The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1853, Page 4

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CHARLEY; THEATRE, Bowery—Famnr Haaat Navan Wom Fv.in Lapy- Tom amp Jenny. is rus Danx—One AWERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Dowrstio Eooro- Bennev Roos. MADISON AVENUE.—Afternoon and Evening—Faan- osx’ OULJ88AL BuxrPopRomE. CHRISTY’S @PERA HOUSE, 472 Broadway—Ermiorran Mxroprss sy Quaisry’s Orrns TRovrs. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Hasiesl Hall, 444 Broad- MIOINAN MINSTRELSY. GRORAM A, 596 Brosdway—Baxvanv's Paxonaua or wer oy Linn, OWEN’S, ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. tw York, Monday, Jane 27, 1853, — — / ‘The News. The, Baltic arrived at this port last evening, bring- ‘ing four days’ later intelligence from England andtae oop‘ of Europe. The news is of an important eharacter. Peace was still preserved, and the public mind had become more tranquil regarding the East- ern diffi culty. In the British Parliament questions had been addressed to the ministers relative to the united ac- tion of France and England, for the integrity of the Ottoman empire. The replies of the Earl of Clarendon, in the Lords, and Lord John Russell, in the Commons, were to the effect that the most cordial coincidence of opinion existed between the two governments upon the subject, and that the combined fleets had been ordered to the Dardanelles as a mesure of pre- caution. M. de Kisseleff, the Russian Minister of Justice, had arrived in Paris, and it was thought that he was the bearer of very pacific tidings from the Czar. He had informed the cabinet of Napoleon that even if Russian troops would occupy the Danubian pro- vinces, that his Imperial master did not intend to proceed further- The French Bourse, which had been the theatre ef the most nervous fluctuations for ten days be- fore, was calmed, and the funds became firm at a higher rate. It appears strange to us, after all that has been gaid upon the subject, how the occupation of the Danubian provinces, an integral portion of the Turk- ish empire, by the forces of Russia, can’ be per- mitted, and peace still be preserved ; but we sup- pose it will be accomplished by one of those strange freaks of European politics which are so frequently exhibited. In a debate in the Commons of England, upon motion to bring in a bill in order to secure to the people the protection of the ballot-box at elections, Lord John Russell alluded to the operation of the system in America, and directed special attention to what he termed the public corruption which existed im the State of New York, where secret voting. was practiced. ‘The laws of South Carolina were. again made the ‘theme of remark in the British Parliament. The grand dejewner to Commodore Vanderbilt had come off with great éclat in the Victoria Rooms, Southampton. The Mayor, Aldermen, and leading inhabitants of the borough were present, and vied with each other in doing him honor. A full report of the latest mercantile news, with the rate of the markets, &c., are given in this paper. We give in another portion of ozr columns to-day ‘a very interesting statement in relation to the vast resources of that immense portion of South America which is watered by the river Amazon and its tribu- taries. The Peruvian and Brazilian governments, it is known, have recently issued decrees providing for the free navigation of their rivers,and the first named government has followed up that wise and politic course by ordaining measures of the most liberal kind, so as to promote immigration from other parts of the globe and the colonization of the fertile and spacious valleys of the Amazon. This decree is also presented to our readers in connection with the com- munication to which we refer. The information thus given will be found extremely important and interesting. " Various important matters are approximating a focus in our State Legislature; consequently the fature proceedings will be looked for with much in- terest. The Senate is to vote upon the Catholic Property bill to-day—that is, if a quorum 'shouli be im attendance, which is a matter of considerable doubt. The new park question will probably also be under consideration. In addition to the numerous impeachment propositions, the Assembly has yet to dispose of the Temperance, Railroad Accident, Park, and some other measures, in which almostevery re- sident in this city is deeply interested. Instead of posting up their books and preparing to adjourn, our legislators are cutting out work enough to keep them busily employed for several weeks longer. Judge Denio bas been appointed Jadge of the Court of Appeals, in place of Judge Jewett, whose resignation was announced last week. Four negroes, one of them a female, belonging to ‘the crew of the steamer Wayne, were killed on the 1%h inst. by the explosion of the boiler of that ‘weasel in Newbern river,N.C. The boat was injured %o such an extent that she sunk soon after the oc- currence. No-further information has been reeeived respect- ing-the suspicious vessels, armed to the teeth, which fare reported to have been seen near the mouth of the Mississippi last Wednesday. Whether they belonged to the Cuban slave fleet, or were bound upon a fillibustero expedition, is still a mystery. A little light withregard to their movements would prove very acceptable. Cotton is reported to have slightly declined at New Orleans on the 24th, in consequence of the 3 Humboldt’s advices from Europe. The later ad- wi ‘ces by the Niagara had the effect of still further um ¢ttling the market. We learn that the increased rec \ite of the staple at that port over those of last yem" at the same date, amount to two hundred and eight.cen thousdll bales, and at all the Southern porte, to two hundred and seven thousand bales. A despatch from Providence states that the marke \ here was never more bare of printed goods ; that prios $ are very firm, aud choice styles are one. eighth of a cent higher. Weol was also firmer, and the sales of the last were larger than