The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1853, Page 4

tar aoe NEW YORK HERALD.! JAMES GORDO BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OF FULTON AND NASA ays. | Drrics Ww Ww. c Fae UslLY HERALD. oeute Fae ba KA meen Fue WEEKLY HERALD socty Galtedey? es Oe seme | per coy or Fer sunum, the Bherepaan Editon $+ Ouny ser, of Great Hritem amd Mf fo any Boinecnt ‘bev’, to boclade pooteoe ALL LET"ERS by mall for Subscriptions, Beomenis Yo be post padd the poatage wil be money remitled with Adver- | Vorwme XVII AMUSAMANTS THIS EVENING. “ARTROPOLITAS BALL—Juutien’s Concent. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Weanar—Pavi Pay— Warren Une THOUSAND ~ILLINERS. BROADWAY VHRATRE, Broadway—CaraRacr OF THE Gancxs- Two Buzzanvs. | BURVON’*® THEATRE, Chambers streot—Comepy or ER- RORe—Maip With tHE MiLKiNG PAM—BLACK AND Waive. HATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham etroct—Afverncom and 4—Uxcux Ton's ¢ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Game or Lire— Sep Tix and New Timm, MUSEUM—Afvor aed Evening -Uscur BROADWAY MENAGERIE—Stamess Twins ano Wito 8. BOW ERY AMPHITREATRE, $7 Bowery.—Equastnian PuRVORMANCES. @URISTY’S AMERIC\N OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brond- way. SruloPiax Mexopurs sy Cunusry’s Minsreeis, exci¥ went throughout the city. However, the peo- Ple soon became eomparatively quiet, and it may be “possible that the determined action of the railroad ecmpany will have the effect of checking the dis- graceful transactions. The Sheriff yesterday took possession of the track, and is resolved that neither the employés nor the ridters shall molest it till the decrees of the judicial authorities are made known. | The Sheriff also served a large uomber of injunctions | upon the citizens to restrain them from injuring the | Western road. Advices from the city of Mexico, to the 17th inst., | inform us that Santa Anpa bad accepted the position | of Empercr, at a salary of sixty thousand dollars. He | adopts the title of “Most Serene Highness,’ and has promulgated his intention of naming bis successor. We elsewhere publish a very interesting letter ad" dressed to President Pierce by Mr. O. H. Browne, with regard to affairs in Nebraska territory. This éooument affords much valuable and instructive in- formation concerning the Indians inhabiting that territory, the difficulties experienced by white set- tlers, &e., and will no doubt be perused with great attention, particularly by those who contemplate re- moving to that wild and far distant region. Another unsuccessful attempt was made to elect a Mayer in Boston yesterday. Dr. Smith, the people's candidate, lacked some thirty votes of an election. Ex Mayor Bigelow, the wig nominee, rau far behind the actual strength of his party. The weather is reported to have been intensely cold in all parts of the country yesterday. The Hud- son river is frozen so solid at Albany that it is anti- WOOD'S MINSTRELS, ¥ood’s Minstrel Hall, 444 Broad- gsy.—Erworian MinstTh eLsy PCUCKL+Y’S OPERA WvU+R, 639 Broadway.—Bvex- amv’s Ermorian Orexa TROUPE. BANVARB' ov rus HoLy RHENISH GALLERY, #3 Brosdway.—Day and Evening, GRORAMA, 59 Broadway.—Panonama LAD. SIGNOR BLITZ,—Sruvyesant Inerrrure, 680 Brond- vay adway.—Pennam’s Gurr Ex- Mine MaRROR. ACADEMY fe meMrTION OF THE HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Lrosdway.—Jonzs’ Paytoscore. "GR WORLD IN MINIATURE—Brosdway, corner of White street few York, Wednesday, December 25, 1853. Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY UERALD. The roy! mail steamship Asia, Capt. Lott, will leave tata pert at 12 o’elock to day, for Live-pool. Sabsoriptions and advertisements for any editjen ef the aw Youn Hixnarp will be received at the following pinces im Borope— Tavanroo1—John Hunter, No. 2 Para Lanpos—E¢ wards, Sandford & Co., Cornhill. ‘Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street, Panw—Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. B. B. Revoil, No. 17 Rue de Ja Banque. ‘Whe Baropean mails will close at half-past tem o'clock this morning. ‘Zhe Waerty HeraLp will be published at half past nine wWelock this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, siz pence. The News, We have to record another terrible conflagration ‘Ais morning, by which over a million dollars worth ef property was destroyed. The fire broke out in No. 244 Front street, and from thence extended to several buildings on both sides of the street. Five q@w six buildings and their conten's, valued altogether atabont eighty thousand dollars, were destroyed. Bus the most melancholy result of this fire is ths de- struction of the magnificent clipper ship Great Re- public, and two other vessels—the Joseph Walker aad the White Squall. The following table gives the amount of property destroyed, and the insurance: — Loss Insurance 30,000 000 00 000 Lees in Front rtr ‘Less of Great Re, Garge of do. 00,000 Loss of Joveph 20 000 Bargoof ah se 42.060 Lose of White squall... . . $0 000 WOR) os cose none . 