The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1853, Page 6

oun HUME DESSitaly iil Ceo. vashitttfligence from all Parts of North America, &e., &e., Polities! ke. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasurneton, Nov. 9, 1853. Banners and Dress at the Seat of Government— Necessity of National Refinement—A Picture of Hotel Life. I suppose I may say, without being accused of the universal flattery of correspondents towards their re- dacteur en chef, that the Henan may fairly be re- garded as an index of the progress of the country~ and of civilization. If I may judge from the master ly articles which have recently appeared in its col- umns, upon art, it is the opinion of the editor himself that the time has come in America to pay some at- tention to the refinements and embellishments of Mfe, as well as to its more urgent and material neces- sities. In short, the young empire, having got through bravely his boyhood, and entered upon the first stage of youth, it beeomes the duty of the guar- dians to attend a little to his dress and manners— to clip off the superabundance of his coat tails, to make his waistcoats look a tiifle less like those that had descended from his grandfather, to trim his whiskers, and even perhaps gently en- courage the just-sprouting moustache; to teach the young gentleman not to eat with his fingers, nor shovel foc d into bis mouth with a knife; nor hawk aud spit, out of his own chamber; nor doany of those things which make man appear only as a dis- gusting and filthy animal. Having shown that he is abundantly able to live, Young America ought now to learn a little how to live. Nor is there any affec- tation or aristocracy, or snobbery, in ali this, The affectation and the snobbery are in pretending to despise those accoz plishments we do not possess, white in our ‘nmost heart we only bate ourselves for cur deficiencies. The courageous and manly part is to look our needs fally in the face, acd go about sup- plying them. The present need of the United States is a little yational refinement—a little personal self-respect in the individual, and a consequent deference in his bearing towards others. Nothing is more difi- cult than to specify points of good breediag—as is iMustrated by the laughable work on manners lately published by an antiquated lady of Philadelphia. Still, there are certain glaring crimes against good taste—against even common decency—daily and hour!y committed by nine-tenths of American gen- tlemen, which may be easily pointed out. And as ‘Washington and the Heraip represent America, with Washington, and through the Hesa.p, I pro- pose to proceed. | Let us begin with the first thing that strikes us— ~avanw ovara ot Aldermen on the lst of vauw ary wil! be decidedly whig. No! seems to de- lore this event except the office-holders. The truth i. the present Board, as well as their eeecener® | bave constantly been in @ regular Kilkenny fight, and the party to which they pretend to belong are chuckling at their overthrow. The silver gray whigs have voted the Seward | ticket patiently throughout. They did not vote for | Clinton, as was anticipated, ‘but adhered to Leavevworth, rank bigher law abolitionist as he is. The grays are now completely absorbed, and their identity become obliterated. They have suc- cumbed to Weed_their courage has oozed out—they are apnihilated, defunct, destroyed, swallowed up. There ee haa we panied the Mh. osid ~ the next Senate wh possess courage enoug! o the Seward d; in the least jar. Phe new State etomaee all of the Stan easly order. Leavenworth, who stands convicted of hav- ing heme ote tea to break up a law and order meeting at Syracuse, be the soul and cen- tre of the new administration. His success over the opposition of Brooks, of New York, Mann, of Reches- ter, and Dr. Foote, of Buffalo, has such courage to Weed, that he has already privately announced Coek, te Comprctar, ir anesalt ae Seward may ook, Om] r, isas as Seward may wish. He is ly flattered with hiseleetion, on account of havin; ousted from the treasury it, after having served halt histerm. He isia skilful financier—equal to any of your Wall street sharpers, and handles stocks and other con- vertible ‘paper with a success and dexterity equal to Simeon Draper, Jacob Little, or any of your fancy Sagres the metropolis. Being Devens of Ballston Bank, and a financial man all over, it remains to be seen whether he will be competent to distribute the twelve millions under the amended cen sem fe menue Rollcy parwved by him. apd'W"sxelile tho fiends of Cass from office. William L, Hirst, Edward A. but Benjamin F. Brewster, TWenry M. Philips, and ut jamin F. Bret , He M. Phillips, otber Casamen, had no influence whatever. Icould name you several competent democrats who were refused office—no reason assigued—all the evra Cre wre pl sil opponents ‘ass, who were a) ited, entirely in- coats to fulfil the duties of their office. There is one in the Custom House department, in the receipt of $1,500 per annum, who cannot keep ac- counts, who cannot write the English language grammatically, or spell it correctly. But these are anti-Cass men. Is it not high time, then, when we see the true Union men ttricken down in New York by the hand ral power—those friends of Lewis Cass who stood by him in the trying times of '48—I is it not time, when we witness the same proscription in Pennsylvania, to unite in driving the men from er who are cay ie CE eae tranny. an4 wrong? larcy, Guthrie and Campbell are said here to be culprits. To Marcy we cannot show mercy; Guthrie must be gutted out of office; and Campbell must be belled out of the camp. There will be all sorts of buying and selling, of bargaining, of promising, &c., until after our next gubernatorial nomination. We are, in all proba- ility, on the eve of a division, as deep, as wide, and as bitter, as that in your State. There is only one way by whieh it can averted; and that is by the President dismissing his evil advisers, and reorgan- izing his Cabinet. Sueviey. OUR LANCASTER CORRESPONDENCE. Lanca: Pa., Nov. 11, 1853. New York Elosions-<Buctiwante Friends Dis- couraged—Once Hopes of his Early Election m constitution, so as to complete the canals ia four years as anticipated. Hoffman, whose name the woolleys onl: used to strengthen their ticket, ii here csi too honest for the new dynasty. He will stand atone if be mavifests any oppugnation. Weed managed to have a ticket which, if elected, he cculd control, ebould necessity require, against Hoffman. He has got them. Spaulding as Treasurer, Gardiner as Canal Commissioner, Clark as Surveyor, as well a3 Leavenworth and Cook, are all in his hands, and he knows full well how to use them. Pennsylvania Politics. OUR PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE. Parvaperata, Nov. 7, 1853. The Herald Correspondents—The Recent Election in Pennsylvania—Intrigues, and the Morals of Politics, §c., §c. T see that you have two letters from Philadelphia into-day’s HeraLp—the first signed ‘‘Keystone,” the second signed “Spy,” name most appropriate. The one signed ‘ Keystone” is pretty nearly correct. The writer ought to have told you that the friends of Cass are utterly disgusted at the conduct of the administration in attempting to dictate to the national democracy of New York, and are prepared, on a fitting occasion, to