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

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POWERLL’S GREAT NATIONAL PAINTING ror rum RAUMENT 18 NOW OPEN AT THE NaTIONAL ACADEMY OV ex, £63 Broadway. How York, Monday, Nowember 14, 1853. The News. Yeewill be acen, by the table we give of majorities Tor Becretary-of State, that the. national. democrats have.e myjerity of probably fovr or five thousend in this State over the free soilers om the State ticket—a result which will astound many politicians, and par- ticularly the Cabinet of President Pierce. This ta- dle will open the eyes of many who hrve been hood- winked heretofore, as it proves that the downfall of the Van Buren dynasty 's accomplished at last. With regard to the Legislature, the democrats Shave chosen more Senators than was atfirst reported, but the whigs wil! still have a majority of about -two-thirds over bosh national and free soil sections of the democratic party. There may be some doubt whether the friends of Seward will have a «lear majority,as the two whigs from this city are eppored to him, and there may be possibly others samong the whig Senators frem the interior who are of 2 like or dubious character. In another part of our paper to-day will be found a complete list, with the exception of five vacancies in the Senate, of the Senators and members of the “House of Representatives whe are to compose the "Thirty-third Congress of the United States, which will conveze at Washington on the fifth day of De- ember next. The pew Congress will be more demo- eratic in its political complexion, and will contain ™mere new members, than any previous one, as we find that nearly two.thirds of the whole number of members elected are men who have never before set in the councils of the nation; and if the novel'y should please them, and we have no reason to sup- spose to tee contrary, the “long session” will be ran foan uvusyal length. It will be observed that the democrats have one huadred and fifty-nine of the whole number of members, the whigs seventy-one, and the abolitionists four; but the split ia the democratic party in this State will no doubt be followed by a sub-division in Congress, which will give us the fourth political organization, antagonistic to all the others. What will be the relative strength ‘of the national and free soil democrats we are unable to tell, and nothing but a show of handa can deter- mine, which will no doubt take place shortly after the meeting of Congress. There will be five dele- gates from Territories in the House of Representa- tives; four of whom are already elected and on their journey to Washington, and one from Nebraska, a self constituted territory, knocking at the door for admission. Taking the various important projects which will be brought before the coming Congress into consideration, and the numerous discordant ele- ments which wi!l compose it, we have reason to ex- pect some lively times during the succeeding wiater. The letter of our Fort Lane correspondent, pub- lished elsewhere, contains one of the most trathful, interesting, and explicit narratives of our recent war operations in the Oregon territory, which has heretofore appeared in new#paper print. The his fory of the Rogue river war, from its origin to its termination, is very minute, whilst the details of the actions and interviews with the Grave Creek and other Indians is at once exciting and romantic. The melancholy recital of the death of Miss Croly, as connected with the naming of the Grave Creeks, and the tragic end of the disturbers of her lonely tomb, are as melancholy as any chapter in the history ‘American Indian fighting. General Lane had left home, en route to Washington, in orderto be present at the opening of Congress. It is understood that he will make anearly and strong effort to obtain an appropriation to cover the expenses of the war, and al:o fora ratification of the treaty. His young indian companion will create a sensation in the capital. We to-day place upon record a table showing the most extraordinary featever accomplished by horse flesh, viz.:—the trottixg of one hundred miles in eight hours, fifty-five minutes, and fifty-three seconde. The table exhibits the remarkable fact that almost every mile throughout the entire hun- dred was gone over in Jess time than it would take a majority of horses to trot a single mile, and it has bega.clearly demonstrated that the American trotter is unparalleled for both speed and bottom. Scarcely a day passes that we are not called upon to notice unusual sickness aad mortality on board of vessels in all quarters of the ocean. The bark Crisis, from Chagres for the Chincha Islands, re cently put into the Southwest Pass, with the mate desd,and the captsin and crew all down with the Ohagres fever. The desreased receipts of cotton at the Southern ports, as compared with those of last year at this time, are repori«4 to be two hundred and forty five thousand bales. The Huropean advices brought by the Franklin imparted considerable animation to the New Orleans market, but had no effect apon prices. Three young men were drowaed by the upsetting of a sailboat on the Delaware, near Neyo wtle Saturday. Twoof thom, Wm. Fisher ant Wa. L, Elleworth, were