The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1854, Page 4

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The New Youk Wevxry Hsnarp—Califernia edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o'clock this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as po winle. The News. YEE ELECTION. We have received nothing concerning the election # at materially changes the aspect of the canvass. Offical retorns from twenty-six countise have bzen Feteived at the oflive of the Secretary of Sate, and the figuree we have heretofore published reqaire alterstivs only in one instance, that of Madison Soanty, which adds four votes to Ciark’s majocity. Ac.orcing to our information Clazk’s pluratity wil: mot exceed three hundzed; but it may be impossibl- ‘to arrive at ths exact figure until after the 22d inst. Os that day ve Board 0? Stats Canyassers are re qnired by law to meet, bat it may convene at an earlier day, povided all the county canvassers sha!! have resdered their statements. ARREST OF E, THE RIOTER. Oliver Lee, the person charged with the murde- oi Willem H. Harrison, during a riot at Williaus- burg, on election day, was arrested by the police o’ ‘this city yestercay morming. He was coaveyed t Williemabarg. We understand Lee hay adattied th: assault upon Harrison, and has also giren iaforms tim that may lead to further arrests. He is & pow- erfolly built man, about thirty years of age, a na- tive «f county Tyrone, Ireleni, and an Orangemain ROMAN CATHOLIC TROUBLE AT HARTFORD, | Tbe Bisoop of Hartford and bis flock are atenm’- | ty. Yeeterdey asesious contention took place at the cachedra: in that city, ariing from the refusa} ot the Brnop to alow the remains of Father Brady, the furmer pastor of the chure’, and who at the time of his death wie under suzpenaion, to be barl-c fa tke cburcbyaré. The Bisho» and his assistants used thefr utmost exeitions to preveat the fanera! ceremonies, but the people peraiste) and ultimately earried their pot An eceoant of the affzir and © brief ob'ruary wotice of Father Brady are given else. where, trom which it will be seen that be was held jn high esteem by the community in which he bad Jorg and profitably labored. MORTALITY OF THE CITY. ‘There were bu! eats in this city duriag the past veek, according to the official report of th Cit, Ispector, and of this number 204 were under tea Years of age, and 47 inmate; of the public instivations. O7 the whole number 45 diced of consumption, 2 of @holera, 7 of bronchitis, 17 of inflammation of the | ‘Tangs, 10 of diarrhoa, 10 of dysentery, 8 of conges. | tion of the brain, 29 of convaleions, 14 of scarlet | Sever, 13 of maramus, and 30 of dropsival com Plaiats. There were 34 cases of stillborn daring the | week, and 10 deaths from external causes, Ths | Rativity table gives 233 as natives of the United | States, 60 of Ireland, and 38 of Germany. There ‘were no deaths in the Second and Third wards, Ta¥ BRITISH ViRGIN ISLANDS. Tho latest pumb-r of the St. Thomas Times says: —“Onr advices from Tortola state that the new President, Kortright, had arrived at Roadtown, and was already making himeelf very popular among | the peo;le. The two bianches of the Legislature ‘were, however, at variance, owing to some important measures, which bad passed the Lower House, hav: | ing been rejected by the Upger Hoaso, withou: | even a conference. Among the bills passed by the Asembly, we are told, was one doing away entirely wiih the present constitution of the British Virgin Islands, and substituting a new one in lieu; ft was also propored t2 abolish the Representative Assem- bly, and to have in its place a Le:ialative Council. Another of the bills was one repealing ali former ils tending to taxation, daties, &c., and establish: ng a uniform rate of tro and a half por cent on the value of every aiticle of export or home consump- tion; this scale extended to house assessments, boat Hicenses, cattle tax, &@, Owing to the refuse! on the part of the Council to entertain either of thers bills, the House of Acsembly came to the determi mation to suspend all further business pending a @issolu'ion by the Executive. A few of the troops ‘were stili at Tortols. NEWS PROM TURKS L®LAND®. By the arrival of the British rig Ba-o + we bevs ®%s of the Turks Islands Gootte> & Si of November. The Gazel:: of thas dat: .«; the following :— During the last taree or four days the wind hes been blowing very strong from the north- ‘west, compelling the ship T,opic Bird and the barks Byron and Spencer Kirby to discontinue loading, ‘end reck 2 safe anchorage in the Hawk's Nest Har bor, where, from the present apvearances of tas weather, they are likely to be detained for severa da;s longer. Owing t» the boistarons state of the ‘weather only a small quantity of salt had besp ex ported. Latest accounts from Salt Cay state that some salt was etill being raked there. The closiay price for the season reached 30 cents, Export daty half a cent. HEAVY BANK ROBBERY. The Windham Baak, of Windham, Con1., was robbed on the night of the 17th inst. of tweaty-tw thousand dollars. Th’s is the most extensivs depre- sation of this character that hos ozcurred for » Jong time. AFFAIRS IN BRAZIL. ‘Two letters from cor Rio ansico correspon aot will be ‘ound iu anosher colama. Tae anip- ment of coffte forthe United Stavesin the endo September is described as hav ng be:n very large. STATE OF THE MARKE 5, Flour was without change in prices, while owio. to a sisckened domestic and jereign demand, th market was less active. Whoa a6 quiet, wil Indian corn was firm, with free sales at 900. a 91}c. Cotton wa, stuady, with saics of avsut 1,200 baler. ‘Whiskey sold at dic. a 460. Freights to California: ©. ig % the am.]