prove to Secretary Guthrie that they despise his con- duct and repudiate his correspondence. I need bardly inform you that they will do this, whether the Michigan statesman wills it or no. They also con- hotel life. t us imagine a gentieman—a member of Congress, if you please—arriving at his hotel at | six o'c! in the morning, tired, sleepy, and worn- | out. Instead of registering his name and going | quietly to bed fora Siege) nap before breakfast, | he rushes to the barroom, spits out, with a revolting | spasm of the cheeks, a huge quid of tobacso, and | washes down the remaiving slime with a gill of bad | brandy and water. This is the commencement of | that odious, degrading, and abominable habit pecu- Thar to America and [cetane ey) tippling at the | bar. I abhor all Maine laws, and all attempts at re- | stricting the freedom of the individual, as much as a you can do; but I declare unchangeable war against the universal. vice of tipoling at the bar. Twould to heaven that every bar in the land could be abolished. You, Mr. Editor, who eschew these , can have ao accurate idea of the extent to which this vile habit is carried, or of the amount of sider the course pursued by the H#katp essentially prudent, patriotic, and politic, and eminently ca!cu- lated to act as a safety valve ata time when the administration was madly ecareering in its insane course, by fostering the Van Buren free soil traitors of 1848, and proscribing those Joyal democrats who then remained true to the Union and to the cousti- tution. With regard to the second leiter, signed with the appropriate name of “Spy,” { wish to have your readers informed as to the real facts of our late State, as well as our city and county, election. The Canal Commissioner, the Judge, the Auditor Gene- ral, and the Surveyor Géneral were elected, simply Riquor which an American gentleman deems it neces- | because there was no opposition to them on the sary to drink in the course of the day. I do not | ground oftheir being government candidates. Look i Sect eee a Cf the majority at the result in the defeat of those caudidates who relia 3 the maths ake Let qed bnpeed | were forced upon the party by our Post Office and drink before breakfast, two driuks between breal Custom House. William Badger, avery worthy man, fast and eleven o'clock, four to six (and often eight | a gentleman in every sense of the term, a good demo- srt nash liseas the Lie inatet eae tone crat and a sound lawyer, our candidate for District ington, we at dinner of course; then a glass of Attorney, in Philadelphia city and county, was Dbrancy 9nd water to settle the dinser; three or four | defeated, and only on the ground that he was gias-es between tea time and going out for the eve- | the nominee of the administration; Edward A. ning; then probably a “stag party,’ (men thus | Pepniman, another nominee on the demozratic muddled with drisk are naturally afraid of goi imto the society of ludies,) and then brandy au | water, brandy acd water, ad /-bitum, until mid- night. I assure you that an average drisking man | in Washington does not consume less than from | fifteen to twenty glasses of brandy and water, cock- tails, or what not, per day! Don’t start at this enormous statistic— it is below the truth. Then the tobacco-chewing, and smoking, and | the spitting—pah! I am at this moment standing | at a long, high writing table, in the public room of a | first-class hotel, where are also writing for their re- apectve rates four or five correspondents of yoar moral, refined and temperance smashing New | York journals. At every comma, they spit; whee | peel poerg toa semicoln, they hawk and spit—and | at the end of a sentence, they repeat this delightful | ee with the addition of blowmg the nose with | fingers, and spirting fine radiating streams of mucous Lorie Aes the faces and clothes of their | neighbors. marble floor is slippery with dis- | eolored saliva, mixed with particles of masticated | tobacco, ejected incessantly in all directions. My | boots are covered with it, and effectaally soiled for | the day. I am sick at the stomach. Now, I do uot know whether any body has ever | before drawn this disgusting pistare—but I know | that every body who reads it will at once admit it is | Mrictly true. ‘Then at table—tet us watch. Each one enters with s rosh, seats himeelf as if he nad the toothache and | had at last in desperation fled to the densist’s chair— | makes adesh and a gobble at the soup, declines fish, up roast beef swimming in gravy, potatoes, pick- , Lima beans, beet-root, turnips, maccaroni—any thing, everytbing—upon his plate, mixes them all up with knife and fork inserts the poiat of the kaife under the revolting mass, heaps it up with the fork, and then carries it with a jerk into the open eavity of his mouth, inserting the horrid koife two or three inches down the throat, closing the lips tightly over it, and drawing it out cleanly wiped, for at time,that day—the incipient oxide created by the action of the acids upon the iron sppearing at the corners of the Ugnorant that los utleny spolls claret, burgundy nt that ice utterly spoils claret, burgundy and champagne,) and when the dessert is plumped upon the table, (the whole operation of dining not ttn, Beene above fifteen minutes,) he takes a spoonful of jelly, a slice of half baked pie, ice cream, ig, all on the same plate, and pours them his throat as if it were a caval for the trans- ition of aud provisions, instead of a licate and exquisitely sensitive channel of com- between the viands provided for man’s subsistence and the great vital organ which sustains and renews the glowing flame of life. But this is enough for the first lesson. QUEVEDO. Our Albany Correspondence. Ausany, Nov. 9, 1858. The Resu't of the Election—Defeat of Perry for Mayor—Complete Whig Triumph—Silver Grays | be hoodwinked through the ticket, was beaten worse than any other democratic candidate. Penniman was the nominee of the Cus- tom House, of the Post Office, of Judge Campbell, and of Governor Bigler. Let me show how nomi- nations for the Assembiy are made in our county. There are eleven representative districts. Che democrats of each district vote directly for the can- Gidate. If any one obtains a majority of ali the votes polled he is the bona fide nomivee. If no one has a majority, then the five highest candidates go before the Democratic Nominating Convention. From Mr. Penniman’s distri:t the five had to go before the convention. Mr. Bryant came within some twenty votes of having a clear majority over ail. Mr. Penniman had o! | Aestbet gp lots, being the lowest of the five. Mark what happened in the convention! Tne Custom House men and the Post Office men were on the election | ae in considera- ble numbers, electioneering for Mr. Penniman. Promises of place were held out to The need- many. ful was freely used, and, under these inivcences tee axe grinders” found it much mare cany, to manage @ convention than the people’ Mr. Penniman re: ceived eighty-seven votes in convention—enough to nomina‘e him— tbat is, out of some 150 delegates he had eighty-seven, whereas he could only obtain a votes out of nearly 600 when before the ple. per is too late in the day for the democracy to press, so lot there is a paper like the Heraup open to hear both sides, to give a fair field and show no favor. The