formerly residents of this cl'y. A very impressive sertaon to. the firemen of New York wes delivered yesterday by Dr. Verruilye, i the North Dutch Charch, in William stveet, io memory of the lamented John S. Cartman, who fell a victim {o the late fire on the corner of Falton aud Nasean streets, Let every member of this heroi clae@ road this lesson on eternity. The ordination of Mesers. TH. W. Pierson and H. P. Hersick took place last evening in the Spring street presbyterian eburch. The pcstor, Rey. Dr. Canp- last Hy Rev. George Thacher and Rev. G.W. Wood. Mr. about to sail as missionary ueder appoint” boon miss’on in West Africs. esare today filed with a variety of in- resting letters, reports and extracts relative to Wo- litizal, commercial, religious aud other matters, both at home and abroad, to which the attention of tae reader ia directed without ment. | The Collins steame? Baltic iv about due, with four days later news from Europe. The America’s mais | left Boston ‘last evening, and will be ready for de- | livery at our Post Office this morning. ment to th | The Adnitaistration Letters—Probable Re- | signation of Marcy, Guthrie, and Davis. Politicians will find ample material fer re- flectton in the letters from Messrs. Davis, Gu- thrie, Cusbing and Marcy, whick are published in another column. They are.with some few un- important exceptions, the principal expressions of opivion which have fallen from these gentle- men since they assumed office; and were there no other reasons for studying them with pecu- liar care, the high position of their writers would entitle them to close-atiention, and fully justify the prominent place we have allotted to the collection in our columns. But they demand They are, without exception, deliberate acts of interference by members of the federal adminis- tration, in local State politics. All of the five were written and published with the sole ob- ject of controlling and meddling with State ap- pointments. Four out of the number were direct attempts to crushan independent politi- eal party in this State, by throwing the ad- ministration influence into the scale with its opponents, And the fifth, tough referring in its application to another State, recognized and acted upon identically the same principle. The first of the collection is an endorsation of Jobn Van Buren ané his free soil allies, by Jefierson Davis, on the trumpery ground that the combination of a few spoils seekers of op- posite principles, at Baltimore, had the miracu- lous effect of cleansing ell men from their pre- vious ‘faults, and rendering it acrimein any one te reproach traitors for their treason. It likewise consistently sneers at Dickinson and Bronson. The object of this letter was to de- lude the New York democracy and curry favor for the Van Baren free soilers during the State canvass. The second is the famous letter which has earned for the Seeretary of the Treasury the unenviable epithet of the “Brutal Guthrie.” It is in strong contrast to the polished circum- lqcutions of Mr. Davis. Mr. Guthrie does not beat the bush. He goes straight to the point, apd tells Mr. Bronson that all who, for the sake of a share of the plunder, were unprincipled enough to support the Baltimore platform, ze- gardless of their private opinions, are entitled to their reward. Honesty among thieves is obyieusly Mr. Guthrie’s motto. He says that the Ealtimore free soilers sold their souls on credit to support Pierce, and thoy have a right to be paid the price. Bronson is told to pay ‘em, and let there be an end of the matter. Untortunately for poor Mr. Guthrie, he caught © Tartar in catching the Collector, and received areply which must have unsettled his nerves. Sach, at least, is the inference from letter No. 3, intended to be an explanation of No. 2. The former performance, which gave rise to the un- complimentary epithet mentioned abore, was a model of polite correspondence compared with the Jatter. A wild boar driven into a corner by a pack of hungry dogs, or a she wolf defend- ing her young against the huntsmen, must have been a fit likeness of the Secretary as he wrote it. With the copy of bis other letter before him, in which he ordered Bronson to appoirt all who, from whatever motive, had sub- scribed to the Baltimore platform,—not excepting the most rabid abolitionists— he denies that he “ desired the Collector to ap- point free soilers to office;” and having, not three weeks before, made a most direct and mali- cious attempts to interfere in the distribution of office in the New York Custom House. and insisted on a fair share of the local spoils for his “stripe,” he unblushingly states that he never “required the Collector to act in reference to | controversies of a local or State character.” | Finally, to cap these inconsistencies in an ap- propriate manner, he procures the dismissal of Bronson, as “a refractory officer,” and replaces him by a well known ally of Marcy’s. It can- not be said after this that Mr. Ggthrie has not distinctly espoused a cause in New York polltics. Mr. Caleb Cushing’s letter is tolerably well known. It had no direct application to New York, being addressed to Massachusetts; and was, as everybody knows, a palpable contra- diction of the