The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK_ JAMES GORDON, BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. | OP NASSAU AND FULTON ‘srs, | @PTKE XN. W. CORNER cash ia udernce. TV HRRALD 9 conte per comy—S1_ per -anmum. ¥ HERALD coors Butur ae W conte pet er #5 per s0num, Een 9A pr ana, ant, Greut Brituin, and $5 to any part ef the Con- net PETTERS ty Mell for Sucriptions or with Adver ita to be gl ar dceadies will be duducted from mor h LUNT4R Y CORRESPONDENCE, containing deat nies, tol ted from any quarter Pike alt be liberally pod for. TIOULARLY KEQUESTED TOBEAL ALL Ler- MAGks ERT US. ms talon of Gnonymeus communications. We do return thos ted, “PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapnen, and teh. VER TISEMENTS renewed ever dey. 339 jo. Vetlume XX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Tax Crown Dia woepe—My fRiamD THE MAsoR. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Eavrernian Panvonm- amens—)otman. sa BIDLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Syne. BURTON'S, Chambers steeot—Urrna Tex ann Lower ‘Dwanszr—Tavine ir On. HATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Wan.oce or pe Guer Dume Gint ov Gzn0a—Devit’s JavonteeR —Maxsrva THE SECOND. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Warps amovo was Fowske—Roven Diamorn. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Tux Fivignep Prot uns—Worrenixe Bove. AMBRICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Apeis—As Line As ‘Bwo Pras. ing—HEnRierre. WOOD'S VARIETIES—Moobanios’ Hall, 472 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway—Bucx- Bav's Brniorian Orena Trovrr. WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Minstrel Hall, 444 Broadway. The News. ‘By tbe arrival o° the screw steamship Canadian, ft Portland, M-., we have three days later intelli @mmec trom Europe. ‘The siege of ~ebastopol still ‘‘drags its slow length along,” snd although efforta are made to HERALD, ! =r gd ’ that ths Court would fixt used | ‘um Foreiow Conaxsronp- | at he be a’m'tied ‘o bail, and bogged + moact o° ball rqai- site. Judge Beebe deo ded, 0} an ¢xam'mation of the papers, t'athe woud bid Home: to bei! in the -umo! 110,000, Mr. Aathury J. Bleecker be- came the pisoner's bomismant) he above amount, | and he was cet a: ‘iberty. The istsiy eiected P.otestin p'scopal Provi- «) a) Eisnoo ct thus ~ ae, Horatio | orter, D. D., of | A-apy, +a: ca) comsecst: @° ording to the | foro sot shat church yest rlvy at Trinity. There | wasa creat crowd e? b shop”, priests, laymen and | lalivs, The Ccmmittee o Arrangement-, as aseal, made no sa -ctm nts for re. orter+, and they were | eblig d to uffer many imeonv niences in sonse- | quene. 5 | every person t I inter eted in the consecration | wasin te-hurst. \ twithstanding th« piece of | churkebn‘s:,our /eporter have g ven 4 detailed ac- count of ths c remoni ,and a vrrbatim report of | the sermon of th: R.gh Rsv. Lord Bishop of Mon- tes! A fiightiol rai'road acciden' occurrid yesterday teorning on the Harlem ani New Haven track, near Fifty-eighth street, by whch twenty people were | deadly swjared, p rhaps one or two avally. Itap- | Pears a freight train !ad stopped upou the track | | at this place an negeced tv send the sigaul lights back, to warn the after train: of their danger. Carelesanesa in :uch (@i-s as ths canno: be too severely punih-0. i: is m raculoa. that a col.ision gucs as thi- d dno‘ recut more seriously. Mr. Comptrolier Flagg has carried the staodard of retrenchment into tue Board of ‘Edacation, and has advised the Commissioners to re'urn to that Board their estimate for supplies, on the ground that several items are objectionable, aud that there appears in a single year an increase of more than 92 per cent. ‘The Board of Councilmen resumed their Novem- ber session last evening, and pro-eeded, by previ- j 008 arrangement, into the thisd reading of bills. Accordingly about eighty reports recsived a final reading, and were adopted. No other buai- ness of any importance was transacted, the third reading of bills consaming almost the eatire time of the Board. The thirty: thi d a.nive rary o° the Hebre + Bane volent Society «a3 celebrate! last evening by a giand banqne’ in the Cunese Assembly Rvoms, Broadway. Over tw. huidrd -nd fifty gentikmen eat down to dinner. The chwrman of -he dining be co: mitt e p obably considered that | anticipate a result by vivid descriptions of the des | committee announced ‘hat nearly $4,00) were ool- porate extremitics to which its gorrison is reduced, | lected daring the evening towards the sup:ort of and even by rumors of its fall, these accounts seem the society. Our ieport wili be found ia another tte produce no corresponding effects on the English ‘mackets, treir influence being rather unfavorable ‘than otherwise. ‘Phere ie nothing, in fact, in the present advices, made upas they sre from the complement of the wrevious incidents of toe siege, an outline of which ‘we have already laid before our readers, which in @ieates that the place may not still hold out antil it i relieved. The highly colored -spevulations of Rewspeper correspondents, and the mendacious wtatements of fabricated despatches, weigh but lit: ‘tie against the fact tha’ neither on the land side nor @m that of the sea have the besiegers as yet been able to penetrats within the line of the defences. Thus far, ten, the anticipatiors’ formed fron the tremendous resources combined for the reduc. ton of the fortress have been set at nought. It was ea the prompt results expected to be achieved from their upp ecedented -magnitude that the calcula: tions whic) led to the expedition were founded. @hoald these hopes be disappointed, and any con- siderable time be wasted before the place, a skilful Jy planned attack bya sufficiently powerfal Russian force, supp: sing that their reserves can be brought up in