The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT: PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, AILY HERALD 2 conta per copy—S7 per annum. p THE WEEKLY HERALD every Saterday at. %4 cents er or $8 per cnnum; the European Edition $4 per an Fem fo any part of Great Britain, and $0 €2 any part of the Continent Wuih totnclude pontage. TERMS crsh in dence ALL LETTERS by mail for Subscriptions, or with Adver. Bisements tv be post paid, or the posiage will be de-ucted rom eney remilted. OUTENTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor. fant news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if wied wil! rally paid for. KA- UR FORKGN CORRESPONDENTS ARK PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL Lerr ERS AND Pacuaoes srt vs aa ‘ ‘NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We do not return those re ected. No. 303 Volume XVIII.. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW SVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory—Kunnetu—Den Fany- aeurz. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—RichaRo Ill.—My Youn Wirk asp My Ory Unn earns. 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SIGNOR BLITZ—Srovvesawr [xstirvre, 659 Brondway, CHINESE ROOMS, 589 Broadway—Perxaw’s Got Exm- Bitton oF THs Sever Mie Minnon, POWELL’S GREAT NATIONAL PAINTING ron rex GorrRxwEnT ts Now OPEN aT THE N TIONAL ACADEMY or Dasicy, 663 BRoapway. New York, Sunday, October 30, 1853. The News, The mails of the Niagara, from Boston, were de- livered in this city yesterday morning, and the steamship Hermann, from Bremen and Southamp- ton, arrived at this port a few hours afterwards, thus completing our files of European journals to the 15th wst. The chief points of the news had been for- warded by télegraph from Halifax, and previously published; however, we give today some details of interest. It will be seen that the semi-official organ of the Austrian government at Vienna labors hard to prove that the Imperial Cabimet has fully sus- ‘tained its dignity in the Koszta arrest and release hegotia‘ions. A Russian guuboat flotilla organized for operations in the Danube had proved a failure owing to the roughress of the water. Letters from the American missionaries in Oroomia—frontier ot Persia—represent the population as being most hos- tile to the Turks. We publish an accurate deserip- tion of the local points of the war theatre, witha biographical sketch of Omer Pasha The British ship Annie Jane, from Liverpool for Quebec, was recently wrecked upon the iron-bound eoast of Banna island, Scotland, and three hundred and forty persons perished. From Englan¢, we have the opizion of Mr. Cobden upon the war question, and a notice of curious pho:0- graphic frauds upon the Bank at London. The steamer Calcutta, at Trieste, brought home farther military, commercial, and revolutionary news from India and China. The Persians had entered Herat. The Merlin, from St. Thomas October 19th, and Bermuia 23d, arrived last evening. The epidemic was abating at Saint George’s. A mercantile project was on foot for the building of a clipper, tobe manned by native Bermudians, and trade between New York and that place. The health of the people at St. Thomas is represented as excellent, and the weather fine. ‘The information contained in our special and other despatches from Washiogton this morning possesses considerable interest. It is said that Hon. John Wheeler, of this city, called upon the President yes- terday, but whether he succeeded in enlightesing Gen, Pierce with regard to the peculiar position of political parties in this State future events must make manifest. The rumor that the President positively refused to accede to the dismissal of Marshal Hillyer, for the reason that he deemed him a proper officer to enforce the provisions of the Fogitive Slave law, and also that he had writtena conciliatory letter to District Attorney O’Conor, seems to warrant, the impression that the chiet magistrate is becoming aware of the free soil mashinations that have been brought to bear against thore who sre struggling to uphold the true interests of the conntry. The interference of the Cabinet in the dispute among the New York democrats has given to the aflair an importance that causes it to be almost everywhere viewed in the light of a national issue, and the removal of Judge Bronaéti fri the Collec torship has imparted a gloomy tinge to the subject that will not be easily erased. This sectional feud is being discussed, proand’con, with unusual acrimony, by the national party on the one side and the free soilers and secessionists on the other, throughout the entire country. All other local issues seem to have been submerged by the contest between the rival sections of the democracy inthis State. Tae Union still continues to advocate the cause of the free soiler; but that Joursal is fast losing caste, both for ability and reliability. What it to-day promul- gates as sound democratic doctrine, it one year ago repudiated in the most direct terms, as will be seen by the -quotations made from its own columns by our special correspon dent. Even the Richmond Enquirer, strongly dis- posed as it has been to side with the Cabinet, de Dounces the removal of Mr Brougon, and openly de- clares that the administration bave leagued “ with men who will betray them and the South.” Some of the Washington papers are inclined tuthe helief that the curious rumors relative to the inten tion of Great Britain to Africanize Cuba are well week was 397, showing a decrease of 36 on the mor | the Greek Church, the Church of Rome, and nu- | trading for offices, comprom'sing principte for a tality of the previous week. Of these, 60 were cansed by consumption, 44 by convulsions, 16 by croup, 13 by dropsy in the heal, 12 by typbus fever, 16 by in- flammation of the lungs, 15 by marasmus, and 14 by smallpox. There were six cases of premature birth, and 26 of still-born. Of the deceased, 127 were un- er one year, and 280 under ten years of age; 246 were natives of the United States, 88 of Ireland, 21 of England, and 31 of Germany. In the Superior Court, yesterday, Judge Duer gave his decisiow in the Broadway Railroad