The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1852, Page 4

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H, to sonsalt with the President elect about the organisation of his oalinet. The criticai position of our relations with foreign ecuntrics, which has been the chief topic of con- veraation throughout the land for sovera]) monthe, has at Jeneth beon broached in Congress; and be- fore the close of the session we may naturally ex- pect to have the thoughts and feelings of the poo- ple, in d Mferent sections, fally expressed and de- fined, through their representa ivos, with regard to the French encroachments on ti affairs, the fishery difficulty, In the United Btat s Kenate, yesterday, a resolution was sub- | mitted by tho Coairman of the Committee on Fo- | reign R:lotions, Mr. Mason, calling for copies of | the official notes from the goveromente of Wogland | and Frareo, inviing the United States to jein with them in a tripartite convention thet neither power would permit the island of Guba to be token from Spain. Mr. Mason gave bie reasons for desiring tho information; afver whieh, General Caze arose and delivered a long, highly interesting, and what was evidently a care fa ly prepsred speech, in which he roviewed with | eonsiderable nicety almost every point having any | eonnection with the subject of our internal and ox- | ternal relationship with foreign countries, The Ge- | meral holcs to the Monroe doctrine, that no Euro- | pron vation should be permitted to acquire territory | on this continent hereafter; and, at the same timo, he deems it proper for the g vernment of the United Brates, though it should carefully avoid entangling foreign alliances, to solemnly protest ageinst the | defiance of national laws for the purposs of advane- | | | ing the cavso of despotism. Tho General is op | pored im fofo to the movemonte of the Fronch in Mexico and St Domingo; he is disposed to acqeire porsestion of Cuba by purchase; is dead Bet | against Glibusterism ; approves of tho conduct of the adminiatyat’on inthe ‘‘ Crescent City affair ;” tharke God that the honor of the country ie not in tho keeping of George Law ; hopes thet the Atlantic and Pucific States will soon bo firmly bound to- gether by a railroad ; fires an overwhelmisg broad- tide of graps ehot, balls, chaine and bombshells into Jobn Bull for arrogating to hineelf the crown of self-righteousness, and winds up with aturn at tho titled women of Eogland, fcr allowing thousands | of their own countrymen to perish of hunger, while, in their mock philanthropy, they are bewailing the fate of the well fed and olad, and almost universally happy, regrocs in our Southern States. Upon the | whole, this specch of General Cass will be relished | by amojority of the American poople. In some | reeptots itica regular stinger. Neadit, andthon pre- | pero for the reeponse of Young America. Idlibustero | stock is rapidly doolining, and truo Anmoricanism ia going up. A crisic is at hand. Look out! After passing the Senate’s resolution providing for the removal of the raft and the opening of the navigation of Red river, the House of Ropre- sentatives yesterday resumed the consideration of the proposition for the cmployment of two clerks aod a messenger for the Superintendent of Priat’ ing. Will Congress never rid itself of all farther oatinent, Caban \ | men whose every sentiment i turn Louis Napoleon's eyes from herwif. Ho hee an old score to settle with hor. Nevertheless, it may be possible that his over zealous and 24 7entu- rous subjects on this side of the Atlantic, and on the Pacific side of this continent, will get him into @ifficulty before he is awaro of it. We learn that the Wheoliog bridge affuir is likely to create # trispguiar difficulty betweon the judi- Cy} part t Jon tinant bern (0 Sucka the postrae | cia}, legislative and execu'ive powers The Su- | tovention or discovery which, in iacreasing the pow. on ee GORRRSEONDENCR containing spar prome Court, at the last term, decided that the | ers of man, hayo enlarged his sphere of evil as well | re oy Connnaronnanrs | bridge was a nuisance and must come down. Con- | as of usefulness. Seay aut Urrres? | 5.5 immediately aftor declared the bridge to be a post-ronte, and that it mast therefore stand. The Court wil! now undertake to enforce its decree, and the President wil! of courss.see that the act of Con- gress ie carried out Here’s an important question to be setthd. A despatch dated at Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, stutes that the Legislature of that State had vot e+ sueceeded in cleoting a United Siates Bowxmiay Giax— | Senator, to supply the place of the Hon. Willie P. Margom after the 4th of March next The demo erete had withdrsen Gon. Dobbin, and agreod in ssucus on the Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, who now repretenta the First Congressional dis:rict of the State in the House of Representatives Tao Legislature was to adjourn yesterday, but whother prior thereto Mr © was elected we are not in- formed. Tois gentleman took a prominent prrt in sevuring the eleotion of Gen Pierce to the Presi- deney, and although not a regular “old line’ dsmo- ret he is noverthelees with the purty on all im- poctant questions, and will bring s great doal of eporgy and resolution to the demoeratic cause. One hundred firkins of tho Irish butter imported in the stesmship Siagara wero yesterday sold at auction in Boston. The article brought betwoon twenty seven and twenty nine cents per pound. The importation of butter, particularly from Ira- land, scoms very strange Why, it was bata few Sears ago that we were sending over breadstutls by the wholesale, in order to keep large numbors of the inhabitants of