The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1856, Page 4

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Im the Board of Aldermen last evening the ma- jesity of the Committee on Repairs and Sapplies re- ported that they had found the department to be in & most deploraple condition, and they say that o petty tradesman, doing @ business of $5,000 a year, -would be ashamed to have it diseovered (much leas te adit openly) such a reckless mode of transact- img business. ihe Committee, in view of the reck- Jess system of conducting the business in these de- partuents, in certifying for sums of money from 25 te 100 per cent over the usual fair trade prices, re- ommend that Nathaniel 8. Selah, Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, and Jas. Irving, Superintend- eat of Repairs of Public Buildings, be requested to aesign. The matter was laid on the table, in order te give time for the preseatation of the minority re- ‘The lease of the Gouvernear street ferry was of- fered for sale at public auction yesterday at the City Hall, and no one would bay it. A movement has been on foot to change the terminus of the ferry te Jackson street slip, to which the Union Ferry @ompany are strongly opposed, pr yrregpaaton seem inclined to take the lease of the ferry, ° eept under very favorable conditions. if jie person should purchase it by paying a higher price fan the company, he will have, in accordance with the charter of 1853, to bay from the company @mcir boats, houses, &c. Therefore no one seems imclined to take the lease, and it is probable that the ferry will be stopped ere long, the lease of the present company having elapsed on the 12th of fast month, A full account of the matter will be found in another column. In the Board of Councilmen last evening a report was read in Committee of the Whole, recommending the payment of the avcounta incurred by the Mut sel nativity investigation. Stephen H. Branc’'s Bill of $4,500 was, by amendment, reduired to $2,000, and then adopted. A motion for a third reading, however, was lost. The repert concurring with the ~ Alderwen in approving Backman’s plan for a new @ Cisy Hall was ordered to a third reading. The aunnal meeting of the stockholders of the ““Whird Avenue Railroud was held yesterday. Else- where we give a report of their proceedings. From ‘Whe annual exhibit of the officers, It appears that ‘abe affuirs of the company are in sound condition. The receipts during the past year amounted ; \897,749; expenses, $249,712—showing a protit of n warly thirteen per cent. The number of pasaan- gw carried over the road daring the past year re hed eeven millions and a balt, The company int, wd introducing cars with sea's on top capable of seat ‘mg thirty passengers. T. \¢ Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday. A ke Mer was received from Henry W. T. Mali, the Beigi, W Consul, admitting the justice of a claim on his co fermment for emigranta surreptitiously abip; °d to this ‘ Country. During the month of Octeber 15.440. Migrants landed at Castle Garden, bringing with the ™ $1,276,516 in money—being an average of #776 4 per bead. Over $15,000,000 yearly come to this ¢ ountry through emigrants that is scarcely ever notic ed by business men. ‘The totai emigra- tion so fw *% this year, bas been 122,811—being 429 dew than to ‘the game period last year, Hisewhery ' in today's paper we ire phic de de- seriptions of * the ladies’ tair at the Crystal Palace, ( and the sale ‘of Charles 6, Huntington's stud o} horses; also r porte of the proceedings of the Board of County Car ‘vassers and the Board of Education. Animportan t partition suit between William 8, Rogers and wif * and John Mclean and others, in- volving over $1 @,000 worth of property on Brosd- way and its vicin fy, is set down for argument in the Supreme Court ( Yeneral Term for to-day, in which Mr. David Paul B: ‘wn, of Philadelphia, is engaged for the defendants » and General Sandford and Mr. e fur plainti ©. “eae seaso B opened last night with an ad- dress by the Hon. 6 vorge P. Marsh, of Vermont, be- fore the New Engla: \@ Society, being the first of « ners of six that a Te to be delivered before that body. “England, Oh @ and New, »” was the subject of the accomplished lect Urer's discourse. Onur report is unavoidably crowde: Voat. On Tuesday Senor A Move de Escalante, the Spa- nish Minister at Washi agton, prevented to the Pre- siden? the letter from his sovereign announcing that bis resignation ha: | been secepted. It is un- derstood that Mr. Magall om, the first Secretary of Legation, will setae Char we 4’ Affaires ad interim. ‘The celebration of the oj ning of the Grand Trunk Railroad, extending from 1 *ortland, Me, to Strat ford, Canada West, adistan 2 of eight hundred and fifty five miles, commenced _ Yesterday et Montreal. There was a grand processi in, @ bamquet, and « torchlight demonstration in the evening. Large delegations from all parte of th @ United States and Canada were present. Everyt bing went off with telat. The festivities will wind’ up with a grand bail to-night. Benen ate | Rarbadoes, to 294 ult, Copious showers b. v4 fallen, to the Sress relat of tha plnasoods Wty frum the previous long-continved drought, had veason' to