. number o. Cippes. ipa on for LATER PROM HAVANA- By th: arrive of the steamshi» Oshawbs at this port yesterd.y afiernco | we received our asual files of Cuban papers, with som interesting letters from our Havana corresponden's on the latter, pub- lisbed to day, we hav» @ fall report of the latest events occurr pg on th island, which are not of a very exciting characer. General Maczano Calo bad been despatched by the government “toinquire in o the circume:ances’’ connected with the late seizure ot two Americaa schooners at Baracoa. It is still aserrted that the vessele had firearms and guppowder on board, but many believed that they may have been on a voyage to Greytown. However, in the existing state of our relations with Cubs, the fact of their arr.val a Cuba, with such a cargo, caused moch uneasiness to the executive, Nothiag further was known with regard to the recent out- break at Poerto Princ pe. General Cenc.a had entertained at dinner.the newly ap,ointed Minister of the United States to Nicaragua, the late Consul | wwe Pacific, rates advanced sbout five caste por | instantly changed the aspecte of the case, * | font mea urement. | | | | atGreytown, Captain Eagle, of the Ucited States | | steamer Prisoeten, and other officials, A Spanish digest of the las: Mexican news forwarded 0 Cuba reflex -of the prowess of his Imerial Highnses Santa Anna bad on the public. All the circum } is given, from which we can see the effec; which the , ‘There tacts have shown that the Know Nothings are not with the anti-sla' league against the administration, but are inthe field against them both ; that they hold the balance of power | against both, and that their purpose is to su- persede the one and to destro the other. This accoun‘s at once for the violent warfare of the Cabinet organs, and the assaults of the Seward journals against the Know Nothings. The positions of Cobonel Forney and Horace Greeley are perfectly consistent upon this iseue, and are directed against a common political enemy. The prospects are that the adminis- tration and the Seward coalition will be finally wound up together. In view of this ultimatum the Know Nothings promise to render the Am service to the government and to the jon. Tar New Governor axp tHe Liquor Qves- TioN—SEWARD AND THE AssEMBLY.—The cabi- net organ and the little faction of spoilsmen ia this State woich clipgs :o the administration and the spoils, have been congratulating them selves on the re-election -ef Governor Seymour | as an sdministration victory, as far as it goes. stances of the late romantic and extraordinary at- | tempt at suicide are pubiished, with gu imterestiog misceliany of comm:rcia!, theatrical, and persvaa! items. mendous Onslaught upon the Seward Anti Slavery Alliance and the Administration, The newspaper organs of William H. Seward snd his Northern anti-slavery coalition are beginning to discourse of the Know Nothing; and their political tendencies, with few and trembling. They seem to recogaise from the sudden uprising of this unlooked for and formi- | dable organization the supernatural appear- ance of the fingers of a humaa hand trasing the fatal handwriting upon the wall. They already have their misgivings of the overthrow of their leaders, the total rout of his mercana- ries, with the loss of h's camp equipag-, milita- ry chest, baggage wagons, and muaitions of war. They are right. They are already sur- rounded, snd their position is infinitely more perilous shan tbat of the Russians in Sebastopo 5 subjeet to a shower of tweaty-five thousand bomb shells a day. With the unique and as tonishing results of the late election in Massa- chusetts, it needs but little sagacity to perceive that the Seward anti-slavery league is threat- ened with the destructive sweep of a prairie on fire. Hence the well grounded fear and trem- bling of the leading Seward organs. In the honr of their proposed triumph they are destined to be destroyed. The recent State elections have conclusively established the important fact that this new and mysterious political party of the Kuow Nothings hold the balance of power in the country. Indeed, if we may form an estimate of their probable s'rength in the States where their platform has yet to be tried, from the re- sults in the Sta'es where their power has beeu proved, they can commund a large mvjority of the popular vote of the waole Union over all other parties and factions combined. Taa* they will enter the Presidential election as a distinct organization upon their peculiar and sharply defined Americaa principles, there is not a doubt; that they will carry the election, | asan avalanche sweeps the earth, rocks, aud vegetation of centuries, from the monatain side, is, from the present appearances of things, by no means improbable. This will make clean work of all the old rotten parties, and their corrup’ regencies. juntas, and huckstering con- ventions of the last twenty-five years, and place us plump and squarely in a new politica! epoch—new parties, new principles, a new and more positive governmental policy, foreign and domestic, and a new and more harmonious di- rection of the destinies ofthe coantry. But the first and most important resul; o! this spontancous uprising of the Know-Nothings will be the “crushing out’ of the Seward coalition. To go no farther, the Massachusetts election has determined this issue. For twenty years past, the old whig and democratic parties of that State, off and on, hive been pandering to and huckstering for the support of the anti- slavery factions. Of late both whigs and