The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1854, Page 4

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The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o’clock. The New Yore Wxaxiy Hera, California edition, sentaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o’clock in the morning. Bingle copies sixpence. Agents will please send in thelr orders a8 early as possibio, Tne New THE KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION. The delegates from the different lodges or chap. tere of this Order met in convention at Odd Fel- lows’ Hall, in this city, yesterday. The proceed: ings of this body—an account of which we publish im ancther column—wil! create a prodigious in- terest throughout the State. The plan of the pol’- tieal campaign is now complete—tue line of battle fs formed—the ¢kirm'shing preparatory to the grand charge in November will now begin. Greene C. Bronson ond Elijah Ford, the gudernatorin) wominces of the national democrats, are pr § ferred by the Kuow Nothings to Ciark ana temperance bitters Raymcnd. Appropos of this singular Order, it would seem that a simultaneous movement in its beheif has taken place in various places. Following close upon the bold announve: ment of Senator Clayton, we find Anson Barlii+ game, an arden’ free soiler, nominated for Con- grees in the Fitth district of Massachusetts by th® Kuow Nothings; Edmund Burke, of New Hamp shire, bidding “God speed to the accomplish ment of its ends’ in an eluborate article in his journal on the principles of the Order; and Brown- gon, the Roman Catholic, repeating his attacks on the Ge: mans and the naturalization laws. Heve i. cartainly a curious combination of autaconisms fra ternizing on tke Clayton platform. STATE PRISON INVESTIC ATION. Onr correspondent ut Albany farnishes us som important intelligence relative to the discoveri 6 made by the commissioners appointed to examice into the financial condition of the State priss fn the course of their investigations at Sing & the commissioners discovered that the prison a‘ ‘that place isin debt about two handred thousand dollars, This deficit will have +o be made good by the Legislature. The testimony, which has beeu placed in the possession of Governor Seymour, im plicates the princi a! officers of the prison, and the commirsioners have recommended the removal of ~the Inepector. No action, however, his yet beea taken on the ,subject, and it is not probable that any will be taken un‘il after the election. It will be recoliected that Governor Seymour, during the last session of the Legislature, vetoed the bill In. stituting the board of inquiry, but a constitutional majority of toth houses enacted the law, notwitt. standing the objections. The Governor's position in this matter is a delicate one, and is o2en to mis construction. THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Onur accounts of the progress of the insurgents in the northern departments of Mexico are very con- fiicting. On the one band i: is stated that the re- volutionista have taken possession of several impor tant towns in New Leon, including Monterey, tle stronghold which General Taylor found it so dif- oult 10 capture; and on the other band it is reported ‘aay private letters received at New Orleans that the rebels have been dispersed. The probability, how- ever, is that the popular cause is making consider able progress, although the material aid rendered to Santa Anna by our governmont may enable hin to protract the struggle. NEWS FROM TEXAS. Along the Rio Grande the depredationa of the savages continue, but the six recently levied com panies of rargers called out by Gov. Jones will no @onbt soon teach the Indians some sala‘a-y lesson. The storm along the coast proves to have been more isastrous to human life and property than was at first supposed. AFFAIRS IN THE CITY. * The State Fair attracted a fair attendance of visi- ters yesterday afternoou, the weather having cleared =p sufficiently to allow pedestrians to reach Hamil- ‘ton square, the place of exhibition, without incorring the annoyance of muddy walking. The Board of Education held its usual semi- snonthly meeting last evening, but no business of ‘any importance was transacted. Our report of the proceedings is crowded out. ‘The Board of Councilmen transacted business yes- ‘terday afternoon, but nothing of general interest transpired. ‘The second session of the Provincial Council of ‘the Roman Catholic church was held yesterday morning in the Cathedral, Mott street. The Right Rev. Dr. Timon, of Baffalo, preached the sermon, a report of which, together with a description of the fateresting ceremonies, may be found in another part of to-day’s paper. STATE OF THY MARKET. The market for flour yesterday wa: more act ve without any change of moment in prives. A large lot of prime white Genesee wheat brought #1 87 per wusbel. Corn was dull, with moderate sales at 740. a 75c. for sound Western mixed. Cotton was irm. * HE DRY GOODS TRADE. From the general drift of the coaversation at the @uction rooms yesterday, it was apparent that all igh priced goods, of rich aud desirable styles, s2li quickly, and at very fall prices—which proves that money is more abundant than many persons suppos, or that consumers are not disposed to reliaquish their extravagant modes of living. Messrs. Haggerty, Jones & Co. held a large sale. ‘The catalogue included about 1,000 pieces of velvet and tapestry Brussels carpets, manufactured by the New England Worsted Company, at Troy. The as!c drew @ good company, and a'l went off with good spirit, the prices being fully eqnal to th» best of the geason for similar styles of goods, The sale a's: comprised other goods, which went at about the ama] rates. ‘ Messrs, Van Wyck, Kobhe & Townsend held a yarge salo of Prench goods. It wos a'tntod bys eee ae ee Very £008 - gn@ spirited company, xv] proved ove of the fees" , of the xeason. The catalogue oomorlsed £96 lotr | 5)] of wbich were aold, and a large prmber Gul sates, The beaviret line consisted of desirable *Y! ¢8 of ribbons acd silks, with rich millinery goods, Ve ivet triwm ngs, &c. The prices obtalaed fully * mstained the better feeling sad im>rovement for the rich seasonable styles of goods previously noticed. We would call the at‘ention of the trade toa large special and peremptory ssle of ribbons and mili- nery goods, of the im; ortation of Messrs Bevkard & Hutton, to be made today by Messrs. Van Wyck, Kobbe & Townsend. The catalogue wili contain 1,200 :artkonsct assor'ed ribbons. Mevers. Wilmerdings & Moont held @ ca alogue | sole ef assortid dry goods, which inc uded a con- | tiderable line of linen goods that were so'd at avout the usual prices The better qualities of seasonable | gcods sold at some improvement. THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL HOMICIDE. The Cowtof Oyer and Term ner was yesterday occupied n the trial of Robert M. G-abam, charged with the murder of Major Coarles Loring at the St. Nicholas Hotel, B:cadway, on the 2d of Augast last. The ferenoon was consumed in completing th- list of jurors, about which there was so much d fficulty on the previous day. The jury was, however, com- pleted, counsel on both sides a reeing to admit a joror who had been rejectei on Tuesday. Loreuzo B. Shepard, Esq., District Attorney, opened the case for the prosecution by @ lucid statement of the facts which he would be able to prove in evidence. Two wituesses were examined in full, and the testi- mory of Mrs. Loring was takenin part. The ‘case will probably occupy the court for the remainder of the week. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. The National Democratic Judicial Convention met last evening, and nominated candidates for Surrogate, City Judge, Recorder, and District At- torney. The proceedings of the convention are given elsewhere. NON-ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMERS. The steamships due from Europe have not arrived. Both the srctic and the Canada are behind their time, and we may, therefore, expect their arrival at any moment, The Whigs and the Presidency—Seward and the Abvhtion Coailtisn-Clayton and tne Know Nothings. : The loose materials of the late Northera whig party are shaping themselves into two new and distinct political organizations. The first is the Holy An‘i-Slayery Alliance of the Norsh, as put in motion a: the several hybrid coalition whig conventions ai Saratoga Syracuse and Auburn, with Clark as the kite and Raymond as the tail. Of this kite-fying coalition William H, Seward holds the striog, and by the year 1856 expects to sweep with it the whole circuit of the Northern States. The second of these new organizations from the de- éris ot the whig party is that mysterious, ca- balistic, ethnological and ecclesiastical confra ternity, the Know Nothings, a title significant of the dreadful mystery and secresy and unity of their operations, It Is evideat that this par- ty count upon nothing less than the absolute control of our next Presidential canvass; and from their correspondence with Hon. John M Clayton, which we published yesterday, it is also manifest that they are casting out their feclers for the available man. Assuming that they have found him, and that the two new Northern parties organized from the disbanded forces of the old whig camp, are fairly in for it, we are already blest with two enirics for the scrub race for the next Presiden- cy, to wit:— Northern whig anti-slavery coalition candi date—William H. Seward. Know Nothing candidate—John M. Clayton. The next question that arises is, which ot these aspirants for the sweepstakes occupies the inside track? Seward is backed up by a most formidable conglomeration of incongrui- ties. Abolitionists and free soilers proper, Seward whig free soilera, Van Buren Buffalo free soilers, Fillmore silver grays, Castle Gar- den Websterian Union Safety Committee men, Maine law men, moderate drinkers, hard drink- ers, natives, adopted citizens, stiff Protestants, tigid Catholics, white men, black men, land re- formers, canal men, Fourierites, spiritual rap- pers, quack philanthropists, infidels and diviner, women’s rights women, and fagitive slaves, form an aggregation of harmonious element‘; which is hard to beat. Such are the woof and the filling of the Seward anti-s'avery coalition party, and the Syracuse platform has been built to accommodate them all. Let this or- ganization of rags and tags and fag ends, as thus commenced, be consummated throughout the Northern States, and with the agitation of no more slave States, and no more slave terri tory, in connection with Cuba, St. Domin, { Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, and the re-au- nexation of Canada, and what may we not ex- pect? Like Satan of old, Seward, if not su- perseded by Benton, or Van Buren, or some other available, will— In form and gesture proudly eminent, loom up like a tower, and Sewardism may sweep athwart the afflicted North like a con- suming fire. Such a combination, with such results, could ony lead speedily to the disastrous contingen- cies of dieunion and civil war—a war of sec- tions, of brethren, and of races, reducing the North to anarchy, famine and plunder, and wasting the South by fire and sword. The Saratoga, Syracuee and Auburn coali- tion have set out in this direction, under the pilotage of our arch-agitator, “ drums beating and colors flying;”” but the Know Nothings and their champion, Clayton, stand in their way. The platform of this secret order is anti. American—their principles are hostile to the Declaration of Independence, the spirit of the fundamental law, and the genius of our institu- tions, Yet, singular as is the fact, the Know Nothings and their champion, John M. Clayton, constitute at this moment the insurmountable barrier against the triumph of the disunion Seward programme in the Presidential cam- paign. We may get a taste of this in our No vember election—we may discover the drift of the tide, perhaps, in the results of the October elections in Pennsylvanis, Ohio and Indiana. In any event, the Know Nu things have declared war against W. H. Seward, and their forces, like his own, being drawn mainly from the original whig camp, his plans are diamantled in the outset. John M. Clayton, with the Know Nothing vete of the