apprehend serious injury te the craps. The mar Ket was glatted with American produce, axcepting lad, which was held at high rates, Lady Byron, the widow of the poet, hae contri- bared £65 sterling to the retief of the vuiferers ia Kansas. With bet & moderate suppiys of bee! cattle on market yesterday, and the avenge quality being somewhat better than usual, the demnind for good descriptions was quite active, et a trifle advuace on j-at week's prices, the raling rates being To. & 1O}e. per pound. Cows and calves were im moderate de mand at $25 0269. Ven! calves went off briakly at be. a Oke. per pound. Sheep and lembs were aban gant, bot rather @ Mf sale at $2 6) @@3 cach. Swine were in large supply. and rold qaic ky at 6}o. a 7J¢. per pownd. The cotton market yesterday waa anaetele 4, with enles of about 1,500 bales, including some lata of » vplends at i}fe.e lljec., and of Ot. Mark's tmiddti Florid e! about Lc, Flour war firmer, with a god domestic and export demand, with frae rales, closing at about five cents per barre! advance, espe cially on extra grades, Wheat was quite setive, with a good export demand, and the mat closed at about two conte per bushel advance. Corn wag NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1856. - firm, with sales at 70c. a Tic. for Western mixed’ Rye was firm and quiet. Pork was dull and de Pressed, with small sales of meas at $18 50; in large lots $18 75 2 $19 was asked. The sales of sugars embraced about 700 » 800 nbds., inclading 250 bhds. of Trinidad for refining, with small lote of Porto Rico ‘and 300 boxes at prices named im amotber column. Coffee was quiet. Freights to English ports were firmer. To Liverpool, grain was taken at 8d. a 94d a 10d. in bulk and bags, and floar at 2s, 6d. 2s. ae and 2,000 a 3,000 bales of cotton at 5-32d. a Southern Democratic Views of the Presiden- tial Election—The Union Safe, but only for Four Years, Our readers will find in another part of this paper several interesting extracts from our Southern exchanges, on the results of the late clection and the prospect of the futare. First among these extracts is @ leading article from he Petersburg (Va.) South Side Democrat, “on the great disunion vote at the North,” in which it is confessed that the election of Mr. Buchanan is not a conclusive democratic victory, but a nar- row escape from @ crushing defeat ; not a positive alvation of the Union under the programme of the Southern nuilifiers, but a “simple trace of four years” —‘ a lease of protection from inva- sion for four years” —and that “ the political zo- diac indicates that four years hence we are to have presented to us (the South) the solemn ques- tion of degradation or revolution.” On the other hand, the Richmond Enquirer (the leading Virginia nullification colaborer of this South Side oracle) says “ that all danger of a dis- solution of the Union is over;” that “slavery will hereafter be, as it always should have been, the strongest bond and cement of the Union ;” that “ negro slavery i is becoming popular as it becomes known,” &c., and that the African slave trade will have to be restored. Now, all this nigger phflocophy may be very nice, but resting, as it does, upon false premises concerning the election of Buchanan, it must fall to the ground. The Angusta (Ga) Fill- more organ places the boot upon the right leg. It was Fillmore, and not slavery, nor the Atchison and Pierce policy of the extension of slavery, nor the African slave trade, that elected Buchanan, Had Fillmore withdrawn from the fight with the nomination of Fremont, every Northern State would have been carried by the latter, including, beyand a doubt, the State of Pennsylvania, by a handsome m@jority. A dis passionate analysis of the late Northern elections, State and national, clearly shows the democratic party and their Cincinnati platform to be ina minority in every State of the North. Perhaps not less than ten thousand Fillmoreites in Penn- sylvania voted the democratic State ticket in October, and it was thus elected upon the narrow margin of less than three thousand majority. Let it suffice, however, that Mr. Buchanan is elected, and that, according to our Augusta (Ga.) cotemporary, the democratic “disunionists are claiming that the Union has been saved through their means; that they have, in reality, bullied the North out of the support of Fremont,” and have thus elected Buchanan, what follows? What is Mr. Buchanan todo? According to the Rich- mond Enquirer his course is plainly chalked out before him, in the new Southern programme of the extension of slavery; and, under this policy, “all danger to the Union is over.” But ac- cording to the Charleston Mercury, hence- forward there can be no peace, for that this Presidential election has shown most emphatically that the North are one distinct people and the South another; and even ee Wise and Jefferson Davis and their organs, Mr. Buchanan’s accidental mi- nority election is at best but a doubtful armis- tice to the Southern ultras, of four'years’ limita- tion. Four years! Only four years! We are star- thd at the thought. But what if it should be less? Aye! what if this armistice with our Southern nullifiers should be of less than four years’ duration? What if