letters of Davis and Guthrie. It is useful, however, in this argument, as showing the principle on which the administration acts, and how ready they are to involve themselves in local disputes at State elections. The fifth and last of our collection is Mr. Marcy’s letter to the German meeting at Tam- many Hull. Mr. Marcy, like Mr. Guthrie, is straightforward in such matters: he knows that the spoils are the only aim and object of his po- litics, and he doesn’t object to say so. Ifhe calls the refasal of certain friends of the Union to be present at the Syracuse convention, “an uncalled-for secession,” “destitute of a reasona- ble pretext,”’ “mischievous in its consequences,” and “deserving of a rebuke,” he doesn’t affect to conceal that his motive for saying so is a fear that the whigs will triumph at the elections and win the State spoils. There is a pleasant frankness in the cynism with which he, like his colleagues, boldly leaps down from his high rank, and enters the lists of the State elections as a champion of John Van Buren and the free soilers, Here, then, we have four of the members of the present administration openly espousing a cause in State affairs. Three out ofthe number took sides as emphatically as could be, in this , officiated as presiding minister, and was astisted | notiee on other and more unusual grounds. | offiers in their stead, such governments would he ‘the worst of despotisme, and at the present day would speedily be subverted by an appeal io Toree. It does bappen occasionally that an eeoprincipled maz forces his way into office, and astists in carrying outa policy which he docs not approve. But an honest statesman no soon- } er perceives that the public verdict is adverse to him one question in which be has openly espoused a side, than he rightly infers that his | retention of office would he distasteful to the | people. and promptly restores te them the power they placed in his hands. Noman of character, | in such a position, could hesitate for an instant. This is precisely the position in which Marcy, | Davis and Guthrie have placed themselves. They voluntarily involved themselves in the New York quarrel. There was'no necessity for | it; # was an-unparalleled impertinence on their part‘from the frst, and a gross violation of the rights of this State. But they did interfere, and did avow a policy and esponse a side in the dispute. ‘Ina word, they placed themselves in the van of the battle, and called upon New ¥ork to ratify or disapprove their course. They made us the umpire between them and their assailants, end looked ferward confidently to | our decision in their favor. Our decision stands on record, and is as em- phatic in its censure of their course as Bronson could haye wished. The democracy of tis State, in spite of custom-house and postoffice in- fluence, in spite of the combined exertions of free soilers and the Cabiact’s friends, in spite of terrorism on the one side and corruption on the other, have unequivocatly condemned the ad- ministration by the vote of Tuesday ‘last. There is no possibility of disguising the fact ; no earthly: hope of escape from the crushing de- feat. Under these circumstances, what course may Marcy, Guthrie, and Davis, be expected . to pursue? We have seen what course honor and usage dictate—how an honest statesman would unhesitatingly actin euch a conjuncture. We know that among the great statesmen, both in this and other countries, there is not one who, after so galling a humiliation, would voluntarily incur the additional disgrace of a formel dis- missal. But ave have yet to !earn how Messrs. Marcy, Guthric, and Davis will act. The French Mission Agoin. Will there be no end to this subject of the French mission? We are receiving communi- cations from Washington and many other parts of the country. all making inquiries on the sub- ject of this mission, and endeavoring to eluci- date the movements that were made on our behelf during our absence in Europe. We are every Gay met by persons, with a grin from top to bottom of their face, asking us what progress we are meking in procuring the mis- sion te France from our special personal and devoted friend Secretary Marcy. Ofcourse we cure at our solicitation the sina!l consulsbip of Lyons, worth $536 year, notwith the regard, and praise, and admirat | he had ®o often, and to all sorts of p | expressed towards us and the E out the contest of 1852. This isa solema well asa laughable fact. that for all tt vices which-—as is admitted by every pe’ + | we conferred upon General Pierce during the contest for his election, we could not procare for as ser- consulship worth two or three hundred dollars a yeer! while Secretary Marcy, for the single article misrepresenting and abusing the mili- tary career of General Scott, got into the Cabi- net, occupies his place there, and manages the whole foreign and domestic appointments, with- out any regard to the wishes or desires of the ‘President. This is the real view, touching our applica- tion for the French mission, and its attendaat circumstances, We tested tho. power and in- fluence of the President in his own administra- tion, and we have found that he has net In- fluence enough to procure the smallest appoint- ment for one