The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS. RMS cash in utoance Hi aie HERALD ' cents per WEEXLY HERALD every comy—8T eanum. Saturday at ba conte or» perannum. the European Edition $ per an- mane fy Gear wee ai a sald he | clude oe. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE containing sneer, dent news solicited from any quarter of the world; if used be tiberotly paid for FUR FORRIGN CORRESPONDENTS 1B PARTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO ORAL ALL Levens AND Paseaaes rene vs ‘ ALL LETTERS by mail for Subscri;tions. or with Adver- Bisements to be paid or the page will be deducted from the money remitted dia om F NONCTICE toleen of anonymous communications, We do return those NOR PRINTING ezecuted with neatness, choeyness, and h VERTISEMENTS renewed every day Vv AMUSEMENTS THISeRVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, By ~ory—Hurounack—Uaorrno BROADWAY THEATERS, Broadway--Incowan—Bersy Rawen NIBLO’S, Broadway—Tux Paorasr. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chsuwbers stroot—Fox Hunt— My Uncie’s Carp. WATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham mreet—Uncia Tom's Cam. WALLACK’S THNATRE, Broadway—Mowey~ Raine rux Wenn. AMERICAN MUSEUM —Afternoon—Deen i rie Dank —Livsnick Boy. Evening Uncur Tom's Canim, SSROADWAY MENAG Seasts. BOWERY AMPHICHRATRE, % Power —fquaer Penrokmances CHRISTY'S AEARICA' & —Brmoriax Meopies ny Cantar WOOD'S MINSTREL 8, Woot! way—Erniorian MinereRisy. BUCKLEY'S OPRAA HOUS%, 6 Ro atway—Bvemrere Brmoriay Oreka TRovrE. BANVARD'S GhORAMA, S00 Broadway—Panonava or wus Hour Layo. —Siauese Swine Axe Wit ay OUSH, 472 Broadwey 8 MinsTReLs. Hall. 444 Broad The defendants had set up that their only partici va tion in the infringement charged was as stockholdars of an incorporated company. The Judge says, that however that may be, they ere either directors, hav { ing the management of the dnsiness, and under whose | directions the articles wore made, or agents of the | company in conducting its affuirs. He therefue | grents on fnjunction egainst them, and ia doing so approves the decisions in the famous case of Good: year and Day, Gelivered at Trenton, in September, and acother against the Central Railroad Com- vany of New Jersey. Judge Nelson seems to con- Sider the questions of fact affecting Goodyear’s ia- vention and patents incapable of further elucidetion by testimony It follows, from this decision, that no indiridnal or company can legally make or use car springs of vulcanized rubber without the consent of Goodyear and his licensees. Besides several columas of advertisements aud mach miscelaneons reading, to day's inside pages in severa! interesting Lectures upon popular a lengthy Reviews of Mr. Powell’s painting of “De Soto,” acd Mr. Doughty's landscape paiut- ings of the “ Seasons; Jadicial Proceedings; Meet- ing of the Association for the Relief of Aged, Iodigeat Females; Commercial and Theatrical News, &c. | 18 j The Cabinct Unmasked —Repudiation of the Compromise Measur:s. The coming session of Congress will inaugu- rate a new erain the political history of this country. It will bring to light the first symp. tome of a new, and, we sincerely trust, a better régime than the one under whieh we are now i Irs advent has long been obvions to It depended on Franklin P ad off the movement, and not ouly to se- cure for himself the practical triumph of a re- election in 1856, but te send down his name to posterity loaded with honors. He has not done so. Like Pio Nono and Charles Afbert, he al lowed himself to be brought forward for a white al seers. BHENI25 GALLERY, 668 Broad wey—Dry and Evenine SIGNOR BLITZ—Strvvresaw ACADEMY HALL 8 meTION OF Tux SEVEN MILE netiruTE, 6599 Broadway Preuam’s Cirt Bxw POWELLS GAEAT NATIONAL PAINTING vor THE VER NMENT [8 NOW OPEN AT THE NATIONAL AGADEMY OF Panay, oes Bess teny HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Beo —Jonxs's Paxroseors. SHE WORLD IN MINIATURZ—Broadway, coraer of ‘Waive street, The Europs is cue with three days later news from the other side of the Atlantic. It will be re- eollectid thet our telegraphic despatches brought by the Atlintic contained a report of aa important bat- tle between the Russians and the Turks on the llth ult., near Oltenitza, and that the former were defeat- ed. The Europa wiil bring us a confirmation or d2- nial of this report, and also news of the advance of Omer Pacha on Bacharest. There was a groundless rumor in town yesterday, based on a publication in one of the evening papers, that the Europa had been boarded off Halifax, the news obtained from her and telegraphed to this city. It was stated that “the news irom the East is that the fighting between the Turks and the Russians was going on,” and that “Consu’s are quoted in Lordon at95j." Sach vague rumors az these of course had no effect and were not believed by any one. The letters and telegraphic despatches from our correspondents at Washington to-day touch upon various important topics, and will be found unusually entertaining. Political matiers, of course, are as yet enveloped in fog and mystery; t is, nevertheless, evident that a large mojority of the Congtessmen fre determined to overhaul the spoils Cabinet in & parca will be per’ectly in consonanze with the feelings and wishes of the mas: , throughout the tanes meet of nee -- and breadth of the land. The extraordinary acts of the administration-_che anse cessary and unjustifiable interference ¢q State « tione—the appointment 0’ free °-jtera snd secossi4n- ists to nearly every office of ¢mportanan, to the ex clusion of men Who be invaria sly entertained