The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1853, Page 4

ee OO GAO ATE: pot ore = NEW YORK HERALD. | TEI a JANES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRISTOR AND EDITOR, | } perenne’ | SPCR H.W. COLNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STB. | TERME cosh in advance Bre oot EN ALD. 1 conte per sopy—BT per on2cghe WERKLY HER , 4 a Saturday = OS eoate s ropean Fete or Pay dract rita aod se to.amy port af the Continen' to ide portage AEP PRINTING executed with neatuces, Oheapners, ond Geopateh. Friday, December 9, 2853. SHE NEW YORK WEAKLY HERALD. ‘Phe Gaited States mai! steamahip Balcie, Capt. Comstock, swill wave this port at noes (o-morrow, for Liverpcol. Swbseriptions and advertizements for any edition of the Mew Yorn fim will be recoved at the following places ‘@ Buroye — john Hunter, No. 3 b Paracion # sees, Win Taras 8 G,. So. is Catherine streak Pre rancil No. It ice ela Banque, he Suropean mails will close at half past ten o’clook to-morrow morning. ‘The “eeey Haran will be published at half-past nine @ dock to morrow merving. Single copies, in wrappers, sia pence The News. ‘The steamsbip Niagara reached Halifax on Wed- mesday night, with three days later intelligence feom the other side of the Atlanti:, a very full synoperis of which has been furnished by telegraph. ‘The news from the scene of war, thongh very iater- esting throws but little fresh light upon the actual eendition of affairs between the conteading armies. ‘Where are so many rumors, nearly all of them contra- @icting each other, that the reader will be at ® lose what to believe or disbelieve. Reports were current that several engagements had oc qurred in different places, in which the Turks . Were victorious in all but one iastance. Hostilities had been suspended in the Moldavia-Wallachian Provinces in consequence of floods and unpropitious weather; but in a short time, it was expected, opera tions would be recommenced with greater activity than ever by both armies. In the meantime France and England continued their exertions to re-estab- Ish negotiations between the belligerent [nations, and not without some prospect of success, if we are to judge from the tone of the reported temper of the Czar and the Sultan. But then the subjects of the latter are determined to punish the Muscovite in- ‘vaders—nothing but an“ eye for an eye’ will satisty the tollowers of Mahomet, and herein now lies one of the chief difficulties in effecting a peace. The politi- eal and commercial news from England, France, and the continent of Europe generally is quite interesting. Both branches of Congress adjourned from yester- day till] Monday 28a mark of respect to the memory of the Hon. Wm. Rufus King, late Vice President ot the United States and President of the Senate, who ex- pired at his residence in Seima, Dallas county, Ala- bama, on the 18th of last April. The glowing tributes pronounced in commemoration of the great moral, social and political worth of the illustrious deceased will be perused with pleasing but melan. choly gratification by all classes, irrespective of sect or politics. The eulogies of Messrs. Huater, Eve- rett, Cass, Douglas, Benton and others, are partica- larly interesting from the fact that they had so long served in the nationa! counsils with the venerable statesman whoee loss they are called upon to deplore, and whose high qualifications they were more imme- diately able to understand and properly sppreciate. One of our speciai Washington correspondents writes that all doubt relative to the position of Gen. Cass has been removed by public conversations in which he distinctly asserted that his heart was en- listed in the cause of the national democracy of New York, that he cannot concur in some of the Presi- dent's appointments, that he disapproves the senti meats lately disseminated by the Cabinet newspaper, and that be will not coalesce with the Van Buren free soilers. It is understood that Gen. C. will take an early opportunity to publicly divulge his opiaions with regard to all these matters, and that he will be followed and sustained by other prominent demo srate whose views are a‘ present shrouded from the public gaze. Gen. Cass will rive the cloud now overhanging our nationa] affairs, and then will com- merce a storm such as has never been experienced among the political elements of this country. Ex Gov. Hunt, we are pleased to learn by a de spatch from Lockport, is rapidly recovering from his recent cevere illness. Considerable excitement is said to have prevailed among the politicians in Albany yesterday, in con sequence of the reported appointment by Collector Redfield of three ultra tree soilers as officers of the customs in that city. Col. Ward, democrat, has been elected Mayor of Savannah. A proposition is pending in the South Carolina Legislature for appropriating $50,000 towards the erection of a monument to the late Mr. Calhoun. Mob law still reigns paramoun’ at Erie, Pa, The wioters, apparently backed by some of the local au- thorities, are carrying their opposition to the railroad company to such extremes that it is hardly probable their outrageous proceedings will be ehecked with- out bicodshed and Joss of life. columns for the details of their transactions yester- Obadiah Smith, John I’. Lloyd, George Higgins and John Creighton, indicted with twelve others for riotous conduct at the village of Canarsie, on the 5th of July last, were yesterday found guilty in the Kings county court of Oyer and Terminer. Their | counsel moved for an arrest of judgment, which motion is to be argued this morning. Jobn Henérickson, who sppealed from the de sion of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Albany, in which he was sentenced to be hung for the mur- der of his wife, has been refused a new trial by the