The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1854, Page 4

‘The Southern Democratic Spolls Organs on | dhot such designs should be Ateguieed in s war | premozitory rymptom of impaired integrity. | kind. Mr. Fernando Wood hae been elected to fare “ay the Know Nothinge-Misies! ang Public | 550n the Know Nothing, on account of their | We lay it down as a broad principle to which | £11 the office of Mayor of this city under,the | Under the inthuence of the advices per Afsica, the - alleged onti-elavery ten/@ncie-. No, no. This | no exception can be found that no bank officer | terms of the charter ; that charter directs that ee corion is one-eighth of @ cent lower, mid- One of the most extraord’nary anomalies in ta aD Sie a Rr | a 4 are Lys nathncseee | ji . will never do. Let us meet ihe subject face to » can speculate in stocks and be honest. | he eball make one of the city executive; the nes day a Brrics ™. %. CORNER OF KASSAU AND FULTON ors, | the politics of the Jay is the hy srmonioas hos- | ' If presidents a: d directors of moneyed institu- | question is whether he will do so or not. On | fo7si"ni, gene? at fe. Jar sine, 2S entitomie j tility of the democr.tic spo' As and secession | yy ' | organs of the Boath, and the geward and abo- | We should suppose from. the clearly conser- S yative attitude of ithe Know Nothiogs in New ition organs of the North, t he ne te- | pa | | 3 af North, Se" ged Fn fi | York, the head quarters of S-ward and bis | | Tious and terrible por y of the Know Nothings. | | ! | allies; and in Maseachusetts, b head quarters | of the managers of every bank to find cut where | True, theee ultra Southern , and ultra Northern * o+ (51 som and bie seditious aboliti n fanatics; | and how thelr emsloyés live: whether they journa’ to i | . ; } ig, ce quai ach and from the resul!s of the late elections in said | spend more nak we receive in the shape of | Cixctyyani, Dec, 1, 1854. 1 wo quote it ata are $4 50 and ad- Cuanteston, Dec. 1, 1854. ‘The cotton market ic unsettled, favoring buyers, Dales were sold to-day, at prices ranging from 7!¢c. & Oise. per Ib. * Burraro, Des. 1—11 A. M.” ‘The weather to-day is quite cold and stormy, and i ANG stiet St tions would adopt these rulesfor their guidance and rely lees on writ en bonds, there would be — fewer defaleations. I: should be the business the one side he has the example of his pre- | decessors to invite him to indolence : on the | nat to oneper eet ensieane other, the words of the charter, and the neces- | vancing- sity of improving his own standing with his | fellow citizens to stirhim up to exertion. If | he be a wise man, he cannot hesitate to adopt TEAMS iP MRRALD, 3 conte per anaum. Pe DA, S Tig WEERLY HERALD wery Se ee earn. con tr 53 per annum; the Buropesm Rdition 4 per annum, to tnelude postage, ae 2 | directions; but they xi 4 States, that the true men of th: South—for the | salary ; and alo whether they del in fancy | the latter course. : | Market opens quietly, "Huyers ure ‘wating tN or sn nda aL, | South, the North, and the Union—would recog- | stocks. This {avestigat'on should be constantly | ‘To mppose that a system under which the | the Africas news on ihe New Yerk’market. Our quote, scene ey | wae be veg muse as the allies at Se | oi this new party their tried and trasty | repeated. It could be done without difficulty | Meyor, should share the , husiness of each, | for flour ia toatnly for the local tra Pa “ ‘hie morn Pyoven ese See | around ply Resins. hears friends, and not covert and scheming enemies. | oF offence by the exercise of a little tact; andi department’ with the. .p xoiliger.. specially | $175 ‘or fancy Wisconsin, A sale wae aus p Han sree | But let the Cabinet organs in the South play | if thorough, would be a completeichéck oti 1hs6"| Sppolated, thereto, would, bp» Uikely,-to give | afternooy of 00 bbls, Michigan at 8675," Wheat —There ! ina fair inquiry for wheat Upper Lake, on private terms. Corn, oats and barley—We have sales to report of corn, oats or barley. Whi The Washington | Union, the Richmond En- | BIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Prizaanwomre Socie: | quirer, and the C’ parlesion Mureury— he first | a's CONcaaR. on, Southern public opinion cannot fail to dis | officers who might: have a: tendency towats:| rise to ‘mote correption than now exists, is BURTON'S, Chambers streot—Urran Tex anv Lowsm ae cover that they are trovel:ing tre eame road ; frand, ‘The shrewdest man could not rob Jarge | entirely gratuitous. The rule of every day life ; po sales to renor sales 40 bbls. at O8e. avenev--Eeseaiens Bane. ses | pe oe © peoial Southern organs of the | Tis, ine Pa and aaehania organs of the | amounts; or speculate'to any considerable ex- | is that two men, appointed to keep watch over | for the lant Corsy-clgl thou = Fioar, #388 Ul wheaty RATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Rqvaeraran | “PON'S coalition at Washington, and the third tent without showing it in his manner, mode of | each other and keep each other in cheok, will | 9,57 bushels: corm, 70/110 bushels oat, 1,708 bush- North. In the end, the Seward lea:ue and the administration and its organs will be crashed by the same blow. It must bes. It is lessa | els; berley, 8,098 bushels; rye, 4,700 bushels. sh agi (prs dag Conlausi deena ia e recel ol ai our ve and main!: From the Upper Lakes. half-and half s; eitsman and secessionist—lead the forlorn hop e against the Kuow Nothings in | Peavoamancns—Nick oy rae Woovs. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Sroadway—Monzv—Tuz Naw steal less than either of the two, if left living, and expenditure. I: is greatly to be himself, This is precisely the pridciple on feared that a serious obstacle to the adoption | woorman. the South. T | ‘ . : ie MEIROPOLITAN THEATRE, Brosdway—Honxvsoon | the anti-clav: i ay ores Bs ica | precentiment, less a prophecy, than destiny— | of this plan woul, reside in the uasoand habits | which the Mayor's participation in the ai hk [itetted" Yorand, sade have. 0 "Taapietepelietiad: —Winriam Pent. Pe vracanas Lore ashingtoa, | manifest destiny.” The revolution must run | of the directors themselves, Engrossed with | tive business res's. It was intended that he | Prices. Sales of $00 bbls. ware made at $8 for Black \ and Lloyd ( jarrison’s infidel abolition. Libera- | | its course. | i should exercise co-extensive authority with | tor at Bost on, head the allies im the North. | AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Warck Asuone. Byening—Whack AsHonae—Tux Sairus, their own speculat ons, snd plunged themselves play Na tn Ah pe Bg se Ontos" FP on? ‘em wheat Wheat—The supply of pA RE EN WOOD'S VARIETIES—Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Brondway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 589 Brosdway—Bvox- | serr'a Brwiorian Orxra Trovurr. WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Minstrel Hall, 444 Broadway. ~ @ASTLE GARDEN—Ecuestaian Prrvonmanom. Wew York, Saturday, December 2, 1854. The News. The near approach of the meeting of Congress as again put in motion the machinery of newspa- correspondence, giving to the world any amount of speculation and conjecture, with here and there ® fact more or less important. The subjects that ‘will form the fort:coming Message of the President, fand the tone and temper in which they will be dis eusacd, are matters that occupy the attention of ‘the letter-writers; and certeinly those indefatigables exhibit a truly wonderful abundance of resource and invention. In order, therefore, that our reai- ers may be apprised of a!l that is transpiring at the capital, we‘Isy before them this morning interest- gg letters from our own correspondents, and also ‘hoce of other journzis, to which we invite atten- tion. It is now ascertained that the Message will be tzanemitted to the principal cities in advance of the assembling of Congross, and we stall, consequently, de enabled to publish it on the afternoon of Monday wext, thas affording oug citizeas an opportunity yuietly to cigest its contents, perheps before the elerk has concluded its reading-at the Capitol. We have to record another seizure of smuggled geode. As the passengers on board the steamship Africa were leaviag that vessel on Wednesday aven- ing, soon afterher arrival at her dock at Jersey ity, the revenne officers discovered a number of watches aud a quantity of jewelry secreted in some Wwunks belonging to passengers. The further de" -barka‘ion of the passengers that night was prohibit- ed, and they were all strictly searched the next mori mg before they were allowed to depart. The Sur veyor of the Port has in custody the contraband goods, which are estimated to be worth seventy-fiva Phousend dollars. The denizens of Wall street were slightly per. turbed yesterday by rumors of the discovery of a @efalcation invelving the respectable amount of wo hundred thousand dollars. Tae particular: have rot transpired, and it is surmised that they may vot be made public. A communication from Otis P. Jewett, addresesi the etockhclders of the Parker Vein Coal Cou- pany, relating to his connection’ with {that coi- poration, may be found in another column. As wa have heretofore given one side of the question in the report cf the investigating committae, it is Ro mere than fair thatthe other side of ths con- ‘woversy should receive attention. We publish to-day a most interesting letter from ear Kingston (Jamaica) correspondant, dated th- 34 inst., in which the approaching commercia', Mancial, and executive embarrassments of tha portion of the British colonial possessions ia the ‘West Indies are clearly foreshadowed, and their omases set forth. The elections which have jas’ terminated have not prodaced any decided alsera tion in the complexion of the House of Assemoly mor in the new Constitution bill recommended by @e Foreign Office in Lou¢on, likely toinfase vitality into a system of government long since effete throngh @rruption and attempts at aristocratic centraiizs tion. Indeed, as the writer remarks, it can scarcely de called a representative body when only two thon gard persops were entitled to vote at the elections, eat of s popniation of three hundred and fifty thou- sand—ihe former being qualified on only fragments of property, would seem to show that the balance are impoverished serfs. Cholera and smallpox hac declined, aiter thinning the population. Two or three hundred Ghinese laborers had arrived dires: from China and some from Navy Bay. Many of the latier were very sickly. It is reported that the Know Nothings of Phiia- delpbia on Thursday fired a salute of one thonaan ans, in honor of their reccnt victory in that State. A steam boat was chartered for the purpose, whi" | piled up and down the Delaware river, in front ©: the city. is is certainly the most extensive coo bastion of gunpowder that we have beard of lately ‘The siege of Sebastopol would hardly exceed it in noise. Fortdnately for the Philadelphians, a