North, will reduce the Seward alli- ance toasecondary coalition of mercenar Its regular troops will be drawn off, and it will, be left in the outside position of the Builalo party of 1848, The principles of the Kaow Nothings being limited to potitical action against foreigners by birth and Catholics in religion, are applicable to the whole Union, The order exists througbout the Union, and is, we venture to say, more powerful in the Sout» than in the North. As the Know Nothing candidate, tucre- fore, Mr. Clayton will probably be the most available mon for the Southern whigs in 1856. Saould there be a national convention, he mey thas hecome their national nominee, upoa a - the identical glatform which General compelled to repadiate in 1852. Bat while the prerent position of Cluyton and the Know Notbings veotraliz-s te poivos of Se earcism, bis nomivation for the Presidency by the aa- tional whigs as the champioa of the Know Nothings, would completely block the game of Seward for the rueceesion. It will be a glorious result, if, between the @ eunion coa ition of Seward, on the one hand, | ano the anti-American party of Clay oo on the other, a new conservative nat onal Union party, Upon a new and honest p'atfurm, shoud s ip in between the con+pirators, and win the cay. Perhaps we may come o that yet. Perhaps aot. We have at least astar ing point. From the ruins of the late whig party two new organizations | have sprung into lie; asd (each upon o totally diffrent platform,) William H. Seward and John M. Clayton are in the field. Tux Lecture Season.—The season is now at hand when peripatetic humbug in the | person of the ineran lecturer makes its periodical visitations to the towns and villages of the Union, diffusing borrowed lights and plagiarised rhetoric in ex bange for tne more sterling metal of its gaping dupes, The literary pretenders who make out of the small capital required for this cailing a profitable livelihood differ but little from the thimble- Tiggers and professors of legerdemain who figure on the improvised platforms of country fairs, except, perhaps, that the latter are the emartest fellows of the two, and require for their avocations a combination of talents that we vainly look for in the dull pedlars of the fruits of other men’s brains. In the hypocriti- cal aspirations after moral excellence, which form the prevailing characteristic of the present age, and which but too frequently serve asa con- venient cloak for profligacy and rascality, the witty and ingenious saltimbanque is gradually giving place to the prosy retailer of ethical pla- titudes, whose influence upon hie auditors is but too generally that of the poppy and mandra- gora. The more is the pity. We have neither grown wiser nor more moral by the exchange. The truth is, we are losing all our gayety and sense of enjoyment with ut approaching any nesrer to our ideal. How could it well be otherwise? The cen- tury in which we live may be said to be em- phatically one of false gods and false prophets. We are fast losing sight of the pure and simp.e doctrines taught by Christianity—adapted as they are to the conditions of our being—in order to strain after a perfectabi!!ty which our nature will not admit of. We abandon the practical and the possible for the wildest ubstractions that the perversion of the human intellect can suggest, and we glorify ourselves upon the fancied progress which society is making. When we come, however, to analyse the results, we are compelled to acknowledge the humiliating truth that our fathers’ sons are but little more advanced in the scale of social perfection than their progenitors. It is this straining after the visionary and unreal which throws s0 many quacks and pre- tenders to the surface of society. It is this admiration of new theories and new systems of philosophy, tending rather to create fresh delu- sions than to destroy the old ones, that renders the masses such ready victims to itinerant literary charlatans, who, whilst pretending to instruct and enlighten them, are only in fact leading them into more grievous errors. We have always looked upon the lecture system, as at present practised, as a means of profes- sional livelihood, with distrust and suspi- cion. The men who pursue it are, in general, but imperfectly educated for their task, and are animated rather by a thirst for gain than the love of truth. It is in the very eccentricity and extravagance of their ideas, rather than in a conscientious endeavor to guide the minds of ‘heir hearers to practical ‘and Christian-like aims, that they hope to reap a rich harvest from their labors, Their mission is, therefore, evil in its fruits, however innocent it may be in ite intentions. To the efforts of such men may be attributed most of the pernicious and dangerous eocial errors that have led to so many divisions an: heartburnings in the bosoms of families, that have induced women to abandon the sacre? duties of home in order to parade themse! unblushingly upon the platforms of public cuu troversy, and that have engendered discord and bloodshed wherever the seed of their religious or political fallacies has been sown. With these opinions, it is not to be wondered at that we should regard the profession of the itinerant lecturer with but little favor, and that we should take every opportunity of en- deavoring to neutralise the influence which he is gradually obtaining over the masses. As long as the instruction sought to be diffased through this medium is dispensed by a class of men—themselves but imperfectly informed, and but in too many instances animated by purely mercenary ipfluences—we cannot view their labors in any other light than as a mis- chievous interference with those legitimate in- struments of progress which seek rather to ele- vate and strengthen than to dazzle and confuse the mind. Gey. Watprince’s Decirvatioy.—-It will ape pear from the following card that Gen. Wal- bridge positively declines again being a candi- date for Congress :— TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN KLECTORS OF THE THIBD CONGRESSIONAL, DISTRICT. : Friends and fellow citizent—Business its of ‘8 priva'e chayacter render it imperative on me not to a!