case, a tolera- bly full report of which will be found in another column. It is seldom that we are able to embraee within the information as is presented to our readers to-day, as will be seen by the arnexed list of a portion of the the meeting of British officers from the East and Weet on the ice; Description of an Extraordinary Interview between Judge Edmonds and the Spirits; Circuit Court, relative to the destruction of the steamboat Henry Clay; Leeture by Dr. the Poets of the Nineteenth Century; Meetiog to provide aid for Yale College; Particulars concerning the Gold Washing Aqueducts in California; Reli- gious, Commercial, aud Miscellaneous News, &e. Judge Edmonds and his New Christianity. By reference to another part of this day’s our corps to Judge Edmonds, in the very #anc- tuary of his new religion. It is a full and com- plete account of one of the most curious inter- views that ever took place in this sublunary sphere-—highly interesting to those who have not yet read the wonderful work of the Judge, as affording a complete and lucid synopsis of his views, and equally interesting to those who have perused it, as supplying a key to un- ravel its deepest mysteries and throw a flood of light on what might otherwise appear inex- plicable. Whenever anything great is about to come to light on the earth, the world is thrown into confusion. This is more particularly the case in reference to a new religion. At present. the world, both here and in the old country, is con- vulsed with political agitation. In the United States we have the great democratic party completely disorganized, and tossed to and fro in astate of “confusion worse confounded.” It is rent into two or three factions, each waging a war of extermination against the other; and clouds and darkness rest upon the result. The dry bones of the lately defunct whig party are raitling as they are waked into life, while the anti-slavery principle is hourly gathering strength, and new combinations are forming from the chaotic mass of elements continually thrown to the suriace. In Europe. the great Powers are embarked on asen of diplomacy, without a chart or compass to guide them, and the air is rife with reports of wars and rumors of wars between Russia and Turkey, which may involye all the other nations; while at the same time the revolution- ary elemeats are working and upheaying like a volcano, and only yraiting for the general mé/ée, to vomit forth flames, and einders, and ashes. and death, and the darkest confusion. What the end will be no one knows. It is at this favorable juncture that Judge Edmonds is about to introduce his new creed. It was co at the Christian era. When the gos- pel was introdaced into the Roman empire, the greatest disorder and confusion prevailed. In the bresking up of old systems aud old ideas, the new religion was sown in the fallow of ages—it grew and prospered, and brought forth fruit abundantly. In the same way the great expounder of the latest system of religion ex- pects it to extend all over the land, small, in- deed, in its beginnings, like the grain of mus- tard seed, sown in darkness, but growing up by degrees into @ great tree, spreading out its branches in all directions, affording a shadow from the sun by day, and shelter for the birds of the air by night. Judge Edmonds estimates from actual observation, that there are already in this city thirty thousand spiritualists, and in the United States upwards of a million; and there are not merely the uneducated, but the htened and the elevated—men of high social, political aad professional standing; not the poor, plodding laborer and unpretentious mechanic, but the wealthy. the scholars, the philosophers, the divines, the merchants, the fashionable socioty. But not only in this coun- try, but in Europe and Asia, ds was predicted by the spirits to Judge Edmonds, has the new idea been progressing. progress here, but had not made any signal ad- | vance in public, because no man of eminence or inction had come out and avowed himself itschampion. But fromthe moment that Judge Edmonds, who was at first opposed to it, declar- ed himself a convert, a tremendous impetas was given to it. The effect upon the progress of Christianity produced by the miraculous conversion of Saul of Tarus, the perseeutor, into Paul the Apostle. of the same creed, was not more remarkable than the effect produced on spiritualism by the conversion of Judge Ed- monds, from being & sceptic. into the great apostle of the faith which is to supersede the New Testament, as ihe New Testament super- ceded the Old. How will the momentum of the new idea be increased when the circles are all organized into churches, with the Judge as the chief bithop and spiritual centre, from which will radiate the light of the spheres in all di- rections ! There is another striking resemblance be- tween the Christian epoch and the present founded, for the reason that no Englich ye-sel of war has been seen in the vicinity of the island for two months, and that vessels loaded with negroes are *antly landing their cargoes without mole tation. Suer The ‘political complexion of the next Legisiatare of Ohio will be as follows:— Denceraia, Whigs, Pree Sellers. ae. ae a 9 Motel yor Will il —giving the democrats a clear majority of sixty-one on joint ballot over a combined vote of both the bs Charleston we flearn that the cotton growing re, were visited by a severe frost Inst Sistas, Stich ied the plants, and will therefore cause @ material diminution in the crop. ‘A large number of maritime disasters are again recorded in our shipping and telegraphic columns today. Nothing has been heard from the steam tow-boat Ajax since the storm of Mondey last, and fears are entertained that she has experieneed some serious calamity. | Our Jast advices from the Gut of Canso ansonnce that about one hundred American fishing vessels were in the pursuit of a large shoal of mackerel in that vicinity, thereby encroaching upon the alleged rights of the colonista, Asa consequence, Adairal Seymour has ordered H. B. M. steamer Bonito to proceed to the neighborhood t» protect the interests of the colonial fishermen. ‘The number of deaths in this city