Supreure Court. He is to he re-sentenced to day. Much excitement has lately been prodaced among the Germans at Bergen, N. J., in cossequence of suspicions that poison was administered to one of ph oe ee me Henry Macch, who died very suddenly last Sunday morning. A warrant was yesterday isaned by the justice of that town for the arrest of the wife of the deccased. After a searching examination the woman was discharged for want of proof that she had been instrumental in causing the death of her husband. ‘The Canada Bank frand case was again up bofsre Justice Stuart yestercay, and some very renerkuble evidence was elicited from a witness named White, aw resident of Buffalo. For want of space we defer the publication unti! to morrow. ‘The sudden death of John [!. Stuyvesant, yester- dey morming, has created considerable alarn amongst his friends and relatives. He was the com- plainant against Dr. John K. Seymour, charged with fraudulently obtaining the deed of » house and lot. ‘The particulars of the case will bo found under the head of police intelligence. A deeree was made yesterday in the United States Circuit Court upon an agreement entered into be- tween the Commiesioners of the Methodist Episzo- pal Church, North and Sonth, in that celebrated dispute about the funds of the institution. The Board of Aszistant Aldermen held a meeting last evening. The Committee on Streets reported in favor of granting permission to the Sixth and Kighth Avenue Railroad Companies to extend their tracks ‘to Vesey street, and the repcrt was adopted. With- out treneacting any other business of public or pri- vate importan.e, the Board adjourned till this even- ing. In addition to a variety of other interesting mit.cf to which we bave no room to refer particularly, our columns to-day contain the Report of the Connis- sioner of the General Land Office ; Graph! etches ofthe Operatic Case in the Superior Court, and of the Debate npon the Manhattan and Broadway Rv'l rood Project in the Board of Aldermen—all of which will doubtless be read with the utmost attention. J. Lisa ~_ ad Public Morallty of \? .. 4 @mintstration. In aconepicuons par ¢ of President Pieree’s mertage occurs the f stiowing note-worthy sen- tence :— “Public ailuirs ought to be so conducted thata settled convic' fon shall pervade the entire Union | that nothing, short of the bizhest tone and stand- ard of prplic morality marks every part of the adm'‘mistration and legislation of the general gover’'ament.” The truth might have been stated with more elegance and force ; but it is plain enough to be wndersiood, and, strictly speaking, that is sufficient, We accept the dictum. We are con- tent that the character and ability “of govern- ments shal! be tested by the prevalence or the absence of ‘a settled conviction among the people that nothing short of the highest tone It con eas'!y be done if they “sgree to consider the words a mere rhetori¢4} flourish. as meau- jnglees as the Union tel us the ninth resola- tion of the Baltimore platform was intended to be; but if they adhere to old-fashioned notions oftrath and ekncerity, the two will be found as incompatible as the latter is with the For- of Forney, and the pedling of the message-— are in truth as glaring evidences of degraded morals and unprincipled dishonesty. as the most bitter foe to our country could desire. A tithe of the dishonor they reflect would utterly destroy any such “settled conviction” as the President declares to be the criterion of a good government. The shadow of a suspicion of such acts ought to be enough to plant in the breast of every citizen of the United States a and standard of public morality marks every part of their administration.” We are willing that this test, suggested by the President him- self, should be applied to the present Cabinet, and that it stand or fall upon the result. Peo- ple of the United States, are you imbued with “a settled conviction that nothing short of the highest tone and standard of public morality See the telegraphic | . | having marks every part of the administration” of your present rulers ? If you sre, we should be gratified to know what you think of the administration candidate for the Clerkship of the House of Represen- tatives, John W. Forney. None of you can be ignorant of the fact that this man was proved in a couct of justice to have conspired to extort false evidence from a poor actor while in liquor. in order to destroy the character of a de- feneeless woman. The Forney letter has now become a household word ; there is not a family cirele from Maine to Florida where the very mention of Forney’s name does not create a general shudder of disgust. The horror aroused by an offence like his is not con- fined to one class or one set of individuals ; every man and woman in the country is fully capable of appreciating its enor- mity, and doing justice to the blackness of the heart that could devjse so foul a scheme. Not a man can be found whese blood does not boil at the infamy plotted against poor Jamic- son; nota woman breathes the American air whose cheek has not flushed and glowed with indignation at the dastardly conspiracy against a helpless member of her sex. Yet he who car- ries this awful load of disgrace and ignominy was formally brought forward before the House as the administration candidate for clerk. He was supported by all the influence, direct and indirect, which the cabinet could bring to bear. The United States government palliated, ex- cused, strove to explain away his letter; and when some show of honorable feeling among the members of Congress placed his fate in jeop- ardy, the President’s advisers threw their whole weight into his scale, and openly gave it out that the defeat of Forney would be a de- feat for the government. By these means, they rallied to their side a number