The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK’ HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @PFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND TULTON STS+ No, 271 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Breadway.—Jacx Cave— Pasaranr Neicure x. vsracuE—Two Bur- sakpe Forty Purvi NIBLO'S, Brosdway.—Soupigr ror Love-Bauizr Diy Eu FARMERS — ASPHODEL. BURTON'S, Chambers strect--Soxsuive Turoven vux CLovns—Now-a-Davs -Movusracns Mamta. NATEONAL THEATRE, Chetham _ street.—Kino's Seerek —Faswion ayy Famine Macio Ross. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brondway.~-Tar Scuouan— My Cousin Ganwan. METROPOLITAN THEATRE. tsanei—Youne Scanr. AMBRICAN {USEUM.— Afternoon, Vitraee Prorit eare— Evening, Everacir. WOOD'S MINSTREL HA 444 Broadway -Erni0r1an Minera eisy asp Buarssa' reRA BUCKLBEY’S OPERA HO! aev's Ernorsay Oreka Trovre. WOOD'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELS.-Mecnamice’ Hact, 2 Broaaway. FRANCON!’S HIPPODROME, Madison Squaro—Eques wRian Penvermances. New Werk, @uesday, October J, 1854. , 539 Broadwey-Buox- Mails for Earope. EW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR KUROPE. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Judkins, will leave Jersey City to-morrow at 12 o'clock, M., for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city at half-past ten o'clock ip the morning. The HEBap, (printed in French and English,) will be published at ten o’elock in the morning. Single copies im wrappers. sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Hxnatp will be received at the following places in Europe:— Levmroot..John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Lowpon .... Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. hel Wm. Thomas & Co , No. 19 Catherine strest. Panw.......Livingston, Wells & Co.,8 Place de la Bouras, ‘The eontents of the European edition of the Heratp will enibrace the news received by mail cud telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of pablication. The News. THE HARD SHELL MAYORALTY CONVENTION. ‘The delegates to this Convention met last eve- ming. Th: session was occupied in settling the contested seats, and other preliminary busineas, which was not got through with till midnight. E. B. Hart was nominated Chairman of the Conven- top, but before voting for permanent officers, an adjournment was carried. NEWS FROM EUROPE. The steamship Arctic, from Liverpoel, is now in her thirteenth day out, and her arrival at this port is momentarily expected. NEWS FROM MEXICO. ‘We give elsewhere the details of the news from Mexico. The revolutionary pa-ty is gaining ground rapidly, and it cannot be long before Santa Anna will be forced to succomb. Indeed, it is stated that the Dictator already contemplates leaving the country, and has even made arrangements for n+ tiring £0 soon as he receives the seven million dollars paid over under the Gadsden treaty stipula- tions. We aiso publish an account, apparently we 1 authenticated, of the imprisonment at Durango of several of our countrymen, who have for years beer saffering all the miseries of Mexican brutality in a Mexican dungeon. These unfortunate men were apprehended on a criminal charge, but have never been tried, and are believed to be innocent.. LATRR FROM TURKS ISLANDS. The schooner G. O. Bigelow, Captain Whitter, brought us our files of the Royal Standard yester day, dated to the 9th of September. We take tue following extract from the latest paper:—Duriug the greater part of this week the weather has been wery unfavorable for our salt ehipcers, in conse quence of a heavy surf ; but throughout it has been excellent for the salt rakers. In consequence of the unfavorable weather only 28,364, bushels have been shipped from this Cay, although several ves gels vere waiting for cargoes. Quantity on hand within the colony, 120,000 bushels. Price, 26 c! J Export duty, halfa-cent. Tbe brig Arab, comman- der Ogle, has arrived here from Port Royal, Jamai- ca. She bronght for this government two twenty: four pounders and fitty stand of small arms, with a due proportion of ammunition. ‘This‘addition, to- gether with our former armament, will enable us to put Grand Tork ipo respectable condition of de- fence. STATE OF THE MARKETS. Under the influence of increased receipts aud the delay in the receipt of the Arotic’s news at tais port, the flour market was dull yesterday and sales of common brands of State were made at $7. South- ern was about 12}c. per barrel lower, while extra brands of all kinds closed quiet at about Saturday’s ratee. Sales of Southern red wheat (good to choice) were made at $1 50 a $1 60 per bushel. Corn closed at about 75c. per bushel for sound Western mixed. Pork was lower. 3,000 barrels mess, deliverable seller’s option, on five days notice in December next, sold at $13, and 1,000 ditto, on spot, also ut $13, which was a decline of 75c. per barrel since Sa- tarday. Sugar and coffee were both firm, the stocks of each exbibiting very low figures compared to ‘those of the same period last year. AFFAIRS IN THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen held the first meeting of the October session last evening, and got through a good deal of business without quarreling or debate. A preamble and resolution respecting the proposed site for the new Pcst Office were referred to 9 specia! committee. The lower end of the Park seems to be looked upon by the Aldermen as the most eligidle location. The report of the committee on the expe- @iency of selling the public markets was read and referred. We publish it in another columa. An additional appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the State mill tax was concurred in. ‘The only feature