during the + at time, which is equally favorable to the propa- gation of the doctrines of Jadge Edmonds. When the Gospel of the Nazarene was pro- potinded to the Jews, there wes nothing lef’ 7 i he of religion among them but its To. His ao now in the United States. The Jews attende4 regularly at the synagogue, worshipped ¢ stantly in the Temple, and were very par lar in their ceremonies. But the life of: was wanting. They made clean the the cup and platter, whilst inside * were filled with impurities. T Christianity denounced them chres,” with fair externale all uncleamness, They to their clergy, but th er matters of the ° cy. The pager on- sticu- celigion outside of shese vessels -he Founder of . &s “whited sepul- » but within full of paid tithes punctaally J neglected the weighti- «@w--truth, justice, and mer- _@ religion was s«tili more a reli- — tif, formalisms. It had ceremonies Withers o7.4—aut it had no vitality. It was a dead Wody,, withont a oul. At this juncture Christ a 44 his apostles proclaimed the new re- ligion, wisich speedily revolutionised not only Jude, tut the whole Reman empire. Its most SUC cecsful preacher was St. Paul. It flourished sd spread, and came out victorious through ten persecutions. At length its sublime sim- plicity beeame corrupted, and it in turn became a religion of forms; and disputes arose about mere words, from which sprung Arianism, and tional eourse of conduct. columns of one paper such an immense variety of contents :—Full details of the Discovery of the | Northwest Passage, including a thrilling account of | Report of the Investigation in the United States Holmes on | paper, will be found a report of a visit of one of judges of the land—the very first circles of | It was making silent | | merous schisms. The spirit of Christianity was i almost lost. The dark ages followed ; ceremo- nies were increased and waltiplicd; but religion itself was nowhere to be found. | Amidst this reign of ceremonies, Luther and the other reformers arose and preached a spi- ritual religion, which had life and pith in it, and was everywhere successful, producing even | civil revolutions throughout Europe, and up- | turning the existing order of things. This | Wonderful effect was produced because the papal church had become the slave of forms and had lost its vital power. In process of time the reformed churches relapsed into formalism again, when Fox started Quakerism and Wes- ley and Whitfield established Methodism. Both religions were more spiritual than the churches from which they emanated, and from which they took so many converts, Their founders despised forms, and cultivated religion in the soul. They were accordingly successful in aneminent degree. In recent years, how- | ever, these Protestant sects, together with all others, have become as formal as their prede- cessor, and the people are sick of them. Out of twenty-five millions of inhabitants in the United States, Judge Edmonds calculates that not more than four or five millions attend any place of worship, and out of the population of New York city four hundred thonsand never go to church, while of the remainder, who do go, there is not one in every hundred that regards pub- lic worship in any other light than as a matter of form, Hence it is that every religious novelty thrives, for men aré ready to give atrial to anything new, in the hope that it may prove better than the old. It was thus that Joe Smith wassuccessful in establishing Mormonism. And .| now, Judge Edmonds, who is an able and far more learned man. and who seeks to establish a better religion, will succeed to,a far greater extent. In point of legal and general erndi- tion, and knowledge of languages, the Judge is equal to St. Paul. There is another reason why the labors of the Mormon prophet are not crowned with more extensive success, He did not make his reli- gion sufiiciently spiritual. He permitted the existence of polygamy, and his followers to have wives at will. Judge Edmonds, on the contrary, having lost his wife, does not intend to take another, and he is opposed to all licen- tiousness and indulgence of the flesh. He be- lieves that even in this life, by abstinence, the soul becomes purified, elevated, and capable of “second sight.” A time of luxury is favorable for the reception of a. spiritual religion. The Jews and Romans were wallowing in all sorts of voluptuousness when Christianity was intro- duced. It was the same in the Romish Church when the fire of the reformation was kindled. It was so in the established Church of England when Wesleyism arose. It is so now, in our own day, when we find luxary and seasuality in every shape and form usurping the place of the simplicity and frugality of our ancestors. This, therefore, is the time for the new reli- gion. We know not yet what it may be called. Judge Edmonds calls it spiritualism. We call it a new Christianity. All other sects may look out. Their days are numbered. The new religion will absorb and swallow up Methodism, Quakerism, Shakerism. Baptism, Congregation- alism, Episcopalism, Millerism, Socialism, and all other isms, embracing even Women’s Righis. All will go, exeept the religion of Bishop Hughes, which is built upon a rock, and, there- fore, even the spirits, whether they are black spirits, white spirits. or gray, or their medi- ums, including Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and the Fish girls, caunot prevail against it. | | Tae Junius Lerrer anp THE Oapipat.