and advocated pure "tj yaa) sentiments—will undoubt- edly underse, s most searching examination. Whe. ther th? on laught will be commenced by the rejec fia of the adtixistration candidates for officers of 4#the House, or whether the latter body will await the action of the Senate with regard to the comfirmatioz of the nominations for Collector of New York, will probably be made manifest ia the democratic caucus to be held to-morrow evening. One of our special correspondents writes that in formation Las been received in Washington which goes far to cenfirm the report of the bloodthirsty massacre of Capt. Gunnison and his surviving party by the Indians in Utah. It ie uederstood that mea | sures are about being adopted to strengthen the dit ferent exploring parties in the Far West. This should have been done long ago. Not only ought the surveyors to be reinforced, but the whole of that partof the country known to be inhabited by hostile savages should be placed in such a complete state of defence as to insure the safety of the lives and pro- perty of the white settlers and emigrants. Scarcely a mail has come to hand for months from the Plains that did not contain accounts of murders and depre- da'icns committed by diferent tribes of Indians. By reference to the official notice, published in another colume, it w'll be seen that the Secretary of the Treasury has extended the time for the purchase of United States stocks to the Ist of next month. Besides the usual assignment, the holder must dis- tinetly assign his interest on the same now made up | at the treasury, or transmit the semi-annual coupons, | asthe care may be. To afford an opportanity to distant bondbolders to avail themselves of the notice, the Department will consider stocks mailed at any time prior to the 1s of January entitled to its benefite, As is customary {nat before the assembling of each | Of fact, was arranged on the same b séssion of Congress, the meimbers elect to that body have flocked to our city in great numbers withio the last few days, They care here, oot only to study the fashions, see the novelt‘es, and examina the chief inventions of the age, but also to learn the actual wants of the people thronghout the country, and otherwise prop prepare themselves for the duties their constituents hove rel-eted them to per- form. The enterprise of New Yorkers has ma their city the great tocus of attraction—the bh it were, throngh which flow all the streams so essen tial to the life and vigor, health snd activity, of this great republic. A few days stay in Gotham materi- ally tends to give a finishing polish to people of every description, and none r to understand this fact better than our national representatives Having aczomplished their object many left yester Gay and nearly all the remainder will leave to day for their futore scene of labor. Advices from Naseau “to the 234 ult. announce that several vesvels bad recently experienced dis asters in consequence of hurricanes nd storms in that vicinity. Much damage has salvo been done by harricanes to the dvellings, crops, &c., at Bar- badces. No sooner has the cool weather fairly relieved the people of New Orleans from the yellow fever thao the cholera makes its appesrance, aod threatens to prove almost 2s great a scourge as the former} per- nicions disease. One hundred and twenty-nine per- sone, mostly emigrants, died last week, and now we Jearn that one of the most distinguished physicians ©! that city expired yesterday morning. It is useless for the New Orleans pipers to attempt to establieh the belief that the health of their city is good in the face of these facts. * ‘The brothers Morgan, who, some weeks ago, com- mitted an asranlt opon the venerable Mr. Hone, ot Newport, have been sentenced to pay all costs and be confined to ten days imprisonment in the county -* publish elrewhere an important opinion of Judge Nelson, in the snit of (.0dyear and the Now England Car Spring Compaoy agriost Phelps and others, delivered in the United States Cireuit Court ag and his name to be used as the rallying point of the revolutionary forces; but when the time came for personal action his courage failed him and instead of commanding the onward party he attempted a retrograde movement. A similar policy has rendered one of the monarchs we Love mentioned hateful to his subjects, and has driven ike other from his throne: we have yet to see what will be its effects on the popularity and standing of Franklin Pierce. That a retrograde movement has been resoly- edupon by the administration the last manifesto from the Union leaves us no room to doubt. One has only to compare it with the documents which emanated from a similar source twelve months ago to perceive how far the President has receded from the position he then occuptod Nor can we tell at present how far tho Cabinet will go in its repudiation of pledges and its scorn of principles. It stands already, by its own confession, on a platform whose only sup- port is the cohesive power of the spoils. It can- hot Dow mention a single active principle on which we have any reason to expect its policy to be based. Such shadows as ‘democratic prin- ciples’ may be talked of, and vaunted in the Cabinet journals; but it would defy even Mr. Marey’s ingenuity to define a single rule or axiom of public policy which the present go- vernment now stands pledged to obey. They have thrown off all restraint, repudiated all moral obligation ; and if they were to-morrow to govern this country in violation of every dic- tate of common sense. patriotism, and usage, we could not, after reading the manifesto in the Union, charge tic With the slightest decep- a or hrnoszisy. 