it should be broken by the admission of Kansas as a free State under an honest enforcement of the Kansas-Nebraska law of popular sovereignty? What if it should be ruptured in the appointment of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet and in hie division of the spoils? These are ominous questions, for there is something in them. Mr. Buchanan has but two alternatives before him. The first is to repudiate this whole brood of Southern nullifiers, and to re-organize bis party upon a conservative and national basis; and the second is to permit these Southern disor- ganizing traitors to saddle and bridle him as they did poor Pierce, and to ride him, booted and spurred, as they have ridden poor Pierce, full gallop on the downhill road to destruction. We perceive that several of our Fremont cotemporaries of this city adbere to the theory of the Southern nullifiers, the Ciucianati platform, and the Ostend manifesto, as the inevitable policy of Mr. Buchanan. We think they are mistaken. We predict a wholly different policy on the part of the President elect from that of the extension of slavery into Northern latitudes by border ruffianism, and that of the acquisition of Cuba by an authorized Lopez expedition under Gen. Walker. We are aware that the foreign and domestic programme laid down for Mr. Buchanen is magnificent and attractive; but it is surrounded with too many dangers to be either splendid or fascinating to Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Davis proposes to hurry Kansas into the Union as a slave State, in virtue of the coercive processes under which the work has thus far been accomplished. This act, he knows, will revive tenfold the anti-slavery agitation of the North; but he bas discovered an ingenious yet very simple counter-irritation, whereby the nig- ger agitation will be swallowed up in the noi- versal patriotiem of the American people, sorth and South. What ie this saving remedy against a revival of the Northern anti-slavery agitation? It is the simple remedy of a foreign war, and the plan for bringing this about is one of the nicest in- ventions of the age. We have recogniwed the government of Gen. Walker in Nicaragua. Te haa lately iseued a decree re-establishing tho institation of slavery in that State, where it had stood abolished for forty years. This decree may prove a good thing for the developement of the vast commercial re sources of the country. At all events, it has made Walker the protegé of the nullifiers of | the Seath. All, therefore, that he has to do is to pick a quarrel with Spain, and to make sure work by letting the word and the blow fali to- gether in a hostile descent upon Cuba with his American citizen volunteers, Five hundred will do as well as five thousand. They may be cap- 2 sat | ye tured and executed like pirates, after the fashion | of Lopez and his followers, but Mr. Buchanan | than the formal ratification of the arrangements | in the universal rising of the country to the sup- port of the administration and the democracy against onr foreign enemies. ‘This, or something very like it, we understand is the plan of Jefferson Davis for securing Kan- tas and Cuba, and for consolidating, at the same time, the democratic party upon a sure footing, North and South. We apprehend, however, that this plan smells « little too strong of gunpowder for the nerves of Mr. Buchanan; and it is our serious opinién that he will set out upon a foreign and domestic policy so very pacific and conciliatory as to disgust the Southern nulliflers and drive them off into a little fussy outside fac- tion before a single year of the new administra tion—and perhaps before a single month of it— shall have expired. We await the issue. Tue New Crry Post Orrice.—Now the election is fairly over, we may hope to see the question of our Post Office location decided. The exact po- sition, among a namber of good sites proposed, is of less consequence than the building of @ good and capacious office when the location is fixed. We are too apt to do our business for a day, and then finding our mistake, we are compelled to do it all over again or suffer the penalty of our folly. When our City Hall was built, it wasno doubt considered of ample size for at least a hundred years to come; but separate buildings, court rooms, record offices and clerks’ quarters have ah pankoonde leased and erected all over the upper end of the Park and in other parts of the city. This is a great inconvenience, but it is no- thing compared to that of a Post Office which is too emall. The postal business must be concen- trated in one building, for the purpose of receiv- ing, sorting and despatching the mails; and this is the case whether there are a hundred sub- offices or not, and whether the postal circle has a radius of one mile or ten. The Brick Church site, which certain charitable speculatorse—the charity beginning at home—wish to sell to the govern- ment, is entirely inadequate to the purpose, as a little examination must show. The locality is good enough, but it ig entirely too small, besides being of an inconvenient shape. It is pretty nearly a triangle, the Beekman street front being 144 feet, and the opposite end only 59 feet, giving an area of less than 