The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1855, Page 6

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METROPOLIT. ‘AN THEATRE, Broadway-La Pente AMOREVI—JBANNE D'ARC—LE MARSELLAISE, NIBLO'B SALOON, Broadway—Cous’ New Misceua™ NBOUS AND CHARACTERISTIO CONCERTS. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ergiorian Prr- FORMANCE. BUCKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSB, 539 Broad- ‘way—Boaresqoe Orens AND Necro MiNsTHELSY. THE ALLEGHANIANS, axp rue Dionaua or tue Batre or Boxxan Hii—At G63 Broadway. APOLLO ROOMS, 410 Broadway—Tax Hiserx1a, By Mus. ALEXANDER Ginrs. New York, Sunday, October 14, 1855. The News. ‘The steamship Northern Light arrived at this port last night from San Juan, with intelligence #rom California to the 20th ult. The news is some- what important and giartling. Our previous ag- vices left the people of the Pacific State quietly depositing their ballots for the choice of rulers, and we are now enabled to give the result of their votes. It will surprise mapy, no doubt, to learn that Mr. J. Neely Johnson; the Know Nothing candidate for Governor, has defeated Governor Bigler by about five thousand majority, and that the whole American State ticket is elected. The Know Nothings have algo secured a majority in the State Legislature, which knocks Gwin’s chances for the United States Senate into the shade, and secures one more American at least to that body. The cholera broke out among the passengers on board the Nicaragua steamer Uncle Sam, on her passage up to San Fran- cisco, and before she arrived in port, one handred and six fell victims to the fearful disease. A full list of their names will be foand in another column. The Uncle Sam had the passengers which left this port on the 20th of August last on the steamer Northern Light. A number of the sick had also died in the hospital at San Francisco. The reports published in some of the San Francisco papers respecting the mortality on board the Uncle Sam are undoubtedly exaggerated, and are calculated to produce unne- cessary alarm. There was not a single case of cho- lera on board the Northen Light on her voyage to this port, nor were there any cases on board the steamer which left Sin Francisco on the 20th. Two flourishing towns had been reduced to ashes, embracing a loss of more than six hundred thousand dollars. The village of Grass Valley was almost entirely destroyed onthe 1th of September, burning over an area of nearly thirty acres, and the town of Weaverville suf- fered a like calamity on the 7th. The anniversary of the admission of California into the Union was celebrated at San Francisco on the 10th September in grand style. The Governor elect had visited San Francieco, and met with a most enthusiastic p- tion. Tlie returns of the vote on the prohibitory liquor law were not sufficiently complete to euable us to decide whether it had been adopted or not. From San Juan we learn that Col. Kinney had re- signed the Governorship, and that a mecting had been called to make a new selection. The English Consul had notified the Colonel that, in the event of his re-election, his authority would be re- cognized by him as the British representative. Onr latest advices from the Sandwich Islands are to the 4th of August. An extraordinary session of the Legislature had been convoked in order to ter- minate the difficulty existing between the represen- tative and royal branches of the governmeut with respect to the former refusal of the houses to pass a money appropriation bill. His Majesty addressed the members in a royal speech, and having told them—a la Napoleon—the object for which he had called them together, he said he hoped they would pass the cash bill, have a short session, and adjourn. The members of both houses—having. perhaps “cooled off” during the recess—replied in an ad- @rees full of hope and promise for the support of royalty. . The foundation stone of the Sailors’ Home, at Honolulu, was laid on the 3l1st of July. The King made some very appropriate remarks on the occasion: Aid in moncy towards the successful sus- tainment of the enterprise is expected from New Bedferd, Fairhaven, New London, and other whaling ports of the United States. By telegraph from New Orleans we have interest- ing news from Mexico. Gen. Alvarez had been elect- ed President, but it was thought that the military would not permit him to enter the capital to assume the duties of the office. As it is improbable that Alvarez would be deterred by such a menace, some hard fighting was looked for between the several factions. Gen. La Vega had retired, and Gen. Car- rera had again assumed his duties as President. ‘There were vague rumors afloat that Gen. Gadsden, our Minister, had furnished Alvarez with arms and money, but the reports had been contradicted by both those functionaries. It will be seen by the reports given elsewhere, that the silver grays are actively organizing throughout the city and State, and are determined not to coalease with the so-called republicans. Seven of eight whig ward committees have repu- diated the fasion Syracuse platform and ticket, ahd will rend delegates to the “straight out” whig con- vention that meets in this city on the 23d instant. So far only one ward has endorsed the republican ticket. The 9A. M. express train from Baltimore for Philadelphia was delayed about an hour yesterday morning by an aceident, and in consequence the through passengers were detained in Philadelphia until the 5 o'clock P. M. train for New York. The cause of detention was the blowing out the head of one of the cylinders of the locomotive when the train had proceeded about eight miles from Balti- more, which compelled the substitution of another locomotive. The jury in the case of Wagner, charged with enlisting men for the Crimea, found the prisoner guilty. The penalty is not more than one thousand dollars fine and three years’ imprisonment. The cace will be argued on points of law. The officiel report of the City Inspector for the week ending on Saturday presenta no feature of +pecial interest. The city isin a very satisfactory condition, so far as its sanitary state is concerned, ‘The whole number of deaths for the week was hat 3°¢—namely, 68 men, 62 women, 134 boys, and 122 girle—an increase of 11 on the mor- tality of the week previous. The principal causes of death werc:—Consumption, 44; conges- tion of the lungs, 6; infammition of the lInngs, 9; congestion of the brain, 6; inflammation of the brain, 7; dropey in the head, 14; diarrhwa, 7; @ysentery, 20; inflammation of the bowels, 11; cholera infantum, 14; convulsions (infantile), 31; croup, Spscarlet fever, 6; hooping cough, 6; and marasmus (infantile), 44. There were 23 deathe from violett causes, 24 cases of stillborn, and 7 premature births, The following is the classifica- tion of diseases:—Bones, joints, &c., 2; brain and nerves, 77; generative organs, 4; heart and blood vessels, 11; lungs, throat, &., 90; akin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 7; stillborn and premature births,’ 31; stomach, bowels, and other digestive organs, 128; uncertain seat and general fevers, 30; urinary organs, 4; old age 2 The nativity table gives 285 natives of the United States, 53 of Ireland, 29 of. Germany, and the balance of various European countries. The sales of cotton yesterday reached about 1,000 bales, based upon middling uplands at about dfc., Mobile do. at 9jc., and New Orleans do. at 9fc. Esti- mates of the amount of the crop grown the present year are premature, and opinions widely differ. While some suppose that it may reach 3,500,000 bales, others think that it will not exceed 2,900,000 a 3,000,000. The latter contend that the planters have grown more grain this year than last, and that less land has been planted with cotton. Time alone can prove who is the nearest right. Flour was firm, without change in prices, while sales were more freely made. There was rather more doing in wheat, and with more stability in prices. Southern red brought $2 a $2 05; fair to prime white, $2 18 a $225, and Western red, $1 90 a $192. Pork was firm at $23 50 a $24, and lard at 11fc.a 12c. Freights were in better demand and rates closed with a better feeling. Several charters were made, including two or three for Marseilles. The Great Struggle of 1856—The Federal Constitution Put Upon Trial. The Presidentia) election of 1856 will be the first direct issue of the constitution upon the slavery question. It is vain for politicians and political managers longer to blink the subject or to seek its avoidance. It is neither possible or desirable to put off the trial. Within a short six months an effective fusion of all the auti- slavery elements has been successfully se- cured, and a grand abolition party has been organized. That party is based upon senti- ments utterly antagonistic to the principles upon which the government of the United States was formed. By its avowed maxims and its declared purposes, by its articles of faith and its rituals of service, by the known character of its members, the declarations of its leaders and by the unity and strength of its movements, we are forced to the conclusion that the coming Wresidential election will be the first, and probably the last, great struggle between the constitution of 1787 and the anti- slavery and abolition fanaticism of the North, stimulated by all the effort, means and influ- ence of the governing classes in Western Eu- rope. Such is already the issue forced upon the American people by the recent organiza- tion of the abolition party of the North. All other questions have been thrust aside for that one great struggle, involving the present Union and the whole government founded by Wash- ington. It affects every interest of the republic. The financial, political, manufacturing, com- mercial, agricultural—our great railroad tho- roughfares, our marts of trade, the vast ex- penditures of years to adapt ourselves to the present condition of things—are more or less put to hazard by that election. It will surpass in deep importance that which resulted in the triumph of Jefferson in 1800, and of Jackson in 1828, as much as the union and progress of the whole republic does that of the mere petty questions of office and policy. All Europe will watch the strag- gle—the monarchists and aristocrats hoping that the Union may perish in the triumph of abolition; scarcely greater is the hope that the Allied Powers may be successful in the East than that the demons of disunion may win their victories over the American consti- tution. As formidable as is the Russian em- pire, as steadily as that government iaterposes a check to the schemes of universal dominion concocted by the Western Alliance, the Ameri- can system of rale is a more dangerous and a more effective instrument for sub- verting the plans of France and England than even that absolute Power. Russia exercises a negative influence upon the govern- ments of Western Europe. They contend with her now for the purpose of disabling her—to cripple her energies—to render her a harmless antagonist at some future day, when otherwise she might become capable of independent and triumphant action. The aggressive power of Russia is in her army and her navy—the ag- gressive power of the United States is in the example of their free government, in the uni- versal education of their people, in ideas dif- fused amongst all classes and amongst all men. Let us rogard for a moment the interest which the monarchical and aristocratic classes in Western Europe have in the triumph of the abolitionists in this country. Thoy feel the effect of the union of even the demovracy of the Old World, where it has not a voice to utter its grievances, not a drum to beat to quarters, nota house for council, not a gua for defence--where it isa poor hunted cabal, driven to acts of desperation, and often disgraced, by tho fierce persecutions of the governing classes. In 1848, when monarchy was resting upon the solid triumphs of the Napoleonic wars—upon the statutes of Vi- enna in 1815—the spirit of liberty suddenly rose, like a giant refreshed from sleep, and in a moment there was not a’ throne upon the Continent, save that of Russia, that did not either crumble into dust or totter and shake to its very centre. Such a mountain of injustice, extortion and suffering had been heaped up that in heaving the huge mass from its centre it tore up the very foundations of society. In its reconstruction the old governing classes were able again to become rulers. This refer- ence to the past eight years is enough to show that even the democracy of Europe ig a threat- ening and dangerous clement in their govern- ment. No sooner had the new order of things been established than the Cabinets of Paris and London turned their attention to the United States. They had an adjourned difficulty with Russia, but it was not then supposed possible that it could result in war. They seat over to us the tripartite treaty. By it they proposed to inaugurate European intervention in Ame- rican politics, making an issue upon the ques- tion of Cuba, and ultimately to set positive limits to the further progress of this republic, The grand scheme was to bring the United States into snbjection to the Western Powers to take from us the prestige of indepoadent action—to discredit our system in the eyes of the masses of Europe, and in that way to im- pair and break the force of its example. Lord Clarendon made formal announcement of the intentions of the Allied governments in this respect, The British aristocracy had bean feasting our Ministers and our Northern citi- zens visiting England—they had leagued themeelves with our abolitionists—thoy be- came the allies of our Solem, simslgiing p war upon the institatio ) view of dissolving the federal Union’ The” connection of the two Continents, “and , the alarming assimilation: of ideas, rendered it necessary that something should, be done. Upon an average, thi thousand letters are transmitted from this’ dountry to Burope by every steamer that leaves. our shores. Thirty thousand messengers are thus periodically’ despatched into every nook and corner of the Eastern world, to expatiate upon the institu- tions of the United States, Thus a million and a half of witnesses are annually 'fiirnished by the American people to their .brethren on the other side, of the Atlantic, to. give testi- mony of the operations’ of republicanism’ in the United States—to tell them how individuals can protect themselves; how 'labot is re- warded ; how education is general; how peace- ful and successful are all our industrial in- terests. At this point of view we can see the silent, but effective influence of the American upon the European system of government. The curious and speculative reader who has witnessed the almost marvellous changes which have occurred in England and on the Con- tinent within a short period—changes which have brought even the London Times into the very meshes of democracy ; which have com- pelled the British Cabinet continually to thrust forward reform projects, to satisfy the people ; which have just now forced the Queen’s govern ment to reverse a rule of two hundred. years standing, by which all important appointments have béen made from the aristocracy at home, by conferring upon Mr. Hincks, a colonial subject, and one of the peopl@the Govertior- ship of Barbadoee—changes which.have driven the government into close alliance with a dynagtywto overthrow which, lgithan fifty years ago, on account of its illeg! y, it in- volved the country in a measureless debt and a long and frightful war ; that have compelled even the Asiatic ruler of all the Russias to coalesce with the middling and the lower orders, and confer the chief places in his Cabi- net upon persons of those classes, in order to defend his government against the aristocracy of the Empire—we repeat, that the curious reader will not fail to attribute these wonder- ful events to the influence of the institutions of the United States. All these changes, it will be remembered, have taken place since the establishment of the American government. If they ame coincidences, they are certainly very remarkable; for every step that has been taken by the rulers of the Old World has been in the direction of the institutions of the New. The present dynasty of France is an authorita- tive recognition of the doctrines of popular rights—doctrines now .almost universally ac- quiesced in in Europe, even in palpable viola- tion of the statutes of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, which were declared to be the “unal- terable law” of the States represented in that body. The emigration to the United States, and the intimate manner, through that agency, in which we have become linked to the Old World, by its reactive influence, is enough of itself ulti- mately to effect a complete revolution in Eu- rope, Thus we have a view of the interest which the governing classes on the other side have in destroying the federal Union, It is their only remedy. They cannot stop the work by proscribing persons. They cannot localize or individualize the principle that is warring upon the tenures of absolute power. Newspa- pers may be interdicted, personal restraints may be imposed, the public voice may be sup- pressed; but there is no power to prevent men from thinking or ideas from circulating. There may be aristocracy in government; but there will ever be democracy in thought. We have thus, then, to fight in the coming Presidential election the combined aristocracy of Europe and the combined abolitionists of our own country, Tue Anrcri XPEDITION — STATEMENT OF Docror Kane.—The Heratp and several other city journals have published detailed accounts of the toils, trials and happy return of the Arctic expedition under Doctor Kane's com- mand. In there publications the word “ state- ment” is used in such a manner as to lead peo- ple to suppose that the Chief of the Expedition has given an official account of it. Such isnot the fact. Onthe night of the return of the Arctic and Release, fifteen or twenty report- ers were despatched the city to hunt up tors. Several of these gentlemen had in- terviews with Dr. Kane, Dr. Hayes, Mr. Sontag and others, and jotted down the re- suit. Dr. Kane was the centre about which re- volved a large circle of eager listeners and close questioners, He replied courteously to there inquiries, and his remarks, as well as those of his compatriote, were placed before the public in the form of a connected narrative, and called statements, But the rules of the service of which Dr. Kane is so brilliant an or- nament, prevent any officer from making an official report to any person except the Secre- tary of the Navy, In consequence of this fact we shall he obliged to await for Doctor Kane's official statement until Mr. Dobbin al- lows a copy to be made for the press. We trust that the Hon. Secretary will make so interest- ing a document public as soon as possible. Boyixe a Corrix.—The London correspond- ent of the Inverness (Scotland) Advertiser, gets off the following bit of experience of a mode) temperance man:— ‘The other evening, at a temper in the ball got vp and said, ago J signed the pledge. (Clapping of hands and ap- povive a .) Ina month afterwards, my friends, 1 da severeign in my pocket—a thing I never hind be- jarping and loud cheers.) In another month, is, J bad a coat on my back—a thing | never had before. (Cheers and clapping much louder. A fortnight after that, my fiends, I bought a coffin.” ‘the audience was ig to cheer here, but stopped and locked serious. ‘You wonder,” continue the lecturer, “why T bought a cofiin. Well, my friends, I bought the coffin because | felt pretty certaia that if 1 kept the pledge another fortnight { should want one,” Apply this to President Pierce and his adop- tion into the regular democratic party of the Van Buren free soil Buffalo seceders, and it fits remarkably, Of the Baltimore Convention of ‘52, Mr. Pierce signed the pledge; in the election, he got the sovereign in his pocket; ia his inaugural address he put a new coat upon his back, and in @ certain removal from our Custom House, in connection with other trans- actions, he bought his coffin, and the hard shells have been cramming upon it ever since. Who Mas the Scarlet letter? ice meeting, a person friends, thece month Latest ON THE Danisn Sownp Qvuestion— That a special messenger has not been sent to our Minister at Copenhagen to re-o tiations, but that Marcy holds a repeal of the tolls, or for wa: az usual, will end in e back out, , Tae ANIA AND 0 Euacroxa— ‘Soutti ‘with ‘a Ghose ak snot talon shbatadte for Gov- ‘over Medill, democrat, and very probal “poth Medill aud Trimble, sindeper "Chase ticket. The anti-administration ‘con “terials that bad carried the State with such a | -wonld be found. to ‘work, a8.a whalesome-car-.|. : i; result is no test of the actual strength of the |Pennsylvania democracy, nor any proof of a to diferent parts of the intrepid naviga- eee aenemneetneeeem eet CITY IMPROVEMENTS, ernor, in Obio, is elected by s large plurality ~ ~ . ra eres ur of e majority of some two or three: th saatsle — progress, PA ly wa ae result is claimed by the Seward : id a I ‘law, tremendoud victory; but; ‘comparéd With their’ | ‘such ‘fruitsought: to-de-altered, and ‘the Peni- eighty’ thousand majority ‘in“thé State last |' tertiary Hospital Athér! Glosed on the one year, it is a tremendous loss. In the same hand to the self-committed women, or to the: ‘yatlo of Joss, anather such election willreduce | thieves and felons. eee the fusionists to” a decided minority in the It is likewise well that people should think great ‘State of Ohio.” Had ‘the’ indépendent | of the condition of the men confined for crime whig and Know, Nothing ‘conservative ‘miove- in'the Penitentiary: ‘It appears’ from the ar- ment commenced, a little, earlier, they might | ticle we publish elsewhere, that the criminals bave done the work this.seagon. Their great.|:in the Penitentiary andthe: Workbouses are in mistake was in‘awaiting’the action of the con- | every respect better off than any-class of poor vention Which nominated this abolition fasion’ | laborers dr ‘mechanics. -.To sitch .an_ extent.J. 4 has the ‘mania for’ hettering -their..condition, proceeded, « that “when: theit- term is: out, there is-but litile huiiding going on. this. year; J werth abput 24,000:.0ne hup dred and Mi avebue, on semth aide, Messrs, Topping. mencing a. brqwa. stone house, 25x60; four stories and, 4 high bagement; house and lot about $16,000... , each a house for. himself, 20x00, four. sionies ‘and. high duilt—the franty-muf New. Brunswick. atope, the. sqme.as.: that slow, beiggauaad by Ms. Hes . glreadyc.spaken. Oa. Jk i+ hangars ond. {s. thonght. to handsome _mew>-bause of the same stone oft servatives should, have kept aloof from the, a Seward fusioniets, and should have. taken the'|’they can’ hardly, be pérsuadéd to “leave the field fromthe ‘start in behalf of the’principles | idland. Thére appears to be'no neeessity for of the Union and the constitution.” ” © | guarding them, ‘as “a map -must needs be a sad Tn Pennsylvania the success, of ‘the demo: blockhead to-weint t6-és¢ape from such a place: crats is the. naiural result ,of the. attempt to-| It is dofbtfil whethtr ‘this is the conditton’in fase the national and free soil: Know Nothings; |"which’ the ‘people intended the ,orlitinals of ee chapel. Mesars, - ing. house, commer of Nason and Lingatrecta, is, aloof the ‘Tucrods alsathe pawiy imported Fig¢nch.stone, iv@).are springing up in. various parts of the city? | town specimen, Up town, if we, remember. right, -Dr. Cockroft,cbetween Fifth.ond Sixth, the old whigs, the freé soilers: préper and'tHe*| this dity. to spend their period of -confinement.. bi ae in the neighborhood af. streot, radical abolitionists, without any commofl |'‘Arfd thongh the morat-degtadntion of.» gen} °° pearson oo a principle of action, except free soil anda cofa-” tence to the island: would doubtless: answer hotel, Par Fens pon oa mon eleventh hour candidate for Oana} Gom- |. better in some Gases’ thah tere physical incon- " i to. missioner. The'incongruous.and. diverse ma- | venidnces, it Is yery.” questionable whether it rush the year before, as'to lead to the belief | rective : with -the bulk- ofthe’ prisoners—for that they were absolutely irresistible, had'been | instance with’ the Irish’ emfgrintsy wito"eon-° quarreling. over the blunder... The: effort of | -stitute from severity td éighty pér cet“ of “the } the Know Nothings to elect-Simon Cameron to |’ inhabitants of every prison and poorlouse in, the United States Senate had much to do with’ | this part of the world., F the alienation of the whig and Know Nothing Tat “deucia Deseanon’ wot enone + ooo eee hard shell Dickingon organ in this city is very a ee an " | much annoyed because the .Southern journals That O Se ee pls a at histed have <opied what it calls our “false tele- 2 ar ad Oe a wanl®, | democrats and Know Nothings were about to nothing but the scattered fragments now re-| nite in this State.” The editor of the small main. It must:be remembered,” however, that organ should study the English language. Our considerable ntimbers of whig conservatives in | 4 lespatch from Elmira was not “false,” in any this laat election voted the democratic ticket, particular, It merely stated that negotiations asthe choice between two evils, so that the had taken place, having for their ultimate ob- ject the defeat of the black republicans by the abandonment of a part of the hard ticket. That portion of the hards who think more of men and vational conventions than of principles, are naturally amazed at this, and particularly so because it is the pure unadulterated truth. Weare willing to furnish political intelligence for all the organs, great and small, but we can- not expect to make it suit all palates. The Southern journals need not take the trouble to contradict that despatch. with a.loan of $4,500 per lot... Between Fifth avenue. ant Memisens in, thi ‘s nothing new, Moues Larkin, whien:he died left fourteen, .unGnished -first ‘class hosises,.cight‘on' the east, side of, Fifth: avenue,.betweenThivty-fifth and rear. Mr. John Paine is now. finishing off. the. three onthe south sido.of Thirty-sixth street. _We.have not. inquired, but it ig our impreasion the. whale fourtesa have fallen into Ms. Paine’s hands, - Latgigthie.part of priced of any street lota-on. Murray BU One year ago they were actually sold on- the parth-side of the streot for $5,000 each; cash,.And’.¢lihough'we have heard of no sales this season; we aré quite sure they cannot be returning popularity to the administration. The net results of all these late elections are that the Know Nothing or American order, with its present organization and proscriptive principles, will not answer as the basis of a great and homogeneous uational party—that the abolition’ league in the North, though broken in Pennsylvania, stil) holds the vantage ground in Ohio; and that the democratic party is rapidly coming together again, while the con- servative elements of opposition to the Pierce administration are still adrift, North and South, price. On Madison avenue, northwest corner Thirty-sixth, street, two first class mansions are going up. Mr. John. B, Murray owned on this corner of the avenue 65 feet. 10. inches, or one-third of the whole front, exactly answer- ing to Mr. Phelps’ third on the opposite side of the ave- nue. This corner he has for a long time reserved for himeelf., Of the 65 feet 10 inches, Mr. Murray takes 37 feet 6 inches; and his brother-in-law, Robt. M. Olyphant, takes the balance, 28 feet 4 inches. Both these gentle- men are building of brick, with brown stone basementy three stories. Mr. Murray, 50 feet deep; Mr. ‘Olyphant, 50 feet deep, with an extension 19 by 35 feet. We doubt if Mr. Murray’s corner is surpassed by any corner in town in point of eligibility. It is on the sunny slope of the hill. It is on Madison avenue, and therefore more retired than Fifth avenue. And the improvements on the opposite side of the avenue, by Mesers® Phelps, Dodge & Co., are only equalled in genuine aristocracy by Waddell’s front, and surpassed nowhere, Murray’s is the northwest corner, and in that respect is the best of the four corners. The northwest MiseRy Makes Srrance Beprertows.—The black republican gathering at the Tabernacle Beyond these fixed facts, everything in refers | last Tuesday night wasa funny affair. On ence to the campaign for the Presidency isstill’ | the same platform we had the socialist philoso- in doubt. We believe, however, that, North and | phers of thé Zribune, the conservative old fo- South, an overwhelming majority of the Amori- | gey whigs of Castle Garden, the anti-bank, an- can people are in favor of the Union and the | ti-tariff, anti-protection democrat, General constitutions and that a decided majority are | Nye, and the Massachusetts Clay whig, Ge- in favor of a new administration at Washing- | neral Wilson—Pierce men, Scott men, Taylor ton. The politics and partiés of the whole | men, Van Buren men, and Garrison | corner is considered the best, inasmuch as it has the country are still in a stale of effervescence and | men—all fusing on the general plat- sep aa ate on the Gat ey of thestreet, d sf : set islrty est side of the avenue, which are superior, revolution, and nothing short of three or four | form for negro emancipation and the | 0, cisely, to the east side of the avenne and to the State spoils. These Brigadiers are queer fel- lows. Only a few weeks ago we reported a speech made by General Nye to the Cochrane Soft Shell Club; now we find him giving ‘so- norous John” a terrible dressing. A short time since, General Wilson was the exponent of the Know Notbings in Massachusetts, who thrust greatness upon him by sending him to the Se- nate. Now. he reviles all secret political so- cieties, and labors to kick over the ladder by which he climbed to glory. months of the approaching Congress will put them into a definite shape for the great battle of “56. A Mormox Astroxomer—Tur Law oF Pruayetary Roration Discoverry BY Prores- sor Orson Pratt.—-We have received a slip of two printed columns of mathematical esti mates and fignres, entitled “The Law of Pla- netary Rotation, discovered by Professor Orson Pratt,” addressed “to the Editor.” In this proclamation, in the course of a very learned introduction, Professor Pratt says :— Finnly believing, from my early youth, that the diac nal periods of the planets were the results of some hidden law, I have endeavored, at different times, to discover the same, «0 as to determine the periods ¢f rotation by caleulation instead of observation, After many fruitless researches in regard io the original causes of planetary mation, 1 was led by the indications of certain lhypotheses to seek for the law of rotation connected with the masses and diameters of the planets, or, in other words, wi their densilfes, These investigations resulted ia the de- THE LATEST NEWS. velopement of the following beautiful law:— THE CULE ROOTS OF THE DENSITIES OF THE PLANETS ARE AS THE SQUARE ROOTS OF THEIR PERIODS OF ROTATION ; Or, which amounts to the same thing—Tur squares or THE CORE ROOTS OF THE DENSITIES OF THE PLANETS ARE as TER PERIODS OF ROTATIC south side of the street. Consequently, the southeast corner is the poorest of the four. There is not, perhaps, & great difference between the northeast corner and the southwest corner. And here we may remark that al- though the general preference is to lots on the north side of the street, on account of the houses having a sunny exposure, and in the winter a dry sidewalk more free from ice, yet something like one person in half a dozen will decidedly prefer a house on the south side of the street, for the sake of having a warm, dry yard flow- ers, fruite, &c., to say nothing of m more agreeable side~ walk in hot weather. In comparing the east and west sides of the avenues, the argument, like the stirrup of a lady’s saddle, is all on one side. Pedestrianism on a hot day, P.M., ean scarcely be performed at al) on an east- erly sidewalk ; and, of cousse, stores are less valuable on that side. In the winter, too, the cold winds come sweeping down from the northwest with chilling power against the defenceless fronta of houses rituated on the east side of the avenues, The rear rooms, however, will be very cheerful. Between Madison and Fourth avenue, on this street, some handsome improvements are going forwant. Om the southeast corner of Madison avenue Mr. George D. Phelps is just commencing another magnificent dwel Ting, 32:11x78:10, and which will probably cost to bailt some $25,000 or $20,000, Murray Hill will long have oc. casion to remember this gentleman. His own domestic mansion, on the north side of this street, east of Madi- son avenue, is an ornament to the city—some 45 or 50 feet front. Directly opposite, and in the rear of the above southeastern corner house now just begun, are two more four story brown stone houses lately built by him, as well as money could build such housesy one 37 and the other 30 feet front, and worth, roughly, $1,000 per front foot. In addition to these improvements, Mr. Phelps has taken a public spirited part, although doubtless in ascor- dance with hia private interests, in causing the engines of the Harlem and New Haven Railroad cars to be remoy- ed from Thirty-second to Forty-second strects—an ordi~ nance’ to that effect having been passed the Com- mon Council, and to be executed within the ensuing: year. There engines are undoubtedly a great nni- sance, and the time must come before long! whey they will be compelled to remove still further from the thickly settled parts of the city. Prior to the pass- ing of this ordinance Murray Hill, between Fourth and Lexington avenues, and from Thirty-second to Foreye~ eond streets, wasa desert, and must havo remainal such, Hn» Won't Go.—The Albany Atlas, read out of the democratic party by the Washington organ, won’t go out. Free soil as the Atlas man is, he still regards Mr. Pierce as “a man and a brother.” BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. Important News from Mexico. New ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 1855. But as the densities of globes are proportional to their , b masses or quantities of matter divided by their volames, | The steamship Orizaba has arrived at this port, with or by the cubes of their diameters, it follows that the | dates from the city of Mexico to the 6th inst. rotation of the planets, considered as 8 _— a ope General Alvarez had been elected President by the Col- tional to their masses and diamo‘ers. ‘The law, therefore, } reve at Cuernavaca, but the military power will deny him may be expressed in terins of the masses and ‘diameters, as Toitow — entrance into the capital, and hard fighting is autici- REX OF THE CURR ROCTS OF THR MASSES OF THE } pated. RUSE (OY, EE, DERMAL, AP Ia Vega bad withdrawn from clvil power, having re- futed to obey the orders of Alvarez to arrest the fugitive ministers of Santa Anna, and arm the National Guard. Bis predecessor in ofiice had again assumed his duties. ‘The rumors that were current to the effect that the American Minister bad furnished money and arms to Al- varez, and rigned a protectorate, have been denied by both Gen. Alvarez and Mr. Gadsden, AS TLEIR PERIODS CF To illustrate the following exaraple: Example 1. the mass of the earth equa? to 1; its equatorial dinmeter, 7925.5 miles; its pertod of rota- tion, 2ih. 5€m. 4.090476s, mean solar time, which is equal to one absolute sidereal day: also the maas of the planet Mereury equal to 0.0627604; and its diameter 3140 iniles; it is required to find the period of Mereary’s rotation, cotness of this law, I will give the From Washington. TRE KXOW NOTHING ORGAN—THE CASK OF CAPTAIN REYNOLDS—ARRIVALS, ETC. Wasminatox, Oct, 13, 1855. 1 was iaformed this evening that the Organ is about to change hands, Mr. Bryce, of New York, having purchased one balf of the establishment. Mr. Burwell, the present a) a q Lo.ceaieni) + 23h, 66m, 4,0904788, + 24h. Sm. 7925. 140) The Professor gives a half dozen other ex- amples in illustration of his theory, and sup- ports it by a very plausible mathematical ar- gument. We call the attention of Professor | gaitor goes out. Maury, of the National Observatory, and all ‘Agood deal of indignation ts manifested at the dis- other experienced astronomers, to the subject. | missalof Captain Reynolds by the President. His friends Professor Orson Pratt is a Mormon—a Mormon | *lege that he should haye been notified, that he might elder—a Mormon apostle, and has, we under- s pbsbe Beagey eenctl Carolina; How. Washington stand, as many wives as an Egyptian Pacha; | poya, of stissourt; ani Hon. H. L. Johnson, of New York, but if there be anything new or valuable in | arrived to-dey. this planctary theory of his, it is none the less Nomination for Assembly. valuable on that account. Syracuse, Oct. 13, 1856. Dr. R. F. Stevens was to-day nominated by the Ameri- can party as their candidate for member of Assembly, in the Third district. like magic, and the hill will soon be all built over, making” it one of the handsomest and most desirable parts of the eity. The eastern exposure of houses on the east side of Lexington ayenue—say from Mildram’s white marble fronts up to Thirty-ninth street—will alwaya command 4 fine view of the East river, as there is nothing to obstruet the view, the ground falling off rapidly dowa to Third avenue. On the south side of the street; next adjoining Phelps? M0 feet front house above noticed, Mr. John Kerr, brewer, is just commencing a first class 25x70 house, with stable, in the rear, on Thirty-fifth street;‘and next to him, and within 50 feet of Benj. M. Whitlock’s corner, Mr. Ixaac H, Smith ia going to build » 30270 feet house, alin with Stable, om Thirty-fifth street. And when the brothers Whitlock strike in with their intended improvements om the two corners of Fourth avenue—which have only been awaiting the action of the Harlem Raflrond Company— this will be one of the finest portions of the town, if it be not so already. Between Fourth and Lesington avenues there are-reve- ral new {mprovements on this street, On the gorth sile about 100 feet west of Lexington a Messrs, Kennedy Beauties oF Buackwett’s Istanp.—An ac- count of a visit to Blackwell’s Island appears elsewhere which will repay perusal. In the firat place it is gratifying to see that the work of reform is going on vigorously at the Peniten- tiary Hospital, under the superintendence of Dr. Sanger, the Resident Physician, and the committee of the Board of Ten Governors. It is to he hoped that no negligence or spirit of conservatiem will be allowed to interfere with the progress of a revolution which deserves the encouragement of every authority. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pimtapeurnia, Oct. 13, 1855. Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State Fives, 634¢; Read- ing, 4734; Long Islan, 13%; Morris Canal, 14%(;' Penn. sylvania Railroad, 4534 : Oct. 12, 1855. Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day, 10,500 bales, ‘Tho sales of the week add porary bales. ‘The receipts of the week have been 40,000 bales, against 26,000 last . The receipts up to this as compared with those of last year, are 04,000 . The stock on hand is 155,000 bales. Sugar hag declined \¢c.; fair sell- ing at 0c. 0 634c. | Flour in a fife higher; sales xt 88 8 $8 37. Corn 74c. Freights—Uotton, to Havre, 1igc. New Orgs Other matters, less pleasing to think of, are} Sterli hange, 707s per cent prem. Prime barrel | and Howe are finishing five brown stone houses, bingli lard, 11s. Coffee—< stone ish noticed in the article to which we refer. One ae ‘if. 23,000 Taghe Primes Tlive 7,000 bags. Stock | basements, 16 feet 8 inches by €0 feet, four stories. Next Tige. east, and on the northwest corner Lexington avenue, Moure, Kilpatrick and M’Pherton are juat commencing oy _ story and high basement brown stone houses, 20260. On the south side, 100 fect west of Lexi: " and directly opposite the above mentioned, He, arent ia finisbing off two, and also just commensing a third adjoining, brown stone houses ‘26x50, three stories and high basement, at $11,000; these are the cheapest first class, 26 feet front brown stone houses we have noticeds itis a description of house ‘Very much: wanted—wve mean something more nearly appronching the old-fashioned) two story, attic aud basement house, which nesessarily had some pretensions to gentility, because it was not big enough to be converted into a hotel or boarding house, nor yet into barracks for fresh recruits to republicanism Next adjoining the last named of Mildcum’s, Mc. Ham- ilton, Wuilder, is also jast commencing two more, dif fering but little from Mildrum’s, except that they are to be five feet dosper, and sald to be inore expensive hy two or three sts along tn thie part of theatre * hi $3,580 each. , pa © t are worth whew of these is the law which constitutes the Hos- pital on the island exclusively « Penitentiary Hospital, whereby that class of females for whore use it waschiefly intended, and by whom it is chiefly tenanted, cannot obtain admission pe oe until they are committed to prison for some ‘tah Lach Diba be Weare PR alas Fiore misdemeanor by a magistrate. The effect of an inquest yesterday at Bellevue Hospital, upon the body this law is most mischievous, as can readily be | of the German, Sivernia Herntch, who died at that insti- understood. It leads the women to identify | tution on Friday, from the effects of a beating received on misfortune with villany, to draw no disting- | '¢ 2th ult. at the hands of rome unknown persons. “ ‘ eceaced, . stated to Dr. I ’ tion between disease and crime. It forces Sena’ 1 oppencee, 6 Ives (the physi. cian who attended bim) that on the bs oid of the day in young and perhaps only partially corrupted gueclon, os be eee wom ute, perl eh oate of « females into the society of the most depraved os end Bee mea, who, with. of their sex. It destroy# the “terror of the provocation, commenced an attack upon hi: Siter severely boating him, robbed him of Die water, and the in his possession. law,” which is after all the only real safe- guard of society, and teaches the poor creatures he . No t Sitsina contd be found; stthough the Fourth mand ohne to steal by accustoming them to the penalty for theft. In fine, it makes a mockery of the ALPANY, Oct, 13—12:30 P. M. Our flour market is unchanged. In grain the sales comprise 8,800 bushels barley, at $1 343¢ a $1 05 for four rowed. A few car loads of corn at 93c., and a small lot of oats at dic. for State. Whiskey is at 4010. There have Leen no canal receipts this morning. SESS cnéenvored to ferret them out. The jury in this case rendered a verdict of ‘death by Sonpronton of the brain from extravasation of blood, the result of injuries received in scue way to the jary unknown.” Deseased war a ue, tive { Germany, and was about 35 years of age. e ¥ vatreet, where we ended ina former gréidle. oo ete On Thirty-sixth street, batween Sixth.avenne anit ifthe «:.°7 On the north side, a Mitle.west of the middle of thee: block, Messrs,°Van Norden and McClellan arg dubbing « basement. They have one, peculianty,: they.are, to, be.” durable. stong, thay. bie; browa "> THere * P the south .sidevol Rwenty-Gtth, aigeet,. nearly. opposite.” Dunepat &,@iierman: |. White, of which numerousspecimens, and apmecxcectingly. om “The Nayeau. Bank, corner of Beckman stzegh) iva dawn’ twelve in all, ‘on-ground old by Meesrs-Cor conan Uae; nat paeason, * “Thirty-sixth_ streets, and « thrae.on each-street in the. Thirty-sixth street are about as. bigh, if-potthe'highest, © bought for less than an advance of $500 on the above | the smoke from the engines being insufferabte, Since | that, however, brown stone houses have sprung up there | New Buthtinge and: Tmprovcosents-ou~Dtare—