3 Tt is quite true. us the Union states, that whet the gang of democratic office-seckers as- sembled at Baltimore they found themselves ed into three parties—Northera abolition . Southern secessionists, and compromise men—ncither of which was sufficiently powerfu to command a majority of the convention, Un- der these circumstances two courses were open tothe members. The firstwas to withdraw at once froma body which could effect no prac- tical purpose without a dishonorable and fatal sacrifice of principle and to proceed to nominate separate candidates. This was the only course consistent with honor and integrity. The se cond was, to say to each other, in plain terms: “We are not here to fight about such trifles as principles—we want the spoils and nothing more. If we allow ourselves to be divided the whigs will put in their man and appropriate the plunder. Let us, therefore, drop all differences of opinion—let us agree upon a platform which shall delude the people. and which, it is well understood among ourselves, shall really mean nothing.” This course could only be suggest- ed or acopted by men of depraved minds and utterly corrupt tendencies; and it was the course pursued by the Democratic Convention at Baltimore. A platform was framed in ac- cordance with its character. Pierce was pre- sented everywhere as the man of the Union, the man of the compromise—the office seekers being threwd enough to see that the Union senti- ment was paramount emong the masses— and the American people, foolishly relying upon the plain mesning of this platfurm, elect- ed General Pierce to rule over them for four years. They fancied shat in preferring this platform to that of the whigs—which, in point by the same agencies, and for a like purpose ~they were securing for themselves four years of quiet uninterrupted prosperity, and a certaia release frem the sectional discord which distragtgd the country under the last President. Now they are told that the Baltimore plat- form means nothing—that the people were the dupes of } is, and the other wire-pull ers—that, so far from being a compromise i net, the adminietration are in reality not pledg ed to any set of principles whatever, and may go vern as they please. It seems a hard thing to tel! the thousands who deeerted the olt hero Scott and voted for a man whom they did not know, simply because he was presented to them as th Union candidate, that the platform on which he stood was a mere sham, and that in reality his Cabinet is honestly opposed to the compro- mise and the Union. There are countries where such an sunouncement would have roused au insurrection before a month was over, and cost the chief ruler bis windows ere night. Tve.. here, where the strong sense of the public pre- serves us from such excesses it cannot be heard with composure. Some ot us have seeu for some time past that the facts were so, and that the country bad been duped in 1852; but we did not expect that our charge would be followed up by so plain and insulting a confession of the naked trnth. We gave the Cabinet credit for treachery. but we did not think them capable of such cynic impndence as to tanut the people s country with the ease with which they 1 themselves to be duped. of course all the varions acts of the Ww. Cabinet, which have provoked such indignation among its opponents, and aroaged such astou- ishment among its friends—-ita appointments of disunionists to office ration of free soflers at the last election here to Colonel Foote in Miseiseippi its opposition ita support of McDonald in Georgia—its rejoicing over the triumph of secessionist Senators in Alabama— can be easily and naturally explained. Hence- forth there can be no doubt as to its course, and no surprise at its acts,however contrary to the public will and the interests of the coun- try they may be. It has planted its flag on the tower of secession, and it is in that quarter we must look if we would see it float. How an administration. avowedly based on a disunionist policy, will be received by Congress, we bave yet to learn, There may be some who honestly disapprove its course but who will still refrain from open opposition on the ground that the President’s message covers a multitude of sins, and that. for the present, profit is clearly on the side of the government. To such we would say but one word. A movement is now in progress which, if not checked by the prompt dismissal of the Cabinet, will soon ripen into a revolution. Those who seize this opporSunity of mounting the foremost wave will be carried forward with it, and when it has reached its cli- max will then full naturally into the envied port of leaders of the people. Those who hang back will be distanced. Those who attempt to oppose the torrent will be swept away, and overwhelmed with the régime they try to sus- tain. Let Congressmen mark our words. The First Test Question for Congress. We do not know whether there be any block- heads in this country simple enough to believe that our opposition to Colonel Forney rests on personal grounds. We have said, time an again, that we consider him to be a most amia- ble and pleasant man—just the sort of person one would like to have at one’s elbow at a din- ner party ; and further. that we do not impeach or doubt his capacity to full the duties of Clerk with accuracy and decorum. We farther add, that we do not take the slightest interest ia any of his competitors and rivals. They may all be, for anything we know, utterly inefficient to perform the business of Clerk. Our position— and none but rogues and dolts could mistake ‘it—is simply this: John W. Forney has committed an act so vile that a man, trom the bare suspicion of being privy to it, has lost the countenance and friendship of respectatl¢ so- ciety. Ought the Congress of the United States | to rnn the risk of being accused of lack of moral principle by electing John W. Forney to be its Clerk ? The vote that will be taken when he is pro- nosed will determine the character of the House, and decide who compsae the respectable | and who the stool pigeon party. The line that will be drawn will be serviceable in more ways than one. For instance, those who support Forney may fairly be put down as men who do not regard his famous letter as very heinous or criminal. No one who views it in the light in which it is regarded by the pub- lic of New York could give him his vote. Those who do, therefore, will tacitly admit tbat they see nothing so very wrong in trying to suborn a witness to perjure himself for the sake of destroying a woman’s character. It may be assumed, without great stretch of imagination, that were they placed in the same position they would unhesitatingly pursue a similar course. Should Forney be elected, therefore, we may fully expect to hear of Mr. A., of the stool pigeon party, addressing his friend Mr. B. in the tellowing strain:— iy (gar B—Oor mutaal ‘risd O, wants toget rido ie. He 1 ard siftpects one D,, who has been compan; ave now ina posi:ion to serve bim ina manner be never will forget. The person who wrote to Wrs. C., and in whose company abe wae detecte?, is D., now ph If you don’t. know bim, you g paper, soon make his ac | inj New O, lesns, Congreesmen, as well as candidates for C) roxy. ships, are intimate with such editors ‘45 gould be thus addressed. Forney. being gp editor himeclf, knew how far he could pre «me, him ana fafe, steady, and in‘e!liz’ nf friend. and he never will firget whatever you may ¢, “for nim in this, to him & most vital matter, A.,2s will be pere‘tved, here touches B. ina most dexterous Manner on two tender points. He calls him a “safe, steady, and reliable friend,” and brings the blush to B.’s modest cheeks, and assures him that C., who has both money and influence, will “never forget what he may do for him.” B. can hardly refuse after this. He suggerts that > ou might institute intimste relations with D. and tien induce him either ia your presence or in company, to admit, as 2 thing to be proud of, his con nection with Mrs. C It must be remembered that the writer speaks from his knowledge of his own feelings. He has been in the habit of “admitting, as a thing tobe proud of,” the weaknesses of the frail fair ones whom he has known. He goes about talking of them. Their name is always in his mouth. He makes acquaintance with an editor, and blurts the story out at once, at the first in- terview. In fact, it is, as h» says, ‘a thing to be proud of,” and he doesn’t see why he ehould lose any of his claims to consideration. Nor does Be, for the life of him, see any reason why he should not induce another man to act like- wise. A scoundrel himself, he likes to en- courage a fellow feeling among his friends. A. goes on:— Re is font of s glare, and, possibly, ina convivial mood, might be communicn iy A. speaks again from experience. He has often enoe=", ‘betrayed confidence, blasted te= putation, and uttered foul calumnies over the bottle. Wine with himis the mother, not of truth, but of lies and slander. His potations have alwaye been as fatal to his friends as they have been disgraceful to himeelf. But not this only, A. bas as much of the scheming knave as of the drunken sot about him. THe has not only retailed scandal himself when in liquor, but bas plied others with the bottle to fileh their secrets from them. <A. is a royal in- triguer. Can you mansge this thing, my friend? It will require skid} and caution, and, if sudcesful, will warmly endear ntot He ie nearly erany at the idea of being placed in hia present position, but he will spend half he is worth to be relieved trom it Thoughts of tbe bottle have already brought the tears into A.’seyes. He calls the man whom he wants to engage todo the stool pigeon business my friend;” and assures him that if he makes a rascal of himself he will be “eodeared” to C. His emotion lasts but a moment, however. B.. who will be sober when he receives the letter, must be assailed with other weapons. “Half bis fortune!” Hilf the fortune of a man «bo has a country house on the Hudeon, and makes ever so many buadred dollars a night! Hall the fortane of a nascent Croesus! A. would have cold his own soul and thrown bis body into the bargain, for a querter the money, How can B, rest? Thin matter muat be Kept weeret Above all, d name mé in connection with it Excuse me for teaudting coin regard to it, My ardent atischwent t giorwus © must be my exeure A. is not a noble villain. He prefers petty loreeny to highway robbery. And eo © the matter must he kept seeret.” He has no objec: tion to play the ruffian privately, bit he objects to the pillory. A new and sudden burst ot exa- tion overwhelming him, he begs that “his name may be kept secret.” He would be an anony- mous scoundrel, And lest any unbiassed mind should see that his motive for taking the step had been the hope of a commission on the pro- mised * half” of C.’s “fortune,” he adds that his “ardent attachment to glorious C. must be his excuse.” Ou/! Letus rest there. We cannot get beyond the “ardent attachment” of such a high-minded man. It is the fit climax to the tale. The interest cannot further be sustained. If there be any members of Congress who are prepared to write such letters as the