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

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Lavearooi—Jobn Banter er Excharg? street, Eas! ‘The conieats of the Suropean edition of the 1 a embrace ths news revolves by mall and telegraph et the aitice dariny the previons woe, and to ike hour of publle The steamship Texas arrived ct New Orleans yes terdsy. She brings news from Califorvia to Nov. 20 and from Nicaragua to the 5th inst. The steamer Tennessee left San Juon for New York with $270,000 in treasure. The election for President ia Califorvia bai resulted in favor of the democracy. The vote polled was: Buchanan, 60,000; Fillmore, 35,000; remont, 19,000. The Legislatace is alvo democratic. The tews from Nicaragua is very important. Walker had been sa-ceasfal in a srries of batties, The fighting at Masaya ested fou ys, and ended in the entire defeat of the enemy. Walker had tursed Granada to the groure. The inbabitants removed to Rivas, which in future will be the seat of government. It is estimated that the Costa F ve lost three thourend men since October. Tho Ni ene war sehoones Granada end a large Costs Rican bog of war bed an engagewent, which resulted in the Viewing up cf the latter and the perishing o! all ov beard. ‘The Senate was not ip session yesterday, having adjourned over to Monday. In the House Mr. Brown, from the Post Oflice Committee, reported a bil! authorizing the Postmaster General to make contrac: with Cornelins Vanderbilt to carry the mail between New York and Liverpoo! for the sam of $16,008 for the round trip. In case the steamers ewployed by Mr. Vanderb! unable to mak good time as the Cun rs then one thousand dol, lars to be deducted twelve boars deil- ciency. In our report of the proceedings of Commercial Convention, given nuder th as © every the Soathern egrapbic he «d, it will be seen th resota- tions were offered and disp ut their Object (he encouragement i Son‘hern interes's. Cv siderable detate was had on the pr fex img everything of Northera mauufactare from Ue Somb. The resolutions in favor of the Packic Rail- road were adopted without admendment, as a 90 one recommending favoraly to Congress the teans- portation of the mails between New Ocleans and Cal A lecture was delivered ta ornia by the Tehuantepec ronte. evening by Colonel Bordon, former)y private re ry to Santa Anna, on “Mexico and her People.” He hore witness to the esire of that ilh classes, he de merican Usioa, 4 1 on AngloSaxon jvilization. Our report will be fou 14 of Council nen doy ya voteof 27 to 14, in favor of p @basing several lots onned by Robert W. Low) coming t) 6.000, for the P ii he Kighteent . be fuund im another part c's Henenn. ‘sylor, of the ship Logan, from New arrived at Havre on the 2th ul tates sow on the Lith of November, in lat ale jl je Zi, a screw steamer onder sall. It is very p ve th s vessel may have been the Lyon as no cther ris known to have been bo that jocality The Soperior Court y the matter of the failure o port of which was given at was arrived at, and the matter is «til! under investi gation. An interesting question, involving the liar bility of hotel keepers in cases where moncy is stolen from puests, w lao before the court. It waa al lege! rial that a gentleman who arrived from Liverpool in Jsomury last, and was a quest at the Astor House, bad bis trunk broken open on the night of bis arrival, ond four hundred pounds it. He now brings this ty of the proprietors. Th» sterling *olen ection to test the liat jury were directed to bring in a sealed verdict thi ring. The proceedings will be found else where. The Co ttee on Ordinances met yesterday to consider the propriety of anendi he ordiaance regulating the Boreaa of arrears,and making i* More efficient The matin object Astatare in pose he law creating Avrear wae toce trate in one office al estate arsine from von-payment of opening, regulating, grading or paving streets ao thet +n individual might at once ertain the amoun: of his indebve sto the city. At & yetson may make payments to the d pariments, ond then has ty will not be ‘sold to pa, : : no knowledge Numerous cases } oosaered where persons have hed to pay asse-ements tw In one instance an asserement lien was reported | on certain Iota, amor ig $9 $2,610, which haa | heen previonsly paid, and for which the owner med receipe Tee committee will make a roy Monday evening, 20 as to have the matter disp ove) of by the Board of Aldermen. Target companies have become quite a feature in | balance to our credit ( } NEW YORK HERALD, this city. In answer to an inquiry from the Mayor, who proposed to have a grand parade, the police captains report the total number of companies in the city, so far as they can ascertain, as being 527. A religious libel suit was before the Court of Common Pleas yesterday. The plaintiff is proprie- tor of a paper called the Churchman, and the defen- dant is rector of the Parish of All Saints. The mat- ter merely came before the Court ia a preliminary form, on a motion to strike ou’ part of the answer to the complaint. The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of about 1,000 41,500 bales. The foreign news by the Afmca was not considered unfavorable, and hence holders continued to stand out for full prices. Flour was firmer, with more activity, the market closing, however, withont change of importance in prices. The firmness of holders checked sales of wheat, which were quite moderate, and chiefly at the previous day’s prices. Corn was steady, with sales of distilling lots at 68c., and of sound Westera mixed at 7@c. le. Among the ssles were 5000 bushels new Southern yellow at 70c. Pork w@ rather heavy, with moderate sales at unchanged prices. The sales of sugars were confined to 300 a 400 bhds. Cuba muacovado, and 200 a 300 boxes, at full prices. Coffee was more active. 