The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1854, Page 2

Interesting f:om Mexico. OUR VARA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. Vera Cruz, Nov. 23, 1854. General Gadsden in Vera Cruz— Rumors in Con- sequence thereof— His Serene Highness and Little the protec- Vie—Diamond “Cut” Diamond—Her Britannic | tion of our laws ard institutions. We also learn that | Americans, bave always soothed Majesty's Minister and His Serene Highness's Gragd-Vizier— Military Preparations—The Re- bels in Michoacan— Female Heroism—A Nut for the Abolitionists—The Bxodus Near at Haxd— Death “of Consuls—General Paez—The “ Elec- tion" —Stipping Intelligence. We have had..some excitement among the quid dintee These the ine stakes Dent as ony a coun’ silla Valley, have a*knowlecged the the United States over them, apd tf they have surrendered two or three fugitives who have escaped from justice. A soldier, belonging to Fo:t Defiance, was killed by s Navajo Indiap. The former was met by the latter, a little distauce from Glo paseinms and shot without the least provocation. Tze matter will be examined jnto. | _ The election for Sheriff «f the county of San Fe, in piace of Lorenzo Labadi ap’ ian agen‘, | ining that epposition to taxation United States from euch armaments as will make them dangerous rivals. This they infer lees from the failure of any attempt in Congress to | increase the army and navy’ than from the opposl- | | tiom which our forefathers made to the tyrannical tax- | ations of George III. From this circumstance, the tswnes om account.f he arrival of Mr. Gadeden, the Was Said, Tesreday. en Donia There were British derive their idea of the avarice and mean- American Minister, from Mexico. It was bruited | that he had demended bis passports, and was quit- | ting this “ God-forsaken-country,” (I quote from | his immediate predecessor), in high dudgeon. | Steaightway rumor, with ber thousand lying tongues, supplied material to justify this abropt termina | tiea of diplomatic relations. Some said the govern: | meat hed tendered bim his passports on account of certain manifest tendencies to Sculéiem. Otners | were equally pesitive that the United Btates govern- | meat had recalled its minister because Bonilla (the | Prime Minister) complained that he was at the bot- , tom of that famous affuir of the old coat, which has | rendered His Serene Highness so uneasy in his seat. ‘These were not wanting, even, who were positive | ‘that His Serene Highness had demanded that all re- presentatives of foreign powers at his august court | should perform the Ko-tow (as the famous early Baglish ambassador to China did), which our vener- able Carolina nullifier would’nt submit to. In point @f fact, however, the gentleman in question has @ome th s far merely to see his family off to the United States, and returns to his post to-morrow. | His Serene Highness hes had another relapse | pf cholera, (I use the word ina political sense— saeaning atrubiliousne ss) occasioned by the refasal of | Her Britannic Majesty io accept the grand croasof the | national and disting uis-ed order of Guadelupe, which | he bad been most gra-iously pleased to bestow upon her. Littie Vic. has too much self respect and good atmse to have placed herseif in such a ridiculous at- | itude before the world. She would as soon think ofaccepting a grand cioss of Obi from his odori- ferous Majesty Faustin the first, ran ee darkics, and Napoleon of niggers. The oruellest part of this business is, however, tnat H. 8. H. does not get a rich diamond cross in re‘urn; for as much as he values empty titles, he always keeps an eye to the cain ohance, and prefers something thet commands aeady cash. The crosses that he sent to the crown- ed heads wore paid fer out of the $7,000,000, but those which he expected in turn were to be consi- «ered as his private property. A refusal to accept v4, therefore, the most unkindest cut of all + aabbiegs the miserable mountebank, (in the name » (the devil don’t priat this word monte-bank,) has sceived im his pitiable attempts at king-crait. We ave not yet learned the fate of the crosses sent to oaim, France and Prussia. Ramor Pha English minister has had a sharp » st with Mr. Bontila sespecting the violation of the als of letters addressed to British subjects in this untry. Bonilla retorted upon him sir James * sham, Her Msjeaty’s Postmaster General's con- ct, two or three years ago, in the matter of certain ters for Hangarian and Italian refugees in Lon- a. “Let him that has not sinned cast the first ne. Ve sre making tremendous prepara‘ions for war =<, The caatle is now in a very complete state of @ nce, and plans have been submitted andap. : -ved for strong fortifications at Casa Mate and tificios. Meanwhile, brig Azalia from New ck, has just{Anished discharging about a hundred 8 of gi dex, ard thousand rounds of & and 1. Thig supply of powder is small vever, for they consume about that much annual- n firing salutes in honor of the glorious feate of us of H.8, H., among which, by the way, is Bue- Vista, but strange to tell, not San Jaciato! The insurgents in Michoacan have been doing a g od lee pele Having vaveuse he Jolle of Sent ‘about ea I 7m Moxico), the; acd on peveral undre thousand dollars in hard sh, An heroic deed ia related of the wife of one «tone of the insurgent captains. Her husband aving been killed in an action with the troops of ~he ceatral despotiam, she, being on the spot, as- eamed the command bed ie pera pone led — on te victory, cay ing, the commander of the parcaaneaceots: si Her lover sinks—she sheds no ill-timed: tear; Her chief is slain—she