those of the previows woes’ The patrone of music and the drama are re- ferred to another’ column for a full description of the new Opera Hesse, in progress of erection in this city. yh pages to-day an’ densely crowded with inter esting political, local «Md general information, as will be seen by the annexed list of a portion of their contents:—History of the recemt movements of the Democratic, Union and Whig Parties in Georgia; Letter from Albany reviewing ‘he Impeachment Proceedings in the Assembly; Curia’ Condition of Political Affairs in Maine, as described \.,¥ * Portland | Correspondent; All about Mr, Hawthorne, the Noy- velist, by ® Beston Correspondent; Synopels of the New Tard of Mexico; Decision of Judge Woodruff in the Intelligence Office case; Coronera’ Inquests— including the evidence in an alleged case of Horrible Malpxectice; Commercial, Police, and Miscellaneous Intelligence): The Annexation of- im a Commercial and Religious of View. Twelve months before we acquired Califor- nia, it seemed to be fifty years further removed from us than does Cuba at this moment, So rapid and startling are the political and com- mercial changes of the day, and so identified is Cuba with our interests. that we should not be surprised. in less than five years. to find in that island electric telegraphs, railroads, palacial hotels, with free trade, free religton, free speech, and a free press, all under the protecting force of the stars and stripes and the conquering energy of Yankeedom. The value of the commerce which now annu- ally passes between the Florida and the Cuban shores is about $400,000,000. This will be vastly augmented by the settlement of Califor- nia, Oregon, Sonora. and our rapidly increasing trade with the East. and particularly with China. In a very few years our silks and teas and countless articles of small bulk and large value, borne over the vast Pacific. will reach us by the Isthmus of Panama or Tehu- antepec and through the Florida straits, All of this vast commerce is commanded by the north shores of Cuba. The straits are but seventy miles wide, and six war steamers may bridge them across during nine months of the year, and speak each other every fifteen min- utes. and thus a maritime power, possessing Cuba, with a superior navy, coald render the Mexican gulf a closed sea. We are wisely for- tifying the Tortugas and Key West, but these points, salient and strategic as they are, do not command the straits, or neutralize the military advantages of the shores of Cuba. The fortifi- cations and harbors of Havana and Key West are the opposite gate posts of this great high- way of commerce, and the superior naval force of either must command it. To have a clear road we must have both; and with the first gun which shall ever be fired by us in war with any maritime nation, will come an ‘overruling ne- cessity”’ for possessing Cuba. Our first naval battle will be fought near the shores of the ‘Queen of the Antilles,” for the simple reason that no other sea which our ships visit offers so constant and so vast a field for an enemy’s efforts. This “overruling necessity” we helieve to be now near at hand, All men, the most straight- laced conservatives, the veriest old fogies, be- lieve that Cuba must eventually be ours ; with them it is a mere question of time ; but the pro- gressive, aspiring, onward, soaring spirit of our country regard the present as the time ; they look merely for the opportunity, and that is of almost daily occurrence, if those occurrences are taken advantage of. They believe that her cruel, torturing, bloody protection of the Afri- can slave trade. in defiance of common honesty, common humanity and her treaty stipulations-— her crushing, soul-subduing. Japanese politi- cal policy—her blighting and deadly grasp up- on the freedom of speech, the freedom of prayer, of worship, and of conscience, cannot possibly exist much longer. in juxtaposition with the people of this Republic. With the acquisition of Cuba, the Afri- can slave trade will cease; but what is not of less consequence, the religion of Christ, the language of Shakespeare, and the laws of our country, will elevate and regene- rate her people. Some of the most enlightened of the Catholic clergy in Cuba admit that her people are destitute of all religious sentiment ; and when, some few years ago, permission was sought by an English Bishop to establish a Pro- testant Episcopal Church at Havana,it was advocaied by at least one of the purest priests of Cuba, upon the sole ground that the people might, by observing the regular and punctual devotion of Protestants, be induced to attend to their own religious duties, and inform them- selves of the doctrines of the Church. The ex- alted faith of the American, English, or Irish Catholic is as unknown to the mass of the peo- ple of Cuba, as to those of Hindostan, and whoever visits the religious houses of Cuba, from the grand and imposing Cathedral of Havana, to the most humble chapel, cannot fail to remark that they are generally empty, and that the few attendants are not of the wealthy, the industrial. or the working classes. Here then, isa field for the ambitious laborer in the vineyard. Instead of furnishing “‘ every naked negro baby in Timbuctoo with a red flan- nel shirt and a hair brush,” a wide field for the philanthropist is here opened at our very doors. But how are we to get Cuba? That is the great question. What is to be the modus ope- randi? Are we to purchase it out and out for a hundred millions. more or less? Are we adroitly to aid and abet filibusterism in re- volutionizing it, and stand yeady to receive her commissioner and acknowledge her indepen- dence, upon the slightest pretext of their being a new government de facto? Are we to openly invade and take it? or are we quietly and patiently to bide our time and await her coming tous? Each of these means has ita supporters. The first of these—acquisition hy purchase— is regarded by many, under present circum- stances, as out of the question. No well in- formed man, having the least knowledge