strooz Borthwest wind prevailed, carrying the din an? smoke over to New Jersey. The Board of County Canvassera of this cit) yesterday suczeeded in completing the canvass o the return», with the exception of the Tenth and Twenty-econd wards. The final result will proba- Diy be declared to-day. The oflicisl vote for Gar- enor, as shown by the footing up of the County Glerk, will stand sa follows: For Horatio Seymonr, 26,780; for Myron H. Clark, 12,233—plarality for Beymour, 14,547. Mr. R. 8. McCulloch was yesterday daly instalie! jwto the Professorship of Mathematica and Nataral and Experimental Philosophy of Columbia College. ‘The ceremonies were witnessed by a large audiencr. ‘The Committee of the Board of Councilmen bav ing in charge the matter ot opening Albaay street, held @ session yesterday, at which Gen. Sandfora and Mr. Bacon delivered arguments adverse to the proposed measure. At the conclusion of the 21 @rerses the committes adjourned. A report of the proceedings at the meeting of the butchers. held yesterday, is given elsewhere. Th: | in eattle brokers have agreed to change the market day. To this arrangement the butchers object, and their reasons for so doizg are forcibly set forth in ‘the resolntions adopted at the meeting. ‘The examination of Gray, the vitriol man, before ‘the Mayor yesterday, result d in his commitment ‘to p:ison in default of bail. There are fifteen com- Plainte sganst him, and five hundred dollars bonds im each care are required. Nothing of particular interest transpired in the | Ohilds divorce trial yesterday. After the examina tion of several witnesses fo: the defence, the case ‘was ac journed till Monday next. Yesterday it was considered pretty certain that the present cold weather would close canal navigation, | €t will officially end on the 5th instant,) yet flour | ‘was dull; and sales limited. There was some pause tm the domestio demand, with a light business doia; | tor Common brands closed a little lower, | while good to choice and extra brands vere un- | cbanged. Michigan white whest sold at $2 30, ani Wisconsin red at $1 75.. Corn was one to two cents per bushellower. Mess pork was at $13 12 s $15 25 asked; contracts for 8,000 9 9,000 bbis were settled part, at $13 50a $14, About 12,000 bales of cotton were sold, the market closing steady. Freights continued firm and active for English ports, Graiu fer Liverpool was freely taken at 6d. in bulk, and 6)4. in ship's bags; dead weight was at 17s. 64., 74 1,500 & 2,000 bales compressed cotton were en- { 4 bed et 6-320. 99 108., which wae an advance. The Union , and its echoes assailing the Know Nothings them as an anti-slavery party, as the “in- on tre Southern side, attack troduc'it n of a reoret atolition party into the South;” his Li serato- of yesterday, that he is “satis§ ed, :o far as the nation at large is con- cerne |, that the Know Nothing movement is to be pl astic in the hands of the slave power, and will be moulded to suit its own evil designs agai pst the cause of universal emancipation.” This is strong language, and Garrison is a ehr ewd observer of passing events, with all his Ta’ elity. But the Cabinet organ at Washing- te m is just as decided on the other tack, in its declaration that this same Know Nothing move- Yment “has superseded and intensified the aboli- tion party, by building up an organization con- treiled by abolition sentiments, political pro- sori; tion, and religious in olerance.” Now, it is impossible tha Garrison nd the Oabinet organ can both be righ. Both may be wr. ng, and both are wrong. It is abundant- ly manifest, from the official Know Nothing platform which we published substantially yes- terday, in the proceedings ot the'r late Massa- chusetis banquet , that this new party is neither a slavery nor a: anti-slavery party; that it is sold neither to the one side nor to the other; but that upon ‘he slavery question its policy, as a national party, is the safe and sound policy of non-intervention. I s platform is adhereace to the Constitution, to the rights of the South under the Constitution, and the rights of the States, all of which will be respected in a national campaign in the simple policy of non- | intervention. The Cabinet organ informs us that the Know Notbings have ‘not yet chosen a single Unioa | wbig or Union democrat to the national legis- lature;” but that they have defeated “ some of the most-fearless and self-sacrific'ng spirits iu the North” Now, wha: are the facts? After the perilous agitation of the slavery questioa had been closed by the compromise acts of 1850; after continual peace had been promised to and expected hy the country in the election of Pierce, from the most positive assurances thot he would labor faithfully to maintain the peace which had been secured, what do we find? Tn a desperate effort to wash off the stains o his free soil affiliations, we find Gen. Pierce opening anew the box of Pandora, and scatter- ing its miechiefs broadcast over the country. Tie has been punished for it, and his unfertu- nate spoilsmen who hoped to find a refuge be- hind the coustitutionality of the Nebraska bill have been punished as his instraments. Under honest auspices, the Nebraska bill might have sustained itself, even in the North, upon the sound doctrine of popular sovereign- ty; but in this instance the thing wasa juggle for Southern political capital, a trick to cover up the blunders of the administration in the “hive and cry” of the Northern anti-slavery so- cieties, And