fills his fatal post. Bat alas! this noble achievement loses all its virtue in the sequel. She slew tke captive with her own bands, thus cruelly appeasing her lover's host! # There is much talk of a tripartite contract between Manuel Escandon, the famous Mexican banker, and the Spazish and Mexican ened ged by which the fermer is tosupply the d of Cuba with 30,- ly. at $15 por houd— — rncanin g pene very troubles>me sub- Ketavana Spain, security for Cuba, and immense supriy of slaves— for if this is not the alavs trade, L like to know what itis, Ask friend Gceeley what he thinks of it. We have fresh rumors of an early advent of H. 8. Hat this place. He talks now of leaving Mexico on 8 short excursion for the besefit of his health, and people eay pee ty hese poe aay been named ass sort of regency during absence. triumvirs aren said to be three enerals—Ampudia (of head-boiling-in-oil memo- ory) Carrera (now commarding in Mexico), and La Vega (he who was twice taken prisoner during the ) Now, if H. 8. H. does leave, we which will be no novelty in Mexico, the ablest man of the above three setting the other Sire hagetiee by the ears, whilst he steps in and bears cff the prize. Tatelligence has reached this place of the death of BR. R. Gatton, U. 8. Consul at Mazatlan, and of Dr. William Foster, U. 8. Consul at Monterey. Hore’s a chance for the office seekers. Who wants @ luorative consulship? Don’t all speak at once. General Paez returns to the United States by this e‘eamer, What has been, or will be, the result of is visit to H. 8. H.no one can tell; but your cor- ‘ty racer} rather suspects the it Venezuelan ait phd d cle we parte to be exactly what sey are oracked up to be at a distance. + good agents abroad, both public and private, at d among the latter, with all deference be it said, ¢ 9men who call theméelves Amercian citizens— * ilows who bow the — and cringe with abject » -vility to a despot fonthe sake of a good fat job vr mug contract; and who, fo:sooth, must consti- ti + Serceastves z [incienee eae. Sa —— le! You wi ar, perhaps, “ that great 4d good man, the iJlnstrious Santa Anna, never d go firm s hold upon the affections of the people + at preeent.”’ We shail see. The Ides of March e hend; aud Nets overawed ond trampled \ der foot by a hired soldiery, the spirit of liberty, ~tshed as it is to earth, will, like eternal trath, seagain. The empty farce of the “ election,” to « me off on the Ist of December, must not be taken as an indication of the true sense of the nation. ‘The Mexicans are a ‘' peculiar people,’’ and though | who vote at all on that day will give their suf- | for H. S. H., the fact is not tne less a fact the liberals never were in higher feather than bark Flasb, pent. Fatricsn vessels in Briga Extra, Perigo; Aalia, for Lageae Goatzacolcos, Schr 5. Hotchkiss, for Alvarado. Yours, . Late News from New Mexico. ‘We have received the Sante Fe Gazette to the le gona eter alatar iy copy the following ea | Excellency Gov. Meriwether, accompanied by | 1 Mie gba e cay arn Gee e "the Utah In- , for Goatz- n° for the artiicry at Fort Defiance. The fol- 0% officers came ‘in compsny:—Major Morris, and Lieutenants Carlisle, Bowen, Commissary at Albur- | Soe notng of" ot the same post, of the week, but have | of dragoons, ar- | 18 ce pepe } present will re with Lieaten- , r5 Doctor riand, Assiatan aD sites Srates army, to at headquar- of 23; wad Licutenant McCook an. fn Sy ‘Walker on leave, ; | cho'son, Alphonse Barbot; Master, G. V. | conditions of 1 | to kbe tax which our lo but two candidates field, Thomas Valencia and Jesus Maria Baca. The former was an inde- omannah pesca sg any yom Raed snag talc no jon me arty and was elected bya large ma- '. iT. no doubt he will make a good officer. Our Naval Corresponden: respondence. U. 8. Sarr Vanparra, Smanouag, China, Ang. 24, 1854. Letter from one of the Crew of the United States Sloop Vandalia, at Shanghae—Quick Passage | from Japan— Matters at Shanghae—The English Fleet—Detention of our Vessels—A Sailor's Growl, §c. As the steamer Lady Mary Wood is about leaving for Hovg Kong with the mails, “ Jack Tar” will Tedeem his promise of keeping you and your million Teaders advised of our movements, and the latest rews in that part of the world where we msy be; and now I will give you all the “ latest tricks,” and then shall want a little room in your wide spread journal for a growl—a loud growl, “sich as will | mske the powers that be to tremble.” Our “tub” arrived here on the 12h June last, direct from Ha-ko-da de, Japan, making the ran in seven days sailing time—‘ some passage,” you see. The Vandalia is about when anything {s to be ‘done up brown.” Since that date we have been protect ing the American residents from the incursions of the Chinese. A small portion of the ship’s company are stationed on shore in charge of Lieut. Nichol- son, for the purpose of assisting in the above duty. ‘The English and French have likewise a “ guard” on shore. The following men-of-war are in port:— English steamers Encounter, Barracoute, Styx, Rattler, and brig Grecian; French steamer Colbert and frigate Jean d’Arc; American sloop Vandalia. Tre French frigate Jeam d’Arc was towed here on the 21st inst., having been ashore on the North Bavk. Sne is very bad! y iobaed and will have to 0 into dock. Her back is broken, her rudder gone, er topmasts and topgallantmasts also. She was only saved by the exertions of the American tow- boat Confucius. The Powhatan is daily expected, | with Mr. McLane, our Minister, at present ona | visit to Canton, | And now for the “ growl.” John Tar shipped in November, 1852, in the