that country from starvation. Wo are roa)ly glad to fiod that, in return, they are now able to spread our broad with good butter. A dorpatch from Owego states that two thousand hogs and several car loads of cattle passed through that place on their way to this city, yesterday. Seventy-five persons are reported to have diod from cholera, within the spaico of ten days, nt Api Jachicols, Fa. Professor MoCay, of the Georgia Univertity, was among the vistims. The Reverend William Allen, D. D. delivered ap eloquent and able Jecture last evening, at Metro: politan Hall, on “John Hampden,” for whish sess very full report cleewhero. Three steamers, with late intelligencs from Ha- rope, may now be expected at any moment. To | Washington and the new Cunard sorow steamer | Andes ae both faily due at this port, with four days’ later nows; and the Cazada, with one week later, is overdue at Halifax. To-day’s inside pages contain letters from Wash ington and Bos‘on; Commanications relative to the | ease of Clark and Sullivan, and Instructions to Mer- | ebant Captains; tho Pugh Diverce Case in the Court of Common Pleas; Meseage of the Governor of Flori- Description of tho Firat Locomotive West of the i; Tho Chinese Dramatic Troupe; matic Expenses Abroad; The Presidential in Miebigan and Virginia; The New Coostitu ion of Louisiana; Miss Bacon’s Sixth Historical Lsslon; yarious Obituary Notices, and a large number of advertisements and mews paragraphs of every de- ecrip:ion. The Policy of the Incoming Administration, While an anxious host of oxpectante are sconring the country in search of s Deuiel to expouad the oracular predictions of the Presidential orger at Concord, it may not, porhsps, bo amiss to derote a brief tpace te coojsc.ures of our own on the policy of the ireoming adminiewrstion. Though we shall mot enjoy the advantage possessed by our o. state of the country is no mystery, and we shall not probably go far wrong if we attempt in a straightforward way to foroshadow the measures which an honest democratic cabiaot will deem it its duty to introduce. A koowledgo of the names of those who are to fill the chief offises of S:ate would be perhaps o rafer key to General Pieroe’s policy than the suggestions of our own judgment and ex- perience; but wheczhor the ecleciie principle be adopted, and next March witness the fraternal union of Cass, Douglas, and Mar2y, or whether, in pursuance of a more exclusive system, the future Cfiise holders be entirely chosen from one or other of the factions into which the party is divided— whether the administration be composed of tried familiar to the pecple, or whether a host of obs es be suumoned to fame and power at tho Presidont’s beck the re- quirements of the nation leave ue little room to doubt, and the cabinet littie room to choose, wat | line of conduct they will pursue. We sre not adven- | turing what little repu’ a foraceuracy We possess, | jm predicting that individual pre jons will | yidd to the pressure of circumstances, and that whatever may have been hitherto the various opin- jous of the futtre secretaries of State, they will now converge tonarde one defivite fosus Vour years cf inaction, so far as administrative ; labor is concerned, but of unequalled iadividaal en- terprise—years which commenced uuder gloomy skice, and during at least one half of which ® marky | cloud, beavily charged with danger, treason and dis- | un’on, overbung the land and threatenod—Cod for- bid that we should eny it, but it is too trae—the ruin and desolation of our boloved country—yoars | marked by no measures of internal logislation to | which ourfnture prosperity may heroafter bs ascribed, | and boasting no claim to the credit of having raised our national honor abroad—years which the future historian will note as the memorable epoch at which the United States lost two of their crostest men— four years of prosperous commerce, such asthe world never witnessed before, extending and oxpandiag ia spite of misgovernment at home and jealous hostility abroad-—have opened a flold for legislative reform, which may wellappal atimid, while it whets the zoal of a patriovicadministration. Toe men of 1253 will, we trust, do their duty Une of the fire! subjects to which their attentian will naturally be directed will be the noe sity for a general bazkrupt law. Commerce is the sou! of the difficulty about its printing! There ie continually | somethirg wrong or something wanting. Why not j establish a printing burcan at once, and place it in | ebarge of capable and honest men? a coming to | a vote, it was found that there was no qu sent; and after the traneaction of rome other basi nevs of no general importar the House followe the example of tho Senate, and adjourned till Mon day. Thus ends the third week of the session Mr. King h has so far recovered that ho hae discharged his physician, amd erp to be; able to reeume hie teat in a fow days | The dewpa'ch from our special Washington eorr 2 | pendent coptains an unurual nambder of very i 3 ing items this morning. It is asserted that thé Lnown aversion of Goneral Piorce to fillibusteriem is fact Winging back imto the proper path many o, those who were Inclined to progress onti too fast for the honor of their country, by getting up a stampede for the purpose of annihilating Spanieh dominion in Cubs. It ir pleasing to learn that they are all coming right ogein, for tt is necemeary to bave them fm readiness to assist in work of a far | important character roserve their io fire a little Jonger, for thors are indica tions that they may, before a groat while, bs onlled | n te confront a more formidable foe than poor pain. §=Our correspondent writer that the | general impression now is, that we have mors reson