demo- | crate had become so tainted and demoralizoa from ‘these affiliations that the anti-slavery party were counting upon the absorption of both, when the Know-Nothings, like a clap of thunder in the sunshine, in a single blow de- molished them all. Though running into extrem: 8 upon several points, intolerant and impractic- | able, this spontaneous ultra-America. move- ment has in it s:m.thing of the spirit and temper of the revolution of ’76. At all events, it has | the spirit of nationality about it. It is peculiarly conservative upon the slavery question. I+ seems in fact, to ‘‘koow nothing” of the exist- ence ofslavery in the South, and contemptuously ecouts the abolition fanaticism of the North. I: thus adapts itself with equal facility to both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line, and threatens a political revolution in Virginia equal to that effected in Mass chusetts. It is this homogeneous quality of nationality which renders the Know Nothings 9 fe: and terrivle, uot only to the Seward co: fo but to the Cabinet coalition of spoilsmen at Washington. If this new native party has broken up the calculations of Seward in Mas- sachusetts, it has broken down the admiaistra- tion and its adherents in Pennsylvania, Oaio, Michigan, Indiana, and elsewhere. And why not? The programme and principles of Seward” ind the spoils policy of the administration, have worked together to create this new and as- tounding political organization. The adminis- tration has not only inflamed the sensibilities of the natives in its most mischievous fore.gu and domestic appointmenjs, but in attomo'ing to proveitself sounder thf the South upon th» slavery question, it has created an anti-slavery furore in the North which nothiag ba‘ anew party could arrest short of a crusade agains: the South, ending in secession an! disunion For a quarter of a century the anti-slavery elements of she North had been vainly attempr- ing an effective amalgamation; ‘ut at the very time when they were believed to be powerless, and put to rest, the administration cane to their relief, w thout invitation, and without any existing necessity except its own desperate sinking condition. We have seen the results of this revival o the anti-slavery agitation in the late Western elections, and in the Seward Presideatial pro gramme of the piebald c slition Saratoga, Sy- racuse and Auburn conventions. We wer. threatened with an anti--lavery “Northera cra sade against the South in 1856, which, if not intercepted, conld have no otne: termination thon a speedy «nd abrupt dissolution of th: Union. Nothing lesa, Is was the estimate— vothing chort of it, Bat the separate Kuow Nothing ticket in this State, got up at the eleyeata hour, and the resalts ia Massachasette, Inside of this Commonwealth it is no: necessary to say one word in refutation of this stupid a)- surdity; but outside of it we can most posi- | tively assure our readers that practically the ‘The New Party of the Know NothingteTro- | administration had nothing m re to do with the | :e-election of Seymour, if he is re-elected, than the man in the moon. - Tt re-elected, it is upon his veto last year of the Maine Liquor law. If defeated, which now appears to be almost a ‘ fixed fact,” the large vete which he received is due to that veto, aat to that alone. The overruling qnestion was he liquor question. Upon that single issue Seymour went into the canvass, and upon that single issue he comes out of it. Men of all parties whose interests and opinions were hos tile to the despotic espionage and search war- rants of the Maine law, supported Seymour, on | the ground thathe might safely be trasted in | the eveat of another experiment ty fasten it upon the State., And it is doubtless owing to the fact that Ray mond had heartily supported the veto, and had heartily condemned the Miiae law as an unconstitutional pie:e of legislation, that he has been elected Lieutenant Gover- nor. True, he was supported by the tempe- rance party,on account of his more recen‘ pledges; but the anti-Maine law men to some extent supported him, because they were coa- vinced that his pledges were all bosb, and that his arguments in support of the veto were still the real principles of the man. His arguments tor the veto were voluntary—his p'edges for the law were extorted. Both sides may be deceived; but in securing the support of boil: he has been elected. The Seward coalition party are congratulat: ing themselves on the election of sach an over- whelming majority in the Assembly as will se- cure, beyoud all doubt, the triumphant election of their champion to the United States Senate. But they may be too fast in their calculations. Weare somewhat apprehensive that they are doomed to disappointment. We suspact thai the mysterious and terrible Know Nothings have not overlook.d the Assembly aud the great object of sending one of their own order to the Senate in the place of the unprincipled trader for abolition sympathy and foreiga votes. in- decd, we shall not in the least degree be sur- prised should the Know Nothing:, in conjuac tion with the other opposition clements in the Assembly, elect another maa to fill the place o Seward at Washington, much as such a consum- mation would surprise his partizans, and dam- age his estimates fur the tuture. The Know Nothings count upon c irrying the next Presidential election. But what will is avail them without the two houses ot Congress ¢ Notbing; and they are aware of it. We may rely upon it, therefore, that they will make aa effort to fill every vacancy which may in the meantime occur in the Senate. In making the experiment in our own