The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, BPFICB ¥. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TSe ———— OOOO VWelume XVill.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MATROPOLITAN HA SOWERY THEATRE, Bowory—Taer Wire—Acnes De Vuue— dosent Macaiie. BROADWAY THEATER’ Law wor Lavies—Bas aEN’s CONCRRT. Broadway—Suanpy McQurse YLYNS NIBLO'S, Broadway—I Purrrant lv Uneis’s Oak. e ONAL THEATRE, Chatham tireet—Usowz Tex's WALLACK’S THEATH avny—Bixak Hovsr— sposeune's PROLIC, AMERICA MUSEU Weun Wuar. Evening a—Trvinert Os—Macs ws Daeas, MADISON A ernoon and Bveaing—Fraxco- owr’a COLosr a % * CHRISTY'S AMERIC. wway—f ora MLoor N OPERA IfSUSE, 472 Bro: ey Cuaisty’s Orera Tar a. WOOD'S MINSTR: way— Bo nso rian Mr £39 Broadwar--Buck BBHENISH GALLER: 3 Broodway—Day snd Evening. BIGNOR BLITZ—Srvvvesanr InstiToTs. cadway—Penean’s Girt Ex- & MIRROR. L PAINTING vor THe NATIONAL ACADEarY OF ee Now York, Friday, Octover 14, 1853. Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. “The Collins steamshi; hie port at noon to-morn Bubscriptions and a Hew Yoru Hear will be received at the following places tm Exrope — Luvewrooi—John Hunter, Loxnox—Eawards, Sanford & Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street. Pans—Livingston, Wells & Co., Rue de la Bourse. B. H. Revoil, No. 17 Rue de la Banque. The European mails will close at hali-past ten o'clock tisement for any edition of the ‘aradise street. Cornhill. im the morning. The Weaxiy Hens will be published at half-past zine o'clock to-morrow morning sixpence. Single copies, in wrappers, ‘The News. By the steamship Canada, at Halifax from Liver- pool, whence she sailed forenoon of Ist instant, we ‘Tbave one week la‘er news from Europe. The com- mercial intelligence is both good and bad—good for the operators in breadstuffs, which had advanced ne to two shillings since last advices, with an ac- tive demand, and bad for dealers in cotton, that staple having de lined an eighth to a quarter of a penny per pound, with very moderate transactions. Flour was held yesterday, after the receipt of the news, at twenty-five cents per barrel advanee, and wheat went up one to twocents per bushel. The rates of rates discount had still further advanced in London, and the stringency in the money market had increased, which will in all probability cause a greater tightness in monetary affairs in Wall street, and lead to direful consequences to those who have recklessly ventured out of their depth in speculation. ‘There was a great panic in Wall stceet yesterday af ternoon—some description cf st: declined four and five per cext, as will be seen by our mougy ar- ticle. This may ‘n some measure be ascribed to the influence of the foreign news. With regard to the Eastern question, nothing de- cisive had transpired. The combined fleet had paseed the Dardanelles and’cast anchor before Con- stantinople; but of the effect of this movement all is conjecture. 1; was said the Sultan was displeased with this proceeding, considering it unnecessary and cerogatory. A better understanding prevailed between the peace and war parties in the Divan. Meantime, military preparations on both sides con- tinued to go forward. In Paris the mostalarming rumors prevailed. The Emperor and Empress had been well received during tueir recent tour. Gen. Nar- yvaez had been permitted to return to Spain. Nothing new had transpired in political matters on the Pe- minsula. The Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia arrived at Olmutz on the 24th ult. Advices from India report the continuance cf the famine at Rangoon, and that the cholera and fever prevailed among the natives and troops. Burmah and Hindestan were quiet; commercial accounts watisfactory. The insurgents in China continued to advance. The Powhatan and Vandalia had proceeded to join the Japan Expedition. Nothing late is received con- cerning Com. Perry's movements. A Hong Kong correspondent of a London paper states that Mr. Marshall had offered to the Emperor a loan of.a mil- ion of dollars and active assistance. ‘The news from Australia is anticipated. The Canada sailed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, wind south, and blowing a gale. She may not, therefore, reach Boston before early on to-morrow morning. Judge Edmonds gave his decision yesterday, inthe Supreme Conrt in the case of the Rev. Mr. Walker against Bishop Wainwright, refusing to grant the injunction sought by the plaintiff. It is the first case im which the authority of the Provisional Bishop has been disputed, and it will be read with much intereet. “The Broadway Railroad case still drags its slow Jength along. The mercantile libel case inthe Com- mon Pleas, before Judge Woodruff, which lasted for ‘ten days, terminated in the jury disagreeing. In the Circuit Court, before Jndge Mitchell, the jury gave a verdict of $350 against a man for spitting in a ‘woman's face. In the United States District Court, before Judge Ingersoll, Max Roscoo was found guilty of counterfeiting, and two seamen, named Hartley and Bell, were convicted of manslanghter on the high eras. We give to-day the speeches of the Hon. Edward Everett and Hon Abbott Lawrence, delivered at the whig meeting held im Boston on the evening of the 12th inst., called to respond to nominations of the Mate Convention for State officers. In view of the attempted reconstruction of the whig perty, the re- mark of the distinguished {ex Secretary of State, that ‘‘the old party issues—internal improvements, United States Rank, the tariff, c.