3392 0co 4655 000 This te the amount, so far &1 we haye been able te ascertain; but there is little doubt that the loss will exceed a million of dollara. A fall account of the fire il! be found elsewhere. Rather unexpectedly, we are this moraing enableé to farmish a synopsis of one week’s later intelligence from California, being to the 7th inst. This news was received at New Orleaus, via the Ramsay route, through Mexico, in the short period of eighteen days from San Fraucisco. The nox-reception of the Cali- fernia mails of the Ist instant is now acccunted for by the fact that the mail steamship Winfield Scott went ashore and was totally wrecked, on the day after she left San Franeisco. Her passengers and freasnre, amounting to about one million of dollary, Were saved, and returned to the former city on the 6th, whencethey were again despatched for Panams gn the foliowing day in the steamer Califoraia. The whip Eclipse, of this city, is reported to have besn to- tally lest on the 26th of October, sixty miles from San Biles. With the exception of the ana vement of the discovery of extensive silver mines near Aca- pulco, the srrival out of Gov. Stevens, of Washing- ton Territory, and the prevaler.ce of freshete in Ore gon, We BETS no goostal news by this arrivai, Fiour was more active in the San Fransisco market, but we notice no materia) alter stion in the price of either that or other important articles of commerce. ‘The information detailed by our special and other Washington correspondents this morning will be found unusually interesting. It appears that while members of Congress are preparing to astonish their ‘oonstituents with speeches upon the slavery ques- ion, the Pacific railroad, our foreign relations, &c., a large omount of business is silently being got ia veadiness, of which the people know little or no. thing. Awong other things area great number of applications for renewals of patent rights which have been rejected by tne Commissioner of the Patest Office. See the details concerning the eurious style in which the cards are being dealt, as five under the telegraphic head. Prior to the apnouncement of the death of Mr. Pamphell, in the United States Senate yesterday, Mr. Seward introduced a bill providing for the con- struction of a railroad throngh the territories of the United States, to commence on the western boun_ dary of one of the Atlantic States and be completed 0 California. The contract is to be allotted to the lowest bidder, on such terms as will best conduce to the interests of the government—to be commenced ‘in one year—one fifth of the track to be laid annaally, ‘md the whole to be finished in five years from the time of commencement. It ie proposed that the sempavy shall have the use of the road for fifty yeers, at the ¢xpiration of which period it may pass into the hands of the government, at itz vption, apon such terms as wili remunerate the com pany for its expenditures. The bill was referred to Me Committee on Post Offices. Mr. 8. also offered resolution making inquiries with regard to the cow parative merite of Onondaga and Tark’s laland salt for the curing of meats, &, Mr. Slidell intro anced bills providing for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi river and the establishment fs navy yard at New Orleans. Immediately upon the opening of the House, the @esth of one of its members—Mr. Brookins Camp- bel), from the First district of Tennessee —was an nounced, and alter the pronunciation of eulogies aod the adoption of the customary tributes of re pect, the body adjourved without transacting any public business, This is the third time that Con grees has been culled upon to mourn the loss of publie functionaries since the commencement of the Peerion. As was anticipated, the outragesof the railroad rioters wt Evie have resnited in b'oodshed. The moh rain demolished the track and bridge at Harbor onek ox Monday night. Yesterday morniog som of the lew less individnals,-on making their appear poce in the vieiuity, were shot by the employés of che youd, O06 8 & matter of cure this extreme bat ap parcnly necetsery proceeding caused the utmost pated teams will be able to cross on the ice this morning. The violent gales on Friday aud Monday nights sppear to have extended all along the coast from Charleston to Boston, but as yet we have not heard that any material damage was done to the shipping. There was a heavy snow storm at Bos ton on Monday night, and they had fine sleighing in that vicinity yesterday. Among other important judicial proceedings pu’ j lished to-day is thet opinion] of Judge Morris, in the Supreme Court, in the celebrated Mason will case, and the remarks of District Attorney O'Conor: and the proceedings of the court in the Extradition case of Alexander Heilbonn, cliamed as a fugirive from justice by England. The term of the official capacity of our city fathers is fast drawing to a close; they have but four more days to rerve, and are consequently now working with a vigor and expedition that is astonishing to contemplate. A resolution appropriating over twenty-five thousand dollars for the erection of a fireman’s hall was adopted by the Board of Alder- men, a9 were also reports in faver of lighting the city every sight in the year, for the exten- sion of the Bowery to Franklin square, the widening of Pearl street, and the extersion of Albany street to Broadway. Much interesting information is contained in the last named re- port with regard to the Trinity Church