of the proceedings of the Coun- cilmen last night worthy of notice was a resolution appropriating two thousand five hundred dollars towards extending to the officers of the French ships of war now in our harbor the hospitalities of the eity. Through the inatrumentality of the so-called reformers the resolution was lost, but it will pro? bably be re-considered at the next meeting of the Board with better success. The Board of Supervisors transacted business yes terday afternoon. The quarterly bills of the four Coroners were presented and referred. They amount in the aggregate to $5,774 05. We understand that $250 has already been sub- scribed for the relief of those who suffered by the late disastrous conflagration at Belize, Honduras, ‘This amount in iteelf is small, and would afford but little help, bat it will answer very well for a be- —r THE LAW counts. ‘The October term of the Law Courts was openod yeatenday, yet little business was transacted beyond ‘the calling of the several juries and the arraignment of thee in the Court of Oyer and Te:miner, ‘The trial of Edward Brown, in the United States District Court, for counterfeiting, was not concluded at the rising of the Court, and the Jndge made an order extending the term, which would otherwise have terminated yesterday evening. The trial ot Docter Graham, for the homicide of Colonel Loring: at the St. Nicholas Hotel, was set down for this wcrning, st 10 o’lock. The Oc'ober term of the Court rd a was opened yesterday, his Honor Recorder bat “rant att ata wen ortin Hendin’ the Court adjourned after the trial of one case. RELIGIOUS CRREMONY. ‘The corner stone of anew Protestant Episcopal eburch in Williamsburg—to be known as Grace Cnureb—was yesterday laid with appropriate reli gious cerewonies. We give a report of the inter esting proceedings and a sketch of the address of te Rev. Dr. Tyng on the ocvasion. ‘isin t e rlections for the Assembly. The Progranime of W. Hi. Seward and the | Hilecttons rer the Assembly. As matiers now #tan ', the most valnerable point o ttick ageinst the Sewa d coalitionists The Se nate elected last year is secured. The election of the coal | en nominee for Governor is count- ed u.on by wn'overwhe’mn: plurality. It is even supp + @ amonz the Seward leaders that with the concent ation of the mercenaries epon Raymond, : nd wt his;le ges ia he r behalf, there can s¢ ree y be adoubt o° bis success, | wha evr the Koow Noth ngs msy esolve upon ' in m_ ster. us grand State couocil-or con- vention a; pointed t} m et in ths city to-mor- row mor. ing. | ut we shall see. In avy «vent, there is one yo'nt in the Novemb:r coate-t wher: the rapks of the —namely, n the elections for the As- sembly. Tho e suing Legi-lature will be ealled upon to choose a Un ted States Senator to fill the vacancy wh'ch will soon occur from the expiration of the present term of W. H. Seward. If his heterogeneous and seditious free soil, atolition,a.d Maine lav alliance, projected at Saratoga, adopted a‘ Syracuse, and ratified hy the several factions of outside mercenaries at Au! urn, is successful in return- ing a -ubs'antial Seward majority to the As- sembly, he will of course be,triumphantly re- turned to the Senate, and his disunion pro- gramme for 1856 will thus have surmousted the last remaining obstacle to its complete or- ganization. But, onthe other hand,if by any combination of hostile elements, a majority of members ‘ should be returned to the Assembly opposed, upon any conditions or equivalents, to the re- turn of Mr. Seward to Washington, a victory of incalculable importance to the peace of the Union and the material prosperity of New York will have been achieved. The confidence of the South in the public sentiment of eur great commonwe:lth will be restored, the plans projected for the withdrawal of a large propor- tion of our domestic and foreign trade will be abandoned, and the grand scheme for a seditious sectional crusade against the South in the next Presidential campaign will be “crushed out” with the expulsion of the arch-agitator from the national councils. The country will hail the act as an act of deliverance; for with the loss of their chief his abolition mercenaries may be readily dispersed. His prestige destroyed, their power will be broken, and they will be scattered agaip into separate squads of mere bush fight- ers, boisterous and full of wrath and treason, but comparatively despicable from their weak- ness and demoralization. The overthrow of Seward upon the question of his re-election to the Senateyis, we repeat, from the apparent existing state of things, his only vulnerable point of assault in our Novem- ber elections. It is the heel of Achilles, which has not been immersed in the infernal bap tism of Saratoga, Syracuse, and Auburn. Here he may be directly reached through a ma- jority in the Assem'ly. Lut the immediate question suggested is, how is this to be done? The Seward forces are combined—the dem - crats ere divided. The spoils policy of the administration has reduced the latter to one- half their real strength at the ballot boxes; for the two democratic factions, though numbering each a hundred thousand votes, count—putting each upon a separate ticket—but an aggregate of a hundred thousand against the common enemy. How is this loss of a hundred thousand men to be repaired and overcome? Only by the inde- pendent action of the people—the conservative constitutional and Union loving people of all parties in the election—against the return of the special instruments of Seward to the As- sembly. And why cannot this be done? Are demo- cratic Maine law men bound to elect a Seward candidat» yhere.an opposition man is just as sound upon the temperance question? Are the