The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1853, Page 4

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SIGNOR BLITZ--Stuvvesant Institute, 659 Broadway ACADEMY HALL 663 Brosdway—Penuam’s Grrr Exnr BITION Ov THE SEVEN Mite MIRROR, POWELL'S GREAT NATIONAL PAINTING ror tHe GoveRmenr is NOW OPEN AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Dusiex, (v3 Booadway “Bew York, Saturday, November 10, 1853. The Weekly Herald. The Wraniy Axnixp will be published at half-past nine welock this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six- peace The News. Our Washington special correspondent gives an wkling of the end sought to be attained by Mr. Cushing through his notorious letter denouncing the coalitionists of Massachusetts. It seems it was intended to operate in the recent election in Missis- sippi, and was ciréulated in that region before its appearance in Boston. Taken in connection with the fact that the organ of the spoils Cabinet claims the defeat of General Foote as an administration vic tory, and the well known aptitude of the Attorney General for political finesse, and the design is plain. The recent visit of John Van Buren to Washington is eaid to have been for the purpose of bringing about the resussitation of Blair’s Globe, the present organ of the free soilers, at the capital, not being considered asup tothe mark, The apprehension of Marcy and his coadjators is seen in the threats of the Unioa to democratic Senators, should they have the temerity to reject the nomination of the successor of Judge Bron- son. An effort will be made in the next Congress to make the office of Assistant Se2retary of the Treasury subject to confirmation by the Senate. General Cass is preparing for his residence in Washington, and surprise is maxifested at the rather unasual style the distinguished veteran has concluded to adopt. It is stated that our consul at Paraguay is charged with improperly using his flag to protect one of the ships which Admiral Coe surrendered when he deserted those whom he should have better served. The con- duct of the consul is represented as being in the highest degree reprehensible, and will be subjected to investigation. Senor Marcoletti, minister from Nicaragua, was presented on Wednesday. A petition was presented in the Boari ot Assis- tant Aldermen last night, for permission to lay a rail- road track from Fi'ty first street, through Ninth ave- ue and other streets, to the Battery. A resolution was offered authorizing the Sixth Avenue Railroad company to construct a single track from Canal street, through Mercer and Eighth streets, Universi- ty place, Broadway and Twenty-third street, to con- nect with their present track in the Sixth avenue. A remonstrance of the residents and property holders on Bleecker street, to the proposed alteration of the Harlem railroad track, was presented and referred. The Committee on Streets, of the Board of Assis- fant Aldermen, held a meeting yesterday to hear the arguments for and against the removal of the Har- Jem railroad track from the Bowery to and through Crosby and Bleecker streets to Centre. The oppo- nents of the project appeared in great numbers, and stated their intention to resist by every legal means the contemplated change. The Committee of the Bodrd of Assistant Alder- men, appointed to inquire into the charge against the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, held a Meeting yesterday. Counsel for the defendint was seady to proceed with the investigation, but the op- posing party failing to appear, in consequence of other engagemeuts, nothing was done. By our report of the proceedings of the Board of County Canvaseers it will be seen that important errors were discovered in the returns rendered by the inspecters in the Second, Fourth, and Fifth districts of the Twentieth ward. The returns were sent back to the inspectors for correction. Errors were also found in ths returns of the Fifth district of the Sixteeath ward. The trial of Hoare for the murder of Susan Mc- Annanny commenced yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The case is not yet concluded, Dr. 0. W. Holmes, of Boston, lectured before the Mercantile Library Association of this city last eve- ning—his subject was, “The Life and Poetry of John Keats.” The Young Men’s National Democratic Union Club met at Stuyvesant Institute last night, and adopted an address to the ‘National Democracy of the Union,” which we give in another part of t day's paper. The pork market in New Orleans, cn Wednesday, experienced quite a panic—mess declined to $13 50 per barrel. At Cincinnati it was quoted at $11 75. The Arabia's news produced no effect upon the cot- ton market. The Ohio river is now in fine order for navigation, and boate have commenced running between Pitts- burg and St. Louis. A violent storm prevailed yesterday down cast ‘The harbor of Portland, Maine, was full of vessels, driven in by the severity of the gale. Flour was active yesterday, and State brands im- proved sixpence per barrel. Wheat was also very active, but without change in price. Cotton reco vered one-eighth of a cent, with sales ‘5 bales. Judce Mason, U.S. Minister to France, accom- panied by his family, will sail in the Pacific on the 26th inet, Congress baying appropriated $20,000 for the con- stroction of a coal depot for United States steamers at Key West, Capt. Biake, of the navy, has arrived «lect a site for the parpose, referenc bed in ite lecation to ite fitness fora navy; Key West is stution. On » pages may be found letters from Macrid, Loudon, and Australia; an artisie on the condition of the Turkish finances; interesting Turkish ubase ; slavery in the United States, aud American trade in [ndis ; Chinese entigration ; an account of an attempt to foree a young girl into a convent at Providence ; theatrical, finanzial, com- mercial, and mixing intelligence, &c., do. ard. an important