The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1855, Page 4

220 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENS ETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITUR. Po TTERS by Matt for Subscriptions or with Adver- ssonenis i gud seth or Rogeieceee bated tae: *yOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, sentatntne impor. Sate liber: 9 Quam Fomeren Connesron- Elerens ann Pacuaurscunr ves T° AE ALL NO NOTICE taken of anonymous Communications. We do wet return 508 executed with neatness, cheapness, and VER TISEMENTS renewed every dav. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Crvpwnaiia~ ‘Sax Ownievs. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Werrt or Wisu-rox = -IRELAND As iT Is—Inisn AssuRANCE AND YANKEE jODERTY. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Oun Ser— Woman's Lire. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tows anv Covn- vay—Inz Critic. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—EqureTxian PeRroRMances, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Evit. Bv2—Quitx at Home. Evening—Ma . WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mall, 472 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Broad Buox- save Brmsorian Opera maccrs. fa gino DONALDSON’S OPERA HOUSE—Hope Chapel, 718 and We Broadway. ew York, Monday, January 29, 1855. The News. The steamship Empire State arrived at this port jest evening, with Havana dates to the 234 instant. From the letters of our correspondents, published elsewhere, it will be seen that some important mn- aicipal reforms have b3en effected in Havana, and ia is proposed to revive the old system of represen- tation to the Spanish Cortes. Thie, taken in conaec- ton with the erectian of a new fort, does not look as ‘MW the Spanish government intended to sell the island of Coba. We publish to-daya full account of the recent balloon ascension of Miss Bradley, brisfly noticed under the telegraphic head a day or twosince. It is @ narrative of the most extraordinary and perilous zrie] voyage on record, and for startling effect com- pletely eclipees the exploits of all previous cloud- ésy afternoon and continued incessantly throughout the night. It extended as far south as Washington. Feare are entertained that the rain and melting wnow will cause serious freshets in the interior of the country. The jury in the case of the late Daniel Webster against the city of New Orleans, failed to agree upon a verdict. This is a claim for fifty thousand dollars for professional servicee in the celebrated Gaines cane. In to-day’s paper we publish letters from our cor- respondents at Washington, Lynchburg, Va., Har- riebarg, Geneseo, N. Y., Boston, and Hartford, giv- ‘img valuable facta and speculations respecting po- Vitical matters at those pointe. The gubernatorial canve's in Virginia, the desperate struggle among the friends of the mval candidates for the United States Benate in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York, and the efforta of the Connecticut de mocracy to reorganize their scattered forces pre- paratory to the meeting of the convention for the nomination af State officers, combine to give an un- ‘weua] interest to the correspondence alluded to. What are the prospects of the Kaow Nothings ia Connecticut? The parties implicated in the alleged burning of the steamer Marthe Washington, on the Ohio river, some years since, were recently tried at Galena honorably acquitted by the jury, and discharged from custody. It ig stated that the Rev. William H. Goodwin, formerly of Rochester, but now a resident of Gene va, was,om the 25th inst., nominated by the Know Nothings asa candidate for Senator, to fll the va- cancy in the Twenty-ninth district. Mr. G. is re. presented to be a Methodist in religion, a hard shell democratic Know Nothing in politics, anda Maine liquor law advocate in morals. Cotton continned firm on Saturday, with sales of about 800 a 900 bales at full prices. The stock on ‘the market continued to be unusually ligh: for the weason of the year. Fiour and grain were dull, and sales moderate. Provisions were in fair demand at steady prices. Old mess pork sold at $12 50; bacon wold pretty freely, deliverable in Philadelphia at S4c., and in Baltimore at 7jc. The extreme in- wlemency of the weather interfered with outdoor basinees, and had a tendency to check operations im some branches of trade. Post Office Advertisements—Official Decision of the Postmaster in Favor of the Herald. We have received a copy of the late official decision of the Postmaster of this city, who has at last made up his mind that the advertise- wents of the uncalled for letters lying at the Post Office shall, for the future, be given to this paper. This decision establishes in an offi- cia) manner the otherwise well understood fact, that the New York Heraco has the largest daily circulation of any journal in this city, and con- sequently the largest of any in the Union. We are even warranted in going further, and sta_ ting from returns now lying before us, that it possesses the most extensive circulation of any first class daily newspaper throughout the civi- lized world, not even excepting the London Times and the Paris Constitutionnel, both of which papers have a wide circulation in Eng- Nand and France, and indeed over the whole continent of Europe. The competitors in this contest for the Post Office advertisements, which has now been going on for several weeks back, were the New York Sun, which originally enjoyed a mono- poly of them, the New York Times, and the Sunday Dispatch. At one time, the Sun, being a cheap penny paper, possessed a Jar- ger daily circulation than the Heratp. That advantage has, however, long since passed away from it. The establishment of the Daily Times, iv which upwards of $100,000 have been sank, has, singularly enough, caused the