The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1854, Page 4

Aan eget LD eee emerrmmmanennen “YURK HERALD, ORDON BE MES & AND FULTON ST. seer executed with HOVER TISEMENTS ren id every dey Volume ¥XI se AMUSEME NTS T MORROW EVENING hh strect—Seemanipe. iway—Paret IH kan Youns Actmess, Wrrex or'ene Rayen— mRicaA—CATARINA. t-Davip Correnrietp— Macnern— y~#lven Ano Anour way—Mystic Bet 44 Broadway MIAN PERFORMANCE rk, Sunday, October %9, 1854. The Now News. rion evnore. tt Liverpool on the 19th receive exit OAL ACCIDENT. efophis d-spas 0 teom Srentford, Ca- d that a serioas eat Western rail snoes ate of almost daily sale oe yeevidey w Spore history © Cavedea hapvened teny ® hing, ive mie west of on thé rom m ved above. Toe traia haa teen Te wn 6 by ao ent wo tae mi chipery, od Wer NK came te cvs prev t oe eee & a rapid rate woen The = we ox was fearfol Tue becemolive otd tender of the p seta ty Muews df ine beck, and two of the cam Were smeshed into fragments, A baggage cw wae throws mt. tbe air, acd came yo oa tue top of Ove O ite jaseenger Cane, oF og ood maayliog « uctemooate itimatves Lorribly. very soul ia the © ber cor wan ether kived oatright, or mortally wou ded. lite Dili€ved that forty eigat persone © been filled, amd vret foctyone are oadiy wourced. Our a cunts of the mel.ecboly affair & © very Meay’e, bur we shall no doudt receive fuil erodle Loeey 4 Vilea OCs Dasion. Yesterday af crvoon (oe neighborhood of the Pack | War times ito g eat ¢ meternation by ths ex: | ploaion of vt of wiermal wactine, which some e¥il-dinpow c pers a bad Gepomited im Bacle's Mote. | Toe coptrvaser, a desex *ith aa ae ooct of the whole affsdr, in vr culume cow’ cel, ea i supposed, about twelve pounds of guapowder, ad ies ¢xvlosion tubed be lume rection; tearing & @ wrrbe masner, au! creaiog the utmost coa- sterzacion. Fortunately, at that time but few per- eens! ned to de ln tae room where the explosion tok place, o: ip the rooms tuamediately contigaous é seatners, cheapness, and } tention. Bat | ed ia the | b @ crave! (rato, @ donee fog | cence yeolerday, whither he #as remover gros New York Hospitel by hie wife. Cor gee OD nel, on being notified of the desth ©” girenell, pro ceeded to the house where we by gy gf door ssed Wow lying, and held an inquest * yon o's remiinw The testimony went to show t ja) the man who fired the pistol at decessed Wa } famed Paldy Brattles, Who has not yet, MONCVET, ten arrested. The jury rendered a verdict ID geoordance with the fans clici'cd on the inqu sion, Brattles ix conceales in the neighborhood, ® 44 will, it is hoged, be seen ar- rested, as the Cf cers of the law are close upon bis track. For war,¢ of room we are obliged t> leave out ovr full ‘eport of the inquest until our next immue. NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERWA. We publish in another part of to day’s paper some | waditional items of South American news. The in- telligence ny this mail, however, dose not present | apy feature worthy of especial commen’. We give in addicion some interesting extracts from the jour- nal of Mr. J, A. Talbott, who has recently completed an exploration of the mvers Marmanen a d Amaz™, and their tribotaries. Muh information will be found in them regarding tle iaterior of Peru andthe gold mines of the Amazon, no’ hitherto published. DESTRUCTIVE FIRB. The extensive car house belongirg to the N York and Harlem Railroad, sismated at the coruer of Forty-second street aud Fourth avenue, was de- stroyec by fire last night; several new cera ware consumed, and the losa is estimated to b> up wards of $30,600, Onr telegraphi: despatch from Cieve'sad, Ohio, gives the porticulars of & destructive iire whisu oo cursed there early yesterday morui yg, le volyiog sh? loss of the New England Hotel and ihe -utire square | on the bul where it stood, Moe dons of property is | estinated at over a millon of dollars. Our State Canvass and National Potitica—The Administration Counted Oat. With all the complexities acd perplexities, | the barrassmentsand embarrassmenty, the io- consistent divisions and iveongravus combina- tiens—with ail the rautauk-rous crossfiriog between “woolly heads” and silver graye, be- tween the hards of Stuyvesant Institute and the softs of Tammany Hall—with all the agi- +e acrival ¢, therefore, mo- | tations, the fusions and confusion wich have resulted trom the Nebraska biJl—with all the | haps the fall of Se- inexplicable wravglings which have followed | the division of the spoils, and with all the plot- tings and counterplottings.of parties, factions ard potitical hacketers te supplant each other | —Wwith all the excitements which have been aroused upon the slavery question, the liquor canvass. This ie, indeed, a remarkable thing. The war rages hot aud heavy from Concy Island to Buffalo on the liquor question—whigs, demo- enger train were | crate and outsiders, natives aud foreigners, are rallied on both sides upon this issue a3 paramount to aH others before the people. And there is someth'ng of the same conglo- | meration of the old parties and factions for the Nebraska bill, or against the Nebraska bill, as the great question of the day. And then we have a new, @ysterious ani powerfal, though ephemeral organization, who platform consists of eternal hostility to the election or | *ppointment of foreign born citizens to office, | and to the head and the hierarchy and the re- ligion of the Roman Catholicchurch. And yet, though the administration at Washington has carried the war into Pennsylvania against the ption of whdsh we give, | Know Nothings, and is supposed to be ucani- mously dead set against the Maine Liquor law, and vccupies both sides of the Nebraska bill, and contiaues the spoils in the hands of John Coch- floor ef tee building ia every dt | rane & Co., it is a fact, and the most remarka- saesbing giess sud fixtares ia | ple fact of all in this importaut State canvass, that neither the President nor his Cabinet, nor their measures of domestic and foreign policy, nor their merits or demerits, have anything to it; bat those who were there received more or | @OFe to do with the real business of this elec- jee injury, and one was so seriously bart es to ren- | tiou than the administration of Jobo Tyler. In der it expedient to take him to the hospital, where he now lies in ex sruciating agonie ). hort ofa a word, al! parties consider the present execu- It seems little | tive establishment at Washington as practically cle that the building was not com | defunct. It has been tried, condemned and sen- pletely demolished. The inmates of the hotel were | tenced already, and it is ignored by all parties, ¥ course in the greases: alarm, aud several of the | dronped by common consent, and counted out. ladies endeavored to precipitate themselves from the upper windows to the pavement. The police were quickly on the ground, and restored order. MURDE s+ ON SHITBOARD. In snother column will be found ap accoun! of suppored brutal murder of a sallur named Sweeney, who was beaten to death and thrown overboard by some of his messmates on board the ship Excelsior, while she was lying on the stream off the Battery, and his Cabinet be preparatory to her sailing for Liverpool. Oae of the sappoeed murderere has been arrested, and is locked | York. and by the Know Notbinye ? up in the Tombs, awaiting tbe conclusion of the fn- | Vestigetion. MORTALITY OF THE CITY. According to the «fficiai report of the City Io- spector there were 478 deathe in this city during ihe past week, 269 of these being children under ten years of age. Taere were 24 deaths of cholera, an increase of two on the previous week; 20 of jiore Lold it to be @ “fixed fact’ dysentery; 26 of diarrhea; 6 of inflammation o the bowels; 45 of consumption; 19 of congestion of the brain; 14 of dropay in the bead; 25 of inflam- thation of the lange; 10 of typhus fe 12 of in- flammation of the braiz; 16 of cooler infaatum; 2 of cholera morbue of convulsions; 9 of croup; & of booing cong; and 92 of marasmus. 52 cases of stil!bora and 9 premstare births are reported. There were three cesthe from casualties, two from dreewning, one from stabbing, four from fracwres: and one frow polsoe. Toe inmates of che pab le dn-ti uvons are toecably exempt from dissase, ba for'y-vine desine Soviog occurred im them daring the werk. The y table gives 230 vel rogiag tw the Uni to letlaod, 46 ty Germany 11 to & 4 amor 4iViged among aif OPRESPON DENCE som p em! of oor xian from the Ka-opran advertionm ute and V* compelled oF to bow om. Altioagh not a over forwor Sauday's pal ways copcar | 2» the views o° our Correspoadenss, we give them »! cor si ment to our readers, 'o omer that they muy craw ve irown coactadons fom the dtr nodes of prewatiog (hy sem facta which # heruselvee tthe micds of tae ters, accord t i ft voto ewoy & more » state of to contrcl the political s-o'i Gents. THE WHET COAST OF wRKIC We publish ekewhere em geoce from Agaculo rez, fo a eories of ehirmiahes, bas again government troops, bat, owing t» the apoea cholera, after taking Yatla aad lestroying lu fications, he fell back oa Pr sons Oar ponde:t aleo sends asthe official corresa) relative to the amseat of Caot. H. Stocker, brs er o ceepatches, from which it will be seen tia Der man, Urited States Covaal at Acapalco, de great credit for bis decision in the premis correspmidence giver the whole history of the alfa read with in’erest. © Tule end will bs A VICTIM OP ROWDYISM. Jacob 4, Mitchell, who war shot in Weet Booal- day worntag by ome row.ties thet hw # ered his hone, No. 1 anthocy atreet, for the ied peipier ve otal’ go vidi atan.”y a Woy isthis? Has nos the administration over two years of its official term still remaining? Has it not a teained band of officeholders and orgaus from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grade, aud a ready majority, for one more session, at least, in both houses of Congresa, to cock it? Why, then, should Gen. Pierce overshadowed by the question in the great State of New Simply becaure the administration is of no farther we tw auybody except the spoilsmea hold. ing the wpoile, All the Stste elections of the jast twelve months have rendered the same verdict; and einee the more recent judgments of Temeylvania, Ohio aod Iodiasa, all parties that Pierce | ond bis Cauinet aad Kitebea Cabinet are doac for— tha; they have only now to close up their bocks and fall beck loto the retirement of Mar- da Van Boren, And hence, by common con- sent, they are counted out. If, therefore, by au extraordinary coujuac- tn of ant+Maiwe Jaw forces apon Governor Seywear, that geotieman should be re-elected, it will be Ge mere a victory for General Pierce triumpu for Captain Tyler. It wl be w result eebleved utterly regardless of the edmirietrarion. If Daoiel Ultmao, by onuerial coaceatratioa of Kaow Nothings of @) parties Lo bis support, should successfully sam the gauntlet, it will be sothiog more than » Keow Nothing triampb resulting from the cisorgenizing policy of the administration. If ronson should be elected, it will not be upon oe merits of Bie quarrel with Guthrie, for (uthric aed bie master are among the dead woes of the day. The lection of Clark and ‘be triomph of the Seward disunion coalition if aebleved, will be due t the administration; for to whet other cause than this can our present abolition coalition be attributed. Bat, we repeat, that while the exi:ting demoraliza- tea ame@og our political parties is the work of Pierce and bie Cabloet, they have nothing more to do with the practical basiness of the ehetica, ard the schemes of the various parties to the Geld, then the Cabinet of John Tyler. We never have had before an administration k down to this meavure of general con- tempt; for it gets no thanks from acy party, from the Seward coalitios, which is So be liquer on 6% s no even under so many obligations of gratitade. #, thes Ec rorran Views or rae Awnaicas Drrrona- rie Cononees tn Barorwu.