19,000 square feet. There is no branch of public business that in- creases as fast as correspondence by post, and we have long suffered great in- convenience, with serious loss of time and money to every business interest, from the imper- fection of our postal arrangements, It is suscep- tible of the clearest demonstration that if erected to-day, a Post Office on that site, or any other of equal size, would be altogether too small for the purpose. The longest front is 198 feet, and the shortest 159, with an area of 18,850 square feet. New York contains 640,000 inhabitants, while nearly 200,000 more who do business here reside or sleep in the adjoining places of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City and Hoboken. To all intents and purposes the postal accommodations required in New York are fora population that numbers little short of a million, and before the building can be finished the number will be nearly 1,500,000. That there is no exaggeration in this estimate will be seen from a comparison of the population of London, Paris, and New York at hree different periods aod 1860. 968,863 1830, 1856. 1,654,994 2,600,000 000,000 860,000 1,076,000 96,373 = 908,689 © "640,000 The population of Paris doubles in about sixty years, thatof Londan in forty, and that of New York im twenty. Tho pootal accommodations of London are inadequate to the wants of the Loa- doners, though John Bull usually displays woa- derful sagacity in making calculations for the fu- ture. The London Post Office has a front of 400 feet, by 130 feet deep—an area of some 52,000 square feet—being almost three times the size of the Brick Church lot. The number of persons ac- commodated in this immense building, according to the English Post Office report, is about 2,500, Of these less than 300 are attached to the Genersl Post Office, while nearly an equal number of other clerks are located in another building. The number of persons engaged at one time in making up the London evening mail is about one thou- sand, and so scant is the room that large num- bers work in the upper stories, and a steam en- gine is constantly at work in transporting mail or other matter from one part of the building to another. Besides the business in the principal office, there are nearly five hundred other offices— branch Post Offices and receiving houses—scat- tered throughout the city and suburbs, by means of which a vast deal of work is diverted to other localities. Can any one in his senses believe th § a building stuck on the little triangular balk nee the Park, and one that will scarcely afford work- ing room for two hundred persons, will eaffice for the postal wants of this great and growing city? "Wine nae Post Office was required for the city of Glasgow, much anxiety was felt as to its location, and in reply to a communication to the Lords of the Treasury, Sir Francis Baring re- plied :-—“ With reference to the particular build- ing which should be purchased, there is not suffi- cient information as yet for a just decision. As to the convenience of the situation, the opinion of the inhabitants and of the commercial bodies would have the greatest weight; but the fitness of the interior * * * &c., will require further investigation. So in our case: it is matter for the conve- nience of a commercial population, which some day will outnumber that of any other city in the world ; and nota mere epeculation for two or three property holders. If a Post Office is built on ground where it can be enlarged by purchas- ing other property and extending the building, | the extent of the present site will be of less con- sequence. But once put the Post Office on the Brick Church corner, whore it can never be en- Jarged, and in afew years the finger of scorn will point at it as a monument of folly ; an atrocious job, perpetrated by a knot of officials | and speculators in real estate. Ovr Restations witt Exotaxp-—We copy the following from @ Philadelphia paper of | yy Lr} Minteter to the Court entered upen his mi ve been zsloasly acted him, and tbe result has been most happy, a: The treaties referred to above are nothing more and a democratic Congres, in both houses, will be | touching the cession of the Bay Islands, the called upon to avenge them, and thie will give as | at once a magnificent war with England, France | and Spain, in which the Northern nigger agita- | renanciation of the Mosqnito protectorate, and the constitation of San Joan as a free port— the details of which have been fully given in the tion will be overwhelmed and buried out of sight | Hrnatn. 