United navy, asable | seaman for three years, subject to such rules and re- gulations as Congress, in ita wisdom, might make, or had made; at the expiration of my time of ser- vice to be discharged in some of the United Btates. This is the contract. How it has been kept lately, in Jack’s case, the crews of the steam frigate Susquebanna, 3 Plymouth and Sara- | toga, can testify. These ships have been detained out here, the former for near five years, and the others from four to four and a half. tan out- rage! you may well say. The contract is broken, and Jack has bia resour.e. What isit? Why,grin aud bear it. Is there nothing dope in such cases? Yes, Ccngreas pays me one-fourth more every day Tam detained. But is the miserable pittauce to compensate me for the long, dreary absence from my Coat f my home? Again, my pay is in the service $15 per month, while in the merchant ser- vice I can earn $50. As I have been a mate for two voyages, every day’s detention over the contract is | so much loss to me. I shipped on a “ buat,” to see St, oe Jay ae = coe Ae up want ‘0 do and give our aan their rights, this ship should leave ‘Chins next May, 80 as to be home and paid off by November, when nearly all the ship’s company’s ti are out. ., Will you aid ‘‘ poor Jack,” and call Now, Mr. attention to the above outrages on the Susquehanna, Plymouth, and Sarat , by detaining them? Speak in your tones of thunder to the next ‘ Continental Congress,” and the abure will soon be done away with. I give you a list of officers:— Commander, John Pope; Lieutenants, Thomas T. Rostes, William B. Whiting, James W. A. Ni- Passed Mi E. F. 6 8 J ne | ADEE ipman, . Grey; Surgeon, Jol Macon; Assistant Surgeon, B. Vreeland; Marine eee hed oe i Seg tel cee ASS son ; Carpenter, Butt; maker, Brayton; Captain of Foretop, John Tar; do. Maintop, J. McCarty; Master’s Mates, Randall, Sloan, Ashbury and Wheeler. Jack Tar. EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE Fasnions—A walk up ond down Chesnut street, on a fine day, affords a practical commentary on the times. Between the splendid diess fabrics exhibited in the shop win- cows and the costly costames cepayed. on the fair —— rh bat pedestrians, one is quite the popular cry about the scarcity of money a dela- sion- Never, indeed, did the ladies more ex- travegantly. Not only is brocade considered abso- lutely necessary, by many 8 dame, on her daughter, who was formerly contented with plaid silk, but almost the price of a respestable glace is consumed in the veivet trimmings alone. Nor does the fashion- able after expense stop here. Lace under sleeves and lace chemisettes ex! $ the purses of husbands; and lest these should fail to engulph sums sufficiently large, lace trimmings fringe peticoat, to dabble in the mud of the sidewalk. Am Observer in Chesnut street might be pardoned for concluding that every father was a jionaire, and gy pedestrian ax heiress, If these pet fashions were conducive of health,there might be some reason for such extravagance. But the very laces which cost so much, are really for consumption. To patade a public avenue ona bleak November dap, with a chest defended only by & balf-trapsparent veil of lace, or with arms com} ratively bare te the elbows, fs the height ot tay: but to abandon olcse sleeves and high corseges for this congh-giving costame, is madness itself. It is true that the fashionable lady insists on a set of ex- pensive fars as the proper accompaniment to this summer like attire. She dreeses unreasovably at twice the cost it would take to dress properly, aud then makes this a plea for purchasing a new style Victorine. If she is wealthy, she wears point lace or Honiton and fars of ermine or Russian sable. If sho is less able to indulge in the luxuries of fashion, she adheres, nevertheless, to its absurdities, sport- ing her cheaper embroideries, even if she cannot af- Fa furs at all, content to shiver if she can only ne. A cotemporary has propounded a question, ‘where is the money?’ and we answer, in the fine dresses of our wives and daughtere. It is idle to say that the extravagance we speak of 13 confined to what is called the “ si r ten.” The female attire, in all fe, is criminally expensive, at least twice as much so as it was five yearsago, and it threatens to increase. The clerk’s wile imitates the wife of the merchant; the poor milliner, the fine lady; black Dinah, Urs. Potiphar. The ruinous ex- ample extends and widens, ramifying into every | social circle, and exhausting an aggregate sum an- | nuaUy, which would frighten the most thoaght- | leas, ,if it could be presented in figures. Most or | these extravagan' fabrics, moreever, come from | abrcad, and have in reasons like the present, when | are deficient, to be paid for im gold. It is lays on us, ths ex- enrive fasions we praise in ovr wives and daugh- | 18, that we owe not a little of the present scarcity | of money. We may thank Paris, in this way, for | our panic, ‘e do not deny that the men are also to blame. If wives squander money on the fashions, husbands | spend it, sometimes, on fast Between the | two, it is no wonder that notes are selling at two per cent, that stocks are down, that gold is going out of the country. The prices obtained for fashion- able bonnets, and the pricee paid for discounting buriness paper, bave a closer connection than a cur- ge poms might think. They are, in fact, cause and consequence.— Phil: ia ger. ‘The Carson Aquor in Jerscy. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORE HERALD. Junsny Crry Nov. 25, 1854. Ip your report of the proceedings at the meeting | hela by the liquor dealers of this city, on Fiiday evening, you have, I regret to say, fallen into a mis- , | take, viz:—that I offered a resolution urgiug the withdrawal of patronage from Jeraey papers, be- cause they favored the cause of temperance: such was not the fact. I trust I aball never identify my- self with drankenness, or support or counteaance such a vile crime—detestable in the eyes of every right minded man, as well at condemned by Goa’s 7a. 4 sm for tem ce and its promulgation thronghout the len; not to be a hiev means that may be ¢ patible with the privieges that we enjoy as u free people. The resolution referred to urge the witn- at the cost of coercion, or any patronege from tw , becaase anch scneea.tuaeel the Garson "tuaros’ in the illegal, uisitorial apd manner ia which bave acted tenure many respectable citizens in @ favor and is an energetic man, and we have | = B! yh and breadth of the land, bat | iced that would be incom: | | ness of the American cbarsoter, and believe that it | is more the object of our | , than to promote or and 5 f dispensing with the services of in- ers could be found, than by diminish- ing the number of véseels. This gave a tone and high line to the service, which has ever since been gra’ to the pride of the country, and thoee who rejoice over te repatation of our arms, acd the fact that we possess a navy, have reason to thank Con; for this fortunate proceeding. But the op] ion of Congress to the navy, in 1810-11, was much less reasonable. It waadeem- ed impossible to keep a vessel afloat in the fa :e of the British fleet, and it was even proposed that the men-of-war which the country |, Should be laid iy be ordinary, to prevent them from falling into hasds of theenemy. Th's course was sng- gested by a narrowness of thought snd soul, little becoming tke go-a-head character of the Ameri :aus, and had it been followed, would bave resuited in the destruction-of the navy—as it is obvious the people would not ging an armament which, from its size, was of little use in peace, and an actual en- | cumbrance in war. It is aaid to be owing to the en- | ergetic interference of two officers in the navy that | this ruinous design was given over, and, if be | trae, had they never e anything else, their | pames wou'd deserve to be handed downto posterity and held in its most grateful remembrance. They were, I believe, Commodores Rodgers and Bain- bridge. The administration had confidence in their representatives, and our little fleet went forth to tle against the most powerful navy the world had ever seen, and won a renown that will forever cause us to be wad Sig on the ocean. Ever since this the country has been willing to eustain a navy, and no Americen with that soul could wish the re- putation it has gained for the country were done awey with, provided the dollars which it cost us were restored to the treasury. Several additions—and imp>1tant ones—have been made to it since those days; but siill every one must Pao Pela ere seked Ogee ‘our com- merce, and our position as a nation. Brazil,a country with a population of not more than six millions, has a Davy eg than our own, and every insigaificant Barges tate has it in its power to insult us when- ave it may choose. The U: aap States ye en of maintaining s pavy a8 powerful as those ‘ngland ye Jags etter te ae lish country. goes far the Ko; authors faith in their way of reasoning, and proving at capa we are conscious of our aptitude for nautical adventure, our close- to usea couree expression— will prevent us from taking ad- Dewi Sh it. The people themselves de not de- serve this taunt, but those who have the manage- ment of their affairs, do deserve it. The smallness of our navy and army re:ults from the timidness of our politiclans and not from an unwillingness of the country to support them. They seem toargue—like the English authors—the avariciousness of beeen Men aytee! » and fe - to sae their | poy roposing apy ex’ ive, ase of | our defences, thy are suffered to renfain in their present diminutive state. Each member of Con- grees knows the positive necessity of increasing the army and navy, but does not feel willing to make himeelf conspicuous by moving to that effect. If aay one of them bad the moral conrage to do this, it is probable there would not be a dissenting voice— as “ fellowship inevice makes the blame less.” Let one propose a fair increase, and as we can infer from pest occasions, we shall have such a navy as | our position as a commercial nation demands and ovr resources warrant. The navy at present has seve tolerabls shios of the line, about a cozen frigates, and shicty steamers, sloops, and brigs—s force truly ridiulous when tho resources of the country are thougat of. We ought alweys to have in commission as many liae-of-battie ships as we now possesa, or atleast, the Commo- dore at each of the naval stations ought to be al- lowed to hoist his broad [god on @ ship of the line. But, instead of this being the cate, the largest vessel we have in active service isa Ye of 44 eet vale rated—aid the Commodore of the I station bas his pennant flying from the masthead of a little nut shell of or tet ee The fing ship of an) English Ad al generally = noble three decker, mounting from 98 to 120 cannons; and I cannot see why we Americans, with o commerce and terri- tory more extensive than England’s, and a finance never exhausted, cannot treat our commodores in & like honorable manner. If we can give tnem no three deckers, we might afford to mau for them a few seventy-fours. Besides the actual protection and encouragement which the presence of }i men-of-war would give to our