naval and coamercia our f FULTON AND NASSAU STS. | ritatn, and 3 to any part af the | More Food fer Buncombe. It rains patriots and beroes. We have only | ‘to look to Europe, no matter where, to listen to one or other of the political refugees who are wandering over the Continent, or to read the accounts of Austrian despotism which fill the | London Daily Wews—end ‘Tears of compassion tremble on our eyelids, Ready to fall as soon as we have learnt the | Pityfal story. | If it went no farther than this, perhaps there would be no harm in it. Tears are a wholesome provision of nature, to relieve man of superfiu- ous humor and bile. But we don’t stop here. When a Kossuth lights among us, and doles out rhetoric by the yard, we throw our hats in the air, spend thousands in feasting him, quarrel with foreign ambassadors for his sake, and let him lead us by the nose until that re- spectable feature in Uncle Sam’s countenance is unduly elongated. When another foreign exile gets into a scrape at Smyrna--a place where Heaven knows we have no more right to raise our yoice than the Khan of Tartary—we throw the stars and stripes over him, dub him a hero, straightway, write articles and sing songs about his griefs. and finally—for the truth must out— are obliged to use compulsion to induce our pet to come to the land of his adoption. But Kozsta is not the last of the race, Another hero, named Paperi, who, in 1849, finding Rome too hot for him, ran away to this country, grew tired of our society and returned home a short while since : there, reverting to his old practi- ces, got himself lodged in prisén—hearing of Koezta’s case, he thought of claiming our protec- tion; and though he could not pretend to be naturalized, and had no evidence of having de- clared his intention to become an American citizen, aroused a good deal of sympathy among our counirymen, and contrived to induce our representatives to interfere on his behalf. This worthy is a fresh edition of the hero. We have no doubt he is an undoubted hero by this time. We daresay that songs will be written about Paperi’s woes, and that our national honor will require us to rescue Paperi from his Austrian jailers. We shouldn't be surprised if Marcy wrote an elaborate despatch proving that Paperi isa patriot, and that it is due to the greatness of this republic to bring him over in a war steam- er. Inthe language in whieh Mrs. Micawber was accustomed to address her better half in tender moments, Mr. Marcy will assure the world that the United States “will never, nev- er desert” Paperi. Whether the gentleman himself, as soon as he has baffled the Austrian police through our aid, will follow the example of Koszta, and refuse to honor us with his com- pany, remains of course to be seen. Now, before we proceed further to establish for ourselves the character of knight errants in Europe, it will perhaps be well to devote a moment to investigating, calmly and soberly, the natural consequences of such a course. It is clearly due to ourselves that the promise of protection to our citizens travelling abroad, held out in President Pierce’s inaugural, should be promptly, energetically, and unequivocally redeemed. Itis of more consequence that every American, be he where he may, should feel that he cannot be insulted with impunity, than that Cuba should be annexed or Mexico admitted tothe Union. More of our future power and greatness depend on a thorough understanding of our intentions in this respect, by foreign nations, than can possibly be imagined. And if any power or potentate on this earth dares to violate the rights of a single freeborn American, to maltreat his person, or molest his property, we hold that the injupy should be avenged, if it cost us ten years revenue and half our standing army. Duty, interest, honor, imperatively require it. We go further, and add that where the injured indiv.dual has any respectable show of a claim to our protec- tion, even though his citizenship should be a matter of doubt, we should deal with him as though he had been born at New York or Bos- ton. On this ground we uphold the conduct of Ingraham at Smyrna, and regard it as one of the noblest deeds in our history. But when we see foreigners assuming to claim of us such distinguished honors as are seldom awarded to our own citizens, on the sole ground that they were nuisances in their own country, and might have been hanged had we not generously interfered to save them, we cannot help regarding the proceeding as an un- mitigated impertinence. Here is this Martin Koszta, for instance, whom we rescued, at no small risk to our brave sailors, from'the jaws of an Austrian prison. This man no sooner finds himeelf free than he repudiates all obligation to his preserver, and absolutely refuses to fulfil the bond on the strength of which he was claim- ed. He wants none of us—dislikes the country —and is carried a sort of prisoner on board an American ship. A few weeks hence he will be here, and there will be people to call for din- ners, feasts. meetings, and celebrations in his honor. He will be lionised on the strength of his having given us a world of trouble, and be- ing supremely ungrateful. Horace Skimpole, insisting on his claims to Esther’s gratitude be- cause he afforded her an opportunity of paying his debts and showing the goodness of her heart, acted on precisely the same principle as Martin Kozsta. It must not be said that we are presenting an unfaithful picture of ourselves. Kossuth’s ca- reer in this country can hardly have been for- gotten. Tax-payers, at all events, have good reason to remember the phrenzy of delight with which we welcomed a man whose only claims to distinction were his rhetorical ability, and the memory ot having plunged his country into war, betrayed her by his private jealousy and ambition, and finally abandoned her in the hour of trial. They will recollect how we fed him, and talked