The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1854, Page 4

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We have detal of tue buttle of Ciudad Victoria, fought between the goverament troops, under Colo Taunsiz, and 90 of th insurgents, under Don Juan Joce de is Garza, It m'ght be rather called a sieve, for the pl.ce was rega’ar'y Invested, and the combat lasted ree days and one night Tne jmeurgents were forced to retreat, and the govern. ment troops remaiced masters of the piace, several prisoners and ali the artillery of the euemy having fallen mio their hands. The offi ial despatch fixes the number of kiJkd on the part of the victorious forces at fifty, with one chief, four officers and more than one bonired men wounded. The loas of the rebels ig not ascert ined, but is atated to have been one! bly larger. All asccunts of the battle concur ix the svatement that the Insurgents received supplies of mon and arms from the American side of the Rid Bravo. Oar correspondent informs as that the town bas been reiaves‘ed by the revoin- tioniry forces, and that the goverameat troops will in their turn be driven out. In other respects the pituation of Mexico appeara to be becoming daily a.ore and inove deplorable. Famine and pesti dance 116 ng their borrors to the evils of intes- tine wer. It is rumored and geaerally credited thag wien Sania Anua mare! ed to Acapulco against Al warez Lis position was considered so desperate, and gis chanves of return 50 slight, that Bonilla, the Prime Minister, had writren to Uragu, the Euvoy to Prussia, to look ont for a German Princes who would be willing to enccved Santa Anna and take Mexis> wander his royal cere, and to send such a person out forthwith with two thousand Swiss mercenaries. Tae thing js almost too absurd for belief, or wonld be were any other nation than Mexioo concerned. Bat Berta Anne came back, and the Coburg Prince must wait for come other chance toturnap. The Mexican mows which we fate. eotiog ar IN OUBA. By the arrival of the Ca’ awba we have received five cuy intelligence from Havana. The news exists at precent in the teland, influenced, no doubt, ‘affsirs in Spain. Great preparations to recive the new Captain- Genera’, Oar Jetters, with some translations, pablishod elx- where, wil be read wita interest. CANADIAN POLITIUR. ‘The politicions and the press of Canada are just at thie moment in a state of effervescence, arising from a series of party entanglements p:culiar to that Joyal province. In euch a state of affairs it was Db t vstural that an occasional episoze to the main performance cbould evolve. Accordingly, we find ‘that there was almost a duc! the other day, between the Hon. Malcolm Cameron, late Postmaster Gene_ va}, andone of the defeated candidates at the re went election. A chailenge was sent tothe form j bat he would accept it only on condition that tu mecting should come off in the territory of the United Siates. This wes promptly scceded to. Bat, a’as for the chivalry of Canada, the “sober + & vond thought” of the ex-postmaster admonisi @ him of the paine and penalties in such case made and provided, and he resolved to forego the journey to live to fight another day. And so the affair os ded. STREET PREACHING. Yesterday vas the ficest day of the season, and ‘the street preachers wore not slow in availing them. welves of it. Inthe Battery, the Park,and other pablic squares, the ivincrauts held forth to vast crowds of incorrigible sliaxers, who, if we may judge by the mischievous prauke practiced and the jeering Jolres played, were more inclined to await patiently the ‘ good time coming” than march in the ranks of the faithful to the discordant notes of the Angel Gabriel’s chief musician, At many of the assom blages there was at times symptoms of a disturbance of the pesce, and several arrests were made by the police. Nothing serlovs, however, happened. In the neighboring cities the exhorters preached to large andiences, without exciting any hostile de Movetration. In another colamn may be found re ports of the varions meetings. STATE OF THE MARKETS. Oommon brands of State flour on Saturday, owlay ebicfly to contract Celiveries, o; settlements, re mained steady at $8 75 a $9, while favorite and extra brands declined from 12\c. a 26¢. per barrel White southern wheat sold at $190 a #1 94, and Gne Canadian white at $1.95. Corn was unchanged. Cotton closed firm s' an advance of j cent on the week’s transactions. Pork was casier, with pretty Sree vas at 314.@ 21412) for meas. Lard was daly aiyprevious prives for immodiate delivery; 1,000 bbls £0, deliverable in ali Docemor, at 100., sellers option ou Ove days notice. Rive was firm, and sales checked by tie enhanced views of holders. Messrs. 