commerce, it would impress f.reign nations with a knowledge of our strength, and cause them to treat uson all occa sions with a deference due us, snd calculated to flatter the pride ot a young and growing country. Had our government veseels been in the habit of appearing off the barbor of San Juan, it is probable at Cantain Hollins would never have met with an opportunity for proving the might of his Cyane, and the country might have been spared many little quarrels which only produced ill feeling at home, and hatred abroad for the American name. That boasted philosophy which scorns “show,” does not so much become a nation as an individual; and when a nation adopts euch a faito, the character of Job may be specially reecmmended to it; and if it does not succeed in becoming marvellousiy patient and forbearing, it may well wich the mouataius to fall on it, and hide it from the rest of the world. The history of our own country at the begianing of the present century shows some good exsmples of the mortifying instences which such a philosophy produces. Our isolated men-of-war were made the objects of foreign bisvado, and were insulted in whatever parts of the ocean they said. The Chesspeske was compelled to surrender, in time of peace, to a British vessel, and the Baltimore was overhauled in the middle of the Atlantic, divested of ity of her crew, made @ dancing room of by soma naval cfficers, and then despatched on ber way. Had we possessed a navy at that time in avy shape wortby of the name, it is folly to believe that pene aa she was by the wars of Napo- leon, would bave insulted us in this manner. Rad- caliem and republicaaism are not twin brother, and a republic can consistently make some display when | it both nourishes national price, ond is of actual, aclid worth. - If it be, indeed, a spirit of economy which pre- vents our public men from giving us such an army and bavy as we require and demand, it is @ most falee one. It is a kid of dragun-toota econo: that reverses its purpose, and, in the end, wins very object it sought not te wir. Fer , 00 for os the boarding of money is: oncerned, this miserly Dian dces well enough, and if it were poseible for a it F 5 a note, with an account of the | a of rt errors of ships’ compasses. ‘There is a lia! of the ’ compass to error, wile wane af tae Falta pat laid down svete sa So ie. tee ae © Soe So ane en ae = from this source led to the loss of the cloudy weather aclose attention to the mariner’s three L’s, (log, lead, and lookout,) will go far towards preventing | mischief. those cording thereto for the courses steered cle or steering com The difference be' be greater on some courses than on moet na know the difference, how to cetect and therefore it is unnecessary farther the subject of “ local deviation.” In addition to these precautions, a “ Tell Tale” | 5 and of the ship both the standard and the steering compass, should noted, entered in the log, and allowance ma‘ these two Reger ey in by the binna- will canse of this it, and how toallow for it; to allude to | compass under the fore or maintop would be further Temoved than any of the compasses varying magnetism of the vessel, and commend it especially for check. In case of no t: 6 y for ite xccommod: below, from the I would re- , a8 o aplace might be made | avdation aloft. allude to the dangera of deceitful compasses on California or European voyages especially, because vesee)s trading thither are so often enveloped fogs as they near the land by the way; and because we have more steamers plying to those foggy porta than to any others. But what bility to such remedy can we provide against the lia- dreadful disasters as that which befel the Arctic? The three L's do not constitute a sure preventive. I have reflected much vu; the ideas of ter than avy 1 have beard. the subject, and I like friend R. B. Forbes, of Boston, bet- He proposes a double | track across the Atlantic for steamers. By having one route for them to go and another for em to come, we should not avoid entirely, but we would greatly leasen, the liability of collision. If ateomers would think I could lay separate exce) lengthenic; ‘or exten le, the great that veesela as they come by certain line to be drawn passage either fee to follow two such rout offgoasto have them quite atthe two ends, without materially I e re the route from Europe shall be by le asit is now, it being understood it shall keep north of a om the offings on that | side to the offing on this, and which line shall pass 50 or 60 miles south of ing Sable Island on the no:th, Auge of ay Hook. ‘his woul leave the vessels to allow for uite margin enough 7 their maximum to enable errors of Cape Race, and thence shav- | , shallend in the of- | | reckot without feeling pinched for sea room. | This mee would lead the ‘westward bound steamer, | particular! toa nels, d in the op) of the Atlantic [t would be seldom indeed that thesteamera ag route hbo lee jowever, this » CBPe Prey d with v lor But along that part of this homewa-d, route let us it, which lies to the Newfoundland, tie Mabilit small indeed. al meet atrader. They the western hall of | esses bound to aud from the ports and others of British America. or American eastward of Now for the route to go, or the European route. Let us draw another line from the offings of Sandy Hook to the offings of Liverpool or say of Cape Clear. This line, ia the middle of the bs about one hundred miles south of Atlantio, will the southern limit of the Ameri.an route, and is, we shall sup- pose, to be the northern verge of the European route; tl south of this line. hat is, all the steamers bound