of members who were unwilling to embarrass the adminis- tration at the outset of its eareer and the open- ing of Congress; and thus they succeeded in electing Forney by a bare majority. These facts are notorious. The papers are fall of them. The Cabinet is now identified with Forney as plainly and as decidedly as it he were their chief Their indifference or approval of the Forney letter is placed on the same record as the Pre- sident’s message. With these facts before them it would be dif fieult to persuade an unbiassed mind that “a settled conviction pervades the people of this country that nothing short of the highest tone and standard of public morality marks the administration.” To use the President’s ewn language, in fact, nothing short of the lowest tone and most depraved stand- ard of public morality in a Cabinet could acecunt for such a proceeding; and no- thing short of an equally deplorable state of fecling among a people could prevent its being received with universal shame and disgust. The President talks of * settled convictions :” there is, we know, one settled conviction among the people of this country, and that is that Joha W. Forney stands ona par with the other pro- fessors of the stool-pigeon trade who are now serving the State in the various jails and peni- tentiaries, and that the Cabinet, which fattened, proteeted, supported, and clected him, can be very little better.. This is harsh language, but it is the truth ; and when flourishes and mcta- phors without meaning are so plentiful, a little | plain English may be serviceable and whole- | some. Still farther light was thrown upon the “tone and standard of morality which marks | every part of the admiuistration of the general government” hy the occurrences of Tuceday. The public is aware that it has been usual for the President's message to be sent to the Post- | masters of large cities in advance, and to be tributed to all newspapers so soon as tele- | graphic intelligence ef the reading in Congress conmenced reached that funetionary. The present Cabinet, with this rule established hy usage, had three courses to pursue. It might have declared its intention of following the usual practice, and distributed the message as its predecessors did. Or it might have boldly stated its intention of deviating from the ac- customed routine, and sending the message cx- clusively to those journals which gave it their support; and having said so, it might have fulfilled iss promise. Or it might have given it out that i¢ would adhere to the usual practice, and at thezame time have directly transmit- ted, or copnived at the trans ion of the document in advance to certain favored jour- nale. To the first two of these courses there could have been no solid objection on grounds of principle and honor. The last was both dis- honorable and noprincipled. It was the course selected by General Pierce’s administration. It haseven been asserted—and there is quite circumstantial evidence enough before the pub- lic to warrant the suspicion—that the two jour- nals of thie city, and he Post in Boston, which published the message in advance of their co- temporaries, obtained i¢ for money. There is. we repeat, a strong conviction abroad that some person or persons, directly or indirectly, connected with the Cabinet, and possessing ac- cess to the State files, actually trade in our public documents, and on this cecasion sold the message to certain newspaper corresponflents. This opinion is now so generally received that it would need a very plausible explanation in- deed to eradicate it from the mind of the pub- Whoever was the pediar—whoever stole the message, and sold it and got the mon there is a “settled conviction” abroad hi that it was stolen, sold, and paid fur, and that no one could have done go withont th nivance or sanction of the Cabinet. The people of the United States will recon- cile this if they can with their notions of ‘the highest tone and standard of public morality,” Jie. “settled conviction” that ‘'the tone and stand- ard of public morality” under the present ad- ministration will imprint an indelible stain on the country. eve John Mitehel and his Mistlon—Englaud and ‘Ameriea. Pn ee ney letter. Both parts—the Cabinet support | Various agitators and exiles from Europe have come here in recent years, and have kicked up a great deal of fuss and noise. Kossuth, the Hungarian; Kinkel, the German, and others, have indulged in empty declamation, pomp and pageantry, and have been collecting money and making contracts for Cincinnati saddles and rusty muskets, but have never done auy- thing. The American people have a stroay sympathy with republican patriots from other lands; but they want tosee something practical. They care nothing for the mere theoretic or the visionary. Mitchel is a man of an entirely dif ferent stamp from those we have mentioned. He isa man of action, and he is eminently prac- tieal. He has proved his sincerity and conrage hy bis offering himself a sacrifice for the cause of his native land. He has sagacity enough to estimate all the spouting and shoutiog, and va- nity and claptrap and froth of a certain class of Irish petty leaders here.at their true value. He has good reason to know something of the same set at home. They organized and talked big, and marched and countermarched, but never did anything. Here they are ten times worse, if possible. A considerable number of the un- educated and bigoted class of Irish are divided into eceieties and cliques, most of them led by selfish politicians and demagogues, who use them for their own purposes,at elections and on other occasions. They parade on St. Patrick’s Dey or the Fourth of July, with bands and ban- ners and sashes, and are sure to get drunk and have a row among themselves, or with the citizens or police, and