—Some people will | be surprised to learn that the last oumber of Blachwood's Magazine, which |» the organ of the old tory protectionist aristocracy of Eag , in favor of the sale of Caba t States. Simultaneously with this siogular symptom of altered views ntaine @ ple the United tad # the organs of the present etatdns oc Gteat Beitala w leas empha we a one ot question ard the Know Nothings—and notwitb- | , by wich | Stancing the fact that there are several momen- tous schemes on fiot for the Presidency, the | os Friday | adwivistration at Washington does not enter | Chatham, | into the merits of this must extraordinary State ‘vot tall a very signifeunt allusion to the sane ntject. The write does not ay, in so many worts that be inks our acquisition of Ciba would be sathieetory to Engiasd; bat as mack tuay be inferred from the tone in which the subject ic mentioned. We heard, rome time ago, that the views of the Emperor Napoleon had uwfergene a material change since the proposal of the tripartite alilance; and, alto- gether, matters really look as though the mari- time Powers of Europe were going to withdraw trom the unauthorized and very foolish pegition they then assumed, This is the point towards which the govern- ments of Europe have been long tending: w are glad to see that the first step is being mute at last. Our relations with Burope lie in the smallest kind of putebell. With thelr dynastic equabbies avd internal convulsions we have no more to do than they with our domertic poll- tics. They have their cootinent with which we seck pot to meddle; we have ours in which we will vot brook a rival On some parts of this Jast coutinent they have set ements end territories: as expansion is our obvious tendency, we are ready to avail ourselves of every opportunity that offers for teeir acquisition, This ix our aim, pot trom apy foolish deti:e for aygraa- dizement, as European publicists suppose ; for we levy by tiibute, exact uo taxes from the ter- si'ory we aves; but Leean e we see that peace Stke test safeguard of prosperity, «wt un- yivailed strength the best security for peace. We pave maney t spare 3 they wre coasantiy in fins: cial difficulties. Hence we infer that it will be to their interest and to vurs t) exchange tuch an interchange was first proposed in re- | erence to Cuba, Spain was indignant, England nd France bristled up> They view the mater different)y now; audit is by no means impoasi- | , ble that the negotiation on the subject may b | renewed ere long, the initiative in the matter | being taken by them. Hence it is, no doubt, that so much interest | ie displayed by England and France with re- | gard to the progosed congress of Americag | diplomatists. Cuba will unquestionably be a | sulject of frequent discussion by tuat body. We tear, however, that if any very sangnine an- | ticipations are entertained with regard to the appointment. With the exception of Mr Buchanan, and perhaps one other, our diploma- tic agents in Europe are utterly untit to coa- | duct avy important negotiation. Part fools, / and past hais-braired demagognes, they are | sure, if they undertake anything of the kind, jo | aifird the dipiomatists of Earope a fine oppor- tunity for displaying their superior skiil, and to bring discredit upoa their country, Funcy Mr. Soulé attempting to negotiate with the goverpments whose enemy he has pro- claimed bimeelf, or with the statesmen be has studied to insult, Fancy Mx Belmont who: before his appointment never calculate: avything but per centages and commissions, sitting down to decide what the national honor of the United States requires, Conceive Mr. Spence presiding over a diplomatic coun- cil; Mr. O'Sullivan corresponding with a government which he has in time of peace tried to subvert; or apy ot the other nonenti- ries amoug the Pierce vominees engaging iu a uiplomatic contest with the fist talents of Ea Tope, There is shame and sorrow—nothiag el:e, depend upon it—in store for us, in tre wemb of this diplomatic congress of ours, Some fresh San Juan perbaps; or possibly some new edition of the democratic rhodomontades which one or two of our citizens have been rea- dering themselves ridioulous by writing aud publirhing in Eorope. What will be the end of all this? What should we gay if the Frepch mioister M. de Sartiges were to behave here as M. Soulé has done in Spain, and harbor in his house conspi- rators against our government? What if Mr. Barclay here in New York were to request us to grant him the favor of allowing him to abuse republicanism once or twice @ month in our columns over his own signature? Would not every man cry shame? Yet not louder than we ehould now, at the aspect of what our rep- resentatives cre doing abroad. Banks 1n Connection wits Savixes Bayks— Loox Snarp.