time tor the purpose, may at any momant de- feet the grand object of the ex sedition, aud oblig2 ‘the besiegers to assum: the defensive. The history cf siege operations justifies “in @oabting whether, in spite of the enorn)” te materiel assembled by the allies, 329+." ly to offer any exception to their ge . ryyresults yr Jenciennes, in 1793 sustained a sicge of forty-tive @eys, with cnly 175 cannon. Dantzic, in:1813, held @ut for 108 days, with 500 cannon, and then only yield: d trough the pressure of famine. Cnidad “Ro@rigo vas defended by oaly 86 guns, and yet held e@ui fur twent;-one days. The Russians have at Se- bas opo! 1,500 cannon, acd these are mostly allo’ large calivre, W at probability is thece, thoretore, im speculating on the proximate surrender of the garrison, buoy: d n> as they are by the hope of be ig speedily. relieved ? Is must be remembered, too, that the alliss are enly provisioned for six weeks, and that notwith- mending the alleged friendly disposition of the Tar- tar population, the descriptions forwarded home by English officers of their s:anty fare show that this stasement must either be false, or that the friendly feelings of the natives are controlied by their apprehensions of the doubifal natare of the eontest. If, therefore, the plaze can only hold out for a few weeks longer—and a’ present we see no yeason why it should not—the C:imean expedition May possibly.end in a total failure. ‘These are, of conree, mere speculations, but they aagan.e aomething of force from the protracted re- aistance whi.b the fortress has already made, in spite of the confident anti ipations formed by ‘he commanders of the expedition of its reduction ip three or four daye. It would be curious if the timid counsels,” so.injudiciously alluded to in the Prench Emperor’s letter to Madame St. Arnand, should, after all, tun out to have besn suggested Ip correct views. * The statements mad: ia these advices of the pro Dability of an immediate ruptare between the Czar and bis tgo powerfal Germin neighbors probably enly represent the surface of things. We sual! be- Beve in the fact when we see a Bassian army ad- wancing into Gallicia. Asto Prussia, ahe has too mauch to gain by remaining neutral to hazard her fateresta by provoking hostilities with the Czar. Prom Asia we have rumors of a victory having Deen gained over Schamy] by one of the Rusaian generals. There ia no other foreign news of intercst. The fret of the Frene1 Emperor having mate tie «-nznde Aonorad ¢ to Mr. Son's is confirmed. The foreign rews received via Portland did not temepjre in time yesterday to have any becring upon this market. Fiour was in moderate demand for domestic use and shipment to tue British pro Vinoes, and at anchangei prices. A curgo of Gene gee white wheat sold at $235 per bushel. Indian @orn continued active, with sates for exvuri a! 0c. @ Sic. for Western sound mixed. Pork elosoa dull, and mess was not saleable, in large lote, without fome concessions on the part of holders. About 2,000 bales of cotton were sold, showing a decline stace ths commencement of the week of about one- @ighth of a cent per Ib. The foreign news procuced me effect upon the cotton market, and was nc! ox- pedted to. Quotations are mainly inflaenced by the @mennt of stock in first hands, and the state of the meney market. Some six or seven c+tton laden ‘veorels are said to be on the way, chiefly from New Orleans, for this port, one of which has @ carg) of 1,700 bales, a part of which had been sold to ar It ts stated that sterling bills drawa agaiost n will soon be moze pleaty in this morket. I: is re pperted that one large bill house has £60,000, or about $300,000, on ite way by mail from New Or Jeans for this city. A convention between the United States and the Kingdom ¢f Bavaria, for the mu nal extradition of fagitives frem justive in certain cases, was daly rs- tified on the Ist instant, at London, and has jast Been made pablic by proclamation by the Pro sident. : Robert W. Johnson has been re elected to the United States Senate by the Legisiatuce of Ashannas. The Grand Jury baving brought I a b'll of io Getment for mansiaug iter againat Jobo B. Himes for toe killing of offiver Gourley of the First Ward poles, by stabbiag hmin ths) ° | 2a dik kao, while the do” »40 used wo nike Huimee prisoner, the eu! for the prisoner column. In the Kings Coun’y Court of Sessions yestar- day, the trial of Daniel McDonald, for manslaug iter, in causing the death of his wife, was commenced and concluded. A verdi»t in the case will probably be rendered this mornins. Last night, between ten aud eleven o'clock, s fire broke out in the deug mills of E. De Svorii us & Co., Nos. 53 and 55 P.ince street. The five was extinguished in about two hours. The loss will b probably several thousand dollars. We publish in another coinma 4 letter fron th: Bishop of Hartford, giving what he termsa “trac and full statement of the facte” relating to the ia terment of Father Brady, which receatly created so much excitement in that community. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, on the Know Nothings=The Real Merits of the Question. We spread before our readers this morning, in all its ampli'ude. the eluborat.:, spirited and exterwinating manjfe-to cf Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, agains: t.e Know No bins, At this time, when the principles and b, ects of this new, mysterious ani ;owerful p litical orgaui zation are the theme of uuviverss] discussion, this Virginia manifesto will na urally commend itself to the special attention of all classes of our readers. Mr. Wise has made this onslaught upon the Know Nothings in behalf of the administration and the democratic party, and especially of the democratic party of Virginia. Ackaow- ledged as their most active and energetic Jeader, his letter may be regarded as the plat- form of the Virginia democracy in refereace to the ‘principles and purposes of the Kuow Nothings. It may also be regarded as the plat- form of the administration, from the hearty commendstion which it has rece ved 10m the Cabinet organ »t Washinton. In this light, it is a docuvent of noordiiary inportaace. It foreshadow -, to a great ex ent, the reconstruc tion cf parties for the great campaiga of 1856— a campaign which will, most probably, give shape and dircction to the poly of the gen- €.a! government ':r twenty years to come. We have reai this manifesto of \ir. Wise, and. we are clearly of the o,ivion tha: be does not come within gun-ehot of the real merita of the subject. His examination of the case is narrow and contracted. Hz does not touch upon the broad and comprehensive bearings into the past and into the future of this new, extraordinary and terrible party of the Kuow Nothings, He assumes their prineiples from conjecture, starts up ocnstitutianal technicalitics, and tears them to pieces with the sk ll of a county-eourt law- yer. Believing the organization of the Know Nothings to be mischievous, their principles to be unconstitutional and intolerant, and their purposes an indiscriminate proscription o! foreigners by birth and Catholics ia religion, Mr. Wise is opposed to this new order of na tives, “ with all his mind and all his might,” notwithstanding that he himseif is “a Vir ‘ginian, intue et in cute a Virginian,” descend ed fiom Virginians, through the respectable period of two hundred years. Ad this is the gist o! his argumeat. We can inform Mr. Wise that the purposes of the Know Nothings are not summed up iu indiscriminate proscription of Catholics and ireigners born, and that the cases which have brought about this spontaneous and most remarkable uprising of this secret party are not limited to American prejudices against ibe Catholic religion, nor to foreign iuflueaces in our el-cifons, nor to a spirit of hostility against adopted citizens in office. We may trace this sudden, spontancous and extensive organization of the Know Nothings to the utter demoralizition, corruption and dissolu- tion of the old political parties of the day, and to « univers] +pirit of viegust «mons the peo- ple against being any longer badgered and bartered away among the wu principled an> bucksterivg politicians, whig and democratic, that have been leading their cre ju\ous follow- ers by the n.se for tue last :wenty-five years. Mr. Wise ives in the county of Accomas, in which, some years ag», he boasted, like one of the old colonial governors, that there was not a solitary vewspaper. But for all that, outside of Ascom:c, railroads und telegraphs, aud th: independent ne« spaper press, have been doiug wns ra,in the general diffusion of politicat facts and inform tion among the people. Dur. ing the first parc of the despotic reign of Mar. tin Van Buren, the orgaa and t.e Kitoren Cabinet at Washington with a regency at Richmond, New York, Aibany and other se managed the democracy and the elections pretty much their own way. And the whix party, to a great extent, was under the same slavish discipline That day is gone, and gone forever. Party tramme's wove given way to individual inde- pendence, and purity ligve, as thoy have ey fisted, no longer exist. The whig party was. finally demolished in the campaign of 1853; and Pierce and hie Cabinet spolis coalition | have ‘ust as effectively brok n up, root and | branch, the unity, the power aud the prestige | of the democratic perty. Reckless spoilemen and biustering patriots and dirty cancuses, and upecrupulous political bargaining snd e-lling. have done the work for both the old parties. They are powerless—they are defunct. Their | fragments which remain can never e trought | | again into cohesion. The old parties of the | | last twenty-five years are done away with; | | there is a wide opening for a new party, upon | new principles, and for a new pol cy: and the | Know Nothings have quietly organized and spontancourly stepped in to fill up the chasm. Nor are we- much alarmed fur the conse- quences. We do not chare in the 4; prehensions of Mr. Wise. We do not belfeve tbat the Know Nothings intend to wage awaro exermina- tion against our Roman Cutholic adopted fello #- | citizens. Wedo not imsgine that this secret order intend te overturn the constitution of the | United States. On the other hand, it is manifest | from their action in our late Ne York elections, | and, still more strikingly, in the r-cent Massa- | -chusetts election, tha: t:e Know Nothings are practically operating to uphold the coastitu- tion and the Union ayainst the seditious machi- natious of W. H Seward and his Northern eague of anti-slavery ugitacors. The Kaw Nothings, upon tbis issue, have literally stepped into the breach between the North and South, n defence of the constitution and the laws. Nor is this new party purely of Northera origin. It is of spontaneous growth North and South, springing up mysteriously every- where, adapting itself to every locality, and town. The esthusiaam of that mighty vietory in rubslding, and Marcy is beeoming mtoderate. | What is the drift of this “ moderate eocrespon- dence?” Who knows? ‘The Crusade Against Russia—Prospect: of | Anether Thirty Years War. | ‘That we are entering upon one of those vio- jent periodteal throes which in the political as well as the geological progress of the werld @isturb or destroy a!l its previously existing relations, and impart a new aspect to its con- | atituent elements, seems to be the instinotive | conviction of every one who has made politics | a study. There are but few, even amongst | those whose hopes or whose fears lead them to attach an exaggerated importance to the fall of Sebastopol who are not impressed with the belief that that event, should it take place, will form but one of the lesser incidents in the loag cbain of