Know Nothings reiuced to the coalition allegiance, to Seward himself, though Clark may be acceptable, and thouzh Raymond may swear the necessary oaths to a good standing with the Order? We ‘hink not. As we under- stand it, the humbugging toady’sm which our Senator‘al demagozue hus manifested towards Archbishop Hughes «ani the confiding Irish Catholics, for .some years past, has made our unfortunate Senator a special object of contempt to the Know Nothings. [His late declaration of war against them on the floor of the Senate, has certainly made up an issue between the parties. This is-ue is so broad and well defined that, we presume, the candidate whch Mr. Seward has magnanimoue- ly consented to give the Know Nothings for Governor, does not bind them to his instra- ments for the Assembly. Upon this question another day or two may, perhaps, determin: the loss or gain to Seward of a heavy detach- ment of voters, drawn almost entirely from the whig ranks, and decisive, ic may be, of the poli- tical complexion of the Assemb!y. Have the silver grays, the Webster and Fill- more men, who could not trust even Gen. Scott in 1852, as the candidate of she Seward inter- est—are these Webster and Fillmore conserva- tives really sold out? or have they vavished into thin air, like Macbeth’s witches? Or have they surrendered because of the weakness of their numbers, and from a fear of betraying it, as on several occasions heretofore ? Or are they “nursing their wrath to keep it warm” for a word and a blow against the humiliating com- pact with the seditious coalitionists of Sarato- ga, Syracuse and Auburn? We cannot an- swer; but it is difficult to believe that there can exist in New York, or anywhere, a body of men of any intelligence, or with the smallest particle of pluck, who could submit to the indignities, dnd the contempt, and the sneers which have been heaped upon the silver grays before and siace the closing orgies at Auburo. S me of them, we doubt not, will rebel; bat the question of disposing of their strength to the best alvan- tage is so very nice and delicate trat we mo- des'ly shrink from its solution. Some of the silver gray organs, we observe, tloat the Sew- ard ticket, and yet openly denounce the agea- cies through which it was perfected. This is somewhat like the Ancient Pistol—‘They eat and swear.” They swallow the distasteful pre- ecription under compulsion, but with a protest. Still we hope that the ridiculed and insulted silver grays will not carry the poltroonery o! Pistol to tbe polls, The Know Nothings, the hard shells an’ soft shells, the silver grays, may each and all do something for a telling hit against Seward in the As:embly. But apart from all partizan or factions organizations, it devolves upon the conservative people of the State to redeem i: from the f.ul embraces of the Seward disunion coalition, In the 20 of such Assemblymon coalitionis's may ‘be p'erced and a home- | thrust given te the arch-agitator himself | { sewill remove the seditious dem »gogne from | the public counc'ls, ‘nd restore New York to her anc ent ‘ellowsbip with the oth ‘States of the Union, North and Sout». Rercernine Activrry oF Crry Live.—The present week will be one o b sy move ent in the religious, sheatrical, financial and legal circles of-ou city. With Octobe the active life of our fall season commences, after the paralysis superinduced by ‘the suffocat'ag heat of the dog days. It usually completes "the reflux of the tide of that more fortunate class of our:population whose means enable them to exchange, during the summer months, the sala- mander tempera ure and pesiilential visitations of a crowded city for the pure mountain air or refreshing breezes of thesea. Those who have prolonged their stay at the watering places from sanitary c nsiderations, regardless of the earlier desertion of the votaries of fashion, will now reluctantly be compelled to resume their professional or business avocations. Even those who are fortunate enough to be independent of the necessity of daily exertion will be obliged ‘to return to the city to fulfil the duties imposed upon them by the various religious, social and financial gatherings that usually. take place at this time of the year. The week upon which we have just entered will, therefore, as we have just observed, be one of more than usual bustle and animation in the monotonous current of our city life. It is, in the first place, commemorated by an event of considerable importance in a religious, and perhaps, too, in a political point of view— namely, the convocation of the first Provincial Council of Roman Catholic Ecclesiastics that has ever been held in the State of New York Most of the Catholic bishops, and other reli gious dignitaries of the Union, including the bishops of Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Hartford, Brooklyn, Newark, and Burlington, attend the sittings of the Council, which will probably be continued during the whole of this week. ‘then, on Thursday next, commences the auniversary of another religious body—the American Bible Union—whose labors and services entitle them to equal consideration in the eyes of the pub- lic. A host of distinguished speakers, including the Rev. Dr. Cone; the Rev.C. ©. Conner, of Tennessee; Elder D. S. Burnett, of Cincinna:i; Rev. J. M. Pendleton, of Kentucky; Rev. Dr. Baker, of Williamshurg; Charles S. Bryant, Esq., of Cincinnati, and Rev. H. J. Eddy, of New York, will take part in its proceedinzs. To-day, the opening of the State Agricultural Exhibition ond the general meeting of the stockholders of the New Haven Railroad Com- pany will bring « prodigious influx ot strangers from all parts of the country. They come appropriately together, for they