8. H. & OC. W. Foster bold their large peremptory eale on Saturday of Parla and Vienna square and long broche shawls, of the imvortation oft Mesers. H. Heanequin & Go. The sale being the Jarjsest probebly ever held in thia city of this clase te have been expected, attracted « puited house the whole catalogu of 626 lote was gove with, aad at favor able prices. The mz at which the goods we b.ve civem wa he bead of tho city port. The soles made by suction the past woek have been urge, y & goneral way thoro was a bet. ter feeling wanifested, avd the prices obtained In dicated a better tone in We market. Moay of th les exhirited a decided improvement, while new seasonabie and desirable siyles of goods foand weady buyers ot pretty fall prices. Tae impression among the auctioneers was, that goods of desirable ‘WaLities Lad passed thelr Jowes: mark. The polley ene ee ~<a eee ernrmmmemerton wee ne on the par of importers of forcing off so many goats onde the hammer, wit" the view of making spe- sales, bas bee questioned, ‘I ¢ system bad militated nst the: ms permane tline of ous tomers, (that is, the | bbers,) who, after having at £0 earl; period i» t ~ season either ure ased or sold to ther country ussomers goods ef a similar deecript:n, fin’ tha the moortera are send- ing t em our to te trade throng. the auc- tien coms. 3° lower rates, and which come pot ony into competiton sith them, but with the trede of their country purchesers. Tois tan in the trade has heen engendered in part by the distuuet of new-msde peper on the part of importers, sho perhsps pre er the paper of anc tioneers to the u-nairnua of ‘be trade. It is also hinted that some of the heavy) importers, by thas sling 89 freely st auction, hope to put a check to the ravens babit adorted by jobbers of importing goods direct. Whatever be he motive, it is be | lieved that, as confidence revives uoder diminiahed | im, ortations, the prices of staple gods must also improve, and that af fatare anction sales of such the turn of the market will hkely be om favor of sellers. The Rumored Ceastoa vf Caha—Posttion ef, Loum Sapoleon snd tne allied Powers, There are two g: eat y olitiea! ;roblems to be selyed by the prevent generadon-—two ques- tions in government, or more properly, in the progress of mapnktod, which are ines beginning to exeite universal interesr, and whose termi- nation will, more than all other ev: of this age, atlect the destiny of Europe "America, We mean, of course, the fate of Purkey dad of Cube—two interests wholly distinct, and ocan- pying geographical extremes, Io themselves they are of no very great consequence. Con- nected with o her governments. they represent , © ereat principle; and it remains ‘o be seen how far they are capable of ca‘ling ont the great Powers of the earth to sustuin them in their present condition, in opposition to the simple laws of population. Recent rumors declare that the Spanish gov- ernment has concluded a convention with the Minister of the United Statesin Madrid, eoding to us the Island of Cuba. These rumors come to us with more than ordimory directness, and bear many marks of probability. It is not important whether their truthfulness be deter- mired now or next week ; perhaps, not very important wheth r they have auy foundation atail The current of events which moves us towards Cuba, or brings that island to us, is both rapid end certain, We use.no cant Ameri- canism when we say thet destiny has sealed the fate of Cuba; nor is it the language of ssion to declare that we sre called upon to administer upon the effects of the Spanish movarchy, so far as that interest is concerned, ia anticipation of the demise of its nominal proprietor. There are, however, many reasons for believ- ing that 2 peaceful cession of Cuba bas been made, or will at no distant period be consum mat By the ordinary course of events—that is, by the non-intervention of European powers —such a result might be deemed certain France and England have offered the only ob stacles heretofore to the cession of the island. The known position of these goveraments has sustained public sentiment in Spain against such cession. They have absolntely controlled the press and the execuiivye authority at Ma- drid, and have formed the popular mind of that country on the basis of utter hostility to the acquisition of the island by this goveenment, The more rapid our advancement in material wealth and power, the more bitter and unscra- pulous has been their effort to defeat usin this project. The decline of Spanish interests in Amcrica, and their absorption by the spirtt of enterprize evinced by our people, are lessons which have been wholly overlooked by Eag- land and France. Their controlling idea has been the Asiatic dogma of the balance of power, and their effort las been to fix this principle of immobility upon the western and eastern con- tinent al ke. For this the great struggle now in process with Russia was undertaken, For this the quintuple treaty was agreed upoa— that subtle combination of all the great Power 5 having in view the application of their ideas o¢ government to the affairs cf this continent. The rapid increase of our matitime sirengib, and its threatening dominion over the seas, gave the first s'gnal of alarm to Great Britain, and drew from the prolific fountains of iis di- plomacy the union of all the great