The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1854, Page 8

ed fiermon by the Rev. Mr. Van Ness, of the | Dutch Reformed Chareh. Matthew 16: 3—In the morning yo say it will be foul weather to-dsy; for the s! red and lower- ing. O seb, es, ye can discern the face of the | sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? One fact that invests this earth with great inter- est is, that careful students of prophecy have looked forward to thia vary period with anxious eye as pregoant with Wonderful transactions in Divine Providence. We cannot conceive that the great | Apocalypse given to the Apostle John, was put in the sacred canon in vain—tbat the times spoken of | by Dauiel, come of which have already been accu- rately fulfilled, should be without @ meaning, and | whea the very period to which thess prophecies eeem torefer is marked by euch peculiar changes, uch mighty revolutions and such wonderful pro- | gress, it strife us, to say the least, as a remarkable | coincidence. Eyery child of God should be in anx- ious expectation, and h» wi!l be as much f blame as the Jews of old, if be does not discern the signs Of the times. We connot d ubt that God has some | mercifu! designs to work «ut of this confusion. As we know that-he is the skilfal manager of the uni- verse, 0 we must believe that he will carry forward his own wise and magn'ficebt purposes amid the Greatest tumulte. In this humble faith we propose D. 1866. the a E greatest care, yet eurely, if saything, the eud of en ve Sinerve it gradually i ipflueac -Buppor ing away, and & power opposition sweeping with immense strides towa” the seat of ite supremacy, what good reason have to hope in the conrévtncas of this view of prophecy ? | And bow should we hal every event thas may hasten the coming of the angel whose hty voice shall cry, “ Babylon tse great is fallen, is fatien, and is become the habitation of devils and the noid of i z 4s 4 | every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Rejoice over her, thou heaves, acd - ye holy apostles and prophets, for God hath avenged yon on ber.” These are some of the results and Prospecta of the great Europeaa war. [t bresks down the * alliance” of oppressors; it will produce & change that cannot be for the worse; it awakens the hi Pe and effort of every republican in the world; it will almost certainly cause the overthrow of Meslemi:m, and we have faith to believe i: may baeten that prophecy of tae beast being cast {ato the bettomlees pit. For any of these results we may thank God, but most of all for the last, for that | accomplished, then we may expect the peaceful | reign of King Jeans to commenze. it may be daid that we have show: ourse:ves | friends of Rusia. Far be it from us to defead a to eslarge our views beyond the circle of our lend— | to notice grand events occurring over the earth, and fua seek to discover what bope there is for the world. In the sign» of t ¢ times we may find some new reasons for thanksgiving -certainty we shall find abundant reason for prayer in ita bonaif. * 1. The first remarkable even’, is the war now waged between the promineot 4 pe. This may well be tercicd a gr only because of the hnmente > because of its prcbsble | Proapective slacghtere. powers engaged. Fra gland und furkey on the ore band, ard R wngie banded, on th, other; wut it is quite probanle that the rest of the contivent may becume involved as the contest ad- vances. Here then we havf prospect of ail the " greater powers of the world engaged in the dire craflicg of arms. Wha the resuls of this war fare shall be ie b-yond the reach of human ken. Russia is a young apd vigorous power, po sessed of the greatest resources 1: money—besides, the presen’ warfar on grouud where she has the mani and it ie quite probabie, as we gutaec orts, $ at the Czar will not hold his own, but rive back his enemies. ie then we cannot g continuance end its predict who shall gain final success, still we can | and ready to effect the conve.sion ot the world. | good results. affirm that the corflict as prod , & great evil; we | War must de siloxed to be an ev muet feel sac over every scene of olcod—but it is | not always an unmitigated ¢vil, because God can | the future of humanity. We allude to this great | overrsie it for good, “He mukes the wrath of man to praise him, and the remalnver of wruth he wilt {| reatrain.”” One of these good results is the overthrow of the “Holy Alliance,” whicn we hesitate not to describe fas the most corrupt, uscoly snd abominable com- bivation ever formed. . {ts culy-ohjact was to sue tain the powers of wickedt ess tirmly in thet: places, Tt waga cembination to excitide all light and ail BP 2, formed expres-!y to keep the people under the grinding yoke of their oppressors. We thenk God that this giant iniquiy is torn asunder, aad that there is litte prosp of seeing it re- , united sgain. In the secoud place, we must allow that nothing can be worse than the present state of Burepe. Scarcely a single country that is aot mia- erably misgoverned, with, perbaps, the exception of the constitutiinal menarchy of Great Britain. France has a wretched tyrant cn the throne in the shape of ‘Napoleon the Little;” it is groaning un ter @0 enormous and hopeless debt, and every day its — ig increased by a most improvident ad- ration, Prnssia has no real liberty, and although its role is nominsily Protestant, still it is cot a pure and healsatnl Protestantism and the people suffér. Austi‘a isucder the accur- sed control of Jesuits—s bi:zh: anda mildew where- ever they go, to prorperity, «1d, a8 a.consequeace, it is the most poor, mest dvspotic, most corrupt and mos: utterly bankrapt of all ycvernments on the fece of the earth. Spain is effete, wretched, without order, without morel<—the scene ot endless revointion gud bloodened. Turkey has a betwr,a more generous ruler than the rest, snd yet, os the headqasrters of the Mabome*an detu-ton, it cannot claim & psiticle of our Christian sympathy. And what eball we say of uuhapy; Italy with the bright | skies azd bs/my aimospnere, which havg over its tair fierva, and the mnoral darkness