of him, and listened to him, and féted him, and idolized him, and chaired him all round the country at their expense—and how, finally, after having sneered at us and our policy, whenever it was safe to do so, and bled us till no more would flow, he has since sought a more congenial refuge in London, and requited our kindness with sarcasms and vituperation. It is more than probable that, if Kossuth, in the perpetration of fresh follies, should some day find himself iu the inside of an Austrian jail, he would pro- duce from the bottom of his trunk a certificate of bis declared his inteotiona during his etay in t atry, aud claim the protec tion of the United States There must be a reasonable me in al things. When a man comes here who ha earned undeniable claims to the world’s r titnde—one who has iven liberty country, or some valnable discovery to mankind by ail means let him be received with houoy ard éclat. When a refugee comes here. who has tirred up rebellion in his native land, aud cd—plunging thousands of his fellow co: y men into the horrors of unsuccessful war-let him be received and protected: onr land must always be an asylum for the unfortunate—but, in the name of common sense, let us not make ourselves the laughing stock of the world by granting him heroic honors. When an Ameri- can citizen is injured by foreigners, let us in- | Sist, with all the power and all the might of this people, on ample reparation for the in- jury, and Jet us never rest till we obtain it. But let us look well before we espouse the quar- rel of foreign demagogues. Let us fairly and roundly count the cost of a war, before we pledge the honor of the United States to sus- tain, against the constituted authorities of Aus- tria, the lame cause of would-be martyrs like Signor Paperi. . If the government and people of this coun- try absolutely require an object to sympathise with and weep over, and contend for, let them turn their eyes to a spot much nearer home than Smyrna or Ancona—the Moro castle at Ha- vana. In the dungeons of that fort lie three American sailors, imprisoned by the Cuban au- thorities without trial—without an opportunity of proving their innocence. These three men have appealed time after time to the govern- ment and to the people of the United States. A single werd from Secretary Marcy would long since have set them free. But no word has come. No political capital could be made out of three poor sailors who had neither rebelled against their rulers, nor spread sword and fire through any country; and they were according- ly left torot in the Moro Castle. Look to them, Americans, before you make common cause with ungrateful Hungarians or mischievous renegades from Italy ! OrrroiaL Deratcation at Troy—Revrvau or Van Buren Principies anp Pracrices.—We have seen letters written from Troy, in this State, and some extracts from them published, stating that the Postmaster of that city, a dis- tinguished politician of the Marcy and Van Buren school, is there discovered to be some- what a defaulter in his money affairs, and the story is that the deficiency or defalcation amounts to $50,000 or $60,000 already. The name of the Postmaster, we believe, is Bosworth, who, we have learned, was a highly respectable man, engaged in some commercial operations. He was taken up by the Van Buren party of Troy, who made him first Alderman, and then Mayor of the city; and recently, by their influ- ence with the Spoils Cabinet at Washington, he was appointed Postmaster. These are the facts in this curious case, as far as they can be ascertained with accuracy. They present a singular and attractive illustration of the re- vival of the Van Buren party, the Van Buren policy, and Van Buren practices in this State. It may be well to remind the public. and the younger growth of the politicians of the day, that the Van Buren dynasty, which controlled the federal Union and many of the States from 1836 to 1840, was remarkable for its financial ekill and official defulcation. pub- lic plunderings, and frightful demoralization ofall kinds. During the sway of the elder Van Buren, when he succeeded General Jackson as President of the United States, there were de- falcations of public officers to the number of from sixty to one hundred—postmasters, col- lectors, navy agents, and all sorts of officials— defalcations amounting to five or six millions of money. Some of these defaulters paid three or four cents on the dollar, and some of them never paid anything. These astounding de- falcations were a decided loss to the country and the treasury. But this is not all. In those days the surplus money in the treasury amount- ed to twenty-eight or thirty millions of dollars. The Van Buren interest of the time contrived to remove this money from the treasury, where it lay to the credit of the Union, and distributed it amorfg the different States. But no sooner did each State receive its share, than the va- rious hordes of the spoils politicians gathered around it, and in a very short time devoured it up. So that to this day no one can tell what became ofthe thirty millions of dollars deposit- ed in the treasury at the commencement of the reign of the elder Van Buren at Washington. Thege are historical facts, stamped on the pa- ges of the country’s records, on the annals of different States, and in the books of country courts and penitentiaries. The return of the Van Buren dynasty at Washington, under the influence of Marcy and the younger Van Buren, begins already to indicate the return of the old principles and practices. This dynasty in Washington and New York has not yet been one year in power, when we sce some of its mem- bers proving, by the most convincing evidence, their fidelity to the old principles, and their strict adherence to the practices which prevailed in the sunshine of other days, whose light had faded behind a cloud, but now again breaks forth, warming all kinds of