— There is yet another reason why we believe the letter signed “Junius” to be the production of Mr. Marcy. It is essentially the performance of a country lawyer, a special pleader, who, in | his anxiety to grasp at straws. seize hairs, and | draw distinctions and inferences from trivial and incidental points. entirely loses sight of the main question, and drifts miles away from the real issue. The squabbles that have been geing | on in this State, between hunkers and bara- | burners, hard shells and soft shells, silver grays | and woolley heads, are, one and all of them, utterly contemptible in the eyes of right think- ing men—mere petty scrambles for plunder, with which politicians of standing and charac- | ter ought to be ashamed to connect their names. The only tangible question in cotemporaneous politics is whether the administration sill or shall not be allowed to recognize the Van Buren traitors of 1848—the men who tried to overthrow the Union by their free soil develope- ments—as the true friends of the country and the ruling political party: and whether Gen. | Pierce’s cabinet, which was raised to power by | the Union sentiment, shall or shall not be saf- | fered to trample that sentiment under foot on | their very entrance into Washington, and to re- | ward with the State spoils the traitors who se nearly plunged this country into a vortex of misery and strife, These are questions which are well caleu- lated to occupy the mind of every leading statesman, These are the only points towards which he can direct his attention with any prospect of profit to his country or honor to himself. The points which Mr, Marcy dis- cusses are utterly beneath notice, If it be true, as he states, that the hunkers and barn- burners have been spending the last for. ; five years in attempts to bring abo i ut between men of opposite fpr Pratip\es for the sole as pci =< viections and dividing execratea «+ Parties richly deserve to be r -« by all honest men as factions that would degrade our national politics into a shameful game at huckstering the public offices. We care not a button for Bronson, share of spoils, and accustoming oneself to trade one’s own prejudices against those of a rival whose alliance it is necessary to secure, have ere this reduced Marcy and the rest of his confréres to the condition of mere political ped-. lars, under whose direction, were it to last, the destiny of this country would be obvious ruin. No such fate is, we are convinced, in store for us. The Marcy tribe are working out their own defeat. A little more rope, and they will undoubtedly succeed in arousing the country, and provoking the establishment, on new prin- ciples and a new basis, of a national party, whjch will absorb all existing organizations, and scatter the present office-jobbers and con- vention-makers like chaff before the wind. INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARcTIC REGIoys— Discovery or THE Nortawrst Passace—Our previous despatches from England informed us of the arrival there of Commander Inglefield, of the ship Phoenix, from the Arctic regions, reporting the safety of the ship Investigator, Capt. McClure, concerning which much appre- hension had been entertained, and of the dis- covery of the long sought for Northwest Pas- sage. The journals received from London by the Asia had not contained any details of the important intelligence, but those brought by the Niagara furnish us with all the particulars, and we are thus enabled to present to our readers this morning the highly interesting ac- counts brought by Commander Inglefield from the Franklin Rxnedition, No trace had been discovered on any side of the missing navigators, and the hope which had hitherto animated the gallant and devoted men who had braved the perils and hardships of a life in the Arctic regions, was now almost ex- tinct. Thus the primary object of the expedi- tion had failed of accomplishment. The secondary object had, however, been at- tained: that is, the discovery of an en- trance into Barrow’s Strait, which estab- lishes the existence of a Northwest Passage between the two great oceans. This discovery was effected by Captain McClure, of the Investi- gator, on the 26th of October, 1852, in north latitude 73 deg. 80 min., and west longitude 114 deg. 14min. On the 24th of September previously the Investigator had been hemmed in by ice about twenty or thirty miles further north, and so remained up to the time when Commodore Inglefield left ; and it was by means ofarecord left bya party from the ship ata place called Winter Harbor in the following April that the fate of the ship had become known to the rest of the squadron. Captain McClure’s discovery settles a geographical problem ; but further than that it can be of no practical use, the passage being blocked up with ice and impracticable to navigation. Among the Arctic curiosities noticed in the ex- plorations of this gallant officer were smoking hillocks, voleanoes on a small scale, and a petri- fied forest. He was also informed of the ex- istence ofan extensive coal mine twenty-five miles in the interior. The extracts which we give to-day—including anaccount of the unexpected meeting of the English officers on the ice, and the loss of the British ship Breadalbane—will be found posses- Beardsley, or O’Conor on the one side, or for Marcy, Seymour. and Van Buren on the other. Our solicitude is confined to and engrossed by the all absorbing problem mentioned above, on solution of which the existence of the Union may possibly, and its peace must certainly de- pend. While thisis pending, we cannot follow Mr. Marcy in his elaborate account of attempts to induce rival factions to coalesce for the sake of plunder, or even spend time in showing how so upprincipled a policy has led to’ where it could not but lead—the utter prostration and disintegration of all political parties in this State. Suffice it to say that such has been the case. There is not, in the whole of this State, a single one of the old parties that can boast of a vigor- ous corporate existence or @ substantial organi- zation. All are tottering. and hopelessly rot- ten. heir leaders are known and admitted to be men of small minds and narrow views; we can hardly mention one on whom the people could rely. in an hour of emergency, for en- larged statesmanlike opinions, and a noble na- Bargaining and sed of a most intense and thrilling interest to our readers, Rawwway Inetuence iy New Jursuy.