property, the opposition of the church to public improvements in its vicinity, &c. The document is given in full, un- der the head of “ debates.” The Board of Assistanta concurred in @ resolution of the Committee on Sala- riesand Offices authorizing that the salaries of the clerks of the Essex, Clinton, Tompkins, Centre, and Union markets, be increased to the rate of two doi- Jars per day. The pay of the doormen at the different policé station houses was also raised from five hun Gred to six hundred dollars per annum, the aldermen having proposed that sum, instead of seven hundred dollars. A very large amount of miscellaneous busi- ness was transacted by both boards, for the details of which the reader is referred to the official and special reports. In consequence of the illness of the Hon. J. R, Giddings, the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher delivered the third enti-slavery lecture at the Tabernacle last even. ing. The andience at these lectures ceems to be ra- pidly diminishing already, Rey. Dr. Storrs delivered a lecture on “Manly Cha racter’’ ip the Brooklyn Atheneum last evening, for the report of which we have no rcom to-day. Our pages to-day contain, among much other inter esting matter, to which it is unnecessary to refer par ticularly ; important news from Albuquerque, rela tive to Lieut. Whipple's surveying party; letter from Portland, giving a curious account of the intestine war among the Maice democrats; Paris correspon dence; examination before Mayor Westervelt, with regard to the treatment of emigrants, dc. Europe in A Crisis. For nearly a whole century, Europe has not been in such a position as the present. No such crisis has been witnessed, at all events, since the French revolution of 1792 and the disasters which followed it on the Continent. Speculation rans riot on the consequences of the complications that are daily arising. it is impossible to foresee, with any tolerable degree of accuracy, even the events of a single weck. Ove wail brings us news of war, the next pros- pects of peace, anda third intelligence more decidedly warlike than ever. Any day may witness the occurrence of incidents which may give an entirely new aspect to the whole affair. Any steamer may be bearer of tidings of a revolution in France, of a popular outbreak in Hungary or Italy, of a domestic tragedy at St. Petersburg, of the assassination of Napoleon IIT, of the overthrow of the British ministry, or of a decisive battle either in the Principalities, in Asia, or on the Black Sea. It is impossible to say that our next mails may not startle us with the intelligence that the Quadruple Alli- ance is broken up, and Austria and Prussia have openly taken sides with Russia; while, on the other hand, it would be rash to pronounce the entrance of the Baitic by a British and French fleet, or the landing of thirty or forty thousand soldiers at Constantinople, to be im- possibilities. Everything is possible. Each day brings with it some change—each morrow contradicts yesterday. We, who have this ad- vantage over our Transatlantic friends, that we receive several days news together—the con- tradiction with the mis-statement, the antidote with the poison—must prepare our minds for misapprehension after misapprehension, correc- ion after correction, and a final issue such as perhaps no man dreams of. Among the few points which, in this myste. rious, ever-changing imbroglio, we may regard as reasonably certain, we must certainly rank the existing antagonism between the hereditary monarchs of Europe and their subjects. We have already seen how much it must have cost the reigning dynasties of Prussia and Austria to enter into an alliance against their Russian kinsman. They are not the only crowned heads who could own to a personal sympathy for the Czar; al) the princes and nobles of Germany are neceesarily biassed in his favor. Some are al- lied to his family by marriage ; others have been, or hope to be, in his pay; and not a few naturally incline to the side of aristocratic des- fl”, in Windsor Castle, 4s well as at Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and Hanover, we may rest perfectly as- sured ; and itis not at all impossible that in prosecuting the royal game, he has opened with such kill and success, Napoleon III. will realize the extraordinary spectacle of three or four foreign nations fighting under his orders, ia op- position to the earnest wishes and dearest hopes ot their hereditary sovereigus. They are all at the present moment in abject fear of the parvenu Emperor. From Madrid to St. Petersburg the opinion of the world respect- ing his ability has been altered during tke last year. With trembling and reluctance the rep- resentatives of the old families who enited to crush his uncle, admit at last that they have a second and probably no inferior Napoleon to meet. Not unmindful of the narrow escape they had in 1812 and 1815, these tottering dynasties are paralyzed by their own terrors, and fall, by a species of fascination, into the iron grasp which Napoleon is already winding round them. They flatter the Czar with lying reports of peace and flattering stories of his own victories. They advertise for two scions of families which once ruled France, and go ibrough