the trick hes failed. If “ fearless and self-sacrificing men,” who voted for the Ne- brarka bil’, have been immolated by the Know Nothings, it is because those “fearless” mes were the ‘ool of the administration, and no: becanee of their vote upon the principles of the bill. A paramoust object of the Kuow Nothings is to “crush out” this pre- | sent imbecile epoils administration, and so, wherever its instruments could be pinned, they have pinned them to the wall, like curious bugs and bectles in a showman’s case. The abstract question of slavery had little or nothing to do with this new party in ihus transfixing the ad- ministration candidates, The Know Nothings were dealing with the administration, and their argument was the argumentum ad hominem Nothing more. ‘But the President’s spec'al mouth-pieee an? its southern satellites are deceiving the South, in their representations that the Know Nothings have invariably sustained the Anti-Nebrasksa against the Nebraska candidates for Congress The case of Thomas H. Benton is a striking example to the contrary. He occupied in the House the position of the Achilles of the ene- mies of the Nebraska ,bill. He was defeated ofa re-election by the Know Nothings of his district, who voted in a solid body against him. They recognized in him a powerful instrument in behalf of the projected Northern anti-slavery league, and so they crucified him; because, next to the administration, this anti-slavery league stands in the way of the Know Nothing schedule for the Presidency. They are thus clearing the track of the one and the other. A separate Know Nothing State ticket New York, and the large vote which it received, though brought forward at the eleventh honr against the Seward anti- slavery coalition; and the clean work whieh has been made of the anti-slavery free soil party, the administration party, and the whig party in Massachusetts, «stablishes the point that it ie the policy of the Know Nothings to throw overboard all the old parties and fac- tions of the day, and the trash and rubbish of their swindling platforms, and to take the field as anew conservative constitutional national party inall sections of the Union. Nothing more, It is not surprising that the Cabinet organ at Washington should misrepresent the acts, the principles and purposes of this new party. It is t' e desperate remedy for a desperate case, But it is somewhat mortifying that the Rich- mond Enquirer, while professing the iveliest anxiety forthe safety of the South, should be found playing into the hands of the Seward organs, and of Lloyd Garrison and his pestilent abolition fanatics against the Know Nothings, Such are the cemoralizing inflnences of the spoile. We are aware that the’ Charleston Mercury bas a lingering propensity for seces- tion, and would probably prefer that the Seward programme should have fall play to the violent d'sroptign of the Union; but it is hordly fair | the condition of several Wall street banks was | not safe, and that defalcations to a large while L'oyd Garrison dec ares in | The Recent Bank Defalcations. More than a yesr since we ann unced that amount had taken place, and had been conccal- ed by the managers of the plundered inatitu- tions. The statement was promptly and em- phatically denied by several leading officers in the banks we mentioned, and a perfect storm of indignation arose in certain quarters. We were confident we were right, and sald so: but most of the bank shareholders sad depositors thought differently, and they were the parties interest- ed, the matter was allowed to rest there. Dur- ing the twelve months that have elapsed since then’ events have fully justified the truth of what we said. Detalcations to an amount ex- ceeding half a million of dollars have now come to light, and been admitted by the bank officers. It is not too much to say that had due attention been paid at the time to the warnings of the press, these losses might not have oc- curred. It is n w of course too late to repair them, and, as usual in such cases, we take it for granted that the amounts that wi 1 be obtained by way of damages from the sureties of the de- faulters wil be merely nominal. The great question—which will be present at this time to the mind of every bank president and director —is how sholl similar accidents be prevented in future? The temptations to which so many bank clerks have already yielded are likely to continue and increase. Money is becoming more and more valuable, and to a certa’n class of minds the temptation to speculate grows daily more irrecistible. Meny a bank teller or clerk sees that he could make a month’s salary in a» afternoon, simply by borrowing for that short period a few thousand dollars from his drawer; and will need more recolution than ever to re- sist the snare. On the other hand, those who, holding office in a bank, have been also engaged in other business, are certain to be suffering from the prevailing stringency in the money market; the fatal opportunity they enjoy of satisfying their most pressing wants at the ex- pense of the bank is hard to decline. Add to this that, in times like the present, the presi- ding officers of monetary institutions are likely to be themselves so involved fn perplegitie: and embarrassments that their watchfulnes: must necessarily be relaxed; and it will be seen that, without great good fortune and equal cau tion, the chances are that we shall hear of many more bank defalcations before long. How can we