of his best friends. The fact is, we should not at all be surprised to see General Pierce re ign his office, and allow the Cabinet to manage and control the affairs of the country as they choose. He has been accustomed to re- signation. He resigned his office as 2 United States Senator; he resigned his post as Briga- dier General in Mexico, and he resigned various posts in New Hampshire. He has always been accustomed to practice resignation and piety to any extent. Under such circumstances, our application for the French mission to the pre- sent administration, while Mr. Marcy is Secre- tary and General Pierce President, must be considered in somewhat a state of despondency, while our strong hopes yet incline us to think that our chances will change before the next change of the moon. Premonitory Symptoms of another Re- vulsion. Previous to the great revulsion of 1837, the capitalists and financiers of Wall street were perfectly crazy in the erection of magnificent private dwellings, splendid stables, out-houses, greenhouses and greenhouses, and inthe laying out ofthe most costly pleasure gardens, after the fashion of the nobility-of Europe. Beautiful carri- ages, of the richest materials and the most elegant workmanship, with liveried footmen, and pranc- ing steeds of purest blood, might be seen daily before their doors, awaiting the gorgeously at- tired inmates, or perhaps whirling through Broadway or the Fifth avenue, almost at the specd of a locomotive. Sumptuous entertain- ments and balls were nightly given in the pa- laces of the merchant princes ; and men and families, in that year of expense and paper cre- dit, went perfectly wild in their notions of ex- travagance in houses, and horses, and equipages, always make reply that our prospects are as good as might be expected under the circum- stances. In another column will be found a further communication from our correspondent at Washington, professing to give some fresh and novel views in relation to the application made by various parties to General Pierce and his Cabinet in favor of the French mission being awarded to us as a part of the spoils resulting from the great victory of 1852. Seriously, this is a very amusing and funny business. It seems that during our absence in Europe, a set of adventurers—some of them professing to have influence and control in the Heratp, though they were hardly ever inside the office, and others giving out that they had purchased up the editor for a large sum of money—were actually talking on one side of their mouth in favor of our mission to France in connection with our name, while they were very busy endeavoring to procure offices for them- selves and their friends, under the feint of talk- ing about us. We have reason to believe, from the facts which have come to our knowledge since our return, that the agents of Marcy, at Concord, actually made General Pierce believe that everything that was done by the Heratp was procured through the influence of Marcy and his faction in New York, aided and assisted by Belmont and the capitalists of that day, who declared that they advanced a large sum of moncy in favor of the election. A more gratui- tous piece of insolence and falsehood never was put forth, than such stories by these men; but pnfortunately, however, it appears that General Pierce actually believed them at the tini¢: Mr. Clover, of this city, on the part of Mr. Belmont, once talked to us in favor of sustain- ing Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. But this was soon settled at the time; and even Mr. Marcy, for the first time in twenty years, ap- proached us at the Irving House, and began to talk in favor of Mr. Buchanan—but this was before the nomination at Baltimore—and against General Pierce and his prospects for the Presi- dency. Old Marcy had cheated us twenty years before, in the most mean and contempti- ble manner that one man could cheat another, and we soon settled his hash for him. But he procured by stealth the insertion in the columns ot our paper an article against Gen. Scott, which was fall of malice and falsehood, and which we did not then know had come from Marcy, else it should have been rejected. All these intriguers, it seems, were using and abusing the capital which the Heratp had made in the election campaign, during our absence in Europe— praising its great efforts and admiring its won- derful leaders, while they gave out at the same time that all had been procured and purchased by these chaps themselves. Such was the gross humbug which Marcy, Belmont, Forney, Saunders—and we don’t know how many others—all attempted to pass cur- rent during our absence, in reference to the French mission and the influence of the Henan. We heard, also, while in Europe, and during our State, in favor of the Van Baren free soilers, and against the Dickinsondemocracy. When a po.itician acts thus, he stakes his place and office on the result. When a statesman openly pins his faith to a certain line of policy, he re- signs office if it cannot be carried out, Such is the usage in all constitutional countries—a usage originated by the refined dictates of civi- lized life end the promptings of high principles ofhonor, Jt is this principle which constitates the