which shades ail ite beauties, the chains of ptics'crafs which gall its heroic people. wish its former ylosies and its pre- gent shame, what can we ery, but urhappy Italy? And 6 with most ot the saaller governments, tims, Ph. conticens of Europe is -opp:cased a ined, and almost any change wil be for the Detter. As soms change, end great chauge must proceed from the presext conilict, so wo see that ifs working a good resu.t, aud say, God hasten it in his own good ie. : i In this connection, we would remind you of the supposcd friencsbip en'e:tain:d by the Emperor Nic! for republi anism, [t is certain that his relations with our counts loeere character, and if we remember correctly, @ said to a distinguished senator, that there were only two forme of government proper for man—the One, absolute mwonerchy—the other, free republic. he may find it greatly eret (and intercet e, the best argument with princes,) he may his interest to court the aid of the repub- licaa maases through Europe. If hard pressed by the army o’ the allies, he can, by a single word of sympathy, by a ticgle promise of aid, to his rescue hosts of noble mem from every country, who will agein raise the generous cry of “Liberty, fraternity, equality.” We know saat the Hiberators of pe have hope revived in their by the signs of the times, ani stand ' whether Czar shail call them into se vice or what- ie ever changes shall open the loam promeet sn> | nto the stand ready to plunge at once thickest of fight and do b.ave batile for freedom and “fataeriand.” Here, then, is another gvod re- suit. The war revives the hope of liberty, and na the for an uprising of the downtrod- People of 1uro pe. Tl. We should am consider what the effect of this commotion may be upon the Popish hierarchy and Makométan powers. This is a matter of deep in- terest to the christian, for in them he finds that 4 fale prophet who are described by the fobn as great opponents of the church, and must be overihrown before the peacefur aad reign of Jesus can begin. As they had nearly at the same jod, 20 there ase which secm to predict their dowa- sane time. It becomes, then, sn ptereat te note every event that may uction. Mohcmetaniem, it has lovg been siak- y—ita. vigor ls gons. The vniy promi- snpporta its faith bas bees growi turies, snd the Tarkish empire woul: have failon before this cate had it not rovection of Christian nations. What- result of the present war, certainly the bruken ectumrs of the Moslem Russia meets with any measare of bea deatn blow to the system of case ws mast conclude that fd GE FRETETET 3 a 28 z E oa BF Pt Hite He 2 ey e3 i i age A E $ H i suet ff & s Ht 3 i rN ¢ & tt i ee. i i ge t BS i Ki i i l i I E = & ‘h i g z ? i i ii i ugk is For the time, of i 8 it ucees of she combatants, but | ie are already four | in materials amd | condu sted | have been of the mst | | to have had a just cause in commencing the war. Still we must oelieve, that the success of this Pewer | will be best for bumamty, best for the interests of freedom, acd best for the cane of religion upon earth. Even taking the subject in its darkest view— | Supposing that Ruceis succveds so far as to become j & & despot of the whole coctinent ot Europe, (watch | €e hold impossibie,) still 15 would be batte:—far | bettor to have one snpreme magnificznt despot than | fifty pty sodiaes tyrants, binding down tue souls and bocies cf mer. aplenc id saccess, and still we may have reason to thank God. | We had intended to notics the revelation advan > ing in China. Bere we must sorrow over another scene of woe and carnage; and yet a change ia that country must be for the better, and, notwitastand- ing all that is said egaiost the rebels, it msy oper the way for txe pablication of the gossel. Tims will not silow us to dwell upon it, nor ugon the | wonderful opezing of the gates of Japsa——that rich | island #0 jong forbidden ground to the nations, ond ' the prospect th: 1 } chaniize we nsy carry 10 this people “the peari of | great price.” We should also notice the interesting fact that there is scarcely any part of the world ua- occupied by some missionaries of the oroas, so that if our hopes of the ides of false systems are realized, God bas his instruments ready without any miracu- lous interference, but simply by pouring out his Holy Spirit, and blessing their labors as_he did on the Day of Pentecost—has instrameste all tur: | Barely theee are reasous for gratitude and prager. Bat we pete on to netice another power which has empire of the west. Is does indeed require constant its surpassing prosperity. ‘Its area tas iecreased from 820,000 square lee, in 1783, to 2,063,666 of tre same, in 1854—more than a third of the area of North America, and equal to the Roman Empire or that of Alexander in their psimicst days. Our a pulation is estimated at 26,500,000, and if it in- creagea at tha same rate as in tho past, it will, in | 1900, be 70,000,000. Think of 26,500,000 freeruen, and of this number only 2,200,000 are foreigners, large portion of them, too, come from Prot:staut countries. Its agricultural products this year are estimated at the value of $1,000 600,000. We are | blcksed with 38,183 buildings for religious worship, which afford accommodation for 14,000,000 of per- sons. The Methodists, whose warm devotion is a nesally admitted, own more than half ot these edi- | fices. Beeides, we have sn army of thirty thousand clergymen of ali denominatioas. Surely this is a | it is the proudest boast to be taken upon the lips of man—“] a max American citizen.” And waat must be the effect of such a county upon the destiny of the world? We are vigorous, young and enterpris- ing, poseessed of almost boundless resources—men, movey, metal and food. Already is tue name of our nation known and respected throughout tie earth; already do the sails of our ships whiten every ea; already have wo estabiished a missionary repud: lic in Liluia; already do other nations pus themselves uncer tue shadow of our wings. The Sendwich Islands and Cnba, both apeak with no doubtful voice, while Canada murmars a wish upen our Neriheru borders Already our