above we trust they will stand by Mr. Forney. And when they bave elected him, they cannot forget that certain State institutions, in the vicinity of this city, contain several other very commendable disciples of the stool pigeon school. Most of these gentlemen were brought up to their busi- nees under the paternal care of the illustrious One-eyed Thompson ; and we venture to say that few among the number enjoyed the advan- tage ofa course of tuition under Col. Forney. Notwithstanding this deficiency of education many ofthem have done remarkably well in their peculiar line ; and if a reputation for stool pigeon notoriety becomes a qualification for Congressional favor they are certainly entitled to some small reward An order from the Pre- sident on the New York Sheriffs would probably enable them to repair to Washington so as to be doorkeepers, or something of the kind. Thus Congress would have a very pretty uniformity among its officers. American Enrerprise iN AvustraLia.—The arrival in our port last Saturday of the ship Bavaria, with the first mail ever sent direct from Australia to this country, was the inaugu- ration of anew and highly important era of trade and commerce ‘etween the American and Australian States. It vasa most important event, and one of which no prea.¢tion can fore- shadow the vast and varied results. It is, in fact, the opening of a new path for ow com- merce, a new market for all our natural aod artificial productions, and a new field for American industry, skill and enterprise, in that immense island-continent. From the present aspect of affairs in this most modern Ophir itis plain to the commonest understanding that that great continent will be of more consequence to the trade of this city, in process of time, than even California itself has proved to be. In ex- tent of territory, in natural resources, in the richness of the mines, and in all its undeveloped sources of prosperity, Australia is equal to four or five Calnormas. Hitherto its population has been principally supplied by immigration from Great Britain, though in a far less volume than it flowed to these States and to Californi~, . but it seems almost certain that now, w''/, Ean commercial advantages as it offers and with the prospect, coon we hope to he Verified, of the establishment of a freg and indepzndent ggvern- ment, Australia will exercise an immense at- traction on immigration fror@ China and the East, as well as from Eure ype and this conti- nent. As a necessary ¢’ sequence, its impor- tance—social, commere’ 9], and political—will advance with rapid “strides, and the trade be- tween that continent, and ours will increase in an equal ratio. : The discover » of gold in California was the inauguratio’ « of a new era of commercial ac- tivity thr’ jy ehout the civilized world, and exer- clsed most as great and wide spread an in- flue’ Jee as Columbus’ discovery of the Ameri- an continent. And now the dissolution of the old Tartar dynasty in China, and the establish- ment in that vast empire of a new and more liberal order of things—the opening of commer- cial relations with Japan, which will eventual- ly be accomplished by the American flect in the Chinese seas—are mighty links in the chain of Providential events which we see transpiring around us, and combined with the sudden growth ot Australia, and the enlargement ot our trade in that direction, will make the Pacifie Ocean white with the sails of commerce even toa much greater extent than the At- lantic has been during the last few centuries. The commercial activity to be thus de- veloped and fostered will be of greater advantage to the United States than to any other part of the world, not even except- ing Europe. We may, therefore, expect the improvements in this city, and enterprises of all descriptions, to increase during the next four years with a momentum which can only finda parallel in what we saw take place here when California first opened her treasures and poured them into our lap. There may have been re- cently apprehensions of a crisis happening in commercial affairs here; but it is possible that the wealth opening on us from Australia, and the prospects from China and Japan, and al] the countries from the Pacific, will have the effect of averting any local catastrophe of that kind for some time to come. THEATRICAL AND Literary SquaeBLe.—Some of the theatrical critics have been making a great noise about the new comedy, called “the Fox Hunt,” written by Mr. Bourcicault. and produced recently night after night at Burton’s theatre with s0 much ecla¢ and applause. These critics have discovered, all on a eudden, it Would seem, thatthe ‘Fox Hunt” in identical with a comedy calitd ‘Sulliven,” recently played on the French stage. A number of rather weak coincidences between the two pieces have been given; but Mr. Bourcicault positively denies that he was indebted to the French piece for the slightest point of wit, sar- casm humor, or good sense; and he finally winds up his declaration with the tollowing very fair challenge:— Hy, rir, [ propore to decide this question by » Bring this comedy, entitled ‘ Sullivan,” amd my , “the Fox Hunt,’ before a jury of twelve i erary mn of eminevee. and if you can get @ verd'ct to the eflect that my comedy is either s traaslation or adap- tation of “Snllivan,”’ or any o her pieoa whatever I will pay $1000 to any ‘charifable fund which the New York Laily Times may sel-ct. 1’, on the contrary, the verdict in the other wav, you sbail ¢o the same penacce. Law, sir your obedient servant, DI BOUROICAULT, We do not see how this proposition can be refused by the antagonists of the dramatist without acknowledging that they have been publishing misrepresentations against Mr. Bour- cicault. Indeed, we expect that they will ac- cept it at once, without auy more ado, and go into @ decision before a jury of twelve men. DistmGuisuep Arrival at Bostox.