83: Movements of Free State Settlers in Kansas— Mr. Buchanan’s Course. Since the results of the recent October elec- tions, and the withdrawal of the pressure of Mis- souri border rufflaniam ; since the despotic pro- slavery policy of the administration of Mr. Pierce bas been relaxed, in view of the possible result of the Presidential election, the free soil settlers of Kansas have taken advantage of the opportanity to strengthen themselves in every way. We learn that among other significant marks of this determination is the re-establish- ment of the Lawrence Herald of Freedom—a free State newspaper, which was destroyed by pro- slavery mob on the 2st of May last. On that memorable day the proprietor had three valuable presses and a large quantity of type destroyed by ihe border ruffians. His forms, ready for the press, were thrown into pi, and most of the ma- terials of the office were tumbled into the river. But by the contributions of a benevolent sympa- thy he has been enabled to recommence business with every prospect ot success, He has the gratification of recording large and valuable access.ons to the population, and the increase of the industrial power of the Territory. The Mis- ouri river is again open to voyagers, and the tide of emigration is once more setting in. Agricul- turists and merchants are flocking to Kansas, and “the star of hope returns.” Lines of stages ply regularly between Lawrence and Leavenworth, and internal communication has become com- paratively safe. In every neighborhood, clergy- men and physicians are establishing themselves in business, and the care of the body and the soul is already well provided for. This promising state of things gives assurance that the Territory is going ahead, and the free State settlers are evidently looking forward to ultimate security and repose. We attribute this state of things to the strong conviction of the free State settlers that a large msjority of the population is with them in feel- ing and in interest, and that though Col. Fre- mont might be defeated inthe election, its results would be decided enough to warn Mr. Bucha- nan of the rocks and shoals on which Mr. Pierce has wrecked his bark, They have foreseen that though the former was nominated, and apparently pledged to pursue the policy of the latter, he will most unquestionably be driven to the adop- tion of another policy—that of recognising and sustaining the rights and sovereignty of the people of Kansas. That this anticipation, this conviction, was not without cause is evident from the opinions which already prevail as to the course Mr. Buchanan will take, founded on his own declarations that he is in favor of Kansas as a free State. We are informed by our Lancaster correspon- dent, as will be seen from his letter published in yesterday’s Henan, that Mr. Buchanan has said a thousand times since his nomination, to almost as many of his own friends and neighbors, citizens of Lancaster county, that he “is not in favor ef the extension of slavery, and that Kansas will come in asa free State.” His home neighbors, who are well acquainted with his views, say the eame thing. He is, in fact, pledged to this policy, and is doubtless sincere in what he has said. He cannot as a stateeman shut his eyes to the charac- ter and direction of the late election. It isa popular verdict, rendered after a full understand- ing of the law and the testimony, by a majority of the people of the United States, against the policy of hia predecessor, Mr. Pierce, and it is so entered on the record. It is hardly within the range of poreibility that Mr. Buchanan under these cir- cumstances can be ignureat of his position ox derelict in his duty. He must plainly perceive his inevitable course of conduct; and though some of the fire-eating secessionists of the South may still continue their efforts to embarrass and divide the Union, it is not at all probable they will suc- ceed in making much headway with Mr. Bu- chanan. If they wish to keep up the equality J States, that can be easily done by the division of Texas, as already provided for by the terms of its admission into the Union. A division of the great State of Missouri can also take place bereafter at the proper time, and by constitutional means, to which there will be little if any opposition offer- ed. We therefore look forward to a peaceable solution of the Kansas difficulties. The people of that Territory evidently do so themselves; and what we now deem to be the settled policy of Mr. Buchanan will tend to restore peace, conii- dence and unity to the people of the United States, foolishly jeoparded without cause. Peace axp Haxmony at rae Iranian OreRa.— M. le Baron de Stankovitch is a sensible man. The stockholders of the Academy of Music have had a few grains of common sense knocked into their heads, ia Jack Bunsby, by the rough bat convincing marlinspike of public opinion. For proof, read the official documents published else- where—the letter of M. le Baron de Stankovitch to Mr. Paine, and the resolution of the stock- holders, in which they magnanimously give the lessee one of his legal rights. Here is the case : M. de Stankovitch leases the Academy for a round sum per night, with the understanding that a certain person is not to be employed. That certain person happens to be the only person who can discharge to the satisfaction of the public the duties of conductor. The public, knowing its righta, demands its conductor, rein- states him, and, according to the doctrine of equatter sovereignty, he takes the chair. The next day the stockholders give him permission to keep it. Ae we wrote the other day, the public de mands the Opera, with all its excellencies in every department, before and behind the scenes, and to make « slight variation in Mirabeau’s apothegme, the “ voice of the people admonishes” stockholders, who, having money, are greater than kings, who