—had ceased to be disputed questions, as between parties, which no person wished to disturb,” bears an important signi- ficance, as developing their tutare policy. Our special Washington despatch announces that General Dix, the Assistant Treasurer at this city, at his “repeated and urgent request,” will soon be @uperseded in his office. James H. Williams, of Maine, has been appointed consul to Sidney, Aus- tralia, and James H. Young, of New York, commer. cial agent at Curacos. The contracte to supply goods to the Ifdians have been awarded to Grant & Barton, of New York ; Callender, Rogers & Oo., of Hoston ; Thos. R. Wilson, of Trenton , and E. Tryon, ef Philadelphia. Returns of the elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania, ne far as received, may be found under the telegraphic WS THEATRE, Chambers stroet~Parrs are Lox- | ! A detailed report of the recent “‘prize fizht” may | be found in te-day’s paper. . The long agony in the Episcopal Convention, of ‘line and Fall of the Party Press—The inion and the Times it. Tt was in the time of Presidents Adams and deciding how to supply the place made vacant by | Jefferson that the party press proper of this the apostacy of Bishop Ives, was ended yesterday. | country may be said to have taken its rise. A canon passed by which the bishop can be deposed, Federalists and democrats, then fairly arrayed aud Dr. Atkinson consecrated in his stead. A ope ggainst the other, were not content with the Convention. Tristram Burgess died at Providence yesterday morning, at the advanced age of eighty four years. On our inside pages may be found @ variety of in- teresting matter, including Letters from Paris and | Bosten, Court Repor's, proceedings of the Board of Pdueation, Theatrical, Commercial Intelligence, Soy & | The Projected Empire in Mexico. Within the past week or two we have ailud- ‘ ed more than once to the project known to be ripening in Mexico, for the substitution of the | Empire for the nominal Republic now existing in that country. We derived our information from a well-informed and reliable source, that Santa Anna was quietly and secretly arranging all the preliminaries for a coup d'état like that of the 2d December in France, and that the | crisis for the re-inauguration of the Empire, in the n of his Excellency, was near at hand, We bave, however, received e@ very important ‘ and significant State document, emanating from the Mexican legation at Washington—which blish in another portion of our columns lay—assuripg us that our intelligence in on to the imperial projects of Santa ‘Anna, s incorrect, and that in reality that distin- | guished persenage entertains no such idea as ihat imputed to him. Gen. Almonte, the Mexi- can Minister at Washington, professes in this communication to be au courant with General we pub 0. | solemnly assures us, and through us the Ameri- can nation, that the President of the Mexican republic has no thought of changing the present | form of government there. We are quite willing to acknowledge the im- portance and signification of this disclaimer, coming from such a souree—indeed, we con- sider it a document deserving of the deepest attention of the American people and the ad- ministration. We would specially recommend it to the consideration of the Cabinet. if we could flatier ourselves with the idea that they had leisure to devote to it, in the midst of their more absorbing duties connected with the due division of the spoil; and we even do indulge in the hope that it will not be altogether over- looked by them. General Almonte appears to be impressed with the conviction, which he enounces so forcibly, that Santa Anna enter- tains no thought pointing to the re-establish- ment ofthe Empire, and intimates that the fate of Iturbide in pursuing a similar line of policy. is too fresh in the minds of the Mexican people varrant a repetition of it. We are disposed, as we said, to award a high importance of this declaration, coming as it does from the representative of Mexico to this is convinced to be true and correct. But, nevertheless, we see no reason in it to doubt the correctness of our previous information as to the impending coup d'état in Mexico. mation of it, we are sure; for if he had, he would probably range himself in avowed hostility to his triend Santa Anna. But his want of knowledge of, or complicity with, the designs of his chief, cau be of little account in refutation of the fact. Santa Anna is not a man to babble his secrets, or to impart them to his most intimate friend. He generally matures bis plans, and has them ripe for execution, before he imparts them to any confidant. And, in such a serious matter asthe imperializing of the country, it is by no means prebable* that he would entrust his ambitious bility, would be one of the most able and reso- lute opponents to his scheme. But however little information. the Mexican legation at Washington may have of the pro- jected coup d’état, and however sceptical they may be on such a point, there is small room to tant day. that direction. and powerful army—his disarming of Mexi- can citizens--his despotic gagging of the press —his speeches to the troops—his /étes and eele- brations, are all indications of the course of policy he purposes to pursue. He is impressed with the belief—in a great measure correct— | that Mexico needs a strong repressive and eon- centrated government; that her people are not possessed of the slightest qualifications for independent self-government, and that mo- | parchical institutions are the most congenial | to the sentiments, and most suited to the want ofthe people. Believing so, who can don'yt an empire. with himself as crowned head th of? The fate of Iturbide presents few anslogo points to deter Santa Anna from ¢ ourse. The former was a comparatively weak man, without any great or brilliant antecedents, and at that time the fitness of the Mexican people for a republic had not been