—Koszta, who bas created so much noise in America in conreqnence of the gallant conduct of Captain Ingraham, has arrived at Boston; but as yet we have seen no attempt to get up a eclebration on | the occasion. How dull the people in Boston are! | Why don’t they stir themselves, and attempt to organize a parade on the entrance of the distia- guished Hungarian into that city? TRAVEL On THE RatLroaps.—It is generally estimated that the amount of travel on the four principal railroads converging in this city is equal to sixty or seventy thousand passengers per week, Tue Vore or Tae Strate anp THE CABINET Oncane.—Some of the minor organs of the Cabi- net in this State. who are ever harping on one string, or mechanically playing the same tune over and over again, like the hurdy-gurdy the vote cast in the late election. We think we made it pretty clear in the Heraty of Sunday last—a little too clear, perhaps, for those who do not want to see, and shut their eyes against things, and remain staring people in the f.ce whether they are looked at or not in return. One of the Van Buren papers states the vote as follows :— Seward whig vote..........-6. 0.0.0 eceeee Whigs voting with the national democrats National democratic voie.. iv Van Buren free soil vote... . vee: Total Non-vo'ing electors . Of whom were whigs National democrats. Van Buren free eoilers. . The writer adds, that the whole number of the democratic party proper in this State, voting and not voting at this election, is 204,600. It would therefore appear, according to this statement, that the whigs in the State are to the democrats as three to two-—a statement which is sadly at variance with the vote of the last Presidential election. But the entire number of whig votes in the State svands thus, according to the barnburner papers:— Seward whig vote. 162,790 Whigs voting with national democrats 89,000 Whigs not voting. 42,000 Total Whig Vote... ...6.ccceeeeeereees 284,790 What the writer means, therefore, by the de- mocratic party proper, is the barnburners, and these, he contends, number in the State 20+4,- 600. But to make good this calculation he states that more than half, or 108000, did not come to the ballot box. A very likely story in- deed, with all the federal influence of the gov- ernment brought to bear upon them, and all the whippers-in of Marcy and Van Buren work- ing day and night like beavers. And this ridi- culons assumption is taken for granted, while it is asserted on the other hand that there was not a single national democrat who did not vote. But supposing all this to be trae, what difference does it make as to the point that we contended for? Whether they were barnburners or national democrats or whigs who kept away from the polls, they disapproved of the Cabinet and its appointments, else thew w--*** == ~-1-* avy YUE LEYS YORE on that side; and by the admission, there- fore, of the Cabinet organs themselves, less than a, fifth of the whole vote of the State was for.ad, with all kinds of appliances. to come for- ward to support the Cabinet. The point is this : In 1€52 there was for General Pierce in this State an overwhelming majority of 28,000 votes over the Scott and Seward whigs—and there were cast for him in all 262,000 votes. Now there is only about a third of that number in favor of his administration, and there is a ma- jority of 65,000 over it by the same Seward faction who were last year 28,000 behind, and the national democrats have 5,000 majority over it, so that with the exception of the abo- litionists proper, the vote for the Cabinet is the lowest fraction of the voters of the State; and upon the confession of its organs it could not bring one-fifth of the voters to endorse its course. Again, in 1852 the vote for Hale wos 25,000; this year the abolition vote proper isonly 15.000. There is. therefore, a diminution ot 10,000, which have gone to help to make up even the 95.000 that voted for the Van Buren and Marcy administration. Our position, there- fore, is not disturbed in the slightest degree by the figures of the Cabinet organs in this State, for, admitting them to be true and correct, they establish exactly what we contended for. But they are not true by along shot. The follow- ing, in round numbers, will be found to be cor- rect :— Seward vote........ National democrats Van Buren free soil.. Abolition vote proper. Not voting.......... ra ee Pe +++ 500,000 We hold that the non-voting portion, who were deceived in the last election, will vote next time on the strong side, namely, on the side of the national democrats; and they will be followed by a large number of those who have temporarily voted on the Van Buren side but do not belong to it; and the result will be that the national democrats will beat both the Seward party and Van Buren faction in the next elec- tion. There is a new combination of parties ia progress of formation, and it will be found that on the first trial of strength in this State there will bea large majority against the Cabinet, Marcy and Van Buren, and in favor of the Union and compromise principles settled and established in the last Congress. A Voice rrom THE Gravk.