will afford the curious in such matters an opportunity of in- epecting at once specimens both of the fleeced and unfleeced. The courts, too, will be in fall blast, and will contribute their usual proportion of victims to the sum total of human snffering. But to counterbalance these unpleasant reali- ties, it is a consolation to reflect that there never was a period when our city presented such an infinite variety of agrémens to enable men to dissipate their cares. Between thea- tres, lectures, and exhibitions, there is no city in the world perhaps in which an evesing can be more pleasantly and even profitably spent In the way of music we now enjoy as great ad vantages as any of the European capitals, Last night the Academy of Music—one of the noblest lyrical temples in the world—opened its doors for the first time to the public. It could not have been more appropriately inaugurated thau by the two great artists who have so long en oyed the admiration, and we are justified in eaying the warm attachment, of the most refined audiences of Europe. Thus our city moves ra- pidly onward in its progress to the foremos: rank of metropolitan communities, Fifty years since it crept along at snail-like pace ; at its present rate of expsnsion and improvement another half century will feave it without a rival. Mvyierpa,, Rerorm Nomryations.—There is to be another meeting o! the Municipal Reform Committce at the University this evening. The following is the form of the notification of this famous and useful committee, calling its mem- bers together :— MUNICIPAL REFORM COMMUTTER. New York, Oct. 2, 1864, attend a meeting of the committee on Sd inst., at 73¢ o'clock, at the New York University, to make nominations for city and county officers. ISAAC H. BalLEY, Secreiacy. This will make the third meeting of the re- formers this season. On Thursday evening last Nicholas Dean was nominated for Mayor, and Recorder Tillou and Judge Beebe were talked of for re-nomination, and Chauncey Schaffer and A. Oakey Hall were named for District Attor- ney. The nomination of Mr. Dean is considered a good one. Now let us see'if the committee will do as well fur the other offices. Sin—Pleas Tuesdoy @ Hosrrrauity to THe Freven Orricers.—In the Boar! of Councilmen, last evening. Mr. Vermilyea moved a series of resolutions, that the hospitalities of the city be extended towards the officers of the French squadron now in the harbor. Councilman Kennedy moved that $2,500 be appropriated for the purpose, and an amendment to substitate a thousand dollars was lost. The whole matter, however, was finally laid upon the table, to the nosmall discredit of the Councilmen and the city at large. The French fleet at present in the harbor is by far the largest that has visited us sicce the days of the revo. lution. It belongs to a nation towards which we are bound by ties of gratitude and friend- ship; yet our Councilmen prevent us from ex- tending to the distinguished officers in com- mand the most ordinary courtesy, and have the hardiliood to excuse their niggardly conduct on the plea of economy. For a great metropo- lis like New York, the sum of $2,500 is the very smallest that could be named for such a purpose, and we trust that for the honor of the city the matter will be reconsidered, and the appropriation made at the next mecting of the Board. Obitua: rs. 4xN Royal, who was somewhat conspicuous upon the public stage during the administration of General Jackson, died in Washington city on the Ist inst,, at a very advanced age. Jexsey City Intelligence. Visit o¥ 7#® Boston Fosuxers —This company paid Jersey City a vinit yerterday, at 12 o'clock, being re- ceived by the Jersey City Continental Guard, and escort ed through the principal streets and to the atlantic Ho, tel, where a collation bad been prepared for them. The Fusileers were duly welcomed by Lieut. Sanderson, in command of the Continentals, which was responde! to i? Sppropriate terms by Capt. Cooley, in osmmand of the Fusileers. After partaking of the co7ation, toasts and responses were in order, a+ usnal. Both companios, by \nvitation, then repaired to the steamship aravia, | ing at the Cunara doe ¢, on the deck of which the band per- ‘ormed ‘God save the Queen,” Yackee Doodle” an ‘4ei) Colombia.’’ They thea repaired to the maio sa loon of tho steamer and partook of refreshments: soa vier which they left the ship, honoring thone on bora «ich three heerty ehears. They returned to New York lite In the afternoon ‘Tire Rev. Dr. Potter, the Bistiop Elect of the On Friday last, the P otestant Episcopal Church vol the diocess of New York, at ita annual conven- | tion in St, Jor n’s chapel 4» tha city, saoplied the vacancy occasiov ed by the lamented d-ath of the | Provisional Bishop of ‘he diocess, the Right Rev. | Jcvatban Ma hew Wainwright; and a the public eye is na ural y tu:ned toward the person upon | wh m thi high honor has been conferred, we have ; been at |e jains to look a ttle into these church matters, ‘or the nformation of the readers of the Benarp, who, in » certain sense, are the people of our charzy neat on to such apiritval things. The R v. Horatio Potter, D.D., th- bishop elect, came into the Ep scopel Church, it seems, by a side- door. It was not, however, as in the case of the first bishop of this diocess—Bishop Provoost— through the por'a! of the Dutch Chur»; nor, as in the .ases of Bisbop Hobart and Bishop Wain- wright, through ‘he less easy entrance of Puritan Congregations!'sm; but t»rough what we have called tie side door of Quakerism. His father, Jo- seph Porter, of Yu hess county, ‘n this State, was a member of the Sosiety o° Friends. And friend Joseph, it is »aid, was trained up after the true mode! of the code of