eulogist of Mr. Penniman attacks honest men and good democrats in the persons of Andrew Millar, the Hon. William H. whitte, (not Whilte, as you erroneousiy spell it,) and Col. Wil- liam F. Small. The first of these gentlemen was a bold, honest, and consistent democrat in 1844. When many fe and wavered when the renegade and coward deserted the good ship and went over, body | and breeches, to nativism, Millar could neither be | bought or sold; hence it was necessary to prevent his nomination. He isin favor of all our county being consolidated into one city, and, as a consequenee, is | denounced by every Petty mercenary politician. Bat | why institute a comparison between him and Mr. Penniman? Oh tempora,oh mores! Ani then, as to Mr. Whitte being “a flippant speaker,” never was assertion more unfounded, in the sense in which “Spy” puts it. Had he said fluent, eloquent, pleasing and logical, he would have been right. ethaps he bas not the experience of a leader, which “Spy” seems to consider a necessary | ingredient in the character of a politician. He is no schemer, no trickster, no liar. That he has aspira- tions fur the gubervatorial chair, is perfectly trae; a man with his intellect and talents in the political world, always espires—he would not be worth a pin if be had not ambition. With regard to Col. Wm. F. Small, whea our State Senator he left the ease and comforis of home to fight his country’s battles in Mexico, resurned as an honorable soldier, ser ed his time out in the Sonate but was found to be too honest for bank and other corporation borers. He kept no rooms in darris: Caved in—Thurlow Weed again in the Ascend- ant—The new State Officers, etc., etc. The election in this city has turned every thing topsy turvy. A change to some extent was antici- pated, but not to the extent which has occurred. On the first of January the whigs will have complete control. What strange freaks the politicians ex- hibit! At the previous election for Mayor, Mr. Perry obtained six or seven hun¢red majority, and now he is beaten by four hundred ; so with the Board of Al- dermen ; then the democrats carried seven out of the ten wards ; now the whigs carried eight out of the ten. There were four candidates in the field ; Perry on the free soil ticket, Pamelee on the united whig ticket, Eggleston on the national demo- erat, and Williams on the temperance. Perry was filled with anxiety for the clection, and im- plored the adamantines to adopt him, pledging bin- self as hard as the hardest, to vote for the candi da‘es on the Clinton canal ticket, and in every way proclaimed himself an adamantine of the most rocky kind. He was also a temperance man, he declared, in the face of all his licensing acts, desired the Maine law advocates to witidraw their candidate, and be would carry out all the measures they de- But inthis he was unsuccessful. The ada- mantines, however, took him upon his pledges, aud Mr. Loe pod candidate, withdrew the even- in, fore the election ; and, after having the osten- support of the huards and the softs, ne fell with four hundred against him William Parmelee, the Mayor elect, has previously held the same position, and with credit to himself and general satisfaction to our citizens. His rom on Ep = occasion, in tenn A an unusual nomber of dramehops, in o| ition bo the delcared will of a t mefority of Cur oltisens, rendered him unpopular with our temperance advo- @ates, and they hid the grudge against him still. Uf Willis, the practical aud well kavwa temperance | be bag been ddicd: Tices Lox Chun” bese, to treat lobby and other members to brandy, wine, gin, rum, and segars; he could not be corrupt: ed. Upon Wm. Bigler’s election, Smal applied for the situation of harbor master. He had served his country in the Senate and the field, his democracy was unquestionable, he was poor, he wanted and deserved the office. Mr. Bigler gave it to another applicant. Has Small a right to support him in pre- ference to auother democrat? Certainly not. 1 would not have dwelt so long upon these names, but that I deem it justice to put each person ina proper light before the community; yet there is oue word more to be said. The character of a bank- borer and et a was most graphically drawn, at a meeting held in Port Richmond, during the recent canvass. The speaker, an Irishman named Campbell, mentioned no names, but the crowd recog- nized the portrait. The Evening Argus attacked Campbell; it called upon the democratic ex-com- mittee to prevent him speaking at fature meetings. The committee turned a deaf ear to its exhortations Campbell spoke at Moyamensing, Manyunk, and else- where. A new paper will soon be born here. How longit will last I know not. J am informed that there is 10 lack of means. The paper will be, most undoubtedly, anti-Bigler, and will handle the national administra- tion without gloves. There will be no free soilism, no treason to the Union, no fostering of traitors, in its colamps. You will then see whether the boast of the article in the Boston Post, in reply to the September article of Potnam—‘ that there is no disaffec- tion in, or complaint from, Penasylvania”—you will then see wheeher Guthrie's conduct is, or is not, reepected. A wire policy on the part of the ad ministration might have harmonized toe party; but the appointment of the Hon. Charies Brown was the signal of disaffection. A more unpopular man could not have been appointed. The aptecedents of Mr. Brown do not tell io his favor; e. g., when a member of our State Legislature, a bank bill was before ¢ House: he voted against it, but induced some coun | voted | its selections for the United States officers at this 1856—@abinet-Courting Abolitionists—Coalition of Buchanan's Friends in Lancaster County with the Abolitionists—Buchanan’s Friends Running Down National Whigs—Marcy National Demo- crats—Buchanan's Withdrawal for President by Peansylvania,and George M. Dallas put forward for 1856. The election in New York has turned out as was expected it would after the unheard of conduct of the Cabinet at Washington in the removal of Bronson. General Pierce and his miserable Cabinet have so distracted the party even here, by their abolition propensities, that the most prominent and sagacious “Wheatland politicians” look upon their future vros- pects with gloomy forebodings. After General Pierce was elected by such an overwhelming majority, the “Wheatland politicians” looked forward with hope and confidence in their ability to nominate the ‘sage ot Wheatland” by the next democratic convention and secure his election on the wave of universal democracy that swept Gen. Pierce into the Presiden- tial chair, which by wise and honorableman:gement would not have rubsided by 1856. But one thing isa foregone conclusion, and friends of our minister to England see itplainly, that the present administra- tion, by their courting the abolitionists, and throwing the whole weight of the government against the national democracy in New York, and throwing the power of the State into the hands of the whigs, has made it unsafe for them to make Mr. Buchanan the candidate of the administration, at least of the President himeelf,as Mr. Buchanan had the aseur- ance from Gen. Pierce's confidential friends, prior to his election, that such should be the case in 56. Even in Lancaster county Mr. Buchanan’s friends did