—The coming election in New Jersey presents some novel features and characteristics. It will bea contest about the influence of railroads in that State. It seems the democratic party is in some way identified with the railroad influence, and the whig party is opposed to the railroad monopoly. This is verified to a great extent, but is not yet fully known to the public. Rail- road influence in politics is beginning to be felt throughout the country in the different State elections. Formerly the bauk influence pre- vailed to a most enormous degree in all elec- tions and in all State Legislatures. Now, the railroad influence seems to have succceded to that ef the bank, particularly since the latter was broken up by the general system of bank- ing, authorizing any one who chooses to em- bark in the business. We have no doubt but that in due process of time the railroad influence will be broken up in the same way as that of the bank has been. That is to say, State Legislatures will pass a general law authorizing any association of men who choose to construct a railway. The firat absolute contest on the subject of railroad in- fluence takes place therefore in New Jersey, and will be, on that account, watched with some interest. ine F. NAT THE Horers.—aAll the first class hotels of the city are now more than usually attractive, by the great numbers of beaatiful, fashionable, and intellectual ladies, who are congregated in them from the South, from the West, and from the East. A large proportion of these ladies. too, have just returned from the Buropear tour, and elicit envy and admiration from their circles of listeners in giving aceounts of their travels on the Continent, and of their introduction to kings, and qucens, and nobles, and Jitterateurs there. The most fashionable kotels, and those most graced by magnificent women. are the St, Nicholas, the Metropolitan, and the Néw York, in each of which there is every night asort of splendid conversational ~ soirée. Tue Mare Liquor Law.—Among the din of the approaching elections, very little is said on the question of the Maine Liquor law, but, not- withstanding. there is a good deal doing on both sides. The temperance men are busy endeavor- ing to elect a majority in the next Legislature favorable to their views, taken from all parties, and from all factions. The anti-temperance people, or liquor dealers, are also very busy on their side to prevent that result. We rather think it will be a close contest, although not a noisy one. Both parties are struggling very hard, but privately, to carry their men, but the liquor dealers seem to have the most money, the most tact. and the greatest influence; yet they may be defeated. Marine Affairs. DePaRntUne OF THE ATLANTIC.—The U. S$. Mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, left yesterday at her nsual hour for Liverpool, with about a bundred passengers and $409,397 in epecie. Tan Missing Steam Teo Asax.—Captain Churchill, of the schooner Kossuth, from Newburyport, avri esterday morning, reports, on Monday morning 24th, tween 9 and 10 o’cleek, two miles east of Pollock's Reef lighthoat, spoke steamtug Ajax, from Sew York for Bos- ton, blowing very heavy at the time from ENE, with a very heavyron, ‘The A appeared to be very deep in the water, and had & strong list to etarboa'd. She wan t 70 miles from a harbor, and Capt © gives it as his 0; ion that she foundered that night, as it blew a» tremenc ouagele {rom SE. The Kosenth put iato Haynnis that night for a harbor. : Our telegraphic despatch from Boston of 28th, reports her as being seen off Chatham that afternoon, and from the fact of her passing that harbor it is fair to suppose those on board did not apprebend any serious or imme diate danger But, as Capt. C. ways, it View @ violent gele that night, City Politics. MEETING ©F THE VAN BURENITES, OR FREE SOIL DEMOCKATS. An adjourned meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Union Club was held last night at the Club Rooms, in Broadway. The announcement that this was very im- portant meeting was suilicient to call together about twenty-five young men, who were presided over by the President, John Cochrane, Eaq. The committee appointed to prepare a statement setting forth the causes of the split in the party was called upon to report. ‘They did this by reading a document remark- able for its length, which teemed with denunciations of Messrs. Bronson, O’Conor and Brady, and the national democrats generally. The reading of this billious paper occupied about an hour and a half, At its close a motion was made to refer it back to the committee to abreviate for the public press, which was carried, After some turther uaimportant business, the meeting adjourned, FREE SOIL SENATORIAL CONVENTION. Last night the delegates from the different wards con- atituting the Sixth Senatorial district of the free soil democratic party met at Union Hall, at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-secend street. The meeting having organized by electing Edmund 4. Miller as chairman, James P. Fagan and William P. Valen- tine as secretaries, a letter was read from the candidate already nominated, Wilson G. Hunt, declining to be put forward. Edward Cooper, son of the well-known politi- cal reformer and merchant, Peter Cooper, Esq., was then unanimously nominated as free soil candidate for the Sixth Senatorial district, and accepted the offer of being the candidate of the party. A committee, eonsisting of the following : William P. Valentine, Joseph Westerfield, Michael Cox, H. W. Ryers Benjamin Fairchild, John F, Ropes, Reuben Cornell, David Wood, and James P. Fagan, was constituted to ar- range the place and time of holding « ratification meeting. ‘THE ELEVENTH WARD ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE, Mr. Valentine, the free soil candidate for Assemblyman n the Eleventh ward. declined last night, at mopting of he party, to be put in nomination, and Colonel Joshua A, Fleet was nominated in his place, CITY REFORM. The City Reform A%sociation on Thursday evening nominated Judges Duer gnd Emmet for the Superior Court, Judge Daley for the Common Pleas, and Mr. Blunt, District Attorney, for the office he how fills: It was resolved not to nominate a full judicial ticket, but only to recommend for support those now inoffice. A general mass meeting of all those friendly to city reform isto be held at Metropolitan Hall to-morrow (Monday) evening, at half-past seven o’elock. It is supposed the meeting will be a large one. The city reformers seem the most industrious party now in the field. THE REMOVAL OF MR. BRONSON. To-morrow afternoon, at three o’clock, the merchants of this city hold a, meeting to express thelr sentiments respecting the removal of Collector Bronson. Not one merchant ina hundred can or will approve of this act of the administration. To-morrow we will publish a list of the gentlemen who sigued the call for the meeting. City Intelligence. Fing.