great sa'guard of free governments. Itis beeause tie people know that the leading men to whom entrust supreme power, will either hat j er in aceordance wil their well known convictions, or will aban- don it to other hauds, thes the com- uni large venture rlesely ) emselves of eo large a portion of ural liberty, and bestow it on other Were it otherwise—iv fact, wore it usaal for state » countries to cbtain ciltee by pledges to purene one line of policy, and wards to aiter that poliey whea they chowe, without giving the people a chance to appoint sojourn in Wiesbaden, that Gen. Pierce, in pub- lic and in private, in every form and shape, was profuse in his gratitude, and thanks, and admiration of the course which was pursucd towards him in the New York Herat, and of the editor thereof. This created in us a smile; but an interesting person advised us, just out of a whim, to test the sincerity of Gen. Pierce hunse?f in his warm eulogiums passed upon the course of the Hrranp in his clectiou; and ac- cordingly we commenced a very amusing corresponderce cn the subject, consisting of three letters eddresved to General Pieree, in pretty much the same strain a from the West epplicd to General Jack the office of the fret minister in his C t but in case he could not pet that or anythiag below it, he would be content with an old pair man of breechee sooner than go away without some- thing by way of a present from the old hero. At the se of the correspondence, we found it to be an ablvolate fuct that Geseral Pierce, and servants, and dress, and jewelry, and every thing. We now see strong symptoms of a similar description beginning to develope themselves all around. When we go up town we see splen- did structures rising on every side. Let us give a sample from our advertising columns, where will be found a notice of the peremptory sale of two valuable lots of ground, with ‘foundations and stable thereon,” situated on the corner of Madison square and Twenty-fourth street, and owned by Henry Dwight, Esq., whose recent failure created so great a sensation in business circles a few days since. A brief description of this splendid man- sion, as it will prove when completed, may not be uninteresting to our readers. The lot on which the foundation now stands is fifty-four feet front by one hundred deep, and the house will be twenty-eight by seventy-six feet. In its architecture it will resemble the style known as the Palladian or modern Italian. It will be entirely constructed of a very valua- ble species offreestone, from the Pictou quarry, Nova Scotia, sometimes called Pictou stone. It will consist of three stories—the first measuring seventeen feet in the clear. The walls of the superstructure will be hollow, the advantages of which will be readily perceived. The apart- ments are intended to be spacious and magnifi- cent in the extreme, and the drawingroom, if the plans of the architect are fully carried out, will be surpassed in size by none in the city—dimen- sions, twenty-six feet wide by forty-five deep. & young man, but an old friend of ours, asmall | the commercial interests of the whole city? Wien the trees in sp vat forth their buds, of every tint and hue, we know that the bright | bleom of summer is nigh, when the joyous birds shall nestle in the branches and warble their songs of love. And when the feathered \ songsters hecome mate, and the gay folage of summer is changed into the sere and yellow drop, one after another, to the earth, we feel | when the nipping frosts and whistling winds shallstrip the oak, the sycamore, the maple, the beech, and the laburnam, of the last ves- tige of their beautiful garments, and the howl- ing tempest shall sweep over land and sea, strewing its track with desolation. Thus with many of our paper money mushroom aristo- cracy. and their proud wives and daughters—it wos first the spring of hepe and promise, then glorious summer, with its blushing honors; it is now the fall, with saduess tinged; and soon shall come “the winter of their discontent,” with clouds and darkness brooding over the scene, Ovr New Montcipat Corroration.—The long desired era of reform in our city government, from which so much goed is expected, is at length about to be initiated, with what results. has yet to be seen. The aldermen and council- men elected under the new charter, and com- prising some thirty or forty reform members, will enter on the duties of their office at the beginning of the year. Up to that time we must have patience and endurance. We have stil some two months to pass through—months of filthy streets and general disorder in the city—hefore the day of economy and reform shall dawn upon us. In the mean time we have to thank the spirits of air for having taken pity upon as, and given us a most copi- ous discharge of water from the clouds, to wash our reeking and Jong uncleaned streets. After the last day’s rain, they now look somewhat clean and respectable, better fer than they have ever looked after a casual visit from the Street Commissioner. However, notwithstand- ing the high expectations formed from the ad- vent into power of the new corporation, we are strongly of opinion that the great ery of reform will hardly realize what is so generally antici- pated