of the political and commercial condition of Spain, it is asserted, entertains it for a moment. The trade of Cuba has built up her merchant marine and opened the best market in the world for her flour, wines, oil, fruits, spirits, and manufactures of cotton, linen, &e., &e Cuban official patronage opens a high road to wealth and honors to the old Spaniard, and the brave, hardy, and indomitable Catalans engross her commerce and commercial houses, A pro- position to sell Cuba, in the Spanish Cortes would hurl any ministry from power, if it did not destroy the dynasty itself. Should the Cortes cease to exist, or become silent or power- lees, then, indeed. with supreme power’ in the hands of the sovereign, a minister might he in- duced to seil; but an operation which might readily he accomplished with a minister, would prove unattaineble with so numerous and inde- pendent a body #3 the Cortes, Whatever may be our future policy with reference to Cuba, the policy of repealing our discriminating tonnage duty acts of 1852 and 1834 ia manifest, Mr. Mallory, of Florida, in a speech in the Senate about a year ago. proved clearly by both Cuban and Ameri commercial statistics, that these laws had rested our trade with Cuba and Porto Rico, and thrown it into other hands. The Cuban trade now amounts to about fifty-four millions, and from our vast resources and amirable geographical position, we conld supply her with » great amount of the agricultural and ” eae manufacterul products which she now receives from Barope. Let these laws be repealed, and the political results from this intercourse will soon become evident. The ties of commercial tuierest, of association, of education, will attach to us and to our institutions the people of Cuba. They will gee their own position best by observing ours, They will become enlightened, and con- sequently, free, Commerce, from the middle age®to the present moment, has ever and must ever precede.Christianity; and with the people of Cuba as our neighbors and associates, rely- ing upon us mainly for their commercial ex- changes—coming to us not only from the large towns of Havana and Matanzas, but from every little port of her 1.500 miles of sea coast—with theirchildren in our schools, and their social intercourse made more intimate every cycle. who cannot see that every passing day would add a link ¢o that chain which is to bind us in union together, Whatever may be our policy, let us do this atonce. Free trade with Cuba will annex her —and it will annex enlightened, intelligent Cuba—awakened to a high sense of the dignity of personal freedom and national independence. Georgia Politics—Movements of the Two Parties—Rather Interesting. We devote a considerable portion of our avail- able space to-day to the politics of Georgia. And the details which we give of the movements of the democratic and whig parties, as lately re-organized, will be found to be rather interest- ing than otherwise to our calculating poli- ticians in more northerly latitudes. The Democratic State Convention have no- minated Hon. Herschel V. Johnson as their can- didate for Governor, a man of fine abilities and considerable personal popularity; but lately, from his fire-eating secession notions, as odious to the Union democrats as the rankest northern abolitionist. Our readers, however, must not forget an important letter of Howell Cobb. the present Union democratic Governor of Georgia, written since the Presidential election, recom- mending the re-union of the secession and Union branches of the Georgia democracy; nor must they lose sight of the fact that the State Con- vention has ratified the Governor’s policy in the re-organization suggested. A couple of years ago, on @ direct issue between secession- ism and an endorsement of the Union plat- form of the compromise measures, Mr. Cobb, as the Union candidate, was elected by some eighteen or nineteen thousand majority. He was supported. however, not only by the Union democrats, but by the great mass of the whig party, and, in consideration for whig services in his election, Mr. Robert Toombs, Union whig, was chosen to the United States Senate, for the full term of six years, by the Union party re- turned to the Legislature by whigs and demo- crate, After that contest the secessionists succumb- ed and fell back upon the national democratic party. thus stealing a march upon the Union democrats, who were left no other alternative than a permanent junction with the whigs, or a secondary position in the democratic party of the State. They resolved to stand out and con- test the point at Baltimore, whether they or the secessionists were the true democracy of Geor- gia. The Baltimore Convention declared the secessionists the legitimate delegation, from the fact. we suppose, that they had never co- alesced with the whigs; and, in consequence, the Union democrats were compelled to knock under. Mr. Cobb, and many of his friends, notwithstandlng this judgment of the Na- tional Convention. stood out of the general dem- ocratic line till after the Presidential election, or gave General Pierce but a cool support with a saving reservation. Subsequently Mr. Cobb wrote the letter to which we have adverted, and thus prepared the way for the re-conjunction of the secession and Union democrats into one ho- mogeneous band of brothers, standing upon the sound and substantial platform of General Pierce’s inaugural address. This explanation will enable the reader, who may have forgotten the transmogrifications of Georgia politics since 1850, the better to under- stand the present attitude and component ele- ments of the Georgia democracy. The seces- sionists hold the balance of power in the federal and State councils of the party, as do the soft shells or Buffalo platform faction in the State of New York. Hence, a leading secessionist is nominated as the gubernatorial candidate of the reorganized Georgia democracacy; and the Union democrats. vank and file, are expected to give him their support. It is remarkable, however, in the resolutions of this democratic