The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1856, Page 4

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It is said by our cor” seapondent that the Pre-~ident elect was not as com- Menicative upon the important subject of the con- wruction of bis Cabinet as the leader of the se eession wing of the democracy considered desirable Governor Wise’s temper is considerably raffled. He is described as having come back “with a ffes in bis ear”’—a figure of speech strongly sug- gestive. The revelations respecting the past proceedings ef certain Nicaregvan celebrities are be@oming quite exciting. Today we publish a reply by Major Heiss te the letters of General Geiconria that appeare? in yesterday's Henaty; also 2 sharp letter from Mc. Eamund Randolph to the General, together with a @riticism apon the military movements of General Walker at the battles of Massaya and Gracada. ‘Phese communications will doubtless command the attention of ovr readers, as the subjects discussed are of an attractive character, not only to those im- mediately concerned, but to all who are interested im the progress of affairs in Central America. We have agrin to dispose of the ridiculous ramor eirculated to the prejudice of the Collins steamship Adriatic. The account in another column of the ‘visit of one of cur reporters to the Novelty Works yesterday, setties the question. The Board of County Canvassers decided, at their meeting yesterday, to receive the returns from the Second and Third districts of the First ward— ‘the localities where the riots took place on election d@sy. It is probable that they wil! complete the can- vassing of the remaining wards to-day. Both beards of the Common Council were in ses- sion last evening. No business af gereral impor- tance was transacted in either Board. The Coun- @ilmen adopted a resolution appropriating one ‘housand dollars for the celebration of Evacaation Day. In the Aldermen 4 similar proposition was Taid on the table. ‘The matter of extending the cityon the past river side, between Corlears’ Hoyy and Phirty- eighth stree:, was Qigetaged yesterday, before the - Mommittes of Wharves, Piers and slips of the Board of Aldermen. A fall report is given in another column. Samuel Swartount, the well known politician and Collector of this port during the administration of Gen. Jackson, died in this city yesterday, at the age of seventy-three. Elsewhere we give a brief sketch ef bis public career. Justice Bogart, formerly a prominent ward politician of this city, also died yesterday. Mr. Richard Bostesd, Corporation Counsel, who was i the courts on Wednesday last, hough then suffering acutely from a sore roast, is now confined to his house under ‘an attack of scarlet fever. The symptoms, how- ‘ever, are somewhat favorable. We understand that ‘Mr. Busteed’s children are now recovering from an attack of scarletina. ‘The argument in the case of an application for an imjunction against the proposed bridge across the Hodson river at Albany, was resumed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Ne!- son. Abstracts of the depositions and affidavits sabmitted by the defendants are published in today’s paper. Our family market report of to-day is interesting. Poultry, which sold in the earlier part of the week for lic. to 18e. per pound, bas fallen to i2c. a 1e., with clow sales, and is therefore cheaper than meat. Game is rather high, bat wild dock—-anyvass back and red head—is reasonably cheap. Potatoes are high, and apples will be scarcer and dearer this ‘winter than they have been before for years. This is owing to the failure of the winter apple crop in the western part of this State—the great apple orchard of this city. ‘The eales of cotton yesterday reached about 1509 Dales. The market closed with a firmer feeling. ‘The foreign news by the Niagara was not so bad as some persons had been led to expect. Vlour was heavy, and the common and mediam grades of State and Western fel! of about 5+. por bbl, with a fair fam unt of sales, including some lots 01 spevuiation, while the export demand was limited. Wheat was firmer and quite active, with a good export de. mand. White Southern, Western and Canadian sold at $1 620 $1.65081 70, and winter red Western at #1 504 $155, spring do. $1 35, and Milwankie at $1.35. Corn was firmer, with limited sales of West- een mixed at 72c. a 7c: Southern yellow and white at 7c. 2 Tic. Pork was heavy and lower with sales at $17 62) a $17 75 for mess. Sagara were quiet, with sales o! about 300 hhds, at prices given in another column. Coffer was also quiet, with emall rales of Rio at l0je.a lle. Freights to British porta were quite steady, with a tair amonnt ‘of engagements. To the Continent they were un changed. Goop News—That Wise, Slidell, and Dong. Jas, on @ filiustering mission, have been to Wheatland, and that they left ina harrry, cach w.th a fiea in his ear. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1856. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration—Fils Probe- | from other sources of information entitled ble Pelicy, Foreign and Domes'ic. Our independent newspapers are begining to speculate pretty freely upon the prospec » of Mr. Buchanan's administration, his probab!. policy, foreign and domestic, the composition of his Cabinet and his distribu'ion of the spvile, Our democratic orgaus, North and South, deprecate these speculations as intrusive and impertinent; but the various factions and cliques of che party are none the less interested or active on that account, in reference to the controlling prisci- ples and influences of the incoming administra tion. The ultra Southern disunion clique, here and there, are throwing out their reminders of “pledges” and “obligations,” and their hints of rule or ruin, while the opposition anti-slavery ultras of the North are preaching the border ruffianism of poor Pierce, and the filibusterism of the Ostend manifesto and the Cincinnati plat- form as the inevitable charts and compass of M:. Pierce’s democratic successor. The North- er: conservative wing of the democracy, on the other hand, in view o! the heavy and cuggestive popular Northern voie for Fremont, are inclined to the opinion that Mr. Buchanan, in order to restore his party to a respectable footing in the Northern States, will studiously avoid thosa slavery extending schemes of the Southern d& upion nigger drivers upon whieh poor Pierce has so ignominiously foundered. In these various conjevtares and speculations there are certain things which are pretty clear, and others which are not ao very transparent. For our part, we fecl assured that it is the pro sent intention of Mr. Buchanan to give tue couu- try a conservative and conciliatery administra tion in his domestic and foreign policy, and not a career of lawless border ruffanism at home and reckless filibustering abroad, for the pur- pose of extending the area of Southern slavery and the political power of the South in Congress, We have no doubt of the lawful and honorable inclinations of Mr. Buchanan; for we fully be- lieve that he will endeavor from the outset to take that course bet calculated to allay our domestic sectional excitements upon slavery, and best adapted, in our foreign relations, to secure the respect and confidence of foreign Powers, American and European. The especial subject which trenches most pro- minently upon the misgivings of all parties and factiona, is the Kausas broglio, and the impor- tant question whether the destiny of Kansas under Mr. Buchanan’s administration will be hor admission into the Union as a iree State or slave State. Our Southern ultras of the disanion and Southern Confederacy scheme of Jefferson Davis— Mr. Pierce's Secretary of War—of Atchison, Go- vernor Wise, Senators Mason, Slidell and others, whose policy is rule or raia, expect confident. ly the issue in Kansas to result in favor of slavery. in the fulfilment of the coercive mea- sures against the iree State settlers, thns far par- sued by Mr. Pierce and his raffian officials and mercenaries. In this view, the first duty of Mr. Buchanan will be the repudiation of this Southern disunion faction, which, in rising to the control of the de- mocratic party under Pierce, has within three short years bronght it to the verge of destruction. In dismissing this disunion and demoralizing fac- tion, Mr. Buchanan will but imitate the example of Gen. Jackson in 1829 against Mr, Calhoun and his mischief-scheming nullification clique of that day. This step taken, the next will b2 a practical euspension of the rutfian policy of Pierce in Kansas, in an bonest enforcement of the or- ganic law of the Territory. Under this law the Territory is open to settlers of all sections, all nations and all opinions—slavery or anti-slavery; and it is ordained that when these settlers shall proceed to organize a State constitution, it shall rest with them to determine upon the establish- ment of slavery in or its exclusion from the com- monwealth. The policy of Mr. Buchanan, therefore, upon this subject, is so plain and simple that he can hardly fail to adopt it, We feel perfectly satis- fied, from the number of free State settlers iu Kansas, in spite of all Mr. Pierce's coercive ef- forts to expel or exterminate them; from the superior facilities whigh the “anengyn- dered free Staie emigrant possesses over the ewSgrant embarrased with his slaves; from the geographical situation, climate and productions of the Territory, and from the extensive orgavization of the Northern Kansas aid societies, that it will only require an honest enforcement of the Kansas organic law against all impertinent border roffians and outside inter- ferences, to secure the destiny of Kansas in be- half of free labor, and in the decisive exclusion of the Southern institution of slavery. The South, having accepted this iseue upon these terms, cannot object to its legitimate solution should it go against them. Undoubtedly the di+ union clique of Davis, Wise, Atchison and Com- pany would raise a violent howling over the