political reptiles and ineects into life. The defaleation attributed to this Troy politician is merely the first step, We may expect, if the present spoils cabinet at Washington be continued in their places by General Pierce for two or three years longer, defaleation following defalcation, navy agents plundering, collectors missing, and postmasters running away—whilst the twenty-eight millions of surplus now in the treasury will be distrib- uted, and no one will be able to tell what has be- come of it. This is but the beginning of the end. In the meantime we understand that the Hon. George R. Davis, a leading man of the Van Buren and Marcy faction. has gone on to Wash- ington to secure the appointment to the post office of Troy, which has become vacant, or very soon will.. We hope that the President will pause at this first step of the revived Van Buren practices. We learn that a highly re- spectable man named Griswold. not connected with the clique, is also a candidate, and we trust that the President will appoint him, or some person of the same stamp and character. Meanwhile, we advise General Pierce to watch the course of events. Resection or THR’ New Couiector By THE Sexate—We understand that the first great contest on the President’s nominations in the Senate, at the next session, will probably take place on the new Collector of New York, Mr. Redfield. Mr. Redfied may be recol- lected as one of the immortal Seventeen— a set of politicians in this State id»ntified nh the Van Buren party for many years past. He was appointed under the Marcy influence, before the recent election, { to mark the character of that conte to show to the whole world that it was th: termination of the present Cabivet to revi present Van Buren int New York. Mr, Rec ining mark in the deba ou the subject of appoint n nation of the return to Van Burenthm be oppoved by all the democrats of New Y wud the rest of the country, who have been ever found true and sound on the compromise ques- tion. 7 order ‘The F roposed Coalition Between the Dickin- son Democracy and Silver Grays, The newspapers have been full latelypof a proposed coalition between the Dickinson de- mocracy and the silver gray whigs. The no- tion is by no means a bad one on the part of the latter faction. To all practical intents and purposes, the coalition was effected two years ago, by the rank and file of the silver gray ar- my voting with the hunkers. At Pierce’s elec- tion the silver grays swelled his majority seve- ral clear thousands; and though the leaders. for form’s sake. still affected to adhere to Scott, they were without influence and wi'hout followers. Then, they refused to credit the almost unani. mous defection of their men. They could not believe that the whigs who would not follow Seward, preferred voting for Pierce to running the risk of seeing a President elected whose sympathies were believed to be with the oppo- nents of the compromise, and who might have thrown the administration influence into the free goil scale. The New York election has opened their eyes. They are now alive to the fact that the old names are nothing but names; that the’silver grays and the Dickinson democ- racy are, in point of fact, one and the same par- ty, imbued with the same spirit, seeking the same ends, and voting the same ticket, and that the division which appears to exist between them, is in reality nothing more than a fanciful, shadowy barrier. The conviction has set the silver grays hinking. and has not been without its influence on the recognized chiefs of the Dickinson de- mocracy. Both are aghast at the independent action of the men who have been accustomed to act as they dictated, and to wait humbly until they gave them their cue. Distanced this time by their henchmen, the leaders on both sides are making frantic efforts to regain lost time, by advocating a formal recognition of the alliance, hoping in the arrangement to conquer a position in the combined party not inferior to that which they held in the former faction. It remains to beseen how far the rank and file will submit to the usurpation. So far as the silver grays are concerned, they have seen how their teaders adhered to a party flag when honor, patriotism, and a due respect for the constitution and the compromise, forced their followers into a secession; and they may well speculate on the probability of their pur- suing a similar course, should the party they now assume tojead, again play false to the great principles which ought to govern the politics of this country. To speak plainly, they have seen enough of their chiefs to know that they are guided, not by a thought of the country’s good or the benefit of the people, but by the sole de- sire to appropriate the government spoils. Into this all their fidelity to party and staunch ad- herence to platforms dissolve themselves, if re- duced¢to their lowest elements; and if the rank and file of the silver grays again muster under their old leadership, whether as an independent party or as an integral fragment of a new fac- tion, they may safely rely that they may again find themselves under the necessity of either deserting their party and voting with its op- ponents, or resigning themselves to support a candidate whose principles they cannot ap- prove. In plain truth, it is time that people should acknowledge the practical dissolution of all the old party ties. In every country, parties have been ushered into birth by ephemeral causes, have lived so long as the condition of their ex- istence endured, and afterwards have made way -for new combinations and new coalitions be- tween men of like principles. Weare precisely in the transition state. All our old parties and actions have done their work, and can demand nothing now but to be decently buried, and left to rest in peace. Most of their leaders are im- possible men for the future. They have too clearly shown their readiness to sacrifice-prin- ciple for place to be entrusted with any leading post in the combinations which are shortly to be formed. A few years, perhaps a few months hence, the names of hunkers, barnburners, silver grays and the rest, will be forgotten. The peo- ple will have silently ranged themselves into two distinct parties—the one in favor of, the other opposed to, the Compromise; and the lead- ers who, meanwhile. shall have spent their time in proposing ingenious coalitions, will find themselves high and dry on the strand. Tue Sovruern Press -anp THE New York Exxctionx.