dis ip ive, and was fully per- suaded in his own mind teat this vain and naughty world of ours received some jast rebukes from the pure precepts of George Fox and William Penn, of Robert Barclay, and of other chief men among the epirit-moved preachers of the Friends’ Society. But, to use @ timilie which we once heard from fickets at thet figure the house would not oon. . tained the crowds thet would bave flocked thither jas’ evening In other respects the performance was highly satis- factory to the sudience, and must bave been equally 60 to the manager. The acoustic properties of the new building excel everythirg that we have ever heard, The foftest note of the singer on the stage may be heard with perfect distinctness in the ferthest seat in the amphi- theatre. So fer as hearing is concerned, the most dis- tant boxes are as good as the choice seat in the par- quette. Ncr is there a single seat fronting the stage from the dress circle to the amphitheatre, from which a perfect view of the perf rmance cannot be obtained, With the side seats the case is different. By » singular error of judgment, the sides contract inward toward the stage instead of projecting outward, and the conse- quence is that ibere is not a single side seat in any of the tiers from which the stage can be seen. Itis so much space lost. It is exceedingly to be regretted that the architect should have tallen into suc an error; es- pecially as he must bave discovered it in ample time to alter his plans. The coup d’cil last evening was dazziiog The fash- ionable world had assembled in imposing force in the par- qnette and dress circle : we have never seen a more bril- Mant audience. The house itrelf, fresh from the paiaters’ and gildera’ hands, and g istening in the light shed by scores of chandeliers, was a beautiful sight. We doubt whether Europe contains @ more splendid opera house. The prospect from the second tier, when the curtain was up, was equal to the much vaunted scene at the operas of London ané Yaris, and was worthy of New York. The decorations are good; they moved stiffly last even- ing, but this will soon be remedied. We have already spoken of Mario and Grisi’s Norma, and it qill here suf- the lipe of an eloquent oratress at a quarterly meet- ing, the branches of fawilies, like the branches of a tree, are apt to grow in a different direction from the tronk. Friend Joseph, as his three sons—-Para- clete, Alonzo and Horatio—were sporting around him in their boyhood, would have hearkened with incedulity to the incongruous association of his name with that of prelatists. Yet these eons were éestined to become—all three—members of the Episcopal Church; and two of them were not only to lay aside in boyhood the drab suit of the Quaker, bnt to be robed in manhood with the lawn and satin of a prelate of the church. The eldest of the three eons, Parackete, became a bcokseller and an editor, at Poughkeepsie, and was Jed to adopt the faith which his early forefathera, in the old country, had renounced. He became a zeal- ous member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Intelligent, inquisitive and affable, he rendered bis bookstcre and office very agreeable places of resort. His two younger brothers, Alonzo and Horatio, soon caught the spirit of his rel'gious investigation, and declared their agreement with him in views of sacred trathb, All three applied for and received water baptism. * It was a great change in their asso. ciations, but it was the preliminary only to a change Jet greater. Alonzo and Horatio, both educated at Union Col- lege, soon became eminent as men of acientitic and literary accuiremente. Alonzo, in the year 1845, after having for many years filled, with great celebrity, the chair of Moral Philosophy and Belles Lettres at Union College, Schenectady, was consecrated bishop of the dioceas of Penneylvanta, after the suspension of the Rt. Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, who had been the bishop of ‘hat dioceer. In a few weeks from the present time, the younger brother, Horatio Potter, is to be conse crated bishop of the diocess of New York. The cir- cumstance of two brothers, bot elevated to the episcopate, thus occupying the places of two bishops, brothers, both suspended, and both yet living, is certainly a very singular ecclesiastical phenomenon. The place of the elder of the Onderdonks, Henry U., is supplied by the elder of the Potters, Alonzo; and the younger of the Potters, Horatio, is to supply the place of the younxer of the Onderdonks, Benja- min T. ‘The life of the bishop elect exhibits none of those striking alternations which diversify the private Listory of most men. His course, from ita incep: tion, has been that of a stream moving steadily onward, increasing by accessions gradually im. parted to jf, and at length reaching some great metropolis, and bearing on its ample bosom the argosies of an Empire State. Educated at Union College, while his elder bro- ther, Alonzo, was a professor there, he graduated in the year 1826. In October of that year he became member of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this city. But he entered an advanced class, and left the semi- nary before the usual period of graduating. Soon after be filed the choir of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Trinity Colleg*, Hartfor}, Connec ticut, and was admitted to holy ordera by the Right Rev. Dr. Brownell. He continued for several years in his professorship, enjoying an unu:ua! share of popularity. But bis ability in the pulpit prevented his remaining permanently in a college. Inthe year 1833, having received a call to St. Peter's charch, Albany, he was instituted rector of that parish