governments of Europe against us. Later in the day, aad confident of peace in the unity of those goverrments, France and England preseated us with the tripartite convention, proposing the direct application of tho balance of power in America—the gaarantee of the Teland of Cuba te Spain.. Mr. Fillmore’s edministration rejected this proposition. It was the first open act of European intervention on this side of the water, and we do not doubt was intended to ex- press a determination on the part of France and England, at whatever cost, to apply the doo- trines of that convention to Spanish American intercsts, Meanwhile, the Russian war, so long post- poned by the Aberdcen ministry, who no doabi foresaw how fatally it would operate upon Anglo-American interests, was forced upon tse Western Powers, Notwithstanding the formida- ble character of the preparations and the limit- lers means at the command of the allied govern- ments, it soon became manifest that Russia was an antagonist requiring all the disposable material of the aseailants. It was enough to cnforee obedience in the East without engaging the West. More than this, every effort was made to conciliute the United States. We need not recount the measures adopted at once. aud wiih euch apparent geaerosity and good feeling, affecting neutral intereate, by far tho greater of which were American, -It was the inauguration of a new policy, having in view a protracted wer with Russia, and undoretanding that a co- temporaneous struggle with this Union would be fatal to the allied cause. In the progress of events and the disonssion elicited in this country, upon the Eastera oon- troversy, it became evident that the Southern States, irritated by tho systematic efforts in Great Britain to weaken the bonds of the Union by agitating the slavery question, were fas embracing the side of Russia, and throwing the more) power of the government, and, periaps ultimately, in the elimination of affairs ia Caba, its physical strength, agaiust the allie. We need not confine this feeling in favor of Russa fo the Southern States. Beyond the limits of © cirele of abolitionists, more or less numerous as questions of local tterese have been age tated, it cunbrages a great class, and, we doubt ot, @ desided majority of tue Northera people. It is a wiee, reif protecting public sentiment— one that bes come wo from oar schools, our oul toges, and the free discussion of the motives of Baropean rulers--the consideration of cause and effect. The exietence of th’s sentiment, and ‘ta Jan- genous tendency~-made more dengervus by the disturbed condition of onr own domestic af- fuir-—canno bave escaped the obs rvation of both Eegland and Fripce. We bave occasion to know that it has engaged the earnest atten- tion of Lou + Napoleon, and from hin, it is be- lieved, bus come the proposition to r move the ouly rc maining couse -f differ nce b: ween bis goverpment and that of Englani with the United Statee—the ga e of the Island of Cuba | toth Jatter, Whatever may be the character 0” the po- verpments in Eng'and aod Fraucoe—however derpotic tiey may be in theory, the time has | gone by when they can be conduc ed in time oi war without con ulting the popular pals? The e: tremest weakness and the: which wil! | alway» be felt spring: from its arterial sysicia of theexchequer. Its money is the blood ut the body poltic, and it can be drawn only to weaken it an» cause a febrile nervous derange- ment, Th+se symptoms are already apparent ip both governments, Under the reign of Louis the Eighteen hb, alout the year 1818, a force waa sent by that moepaich to protect the Bourbons in Spaia. Louis Napoleon has made recla: ations upoa Spoin for We expecses of ths expeditioa. It is alleged that over 200,000 000 franca bas been allowed by the Spasian g.vercnment—a sum as cieurly beyoud is ordisary means to pay asit it was twenty times as much. This smonnt would anewer @ good purpose just at his time, and if an arrangement has b-en mete by which Cuba bes been ceded, or such an arrapgement is under discussion, it is not tov much to expect that this sum bas been con ditionally provided for. A similar spporsunity to liquidate Jong standing onligations due to the government and people of Great Britain is likewise presented. In ordinary times suct scidid motives might pot be entertained by thore Powers; but now that prudeatial politi- cal considerations may be united with them to urge forward purely financial interests, the qne-tion arises whether they arc likely to omit the opportunity to do so. Louis Napoleon 1s a wise governor, and be knows the infence which 9 magnanimous and liberal cour:e is likely to exert upon the popu- ler mind of this country. He is too sagacious a man, and too well informed of the probable future, not to sce that the real question is not whether Cuba shall fall to this Union, but how long that event can be postponed. In this view, and with a certainty that the cession now would foreclo-e all controversy’ between the Allied Powors and this government, we submit whether it is not highly probable thai he bas purgued the course which public rumor has attributed to him. In the existing condition of European affairs, he is the only man who would be likely to influence the Cabinet of London to asscnt to sucha course. In fact, the present order of things gives many guarantees thai the Western Powers have determined to cut loose from American interests, and if so, it is obvious that their first act would be tinctured with mag- nanimity towards this government. With these facts we eubmit the question whether the rumors referred to have any foundation or not. Fieutine iw THE OLpy any New Wortvs.