del Reggimento” is among the things possible, wo should prefer Sontag to any other artist in the part. From what wo have heard, it is the design of the manager te aim at the patronage of a select audion we under- stand that the prices ere to range from five te three dollars. Te peeple who have been accustomed to fifty cont theatroe, this may seem at first rather extravagant; but geod things must be paid for, and Sontag and Badiali will not sing for the same price as # French light opera troupe. We confidently augur # brilliant success for the Coun- tess and her companions. Max Maretzek, aleo, wo sro told, freeh from his Mexican lavrels, will bo here early in January, with teffanone, Bortucca, Salvi, and the other stars of his private firmament. Of his intentions we know nothing, excep) that it is rumored he will take thet ill-fated house, the Astor Place Opera, and ro- deem its name by a series of triumphs. The winter will thus b vity in the musical world. Ere its long month have rolled over, the gems of Italian opera will bo as familiar to all of ws the hits in the old stock comedies which we hoar at Burton's or Wal- lack’s. We are glad to be able to say this. It be- tokens an intellectual refinement which is keoping pace with the material progress of the country in more practical pursuits. It shows that while we aro distancing the reat of the world in useful inven tions, and all that pertains to trade er ecommerce, we shall not leng leg behind Paris or Milan in the appreciation of the fine arts; and the dey is not far distant when an artist will net consider her repute- tion safe until she bas passed tho ordeal of a New Yerk audience. ‘Tux PnoroseD FUND vou HR Use or Puxsipaxr Piezos.—The preposition for placing ten millions of dollars at the discretion of General Pierce, when he sha}l have been invested with all the responsibi- lities of the Presidency, is beginning to attract the animadversions ef the whig press. The Richmond Whig says:— iter! eventful oe eel et cats ee enters the treasury of the people and the war making bag he into the hands of one man, Such an idea as this, in the better days of the republic, would have been scouted by every man who hes any regard for freo imetitutions. All fudge! Procisely the samo sort of complaints and apprehensions were rung, from one end of the country to the other, against the “‘war-making power,” in the days of Jackrop, Vaan Buren, and Polk. But our “free {hstitutions” still exis:, and over a broader turface than before. Woe believe there was ® discretionary sum of ten millions voted to Van Buren, but he failed, oven upon thet large sum of money, to establish a despotism, or to secure his reelection. Now, there is a reat necessity that some such amount should be placed at the disere- tion ef President Pierce. From the 4th of March to the next regular meoting of Congress a long in- terregnum of nine months is to be provided for. Loeking at the present critical state of things in Europe, in connection with our very critical relations with Spain and Cuba, and Hayti, and Mexico, and Central America, it is more than probable the money—and every cent of it—may be needed, to enable the government to maintain a firm and dignified position among the nations of the earth, until Congress shall meet and determine what shall be done. The present Congress adjourns as the new admin- istration comes in. Consequently, General Pierce will have to manage his first nine months without the aid, or advice, or support of Congress, unless he should think fit to call an extra session. But the necessity of a troublesome and expensive extra session will be materially diminished, if not entirely superseded, by voting the discretionary sum of ten millions te the President, for the contingencies of the recess. Besides, the very act of voting the money will have a great moral weight, in reference to the whole schedule of our foreign relations. In every view of the case, we regard the movement as one eminently expedient and proper, and we hope that the discretionary ten millions (from tho fifteen millions surplus in the treasury) will be granted. We think that General Pierce may be safely trusted with it, and that “the signs of the times” de- mand it. Will Congress grant the money? We shall see. Gzn. PIERCE AND HIS CaBinET.