Assembly, it is very likely they will find the materials with which to @o the work. Had they been aware of the astounding popularity of their mysterious pri § ciples, they might have swept this State as wey have swept Massachusett:—Governo, State ticket, Congressmen, Assembly men aad all. As it is, they are, perhaps, much stronger in our Assembly than appears upon the surface They are a mysterious body of men, and very often strike their most decisive and terrible blows when least expected. We admonish the Kitchen Cabinet and their spoilsmen to confine their exultations upon Seymour to the liquor question, and to post- pone their joy for @ few days; for as the caso now stands he is defeated. His veto has ri- elected him, if he is re elected, as we had pre- dicted it would re-elect him, if he could be re- elected. But’after all the figures are against him, and he is most probably defeated. This journal urged him to the veto, under the con- viction that he would be sastained in it by the people, in a fair and square contest, upon that question alone. We have supported him in the veto, and the support of the people has just about as much to do with the support of the administration as the New York Heratp. Our object upon the question of the Governor was the defeat of the Seward coalition. Our object in reference to the Assembly was the defeat of Seward. His partisans claim that he has triumphed by a large majority. We are not so certain. We have our feara of the Know Nothings; and for ali that we know they may have the power, and they may have picked out their man to succeed Seward in the Senate. Who knows? Tae Governor, tHe Texrerance Par- Ty, and THE Liqvor Quvestiox.—Clark is most probably the Governor; and there appears to be less doubt of the tempe- rance Maine law majority in the Assem- bly. We may count, thea, upon the Maine law among the firs: business of the session: upon its passage, its approval by the’Governor, and upon vigorous attempts to enforce it, and earnestand violent resis. ance. Its constitutionality will be tested, and its practical utility. But the work of the temperance party being completed, we shall see what will become of them in the operation of their great scheme of temperance upon compulsion. And we shall sce what their universal panacea is worth. Bat firat of all, we shall see whether the Maine law was o mere humbug in the late election, fur th» bene- fit of Seward, or a soand plank in the whig coa- jition platform. We shall have some fanay an? interesting disclosures in the Legistature upon the subject of this Maine liquor law aad the: late election. Meantime, let all cosc#raed pre pare to shut tip stop. The author of tae bill appears to have lipped in. And he is boand ty sign it,as Raymond is bound to urge it through the Senate, in spite of his opinions of its uncoa- stitutionality. Let all bands prepare for the Alpine liguor low, One Cance of Commercial f gance in Private Life. ! Next to the fool'sh and frandulent schemes of the financiers of Wall street, nothing has so largely cont ibuted to bring about the present distress in the commercial world as the preva | lent extravagance in living. It is notorious | that for several years past, the rates of living among what are called “fashionable people” in New York have been higher than those of | similar classes in any part of the world. For a parallel vo our lavish expenditure in dress, equipages, mansions, eervants, horses and otner | means of display, we must look to one of those abnormal periods which have preceded great convulsion : such as the age of the earlier em- perors at Rome, that of Charles II. in Eogland, or the memorable reigns of Louis XIV. and the Regent in France. Nothing of the kind can be found in periods of staid abiding pros- perity. Indeed, extravagance like ours has so invariably been the precursor of great public dizaster, national calamity, or revolution, that it has come to be mistaken for if not identiied as one of the sure causes of such accidents; and serious men have begun to look upon the sta‘e of thiogs which surrounds us here asa most ominous token of impending danger. Our fore- fathers did not live as we do. Englishmen and Frenchmen, when they come here, view our reckicss expenditure with amazement. Ger- mans never saw the like. Even the prodigal nobles of St. Petersburg confess that few fami- lies in Russia can afford to live on the scale which is only thought suitable for merchants, brekers, and speculators in New York. In comparing the cost of living here with the seme expense elsewhere, allowance must of corse be made for the bigh prices which ar- ticles of necessity command ia New York. When an ordinary dwelling house is worth $1,200 a year, meat eighteen pence a pound, coal $7°50 a ton, flour $11 a barre) and potatoes $1 50 a bushel, while the same articles range from 75 to 50 per cent cheaper in London, Paris and other foreign cities, it is clear that the most economical man cannot live as cheaply here as there. At the same time, it mast be borne in mind that the high prices ruling here are not produced by the meve ordinary laws of supply anddemand. The period of unusual in- flation and reckless speculation through which we have just passed has had far more todo with high prices than any other cause. Speculation enhanced the price of real estate: hence rents rose : this compelled a rise in the value of mer- chandise generally. Sp2culation in building \ lots inflated the price of agricultural land, and hence potatoes, butcher meat and farm produce increased in value. Speculation on the pros- pect of short crops abroad gave a fictitious value to