by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk. More than twenty-one years have now elapsed since he entered on his labors in ‘that cure, and in that period the results of his success, as the con- vention’s journals testify, afford ample proofs of his pastoral zeal und parochial efficiency. ‘Ha is now just fifty-two years of age. His brother Alonzo, the Bishop of Pennsylvania, is fifty-four. The bue of his complexion, and the general air which is his characteristic, would seem to indicate & feebleuess of -bealth. But his tall, manly person, and his muscular frame, give proof of great power of endurance, Tt is true that in the last ten years he has twice crossed the Atlantic to recruit himeelf amidet hia labors. But his ailment,a dyspepsia, has yielded very readily to the short respite of a release from toil. There is reason to hope that he may for many years adorn the episcopal offi.c.. He is a well educated theologian. Avoiding the compromitting policy of ore extreme party of churchmen, and the fantastic symbolism of another extreme party, he is a conservative. His manners are grave, and, like those of his distinguished brother, they blend, in a happy manner, g little stateliness with great urbanity and kindness—the noble ocak with an exuberance of foliage. The dio. cesan convention has done itself great credit in the eye of the public by its wise choice of such a leader, And it they heed us they will always thus avoid alike the high ard dry on the one hand, and the low and muggy on the other. We shall have more to sey op the occasion of the consecration of the bishop. Opening of the Academy of Music. The Academy of Music, or, as it will probably be called, the new Opera Eouse, was opened last evening with Grisi and Mario in “Norma.” Contrary to general ex. pectation the house was by no means crowded. Exclu- sive of the amphitheatre, we doubt whether there wore over one thousand persons present, if so many, The first ana second tiers were nearly empty; and we noticed vacant seats in the parquette and the dress circle. The amphitheatre, in which seats were sold at fifty cents, was better filled than any other part of the house: ata rough guess, We should say that it may have contained some feven bundred and fifty people, including dead- heads. Bearing in mind that the house is expected to seat between 4,€06 and 4,500 persons, the attendance last evening must be regarded as an inauspicious be- ginnirg. Many causes for the disappointment may be assigned. We moy mention cre. The price of seats is too high. The sttempt to draw an analogy between London and New York, and to argue thet because a guines is paid there three dollars may be obtained here, fs based upon a fallacy. The class of society which sup- ports the Opera in England does not exist here in suffi- cient number to support a single first class singer. Our pudlic amusements—of whatever character—must rely on the masses for support : if they look elsewhere they are morally certain to fail. We want, one and all of us, to see all that is going; we want to take our families with us; ard to cnable us to do this, managers must be content with a price that we can conveniently affard. With tickets at three dollars, five-rixths of those who srould like to go to the Opera will stay at home Experi enco han sett ed that entrance tickets to comedy ther trea shall Ye fold for fifty cente: we regard it as equally apparent that the proper price for opera tickets in this elty should be one dollar. Fad Mr Hackett sold his five to say that both—especially the former—were in good voice Jast evening. Mirs Donavaci sang and acted better thon before. Shs is the best Adelgisa we have ever bad. The chorus, too—poor souls—have got new dresses, and lock all the world better for it. “Lucrtzia” on Wednesday. Marine Affairs. Lauxc —The steamship Joseph Whiting will te launched from the yard of her builder, Mr. John Engl's, foot of Twelfth street, Eaat river, at half past five o’clo:k his afternoon, She will be taken to the Neptune Iron Works, foot of Eighth street, to receive her engine. This is the first of a new line of steamers to run between Poston and Baltimore, Passexoges ror Evrork —The packet ship Manhatten sailed for Liverpool yester’sy with 800 second cabin anc steerage passengers ‘Tar Steamsui Exerer Crrv sailed yesterday for Havane and New Orleans. Loss oF SCHOONER ONTARIO AND FOUR OF HER JREW.— Schooner Ontario, Ca jt. Penniman, from Boston, of and for Rockland, wes totally lost on the Devil’s Back, in Broad Sound, on Friday night last.’ The O left port at 6 o'clock P.M, aud after getting outside, the westher Proving unfavorable, put about to retaca to~the city. Aboat 10 o’clock she struck, and ia about thres hours sfterwards went to pieces, All her seamen, four in num- ber, are believed to have been drowned. Capt. Penniman clung to 8 piece of the wreck, and stter having been in water from 1 o’clock until 6, was picked up, nearly ex- bausted, by a fishing vessel. fe was landed on an island, where he remained until Sanday, when he got to.gostop. Steamer Jobn Taylor picked up the masta of the Ontario, aré took them to Boston Two or three trunks were picked up at Hull on Saturday. TELEGRAPHIC. THE NEW STEAM FRIGATE. Wasninaton, Oct. 2, 1854. The steam frigate to be built at New York will be considerably larger than the others, and will be modelled by an built under the superintendence of Mr. Steers. THE WRECK OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 1854. Aletter from &t. Johns, N.F, of the 20th ult., siates that the City of Philadelphia was lying in 20 feet of wa- ter, and had 16 feet of water in her hold. There were no hopes of stopping the breaks or getting her off. The ‘Veesel lies with her deck seaward and