then the whole Irish name is disgraced by their conduct, while at the same time they evoke a spirit of hostility on the part of “‘nativists,” and many citi- zens who never belonged to that party. Instead of amalgamating with the Ameri- can people as good citizens, they keep upseparate and sectarian organizations, that are most injurious to themselves and to all their fellow-countrymen. Some good but mistaken men no doubt belong to these societies; but they are not in their right place. Upon such organizations Mitchel cannot depend, except so far as true men come out from among them, There is a different class of Irishmen trom these—quiet sensible men, who say little and make little show, but who are ready to do and dare much, if they only saw a fitting opportu- nity for striking a blow fer the land of their fathers. Among those are to be found tie eda- cated, who have learned to think and act for themselves. Upon this class John Mitchel will exert a potent influence. He will enrol them all under a single banner. He will enlist more Americans too in his cause than any foreigner who has hitherto set foot upon ourshores. Here be can write and speak what he pleases for the ac- complishment of the grand idea of his life, with- out any danger of his paper or himself being crushed by any government. His genius will have free scope, and he will produce a very powerlul organ of opinion. Not only will he be supported by all the Irish who are not slaves, but by the English and German democracy, and by all Americans who desire to ‘ carry the war into Africa.” Indeed, it is high time that the people of this republic should attend to the interference of the British government and their agents in our do- mestic institutions. For twenty years the British aristocraey—who are. de facto, the British government--have been turning their attention to the problem of this country. The result of the war of 1812 to 1814 had settled forever the question of English invasions of the United States, and a different policy was now therefore necessary. Their press continued to ridicule the country and to make it odious in the eyes of the civilized world. It misrepresented Mississippi repudiation as a repudiation by the whole people of the United States. But notwithstanding this, the country progressed and extended her commerce over every sea. Something more was necessary to be done—somcthing in the way of diplomacy, to create internal division, according to the old maxim of the oligarchy, “divide and conquer’’— amaxim which they have successfully practised in the case of India and Ireland. They went to work and sent over here secret embassies to spy out the land—men of their own order, who they knew would be truce to them. Lord Morpeth, Lord Stanley and other emissaries, described the country in such a way as was calenlated to injure its rcpntation in England and srrest the progrevs of democracy there, while at the same time it was intended to make America stink in the nostrils of all Muropeans. The institution peculiar tothe South was paint- ed in the most horrible colors. These stete- ments induced the aristocracy and the fanatics to send out bere missionaries to preach up sedi- tion. and to foment the anti-slavery sentiment into dangerous activity. At the same time the English press heaped its vituperation upon the general character of the country, describing its people as half savages. The Mexican war, Col- lins’ steamebips, our clipper ships and yachts, have caused these journals to sing email. But the exertions of the British aristocracy have not relaxed on this account. Qn the contyary, they have heen more active than ever, George Thompson was sent out. He went back—he lectured in England against the her- rors of slavery. He came out here again, and lectured on the same subject. After doing all the miechief he could, and when he was com- pelled to effect a precipitate retreat, he return- ed to England, and again villified the institn- tions of this country. The Duchess of Suther- Jand, Lady Palmerston, John Russell, and a host of other noble ladies—some of them in immediate connection with the Queen and ihe administration—imet a! Staffordshire Mouse, under the auspices of the government, and ad- dressed an inflammatory letier to the ladies of America. Under the influence of the stimulus thus given to anti-slavery principles, Mre aid ewerars Aten. eoene as seein LRT ate Stowe wrote “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Its sale was without a precedent. She went to Bug- land, and wes there-/éted and worshipped by these came noble ladies; and this was of course intended to operate here—to stir up the pas- sions of traitors to the American constitution, and to give another impetus to that movement, whose ultimate object is to eever the North from the South. Now, we ask, who is so stupid and stolid as to believe, for a moment, that the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Palmerston, or any of the other benevolent ladies and lords who have taken a part in the movement, care one fig for the freedom of the negroes of the United States, four thousand miles away? If they looked at home they woukd find ample scope and verge enough for the exercise of their benevoleace in favor of the white serfs of England, Scotland, and Ireland. whose eondition is infinitely lower than that of the black race of Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama. The poor creatures who bave been cleared off the Duke of Suther- land’s estate in Seotland, and whose humble habitations have been levelled with the duct, so that a human dwelling cannot now be seen over square miles of territory before studded with cottages--these squalid paupers, driven away like so many vermin, to make room for the pasturage of the brutes of the field, more tor- tupate than