- Jow the use of my name as a candidate in the a; eh: ing political canvass. “Grateful to you for past and re peated kindnenses, in the walks private life I shall cout coping 300 UNE Seas at can w) we are r an Whose ecatinued preservation is Ideatieal with the con- tinued prosperity of the American people. Rai WALBRIDGE. Invixe Horse, Nsw Yorn, Oct. 8, 1854. Having been, in part, responsible for his elec- tion, we cannot let the occasion pass without declaring our concurrence in the general opinion that this gentleman has proved himself a useful and worthy member of Congress, conducting himself publicly and privately at Washiogton asa man respecting his position, his constitu- ents, and himself, and attentively watching the public interests. We shall expect him and his hard shell colleagues to keep a sharp eye upon the railroad land jobbers and the Cabinet spoils- men at the coming session. Tue Last Trick oF THE Free Sorers.—The abolition organs in this city have recently given publication to a letter from Ilinois to a Southern journal, in which a s'rong prospect of the introduction of slavery into Illinois is held out, and Southerners are warmly urged to migrate thither with a view to effect such a re- form in the constitution ef the State. The ob- ject of the letter would not be as transparent asit ishad it not contained a pishy sentence calling upon Southern men to “let Kansas and Nebraska go.” Thie explains the whole. Ab Oe aa DT Pe mS ene Re Seott was | societies of fre men who went from Mussacha- fette 10 Kanea. find that the Westero men aod Soutberners are pouring ia ag rapidly os them- eclves; and thet when the matter coars to the vote, the cb nces are that +lavery m y bo-es- tubliched there afwr all, Hence the “tub to tbe whale” ip the shape of the invitatioa to “seform” Tiinxs We do not know what the views of the people of tnat State may be on the subject of slave labor. It is possible that ia | certain Joc lities it might answer better thin free. But as a woole—setting aside all qaes- tion of the constitutionality of the establist- ment of slavery in a Sta e where it has beea expressly prohibited by the ordinance of 1787, and te subsequent State corstitutioa—we have no evidence to show that Illinois is dis- satisfied with ber present system. The letter isa snare: et the South beware of it. The Literary World. WHAT BOOKS ARB READ IN THIS COUNTRY. Notbing more eurprses the intel'igent foreigner than the universal diffusion of books throogaoutall this coua- try. Mr. Tremapheese, indeed, and some otver English travellers, have ‘aken it upon thamse'ves to emesr at tne quality of that intellectual food which forms the staple of our consumption; but those saptious gentlemen know very little of the su'ject, as in a few sentences we shall covclusively show. Instead of being » profitable mar- ket for “trash in yellow covers’? only, as has been fre: quently alleged, the United States every year prodase and find a market for twice as many copies of tne great standard antbors of England as*the British Empire it- self. ‘the sale of the works of Edmund Barke has been very large bere from the start. The readers of Burke are apt to be persons who are fond of good editions, and this country bas, therefore, been chiefly relied upon by the Englian publishers of his writings; but besides the great pumber of sets that have been imported, and the seve ral letter press editions of them prin'ed ia America, two very complete stereotype editions have appeared; one the splendid Boston edition, in nine large octavos, and the other, known as the standard library edition, in New York, from which probably not less than 20,000 copies have been taken, and circulated in ton and country in all the States and Territories. Of Burke’s complete works it {s safe to estimate the number of sets sold in the United states at 75,000, whilv of his Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, and some other writings, there have been printed twice that number. Anew stereo, type edition, more complete than auy which as hither. to appeared in England, is now in preparation in Boston, and will be embraced in eight compact and elegant volumes. ‘the great British historians of the last age, Hume, Gibbon and Robertson, are all familiar as household words in every town of the republic. Wedo not know how frequently Hame has bsen stereotyped, but there are at this time four, if not five, seta of plates for the History of England in constant use in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, from each of which more copies of this incomparable writer of English history are dit- fused than in the same period find a market in his own country. There must be more than 100,000 copies of Home ard Hume and Smollet in the United tates. Of Gibbon’s immortal work there aro now two good sets of plates in New York, one in Boston, and one in Ciacin- nati—the latter mort creditable to the printers of that western city; and thee have been at least half a dozen other editions in the United States; ao that, exclusive of importations, the number of copies of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire at this moment in the hands of American citizens, is more than 100,000—« larger number than ever issued from the British press. Of Robertson’ histories large numbers have been sold among us; but notwithstancing the attractiveness cf their style, and the fact that his, best production is a history of our own centinent, probably they have not kept up in the market with those of Hume and Gibbon. Of the later English historians, Roscoe, Lingard, Tar- ner, Mackintoh, Southey, Hallam, Mills, Napier, Mahon, Arnold, Stephen, Corlyle, Allison and Macaulay, there are good stereotype editions—of Napier two, and of Macaulay rival isaues in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The entire circulation of Macaulay’s History in the United States has been estimated at more than 250,900 copies—ten times as many as ever were published in his own counfry. Of the leading German and French historians of the Jast and the present century—of Von Muller, Xotteck, Niebuhr, Von Raumer, Guizot, Thiers, Thierny, Lamar- tine, &e , &c.