to Europe will keep Steamers teking this route will have the current of the Guif Stieam in their favor, which will quite make up for its greater distance the American route, they will avoid Gulf Stream almost en! dation in favor of the encountered European route fogs to be , When on the set of the . Another recommen- | | ities to collision will be | | time, and knew not what he was doing. A is, that the | it are not quite so American thick and prevalent as they are along the rou’e. Now you observe that by laying off thesa two | | at the dor of his cell, and exhorted routes we will not have removed those who cross , the Atlantic ir steamers from all liability to be run | down; but we sball have greatly that lis- bility. Tronment steamers may atill cross these tracks, and run foul of the mail carriers; but the liability of collision even then is lessened. the crossing vessel will know where regular steamer lies, which way and therefore, by knowing on ger is, be much more apt to avoid it. Most of the for track of the she will be steering, which side the dan: the vessels to be fallen in with on the Eoroj route will be going with the steamer, i. ¢. to the East. Few will be coming West, for when ceming this way they avoid the Gulf Stream as much as they can. | somewhat more com: Now, as to the safest speed in a thick fog, that | depends to some extent upon the state and sea. When the cea is smooth ani of the wind id the wind light, the slower the safer; but when there is a sea ch and a breeze blowing, then the faster the steam- er goes the better; for the danger is not in propor- | tion to the number of knots in an hour er sails through a ‘og, but to the numl she is in it. ff, therefore, a vessel at speed rups through a fog in six hoars, that a steam- ber of hours her topmost she would be no more liable to be brought into collision with one of the Lundred or two vessels thet may always be assing through it, than she would it she still in it for six hours; and if she were-tweive hours in tne same fog, either hove-to or running at fullsp2ed, ber liabilities of coming ixto collision with some one cr other of the vessels passing throzgh just doubled. Not only s0; when the s' wll the sailing veseels sre making the way. Suppos that they be passing th region at the it, would be steamer stops, best of their rough the fog fate of ove hundred miles in six houre; the steamer then by going at half speed, and con- tinving in the fog r twelve instead of eix hours, would be exposed to collision with some one of two bun¢red instead of one hundred vessels; and when vessels come ic collision at sea, the dat mage they do each other does Lot always depend upou high apred so much as upon moderate speed ond the state of toe fea, The route between the United States and England | is tre “Broadway” of the Atlantic, and I rather | think it is your habit when you are crossing your Broadway, to quicken, not to slacken your pace, thet you may thereby lessen your chances of rup cver, ‘There is arother advanta; through fogs out at sea— in going mean at speed consistent with the well-being of new routes, and itis this, viz: collision is to be with ealling vessels other steamers, and the noise dies of a steamer make when she is at botler—along these the dapper sather than with stich the at fall d the “greatest and nation to remain aiways in peace, the reasons that | fri! epeed is the best warning that sail vessels can recemmend it might be tolerable. But in war, th defenceless condition in which every State that practices it must necessarily be, admits inroads have of her . They can hear of the poddiee farther than the sound whistle or bell. This noise cannot the splash: Sarat be heard by and invasions, avd the losses incurred by these | avother steamer so well, because the ‘noige of her would hold 2o comparison with the smount hearded. The loss of money to tne United | States occasioned the burning of the public buildirgs at Washington by the 5 | would bave raised and supported an army buckets and machinery drown it. Now, if theee routes were would their @ laid down on the gen- ers! chart of the Atlentic ured in navigation, he effect of putting sailing vessels on a, for every one would be sure to enter le of overwhelming them, and thus saved | tiere “seam lanes,” as they would.appear on the capabl! that mortifying disgra’e. The loss be the blockade ct our ports and total annibilation cf cur commerce would bave sustained a fleet equal to those now gti around the domitions of the Czar, and not orly defended us from our enemies, bu’ inftioted se- vere losses on them. If thoze who are £0 claimorous for awar with Spain and the possesion of Cuba wuld cnly allow themselves time to think, it is quite yorsible the'r voices woald be hushed or Turned to the wailings of fear, With our present Deval for0e #e wou'd not be arie to land five hua- dred men on Cubs soil; and it fa probable that in- stead of bearing the groxnsof the “sick man,” his fleets wuld be seen biocksding our ports, and the | sound of his cacnon would te fd by every wind. Our commerce would be completely cut up, our merchants weuld sevd forth their everla-tiog bhowle and complaints, and we would karn too late that the sick, rich old Spsniard, though tmarvel- Icualy bad cff, is still enongh to handle Young Ame- rica in bis scvnty end tattered garmenta. Or ravy and ovr army must be increased. The peo) le demand tt, ord why cannot Congress do it bow ? Over thirty millions of dollars are lying inac- tive in the treasu’s, and no better use can be made of itthan strevgthering and protecting our coun- ckast, with much caution. Suppose