circu_ lation of the Sun te decrease within the last two or three years to a most extraordinary ex- tent, although the former journal, notwithstand. ing ite vast expenditure, has nover succeeded in arriving at a paying point. The Sun may therefore be said to be on its decline, whilst the Daily Times has proved such a drain upon the financial resources of its owners that one of ite original proprietors and founders, Mr. H. J. Raymond, is akout to withdraw from a career for which he was never very eminently fitted, to commence political life in the post to which be has lately been elected—that of Lientenant Governor of the State. No great leading jour- nal can, in tact, admit of divided pursuits, di- vided ambition, and divided attention, in its principal conductor. Hence the declining posi- tion of the Times, and the abandonment of the belm by ite principal founder for the chances of politic] ambition. Thg New York Tribune woe not, it ecome, a competitor for the Post Office ad yertiverments, its daily circulation iv, | Of masters as to the tirst. fact, @ mere, bagatelle, and depends almost entirely uyon the prosperity of its weekly iseue. ‘fhe experience of in New York, however, chows that the success of weekty journals can never be otber than of a mere temporary character. None of the smaller daily newspapers of the city, such as the Ez- Press, entered the lists of competition. Their circulation, both in and out of the city, is so limited, that they felt it would have been use- less. This selection of the New York Hzraup, after repeated triale, therefore, establishes offi- cially and conclusively the fact of its having a larger circulation than that of any other daily newspaper throughout the Union. During the past ycar its daily circulation varied for a consid- erable period from 50,000 to 60,000, andon many occasions during that time it exceeded 70,000, After the present dull season, when the ap” proach of spring will give a fresh impetus to commercial operations, and when the new and startling issues to which the social and political revolution, now busily at work amongst us, is giving birth, are brought fairly before the pub- Tic by the preparations for the next Presidential campaign, we have no doubt that our circula- tion will exceed the highest point that it has as yet reached, and will even attain 100,000 aday, if we can succeed, by improvements in our ma- chinery, in obtaining the facility of furnishing our paper to those who require it served before a certain hour in the morning. M. Soule’s Case—More Cabinet Shuffitng. A few days ago one of our Washington cor- respondents sent us an extract from a letter which he stated had been written to M. Soulé by Mr. Pierce shortly before his departure from this country tor Spain, and after he had deliver. ed the filibustero speech which attracted so much attention at that time. The authenticity of that letter has been denied in the most em- phatic terms by the organs of the administra tion. Journals generally supposed to stand high in favor with the personnel of the White House have not been content with denying that Mr. Pierce wrote any such letter,but have given vent to furious bursts of rage, and have once more given proof of their sense and good breeding by heaping coarse language on our head. To all this our answer is very simple. The letter which contained the extract we published was shown by M. Soulé to a gentleman here, who repeated its substance to our correspondent. It is quite possible that some slight variance may have existed between the ipsissima verba of the letter as written, and the extract es pub- lished. But the evidence is too strong to ad- mit of our doubting for'a moment that the tenor, meaning and general wording of the original letter were identical with the passage sent us by our correspondent. Were the Pre- sident a different man, we should allow more weight to his semi-official denial of the fact; &s it is, we can only regret that the antecedents of the first magistrate of the United States do not permit us to hesitate in preferring the word of a dispassionate individual to his own. We believe that the letter was written and sent as we stated. But in truth it matters very little whether Mr. Pierce did or did not write such a letter te M. Soulé, His approbation of the filibustero principles ot the Minister was as plainly implied in bis appointment to Spain as it eould have been expressed in any letter. M. Soulé’s speech was read by the President long before he left for Madrid. If Mr. Pierce did not approve of the sentiments it contained, why did he allow M. Soulé to leave? The latter announced in the most unequivocal and emphatic manner the course of policy he intended to pursue at the Court of Isabella IL; every ragged loafer in New York knew exactly what M. Soulé would say and what he would do; surely the President was not the only man in the country who did not know what was going on around him. To suppose such a thing would be ab- surd. Mr. Pierce knew it all perfectly, and with the filibustero speech before him, he al- lowed M. Soulé to depart. What stronger sanc- tion could he have bestowed on his principles if he had written 8 dozen letters? This, however, is a very small matter, which we are willing to leave in abeyance until Mr. Soulé’s return, which cannot be later than next month. We haveno doubt but that gentleman will find it necessary to set this and afew other matters in their true light before the American people; and we shall then see whether or no it be true that the adminiatrationis now trying to make M. Soulé the scapegoat for their follies, Plain enough it is to us that the whole pro- gramme of Mr. Pierce’s foreign policy was bor- rowed bodily from Mr. Dudley Mann. The let- ters we have published place the matter beyond question. Every conspicuous act of the admin- istration, from the circular