tested. Santa An- na is a man of powerful ability, great resolution and unbounded ambition ; he is probably the ablest man in Mexico, and he has had the full- est experience of the incapacity of the people for liberal and republican institutions. There is nothing, therefore, at all improbable in the rumors attributing to him the design of super- seding the present state of things by the estab- lishment of an empire. In fact, there seems to be no doubt at all enter- tained in diplomatic circles in Europe as to this change taking place. It appears to be a con- certed and well understood arrangement, to which England, France, and Spain are cog- nizant and consenting par.ies; ‘and though General Almonte, in Washington, may be in blissful ignorance of the scheme. the Mexican Minister to Madrid is not so; but has had full instructions on the subject, and has imparted the plans of Gen. Santa Anna to the cabinets in- terested in them. Cuba and Mexico are the two great points outside of the Union by which the stability of this republic can be at all affected ; and on Mexico, in particular, the attemtion of England, France, and Spain is now concen- trated. If an empire can be reestablished there—as they have no doubt it can through the instrumentality of Santa Anna—it will be another stroke against republicanism, like to that effected in France in 1851; and just in the same way Louis Napoleon’s coup «état wae as wellknown to the English cabinet for months Read. All the counties in Georgia have been heard | pefore it took place, as is that now projected in from, aud Johnson, the democratie candidate for Governor, has been chosen by 202 majority. Governor Seymour, yesterday resigoed his office of Governor of Connegtient, to assume the duties of Mexico. Therefore, while we claim for the document emanating from the Mexican legation all the attention and consideration which it the Resstan mision, and Lieutenant Governor Pond | Merits, we see no reason to doubt the correct- wee eworn ix aschief executive of the State. The rope walk of Sewall Day, st Roxbury, Mase, bar bern c rege) by fye. T.oe3 $20,600. nese of our previous announcements, and reite- rate our belicf that Santa Anna entertains the mbitious designe imputed to him. Santa Anna’s political and private views, and | Republic. We acknowledge that General Al- | monte, in this pronunciamento, states what he | Ge | neral Almonte has had no authoritative infor- | secret to General Almonte, who, in all proba- | doubt its ultimate verification at no very dis- | All Santa Anna’s measures tend in | His organization of a numerous | Ne. 283 weighty load is thus removed from the members of | ine stump and the platform, and felt im- | pelled to abuse each other on paper. Ac- cordingly party organs were ushered into ex- istence. Their position and character were curious: on the one side enjoying « degree of freedom not excelled in our own day, on the other manacled by as despotic a chain as that which now enthralls the press of France. In speaking of their political antagonists, neither law, nor custom, nor good manners imposed any restraint on their license; in alluding to their own party, they were under the closest and most tyramnical censorship. What opinions they should express, what men they should sup- port, what doctrines they should expound, and even what facts they should promulgate with respect to their own party, were all carefully dictated by its leaders, The party editor was, in fact, in this branch of his duties, a mere tool in the hands of his chiefs. Such may be said to have been the universal condition of the United States press at the birth of our two great politi- cal parties; for the five or six commercial jour- nals which appeared about the same time in the large cities, and confined themselves to report- ing trade and shipping intelligence, possessed neither circulation nor influence enough to en- title them to separate consideration. Some thirty-five to forty years elapsed before the experiment of independent political news papers was attempted. The public were at first surprised at the phenomenon; but ina very short while, the utility of journals whose mission it was to keep watch over the political concerns of the country, independent of party ties, and to distribute praise or censure, when merited, alike to all factions, began to be generally re- cognized. Soon, these sheets received a share of support whigh had never been conceded to any party organ; and as the country advanced in wealth and population, they assumed a re- spected andcommanding rank. During the last two Presidential elections, a far greater share of infiuence has been wielded by the independ- ent press than by its cotemporaries of either faction: notalittle of the success of General Taylor and President Pierce was due to its support. Still, the thorough substitution of indepen- dent for party journalism has not yet been ef- fected. We are still in the transition period. Independent newspapers are rapidly taking the lead of all others, but the party organs have | not entirely succumbed. They struggle still violently and desperately. Their present char- acter and condition are well illustrated by the course of the Washington Union, and more cs- pecially by its recent attack on the correspon- dent of the London Times, An independent journal, had it deemed the letters of this correspondent worthy of special notice, would have taken the trouble to weigh the statements they contained on their own merits, and concur with or refute them as they appeared in conformity or at variance with the truth. Not so the Union. Its mission was not to seek the truth at all, but merely to defend the Cabinet. This arduous task it endeavors to fulfil according to the