—The despatch whieh we published yesterday, from Washington, purporting to give, as a settled thing, the names of five members of General Pierse’s Cabinet, must be taken for no more than it is worth. We are not im the habit of endorsing the conclusions of Washing- ton Cabinet makers so early in tho season, with the President eleot some five or six hundred miles off. Of the five names given, to wit:—Hunter, of Vir- ginia; Greene, of the Boston Post; Dix, of New York; Jeffercon Davis, of Mississippi; and Tod, of Ohio; probably not one will be appointed. There may be some prospect for Hunter, or Davis, or Dix, but our present impression is that not one of them will come in. Hunter has six years to serve inthe Senate, and is, no doubt, satisfied with that—for the present. Tod, of Ohie, is a little too slow. Greene, of the Boston Post, is doing very well where he is, and has the good sense, we venture to say, not to aspire beyond the custom house. Dix may come in if Marcy is dropped; but ic may be that Marcy will be the man, rain or shine. Mark that, “Young America,” and don’t attempt to evade it. Marcy may be your man. Jefferson Davis would be good for the War Dopartment; but what would Cags, and Foote, and Cobb, and Clemens, and Father Ritchie say? And what woald Mrs. Grundy say? No, no; your Washington Cabinet makers are stillin the dark, depend upon that. Important Geographical Intelligenee; INTERESTING FROM THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY COM- ; MISSION. We give below extracts from two letters received from a highly respectable member of the United States Boundary Commission. The information they convey is of a very interesting and important char- acter. It will be remembered, that during the dis- cursion on the proceedings of the Boundary Com- mission, which took place in the Senate at the elose of last session, it was charged that Mr. Bartlett, the Commissioner, had determined the initial point greatly to the North of what was really the bounda- ry, thus giving away to Mexico a large tract of va. lwable land. It appears from the statement made in the first extract annexed, that from actual per- sonal observation the tract of land in question is perfeetly worthless. From the second letter it will be seen that a discovery of an original Mexican map has been made, whieh describes the boundaries of the State of New Mexico, as understood by Mexi- co herself, in 1836, and from this it appears that so far from the United States losing any land by the establishment of the initial point, we are largely the gainers over the original and defined bounda- ties of New Mexico. The following are tho letters referred to:— Ex. Paso pri. Nonrx, Texas, Oct 4, 1862 . * *£ © & Tho difference between the int Oxed upon and that claimed by Mr Gray and Mr. Fowsrd, is tome twenty four miles from Norta to South. Rio Grande for distance there is bottom one to two miles wide; I doubt whether it will average more thanone. Beyond this the whole region is a barren desert, tothe Pacific Ocean, excepting a very narrow valley west of the San Pedro river, where adiminu- tive stream, called the Santa Cruz river, passes, a stream: from five to ten feet wide, which loses itself in the sands, This, and the land occupied by the Pinco and Cooo-Mari- copa Indians, on the Gila, fifteen or twenty miles long by one ortwo broad, embraces every acre betwean the region north of San Antonio, in peed and the Pa- cific that can be eultivated. I have forgotten the valley of the Rio Grande, My estimate, therefore, is, that for the entire distance named, entbracing a region of nineteen or twenty by aad of longitude two degrees of lati- tude, there not [exceed five hundred square miles Pap sep ahy tthe, alten t of tees Grecde, tract myself; ¢ ion wes! I have passe over it four times, in three different direc- tions. To go further, I do not hesitate