to apprehend troable with Franco than with either Gpnim or England. No doubt of | is. Indeed, it ie thought that the latter ovr | tly urging the new fledged Hapororiy { ¢ mrergth with the Amorican engls. | Jat thom orem pre | | trader of th | of © | on soberly, el United St We all traders, or dependent on traders. It is whi this | to what it and we mast look to trade | ; and extension of our pre law, we impose # fatal be dividuals may enuf honest bankruptcy prise, wud prudent dealer, whond o gain, in whose cyes try and the spread o ters of no mement, 04 he dies bas the neat that he has beoaa eypher—a drone enterpricing merchant, on the other han¢ fired by a noble weal to froight his thips for distant lands, whore (ho swipes bave never wavid To feeding and clothing a whole po tem- | | porary in the confidence of tho President elect, the re of | eidental benefite hie enterprise, to throw a shield over his misfortunes. Our spsce will not permit ys to enlarge on the subject aud we shall simply odd, that the only tangible argument agaivst fs bankrupt law— tho facilities it affords for the com mission of freude—may be advanced with equal weight ageinst honses of refage, hospitals, all charitable institutions, and, indeed, agsinst every The country is entitled to expect from the new | admipistration a revision of the tariff. It msy be, and ina certain sense it is, 2 matter of cong-atu'a- tion, that while almost every government of Europe is in the hands of the stock brokers and bankers, our treasury contains several millions of money, which we do mot know whet to do with ; bat the feelings of pride and joy aroused by a superficial contemplation ef the fact, quickly ebange into sorrow and shame whon we venture on ® closer inspestion of ite character These fifteen or twenty millions of dollars of which we boast have been wrung from the people; they have been extorted, in the shape of custom: duties, from the farmer and the meebanic and the store- keepor and the Jaboror, whose poor oarniogs have becn taxed so much in order thats vast heap of dollars should be placed at tho disposal of the poll- tisians at Washiog'on. Exch man among us bas paid in bie quota; our food, our clothes, our plea sures, bave ost ua this mueb moro than they ought to have done; and while we, forsooth, toil sorely to find » modest subsistence, Congress is positively be wildered at tho repletion of its treasary, and, like” the heir who has just come into his cstate, is dis- tracted by tho necessity of selecting between the various modes of extravagance whioh sre placed within its grasp. ae man is for throwing up hie hat, and yotirg al) ihe public lands to the people Another rathor enjoys the abstract idea of a surplus, and bis greed increasing with his geins, demands a still furthor augmentation of our bur thens. A third, whose philosophy rominas us of the astronomy of Molly Bawn’s lover, ed--| vosates a war with somebody or other, ‘because we've nothing else to do” with our money. Gen Pierce’s administration wili make short work of these quack politicians; and, disposing of the sur plus as we sha)! show presently, will at osce pro- ceed to prevent a recurrence of similarovil by reducing tho tariff duties. Ho is to> enlightened to at on the basis of the protective principle, ualess, perbaps, it be in the case of iron, which, out of compassion for the infancy of tho manufacture, may pos ibly be allowed to remain at the present rate But on all other eommoities which enter tho home of the poor man or the mechanic or the farmer, whether produced here as well as abroad, or pro duced abroad only, the duties mast be lowered. The essential comforts of life, which the people require, must not be taxod a mili more than is absolutely necessary to carry on tbe government. The admin- istration may reduco, if the revenue will permit it, | the dutics on the rich man’s luxuries; but those mutt not bo touched until the poor mn’s necessities | have been admitted freo. This is what we expect | from General Pierce. This is: what the country re- | | quires, both as a measure of relief to the people, | and asa solid guarantee against the danger of an | overflowing treasury for the future. That owr ex- | | peotations will be realized we have every cons- dence, from the eagecity of the President elect, and the upinistakeable verdict of” the people on prowe- | tion in Noven ber Jast. | At tho same time that we would redace the reve | nee from the castoms duties to the lowest point | compatible with the muintonanco of the State, wo trust the President will set his face rosolately againet the communist faction whe would place the publio lands on the footing of common property. If wo had passed through a period of frighttal distress —if we had at our doors thousands of ablo bodied “men who could neither find work nor aflurd to bay land, and were an incubus on the commuaity— there might be somo ¢xouse for ridding ourselves of the burthen, and charitably providing them with a meoens of subsistence, which they could not othor- wice procure, by granting them free lands. If we may be permitted the Sgure, shoald the leak of psu- porism ever make its appearanco in tho chip of State, the public lands might be beneficially used as aplog. But till then—and wo soe no sign of the | | calamity— we soe no reason whatever for despoiling the S:ate, and squandering its resources,simply with a view of putting money into the pockets of people who do not wantit Icdisoriminate whotesale char- ity of this description is well known to be equaliy tuinous to the donor and the resipient. We must continue to soll the publie lands as hare tofore. This will onable usto out down our tariff— which is, intrath, a mean, shuflling modo of