—The Richmond Enquirer, the Charleston Mercury, and some other journals of a light calibre, took the side of the Van Bu- ren free soilers in this State during the last election. The Richmond Enquirer, previous to the appointment of Mr. Mason to the French embassy, was against Dix and the free soilers to any extent. As soon as Mason was appoiat- ed to that embassy it tacked about, and came out in favor of the Spoils Cabinet, and it may now be congidered as endorsing the attempt of that concern to revive the Van Buren free sdil party in the North. Singularly enough, the Charleston Mercury is even more strongly in favor of the policy of the Spoils Cabinet and the revival of the Van Buren dynasty, than any other paper in the South. If the venerable Judge Edmonds, the spiritualist, would, during the proceedings of one of his spiritual circles, ask the spirit of the late Jobn C. €alhoun what he thought of the leading journals of South Carolina coming out in favor of reviving the Van Buren free soilersof the North, we should like to know his response to such a question. If the Southern democratic newspapers and statesmen do not take care to select a proper course in relation to the present Spoils Cabinet, they will give the Southern whigs a vantage ground which will tell toa prodigious extent long before the Presidential contest of 1856. Tue Rerortep DeraLcations in WALL Street. —There was quite an excitement in Wall street yesterday, among the officials of the dif- ferent banks, in consequence of the enormous defalcations which have just come to light. A clerk in a leading bank of the city is reported a detaulter to that institution for about $180,000. Another bank in the street is minus $160,000, in the shape ofa defalcation; and still another in the same street is minus $60,000 in the same way. We have not yet learned the particu- lars of the last two named defaleations; but the first was caused by the stock speculations of the individual referred to, and his friends in the street. This clerk is also said to be implicated in @ recent robbery of bills from the counter of the boak, The cashier received yesterday a letter from an anony- mous source, offering to return the package of notes, less $15,000, if no qnestions wore weked, and no proceedings resorted to to recover the balance. Verily, Wall street is a bad place for weak heads; and if the whole truth was known, not asingle bank las escaped heavy losses by the temptations presented for rpeeulations in fancy stocks. Martin Van Buren in Encuanp—Tue Ar- PontuentT Recentiy Orrerep Hia.—We pub- lish elsewhere in our columns, a correspendence that has first appeared in the Albany /t/as of this State, between Martin Van Buren and the Commissioners appointed for the adjust- went of British and American claims, from which it appears that the American and British Commissioners, with the concurrence of the British government, united in tendering him the office of umpire to the joint commission. It will also be seen from this correspondence that Mr. Van Buren, for some considerations stated, has declined the appointment. It will be recollected that the same intelli- gence was communicated in the columns of this journal some weeks since—a few days before the last election. We stated the fact on the faith of information received from a corres- pondent in London, and we cited it as another evidence of the efforts made by the Spoils _| Cabinet to revive the Van Buren dynasty, and to bring forward for office all the Van Burens, young and old, under the regime of General Pierce. The news created some excitement at the time, and it was calculated to affect the character of the Cabinet and the contest in which it was engaged in this State. Imme- diately the organ of the Cabinet—the Union, that contemptible, mendacious sheet, which is a disgrace to even the present Cabinet—came oui, and had the audacity to characterize the intelligence as a spurious coinage—a false- hood. We throw back the imputation in the teeth of the Union, and its instigators of the Ca- binet. They knew the fact at the time as well as we did--they had the evidence of it in their pos- seesion; but they had the daring effrontery to deny having received it, in order to serve a purpose in the recent election. Time now con- viets the Union of impudence and a total dis- regard of truth, and it brands the instigators of the Union as a Cabinet of the blackest and most idelible stamp. Purrery anp Prayine.—Yesterday a very respectable Frenchman, who speaks a little English, called on us, praying for a notice of a youthful artist, his daughter, Mademoiselle Gabrielle De La Motte, who recently made her appearance at a concert in Niblo’s saloon, asa performer on the piano, and a pupil of all the artists on the piano in Europe. “I,beg of you,” said he, “to say something. Give usa criticism for or against.” The concert in question was, we believe, very thinly attended, on a rainy evening, and went off at considerable loss to the concert-giver. The young artist evinced a great deal of musi- cal talent and skill, according to the papers of the day. But it is strange how every youthful aspirant after artistic honors in this city, ex- pects to jump into a sort of Jenny Lind notori- ety as soon as they are noticed. In all matters connected with art, however, and particularly music, the audiences of New York are becoming extremely fastidious and unmanageable--the newspapers equally so. For several years past we have been bored to death with prodigies of all kinds; and really hereafter it will be absolutely necessary to make war against all new prodigies, come from what quarter they may. Aw Itvsrniovs VisiTeR.