preven; them? The men who rob banks are a special class readily distinguishable from all other thieves. G@ashiers, tellers, and bookkeepers are no’ pressed to steal by want. Asa general rale they receive salaries which enable them to live comfortably, and are treated with such consi- deration that a feeling of respectability is natu- rally engendered in them. They are famii ar with the sight and contact of momey, and feel none of those wild influences which somctimes lead to crime in those who are unaccustomed to see large amoonts together. In short, most o° the reasons which induce men to commit ‘rand are powerless on their minds, On the other hand they are liable to be'seized with aresistless maria for speculation, which itself oversets priacij:te and honesty, and which leads moreover to habits equally subversive of all ideas of right. The bank cashier or teller watches daily the opera- tions of the stock exchange; he sees hie friewds and acquaintances making thousands without labor; he is constantly “recommended, openly or tacitly, to swell his own income in a similar way; and he knows that he has under his hani the means to operate, and, in the event of suc cers, to conceal every trace of the operation If he succeeds, as he may do, the sudden inflax of wealth begets a desire for expense and ex- travagance: on a salary of $1,500, he finds that, with the help of a few operations, he can, for the first six months, spend $5,000; and at once he sets his household on a permanent footing at thisrate. The first reverse in his speculations is the commencement of his downfall. His brokers require more margins; his creditors demand payments for furniture and so forth; he must draw on the funds committed to his chargo, or he fails, Always hoping that fate will turn, he draws deeper, deeper, deeper, until at last escape ‘s impossible, and he is stamped as a de- faulter. This is the process by which bank officers be- come defaulters. What safeguards have been adopted by the banks to hold it in check? Bank cashiers and clerks are required to give ecurity in amounts varying from ten to thirty thousand dollars. This is a practice of very questionable expediency. It must often be a matter of great difficulty for young men other- wise well qualified to procure bondsmen to the figure of ten or twenty thousand dollars: while all experience shows that when a clerk turns defaulter, he invariably makes away with four or five times as much. Thus, by the present arrengement, the clerk is hampered at the out- eet, and, if he robs the bank, the latter is not saved by his security, though his bondsmen may be muleted in the amount of their bonds. As & remedial or preventive measure, the system of bonds must be condemned as useless, This is, as we understand, the opinion of those best qualified to form a mature judgmen: on the point. The best security for the honesty of a cashier or teller is clearly to be found in t‘e character and habits of the man. The rule is that a man who has led an orderly life from his youth, who enjoys himself rationally, performs his work regularly, and\lives qu’etly, will not rob his employer : whereas on the con'rary he who lives fast, dresees expensively, drives crack “horses and has fine rooms in @ fashionable part of the city, is likely in the long run to be dia- Toneet, A deire for syecalation is another into an extravagance which their means do not justify, too many of them would neither take the trouble to keep a close watch over their subordinates, nor assume to correct faults en- couraged by their own example. If society ia- tends to cure the evil, the axe must be laid at the root of the iree. Governor CLark axp TRE Liquor Sxors.— Myron Holly Clark is to be the next Governor of the State of New York. All hail to the champion of pure water! We make oursalaam to the ruler who has promised to put the grog- shops to their purgation and quench forever the fires of King Alcohol’s dominions. The worm that dieth not is to be crushed under Governor Clark’s Maine law administration. The Governor elect is now very busy over his mesesge we are told; and as it is a-most im- portant document, it will be well for him to take a lesson or two in English grammar and composition. There are good schoolmasters in Ontario county, and any one of them will be hoppy to post the Governor up in those little matters general!y considered necessary adjuncts to the construction of the English language. It would be # great triumph for the grogshops ifthe Maine law message should fall through, merely on account of a defect in the Governor’s education. * Well, Clark is elected. The Mnine law tri- umphs. The prospects of the grogshop politi- cians are very gloomy. Their chief elemont in getting up patriotic steam will be neutralized altogether. They must prepare themselves for the reign of virtue, cold water and woolly heads. They have always held that cold water was all well enough for manufacturing pur- poses, but not worth talking about asa beve- rage. Now they must come to it. They will be clean and sober of necessity. And, that their health may not be endangered by a too sudden shock, we advise them to commence at cold water, outside and in, immediately. A sliding scale might be adopted, eommencing with one glass of water to sixteen of brandy or rumevery day, and gradually increasin; the quantity of water and lessening the doses of brandy. This prescription is a safe one and it must be continued until the patient can stand all water and no rum. The