flour. These augmentations in the rates at which articles of prime necessity were sold compelled strikes among laborers and mechanics, and ultimately a permanent rise in the value of Jabor ; which in its turn was re- produced in the envanced cost of articles the produce of industry. Hence, it will be seen, our whole fabric of values, from a hoase ia Fifth avenue to a peck of meal, rests on the fictitious basis of speculation; and is liable at any time, when a reverse comes, to fall to the ground with a crash. No prices can be regarded as safe bat those based exclusively on the pro- portion of supply to demand and demaad to supply. But the extravagance of a large class of the people of New York is quite independent of the unusuel expenses which every individual is fo: the time compelled to incur. Carriages, live- ries, services of plate, splendid mansions in Fifth avenue, are obviously mere luxuries, re- quired of no one in this country, and indulged in by none but those who love display. It isin these follies that the money has been spent which ought now to be supplying the drain from oar banks. The story is remarkably sim- ple, In 1850, ’51 and ’52 moss of our merchants made money: some of them large fortunes. The receipts of gold from California and the prosperous condition of trade throughout the world simulated enterprise and tempted to extravagance. Hence A. B. who had never been master of five thousand dollars in his life before, but now found himself at the head of thirty or forty thousand, instantly bought a house in Fifth avenue, gave a thousapd a piece to his daughters, and commenced high life in a style which it would have required a constant succession of Californian discoveries to sustafn. Neither he nor those who followed his example ever seemed to think that the wind would change or the tide of fortune ebb. The con- sequence is that, now that the evil day has come A. B., hus no savings to withstand it: the money made in the day of pros- perity has gone in a house and gorgeous furniture, splendid silks and rich laces, fat footmen and sleck horses; and A. B., instead of being able to help the banks, is forced to go to them for assistance. Nay more, he has hims.'f by his speculations aided in enhancing the value of the very commodities for which he now finds it so hard to pay: and thus suffers doubly for his folly. For him there is no alternative. ‘When the climax comes, he mast break: aa ia- dulgent society must either enable him, when the speculative mania returns, to play his old game over again, or his family must be beggars for the resi of their lives, In this matter American women are as much to blame as Americau men. We lay the whole blame of the system of living at hotels at the door of the ladies: and assuredly a plan better calculated to encourage extravagance and check habits of frugality and thrift could not be de- vised. There is no man of moderate means who sits down at the Metropolitan or St. Nicho las, avd surveys the splendid array of plate and viands that garnish the table, who oaght not to say to himself: I cannot afford to indulge in auch luxuries. It may not cost more, actaaliy, to occupy a chamber at these hote's than a small plain house up town: but there is a disproportion between the extravagance which meets the eye at every turg in these palaces, and the real means of most of the people who live there which shows that there is something rotten in the system. Idlehess ie the least of the evils that flow from it: habits of luxury, and a distaste for everytoing that savors of economy are others. Lazy winters epent in hotel drawing rooms and fashionable summers at Saratoga or Newport are quite enough to account for the prevailing extravagauce of the mercantile classes at New York. If a few men who occupy a leading position in society here, had the nerve to set their faces against the watering-place system, and refused to allow their daughters to ect the example of wastefulness and prodigality’ ia the country: if others would follow out the idea aircady broached, of voting hovel life unfasbioa- able, and refusing to visit residents at hotels, unless they were strangers; finally, if half a dozen fathers of femilies woul! positively pro- hibit the present expensive style of dress among their daughters, and perforce revive the | economic toilettes of other days or other coun- tries, the change would soon be felt, and fature | convulsions in trade would find us better | Prepared. A Califernian jarrow Escape of Gen, Wool, Senator Weller and Lady. We learn from a private letter toa gentleman of this city that Major General Wool, Sevator Weller and his accomplis!ed lady, with a party of friends, met with an accident lately in California, which bad very nearly proved fatal to all. They had been on pleasure and bosiness tour to the northera boundary of the State, taking « look” at the mining regions generally. We quote from the graphic letter written by one of the party: * * * “We have travelled along the winding banks of riversand | over mountains, sometimes beholding snow far away apon the peaks, wile beneath it was warm summer weather. We saw oak trees many times | larger than any I ever bebeld‘in the East, and tall pises, from a hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, standing in the most beautiful valleys the aua ever shone upon. Two nights we encamped upon the ground, the ladies deeping while the gentlemen kept s look out for wolves and grizzly bears, that roain over the plains. * * * * Six miles from Major Reading's is Fort Reading, where are stationed some two hundred soldiers. Mojor Gen. Wool, who was of our party, went