—Yesterday forenoon an Ameri- can eagle visited our city, and took up his quarters upon he top of one of the flag poles on the City Hall. The “jmperal bird” alighted upon the image of his kind, the fleg pole beixg surmounted bya gilt eagle with out- stretched wings. We might have believed that the stray bird mistook the gilt image fur one of his fraternity, and intended to scrape acquaintance with him upen his me tropolitan visit, had he not so. ingeniously alighted upon the head of the inanimate bird, as If to give public ox- pressivs to his knowledge that it was nothing but wood. In a few momerts an immense crowd, of about 2,000 peo- ple, gathered in the Park, and all eyes were turned upon the ‘‘new arrival.” He kept his seat, and with an air of dignity looked around upon the multitude below him, as if he considered them a reception committee appointed to welcome him into the city. Some set up hooting and hallooing, which made the visiter feel somewhat uneasy, and caused him to change his seat to another flag pole. Here he sat until, no doubt, he became disgusted with bis numerous friends, when he darted away towards the Jersey shore, preferring to city life his native home, where. ith storm-daring pinion and sup-; eye, The gray forest eagle is king of the aay ‘ons The Investigation of the Charges Against Alfred Carson. An adjourned meeting of the committee in this affair was held yesterday afternoon, in the chambers of the Board of Assistant Aldermen. There were present of the committee Assistant Aldermen Barker and McConkey. Alderman Barker asked if the defendant was ready to proeeed. He announced, through his counsel, his readiness to goon immediately if the committee said s, but as Ma Willard, the counsel for the opposite cai was engaged im one of the courts, he would not press his desire to pro- ceed. He did not wish to take advantage of the absence of the pao counsel. Alderman Barker then an- nounced that the committee would adjourn till Monday next, at three o'clock. when the investigation would pro ceed whether the counsel was present or not. The com- mittee had decided to hold their sessions from day to day till this matter was ended. Police Intelligence. THE POLICE AND THEIR UNIFORM. On the 15th inst. the blue frock coat was adopted by the police, as a more ready method of identifying them from the ordizary citizens, and, on Monday next, » cap, consisting of blue cloth, lettered on the front, for exam- ple, “B13, Police’—but to judge from the sample we have seen we should say most cecidedly that the word “ police”? is altogether in too small letters to answer the desired purpose. The object, aa we believe the public understant it, was tohavean emblem wora by the police whereby there could be no mittahing them. Now, if the word ‘police’ isnot to be made any larger than the ample cap we have just seen, it will require a telescope to make it out, Even at ten feet distant it will :¢ very difficult to read, and consequently defeat the very object for which it is intended. However, the police in their new apparel look remarka- bly well. Jt gives them a much greater degree of neat. ness than they ever exnibited before and when the caps are adopted it will greatly improve not only their ap- yearanc facilitate their identity. We would auggest thata leather belt around the waist would much im- prove the appearance of the coa, and atthe same time add stil more towards the recognition of the police de- artment. The word “police,” om the caps, mitt be larger. Thiok of that, Mr. Chief Mateell. Apprek nsion of 0 Fugitive Carged with Arscon.—Abraham Ryckman, ho, it is waid, is a fog tive from Cooperstown, Oneida county, New York. wax arrested in this city yes: terday by ex officer William H Stephens, on a charga of settirg fire to and: burning his own store at the above place. Tbe accused was sent back to Cooperstown in charge of William H. Groat, of that placa, to await his al. Alleged Grand Larceny —Within a few days it has been escertained that one James Scanlon, arres ed some time since for stealing oats, and sent to black well’s Island, had also stolen a horre and cart, aleo a load of wood, valued - fa at $146, from Mr Charles Otto. He will havea a The Tuenticth Ward Election Case —In the matter cf the alleged fraud in the Jate election, by three inspectors, no- thing adaiti fimportance bas beew developed, I now unden that ali who voted for Cumming H. Tucker, toralcerman, are to be subpa-naed to appear be- fore Justice Stuert, and testify ta ;. TO THE KDITOR THE UERALD. Fm: <The rtave paper this morning doer not ret ferth co i vpon v1 ecreing carbier's estion war cell Benger; is wae then to my partner, cate, and thereur e, which was do: Jmay aad that the del my bank, to pay oa from the city spent in Cam ring my absence, n the rext day days folow ng. (witien and the faiiure of my hows the rert 1 bope that the public will suspond their ja4gment until the affair can be legally investigated, and tha: you wil do me the justice to insert this in to-morrow’s JO3, GUTMAN, HRRALD, New York, Nov. 18, 1853, Lecture on the Poetry of Poets, Dr O. W. Houaas, of Mansachuse'ts, delivered the fourth. of his course ofectures upon British posts of the nine- teenth century, before the Mercantile Library at Hope Chapel, last evening. The subject was “ Keats,’ He commenced with an elequent apsstrophe to youth, which he called vhe first spring-tide in the ocean oflife. It- was the season of love and music, and poetry came now, er. Many young men write verses with only the feel~ ing of beauty, an¢ without the power to expreas it. We laugh