a pompous ceremonial of a reconcilia- tion and fusion, in order to coffcentrate the le- gitimist force on one head. They give comfort to every faction which may annoy or embarrass Napoleon. But the net result of all their exer- tions is to convince the world of their own weak- ness and their own terror. There is one sentiment in connection with European affairs which has long been familiar to the readers of this journal. Weallude to the prospect of a desperate conflict between the two antagonistic forces known as the hereditary prin- ciple and the democratic principle. We have invariably, when occasion offered, drawn atten- tion to this impending struggle, and endeavored to show that all wars jor territorial aggran- dizement, or such objects,. would be tri- fling and unimportant until they became merged in some such contest of principles as this. The prospects of the Turkish war bid fair to verify our prognostications. The first cannon has hardly been fired on the Danube, when the participation of France in the struggle promises to place something higher in issue than the mere possession of a province. Whe- ther or no Austria and Prussia adhere to their bond, the flag which Napoleon must raise when he takes the field against Russia must be the standard of democracy; the title he must as- sume, the democratic emperor. Exiled princes, crouching dynasties, intolerant despotiams, will hate and oppose him, not so much as Russia’s foe, but as the people’s friend; and, as the first democrat in Europe, he will be intrusted with the final adjustment of the rival claims of the uations of Europe and their rulers. Diplomacy, negotiation, jealousies and intrigues may for a while prevent the contest assuming this clear shape and these definite outlines; but the rival- ry between the hostile Emperors is too hot and the ardor of the oppressed people of Europe too impetuous to endure any prolonged restraint. Unless some unforeseen occurrence again post- pone the war, we must ere long see Napoleon, already the diplomatic master of Europe, lead- ing its masses in a democratic crusade against the ruling dynasties. In that day we shall think of him very differently from now. There is a change perceptible in our estimates of his character, during the past year or two: even the socialists have learned to admire him. This is but the beginning: we must husband our admi- ration for the end. The Religious Rict in Cineinuatl. The riot in Cincinnati, in which, according to the telegraphic reports in yesterday’s HERALp, fourteen persons were wounded and one killed, in consequence of an attempt of a certain por- tion of the German population, numbering some five hundred persons,to make an attack on Bedi- ni,the Pope's Nuncio, at the house of Archbishop Purcell, is an event that will call down public attention on both sides of the Atlantic, and elicit a vast amount of reasoning, generaliza- tion. philosophy, piety and vituperation. This riot is an émeute of much the same cha- racter ag those which have taken place here du- ring the last few months, growing out of a col- lision of religious passions, stimulated by fa- nataciem, whether of the ultra-Protestant or ultra-Catholic school. The riot in Montreal, arising from Gavazzi’s preaching, was of the same description; but, in consequence of certain circumstances of a local nature and the weak- ness of temper and injudicious conduct exhibit- ed by the press and the authorities, the affair ended in bloodshed and murder to a melan- choly extent. That the riots in New York, epringing from a like source, did not terminate with the same catastrophe, is owing to the moderation of the press and the general mass of the people in opposition to the religious fanatics on each side. The same course, together with the energetic action of the police, prevented the riot at Cincinnati from resulting in @ greater effusion of blood and still more tragic consequences than have characterized the unhappy transaction. We have already mentioned and deplored the fact, that many of the riots in this country have sprung from the ignorance of our emigrant population. and their want of appreciation of what regulated and enlightened liberty consists. We bave sometimes native riots—American riote—and the annals of New York present ex- plosions of that description. But’ these are ac- cidental and sporadic, not constitutional and chronic. The riots which too frequently take place among the emigrant population, spring from settled ignorance of our free institutions, and a want of control over their religious and political fanaticism. The Irish riots are too often of this character ; and the German riot in Cincinnati, and others of a like nature, may be classified in the game category. No doubt the nuncio of his Holiness the Pope, received as he has been in this country, with such ostenta- tion and display, has excited the bad feelings and jealousy of Europeans residing among us. No doubt the public attention and partial ap- plause bestowed on Father Gavazzi and his violent harangues against the Catholic church, have produced an antagonistic sentiment. and potism. Besides these, the Royal Family of | may have tended to stir up animosity in @ cer- England cannot be indifferent to the struggle now in