they—these would be legitimate objects of pity for the Duchess of Sutherland, and those other personages of noble lineage who seem to have forgotten the proverb that “charity begins at home.” Where are all their “bowels of compassion” for these white slaves? According to the argument of an inspired writer, if we love not our brethren whom we have seen, how can we love him whom we have not seen? Where is the evi- dence of their philanthropy for the thousands of the people of India who are compelled to sell themselves into slavery for food, the fruits of the soil being swept away by the East India Company and the British aristocracy? Was it pure benevolence that prompted the emancipa- tion of the slaves of Jamaica, in which the oligar- chy of England took so distinguished a part? Was it out of sympathy for these negroes that twenty millions of pounds were paid for their ransom ? By no means. Clarkson and Wilberforce were laboring for years in that cause. Nobody minded them till it was discovered that the interests of the Hast India planters and nabobs might be served at the expense or even the destruction of the West Indies. The British aristocracy, who are so intimately identified with the East Indies, got the bill passed to set the negros free. The measure had not the de- sired effect; but such was the intention. The same aristocracy now want to accomplish a similar object in this country. They want to destroy it for their own Denefit, and in order to maintain the supremacy of commerce which has hitherto upheld their dominion. They see very clearly that if the nation for a few years longer make the same rapid progress which she has hitherto done, the Union Jack will be eclipsed all over the world by the shadow of the Stripes and Stars. The order of hereditary nobility, the law of primogenitnre, and all the appurtenances of British rule, would then be in imminent danger, and the democracy of Old England woald begin to lift up their heads to see the signs of ap- proaching redemption. How is all this to be prevented, or, at least, how is the evil day to be staved off to a more remote future? How is the progress of this country to be arrested? It cannot be done openly, for we are too strong for external assault. Internal operations are the game. We have one weak spot. Itisslavery. There they have a foot- hold, and there they have for allies the domestic foes of the Union. Their object is to separate the North trom the South. If this were only effected, the South would no’ longer hoki any communion with the North. Such would be the bitter feeling that it would rather deal with England than with any Northern State; and the North being actuated by the same feeling of hostility to the South, and many of its inhabi- tants cherishing a kindred sentiment with Eng- land, on the slavery question, English inter- course would be preferred to Southern; and thus the British would enjoy a monopoly of the trade of both North and South. This is the secret plan of the British government—the secret policy of the aristocracy. The question now arises, how is all this to be met? We answer, by starting societies here for the abolition of English monarchy and aristo- cracy. This is the abolition that is wanted, and John Mitchel is the very man to lead it. Let organizations be set on foot, uniting every Irish, Scotch and Englivh republican in the country, and every American who is willing to embark in the enterprise. Let addresses be got up to the people of England, and to the British Par- liament, and let them be printed here, and sent by every steamer, for circulation. If the House of Lords and the House of Commons will not read them, the people will, and that is much betier. Let lecturers be sent over who will ex- hibit the resources, the progress, and the glo- rious freedom of this country. The light of example will guide to imitation, and the public sentiment of Great Britain will be revo- lutionized. She will become a confederated republic of four States--England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; or, if Ircland should prefer t, that gem of the ocean can set up for herself. and have no connexion whatever with England. This is the true and only way for effecting the legislative independence of the Trish people, It is against the British aristocracy the blow must be strnck, for it is they that ave holding the country in bondage. Hence John Mitchel always cultivated the middle and working classes of England; and hence O’Connell, who never could endure republicanism, was always opposed to any allianee with the English de- mocraey. One great secret of Mitchel’s strength was that he went for no half measures, bat for o republie, one and indivisible, and that he showed the most friendly feeling to the English revolutionary party, regarding them asbrothers in the same cause of freedom. Here there cannot be a doubt he will pur- sue the same course in the paper he is about to establish, His talents, honesty and inde- pendence, will make it the most popular week- ly journal in the eountry, and it will complete- ly absorb all the miserable trash called Irieh newspapers. Our readers can readily imagine the effect of such an organ both on the Irish and American mind, and upon the aristocratic institutions of Great Britain and Treland, whieh are grinding -to powder the mass of the population. We shall see whether monarchy and oligarchy will not be abolished in the Dritieh empire, and the down-trodden people of that dominion ralzed up from their abject condition, to eqnality with their lords, betore roid lords shall succeed in dismembering the American Union on the anti-slavery question, or in arresting the progress of its *‘ feat des- tiny’ to impart ite own ideas to al} nations, Crosweut on Fornuy—-Mr. Croswell, the editor of the Albany Argus, who is at Wash- ington, writes as follows to bis journal at Albany :-— Wasinxorox, Deo! 3, 1863, 4 ay aos wine, © The election of Cul. Forney, by a vote nearly unaal moun in the eaueus, and aubseqnentiy in the Hours, was at no time a matter of doubt. His psrronal attaghinant to the Provdevt, and his well known sympathy with the adamantives of your 8 ate, aside from his ability sod efficiency in the discharge Of his official duties, gave bim votes in all directions . . ad . Mr. Croswell is considered a pious character, a member of the Church of Christ, and a man of moral principles, and yet he praises and sup- ports the man who wrote the famous stool- pigeon letter to Roberts. What a commentary on the morals of modern Christians and poli ticians! ag Thee ate Tue Wi or a Rexiciovs Mmtionaine.