im mediately to the fort, where we were to follow him. Mr. Weller had stared on a bear hunt, so could not accompany us, and so loat the salute of thirteen guns intended for bis reception, but which the gal- lent Genera) gave to Mrs. Weller—certainly a biga compliment to a lady—but doubtless the commander considered her “the better half” of her good lord. Here we partook of cake, wine, grapes, &c. Mean- time two handred Indians were trimming their head. with Jeaves and wild flowers, preparatory to amosiuz uswith their war and fancy dances. These red ntlemen were evidently deligated, as not more ‘han taree or four ad ever seen a white woman, We put up silver quarters against trees tor the bow- men to shoot at, and aitegetaer had qnite a Robin Hood ort of sylvan sport before adjourning to dia ner. Aniwoat think you of this bili of fare at a fort hundreds of miles away from civilizatioa, and away up in the mountains of California? geescocsssescco0c cg cos eR00 ° © A fine roast pig, Roast duck, o © Roast beef, Roast quail, o o Roast mutton, Vegetables‘of allkinds. 0 ° DESSERT. o © Puddings, pies, Jellies, o | © Oranges, grapes, nuts, Blane monge. ° ° ° 08000200000629090000900903900 The officers of this fort are nearly all West Point graduates; most of them had not seen a lady tor eight months, and you may be sure were gallant enough. We bad a grand time, and when we de we were eacorted to Reading’s by a ly guard of one general, one jor, tevo colonels, and four captains. Tce M»jor is a bachelor, aud our pry. of ladies took unceremonious possession of his e bouse, and did the honors as pleased them. [he servants of bis mansion were all educated Iadijans. He bas lived here eleven years, and owns an im- Menge tiact or land highly cultivated. Bat I Maus’ come to our marvellous es:ape, perhaps fr>m madden death. Our party, being large e: to till a stage comfortably, we engaged an extra, over the to which wss thrown an flag. The driver, feeling pread of his load, doubtless, as well as of te banner, drove at a furious rate, in order to reach Nevada by ie It wae about nine o'clock in the evening—we just taken fresh horses—and we were descending a mountain over @ very dan- fee road,@ portionof which skirted the v« rink of a precipt-e, but we were hardly a mile 8 nslf from Nevads, when the driver, mistakiog a large stump for a shadow, (the moon being very bright) drove heedlessly furward, and atu: the obstacle, broke the pole cf our coaca. Immediate'y the horses boysn runping at @ terrible rate, the diver Josing all control. We braced ourselves as well as we cou/d, momentarily antici, 1g the shock of an vpset, as soon as the vehicle should strike full sgairst oue of the many stamps which lay in oor course. One gentleman jumped from the stage, and was hurt eeverely; the rest of us satas firmly as poesible, utteriz g not a word, butawaiting breata- lessly the catastrophe which we felt must ensue. Ou we went, burrying toward a frighttul ednie, which acme of the party new was but a few .rois in advance of us, when, providentially, the horses swerved suddenly from the road, and dashed iato the woote. The few minusea ‘running tine” seemed wecks to.ys, bot ut length two immense stomps presented themselves; the fir't was grazed sufficiently to tile the vehicle upon the other, where it became wedged, whilst the horses, ; dasbed beadiong forw: There ve were “fix2d;” the windows of the about a (ot from the ground, and we so firmly braced against each other that the shock of stoppage bad been scarcely felt. Gen. Wool scrambled out of the window first, and we foliowed as preecily aa sible. Toe por driver had been thrown bdo and ay epee th iese, bis collar bone broken: We apprehended aome of the “insiders” must be severely burt, bat happily all eacapsd with a few scratches, save gentleman who bad jumped out, and who was a te on the roai some oe bask. Mr. Weller shouted “Help! ho!” in a stentorian voice, which we heard answered immediately, and soon s man on horseback appeared approx us A hysician and carrisge were sent for, and in two «8 more we found ourselves safe at Nevada, where warm baths and a good made us mors comfortable. Next day we were at the ‘ral, whose first exclamation upon getting cu’ of the stage, and finding himself whole, was, “Where’s my hat?” to which our senator very irreverently respor.ded, ‘“‘D—n your hat; look to the ladies!” sn expletive which, under tke circum- stances petbepe was pardonable. But. the Msjor- General is a gallant gentleman, and we ail agreed at last that tothe American flag over our venh‘cle we owed our protection fiom barm. . Marine Affairs. Tae Britism Screw Sreamsair Giascow, Capt. Cum- ming, sailed yesterday for Glasgow, with 34 cabin and 108 steerage passengers. Sup Currirvck.—The party who acted as second offi- cer of this ship on her voyage from Antwerp last spring, when she was so instrumental in saving the pas- sengers of the Black Hawk, will please sena his name to the undersigned, so that it may be inscribed on a medal which is being egreret for him by order of the mer- chants of New York. . ROYAL PHELPS; Chairman, 14 Stone street. Lauxcu—From the ship yard of Mr. E. H. Williams, at Green Point, at half-past mine o'clock, on Tuesday morning, the schooner Fanuil Currie, about 370 tons, for Mr. John Currie, Jr., of Richmond, Va., built under the superintendence of Capt. Samuel Dearborn, who is to command her, : Base Ball. The return match between the Eagle and Knickerbocker base ball clubs was played on Friday last, on the grounds of the former at Hoboken, resuiting in favor of the Eagles, five innings being played, and the score standing —Engles, 22 runs; Knickerbockers, 21 :— BAGLES. Fan ae Innings and Hands Out. Runs. Winterbogior et ee ine ee | 3 inter! mm. Z 9 90 2 Thee? Supe Qo FR i Hyatt 202 2 0 1 T. Bmit o 0 60 8 0 a Colgate o 0 0 0 0 ni 8 0 0 0 2 o 0 38 0 06 es AM 3 Runs each inning... 