progress. We ali know that Prince Al- bert, whose obscurity has hitherto been his best safeguard ie generally believed to entertain the same opinions as the old house of Coburg, which defeated Napoleon the Firat. Hiseffini- for the old dynasties are a matter of noto- riety in England; and though the etiquette of newspaper discussion has hitherto kept the ti Queen’s name ont of the controversy, there | cannot be any reasonable doubt thot she thinks with ber husband on the point. The British constitution opposes an effectual bar to the practical developements of these royal pen chants; but that such progliyities are fostered tain portion of the public mind, between diffe- rent parties and different sects, Dr. Bedini, the nuncio, has been a little too ostentatious. Father Gavazzi, the propagandist, has been a little too violent. These features in our foreign population are to be deplored. They give evident proofs of their went of knowledge of well regulat- ed liberty, and of the sbsence of the common ee of a well-ordered democracy. The feelings which produce such unfortunate explosious. receive encouragement from certain pertione of the press established by speculators to be circu- lated among the German aud Irish population. The German papers in thie country, excla- have an aggregate ciroulation of probably one hundred thousand sheets. They stimulate the passions of this exciteable race to excess, and carry democracy beyond American common sense and inte the violent extremes of the red- republicanism of the European schools. The Irish Catholic press, on the other hand, circu- lating almost exclusively among the Celtic po- pulation, go as great a length in the opposite extreme, in favor of civil despotism and domi- neering dogmas of religion. Both these classes of journals, in opposite directions, bring the public mind of the Irish and Germans to that unhappy condition that it explodes in a riot upon the ignition of the first spark. The oaly moderating power is the temperate firmness of the authorities, the judicious forbearance of the American press, and American common sense, uninfluenced by ecclesiastical rulers or fanati- cism on either side, Tue Great Fine or YesterpayY—Tax Great Rervsiie ww Rurws.—The fire which broke out in Front street yest.rday morning, and which ex- tended to the shipping in the East river, was a pe- culiarly disastrous conflagration. In a pecuniary point of view the loss was very large; but this is only secondary to the greater loss to the American mercantile marine in the destruction of the ship Great Republic. During the last two or three weeks this immense vessel has been the cynosure of all eyes. The ladies, even, have struggled through the quagmire at the foot of Roosevelt street and the sloughs of despond all along Front street, in order to look at the largest and the most beautiful ship in the world, Her enterprising builder will have the sincere sympathies of the whole community, and we, in common with many others, deeply regret that his experiment was destined te be a comparative failure, at least for the present. He intended to demonstrate his belief that a vessel might be constructed to carry twice as much freight as our largest clippers, and be at the same time swifter, safer, and more comfortable for passengers. The people who lead that school of philosophers which believe that nothing can be done because it has not been accomplished previously, said that this idea was absurd—that the Great Republic would be broken between two seas—that steering-way could not be got upon her—that she never would pay the inte- rest on the money invested. and a great many other things which we cannot remember, and it would be of little consequence to repeat them. The people did not believe them—their national pride was awakened by the ship, which seemed to have the bulk and grandeur of the Colossus with the lightness and grace of the Venus of Praxiteles. Our readers out of New York will have some idea of the rush to sce this ship, when we state that nearly six thousand dollars were received from visiters who paid one shilling each for the privilege of boarding her. Ten times as many saw her “without money and without price.” The Great Republic was loaded with the largest cargo ever carried by any vessel. She was soon to sail for Liverpool, and thence to Australia. Another important feature relative to this ship was the fact that she took out fifty apprentice boys, being the commencement of a system of educating youth for our mercantile marine. No pursuit has so much charm for the youthful mind as that of a sailor, and the ad- venturous spirit of the Anglo-Saxon character strengthens this inclination. The path to pro- motion in the mercantile marine is open, and the heart of the youthfal sailor beats with am- bition as he looks forward to the reward of his toil. For these reasons, we hailed with pleasure this germ of the apprentice system—-we say “apprentice system,” because a good “able seamen” mmet be acquainted with the princi- ples of two or three trades. All this was, yesterday; to-day it isno more. The beautiful ship is a shapeless wreck—her cargo scattered—and the whole city seems to mourn over a national calamity. But the builder of the ship will not, we think, be