old soakers who never drink any water will be surprised to flud that it is a very excellent beverage. With Clark for Governor we are also to have a great moral revolution, The grogshops will suffer. Some of them will be shut up alto gether. Fines, costs and imprisonment will take off the profits. Rents will fall ani dealers will break. The liquor business will be in a great measure doke-up. . In anticipation of this sublime spectacle, there has been some talk in high grogshop quarters relative toemigration. The grog men are looking about for some ark of refuge in which they may be saved from the delage of cold water which threatens to sweep the State from Dunkirk to Montauk Point. But where shall they go? California is overdone accord- ing to all accounts. Nebraskais a good open country, but there’s no rum to be had in thas territory. Plenty of water and niggers but no rum. Even the proposed new Centra! Ameri- can Republic offers no great inducement to this class of emigrants. The people will be too poor. It would, perhaps, bea good drinking country, but there is no money to pay for the liquor. Thus it will be seen that the ordinary chan- nels of emigration are closed to this orna mental class of our fellow-citizens, Bat there is one place—one elysian—one happy family— one epicurean reireat—one delicious paradise where their exertions will be appreciated and their efforts rewarded—the City of Washing- ton! The openivgis a magnificent one. We have thirty millions of mouey in the trea: :ry, and only thrce months (holidays out) to spend itin. The city isan immense rumshop. The Kitchen Cabinet lives on ram, entirely—mem- bers of Congress drink rim all day and all night, and between all their speeches—there is Tum in the White House—rum on the avenue— tum overflowing in the hotela—rum in the drawing rooms—rum in the boudoirs—rum in thre lobby—ram in the Speaker’s room--rumin the committee rooms—in fact the capitol itself is filled with rum from dome to corner stone. There is no Maine law in Washington- proba- bly there never will be; and, during the coming session of Congrees there will be more robbery, more corruption, more clutching at the spoils, more thieving, more lobbying, more giving away of the public lands, more lying, more in- temperance, more immorality, more - ery, more unblushing effrontery, and more ras- cality of all kinds in the city of Washington than in any other place in Christendom—or heathendom either, for that matter. Nebraska, California, Central America, pale before the brilliancy of the national capital The grogshop politicians’ Emigrant Aid Socie- ty must go to Washington or no where; they cannot remain here after we become a temper- ance State, and in Washington they will find worthy coadjutore—men who having been elc. vated to office by rum will not desert their old friends. Then let the grogehop banner be fiang to the breeze. Ho! fur Washington— rum, riot, robbery and the epoils! Tae Powers or THe Maror—A cotempo- rary—pledged by a small stipend to sustain the interests of the present corporation officers— scoffs at the notion that the Mayor—being part and parcel of the city executive—should take an active share in the business of the municipal departments, It argues that the city treasurer is appoin‘ed to receive and dis- burse the olty funds; and that ‘he mixing of any other officer in the | usiness would be more iikely to pro’uce confasion and corraption than the con‘rary, We see no prospect of th. partments; so that, in | : each of the heads of de cual * a“) { fae 8,000 bushels upper lake on private terms, but sup: the event of any attempt at corruption or mal- administration on the part of the latter, he | | should be enabled to check it. This principle has most unfortunately been lost sight of aud thrown aside by our recent Mayors; but it is not the leas clearly enunciated in the charter. Nor would any difficulty arise in the practi- cal working of the system. The plan of di- viding authority between two men, who exer- cise a check over each other, is as old as the best governments of antiquity: and except in fome very rare emergencies, where the one wan power is obviously preferable to any other, it bas always been found to work well. In our city government its adoption could noi fail to | be attended with advantage. It would increase the responsibility of the rulers to the people; and would impose a check on the very men | decline of le. a 2c. would have to be submitted to. sed to be at $1 69. Corn—There is @ good supply o! Bom, Dut the demand bas fallen off. -To offect salos >e 176,419 bushels; corn, 93,496 els; barley, 8,089 bushels; rye, 4,700 bushel PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pumaperrata, Dec, 1, 1854. Stocks wore firm at our first board , with sales at the following quotations:—Reading RR, 34; Morris. Capal, 1134; Long Island RR., 1234; Pennsylvania RR., 40%; Pennsylvania State fives, 80. The tone of our money market is unalte: ‘Mr. Dewrsrer.