re- sult; but in being dismissed from their late des- potic position in the democratic party, their howling would be as impotent as that of a snarl- ing cur with his teeth extracted. On the other hand, this solution of the Kansas question wonid put on end to the present powerfal Northern re- publiean party, and do mach to re-establisi the Northern democracy upon their ancient footing of strength and respectability. In reference to Cuba, we stand entirely pre | pared for such an interpretation of the Ostend manifesto by Mr. Buchanan, as will speedily quict the fears of Spain and her allice, and the uneasiness of our commercial conservatives. Undoubtedly Mr. Buchanan, like every other President, from John Quincey Adams down, will consider the ac- quisition of the island of Cuba as a most desirable thing. Ife regards that istand, as we regard it, as the key of the Gail of of our Gulf const. hurry te ~outhern commerce and our Southern ze this desirable possession by a fili- busterivg foray, nor by any of those dexterons expedients of unprincipled propagandists of liberty or slavery that would imperil the peace or the honor of ¢ muntry. And 0 in reference to Mexico and Central America. Towards the former we have every reason to expect that Mr. Buchanan will seek rather to restore the confi- dence which we have lost than to widen the breach hy licenses to fill usters or insidious diplo- mais of the fililmstering sort. In regard to Cen- ica, we have the same confidence in the tral America honorable and pacific inclinations of the Presi- | dent elect. We think be will find some other medium for the interpretation of the Monroe than Walker or Pierre Soulé, doetrine | Walker's ultra southern confidential prime mi- nister. : Such are our views of the probable domestic and foreign policy of Mr. Buchanan upon the prominent issues of the day. Nor do we speak altogether at random. Our impressions are de- rived from our knowledge of the man, and General Walker and Hie Objects. to respect. Im advance, however, of any For several weeks past, and while General official definition of his policy, he will be | Walker was obtaining marvellous victories over called upon to designate his Cabinet, and | the Central American troops that were allied this task be will delay until’ the Electoral | against him, and thereby establishing his sway Colleges ahall have officially declared bis elec- | in Nicaragua on an apparently solid basis, the tion, and settled it beyond the possibility of a | Bewspapers in these Northern States have been doubt from Southern disunion imtrigues to | Publishing statements made by general and dragoon him into submission, But with the offi- | other officers, who had been in his service. cia) determination of his election, Mr. Buchanan | These statemente were for the most part adverse will deliberately proceed to the responsible du- | to him and intended to prejudice bis interest ties of his great office, in the appointment ofa | Ithas been represented that in his course in Ni- Cabinet which, in itself, will be the interpreta- | caragua he has been animated principally by a tion of his whole policy and the key to his suc- | desireto propitiate the sympathies and secure the cess or his humiliation and the final destruction | Support o? the Southern portion of this confede- of bis party. His Cabinet must be @ unit, anda | racy, and that it was in that view he annulled conservative unit; and the instant he shall dis- | the decree prohibiting the existence of slavery in cover an intriguing border raftian or filibuster | Nicaragna: Those representations are not borne smovg them, or that cliques and coteries are at | out by facta. We have reliable information that work with them in the kitchen, it will be his daty | General Walker bas not been operating with the to follow the example of Jackson, and try a new | yiews thus attributed to him, but that he has had eet of men. From Van Baren down to Pierce, | before his mind a totally different and more com- the lessons of folly in the submission of the Presi- | prehensive course of policy. We publish this dent to an intriguing ministry are too fresh in | morning several communications which may the memory of Mr. Buchanan to suppose that he will pot profit by them, serve to throw light upon this matter. The scheme on which Walker has kept his eye With these impressions touching the incoming | steadily fixed from ‘the first day on which he en- edministration, we are prepared to give it a fair tered Nicaragua has been to re-organize that and and liberal trial. The immediate breakers | the other little republics of Central America, and which threaten it are these Southern disunion- to form of them and Mexico a federal Southern iste and their wid piratical policy of rule or | republic, which would act as a counterpoise ruin; but, aecording to the. latest news from | to the influence of the United States. It Wheatland, this diserganizing faction has already | was a grand and highly politic scheme. He ived @ caution, which is auspicious of still er things to come. be GexesaL Commrrren, Tawmaxy Har.