on diplomatic cos- tume to the Koszta letter and the demand of ten millions from Congress, was the result of Mr. Mann’s suggestions. In fuct, we may say that during the first year at least of Mr. Pierce’s ad- ministration, the ruler of this country was none other than Dudley Mann. He had a number of assistants to aid him in the work—one Frank- lin Pierce who assented to bills; William L. Marcy who acted as his amanuensis and wrote the letters Mann dictated; Caleb Cushing, James Guthrie and others who enregistered his decrees, just as the chancellors and secretaries and prinees do those of the Czar Nicholas. But | the real power was in the hands of Mann. He was the head, they were the hands. He thought, they acted. He ordered, they obeyed. From his room in Paris, with no other help than a sheet of fine I’rench note paper, he governed the | United States; and so ably did Pierce and his other subordinates carry out his designs that really the thing could not have been better managed had he been here in person. It was somewhat anomalous, certainly, to see the country ruled by Dudley Mann, when the people had elected Franklin Pierce to do the work; but then Mr. Pierce knew himself better than any one else knew him, and had caleu- lated to a nicety what he was fit for. The exact period at which the administration of Mr. Dudley Mann terminated cannot yet be ascertained with perfect precision. The chances are that the refusal of Congress to vote the ten millions he demanded must have shaken his authority, and led to insubordination on the part of Mr. Pierce and his other clerks. Nor can the foolish failure of his war policy toward Spain have been without effect. At whatever time the outbreak took place, we know that such an outbreak did take place, and that on some certain day, Messrs. Marcy and Guthrie ~-sober, conservative men in all matters wherein Central America is not concerned-— overthrew the usurper, and seized his sceptre, Poor Mr. Pierce, like a quiet puppet ae he is, submitted as uatepiaingly to the second batch He bad been war- wae lemblike ander like under Mann; he NEW YO G: Ire. SBS. ft i Mom Cisne AAOY Marcy. ‘The conquest and invasion of Cuba | Mystertous Know Nothing Novel—Jesuttism was a bagatelle to him, when the fiery Mann held him under his thumb; now, poor man, be will “roar you as gently as any sucking dove.” The only victim of the change of dynasty seems to have been that unfortunate man, Pierre Soulé, who, being far away in Madrid, and knowing nothing of the revolution which over- turned Mann and set up Marcy in his stead, was going on as usual, breathing fire and brim- stone, challenging dukes, bearding emperors, writing blood-and-murder letters to the Span- ish papers, and generally doing his best to carry out the Mann line of policy for the great- er glory of the United States. The first news of the change obliged him to resign; and jast at this crieie, when we venture to publish a let" ter of the President’s, which contained nothing atall new or surprising, but only confirmed what Mr. Pierce was not chary of expressing under the reign of Mann, the publication rouses the whole officis) brood to impotent wrath, and calls down coals of fire from presi- dential furnaces on our head, What need of all this flame and fary? Let some member of Congress demand the corres- pondence which has passed between the State Department and M. Soulé since the latter left New York, and we engage they will find not on)y ample confirmation of Mr. Pierce’s letter, but a clear indication of the rise, progress and overtbrow of King Mann and the accession of his successor, Mr. Marcy. The New Opera Out of Its Difficulties—4in Easy Money Market. A very sudden change must have come over the depressed tone of the money market within the last few days. We see by an announcement from Mr. James Phalen, President of the Academy of Music, and manager in general of fashionable affairs in New York, that the loan for which the opera was in the field has been negotiated in some way or other, and that the new estab- lishment, or the Academy of Music, as it is called, has been as succesful in Wall street as the Erie Railroad and other loan-seeking con- cerns. It will be recollected, from the statements published by the friends of the new opera house, that the loan was sought ‘o be contracted on what are designated as second mortgage bonds. Now, if the necessary sum has been raised on such securities as these bonds, it argues a remarkable degree of comfort and ease in the money market. We are glad to learn from Mr. Phalen’s statement, not only that the tightness in that quarter is at an end, but that the difficulties of the new opera house, so far as its stocks and stock debts are concern- ed, have come to a happy termination. The present financial position of the establishment is, however, one thing, and its artistical position is another. Its maeical prospects are entirely distinct and different from its pecuniary ones— although ostensibly dependent upon each other. In the statement to which we refer, Mr. Phalen discourses and reasons cloquently on the prospects of the Italian opera in New York, and ends by expressing his conviction that it cam be rendered successful in this metropolis if con- ducted on certain principles of cheapness and liberality. To this conclusion, however, a great many will take exception. In the first place we have never had an Italian opera that really paid, and the first season of the establishment over which Mr. Phalen presides has unhappily presented no exception to the rule. If, with such world-renowned artists as Grisi and Mario, the enterprise could not be rendered remunerative, we cannot see under what other conditions it is likely to succeed. a Admitting for a moment the justice of Mr. Phalen’s reasoning, that low prices are to effect such revolution in his favor, is he so blind