—Thig very popular ballad singer has. arrived in town after a very successful tour through the | country, and he will give @ concert at the Tabernacle | next Monday. Thousands will be glad to hear again those touching yet simple ballads, which speak directly to the heart. Balloon Ascension. | | | M. Godart, the celebrated aeronaut, made another very. whose frecdom from restraint has proved so prejudicial in times past. In fact, we cannot think of an argument against the plan. The , case rests with Mr. Wood. : THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Virginia Democratic State Convention. Ricuvonp. Va., Dec. 1, 1354. The Virginin Democratic State Convention assembled to-day at Staunton, and was temporarily organized by the appointment of Colonel George Baylor, of Augusta, Chairman, and Wm. F. Ritchie and Robert W. Hughes Secretaries. A committee of one from cach district was appointed to nominate permanert officcrs, and reported Oscar M. Crutchfield, of Spotsylvan‘a, for President, and thirteen Vice Presidents. Much confusion ensued upon a motion to go intoa nomination for Governor. Along debate then took place upon the rules to bo adopted in casting the vote. Mr. SHACKELFORD moved that the convention do not make & nomination for Governor or Lieutenant Governor uniess the candidates receive a vote sufficient to repre- sent a mpajority of the whole democratic vote in the State. . Mr. GARNETT ofiered asa substitute, that the couven- tion shall require a majority of the votes cast to nomi- vate candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. Adopted. ‘This was considered a triumph for the Wise party, and they being strongest inthe convention, exciting times are expected. ‘An effort will probably be made to further amend, by adopting the two-thirds rule. The democratic vote represented in the convention is sixty-one thousand four hundred, and the whole demo- cratic vote of the State is about seventy thousand. From Albany. CHARGES OF OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT AGAINST THE PRESENT STATE PRISON INSPECTOR. ALBANY, Dec, 1, 1854. Charges of official misconduct have, itis said, been preferred against Thomas Kirkpatrick, the present State Prison Inspector, and they will probably be referred to successful ascent yesterday in his balloon. He started | from the Hippodrome at about 4o’clock P. M., in the | presence of some two hundred ladies and gentlemen, who had come to see the sight. The weather was ine tensely cold, and at one time a snow atorm hung threat- eningly over the city. But this cleared off in the course | Of the aiternoon, and by the time the balloon was ready to ascend, the sky was almo-t unclouded. At half past two P, M., M. Godart commenced inflating the enormous machine with gas, which alone costs an expenditure of $00 or $100, This preparation takes about an hour’s time. As the balloon becomes filled, it ic retained im a steady ponition by weights, which, fastened to the rope net-work, are placed around on the ground. When filled, the basket is attached, and the weights removed. ‘The balloon now sways powerfully from to side, and ~ ‘the spectators grasp the ropes to keop it steady. M. Ge- dart ies about, entreats the police officers to keap back. loudly for his sac de mist That the crowd, and calls ple of bottles of cham) . article being brought, a cou! a a, of ae Hes a ps hein — sto’ away 0 comfo1 e aeronauts. on oir as 2 ad. Becomes journey. The excitement of the crow intense as the preparations are concluded, and the passengers are seen scrambling into the car. Om this occasion, Mr. 8. M. Meldridge, » gentleman of this. city, and two German ladies, whose names we were une, able to ascertain, accompanied M. Godart. We believe. that, unable-to induce any of the sterner sex toascend,. M. Godart was obliged to fall back upon the ladies, who volunteered to go, and whose cou! was quite equa? to the danger. Godart now climbs up the ropes, and standing on the edge of the basket shouts 2? The people at first seem doubtful whether it is judidbas to do so, but the order being ted more they instinctively obey. The loon pauses for a mo- ment as if igre — course os take, me them moves gently upwards, pereasing 4 as it rises and takes a northeasterly direction, travellers to the moon wave their handkerchiefs, and the mortals: Seay with fallroad speed to the ap nd it prevented siete away wi apeed to the wu, a splendid ploture to the spectators belo. ts steady, unwavering motion told of complete obedience to hand that guided it. For half an hour afterwards it. might be seen growing and smaller—now the Recple in the basket are in’ the round masa ks like a black speck it the sky, which is co- lored by the setting sun, and now it has altogether dis~ appeared. The spectacle is over. Let those who would witness an exciting exhibition attend at the Hippodrome when M. Godart next ascends in his balloon. ey will be repaid for their trouble as the sight is both amusing and instructive. Before thin century closes the good People of New York may think nothing of crossing the Atlantic in some such convey~ ance. Who knows? Int City A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE—A MILLIONAIRE BURIED IN FOTTER’S .FIELD. On the 224 ult., an unknown man, about eighty-five the Commission now inVestigating charges of a similar | Years of age, wasaccidentally killed on the Third Ave- nature against the inspectors, Clark and Storms. Another Railroad Collision. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED—THE OARS ON FIRE. Portianp. Dec. 1, 1854. As the train from Island Pond for Portland, on the Grand Trunk Railroad, was nearing Thompson’s Mills, | million dollars worth rid shag in the town of Starks, this morning, the snow plough got off the track and stopped the train, At that moment the down freight train came along and ran into it, smash- ing the cars badly, and injuring eight or ten persons -- verely. Two passenger cars took fire and were con- sumed. Mr. Corser, the superintendent of the road,.has gone to the scene of the disaster, with surgeons, &c., in | On which a special train. Norrnumper.anp, (N. H.,) Dec. 1—9 P. M. nue Railroad, near Forty-second street. An inquest wae held the nextday by Coroner O'Donnel], and no one peor Aafia the body, it was interred, as is usual in such cases, in the Potter's Field, and no more was thought ef the unknown deceased until yes! 7, whem it turned out that the deceased was John L. No of LS enenne: ee u te ae office,and tl were furnished with deceased came across the Coroner O’Donnell, on the 224 ult., the unkno man, at Forty-second street. From ie ee the description giver Ten persons are injured, mostly by fractures of tho | of the deceased in the papers they were satisfiod that the bones and dislocations of the limbs. Their wounds, however, are not considered dangerous by the physi- cians. Good surgical aid is in attendance at the scene of the disaster from Portland and other places. Mrs. Taylor, who had been visiting at Lancaster, is badly burned, and Hes in a critical condition. Your others of the sufferers only remain at Stark, the rest having been removed by their friends. Among the injured are Wm. Burns, of Lancaster whose leg is fractured; Wm.H. McCullis, of Bangor, whose arm has been dislocated; and the Rev. Mr. Bax- ter, of Wilton, Me., whose collar bone was broken. The train consisted of one passenger car, to the rear | dents were of which was attached a box car, which was driven hak See. way through the passenger car by the collision. The train stopped in consequence of the: locomotive becoming unshackled, and not by getting off the track. From Boston. THE ROASTINGS OV THE REV. THEODORE PARKER—THE the STATE BANK OF BENNINGTON—WEATHER, BTC. Bosrox, Dec. 1, 1854. The Rev. Theodore Parker, in his discourse yesterday, said that he had received many honors during his life- Sevtiay Gone time, but his arrai nment in the United States Court on Wednesday was the highest honor he had yet received from his fellow men. It ie stated thatthe Stark Bank at Bonnington, V':, which suspended last Monday, may ultimately redeem its bills, the directors being held in bonds to the State'to insure that result. The bills now sell for Afty cents on the dollar, The current reports are that the bapk lost largely in Ohio. The weather here was very clear and cold to-day. At sunrise the thermometer stood at twenty three, and at noon thirty degrees. The ground is covered with snow 8 few railes in the interior. The Case of Dr. 8. T. Beale. Prmapetrma, Dec, 1, 1854, The friends of Stephen T. Beale are obtaining hundreds unknown man was their lost relative, John L. Norton. They then visited Potter's Field and had body ex- humed, which went to confirm their em determ!- nation as to who the deceased was. body was then cul ex-polierman of the Sixth ward, named Brock who resigned some time ago, on account of the new uni- Cire ace be haere nated |, the nearest heir at law. pe at COLUMBIA CoLtpor—INAUGURATION oF 4 New Prorna- s0r.—The inauguration of Mr. R. 8. McCulloch, the ne tneaa | a 2-4 a natural met experimental The chapel of that institution” ‘The majority of the rtu yer — Sees aa of their ry of College were attendance, several of the professors of the versity, Froe and ‘other ‘tlemen, Hon. : Academ; . pepe ane marae pene ih ee President introdiced weed Mr. Mock, i sooeedanen with, usual forms on occasions. Mr. then proceeded to deliver a letore to the students on e study of the natural sciences, and the great benea- cial effects which they had produced on the elvitisaton and pi ofthe world. “After the discourse—which was tridenty intended for those only who composed tie br. Haight pronounced Benediction, and the Socrmry. of this society will be held this even! meeti < ‘Da S inonieg’s Hotel, William street, at 7 o'clock. A social berg Sra Wy Bod the Laoag Dinner will be om the table at fivr o’clock, P. M. For particulars bree will the advertisement in our columns of Fine ry Division Struxt.—Between 7 and 3 o'clock ptory | @ fire broke out in the Dullding keys as xo ime nae ane Re ogo by John Desenroth Horles and attic, and: the five originated fe ane story, back regen which there were Tax Swiss Bewgvorent .—The annual deli? i at The premises were pe id no house and slave “wens » wuteeae prvrene beg ¥ ‘Deenrott is insured to the amount names on hie steck of liquors svete Rate tent cca csn en | foams ene. he Be Sa nea matter, principally on the aide of mercy, on account of | bly amount to $1 the ‘to the et eae WEivall street, ale tandems mot sor, han Hie propart} Acquittal of Dr. Thompson. ‘image oo Beige ieearanss toe few doles The or Ricmmonp, Dec. 1, 1864, gin Fir arn a ae acelaenhavinge néeica vent Dr. Thompson, who was charged with the murder of Miss Phar, at Covington, Ky., was acquitted by the jury, to-day, before whom he was tried, after they had been out one hour. Newspaper, Change. Unica, Dec, 1, 1854. The Utica Morning Herald, heretofore owned by 2 stock association, has been purchased by Ellis H. Roberts, | Drwoonanio Waia Youna Muv’s who, up to last September, held the property as leases. Mr. R. is now the sole proprietor. for the murder of his wife, From Troy. ‘Tact, Deg 1, 1864. ‘The Hon. Russell Sage, member of Conress elect from ‘this city, left here this evening en rowte for Washington ‘Tae Wrarmen.—!Winter business. For the hand. thermometer, in the da; Sate Pircetey ered wee Pcs mocratic Whig Young Men’s tet ant mighty in the Broadway House, Jndge Welch in the chair.