—It has been wisely provided by law that those useful institutions (when pro- perly conducted), called Savings Banks, shall make no investments of their deposits except in federal and State stocks, bonds and mort- gages; and that they shall be in no way con- nected with the business of loaning, discounting and shaving money. These provisions of )aw are supposed to be observed by all our savings banks; and yet a general suspicion prevails that many of them are but the decoy ducks of certain banks of discount. There is, at all events, a striking coincidence in the names of the following banks and savings banks, to wit:— The St. Nichovas Bank—tho St, Nicbclas taviogs Bank. The Empire City Bank—the Renpire City Savings Bank. ‘The Broadway Bank—the Broadway Savings Bank. The Eighth avenue Bark—ihe Eighth Avenue Savings Bank The Kulekerbocker Bank—the Keickerbocker Savings Bapk. Tre Irving Bank—the Irving Sevines Bank, &e., &e. And as if to confirm the public suspicion that others of these double-headed banks rest upon a single body of operators, the late failure of the Eighth Avenue Bank and the Knickerbocker Bank carried the Eighth Avenue Savings Bank and the Knickerbocker Savings Bank down with them. The natural deductions trom these facts are that a bavk and a savings bank, established in the same locality, with the same name, and at the seme time, are very likely a copart- nership for ewindling the public, the savings bank being the Peter Funk, and the baok the Jeremy Diddler of the association. The bank, perhaps, without sufficient active capital of its own, depends for its supplies upon the savings bank--the deposits of hard working men, women and children, laborers, book- folders, servant girls, apprentices, and so forth, ® few dollars now and then, but mostly a few shillings, or sixpences, or pennies at o time, being put into the savings bank for safe keep- ing, and sapposed there to be safe under the sacred guardianship of the laws, But in the aggregate these deposits of shillings, sixpences and pennies, msy amount to fifty or a hundred thousand dollars, too large a som for Peter Funk tosuffer to remain idle. And so the fands are transferred from the Swindle-’em Savings Bank to the Swindle-’em Bank, and when the jatter has issued as many of its bills as possible, it conveniently explodes, the bank and the savinge bank collapsing together, the poor depositors being left to pocket their losses, and the besatiful fraud to which they have been sab- jected, with what philoeophy they can. We do not mean to eny that all the above + bees backs wer. slate. upoasuch principles, some of the money against their colonies, Whe. | results of its labors, they cannot but ead indis- | we Go say thut these are the satural infer- ; {eine enoet suggested froma the otherwise extraordina- ty coincidence of a bank and a savings bank of the same name, and in the same locality, ex | ploding together. Such conclusions, of course, involve & breach of faith, the obtaining of money wpon false pretences, wholesate swin- dling under cover of chartered rights, and the gromest frauds upon the poor especially, and | the public generally, under the flimsy disguise of legitimate protective financial operatioas. And yet to such conclusions we are naturally | driven when the chain of facts will justify no | other. | The Chambere street, the Bowery, the Green- wich, the Seamen’s Savings Banks, and doubt- jews some others, are, we believe, free from any speculative connection with any regu. jar or irregular banke, and may be trusted by depositore. But we should hesitate upen | @ deposit, for example, in the Peter Funk | Savings Book with the Peter Funk Bank in the same neighborhood. Miss Esmerelda | Fitzherbert the bookfolder, and Bridget the | chembermaid, and Mary the cook, and Pat the porter, and Hans Von Heidelspruck the ' day laborer, will do well to remember these things. Tus Higrato ww rue Sanpwicu Isanps.—It ix with profound regret and dism2y that we per- ceive that this journal has fallen under the displeasure of the angnst House 0” Noodles ot the Sandwich Islands. On the 4b of | Augurt last, a member of thar exalted body, ! rejoicing in the mame of Kahalekula, moved vhet— | Whereas it has been published In a newspaper the New York Higa, of the Sth of Jane | despatches had been recived by ington from Mr. Gregg, the comin 3 stating that the King of the Sandwich Islands had opp ed to him for immediate annexation to the United States, upon the ground of (rouble with England and France, therefore— lved, That the Speaker inquire of the Minister of ign Relations whether said report is true, and if hat was the trouble with England and France } reduced his Majesty to so extreme a measure, and the Minister did not report thereon in his last an- report. Upon this another gentleman with the less formidable though still unusual name of Mai- kai, proposed to refer the matter to the Commit- tee of Foreign Relations, and the tumult among the Sandwich Islanders subsided. We have carefully perused the debates from this period up to the time the ma‘! left, bat we do not fiad the fate of the motion, or the report of the com- | mittee mentioned. We see that a select com- mittee, instructed to draw up an‘address t) the people on their rights, begged to be excused, which shows that the 4th of July sort of feeling is not developed there yet: also that a diepate about the appropriation bill took place with the Nobles; also that un attempt was made to com- pel the King to prorogne the House, but was defeated by an adverse vote from the foliowing gentlemen, viz:— =~ Messrs. Kaauwai, Kahalekulu, Kalama, Kamaibele- kave, Kamakau, Kaumaea, Lokomigikai, Maikai, Moku, Nahakuelua, Naone, Vil, Fapaulai4. But of the fate of the “ newspaper called the New York Heratp” we find no hint. We trust that the House will look into the matter thor- oughly, aed-when they find that we have done nothing but tell the truth, will tara,their wrath from our head to:that of their own get Ma. Betuonr Rurorwev-We sre informed that our Charge to the Hague has not been s0 decp in financial operations since he went to Europe as he used to be bere, or as was gene- rally believed he had been.in Holland. He says himself that beyond depositing enough meney at his banker’s to pay his expenses, ‘which money was drawa as well from his salary as from his private fortune ’—he has had nothing to do with banks, finance, or stock jobbing. We are delighted to hear it. A Charge d’Affaires whose head is full of opera- tions of finance cannot attend to the basiness of his country ; and if Mr. Belmont has made up his mind to let stocks and loans alone, it will be all the better for the United States. He will then have time to