— We publish to-day the will of our lamented fel- low-citizen, Anson G. Phelps, deceased. Its vari- ous bequests for benevolent and religious pur- poses indicate that he had a strong religious . « east of mind, and that he believed in the doctrine of proving his faith by his works, In the dark ages, the Church took good care to see to it that the bulk of the for- tunes of its wealthy disciples upon their de- cease, if not before, should go into the coffers of the Church, for the purposes of the propagation of the faith. Indeed, the rich ones of the flock uct # railway ia Broad if , pF batten Kailway vem nae allway fe aD. y to o should be that night presented f Messra A 3. Stownr that they int ae * We (ne ent to ree the mivion might Stew rt, Gilsey & Hilton's haste im v Why Mose. Ae T a + Was there any necessity, of thelr comma oe oe ee Vita that cicht? If abe olerk was obliged by the reaviution > preset be pap. at ane wa, bier any . owe rt. thing oplining, Mine socio timal Did Meaera. A. T. Hts watbs he Mayor needed ‘aay iisteue low in reoe ¥ om ‘ation at sl! is (not because Mr Hiltow is Vongoiows thet avy inpsrtial observer would pears ent construction vm bis motives and thove of hie asso~ 0 dit not have been porsibleto detain the Mayor, with~ " ‘4 ence om the Mayor's part, om mo, till speierere o'clock at to receive the papers that rk reached the Muyor’a house snd found he ot in, Task Mr Hilton who it was that drove off first to find the Mayor at his friend’s bouse in Tenth etreos’ Did jceare, A.’ d Gilsey show quite as veh itp titi nto be Mayor ae the clork, who wns ordered to ry i Where our: ‘AG to the oxpression that Mr. Hilton says I used 0 is akon. 1 did indved 2 war A. aud which was ually Guteated by thy on the inside, after Me Dou, herty’ Mr. A. T, pte vart, Gils y aud Hilton servants’ door in the basement, though too late to engage the rs attention, or to st p the presentation of the papers, in various countries, at the present day, are treated with the most watchful solicitude by their spiritual guardians, lest their surplus revenue may be unhappily diverted in the end to wordly and unworthy objects. This may all be very well; yet the practice is but an inheri- tance from the dark ages. and the sooner it ceases to be a practice of any church whatsoever, thus diligently to look after the spoils. the bet- ter. There is but little comfort to the true phi- lanthropist tosee our churches becoming rich and lnxurious, while the houseless and destitute are multiplying in our strects. Fearful Collision on the Erie Railroad. 8)X OR RIGHT PERSONS IXJURED—PROBABLY TWO OF THEM KILLED. There was a collision about three miles from the Jersey City depot, on the New York and Erie Railroad, at 10 o'clock last night, by which at least two persons, it is supposed, will lose their lives, and seven others were wounded. The collision was between the down express train, of three cars, nearly full of passengers, due at Jer- ney City at twenty-four minutes past nine o'clock. and an emigrant train which left the depet at about nine o'clock. They met at the curve in the road, about one third of a mile beyond the junction of the New Jersey and New York and Erie Railroads, at the south side of the Bergen cut. The express train was at rather fast speed, and in charge of a conductor, whose name was said to be Henry Surtcher—a new man on the road, it was rumored—and he thought that the road from P wax entirely clear for bis train, Thi sisted of three pasrenger cars, two heavily laden freight e and one car in the use of the American Express Company. We could not learn that any one on the emigrant train was injured. A locomotive and cars were sent up as soon as the accident was heard of, and brought down the passengers and injured, wlio arrived at 12 o'clock at the Jersey Gity depot. A party of men was left at work in extricating the cars, The name of the conductor of the emigrant train is Brown, The following is a list of those injure?, as far as could be known :— Mrs. Davidson, who resides at No. 67 Warren street, Brooklyn, had her leg broken, aud was bruised other- wise. Her two children were is company with her. Her husband wa: waiting at the depot for her, and went after her when he hesrd of the collision, and had her conveyed to his residence in Brooklym. Mrs. D, is twenty eight yeors of age, Mrr. Lattle, of Zanesville, Ohio, was very badly hurt in the back, an¢ probably internally. She was foun: ina car pent over, and 028 or two seats upon her. she seemed not to be corscicus of ber condition, and as often an she esme‘o her senses, she fainted again. She was in the comjany cf Mr. Whitter cre, cf Stanton, Vt., whither she was destined, She was conveyed to the New York Acapi- Sho i# about forty years of age. Deggage master of the train, had his leg broken, aud was carried to the New York Hospital. ‘Thomes Flanegan, of Owego, a brakeman on the traia, hid bis left ley cut off atthe ankle, and was otherwise injured, Ee was conveyed to the New York Hospital. Nis age is thirty years Mr. C. Allep, of