him lasting damage in our late election by gving intoa coalition with that prince of traitors and abo- litionista, Thaddeus Stevens, to run down the na- tional whig county ticket. These things were done here on the sacred soil of Wheatland, by the confi- dential friends and keepers of the kitchen secrets of | our distinguished minister to England. The coa- lition was ate advocated and defended by the home organ of Mr. Bachanan, and the taunt thrown out, that, with Mr. Stevens and his abolition influence, | next year they will be able to defeat the national | whigs,as Marcy and the Van Buren influence have defeated the national democracy in New York. Let the democracy of the Union be forewarned and fore- armed, that they be not deceived again by a candidate i whoee confidential friends and advisers at home are | the recent plotters and political tricksters, with such | rank and traitorous abolitionists as Thaddeus Ste- | vensand the Van Burens sre known to be. He, too, would at any time shout in the ranks of Buchan- ; an, a8 Van Buren. does for Pierce—for the spoils. | The late abolition move of Mr. Buchanan's friends | in this county, and the abolition tendency of the na- tional administration, have already alarmed some of | the warmest friends of the State pride and interes‘s | of Pennsylvania, and they feel that Mr. Buchanan | is not the strong and available man for the emergency that circumstances have thrown the democratic party into. But the candidate that Pennsylvani® demccrats will go into the contest with when the time comes, will be none other than the Hon. George M. Dallas. This conviction is growing in Pennsylvania, and | from tie latest advices from Washiugton, the friends | of Mr. Buchanan are feeling it, and are paving the way for his final withdrawal from the field. With Buchanan and Marcy out of the way—and Marcy has put himself out effectually—the great Union demo- | cracy will rally around the standard raised by Peun- sylvania, and on ita folds will be inscribed the nane of George M. Dallas, a man in whom there is no | i Jonn ov Lancaster. | Our Ohio Correspondence, Crincrnnatt, (Ohio,) October 23, 1853. The Late Election—Position of the Buckeye De: | mocracy— Medill vs. Moneypenny—Refusal to Endorse the Baltimore Platform—Ohio Against the Maine Law—The National Appointments, | Se., Fe. | A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, | writing from New York, takes occasion to refer to | the late election in this State, as one of the over- | whelming evidences of the popularity of the national administration. Permit me to return answer through the Heraxp, by saying that the above statement of the Enquirer's correspondent is the sheerest gam- mon in the world. Everybody in Ohio knows better. The piatform of the Ohio democracy and the plat- | form cf the national democracy at Baltimore are two very different things on the slavery question. | And it is well known that at the convention which | nominated Mr. Medill, who has been so overwhelm- ingly elected, an effort was made to have the Balti- | more platform endorsed by the convention; but with- | out success. The oid auti-slavery extension plat | form of the Ohio democracy was adopted. Had Col. | Moneypenny been nominated in the ( of Mr. Medill, the Baltimore platform would have been adopted as the platform of the party here. But the majority was against him, and in favor of the Ohio pistform. The majority that nominated Medill en- | tertained the opinion that they could make a plat- form for their State better than the Convention which met at Baltimore; so that if Mr. Medill’s election is an indication of anything national, it is against what the President makes the chisf point of his ad- | ministration. But the truth is, the national adminis- | tiation had yery little to do with the late election. “ Red-eye” had infinitely more to do with it than the administration. Thousands of whigs voted the entire democratic State and county tickets, becanse the democracy came out boldly and fearlessly against ihe Maine law. That was the question of the elec: tion. Look at the vote in Hamilton couuty. Here | every otuer issue attempted to be made was swallow. | ed up by that of the liquor question. The entire | German and Irish part ot our bil age went for | the whole democratic ticket, without a why or where- fore other than that it was known and understood to be decidedly hostile tothe Mainelaw. Four thousand —some say six thousand—whigs in this conuty the democratic ticket; and on no other account. Had there been no liquor issue, we should have elected the democratic State ticket by the usual majority of about four thousand, while the county ticket would have been mostly defeated, ard that mainly on account of the appointments of the admioistration at this [ree The appointments here were made mainly from members of a secret litical association, that nominated in its hall mem- ers of its own body, and to the support of which each member was sworn or pledged. A dangerous body all must admit, and thoroughly at war with every idea of democracy. Outof the most obnoxious members of that secret body the administration made point. On the county democratic ticket were some three or fourof that association; these got some six or seven thourand over their opponents less than Governor Medill over his, and nothing saved from amovg the true and tried men of the party, inatead of from the plotters against the purity of the party, the majority here would have be: creased at least five thousand for the democratis ticket. Bo the late election cannot be regarded as an approval of the appointments of the administration, nor of the popularity of the Cabinet. The general views of the administration on finance and the fo- reign policy of the government are, of course, ap- proved by the whole democracy of the State, and will be sustained by them. Bot, in doing so, they must not be considered approviog the miserable appointments that have been mace, nor tLe inter- ference of the administration in the local State ele. tions. ‘The President and Cabinet are now sising wih the men who defeated the democratic cvndi date ‘or President in 1848, Such condact as that of try members to vote for it; he was asked the reason for his conduct, when he suid:—“I live ia a tiuder box, and it would be fired about my ears were [ to vote jor the bil'.”’ The tuing levked out, and ever since Ths the b urvers of 1848 should be copsiuered one of the uny« Jonable sins. What security is \uere any longer in party organigation, wheo such flagrant bolters are placed in the highest seats? Sewers. | | of the river Da Sud, the road passing over several | I was shown through the church by a student of St. | inge—one or two evidently of great antiquity, and ! or Baptists. “ The peda them from a bad whipping but the liquor question. | Had the administration made its appointments here | ‘spouuence. Buus Licks, Ky., Oct. 29, 1853, Voice from Blue Licks—Hon. Linn Boyd—The Kentucky Delegation in @ongress— The Uni- ted States Senator—Names and Qualifications of Candidates, §c.. §c. This is the place that General Scott considered the best location for the Military Asylum. I aminclined to think his selection was a good one, and better than the one since selected and purchased by govern- ment. I feel inclined to write a few lines on the politics of Kentucky. The late Congressional elections were marked with singular peculiarities, In the First district Mr. Linn Boyd had a competitor of his own politics who gave him considerable uneasiness, though Mr. Boyd was elected by 1,995 majority. His friends worked with extraordinary power. He promised never to run again. His opponents accused him of doing nothing, of being a drone in Congress; and he would most triumphantly answer these charges by asking “What was it he had not done?” Mr. Boyd seeks the Presidency, and his career during the coming Congress will be “mum.” The Kentucky members will not prees his claims for the Speaker- ship. Mr. R. H. Stanton was elected by 500 majority, and the people of his district greatly rejoice in the result. He is a working man, and a well-tried demo- crat. You have, doubtless, observed the Western preas nominating Mr. John C. Breckenridge for Speaker of the coming Congress. His election over the most shrewd politician of the West has given him addi- tional claims upon his party, and the democracy are liberal in their awards. Although the West would 8 iy 200 Mr. B. selected for that important station, et the claims of others are duly considered. Mr. Dieney, of Obio, is strongly sup) d; but [am of the opinion that Gen. Bailey will get the support of the Southwest. No one thinks of reelecting Mr. Boyd, and the question lies with other candidates. r Preston, of Louisville, was re-elected without apy trouble. His opporent, I presume, ran in order to be brought into notice. There is not another whig in the district that could have made the run that Mr. Preston did, nor can the whigs fare as well with any other map. Mr. Preston is spoken of for United States Senator. Crittenden, Preston an Campbell, ure the whigs spoken of by the press. Tne two former sre from the centre and the latter from southern Kentucky. I do not think the whigs will unite on Mr. Preston, but the democrats may. He is a new whig. Ten years ago Mr. Preston was not counted as a member of either party, and in 1844 he would net vote for Henry Clay. Mr. P. isa new whig, and his promotion has been very rapid. I do not think the whig party are willing to lay aside a sterling man like Crittenden and take up a modern whig. Judge Campbell is an old and well-tried whig, and from a portion of the State that has never been honored with a Senator. He is a gentleman of talent, and will reflect credit on his position. The democrats may unite on him, as he isa moderate whig. Crittenden, however, is greatly respected by | the democracy ; but he is too great a man of the | whig party to receive their co-operation. I expect | the Legislature will be greatly troubled to elect a | Senator, and, like other sessions, spend much time and money in the effort. The whig party of Kentucky has acted as badly in the election of Senators as any other State of the Union. Mr. Dixon, the present Senator, successor to Mr. Clay, will not be a candidate for re-election. Judge Underwood will not be a candidate ; and thus the race will be between Mr. Crittenden and all the other aspirants. The Legislature is largely whig, and they can readily elect a man if they try. Mr. Letcher may be a candidate. He has hung on the party for years past, and pressed it down like a vampire ; and, notwithstanding he has been de- feated time and again, still his ambition may not be any less. Kentucky has been ruled by families in olden times, and Mr. Letcher may hang upon that pes, 3 but the day has arrived when the people will ave their own way, without first consulting the “first families of the State.” Our Quebec Correspondence. Quesec, Nov. 4, 1853. Visit to St. Pierre, one of the Back Parishes—St. Francis—Statistics of the County of L'Islet— Berthier—Singular Encroachment of the St. Law- rence—Early Visits of the Missionaries—St. Vallier—St. Michaels—Valuable Parntings— Beaumont. On the morning after wy arrival at St. Thomas, I hired a caleshe and visited St. Pierre, a parish situa- ted about six miles in the rear. It was a delightfu! drive, being for some distance along the right bank HEROLp. bills of cousiderable magnitude, and commanding an extensive prospect of the surrounding country, which appeared to be all cultivated after the French Cana- dian fashion. St. P.erre isa neat village, and ap- peared to be 2 place of considerab'e business. At St. Francis, the next parish, there isa convent, The curé, whom it was my desire to see, was absent; but Anne's College. It contain: several very fine paint- the productions of first rate masters. There is a group, consisting of two wel! executed statues of our Saviour being baptised by St. John, carved bya French Canadian peasant belonging to the parish. I returned to St. Thomas during the forenoon, and immediately started for Berthier, nine miles distant, the nearest village in the county of Bellechasse. The population of the county of L’Islet, which I was about to leave, consisted, 1852, of fitty-nine Canadians not of French origin, eighty-five natives of England and Wsles, thirty nine from Ireland, ten from Scotland, none from the United States, four from other countries, and 19,664 of French origin. Of these 19,366 belong to the Charch of Rome, thir- teen to that of England, ten are Presbyterians, and there are tifty-two of other creeds, but no Methodists of wheat raised in the county last year was 67,912 bushels; of barley, 17,377; Free 208) peas, 10,795; and of potatoes, 118,583 yushe! When I reached the inn at Berthier, being rather fatigued, I asked for some refreshment not exactly cousonant with the Maine L'quor law, which prompt- aor its appearance in the shape of a bottle of jamaica, with a remnant of its contents. This is the name universally given to ardent spirits. I was not a little amused, however, on looking out of the window, immediately afterwards, on perceiving by the s gn that the house was licensed as a temperance hotel. The fact is, while the priests strictly forbid persons who keep houses of entertainment from sell- og ardent spirits to any of their people, they allow them to furnish it to trave:lers who may desire it. The church at Berthier is close to the river, at least half a mile from the village, which is situated under and above a ridge of high land, which was evidently at a former ee the boundery of the St. Lawrence. On inquiring of the priest why the church was so isolated, I was informed that the land extended st the time and subsequent to its erection across what is at present a wide bay, and that the original village was then in the neighborh0d of the cburch; but the continual washiag away of the laud bad compelled the inhabitants to remove tneir houses to where they are now placed. The church issmall, with a small priest, Mr. Bonenfant, and a small altar, but is very handsome, and isa perfect byow of its kind. On leaving Barthier the road ascends, and you come in sight of the island of Orleans, the white houses of which, being cen in profile at a dis- tance, have the appearance of vessels clustered tu gether. Awalk of four miles and a half brought. me to the church at St. Vallier, from which to that s Micheel’s, the next village, is another four and a half, being the only exception to the general distance between parish churches of less then vine miles, unless it be Cape St. Tenaee. | There is a considerable village at