attend to the case of Captain Gibson, who is sadly in want «f some of that money which the Dutch authori- ties ought to have given him long ago. He will also be enabled to devote due care and at- tention to the other concerns of his embassy ; which popular ramour asserts were not bene- fitted by the absence of our Charge in Paris. Mr. Belmont must remember that the prompt settlement of Captain Gibson’s case, and a closer attendance at his post, would have ren- dered eny personal denial of the charges brought against him perfectly unnecessary ; and would have been the best answer to his assail- ants. Curtositmes or Porirics—The lion lying down with the lamb is nothing to what we see now-a-days from the politicians. A short while | ago, the hard shells were furious with the ad- ministration for having anything to do with free soilers, They said—these pure and unde- filed national democrats—that a free soiler was a man to be shunned, proscribed, hooted out of political society ; and that Franklin Pierce, by permittiog the appointment of a few sach men to office, had forfeited all claim to popular rea- pect and confidence. On this ground—which was on the whole a very safe and solid sort of ground to go upon—the national democrats made a fair show during the first year of Pierce’s administration. Matters bave now hanged. Bronson, it is true, is still in action, his flag nailed to the mast ; but when we come negrer home and look at our municipal elec- ions, what do we find? Augustus Schell, the hard par excellence, declining a nomination for Mayor from Stuyvesant Institute, and with- drawing to make room for the ardent free soiler and Saratoga seceder— Wilson G. Hunt. Read his letter. We may next expect that Mr. Bronson will decline to run and endorse over his party to Myron H. Clark ; or that Mr. Sey- mour may agree to make way in his party for some notorious wholesale temperance man. Principles are nowhere; no one cares a rush for such old fashioned rococo lumber. Notices of New Publications. Jzrrenson’s Courrers Worxs.— Riker, Thorne & Co.have just published the sixth and seventh volumes of this admirable edition of Jefferson’s works. The sixth volume contains his correspon- dence from 1811 to 1816, and comprises letters to Jobn Adams, Jobn Jacob Astor, General Dearborn, Albert Gallatin, Gensral Kusciusko, Madame de Stael, snd Baron Hamboldt. An extract from one of his letters tu the latter shows what a clear and comprehensive view his mind took of the fature des:inies of the American continent. Under date of December 6, 1813, he writes:— The livraison of your astronomical observations, and the sixti and seventh on the subject of New pain, with the corresponding atlases, are duly received, as had been the preceding copies. For these treasures of a learning so interesting to us, accept my sinere thanks. I think it most fortunate our travels in these countries were so timed as to e them known to the world in the moment they were about to become actors on its stage. That they will throw olf their European opendence I have no doubt, but in what kind of go- yernment their revolution will end 1am not so certain, , L believe, furnishes no example of a priest-rid- i free civil government. This of ignorance, of which igions leaders ‘will always . ATAU buemivlies fos thes owm paryow, = tbe . - of New Spain to the United States, and) consequent intercourse, may furnish schools | for the higher and example for the lower classes of their citizens. ind Mexico, when we learn from you that men | of science are not wanting, may revolutionize itself ua- | dler bettur auspices than the Southern proviness. Those last, I fear, must end in military despotisms. ‘The | different castes of their inhabitants, their mutual la- | treds and jealousies, the'r profound ignorance and bigot- ry, Will be played off by peoming leaders, and each be | made the instrument of enslaving the others. But of all this you can best juage, for, in truth, we have little | Knowledge of them to he depended om bat through you. Hut in whatever governments they end, they will be American govermments, no longer to be favolved in the | never-ceasing broils of Europe. The European nations | constitute a separate division of the globe ; their lozal - ! ties make them part of of a distinet system: they have a | | got of interests of their own, in which it is our business never to engage ourselves. ‘America has a hemisphere to herself. It must have its separate system of interests, which must not be subordinate to those of Europe. | | | Tre sevents volume embraces h's correspondence | , from 1816 to 1826, and contains also the first por- | tion of hia oficial papers, consisting of his re vorts , | and opinions while Secretary of S:ate. Thay will be read ith interest, as illustrating the wide szope | and versatility of his mental powers. i Purnam’s Monraty.—Tpe November number of | this enterprising periodical coutsins some articles | of sterting interest. That entitled “the First Dis- | coverezs of America,” although founded oa facts | | familior te most historical etudents, will be iastra- | mental in dispe ling some populs: errors. “Ram: | ples over the Realms of Verba and Subatautives” | fous ap interesting chapter for tioze wo take an ivterest in philolozic#l yesearcbes, The article on | “American Wises’? comes most opportiaely at time when the fanati ism of the temperance spostl-a | bas saccotded ia leading men’s m'ots astray from | the rea! 1¢-ues Savolved ia the ebstinen 2 movemeae | dhewasy ot ac opera smper beings befurs us doe pities avd] ecentricitivs of seyers' oF Te GU Io ites eho have fignred with'y to last | ohaif century. The gia lic pictoves of Sp a Lite, entitled ‘Cosas de Espeha,” are continued ia ts present number, a8 |s also Melville’s interéstiag sory | {Israel Potter.” The article on © meri ‘an {)-3 potisms” belds ug