—If One-eyed Thompson, the famous stool-pigeon genius, who committed suicide two or three years ago be- cause he could not accomplish a certain stool- pigeon operation—if that distinguished genius were alive, and had hisattention directed to the approaching Congress, how he would chuckle, and rejoice, and shake his sides, at the prospect of having one of his pupils elected to the dis- tinguished post of Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives and fingerer ofall the funds! A stool- pigeon mejority in the next House of Represen- tatives will carry delight to the bosoms of many of those who are at present serving out their time in the penitentiaries and State prisons of the North. wating Groror Law’s Muskers.—We understand that two hundred thousand of George Law’s muskets have been brushed up of late, packed in new boxes, and prepared for immediate ship- ment. on some fair day, when news shall have arrived from Europe of a rising in Italy, Hun- gary, or Germany. Some of the old Hungarian heroes are’also brushing up their old accoutre- ments, and preparing for a voyage across the Atlantic to take part in the coming revolution. We rather think, however, they will have to wait some time before a revolution breaks out suitable for George Law’s muskets. The mus- kets, therefore, will not go off yet. Tae Custom Hoven Apporntments.—Great discontent, it appears, has been developed among the democracy by the recent appoint- ments made by Mr. Redfield. Many of those appointments are persons with little or no reputation, and a number of them, it seems, are anything but proper recipients of such fa- vors, Itis generally said that Mr. Redfield has very little to do himself with any appointments— that they are selected and made by a commit- tee, composed of John Van Buren, John Coch- rane, and others of that ilk. In fact, the Cus- tom House is now entirely in the hands of the Van Buren free soil dynasty, and none but they who have been free soilers for three or four years prior to 1852 have any chance of a place in that j hospita) of incurables. grinders, are attempting to analyse and mystify | the truth. But facts and figures are stubborn | | sere materially as Tu New Corroration anp THE REFORMERS.—~ Among the many odd and extraordinary phases which our municjpal government is in the habit of assuming, we think there is none so remarke- ble, so outré in its character, or so antagonistic to our free institutions. as that which was brought to light a few days since by the re- formers. These worthigs, arrogating to them- selves whatever small amount of civic virtue may happen to have survived the general wreck of that commodity in the corruptions of the last few years, have carried their audaciousness and self-conceit so far as to erect themselves into a. secret dictatorial society, with the object of ut- terly neutralizing the powers vested by the peo ple in the hands of the Common Council, and taking the government of the city into their own hands. Mr. Peter Cooper is a passive rather than an actiye agent in the hands of this clique, which comprises among its leading mem- bers J. W. Girard, G. B. Butler, of the Journal of Commerce, James Boorman and othere They have for the present established their quarters in a room in the University, where they hold their secret meetings; and they have had the modesty to invite the Aldermen and Coun- cilmen elect to join their league, and so re- nounce their own official integrity and inde- pendence. By this means the so-called reform- ers want to get under their own direction the entire control of the municipal government, and make the irrespoxsibilty of the corpora- tion still more loose than it now is. If this se- cret society be not actually illegal and uneon- stitutional, as meant to influence improperly a legislative body, its existence is, at all events,a reproach to our republican institutions, and living stigma on the principal of universal suf- frage. If our representatives betray their trusts and give themselves up tocorruption and fraué the laws prescribe the remedy; if,on the contra- ry, they discharge their duties faithfully, it is an insult to them to cherish or tolerate such a band of secret inquisitors in this metropolis. This reform clique and an efficient, independent and well-ordered government. cannot co-exist. One or the other must disappear. Severe ComMerciaL Restricrions aT MesstvA.—Captair Parks, of the brig Gov. Brown, arrived yesterday from Messiza, reports that the authorities there are very se- vere in their restrictions on American and Enylish vee- sels. The captains of both countries had forwarded to the reprerentatives of their respective governments pro- tests sgainst these proceedings. The efforts of the Ame- rican captains to obtain the privileces eranted bv treaty ied by F. W. Bean, Feq., Amerioame Consul there, who hai received the thanks of the mere: chants snd captains for his conduct in the matter. Bontoy’s THRaTRE.—Miss Robertson, who has been play~ ing the principal female charscter in Mr. Rourcicsult’o: new comedy, ‘ The Fox Hunt’? was suddenly taken il}: yesterday, and was unable to appear. Mrs. Hough sus- tained the character, and the play was not chang-d. Mrs Borton said, in his apology, that Miss Robertson would: probably soon be able to resume the duties of her profes sion; and we trust that her illness will nt long continue, ‘The sudden change in the weather caused Mi-s Robertsog to contract a severe affection of the throat, Marine Affairs. More Deatus at Sea.