exposed to storms from the south. DEPARTURE OF THE SOUTHERNEB FROM CHARLESTON Caaraston, S. 0., Oct. 2, 1854. The steamer Southerner, Captain Thomas Ewen, left here yesterday (Sunday) noon, Oricketing. The match between the Newark, (N. J.,) and the Har- Jem clubs was played at the grounds of the former, in Newark, yesterday. Newark havirg won the toss, went ip, and after some spirited play on the part of Warren, G. Everson, Wheateroft, and Roure, ruceeeied in placing fifty runs on the score, which, together with forty “byes,” “wides,”” &o., made the total score ninety. Harlem then sent their men into the wickets, but they ‘s00n fell before the underhand bowling of Jefferson, and the slow unéerhand dodging of G. Klverson, for the smal) score of thirty-three; for of the well known good cricketers among the eleven, only one made a standi— Bates havirg scored fourteen. Barlem then followed tbeir innings, and the whole of the wickets again fell for the small score of thirty; thus leaving the Newarkers the victors in one inning, and twenty-seven runs to spare. It appears to us unac- countable how so many men can be got out by the dodging bowling of G. Elverson. ‘The followizg is the score:— NEWARK. First Innings. Smith, ¢. Godwin, b. Wilson edges, b. Ayner. G. Etverson, b. Wilson McNair run out ...... 231 mreorsotwmne 8 i Total . +90 First Innings. Second Sam. Wright, b. Jefferson 4 Runout .., .4 Hi Wrighs, B. Elverson.. 2 ¢. Klversoa 26 is wicket, 14 c. ft,b.Jetferson 1: Bates, W c c. Wheatcroft,b.Jefferson Pope not ont 3 = crow bor; in the store of Mr. Mason, in G1 Williamrburg, the particulars of which we publ re ,, and were committed for examination by justice Welsh. Indecent Assault.—A man named Michael Mulligan was arrested by the teventeenth ward police, charged with having « mmitted an indecent and ‘tal asseult upon the of @ listle girl named Jane O'Neil, residing at 482 og street, Committed for examination by Jus! els Arret of a Female Picl —Margaret Jo ny Tomgn well known to the Police, was srronted yoste «ficer (e% with bev! 4 a ‘gg ta trout of sry ‘Wilttamsbuarg City News. ARSON, AND ARREST ON SUsPICION.—Yesterday morning, shortly afer 4 o'clock, private watchman Close dis sove:- da fire in the tailoring establishment of J. W Higmin, No, 243 Grand street. The door was broken open, aud with the assietance of some béters in the employ of Mr. Char. Morgan, in the sam. building, the flames were ex tinguished with « few pailsof water. On examinstion it was arcertained that the fire was the work of an iaveu- diary, theficor acd some light goods having been satu~ rated with camphene and oil; in the show wiadow wag also found a bottle of camphene, in which was iaserted a. wick for the purpore of communieiting fie to i pleion rested uyon the prourietor, ar. Higa ‘was acco! ding!y arrested and Iccked up for e: today. Dir. C. Morgan owned and occupied ths builsing,, with the exception of the store, for a residene and uk ery. Damage about $200. Court Calendar—This Day. OVER AND 1ERMINER.—Murder trials. SUPREME OoUR?—Circuit.— Nos. 1404, 666, 668 to £80. Surrems Court—Special Term —Aadjourned to Wed« nesday. ‘Surenior Court, ore branches, )—Nos. 48 to 60, 1257, €3, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73 10 85, 89 to 97, 99, 100. Ustrep rare ‘Sasrmcr CovRT.—Trial of Brows, for~ counterfeiting, ccntinued. Couxow Pisis—Part 1.—Nos, 1206 to 1209, 1121, 1212. to 1216, 1218, 1220, 1221, 1223, 1226 Coumox FrRas—Part 2.—Nos, 1189, 1190, 1°99, 1207 tox 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205. To the Pablic.—Learning from my Ayencs, and correspondents in various parts of tne coun rs, that wy Scbiedam aromatic Schnapps is extensively counter- feited, and finding that the counterfeiters dariogiy ad-- vertise their pernicious decep:ions under ‘he ame which belongs to wy article, | think it ne‘esary once more to caution the pubke sgainst these venders of- potson in disguise. 1 introducec the Schiecam Aromatic 3ehnapps for tne purpose of supplying the medical faculty aud the whole, commurity with a pure medicinal spirit which caight no prescribed with confidence in all cases where stimulants. Were requir: 6, or used as a beverage, wishout the fearfcl consequences which invariably r. drinking edulterated liquor. In order torendsr «sen-anca, doubly eure, } had the article analyzed by ch: misie of world wide celebrity, and submitted it for experun at test to thouse: de of distinguished medical prac iioners. ‘The responses from these sources were of the aioat un— equivocal and satisfactory character. I reosived ap- proving snd congrarulstory letters from auch men as re. Parker, Cock, Cheeseman, Andersen ang Field, while Nite cf the profession in every city of tue Uuioa © not only endorsed the Schnapps, but adopied teas the only saie and reliable stimulant in their gen ral pras- tice. it is now before the public, eurrounded with . these guarantees, and bearing these unimpesch.ble en- doreeme: md’ I cali upon the community to protest themrelves and me—their own health and my reputa. tion—by frowning down and repudiating the. »ratioul speculators who are peddtng their foul comm d.ties under cover of my trade mark. No article had ever been imported from Holl ind into this market, under the: ame of schnapps, previous to the estabiishment of my manuf sctory at Scoisdam, and the appeasance of Wolfe’s -chiedam Aromatic Sehreppa, in this city, Since that time brandy has advanced im price more than two hundred and Aty per cont abroed;. and as common sense teaches every pg man thet. it cannot be sold ¢ the present retail ra'es, except in a grossly adulterated form, my sebnapps in saper- secing it among the well-informed classes of sosiety ia- every 8 