t e mirror to c nvestional blim {ges in our own social framework, wiich we would do well to examine before we expend to9 muc’ criti: ca) bile upom the defective ina‘itatisns of other c untries, “The Causes and Copsequen:es of the Reseian War” is an article conceived in a thorough- ly impartia) spirit, and confirms the views tha: we have alsays taken of the ipfluer ce which the great Solavi> race is destined to exercise over the Eastern hemiephere. We have no space fo» lengthened ex- tracts, but the conclusions of the writer may be summed up in the following psragraph:— It is clear to our minds that Russia, is destined to be, perhaps for centuries, one of the great Powers of the world. Indeed, it is evident, .we think, that her power will increase until she will be by far the strongest coun- try, not only in Europe, but in the Old World, She is naw very powerful—in fact, unconquerable. The Tar- tars, the Turks, the Poles, the Swedes, and the French, ‘with the “greatest captain of twelve centuries’’ at their ead, ) all failed to cunquer her. And yet Russia, save in'the last instance, was nothing in ‘comparison with what she is nu Broadway Thentre—Closing” Night of the * Opera Season. Great as has beon the success which has attended every effort of the new English opera troupe at this theatre since the’ commencement of their brief en- gagement, their culminating triumph was fitly reserved for the closing night of their performances. Auber’s beautiful opera of the ‘Crown, Diamonds’’ would in it- self at any time have drawn a crowded audience; but the attraction wasenhauced by the fact of its being pro- duced for the benefit of Miss Louisa Pyne—a vocalist who we can say, without being accused of exaggeration, has attained more popularity here in a short period than’ any ginger who has ever preceded her on the English lyrical stage. It is long since a scene of such genuine and well merited enthusiasm has been witnessed at any ‘of our theatres. At-an early hour ali thé avenues to'the house were crowded, and a6 soon as the doors wore open- ed, every seat in it-was filled. As soon as the fair bengficiaire made pgp: Anas on the stage, she Yas greeted with s cordial burst of applause that told how much the feelings of the audience were: interested in her favor. Encouraged by the enthusiasm manifested, she exerted all her enexgies to the utmost, and achieved a success. in the role of Cata- the other vocalists who have preceded her in the same part. Not the least cements of her success were the playfulness and dramatic force which she infused into the role, and the dignity and majesty which, in despite of her petite figure, ske displayed on assuming her queenly attitude. Few seeing her in this part could fail ot being struck with the marked resemblance which she bears to Queen Victoria—aided as the likeness was by a studied similarity of costume. The opera was beautifully put upon the stage, ani the choruses, as usual, betrayed evidence of careful discipline. Our space will not permit us to dwell upon the various passages of the piece in which Miss Pyne displayed her powers to most advantage. Sulilee it to say that the part, from beginning to end, was ex- quisitely rendered, and that it was admirably sup- ported by Messrs. Harrison and Borrani. The finale, in which Miss Pyne introduced Rodde’s celebrated varia- tions, was one of the most extraordinary efforts of vocal- ization that it has ever been our good fortune to hear. It drew down a perfect tempest of applause, the entire audience rising from their seats and waving hats and handkerchiefs, whilst the occupants of the upper tier greeted the fair singer with three rounds of cheers. Not satisfied with encoring this laborious effort, and on its repetition demonstrating the same boisterous enthusi- asm, Miss Pyne was twice called forward after the fall- ing of the curtain, to receive renewed tributes of their admiration. She appeared greatly moved by this unex- pected and most gratifying testimony to her merits, which is the more flattering to her from the little effort that had been made by the management to anticipate the public judgment. After the opera, the members of Dodworth’s band completed the ovations of the evening, by giving the fair Deneficiaire a serenade at her residence in Fourth street. ‘The Oyster Panic. The following note from Dr. Chilton, will tend to allay the excitement and anxiety of oyster eaters:— The unusual excitement which now prevails against the use of oysters, as an article of food, has led me to make a careful inves tion of the subject, with a view of determining if possible, by a cliemical examin- ation or otherwise, whet ina, that throws into the shade the squvenirs of all | Edw there ‘is or is not reason to | Van Buren, Cutt i Loss of the Steamer Arctic. MEBTING OF THE BAR IN REFERENCE TO THE SUPPOSED L033 OV FOUR MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. A meting of the mem!ers of the bar was called for yester’ay, at one o’elock, to give some suitable expres- sion of their feelings respecting the certain loss of one of its members, Mr. Woodruif, and the apprehension of the fearful death of three others, by the calamity which has Vefalien the steamship Avetie. Cwing to the insufficient publication of the fiotice for the meeting the attendance was miserably small; for, © had it been generally Wnown, there are few men in the prefession who would not have attended to pay their respects tothe memory of so many valuable members of the New York bar az are supposed to have perished in thin great disaster. Among the few gentlemen present were Messrs. John. | Van Buren, B. F. Butler, L. B. Shepard, District Attor- ney, Hiram Ketcham, Benj. Galbraith, Fancher, Burrell, Dodge, Varnum, &e. ‘There was no member of the judiciary present. Op motion of Mr. Dodge, Benj. F. Butler, Esy., was called to the