—Not- withstanding the union and harmony which ap- pear to prevail on the surface of the democratic party in thie city, there is a ground swell at calculated thereby, and very reasonably, too, to conciliate France and England and to enlist their governments in hie support. That he has not been unsuccessful in this plan is evidenced by the good relations and kindly feelings that have existed between him and the officers of the Eng- lish man-of-war lying in San Juan, to whom he work which will break all the tackle, Already | had perhaps communicated his views. active preparations are set on foot by the demo- cratic cliques of this city to obtain the ascen- It was in furtherance of that distinct line of policy that he commissioned General Goicouria as dency in the next General Committee of Tamma- | Minister to England. This gentlewan, however, ny Hall. This Committee is the acknowledged | who has gained much distinction as an energetic organ of the democracy of the city of New York, and the expression of its opinions has weight and influential member of the Cuban Junta in this city, does not seem to have completely ui- with the administration at Washington. In view | gerstood or appreciated Walker’s ideas. He had of the spoils to be distributed by the next Preei- gone to Nicaragua and attached himself to the dent, the office seekers are on the alert to secure | fortunes of the revolution there with the princi- a good hand in the game, and plenty of trumps. | pal object in view of making that movement The Libby clique, with the New York Hotel or- ganization, the McKeons, the Saunders, the Dil- auxiliary and subservient to his own plan of over- throwing Spanish domination in the island of lons, the Sickles, the Walkers, &c., &e., backed | Cuba. Mr. Oaksmith and others, who had also up by Forney, are determined to rise triumphant | joined Walker's standard, had done so with the from their overthrow by Mayor Wood, while his friends, including five of the newly elected mem- same object in view. But the course of policy which Walker had chalked out for himself had bers of Congress, do not mean to be caught nap- | no reference whatever to Cuba. It was alto- ping, and are inspired with confidence gained by | gether outside of his programme. That was a their late victories. All the usual side door and | gistinct matter, into which he had neither the in- back door infiuences are actively at work. Fears and expectations operate largely on the rank and file, encouraged by their leaders amd stimu- lated by liberal promises. In all probehibity the usual consequences will happen. ‘Bhose succeed in this local strife will become the trae exponents of democracy and be entitRd to the plunder; those who fail will be stigmathted as clination nor the leisure to obtrude himself. He left it to the Cuban filibusteros to settle ‘or themselves; and for his part he had an eye single to the organization of a great Southern republic. Accordingly, when Messra, Goicouria and Oak- smith and others manifested their real objects and sentimente, he found out that he could not rely upon them, and therefore superseded them in disorgenizers, and shoved to the wall. Mutaal | their respective functions as Ministers to England recriminations will follow, separate organizatious | ond the United States. Hence seme of the cou- arise, old sores will be opened, and discord and | munications that have been published reflecting ico, and as the natural lock and key | But Mr. Buchanan will be in no | confusion prevail. A pleasant time in prospect for the harmonious democracy. In the meantime the Custom House incum- bents, not knowing which will prove the strongest party, are in trepidation as to the steps they ought to take, and are in terror lest they should get upon the wrong side, Recruits from the de- funct Fillmore party will be in the field, to go in anywhere where they will be received ; bat all they will get for it they may put in their eye. The struggle between these rival cliques will be highly amusing—erecde: amlo. The probable re- sult is, that Mayor Wood, John Cochrane, John Kelly & Co., will carry the next General Commit- tee all hollow, against Messrs. Walker, Sickles & Co.—and hence the spoils will follow the popu! vr vote. Arricks on THe Irisit.