at their repetitions, old izailes, forgetting, perhaps, that nature repeats itself. But how glorioug are tho outburr of him whom God has chosen to be a poet, a the joyous eong of Milton when but twenty summers had glided over his head! Manhood comes, and the stern reality of life is laid bare- ‘Then is the second and last song to be sung. No second tide of life came to the subject of this lecture, The said story of a young poet's life, with its disappointments, ite struggles, and its end, are nowhere more affec than in the life and death of John Keats. The lecturer thought him superior in imagery to Kirke White, who, he eaid, owed his reputation to the religious world. Keats was born in 1796, and apprenticed to a su which profession he did pot follow. At twenty two ho ublisned “ Endymiton,” ‘The slashing review of Gifford said to bave caused the divease which terminated hia life. The lecturer did not believe that he was killed by the article. Leigh Huot, who knew Keats well, says he had the seeds of disease when he wrote ‘End; mion.’? He eontinued to write, and in 1824 he published the “Eve of St. Agnes,” and o her poems. It is that Jeffrey puclished » genial notice of these two volumes, which appeared two months before tho poet’s death, Tre lecturer would not attempt at an srslyeis of ‘‘ Encymion;” the commoner doings conld be easily avalyzed, but there would be little remaining of bergamct and otto of rose, were they resolved into the original elements. The poem ‘ Endymion” is full of ex~ citement, and written in almost deliciously romantio style. The tale of “Endymion”? was worthy of the post’a style; it has all its beauties, and lacks finish ints details. rs bee oe him. There should be a censor- ip of the critics! rt—protect ets at game lawn protect young rds, Nothing Ys so improssible as & young pcet: the critic is exactiy the opporite. An all wise E, dridence has called these fatter beings into exist- ence to keep down a superabundant growth of egotis! and the great mouth of criticism is always cranching at every green thing belowa certsin mark. But the law should protect young poeta who show true genius. There- fore we will not have our laugh over *- Endymion.” The poet said that he bad scen the walslea growing over hia grave —we will not sow thisiles upon it. The lecturer proceeded: to quote at length from Keats, aud said that there was a similarity between bis serpent lady and the Cristabel of Coleridge. Tho ‘Eve af St Agnes’? was too good (the lec- turer said) to be talked about, unless the critic could speaks inas beautiful prose as the poetry under consiceration, “Hyperion”? is a fragment which received the commen- dation of By aud its style often reminds us of the old Greek tragedies. Shelley sad, when asked how Keats could rem so like the Greeks in his poems, “he is Greek,”® and this resemolance can be seen throughout Hyperion: the story ends at a most interesting portion, The same his peers; Keats would seem to have drank of the hem lock in such quantity as to havegiven the imaginae tion the wildest range, without narcotising his power of using ite He had the most universal feoling of admiration for poetry not bis own, Keats was @ mannerist in writing, and he has many imitators in America, His peculiarities sometimes sprang, no dcubt, from affectation, and he had many affectations in pronunciation and construction. He takes great liber- ties with Lindley Murray, and these faults have beem snatched up by his imitators He has a great affection for three or four words, and uses them continually. These faults were some imes the effect of his Prculiacly fragile physical organization, It was true, as Leigh Hunt said, ‘that in no cther poet could we be so certain of o atany page ava finding so much wealth of imagery, Walter Savage Landor expressed the same opinion. Very little wit is found in Keats’ poems, though he is said to have enjoyed 2 jest as w No poet equalled| him in luxuriauce of or: “A little noiseless noice among the trees,” might be oneexample of his enchanting, playfal way of een negatives to make» beautiful simile.- He wag often fentastic in his images, like his great pro- totype Shakepeare. The sew of Keates’ poems is ful} of gold ard silver fishes, ard it was almost im. postible to do him justice in citations. [The lecturer quoted most liberally from the poet’s creations.) Some! of these quotations may give an idea of his style. He seems to be the most poetical poet of the century, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” and that which is most beautiful should be the mightiest. Spemer was called the poet of poeta, and his mantle must have fallen upon Keats. He lived but half the of Spenser, and| His} would certaioly have excelled him in reputation, body rests in Rome, under the -hadow of the pyramid of Sestes. The lecturer closed with a poetical tribute to the| memory of Keats. The audience was small, but highly respectable in appearance, and tne lectnre, which was @ err affair, was listened to apparently with profound| attention, The History of Creation. LECTURB BY DR. DOREMUS. Dr. Doremus delivered the first lecture of his course on} the History of Creation, as taught by modern science com, pared with the Movaic account, on Toursday evening. Notwithstanding the very unfavorable state of the wea- ther, the lecture-room of the Medical College was crowded} by a most intelligent audience. The lecturer said :— Were we predisposed to superstition, this lowering aky pouring rain might be deemed an ill omen, and deter us from our task—but on this, as on a previous occasion, be- ing so well countenanced as to my audience, I enter on my pleasurable duty with alacrity, presenting my sincere| thanks for this flattering exhibition of their good will.