chair. Mr. KxTcuem moved that Messrs. Dodge and Varnum be requested to act as secretovies, and then made brief re- marks in relation to the losy of the Sretic, “It was a dis- aster which had been attended with the death of one of the members of the New Yori: bar, and the probable loss of three others. He alluded to Mr, Woodruif, whose cath was rendered certain by the testimony of Captain Luce. After passing one night and part of a day on a paddle-box, in the mlist of the ocean, he was relieved | from his sufferings; but that death which was a relief to him, caused anguish to his wife, his childven apd his numerous friends. It had brought sorrow to his bre- thren of the bar, who him favorably to be an amiable gentleman and a very intelligent Liwyer. In Ferpect to the other geutlemen, although there appeared to be very little grows Sor hope, yet he would not up the hope of sceing them sgain. ‘The time, therefore, for taking any action in vegard to them he ‘lid not be: lieve had yet come, Tx convection with this melancholy subject, one flew aug iteelf to lfm, which le had ince rj crated in one of the resolutions, it seemed to him that ii they should ev called upon to act upon the 1 intelligence of the loss of all their brethren of the- 1 profession, they could hardly pass over the disaster | liad been attewied with such melancholy comse- } He cousileved it desirable that » committee | should be aypointed, with inatruetions to report upon | the cause of the disaster, Mr. Ketchum, at tie conclu- | sion of his remarks, reat tite following resolutions:— Resolved, That this mceting have received with deep | regret the’ tidings of the death of one of their highly ) esteemed brethren, Samuel M, Woodruff, Exq., on the 28th day of September last, at sea, from’ the wreck of the steamer Arctic. | Resolved, That we warmly sympathize with the family and personal friends of the wi d pes al friends of the decea: and will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That a copy of the dbove resolutions, au the officers of the meeting, be sut to the | thenticated by | family of the d ; | aaiteralved, That in view of the probable Joss of our | brethren, Kdward Sandford, Abner Benedict, and Henry Austin Brady, Esqrs., a committee of five ‘members of the Rar be appointed to ascertain, if possible, the fate these mn, and report to a future meeting of the Bar, to be called by the committee, and that said commitive have power to fill vacancies in their m . Resolved, That if said committee should ascertain that | the-gentlanen named in the last resolution, thea; are lost, they be instructed to report their opinion ces. | upon the disaster which caused the loss of our esteemed . brethren, if in their judgment justice to the me of the ond for the conservative of law, require it. Mr. Kercuum moved the adoption of these resolutions, and the anno that they were open to dis- cussion. asked, was it the pleasure of the meeting to. take up the resolutions together or separately? Mr. SanxaY—Separately. The first resolution was then: ited on motion of Mr. Sanxay. he Chsirmain, (Mr. B. F. ) then said that he had the pleasure of the acquaintance of Mr. We when he resided in the city of Albany. He had learned then to esteem him as a gentleman of the strictest. integrity, and “as an industrious, and alt ho then but in the commencement of his career, @ most successful lawyer. I hive also had, he continued, the pleasure of his acquaintance during his residence in this city, and the promise of his youth was falfilled im the career of his manhood. He was not often, perhape, brought before the public in the exciting debates of bar; he rather preferred the unostentatious, but the equally useful and important labors of the office, and in. these labors, as well as in every other department of the me in ban mo assumed to act, he was always aan to his clients amd equafto the duties he under- too! F last, wee ted. ‘were bers of the legal pies Tem! duty ef the bar’ to" exces the y ex, Pee Bier character of Edward continued, i soeiogion. We yeaa contin a |. We know intelleet were found, Edward Sandford was ‘anas- sociate; where benevolence was to be found, ard Bando We have seen im in bi oaity aa in advocate; and who anx 1e members has failed to admire his ability? We have seon him in the character of a yelunteer, wiffto was, tobe imposed upon the unfortunate, and we have seen him. es their protector. We have seen him in every Eapaclty in which a gentleman of the legal be Sieree to datogets Inver the high chasestee aeitaat oes, ree to le s cl feesion. "We have soon him in all capacitics of life; and who having seen him can fail to express the rogret ‘that the commpunity rust fect in lie loss? In rogard to Mr. position who A and Woodruff, a gentleman who held a high at the bar, it becomes others more intimately acqua'nted with him tham I am to speak. Of Mr. Benedict, my acquaint- ance with him enables moe.to say that, as an honest adorn highly honorable man, perha) no superior: smong the members of the New York bar. ar ir. VARNUM le a few brief remarks, expressing hope that Mr. Sandford and the others who were thought to be lost had been saved. . Mr. Joun Van BuRey opposed the last resolution, which he regarded as entirely out of place in connection. with the others. The meeting had been called for purpose of expressing their regret at ke loss which ther ir of New York had sustained by the recent disaster, and not to investigate the cause of it. Mr. Saxxay also opposed the resolution. Mr. Donax hoped that it would not pass. The District. Attorney had the matter in charge, and the proper thing for them to do was to furnish whatever informa- tion they might obtain in a legal way. Mr. Kxtonum, in reply, he sae that the cause of thit calamity should be scrutini to the Inst thread. He did not know, though it seemed to be assumed, that