as not to see that one fatal mistake has been com- mitted in the foundation of the new establish- ment, which places such an element of success out of his reach. If the Academy of Music hed been intended for the masses, it should not have been built in alo- cality, the distance of which is unattainable by those who live in the populous parts of the city. Low priced opera at the Broadway succeeds when it would fail at the Academy of Music, simply because it is within the reach of those who, baving fatigue enough in the day, do not care to add to it by & long journey on foot at night, in pursuit of pleasure. And yet these are the classes whom the experience of all the- atrical enterpr'ses has proved are the only ones for whom it is worth a manager’s while to cater. They are at once the most certain and the least fastidious supporters of the drama. But be- sides the cardinal error we have pointed out, there is another which in itself would have militated against the success of the enterprise. The experience of the great operatic establish- ments all over the world has shown that so long as a privileged class is allowed to monopolise the best seats, the general public wili withhold ite patronage. Such was the result when the same unfair system was introduced at the old tenders who manage the new theatre on Four- teenth street deserved to fail when they al- lowed their class prejudices to betray them into the disregard of a fact established by such | general experience. But, under any circumstances or conditions, we maintain that Italian opera will never suc- ceed in this country. It has never done so anywhere else, and we cannot see what there is | in our case to make it an exception to the rule, | It is the aristocratic classes of Europe that Witness the failures of Laporte, Lumley, and Gye, in London, and of Roqueplan, Arsene, | Houssaye and others, in Paris, although sup- | ported, in the latter case, by a government | subrention. The truth is, thatfirst rate musical | talent is so rare, and the prices fixed by artists | possible that the returns of any theatre, or the | patronage of any public, no matter how mnusi- cal, could render such enterprises remunera- tive. So much for the musical prospects of the new opera house. chances in other respecte are not likely, at le for some time, to prove brighter. Notwith- standing Mr. Phalen’s confidently expressed | onticipations, we fear that there is but little probability of the so-called Academy proving satisfactory as 4 commercial speculation, until the lapse of another quarter of a century has moved the fastidious denizens of that fashion- able region higher up the island, and substi- | tated in their places the hard-fisted and pleasure | possibly succeed as a temple devoted to melo droma, equestation, negro minstrelsy, or such abode of the Italian muse, we fear it will never | be permanently recognized. Astor Opera House, and the aristocratic pre- | support the opera, and miserably they do it. | on their services so extravagant, that it is im- | We apprehend that its | loving mechanics of our city. Then it may | other popular amasements. But, as the classic | and Sewardism Defined tm a Love Story. We find upon our table a new bock with the following significant title:— Stanhope Bur- leigh. The Jesuits in our Homes, A Novel, | by Helen. Dbu ;” (Phoebus, what a name!) bearing the imprint of Stringer & Towasend, | and dedicated “to the young men of the Re- public,” with an assurance that “the signal fires of Seventy-six have been rekindled.” Music. This book belongs to that new species of po- litical pamphleteering introduced into our po- pular literature by the invisible bus ubiquitous Know Nothings. The preface is a somewhat hifalutea manifesto against “the terrible Com- pany of Jesus,” and fully admonishes the reader of the drift and purposes of the narra- tive. In this salutatory Stanhope Burleigh is defined (hold your horses) as the impersona- tion of the startled spirit of patriotism, lifting its right band to heaven, and swearing by the star-epangled banner which floats over the eapitol that the reign of American dema- gogues, Jesuitism and foreign influence in this country shall cease.”” Thus posted up on the general indictment, we proceed to the specifica- tions of the story. The woof of the plot is a love affair, the fill- ing is made up of the purposes and schemes of the Jesuits in the United States. The hero of the story isa veritable chip of Young Ameri- ca, strongly tinctured with filibustering chi- valry. The heroine is the daughter of a Spanish born American millionaire, and her melancholy history, with that ot her father, is intended to illustrate the merciless avarice of the grasping and cruel Jesuits. The story of the loving couple begins at a convent at Genoa, where our beautiful heroine is imprisoned— Genoa, the identical city of the closing scenes of the “lamentable comedy” enacted between the intractible Miss Gamble and the Che- valier Wikoff. Our new heroine is only rescued from the convent at Genoa to-perish in an American nunnery, whereat the wrath of Burleigh becomes the “wrath of Achilles,” and the rising of the Know Nothings. This love yarn, however, is but the sugar and water in the tumbler; Jeeuitism and Sew- ardism are the brandy and lemon of the punch. If we are not mistaken, Hubert, representing the cause of the Jesuits, is the ré/é ot Arch- bishop Hughes; Woolsey does the work of Sew- ard, in his delicate political negotiations for the Catholic vote; Fouché will pass very well for Thurlow Weed; while Loveblack is evi- dently no other philosopher than Greeley, in his old white coat. The game of the grand conspiracy of these desperate God-forsaken conspirators commences with the European revolutionary movements of 1848, The keen sighted and calculating Padre Jau- dan, Captain General of ‘the terrible Company