Vallier, and the curé, the Rey. Narcisee Beaubien, I found a very ee and agreeable Perris! speaking | the Bnglish language fluently. Here again I found the church situated near the river, and was informed by him that the reason why ped oct: was so generally choren, was that the missionaries usually visited the lower parts of the St. Lawence in canoes, before the country was setiled, who col- jected the Indians together at the river side; and at the once where they usually stopped churches ining about an hour with the reverend gentleman and partaking of his hospitality, I walked onto St. Michaels, of which parish the Rev. Mr. Fortier is curate. He was stationed for some time at Prince Edward Island, is a man of much activity and energy, aud speaks English with perfect ease and correctness. He took much pleasure in showing me his church, and in explaining the subjects of some very valuable paintings which it contains, a list of which he has recorded, and of which he gave me the following notice:—-They are the Crucifixion, by Romavelly; Flagellation, hy Chile; the Death of St. Clara, by Murillo; St. Bruno, by Philip de Cham- agne; Death of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Fouley; St. Hieronymes, by Boucher; St. Augustine, by Luis de Bologne, and the Nativity, by Corregglo. “These paintings had been brought from Italy by Bonaparte, and subecquertly purchased and sent out from France. They are all very fire; the moat striking, however, was the death of St. Clara. The church at St. Michvels is one hardred and thirty years old, that at St. Velier is one hundred and ‘thirty-three. The number of Fg persons ednented at the former nlace asnually ia one hina dred and twenty-two males and one hundred and twelve females. A seminary has just been com- * pleted, into which the boys will be removed at the expiration of the vacation, and where a very snpe- rior education will be obtained. There are quite a pumber of respectable shops in this village, where several persons of property reside. Late on Saturday afzernoon I reached Beaumont, pine miles below Quebec, where I remained till Mon- day, attending church on Sunday. This building cannot be less than one hundred and fifty years old, but ie nota very large one. It is, however, highly onamented. At this village there is a considerable fishing es- tabiithment, where large quantities of salmon are taken darian ee summer, and sent to the Quebec market, which are there cured or otherwise disposed of. On Monday morning I left Beaumont, and on Laitlns | opposite the head of the island of Orleans, exjoye @ splendid view of the Falls of Montmo- repei, which are seen very distinctly on the opposite shore, and the noise that is made by the descending yolame of water is distinctly heard. On my way I visited the establishment of Messrs. Gilman & Rankin, two miles from Point Levi, at which seventy or eighty square-rigged vessels are for England—fc having been already despatched during the present season. An immenge quantity of timber is accumulated here for shipment; but little of it has been there for more than two yeare. man here who last winter, in , on & pleasure excursion, had nine hundred miles into the interior, aa Legs Moontains, where they met with the Bullhead tribe of Indiang—go called from the large size of their heads. During one of their excur- sions while,thera they met three Indian women hunting alone, one of whom was a very beautiful , the dasghter of a Scotsman Le in the employ of the Hudson B Indians understand French d. After leaving the establishment I passed Serough two Indian camps. In one they appeared to be ing nothing; in the other the women were industri- ously employed making baskets and other articles of Indian workmanship. Some of them were very pretty, and seemed to yw it. \ I have thus described a portion of the province which is not generally visited by strangers, and whose inhabitants are frequently misrepresented. They are for the most part poor, but happy and con- tented; their houses are very neatly kept, and evorything is extremely clean. I did aot enter one, however humble, that formed an exception. They are very civil and obliging to strangers, whom they treat with much respect when they meet them, geterally toucbing their hats as they pass—a com- pliment that of course is returned. Their tare is extremely frugal, and in some places abundance of fish are carte among which are bass, herring, and salmon, and at this season of the year & quantity of very large eels, which are smoked, and exeeedin delicacy and flavor the salmon when cured in that manner. The females are modest and virtuous, and are remarkably attentive to | their religious duties; and a more exemplary body | of men than the prieste, who possess great influence with their people, I believe is nowhere | else to be met with. At every village there is an | inn where the traveller will meet with svery atten- | tion, but where he must act expect to find any of | the luxuries of a hotel, with the sxoateat of cur- tains to his bed, on the pillow of which, both in | public and private houses, it is customary to place a clean night-cap. The climate of Lower Canada is excessively rigor- ous, and the mornings and evenings were growing | cool before I returned from my tour. At a short | distance from the St. Lawrence, however, it is more | moderate, and beyond the range of mountains, some | nine or ten miles from the river, it resembles that ot | New Brunswick. The length and severity of the | winter renders it almost impossible to feed stock to | avy great extent, and sometimes it becomes neces- | sary to strip off the straw thatching of the roofs of the barns to prevent the cattle from starving in the | spring. I am about quitting Quebec, on my way to Upper | Canada, where I have been residing, with the excep- tion of five or six weeks, since March, chiefly in the | St. Roch suburbs, and with one of the happiest fami- | lies I ever met with—a fair specimen of the Freach Canadians everywhere. During the time [ have | lived with them I bave never heard an unkind word nor seen an ill-natured look. The population of St. Rech is mostly of the laboring class, but extreme); orderly, notwithstanding the population is estimate at over fifteen thousand souls; and nowhere, daring my “ wanderings in this world of care,” have [ ex- ienced such a sense of security and tranquillity, y vight and by day, as in this quiet spot; and in bidding it adieu, perhaps for ever, I cannot avoid | applying to it the denguage of Moore, and exclaim- | ing, with that favored bard of Erin— If there’s peace to be found in the world, The Leart that is humble might hope for it here. OBsERvER. Our Picscott Correspondence. Prescorr, C. W., Nov. 1, 1853. The Eastern Townsh ps—— Connection with the Sea. bcard—Land Jobling—Mineral Resources— Splend d Scenery—Sherbrooke Manufacturing Establishments—British American Land Com- pany--Places of Worship—The Chaudiére Dig- gings, §c. As I was desirous of knowing from personal ob- servation, something of the eastern townships which lie between the St. Lawrence and the States of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, immediately on my arrival at Montreal I took the cars for Sherbrooke, on the Portland and Mentreal railroad, where I re- mained two orthree days. The cultivatable lands in this district, between