convention, that while the in- augural address is Frankly endorsed, there is nota word said of the appointments of the administra- tion, notwithstanding Georgia has obtained a fair share of the spoils. Why is this? We presume that, as the hards and softs. so to call the two factions of the convention. could not agree’ upon the appointment policy of General Pierce, the seces- sionists being warmly in favor of it, and the Unionists dead against it, they compromised the difference. by agreeing to say never a word upon the subject. But call you this backing your friends? Really tous this silence in Geor- gia regarding the division of the plunder, is scarcely more satisfactory than the resolutions of Mr. Burke in the late State Convention of the “unterrified” in New Hampshire. Are you with the administration, or against it, in this busi- nesse—this practical business of its ministerial appointments? That is the question. And there is never an answer from the reorganized de- mocracy of Georgia. * We shall see. by and by. how this dodging will turn out. Mr.Cobb, it is said, is to be con- ciliated by the promise of an election to the U.S. Senate in the place of Gen. Dawson. Per-, haps that may satisfy him. But will it satisfy the mags of the Union democracy? We shall be answered yca or nay in the fortheoming elec. tion. Having stood by the Unionists of Georgia through the hour of trial, we are desirous now to understand clearly and fairly their real posi- tion in the party, and before the country. Per contra, Mark the air of confidence with which the Georgia whigs present their Union compromise platform candidate. Char kins, to the people. Te is the same m they put upon their independent Presidential ticket with Mr. Webster last fall. They at least stand their ground, and the original ground on the compromise questions of Governor Cobb and the Union democrats. We shall wait the issue of the contest thas broadly presented. The Union whigs and their Union principles ia Georgia are indeed in a bad way, if they fail to carry the election by a large majority. But, in any event, it will be by all odds the most inte- resting and important State election, in a gene- ral view, between this time and the meeting of Congrees. whatever may be the result. Read our political intelligence from Georgia, Jen- that Le MGnal ety awono Leoisiatons—ImreaceMents my Vocus.—One of the most extraordinary s0- cial phenomens which distinguish this lar latitude and the epoch in which we live. is the frequency with which, in these latter days, instances of gross corruption among legislative bodies, and other public officials. are brought to light. If specific accusations of malfeasance, openly uttered, not only through the press, nor ia deliberative assemblies, but even through the indictments of grand juries, are to be regarded as any sort ofcriterion to enable future ages to judge of the state of morality existing among Aldermen, State officers, Canal Commissioners, and other officials, in this era of our existence, then we very much fear that the general opin- ion will be. as indeed it is now, that the honor ofpublic men had fallen far below zero, and that personel reputation was a quality very lightly esteemed among those classes of the Ameriean people in this decade. ‘Our State Legislature at Albany seem, by some sort of political infatuation, to be bent on disclosing to their constituencies the various lit- tle rascalities of which, from time to time. one and the other sections of parties have been, accor- ding to their own showing, culpable. They ap- pear to envy the notoriety acquired by our mu- nicipal corporation, and to be determined, if possible, to show themselves still more deser- ving of public contempt, as will have been seen in our telegraphic despatch from Albany in yesterday’s Heratp, and from the letter of our correspondent in to-day’s. The canal management furnishes the most prolific and unfailing mine from which to ex- cavate the pearls of former corruption. The barnburner party in the House of Assembly led on by Mr. Loomis, have been recently making extensive prospectings in these dig- gings, and have discovered that one of the former hunker commissioners of that Board, Mr. John C. Mather, was guilty of some acts during his administration in 1850-’51, which render him deserving of impeachment, and. accordingly, for the first time in many years, ahigh court of impeachment is to be formed in Albany. consisting of the Lieut. Governor—if not incapacitated by a charge against himself— thirty-two Senators and eight Judges of the Court of Appeals. and before them Mr. John C. Mather is to render an account of his steward- a laving got into the vein of offering up sa. crifices, one victim was quite insufficient to satisfy the craving which had thus seized the barnburnin~ section. A party of the whig canal officias were also to be delivered over to their tender mercies. and for this purpose it was necessary to ex- plore still deeper into the mine. And so, on Saturday last, charges were pre- ferred in the House of Assembly against Charles Cooke, Canal Commissioner in 1850; Alvah Hunt, Treasurer; Philo C. Fuller, Comptroller; Hezekiah Seymour, State Engineer, and Chris- topher Morgan, Secretary of State. alleging that all these gentlemen had entered into a corrupt confederacy, and had been guilty of corrupt and improper conduct in their office; and another batch of charges was preferred in these same resolutions against William J. MeAlpine, hunker, and formerly State Engineer, and Fred- erick Follet, soft shell and one of the present Canal Commissioners. These resolutions were referred over to the Champlin committee, the same which had reported in favor of the im- peachment of Mr. Mather. Then came one of the hard shell section, and offered a preamble and resolution charging John C. Wright, soft shell, and Comptroller of the State. with any amount of high crimes and mis- demeanors, contained in no less than thirteen distinct specifications. This got the same refe- rence, It will be, therefore. seen how