mission- aries aye found in every clime avd almost on ove y shore, and hither do the oppreesed and the sorrow- ful come irom every Jand, to obtain a peacefu! and a generous home. Wha" mnst be the effect of sucha least 20,000,000 of free Protestauts, fall of love to God and chiity toman? The force of Amoricaa character is already reccgnized; American work- men ara employed by foreign Powers. It has been remarked by an intelligent traveller, that in a com- pany composed of persons from different countries, he neatly always observed that the Americans will teke the lead, make the most impression. S» be recognized as the leaders pf the great human brotherhood ; snd when we consider the many nobie elements in their national character—especially tie pure Bible infinence that governs the creat maszes ef the people—can we doubt that the impression | made will be 9 happy one? May we not pe the | lover, in God's hand, that is to effect the elevation, tice a bappy circamstance in our own demestic af- fairs, fonnd in the spirit that has Intely been awakened against foreign inflaences. @ sy | nothing in favor of secret organizations. Neither cau we speak a bitter word to the poor foreigner, who comes to seek with us a hospitable retreat, Many fcreignera are the best supporters of our republic, it is to be found in the fact that thousaads | among us are tho sworu sudjects of a foreiga prince | —@ prince whise principles and policy lead him | to op.ose freedom wit church and State—and | whore highest aim would be the overthrow of oar rational liberties. We must then rejoice thit the American people, so long ogy d 0a this subject, have now awakered to a sense of their danger, and while they will rot persecute the strauger, nor re- fuee him the hospitaiity of their fireside; yet they have formed a stern and mighty resolution to keep him from an undue inflaence—to preserve our hi offices of state from the control of a foreign despot. Thus will bens avort the only serious danger tnat threatens cur Union, and which might hinder it fron accomplishing ite great work of reform among the nations. Anco hore we finish our study of the sigas of the times. While there is much that is dark and portentous in the clonds that hover over the earta, yettbere are faint glimmerings of light, there are prespects of improvement for the race, and there is 8 blessed hope ‘that our own country may be the S‘ar thateha:] lead humanity on to a bright, glorious sunshine of truth, freedom, and of divine mercy. | While, then, we thank (iod for own home mercies, let us ‘not forget to praise him for his wonderfal dcings thronghont the ‘h Bence. » var Ustren Sarre, Dee. 21 13, Joseph Battin, patentee, and Sam . gnce, rs James Tagcort, Robert Rateliife, Joha ingon and Jolin G. Hewes.’ Kzrors to the Circuit } Court of tho United States for the eastora district of | Pennsylvania. Justice Melean detivere! the opinion of this court ing the judgment of the said Cireait | Court with co «i remanding tho cases with direc } tions to arar ire facias de nove, No, 25. Adam i ror, 5 ri State. | This causo was argued by Mr. W. 8. Cox for the plainti’ in error, and by Mr. Bibb for the defendant in error. | Xo. 28. Wim. B. and Victoire Shields ot al ys. Robert R, Barrow. Ap ted States for the eastern ¢ pollants in this cause having been called under the 19th ule, aud on the motion of Mr. Janin, of counsel for the appelice, and failing to appear, this cause was dismirsed with costs. Ne. 29. Catharine Kinns, Wife of William | Warrance, appellant, vs. Pierte Jorda, Jr., et al. al from Circuit Court Ual- rict of Louisiana. The ap- Ap- eastern district of Louisiana, The appellant in this cause having been called under the 19th rale, and on the motion of Mr. Janio, of counsel for th 8, and failing to appear, thia cause was dis ith costs. No. 31. William Foutaia, appellan' Hag Ravenel. The ergument of this cause was commenced by Mr. Gerhard for the appellee. Adjourned. The Post Office Boxes. 10 TRE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, I think © gooé many of your commercial readers would like to know what you think of this Jast imposition of the government in raising the rent of Post Oflice boxes {rom four to six dollars. What business bas the govern- ment to charge box rent at all? Who saves the most time and money by the boxes? Because government is obliged to pay A great many more men to deliver mail matter io New York thas at Snooks’ corners in the coua- try, is that any reason the peoplo here should pay the ‘expense of delivery,’’ as we are told they are expected todo? Where does the government collect the revenue that keeps the Post ice department going? Not in Snooks’ corners, Wnt in the old Dutch church in Nassau street; and if the people hg ol (4 for and richly deserve a convenient Post Office, served, without delay, and without swindlé, it is here in New York. Ji the merebants were unanimously to refuse submission ‘to this new imposition, wy word for it, the boxes would remain with little or no ehaage, for the corvenieace of the Post Ofice itself. Viewed merely as rent, tho chorge, even ae tour dollars, is cxorbitaut, but ase de- liberate tox on those who pry their postage honestly, end earn the fallest possible accommodation, it an outrage which cells for unyielding resistance. Let for shat ft does wot doe = » or OEE. Jeane despotism. Neither cao we affirm that government | Let her guia then the most | ong with our articles of mer- | exerted and will wield a wonderful influerce upon | observation to keep up with ite rapid progress and . reat country, and we have reached the day when | natiov—-a moral, intelligent nation —containiag at | we believe it will not be long before tuts peuple will | ) | the regeneration of humanity? We should also no- - ‘Whatever moy be nis sympathy in ‘this particular, y . to his | State; yet, if there is any danger threatening thie | appoilants, | | peal from the Cireuit Court of the United States for the | , ment, and in the logtelation of Congress, that show | ' hat the agricultaral interest of the country is ut- ' terly disregarded. It is