the Chambly and Chaudiére rivers, may be divided into three belts, running pa- rallel with the St.Lawrence; the nearest to which in- cludes the seigniories, in which there are still lands to be procured; the second belt is about fitty miles in breadth by ninety in length; and the third lies be- tween that and the frontier, which has recently been thrown open for settlement by the Canadian go- vernment. The second of these belts, however, is di- vided among a small number of landholders, and has become the domain ofa monopoly. The popu- lation, according to the census returns of 1852, was 94,816, while in 1848 it was only 69,168—o! the for- mer of which, 8,775 are natives of the United States. There townships are comprised in six great coun- ties—Sherbrooke, Stans‘ead, Shefford, Missisquoi, Drummond fand ; Megantic, which contain 4,886, 400 acres {of land. The nomber of them is eighty, containing one hundred square miles, or 64000 acres each. The lands are every where well watered by springs and brooks, and several considerable rivers traverse the tract, which, besides their excellent varieties of fish, afford many valuable will sites, and are used for floating timber down to the St. Lawrence, to be forwarded by the Chambly canal to the United States. Large quantities of pot ashes are annually manufactured in the town- ships, and the climate is similar to thasin the interior of the State of Muine. They are centrally situated between the navigable waters of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic coast, and are most advantageously laced for transporting their products to the sea- ard, by the present railroad to Portland aud Bos- ton, and when that shall have been opened (rom Chimbly to Island Pond, directly to New York, which must be the rontes of transport, not only on accouvt of the soperior facilities that will thus be af- forded, but owing to the wantof adequate roads to connect with the St. Lawrence, of which tue inhabi- tants bave lorg and unavailingly complained. The neglect ot the government to compel the great andholders to contribute to the opeaing and keeping in repair the roads that are required, is the more in excusable from the fact that a tax of one penny per aere on laud, would produve anaually the sum of ¢131,664— an amount that would be amply sufficient to re;air the old reads, which are in many places impassable, and to open new ones. The general ‘atures of the eastern townships are unsurpastably beautifal, particularly from Richmond, where the raiload from Quebec, which is rapidly approaching completion, will connect with that from Montreal to Portland, and which prepares the traveller for the magnificent and mountainous country through which he will pars, for a distance of fifty miles, sul frequent to reaching the boundary line. jarble af a superior quality is abundant in the eastern townships. A beautifal white variety is found in the township of Stukeley, which was much admired at the London Exhibition, and received a favorable notice from the Jurors ; a dove-colored and varigatei marble is to be found in Dodswell, and the Egyptian marble obtained there is much sought alter by the dealers in New York. Sherbrooke is ninety-five miles distant from Mont- real : passengers being conveyed in a steamboat from Montreal to Longne'l—the terminus of the railroad, which crosses the Richelien at a distance of fifteen miles over & bridge twelve hundred feet in length, and fifty feet from the water. Near this is the St. Hilaire ‘station, and the residence of Major Cam} bell, which is much admired by those who pass it, and on the banks of the Richelien is the village of St. Hilaire, whica is ex lusively French Canadian. Fora distance of twelve miles, the road p»sses through a body of fertile land, but evidevtly mach exhausted and neglected, when the traveller arrives at S:. Hyacinth, the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of that diocese. This is # thriving town, and covtains a population ef nearly three thousand souls. It isa very neat village, and the church, whish is | large and handsome, is seen to mach advantage froia the railcars, Tnere has long been a college here of much celebrity, and a very spacious building, three | stories in height, bas recently been erected on tne | oprosite side ef the read, tu supersede the old one, which wae a few weeks since opened with much ' | at present | vere covered wih myriads of white ca | Inehing abou ceremony—the Pope’s Nuncio being present. is a waterfall near the village, and can spare the time, and is desirous of seeing Frencls manners, he will stop at one of the hotels, which affora good accommodations, as he passes ir the afternoon, and take the cars for Montreal on the following manila. After leavin Hyacinth, the road pases over the Yamarka river, by a bridge of four hundred feet, and subsequent! the Black river twice, when the » twenty-seven miles distant— most part care reach Dui nineteen of Weich are for Sex unbroken forest. Twelve miles from Durham, the, St. Francis is crossed by a bridge three hundred: twenty-feet—sixty-eight from the water; and ten yond this is the Richmond station—seventy- one miles from the St. Lawrence. The wet Melbourne is on the southwest side of the St. = cis, which empties into Lake St. Peter, immediately opposite that of Richmond. m Richmond to Sherbrooke brenie the road winds along the bank of the river, succession of hill and dale, islands, rapids and water- falls, crossing the Windsor river ten miles from Richmond, near its Sanesion, ses Fah Pesos passing frequently throug! p cut tatiana: ati it reaches the Magog tiver, which it crosses, the bridge being 246 feet in length, near Sherbrooke, This vil! is situated on a hill, on each side of the Magog river, which here descends with great ra- piaity. affording ample water power, and on the ks of which are a woollen manufactory, a pail face tory, an iron feng machine shop, saw and mills and a paper mill. The agency of the American is here, which Ss of land, for whi from two to five dollars per acre. offered by the com: are “one-fifth of the purchase money paid on entry, with easy credit for the re- mainder.” I was handed at the office, a list of lots that are for sale, “selected as well for the quality of the soil, as their eligibility with regard to res ment, neighboring settlements, churches, sc roads, and stores,” aud yet find upon upwards of one hundred and fifty lots, probably two-thirds of the number offered, that clearances have been made by former settlers, who had probably been unable to comply with the conditions of sale, in conse- uence of the want of roads to convey their pro- luce to a market on the St. Lawrence, This barrier to a direct intercourse with the St. Lawrence sti!l exists; but as has already been re- marked, the railroads will opes up markets: on the sea-board. Another obstacle to the improvement of the eastern townships will be found iu the natur2 of the tenure under which deeds have paseed, “ the conditions contained in which, say a committee of the Legisletare upon the subject, are similar to those contained in the deeds made by the most exacting seigniors of Lower Canada,” and contrary to the tenure of free and common soccage. The cars usually run three times a day, each way, between Portland and Montreal; but as a section the road was being