best of its judgment and ability, not by showing the falsehood of the charges brought against its masters, but by aseailing the private character of the corres- pondent with gross and malignant slanders. It Jaunches a volley of personal abuse against one Mr. Lester—tells us long stories about what he did and what he did notdo at Genoa— describes his demeanor during the last canvas —retails old gossip worn threadbare long ago in the Sunday press—and altogether serves up a dish of scandal that Lady Teazle might have envied. Not a word more. Is this the sort of reply that might have been expected from the organ of the United States government? When the administration which rules this great country is accused of faults, will a tissue of antechamber scandal satisfy the people that the charge is false? All question of propriety apart, can the Cabinet organ find no better re- ply to grave imputatious of erroneous policy than aparcel of gossip unworthy the pages of | an after-dinner story book? What matters it to the public what sort of man Mr. Lester be? What care we about his private life at Genoa? What coneern have we with his journeys to Concord? Had he been ten times worse than the Union pretends, his strictures on the course of the administration—if worthy of reply at all —ought to have been judged on their own mer- itsand answered with reason, logic. and modera- tion; not with groundless assertion, scandal, | and angry calumny. his will and ability to erect the republic into | The Union has judged differeutiy, and per- | haps it was one of the inherent inconveniences of ils position as an organ to doso. Bound by its party shackles, it could not reasonably be ex- pected to pursue a straightforward manly course. The only practical inference from the fact must be a general conviction that the gov- ernment editors and advisers of the President are totally unconscious of the changes that time is effecting around them. They seem to view the world as though it had.not changed daring the last twenty years, and attempt to deal with the people as they would then have done. They live in happy unconsciousness of the revolution that is slowly progressing in the press of this country, and are ignorant of the approach of the wave that will sweep away all party organs. For them it is enough that a newspaper, pam- pered on public offal, should periodically abuse the private character of the conscientious oppo- nents of the course of the government; and fan- cy, in their stolid ignorance, that so senseless a proceeding will weigh with the people, and that no objection will be made, when the wages of so disgraceful a prostitution of all that is hon- orable in man are tendered to the Union, in the shape of the public printing. They have indeed many Jessons to learn, and not the least of these is the true state of public feeling on the subject of organs. It needed little to overthrow the system by which the public printing is made the reward of dishonesty and servility; that lit- tle is more than supplied by the recent eonduct of the Washington Union. Let the Cabinet be- ware ofthe meeting of Congress. City Politics. crm Ward Haro Sim.ts last evening met in con- vention, and unanimously nominated Henry H. Howard, ex Assemblyman, as thetr candidate for Alderman. fevenraait Wakb Texreeance AND Revorm.—The nomi committee met last evening, and nominated Dr, ‘ownsend for Alderman, THE “ SOFT” IMPEACHMENT DENTED. Forron—We, the undersigned, having seen our ni in Wednesdey’s edition of the Hirnatn, on the soft shell ticket of the Sixth ward, do protest against such use rnasmes, as it is entirely without our authority, as we cannot consistently eupport nay other ticket than that headed by G. W Clinton, Gene) John Martin, Jeremiad J. Rod f Thomas Caveny, Michael , Leury O'Keefe, Mr. y a2 —————————————— Designs of the British Aristocracy and the Mona:chs of Europe against the Union. The more one studies the attitude occupied by the European powers towards this country, the more’ obvious does it appear that we are approaching a most critical period in our his- tory. Looking merely to the facts, it is quite apparent that a notable change has taken place in European policy during the past few years, It is manifest that a closer attention is being paid to our affairs and our institutions than used to be the case. English noblemen, like the Earls of Carlisle and Derby. travel through- out the United States, and the only fruits of their wanderings that ever come to light, are diatribes against slavery. Missionaries, like George Thompson. are sent here from Great Britain to sow dissension among the States; and a society of ladies of rank and influence, headed by the Duchess of Sotherland, ladies Palmerston and John Russell, and openly coun- tenanced by many leading members of the British aristocracy, is regularly organized in London, for the purpose of furthering the same end. Nor is the course of the British government at vari- ance with the policy of the aristocracy. We need only allude go the famous proposal for a tripartite treaty, to show how eager the Eng- lish and French are to curtail the natural ex- pansion of this country. Even this attempt in- volved less direct hostility to us than the more recent negotiations between Great Britain and Spain for the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba, and the conversion of the island into a free power, so as to serve as a countercheck to our Southern States. All these facts are preg- nant with instruction ; and when it is borne in mind that the continent of Europe derives its information respecting us mainly from England, and shares, in a great measure, the views of Great Britain respecting the United States, one can hardly restrain a