— Lthnological philosophers have considered meny curious questions and have arrived at as many curious conclusions. We ate, however, about to propound them another which inay be wortby their atteution. It is a very simple one, Whence arises the difference existing between aged and youthful. nations, in their way and mode of fighting? A bullet is susceptible of managing a great deal of mischief in the bands of either of them. A prod from the bayonet is an uncommonly inconvenient hint when it is offered to a man’s attention from one side or the other, and a canron-ball can do abundant damage if the requisite quantity of powder has heen crammed into the iron tube from which it is projected, and the sforeeaid tube has been well aimed. “But if so,” say the philosophers, “what the deuce is the difference that we are talking about?” . We will endeavor to indicate the problem which we propose to them. A young nation goes to war with another. Take ourselves for example, when we went to war with Mexico. We had, as we have, no army, for a few thou- sand of regular troops cannot Le counted as one when they are compared with the armies of the Huropean powers. Soldicra for the cainpaigu are enlisted everywhere. The young farmer quits his plough, and the “do-nothing” of the city abjures fora time his idleness, Tho cot- ton plauter abandons his fields and handles the sabre or the mutket, The merchant’s clerk throws his pon from behind his ear and seizes the bayonct. There is a regular stampede among all the professions. The boy pants for glory. The knowing gentleman of middle age thirsis tor plunder. Franklin Pierce himself, in a temporary fit of military ambition, rushes to the field. Regularity and work are for the time turned topsy-t: ¥ vy: Lawyers, members of the learneu professions, dealers in dry goods, bakers, keepers of groggeries and painters—house and otherwise—all turn out. An army is organized. It rushes over the frontiers, A few ekrimages with detached parties of the enemy reduce it into order. Then comes a battle, and it disciplines under caanon shot. Battle foliows battle, and before we know where we are or what we are about, our ermy bas en- tered into the city of Mexico, and the war Is virtually at an end. Onr object has been at- tained. Peace is signed, and California regis ters ils name asa tract of country which in a few yeors is to enter the number of the States of the Union. We have shown you one side of the picture. Now look at the other. France and England—two countries that have been in their day very antique aad highly res oee- table fire-eaters upou the other side of the world — have reason to go to war, or imagine that they heve, with Russia, for the purpose of protecting Turkey. In the presen’ state of society, this would seem to be very much the same thing. However, whether this be so or not, after losing an abundance of time in issuing protocols and receiving answers, framing remonstrances and tietening to their replies, all of which lead to nothing, war is at last deolared. Two fleets-- very magnificent fleets, by all aocouats, it must be admitted—enter the Baltic and Black Seas. Premonitory “To peans’’ are sung by the newspapers of both countries. The two old foes have shaken hands, The two groatest coliniries in the world ave going to give Russia such @ threshiog ns she will long remember. Gousirad: ond Sebastopol are to be taken. St. Petersburg Isto be burnt. Has not a Frensh and English army been landed at the Bosphorus, under the command of a French Marshal, the rapidity of whoee rico is 9 marvel, and an Eng- ish general, who was Wellington’s right-haod pot the combined fleet in the Baltic uoder the comm nd o’ Adm ral Napier—the “ dirty Charley ’ wh e repu ston as a naval offiver stand oo \’g cross he Atha'ic anougst oar Englieh elatv ? Well,a mont’ pasees slowly along, # @ 1.0 hi-g tas been done. The Jo paans of te English and French press are silence (yt isi:action, What does it arise from? Na:ierc mplains that he has got no gun!) @e,onl St. Armani grambles that he isin wan of guo carria.e?." Another mouth rolls over, a dtre gan boats hsve not yet been seos out to the Engiishmie, while the Frencb- mas bas other r.asoos for not begin ing fight. Tocre is neverthelees com> warlike sews rom the Black Sea, A moon shot or two bas been fred tuts Odessa, and the Rassiau- buse somehow or other managed to capture a etranded war