thege routes were 2; snd inthe cther they would be going site direction. to leave such narrow streaks very a amers exclusively. The railing vessels would burr, Ja: es north and scutp, bat they would att on one Bide or the other, or mmunt e any ue of tnise engrest yy think likely to prove beneficial. sey, that if it be thought worth while 0 on them, I should be bap; my rervices that] may be mk Mists. Ve aly cure, To Walter R. Jones, B tral Insvrance Company, lew York. © Oppo much to the across there seldom elect toon along them, preferring rather to edge off aud In view of your coprection with the seafaring of New Yerk, I would be glai if you fons that you I can ony to passaction to be called on for le to render in the pre acky, Lieut, U.S. N. eettent Atlantic Mu: iz | greed upon, and were | put down on the chaits as lanes, in one‘of which all | the stesmers that pass would be een, Wg way in Now there Jones being no broader than it may be | p+ cessary to include tie errors of Jatitude, to which term ravigation is liable, vessels would be content if abe came out to the north of Ireland, | & of the ocean that is less travelled by ves- ite direction, than ween New York an any other | would | | i J ; e- i : fe Q & iy H ! i Sad rH i il HS di i | f E 5 g 2 ; 4 F i & 4 i ee F F ii , ; z A H 5s E i E i i E iH i e I H ee E E i 3 3 é i | s i i i 8 F 4 | E F i i i H iy if 4 [ Ky 4 x i aT i : } I Lig i 4 ey i E : i 52 E F 5 i j 5 z i i iz Hf e i gE gan firing their salute ’of one thousand Pennsylvania Cornet Band performed ring air of “Columbia the Gem of the 0 : | B i ; i E 3 f & +] however, Li 3g ii f 1 00 000 000000099000 000004" 3 AMBBICANS Ke ° ‘Must and Shall Rule Americans. + 1 20 000000000000900000¢ The following was the number of poe i —— this | ing the day- piece ware engaged; thee each:— o'clock, A. M., fired 2 " E F i g ns fl i E | z 7 4 q & i E his enquiry, he was ry formed that act of kindness towards ed much affected, and exhibited had displayed sin 5 3 iy ore who had thus shown compassion is inge, and added, that it waa ail one so wretched had had to bestow. Lest night Darry retired to bed about nine o’clock, and slept soundly until . About | man drank six o’clock he awoke, and rose immediately, pulling | Te ip New York, Ke by Ot ag on his pantaloons and throwing on his Boesch Th We vered: ‘soseph knees to pray. After some minutes passed thue, | Frown D omas Set ee ke | he entered into conversation with Mr. Kester, who vom . Cael on fing waa watching at the door of his cell, and in reply to ger berg D. Moore, ’ hi frienc| & question ag to whether he would like any break- t hi pein <b ote, sade sogeeh fast, he said, no, that he was to die that morning, | 6% home in receiving re, snding Vea caer any =e The | o American friends. ‘im Ana? constable offere e some tea and toast, * has ak but he declined the fever, asking, however, for a Reena A jipe. When smo! it he remarked that it was the Convention at Cis fase tobaceo be sh €ver use, and then commenc- ed weeping bitterly. Several times in the course of the morning he made enquiries of the constable as to his idea of the degree of pain which a man suf- feredin a death by hapging, and was curious to deadened, and thata few minutes sufficed to ize, ly extinguish life. aia this, the prisoner threw himself on to bis bed, and howling ana bitterly, bewailed his miserably fate and ap; entirely unmanned. At nine o’c'oek several persons entered the jail and pro.eeded to the cell inwhich the prisoner,war placed. hose who had not seen Darry since his trial were but little prepared to bebold so great an alteration in pe spp From a stout, athletic man, of - bard: and severe countenance, he had na bo be tice were than a skeleton, wasted and gard, & vacant attdPhor: expres- fom in. ive face distressing to behold. 1s waa evi dent to see that the prisoner was unprepared to meet his fate—pb we mean—and that he had a horror of dying which no effort could shake off or allay. He entered freely into conversation with those who were at the door of his cell, and talked much in answer to the numerous questions which were put to him. The substance of his re- marks was that he was guiltless of any intention to take the life of his poor wife, although he admitted that the testimon: net him was truly and faith- ay given, and he had a fair impartial ¥ He appeared to believe, however, that a premedi- tation wae necessary to constitute the crime of mur- der, 6nd that his sentence was therefore unjust. When questioned as to the eyenta ot the day, the fatal resnlt of which had brought »im int» his present ion, clared that he was bim- seit ignorant of all that had taken place. Drunken- Pees was the occasion of hia acts—it was liquor that hed made him mad--he remembered ha had words with bis wife--that he had given her blows that sbe had struggled with him—that he hid re; ested bis brutal violenceagain and ; bat he deciared that he was not master of himself at the German ‘The: tions ol the Baptists, Ok & Presbyteriane—are all friendly to the objeq order, as will be shown at the polls in V elsewhere next tng By It is claimed ise Nothings ae rene i the a | now con! Uidloe of baited ‘Grates omtor They). more good than harm if they can control shadow the abolition tion im and it is believed that they have done so, Theasure, already. The Know Nothings are very quiet latel e fo are ripple the surface of the fiend since tion. ey have been victorions every@! they Know page it, It is very cu see how quiet all papers:are about the \ The Tribune has foi its arti-slaveryis' 100d effect of the Nothing move forth isto crush out the aboliti ing . ve