distranchised, eo to | | and completely overshadowed by: the peramount:| | morselesely Congress, whem it conflicts in the slightest with any other interest. Even the President, in “his late annual message, seems not to have deemed agrical- ture of euflcient prominence or interest, ine na ! tional point of view, to be éntitled to any notice whatever, and does not even name it. The powerfal ' comteol and influence of the commercial press of the | eouxntry—and of the commercial men of the country — of the capital and numbers of the concentrated popu- | lation of our large cities, seem to entirely obscure it; may, more, when they choose they can overwhelm it; at least, they can burden itand tax it, and introduce at their peasure new rivals ¢o share ite markets. | ‘The representatives fiom the raral dlatricts in Con- | gress seem paral)zed, and are unable, it would | ' geem, to even protest against the ssorifices their | constituents are thus called on to make. Certain it is, that the merits of this reciprocity | | treaty came fully before the Hause of Represents, tives, on the bili introduced to repeal the duty im- | posed by the tariff on provincial produce, Canadian | wheat, &c., and the passage of which was necessa- | ry tothe validity aud operation of the treaty. Yet | the agiicutturh! intereet sppeara not to have had | ong single friend there to rise and defend it against | the “hardest sivgie blow” it ever received. main of the “;ules” may account for it; but the facts | quitous, certainly, 60 far as it sold the markets of the American fazmer—that the latter has been cbarged 30 per cent upon everything ne has worn and nearly everytoing be bas use¢, for the last quar- | ter cf a century to build them up, that, in the ean ery exyectateon cf the mauufa ‘tarers of New Kag- G (bné in this they will probably be missaken) he is likely to coctinue to be so charged, and that whi'e the Oanadian brings his wheat in vo feed the artizan, the Americar farmer is taxed to farnish em- Bley aeny for him. | ‘nether these gentlemen from the rural districts, | even thoes with an almost exclusive agiicultural constituency, willremain as sient when the com- | mercial prees bas heralded forth, with a!l the pomp and circumstaucs of long leaders, the merits of the Collizs live, and the cities have been drummed up | again for petilions—whethber they will resist, or help to impore a further tax upon their canstituents, to build up a monopoly, and vote for “protection” | who never voted for pro:ection before, 1 know not. But one thing is pretty certain—the couatry iz likely to hear more about Mr. Collins’ steamers— | one merchoat and ore merchant's ships—through the press, letter writers, lobby members, reporta, speeches and dinners, within nex} three months, toun has been heard about ageiculture in Congress in three years, or in thirty years... But this is rather beside my subject. > Befcre exqmining the merits of this treaty, I wish . to cai] attention toa passage contained in tne late meisace of the Presidept, in reference to it. 1 thick it goes far towards convicting the Chief Ma- | gistrate of eomething very like an astempt to deceive the country. He certainly has used the techoical | laugusge of the treaty as oaly. @ special pleader in &.baa cause would be likely to use language, | and has submitted a really false tothe country. | The basis of the treaty is not, and never was what | the President in so solemn a paper as his aunual ; message to the pe sple would seem to represent it to be. But the farmers had charged him and his ad- | ministration with having “ sold their wheas fields for co@fieh and ma kerel.” Lissen to the Presideat’s statement of the bargain he had made! So farfrom selling treir wheat fizilds, he got both the inshore fisazery and the ravigation of the St. Lawrence, for | the right cedei to Great Britain to seli the fish the; | take on the coast in our market free of duty! he says the treaty “ stipulates,” and because such ; @ fraud or fiction has been ineerted into the treaty | heey cunning diplomats, the President jastides \ self in holding forth to the country, that it was | the real and bona fide consideration, for, as he ex: preases it, “ pristiones of the highest importanee and vaiue to ihe United States.” But not to do the President injastice let us give the passage, entire as it stunés iu the message :—— “So scon as it (tha treaty) was ratified, Great Britain opened to ouc oommerce the free navigation of the river St. Lawrence, and to our fishermen ua- | molested access to the shores and bays from which | they bad been frequently excluded on the coast of her North American Provinces: in retarn for which sbe asked for the introdacticn, free of duty, into the perts ef the United States, of the fish caught on the coast by British fishermen, This beirg the com- ee stipulated in the treaty for privileges of the highest importance aud va.ue to the United ; States, which were thus voluntarily yiclded before it become effective, the request scemed to mea | rearcpable one.” _, Now this ie alla fiction, without one fa:t to give it countenance, and contradicted by the history of | all the diplomacy, negotiation and legislation on the | subject from the time General Dix first introduced | his bill into Congresa in 1849. | The boon they sought, and t! ; pensation) we gave them was Eeli fish in which fish they never canght, and pro- { i, Li wili— it was our grain prodace | markets for the sale of their agrivaltural produge. ; It was not for markets in which to sell fish that Sir | Henry Bulwer eought byevery means in his power to get Goxeral Ta; tor’s administration to negotiate, | Congress to legislate about thie, so miscalled boon (the com- | it our markets to | Teciprccity matter, and sough: in vain; it was notfor this Lord Elgin came ina special mission to this country and that Washington has been made to | swarm for the last two years with Canadien ; Officials and unofficials, but it was to home markets for the sale of pi | duce. Everybody knows this. How . ard almost ricicul us then the attempt to the real “compensation” from view. Nobody