of Jesus,” foresees the expulsion of his order from the Old World, and resolves upon estab- lishing the supremacy of the society in these United States, as the starting point for a grand reactionary movement. Archbishop Hughes is instructed, accordingly, to commence opera- tions among the wire workers of our political elections. The presidential election is at hand. Seward and his clique are plotting to elect Gen. Taylor, and to appropriate his election to taeir sectional and seditious purposes. They waut the Catholic vote. Hubert is their man. A general bargain is agreed upon,the Archbishop promising-the Catholic vote in exchange for Seward’s assistance and co-operatioa in a few political projects of his own. Several public journals are mixed up in the consultations of these parties, including the | New York Hrnatp, @ paper which, according to the revelations of our historian, must have given the conspirators an infinite deal of trou- ble. We are surprised to hear that Seward and Thurlow Weed, in 1848 entertained even for a moment the absurd idea of diverting the Her- ALD to their projects, either in the presence or the absence of its responsible editor and pro- prietor. We have the word of a lady, however, for the fact; but whether she obtained the information from Weed or Seward, we cannot divine. At all events, the conspirators certainly failed to make the HeraLp a Seward organ, and there is some comfert in that. If one-half the political revelations of this mysterious book be true, then it is highly pro- bable that this publication may exasperate the Know Nothings at Albany against Seward’s re-election to the Senate. In any event this singular novel, blending the political intrigues of Archbishop Hughes and our arch-agitator with the romantic pursuit by Young America of a beatiful heiress in a convent, isa shrewd | woman’s invention. It makes the reading of | politics equally refreshing to the romantic dam- eel, the Broadway fop, and the old unfeeling Politician of sixty years standing; and the more imagination in such things the better. We may next expect a fuli disclosure of the origin of the anti-masonic movement at Batavia, | interwoven with the romantic adventures of Falls, and various interesting incidents in the life ot the widow Morgan, and other characters connected with that first important movement in Seward’s political career. Next we shall probably have a history of his connection with five years, seasoned into @ romance by the “Jerry rescue,” underground railroad scenes, and so forth. Next, a thrilling narra- tive of Master Seward’s affiliations with the Women’s Rights Associations, Spiritual Rap- | pers, Fourierites, and Temperance societies. including several amalgamation marriages and | various curious and romantic escapades. Nor will the mine be here exhausted. Still another Seward and his agents with the anti-renters may be written, comprehending glimpses of social life among the Helderbergs, and the dar- ing adventures of Big Thunder, in the tarring | and feathering and murdering of sheriffs, &. Under this Know Nothing system of blending | together love, poetry, and party politics, in novel writing, the Seward novels might be made as charming and interesting to young and old, and as instructive as the Waverley volumes themselves. The first of the Seward series, evidently the work of a higuly imagina- curious, mysterious, surprising and revolation- ary production. “Is there a Bourbon amongst us?” % Tur Mayor ayo tre Crry Fe xps—Mr. Fer- nando Wood bas very properly insisted on his Morgan, a graphic description of Niagara | the anti-rlavery agitation of the last twenty- | | jar. Her presence of mind was extriordinary. After this fearful fall, and when the balloon was still descending with terrific velocity, she intensely exciting novel of the intrigues of | up, | and the timber and fron are nearly ready for there, tive and excited female, is, at all events, a very | _ tor, and an effort is evident on their part to write him right to supervise every department of the city | | government, including that relating to finance, , } Should the cerrecting of nuisances, the closing | of grogshope, and the cleaning of the streets, | leave him the leisure to make a few inou'ries of the officers of thie last depsrtment, we thi With me HERALD, MONDAY. JANUARY °29, “1855. they can be made with advantage to himself and benefit to the public. It bas already been stated that the city hasin the Mechanics’ Bank a sum derived from taxes, somewhere between seven hundred thousand and a million of dollare. Itis likewise notori- ous that various parties and interests have claims on the city amounting in all to some- thing like four or five huodred thousand dol- lars, which Mr. Comptrojler Flagg refases to pay on some pretext or other. It would be well if the Mayor would inquire —as he bas a right to do in virsue of his office— whether the Mechanics’ Bank has or has not made large loans to a Western railroad? Wheth- er Mr. Comptroller Flagg does or does not hold some office connected with a Western railroad ? And if these two queries be answered in the affirmative, whether the railroad to which the Mechanics’ Bank has lent money be or be not the one with which Comptroller Flagg isso con- nected ? If the Mayor’s other occupations do not leave him time to investigate this interesting subject, the questions might be put by any member of the Board of Councilmen. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING FELEGRAPHS, From Washington. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN EXPEDITION. Wasmixctoy, Jan. 28, 1855. Co}, Kinney bas written letter to the Union, denying the reports ae to the filbustering character of his Cen. tral American Ba) and says the affairs of the expedition are progressing satisfactorily, and that suscess is certain. From Philadelphia, MARINE DIGA®TEKS—DEATH OF A RAILROAD SUPER- INTENDENT. ParLaperpma, Jan. 28, 1855, The brig Eleanor, from Port au Prince, bound to this port, went ashore on Thursday night, three miles north of Fenwick’s Island, near where the Osceola stranded. The vessel, it is supposed, will be a total loss. Her cargo, composed principally of logwood, coffee, fruits, &c., is partly saved. None of her crew were lost. The pilot boat Cropper, which arrived at the Breakwater, Friday, reports speaking the brig T. H. Rhodes, which vessel spoke on the 23d inst. the ship Magnolia, of Boston, from Callao. leaking badly, and apparently steering for the nearest port. She was then thirty-five miles south of Cape Henlopen, The revenue cutter Forward has gone to her assistance. C. L. Spofiord, Esq., Superintendent of the Baltimore Railroad Company, died this morning of typhus fever. From the South. SUIT OF THE LATE DANIEL WEBSTER AGAINST THE OITY OF NBW ORLEANS. Bartimone, Jan. 28, 1855. By the arrival here of the Southern mail, as due, we have received New Orleans papers uf Monday. In the suit of Daniel Webster against the city of New Orleans, claiming fifty thousand dollars for professiona! vervices in the Gaines case, the jury were unable to agree. Heavy Rain Storm at the South, Pemavevena, Jan. 28—8 P. M. Abeavy storm, with a southeast wind, set in here to-day, and it is now raining furiously. The snow is rapidiy disappearing. Fears are entertained of a freshet, Bavrowore, Jan. 28—8 P. M. A heavy rain storm commensed here at six o’clock this evening, and stiJl continues, The weather is mild. Wasuixeton, Jan. 28, 1856, It commenced raining here at five o’clock this after- noon, and is now falling very heavy. The snow is fast disappearing. Markets. ProvipEncr, Ja: Cotton has been in fair demand during the market closes firm without any particular change in prices from our Inet quotations: Nhe wool ‘marist yemaing ‘inactive—sales 51,100 Ibs, In printing cloths the tales have been 61,400 pieces. Extraordinary Balloon Ascension by a Lady, and Miraculous Escape. OUR EASTON COKRESPONDENCE. Eastox, Pa , Jan. 26, 1855. he Ascension of Miss Bradley—Bursting of the Balloon —Its Prightful Descent—Miraculous Escape—Railroad | Bridge Across the Delaware— he Senatorial Contest. Ieee that you have in your telegraphic column of to- day’* HeRALD a brief account of the balloon ascension of Mis Louisa Bradiey from this place yesterday. Her escape from deata was so miraculous that I think you will find | amore detailed account interesting. Miss B, filled her dalloon entirely with gas from oue of the street mains, and at 11 o'clock stepped fearlessly into the car. She is small, delicate looking woman, and was dressed in » Bloomer costume of scarlet and blue. The balloox, held by a rope, was then permitted to rise about twenty feet from the ground, when she made a short address to the crowd of people. It then rose gently, stili held by the | rope, until she was one hundred feet from the ground, when she cut the cord, and the balloon rose perpendicu- larly with great velocity, until she bad reached a mile, or 4 mile aud @ quarter, as it was extimated by tiose present who were best able to judge. It would appear, from her own account, that she knew very little about the business she had undertaken, or of the effects likely to be produced upon the balloon when it reached the rarified atroosphere, The balloon was an old one, and the silk had become so rotten that it is wonder- ful that it would bear inflation at al}, When ashe reached this height she states that the balloon, which was not entirely filled when it left the earth, expanded, until the gas began to escape at the seams, and became very of- fensive to her. She had beer so absorbed by the en- chanting prespect spread ont beneath her, which she kaye was magnificent beyond the power of language to describe, that she had not noticed the balloon. The es- cape of gasalarmed her, and she pulled the valve rope, but permitted but little gas to escape, as she was afraid she would fall into the Delaware, whith was directly be- neath her. In a few moments after this the balloon col- lapsed, and to our horror and alarm, we saw her fall with frightful rapidity for the distance of six hundred or seven hundred feet, her progress then being cheeked, from what cause we below could not see, although we then observed that she was descending quite slowly. It seems that when the balloon burst it was torn inte rib- ands, except the lower part or neck of the balloon. So completely was the upper part torn to pieces, that large pieces of ailk blew away, and the remainder hung down even below the car. When she had fallen this distance the neck of the balloon suddenly blew up, turning inside out, and catching against the net work, formed a para- chute, which bore her safely to the grownd, She cama down in anopen field, and so lightly did the car strike the earth that she says there was not the slightest threw out her sand oags and anchor, and then with the utmost calmness commenced singing a hymn. She alighted about four miles from this place Tae trip must be considerea a quick one, ax ata quarter past Lz she rode into town safe and in Gne spirits, ‘The raslroad bridge over. the Delaware, conaecting the Lehigh Valley Railroan with the Central Railroad of New sersey and the Belvidere Delaware Railroad, is being pushed forward rapidly, Two spans are no mainder. The }ebigh Valley Rail tend this place to the co! tai snd wil comes es on the Lehigh, and will connect il and Susquehanna coal regions. hat this road will be finished by the You will then have Tt is now expecter latter part of the coming summer, arailroad direct from New York to the coal regions, whence you may obtain supplies at all seasons. Your | merchants may well look upon this enterprise with fa- vor, as, in addition to other advantages, it will secure for them a In ing region. 