feeling of apprehension at the designs which are being so plainly ma- tured against'us. That such designs should be planned, is no matter of surprise. The United States—the in- carnation of a principle directly hostile to and subversive of that on which all the governments and political institutions of Europe rest—have already attained a menacing pitch of power and ambition. Already—in 1848~our moral influ- ence was plainly perceptible in the struggles which convulsed Europe; and though that in- fluence is less clearly seen, it is hardly less ac- tively felt throughout the old continent at the present day. The simple incident which has shed such lustre on the name of Ingraham has given a signal impulse to popular aspirations in Europe, aud a terrible shock to hereditary dy- nasties. Such incidents will be multiplied in the next few years. A very short while hence the population of these United States will reach forty, fifty, sixty, a hundred millions of souls. These millions will contain no drones, no pau- pers, no helpless aristocrats, All will be active, energetic, prosperous and ambitious. Wealth and plenty will abound throughout the conti- nent. Should wars arise we shall be able to cope with all the other maritime powers of the earth. It is the foreknowledge of these alarming prospects which has suggested to the British aristocracy and the various ruling dynasties of Europe, the course they now pursue. They see clearly enough that the United States are des- tined to fill the same volcanic position in the world that France occupied in Europe at the close of the last century; and, trembling at the obvious approach of the tornado that is to hur] them from the pinnacle of power they have so long possessed, they are now concerting schemes to prevent its progress. It is beyond a doubt that such an understand- ing exists between the British aristocracy and the present ruler of France. A plan has doubt- less been matured by the two courts to direct all their power and energies to check and keep within bounds the expansion end ambition of the United States. Compared with this, the play. Neither France nor England would fight tosave Turkey if the matter came to the test. But every consideration of abstract reasoning, and the natural influences from notorious facts, show that they would strain every nerve to re- press our growing power and territorial ag- grandizement. What means will they use? So far as Great Britain is concerned, an qpen rupture’ with us is not to be expected. Any event that would have the effect of checking the imports of bread- stuffs and cotton would create a convulsion throughout England that would shake the throne, Peace with us is an essential condition of England’s prosperity, and even of her national existence. I nations --in the past—haye been overthrown by other agencics besides war. When Phili cedon wished to conquer Greece, he did. not march his armies at once against his victims, but studiously fostered and couraged jealousy and disunion among the various southern States, until each, isolated and weakened by disputes with its neighbors, fell an easy prey to his arms. So, Great Bri- tain, which cannot afford to go to war with us, is stealthily. but perseveringly, stimulating jealousy and hatred between the various States of the Union. The abolition wedge will, she trusts, be plied so vigorously by her insidious agents, that ere long separation and disunion must follow, and she will then stand the undis puted mistress and the first commercial nation of the world. Meanwhile, it is not unlikely that England is urging France on to do what she cannot venture to attempt herself. British counsellors are doubtless soliciting Louis Na poleon to play an open game in Cuba, Mexico, and Hayti. We have not seen much tangible evidence of the fact, as yet; but it isso obvious- ly the interest of France and the other conti- nental monarchies to remove from the sight of their subjects the dangerous example of a pros- of perous and happy republic, that the project may fairly be inferred from the slight symptoms of its existence which have come to light. It is difficult to say what result fate predes- tines for these movements, One thing alone is certain—England, on commercial as well as political grounds, is secretly and indirectly, and the other European dynasties, on perma- nent political grounds, are openly and directly conspiring injury and destruction to the Union. Sad, indeed, is it for every true-hearted Ameri- can to find that, in the face of these glaring dangers, the cabinet has been unwisely and in- judiciously selected, and that its leading mem- bers sympathise privately with the enemies of our country—to see, at a time when every nerve should be strung to meet the impending peril, disunion and jobbery in the government, the country wretchedly represented abroad, weak- nees and indecision in the national policy, and self-confessed traitors at the council board. The sloop of war St. Marys will sail from Philadelphia this week, for the Pacific; the Fulton next weok, Tow Cyane, i: ie thought, will be laid up for repairs present European squabbles are mere child’s | Toe Posruaster @ gyppar, on THE SPOILS Question—More L" pergns—Some correspond- ence which has re ently been published between Co}. Benton 9-14 the Postmaster General on the spoils que‘.tion, would seem to place Mr. Camp- bell in direct opposition to the policy laid down “aeesrs, Guthrie and. Davis. They are for placing all sorts of hybrids that were driven into the election of Gen. Pierce upon the same footing With the old steadfast Union democracy. Campbell, on the contrary, appears to consider a tree soiler of 1848 as a suspicious character, requiring a close and sifting cross-examioation