repaired, one train had been temporarily withdrawn. I met with a oumber of rsons coming on from Portland on my re- mn, all of whom expressed themselves big ly de- lighted with the scenery—particularly that between. the Provinces and that city—including of course the aie Ceaeesee which time would oot permit me Visit. Asthe Chaudiére has its source in the eastern townships, and the localities in which gold has been found are in that section of the Province, I made inquiry asto the actual state of affairs, and the in- formation I received from two very intelligent itle- men satisfied me that there is a vast deal of exag- geration, mixed up with a little truth, in the state- ments that are published. Previous to leaving Quebec, I had a conversation with a gentleman who isa large stockholder in a company that bas been formed to work the mines, if any shall be discovered to warrant their doing so, having obtained a grant of an extensive tract for that purpose, who ivformed me that he was not over sanguine as to the result of the exploration which ig 4 going on. There was only one place, he said, where gold had been found to any extent, and there the quantit, procaied in a day did not exceed in value twenty four dollars. That the country is ricky in mineral wealth, however, there can be no doubt, and of a description which it will be more conducive to the public weal to improve. TRAVELLER. ~ Shipwreck in the Pacific. CAPTAIN SNOW’S REPORT OF THE LOSS OF THE BRIG CHATHAM. [From the Valparaiso Herald, Oct. 1 The brig Chatham, of San Francisco, anes F. Snow, master, sailed from San Francisco on the 6tiz of September, 1852, on a trading voyage to the islands in the South Pacific Ocean. After having visited the Marquesas, Society, and Harvey groups, we left Whylootacke,on the 28th of December, for San Francisco, with a full cargo of the produce of the islands. We stood to the north until the morning of the 5th of Jannary, 1853, when, at 4:30 A.M., the land and breakers were descried close under the bows, and before the brig could be wore, she struck on the reef on the west side of a low sand island not laid down on any chart or in apy book my posge:sion. used every means to get the vessel off the reef, but she soon bilged. The natives by this time flocked to the beach, and seemed to show every mark or a savage and hostile people, much to the consternation of uz allon board. A consultation was held amongst ug as to the best means to pursue. Some werefor fight ing and some for trying to make frieads with the natives; they dare not come on board, nor dare wa goon shore. So I proposed to make every nerpara- tion for fight, and I would go on shore and find out. the disposition of the natives, which course was adopted. Every thing ready, I lett the vessel for the shore across the reef, telling those on board if they saw me massacred, they then would know what tate awaited them. On my reaching the shore, the na« tives laid aside their spears and received me vel kindly, kissed and caressed me, and, as I sitecearta learned, they age me a curious specimen of the human being, for they had never seen @ white mar before. By this time the natives perceived thera were ery things in and about the vessel Mend much needed, and they made a push for the vessel and stripped her of all moveables could lay hands on, nor did they bg here, but robbed us of everything we attempted to save; they would not permit us to have snything at;all; they even search- ed our clothes, and in some instances tore off the aloo in their eagerness to get the contents of em. After they had stripped the vessel we were dis- Sy tata bedi le of the island, where we spent a most wretched night, expecting to be every moment. The seal heap ve pele houses very poor, and the natives geling, passing, and repassing, armed with speara, kept p frong our eyes. The next morning commenced our natu- ralization. We were all drawn together and armed with spears, and marched off to the north end of the island, as we supposed to be there sacrificed to their gods—for they have many—but the training ended well, and we were each taken to our respective houses again. For several days this training wag carried on, differing only as their modes of worship differ, according to which of the gods they worship. We then found out that we were considered supreme beings, avd that we had nothing to fear as long ag they thought so. All we had to subsist on wag the cocoa nut and occasionally a bit of fresh fishe The island produced nothing but the coooa nut, and the natives are both indolent and igno- rant. I saw no marks of industry, except in their canoes, which are built for the pur- Sev of warfare; they are from fifty to seventy feet in length, and will carry from one to two hundred persons. I found the island to be a mn island, composed of eighteen islands, and the inhabitaats to amount to about 2,500natives. They are all overram with rats and land crabs, so that it would be impos- sible to grow vegetation if planted. The natives worthip idols, departed spirits of their own race, and have gcd-men, or a species of Pagan priest among themselves, whom they worship on particular occa- sions, Their mode of worship would be hard to de- scribe; it begins with a sort of a] exefvise, then a dance, then singing, crying and cutting themselves in arhocking manner across the breast, arms and face with sharp shells, until they area perfect gore of blood and frightful to bebold. As socn as the weather and the natives would per- mit, I set about building a boat out of the yawl aod fragments of the wreck, which took near six weeka tocomplete, and during this time I suffered in the ex- treme from the heat of the sun and hunger and thirst. The crew roaming about, fared very well from the different tents. The boat complete, I started with my mate, one seaman, and a passenger, the boat’s complement being four, ta try to get somewhere to bring relief to the suffering crew, for by this time the natives began to think usa burthen to them; hut the boat roved leaky, and on the second day we were forced 4 return ‘e now waited for the raivy season ta pass, and in March the 24th started for the Navi- ators Islands, if no relief could be got nearers Enowicg there was a pearl fishery at Hamphrey’s Island, | made for it, and on the 26th, at 3 P»M., reached the island; the boat’s crew consisted of my+ self mate, second mate, anda passengor. As soom as the boat was onshore, the mate and passenger refused to go farther in the boat, consequently I was forced to remain until the 10thof August, 1 the English brig Caroline Harttouched at the island and took me off, and to this port, where I arrived pesterday. The Chatham and cargo were a total loss, but all ersons were eaved, and were in good health when E Rit the island, though the natives began to use them quite ill, and they probably now are, if alive, in great suffering, for by this time they can have no clothing at all, and coe. its are scarce. avy blow sprang u tae. gw hours, tue waterg and seemed Gann on THR LAKR—. yesterday towards eventog. inrage. The sea ran aa high aa at ang Altjast nigh: the storm continued, aa We may expect to. hear of ‘tack acd the best of sailing frou ie = Vie tes time this fal! 5 has to-day abated but lite Girnsters. Dothing bat gr contd percent von” of the lake ye.eeld land Plaindealr, Nov. 9.