—Just before the elec- on Walker's honesty and ability. Mr. Sould, however, seems to have fully appre- ciated and chimed in with General Walker's idea. He saw that to this scheme alone could the sym- pathies and support of the English and French governments be secured. He is now in the United States engaged in forwarding Walker’s views, and in raising supplies of men and money to enable him to hold his ground and establish his government On a firm and permanent basis, Un- der the incoming administration he will probably find no obstacle to carrying forward a grand plan of military colonization in Nicaragua. There is notbing in our neutrality laws to prevent this. The expeditions which may be sent out from here cannot legally be interfered with. They will not have been got up for the purpose of making war upon a nation with which we are at peace, but tions, it is yuite the fashion of « certain class of | simply as volunteer emigrant companies. In newspapers to puff the IJrich, and to insiouate | themselves into their good graces, so that if pos- | sible they can coax them out of iheit voices. Be- fore an clection the Celt is an Irish gentleman—a noble specimen of the polish of the * gem of the sea’’—the countryman of Emmet and Curran, and the dread of England. But he bas his ballot in his band,and has not voted yet. Ie looks round, pleased with the unexpected compliment paid bim, jerks up his breeches, cocks hi« hat, marches up to the polls, and votes precisely contrary to the expectation of his flatterers. In this he exer- cises an undoubted right to do just as he pleases. This elective franchise is personally valuable to him, because “his mind to him lis empire is.”’ He feels conscions that he plays an important and a novel part in a great political struggle ; he | sees himself courted on all sides, and he pope ia_ his vote under influences peculiar to himself, |\is associations, and with simple generalities con- trolling his decision. After the election, however, when bis high pre- rogative is exhausted, the Irish voter finds he is this light, and with the inducements which Walker can hold out, there can be no limit set to the number of men who can be placed at his disposal. But say that he can with- in six or twelve montbs hence caleulate on an army of ten thousand men, what obstacle could be then interposed to the realization of his pro- ject of a great Southern republic? The feeble governments of Mexico and of the Central American republics could offer but little resis tance to his progress. France and England, see- ing in it the best means of counterbalancing the influence of the United States and re-organizing Central American society, would rather aid and abet him than otherwise, and as for our govern- ment it could have no excuse for interfering with the movement. Looking at it, then, in this point of view, Walker's vision of empire seems any- thing but chimerical. It is quite realizable, and the chances in its favor are evidently greater than those ogainst it. As to Walker's edict, annulling, among other old Jaws, the decree abolishing slavery, it was an ignorant, bigoted, stapid foreigner !—that he | not issued in the interest of the Southern States wishes to rule America, upset the government, | of this republic as has been represented. It was bring over the Pope, and raise a particular muss | on every possible occasion! It is he who causes all the riots, does all the ing, all the tight- ing. ali the cheating in the primary meetings, fills all the prisons and almshouses, causes all the | heavy taxation-—and, in short, that he is anything | and everything but what he was a short time previons to the election! The newspapers now | etre him an /vish joist. He ascends down- | wardly in their estimation faster than he de- | seconded upwardly, and he can scarce believe that | he is the same Celtic goutiaman, the same pat- | riot, the same excellent fellow he was only a | short time previous. ; It is really amusing to see how the Irish voters | are treated by these partizan newspapers, Heaven | end carth are moved to bring them over to their | side; not brought over, they areconsigned, with- out further hesitation, to purgatory and pewli- ‘ tion, Such kinds of politicians show remarka- | ble tect great knowledge of the Irish charac- | ter! And yet they continue the game year afier yrar with equal asurance, and—equal «access, { ' Trae Pactete Rattroan Lerren of Mr. Bu- ' chanan goes begging in the South, Our Virginia hair eplitting, strict construction, democratic or- | We suepect that the views upon this question of the Richmond Anynrer are deferred until afber the inauguration, be cautions when the spoils are at stake. Ixernetion.—Ao accomplished artist in Albany has sent asa first rate daguerreotype of Marey. Tt will be found in another column of this morn- | ! | | A Dacvernsorver or Mincy vor Boowaxan’s ines paper. rather iseucd in the interest of the socia) pro- gress and developement of Nicaragua. Previous to the revolutions in which these Central Ameri- can republics threw off their dependence on Spain, slavery existed there in virtue of the common law. Its existence depended not on constitutional pro- visions nor on written law, but simply-on common usage and the natural law. Bat when the revo- lution was successful, its leaders, acting under the influence and exaggerated ideas of the oid French Revolution, and assuming in its broadest sense the principle evolved in our own Declara- gans have never a word to say upon the subject. | A fire-eater or « filipuster can | | tion of Independence that all meu are created | eqnal, parsed decrees abolishing slavery in those | States. Those decrees have not worked well, '£ we are to judge from the decline in products and | from the present low condition of social and com- mercial progress in the country. Numbers of the most productive estates in the republic have been allowed to fall into utter neglect, and many of | them which have been confiscated are now to be sold for the use of the government. All that Walker did was to annul thoee decrees and leave | the matter of slavery where it was before the revolution. Probably its effect will be nothing more than the establishment of a system of In- dian peonage, such as prevails in the South American republics. Since the design of Walker is to enlist the sympathies and support of France | and England, it is quite evident that he would not resort to a measure #0 calculated as that was | to render those governments hostile to him, if iw | object were to open a new market and field for slave labor. But, as we have eaid before, Walker hae no such intention. His object is first to promote the social and commercial prosperity of + and eventually to organize by the ald of Anglo. Saxon, European, and American elements, the effete and wretched republics of Central America and Mexico on @ basis that will ensure their mo- ral, physical and political advancement in the rank of prosperous nationa That is an object worthy the best efforts of the best men, No mat- ter how Walker may have felt necessitated to act in carrying out this career for himself, he will, if he persevere to the end, and succeed in his enter- ‘prise, entitle himself to be ranked among the great benefactors of the race. In the meantime, Jet us not repose too much faith in the represen- tations of those whom he has necessarily made his enemies. Like other men, he is subject to er- rors ot judgment, and may have committed many faults in the management of affairs. But we be- lieve he has not once deviated from the line which he has marked out for himself, namely, the construction of a great Southern republic, destined to be the rival in trade and commerce of these United States, His actions may be liable to misinterpretation, but they all ne@§rtheless tend to the accomplishment of this one grand project. Awerican Ixpivence Amone THE CELEsttALs— Joun CarvaMsn’s Opinion or Uncte Sav.—The letter of our Canton correspondent, published iu another column, discloses a state of facts which is far from gratifying to oar national self-love. Whilst the English are respected and feared for the sharp lesson which they administered to the Chinese in 1840, the Americans, with no such prestige in their favor, and with but few ostensible evidences of naval strength, are treated with about the same degree of consideration as the Dutch or Portuguese. The unfrequent appear- ance of our men-of-war in their ports leads them, in fact, to question whether we have got any fleet which is at all worthy of the name; aad the impression is even said to prevail among them, that for such vessels as we possess their own jurks would prove a match. This humiliat- ing opinion of our resources is further sirength- ened by the poverty of our arrangements in re- gard to our diplomatic representatives. With » people who are only to be impressed by physical force and outward show it is obvious that the rare visits of an American man-of-war, and the appointment of ministers without a sufti- cient personnel to sustain either the dignity or usefulness of their position, are in themselves sufficient to justify their low estimate of us. The English make their power practically felt, and consequently enjoy the full advantages of their treaty. To do this they are compelled to main- tain a consular jurisdiction, with an efficient stat of official interpreters, and a man-of-war at each of the Chinese ports. We seem to think that the influence of our name alone is sufficient to guaran- tee protection to our interests, The natural re- sult is that we find our consular jurisdiction ineffective, because it is not supported either by the proper lingual facilities for business or by the material force necessary to command respect. Under such circumstances we must not complain that the Chinese should regard us as only a third or fourth rate Power, and look upon our diplo- matic agents merely as policemen sent out to keep the peace amongst the American residente. We have at various times endeavored to im- press upon our government the necessity o! paying greater attention to the protec- jon of American interests in China. We were led to do this from a con- viction of the growing importance of those interests, and from the belief that at no very distant period they would rival those of any other country. The rapid increase of American trade with the Chinese ports, but more especia}- ly with Shanghai, during the last few ycars, has in a great measure fulfilled our anticipations. It is to be lamented that with the bright pros- pects thus held out to us, so few efforts should have been made to encourage and foster them. What will be thought of the unpardonable indif- ference