dis- couraged by this blow. Another “Great Re- public” will grow to the same size and beauty, under his hands, and if he be only moderately successful in his plans, the people of this great republic will rise up to honor him. Several other fine ships were destroyed or grievously damaged, and it would seem that such a calamity as this would point out to our merchants and others the importance of some new regulations as to our shipping. This fire broke out in Front street, and from thence ex- tended to the rigging of the vessels. Very often in the streets bordering on the rivers the flying jibbooms of the vessels lying in the docks extend to the houses on the other side of the street, and in walking up South street you are sheltered by a perfect bridge of bowsprits. The vessels lie so closely together that they cannot be cut adrift un- til the fire has reached them, and often not then. There should be some better regulation, and at once. As the shipping lies at present, a fire might sweep half of it away before the firemen could interpose an efficient check against its operations. The number of destructive fires, both in this city and throughout the country, during the past few months, has been very large, and the new year’s summing up will, we think, show a gteater aggregate amount of loss than any preceding year since 1842, In many, of these, alittle prudence—a very little care—would have preserved millions of property, and, in some cases, severe injuries to life and limb. It would be well for all persons to take warn- ing by these sad experiences of others, and to remember that too much prudence, too much care, too much particularity in little matters, is preferable to the slightest dereliction or the smallest degree of approximation to carelese- ness. Gey. Cass anv 18 Postrion.—Where is Gen. Cavs in these daye? What is his position? We shonld like to know whether he is with Marcy or Dickinson—with the Cabinet or the national Union democrats—with the party of principles or the spoils party, in all its phases, in all its acts, and with all its partizans, free soilers and secessionists included. We should like to know all this; and we should also like to know the present party position of Judge Douglas. Up. wards of a hundred thonsand old line democrats in this State alone are anxiously inquiring where, at this time, is Gen. Cass, and where is Judge Douglas? <A suitable reward will be given for any precise, anthentic and satisfactory information in the premises, furnished to this of- fice. \ John Mitchel. Mr. Mitokel jeft Jact evening, ty the four o'clock ex press train, for Boston, in order to lecture this eveniog in the Music Hat, upom the dutise of Paropems refugees in the Dai ton. It in not tras as has been atsted in some of the nownpapere, that he will be euvertained at & banquet ia Boston to morrow evevieg. He has ox- pucitly declined an inviiation to a public ainner there, , ar FAiRs.—The administration organ at Wo ‘ahing- ton bas been for several months past *"tigently laboring to attract public attentic. to its ex- istenee, and to create popular, excitement on the subject of Cuba. In bo''g of these objects however, it has, we aprcehend, signally failed: Still, we must attest che persevering and stupid obstinacy it has evinced, now getting up one story in relation to the Queen of the Antilles, and anon abandoning that and taking to an- other. In fact, for some time past the govern- ment organ would seem to have devoted most of its disposable talent and attention to the affairs of Cuba, about which it affects to be ex- ceesively wise, indeed, and to be perfectly cog- nizant of all thatis going on in both continents in relation to it. The Cabinet conductors or directors of that sheet have pretended to kuow all the secret movements which were being carried on between the English and Spanish governments for the Atricanization er Cuba; and after that terrible revelation was proved to have been all moonshine, they have resorted to the expedient of receiving impor- tant and startlipg intelligence from New York and New Orleans concerning stupendous filli- bustering expeditions which are being fitted out and ready to sail from these ports, with the de- sign of revolutionizing the island. On looking over the whole ground, it seems to us perfectly obvions that the Cabinet and the Cabinet organ at Washington have been, in all these matters, either duping the country tor some purpose of their own, or have been duped themselves by their informants and secret agents in Havana, New Orleans and New York. The last intelligence that emanated from the government on the subject of Cuba, has still less basis to commend it to belief than even had the report of the project of the Atricaniza- tion of the island. The only foundation for it, we believe, is the existence of the Order of the Lone Star. There can be no doubt of the gene- ral purposes and objects proposed to be accom- plished by the association of Cuban exiles in this city and New Orleans. Their avowed de- sign is to get up an expedition to revolutionize their native island as soon as possible. But, as far as the circumstances can be ascertained, the Juntas which represent the revolutionary in- terests in Cuba, here and in New Orleans, are