chronological facts which ere destined to mark the deeolating epoch which will be covered by the Rursian war. Fewer stil) be- lieve that in the event of its protraction for any contiderable period the present political and social condition of the nations of the world (for in its wide-spread effects all countries wili be more or less drawn within its influence,) will “offer the seme structural aspect that it does now. The p:litieal rise of some and the decline of others will probably date from its annals, #bilst the destinies of races will probably ab- sorb into two or three distinct elements the power that is now parcelled out amonyst oume- rous divisions of the human family. In a social and religious point of view, too. the era upon which we are entering, may be pregnant with the most important ivfluences upon the well- being and bappiness of mankind. Should the everywhere powerful. The native America: experiment of ten years ago was a violent, short-lived. sporadic affair. There were mobs aesagsinations, and conflagrations; but the thing was overdone; and with the election of Mayor Harper, ef New York, the political achievements of that native American party ended. Tbere was a reaction, and a reaction s0 great that General Sco:t, in 1852. made a clean retraction of his native American princi- ples of 1841. This proves conclasively that this new Americun party has been created since the last Presidential election, and is the offspring of the dissolution of the whig party in 62, and the destruction cf the democratic party in ’53-54, through the demoralizing spoils policy of the administration. From the waste and loose materials, then, of the two old defunct political parties, the Know Nothingg, sike Minerva from the brain of Jove, have sprung into life full grown and fn!! armed. Such appointments as Soulé, the tili- bustering French refugee, to Spain, and Bel- mont, the Jewish agent of the Rotbschilds, to the Hague; and such shings as the impude:t church mission of the Pope’s Nuncio, Bedini, to this country, have, it is true, given zest and spirit to the Know Nothing movement; but they are not the origin of this dreadful party. As well might we say that the interference, some years ago, (under the influences of Seward,) of Archbishop Hughes in the affairs of our common schools, gave birth to this wide- spread order of the Know Nothings. No. The mission of Bedini, and the movements of the Catholic hierarchy to obtain the monopoly of their church property in the United States ia the hands of the bishops, have given a powerful impetus to the Know Nothings; but their origin as a great party begins with the dissolution of the old whig and democratic parties. It is very natural that the native American republican sentiment of the whole country rhould rise in opposition to the creation of a foreign landed aristocracy in these States. That the absorption of the Catholic church property absolutely, in fee simple, by the bishops, would result in such an aristocracy, is very likely. The idea is consistent with the proverbial weak ness of human nature. But the spirited oppo sition of the Catholic laity to this project, at Buffalo, and in the late exciting c.se at Hart- ford, and elsewhere, shows that the body of the Catholics of ‘he United States are republicans und Americans at heart, in spite of the Pope, his Nancio, and his Bishops. We see s mething of this aristocratic tendency of our Cathol's prelates in the Protestant Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. Hence their co municants sare comparatively small; while, throughout ‘he Union the Methodists aod Baptiste, whose church governments are thoroughly republican and American, ase counted by millions. In view of this pre- dominant American spirit, shared in by Catho- lics ond Protestants, depend upon it a perse- verance on the part of the Catholic bishops in this country to secure the exclusive possession of their church property, will result in a rap- ture which they can never repair. The Catho- lic hierarchy shou'd allow a broad margin be- tween republicanism in Mexico and democracy in these United States. It is against the spoile-secking Catholic hierarchy and their Baltimore and New York Councils,that the religiou- hostility of the Know Nothings is directed. It is against the cor- rupt political hacksters who t affic in the votes of ignorant foreigners, newly in- vested with the honors of citizenship, that the Know Nothings are operating as a league of the native born. We have no fears that re- spectable adopted citizens, or Catholics, identi- ying themselves with the people, the instita- tions and the interests of this country and its laws, are to be hunted down and exterminated by the Know Nothings. In a political view we recognise in this Know Nothing movement something of positive and immediate good to the country. We recognise it in the practical overthrow of the Seward dis- union olliance of the North, and of the imbecile spoils coalition at Washington. It breaks up the plan of a Northern anti-slavery crusade against the South; it demolishes the despotism of thore disgusting democratic Baltimore con- ventions; it removes the rubbish and clears the track for @ new order of things in 1856, Mr. Wise may think differently. His opinions and those of the Cabinet organ at Washington, ond of Horace Greeley, seem to be the same— that the Know Nothings are a detestable party, and that their projects are full of mischief to Seward and his allies, and to the administra tion avd its spoilemen. So he it. Read the manifesto of Mr. Wise. It presents us, in con nection with the Cabinet and Seward organs, « new political conjunction. The Virginia demo- eracy, the administration, and the Seward al liance. Sirgular coalition, Curious state of things. A Moperate Corresronpence.