No. 25 Grund street, had his foot aad leg hurt some, but net badly. ‘An eng'neer was reported as slightly injured and others not mnch hurt made their way to the city. Wallack’s Theatre—“A Cure for Coquettes.” A comedy by Bourcicanlt, called “(A Cure for Co- quettes, or Alma Mater,” was played at Wallack’s ¢ on Wedne:Cay evening. It isa clever, sketchy, brilliant picture of one phase in Exglish society, in three acts. The main plot {s rather weak, but the dialogue is witty, and the situations very funy. Sir Samuel Sareasm (Blake) comes to Oxford ‘o ascertain how his nephews, Wildfire, (Walcot) and.Gradus, (Vincent) are getting on. The former ia im love and in debt; the latter is a modest, bashful, stuttering, plodding student. Tie Baronet also Gncs at Oxford the Widow Venture (Mra: Brovgbam) ané Lily her daughter, (Mrs. Stephens.) Sir Samue) shares Mr. Tony Weller’s dislike to “vidders,”’ but the lady has resolved to marry bim—which, of course, she does Wildfire loves her daughter, who co: quettes with several people, but finally gives her hand to the “fast” collegian. Several other characters are intro- @uced Count Ware, (Lester) a fashionable gambler, a davhing Irish Major, (Brougham) and Tom Venture, (Reynolds) The second act, a scene in the chambers of Venture, is very fanny, and was capitally acted. Mrs. Venture gives a supper to WildGre, Count Pave and others Gradus is sent for, and made drunk, wen the party is interrspted by the arrival of dir Samuel and the Denn of the university, and the mancer in which the freaks of the students were covered up, mace a most amusing scone, In the third act there is a long scene between cir Samuel and the widow, very much re sembling the scene betweer Graves and Lady Franilin in the fourth act of Money.” It was probably purely ac cidental, The piece was generally woli acted. Mr. Vin cont was excellent 28 G-adus, and we do not often sees better bit of comedy than hisdrusken xcene, Mr, Wal eutt did very weil with Wildére, thougu it is motin hie way. Mr. Blake remdered the cvu asic, satir cal, but benevolent baronet with taste and ferling Lonter’s iresx- ng ard making up of Count Pave were correct—ths acting ineifferent. Mes Brougham over acted th character of the widow, and her style would have disgusted a real Sir Beniuel Saressm instead «cf captivating hie, Mrs, Stephens p ayed some portions of her part very well, bat she failed in the senpmental scenes, which are not at sil im heratyle. The piece was wel. moun ed and very well reevived by the audi ) Which was rather a thin 010, Marine Affairs, Tie Srkamenir Humvownr.—The following telegraphic despatches were received yesterday from Halifax, by the agent of the company — Haurax, N. 8., Des, 7, 1853, hip; have just left M. Livixeston, Bsq = We have no 8 Of saving th her; en settling through the m Captain Lines acing all in his power to save cargo; ean only work at low water, All cargo ard meterials saved are brought dere in srall steamers. We will go down at daylight in the morning, Dr. Stewart will take the malls by eteamer Niagara, now momen arily expected from Liverpool KR, M. FRASER, U, 8, Consal, Have rent despatehen to the ceptaicy noes ve rent your despatches tothe captain; about 3: packages have been brought up bere; ‘nance mace more out of the veasel; she ts full of water, and cannot be gotten cff ; parsongera will go by the Niagara. A Inter one from Capt. Lines gives bis opinion that with the sid of the expected steamer from this city, there isa great probability of her getting off. She liens onn flaating rock, with two fathoms of water for- ward, and six fathom aft, which seems favorable for hauling cif when farther lightened. Portuguese Cove, where she liv, i# & very abeitered apot, and unl severe wor le it, there is little doubt that the steam. ship Ver‘on will succeed in getting her afloat. The latter reosol left here yesterday moraing with steam pumps, = al! the necessary wrecking apparatus for the purpose @ lovk is from & hole in her bow, done prodably wh: she first struck, She has also lost teat of the fere part of her hee weote etebtoen feet of Owieg to the accicent to the Humbolit, sort, the Franklin, being under repair, there Wal ine Ateamer for Havre wotil the lth «f Febroary, on whieh any Itty calculated the letter vonnel will be rendy to that was their object. Such ars the,eiaw facts cf the eave, and as Me. Hil- ton aptly remark#, commen? ix unnecessary. New You, Loo. 8, 1s: JACOB SHARP. Knox, the Hatter. There 1s scarecly a lady in this city but is awaro that KNOX, of 125 Fuitom street, Agnifcent stock of furs, and that ho 's willing At all times to dirnety +f com sarbeietly cheap t> aceom- modate sil who call upon him If there should be one, wa advise her to make an early visit, aud eho will speedily be convineed of the truth of (his sos rtion Furs at the Prescott Hat Store.—The La- dies ehould visit KNUX’s esta lishment, in the Prescott Houso, corner of Broad vay « d Spring street, for it contains, without doubt, one of ths most ovstly and elegant collections (ffurs ever exhibited in this city, and those who have wot yet made their selections of this ‘attractive portion of their winter costume, will find his ‘prices most remarkably low. Call sud examine his furs, snd you cannot resist the attrac: tions; you must purchase a vet, The Crystal Palace Furs, &e., at GenIn’s Ba<- 5 er in having wichdr awn his magnificent premium furs- oh mibroidered olothiog aud other superb articles,man- ‘establishme ats, for the various departments of will exhibit them for wen ab $2,000, together with beautiful sete of crown, Bud- ay, and Swedish in tmons comprise rtmiens oom tafbees, elaboratel it of under clothing for infants and misses, with all the aseom- Paniments of the nursery toilet. q+ up im the most recherche: aro ® and beautiful style. 