entirely destitute of the funds requisite to ac- complish their objects; and the probabilities of their ever being able to raise the sinews of war are very slight indeed. In this city there are about four or five hundred exiles from Cuba; and although there can be no doubt but that the New York Junta possesses a certain amount of money to be devoted to revolutionary pur- poses, still it iscertain that they are far more deficient in funds than the general public sup- poses. It is also well known that most of the exiles here live in no other style than that of modest simplicity and frugality, and have not the means, if they would, to indulge in social extravagance. We have reason to believe that the same phase of Cuban life is exemplified in New Orleans. This lack of means presents, and will continue to present, an insuperable bar- rier to their despatching an adequate ex- pedition to the shores of their native island; and so long as this state of things is not changed by some fortuitous occur- rence. our government need feel no alarm about a violation—on the,part‘ot Cuban fillibusteros— of the neutrality laws. Some excited members of these associations may enlarge mightily on the plans and projects, and funds, and forces, and generals, and staff officers, and rank and file, and steam vessels and munitions of war, engaged and in readiness to effect a revolution in Cuba; but there seems to be no real or posi- tive basis, either in money or other materials, on which to construct an expedition at all com- parable in efficiency to either of those conducted by Lopez. So much for one branch of our propo- tition—that the Executive has been duped. Let us see now about the other. The government and government organs at Washington, in the melancholy trash they have put forth during the last few months relative to the Africanization and revolutionizing of Cuba, may have cunningly adopted that mode of em- ploying public attention, and thereby diverting it from noticing the consummation of some other Cabinet measures connected with the dis- tribution of the spoils, which they may enter- tain and wish to carry into effect behind the smoke of such a delusion. There is just now a great deal to be done at Washington by the government and by other parties, in the way of legislation for contracts, spoils, plunder, and public lands, and it might be as well to have popular attention engaged on Cuba or some- where else, while these little matters are being managed to the satisfaction of all concerned, It is calculated that the plunder to be di- vided by the executive and legislative branches of the government during the present session, or during the present Congress, will amount, in money, in lands, and other valuable con- siderations, to a hundred or a hundred and fifty millions of dollars. There are fifty mil- lions of expenses every year; there are about thirty millions of surplus revenue, and there are at least a hundred millions in the way of public lands, which may be divided in various ways, and to various railroad and other pro- jects. The cutting and carving by the execu- tive and legislative departments at Washing- ton, of the immense amount of public plunder, in the shape of public lands, public money, public revenue, and other valuable matters, will occupy the attention of the great men at the capital, for some time to come, to a much higher extent than anything beyond the limits of the United States in the way of revolution or conquest/ But if the attention of the pub- lic outside of Washington were to be concen- trated on the mode of distribution of these various moneys, and funds, and lands, it is justly apprehended that a vast deal of corrupt legislation would be interfered with, and, per- haps prevented, by the disagreeable action of public opinion. The best mode, therefore, by which parties at Washington can be enabled to divide the public plunder quietly and undis- turbedly, would be to get up false issues before the country, through the means of newspaper organs—such false issues as the famous Koszta controversy. the Africanization of Cuba, anoth- er expedition to revolutionize that island, and the dangers with which the democratic party is invested, All these matters might, it is cal- culated, engage popular attention to such an extont as to permit the spoilsmen at Washing- ton quietly and luxuriously to manage the public plunder, both in funds and public lands, ineuch ® manner as may best.suit their inte- resis, On that move we will try to checkmate them. Post Orricn Apvertisina, &¢.—We cannot afford to notice our amiable cotemporary over the way. It will hear from us about the lst of January, Anno Domini 1864, EE sively circulated among the German populatiog, {Tux Capiver axp Taste Orcanon Cvsan Tue Senate avp Tue New Yorg Cotuxcror.