—-We are in: formed by a Washington correspondent of one of our Baltimore exchanges, that a ‘ moderate correspondenee” is progressing between Mr. Marey and the representative of the British go- Yernment, Wuyhiog tae bombardment of Groy- fortunes of war prove favorable to the Russian orms, the tide of Christianity and civilization will in all probability be borne eastward, whilst in the Western hemisphere the feeble resistance of the Spaniard must yield before the perse- veripg and resistless energy of the Anglo- Saxon race. The results here foreshadowed, although they may startle by their magnitude, are not so THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAHP. 4 Low the Destruction of Placide’s | New Onteays, Nov. 21, 1854. | ‘The loas by the destruction of Placide’s ‘‘ Varieties” is estimated at over ninety thousand dollars, upon which © there is am insurance of seven thousand fiye hundred collars omly, in the Sun Mutual Company. Later Dates.from Texas. THE PACIVIO RAILROAD CONTRACT—EXTENSIVE FROSTS. New Orieans, Nov. 21, 1854. ‘The steamship Mexico arrived here to-day, bringing | ge dates from ( aiveston, Texas, to the 18th inst. Mel ‘The Governor of Texas still coutends that the stocks | wonin deporited by Messrs, Walker and King are insufficient to | secure the Pacific Pailroad contract. Extensive white frosts had occurred throughout the country. Arrest of an Incendiary. Oaprwspure, Nov. 22, 1854. This morning, about four o'clock, one of our citizens, and for many years a resident here, was caught in the ‘act of firing a building by E. W. Benedict, a hatter of this place, who was a self-constituted watch. The pub- lie opinion here is that to the individual now caught we are to look for nearly all the fires that have rapidly swept ‘over our village for several years past, all happening about four o’clock in the morning. Mr, Benedict allow- ed the gentleman to set the building on fire, while he stood secretly looking on, and when he fled he followed and caught, struggled with and overcame him. It was a tharp tight, but the incendiary was overpowered and. ix now in coufinement. Collision on Lake Erie. LOSS OF TRE ECHOONER GRAND TURK, LOADED WITH y RAILROAD IRON. Burrato, Nov. 22, 1854, ‘The new schooner Grand Turk, loaded with railroad iron, was run into on Saturday last, by an unknown vessel, on Lak Erie, She sunk almost instantly after the collision, and will be a total loss. Her helmsman was killed, She was insured for $12,000. Election of a United States Senator. Lovisvinux, Nov. 21, 1854. Robert W. Johnson, democrat, has been unanimously elected United States Senator from Arkansas by the Arkansas Legislature. Departure of the Steamship America. Boston, Nov. 22, 1854. The steamship America sailed at noon to-day, with forty-five passengers for Liverpool, and twenty-three for Halifax. She takes out with her $564,227 in Americas gold, ten hundred and fifty pounds sterling in English coin, and ® small freight. improbable as they may at first sight seem. However it may suit the journals of the coali- tion to lay the blame of the present war to the account of the Czar, it must not be forgotten that the course pursued by him is only in ac- cordance with the traditional policy of the court of Rassia—a policy which has within the last two centuries largely expanded the limits of its already vast territories, nearly doubled its population, and given it a predominance in European affairs of which it will now be impossible to deprive it. It is, there- fore, not, as is asserted, a mere war of conquest and aggrandizement, suggested by the ambition or pride of an individual prince, but a war re- sulting from settled principles of political ac- tion, in which the religious element, as regards the Czar himself, is perhaps made to play a more prominent part than sincerity warrants. Were the world satisfied that its objects could be traced merely to the first-mentioned mo- tives, less alarm would be felt with regard to the prospect of its lengthened continuance. The will of one man, however despotic his power, could not long blind a nation to the folly of sacrificing its interests to ‘his cupidity. It is the consciousness that in this instance the interests of the nation go with those of the sove- reizn, and that the Russian people have a traditional faith in their mission of religious propagandiem, that induces the conviction that we are entering upon one of the most sangui- nary and protracted struggles that the world has as yet witnessed. As the thirty years’ war arose from the natural result of the reactionary tendency called forth on the part of the Roman Catholics by the Reformation, so the pre- sent may be looked upon as a reac- tionary effort on the part of the Greek church to regain the empire which it lost through the vices and supineness of its Byzan- tine rulers. It may also be regarded as the final struggle of the infant but giant st-ength of Russia to break through the trammels imposed upon her expansion by that whimsical offspring of Henry the Fourth’s brain—t%e European equilibrium ; the on which has been to perpetuate thus farf::ki, intolerance and misrale. * Viewed in either of these lights, it is evident that the heaviest sacrifices will be cheerfully made by the Russians to carry out the views of their sovereign, and their own notions of their destiny as a people. Haif acentury of s j tained warfare, and even of frequent reverses, would hardly quench the fanatical confidence which they entertain in the succes of their sup- pored mission. The logs of Sebastopol, the des- truction of Cronstadt, and, in fact, of all their important porta in the Euxine and Baltic, would be only regarded by them as paltry sacrifices for the atiuinment of so great anend. They know that no nation ever advanced rapidly in the path of glory and conquest without meeting with almost as rapid a decline, and they have gained too much by the asiute, steady and cautious policy