very laudable and highly successfel have been the exertions of our representatives, in the State Legislature, to exhibit themselves to their respective con- stituents as persons not troubled with any very qualmich sentiments as to public morality or private rectitude. One section of party de- files the other; so that it would require a larger amount of perspicaciousness than we can, at present. bring to bear on them, to discover the existence of purity on any side. The New York Common Council will henceforth appear inno- cent, virtuous and spotless, when contrasted with our State government, if only halt the amount of infamy alleged against the latter by themselves will be proved to have been per- petrated. We fear, gentlemen, your conduct in this matter has been foolishly suicidal, and that the old adage has been forgotten among you, that “those who live in glass houses should not be the first to throw stones.” But we wait for the impeachment proceedings. To Prevent Acctpents ox Rar-roaps.—Our Legislature are actively engaged in devising ways and means to prevent accidents on rail- roads, and they would do well to look to the formation of the directors of each railroad in this State. Some of the Presidents and direc- tors of these institutions occupy a similar office in half a dozen different railroads, and their time is so completely divided up in the several railroads in which they are officers, that it is utterly impossible for them to give their undi- vided attention to any one railroad in particu- lar ; hence the careful supervision and manage- ment of our railroads are most wofully neg- lected from the fountain heads of these depart- ments, upon whom the greatest responsibility rests, and many of the accidents that occur arise in consequence of the negligence on the part of the Presidents and directors of these compa- nies to give them their proper attention and su- pervision; and how can we expect it to be other- wise when these officers are connected with the direction of so many roads that they can- not give much more than an hour’s attention a day to each railroad. The ofiice of a President or director of a rail- road is a very responsible one. and is of no trifling importance to the travelling communi- ty; and too much attention to this suggestion should not be lost sight of by our Legislature, who are ever ready and willing to relieve the millions of our citizens, who travel on railroads, to guard them against accident. We would, therefore. suggest to the Legislature. for the gc- curity of the lives of passengers travelling on railroads, that an act be passed to this ef feet:— That no person or persons shall be eligible to or fill the cffice of President or director of any railroad company in this State, if he holds or occupies the office of President or director of any other railroad company. ‘ The passage of such a law as tls would do much to the prevention of accidents upon rail- roads, which have been so frequent of late. Our Legislature would secure the congratula- tions or their citizens by looking into this mat- ter. and establishing such laws as will protect the lives and property of their citizens in tra- yelling on our radlroada, as merchants were disposed to wait for later 94, news by the Baltic. Cotton continued to be with sales of only 3502 400 bales. Flour W® 4 steady, with fair sales without change in prices. WD cat was higher for good qualities, with free sales. Oirm was also firm for ‘Talk on ‘Change. ‘Trade, in s general way, was rather dull on Sat’ 14,1, a goed pound cargoes Pork contitued duit, ‘There was a speculative movement in tobacco, and the tales for two days (Fridsy and Ssturdey) last week, reached about 1,200 to 1,500 hhdg., chiefly Kentueky, at rates varying from 6¢. ae. far good to prime qualities. This movement was caused by unfavorable accounts regarding the prospects of the present crop received from the West, especially from Kentucky, where, it was. raid, many planta had been destroyed, either by the back- ward spring, or the severe drought which had prevailed. Include in the ealer were considerable purchases made on account of Kentucky planters, Great importance was attached to the necessity of epeedy action on the part of the Legislature, to prevent the damage tothe harbor by filling in for piers, &e. Tt was said that persons were at Albany, from Brooklyn, pressing forward to obtain a grant or privilege which ‘would evable property holders in that city to fill out the whole front oa that side of the river for 200 to 250 feet, extending from the Atlantic docks to near the Navy Yard. No one doubted but, should such @ plan be carried out, that it would inflict serious injury to the harbor, The filling up on both sides shouid be ar- rested. The obstruction of the harbor, if allowed to go on, would prove suicidal to the best interest of the city. Its greatest claim to superiority over other cities was attributable to its admirable harbor. Destroy it, and you would go far to destroy the city itself. ‘Asstrovg memorial, drawn up and signed by the Pres- ident and Secretary of tbe Board of Underwriters, (with a large number of additional influential names), was “despatched to Albany on Saturday, urging the Legislature to withhold its consent to ali grants, until documents should be lsid be’ore the members which would satisfy them, beyond all shadow of doubt, of the alarming nature of the evil complained of, The advance in many descriptions of both green and black teas, since the rebellion in China, had become fully krown, bad been equal to 5c. a 8. per Ib. Regret was expressed that the authorities did not be- stow greater attention upon the officers of H. M. frigate Leander. It was expected by many that they would heve been honored with a public dinner, or some other suit- able demonstration of respect, at least equal to the at- tention paid to the officers of the Sardinian frigate. The very complimentary wanner in which the officers of the St. Lawrence had been received at Southampton, required that similar attentions should have been paid