to assert that ina strip of three hundred miles in width, ing at El Paso and extending southwards, and extending from the Rio Grande to the Pacific, there is not more tham oe per cent of arable land, There are no trees, save om the summits of inaccessible mountains or along the immediate banks of water courses, very few stunted bushes, and no save near the water courses or springs. Often, in our journeying, we heve been for days where it was with dificulty we could find reraps of wood enough to cook our meat or make our coffee, and bad to gather up scraps of roots, pieces of broken wagons, and the dried dung of catele, for the urpore, ee Crinvanva, Mexivo, Oot. 29, 1952. * & © © In 1883. a party of engineers, under Gen, Garcia Conde and Mr. Staples, were ordered to a geogra- hical and statistical survey of the State of Chihuahua. Fis latter was completed, and communicated te the go- yernment in 1886, and published in 1842. in folio, numerous tables, entitled “Kusayo Statisheo Sebre el Es- tado de Chil ua.” In this the boundaries of the State fare described with great precision, the northers limits being in lat, 82 deg. O7min 48 sec., and embracing the copper mines. conPrarge map ef the State was made about the same time, and, as near as I can ascertain, in 1836. This map has never been published, but exists hen! in manuscript, ‘and has, rince its completion, been banging in a frame in the Governor's room, or, as itis here called. Lt Palacie del Gokernador, This map conforms, in all respects, with the limits as detailed In the book referred to The co; er mines, some thirty miles north of 82 deg. 22 min., t! fine of boundgry now fixed upon, bave ‘a been com- sidered a part of Chihuahua. as well a now within our territory; and there as rivers, Scania, oe goustant ho, State always holds jurisdic . bi 1825, the constitution of this State Cdn ited. but its limits were not defined ogc m hind ceed Nortbwoetern territories for the last Along the lend 1 ble ritory, similar to our | forty years, with undefined boundaries. Im 1547 exten- | sive reforms were made in thi season of unusual acti- | e constitution of Ciba, ‘exact limits aro given. being Im the necond article Poe tn tho statistical evsay res ee one ts furthermore stated, in this article, that corr i tes cf the stat are those defined iu the map of Chibuabua, made by Mesers, Garcia Cande and Btaplos, in the year 1886, "kn exact copy of this map has been ‘ade by the commirsion, to which the governor haa ap- mended the proper certificate. This, together with a oopy of the seoond clause in the constitution, referring to the b and & copy of the statistical essay, will be proug! ‘Warhington by Mr. Bartlett, and will fully sa- tinfy our citizens that, in the running of the i we bave got all and much more than New Mexloo ever poreceesd, Intelligence. GEA ig at ree deg ‘ABD whom of his wife Catharine, eatno before the Gorones thie morse ‘ng. and entered into bail to appear for trial. His sure. ties are Mr. Andrew Leary, corner of Twenty-fifth streeg, & and Kighth avenue, and Mr. Thomas Bush, of @ewanus, - Each gentleman is bound in sum of $2,000, Rerontep MURDER In tHe SevennentH Wann.—Yosters a man (?) #track his sister-in-law, at his resle Bowery. fis wife ran into the street er, a bea my eye such @} crow? ‘nas g romans gotover the w & Woman Wr gilled It waemerely & family jar. ba fue Buipina Case iv Tusmry-seconp Sxamm7—Avs MITTED TO Bai = Messrs. J. W. and R. BD. builders, attended before Coroner Ives Carpet entered into bail. each giving two solvent suret & $2,000, that they would appear at any trial which people may institute against them. ; This has reference to be Fregernerg erica in gy Moe el Pwr om instant, by which George Dohert; jeorgs Neler lost their lives, 4 ‘Tne Hupson River Raitkoap Accinent.