3 10 3 3 38 22 Bowled by Gibbs; caught by Place, KNICKERBOCKERS, Innings and Hands Ou’. Runs. 1 2 0 0 2 2 o 3 0 0 0 4 . el oe ae 3 o o 1 1 13 1 8 0 2 0 0 1 o 0 60 2 0 3 oe oa oe ae | 1 o 0 8 60 0 3 o 60 0 0 0 3 Runseachinning.... 2 2 2 4 21 21 Bowled by Talman; caught by Curry and Winslow. jterday officer Parlin, of the reserved corps, discovered a man going into the house No. 398 Fourth avenue, with a lage ban- of clothing in is possession, valued at The iceman, thinking tho man a suspicious character en- to arrest him, but he slipped away from him, fm a fast gait. The officer started after him, and after a hot chase succeeded in arresting him. On being taken to the Twenty-first ward station house, ho would not give his name, or renter any account of him- self, other than that he was an Englishman, On search- ing him, a letter, written in a delicate hand, full of love and eternal devotion, and direeted to John’ M. Stewart, Union square Post Office, was found in his pocket. He was detained for examination by the captain of the Twenty-first ward police. Charge of Burglary.—About two o'clock yesterday morning, officers Marks, Cowan, Wines, Watson, and Young, of the Eighteenth ward police, arrosted six ‘men, named James Sweeny, Edward Horn, John Callaghan, rapes Cher foe oe Harrison, ee ae! ¢ of bu jously on: : netlus Selina, 10. tat Kant teenth street, and therefrom « small of . The were taken to the ward VS moa and detained until an taker before Judge Btewart. | that he would soon be reinstated. | and that the Rt. Rev, Mr. Hughes, of Providence, would take his place. This was the barbed arrow to the heart of the good old man. ' Alvares force was under the Obituary. DEATH OF FATHER BRADY—SERIOUS TRO! THE BISHOP AT THE FUNERAL. [From tne Hartford ‘Times. }. | The Right Reverend Joux BRapy, who has been about UBLE, WITH) eighteen years the respected pastor of the Roman Catho. lic Church of this city, died at his residence in Taleott street, at about cight o'clock last evening, (Nov. 16,) affer an illness of twenty-four hours, from an attack of | the cholera. The best medical aid was called to his as- nistance, but without avail, “He was in the full posses: sion of his mental faculties to the last moment of his life, and finally departed in a having made his will and arranged his earthly affairs to his own mind, and with a full consciousness of baying labored faithfully to promote the comfort of those ‘were un- der hie Pastoral charge, ‘ather Bray spent the best part of his life in Hart- ford, and his labors here have been of a severe nature. When he came here some eighteen or twenty years ago, there were comparatively few in this place. of rail ant x of fardlguece, But the growth of the ci’ @ buildi public works in this region, and the i steadily brought addi 1 numbers of Romanists to our city, until Father Brady’s church was overflowed. He attended alone. not only to the interests of the church, but to the welfare of his parishioners. He was constant- y among the rich always alleviating the Pressing wants of the poor. He even kept severa) cows, so as to pro- vide the needy with milk. * F At the same time he set about building a new cathe- drel—purchased a desirable site, labored without tiring to gather in the money to pay for the new w appealed to someof our wealthy men who had confi- dence in him asa man,and from them procuredassiatance His heagt was finally made glad in beholding ‘the result of his long and untiring efforts in one of the most beau tiful and substantial stone cathedrals in New England. Here was centered his highest hopes—here the result of excessive labor during the choicest portion of his life. Hine ation was swelléd to one of vast numbers, and the bright prospect of casier times and the con sciousness of having accomplished the great work of hix life, seemed to open a pleasant pathway for his years. He appeared quite contented and happy in his ‘own modest home in Talcott street, and there were few among us who wore amore cheerful countenance than Father Brady. A short time since, however, the ‘Bishop of Hartford * came among us. He took a residence in Church street, and desired Father Brady to leave his own residence andtake up one with him, the Bishop. This the old man aoe rind and he ee ‘Then nomersuecid uestions about the property—the bur; 01 e chureh—some land,"and oxo or two’ dealings, The Lert evidenth desired to control them, and to sme extent, we , Father Brady gave them uj it he refiused to be cleaned out, Here were bones of 'con- jention. Finally, as Father Brady attempted to enter the church. «ne night to procure some ‘holy water’? for the conso: lation of a dying parishoner, he was opposed by the’ sexton of the church, who it seems acted under instruc- tions from the bishop, and Father Brady found his ingress stony at the threshold of his own cathe- dval—the child and pet of his life, He ordered the man away, but he would not go, He struck the’ sexton in the face, and the sexton returned the blo The sexton appealed to the bishop, and Father Brady) ‘was suspended as pastor of the church. This seemed to cut him to the heart; but it was generally supposed Such, however, was not the fact. On Sunday last it was announced in the church that the connexion of Father Brady with the’ flock that he had «led so well as pastor was severed; His hopes—the labor of his life—his fondest