occasionally desire to borrow. So the stockholders have obeyed the voice of the | pablic and the press, simply because they | couldn't help it. And the matter is settled ac- | cording to the Heraxn platform. So much for the right of the affair. Now for the law of it. In leasing the building to M. de Stankoviteh, the stockholders had no legal right to dictate to him who he should or should not | employ. Knowing this, probably, the condition : ot | was not inserted in the lease, but the lessee was enticed into a promise, from which he waa only released when it was dangerous to hold him to his word. It is for the public to judge who stands in the best position in the matter. Now that harmony reigns in Irving place— | for the time being, at least—we hope that some- | thing will be done for art. Singular as it may seorm, afver recent demonstrations, it is not the daty of an artiet, or a manager, or a stockholder, to kick ny a row with somebody every week, | We want the Opera, with the best artists, the | dential vote of that State for Buchanan, best appointments in every respect, and no more : nonsense about it. Tae Exrnavacance or Tae Day.—WaxatT aRE we Comine To?—Scarcely 3 day passes without some stirring event calculated to fill the public mind with astonishment. We perceive its disas- ters in almost every face. Immense failures, im- mene frands, great legal conflicts about wills, trusts and corporate liabilities are the topica of the daily press As one catastrophe becomes fa- miliar, we wait expectantly for another, We have recorded the financial operations of a Wall street operator, the dispersion of his household effects under the hammer of the auctioneer, His horees and his cardages have followed. and no- thing remains but the Bitterness of reflection at the congequences of enormous misconduct. Who stops, however, for the moral of such example? Houees are still erected at fabulous prices, twen- ty thousand dollars are paid to decorate a single vuite of parlors; there are operators in stocks in Wall street who are known to have jointly lost at least three millions of dollars in their specula- tions in the course of a year—a sum greater than the whole of them and their backers are worth. What of that? They go on just as usual; there is no outward sign of any such losses being sus- tained. Where does the money come from? The subject is higbly suggestive, and leads to a train of reflection upon the characteristic features of the day. The moralist sees in the extravagance, the dicsipation, and the greed of wealth the premoni- tory symptoms of the decline of public virtue. The mere economist looks at the increase of na- tional wealth as the welcome triumph of indus- try, art and education, and he looks no further. These two classes of men make their observations in a corresponding spirit, The one sees ruin near at hand; the other is forever praising “the good time coming.” Meantime the disorders of society continue, and with the more general pros- perity come the particular evils which startle society. If we look across the ocean we find one of the greatest nations of Europe in a crisis of gigantic financial adventure, accompanied by an extraor- dinary degree of personal expenditure and extra- vagance. The French people have renewed the follies which attended the schemes of Law; the rich know no limits to their expenses, while the competition to supply their wants is actually reducing the prices of labor. The facility with which political changes are made among them unsettles the hope of permanency, and the hot desire of making the most of the present is the result of a constant apprehension of the future. The expectation of change renders the public mind unstable, and the pleasures of immediate en- joyment are preferred to the slower and steadier pursuits of life. All observing travellers in France notice the air of recklessness which per- vadesits society. The Paris correspondents of the British and American newspapers agree in their statements of the unusual display of luxury, the universal spirit of emulation and adventure, the decline of marriages and the increase of commercial crimes, How far our own country is following in the foot- steps of France remains to be seen; but it is evi- dent that very great changes have occurred even here within the last generation. Take our own great city. New York isat this moment a city of private palaces. Dwellings are occupied by men of business, equal in value to the whole for- tunes of our earliest merchants. The cost of the interior decorations, as we have already remarked, swells up to an enormous sum—all soon to go out of fashion, or perhaps to be die — by the hammer of the auctioneer. The ofa lady, for a single night of pleasure, is n obtained at a price which would purchase whole sections of land in some of the Western territories, adequate to the support of a dozen families. Rents have become so cnormous that here, asin Paris, the operatives cannot find habi- tations at prices which secure them ordinary comfort. All our public humane institutions are crowded with the poor and the neceseitous, and though many kinds of wages are high, the prices of food and of clothing are comparatively higher, and are increasing. The