oftheir rulcrs not to feel confidence in the ultimate results of a war which, though it may be inaugurated witb a few disasters, will crown with its triumphs that nation which has the yreutest power of endurance. The race in this case will be with the strong, and not wita the bwitt. Under, these ‘circumstances, we confess that we do not see what remains for us todo but to sit down and calmly speculate upon the in- fluence which another thirty, or perhaps filty, yeare’ war may have upon our commercial and political prospects, and occupy ourselves with the opportunities which it will open up tous of profiting by the splendid chances that lie Vefore us. We have no longer any pulitical obstacies to apprehend ; our rivals have too much on their bands to dream of interfering with us, In accomplishing their own destinies the Russians will work ont ours. Contracts For Pavrxe—INrormation Waxt- ED.—We notice that the Board of Councilmen have concurred in direoting the Commissioner of Repairs and Sapplics to advertise for propo- sals for paving Chatham street, Bowery, and Fourth avenue. A similar resolution passed the other Board some time since; but there, as amopg the Councilmen, the whole afisir was kept remarkably quiet, and no publicity that could be avoided was given to the matter. We learn that a very pretty job may be concealed under this inoffensive resolution: ajob involving several hundreds of thonsands, and well worth the while of the Corporation to carry it out at some trouble to themselves. Let us hear some- thing of the matter. Gentlemen of the Boards of Aldermen avd Councilmen, tell us what you know »bont paving Chatham street and the Willtamsbarg City News. Bowery. Benetary.—During Tueslay ni eke the tailoring ostab- lishment of Henry Willa, io Eyven atrect, was burglari- ourly entered, and rubbed of goods valued at about $1,000, arrived at the Nefl House, in Columbus, Tith instant, en route for Cincinaati. tterfield, the agent of the Mexican Ihas gone to Mexico. He left this aahingtane While st Columbus, Oho, teen be 2 a jum was ‘4 rated “with a supper by Governor Medill, at which Allen, Col. Medary, Anditor Morgan, Seeretary of State Trevitt, ani a number of democrats of Obio were preat ‘This is a just compliment to a stern and ster- democrat. Hon. Jchn B. Thompson, of Kent won jompson, of Kentucky, has arrived in Major General Scctt arrived in Was! Tuesday, apparently in the enjoyment of excellent health, f to m, At the Astor Bost we Potten’ Bostent Dit teeeay, dot Me Peteates Boshege ter; J. W. Brown, ‘Ne “+4 Ge el meohee- At the Honse—J. P, Robhins, Baltimore; Col. H R. Rice, Virginia; Hon, E.G. Pratt, St. Louis; Charles an, Conneeticut; D. Upham, ‘Texas; P. 8. Kidd ont; G. arvey,, South Carolinas W_ ton; Jos. Laker, Philadelphia; Hon H. P. Sounders, Sou Carolina; Meartbur, Whiladelphia; Major A.’ Poter- son, Georgia; Col. Charles Winslow, Maine; A, P. Haines, M, b., Boston. At the Metropolitan Hotel—R. E. Jenks and fomily, Cuba; John Norris, Jr. 1; W. Binzham, Boston; E. 8. Joyce, | Xellow Springs, Quis A. wy. c ; T, Re Morea, Binghamton; ‘vmpki mn, Waite Plains; M. D. Kook r. a funily, Wallingtord Eglettess dons J. Bons ani lee glands’ Mr. “Wiking, Ge- onkers; Allon Monroe and family, Gyre: w Maven; Fredk. Vinton, St. Louls; Jobu . H. Gordon, “Massachusetts; Joba E. hia; Chas. Wm. Cagroll, do,; John 8. Key- Montreal; C. H. Merrett, Troy; Geonce Gil 5 Win. Tt. Hutte and 1. Gilpin,’ St, Louis; im, Agnéw, Philadelphia. From Charleston, in stesmstip Jas Adger-—Mrs MeDonald, H Schaub, W J Rodgers, I Stadecker, D Batos—II in the. steerage, DEPARTURES. For Charleston in the steamship Nashville—B Mo! Ry Miss 8. F. Richards, Mrs Jos Whilden, 8 W Allen, J ter and lady, T Middleton, Jr, JK Putuaw, MB Biow, W H Towpkins, Miss ‘Forward, fa s Doyley, 1 M Hand, U Atkinsoy three children and nurse, Mise MeLaaal Jendt, G Vratt, 8 If Andrews, WB bank, S E White, Miss M White, Nrs Col Ervi lady, three children and nurse, aster 8 Reid, Mrs Seavering ree children, Mrs Levins, Mrs Baxter. Jno Atkinson; W 8 Gadsden, lady, nurse and infanr, dy, two children and servant, Mias J Hall, a P._ Palmer, D l Palmer, N P Sawyer, FS Treadway, WH Barnes, Mrs Gadsden, child and infant, Capt C O Bontelle, lay and two children, ‘Thomas Parsons, Thos King, C Alberto, Wm English, Wm White, H Wood, Re D Sheridan, J'L Allen, R James, J Seaman, T Brun- dey. Burke, M Hart, 8 Bitterliok, KE Wiators, W nis Coffee, Il Smart, N Melle, and33in the ‘ From Philadelphia. HEAVY FAILURE- FITTING OUT OF THE JAMESTOWN. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22, 1854, An extensive iron manufacturing concern has failed. Its liabilities are stated at $800,000, and its assets at $1,500,000, ‘The United States ship Jamestown is now being fitted out at the Navy Yard here for a year’s cruise. The Weather. HEAVY FALL OF SNOW AT THE EAST. Banaor, Nov. 22, 1854. We have had s moderate fall of snow here all the af- ternoon and eyeuing; and at this time, (10 o'clock, P. M.,) the storm is increasing. There is, as yet, no ice in the river, and navigation is good, Since the recent heavy rains, the mills have turned out a large quantity of lumber, and there are several vessels taking in car- goes for the west and south. Vessels are in great de- mand, and are unusually scarce. SNOW AND SLEIGHING AT SARATOGA. Saratoaa, Nov. 22, 1854. We were visited here this morning with quite # smart snow storm, and the snow having fallen to the depth of about four inches, bas made sleighing pretty fair. Death of Thomas P. Cope. Baurrworg, Nov. 22, 1854. Thomas P. Cope died at his residence here to-day, aged eighty-seven years, He was the originator of Cope’s line of Liverpool packets, and for half a century occu- pied high positions in this city. Departure of the Empire City. New OR:FANs, Nov. 21, 1854.99 ‘The steamship Empire City sailed from here to-dey, for New York, via Havana. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK MARKET. PaiLaveupaia, Nov. 22, 1854. Money is tight to-day, ana stocks are heavy. We quote Reading at 334; Morris Canal at 10%; Long Island Rail- read, es 113g; Pennsylvania 5’s at 79; Panama Railroad at 40%. New Orurana, Nov. 21, 1854, Gur cotton sales for the last two days have amounted to 18,000 bales, Middling is quoted at 8c. a 8%c.. Mess'pork is selling at $2450, Flour is $8 60 per bbl few ORLEANS, Nov. 4 . Coiton is unchanged. ‘The sales to-day (Wednesday) reached 6,000 bates. Middling is quoted at 9%c.; mess pork, $23; Rio coffee, 3,500 bags sold at 9%. a9%Ke. The stock’in port is 29,000 bags. Monte, Nov. 20, 1854. Our cotton market is active. Sales to-day 3,000 bales. Middling we quote at 8c. Borra1o, Nov. 22—11 A: M. _ Business on change this morning is very quiet and deslers are waiting for the steamer’s news. Flou! In flour there is a fair inquiry from the end the intencr. Sales 600 bbls. at $7 87 Black Rock; $8 26 for Upper Lake ; $8 75 for cl Tiincis, and $9 60 for extra Wlinois. There have been ro transactions in Miehigan or Ohio. Wheat.—In wheat and corn we find nothing done as yet. The re- ceipte of the former continue good, while the latter are hight. The prices ashing are the same as yesterday, Onte and Barley.—There been no inquiry for oats and barley as jet. Kye.—In rye there are sales of 3,000 burhels, to arrive, at $115. Whiskey.—Whiskey is neminally held at 3&}e. Canal freights are dull, and nominally lée. for corn to New York. Receipts this morning :—Flour, 1,814 bbls.; wheat, 72,942 bushels corp, £9,600 bushels; oats, 25,567 bushels, r.— city for MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.—To-night is the last for the prce rent of the English opera company at the Broadway thea- tre, The troupe depart for Boston, where they sing at tle new theatre. Undoubtedly the many admirers of Miss Fyne will fill the Broadway to-night. The ‘Crown Di:+ monds’? is played. Miss Julia Dean’s benefit and last appearance for ao. @ months in this city will take place at the Metropollt. n theatre next Saturday evening. Miss Dean is one of the best American actresses, and deserves well of her cou § ‘eymen. We are not informed as to the play relecteu for her benefit, but if all her friends turn out on the occasion even the Metropolitan will be found insufficient to accommodate them. Placide’s Varieties, which was burned on the Mth, was aemell but elegant theatre, owned by a number of wealthy merchants of New Orleans. It was erected about three years ago, and has since been managed by Mr, Thorons Placide, well known as one of the Old Park actors, The regular season had not commenced, but the pening for pantomime was announced thus:— 's Vaninties.—The Varicties theatre will open ¢ nine Nov. 18, with the wonderful Ravel rea Mathis a will appear in two of hor beet dancos, The perf commence with the amusing piece Love”’—Jobard, Francois Ravel uime of “Asphodel, or the Magic P cat with penasd seenery and appointments, and Francois ka- vel ae The wi ength of the company will ap fe i Mosers. rillant, Mangin, Marzetti, Le Mi 1, Marzettl; Miniles, Vietoring ‘ ;Mmes. A: Frank, Ul And others. Bex book now open. We presume that the theatre was underlet to the Ra- vels, and that Mr. Plaeide’s actual loss will not be large. Ele stock company, selected here, probably arrived at at about the time of the fire. His stage W. H. Hamblin, eldest son of the late ‘led from this port for New Orleangon the 5th Personal Meee Col, Penton arrived in St. Louis on the 17th inst., and on as his arrival was known he was called upon and greoted by hundreds of his fellow citizens. The St. Louis Demowrat enys be look# in fine health, and manifests nv abaiement of that vigor which has been so remarkable a veteristic with him through life. His stayin St, we regret to add, will be but for a few days, as he fndian, for Foreign Affairs of the opening of Con; invited toa nner at Lafayette, 151i inst., whieh he declined. eral Jockmus, lately Mini man empire wider the Lieutenant of the Empire, duke John, and formerly Commander-in-chiet of kish army in the Syrian campaign, and late Gen- the vervice of Her Most Catholic Majesty the Queen of Sin during the Carlist civil war, arrived on the 17th ina. at Quebec, on a visi to Colonel Ermatin- hie oki comrade and nide-de-camp. ‘The General is on the * way to Europe, after having, singe October, 1863, Hel round the world, visiting first India and China, and sailing from Ningpo to San Franciseo on this conti- nent, thence to Fanama and to New York, arriving there in the month of September last, where he was taken ill of the Panama fever, from which he is now convalescent. ‘The General leaves Montreal on the 20th, ona visit to Major Campbell, at St. Hilaire, and aaila for Barope per steamer of the 324 inst.—Canada paper. Loic] Uiman, American candidate for Governor of . For nnah, in steamship Alabama—DrJ Fullmer, Me Piper, C_D Buek, fink, J A Ruse Jr, C Hi Crandall, A J Aylesworth, A Alexander, E Card, A Ht Jonup, MB Ketchum ‘and servant, Dr (: A Kevell, E L Hackett, G F Brown ‘and lady, Miss L N Oliver and servant, Mr Fogo, Mr Taylor, ‘Miss Elliott, Miss P Elliott, Rev E A Stevens, laty and five ebil W Hi Nich and iad ire F MoG: , Miss P Joy, Miss Goodwin, ‘vant, Mrs V de P: les, D Parades, Geo and child, C B Cuth! Board of Education. THE ESTIMATES FOR EDUCATION RETURNED BY THE COMPTROLLER AND COMMISSIONERS, ‘The President, E. C. Benedict, Esq., in the chair. The Board met last evening. The principal subject before them was. communication from the Board of Commissioners, consisting of the Mayor, Recorder, Comptrolier, the Presidents of the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen, to whom was submitted the estimates of the appropriations required by the Board of Educa- tion, as shown by the