—we have ample and well printe 1 editions Of the greater theological and philosophical writers of Fogland, we have also abundant reproductions, which are in such dewand that they are sources of immense profits to the publishers, Of what is called polite literature—of the posts, essay: ists, and xovelists of the better classes—the British press does not furnish nearly half the nnmber of copies which are usually sold in the Unitel States. To say nothing of Addison, Johnson, Gold- smith, and their contemporaries ; and Hazlett, McIntosh, Macaulay, Talfourd, Stephen, Jeffrey, Wilson, Carlyle, De Quincy,'and the rest of the brilliant esssyists of the last“ gener-tion; and fcott, Bulwer, James, and the other most popular novelists, we produce and sell in this country three times as many copies of her most es- teemed poets as find purchasers in the British empire. This last fact is extraordinary , considering how con. stantly {t is alleged that we area utilitarian, uaima- ginative and prosaic ng\ion. To such an extent do our people road the, old dramatists, which in England are found only in the libraries of the mst highly educated classes, specially addicted to lteratare, that full one- hauf of the editions published by Moxon were acid ia the American market, and all have now Ben Jonson, singer and Ford, Beaumont and Fletcher, and half a dozen others, in immense double-colamned octavos, from a single Boston house, which is going forward with the whole cirele of greater British dramatists, in a style of typography quite equal to that of the best Loadon impressions, andat halt their cout. The first stereotype edition ever published of Shake- pere,was issued from the press of Munr:e & Francis atout haifa century ago, ia Boston, an it was disclosed, upon ® recent investigation of the subject, that there have since been made not less than forty-seven nets of stereotypes of Shakspere, in Boston, Nev York and Philadelyhia, from which not leas than half» millicn copics must have been printed. This is twice as large a number as ever was sold in England since the great bard gave them to the world. Two new editions are now in progress—that of +Mr. Hudson, of which about one-half the volumes are already issued, ‘ana the splendid quarto of Martin & Johnson, whioh is being published with costly embellishments, in numbers. Besides these republications, on s scale so extraordi- nary, the British printers of the best classes of works in all departments of literature end learning, look with a confidence which in justified by every year’s experience, for the sale of from twenty to filty per sent of their most costly editions in the American markets. Bohn’s inom parable libraries, the most choicely selected and excel- lently printed, as well as the cheapest fruits of the Eag lish press in cur day, have as large a sale in the United States aa in Great Britain, notwithstanding duties and the competition of our own manufacturers. ‘These facts are interesting and very important. They indieate the education of the mind and hearts of thenew generation, and show that besides all our own means of higher civilization and culture, we are before the most polished nations of the world in the use of thelr roapec. tive intellectual riches, The Turf. The trotting mateh between Ed. Eddy end Highland Maid wan again postponed yesterday on account of the weather, It will come off to-day at two o'clock. A match for $2,000 will be trotted at the Union Course, be- tween Flora Temple and Mac, as econ as the one between Rddy nd Highland Maid is over, Hiram Woodruff having to drive ineach race. The first match will be on the Centzeville Course. hss proved most unpropitious for our State Agricultural Exhibition, but as to use a vulgar saying, « bad be. ginning cften makes a good ending, it is to be hoped that doring the remainder of the week there will be no further discouragement from this cause. Wet weather is a greater damper to ¢xhibitions of (his rort than to almost avy other, as the extensive area of ground which they occupy puts all {dea of shelter from @ roof out of qrestion. ‘The Connecticut State Agricultural Exhibition opens 02 the 10th, ana from what we have learned is likely to prove more than nsnally interesting and attractive, ‘The New Eny)and Exaibidion of Horses commences oa he 17th, at Brattleboro, Vermont, ander the auspices of tle New Ergland Agricultaral ogiety. There are eleven clorses of prrminme, varying n amount from ten to bree hundred dollars, the latter being, aa usual, for the Tho | vert horses for speed. AGRICULTURE 4ND THE A&TS. | Secon® Diy of tre Sate rreir—Pine Weathor | ard a Pine Smewescenes In sod anaat Yerterday was the seoond day of the exhi Bsmilt v square, and ve are happy to rocord the fact that during the afterncoa the managers vere mele hapoy by Dright skies, plossant brerxes, and a crowd of viniters ‘There requisites for the sucoe # of the fair put a diferent appearance on ail things abeut mamilton square, where thi g wae dull, wet ond,heavy on Tuesday. All was e | Dustle, excitement, novelty and variety on Wedoesdey. At about two o'clock, the scene was one of uoustal aod peculiar beauty The ground is on agentle elevatioa, 80 that it wes veryguichly drained ana dried The Third and Fourth avenue cars came up loaded wita expectant crowds. kiegant turs-outs, end pretty faocy wagons Gashed up to theextrances The V+rious poin's of intec- est in the exhibition Were s00n surrouaded by knots of visiterr, and, as if by magic, the formerly desertes vil. | Wege became quite a lively little city. And ail on sc- count of a little supsbine, Tne outside speculators, too, bright, a8 shillings and sixyences poured into their hands. The geuteman who shows the very largest bullock in the worid soon succeeded in getting his tent filled with individuals from the rural districts —Camp Houston” was filled with General Otard’s sol- diers—a gentieman who sold for tw shillings» bottie of some substance ‘warranted to cure turee hacdsed corns in three minutes,” iaformed us that business w: “pretty good, consideriag”—the prop:ietor of the blow- ing machine