taxation, unwortby of a republie—and will provide a fund for | | internal improvements. For we hold that a cortain | proportion of the publie revenuo should be ap pro- | | priated each yoar for this object. Profase expendi- | | ture in cansls, snd railroads, and bridges, and pad | | lie buildings riably accompanied by wasteful: | | nets, and Jeads to ianume | which marks the excors ough! not to proveat a mods | rate exercise of our surplus means in contrib couragement of trade. No government is despotic thay one which interferes with legitim ato | private enterprize, and on‘ers into competition wish | | ite subjects; but, at the same time, there aro meny | public enterprigos whieh it is properly tho province | of the Brate to undertake, and which, while thoy | redourd to ite credit, inno way prejudice the rights, | or militate ogainrt the interests of individual citizens. | A matter of no small importance is the state of the printing department at Washington, and the re lations existing betwoon the government and the | yarious nowspopers printed in the capital. The net result# of our past experience of the prosent system may be thus biiefly eummed up: the public printing excouted in a style which would disgrace a village newspaper, and at an expense far exccoding the most exorbitant rates paid by individuals—the news paper press of Wasbington degraded to the rank of slavish of tho cabinet, neither daring to ex- Press en independent opinion, nor recoiling from the | apology of the most indefensible moncuree, and sustained in this contemptible course by oorrup! | jobs and public pap. To remedy these tremendous 1 ‘ | | | #h:d, and mado tho exclusive channel of com- | on bewween the goveramont and tho peo | or with this, a government priat hould be combined, snd all inting Gone there, under the control and sion of governmont officers. By the adop- | tion of thie system, wo should no longer havo any awed of the typography of our public | thoy would cost us considorably leaa—a roe of eorruotion would Le ehecked—and | tal would perhaps boast # press which was | Lo diegrace to the country | I: will probably fall to the lot of Gon. Pisrse’s adminietration to propose anew eca'e of aalarics for our d jc and forvign efficere of State. We neod notremind our readers how miserably inadoquate | the preaent emoluments aro to the wants of the in- cumbente, or epond time in arguing that a ralary | which was consistent with republican simplicity act | otntury, when the cost of living was one half what | it is now, is absurdly ineufioient at the present day Nor neod wo demonstrate that the practice of the | systcm bas fully borne out thore principles, or refor tho neceraary oxelusion of poor monof worth the ony bearer of civilization, Chr y ond plenty among the d ert on the 7’. aay OF tho natives of Japan. Kt vornments and armies ars but His servants, who go before him to'clawr the way, or keep wateh as 5 n, in order that is opara tions may be raed In sevarity, Tost gasha men mey err in ¢ ons, aad while he ix pouring thousands into wwe pablis chort, and adding enothor stone nental growiness of hiv eoontry, roy fod himanlt, hy a strate tara of to the m mon ya from eflico, or to the shameful instanecs of Galphin Inating disgrace, been brought to light. Thomo mat- | ters aro familiar to all; but no ono seoms to possoss | the neoostary boldness to take the initiative of ro- form Wo trust that Gen. Pieree will not fliash from this duty, and that ere his four years have clapred the Secretaries of States! Vashing'on, who pool polly Bye wadey $19,000 » soar, wily ; of American honor, he will lose no opportunit; | mitted by tho outgoing to the incomicg administra | State ecem at length to have waked up to the im- | The perty bas bee | Telsome factions; | —lt eppoars from the election, the other day, in | | W. E. Robinson is very prominont in anothor | Neither the greater nor tho lesser Soward organ | throws a epeck of light upon the enbjoot, avd the | added to a Luropean, and in an opera, too, in ism and public robbery which have recontly, to our | ‘ reosive something wore than $6,000, and our minis tare abroad, whove $9,000 will not pay for their ne- corsary entertainments, will be autherized te draw on the treasury for’ at Jesst $20,000 a yeer. A simi- lar augmentation ‘be bene‘eially made to the salary of many subordiaate officers. It ia time that the government should coase to bo the worss pay me ster in the coun’ry. - Finally. it will neorssari!y devolve upon General Pieroe to upravel the tangled wed of our foraign policy on this continent. To present, in the brief space allotted to us, our concep:ions of tho course he will probably pursue. isa task whieh wo do not under'ake without relactance; we can, at most, b2t sheroh the leading outtines of the pisturo, leaving our readers to fill up the details, We need hardly say that General Pierce will put down /iibusterism with a strovg band. In real truth, noone but coan mouthed counrry folk and the Loud:m Times ever entertained epy sérious approbensions fron the seciety of fanny people playfully yelept the Lone Star Astooia:ion, and other eqaally diverting con jrévies ; who have recently sprang into existonca: but #0 much hes been said of them that ic is par haps wel) to remark, that while Genera! Pierce will hove Bo objection to their members plotting dosp movthed edition in @ private way, in a driaking saloon in Chambers atreet, he will feel it his daty to givo them a rap on the kuuekies if they omorge from the a:woephere of that hospited!o re:reat As to Cuba thore cannot be a quostion that the President will buy it if he can. We have, on various occasions, expressed our views at length on the subject, and ean only oford now to repeat