be deceived by it; but it is mortifying and humilis ting to eee men in high places, in state pi of | the greatest and most solemn import, reeorliag, to such pettifoge ing eubterfag-s, for they hardly deserve better name. {or the mutual covside:ations thus | named by the President—the right td the inshore fisheries, axd the navigation of the St, Lawrense, | ceded on tho one hand, and the right t> sell fish in | the American markets'on the other, no suca treaty } ont have poe formed; not _ the privilages thus respectively granted are ioned, or that Gregt Britain would consider i pl a with any real boon whatever, but she would ratber keep the difficulty about the fisheries a bone of con- tacerted rights #0 ‘cheaply: Loded, tole fouery sce £0 ol a 1 this title ven oe revived or Po kre after our ri use of the disputed grounds for a century, that | it might be used as a pretext to get nace of our Warkeis for the agricultural products of their | Provinces. But for the consiceration really given, almost any and hae dd and unsettled matter | would Lave been- yields Sp by Great Britain. Our | Lamson &: her conrt is understood to complain that E 8 & Fh 2 iT ES é i == ve Ht of! equal lorger consent to ly in cur coast-wise trade: a renee from twenty-five to tariff of their freights, and w! fiom the prod to bicekade the mouth «f every river, demanding to receive in American bottoms | freight bound cosst-wise, while the foreign trader, | This may admit of exolavatioa, Some legerde- | WS0 could carry the producers’ freight low, goss from ope ef our ports to another in ballast; fa2t, goes empty away. Upon both of these nity te do, by the rca ae of yeur colucns. Our Chicago Correspondence. Cuicaao, Lii., Dec. 17, 1854. Interesting to Bef Raisers and Eaters—The Great Western Pastures—Progress of Chicago, Sc., Fe. Our season for beef pasturing fs past, or is about closirg up. About the ugua} quantity has been tierced and barrelled. .The average weight of the cattle has been heavier and fatter than the past year—the facilities for the most perfe :t preparati aud preservation of the meat, has been greatly in- creased this year, and I hazard nothing in saying that the already high position our beef holds in all foreign markets will be greatly increased when this “kill” shall come to the “camp kettle.” More than three fourths of the beef slaughtered this fall, has been “‘tierced” or “‘tudbed” for the English markets. Your paper hase wide cireula- tion amongat the beef eaters of Europe, and as I was for fifteen years a practical stock raiser on our vast prairies, 1am sure it will be not uninter- eating to them, to give for your colamns a square so of items about our country, and mode of stock raising. If they do not already know the fact, let | me now tell them—our State, our whole State, is nine-tenths of it, as yet, in a state of nature—one vast grazing field. In the dingles and up the ravines the cattle resort in the early spring. Here they cast their calves—inere “run with the cows,” where stock raising is a business, and become beautiful indeed in the fall. Ihave often seen them killed for family use st eight months old, weighing seventy-five the quarter, and not ccsting tne owner one hour of time or care, or one peney expense, barring its salt, from the cast to the le. It would do you good to go out on a warm morning in June, with the herdaman, ard see him 3 i ry Hs ag8 i i mond: Ag ly worth to m,as some estimuie it, not leas than an ave per cent. on the comes directly off Pa ta | Monel’ our commercial eee md wed, in effect, uncer the monopoly they enjoy, bay and lake in fast | are undeniable that xo voice was hea din the House | heade J beve come remarks to make; but I wish | resisting thia iniquitous suicidal British treaty—iui- | fiet ta ehow the probable effacts of this treaty upen cur agricultural interest; and this, with your | consent, Mr. Ecitor, I will take an -ealy opporta- DLE Stare FARMER, ageinst sun and rain. The seats have soft cushions | end stuffed backe,and the wagons are maie to ‘ carry eight or nine passengers, leaving twenty inches room for eagh, or four inches more than our Broadway ompivuses. They are prqvided with good breaks, and will be drawn by four mules. It seems to have been the object to combine with lightness and comfort also a handsome appearance, 18 and weare sure that this object hes been attained. The wagon is painted snow white, with light blue atripes, being the colors aaa a inter- 44 a mit; rrchalprsbobiggctgt! tes fr "Sven Y The top bears ‘ork and California Steamship Line via Ni 3” on one of the panels, next to the door, the American shield, stars and stripes; en the other panel, the N coat of arms, with ita five volcanees, is pain . side represents tae ‘old folks at home” receiving newe from California. An old shoemaker sitting on his bench, embraced by cis wife, both listening to a letter from their which their daughter is reading to them. The o! mar hoids s draft of $5,000 on Adams & Co. in his | band, and all bear the expression of intense happ:- | Bers, ‘We are informed that twenty five of these wagons are ic progress now, and gli of thear are to be exe cuted in the same style. They will be ornamented with sppropriate pictures of scenes on the Isthmus ; aud California; and the owner of them has made an artsngement with O. B. Inman to go oat to the | Tetbmus, and take sketches of the beautifal and pic- turesque scevery of Nicaragua, which will be copied Oahe ootapany are taking them down to the leth @ , company are 2 3 mus, ob bowrd of their steamers, as fast as they are ready. The company have other improvements afoot. Zhe ney Ieee eene noe Late agees paces staterooms and sleeping apartments, do away | Wita all the want of comfort, and the finishing of the two wharves in San Juan del Sur and Virgin Bay, which aie in good progress, will contribute greatly to the des] i apparels 8 to twelve bours time each trip. By the finish of the Panama Railroad, and a care- ful supervision of that road, twenty-four hours might be saved in time. ard all the iculties and delays of that land route will be avoided; but Panama