cen- sure would fall on any one; if ft did so Bay the members of the bar would have an opportunity of being heard in opposition to it. But it should be scrutinized. He knew this, and every member of the communit knew it, that tn the noonday, in a calm sea, and with four hours to prepare for the ‘i calamity, not a woman—not & child—not a man out of the four members of their profession, had been saved. & com- mittee of the members of the bar be appointed to invea- tigate the cause of this disaster, which has shed such a gloom upon their profession ‘and upon the whole commu- nity. 3 Me. H. 8. Dopagr hoy his learned friend would act upon the suggestion of Mr. Van Buren, and withdraw the last resolution for the present. ANOTHER GENTLEMAN thought it desirable that an in- vestigation should be made, to inquire whether it was by culpability, imbecility, or misfortune the fate of the Arctic was oc Mr. Jr., moved that the last of the series of resol be laid upon the table. ed. The Chairman then named the fe wake as members of fee a acgaie . Ketchvm, Wood, a suppose pd any peculiarity exists in those now On motion, the and Secretaries were added Faas seen btained dey eachiiod ak |" he Cs ed. ‘or purpose I ol @ quantity of eac! meet ned. principal kinds, and have submitted them to numerous ae oe chemieal and microscopical tests, but have not detected TELEGRAPHIC. anything whatever unusual in them. I therefore feel no hesitation in stating it as my belief, that the oysters now brought fresh to our ta, and sold by the res- ta Ts, are as innocent and wholesome an ar- icle of food now, a# at any other season. It in not an unusual cireumstance that oysters and other shell fish, when eaten after having been kept long during the warm season, will produce sestous Hineas resembling cholera, but no such ill effect would be likely to arise when they are received fresh from our waters, JAMES R. CHILTON, M. D., New York, Oct. 28, 1854, Chemist. [From the Washington Sentinel, Oct. 28.) OYETERS—THE CAUSE OF DISBASB. Ever since the oyster season commenced, we have heard of cases of severe, and in instances of fatal tickness, that were attributed to them. Knowing that there was a tendency to cholera and kindred disorders, we were rather disposed to attribute the sick- ners to that prevalent tendency, than to any particular kind of food. There is no more wholesome or delightful food than and most persons who have once eaten can detect such as are unsound. But the mi wey] far and wire, that the oysters of yd feason have something particu- larly poisonous in them, and the general concurrence in this opinion is pretty strong evidence of its correctness. In this city it vere sickness and by a that had all the ordinary indications of sou In Baltimore, Alexandria, and Ge the same com, its. We have heart oystermen that they are not ed drought, — phn glad = the result now everywhere, has been brought about by the spell, Whilst the dealers fe oysters oust fopes benty yet ithe it be doubted that many casos of se. olesome after a losses by the general abandonment of this food. better that their revenues should be al than sickness and death should i} in the community. We would, therefore, earnestly advise against any indul- gence in this food for the present, Supertor Present, all the Ji N8—OCT, 28,—-, A. vs. Charles Ger- Bad an et Term. Decision ding.—Orde ; Biwara ve. Joseph J. West.—Report set aside, new trial ordered—costs to abide event. ine bap vs. Claudius Dord.—Judgment affirmed with costs, Samuel vy. Hudson River Railroad Company. —Judgment affirmed with costs. The Mayor de. vs. Peter .—Onlers of Spe- cial term affirmed, with costes. } Marcus L. Beirne vs. Joshua Lippencot! —jaigment affirmed, with costs. Nicholas Cottrelt ve. Henry Conklin.—New trial grant. | ed on terms. | William Edgar ve. Denald Dannerman. ~ Ju lgment 4 PiisuNd, Wika ousie, i THE FATE OF YOUNG HOLLAND, ‘Wasntnatox, Oct. 28, 1854. The Globe contains a short and interesting letter from Mr. Dorian, the third officer of the Arctic, to Mr. Hol- land, the father of young Holland. Marine Affairs. ‘THe sTeaMsuir Batic, Captain Comstock, sailsd at noom yesterday for Liverpool with sixty-five passengers. Rewanp oF Mentt—PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO Cart. Isaac Lupiow, oF tae Bark Moymovrs.—The agent of Lloyds, London, yesterday hung up on the bul- letin of the Merchants’ Exchange splendidly prepared hind of diploma to Capt. Isaac Ludlow, in a neat gilt: frame. It reads about as follows:— Presented to Capt. Isaae Ludlow, of the American bark Monmouth, for the rescue of the crew and [rents of sydney, New the ship Meridian, bound from to South Wales, wrecked on Amasterdam I Augast 24, 1863. (Signed) THOMAS BARKING, Prodident . Grorar , Secretary. Tar Wreck or Tur Brio ADELE, AND Loss or Exon Lives.—We have already published the fact of the brig that several deaths have beon cansed Adele, of and from Philadelphia for St. Kitts, having being | een fallen in with abandoned. The following particu- ‘town, we hear | lars of the disaster, detailing the loss of all on board but, ‘rom experienced | one seaman, is given by @ correspondent of the Commer- protract- | cial Advértiser -— apparent The night coming on, Gistinct knocks, as if a torso He instantly took a large plese ‘it being dark atthe time,) and three times baleerne of his own eeead and late could the same noise as he heard before. At o’elock night he came close to the wreck immediately by Touro, in Philadelp! « striking on its head, which made Prien heard. ‘Touro stated Maton the gust the brig Adele, Senn sailed from Philadel- Kitts, phia with a cargo for ving on board ning persone, ined ® young man as passenger; that on the 8d of ‘they encountered a terrifie hurri+ cane which lneted eightern hours; that both masts wera GArTInS pay close Wo the deok, WAS yards, eails, rigging,