report made to the Supervisors, un, der chapter 386 of the laws of 1801, a duplicate of such estimate for 1855 having been placed in hie hands by the Clerk of the Board of Education for this purpose. ‘The Board have been furnished witha printed state- ment of an application to the Common Council, by the Clerk, on @ call from the Comptroller, to know whether the estimates placed in his hands to be laid before the Commissioners, embraced the deficiencies af 1854 as well as the sums required for 1865. To this the Clerk an- swered that it did not include a sum of $198,001 96 re- YP to make upa deficiency in the expenditures of ‘The Commissioners will consider the two statements as making up the appropriation which by the charter en are required to take into consideration. ‘The estimated appropriation for the year 1856, as giveu in report prepared the Board of Supe: rs, smmounts to,, $086,010 06 he deficienc; ; port of the Common Council, is. 198,001 96 ‘The total xum required is...........600+ $1,184,101 96 ‘The rey port of the Board of Baucation rotert to several laws under which various sums are raised for school purposes, without a direct call from their Board; and it is added ihat the sum of $131,808 48 is apportioned from the Common School fund of the State, b; State Bu- perintendent of Public Instruction,’ 1 not be- overlcokea, however, that the school fund, separate from the amount derived froma direct annual tax on property, yields to the city only the sum cf thirty-five thousand jollars. In considering this question in to ii ~ ton with the taxation of the aig eet +] overlooks the fact, that whilst the sum of $151,808 48 10 appor- the city is —_ to the oy ey Koy scien » on annually for the sum of $226, which must be raised by tax, and pe og Dn can have the benefit’ of the $131,808 48 re to. This latter sum, it is true, is the Chamberlain from the Su; ‘tendent of "battle Instruction, and paid overto of Education the distribution share of the city. In this view of the matter, the case stands thus:—Ac- ing to the estimate of the Board of Education, there must be put in the tax levy of 1855, if we include the deficiency of 1854, and deduct $35,000 derived from the school fund +, the total sum:of. If we take the estinate of the last $633,000, and deduct $35,000, it leaves... Showing an increase in one year of.,..., ‘This is am inerease in single year of more m4 Fe The of Commissioners consider in returns ing this to the Board of Education ‘hele re. consideration and for a reduction of this tl are doing an act of simple justice to the tax- yers, Teccmménding a measure aot inconsistent with the prose ' verity aed pemeneat welfare of the schools. « It is assumed that the deficiency for 1854 being for Kabilities incurred, must be paid lawn will enable the a Soe eee gents of the city government to ofthe Bosra thetet thete ie tl fore, have confined tosundry items in the ‘estimate of 1866, by wnt toes suppore that the increase of $551,000 may be divided between the years 1855 and 1954, without material detri- =~ bon yonras of common sc! instruction. 1e of Commissior reasons object to the following itemes kaneis 1—The sum required for two sites of school HOWE... eeeeseseesevesyeressereseecers $31,000 2—The item for two schoolhouses, one in the Fifteenth ward and the other in the Twenty- tin, 60,000 35,000 schools .,., 5—The item of $60,000 for furnishing the side houses........ evssssevte tdi peice sesesseees — 60,000 item of $42,000 for rebuilding house in Houston street..........s.sceeeees -. 42,000 7—The item of $10,000 for patting an tional iad on schoothouse No. 7, in the ‘Tenth ward.. 10,000 &—The item of $14,000 houges in the Seventh ward. Total.....sssoscoressscserssoveereves cess ses sG2T ‘The Board of Commissioners do not interpove sey ee Jections to the various items, amounting toan aggregal of $198,000, which was aypropriated by. the 4 Poard after the Common Couneil and tl lature had acted on the estimate made for the year 1864, and had made provision for the wholo sum wivieh the Board of Education deemed necessary for the service for the year. But they most respectfully invite the considera- tion of the Board to the disappointments to individeala: and the embarrassments to the city government, | ll ing out of a departure from the necessary rule of con- fining the expenditures of the year to the estimates and appropriations for the year. Extraordinary cases make - an exception fo all rules.® But in ordinary cases, when it becomes necessary to increase or make other allowances affesting the interests numbers of individuals, it would be best concerned. that the allowance shoukl be made at a time when the ap ropriation and the payment can be simultancons bs th oe 1 ae Rot gan es the viene 3 @ salaries of teac! made applica’ Board of Faucation to add sixty thousand dollars to the estimate of 1853, and if au' had been o>tained from the last Legislature to place that sum in the tax levy of 1854, the teachers would have been regularly aid, and they, as wellas tbe public agents, would have en saved yy disappointment on one hand, and lexity on the other. Pethe communication was referred to a committee of three, composed of the President of the Board, aud Merers. Waterbury, of the Twentieth ward, and De- fe ton of the Eighth, together with the Finance Com- mittee. APPLICATION FOR DEFICIENCIES RETURNED BY THE COUNCIL~ MEN. a ‘The he ag tal en cy pepe made to the mon Council for was returned to them. Ae Madadimnr ia On motion, the application was ordered to be returned to the Councilmen, accompanied by a letter from the Priter di posing of the ler disposing of the ordinary routine business the Board idjcaract, to meet again ma Wednesday next, at 6 o'clock. Sxow axp SteronmNG.—Snow fell to the dexth of a foot in Worth, Jefferson county, N. ¥., last week, ag sleighe were drawn out for the fret time this