was about, looking as lively as a cricket— neveral thousand segments of pie disappeared and wut Gown as many throats—nrod the lise of outside booths received several additions, whether valuable or not is a ‘Onatter of taste, Viewed from the highest point of the show ground: the landseape was delicious oue, and worthy the pen- eils of several artists, for we should have one for each department The crowded city seme! just far enough | distant to have its rough edge metiowed to the line of beauty. Between the devse piles of brek and marble was the Crystal Failure, with its nob'e dome and flutter Ing dogs pointing as gaily upwards as the stock went ceadly downwards. The Latting Observatory seem! like @ tall pontine! ever the Palace, while to the est, west and north were spots of rural beauty, here und there dotted with white cottages, the whole set of by the Sate Arsenal in the foreground. This prospest would almost repay us for the mde in a car with sixty or seventy othors, some of whom had consicerable dificulty in getting sts ncing rvom. Within the enclo-nre, the scene was equally interest- ipg The value of the excellant arrangemeats made by the managers of the exhibition now vecame apparent. Although there must have Deen foar thousaad people on the ground at4o clook, there cid not appear to be great cowd. and wo believe thar everybody succeeded in seeing all the irtezesting things that tranapi-ed without deing at all ipcommoded With one or two exceptions, the suverin’endents of the various departments were well up in thetr business, and deserve com mendation for their atientlon to the pmditc, and the Isdigs especially, Occasionally an individual who tunblef into s portion wh-re heisarmed with something like power, bec smes inflsted with an idea of bis own grad topectance to such an extent as to forget everything lee. ‘Tocre are, hovever, but few specitnens of this amusing onima'at Hamilton square. In consequence every thing weat off well The cattle seemed to bear thelr exemination and the various criticisms upon them with quiet aignity and patience— the sheep and swine were duly stirred up and their pointe displayed—the fowls cackled avd the turkeys in dulged in their peculiar voeal arrangements; the horaes trotted, kicked, neighed, snorted and pawed after the usual style of the noble aninal; the cannolssieurs in blood and bone looked wise and talked mysteriously— unfortunately, people ignorast of breeding, and too mo- dest to pretend to what they dida’t know, admired every- thing; the lacies seemed delighted, and the faces of those persons who were pactioularly interested in the ucoess of the exhibition, were beaming ell over with smi We proceed to detatl a fow particular points in tho ex- hibition, which msy be interesting to the public. Ina report which is neceseariiy hurried , some exhibitor may find that his animal or article Las escaped immortality; but our reporters bave endeavored to make notes of all worthy of record. THE CATTLE. The bulls, cows, steers, heifers, and working oxen, oc- cuppy six or eight rows of pens nearly in the ceatre of the field. It is the most successful featare of the exhi- tion, spd the show of extra stock is very mach larger and fiver than st any previous affair of the kind on this Me of the Atlantic. Within the past five years several public spirited gentlemen have turned their attention to importation of stock. and this exhibition shows that their Iabors have not deen without their reward. Ihe improvement is per ceptible to the dallest comprehension, and ta the com: parison which is almost involantarily instituted by all visiters, the native suffers: Tannin dy and the forei, ner, or rather the child of foreign parents, is admired in the same Fo. it will be noticed in this exhivition, that though the eattle are all well up in flesh, they are not over fat, and do not appear to have been fea up for this oecasion. Mr. Thomes Bell is superintendent of this department, and there are vinety nine entries. Mapy persons bave entered a dozen or more auimals under the somo num ber. We pariicularize a few of the best:— ‘Mr. Thomas Gould showsa fine Durhem ball, three yenrs old. All the good points of this stock appear in this specimen. Mr. Vail, of Dutchess, shows his splendid short horn edTurham, ‘Sir William.’ pedigree’ and all. Sir Wil- lism is a white bull, pure blood, and is in exeslient con- dition—a most tov good. “Young Exeter,” a three years old shown by A.3.& LP. allen. A fini J. B Reed, Rensselaer county, shows s fat ox, weigh: ing 4,000 Ibs. This animal attracted n great deal of tention during his progress through the city. He is ver; large boned and dos not have the heavy aypeatance so josep! an, Washington county, a three year old Durham bull, not exceeded by any ia the show. > Among the other specimens of this clas, we notice the three year old bull, ‘second Lord of Engholine;”” Jearling ball Canada. a two year old short horn, “Mar- imion,’’ owned by T. J. Ayorigg, of Paseaic, New York; a roble white bull, “Grand Luke.” four years old, own ed by J. Wyman Jones. He took the first prize at Sara. toga last year. “Young North tar,”’s fine animal, and North Star, the elder, a great croature,among the bovine species; the bull Ptolemy , with an aristocratic pedigree e thort horn bull Hepry Clay, also fall of blood. Mc. Kiley of this city, sends some fine specimens of short horn stock; No. 25, two fine heifer calves. Mr. Sherwood, of Auburn, has a fino chort horn bull calf, “ied Jacket ”” B &C.. Haines show some fine Durhams. J Spencer, Westchester, has « gocd lot of short horns. The bull Augustus attracted considerable attention fron those posted up in sush matters; also the cows Ester- ville and Phoebe Seventh. William Kelly—The short horn bull Priace Albert, the Daisy, Phoebo Second, ited Lady Marehtones, Prinoses, Kitty, Jessie, and a fine yoke steers, Frank and Pie'oo. Mr. Kelly's fine stock added Muek to the interest of this department. Bungerford & Boodie show the bull Robin Hood—s well known animal, who sustains the prestige of his pedigree ‘Noel J. Becor shows some well looking imported short horns. Lewis G. Morris’s extra and