trom it. A great deal of praise has been liberally showered upon Mr. Flagg, the Comptroller, on account of his economy ond his withholding payment of various sums due by the city. Mr. Flagg is undou)tedly an economist, and so far deserves credit and approbation; but there is a point beyond which economy, to be useful and practical, should never pass in a city of such magnitude as this. We understand, for in- stance, that Mr. Flagg, in carrying out his no- tions of economy, has stopped the work of paving the Bowery. Now, while a law exists, and a contract is in force under it, for the re- construction of that street in a durable and solid manner, there ean be no economy nor pro- priety in stopping a movement which issomuch needed as the good pavement of New York. We To guard against fire, which usually originates through the carelessness of domestics, the ser- vants’ staircase is surrounded by brick walls, and composed entirely of iron, from garret to cellar, thus removing alldanger from that quarter. The first story will consist of a spacious dining room, library, conservatory, and billiard room. The upper rooms, or sleeping apartments, are intended to be unsurpassed, so far as their architectural proportions go, for comfort and convenience. The foundations are bound together at a great expense, with inverted arches, which secure, to- gether with the hollow walls, the greatest pos. sible amount of strength and durability. The stable, which we are informed is un- equalled by anything of the kind in the city, occupies the adjoining lot, which measures twenty-five feet front, fifty feet rear, and ninety eight and a half in depth. Each stall has ac- commodations for hay, grain and water, and the occupant of each is elevated upon a false floor, so that all water is immediately carried off. The interior is lined with red front brick, and, like the dwelling house, its walls are laid ncement. It forms a residence of which any quadruped, even of the most sanguine expecta- tions, might well be proud. The cost of the entire establishment cannot, we are told, fall short of $130.000. The building has been car- ried on under the direction of Mr. Thomas C. Smith, to whom we are indebted for these facts. This is precisely the same thing that we wit- nessed in 1837, We remember one case:—A celebrated speculator of that day was in the habit of riding down town from his palace to the corner of Wall street. He always got out opposite Trinity Church, and walked down the street where he carried on his operations. On one of these occasions he was met descending from his beautiful vehicle, by an old friend, who knew him when he was worth just five dollars a week. The friend exclaimed, “ What splendid horses and carriage!” “ Yes, pretty fair,” was the reply. “Why, you must be very rich,” rejoined the other. “Oh, no,” said the finan- cier, “not rich, I suppose { am worth about a million and a balf, No, no, not rich.” Tn two or three weeks after, the revulston ce This rpcculator was found not to be worth a penny. His house, and horses and ca ge, and all that he haé, were sold by auction. Here, now, we see the came brilliant, reckless career pur- sued; and can there be a donbt that it will terminate, ere Jong, at the same goal of ruin, and thot the sound of anothe: destructive crash will econ be heard, which will shake Wall the President of the United Statos, had uot ta fluence enovgh with Secretary Marcy to pro street to lie foundation, with uppertendom avd have heard, too, of many other small affairs which Mr. Flagg has put his veto on indirectly, and we think such a course will turn out to be anything but real economy. The truth of the matter is, in connection with this movement, that there isa great deal of humbug and hoaxing here in relation to econo- my. The people of New York are a prosperous intelligent, energetic, thriving people. They are making money faster than any other like number of people in christendom. They are not actuated by mean motives or by narrow princi- ples in public matters. We have no hesitation in saying that nine-tenths of the people of the city would make no objection to the present amount of taxation imposed on them, provided that that levy would actually insure to them good government, in all its ramifications throughout the city. If we had clean streets, such as they have in London and Paris, where they are thoroughly swept every morning—if we had an efficient and energetic police, such as they also have in those great capitals of Lurope— if we had all the other effects of a good. honest, and energetic municipal government—as every well-regulated community has under a despot- ism, but which it seems are not procurable un- der a democracy, then, we are perfectly certain, there are very few in this city who would object to the present amount of taxation, or even to a little more. The clamor raised by the reform- ers about high taxes is foolish and mis- placed. The objection which the people of New York have had to past governments is not as to the actual amount of taxation. But it is the fact that they pay these taxes and re- ceive no return, and derive no benegt from them in the way of good government. Look at our streets—the state they have been in all through the