to those in command of the Leander, as she had visited the United Siates with similar peaceful and friendly views. It was suggested that there might have been no intentional neglect; that it was the intention, on Lord Ellermeve’s return to the city, to tender him and suite, with other members of her Majesty’s commissioners, all due public honor, in which the officers of the Leander were expected to have participated; but the rather sudden and unexpected departure of the Leander has probably prevented the idea from being executed. Some splendid samples of cotton were exhibited on Saturday, at the rooms of a respectable firm of cotton brokers. They were from the plaptation of Dr. Mercer, near Natchez, Missiesippi. There were three samples from three separate plantations, and were considered to be the mort beautiful of any specimens of short staple cotton ever before seen inthis market. They were held at 8c. per Ib. It waa hoped that the Doctor would send eemples to the World’s Fair, and contest the palm with Mr. Nailor, of Mississippi, who bad received the prize for the best cotton at the London Exhibition. Marine Affairs. PRIE FOR THE QUICKEST TRIP BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND Laverroo, —A number of gentlemen of New Orleans, in order to eacoursge a generous spirit of rivalry between masters of vestels trading between that city and Liver- pool, have contributed a purse of $750; $500 of which will be presented to the commander of the ship that makes the best run from the bar of the Mississippi to Li- verpool durirg the year commene'ng June 15,2963, and ending June 15, 1854, and tke remaining $250 to be given to the master who wakes the second best run. The prize is bpen to masters of any kind of sailing vesrels, of avy country, that may lsave that port previous to the 15th June, 1854, and will be awarded by a committee ch*sen by the subscribers. The money has ‘been ceposited in bank to the credit of Messrs. Jas. Har- rison & Co., New Orleans, to whom communications must be addressed. Theatrical. The summer recess. in some of the theatres of the city, comes toan end about the National Holiday. On the first of July the Ravel Family reappear at Niblo’s Garden, the scene of their long and brilliant triumphs in this me- tropelis. On the fourth the Broadway theatre reopens with Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, acd we understand that on the sixth the new opera troupe, organized by Madame Sontag, make their first appearance in Castle Garden, We refer our readers to the advertisements of the Theatres, Hippodrome and other places of amusement, for the particulars of each establishment this evening, The New Operva House Commenced—A De- scription of the Buliding. The new Opera Houre has at last been commenced. The corner store was laid on Monday last, the 20th inst., and slready_ the walls have been raised, in some parts several feet above the foundation. The design and plan of the building were made by Mr. Saeltzer, the arshitect of the Astor Library. Under his superintendence it will be finished some time in the month of December. When conipleted the building alone wiil cost two hundred thous- aud dollars, which has already been raised in one thous- avd dollar shares. The two hundred shareholders, besides the interest they will have in the building, will have Ser- tain privileges in the selection of seats, &c. We under- stand they have been incorporated into an associstioa, under the title of ‘The New York Musical Academy,” and have already secured their charter. When completed the new Opera House will have seats for 4634 persons, and there will be standee room for $400 more. The building. which will be two stories high, has an ex- tent of 204 feet on Fourteenth street, and 12234 feet on Irving place, and its height from the level of the side- walk will be 7934 feet. The style of architecture is the Rowan, and the design of the exterior is both chaste and beautiful. Four large pilasizes, with Corinthian capitals, at the wings, and six of a smaller size in the centre, will support the main cornice and parapet. The mouldings, ornaments snd capitals will be of cast irop,a materiaj which is coming into more extensive use every day in the construction of buildings. A magnificent bsleony, sixty feet in length, and projecting eighteen feet over the side- walk, will present a cool and delightful retreat in the avmmer evevings, when the hea! becomes oppressive. Besides this balcony, which will overlook Irving place there will be another, seventy feet by five, on Fourteenth street. Both will be illuminated by parti-colored lamps, elaborately ornamented, ard will form extensive prome- vader, superior to anything of the kind in the city. Thir- teen immense windo vs, twenty five feot in height, each surmounted with a Roman arch, will open on the from, balcony, and four of the same dimensions on the side ‘| balcony, There will also be four niches for statués ém* + blematicn} of the character of the building, The Projes- tions of the front will be formed by the pilastres, but will rot extend more than a foot from the main body of the structure. The whole exterior, contrasted with thede funet Astor Place Opera Hou-e, will be light and elegant, and will compare favorably with some of the flnest struc tures of the kind in Europe, The body of the interiorgor what the Romans would call the cavea the space appropriated to the apectatore ~ ‘consists of the parquette, two tiers of boxes, and the gal lery. The means of ¢.088 are sufficient to prevent any reifous conrequences in care of fire. There aro nine decors on the ground floor, including the main entrance op bving place, which will be twonty feet in with These lend to the parquette and the first and second tiers of boxes; but there iy be-ides a spacious outlet from tho gelery on the north sideof the building. The galler be made of cast iron, 20 sonstructed as vent ibe posribuity of an secident, in the event of @ end den olerm of fre or from any otuer cause. They will be cylindrical iu form ard guarded by strong