et-amer. Ten auother mouth rolls on, aud Napier has got bis gun boats, H- bas gone in for it, ,ow! He has certaiaty taten Cronstadt! No! Not atall! There isa for tre-s cal ed Bomarsund, on the Aland Isles. de bus taken that, The English journals are dis- puting whether there willbe ony possibility of holding itthrough the winter against the troops of skaters which Rassia will despatea there. Astor Marshal Ss. Armaod and Lord Ragiaa, they were quite ready to do someshing more; bot at mi-fortune woald have it, the cholera bad brokeu oat among tvelr troops, an i conse quently they were obliged to de’ef their attempt upon Sebastopol until cooler weatver aud a rmaller quantam of disease might render i: advirable to begin operations. What may hereafter follow, it would per- chance be ridiculous to attempt pr »phecyiaz; wut up to the present time we have rehearsed with a sedulous eccuracy the achievements of two of the finest fleete the world has probably ever seen, and a tolerably strong army, com- pounded of the mea who overran Europe, aud the only men whose country they did not occupy. The French are beginaing to fee) dis- contented. The English have for many weeks felt so. They cannot conceive how it is that two nations whose pertinacious enmity for a quarter of a century convalsed Europe, uoder Napoleon, shou'd be go long in doing so lictle. As for oureclves, we have laid down the facts, and leave the ethnological problem ia- volved in them to be worked out ny any who are inclined to do so. There appear to be two modes of going to war. We prefer that which is adopted by the younger nation—we of course refer to ourselves. War is not the etate of society we would, by predilection, justify. But once engaged in it, it eeems to us that the sooner and sharper a decisive blow is stricken the better. Tae Mysrerrovs Anmep Vesse.s—Wuaine WERE TREY Bounp?--The fact of two vessels laden with arms, ammunition and coal being prepared to clear from this port on some ubknown enterprise, created some days since a considerable degree of curi- osity and excitement around town. The steamer Benjamip Franklin and the bark Cutherine Aa- gusta, the suspected vessels, immediately ve- came objects of critical attention and saxious scrutiny. There was no qnertion as to the con- tents of their cargoes; but the place of their des- tination was kept a profound secret. Their own- ere, agents and seamen evaded giving a direct answer to all inquiries on the latter head. Rumor, with her thousand tongues, assigned various ex- planations as to the object of the expedition. Some had it that it was fitted out to intercept and seize the new war steamer Santa Anna, built in New York for the Dictator of Mexico; some that it was connected with a filibuetering enterprise, having for its object a descent on Cuba; and rome that it was designed to sup- port a revolutionary movement in one of the South American republics. ‘Thie last report assumed such shape and hed such a semblance of probability that the steamer was on Friday libelled in the United States Court on an afi- davit of Mr. Apurua, ihe Venezuclan Minister, wherein he states that he had reason to believe she was intended to take part in a military expedition against the re- public of Venezuela. The Benjamia Franklin is therefore at the present momont in custody of the U. 8. Marshal, and her trip is indefinite- ly postponed. The Catherine Augusta escaped seizure, having previously taken her departure for St. Thomas. : Ti may be that the gentleman acting on be- half of the Venezuelan government in this matter has had the best reasons for bolieviog that the expedition was to be directod against that republic. It remains to be proved who- ther his suspicions were well founded, It ap- pears to us, however, that it is quite as proba- ble the Benjamin Franklin was deetined, not to support the revolutionists in Venezuela, vat to lend material aid and assistance to the con- stituted authoritics of New Granada in their struggle against the reactionary moyemeuts of General Melo. We are induced to take this view of the matter from the following para- graph which occurs in an official document re- cently publiched in New Granada:— Senor Victoriaro coli Paredes, Granadiou Minister In the Uniied states, bas advised the goveramont that he has ready, whenever they ; hall bo required, two roasels Joaced with erma and ammunition, and « Joan of $200,000. Now, what is more likely than that the expe- dition which roused the suspicions of the com- mercial representative of Veuczucla in this city was really intended to operate against the revolutionary party in the adjoining républic ? We do not say that such was actually the case, but when we know that one or two other vee sels had sompg months before arrived at New Granadian ports, conveying arms aad ammuni- tion from the United States,we think that view of the matter a highly plausible one. If it ehould prove to be correct, will Senor Po redes have incurred the penalties of viola- tion of our neutrality laws? Or does it make any difference whether the mililery expedi- tions forbidden by the statute are intended to act against a constituted government or a re- volted people? That isa nice legal question which may econ come up for judicial soiu- tion. Fuune Ur.