—Early yesterday morning. between 2and 3 o'clock, fire broke out in the store of Thomas Prendergast, No. 7t West Eighteenth street, the flames spreading with great rapidity, and ommunicating to Nos. 76, 79 and $1 in the same street, by which the roofs and upper floors of the houses were destroyed. They were occupied by a large number of poor familie. The district bells aro said to have beon very slow in giving the alarm, and in conse- quence the Gre engines were not so promptly on the ground as they would otherwise have been. This is the account given by the police; but one would imagine that even although the fire bells did not ring the officers on duty in the vicinity would have been aware of the circum stance, and could have given the alarm without waiting for the fire bells, In such emergencies it is every body’s duty to be prompt. Mrtancnory DraTa or Mr. Scrrer, Carer Excrvegr oF mmSreaser Meruix,—A shocking aecident, which resulted in the death of Mr. Sutter, chief engineer of the British steamer Merlin, occurred, Saturday morning, on board that vessel as she was entering port from Bermuda and St. Thomas, occasioned by the bursting of acannon, Mr. Sutter was engaged in firing acarncn fora pilot, when the piece exploded, a portion striking him on the head and scattering his brains over the deck. He died at nine o'clock. Mr S. waa very promising and intelligent young man. Rey Over.—On Friday morning a hoy, the son of Pa- trick Larkin, residing at No 109 Mulberry street, was run over by a wagon belonging to Michael Lynch, grocer, No. 581 Granc street. He was taken home to his pareats by one of the police. Revrianty Taratitevt —A poor boy, without parents or home, whose name is supposed to be Joseph Stanley, about fourteen or fliiteen years of ege, was fuund on Friday ef. terncon, at the corner 0’ avenue C Thirteenth street, insensi on the sidewalk. Dr. Prince was called in by the poli fo attend to him, and he recommended that the boy should be conveyed ‘to the City Hospital, which was done. According to the boy’s statement, aa far as could be made out, he was knocked down by some men in the avenue without sny provocation. The boy gets his living wo believe, by gathering chips of wood about the shipyards, AN Owner Wantrn.—On Friday officer Green, of the Fifth ward, was called upon to arrest a man wbo gare his name ak George Van Ness, a German, at the jewelry store of Mr. Seribuer, 805 Broadway, where he had been detected in the act of tatinga pair of earrings, Mr. Scribner refused to accompany the officer to make com: plaint, whereupon Green searched the man, and found about’ him two new gold chaias, evidently’ taken from some other stores. One was a heavy curb vest chain, with a snake’s bead, the other a light lady’s guard curb chin. In bringing him to the station house he slipped away from the oflicer, and, throwing off his coat and hat, food his escape. The owner of the chains may ob! tain them by calling on Captain Carpenter, of the Fifth ward, at the station house, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The eubjoined langnal ‘as comprised in a paragraph published in the Hunan, on the 29d ult,:-— Much scandal was created at the last meeting of the Aca- demy of Seience by the reading of a pamphlet, sent by Mr. Hare, ef Philadelphia, relative to the would be” 5 of mch acade yn the nature and cause: Tt appoare that Me. Hare, with the moat sneering temptuons language, has even forrotten to prefix the usual Mr. to the nam’s of the savants of Paris ho mentioned. ‘The members of the French Academy whom he names are Messrs, Arago, Espy, Pouillet, Peltier and Babinet, who are, in Mr. Hare's opinion, the most ignorant jackasses in the world, I would say that the scfinéal was fo lowed by a general burst of laughter from the whole audience. I beg leave to correct the erroneous impression which this paragraph may create. Far from mentioning the members of the Acad: my opprobriously, I mentioned them as sagacious, learned and ingenious, alluding to Arago as one of the most distinguished electricians of Europe. 1 did allege ignorance to exist in the Academy on the subject of tornadoes, quoting,their opinions and conflicting reports: in proof of the allegation. I most troly urged that under the au of the Academy, or of their President, the celebrated Arago, within less than two yous two reports had been made diametrically oppo- site in their conclusions. Agreeably to one, my explana- tion of tornades was adopted, without any acknowlecg- ment to its origmator, and certain insarers were in con- sequence ebliged to pay for the damage done nd a tornado as an electrical storm; agreeably to the other report, Espy’s hypothesis was sanctioned, ascribing such meteors to heat evolved by con’ensing moisture. It follows, that were the one report, correct fajustion was done: to the in- surers; were the other report correct, injustice was dono to science. Should any scandal arise, as alleged, from the publication of there facts, it must attach to those who in- volved themselves in this dilemma, not upon the fair and fearless exposure of the inconsisteney. J will bere quote fiom my pamphlet some lines in ‘which T define’ iny pretensions — “To conclude, have submitted to the scientifle world a memoir in which the tornado is shown to bear the same relation to lightning that the carrying discharge does to the electric spark; and I claim to be the first electrician thatever pointed out this simple and true relation be- tween thore awful meteors, ‘I maintain that the reports and precee¢ings of the French academicians prove that they were entirely unprepared for thiz view of the subject; and that. notwithstanding Peltior’s report on the tornado at Chatenay, under the sanction of Arago, virtu ally confirming ms inferences, they remained five years efterwards in utter darkness respecting