before he can be allowed a share in the plunder. It has leaked out in this wise : Col. Benton had recommended a Mr. Henry F. Watson, of St. Louis, for postmaster of that city. Mr. Senator Atchison found it out, and wrote a letter to the Postmaster General against Watson. Hearing of this, Old Bullion demanded a copy of the the letter, which was refused under the rules of Department; but he was informed that “it had been represented that Mr. Watson was engaged in the tree soil movement of 1848, and signed a public call for a meeting of the friends of free soil” in those days. Andas the appointment hangs fire, we are free to presume that Mr. Campbell finds the free soilism of Mr. Watson a serious obstacleagainsthim. Upon this ground there is at least one man inthe Cabinet who truly interprets the election of 1852, which was a judgment against all sectional agitators of disunion, North or South. We ought now to have a letter on the spoils ‘question from Messrs. McClelland, Dobbin, Cushing, and Marcy, respectively. We un- derstand pretty well the position of Mar- cy; but, for the sake of a complete list of the Cabinet on this important subject of the treasury pap, he ought to come out with the rest in plain black and white. Then we shall know exactly where they allare. At present, Mr. Campbell appears to stand “solitary and alone” in the Cabinet on the true national platform, and if ne only sticks to it and wakes up a little in expediting the mails, we shall feel bound to urge his retention. though every one or his colleagues as dead weights should go by the board. The only salvation to General Pierce now is the Union platform, and the Post- master General, if he sticks to it. Don’t Lixe Ir.—Our free soil poets of the Post don’t like the appointment of John Y. Mason to France. He is too slow and too lazy for them. . They expected Mr. Dix; they and even Mr. Dix himself would have been satisfied with Mr. Dix. But can’t they tell us why Mr. Dix was superceded by Mr. Mason. Does not Mr. Dix come within the general amnesty of Guthrie and Davis? Will the Post be good enough to enlighten us upon these mysteries? or is it tke organ of the Cabinet, or what is it? Myr. Dix has planted himself on the Baltimore platform as firmly as one and flesh of the other? We can’t understand these nice discriminations betwixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. Who does ? Tue Grorora Evecrions—A Lick Back.—In 1852, Mr. Jenkins, of Georgia, ran for Vice President on the Union ticket with Mr. Webster, against Gen. Scott. In 1853, Mr. Jenkins is put up asthe Union candidate for Governor. the whig party being disbanded by mutual con- sent of all concerned. But it appears that Mr. Jenkins owes his defeat to the Scott whigs, nev- ertheless, as an offset for his defection in '52. Such is the sweet revenge of huckstering politi- cians. Such are the great principles which guide them in New York and in Georgia. But he evil, North and South, is beginning to work itself out. The rule or ruin policy of Seward- ism and Van Burenism is doing the business. The remedy will come by-and-by. Let it come. Tiarsor Excroscuments, Ac.—A fall and complete ex amination of the harbor of New York is now being made, also of wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks and slips, as they now are. This, when completed, will show the extent of encroachment made from time to time upon the naviga- ble waters of the East and North rivers, A survey will aiso be made of Diamond reef, Prince’s reef, Walnut street slip, rocks at the foot of Delancey street, and of the rocks on whieh the yacht North Star ttruck during the present year. The survey will alto be extended to Hurlgate channel, and soundings will be made on Way’s reef, Fry- ing Pan, Bald Headed Billy, Hoit’s rocks, and Shell Drake. Itis expected the wholé will be completed before the cold weathsr sets in. There are now three injunctions restraining parties from extending certain piers into the navigable waters of the harbor, and the Legislature of the State will be applied to, at the commencement of the session, fot the passage of a law creating a commission for fixing @ permanent line for the shores of the harbor of New York. ; ATLANTIO AND Pacric Raroav.—At the opening ef the books of this eompany, at an adjourned meeting yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel, we understand that a very large amount of stock was subscribed, by some of the most wealthy and influcntial men from all sectioas of the country. Most of the States of the Union are represented in it, including California, to a large amount. There seemed to be but one opinion as tothe successful accomplishment of the work ina short time, under the circumstances, The object of the company was believed to be based upon the necessity of the age, and the universal demand of the people of our country, On the 8d of November a meet- ing of the stockholders will be held to elect officers. At- torney General Chatfield is a candidate for President of the company, and W. W. Leland, Esq., of this city, for Secretary. Both these gentlemen took an early and ac- tive part in the enterprise. GorrscnaLn’s CONCERT came off last evening, before a hinly sprinkled audience, at Niblo’s Saloon. All the musical notabilities were present—attracted no doubt by the well known reputation of the famous pianist, and the conjectural talent of Mr. Aptommas, the Welch harpist. ‘They were apparently gratified. Gottschalk nover played better. His tours de force were even more surprising than when we last heard him; his fingers seemed to fly like gleams of sunshine from note to note. Nor was there any falling off in the artistic meaning with which he invesis even the simplest compositions. A fantasia