ction of the United States. ‘he grast demand which has thus been created for the genuine article, has set the whole hive of counterfeiters in motion, ead the duty T owe to my customers and friends and the oubiic, compels me from time to time to put them on there guerd sgainst imposition Ladies are Tesn sirete pre a bemrcn nae to. purchase only from réspectableand responsible houses, such as Rushton & Aspinwall, Chomas & Mex ell, Sha-les» H Ring, ond grocers of the sawe oharscter aut stand- ing. They will do well to buy by the bottte or cise, ax adulteration or the substitution of an inferior arcicle is DOLPHO W LI ‘then impossib.e. 18, 20 and 22 Beaver street Being no advocates for driniing at the bars of tavern¢ under any circuntances, we endorse the recommenda- fiom of ar, Wolfe to buy bis article py the bottle, and us guard against the of deception We that he claims the word’ = Schathon,>” cs kis dlatingtire, trade mark. It was certainly first applied in thie convtry to his article, and he is therefore entitied to its exclusi se use.— Sunday Adas. Oct 1. There is justice in the complaints made by Mr. Wolfe, of the ceulers who usurp his trademark of Schnapps’? * as 8 cover for their own articles. He was the firat to in- troduce the pame and has a pre-emption right to it. Be- ing noftiends of berroom drinking, we endorse his recommencation to purchase the “ matic schnapps’? py the case or bottle. , Oct 1, Mr. Wolfe claims, it will be seen from the letter, that baving introduced the name of ‘Schnapps’? in this country, he bas an exclusive right to it. certainly has in if notin Is “ It seems from ‘the f ster ta ise dn > ma) this coun’ Ir. being the case, ha hen nary a right to its exclusive nght.—Dispatch, Oot. 1. Knox's Programme for Fall and Wint:r — - The Preecott House Fastaslishment —Ths snevesa that has attended this branch of Knox's widely koown ant. universally popular bat wareroome of 128 Fuitou street, has induced the proprietor, by a liberal outlay of cai. tal, and the exercise of his best skill and experience, to stcok it with a very extensive assortmentof itlemen’s hate, chiloren’s faney caps, & ; travelling and opera hats, fi riding whips, portman- log teats, carpet bags. travelliog ‘bat coset, toed us, carpet bags travel cases, er with the usual variety that has heretofore characteriza’ it LEMEN —Gent.emen will find in the ue- ten different styles, suitable to all ages and as it is an established rule with Knox to ucoommo- Gate the pecuiierities, whims or wishes of hie customers, whatever they may be, in reference to articles o° host ear, he will mennfacture to order the bell crown of the nglish, the chapesux of the French, the sombre-s of the Spanish, the Turkish turban, the Russian or cha Hungarian cap, or the eeal skin of the Icelander; proud brims and high’ crowns, black hats tipped with white, or the reveree; fur or rilk bats of any size, of any style, of any quality ‘of material, but of the very best quality of manufacture, Give vour order, and it will be ful. Fancy Cars axp Hats ror Cur pew —A very brilliant Aiepley of these beautiful and fashionable articles of children’s costume, imported expretsly for the fall and biked by ag sca pares viene Parician estab menta, awaits jepect: parents, guardians, a, ‘The iaste and elegance of these Mabeied sre beyoad re. Furs.—An attraction for the ladies !—Farly in the month of October the exbibition of rich and ¢ stly furs. will take place. [o gratify the taste of the ladies no expenre has been spared in the procural of this collec- tion, and it embraces every variety of the Russian sable, Budson a, mink martin, stone martin, Canda- martin, fitch martin, Siberia squirrel, chinchilla, as well. as an extensive stock of low priced and inferior fars. Seta = value, range from twenty shillings to iftven Run dred dollars Lapis’ Rinna Hats.—Fquestriennes will find » acsortment or these beautiful fabrics, of n: nd nal designs, the charges for which are very moderate. ‘MiscaiLaNtovs Srock.—Gentlemen are reapes fully in- of the miscellaneous assortment of the Prescott hat establishment, as it contains a great ey, of useful and ornamental such as walk- ing, = of heen pe | styles, ry various sizes, us and carpet bags at all traveling B&¢ oases, do. "Particular atteation will be to branch cf busness, and the sojourners at @ different hotels in the immediate vicinity of Knox’s up town estabhsbment, will find it to their interest to deal thereat, as their wants will be liberally and courte- », attended to. At the lower establishment, No. 128 Fulton ati ap Sey sare stock of hats, caps. fore, umbeo ‘ ., Wi constantly on t equally” pat ge that has heretofore been bestow - ed — Knox, the hatter, has been the unquestionable result of bis strict attention to the details of his exten- sive business, and his successful business efforta, are the: - honorable dealing wi-h- best guarantees of impartial and the public. Residents, as well as visit the city, should not fail to call at eit upper or lower store, wi ey wii an of attractims an < BRAUTIFUL OBsmCES FOR Gr¥Ts.—As the season of gifts and wishes is perennis) with good wishing to make presents will find at Tay notommen the most ite objects in the world for such pur. Porea—the little hats conceivable for Laat children, and the nattiest and ni-est caps ever ex! 4 ed in Broadway for boys; riding hats for young ledies,. walking canes for gentlemen, and whatever the heart may crave as s token of Yon and remembrance. i H i i BF ik ‘ment is eminently ty to be seid is ‘ers well known establishment, on the Wells, Fargo d& Co.'s California, 0: and Sandwich Islands express, 82 Broad: Noxt expresn leaves per steamer Ptar of the We: Nicaragaa, om Wednesiay, October 4, at 3 P.