can- not overcome the eight hundred and odd miles travel a eS a ocean south of the Nicaragus port in ie Pacific. : The few arrangement of weekly communication is a great acco: to the public, which wit be fe sittin pom yordepeamu vege cites bps of the Ni qT it Company to carry also the mail over route. on MARITIME INSELLIGENCE, cr Movements of Ocean Steamers. iJ i) FETHHFY HEEB ae a Rash tery Oy ale eee intended for the Naw Yoru Tier ap. ALMANAC FOR NeW YORE—THIS DAY. 7 22| moon srr 437] neu wa Port of New York, December 23, 1854. “palting the cattle.” The very b:st—the richest CLEARED. beef barrelled here in November, ‘‘can hardly siani | Steamship Knoxville, Ludlow, Savannah, 8 1 Mitchill. alone” in May. Our winters here are “hard on cat- | , Stesmship Jas Adger, Turnor, Charleston, Spofford, Tiles- e . at thee make te. out “‘awfal poor i the pptcamanip Roanoke, Skinner, Richmond, 4e, Ludlam & sdvanes in the summer, and as the gu‘amn comes on thry are “log,” with fat, and Ship Niobe, Evans, Caloutta, W A Sale, Jr. Ship President Fillmore, Neivone ‘London, Dunham & Di- mom, Fit —rich, Ship Pri Br), Martin, London, H & F W Meyer. new made flesh, every ponnd of whicli—rien, jaloy | “Ship Fines Rerest (Be Marts, Landon JE & FW Merce in six or seven months. Four-fifths of | StiriA Westervelt ‘Austiv, Liverpool, Taylor & Rich, . a fave o the beef packed in, Iilinois have,“ never Bhip FA Palmer (new), Richardson, Havre, Post & Ryer- worn a yoke or a mi pail. stampede from fright takes have seen a thousand beeves in » drove, wandering in a huncred thousand acre lot of grasa three fect Kigh, without one weed to be seen; and is it wonder we cend good beef to Europe? 1 have wit 10n. Ship Tropic, Smith, 8ydney, R W Cameron, Ship Windward, Smith, Melbourno, R W Cameron. Ship Audubon, Arthur, Sip Katahdin, Eustis, paraiso, WR Rodman. ‘Orlesus, NH Brigham. Suip Hemisphere, Harris, Key West, master, J Norton, Jr. ia, Mowry, Charleston, ‘Thos Wardle. Bark Zorgriiet (Dutch), Groot, Amsterdam, W I‘ Schinidt 0. Bark Garland, Martin, Marseilles, J B Gager & Co. Bark J B Lancaster, Som well & Co. my own bands done hundred bushels of corn Bark Rolla, Haves, Bagua Gnade Peck & Charch. to the acre, and hogs bave often come home to Bae eee batt ace! Flee 7 Bacon & em Ce. me in fail, fit oe hh ¥ 4 | Brig Mury lisiailton, Briges, alvyecton Wakewas, Dimon 3 Mons of these bi 5 ‘ Brig Volona, Lockhart, 4 . Hy em, ne ese e ocene the rope of | Bae en ach Ms BR on the map, hundred others just now, by which His armies to be fed in the great coming battle day? presently want another great discovery, to moved by steam—s plon; ove we) er ten furrows at every revo! ne ot its whecl, to 7 fee simple, by deed from Congress, oi untless are We shall it Ay Sata it without price or ey, with ail the co 5 fowneend, Hutchingon, Gambia, MM Freeman & Beg are Rs eric venteen Years ago your city “broke | %* ‘at, Conbils R . alg Pe On = one ae Og ashe DU Wamel, Hannore, harlaswon? Tasctendy, Mott 5 barrel 9, Island at $12 per Darrel; then I paid at that tech LP Smith, Derrickson, Wilmington, Dollner & Pot- oint, $20 barrel for mers pork. ‘fwo thousand ‘Se a feb ote ay ecto | he A er jew York direct ve ci mesa | Schr law yt totam! a hed pork are packed daily. Now ail we wantis a-good | Sit SiStamon,Handall, Basipors, DeWote htess Co. sound currency—its sure alow rate of Gene Regegh Rates, Lome pp & Spragag ir piped sun e aber mee | Sleop Sprague, Hah, Wareham, master, our | and the isles of the sea. Commerce and free trade | Brent Picamont uM ‘Baltes. i Goneel ro- | are but the instruments in a hand higher than em- ARRIVED. : “sy rors, kings and nations, to prepare the way for | Steamship Marion, Foster, Charleston, 65 hours, with mdse tailabment of His Kngdom and Hl ane | Sc ton? a tert Cate te will dominion, whose wil be everlasting. His is | \ith itemmonip Neshville Lemos ine Cherian es oenale the silver and the g»ld. He covered and hid from | Ship Victoria, Champion, London, and Portemouth Noy man the vast treasures on the shores of the Pacific. | 14 th Mate, Sad IOS poredgeno¢ <GHawels, Maegan & He has opened them to a Christian people just as | “snip o mize, Childe, Li ot 28. they are wanted. Who gave wisdom to Morse just | and 4 pate ty He pS ag zt ae at this jurotuce, to speak Caway ahead of time,” | Wanens tee “Siam, Niemann, Hamburg, 1 days, with over ocean and prairie? Who to McCormick, and aM | mise and 317 passengers, to WE Nohmidt & Co. Noy 20 tat 49, lon 45, spoke Br frie Margaret 4 Ellen, from Halifax tor 0 H ha! 39 deaths and three births on the pas- sage. Bip Hermine (Brom), Raschen, Bremen, 56 days, with mdse and & Ts, to Pavenstedt ichumacher. Nov 14, Loston. be re- | lat 6%, lon 426m bark Atlantis, trom Bremen for New pare the praisie. He has garnered for the seed ta | Fo"% 1h, it's perenend vongy este elltieet, stocr eed a femishing world. We want a simple, sound, | shin Republik (Brew, Wenney ‘Bremen, 28 days, with mdse safe cu-rency, to steadily te and develope eS canal oer Henschen & Mel Th 9 all our astonithing resourzes; to check the coming | geon!in fan ee dfertint en’ Stes Thomaston, sir, are Low appalingly npon us. roy 4 rf duutve ina such position where you can do muc'! Purtt, currency to the nation. Maine Law and the Legislature. {From the Temperance Alliance, Deo. 22 | From our extensive that if the people of the di ark Hollander (Duteb), Amess, Rotterdam, 35 deys, with andae and 59 paseengers tc Moyer & Stucken. Bark Mating (of Backspor,) Gugey, Apalsobisela, 12 day, ¥ Buck & Co. Var ms Marseilles, 56 days, and ds y W Elwell & Co. peri- enoed heaty weather on the passago; split sails, &o. Brig Truxillo, Mulligan, Port au Pzince, Dec 3, with coffee, logwood, Sc, to Halsted & Chamberlain. Brig Bulow (Br), Rodman, Cornwallis, NS, 10 days, with potatocs, tv DR DeWolf. Brig Acteor,” Anderson, Attakapas, 13 days, with sugar negotiations have been seriously embarrassed | 4 5 | by: the too early relinquishment of the only boon | °*fetre aw mon in the heey | Makiq Adil, Sprague, Chiat, 6 days, with Yomber and this wise and wily nation sought. Whigs, 63; ts, 19. es, Pe ee by ot a “pee There is no ‘bel one t has b ee 1 enee arate, ty ee ao: tothe La nee Gite). Dilibesto, Palermo, 45 days,with fruit, satire overrea shed in the bavgain t:ey have made henayt 9. 2 EB os porate, es 41 helt Wintemsyah, Morrow, Havana, 9 days, with oranges, The * of State seems only to token | Nowveot trent } 2. +f | teGilmartin. | Beet, Ist 31.61, lon 73 01, epoke sche Matron, into view, in bis statesmanship, the Btate of New | at Jeast four —- Y eae cae er, “seu Wane, Gonceaon, Witmingeon, NC, 6 da York, cr st most only the fisbe: and manufac: | have a right,’ Sore ore 4 pcg Sobr Joreph Bolter, Holiven Richmond, | turers few England he pot bey and | bein (ee thet eagoed . Jenkins, Dickerson Baltimore, 4 a5? | mills of New York, ‘the interest of New York | Would have Stee DU Teae, oer | bas Wer carte meee gar, U ia ” st i! 4 few BS mo Go frolght, storage, and cow | iso informed that ten oF twelve decided Maine | Serr enrerd, Carlie Virginia, | to grind for the Rochester and Oswego alien ae ree defeated hone slection was consi. | Scurd Preble, Walls, Cherrydold, 3 di have been re ured as faras could ba doae, by Mr. thet "decide majority th ae re Echr Bhip Carpenter, «> Delaware Wie at ee ae < ded spective districts were friends of probibition. We | scifi" Nay iiestagee ietiche Reka ; gett have no doubt that hr Jasper, Steers, W Ef : abroad. ‘That his views bave been if heed hd Ttrsu the | Steanicr Gecrges Grok, Gnger, ‘Gale his policy so sectional and local, is state inference 2 Sheet, Se i Sa aS ‘as yesterday | racic at "mietedy ‘Danish bark Caro | from, the, tact that 20 och treaty was ever before ‘gata ont of sixtesn, and 1D, Oe thks “ity A athooved Line ‘smith, Vvulec ‘Wharhpou, 190 days, with teas, sc, to stance can be "found of s nation’s throwing wide Teatloanenovensat’s hore wweyt Maneschnsetion CATE Gat not Ferrick te Lose Tolnee Senet open its markets to another nation of peopte grow- With steamer Plymouth Hack, from New York for Stoning ing staples and products similar to ite own, ton, sud had boweprit carsied away, bo stare. Sobarem omens saree WuanrBoar Oarsrian a Gummo, From Oupe | Sistine Yim ete tee eh tek et e oF some Cozens, who returned by railroad trom reached national calamity. “All Rugland ld was to let a | the Old, wo here Che pertichlorn Gf an teoldaan | gervetGoneziion, ey eeermle never Rave reached ber one or two which sue could not supply $> | which occurred at Cairo on M evening last, by | | #@- Tho dare lows, arr yesterday, was from ‘riaite (not See arine people. Bat we have throwa our mar- Eble olnrge amant of nub ret, owt it eneres and is consigned to JO Baker & Go (ot JO kets thongu these Britisn provinces Louis, was ei total or i | were States. poor Ine ve Kb they will beh sll thet the hg Paseh Henry ( Brem best Cio, Bronte fo Bremerhaven, Nov 8 with gar predlots metals or exchange on Eagland, fo ay steamer’ Mic ‘frock the Lor tdstetppis hed pny eter Briss cot Puitsdotphi, Warper, fom Ana sav on tla poms aie | San B rotate ikea | Sop cw ee fh he . are et eae eee me X.F Aphrodite (not Ampbiteite, as reported by th iver, A ‘number of ya emigrants, who had | , Berk Robert Milt, stated from Galveston, but doubtless _ Lancs lost muh of iat woes aca some oo ‘Whe reported below With inst, hat has not Cy ‘0. livas were : tealy ag of re pnd wr | eoktegatin # Knoxville, feraanah James Adget, Charlos- about forty-tive with six oF fect of | Wind dering te Gay’ NE. ai water over he! fact | . rN |Search aanice'e, | Sinan aie SAAC | tas nes Fe tie oo fn, emnoon pre’ wered 10 ba is Thomas Tro won , own personal knowledge, liviag, as ho did, near the | om fire, but, by the exertions of those on , er ieteartrel tee PCT cigs haan a cadets ead ses anh cera | Ss tae seen Shoe - ; nag Alea @3 and those Peo- Oa waldo inhabitant "and frelah's very Righ. | Sif lst at orto, er, — emagrg “ i Hain carete do ali | pott-—Bt. Loute Democrat, Dees” | weecbebarsted damm sata she sachs PHILAD! Deo 38, 4 PM—Arr schr Northern Lights Doyles New Week) * Martane PHILADELP! ‘~The ship from Liverpool, is eter letter from the 1t was received a eae or tis Boura of Underwear We hav. ort the loss of the ship Sumay Side, of York, Wo Ht Adsias, maste Liverpool with a eufgo of sottone-2.000 bales. ‘She. ges Sabord on'TGaais, Sie ele at Ok Mieke coptsia ot tee ve ju himself thirty-five miles west of Raw Cay £ i and Orange For its, the ea 4 he fect is sworn otloers aua'et tis arae ‘at the most unremitting tions were made to hip off. Om Saturday nodn, 24 instant, ‘Adams took the Assistenes wreckers to lighten his ship, but it came to blow the heat pom the reof, and at half-past. eight ieher deck, stig and falling’ with ‘ide’ ‘Ou Monday, at four o' were ait hae on captain aud crew arrived here om “ 909 bales of cotton The mate is still Ua after the pro) Wo are in hopes the moet, y left, if, the eotton will be saved, one-half of whieh will be dry, but in rather bad Av FY, ceo ote will be saved (the rails and ranning rigging being mo where}, but she will prove s total loas, ‘The British Schr, Vallania, of Halifax, N Swan, sanoter, sailed from this pore tor New ¥. with wood, sponge, rags, &c, on the 21st ult, at 6 at4 AM next morning was ‘ashore at Whale Bay, Islands. The captain returned here for vessels to save’ cargo, on, which & Sold by the captain, ‘nad’ has since been got of by the captain, am ince been chasers, The denn Golly ana Monee Chstets ane progronsing as fast as ible. Tho former has her masts and the sails neatly completes, She will probably get away te c ro ™ a dayay We have uot Leard say thine ot the of the parties interested, horn for NYork, in distress im feak Doo 1, in Int 83.9 N, lon 6848 od @ heavy Ne Sacan Si na nega 08 the to rand t it impossible te k her free, and after consulting all hands it was unanim “4 agreed fo rum her before the wind to Bermuda; on the being then to the castward of Bermuda, and the wind from the northward, and finding it impossible to fetch Ber- muda, pat ‘her away for Cha on the 8th the wind res shifted to southwest, yr the port to the northw: the 16t ‘80, lon 76 47, hove: to with