| To solve the mystery of the origin of our earth has ever| ‘beens problem awakening earnest attention. Each age| has presented its plausible theories, and perhaps none has| been more prolific than the present. Astronomers and geologists have almost monopolized this attractive field speculation. It may not be inappropriate that the che mist should claim the ear of the busy public, Nor will he be chargeable with impiety inthe attempt. Whilst the| astronomer has so wondrously enlarged the field of obser-: vation, and has revealed the almight wer of Deity in all the magnitude of his works, in « hood stellar worlds which set man adoring and ag! 2? the chemist is permittea to behold that the glory of all this enlargement is not tarnished by any evidences ef im- Perfection, ihe astrouon er worsbips the Deity in every star and planet that rolls and shines; the chemist im every molecule of matter. There are two methods (f investigation adopted by the chemist—the analytic and the synthetic—the prccess of separation shes elemental parts, and of grooping or combining the elements, Let us commence the discussion of our subject with the a ie method; we shall terminate with the synthetic —The earth is round: therefore was once fluid; neither solids nor gases will assume this shape, but fluids will, inveriably, if left free to move, I pour rome oil in water—it floats; I now place some in alcohol—it sirks; but if I mingle the water and alco! s0.as to possess’ the same specific gravity as the oil, i neither sinks nor floats in # layer or stratum, but, be freed from the oprration of gravity, collects into a neck globe. [A large sphere of of! was exhibited, buoyed up im the mixture of ale: hol and water. Un turning it by meang of an axis, it tlattened at ite poles and dilated at its equa- tor, illustrating the cause of the pecuiiar form of the earth and of the pianets.] The planets are round, and therefore, like the earth, were once fluid. There are two kinds cf fluidity known to the chemist—fuldity produced by sume solvent, as water, or affected through the of heat—aqueous and igneous fusiun. It was w favorite opinion among the ancients that the earth was once. diseolved in water, avd that fiom this liquid all things were produced; hence the Latin phrase, aqua—that from which all things «prung. Tue Greeks termed water ‘ cinon katholicon’’—the universal wine of nature. But the materials constituting the crust of the globe are but. slightly solubie in water, and all the waters on the sur- face of the earth are but as the film of varnish on an ar tificial globe. But we have abuncantevidence of its hav- ing been subjecied to intense heat, volcanoes, earth- quakes, conturtions of strata, thermal springs, &o, lt we observe the moon with s powerful telescope we behold its surtace rising into ualities— we tee its mountain tops, illuminated; ite val- leys ded. Even the craters of its volcasees are seep, and have been measured, Mountains exict ia the planets—Mercury ana Venus are sapposed to have moun- tains fifteen to twenty miles in height. As we would Judge from their naked roundness, their fluidity—from the flattening at their poles, their rotation on their axia when in a fluid state—so may we conclude that hdéat has been as eflective is operation on the planets as on our own earth Th are three cundititns of matter, the tolid, the liquid, and he gaseous, The earth has passed through two of ‘these phases—whs atop at this “half ‘way station between the solid and the ,’? aa Profes- essor Faraday terms the liquid sta‘e? why was it not nce in the simplest condition—the gaseous one? To this conclusion we would be led by the anal of nature. The tree was not ever @ tree, but first a seed—its plumules put forth into the air, the plastic sunbeam grouped the gasoa it had absorbeo,to form its tis-ue—this wondrous painter, with bis many colored beams of light, tinted its flowers: this mighty chemist elaborated its fragrant perfumes,an matured its lusciour fruit. To this arch magician are we indebted for all the variety of folage which decorates the. earth If we examine the egg, we remark two fluids; apply heat to its upper surface, a point is seen to act asa centr: —it is cestined to be & hvart; another a head, the bones, the tissues are formed; it is clothed with feathers and leaves ite ey covering, takes wing and liver in the air until developed tothe perfect bird. Do we not also witness develop ment in the intellectual worli? And shall this earth be en exception to the universal rule? Let us examine the chemical constivucon of the earth—it ia surruunced by an numcsphere That this gaseous envelope is poreesed of the phystesl aitributes of matter we may prove by weighing ity as ia these scales. Here at- morpheric al was weigued Next its chemical constitu- ents were sey erately exhibited and examined—four fifths | nilregen gam, one Lith oxygex carbonic acid gaa, ‘Phe pax bulum Ot plasls—-were experiu ected with in aa inatrac- tive manser. Water was decctuposed by the galvanio battery, aad prove ompound of oxygen and by- dicgen gases, § he minerals cour tivutingy the crust of t re eximined, and tables were rex corded of their chemicel con ‘on’ showing about one- half of the wno be tof uted of oxygen gag in 6 ‘The motais with Which itis combixed are capable of fuston—yea, gold, stiver, & beve been evaporated. Teus the lecturer the oouMutuenty of the earta may have probably were once gaceous If #0, heat, as @ he imperderadle sgeucies, moot have buen latent, id changes its form to that ofa vapor, it wb« ther evaporating ftom the hand feela cold, Or, a8 @ 6 striking iHustration of this statement, aud n proc that even one of the gases of the air may ad | sume the liquid, anc even the solid state, carbonic acid gas was compressed ixto fluid condition, and, being al- lowed suddenly to evapo. ate, rufficient cold was obtained vo volidify the remaining portion—a wooten bows was reveral times tilled with the sowy-loosing substance, When it was mixed with ether, meroury was frosen, and stamped with the seal of the college. The lecturer