which leaves the despatches of our diplo- matic agents in China to slumber in the archives of the department at Washington until, as a mat- ter of form, they are disposed of en maswe in a semi-annual reply. This fact has, it appears, leaked out amongst the Chinese officials, and encouraged them to treat with greater insolence and contumely the representatives of a Power which they cannot but regard as indifferent to its own interests. Is it a wonder that under such circumstances the position of the Americans should be worve since the treaty than it was pre- viously ? Let us hope that the example of the past, in this as in other matters, will prove a serviceable lesson for the future. The culpable negligence of the present administration in business so important to the commercial interests of the country will, we trust, not be repeated by their successors. There is no point of foreign poliey, perhaps, in which Mr. Buchanan ean gain for himself so much credit as the endeavor to give to our relations with China all the weight which the resources of the United States can impart to them. The con- solidation of our interests and the enforcement of our rights in that quarter, will prove of more ac- tual benefit to us than the prosecution of designe nearer home, which have only a remote prospect of realization. If, therefore, the incoming adminis tration will take steps to strengthen our naval force in the Chinese seas, and give to our diplo- matic agents there all the moral and physical support they require, they will inseribe a large item on the credit side of their account with the country. Tue Atpayy Arevs ox Mayor Woon-—We see that our cotemporary, the Albany 4 moralising on the victory of Mayor Wood at the Jate election, takes occasion to declare the triumph the greater because it was achieved in the teeth of a number of well organized and very bitter opposing parties, and also “in spite of the support of the New Yorx Mexu.n.” Evidently this journal considers the support of the Hurst a calamity which should be carefully guarded against and deprecated. if the Albany Argus will take the trouble to refer to Mayor Wood, that functionary will, we apprehend, throw some light on the real value of the Hrnaty’s support. He is better able to judge than most persons; and he will, if we mis- take not, bear testimony on the point that will differ caeentially from that of the insolent, impa- dent, contemptible peddling paper at Albany, starving on the crumbs of support allowed it by ite party. Orn Love Waies.—Some of the spoils orguns of the democracy are exceedingly thankful for the services of the old line whigs in the late elec- 'The Newspaper Press in New York. A very marked degree of ignorance on th@ subject of the true nature and influence of a mee tropolitan press is being developed just now id the colomns of certain country cotemporariog* On one side we hear that the five leading jours nals of New York, issuing nearly @ million of sheets per week, have no influence, because af the late Presidential election the candidate whong they supported did not curry the city of Nev York. On another we find in certain starveling party organs groans of distress, and qucrulong appeals to all true democrats “to come to the captain’s office and settle” by subscribing to the paper. These are two prevailing forms of error. It ir, in the first place, wholly untrue that the “quintuple alliance,” +o culled, was without in+ fluence upon the election in thiscity. As it haps pened, the interest awakened here was more that divided between the coatest for Mayor and the contest for President: there were perhaps more Persons who cared about the Mayor than the Pre+ sident. It also bappened that one-half tbe issues of the quintuple alliance were either openly in favor of Wood, or not opposed to him. Hence it came about that the voices secured to him by thig half of the alliance (the other half being so di- vided and lukewarm as 10 be comparatively pow= erlese) not only gave him the victory, but actuals Jy gave a far larger majority than would others wige have been polled t» James Buchanan. But this is only one jurtial view of the cas¢, Metropolitan journalism is not bounded by the precincts of a city. The ieading journals of New York are also the leading journals of the State, of New Jersey, of Pennsylvania, of New Enge land, of the United States. Their influence is not much more felt in New York than in Boston or Philadelphia; they are written for the whole country. To test, then, the question whether or no they bave any influence the whole country must be examined; wod when, as in this case, it is found that nearly the whole country where Fremont hada ticket went for him, and symp- toms show that but for the blunders of the Fre- mont managers the whole North would hava gone for him, you must not conclude that the five journals have no iofluence, but on the con+ trary that their influence is paramount, As to the other matwer—the reckless barbarity of democratic voters in refusing to