the wind from northwest, and finding as before hove to, that it was impossible to keop her free, her away for the nearest southerm port, which wae - fon; on the 17th the wind again ehifted, to seuthwest, and put er awa} e mort port, Which Was Norfolk. pedo A Bric, name unknown, went ashore on Nassau Florida, lita inet. A steamboat had gone to her pry from Jacksonville. Bric Dawenscove, abandoned on the passage from Pert- land to Alexandria, hed $5,000 insurance on her, ana 81,100 on . A Lumper LADEN BRIG from an Eastern ‘a ford, Conn, ran upon the outer end of the N Taree ner’s Itland eve of 15th inst, and remained until 18th. any: the 2ist, she went into Guilford, it receiving fhe Fist, she wens into Guithord, withea! Baro Enterprise, of and for Boston, before lost, wasat anchor off Tobasco Nov ll, with ® foil cargo {e"maste, wets cut away. or Sllerwise lo aot yet kuowe or o 0 is mi easel Would be condemned; 2 Hampden, if of 1, hefore reported ashoro, tat ins Aver’ discharging’ dock, load, "and arrived te wowe Scun Gux Won7n, (of Providenco) Burt, while% Bayport, Fin, for NYork, was driven ashore om St Reet prev to Sth inst, duri gale from North, woulo be a total loss, as she was fast ing. to pieces of, 9th. Crew saved. Capt Burt writes that io was stripping Teuh "Tne Gen Werth was a good Srind Pir tous 7 year old, and with her freight money is insured in N York: Scun ATLANtic, Nickerson, from NYork for Salem, with flour and corn, went ashore at Cohassct sbout 9 o’clcok om the morning of 224. ‘Tho crew abandoned her, and soon after she flonted off and went to sea. Soun PLanrer, of Dennis, abaudoned at son mites . aes condition, ra tan Boston it Eiumend om sorte. cargo, ei! res y valued al chone aonb ae meses euiet se, Pe eee under open policies: 2 at "2 Sld_ from Ber Deere lanl penn erly 21 bar! Chase, Hussey, 8 At- Sept 23, lat 45.50, lon 1 E, Clematis, NB, heater tateie ee tees ahs via Cape Vord Islands fur Hacific, touched for pd Spoken. wig Honteecs from Philadelphia fe do: nollage: oa Resse Ia for do, ni . hsp Bpiendid Er New York tor Haves, wad *Siane en ee b hi at ou guppoesd the Indiawan, frou osten fer leet Roan ae dave, at 4 PM. betwoon Nauset and Cape Cod iabte, egg Rindeer, from Coast of ateien for New York, Dee 8, Jon —. rig, Isabella Reed, from Port au Prince for N sported by the Hannah Crocker), had Tost valle jon Schr’ Natrony Taylor, ieom apes rotk, Deo a, lat 24 25 Teh Gk Hoe? om Attakapaa Zor New Ye Sebr J Grierson, hence for Mobile, Nov2t, lat 34, lon 72. Twaguarcstd Dee 6 brig fee NAGUA- ce A Ss wks Spe SUAS elas Ch Dae Ren een, Turley, for NOrieans in.w tow days; Port an Phiacs: une; =e Varker, of and tor Phiteasneai: from Port au Prince, weg wind; sohrs Metoor, Stueges: fet NOrleans, ldg; and Mary Reed, of NYork,.wtz cargo, "Bere eee bee coe tee ede puent a Farrell, Baltimors abe Augio; Maxwel ly . PeRnamBuco—In Nov ‘airy, Philadelphia abt Sept 46, une. mime Pont av Prinor—Sld Doo 3 brix Rowlaad, Me in, pe barks A J Harvey, Bi for ‘Alien, for do, 1dg;, brige Hi C Brook 3 iward, Killman, for do 10th, supposed loupe; A G Washhum, Camm, from Wil: on, 14 days; P Ni tall, hence, Rio Jaxerno—in Port Oct 31 Br brig Fairy, Steamer Bay City, Wardle, from do for San Ad idth, which'may Yo correc’ Ook 30 beak Wemnds, Pak, i 6 4 loys, for NOvicans same Gay z Masco—In port Nov jiulla Ford, Gritia, tor ork; Driseo, a6 eee Py 08 di Wooster, from juarantine, to load f% ; Suan te rs ey Unga; see Hanover, Matthews, from and for Bostou D days. Ports. ALEXANDRIA—Arr Deo 21 brig Ni ; Sew rum tia’ ais ey a ee and J Tilton, NYerk; Black Squall Bertone, | ene BALTIMORE—Ai Boe ton; brigs Chine, Hester Denmerkfaraen tee Dea! 3 Ocean jo viaInagua 6th + Pa- Belle fo i ib Beat Keene, lormo, Peterson, 8t John, NB; sohry 8 y York; Hannab Grant, Howard, New! Howland, and W i Darling, Dawson, Providence; Tt (e jo Rr erigipen ang coy and ek eleeraphed, two, # ng tnd bark, FI , from Caribbean, yar optane’s 5 Spica and stoaton,' nN Ye mi brig Abby Ellen (new). Gilebrist, § "Hosta Ate Bes te ani Dashing Wave Kish, Calon: he aertias and Winged Raver, W, ) N Ghren i Aly iW hia; David G Pk iH nus, eg ileary Gongh, ttt Merook; brige'S Thateton, Arabella, Stetson, Cardenas; echrs Naaty ik |. Matanzas; Lovie Walsh, Eaton, Jacksonville; ork; Awerican Belle, Browne, Geusva weal dow aad sechored is the bark Mystery, Toylor, cobrs Mt Vernet, Ket 3 \ESTON—Are Des 19 schrs British Queca (Be sweeting, Nresaa, NP 7 H fier Balan, foie Hortan: CLA Be Mee ee sein See Liverpool. Sid ste Peet cli on Tee x: a be F Buckuam, Smith, Alesaadria: Challenge, KFORT—sld Deo 19 Fanny Butler, Atwood, Col “erence "Deo 14 pits D pe hv Boston. ” HOLMES’S HOLE—Arr Dec 21 sohra © fen, Roexiand for Baltimore pr Rg Rd S for Richmond. Sld ship Oxsippee; bark St’ Js 4 hast z nth, Gilmore, Rideout, Edwin; § Hurd, A EG Cattell “Aleyona: pats iganlla, Jaa Fi Adams, Hyaran, Dyer, Maria, (Br) |, Ber- ms rei allen, 1 Wave Lydia Brooks, Sea, esath, rr 2: hattuek, y a and {rig Montiecilo; sobes Rebekah Fog, ¢ Matinewe; aed “MOUEE Agr fee 15, abip Hares Sunith ue yerpool; schrs Rockingh fam, Talpeys Berean: 3 ‘ Miner, Baitimores JGHEC Howard, Baker, in Miguel, Vent Barcelona ; Br vip Kit € tts Hanna, Liverpool, sdhr Allee, NANTUCKET, ti onl Boeen Peking Agr Deo Met echs Sarah Jano, Fitzgerald, aileg at ries asks Beha dont seat Meee Teck HAVEN Arr Doc 21st, ig Thos Trowbriilge, Dun- NEW. UgN DON ‘Dec ob LW Alpxander, auder, fq ow Me » Wal Rhode et it ‘do; Surplus, ‘les, STOP Ae Bas a tebs Bion Jane, Bae NOME OLK—Azr Dee 20 6 0 Sane, Bedford; Triphenin, do; Mathow Bird, ——, Tn Hampton Roads ebip Adelan, Hunter, from Nori, in diatrons—see Bicusters! HNSACOLASAre be cen Dec 7 and 1 barks Alox Small, Avpinwall | Osteria, Woodhury, aes Alloe Day, Aehbnry, Mork.’ Cid. barks Halcimorg, Macths Anns, —, Havaun; sobr Goldon Clo aa al (i Ea ou ate a " Provider y Cla steamer it Bacdtord, Bendtords Ss oe ivi Dee di bark Merely Ha f Bee 1 pche Man, Brown, Niort: “Cla Brig Hoyal Sallery POKTSMOUTH—Arr Deo 2) sche -pwell, NY: Eee eae rnb a rae 0 21 0 1 Aug POnTs14 Boo 17 elitp ier (act, ol le pet os MEGA ts Her