our conviction that, whatever obstacles ia- terféred with tho snecess of Mr Polk’s nogoviation, Spain will row find it her interest to relieve herself of the load of oare the island ooste her, and ocopt ® round sum in dollars ia exohange It is tho manif-st desuny of Cubs to bseomooure;— negotiation and purobase ‘will bo the iastramen's of the transfer Nor will Mexico lag bebiad fvory day that tho existence of its wretched gorcrameatia prolong’ d, the desire for annexation to the United States gains ground amorg the poople. The posses- sion of Califoroia, ite boundless treagares, and the yet undeveloped mines of wealth contuicaed ia Mox ico, are powerul reasons for our compliance with the 1¢quest which they are even now ready to meko. Mezico will bo ours, perhaps before: four years have rolled over. The opagpsition of the North will be inet by an agitation for the annexation of C: agacounterpoiss Ratactant though Great may be at first to part with her North Amorise colories, abe will rot long resit the demands of the colonists, and, obodient to the doctrines of her pre- sent school of economists, will decline to risk a rap ture with this country for the cake of preserving mere uselesr, profitiess territory. Sbe will soon be told, in the House of Commons, that tho annoxatioa of Canadato this eoustry would mike a diffsrenge of a million of pounds or so per annum in hor favor; and, guided by that polioy which has boen herload- ing star for the last twenty years, will renoxnce mere powcr for the more substantial bonedrs of economy and peace The whole coatinent will then bo ours. This splendidconsummation may not take p'aeo during General Piereo’s Presidensy, butit wil tall to his lot to pave the way for it; and the coua- try expects confidently*that while he is ever ae extending tho power of the State over which ho is called upon to ri yi Isvinisgep Bust- yxes —The unfinished business whioh qill be trace tion, in the schedule of our foreiga relations, may bo bri:fly summed up es follows:— 1 The Cuba question 2, The Tehusntepso treaty question, and other Mekisan questions. : * % The affairs of Central America The comp'icated ait of Hayti. 4 The eovfish and Cunadran reciprocity question 6 The question of the annoxasion of the Sand wich islands. ~ Now, to ray nothing of the genera! enlargement of the area of our commercial operations in South America, and other quarters of the world, hero isa hist of unfiniehed businees which will command the highest order of talents, capacity, enorgy, firmness, pradonce, and sagacity. How important, ia this view ef the caso, that the now administration abould bave, in the very outset, the great moral support which it would receive in a discretionary fund, (‘or sash extraordinary contingencies as may | arise during a Congressional recess of niae moaths ) of cight or ten millions of dollars. As a question of economy and prudence, Jet Congress take this ma: ter into consideration. It may save ws the trouble of a war er two. Carixer Maaner rrom New York—Hhaps anp Borrs.—The demccratic journals of this city and portant inqui Who isto be the Cabinet member from New York One of tho organs of this city, of the bard ebell family, isin favor of conciliation, ment, and the evidence we have that negotiations of Art.” are going on at Washington, this sabject is at | There is tittle doubt but that sll these present engoging the attention of both govern , When eonduc'od sith tact, talent, akild. mente, it will be well to consider it, not in the | and enterprise, will find pxtronsge amply sufficient Vight of what the Canadians desire, bat whet itis | to proserve their existonos; nnd we may indalge in. cur interest toconcede, Aod if, inexchenge for ths | the hope that ere very Jorg, some of them may removal of duties, we can obtain the navigation of | s'and az wortby rivals of the most colobrated -;e the St Lewrenee to the ocean, and the right to take | viows of London, Baiabu-g or Paris. Thereis yet, ord eure fshon the North American coast, the | however, & great advance avd improvement te be. United States will, by the arrangement, obtain vast | made in the editing of our magazines to justify and inoa):uleble advantages, at the oxpente of the | us in any such anticipation We have at present. colonists themeelves, whore interest is isto adopt | only the Southern Quet-rly Review to com- the roate of their great natural outlet; and the | peto with Blackwood. the Loodon Quarterly, the effect would be, to roduse tho price o their agri- | Edinburg Reviow, Frazer, or thore French peri- cultural productions to the conrumer here, and to | cdicals, ‘La Rovue Brittaniqne” and “Ea Revue des relieve the hard work{ng and poorer ciassos th this | deux Mondes.”"@But the gonia« of the universal Yan country of a burden, for which the high price of | kee nation, dieployed in toe vierories acquired by ite labor ie no cquivalen’, and which theynow haveto | citizens in almost overy brvovh of human labor and bear in order thatan undue protection may be | progress, will, no doubt, a'vo enable ws, in the | many of the European countries | rors, in Now York the average is one copy to every harmony, concord, compromise, and fraternity eplit up long enough iate quer d now, as they have tho spvile they ought to harmonize in dividing thom, instead of wrangling and fighting over their marrow bonos, like get of ill mannered curs On the other haad tho Albany Atlas, of the soft shell Motion, spoaks | out roundly to Gen. Pierce, that he is to act indo- | pendently of all threats or warnings, in reference to the eolection of his Cabinet. The conolusionis that the bard sholls are giving ground, and wiil eabmit, if Maroy, Dix, or Seymour, shonid be appointed to the vow