composed by himself, and executed as a duet, by the author and a Mr, Pychowsky, was well worth n visit to Niblo’s Saloon; and his solos were equally meri- torious, He was assisted, as we said, by a Welch harpist, named Aptommas or Ap Tommas, (we ra- ther prefer the latter reading as the more Welch of the two,) whose execution was very striking, Mille, Beh- rend, one of Jullien’s recent importations, sang several ropgs, and was heard with pleasure, though without enthusiaem of any sort. We have heard too many prima donnas of the first order of merit, to excite our- selves about second rate fare, on any terms. Mr. GottscHialk will not have made more money by last night's concert than he did by his previous ones. He is, notwithstanding, one of the first, if not the frst, pianist in the country, and well known tobe uch. The fact again suggests the reflection which we expressed on the oceasion of Malle, de Berg’s concert, viz., whether, under any combination of circumstances, a pianist eould hope to give a paying concert in this city. Aid for the Vicksburg Sufferers. Mr. Fanton, Secrdfary of the Relief Association, ae knowledges the receipt of the following subscriptions by the citizens of Boston, for the “Widow and Orphan Fond’ of Vicksburg, Miss., through the hands of G, W. Ba igor, Faq. :— Blancherd, Converse Co, s+ $2600 Lawrence Fieach, W Emerson & Co, ‘ 0 & lo, Carter, Cooper & Co, 0 Potter, Eider & Nute 25 00 J. W. Paige & Go.... ¥509 Joseph Whitney &Co 25 00 Pierce & Bacon... ) Amounts from san AeA Leary dry persons.,.... 8000 Total +e SHS 09, John Cochrane, any how. Why make fish of Talk on , Before the receipt of the Canada’s news via Halifax, there was no change in flour, while wheat was easier ancl corn firmer. The news washot known until about high ‘change, when business for the day had too far progress- ed for its effects to be fully developed. Flour was held, after the news, at an advance of 26 cents, and wheat ad- vanced from one te two cents per bushel; Genesee sold at $1 61, and Ohio white at $1 52. No sale of corn was re- ported after the news, Freights were firmer after the- news, and 14d. was asked for wheat, and 4s. for flour, to Liverpool. ‘The political news from Europe was considered rather — startling, but not unexpected. It was the opinion of some merchants, however, that the combined fleet having, passed the Dardanelles, and anchored near Constantino-. ple, did not add anything to the probabilities of war. In- deed, some of them considered that the movement was: favorable to the re-establishment of peaceable relations, It had been previously stated that France and England had propored to protect the Sultan against the will of his own people, in adhering to the original note agreed ypon by the Four Powers, and that, , in obedience to this guarantee, the fleets had been re~ moved to Constantinople. In this view of the case the position of affairs had approached nearer a pacific solu- | tion. Others considered that the movement, if mado } with a view of aiding Turkey in her hostile intentions to- wards Russia, in default ef bringing the latter to terms, | the crisis was nearer at hand, and the end of the whole affair would be sooner realized. Actual hostilities would not make general commercial affairs much worse than the long agcny of their anticipation had produced. Dif- ferent views were entertained on the subject. Some were . disposed to view it in its worst light, They raw no alter- native but war, and that of the most fierce and bigoted kind, The policy of Russia had been that of intriguing) inactivily, keeping her ground, and hoping for etill greater advantages b, It was evident to all, however, that | an in portant crisis had been reached, and that a termina- tion of suspense would soon be realized one way or the other. The stocks of breadstuffs in this market, it was re- marked, were altogether too light to meet the exigencies of the demand, and large sales were continually making, to arrive in the next two months, The canals would be wholly incapable of bringing forward the necessary sup- plies before they would close; hence all the main lines of western railroads would have more freight offered than they could convey, and higher rates would be obtained. ‘A vessel called the G. B. Lamar, of 950 tons, was sold, and another of 860 tons, called the John Fyfe, at abous $60 per ton, each. No very great activity in trade could be expected until the private letters due by the Canada were af hand. FoxriGy Consv1s,—Adrien Sassinot Dumee has been offt- cially recognized as vice consul of France for the port 03 Mobile. | F. J. Kunemann has been recognized by the President as vice consul of France fer the port of St. Louis. Fernando J. Moreno has been recognized as vice consu) of France for the port of Key West, Fla. Marine Affairs. LAUNCH OF THE SCREW-STRAMER CuRLEW.—The remarkably substantial and beautiful serew-steamer Curlew, the pro- perty of the Hon, Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, was launch. ed lately from the building-yard of Messrs, William Denny & Brothers. She was named by Miss Sampson, daughter of her experienced commander, and is intended to ply be tween New York and St. Thomas, calling at Bermuda ‘The Curlew in the second iron steamer built for the samc line, and will prove a fit companion for the Petrel, Ospray and’Falcon, vessels built at Port Glasgow aud leceatiock! This line of steamers, once owned by a joint proprietary | hhas recently become the sole property of the ion. Mr Cunard, who has, we understand, contracted with thd distinguished builders of the Curlew for several more iror| serow steamers. The length of the Curlew is over all 201 feet, keel and forerake 186 feet, breadth of beam 25 feet depth moulded 16 feet, with full poop and ports. She i to be fitted with engines of 90 horse power, by Messrs. Tul loch & Denny, and it is expected that she will be farnish| ed and ready'to go to sea in about. four weeks, ‘The.Cur lew took the water in capital style, amidst the roaring o cannon, and the hearty cheering, of the workmen, why hailed her as another triumph of naval architecture fron the Leven. She was speedily moored at the large crane where her engines will be put on board.