1 increasing annui ‘rade from this ns and improv and it is destined at no distant day to be the largest and most thriving town in Eastern Pennsylvania, except ambitious Philadelphia, who, in extending her limits eo far into the rural districts, bad well nigh included our town and the surrounding country. Your Harrisburg correspondents all seem to agree that Gen. (ameron cannot be elects} United States Sena down. One of them seems to think ex-Gov, Jobnston the prominent man, while another says that Sena- tor Cooper has decidedly the inside track, “Those capital are not always the best informed upon matters, and] take your lé«t cor-espondent to be t bly ignorant of the prominent men of the State, when ‘he talbs aboat Judge oul cael an ordinary conn’ i" mounte'n home.'* \ 7,000 is the | judge, and = of ives at Noy en, a fh ple, riatcen milew from Pati all well informed men be: at OM VOL. XX3*"». lawyers in the State, 1 think you wil aay ablest yere rate 4 be elected Senator, because of his known abolitionism, Sepator Cooper isa clever pot strength enough to command a Those who know most of the poling 09 suse me that the election of Gen, ron is yond a doubt. T need scarcely tell you that there is ‘man in the State whose el to Judge Campbell, Forney and Mr. Bus Simon Cameron, who has defeated their marred their plots, and through whose exertions out Btate has been relieved to some extent, and is soon to. be still further relieved of the men who, ac' with the old. and caring only for the public plunder, have been millstones round neck, checking her onward career. The election of Simon Cameron will be their death blow. FORKS OF THE DELAWARE. Marine Affairs. LAUNCH OF THE HAVBE STEAMSHIP ARAGO. On Saturday afternoon, Mesers. Jacob A. Westervelt’s cps & Co. launched from their yard, foot of Seventh street, East river, the steamship Arago, for the New York and Havre line. The Aragois a most noble look- ing vesee), of 2,500 tone register, and has been built im ‘the most substantial manner, under the superintend- enee of Capt. William Skiddy, naval constructor. The dimensions of the vessel are as follows:—Length, 282 feet; breadth of beam, 41 feet; depth of hold, 25 feet. She is to be furnished with {wo oscillating engines of 65 inches in diameter, with a stroke of ten feet, now build- ing at the Novelty Works, Capt. Lines, who com* manded the Humboldt from ler launching until her wreck, near Halifax, will have the command of the Arago. DianoucaL Arremrt To Porwox 4 WHoue Suir’s CREW.— The bark J. Forbes (ot New Haven), Captain Sanford, from Aux Cayes for this city, put into Key West on the 19th inst, with all hands suffering from the effects of poison, administered to them by a negro, while lying in the harbor of Aux Cayes. The villain belonged to the vessel, and deserted before his crime waa discovered. Capt. S. had to remain at Key West, being too unwell to. continue in charge of his vessel, which has been entrust- ed to Capt. Strandbery, of the lost brig Tartar, to bring on. Ag the crew are not stated to have left the vessel, the effect of the poison upon them was probably not very severe, Important Mercantile Case. BALE OF DAMAGED COTTON BY SAMPLE—IMPLIED WARRANTY—-LIABILITY OF VENDERS FOR THE REPRESENTATIONS OF BROKERS MADE AT TRE SALE. SUPREME COURT--GENERAL TERM, Before Judges Mitchell, Morris and Cler! JAN, 27.—John H. Brower d Co., us, Lewis & Sterling, —In this cave the plaintiffs are merchants of this city, and on the 5th of October, 1849, sold to defendants, mer- chants of Philadelphia, eighty five bales of repacked cot- tons amounting to $2,742. The sale was made through cotton broker, who sold the same by sample. It ap- pears thata large number of the bales did not corres- pond with the samples exhibited. The defendants paid the plaintiffs the amount they deemed the cottons were worth, and in this action, which was brought to reco ver the balance of the purchaso money, set up in de~ fence a breach of the warranty, and claimed to set off the difference between the actual value of the cottons. and the value based upon the samples from which they were sold, ‘The case was tried before Judge Roosevelt, and under hie ruling the jury disagreed. ‘The case was afterwards tried before Judge Edmonde, and he direeted the jury: to bring in a verdict forthe whole of the plaintiffs’ claim, on the ground that repaeked cotton wasada- maged article, and that the rules of law touching a aale by sample did not apply to such asale. The defendants appealed The Court reversed the jadgment of the Court delow, and ordered # new trial, Mitchel), J.—The Judge, after being requested to instruct the jury on ‘Various pointe, declined to do fo, and directed the jury to find & verdict for the plaintiffs. forthe whole amount claimed. This Grew every questicn from the jury, and could not be correct, if there were any clashing of testimony on a material point. The he stated the ground of his decision to be, that repacked cotton was a damaged article, and that the rules of law touchirg a sale by sample did not apply to. ruch a sale, The cefendants excepted. If cotton is damaged, and it is sold by sample, that sample should ve a Jair specimen of the whole, of the bad as well as the: good; and if the seller chooses to warrant that the whole corresponds with the satople, he is liable, if it turn out different, although it was also s0jd as a da- maxed article. ‘One witness said that Maltbie, the broker, for the sel- Tere, absured him that te samples were fairly and ho- nestly drawn, and that he might depend upon rturn- ing out, when opened, equal to the samples; and that it was clearly uncerstood between him and Malthie that the cottons were to prove equal to the samples. If this was not a conclusive evidence of an agreement to war- rant, it was enough to go to the jury on that question. So Maltbie, for the