ministry, and that the soft sholle are deter™ mincd to maintain the vantage ground they have gained. In a word, the hard shelle appear to have mado up thoir minds that a seft shell is to go to Washington; and wo are more than half inclined to think 40 too But, is Martin Van Baron to bo ro. stored ‘to the head of the party in New York? Noms vervons. Tus Wag Panty 81111. Aurvn —Wiat Nexrt? thie city, of the Whig General Committes, aud the Whig Genoral Committee of Young Moa, ond a | full Whig Special Committee for every ward, that the party is still alivo and kicking. Tho conserva- tive ard Seward eloments also appoar to be comitg together egein; for while at the heal of ope committee ie J. Phillips Phopix, the name of What the party mean to do upon this broad plat- form of reorganization, it is impossible to divine. Wall stroct journals are still more completely in tho dark. Do they consent to the reorganization of the groat Northern whig party upon the Seward plat form, or bow! We have the city whig committeos published to the world, ‘* black spirits and white, | blue epirits and gray, gether; but can any one tell us npon whet inciples they stand? or What comos next! Tux Orrra 1x New Youre —We learn from Maceme Bontag’s agent, that tho prices are nob yet fixed for admission to her operatic performanves, which avo to commones on tho tenth of January. | We are authorized to state, howovor, that they will not range #o high as from three t> fivo dollars. They will not execed from one to three dollars Maretzek’s tronpe will not bo here till Fobruary. | Mcantimo, Alboni comes out at tho Broadway on Monday evening next, with an Amoericsn fame | which the principal part is her chef d'wuore, and ob, av rendered by hor, willundoubtediy prodace ‘on, For sash delisious vocal masic the pricos are extremely mode rate, Tux Tantfy —The philosophers of the Tyilune eortinue to discuss the policy of a high tariil—cut bono? Why not, at the rams time, urge the policy of a national bavk, or the ertablishment of a grand national Fourlorive phalanzt Thoy are all equally vb begs ) Sena ae job shelw od affurded to the agriculvara} interest. Our attention haa been calle’ to this quostion by the recent shipments of butter from Eoglead to the Unired States, in the three last steam-rs which have arrived at this port and at Boston, upou which an eatravagent rate cf freight must bave been paid, thowiog & most artificial state of things, whereby agricultural produ:e may be rent to Europe and brovght bask agein—the expeneo being covered by the remission of duty on Canadian produce whon eaported—thue shutting off competition in ‘he dome market, and creating a fictitious prics in the United States Tho objection that has been urged against grant ing reciprocity is, that it does not extend to manu- factured articles a8 wellas the natural produstions of the two countries. This ground has been taken by the Washington Republic, the organ of Me Full- more’s cabinet; and as that gentlemaa comes from Buffalo, it is easy to pereeivo that it is iateaded to benefit the sgrioultaral interests of the West Bat Canada iv not & mevufucturiog couatry, nor can it bo for a length of time; and the duties levied on our wanufacturea, when imported there, are nd more than are imporod on those of (reat Britain. Of the value of the exports to this conatry, durieg the past year, amounting to $1,071,544, the valuo of manufactures was only $15,054, and of those tant of cotton was but $14,196; while there were export: ed to the United States, during the same period, Produee of the Mine. $40 372 Seas. 43.788 1 233.380 OL o72 1.909 228 Of vegetable food, the value of whoat was $156 933, which mast have been ground and consumed in the country, after paying the daty, and tha; of flour was $2,139,140, which was exported. The votes in tho House of Representatives evinced an evident determination, last werk, to abandon tho protective ayatem; let iss opponents, thorefure, begin by permitting the importation of tho nesesrarios of life fred of duty, and thus placing the consumers in this country, as regards oheap food. o% a pit with those of Great Britain; lot thom also redace tho duty on coal, of whi who raise thas article, apd the railroad eon have @ monopoly Is ia perpetrating a» wefal outrage on this com- munity end elsowhore io tax fuel, io an inclement climate, as is the case 2! present, aod to conosl the bardworking classes and its more destitute por- tion, particularly on the seaboard, to pay one-fifth more than the true market price for tho necessaries of hfe which they consume. In faci, wore compati- tion permitted between tho Western and Canadian farmer, the etfaet would be to redaco tho price of these below what thoy are at prosont, exclusive of the duty. < Next to the vegetable food which is sont from Capada, the produce of the forest ia tho greatest in amount, which enters largely into'the coosumption for house and ship building, and which is is obvions should not be subj-ct toduty. So also with wheat, the large importation of which, wore tle duty re- moved, would give additional employment to our Western millers ia tho vicinity of the g-eat lakes and | the 5:. Lawrence, and, as we have already obsorv- od, would indirectly benofit tho community at large. Macavine Literature —-The combined influ ences of republican institutions, universality of education, free discussion, and an untrammeled prese, under which this great country progresses 0 ra idJy, in a physical point of view, aro no less potent in developing, to a wonderful extent, ite in- telleotual qualities. Nowspapors are, to this cem munity, not # luxury to be epjoyod only by the fow, but an indispensable necosaity for all; and literary and political