19 boys! alot variets and P dren's = in shape. ve heretefare Se ets ore ually worthy of admiration. je atvontion of the ladies of Now York is invited to the re- eently imported stock of furs st the bassar, com , from the costliest to the cheapest; alse, valled sasortmont of winter bosiery, embroidery, sles for presents, children’s hate, Yb tniters, £0, JZNIN’S Bassar. ‘8s. Nicholas Hotel, Ne, 518 Broadway. $3 Hats for the Holidays—At the Stores of the Ne C mpany, Nos. 146 and 148 Nassau street. Best moles equal to any four dollar bat im New York. G: ty; all warranted equal it atyle, finish and id in this city. The Most Flattering and Perfect Portraits of the people which are tsk n inthe present axe are those by REES & CO. wro take sixty daruerreotypesen hour, and deal them out tothe muliitude for 26 cents, at No, 235 roadway. Splendid Library of Standard and Ilue- | | trated Works.- Mr Wel Bale—This Ce tal Memoirs, 4 vol ristocracy, 1s. 4to; the works of Temp! scham, Andrew Marvell, Su 0; 2vola, folio; Clarendon’s Rebellion . Chaucer, W ler, Count all best editions, richly bound: a4 Grammoat, Edgeworth, many others, British Rssayista, 20 vole.;Niciols’ Literary Anecdotes, 5 yols.; Frenck Memoire and ® orks on Napoloon, a J Teotion; splendid illustrated books in great-variety. Om view till 1 o'clock. BANG3 BROTHERS & CO., 13 Park Row. Ned Buntiine’s Own.—This Splendid Week- ly has row becoms ® noceasi:) of toe times. «me of the rarest novels of tho day, ups na su jeo! fraught with the deepest ia the people of the United States, cotitled the 's Daugoter,”’ is in course of public stioy in ite co- nd is eagerly sands of reacors dence, correct eriti ay, 2 gents’, MESSRS. ROSS un street, Newsboys who would be served ficicmt quantity for tueiz customers should apply Perham’s Gift Farm 1s sommirtee of shareholders a worth $22,000, and she title to worth the investinent of a dollar to ry 1 afford to any family all the comforts of life. Th sro others who take s ter fancy to = fa All such will invest their dollars te get poke cy swiftes! hd save ek, = y aia ‘want pianor, ate jollars in hopes of one of T. Gilbert & Co.’ Bolin: teen the establishment of Mr. 10% the to be teas ie aaai Prindiapetesion The to obtain i watobos, ponoli hould pur- atase « lot of Perl 663 Broad- way. ‘The number 1, and shis show: e nhand th ‘about the Christ- tas holidays. d Chea} T. Gilbert & Co.'s o nd circular sosle: jem pest pianos in Pianos In the 4 pianos, with irom acknowledged to be the best N. B—To suit purehasere G te Baad ‘ae rourand ‘s Liquid Dye Instantly Convert, wi oe ont ‘ety Part of the monthly payments tak ‘anos to let. RACE WATERS sole agent, 333 Broad ray. Eva to her Papa.—A Beautifal . by G. C. Howard; sung by Auttlo Cordelia Howard, in the grest moral drama of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Price 25 ‘cen’ ‘ab: lished by HORACE WATERS, 33 Broadway. Overeoats, in every Variety of Style, for | minter.—We have now an immonse stock to offer at whole- tale and rebail, D. &J DBYLIN, i $3 and 35 Joho street, corner of Nassau. December, 1853.— Alfred Munroe & Co., No. 441 Brondway, invite oustomo-s to call and examine theic stook of men’s clothing, consisting of Talmas, overcoats, dress conts. frock coats, ves! ntaloons, &c., of the most dosirad!e styles—well made goods exelusively—one | ge and | we marked plainly on each garmeat. Also, boys’, youths’ and children’s clothing. Fashionable Winter ‘Clothing 20 per Cent ‘geduged.—$16 cvercoats, excks and frocks. at $12;$2) Taimas, $16; $10 paris, $6; . These articles aro all made apin the very beat style; but owing to the advanced state, of 6 season, the prices suall bo stristly adhered to. No. 39 Broadway. GEO. LEVIR. A Grand Free Concert by Jullien, or Sub- stantial sid for tho new York Volunteers, is something we never heard mentioned, but ths clothing sold by DRUM- GOLD & PROCH, 120 Fulton streot, we do bear talked of by every body with praise We, the Undersigned, Having Just Re-~ ceived a large supply of c.oching, of every desoription, here- by inform pe ai ig and strangerr that wo ¢an stiord to sell our goods at fat leas pricgs tt DOLAN & THOMPSON thera. 1 and 106 Nassau street, corner of Ann. Boys’ Ta1mas--Now on hand, at 380 Broad way, an elerant assoitment of porit overo inte, with and mithont eapes riohly immed. Ales, alte in blue, brown, ) Mt otrictly reasonal jovs. Boys clothiny ‘Gade to order, “G0, LRVIE. * 01 Best oll Wool French de Baines, at 38.2 mh have jnst boon opened nt HITUHCOCK & LEADBEA R’S, 347 Broadway, corner Leopard street. Thoy are the very same goods that'are sold every where ciss at eeventy- five cents and # dodlar, the very Dent da ininos tl So, now ladiee, immediate attention is important. are made Christmas is coming, and if the Ladies: wish to make prosonts, they can find at Miller & Co al street, beautifully embroidered toilet alirp igo ladiee’ aisees? Boys? aad chilican's boots 1 7 adis ru pits, at. B, MILLER & OU.'S, 19 oust stan’ pecan otindit ts Art Sewh ] mae ng Machines.—I. M. Sin, iy ment cloth bines to cow with a single th jn and other light goods nity mtn opecation ot allie, ©" “When Greek meets the tug of war.” When forces him to restore je human hen Sepet, BARK RR Broadway. then comed 10@ mocte timo, it ener’ fant Indios hair drossing Catablichmoat eee Hair Dye and W:! ‘Batehe! haters for these artiolon is rensyot to 233 Broo: 1 Park, whero he has the dest sooo: for the sale and application of hie Wigs and toupess, Nine Et hair it, you whe i d will never regret rpense, Bold and applied at ORISTADORO'R We Gite hair to black or brown, without tod woap ov ros chaps, tchatens rigs eke 4 art,’ ol tho bods | alker stroot, a of the Sa | Onguent will fore i} j to grow strong and th: or it vet sentry to the skin. “$i per bot G. GRAHAM, 36 Ane sirens, stain