-— The administration appears to be remarkably cautious concerning the action of the Senate — upon the vomination of Mr. Redfield as Collec- tor of this port. His name, we understand, in this: connection, has not yet been laid before the Senate. This bashfulness on the part of the Cabinet, we suppose, is owing to the political cowbination develeped in the Senate in the election of its printer. Before that event the Cabinet organ was confident and dictatorial, and threatened all democratic delinquents in the Senate who should dare to oppose Mr. Red- field’s confirmation with executive vengeance, There stood the President, before the disaffected, as if armed to the teeth with Colt’s revolvers and other deadly engines; and who would dare to incur the hazards of a shot or two from the very head of the administration when thug forewarned of their danger? But since the elec- tion of Mr. Tucker to do the printing of the Senate we find the Cabinet organ changing] its tune of threats and defiance to apologies and explanations. Mr. Redfield is a hard shell, al- ways was @ hardshell, and the appointments which he bas made are very hard indeed. Even ason of Judge Bronson has been retained in the customs, and-so-forth, But the Washington Union evades the real issue. What we charge is thatin the matter of the removal of Judge Bronson the Cabinet in- yaded the great Jeffersonian doctrine of State rights, and the Jacksonian doctrine of non-in terference by the federal government in our popular elections. In this same removal the constitutional policy of the government was subverted; and in the teeth of the most sacred doctrines of the old line democracy, the spoils system, the abominable spoils system of Marcy, was literally enforced. The cus- tom house was turned over, not to the demo- cratic party, but to the tools of the Van Buren clique of the kitchen Cabinet at Washingten. Worse than all, it is by such expedients that the Cabinet have attempted the reconstruction of the democratic party upon the basis of the Van Buren tree soil faction and the Buffala platform. The Cabinet organs admit that the President may have committed some errors im his appointments to office; but such things oc- casionally were to be expected, and could ba overlooked. But the fatal error of the ad- ministration has been upon the great issue of principles. It has repudiated. and abandoned the principles upon whick it was elected. It is here that the shoe pinches in the nomination of Mr. Redfield; and upor this identical appointment it is that the Senate must decide between sustaining the policy of principles and the free soil coalition spoils po- licy of the Cabinet. Will Mr. Guthrie be good enougit to introduce our Collector to the Senate? Marectzek and Salvi. TREASURER’S STATEMENT. As Treasurer at Niblo’s Opera House, and having fol- lowed the carce of both parties, I am astonished that M. Maretzek, ip his answer tothe accusations of M. Salvi, bas not stated that the American figurantes, supernume- raries, dancers, urhera, &c., &c, have really been paid, im spite of the bencfit having been postponed; bat as it might bave slipped his memory during the excitement, deem it but justice to deslare, through the public jour- nals, that I not only paid them for the last week, in full, ‘but also for M Salvi’s benefit, and if called upon they will answer to the fact themselves—the Italians mot having applied for theirs, although their $24 have alwaye been ready for them, and whica they cam have by ap- plying to we at the music store of Hall & Sons, on Wed- neaday, the 23th inet, between 1 and 4 o'clock, having stil some fands in the treasury, after paying sundry ex- Denees, I might ay well alvo state, that on Monday, the 19th, between the hours of 9 and 11, be‘ore M Maretzek made hin sppearauce at the oflice, I heard there was some trouble brewicg, and it was likely thet M. Maretzek’s benefit would uot come off. G. W. TAYLOR, Treasurer. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. December 27, 1868, Sir—In reply to the communication from Mr. Taylor, (treasurer of Mr Maroteok,) publisked in the Times of this morning, in which he states that the American figurantes have been paid, I beg to observe that I upecitied the nox-payment of the Itelian figurantes an a fact knowm to me, deing at that time ignorant that any preference had been shown to others, The Italiau figurantes to the number o! twenty-three, came to me about 5 P. M. on Wednesday, the 21st, and explained that they hed been waiting at the appointed hour on Tueacay (the day before,) and again om that day, (Wednesday, to receive their pay, but that neither Mr. Mareteek no: any one in bia behalf presented himself! torettle tuetr claim. Consequently, as they were in dig~ tess 1 my-seit paid them $23 in @ check on the Mer- chants’ Bi If the Americen figurantes had been paid by Mr. Maret- wk 1t wakes the matter no better. Why should thie imvid ous disticction be made? Had not the Italiana eared their pay? Respecting the aswertion that Mr. Mareteek paid the orchetre chorn-, &o., on the night of my supposed benefit, { whould bepe he had cone 70, #lnee Te re. teined $280, as J imagine’, to face such expenses. Had I beep harc wi b Mr. Maretgek, I might have objected to hin reterping these $250, since bat eveming’s performs ance wan a representation given under the aspect cf a berefit in my name, the reovipts of which were to go to m+ ov account of tums cne. The benefit was, thereto in reality, to euable Mr. Macetzek to diminish a portion nvus wetoasvorsh f benefit, 6 secourt e proceeds of my sup) as teeal to ins Dy Dies Way or Mitinele, rane i celpta .. Taken by Mi Balance psid me. 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