tornadoes.” To there affirmations, quoted nearly in the words in which they appeared in the English edition of my me- moir, I will add that I confiden ly anticipate that the time will come whem the wonder will be, not that an American should have first divcovered the relation bo tween th adoand lightning—not that this relation should hi scaped the notice of the illustrious Academic des Sciences—but that it could have been ovezlooked by any clever electrician. there need be no better evidence, as respects the lan- guage which I held towards the academicians, the writer of the paragraph was unduly sensitive, than his considerir g the omission of the hackneved title ‘‘ Mr.”’ as indicating disrespect—forgetting that in the case of emi nent statesmen, warriors, savans, and artists, this omis- sion im, hat the name alone isa sufficient distinc- tion. The author seems much more solicitous about the deferential treatment, of foreign savans by American profesrors, than for the decorous treatment of American professors by newspaper correspondents. DR. HARE, Severe Storm 1n Boston—The | ther of yesterday morning settled down last one of the everest rain storms of this year. commenced to fall heavily about five o'clock. and con- tinued to come down in +heets till about four o'clock this morning, the wind blowing a gale from the N. N. E. avd 8. E. There was a single flash of hghtning about nine o'clock. The streets were flooded with water, and per- sons who were out suffered severely. Awnings were tora in pieces, windows of skylights blown off, and other damage done, The soutliern telegraph lines were broken down, ud no messages were received during the night. ‘The trick end of the new wire factory in South Boston was entirely blown out and prostrated by the heavy wind last evening. Fortunately there were but fow vessels io the bay, nor on the coast, so far as we can learn, and conrequen'ly there is bat 'one disasters recorded im our marice department. The Y'raveller learun that the new schooner sary Hart, belonging to Harwich Cape Cod, which struck on Avery’s Rock on the 7th instant, and Dilged, floated off yesterday afterncon, and was towed into Rockport. The rtorm was very severe, and the wind blew a hurricane, for several hours, at Gloucester aud Rockport laet night. About one hundred sail of vessels put in to Gloucester, ‘There has been no dainage done or vessels wrecked, so far as heard from, at Cape Ann —Bos- ton 7 Get. 25. Police Intelligence. AN EXTENSIVE CHARGE OF FOR@ERY—FIVE TITOU< SAND DOLLARS OBTAINED—ARBMEST OF THE ACy CUSED PARTY. Before Justice Stuart. Yesterday officers Devos and Masterson, two of the chief's special aids, conveyed before Justice Stuart re- apectadle looking man, named Daniel W. Van"Aerman, om suspicion of being concerned in thé forgery of a side draft for five thousand dollars, purporting te be made by the cashier of the Hamilton Exchange Bank at sere county, Now York State, ‘This drafter ected Montreal, by Mr. A. Greer, at the branch of the Bank of situated ‘at Bradford, Canada West. The following is copy of the forged draft :— Cooe ecole SOC CO90S99SO CORD ‘Hasmron Excuance BANE, Humuton, Madison Ce., N. ¥., Oot. 1, 1858. @ 600. Mie to the order of D. W. Van Aerman, Esq., five asand di or " JOHN W. ABELL, Cashier, To 8, K. Srow, Esq. > ‘Troy City Bank, Troy, N. Y. S.G.0 2:9 a8 20:9:0 9:0010:0 99 9.9 06. Endorsed D. W. Vav Aerman,—Pay H. F. Cashier, or order. A. GREER, In the fore part of October, the accused is represented to have been i Bradford, and there at the branch Bank of Montreal. The agent, Mr. Gre and subsequenty forwarded the Exehange Bank, and the forgery was then detested. On the faet of the forgery being ascertained, Mr Poter B. Long, the solicitor of the Pavk of Montreal, was forthe with despatched to New York for the purpose of arrest- ing the forger. On his arrival in this city he called em the Chief of Police, and represented the nature of his vis- it, The chief accerdingly deputed the above named offl- to effect the arrest, and on Friday evening Mr. Vam ‘man was taken into custody. On his when searched was found a large pocket book, containing $405 in bank bills, together with several drafts, checks, and other papers ofa sim'lar character to the one already ronounced a forgery. The prisoner was conveyed before Tastiee Stuart, who comm tted him to prison to await an examination, which is set down for Tuesday next, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Annual Meeting of the French Benevolent Soctety. The French Benevolent Society, existing singe 1800, and ones April 18, 1819. is instituted for the Purpose of coming in aid to the need of Frenchmen residing in New York or vicinity. It number: now about three hundred members. The Annual General Assembly took place yesterday evening at Delmonico’s restaurant. A few members were present. At 8 o’clock Mr. Eugene Lentilhon called the meeting to order and exposed the actual situation of the socieiy. It appears from it that the expenses for this year have exceeded the receipts some $300, and that there still remains a balance in favor of the treasurer of $13,000. ‘After the reading of the President's report, the meeting roceeded to appoint a new committee of istration for the ensuing year :— Mr. Henri Ménlum was chosen as President; Mr. A. Bego¢en, First Vice President ; Mr. S. L. Reynal, Second de. Auguste Notl, Treasurer ; Mr P. A. Gerdy, Secretary. The twelve commissionera elected, are :—Messrs. O. Senecal, Chattelier, J. P. Neppert, Elleau, E Suser, A Temoine, De Billier, V Durand, Jr., E. Philipotaux, J. 8, P, Pfanmuller, A. Clerx and Pitard. The doctors, surgeon and druggists are the same as last rear. viz. . Aimé. Dr. Le Grand, Dr. Thebduld and ; Bodinier, surgeon ; John Milhau and Delluc, sts. The meeting adjourned sine die at 9 o'clock, eocoo0occ] Paeaacce Eo Tam Acciprnr ar Tos Sv Lotes iw Rion MOND.