summer down to the present period—cover- ed with filth; uncleaned for weeks and months, if ever visited by ascavenger at all; reeking with effluvia from choked up gutters, dead horses, cats and dogs, and every sort of abomination, while the sidewalks were permitted to be blocked up and encumbered by building mate- rials and other obstructions. It is against these things that the people of the city revolt. No officials pay the slightest attention to these matters, or endeavor to carry ont the ordi- nances. The money is paid for them, but the duty is not performed. Such is the condition in which we have been placed by the want of efficient magistrates and servants in all the departments, of ‘munici- pal government. There is no objection of any moment to high taxation--even to the present rates. A few old fogies, miserable misers down in Wall strect, may raise and originate a cry about it; but the great bulk of the people, who are making money rapidly, are perfectly willing topay taxes,provided they get good government. We are afraid, therefore, that the new reformers going into the corporation next January, are too narrow-minded men to understand their duty, or to put it in practice, when they shall be regularly installed in their places of trust and power. But we will give them a little time, and will help them as much as we can to bring forward those practical reforms so much needed in New York. If they do their duty we shall be very agreeably disappointed, and if they neglect it, they shall hear of it, too. Sivauran Fact.—It is a remarkable fact that Cooley, as candidate for Comptroller, notwith- standing his terrible speech agains: the Presi- dent, has obtained a very considerable ority in this city over Kelly, the admini and Van Buren candidate—o majority of fifteen hundred yotes. Add to this the whig vote, which is oleo opposed to the President, and what chad we then have?—the opinion of the people of New York about the political charac- ier of General Pierce? We hope not, for we still think better of the Precident, whatever opinion we may bave formed of his Cabinet. | leaves of autumn, and these leaves begin to | that the gloom of dreary winter is approaching: | Tue Surrios Fexp axp rue Van Boren Fac- TION—Tue Favix op tie WOLF AND THE Lamb~~ The Van Buren newspaper organs support the Cubinet, on the ground of its great economi- cal principles, and its intention to oppose all the steam line contracts, and the granting of any money to George Law, ©. K. Collins, and others, for carrying the mails, This is the only ground on which the Van Buren faction and their organs in this State, or any other, pretend to sustain the administration. This is a very narrow ground, and suggests strange reflections as coming from the Van Buren party, when we recollect what the administration of Martin Van Buren did with the surplus in the treasury, be- fore he was defeated by the people when he was a candidate for re-election. It is well known that General Jackson left twenty-eight millions of surplus behind him, Under Van Buren there was an actual defalcation to the extent of five millions. There were plunderings by Collectors, Postmasters, and others, to the amount of five or six millions. This sum was absolutely stolen. The rest was divided among the different States, and then subdivided among the small politicians that adhered to Van Buren’s fortunes, just as the spoils are now distributed among the same faction. It is very natural that the revived Van Buren dynasty, true to their principles as the dial to the sun, should feel very sensitive under the appre+ hension that any body else but themselves should share in the public plunder. They do not wish that George Law or any other man should have his fingers inthe Treasury. They consider that all surplus funds, great or small, belong exclusively to them, and that they have a perfect right to rob and steal, with- out the danger of the penitentiary before their eyes, according to the ancient approved maxim of Rob Roy Macgregor :— The simple rule, the good old plan— That they should take who have the pover, That they should keep who can. Hence the continua! stream of declamation, poetry, and sentiment, sent forth by the politi. cians of the Evening Post, as to the danzer of the surplus funds being uhder any other hands than those of Van Buren and Co. Hence the great dread that the wolf entertained when he heard the report that the shepherd intended to intrust his lamb to the keeping of the shep- herd’s dog. The poor wolf shed a flood of tears at the perilous prospect before the lamb, for which he felt so tender a regard;} and no doubt the writers in the Evening Post, and the Van Buren dynasty, are now shedding oceans of tears at the terrible fate that awaits the sur- plus funds in any other hands than their own We pity the sorrows of these wolves in sheep’s clothing. Symptoms or Trove in THe Krrcuey.