iron ratings or bavirters. In eedition to the doors leading int» the Dbeay of the house there is the stage entrance and a spa- “ § carriage way, running along tne side fronting Irving place i js at present Cesigned te divide the parquette inte two sections, but it is vot likely that thin plan will be ad- hered to v hen the building t# near its com vletioa, There is ane feat out This part of 1 jor which is particularly deverving of notice—the floor can be eleva. ted to a level with the stage, by means of sevews, and tho whole theatre converted into a megnificont ball room, 143 feet in length a ith.” In this respect it will be similer to seme of the largest theatres in Paria aod Lerlin which ean, ino few mivutes, be transformed int» #0 many ball rooms. The varquette may be eatered from the centre of the first tier, as in the Broadway ‘Theatre, before the Inst changes were wade, or from two side doors, near the provcenium ¢ first tier of boxes will be supported by caryati which will give the interior a fine and Rapouies cpptene ‘The reots will be very eapectous. the dimensions of eacs being two feet by three. while the gallery anata will be taco inekea by two feet seven inches. The seata in pacts of the house will be separated by neatly wrought i | i | by i i i HF a | ut i EE : Fy i & i ip Flt i ! z rT F i ? 3 . [ i a il it ‘i Fi ur gs i 5 tated ge | 4 ¥ H i | ae 53 i az jel Ht Rg E : i i ig i Hl Hi :! aH i i in that atten its importance entitles it. In the new House, bowever there will’ be no want of if the present plan is carried out. A hot air with numerous pives or conductors from various parts of the house. will be in the and these, acting as force pumps on the lower stratum: air, will caure a constent ngitation of the atmosphere all parts of the hou-e The impure air will be drawn through the hot air chawher, while its place will be with a constant stream of fresh air flor ‘im by windows, and ventilators, in the roof: cornices of the buil*ing. The greep room will be situated on the left side of the Ls) = ‘and the drawing rooms on the right. These will be fitfed up with more nearness than is generally bectowed on such apartments The paint shops for the tion of the »oevery will be placed on the right side of the stage, and aravged to sult the peculiar mode in which the Italian, German, and English scene painters ta oll Re é Brin work. There is, we are mfori a it in this respect between the Trallans” and Ge Germans, for while the former paiot their scenery standing against, bode glish both, paint it as it oa the grovn The walls on the interior of the buildi behind the boxes and galleries. will be lined with bo: excel- lent plan—whish experi-nce has proved increases, while it pallews. the volume of sound the first story there will be a magnificent saloon, four feet by twenty, and oa each side of it two cofies rooms ~ Besides these thure will be another saloon in the basement. Altogether, this is one of the most suena enterprises of the kind ever started in New ‘ork, and if carried out in the same liberal spirit in which it spears to have been commenced, we wish it every success Don’t let the prices be too high—nmke it as democratic as possible, and it cannot fail. City Intelligence. THE CRYSTAL PALACE DISTURBANCE. In yesterday’s Herap there was published a shert ac- count of a fracas at the Crystal Palace, under the head of * Trouble at the Crystal Palace.” We have since made further inquiries, and sre enabled to place before our readers a full account of the whole proceedings. It ap- ears that ou Friday last, one of the contractors, named eball. was refused admittance uslezs he produced his card of admission, by one of the Crystal Falent Ro: lice, named Quin, who was stationed as sentry in military fashion, at the gate This the contractor re- fused to do, and forced his way in, whereupon the police- man reported the matter to his officer, Lieut, W. Peel, who was in command of the force on duty. latter, before taking any further steps, consulted with Capt. C. H. Davis, superintendent of the Crystal Palace who advised him to inquire of Mr. Mateell, the Ohief Police, ‘as to ‘he invested. Lieut l accordingly wrote to Mr. Mateell, who replied that it wax now out of the power of the po- lice force to arrest mder, but to seni Quin down to his office, to mak it as to the facts, On the following urday) Mx. Marshall, aecom- panied by his partoer, Mr. Nvé, likewise one of the con- tractors. came to the gate in Fortieth street, when the latter having exhibited his card, was allowed to enter, leaving Mr. Marshall outside, who refused to do the same, and at last passed by the sentry inside. The latter followed bim, cal.ing out for tne serjeant of the guard, when Lieut. Peel. who was somewhere close at hand, seived Mr. hiars by the collar, and ejected him in a summary manner. By this ti large crowd had collected on the outside, who wi wever, dis) from off the premt-ex of che Crystal Palace by the police on duty. Mr. Marsha'l’s partuer. Noé, then came out, and laying hold of her b- the coat, endeavored to force him through 1m-ide in opposition to the orders of Lieut. Peel, and on therr entrance an attempt wae made to eject them by the g ard In cocsequence. a scuffie ensued, and as @ dernier resort they were arrested by Lieut. Peel. who covfinéi them up stairs in & Duilding adjoining the Crystal Palace, which is used temporarily as a police station, In about five minutes, a mb of laborers, who were employed about the recent additious to the Crystal Palace, forced their way through by Fo: ty second siseet and endeavored to arcend the stairs of the police stat: Here, how- ever, they were k+pt out by the guard, whieh consisted of twelve men, iocludwg the lieutenant and sergeant. Mr. Noé then srked the police officer who bad cl of him and his parmer to ullow him to come out and at- tempt to pacify the mob, and permission haviag been given, at his request the esseilanta left and went back to their work. The two contractors were afterwards de- teinéd for about ap hour in tue police station, until the arrival of Capt. Dupont. U > N., the superintendent, who told the prisoners that the Urv-tal Palace police had only done wha was rights vhet if they did not like the regu- Jations, they ought to give up their contracts and quit he premises. He fur her added, that he was often asked himself for his sdmis+ion card by the polieemea on duty, ) and bad vever thought 1t weneath him to show it. Moreover, that the lieutenant had done his duty, and that it would, he had no Coubt, weet with the eoacurrence of the directora of the Associaton. Capt Dupont then re- quested Lieut. Rybard, who had, during the proceedings, relieved the other lieuteount. 