—The packet ship Victoria, frou? Londen, arrived yesterday, reports fifty deaths among her passer gers on the voyage. ‘Tue Great Rercniio —Thia ship was visited by an im+ mense number of people yeaterday, every deck and gang- wey being crowded all cry long, and no part of the im- mense fabric escaped a therovgh overhauling. A large number of the viriiers wore ladies. It will be three weeka before she will be ready to sail; not for lack of freight, however for a much larger quantity than can b3 taken Yas already. been offered. Wrrcx or The Scrooxer James G. Kixa —Ths brig Tor» cetto, bound from Savannah for Boston, arrived at Nor- folk on Wednesday, reports fallingin, om the 19th ult., withthe waterlogged schooner James G, King aud took off Captain Wsinset'e, who had beea oa the wresk sevem éays, without food or water. Two of the hands of the . G. King and four others were taken off by the schoos ver Henry Carl, as formerly reporte4. Goon Pasace —The now British ship Tincladen Castle, recently made the passage item “Miramichi, N. B, to Liverpcol in, fourteen days nnd six hours, and it is said that but for some disobedience on the part of the srew she would have arrived two days earlier. Commence OF 8am Francisco —During the mon‘h of Octo- ber there cleared from Sin Francisco:—Ame ian vessels coastwise, 45—tons, 12,45. Ainsricen vessels for foreiga orts, 82—-tons, 21.605; foreign veasels for foreiga 9—tons, 8,658. The arrivals xt this port for the same time were :—American vessels constwise, 89—tons 27.733; from foreign ports, 11—tons, 8,005. foreign vo from foreign ports, 26—tons, 8.178. ' Total for he 10 mon\ from January 1 to October 1:—Americen versela clear coastwise, (5—tons, 184.401; fureiga vessels do. do., l= tone, 128: American vessels clearing for fereign porte, 390 —tots, £77,721; foreign vessels do, do., 368—tons, 111,286, Fatered during the seme perio {:~ American vessels coast- wise, 370—tons, 261,268; foreiza vessels do. do , 10—tons, 5,700; American versela from forelgn ports, 15t—tons, 95,224; foreign vessels do. do , 329—tona, 104,629. ‘The arrival of passengers by cea from September 27 to October 27, were as follows :—Males, 1,766; females, 484; chiléren, 77—total, 2277. The departures during the same period sum up, 8,248. Excess of departures over arrivals, 971. Total azrivals of the year by sea, 80,142; departures, 24,001; excese of arrivals, 6,051. ere City Intelligence. Receirig AT THR OFICk OF RECEIVER oF TAXBY —The last day for payment or +, in the ‘Tax Reoviver’s Office, to save interest. waa Wednesday, S0th ult, when the im- mense sum of $768,191 09 was taken The greatest rush of Lad ese ever known to be made at this bureau was on Wednesday, and the office was kept open by Mr. Hart until 9 P M in order to accommodate ‘citicons, Tom above sum was deposited in the Mechanics Bank, at about 11 o’clock Wecnen ay night. The whole amount received thin Feet (to the 20th ult) for taxes was $3,906,346 56. The amount yet to be recet ved 1s $1, 100,000. Yesterday, lst inst , the usual per cent«ge (one) was put on the outstanding. We take trom the records the amount received since the 14th ult , as fo'lows :— Nov. 1 $31,180 91 Nov. 22 + $73,817 60 i 3,808 104/218 78 1 82,822 61 + 133,716 08 1 6,807 43 1 23'870 09 1 80,614 68 2 46,022 26 Reoripta for fourteen day: Mexnnc oy Tus New York TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ANSON G. PHECes. especial meeting of the New York State Colenizstion , was held yes~ terday at the Bible House, in Astor placa, fn coasequence of the sudden death of the iate President of the society, Anson G. Phelps There were present quite # large nam ber of the members of the as-ociation, and each seemed to appreciate the loss they had all sustained in the de- mise of the Jato estimable presiding officer. After the meeting bad been called toorder, and thedeath of Mr. Phelps announced by the Corresponding deoretary, Me. J. P, Pinney, the folowing preamble and resolutions were~ mecver, and unavimously adopted :-— In the death of Anson G. Phelps. Esq., the oommuntty and tho Church of Christ have rustsined sovere loss. Actively engaged in commarcial business for s great length of time, he runalned a uniform and high charaoter for intogrity and goa eralinfluence Early becoming a member of the Christian, Church, he exbibited the chsracter of afol.ower of Christ clearly and consistently, like the ar ¢ just, shining an more and sore unto the fluence and exertiont tian benevolence a found prominent in the recor proepered by Providence as to wor and cheerfally ¢ thorewith the counsels of wisdom, labors for their pro tutions to whioh bi that of the Colonizs its active friend. jJevoted at labor in its behalf in revies ¢ orfeot day,” Wehal of % & cor Teapos ‘rom bim. niform, Christian obse owe, display nd onlarg d Chris- tian beneyolexoe, is now enced by 1 death io a ripo~ old viow of these consider: Board of Mana- @ follo «ing age. nore unanimously adopt th Resoly t thie tion cause, to which, from an early perio: tinvance, he bas been seduloualy and eff their connection with him in the Boar bad abunda t evidence of his deep inte erst coutributions, and. dilig enue y remeinber him al plory Christian character, wh aon: stein, while his generous contributions, and personal ef- forts extended to the different departments of Christian bee neficence, Resolved, That the mombera of this Board attond the foe tae rt rel vervices at the Morcer Stroet Church, to jock, and that a copy of the above » pI mort w, yresinble family of the decoased tions bo transmitted to AN Evatse ore Tim Track —Yesterday afternoon, a4 the New York end Brie haif past five o’clock traia, out of Jersey City, reached the Hackensack bridge, the engine ran off the track. The train gorng at a arual speed, t jewark balf past five and nix o'clock trains were ia rence delayed, exciting for ® time some serious. bersionn in the m/uds of thove waiting for the arr- conr opprel