magazines have, we dare fay, a greater proportionate circulation in this country than even that of the daily nowspapors in It is proved, by statistical calculation, that whore, im the groat metropolis of the British empire, thoro circulates but one copy of a ne ¥2pzpor for every haadred por tenth person—or, in other words, New York, in proportion to its population, issues ten times as many nowepspera as London. The same proporiioo, no doubt holds goo] in relation to magaziwe li:era ture; ard, though we have af hand no data from which to calculate tho circulation of there perio ai cals, some idca may be gained of the enormous patronage bestowed on them from the fast that no less than ninety magazines and reviews—aosily movthly—are supported in New York alone. Thero publications treat of overy matter and sab ject which could possibly interest the public Some are specially devoted to politics, somo to literatuce, education, eommerce, theolegy, ssionoe, temporance reform, medicine, fashion, law, &e ; but all trent of general subjects, and disouss paseing ovents always with characteristic froedom, and somctimos with mueh talent and ability. course of = fow years, to boar ourselves oreditably in the Jista of literature, au} comoste sucesssfally for the palm of zine Poperiority. A Democratic State.—There are ninety comm ties in Texas, every one «f wvaish, at the Inst eleo- tion, gave a mojority for lraoklin Pieree for Presi-~ dent. Ja three of the cvuscies General Boost did rot get a single vote, aud fourteen of them gave “him less than ten votes each. Terxenariic Exrepiti0n vo \wsTRacta—Among those who intend to leave thie eouurry for Australia, ina few doys, 1k Mr. Samuel W. MoGownn late chit operator in: the Morre Bul{slo Telegraph Live He goas to the new El Dorado of the Pacific to in'r.dvoe tho magnetic tele- aroph in that disient region I+ is the intention te build. aline from Sydnev to Melbourve wud afterwards te Ade- laide, whieh will take the wir-s arcund the southerm coest of that goldom (sland. a distsrce of about one thou- send miles, This is a splendid eaterprise, and we know of uo better perron to carry it to « eusceesfal termimation than Mr McGowan, Hehas horn connected with the tele- graph limes for upwards of six years. aud is one ofthe mont experienced operators, Pro'essor Morse speaks im the highest terms of hie oupec'ty. We understand that two assistants accompany biu. aud that he carries out » full eupply of wire. batteries, &9 &o, for the lines, This telegraphio expedition will xu‘l in the Glance, for Mel- bourne, Persoval inteiiigence, Among the residents ia this olty is Professor Andrew Casrard, Hewes one of the editocs of the Voice of the People ot Havens, and when bis associate was arrested: and executed he fortuanieiy mate his eroape to this country, without means. withou’ even a change of dress, and leaving his wife and two crildren in Havana, Re- cently they alro have arrived hee, Professor Oaseard ip a gentleman of worth and capsotty. To geim a livelihood in a country where bis own vi-ws of govermment prevail, he proposes to teach the Spuni-h avd Frenoh languages, and book. kecping. He has « room for this purpose at 42 ‘Warren streot. Ex Governor Marcy is at Jacksonville, Ficrids. nd rouse of “Phe ondersigned m-moers of the denate and ap- Representatives with great plracnee recogaise | prove the general detire muntt--ting iteelt throughout the coontay. to commemorate by +owe national momument the pattio'io rerviors und rere abilities of our lamented feliow cidzen Hemy Clay We aivo approve the generat feptiment which setms fo ipaiace the spot selected by Ditoself tor Dis last roming piece as the moet appropriate Kceation f-r this monument. be grave of Honry Clay must cver bea racred por Yoou cur nad soll, to be visited in the coming ages of the republic, by patriot pil- grims fr¢m every quarter of 'b- lund; and even after the dsy ¢f our country’s grea'nrss the monument erected ever his remains will be sought out by the stranger as one of the most interesting memenioes of the past glory of the repybiie and of her childrens fame. [no order that. the proposed monument sbonis be worthy of the object it is derigned to oommemo: d of the sentiment which origivates ft. there must b: of effort and a con- eoLtration of resources We jore most earnestly re- en in ancordnscn of i tive plan peppered tp . ia accordnore wi b tl ro} sochation spdthe exetiphe sliuly eatat lished by a majority of the X ns sod we promise cordial co operation by vers prop: F means tw Die, patriotic, ard national encerprise, the Central our thie lauds. Polite I. te: 11ger ce, Stabbing with a Knife—OMoer dobby, ward.cn Thursday pigbt arre Dor nelly. on @ charge of violew e 8 knife, iotlicting & seve took place in Catherine atreet secused before Justion W: i detained hia 1a prison- |, who to ites the charge. ld Hoy —A boy pamed James Bowes, was on Fri- day arrested. on @ charge of s-seulting auother a named David Mortis with an attemot to steal from Vso ahha barket of previrions. whieh had just been. ought froma store. The father of the boy luckily bappened to be neerst hacd and bearing his som cry out for asistapor hastenrd 10 tbe spot and caused the boy iiing hisson to be arrested. The scoused was ed befcre Justice Wood, who committed him to. Brooklyn City Lnteiligence. Kines County Court oF Sessions = betere, Sedge Moore and Justices Stilwell and stryker.