—The rural districts aro fast filing up the chinks of the Whig State Conven- tion, in the election of their delegates. In mary instances the elections have berraygd tho lively interest, the variety of cliques, and the revolutionary epirit existing in the ranks ot the general omnium gatherum. No doubt the convention which meets on Wednesday, will be large in pumbers, powerfal ia talcats, experienced in log rol'ing, and resolved upon victory and the spoils at all poziole hizards. Aud yet such witl apparently be the discord- ant materials of the gathering, that there is yet a loop hole for a row, ax explosion, and a split. The 20th wisl be a grent day In New York po- Hities, and the 2st will, perhaps, be greater. man—we ought to have gaid hie secretary? ia! Hurry up the delegates, Tae Pustic Squares or New Yorx—Taz CxuntraL Parg.—The position of New York as the commercial metropolis of the United States is fixed forever. No amoant of opposition can prevail agaiost this, the destiny of the Empire City. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and other provincial cities, may increase in extent, importance and population—their manufactur- ers may be skilfal and their markets may over. flow with the agricultural produce of the States whore farmers depend on them for cash; bat to New York they must look for imported gooda—for a market for their produce and man- vfactared articles; and they must be content to revolve as satellitesaround the controjling planet, in consideration of the many beaefits they will derive from it. All tois is very grateful to our civic pride; bat it should also be rem-mb-red that {a our hurry to do a great deal of business and to make a great deal of money we have neglect- ed to pay sufficient attentioa to the adornment and beautification of the great city, deservedly the béast, not only of its own citizens, but of all Americans. We have no parks—no plea- rapt placee where the weary cit may pass a quiet hour and hear his children “babble of green fields.’ It is truc that there are public equares, and that the money (aearly nine mil- liens) invested in them wonld be suiiicient to pay for two parks equal to the floest in any of the Europeas capitals; but there is really no rural spot on this island where we can put our foot and avold the penalties of a trespass upon private property. It reems bardly necessary, at this late diy toenlarge upon the bencficial results who will paturaliy flow from the establishment of the Cental Park. It may, however, be re- marked that, in paint of location and extent, the Central Park seems well adapted to moot the wants of our city. The question is, simply, shall this opportunity be improved, or shall w., on account of mistaken ideas as to economy, iniss this chance (and it wil: be the last one) of giving to the Empire City a park worthy of its glory? Toere are a great many nuisances about New York, and it is fast growing to be on unpleasant place of residence. The commoa ery is, “great place for business, this New York, but can’t live here—no air—bad place .for women and children.” So the merchant makes his money in New York, and spends it in Westchester, or on Long Island, or up the Hudson; and sometimes he goes as far as those pleasant towns which dot the Connecticut shore of the Sound. This is inconvenient and expensive. Cottages always leak—there is no gas—no water, and the servants rale the master asthe Autocrat of Russia governs his sorts, With all these unpleasant matters, to say nothing of railway annoyances, peril to lite and limb, etc., it seems to follow that if this island was mide a pleasant place for residences it would not be deserted by every person who can get together a sufficient amount of mousy to set up a country seat. The Cvatral Pack ia five years from this time, perhaps in three years, will give us pleasant drives, pleasant walke and pleasant retreats, It will be really a“Central” park, as it is located midway be- tween Bleecker street—very soon there will be but few residences below that polat—gand Har- Jem river. It seems to us that this park project is precisely the thing that New York most necds at the present time, and that the efforts of its originators witl not only be appreciated in their own day and generation, but that their memories wilt be enshrined in the hearts of unborn millions. It is gratifying to know that the Cominis- sioners of the Central Park have male consi- derable progress in their work of iovestigating the titles of the land to be used for the park and assessing its value. We trust coon to be able to give the results of thelr preliainary labors. The Jones’ Wood project has beea abandoned and the act repealed—a very sensi- ble move, as the park proposed to be there constructed would have been mercly a s.0- tional affair. The plans of the