influx of gold, the enor- mous enlargement of our cities, the rapid growth of towns in the interior, and the enor- mous speculations going on in every direction, keep society in a continued ferment. The desire for rapid accumulation besets tho public, and every now and then some unexpected and dreadful explosion takes place, involving character, credit and fortune, and proving the truth of the saying that he who hastes to be rich can scarcely be innocent. The very existence of our Union is becoming affected by this state of'things, Intrigues for official ho- nors, vast outlays of money to purchase votes, appeals to private interests, a tMret for pubi'c employment, a share of the public plunder, (which it is now fashionable to style the balance of power) are the paths which too many are treading, in the hope of obtaining sudden wealth and lives of indolence. The miserable consideration of the cash price of negroes has actually entered into the calculations of hitherto patriotic and disinterested States, and violence, bloodshed and illegal legislation have been used as & means to extend their imtroduc- tion into Territories now free. Amidst these sordid contests, real merit and self-denying integrity find themselves driven rudely to the wall. They receive lithe favor from the predominating influences of the day That public sentiment should be seriously affected by the general extravagance of manners and tastes, is the fear of all reflecting minds. I¢ is by no means, then, an idle or improper question we have already asked—What are we coming to? A Warsine rrow Fittworr, asp A Bun —Con- sidering the resulte of the late Presidential elec- tion in the Southern States, the home organ of Mr. Fillmore, the Buffalo Commercial Advortiser, begins to show its teeth. Hear him:— ‘if Kaneas is to be made a slave State by excontive in terferenee, if Wether t $0 beanies m ores to make Ni ear for the 'on of Caba_ gramme is to be followed ay, ass, ia more cer ain than the complete oor: ‘or solidatior of American. RE, wns oat waters, WO repest oar warn Ing, that the party will not egain be saved from perdition by & divided opporition. Very good. Pity that the delusive idea of carrying the election to the House prevented “a complete consolidation of the American and re- publican parties” in the late election. Mr. Fill- more now perceives, but too late, that the South have been jaggling with him, and that be has been used for no other purpose than to clear away the obstructions in the path of the Northern de- mocracy. On the other hand, we aro informed that ata meeting of the Fillmore managers of Philadel- phia the other day, they resolved to recommend the Maryland Fillmore electors to cast the Presi- Tf this he £0, it may be regarded as the sacrifice of the Jaat drop in the bucket for a sopin the spoils, gee Po ReeenT <A ERE SPEEDS? <> Sane =84 Bat we fear, the $$ eee] ta Errnavicanen OF yum Dave Waar in| But wo fear, the opolle Wolng socered, that “io side door” of the democratic tabernacle is henge- forth closed to the swindled Know Nothings Tue New Yore Senator.—Two of the five sae Pomel editors of this city, to wit: Merers. Greeley and Raymond, have resigned their claims to the United States Senate; bat the other: three remain: Messrs. Webb, Bryant and Bennett. They are still inthe field. Let that be under stood. THE LAT RES NEWS) 8Y MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPES, Imposing Ballroad Demonstration adie treal. THE ORAND TRUNK RAILROAD OPENED FROM PORT LAND TO STRATFORD, IN CANADA WEST, & DIs+ ‘TANCE OF EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVB MILES, Mowragat, Nov. 12, 1866, Great doings are going on here in the way of railroad celebration, The Grand Trunk was formally opened, or rather was specially opened, to-day. About five thou- and Americans, reaching from Boston to nearly the Jompig off place tn the West, wore invited, and fully as many Canadians from all Cacada. Six or seven thou- sand came, and the proceedings commenced with o splendid procession, exhibiting the manufactures, trade and industry of Montreal. The procession astonished everybody, and ®as something like the one held at Bos- top ip 1861, It was not quite s0 extensive, but, consi- dering the difference in population, quite as good. The Canadians are the great boys of England, and are coming up to their big cousio Jonathan. But the banquet was the great ides of all. ‘The princt- pal speakers were the Governor General of Canada, who spoke the usual generalities about the importance of rall- be known to be appreciated, ing the health of the Prosident of the United States, tho band—e British regimental one—playing ‘Yankee Doo- dle.” Ex-Governor Kent, of Maine; Senator Wilson, of Mas- eachusetts; Gen. Eyre; the Hon. John Ross, President of the Grand Trunk Railway, and Col. Teche, Pre- sident of the Executive government of Canada, delivered speeches. Senator Wileon spoke well, dwelt upon the friendly relaiions between United States and Canada, and said be spoke the sentiments of the American people when he asserted creased. Col, Tache said nothing of interest to any one Deyond these interested in the government. ‘The speeches were all very indifferent; but the speak- ers bad about the same chance of being heard ms 8- penny whistle ine brass band, and it is no wonder they did not speak remarkabiy well. ‘There is a torchlight procession just now going on nal telegraph, and it is agreat affair, The Canadians go it strongly in these things, and the Yankees, who have not~ seen them, trot themselves ovt by runniog. There is to be # ball to-morrow night, and it isto be done on a Sgantic scale, and J shall be on hand, and tell you al) about tbe members, ‘un, dresies, flirtations, speeches 10 auciemoce of one, and speeches to audiences generally. Re-Nomination of Fremont and Dayton for. 1860, Traxtos, N. J., Nov. 12, 1856. The republicans met last night at the City Hall. ©. 