—This morning, after the masons and laborers had turned out to work, aud while in the act of lowering = small stone from No. 2 derrick, and from No. 1, the guy rod supporting No. 2 gave way, and instantly the six den ricks came down with a terrific crash, catching several men, and spreading havoc in their fall. At No. 1, Michael Halley was caught and erushod bad- ly, but it is hoped not dangerously. Another man, wha was standing near and aidipg him at the time, received a slight injury. At No. 2; John Sullivan, a mason, was caught in the wreck, and had his leg broken. Jerry Sullivan, who wae laboring on the platform, was carried dows ‘with the Falling lerrick to the wall. and injured sMghtly. At No. 3, Thomas Wall was dragged from the platform store snd. thjared, thongh not dangerously. lo. 4, Jerry Sullivan, (the 2d,) was injured wi Pedi, haviogs limb broken, iva ick Desa Slightly iu re At No. 5, Patrick Higgins was thrown from to the wall below, anda his left arm mee rail At No. 6, Wm. Bhen, a laborer, was literally crushed te atoms. As the derrick fell, he was caught between the arm and the upright, amd in this condition precipitated from the bank to the pit. crushing his breast and rib and breaking his thigh. When relieved from his peril ponition he appeared to be dead, but op being carry) ome he somewhat revived, though but little hopes a entertained of his recovery. ‘The sact that he was jamm: into a space of six inches, aad there held for so minutes, with a large timber across his body, farnish tl most conclusive evidence that his internal injuries are severe,—Lichmond Enquirer, Oct. 27, bs Inurm018 EprrortaL Convanriox.—A call is pu’ shed, signed by a committee of newspaper editers inted ai the recent State fair at Springfield for that pu? ¢, Of & coavr ntion of the editors and publishers of Ill. , to meet at Springfield on Wednesday, the 2id day ¢ | November next. } Cameo xreotype, and the New Ele trical proce: niane uly eatoring the likeness sad Pappy exprestion of thi 3 —first introduced by CHAS. aha TLLTAMSON, ring are a prictical artist {i Daguat- ype. allery, 249 Fulton ook! - structed, with apparatus, prices andl = ne ” The Last Gold Medal for the Best Da-| merrectypes ever exhibited hes been awarded to MEAD! BRoTHE. 8, 233 Broadway. Pictures in ‘all. styles Rita Galleries tree, : The Gold Medal on Daguerrcotypes at the ate Pair of the American Institute, it is said, to RERSE & CO., and deservedly so, for thelr great hares ment in the picture-making bus'ness— the taking 400 portraita daily for twenty-five ceuts—t 250 Broadway. The Daguerrean Gallery so Easy of. in the city nuors 3s road on * avoid leng «nd tedious journe: make a note of this. Cabin Passengers for A will Ph jost comfortable accommodations in the splendid A 1 ‘ket ship HUMBOLDT, now loading gat pier 44, N. R. ty fourteen taken in the ship. SUTTON & CO., 84 Wail street. Gordon’s Printing Office, 84 Nassau street, is the cheapest and fastes? oflive in the city to order card eards, cards. Job printing of every deseription neatly an promptly executed at tho most ronsonable prices. printing in the neatest style, GORDON, St Nassau street. Penmanship.A Brilliant unity.— Gentlemen and ladies desirous of perfecting thei handwrite ing at the most elegant establishment of tho kind in this country, should at once join GUI.DSMIT 4S cheap classes, a9: 962 Broadway, to open November 1 Promiums to theamount of $300 are to bo presented to the pupils. ng.—A Liberal Proposition.— (H'S circular, just issued, offers to all who dy of hookkeoping at his writing way. yaup ianumera! Perfect pirtures taken it Bookke: Mr. GOLDS may commence the stu: rooms, 362 Broadway, on or before Tuesday, November 1, & freo course of penmanship wader his own competent super vision. The Great Exhibition G: Oscar Cometant.—This rivce ix being played by Jullion at Boston With immense asuscess, Price 38 cei lished by HORACE WATERS, 334 Broadway, (the great music extab- ishment.) Thomas Baker’ Te Last New Song—“The Tames Simmonds, aung b . vrice 25 conte, Publis lover of liberty should buy ‘ian’s Lament,’’ words b; tr at Jullion’s conc by ACE WATERS. Eve & copy of this song. 8. D & H. W. Smith’s cele- brated melo: ed the agua tem i inthe romote keys as noa-tke omy iauledecwe ac tuned, and unquestionably” the best. HORACE Rs, 333 Broadway, sole agent; Premium Fancy Furs—Magasin de Four- To the ‘adios resivent and vinters of New York. latest patterns which ean- d for sale by F. LANDRY, Paris, No. 63% Brosdway. very article warranted. it collection of goods, the not be surpassed. now ready sn Importer and, Manufnoturer Orders carefully attended to. Premium Cloaks The First Premiam §. D, HAWKINS, proprigtor and manage Tae'Bos, nite, Do, 327 Grand sree for the best cloaks, by sixth Annual Fair of the American Institute, ‘Bo! ton & Knapp, Tano wo 19 Cortland street, f men’s and boys’ country trade, selling off at ‘Winter Clothin: having removed from 33 have now on band & eo clothing, adapted for sity lowest cash prices. ‘Winter Overcoats, Talmas, Paletots, Sacks, siness coats, of every varity of st; Moved for our city brage now read and o cr VL described Man as an Unfeathered Pl i fun.of the definition by ealling & Teen tow oe nan,” Punctuality, skill, industry, Trention, make the man—at least th ‘of business, Pag aan GREEN, No. 1 Astor Honee, never disappoints. ® home a misfitting shirt, customer, or sends ‘Wonderfal now on exhibi- kes an entirely linen, tO perfoct invention obviates all ovjection machine work. All mannfacturcrs of fine linen ‘ods are invited to call and exaini o these machines, fielimproved machines for quiltiug linings of every kind, Ten Sccond Hand Pianos, in Fine Oxter, sad warranted, for vale ab grost bargains. An hatortmont FR WEWEY, air Hevedway, gone’ for Halles, Dubois & Co.'s wolian pianos, he Best Pianos in the World.—T. Gilbert #'Co.'s pinnes, with iron fearnos aad elroular senles, are a¢- n ried eo bo the host; they defy competition in tone, iy, amd price, A Targe agsortimeat at HORACE WA- sees 693 Broadway, the sole agent, Teas—The Best Assortment of Tino Teas of the Canton Tor Ce he Aten Will be found Awoen Pourl and Ko erat atgeate, he oldest aero our roade ey oan none: awheres vitor av wholesale OF revail. Unfortunate was the Condition of poor Un: ‘no Wool on thejsummit of bis cranium, until Barker's chevouxtori ne, reliable, leant Sold everywhere. Principal depot, ing evtablishmens, 430 Browd way. .T . Price conte. R'S Indies bairdressi