imported stock attracts a great deal of attention. It is from the best blood abroad. Mr_E. G. Fuile shows some fine look ing Devons. The bull Wellington seoms fitly named ‘The show of working oxen is limited in number; we mm however, two or three good yokes. ‘We shall refor to the cattle again. SHEEP. The rheep will be found in one handred ani thirt; eae along psreilel with the Third avenue, ’ is the superintendent of this depsrtmeat, te bout Sve iundred abeep on the grounds We thal are al ive on 5 we : powers Sate to notice them my a prince! breeds are lew Oxfordshire, t! Leicester, the the Silesia, the s. EEE ott i eit Mr. Alexander, of Kentuoky, shows a long- woolled Lei- cester Roy Jonge acd Ibe. This fime looking animal arrived last Friday, In the Hermann, and is » good spe- cimen of his kind. if } i : i : i Mr. Wace, of has five Leicester ewes. ook well har Kaas, of er wena pure Lejoesters, which are admi L. G. Mortia’s fine Southdown will bring tears to the eyes of many eplcures. The fellow looka enough to cat ashe is. This is said to be the best sheep of tne kind in the United states. Mr. Morris also shows some fine ewes of the routhdown stock. Mr. Lownder, of West Lierby, has « pen of good southdowns. id Chadeague, of Sing Sing, shows two peculisrant- mals—Chinese sheep they are called. They have very long wool, but there is not much of it. We now come to some French merinos. This stock is profi’able to the importers, but has got rather unpopular with breeders. Campbell & Chamberlain, of Dutchess county, show Lav ogee and merinos. The Silesias are partiou- rly good. Mr. Kice, of Washington county, shows a noble back, of the New Osfordshire stock. le will shear very heavy. ‘ Halleck & ay) of Ulster, show two Cotswold, impor ed. is stock in popular. The sheep are hard: and shear very profitably. ? a SWINE. There are about two hundred sino on the in no part of the exhivition i# there dts; marked im orover than in these animals, ‘The Suffolk isa favorive breed aboat this time, and Mr. George ‘Wilson, of Maiden, siaes., has one of tee Gnest epectmens of this stock we bave ever sven. His head, legs, and o'hor points, for the critic, how blood snd breeding am’ as be is ia snperior omdition, every- whirg goed in him is well brought out. Mr Of Reventy-necond street, showed some fine nd, aod ed more { ruddenly beeame large breed Liacolnshires; lao, Bers 6 | good | | | | H | | | | | LG. Morris bas some veil Ivoking smell bread Suf> fotks, snd a epirneid trnex called ‘Copsey.’ Ne'9 [ow repo er ould wor sscertaiD ene ewan w x hoor, sed apreare te De the fost sind Oa the ground Kis pyiats oe €osily seen Mr Wa neright, "hinebck, ha: some flo» Bueres, ane )r Walt, of Montgomery. shows some god npeck> mers of the Perksb tock The swive are kept al an, ardobonlt net be overioored ia a tour throagh the abow yrows ds ‘Tbe borsee, the fruits«nd flowers, the voul cy snd me vufsetored articles wi} ba allated to heren? ar. ‘Thay are rot numerons, but make ap in quality waat they luce 1 gow ity To-osy ar te morrow the chiliren of the New York Or; hon asytom. uncer the shurg: of the nee governors, will visit the ehow grouxds py tavit tion or the man= agers We ¢o pot know that the ma lavide 2 ppep the suggestion of extend og the show 4 4+¥ or te beyond the time (Fridey) originslly Axed f bur the exreme imclemeney of ths waeth +r, thos ‘ur prevent-d thousene f'om aiteading, Wy » to affore » sfod re- fon for such o course ve they ray take the snbject ity sunsiderart afford & ogportanity for visiting this resity ia esting exbibitiva. Pires ta Now York, Free iy Wen TREeT—ARREST OF THE OCCUR ANY (dAROR® WITH ARSON —ot near one o’clock on Wedvesdcy morn- ing, 8 Bre was divcovered in a Fr/neb restaurant looxte® im the barement of hous» No. 50 White atree’, ovsnpied by Auguste Paeseron, The azper part of th» house ig ccensies by Mr. Drevet ond family a8 adwelliog Om breaking cpen the basemeot door the fames were ‘ound Ad neem Prat tou os or | to be ascending from bebind the counter used as a kiad ofbar The firemen were soon on the spot, ani siho @ stream of water extinguished the dre before ir extende® be) ond the oasewent ip wuich it originated ‘The Fire sur-hal was sorly at the premises, anc ag 800m os he fre was extinguish-d be made an exmainstion of the basement, and found “bat the fire had origne edb UBC er tue counter, ip two distive: .laces. A voe 2 aket partly courumed ‘sa, feund close by the conater, i@ which itis relieved the fire was kindled, There bid boem fire kiucled ar bot f the Gruster, ‘the contre part of the counter was not burn but werely sco ched trom the best the aopearsace of the b gether with the fect that the occupant hid of $666 on ints stook and faruf:we in the ravee Jompany, when his +to:k at the time of the wre was rot’ worth $300, led to tha suspisoa that br, Paseeron knew something about the origin of the fre. Captain Carven er, of the Fifth wars poli was olso at the fire, and examined the preimises, a ‘rom he suxpictous appesrance of the p.ace, he orasred the sirest of Mr. Passeron on the charge of acttiug him premises on fire, and he was accordingly takvu tuto oe tody on the charge. C Yesterday morniag the prisoner was taten vafcre Justice Usborne, who detained him for examination. The fire Marshal, under the dirsction of the mgratra\ took the evicevc? of neversi witnesses in ths case rid had not concluded up to the tins the Court aJjaurasd. ‘The osse will be continued this torenvon. ‘Ths aamaz> done by the fire will amount to atout $150. Fire ix Converts sraker—Lost ovening at a out sever. o'clock, @ fire broke out in the stable No. 126 Ch:ystie street, near Broome street. kept by Mr. Wm lozgawold asa private stable. At the time the fire was discoverel, there were several hors's in the stable. They were all removed before the fire extenced down to the first floor. ‘The fire was first seon in the third loft amongzt the niy: and before the firemen exiinguished it the flames nad spread throughout the stable; it did not extend doyond, e stable. In the apzer loft Mr. Coggswell h.d twelve sleighs stored; they were valued at over sixty doliara each They were nearly all consumel. Mr Coggs rol. eatimates his lors at about $500. re had no iasarance. The stable is owned by Dr. Van Arnsdale. The origin of t re id not be accounted for any other ray thin: it was the work of an inesnc‘ary. Fins m Warker Sragsr —st eleven o'clock 1.9) night a fire was discovered in the cabinet workshop of 4a. Rocmark, situated at 158 Walker street, Yhe ficenan were soon on the spot snd extinguished the flames bs- fore they extended beyond the floor in which they ori- ginsted We could not Jearn if any insurancs #as on the stock. The damage by fire and water will probasly amount to $160 or $: Captain @rennan was present at the fire with a section of men, and after the fire the- premises were nailed up and secured, under his direction, Brookiyn City Intolligence. ‘THR CASE OF THE Excta® COMMISSIONERS—HAnmas CoRPus.’ —Jobm Cavanagh and Isaac Crampton, the two Excise Commissioners, who were some time since tried and convicted of misdemeanor in granting lieenses to im- Proper persons, were brought before Judge Dean, of the Supreme Court, yesterday, on writs of habeas oor- pus, and their discharge asked for. Cavanagh was tried in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Crampton in the Court of General Sessions. Their sentence, which wasalke, was imprisonment in the couaty jail foc thirty day fine of $250. The ground vakew by cefender » that the entry of convio- icular offence for which the not sufficiently explicit. The second point ra: that their sentence to the county 5 fl a illegal, as by an ect of the Legislature, possed Deo. 8, 1353, all the courte held in the county of Kinza are required to sen- tence sriminals whose term is not less than thirty day: to the pecitentiaty. It way contended on the part of the people that the Court of Oyer and Tezminer, in wich Cavansgh was tried, was a court of geaeral ju- risdiction, and its judgments could not be imooached. ‘The Judge reserved his decision until this morning, and the prisoners were remanded to jail. AbyITTED To THE Bar.—The following young ventleven were yesterday examined by a Board of Examiners, ap- pointed by the Supreme Coart, and were admtitei a8 « # and counseilors to oractice in any of the oourte of this State:—Riebard H. Tucker, Alex H, dam Lott, Thos. Frean, Cyrus 1. Hall, Thos. F, W. Gearenhaimes, ner, Adri . Proctor, Jersey City News. Bou "mevrs —On Tuesday, while the inbxbitants of Jereey City, especially on the route of the procession, wero intently gazing upon the parade, the {adastrious Togues were on the-slert for pluader. ‘The residence of Mr. ©, Dygert, on the corner of Barrow and sercer streets, was entered by thieves, who sucseeded in carry- ped <u Seieente cSt Ad silver ware @ num. T of pieces of jer r, an in money, as pluader. They ibve ot heen geinated, Db yetrins n Eng fawily, resising in Montgomery street, near Grove vtrest, were also robsed. The thieves, got into their apartments, and by thoroughly ransacking them foun ty sovereigns and $40 in’ silver coin, with which escaped. e or ty th fi Limewuen 8 ‘One or two lighter opera ey Military Affairs, Tax Provinesce Sorpmes —This company of visitera rerted at their headquarters, the Irving House, yester day forencon In the afternoon, at 2 o’closk, they wera escorted by the Light Guard to the Park, whee they ‘Were reviewed by Msyor Westervelt and the Common. sara and by Col. Duryes and officers of the 7th regiment. The lst it ppeare: wounbets, and went ‘guight, Intan eorh pend to themselves. The visiters, from the Pack a ie tay he ing and driehing, together with many patsiols, es” The soldiers feturned home with che afte.noou boat up the Sound A Mnmany Exacrion —At an election held at the City- Guard armory, 639 Broadway, on the evening of Tues- ay, October 3, Col. M. M. Van Beuren, presiding, the following officers were elected, vis:—For first lieuten- ant, L. D. ; second do., Ho: ; third do, ; fourth do., W. ‘or clamation. ‘8 recen: rr, . 0.. Stiwell, as Trem and per ons nea end Mr. Andrew J. ‘Was announced, Sparks has accepted the above : tion, much to the entire satisfaction of every or and member, best of feeling was maintained dn- ting the above election. Mustary Procespmrcs.—At meeting of the Indepen ent Battalion Ryadera’ Grenadiers, held at the Gem, 324 way, on £aturdsy evening, 39th ult., jor Gea" Bat ye eed te on yt Maier ge was 9) % ‘. On motion, Christmas day was selected for the time of” the annual parade of this battalion. The following pro~ gramme for this year’s organization was unarimously Bete adjutant ‘qvictormmaster, commissary, surgeon,. ders? Horse Guards, mounted—Captai was ‘and third Mentenants; four eergeanve peter privates. Rynders’ Artillery—Lieutenant com: grant and twelve men. | Pioneers—Captain om one sergeant and twenty men. First Company Infantry—Captain. first, second and four sergeants and fifty privates ‘Mfecond Com pat pany Infantry—Captain, first, second and third lleutenante: four “ergo tand fifty privates. Non Commissioned Stafl—One sergeant major, one Grom major, two standard bearers, fire color guard: On motion, adjourned to meet at same place Saturday evening, 7th inst , at 734 o'clock. SELLING GROOBRIRS BY FALSE WEIGKT? AND Before Judge Green. Oct. 4 —The Mayor of New York va. Lewis Bermholz.— ‘This action is brought to recover the penalty of $50 for using weights and measures without heviog the same seoled. The pisintiff ‘ale by allen E. Sivers, # de- mt: bg of weigl and measures, that the de- fendant hth tig be- , one ser- one lew 4. next cepa 8 ry store in the tween Fifi and Fifty-fourth . Witneae calied at d it’s store in July last, and asked him to produce the weights and measares used by him tn his sto.e; he produced them, and on inspection we e found est French Chitdren are Provervially dressad, and Paris has brovght out this year the love. Hest bats tor in‘ants and children, of both sexes, that Wen evor beautitied the face of the young. superbly trimmed fabr ca, just opened at 214 Broadway, oyporite St Paul’s chure! ‘Worth Sectog.—The most show of stereorcopio Plotares ever med in "hie cogntry, may be seen a O's gal Broad a eo challenges criticiam. viet Call and nee it GENIN’3, No.