liberate); to manage th wait) they will b colporteur, a} man, eptere him to ita to his God. He suc- his from into was calm and give ali his thou; ceeded, after a while, in si their intensity, and when taken his the upper apartment ofthe jail, the prisoner At haif-past 10 o’clock Mr. N. Hopkins, the sberiff, opened the door of Darry’s cell and con: <d him up stairs into the upper apartment of the jail. Here he was attended by the Rev. R. B. Hea- cock, the Rev. Mr. Wi of St. John’s, and the Rev. Mr. Smith, of the Niagara strees Methodist church. Ttere were present in the room, besides, some six or eightof the special constables, and the reporters of the eputy Hopkins then addressed a few feeling words to the unbappy man, and read in a very im- pressive tore the ju t and death warrant, and respite of the Governor. When mention was made of the crime—‘‘the murder of Darry, your wife’—-the muscles of the prisoner’s face quivered, ond be locked cut of the wicdow into sky. When the reading of the official do umenta was | concluded, the Rev. Mr. Warren commenced the | prayers—1eading the Lord’s Prayer and those for perecns in mortal sickness. The Rev. Mr. Smith and the Rev. Mr. Heacock followed in extempora- neous pra; } rong wie Ao mrach earnestness | and such deep feeling that the frame of the prison- | er shook with excitement, and his ejaculations be- came painful to hear. No person who was present could Tall to be moved by the awful scene. | When the devotional exercises bad ceased, Mr. | Pierce, the sexton, approached the prisoner to place the sbroud upon him, and at this most trying ms- men, their o1 don’t seek to be elected whether in or out of the order of Know Not, A Fanny Affolr. [From the New York Pick. at the man’s ccurage ent forsook him, and | #ho very nai consulted his cbief, Fr. be groansd and pois bitterly while the horrible | before Dan was “ covked” up ‘in a style Nothing good ever comes out of these posures of jecenpne iblio ~_ + tl of private L been a severe sufferer from a letter of hs ita, of Boston, being made be would process of arraying him in the ebiiniants of the | pri ave was procee sing. n the rope was pies | Bbout his vec, bis ome en me Aw pend { re red scarcel » ‘supp> mself, ‘Afters short time he slipped the Knot backwards | Bee Rober and forwards with his hand, as 11 to see it it would | think work easily, and rubbing his neck benind the cars, giene:d around bim with a horrified look. He then vore od walked up and do +n the room, at times claapng his bead with his bands, and then wring- i is bands and ejaculating: “ 0%, mercifal God merciful God—look down on me!” “ Oh, mercifal Je:cs have mercy on my soul!” and such like sen- tences, He eaid to Mr. Plerce—"Oh, sir, willit be ary ways e285?” and then again burst into tears, ex- cisimivg, “ Lnever thought thoald come to this! Ob, merciful Jesus, what have [come to at lest!” He then thew himeelf on to his knees and burying - es iu bis hands, prayed, or seemed to pray to imseif. Sheriff Cardee and Hopkins and Harl- lut now entered the room, and after awhile ur ts] Da:ry rore from his knees, informed that the bour of his execution had arrived. The mourn- ful procession then moved down stairs and across the jail yerd tothe fate] platform. A number of pereone were easembled in the yard, in the north. east corner of which the gallows was erested, beady = epace was covered in with aepiug. Beneath the sceffold was placed ceffin, and a table which had bean provided — the gs? niger Pow oceasion jeps on mM, prisoner — by . Pierce and another, teriff dee, Deputy Hopkins, an: Mesere. Warren and Smith, and follo Hurlbut ard two other gentlemen. The the gallows was brief ard painful. Da Fcorely stand. ond when he kneeled to be li/ted on to his feet sone. When cerined to epeak, he net reply. chattered, bis voice had forssken , and that horribly vacant expression we have marked more tl an cnce upon the fatal drop, was in his glazed and siarting eye. When © cap wee pulled over bis face be rd feel for Dan Si fay that Mr. Buchanan will be horro ‘are that his confidence was betr, done so much for'as Col. Forne, 8nd there is no help for it fe & Aj 3 sf i i cy 5 z 5 i F FE 4 gE E z a i z a F & eEEe Fa : € a J 5 a Es] how I shall this co return to the ic et ce orct cur citizens ing aesailed by these villains. the necersit. @cing armed, as this nor the tenth instance, that ladies bave been insulted these scamps, and in the vioinity of Cortlandt street. y groans and cries of “Ob God! | reason for ig into detail of this affiir een eg eee ae Trae to hear. An igstaot, | form the ,uble how euch things are carrid acc he was moved forward cn to the open cay, snd to warn who arti pees wilély about with his bards, so fer Ang ooul locality not to leave their comveyances wit! move (hen from bis side. An tostant more, and | ing accompanted by a ua d. Ve mcd sli ne, grasping corvul at the alr, his trust that you will pubish the above muscles etrongiy knit, bis labs jis | berefit cf the public, and in particular th veice once move distinct and pow Another, | 6rd there of jour thousapds of regcora sve the fatel bow was given—the groan was | conrtry, who may visit this city ; km Ging, checked open bis Tees heavy pluvge—a eudden Goinrbane Re ee aN nt —~ ad 7 5 %, * © jevh--02 6 he wae de: page Sng Fidei tes o. ‘and verse were concerned, altbongh for a time the A Patron or TH B Nuw Yors, Dec. Ist, 1854, : tre ccntrect' ne muscles, the heav- te, Mop il y gling threat, gave the bidy | vg breast, ard the gu Pe ON a ee eee ee ee LN NN eS TEMS Men HED SEMIS: ew oaBhmiifabsrne yew -Siniivuwbn nnn Vu BEETS ESSE Sh Ate CANORA