Central Park have been published, and an examination of them will satisfy the most skeptical as to the wisdom of the gentlemen charged with its loca- tion. Seven thousand four hundred acd forty- eight lots will be taken, and their asecased value in 1853 was one million eight hundred and seventy-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. The assessment is of course very much less—say two thirds—than the actual value. The expense of the park will be a email matter, after all, in. comparison with the advantages which will accrue to the city from it. We have in preparation interesting statis- tics bearing upon this matter, and they will soon be given to the public. The Central Park is now a popular idea with a majority of New Yorkers, and when the matters connected with it are properly placed before the people, they cannot fail to be unanimous in iis favor. Tae Barrists anp THE New Version oF THE Scrirtures.—The annual convention of that portion of the Baptist denomination who are in favor of a new version or translation of the Scriptures, will be held in Broome street church on the 5th and 6th of next month, Our readcré are already coaversaat with tho caase of thie division inthis charch, and it ie thore- fore unnecessary to enter into any of the par- ticulars. It is sufficient to say thot no success ful attempt has been made as yet to bring about a settlement of the varioas questions in dis- pute between the two sections. Meautime tae new versionists have entered upon the proseca- tion of their work—the re-translation of the Old ond New Testaments—and have quite recently published the reealts of their labors. These embrace the Epistles of Peter, John, Judas and Revelatione. From a eureory glance we find the new tranalation contains a large number of alteta- tions from the King James’ version; and witit- out expressing any opinion on thetr cespeotive merits we will notice a few of them. Ia the 18th verse, 24 chapter of the Sccond Epistle of Peter, we find the words “through much wantonnese,”’ translated “by lascivious ways;”” and in the 7ih verse, 3d chapter, ‘of the same epistle, the words, “But the heavens and the earth which are now,” reads as follows in the new version : “But the heavens which are now and the earth.” I¢ would require columns to enumerate all the alterations whion we fiad in thetranslation just published. In many ploces the old style of expression has been completely changed, and for the words, “which,” and “that,’? which are of such fre- quent occurrence, the relative proaoun ‘who’ is used. This is more in accordance with the modern rules of grammar; avd by those who are not so conservative in their gic ae to the Scriptures, it may be path Tho word ‘‘baptism,” wherever it occurs, has been changed in accordance with the meaning attached to it by the new version- ists, The translator hae 20% however, cousider- ed bimeelf justified in a'tering the “into” for “to,” “hath” for “bas,” ferring to let thew stand, unless change is absolutely required by the of the text, This volume abounds with copious references to ancient and modern aut end contains in addition learned disq on the Hebrew and Greek originals. who are coacerned in the coutroveray tbe new and old versionists, this will no doubt prove exceedingly int Tue Drovent anp THE Crops Exo.any.—IvTerEsTino Lerren—In | Part of this paper our readera will fim teresting letter conce: niag the drough: crops of the present year in the New States, It is another covtribution from cur general application for from all quarters of the conntry in to the dimiaution of the crops of the consequence of the drought. Mr. author of this letter is a son of Governor Isaac Hill; and, having ed” in the double capacity of editor and is as well qualified to discuss the subject of the crops, a8 the politics of We are promised from different Si soon and as fast as they can be collec! actual ctatictics of the crops of the ye we anticipate, from these sourdes, a solid and- valuable infirmation to th community of the Union. In the me we shall be obliged to sll our intellig< respondents, regular and irregular, f, and al) other persons conversant with ti ject, in sending us in, to the extent present advices, their contributions general stock of intelligence. Let the know ihe extent of their supplies, speculators will be circ .mvented— proceed in its regular cha:n la—the c will be kept straight, and a bread panic attendant evils of swindling, bankrupte| general confusion and distress will be Oyerer House Poxttics.