0 Raven, Feq., wasthe chairman. Strong resolutions were - passed, nominating Fremont and Dayton for 1800, Speeches were made by Messrs. Swaysee, J. D. Hall, Alexander M. Johasion and others. The meeting wae very largo and enthusiastic. eile et Remrceenient The American Party in Massachusetts. Boston, Nov. 12, 1866, Tho Filimore American Counc!! of Massachusetts met im this city yesterday afternoon. About fifty delegates ‘were in attendance. A series of ‘resolutions were dis- euseed, and finally adopted, acknowledging the supre- Racy of the National American organization, and declar- ‘ng in favor of the purification of the ballot box and the prevention of apy interference of church hierarobies ia Politics; the protection of American men, of American rights and American interests; an open Bible and free schools; s registry law in every State; a modidcation of be raturaisation laws, and in tno, for the general rinciple that ‘(Americans should rulo America.” From Washington. Wasmieton, Noy. 12, 1856, We understand that Israel D. Andrews, United States - Consui General in Canada, bas been removed. ‘The Loss of the Propeller J. W, Brooks, dc, Oswaco, N. ¥., Nov. 12, 1866, The propeller Bay State, from Ogdenaburgh, reporta Passing « large quantity of wreck belonging to the pro- peller J. W. Broeks, at the lower end of the lake, It is not yet knows how many passengers she had on board. Wo have obtained the following [ist of her ofloers:—Captain Charles Hammond, of Cleveland, Ohio; 8. P, Bryant, Clerk, do,; William Blanchard, First Engineor, of Avon, Obio. It is supposed that thirty have been lost in all. + ‘Tko propeller City of Hamilton, with a cargo of tour, from Hamilton to Ogdensburgh, eprung a leak in the late gale, and was run on the Canada shoro, where she sunk. ‘The amount of wheat afloat, from Lake Michigan for Oswego, is 200,000 buahels. News from Lake Superior. SUPPOSED L088 OF THR STZAMEB SUPERIOR WITH ALL ON BOARD, ETC. Burvato, Nov. 12, 1866, The propeller Memhatian arrived at Cievelaad yestor- day, with advices to the 30th ult. from Superior City, ‘The captain says ho bas never known such » continued - tertes of terrible galce as be has encountered in this trip, ‘The steamer Superior, bound up from Chicago, with a full load of freight and passengers, left the canal on the ‘Qbth, since which time abe has not been seen or beard of. Tt & supposed sbe bas gone down with all on board. ‘The schooner E. C. Roberts, which left Portage eatry on the 90th ult, and the steamer Lady Elgin, which leN St, Mary's River for Chicago on the 3d inst., have not been: heard of, and {t is feared they are also lost. There was thirteea inches of snow at Ontonagon on the ‘BOW alt. Rejection of a Kansas Ald Billin the Ver mont Legislature. Boston, Nov, 12, 1856. ‘The Vormout Legislature have rejected the bill provid- ig for giving 620,000 of the State funds for the ald of Kansas, by 42 majority. Launch of thc Misaiunary Brig Morning Star. Bowrow, Noy, 12, 1866. A brig of 156 tone, called the Morning Star, was laanch- @d this neon from Chelsea. It was bailt by subscriptions from Sabbath scholars, and will be dedicated to miesion- ary taansportation. ‘The North Branch Canal. Towanpa, Nov, 19, 1856, ‘The North Branch Gana! to the State line is now open for basizess, Nine boats from Wyoming with som! bita- fm lpous coal passed through Fimira to day. Destructive Fire in Gorham, Me. Bowron, Nov. 12, 1966, ‘The Caroo Manufacturing Company's mill jo Gorham, Me., was burntom Monday, Lor) Fire at Carrolton, La. Rarrimone, Nov. 12, 1966 New Orleans papers of Thurday last are to hand, A fire orcured at Carrolton, opposite New Orleans, 00 the bight of the 4th inst., destroying property to the salue of $30,000. Marwets. PEILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Provauaurma, Nov. 12, 1866, Stocks steady, Pennsy!vania fives ; Readi road 56%; Long os 5am Aah ina Oanal 14945 Penneyivania * creme, Nov. 12—7 P. M. sales 1,000 barrels at $6 0714 for extra Canadian, and $5 85 for straight State, oie Wheat 1 peed demand and firm; sales 66,000 bushels at $1 47 n $1 60 for ordinary to prime white Canadian, and 9) 50 for Carada club, Corn—Sales of 6,000 Daetiees as Rarley—Helos of 3,660 bushels Canadian at $t 16. © frm; salon of 1,600 bushels. Canal freights to New ork wneetiied, and le. a 26 lowor on grain, Importe— 1,407 barrels flour, and 41,000 bushels wheat, Canal ex. pee. 110 barrels four, 92.700 bushole hele corn, and 8,900 bushels rye, Flour in ahi Fionr market stead: 49,000 Dasnele a “a wee on Ta for