—Soetch Paper. The Curlew is expected to arrive here about the Ist o| November, and will sail monthly between this city, Bel mua and St. Thomas. LatNcms.—A three-masted schooser, of 600 tons buy then, called the Old Dominion, was launch tl yard of Crowell & Colon a Elizabethport, 12th of October. Mer dimensions ure 125 feet keel, 30 beam, and 103; feet deck, with » single deck. She belo o the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, of New Yori There will be another sehooner Taunched from the san ard, by the same company, in a few days, of 350 bu en, to be called the Music. Mg Court Calendar—This Day. ‘Ustrep Stares Dismuer Court.—Criminal business. Scr Covrt—General Term.—Non enumerated mq tions. Sorraaz Court—Cireuit.—Nos. 1,154, 872, 1,217, to 270, on Pixas—Part Firat.—Nos. 119, 559, 810, 813, 814, 815, 817, 819, 820, 822 to 820,’ Part, Sina Nos. 648, 793, 794, 797 to 800, 802 to 609, 10044. Sormion, over (Iwo Hranches.)—Nos. 46, 296, 29 302, 303, 804, 406, 808, 313, 315, 817, 818, 394, 82 827, 831, 14.’ 32, "79, 109, '77, "04, 885, 336, 338, 340) 3 B44; 345, 346, 247, 349, 350, 352, 383, 355, running from pot is only. York daily to Upper Morrisania. Th two minutes walk from this property, and Comamutation is only $35 per yeur, being lave thay’ anys onte in this city. Mo: id ia One of the moet. delighted Villages in the vicinity of New York, commanding a fine vie of the surrounding country, and tho streets are opened an graded free of expense. ‘Ihe sale is without reserve to sf highest bidder, to close ® concern, and the title is indispu Die, Seventy-nve per cent of the purchase money can rem: on bond and mortgage for ti purchases under $100, wl monthly instalment lots of gro i ¢ train of the Harlem railroad, sto 2e at re +1 ff aepehD and free Se with Leryn aps, and full particulars, can Le obti mt Auctioneer, Nov40 Wall atrects * “vesined at the olive of Anson’s Daguerreotypes, Large Size, 50 cents.—These are colored and in & nice morooco. o lined with velvet, and warranted oqual in quality and size thore ‘which cost $2 and $3 elsewhere, “Remember, at A SON'S, 589 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel. 400 Daguerreotypes are now daily ta! and sold to the people, for the small price of 25 cen Portraits of the first quality, and not execlied by any whid are taken at higher pri TREES & CO., 280 Broadway, Remarkable st.—We Hear That W: rants are likely to be issued for the arrest of » inost, expel counterfeiter, no less aman than the great counterfeiter nature, ROOT, the daguerreotypist, No. 363 Broadway. offence is, making the most correct ‘aud beautiful pictures the world. Call and see his inimitable counterteits, the ve picturesfof reality. Mezzo; or Daguerreot; jon Pap —Farticular attention is oslled to this new foature in the di now taken at GURNEY’S mi allery, 349 Bi corner Leonard si road wi style cf colored daguerreotypes, Woenderfual If §0.—The fall style of genti men’s bats, sold by RAFFERTY & LEASK, at tho iow pri yf $3 nnd $4, Call and get of bors, and on the corn ‘Wholesale Hat and Cap Establishment. The undereigned has on hand a large stock of hate, caps, fu sud buffalo robes, which be will sell by the aso, dozen, otherwise, at very low prices, jh. Would do well teenie om OF Oh, POTS 212 Greenwich street, noar Vesey. Fashionable Hats.—The Season Advance: admonisi that the days of summer hats are ended 0: tractive to gentlemen, and proof against fs re tidions cavil WARNOCI Hatters, 275 Broadway, Irving House. White Hats have had their Day. The t giving way to KNOX’S new and clezant fi . By the way, have you yet seen Knox's fi fyou hayo not, stand not upon the order of yo going, but go at onve to see. They are beautifal, exceeding! and magnificent in every re Every kperson Who wish to be regarded as 9 man of should certainly lose no tint in paying a visit to KNOX’S establishmont, 125 Fulton st. Crowding in for Winter Clothing.—Unio Hall is in of sioge, Centrally vitnated, and colnbrat every whero for elegant, faithfully lothing, it is point of tion for yisiters from al ong of the cou jexation of the prices a Union Hall is Union Mall, try. 1 t of Fulton a m rovorb everywhere, Raveau streets. Large and Well Selec assortment of fashic Ne fall ana winter clothing at all ttm fialtyathar Scie etune rates a Je to order: re ESTORTER's clothing «1 ablishmont, 27 Cortland street. Deser tion.—The cheapest p! 18 wity to get good boots a shoes, patent her boots, and five calf cork sole and wy terproof, iv at 675 Broadway, and 1 Fulton stroot, Miller & Co.’s Ladies’ and Children’s $i aud slippers, gaitere, india rubbers, &e,, are the talk of the ladies now, ‘Thelr shoes ate of tho best quali wade; their slippers of the best kid and morooe: gniters the h cn nal street, ACard.—The Sabseribor will recetve ne ja daily this week, for ima! ‘tion in the art of penm: Ms and Infokkeching. Ladios inss daily at 4 o'olook P Frivate instruction ¢ hing the day fod ovening. OLIVER B. GOLDSSITH, No, Sod Broadway, 'To those who want Printing.—Gordon’| aN) stroot, is the neatest and cheapest establichmol in the elty, Circulars, bw short notice aud low pr Comb Factory, 387 Eivondway.—The lat styles of tortoise well and riety in much ereater the Fare revpectfully invited t >