subscribe to the genuine unadulterated party organ—this ig not 60 very singular as the said organ seems ta think it. There seems to be an impression abroad among political editors that men are politiciang first; fools next, and Jast of all men of business, mechenics, merchants. professional men and what not. The fact is, that the very reverse is the true order. Men are first merchants, me- chanics, professional men, farmers and so forth—- next, some are fools; and of these laticr, a few are politicians, It is in the first capacity that they subscribe to newspapers. Men take thd journal which suite them best in their private capacity ; which contains the most news, the most advertisements, and which meets the most. eyes: and, furthermore, which is{in the habit of telling them the truth about politics. They may retain their own party predilections, but they da not acquire any the greater liking for politi- cians, or any the mare interest in their pettp squabbles for office, Nor will they, to please this or that politician, contribute to the eleemo- synary sustenance of a journal which only servea as the monthpiece of certain politicians, to air their private concerns, Journalism in the United States is rapidly passing the stage of party papers, There ara party papers still in various parts of the country, and very ridiculous affairs some of them seem. But—as the editor of the aforesaid party orga so feelingly lamerts—they are going down; na one will buy them ; their doom is sealed. But the independent press has not yet reached its full developement. It is only in @ transition state; its influence is yet immature. Yet a few years, and the politicians who now deride it shalt see whether it have influence or no. .—The Richmond Enquirer pleads Au i Fey. the plea that its late articles in favor of the revi- val of the African slave trade were all in fun, We shall probably next learn that all the late dis- union plots and harangues of Wise, Toombs, Slidell, Mason, Clingman, and such, were all in fun—that the assault of Brooks upon Sumner was all im fun--that the doings of the border ruffians, under poor Pierce, in Kansas, have all been in fan—and that the whole of the late despotic terrorism of the South, and the threats and plots of the fero- cious disunionists and treasury robbers, are but the various parts of a broad and amusing joke. Perhaps we shall have a change in fun ing month or two. Our season of fun will commence with the inauguration, Our Soathern blood and thunder chaps have had their share. Turarrtcat, MaNacGement ann Mismanace- MuNT—Theatres, operas, concerts, and o forth, are like all other sublunary affairs. They may be managed or mismanaged, profitable or uupro- fitable; they may go on prospering for years, piling up fortunes for their proprietors, or they may furnish the most extraordinary displays of the ignorance and stupidity of their directors. Dur- ing our experience of theatres in this city for twenty or thirty years back, we remember experiments in management—a few successful; many, however, must come in the second cate- gory. There was the Park theatre, which made an immense amount of money under Price, and fell into decay through the obstinacy and fube- cllity of Simpson. Theatres and theatricals are subject to the laws of cause and effect. The only test of their success is the actual result. The late Mr. Hamblin was a successful manager—he made and spent several fortunes; Burton and Niblo have been successful managers, as is proved by their bank accounts, For the Opera we have had many managers of various kinde--some very successful, as we remem- ber; but the worst jiasco of all was that made by poor Fry. Max Maretzek has been generally con- ridered a skilful mavager; but he came very near shipwreck by his grand oratorical effort, showing an insane ambition to be a competitor of George Law in the same field. Through the long suffer- ing, moderation and lackadaisical nothingness of the fashionable patrons of the Opera, Maretzek has managed to get out of his difficulty, and we hope he will have discretion enough to keep out of similar sorapes in future. The only scrape for him is the scrape of the violin, and the speech necessary is when the trombones get out of time. in the theatrical world we have had lately several new aspirants for fame and fortune, Mr. Bourcicault has made one or two attempts at management, with doubtful success, Then there- is the new manager of Wallack’s, who comes very tion ; but as the epoils won't go round, these | fresh in the field. Flis career is not yet se generous old line whigs must wait a little longer. | distinctly marked ne to give basis for ® predic All Union. Ask Mr. Choate, or Mr. Barnard, or Mr. Pearce of Maryland, or Mr. Benjamin of Louisi- ana, or Mr. Fillmore, right. They are satisfied in having saved the | tion, but if he is skilful and prudent he may hope for plenty of success, And there is Lanra Keene, a fine actress, but who made a great mis- take in her speech at the opeulng of bor Leawtic