—The Evening Post, which is the organ in this city of the Van Buren portion of the Cabinet at Washington, is out in the most savage manner on the New England portion of the Cabinet, in the person of Mr. Cushing, including also the Washington Union in its condemnation and indignation. The following is a specimen :— The Washington Union is publishing articles from the newspapers concerning Mr. Cushing’s letter, but there are some things which it seems to have over- looked, we dare say through sheer inadvertance— for the Union is not very exact. We had supposed, until within a day or two, that the publication of that letter was so manifest an indiscretion that Mr. Cushing’s friends had concluded, in the words of the old adage, that the less was said about it the betters but itreems that it is not so, As, therefore, the fashion ie eee pene at te to publish the comments on the letter, wi ly & very markable omission of the Union. ped a Mr. Cashing is from E:sex county, in Massachu- setts. Here in New York the democrats laugh at hia letter; in Essex county they are indignant at it. Ita vulgar ard violent tone here awakens contempt; at home, where Mr. Cushing is better knowa, the con: tempt has a considerable mixture of wrath. How can we expect the cooking ofa kitchen to be of the first order, when there is so much trouble and disorder among the artizans? Intelligence from the Dominican Republic, We are in possession of files of the Ojicial Gazette of = Domingo up to the 26th of September. at portion of the island was in perfect e, and nothing had occurred on the ifentlany 6 tee tarb it. The government had received a communication from the Governor of one of the Dutch West India islands, dated 25th August, announcing that the lat- ter had been invested by the Netherlands govern- ment with & commission to celebrate a treaty of peace, commerce and navigation, with the Domint- can republic. One or more commissioners was to ba appointed by the latter for that purpose, and to pro- ceed to Curacao to negotiate it. < bi dad Keita ur may be formed of the state of public credit in Dominica, from cearery a (Cape e the Gaewien ‘s feedat y 2 1 current two cents of coined isetey A SE ‘The papers contain nothing else of interest. —$—$_____ Election in Massachusetts. To day will take place the State election in Massachu- setts, which closes the campaign of 1863, According to the programme there is to bo elected a Governor, Iieut. Governor and members of the Legisla- ture, A new constitution is also to be voted upon. The Proposed constitution contains a number of very impor- tant alterations in the system by which the common. wealth is at present governed, and has been the cause of bringing ® great deal of excitement into the present canvars—the whigs favoring the old and the democrats and coalitisnists the amended constitution. The new. instrument proposed to alter and define the rights of ju- ties, abolish imprisonment for debt, deprive the Legisla- ture of the power to pass bank charters, and substituting s general law similar to the cne in this State, authoriz- ing the granting of the writ of habeas corpus in all cases, and deprives all sectarian schools of the right to any of public money. Four tickets are in the field, not only for State officers, but, in most of the counties, for Senator and Representatives. The following pertons are in nomination for the offices of Governor and Lieut, Governor :— Administration Democrat, a For Governor....Henry W. Bishop. Emory Washburn. Lieut, Governor,.Levi A. Dowley. _ Wm. 0. Plunkett, National Democrat. Coalision and ii For Governor... Beadford N. Wales. Lieut. Governor .. George Osborn. Another Conv by urn 4 tion—Reviving an old Trick.—On Saturday mori about eight o'clock, @ countryman from Hampden, Delaware county, named Edward Bagley, was met in the street by three notorious characters, named Joseph Morison, aliae “Butcher Joe,” (# black man;) James Willis, alias “Rough,” and Zadook 8. Wheeler, alias ‘Hess’ who induced Bagley to accompany them to the inoer doorway: leading ‘tothe ‘Ocean Bank, corner of Fulton and Green- wich streets, for the pa-pore of, ax they aaid, deciding @ Tet, for which rervice they were to give him $5, How- ever, when ipside the entzance they closed the doors and. Gesired Bagley to inke out his money to bet, nud he not understanding the meaning, and feeling somewha! alarm- ed atthe movements of the three men, involuntarily pullee out a roll cf bank bills, amounting'to $63, Willis. grabbed the money from the henca of the green country. ian, nd in an instant the three disappeared, leaving the: cuped countrymen «tanding with his mouth opon, Gom- iaint was made by Bagley to Lieut. Olmstead, of the Tiina ward p lice, who, witt’oritcey Hamblin, went ia pur- anit of the eeoused parties and ruccesded ia arresting the black man Butcher Joe, and the yhite man Wheeler; but Willis wes rot caught. Wheeler subsequently, fearing the consequences of a convicriou, gave an order to Bagley o sh atreer, tu pay dock the money The ' that did not ocmpromive 'ue aiatr, wees baw ricopveyed the two accuse, dyart, who committed them % ie is arraeged for the coun the Grand Jury, and in sil probabtltry iil be found, and the accused trivd tots week for Cuse of Lareeny tof Stating Bans Simonds, of ie diay arrented an Irish wor sn named a charge of atealiog two bai Phowtx Baok, for £53 80, at vity Bank, Sreabiyy, for 8U7 19 ks, wary in the poxwdiou of edolph Cuttucr, clock to George. I. Kratt, No. 48 Maiéan Ian: «i! e0 50 was passing dows au etreet he lost them irom his posseasion, and SUP.