19 relesse the prisoners, which was accordingly dene Further steps will, how- ever, be taken by the Cry>tal Palace police to bring the watter before th» proper authoritier, when it will be thoroughly inquired tuto by the Mayor and Chief of olice. owers with which the above force were FUNERAL OF ANOTHER NEW YORK VOLUNTEER. ‘Yesterday she fuveral of avother Mexiesn volunteer, who bas gone to his last. home, took piace from the Mer- cer Hout tthe cw nerof Broome and Mercer streets, which was attended by several of his brave companions in arms, belonging to the New York regiment. de- ceased, John Covk, who *#s formerly # private of com- pany F, New York regiv ent of voluuteers, has, since his return from Mexico fullowed the trade of a tinsmith, and, at the time of his d-uth was forty five years of age, upmarried. He died Jast ek. at Bellevue Hospital, from diarrhea brought on oriyinally a, the fatigues of the Mexican war, sud unbea!'bicess of the climate, and was buried from there iv the Po:ters’ field on Randall's Island. The members of the reviment, however, caused the body to be cis pterved, and re-buried it yesterday at Gieenwiod Cemetery. The fureral cortege was escorted by the Napper fandy Artillery, under the command of ptain Hegon. aod inoved off frum the Méreer House in the following ordsr:— Bue Taudy Company, commanded be Capt. Hogan. The hearse, drawn by four white horses with black plumes, ‘The Members of the Regiment, in uniform and in private strizens’ dress, The flag belonging to the regiment was likewise carried— that flsg wh ch bad beeo borve triumphantly from Vera Cruz to Mexico avd which wat +o valiantly diepisyed at Cerro Gordo, Contre Riox Churubusco, Chepultepec, Garita de Relen, and otber battle fields. The route taven was down Broudwa:, acd through State street to Hamil- ton avenue ferry, und from thenes to Greenwood. And Greenwood #ave Dewy with nature's te rieving, if aught inanimal Over the unreturning bra SUICIDE BY HANGING. Coroner O’Donvell, Ist eveoing was called to hold an inquert st the bosrdivgbou-e of Mra, Benson, No. 71 Crosby street, on the body of a man whose name we did not learn. He was one of ths boarders, who was found dead in bis hed oom, having committed suigide by hang- ing himself with his cravat to the bedpost. "Toe de- ceased was sbon' 36 years of age. end, it is said, was from Connecticut. He was in ilt beaith and was about under- going a surgical operation, to be performed by Dr. Bost- Ww ‘Tar Wearien.—Yenterday «ncn delightfal day, and, if We were pot co much of & stay at-home populat would have drawn ever: body ont of the precinets of the city. As it however. mulritude: took advantage of the day Orecrni: themselves for another tix days’ work. ‘The hermometer wax low during ‘be whole of the da; Sat 12M. from which poiot it fell to 69 at 8 P. M. Fink —Yesterday afterncon, butween 3 and 4 o'clock, sn slarm of fire +s xaied in the Third fire district, caused by the chimney dt » houve in Watt street, near Canal cert F lav var 1he flames extinguished eines arrived Damage trifling. CorriRMATioN.—Yesterday the ceremony of confirma+ ton of young ,eople. according to the ritual of the Romar: Catholic creed, was celebrated a. the church of St, Vine cent de Pau), in Caval street. bv Bishop Hughes, who offle ciated on the occasion. In she morning between forty and fifty boys were confirmed and in the af‘ernoon about: sixty young persons of the other sex were likewise con- firmed, the gester part of «hom were of French extrac. tion, The congevation of the above church consists mainly of naitves of Frence ard their descendants, Fouxp Dean —Early on Sunday morning, Lieut, Bram, of she Sixteenth ward whilst om patrol duty, fords waa vamned Joho Rapp » mate of a ship, at the coraer of Piveenth street end kighth aveoue sitting on the stoop of with bts beed and should a Weaning against; ‘There were threo men ptanding by who en’. oF police, there is a deanken man? i examined him snd eo feel no pn'se, bat ni quite warm, gave the alarm whistle’ ani, wiih the assistwore of officers Usvens and Patton, took him to the stétion houre. On being examined by Doctor Boorsen it was fond that ba was dead, bat no marks of violence were virible about his person, Accipenns — On Saturday night » German, by the name Of George Render, ® carpenter by trade, who resides at Monbattanyille shile atmptivg to got dowa off a stage at the above place. in which he was a passenger, missed his bold in steppieg down, and fell, by which his ankle was very uch sprained. ‘He waa admitted on the fol- lowing dey (sundey) into the City Hospital, where he is how uncer ru gicsl treatment, being attended to by Dr. MeComb, Dr. Lawrence, enrgoon of shi Conturian, from Liver pool io going on board at pier 17 Kast River, last even- ing, fell overty pd was drowned, A colored man named L-rael Oansey, while asleep in « oor fo Cow boy, reorived @ Fevore wound in the fore- end from some unknown person, He was City Hospital by officer Carlend aera Sun Stroke —On Saturday afternoon @ man by the nome of Wm. Riley fell down in Ratj rest, near Madiron, from the effects of the heat, wan taken to the drug store at the corner of Madivon and Rutgers streets, where be received medical aid, after which he wig any eyed Line pin street. FACKAD Witt A Frr—On Saturday night Ma-y Aj Wol h fell down inw tit at Fulton fercy. a4 was alin, to her home in Columbia stseet, by offices Galleay. |