—The James Casey, the fireman, who was killed by the which occurred upon this line of road last Monday eve- ning, was brought to this city yesterday morming, and des ES at the depot of the company, at Thirty: first street. mer Ives has been notified and will fully investigate all the circumstances connested with the unfortunate trapraetion. The trains are now running regularly upom the road. ‘The impression prevailing at the scene of the disaster this morning is, that one or two other persons may have been lort, but owing to the fact that were not not regularly in the employ of the com; there Bull fist ef thtr names, cad some’ dcabe thesetocs vails upom that point. Hupson River Raixoav.—The break to the draw bridge of the Hudson River Railroad, at'the Spuyten- duyvel creek, caused by the late accident to ta ger train, bas been promptly repaired by Mr. Stark, ficient Superintendent of the road. and all the u down pasrenger and freight trains now pase over it pees We are informed the damage to the road ight. \ Fine.—At twenty minutes past eleven o’elock last night, fire was seen to issue from the new bull ate at the corner of Libert; is occupied as a store by } above by a number of families The store was well with threads, calicoes. &c. and the flames epread with co much rapidity that the whole was entirely destroyed, notwithstanding the vigorous exertiens of @ number of firemen. The damage is estimated at fromm $1.700 to $2,000 Insured. Great alarm prevailed amongst- theflodgere,which Assistant Captain Van Datt, with the of- fiers of the Second ward. were most usefal in quieting. The store was to completely destroyed that it was impos- sible to ascertain where or how the fire originated. Fins Avanm.—An alarm of fire was caused yesterda; morales by the burning of a chimuey at 275 Bowery. No age. Accipert To « Fireman.—A fireman, by the name of Jobn Dawson, of 73 Norfolk street, was very avery, in- jured by being caught between two fire emgines, at the corner of Broadway and Fulton street, about halt. ene o'clock. this morning He was taken to the City Hospital by officer Walsh, of the Second ward police. Imrontant Annsst or House Ronners,—An arrest was made yesterday evening, by the officers of the Seventeently ward, whieh, it is thought. val have the effect, of dis, reing & gang, or gangs. of pg lars in city. Wo can only ‘now say that Captain Hart, with oflcesé Long. Brown, White, and Kinney, have suceceded ia arresting one John Wright, and six others, and reocover- Hague, of No. ing a large portion of the property of Mr. 12 Gold street, which was stolen some weexs ago, Tha ease will be thoroughly gone into at the eourt to-day. We understand that Captain Aart will show how thieves concealed themelves in the house until the family went to bed, and then robbed it. A large quan- tity of valuable cuticry is recovered Dratn oF an Inrant sy Drowninc—Revo.tine Case. An it st was held, yesterday, at the Coroner’s office, upon body of a mule infant, which had heem taken from the water at the foot of Cortlandt street, on Tues- dey aftermcon. James B Halliday. (attached te tha Coroner's office,) deposed that he went upon T to the pier, and found the body lying there in a wheel- barrow; made all due inquiry of the le around the place; could obtain no information; he then placed the body in a box and took it to the office, Doetor Lid- dell made a post mortem examination, and testified that the infant had breathed, but from the advanced state of decompesition in which the body then was, he eould not ascertain the cause of death. The body presemted a re- voiting spectacle. Verdict—‘ This unknown infant died from causes unknown to the Jury.”” Dratn From Exrosune —The Coroner held an inquest: at the City Hall, yesterday, upon the body of a maw named John Connell, who houre im Reade in a weakly state, by He died when about to be taken in, and body could not be admitted, but was laid in the Liddell made a post mortem examination, a1 testimony to the effect that, deceased ated from infam- mation ie lungs. brought on by exposure. Verdict—< Death from pneumomia and exposure. Suppen DeatHs.