—We publish several extracts from the Suaday excellence, on city politics, and the movements on foot, and the various can in the ficld, for tbe innumerable office! refilled in our November elections. The n ness of the details, the p:rticalarity specifications, the coo! and confident tions of our Sabbath day cotemporar! reference to the prospects of whigs and crats, bards and softs, temperance mei Know Nothings, are worthy of obser Such chapters upon the mysteries of, o politics could only be gleaned from thi intimate relations with the oyster ceil those subterranean geutry, invisible in daylight, known as the oyster house polit and from the discoveries and mem: a whole week’s exploration among The extracts which we publish this m will admonish our readers of the active tions among the refectories for the No scrub race. The oyster house politici evidently in for a full snare of the spoils, Tue Frexce Ling or Steamsutre—We | that the twelve clipper ships mentioned in t} ton Atias os having teen contracted for by a] naval officer, are not for te line proposed b; tieur Levevre. Mons.our L. has not been in | for several years. - Fires In Ne w York, YIRK tw SIXTH AVENUE. —BGetween 12 and 1 o’e Sunday morning @ fire was di-c-vered in a grocery owned by Jomes D. Rhynos, situated at No. 1894 avenue. The fire was discovered by offlcor M‘PE ¢fthe 16th ward p>iice, an alarm was immodiatels end the fremen were promptly on the sot ani Bairhed the flames, ‘ho stuck wes estimated to be bout $260; the damege dove by are and water aw, to about $200. Oat in «tock Mr thynos had eal ‘the police totake the proprivto- ot the atore into o on — of being the ia ead a ~ Lieut. arrested Mr. Rhynus «nd conve,ed him before Rogart, who detained him to «wait farther ¢ ‘the cage is now berore the Vive Marshal, and @ investigation will be gope into. Friar i Sorry yinst STRET.—At about 1 0’ py Poe ape = enarenne & stable orty: ‘near Heventa a belonging | Wm. H. Roynclds. athe stevie w: 2 dostroyed ar horses were burnt to death. supported to be the: of aa incendiary, Coroner's Inquest. | Axommyr Data BY Viovexte —Yesterday Coron! Donnell wos called upon to hoid aa inquest upo bedy of a man nawed James M. Kerio, who was Gcad at the house 892 West Thirty third street. ¢ vestigating the affair, it was shown that a few ¥ ago, while returning }rom « vieit to “bis father, he attacked tp Tbiety-toird atceat, opposite the house | Hoke Oo , and received nesting, by whi, was obliged to keep hus bed until the det? oo bint yesterday, wher be wa: sttacxed with an pired. ‘Ihe jury rendered @ verdict that the dec recvived on the bight of the jath tost krowp. The <sceared was £8 years of age, an: Maryland, came to his death by cholera, aggravsted oe in, born in No arrest has yet been made police. Ald to Ssvenosh Saffsrers. TO TSE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Pe:mit me to correct te nent in your not the meeting at the Exchange oa Sa‘urday, respectin sickness st Savannah, in which mv name is monti: I met on Saturday morning in Wall street] a genth who appeared to take much foteret in the me called in the afternoon at the Exchinge Ia our co, sation of a few minutes, I remurked I had heard abont three thousend dollars had been collested juiet way for the ohjest named and had been se wannsh—not that i had cone so; I ofd not spe myrelf, My participation ia what waa done may been the most unimocr ant of aay, and urde-e notice, Aslam not ectitied to the commeniati: your article, 1 must ask you to traasfar it to th serving, Imight furnish the oamesof ‘nove os ist a Ja what was done, bat bebers hotoriete ms matt this bind would be as unscc-ptanle to thom as it been tome. Lvegretvers much my friend a y misunderstood me in what was eaid, ast thie note nec-s — Inéeed, Thad po thouztr. 11 be mentione ‘sll, orl shoud certainty not sve) rre word about It, Respeetia Wy, SAMOBL TE. Mrr DONDAY Nicur, September 17, 1864, Caution to tne Mlerenst, t of New Oxiean In order to protect myself sg, eee ogeinat dangerous im" 00M, 1 oe trate that imraro* ‘of my chiedsra Aromat to beabat het nese the ar ese deleter'ous langer eat" ihe morehtatey Bo moer: net cecept that the came of % oe” balongs exclusively article; thet it fe manufactured aad imoor:ed = that any other Ere sold onier t “Tama impelled to tate theer facta trom a kno vk that an attempt has beer made by certain rovers liquor merenante, bear Ma be respectable, to market with imitation Ca to Bee fh ferent tion way--snd indeed mns'—follow the {at-o tien of their tmpore and noxious countertel‘s. Po it, thorefors. clearly understood, that all gio { ‘to be *: chnapps,’’ tha: are no* put ap in q) or pint bottles, beoring “he words “Udolpho = wend tne side, and verified by a label wi smeph wignatnre, ea Pell ae be a) geal on she impreszed with my rame tn wex, are oO “he “gobiedam Aromatic Pehusppe’’ thus authe nated, is oncrraec, over their own rigoatures, by thonrand leadirg physicians. end ia bole tice by nearly tha whele mesical fasulty: bat as {a flavored with jon'per, it ic qoite possible that me who are not sccurtome to pretence? the qualitie gin by the taste, mny fail to cones tream my pore preparation and gtoff sold on “Schr appa’? by unsecuy Therefore kok fo the impression oa GSE ily a feit Ww a {son the Label. . UOLPAO WOLTR, Sole Importer ond Manufacturer, 18, 20 and 22 Boo Proves! in ricer Genin’s biel Snecess pobdlic taste, has never heon so triamphen:! y) sirated an in toe popalarity of his fof hat 1804, It attracts every sae oa. ‘were ‘mi: NIN, 214 Brosdway, opposite St, Paul's: