The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1855, Page 4

q 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMPo8 GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘QUPTOR N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON B79 Fee es Y HERALD, 2 conte per copy, $1 per annum. WRERLY HaRaLD oory, Seriya 36 cna pop fey. oF 88. per annuin; the Buropean Vpart of Great Britain, or 60 to ny part of the Mair CORRESPONDENCE smuining important | oa ‘esr ooe Fontiox ConnesreNDENTs 4x 4 ReQuasteD 10 Sear ALL Lerten’ AND PACKAGES PO" NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, Wedone SOE PRINTING executed with neatncse, cheapnone and tee "ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. . No, 325 ——— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Row&o 4xp JOLIET Loan or 4 Lover. BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Don C.usaR pz Bazan— Sex Ducrees or Caiuz—Eroy Boy, Wolume XX.. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—-Seriovs Famn.y Par Toontes. WALLACK’S THFATRE, Broadway—Tus Lirmie Trea bone—Dowscer—Wuo Srraks Finst, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Erutoriay Pxx- Penwances. BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- wag— Bunirsqus Orens arp Necro MuveTReisy. WUPIRE HALL—Tovr or EvRore—SiKGe OF BEBASTOFOL. ew York, Friday, November 23, 1855. The News. The steamship Canada, from Liverpool, arrived at Halifax yesterday, with European advices to the 10th inst. The news is interesting politically, and somewhat important in a commercial point of view. The bellicoge feeling in England towards the Dnited States had oozed ont, and the promotera of the furor were industriously at work explaining their positions, and endeavoring to place the res- ponsibility of the matter upon the shoulders of our politicians. From the seat of war there were various reports, the most important of which, received by way of the Turkish embassy at Vienna, was to the effect that the bombardment of Nicolaieff commenced on the 29th of October, and continued during the whole of the following day. The result, of course, was not known. It was said that the Grand Duke Constan- tine was in the town. There were rumors afloat of ether battles, but no reliance was placed upon them. At Sebastopol aftairs remained without change. The Baesian force in the Crimea is stated to number two hondred thousand men, amply provisioned for six months. There were rumors that peace negotiations would again be re-opened, but they had become too stale to gain credit. The object of Gen. Canrobert’s visit to Stockholm turns out to be an attempt to attach Sweden to the cause of the Western Powers, and it is inferred that Sweden is favorable to the proposed alliance. Accounts from Naples to the 30th ultimo, say that there was no doubt of the commencement of a revo- lutionary movement in Sicily. Several of the in- Surgents had been shot. The particulars, however, had not ¢ranspired. Reports were current of unfriendly relations be- tween England and Spain, growing out of an alleg- ed outrage epon a British subject in Cuba, and the appointment of a notorious slavedealer as Governor of Fernando Po. Russia, it is said, has agreed to mediate between Denmark and the United States with reference to the Sound dues question. The papers in the interest of the Angio-French Alliance have been, time and again, making littie of the resources of Russia, stating that they were exhausted, that her commerce was rained, her trade paralyzed and her merchants bankinpted. An ar- ticle published in the pro-Russian organ, Le Ni which we translate, takes up these statements seria- tim, and refutes them ina style ana by facta and Hgures which carry conviction with them. This ar- ticle ought to do much to undeceive the public mind as to the exhausted and crippled condition of Rassia, and to convince the people of France and England particularly, that the war which imposes ruinous ex- actions on them serves only to stimulate the inter- nal trade of Russia, by eirculating money at home and forcing them to rely miore and moré on their own resources, The article deserves attentive con- sideration, The London money market was easier. Consols elosed at 887 to 89. The monthly statement of the Bank of France was not considered unfavorable in its general character. The Bank of Prussia had in- ereased the rate of interest. Cotton lad exhibited considerable animation, and an advance of one- fourth of a penny on some descriptions had been es- tablished. A general advance in breadstuffs had taken place, with an active demand. Before the receipt of the Canada’s news yester- @ay about one thousand bales of cotton were sold at firm prices. Ate: it came to hand no transac- tions were reported. Indeed, it was so late in the Gay before its publication that its effect upon our markets was uot developed. Flour, before its receipt, advanced 6} cents a 12} cents per barrel for com- mon and extra State. Wheat was also firm, but Tess active. Indian corn advanced about one cent per bushel. Pork was easier, with rather more do- ing. Lam and beef were heavy. Modevate sales of sugars were made before the news at fall prices. Afterwards no transactions were made, holders pre- ferring to await the receipt of more definite informa- tion regarding prices in England. Coffee was tole- rably active, and 1,800 bags of Rio and a cargo of St. Domingo were sold on terms stated in another column. Rates to Liverpool were easier, with more offering. 4,000 barrels flour were taken for London at4s. Rates to the Continent were steady. We continue under the telegraphic head our report of the proceedings of the free soil Know Nothing Convention at Cincinnati. The committee on the platform yesterday reported a series of resolutions of a conservative character. The ultra abolitionists were in asmall minority. We give a list of the delegates in attendance. The Canal Commissioners have decided to close the canals on the Sth of December. At present the utmost activity prevails on all the lines of public works. The Board of Supervisors met last evening, and after passing on s few bills adjoarned. The Board of Aldermen also met, but transacted no business of goneral interest... The trial of Louis Baker, charged with the mur. der of Bill Poole, was yesterday postponed, in con- sequence of the absence of Judge Roosevelt, until Monday next. Our correspondent at St. Thomas, writing on the 21st ult., gives very full culars respecting the Jate seizure of the bark at Port an Prince, with a description of her cargo of military muni- tions, and a statement as to where she shipped it. St. Thomas was healthy. Trade dull. The trial of Capt. Joseph L. White, indicted on the charge of casting away the ship James Oheston— the particulars of which are no doubt familiar to our readers—and conspiring to defraud sundry in- eurance , was commenced in the United States Circnit Court at Baltimore, on Wednesday. ‘We give a report of the testimony in to-day’s paper. ‘an animated debate was indulged in on the presemation of @ resolution in the Missouri House of Representatives on the 13th inst.,to authorize the Governor to use the military forces of the State and to call upon the President for assistance in sup- pressing any riotous or insurrectionary movements. Jt appears that some of the members became fright- ened at the retarn of George Park, editor of the Lu- minary at the time of its destruction, to Parkville, we Plait copy, whites be meat om hvtieses | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1850. Parkville, both on the border, might be induced to engage-in a sort of civil war. After a-day spent in Duncombe speeches the House laid the resolution on the table by a vote of 82°to 24. We publish in another column the latest intelligence from the geene of the apprehended ‘difficulties. 5S aaa aaB etal ste The Relations Between the United States and Great Britain—State of the Public Pulse in Both Countries. The advices from England, received by the Canada, represent the uneasiness pervading the public mind in reference to the existing diffi- culties with this country as somewhat subsided. This seems to be more particularly the case in commercial circles, where the matter has been discussed with more seriousness than the trivial character of the dispute would seem to justify. Amongst commercial men here the same sensi- tivencss, though in a lesser degree, manifested itself. This is owing Jess to irritability of feeling on the part of cither people than to the political cirenmstances in which the two gov- erpments are placed. Judging from the tone of the non-official portion of the English press, there is nothing that the nation in general would regard as a greater calamity in existing circumstances than their being forced into hostilities with the United States, The same feeling exists kere, though in a modified degree, for happily we are not involved, like Great Britain, in a complication of political difficul- ties, making enormous drains on our resources and menacing us with the final exhaustion of our energies. We must, however, suffer con. siderably in euch a contest, and without some powerful political inducement to urge us on it would be the height of folly and wickedaess for us to engage in it, With such sentiments animating generally the people of the two countries, it will be asked whether there are any real grounds for apprehension? Were the governments of Great Britain and the United States adminis tered by men of pure principles and unsaspect- ed devotion to the interests of their respective countries, the reply would be an easy one. Where, however, on the one hand we see aman like Lord Palmerston, the most unscrupulous of politieal adventurers, seeking on frivolous pretexts to pick a quarrel with us in order to divert public attention from some important feature of his Eastern policy, and on the other an equally characterless politician, like Gene- ral Pierce, endeavoring to fan into flame the embers of hostility, in order to make capital out of the question for the next Presidential election, it is impossible to tell what may hap- pen. With two governments thus disposed, the slightest circumstances will serve to aggra- vate the original cause of offence, and the pride of the two nations becoming engaged in the controversy, the only possible final issue will be that of war. Are we prepared for this issue? We can no doubt sustain honorably and successful- ly another protracted war with Great Bri- tain; but at present it would entail heavier sacrifices to our commerce scattered in every sea than its results would be worth. The time has not as yet arrived when we can regard with confidence the effects upon our interests of such a contest. It will take some thirty or forty years before we shall be justified in considering ourselves a match for England, allied as she is at present with so many ciher nations. It would have to be along war to be a sugcessful ove for us. In 1880 or 1890 it will be very different. We should then be in a position to di¢tate terms to the rest of the world. Until that period arrives, however, our foreign policy should bé wise, cautious, prudent and conservative of our growing in- terests, We will inflict a greater blow on Eng- land by our commerciai and industrial gug- cess and example in ten or twenty years heace than by « war of greater length of time. The otber antagonisms that we should have to encounter at present will have been con- ciliated or effaced by time. Our policy, for instance, will become so manifest to and so clearly in unisou with the interests of France that we shall ultimately find in ber a fiem friend, if not an ally. It would, therefore, be manifestly anticipating our own chances were we to precipitate such a struggle. On a review of the circumstances of the en- listment operations in this city, after the arri- val of Lord Clarendon’s instructions, it will be seen that the ground assumed by the English government and its organs is not as tenable as was contended. It is true that an apology for the infraction of our laws, under the pretext of its having been committed innovently, is entitled to be considered an atonement for the offence, but when those acts are repeated, after proper advisement by the authorities here, and subsequently to the arrival of those alleged instructions, the explanation loses part of its value. Its sincerity may very well be ques- tioned in view of the proceedings to which we refer; and the coincident prompiaess with which a demand for an explanation was made of our minister, and orders issued to reinforce the West India fleet, after Mr. Cushing's in- structions reached London, by no means relieve it from that equivocal character. The quarrel on the whole, is a mean and pitiful one, and can only, by intentional mismanagement, be aggravated into respecta- ble proportions. If the British government really meant what it said, and what the acts of its agents belied, it would be better for it, instead of blustering and resorting to threat- ening measures, to make such further explana- tions as would lead to the modification of the expressions complained of in Mr. Cushing's in- structions, The question is, whether it will do #0? Weare inclined to think not, for the simple reason that under this pretext for strengthening the naval forces of Great Bri- tain in these latitudes a more important poli- tical move is concealed. Will our own Cabi- net yield to the menace and disavow the lan- guage of its official? Were not the Presiden- tial election so near at hand, the probabilities would be in favor of an affirmative. As it is, we repeat that the decision of the question now rests altogether on the chances of political capital being made out of it. Sovrn Canouina anv tHe Cixcrnnatt Dewo- cratic Coxvention.—The newspapers in South Carolina are actively discussing the question, whether she shall or shall not takea hand among the spoilsmen of the Cincinnati De- mocratic Convention. The Charleston Me- cury indignantly says no; but on the other hand it appears that there are several General Commanders and General Quattlebums who in- tend to be on handanyhow. Mr. Calhoun was right. There is nothing “like the cohest power of the public plunder.” Let South Ca rolina geme in. ee matters. ‘Ty imagined that iota and Wioedshed | Shall the Coamtry Continue to be Governed would grow out of it, and the people of Weston and by Lawyers? It is by no means creditable to the legal profession that it has furnished nearly all the prominent disturbers of the internal peace and harmony of the country upon the absorbing question of slavery. The very men who ought to know best the true construction of constitu- tions and statutes are the first to override both by higher law interpretations, quibbling tech- nicalities and revolutionary appeals. Not from the agricultural, not from the commer- cial, not from the manufacturing, not from the capitalists, not from the mechhical classes do our political traitors come. Seward is a lawyer, Chase is a lawyer, Wade is a lawyer, Sumner is a lawyer, Hale is a lawyer, King is a lawyer, Van Buren is a lawyer, Butler is a lawyer, Burr was lawyer. Now deduct ‘such of these as have most prominently aided to build up the great abolition party—a party which depends wholly for its success upon the destruction of the government, and who be- lieves that there would be any serious and for- midable organization sach as that which has just elected one of their number Governor of the great State of Ohio? Is there one of these men that does not know that the fagitive slave law was made in obedience to the obli- gations of the constitution? Not one, aud yet they all denounce that law as “derogatory from the rights of human nature,” and declare that “no human power can subvert those rights.” This is revolution; it isan effort to overthrow the government, and it is certainly very remarkable that this effort is wholly made by lawyers. We are compelled to infer from these facts that while public confidence has been more generally reposed in them as a class than any other, they are the least worthy of it. They constitute the leaders of all parties, and direct the public administration almost exclu- sively. In the organization of the government they are given possession of one of the highest departments, that of the Judisiary. It would be well if the mass of the people would con- sider this fact, and having weighed the subject, determine to elevate to place a much larger proportion of merchants, manufacturers and agriculturists, Experience has shown that in a republican government something besides mere technical ability is necessary in a public agent. The legal profession are, of all the va- rious classes of society, the least conservative, and the most reckless and presumptive. Their interests in the peace and harmony of the coun- try are exceedingly small. ‘hey sacrifice the least by internal discord or external war. Their very pursuits and occupations prepare ‘their minds for strife and contention, The position of Mr. Seward on the great theatre of the nation is that of a smart pettifogger breeding quarrels and contentions ia a small village. Let us look over to the other side of the pic- ture, and regard fora moment tue office of commerce and the character of the persons en- gaged in its pursuits. Asa class they are pro- verbially honest. There is a law of trade ex- acting the highest integrity in him who would be successful in its occupations. It employs vast capital; it seeks intercourse with all the world. It is a goyernment by itself, fixing its own statutes, making its own regulations, de- fining its own powers, and exacting of every nation obedience to its commands. It is an arbiter between belligerent States—an interaa- tional peace officer—ever conservative, ever prudent, cautious and honest. Of all the pur- suits of man, it more accurately judges of the rights of nations, and more honestly fulfils the obligations of life than any other. It is charged by the Seward and Greeley agitators of this country, with o selfish abandonment of the rights of Northern freemen to the demands of Southern slaveholders. In truth, it only main- tains the political obligations of the free States embodied in the federal compact, and refuses to make war upon the government to gratify the insane follies of a set of counterfeit re- formers. Commerce is the offspring of our po- litical union; it is the fruit of its free trade policy; itis maintained by the peaceful and honest discharge of duties by all its parts. That which shall disturb the operations of the federal machine will impair the operations of commerce, both ¢xternal and iuternal, The State of Massachusetts, at its last session, passed an act nullifying an important provi- sion of the constitution of the United States, To a great extent i¢ was a harmless proceeding, because the federal courts would wholly disre- gard it. But even this piece of petty treason hy a sovereign State bas already exerted a most balefal influence upon the trade and com- merce of the city of Boston. Perhaps no State in the Union is more directly interested in American slavery than the old Bay State. She has heretofore supplied a large portion of the South with the proceeds of her mauufacturing establishments, Her cotton mills engaged in working the productions of slave labor; her shipping employed in the carrying trade of the slave States; her capital invested, her men employed on the distinct basis of Southern necessities, identified her more intimately with slavery than perhaps any other Northern State. In the fuce of all these facts che renounces her obligations to the constitution becanse that compact recognizes human slavery. But it is not, in truth, the commercial and the manufac- turing classes of Massachusetts that enacted the Personal Liberty bill; it was those classes who had nothing to lose by internal discord and everything to gain. It was the Summers, the lawyers ot that State, the professional po- liticians, the interested office holders and ex- pectants—the demagogues. It is now full time that the great branches of labor—thore interests which are wholly de- pendent upon the harmonious operation of our federal system—should wake up to the dangers by which they are surrounded. They are not politicians, we know. They have been accus- tomed to leave to other classes, and especially to the legal profession, the conduct of public affairs. Elections have been regarded as mere ecenes of personal strife, and little confidence has been entertained by these great interests that they could control their results. But the time bas come when, if they would have pub- lic affairs conducted upon the principles upon which the government was established—if they would avert a crisis which may result in the dismemberment of the republic and the prompt sacrifice of all their interests--~if they, in fact, would protect themselves, they must combine and exert all their influence against the agita- tors, the disunfonists, the traitors, The great- est enemy which commerce has ever had is Willfam 1. Seward, now, by the carelessness of there most interested in a faithful discharge ly the State of New York of her obligations to good faith to her copartners, of honcet dealing —the representative of her soverignty in the Senate of the United States, and the active and sleepless promoter of sectional bitterness and internal discord. Newspaper Advertising—The Duties ef the Press. Eleewhere will be found extracts from Bos- ton journals relating to the subject of news- paper advertising. It appears that on the 15th inst., Lieut. Alexander, of the Engineers, di- rected an advertisement to be inserted in the Boston 7'imes, and the bill to be sent to the office of the Post. The proprietor of the Times made out his bill according to rates which seem to have been usual in that part of the country — at all events, rates which he himself deemed proper; but the parties to whom he was referred at the office of the Post, and Lieut. Alexander himeelf, refused indignantly to pay it, and characterized the proceeding as a swindle. Lieut. Alexander so far forgot himself as to write a foolish ond indiscreet letter to the editor of the Times, in which he states that the charge of the 7%mes is “nearly double the amount charged by the first class papers of Boston aad New York.” We have no means of knowing the tariff of our cotemporaries; but so far as the Heraxp is concerned, Lieut. Alexander is altogether at fault. The charge of the Times was:— Fer one insertion... For 26 subsequent di Total......+4 Our charge for have been :— For one insertion... For 26 subsequent d De POR neste Cent oan e+ $162 00 --or very nearly three time the charge of the Times. Nor are we warned by any decline in our advertising columns that the public consider we fell our space too high, This is a very small matter in itself, though indirectly of some importance to the public. The government of this country, and the va- rious departments of which it is composed, seem to have become impressed with an idea that the newspaper business differs from all others, in being.a sort of public concern in the management of which every man—and more than others, every government official—has a right toa voice. If the President wantsa hat or a coat, and sends to a tailor or hatter for them, he does not presume to fix the price which shall be paid for them; nor would Lieut. Alexander, himself, we fancy, pretend that the price of the tea, coffee and sugar he consumes ought to be fixed by himself, instead of the grocer. Yet, when the President and Lieut. Alexander undertake to deal with the press, they seem to think it is their business, and not the printer’s or publisher’s, to say how much shall be paid for advertisements. The conse- quence of this fallacy of theirs has been, that when they have ventured to dictate to journals of the standing of the Herap, they and their advertisements have been shown the door together; and at this moment we deal with the United States government on more cautious terms than we would with any re- spectable private corporation or individual, simp)y because we are afraid of being cheated. Hence it follows that many matters which it is the business of the government to make pub- lic do not obtain the publicity needful. The prices of advertising are regulated like that of all other commodities, by supply and demand. All properly managed newspa. pers charge as much as they can get, and no more, When the time comes that we can fill our paper with advertisements at half a dollar oy a dollar a line, we shall do so, if we please; and ff the President chooses to advertise he shall pay the same as any one else. The charge of the Boston Zimes was, we presume, what the proprictors of that journal can obtain from other advertisers for their space; and to call it exorbitant, and extravagant, and a swindle, only shows that those who use these epithets do not understand the principles of trade. Long as newspapers have been established in the Waited States, and many as there are, their twue relations to society do not yet seem to be understood. In another Boston journal we per- ceive anaccount of a squabble between the edi- tor and the publishing firm of Ticknor & Fields, It appears that the editor reviewed one of the publications of the latter with severity, where- upon Ticknor & Co., wrote an indignant letier callivg for their bill, discontinuing the paper, and notifying the proprietors that they would cease to advertise in his columns. Of course Mecers, Ticknor & Fields have a right to deal with what newspapers as with what grocers or tailors they please ; and for the jouraal to gom- plain of what they have chosen to do is the height of absurdity. At the same time it must he obvious even to themselves, on reflection, that this act of theirs is neither more nor less than an attempt to gag or bribe the press by means of their advertising, and can neither attain its object with any certainty nor re- dound to their own credit. We do not know how they order matters in Boston, but here there is no advertiser so necessary to the press that a leading journal could not afford to cut him off, and exclude his advertisements, We do not remember to have heard of any leading journal here complaining that this or that ad- vertiser withheld his favors; but it has come to our ears that parties have cried out lustily at being deprived of the privilege of adver- tising in this or that newspaper. Our Country Newspapers anp tak Creprr System.—The general complaint of our coun- try newspaper editors is pinching poverty, with hundreds and thousands of dollars due them from their delinquent subscribers, which they cannot collect. It is a general disease, and the following case, we dare say, is by no means an isolated exception. The editor of the Binghamton (N. Y.) Standard thus appeals to the charitable feelings of his patrons:— oot ent lalen? We cannot bore quire witena ee ey ones. bak gare fae aoe until J credit is gone. ir esan tar eptlos ese tae landlord wants his rent. Our children want aloes, a our wife wants » new calico dress. We are out of wood, out of potatoes, out of flour, out of meat, out of butter’ out of sugar, out ‘A pomeged aa, ot of nearly our eredhore eat we arelies. "We here ant tre trying 16. tive a Christian fe: aod heen ay cette Leaven. affords us no entisfaction to think we shall not meet you there. We should gieatly prefer to have NEE wieeauar aah pase ate” vot Our experience teaches us that there isa very simple method of abolishing this univer- sal plan among our country editors of furnish- ing newspapers and advertisements upon trast, and living upon nothing. It is to abolish the credit and eet up the cash sysiem of payment for papers and subscriptions. Reduce snb- the icderat Catou—in setting an cxample of | scriptions and advertisements Wy » low Profit, and require the cash or its equivalent in gro- ceries, or dry goods, in advance, and the mis- fortune of starving country editors is abolished atonce. The cash system of the penny press, ag put into full operation by the Henao twenty years ago, is the true system for pub- lishers, subscribers and advertisers. It makes clean work, and operates smoothly to all con- cerned. The system works well in our cities ; why should it not be equally successful in the “yural districts?” Let our suffering friend at Binghamton try it, and initiate the revolution. Tue News sy THe Canapa, which we pub- lish in another column is neither important nor unexpected. The English, as it seems, have cooled down from their war fever, and arein a fine frame of mind to receive the douche which last week’s mails from hence carried across the Atlantic. From the war, there is no news save rumors. One states that abattle has been fought near Simpheropol; this may be regarded as very probable. Others assert that a battle has been fought near Pere- kop, and that the Allies have commenced the bombardment of Nicolaieff ; these bear upoa their face evidence of their falsity. It is wor- thy of note that there is more talk of peace. Well informed persons look forward this win- ter to astrong effort being made by Germany and the friends of Russia to effect apeace. It is of course the interest of Austria to bring about a peace, if possible, as in the event of the war lasting it is difficult to perceive how she can help being dragged into it next year. But the difficulties are very great. The Allies will of course demand higher terms now than they did at Vienna; and there is no evidence yet that the spirit or the obstinacy of Russia is broken. Commercially, the news is favorable. Both cotton and corn are better; and the funds have improved a trifle. The cause of the improve- ment should not be sought for any deeper than the surface of the market, “Hoaxep, By Tuunper.’—-The Memphis (Tenn.) Eagle and Enquirer, which flies the Know Nothing flag of Millard Fillmore for the Presi- dency, in publishing an extract of a letter to a soft shell Pierce daily of this city, pledging the democracy of Tennessee to Mr. Pierce, says our Pierce cotemporary has been hoaxed :— Yes! hoaxed, by thunder! If Franklin Pierce has a single friend in Tennessee who 1s in favor of his re-nomi- nation for the Presidency, besides the correspondent of the Day Book, (George W.’ Jones, probably,) we should like to know who he is! Such a ‘democrat’? or Sag Nicht, would be a good ‘show’? in this end of the State. We venture to affirm that a majority of the anties of Tennessee are in favor of Stephen A. Douglas, as the man to be beaten by the American party, for President, next year. And so it wasnot the Administration that carried Tennessee, but Stephen A. Douglas. This will be good news to Henry A. Wise. Let our neighbor try again. Try Maryland. Down Uron tae Catuorics.—The Buffalo Ezpress (Seward organ) continues to fire an oc- casional broadside at the Catholics for their alleged stupidity in sticking to the democratic party after all that Master Seward and his pipe layers have done to conciliate them and cure them of their folly. But as the experi- ment has proved an utter failure, this Buffalo trumpeter of black republicanism proceeds to show that this very folly of the Catholics, in going in a solid mass for the democracy, hard and soft,was the primary cause of the organi- zation of the Know Nothing order, We are told that the Catholics “ blinded their eyes to the light of trath, (Scwardism,) clung to the democratic party right or wrong, and in this way have given occasion for the formation of a party directly opposed to them.” And so all the hypocritical advances of the arch agi- tator for the good will at the polls of Arch- bishop Hughes and his flock are “ love’s labor lost.” The only chance for the black republi- cans now is to drop Seward, repent of their seditious doctrines, swear allegiance to the Union, the constitution and the laws, and join the Know Nothings or the hard shell demo- cratic party. Tue ADMINISTRATION AND THE British Con- sun, Mr. BarcLay.—The Washington Union ap- proves the course lately adopted by the New York Chamber of Commerce, in reference to the bark Maury, and the Cabinet organ says :— Mr. Barclay has undertaken, by letter, which appears in the Nuw York Herat, to explain his share in this undless prosecution of the bark Maury. Her owners, t seems, were not known to Mr. Barclay, aad, therefore, he assumed that she was a Russian privateer. Things have reached a strange pass certainly when we are not only to have foreign recruiting officers but also a foreign Nice in New York, and the blunders of that foreign po: ice are to bring theUnited States and Great Britaig to the verge of a war. We hope the Chamber of Co1 yi do ample justice to this gross misconduct of Mr. Bar- clay. Now it strikes us that ‘if “ample justice” is to be done to Mr. Barclay for this “gross mis- conduct,” it must be by some other authority than our Chamber of Commerce. We had sup posed that Mr. Cushing, Mr. Guthrie, or Mr. Marcy, or the President was the proper autho- rity for meting out “justice” for the “gross misconduct” of a foreign consul here. But as the Cabinet organ has turned over the mater to the Chamber of Commerce, we trust they will deal with Mr. Barclay as his case may re- quire. A Goop Recommennation—The Governor of Georgia has recommended a thorough over- hauling of the wildcat banks of that State, the paper of which has became as worthless as Plainfield shinplasters. Very good. Let the sifting process be commenced at once; and there are some other States which might pro- fitably follow the example. Meantime, beware of Georgia shinplasters, —__. Max MaRerexx’s ‘‘CRorcurTs AND QUAVERS,”—The first literary effort of ous illustrious chef d’orchestre seems to have made almost as much of a sensation as the coup Wersai of the Admirable Crichton. Every one is astonished to find that @ man whose life has been passed before the footlighta possesses as much skilland finesse in handling the pen as he has exhibited in handling the baton. No work that hae appeared for the last quarter of ® century has excited more curiority and attention than his history of operatic affairs in this country. There is so much oe pleavant gossip, of piquant scandal, and of ludicrous ad- venture mixed up with this chronicle of an artistic career, that it forms one of the most agreeable and amusing nar- Tatives that has ever been presented to the public. The namber that has been sold of the work since its appear- ance is the best proof of its popularity. ‘The first edition (an unusually large one) is already exhausted, and the Publisher is preparing the second. Our exchanges from all parts of the Union contain elaborate notices of it, and make copious extracts from it in their columns. It seems, for the moment, to have eclipsed in interest almost all the other exciting topice of the day. In Europe it will to doubt excite as much curiosity. The career of Euro. pean artists in this country have occupied too much of the attention of the foreign press for it to allow #0 rich an opportunity to escape of laying bare the secrets of all our great theatrical and eperaticexcitements. The lesson afforded by our author’s experiences will, we are certain, not be unproductive of benefit. Tt will induce a return to common sense on the part of both foreign and artists, who seem to regard this country as the Ophir of theatricn cupldi‘y and the logitimgtg Geld fog tho- Bisionl wilidingse and euprice, : THE LATEST HEWSB. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Free Soll Know Nothing Convention at Cineinnatl, LIS? OP DELPGATES PRESENT—A CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM REPORTED BY THE COMMITTER—THE BLACK REPUBLICANS FLOORED, BT. Cincinwatt, Nov. 22, 1855. The Convention re-assembled this morning at 10 o’clock: fifty-one delegates present, a3 f-llows:— ‘om. INDIANA, Joseph Burnett, J. ©. Moody, ‘Thos. H. Ford, Elias Thomasson, Calvin C. Wick, Wm. Sheets, ‘Thos. Spooner, Jag. Hook, ark Beeman, Jno. W. Dawson, 0. F. Moore, ‘A. P. Cobb, Jas. A. Briggs, M. §. Robinson. . Guthrie, ILLINOIS, wold, | N. C. Geer, ‘auslyck, W. W. Danenhouer, . Spencer, J. Mf. Allen, A. MeKay, PENNSYLVANIA. J. H, Bamer, W. F. Johnson, ©. 8, Fishback, J. L. Gosler, Henry Ebbert, Stephon Warren, Thos. C. Ware, C. A. Walburn, D. Heaton, Jno. Willia B.S. Kyle, Robert M. Ric Edwin Barrett, J. H. Sewall, R. M. Corwin, T. J. Powers, RHODE. ISLAND, W. W. Wise, J.C. Knight. Richard Coulter, F. 8. Stambock. ‘MICHIGAN, VERMONT, E. Mattocks, Brother Bartlett, of Kentucky, President of the Na- tional Council, was present. The conservatives sustained: ‘partial defeat this morning, on a resolution offered by Mr. Danenhouer, that where the delegations are not full the majority shall caat the full electoral vote of the State. This was opposed by some of the abolitionists, who desire to got an actual vote of the delegates present; and it was modified so that when a call of the States ig made, the majority of the delegates present, from any- State, shall cast the whole vote; and if they differ in prin- ciple, they sball apportion their votes according to the sentiments of the delegates present. There was a long debate on this, occupying nearly alk the forenoon, Thé Committee on Resolutions reported a conservative platform, and the ten minutes rule was adopted. This ‘was victory for the conservatives. The black republicans are in a small minority. ‘The platform, which requests that the National Counci? will expunge the twelfth section, denounces the Kansas act, and claims that no more slave States shall be admit, ted into the Union, Mr. ALLEN, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution asking / the Grand Council to blot out the twelfth sec‘ion, and make a platform upon which the North and the South could both stand without violence to the principles of the majority of the peop’e in either. Mr, Allen thinks that the Grand Council next February might fix up a plan for a truly national organization, leaving each State to hold its peculiar views on the slavery question. Mr. Allen is a fair representative of the moderate men in the Council. On the other hand, there is a Seward fusion party, headed by Mr. Spooner, of Ohio, President of the State: Council, ‘They want an abolition platform ,#o as to bring: about a fusion with the b’ack republicails. There are two reports for a platform, and lots of amend- ments. A sharp debate is now going on. The name of George Law has been mentioned here, and considerably discussed in private circles. ‘The idea is a popular one among the conservatives, and they think that with a strong Southern man for a Vice-President, it would be just the ticket for 1856. Ww. From Washington. WHO WILY REPRESENT CALIFORNIA IN THE SENATE ? —THE MESSAGE AND THE NEWSPAPERS—SECRE- TARY DOBBIN’S HEALTH, FTC. Wasmivatox, Nov. 22, 1855. Reliable mformation from California as that Henry A. Crabbe (whig) and Gen. Foote being inimical, and both: candidates for the United States Senate, there will be na election by the present Legislature, Crabbe avows if he is not elected, Foote shall not be. The whig and demo- cratic influence can prevent an election, It is not true that the President has determined not to rend out bis message in advance, There is no determi- nation yet on the subject. Secretary Dobbin will net leave Washington for a month or two to come, and then, perhaps, only temporarily. His health ia about as good as usual. The President’s message will be ready for the printera on Tuesday rext. Hon, Charles Naylor, of Pernsylyania, addressed tho Court of Claims to-day oa the Gen. Armstrong. case. E MEETING OF THE CABINET—THE ANNUAL REPORTS NEARLY READY, ETO. Wasmvotoy, Nov. 22, 1855. ‘The Cabinet bad an informal meeting to-day, but no- thing of importance transpired. Tie annual reports of different secretaries are now completed, with the exception of the statistical portion, which, I learn, will soon be finished and placed in the hands of the printers. Lieutenant Jones has been ordered by the Navy Do- partment to proceed immediately to Boston, to join the new steam frigate Merrimack, in command of Commodore Gregory. dD From Albany. STATE OF THE WEATHER—ACTIVITY OF BUSINESS— CLOSING OF THE CANALS. Atnayy, Nov. 22, 1855. Winter is fairly upon us; the northwestern blast is searching and severe. We are in the midst of a gale of wind. Ice made last night for the firat time, three (uarters of an inch thick. Another day like thie and canal navigation must be suspended on account of the «now and ice. The bustle of business about the wharves is extremely active, as every one is anxious toy transmit to New York, by water, all the grain and other Produce before the river closes, as these freights wil? quadruple on the railroads. People in this region of the. State were never so illy prepared to meet the cold sea: as now; and should winter, with its uswal rigor, now set in thus summarily uj us, there can be no estimate of the misery that must ensue. P. §.—T Jearn that the Canal Commissioners have de. cided to close the Canals on the 5th of December, ptm ecbartinendbr tend From Philadelphia. DR. DEALE PARDONED—THANESGIVING , ETC, Dr, Beale, the dentist, bas been pardoned by Garten . ne Pollock, and berated ion eins 5c ey nkegivi ve generally observed in city to- day, and business in almost wholly suspended. he weather is clear and cold. the express train was ‘Gee a Ss in was near Spencerport, on the Nia~ & Falls Railroad, this afternoon, [eigen was both rown off the track, and the Titled. and fireman were Markets, BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Battimony, A 1855. At our eatile market to.day 1400 bead Wf bert offered, of which 1,090 head suld at $5 a $8 60 net, ave. raging 83 37 Hoge, ‘demand firma at 80.0 905 por 100 Toa ans PE and marker. Our hog market has advanced, the quotati , sale stan to na Na 188, stay. ates or ae $8 8008 ee ae, mi Pu is ma today af per band ‘mclaner at Bite, Sieh ecpst are ote Atnany, Novy. 22—-12:30 P. M. Flour acti ith ls ; , we at ve, wi © good Eastern demand; sales 1,700- Prices, 4,282 bushiels, ‘$1.21 fortwo $127 for. county. C sates 8,000 bushels Western mixed 5 af p hood ‘000 at 08 9 00c., aflostand Sam Howston on the Nebraska Bill, ‘When Hertz was on trial in Philadelphia, some weeks ‘since for violation of the neutrality laws, two very re- markable letters were read in court from Attorney Gene- ral Cushing to District Attorney Van Dyke, The first of them, dated Sept. 12, presumed to levson Judge Kane in- directly on his judicial course in the prosecution im question, spoke of the agents of the Rritish government in the matter—including the principal one, Mr. Cramp- ton—ax malefactorr, and held out some terrible threat against Great Britain for ite delverate violation of our woverelgn rights, Lp the second letter, dated Sept. 1%