sellers, said, we guarantee our samples fairly drawn, and if there was aay fraud, the defendants would have recourse to the plaintiffs; and he also rays the cotton was sold by sample. Another witness says, Maltble gave me his unqualified assurance that the cotton would prove equal to the samples; the pose Teron | or guarantee was used, and the word sample. ‘The cotton, instead of answering the sample, bad in ach bale 150 pounds of refuse—consisting of oyster hells, small stones and sand, according to one witness, or 150 japon of trash, to another, If this refuse were in mass, or were not casually ad- hering to the cotton, even without a warranty, the de- fendants could not bs called on to pay for it, on a pur- ckase of eotton by the pound, the buyer is not to pay for oyster shelis and peo the pou If the jury had believed one witness, and bir alone as the Judge perbaps éid, that « ed cotton’? mean “Jook out tor all sorta of stuff,’ and this stuff includes foreign stuff aleo, as stones, the verdict might bave been. right. But other witnesses gave to those words « differ- ent meaning. One said it meant wet cotton dried and baled—that there are mavy varities; another, that it means, sometimes a mere! article, sometimes unmerchantable; it means cotton rebaled after some ace cident bas occurred to break wp or damage the original article; but that dirt, sticks, and stones are never intro- duced into the bales on repacking, except when the ob- ject was to defraud the purchaser orconsumer. Ano- ther witness sayeit hase definite signification, which ia, that the cotton is or may be damaged, or that Jt is of mixed qualities. If the jury believed these last witnesses, they could not find tbat there could be no warranty of repacked. cotton. Ifthe broker had no authority to sell by sample, which was not shown at the trial, still the plaintiffs cannot affirm the sale made by him, and yet an in- creased price on account of the warranty by him, and keep it and say they did not authorize the warranty. It will answer the defendante as wefl if they disaffirm the contract as mede, and claim to seeover only 80 auch as the cotton would have been worth, if sold without warranty, on the supposition that if sold with warranty it would bring the pi agreed no. The objection now raised by the plaintiffs that the sale note is the only legal evidence of the terme of sale, ‘was not raieed on the trial. If raised, it mign* have possibly been obviated. It is not necessary now to pass op that objection. ‘There should be a new trial; the costs to abide the event. 5) Obituary. TRE LATE CAPTAIN GRANBY CALORAFT. ‘This gentleman, who is well known in our community for the last seven years, died on Tuesday night last. He was about forty-five years of age, and until recently was the mail agent for the Britiah packets ranping be- tween New York and Liverpool—an office conferred op him by the Marquis of Clanricarde, Postmaster General of England, under several administrations. The deceased was the only son of Captain Calera(t, ef the British army, and a principal proprietor of Covent Garden theatre, in London. On the mother’s side he was related to the Duke of Rutland, a nobleman, be- tween whom and the late Daniel Webster ap intimate friendsbip had existed for thirty years, In 1832, the elder Captain Caleraft terminated hid own existence by & pistol shot, and left bis son the heir to a deteriorated property. Cotemporaneous with this event, wae the mar! of the latter with Miss Love, a singer on the Eaoglish stage. When this event took Captain. Calcraft wae a very young man, and bis wife enough to be his mother. alliance hich, proved an- fortunate in other respects than mere parity of position, Captain Calcraft lost carle; and though he was subsequently known as a commissioned officer in the crack regiment of the British army, and as the re- presentative in Parliament of an English borough, still the aristocratic class of which he was properly a wem- ber looked coldly on him, and in « few years be found himeelf compelied to recommence his career elsewhere. During the administration of Lord Derby. Captain Calcrait bad a promise beld out to him of @ mi- nisterial appointment to some foreign court; and it ie Ddelieved that the disappointment in its folfilment, con- requent on the advent to power of Lord Aberdeen, prey- «d-cruelly on bis mind, Many who read this brief no- tice will’ probably remember him, He was @ constant frequenter of our theatres—always well dreésed and fashionable in hin appearance—always a gentleman, whether be had but one dollar or ten thousand in bie pocket. Unhike the generality of Engtishmen who come out to America, Captain Calcratt was cxrcumepect in the expression of, his political feelings, and, Limited ae Ye es a noe per, ot re 3 ple bad ‘nown in ie al who chan to worse on ben baal THE DEATH OF GENERAL FARLER. Intelligence of the death of Hon, isaac G. Farlee, of Huntingdon county, New Jersey, has filled « large cirele ~ of relatives and friends with grief and mourning. He died at his residence in Flemington, on Friday morning, the 12th inst., afters lingering sickness, at the advacced age of nearly sixty ght years, in the fall hope of a diessed Immortality. @ deceased wana beloved and prominent citizen im the community where he so lon; resided, and during the last quarter of @ cemtury ted filled many important stations with great fidelity and honor. But few men Ie syed to a greater degree the confidence and respect o none certainly gould be more indefatigable and persevering in accnselentions diecbarge of bis duties and defence. of what he believed to be the true interest: of the people. Politically, General Farice was identified with the demo- erntic party, aut fer many youre was regarded as ove of te wlest co 4 leads He had occupied varlous impe thin the gift of the people, having be tin the Legislature, Lee