—A man, named John Connell, wad taken, in a feeble state, from the house No. 157 Anthony street. on Tuerda: the purpose of station house, where Doctor Liddell made @ post examination, from which it appeared that he some disease of the lungs. Om Tueeday bape, ‘longshoreman, ward Lally, after working until evening eotton ina aa left off in, bare 3 his usual he Re then inte the store No 223 West street, and ig ® moment or two after his entrance, fell dowm and stanily expirea. His body was removed to the Fifth station house, to await am inquest. Masonic Bart.—The members of Lafayette Marons give their second annual ball at Nibio’s ‘this evening. Miuirany Bart.—The fifth annual ball of the First (Grey) Troop of the Washington was givom ati ‘iblo’s last night. The chivalry of our citizen with the beauty which always attends it—were fully re- Presented. Miuitany tx tHe Panx.—The Baxter Guard, command- od by Major G. Dyckman, paraded in the Park yes to celebrate the dey anniversary of the late gal- lent Lieutenant Colonel Baxter, who fell when figh! with the New York volunteers in Mexico, aR Personal Intelligence. Major Gen. Winfield Scott arrived in towa on Monday last, and left again for Washington yesterday, (Wednes- day.) by the evening train, During his stay he occupied, apartments at Sandersom’s College Hotel, Murray street where he received the visits of his oldest amd most inti- mate friends only. The General has not looked ro well since his return from Mexico. The Hon Parker Jones left the Astor House yesterday for Baltimore. i Rev. Dr. Chapin, of this city, delivered « leeture at. Buffalo on the 2lst inst. Arrivals at the Metropolitan—Capt. Wilkes, U. 8 N.; Dr. ston, Albany; J W. Bill, Philed.; J. 0. Ste- yen Jersey; O. Mann, Conn ; Albert Tennat, Bt. Loui ewart Neoatord Yale College; Col. Thos. J. M’Kaig, Maryland; J, D. Housoman, St. Louis; Oapt, D. T, Bmith, Nerwich; Chas. F. Wads- nn. ; Cambri ge; M. Camp, Ohio; W, 8. Hamny, New At stor House—Hon. Thos. Ashe, Throg’s Necks J. Donehu, Vermont; J, R: Stevens, Philadelphia: Levi Boles, Boston; wick, Lynn; Mr. more; Mr, Johnston, €o ; Col. Wort! ey, Conada; Rob- bins, Boston; Geo, 'H. Jones, de.; Capt. Burgess, Lan- burg. sag ene Ieving Houte—Bishop A. Potter, Philadciphies Ont Mtden Ue BA Mr, Kidder, Oho; R.A. Roe, U. Be NT, Breese, St, Louls; J. MeNiel, do.; Homer Rame- dail, Newburg; Rev. A ‘Strect, Philadelphia; Rev, A. A. Metiz, do.; 8. L. James, St, Louis; H. L. Kelly, Maine; Dr. Beckman, Kinderhook; Dr. Leonard, Lansingburg; . Va Wife Ameriesbaoh loyd, New York; T, Rioh= ardeon, Baltimore; A. Philad.; W. H. Taylor, Fall River, D. Furnies, Conn. ; 0. B, Gregory, Albany; B. B, Preston, Baltimore; W. M. Cor~ Chloago; 8. Morgan, Buffalo; J. 8. Shoemaker, Yale Colloga; D, , Albany; M. Canfield, Dublin. nell, Boston; W. Par A. Patten. Providence: Mitchell, Ohio; W. Ki Court Calendar—This Day. Usiren Srares District Court —Nos 78, 36 to 48. Common Piras reac Mr A 706, 761, 763, 755, 767, 759, . 763, . Fecond--Now #20, 604 “G84, 80, e602, 804, 806,896, 90, 804, 900, 208, O10. 912: Fwo branches.) —Noe. 710, 752, 768, ) , 168, 760, 173, 775, 776, 777, 2, 768, 767, 7 Pihal, 6 7 84, 785. 26, 786. 7 , 790, 791, Tre ee Tod! ye6. TOT, 708, 800, 801, $02, 803, 804 806, 8075 808, $09, 810, S11, 822, $13, 814, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 25 828. 827. bag 54 ef the Saperior Court will be ad- journed sine die on Friday. Decisions in oalendar oausea ‘will be announced at 22. M.. of that day, Appeals from orders, noticed for Saturday, will be heard at the opening of the Gouri on Friday. Lace, Embrotde and Dress reovived, a lob embroide rte, from nd muslin pointed collars; Swiss and’ jaco~ yb ab 12s, ap; aleo, one Bee tis ‘Droadway, near Fours Ledat tet c a bp cceatens che ee sment o! abor attention of the public to ee ee Reta 9 streos. exoh pattern containing form the ¢ which they are several; iene Meee ota Boat he far Wot an Sey Broadway. Upholstery Goods and Curtain Materials, ‘Those who wish to purchase upholstery ould not fail to ine. thi curtain materials, irtains, Rime .' These tectorion in Europe, an Shan any house im the olty. ral or rioh M ate Neeok. from be sold A. = Upholatorers, Stereoscope Pletures are Seopa teri ng. daeuorreotpes ty all who , B15 Broadway, produces both, ‘the art, at low prices. THO)