—A epecioen cf bumapity, named James Chamberlain, was yesterday arraizoed for trial oo acrime derigaated A0an- ofience against nature in tho footctment, alleged te have been committed in rome time during t circumstances. fiedin th- town of New Utreeht, latrer part of November last. The cre folly proved by the tes- © her wittesses and the jury, afier & very short consultative ‘found him guilty, When breught up for septevon. tre Jodge remarked that he thould vot inflict the toll penul y a'lowed by law, ae from: the testimony of reverai cvotcat gentiemen who hed (ed upon the stand, ic »porar-d that che prisoner rived bimeelf of bts nat uralty sound faculties by nsting mdulgepors ar raxequently more deserving ef pi y chan of Kever Nie would, therefore, rentence him for et term. vis , two years and five months imeri-orinent at Sing Sing. ‘The —— is @ native of Eogiand, and im the 2uth year of pis oge. George Wall wae placed on trial, charged in the indtet- ment with heviog om or abovt the 2t-t of Maroh last, pasted a counterfeit One dollar bill. parportiog to be am jesne of the Méchantes’ Back at Nowa: upon a My Bifert. keeper cf # lager bi at No. 95 Steg street. Williamsburg It sppeared t! the bil abreve alluded to bud b-en reotived a: Bifort’s bar, by bis wife. in exchange ‘or « drink, and in attempt- ing to pace it afterwards. its base natuce was acertained. A few days thoreafter. the accnved again came to the boure. and. being reoegrized he turned and fled, bat wae soon overtaken. having. bowover io the meantime. enter- ed an cuthouse in a private yard. whero rubsequently, arollof spurious bills waa found #repoed in o piece of newrpaper, The jury. afer an absence of neatly two hours. came into court unable to agree. and were dis. charged The prisoner was remaoded, It must be, however, conecded that this class of publications cannot stand s favorable comparison, in point of literary merit, with some ef the Loadon, Edinburg, and Paris magazines, which have the advantage of experience on their side. While some of the latter are in existonee for half » century, those of New York are but comparatively of to-day. | The Knickerboeker Magazine is the only ono in the city that ean boast of anything like a respecta- ble age, and even its existence doos not extend past some fifteen or twenty years. The most popular of thore works aro tho mast modern. Harpor’s Mogarine, with many selested &ticles and fower original encs, is te be found in general eireulation through the country; and the suecers which has attended this, and others of the samo elass, is constantly stimulating into existence and prodacing fresh ones. Latterly, we have kad new or revived magazines pre- sented every month—the American Whig Review, the Demooratic Review, tic United States Ro- view, have all, in turn, put forward frosh’ claims to public patronage lo fact, thore appears to bo no limit assignable to there preductions, and their influcnce on polley, literature, commerce, and social life, must be correspondingly immonse. Tho latest candidate ot this order for popularity and support is one entitled Patnam’s Monthly, the first number of which—that for January, 1853 has just been ieeued. Its introductory gives some slight ketch of the orbit in which it parposes moving. Tt ig to be devoted to tho discussion and elucidation of subjoots bearing moro particularly on this country. “The gendua of the old worid,” it says tray, “is alla | ent; wo owe much to it, aad we hops to owe more. | F But wo tavono less faith in the opateace of our own yorources”” There arogomo good articles in this initial pumbor, but ita Mustrartons are confined to a ving!e excelient engraving of Marebield. We seo among the liat of its contributors the names of sever al notable men of lotters, and its editors are Mr Parke Godwin, who has written a life of the I'rench focial philoropher, Fourier; George Cursis, who a Cow ter. Tho article on Onda war, wo understand, | WHO by Arrebess L. Live's aud LU on Vodice y action to recover demages for injuries sustained pleintiff by & collision of a wagon in which she was riding with e geotieman, and @ cart belonging to the defendant. ‘The accident occurred at the corner of Spring and Mott streets. in thie ity. about 6 o’clook ip the evening of the 9th of April 1861. The plains! was thrown from the wagen and biuired om toe bead and otberwive coed The dMfenco is that the acad-nt happened-throngh the négligence of the gentleman with whom the wee dnving. Mr. Jas T Brady summod up for the defend- ant and Mr John Cochrane for the plaintiff The Oourt. beet pin jury, who rendered a verdict in favor of the mdant, ‘The Cily Counelis of Norfolk. Va., have decided against the issue of emsll not - Day. Srares Diet Conny —Noa 70 86 to 44 It lov Life ana Term )~The North Ameri- can iow Trust fond oase. Erxcian Notice — (Supreme Court).—Ta making ont noter of isene for the Jeppaty Special Term Oalendar, at torneys will please note whe her their eaces ere iesues of Jaw or not. Tho issuer of law will ba first placed on the calender in the order of their dates of issue, pursuant to 266 of the code. Common Piras Pert Firet.—No. 635. Part Second — Nos 890, 960, 618 kg 922, 924, 926, 998, 930, 042, 034, 956, 8. Oia OM ee eee eacourre-Surors discharged forthe term. De- Holidny Goots.—A Rich Assortment of Ledéon’ shell drens combs. Tho ¥ erioty om braces sno newent guyien of tho Imported and home manufacture. Far 'y, portable drowing once, poxtamery, &e., at the Wiulahing svore, 267 Heoadwa, out- wiloo: s—Weiting Deska,, oneon, ports monnale’s, instand yor ONSOK WA jonere, Jt Mab pen tleme hell onrd ene ete, cold pewsin gol a ale by OARK & BIORS, i The Toy Bazaar op Rogers, No, 449 Broad-- way, in the store for all te vi it in tho soloction of te y varioty of taney gods ‘the. pasa ay d being atl Ympoes: 6 atl Imporb=. shop in London, bomers. No. 60 and Bi ands, work boxoa, a nao, prayor books annuals, ju No. 60. Toys, Gaines of pos gan be ‘eke fa hs Drosonte Tinie setatiichmeph ee the mou which cana hing for halide And ovary