anticipa- tions, were dashed to thejearth, and the blackness of night, as only before him, as he was to plod alo: Imola © grave, if not in arae $a 8 Rates) a 4 blow which hia soul could not bear, stood up un- der it for three days, when that insidious disease which ever revels with the least restraint in a system shocked and shattered by keen ish of the seized upon and made short work of him. He will rest ina ) ve, and his memory will long be cherished in this city for his constant exertions among his to make them comfortable, when in sickness and want—to instil into their minds wholesome lessons of temperance, of pot morals, and to impresa upon them the duties of -abiding and honest citizens. That he has deen dealt. by as he should have been we do not believe. But let the dead rest, TELEGRAPHIC, Hanrrorp, Noy, 18, 1854. This city has this morning been the theatre of great excitement, growing out of the refusal of the Roman Catholic Bishop to allow the remains of Father Brady to be buried near the church. In consequence of some difficulty with Brady, the Bishop had suspended him, and the treatment the latter had reseived is believed to have induced the disease with which he died. The peo- ple, siding with their former pastor, determined that he should be buried near the church, as he had requested, ‘and yesterday afternoon they dug large place for the purpose of building a receptacle for the coffin. This morn; ing the hole was found to have been filled up by the or= ders of the Bishop; but the people were not to be defeated, and, despite of the efforts of the-Bishop and priests, succeeded in again opening it. The Bishop then refused to open the church for the funeral service; but, after an hour’s delay, the people again succeeded, aad the church was opened, when it was found that the alter had been so fixed that mass could not be celebrated. But the people again triumphed, had things put to rights, and now (at 12 o’clock,) @ priest from out of town, a friend of Father Brady's, is saying mass. The streets in the neighborhood have been filled a the morning with an excited multitude. . It is reported here that the death of Father Brady was caused by poison, MAJOR WOOD, UNITSD STATES @RMY. be bags bo has been received at Washington of the eath in Texas, by yellow fever, of Brevet George: Wood, of United States —s, Woot was the son of the vencrable William B. ba ome re delpbia, and the news of his death, while it will faltwith peculiar severity upon his parent, will be received with | in MA large circle of acquaintances in his native eity. jor Wood entered the army asa second lieutenaut of infantry in 1838. By pialy, and for gallant wetted a major. His fellow-citizens of Philadelphia showed their sense of his bravery by presenting with an elegant sword. He has for some years been sta- tioned at one of the frontier posts of Texas. He a wife and family, and numerous friends, in and out of | the army, to iameut his death.—Philadelphia Bulletin. N. 0. wee Picayune, Nov, 11.) e, east of Vera Cruz, on the 26th October. Her and crew saved themselves in their boats. ‘We have papers from the inst., and ‘Vora Cruz the ba. de Guerrero. were completely field, two of oi, ta the pocltions then toward: The English and French inhabitants Mexico hada grand illumination on the ni eet ~ pesgage {false report of the] of Se- ast The Mexican blockadin; juadron at Acapalco has ‘met with a sad disaster. ‘the 19th of rious storm in the vicinity, and three unfortunate vessels so much schooner Santa Anna, and crew, amounting to about seventy, on board, The | eo person who cook." The occurrence | took place off Loreto. Theate of one of the other two, the schuoner Guerrero, is not known. The third, the cor- vette Santa Anna, sustained extensive injury. lhe Siglo XI. nounces that in the ‘whole depart.) be eS Nuevo Leon fevers and the measles were | epidemic. Santa Anna bad recovered his health, and raturned to the it re Tacubaya on the 26th ult. The Merican Econ announces that Gen, Almonte, now Minister Plenipotentiary for Mexico, at Wi s TEL Se $e Visas [n Sha stave cugastig, Aa Baasbeon, Te- ced by Mr. Francis Arrangoiz, ican Consul in Reg York, and lately at this place, _ The Italiian opera company had left the co, and LL ad ges os latest dates in Jforetnini Steffanone, rini, Beneventano, Bottesi ind Signorina Bandini, a on the violin, con- cane its chief members. They were about teproceed Oo vane. The bark Avalanche, the loss of which is noted above left this port, it aj on the Sth ult. ‘the command of Captain vamp Steward, with a of 670 600 of cotton. Two after iting out to sea, she commenced to make: . On to get in sight of Vers Oraz, not enter, in consequence of @ heavy 7 ne was at the time. there- fore, ut out again, the pumps not able pdms the ‘water Trouh gaining Galen, she finally went Senor Don Manuel Maria one of the most eon- | stant of Santa Anna’s ines some relation or con- nexion, if we mistake not, died at Medellin on the Sist. He was interred with ceremony at Vera Crus. The Vera Cruz Keo del Comercio, of the 34 inst., an- nounces that the government ‘that the Pacific steamers running between and Panama may in ran pee at Mazatlan, of inst. The iment ‘to. bar rays me ir private correspondence announces that Mr. le, the British Minister at the city of has eonmeck disgusted at certain Inte which jaently exist be- tween him and the government. Kok acc eamies | REPORTED VICTORY OF ALVAREZ OVER THE GOVERN- | MENT FORCES. [From the New Orleans Delta, Noy. 12. ACAPULOO, Oct. . i A courier this moment has arrived, br‘ sapter Iimite ef ‘the States &¢ Guerrero, tad Mighesene” | command of Gen. Jalyara,