2,800 bags Buhia were sold for export, and the balance of an old cargo of Rio, with 200 bags Maracaibo, at priccs given in another column. Grain freighta were low- er for Liverpool, while engagements both to that port and to London were to a fair extent. The Financial State of the Country. A great deal hos been said since the appea'S ance of the Treasury Report about the financial prosperity of the country. No doubt there is great prosperity in many places and many branches of trade. The people of the United States are industrious and orderly; they do not wage their money in wars or court pageants; it stands to reason therefore that they should prosper, asa general rule, and in the long run. Bat when it is attempted to boost up all sorts of enterprises on the general premise of national prosperity, it becomes us to inquire a little into the real state of the case. The chief argument on which the assumption of unbounded prosperity rests is that by the showings of the trade tables and Custom House returns, we appear, this year, to be for the first time creditors of instead of debtors to the world. This result is arrived at by a comparison of the exports of the two years—those of the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1856, being in excess of those of the previous fiscal year by about seven- teen miliions of dollars. But evidently this is a partial view of the subject. A man (or @ na- tion) does not grow rich by iacreasing his pro- duction, uuless at the same time he diminishes, or at least prevents avy increase in his consamp- tion. For instance, a man with a revenue of $5,000 and an expenditure of 37,50 is evidently poorer than one whose income is $2.500, but whose expenditure is ke; § under 100. The same rule applies of coarse to nati Let us apply it to the United States apd show how it works:— Divot yom Let saxcany 19 Ler DECEMNER #5: se, United States... $190 a8 £68 $201 01,90) FXVORTs FROM lar Jax. TO Jer 508,147 & Ds Dittereneo ia reault,. In 1586 the exports exceeded the impor Ia 1806 the imports exceeded the exports by Difference im result From this table it appears that instead of beiag in o better position now than we were this time last year, we are in fact fifty-eight millions worse; having, it is true, created more wealth, but having at the same time consnmed an excess quadruple of our excess of production. But we moy carry the argument further. By the above table ita 8 thatin 1855, the 1d became our debtor to very nearly the emount of fifty millions. Out of this we had to pay the interest on our securitiss held abroad, say thirty-five million 4d then, at the close of the year there was apperently fifteen millions to our credit of which of course weut to pay our debts of 1854, and former years. But how does the « nnt stand this year? The lusive of securities) is less than pine millie lars: we have still to psy thirty-five miilioas for interest on bonds, ws of & &e,; vo that, on the ¢ f Jane, 1856, our ace count with the we for the year actually brought usin a debtor of forty-four millions of dollars. People who want to woderetand the real con- dition of the conntry will do figures, Eve world, lesely repeat th who lived in the 1 ye to study these n the financtal a8 well as the political Those nil from are vow ouly wit he repetition a one Then it was banka, pow it the general goverameut was iu i Uy it is in it through the lobby; then e were four or five bandred millionsinvested, a thoufod; but with these slight eras are the same. When Pre- by bis policy towards the stimulated a frantic te banks to eupersede « Biddle k ftno stone unturned to obtain a recharter, both the United States Benk and its rivals pursued the very policy which the i are now pursuing. In the t its neighbor, they began that poKey of expansion lasting four years ended in the 0, be p railroads, in their erate attempt to ecll their stocks and their bonds, represent themmvelves as the great national of the country, and stimulate and foe y Way, the expansion and extravagance ce around ua They create money in « of elocks and bonds without value re- wt asthe old banks created ition the shape of notes; they hire venal presses and puff t the old banise did; they vaunt the proa- | interert ter in wh thi ceived. perity « vuptry in the very language of Nick Biddle : and they will come to the same | ond 9 the banks did. Happy they, who, in the | hour of this crash, shall not stand im the way of the falling ruins! Trerorat. Movewnxts.—We wee that Judge | Copron and the ramp of the teetotal party have | been holding a meeting, and attempting to call vasty deep—but they won't come. Al) attempteto revive the temperance ation must be abortions, No new idea that through the gradations of a regular al contest, and been worsted, can ever be ed into life during the came generation. honid bequeath the teetotal move- ment, with all ite principles and all ite abeurdi- his next heir, Jo about twenty-five years t may pores bly be worth something; bat it iecer- soot tor oothieg during the next ten | spirite from the mn Mr. Capron Taovsaxo Flowers—The elabo- democratic journals for the re- M: esage of poor Pierce. in the Sorry | Polk; and in the compromise act of Ls | ing the Territory of New Mexico, ‘The Slavery Debates tn Congress—Partics Shaping Out their Platforms for 1860—Tne Policy ef Mr. Buchanan. A little examination into the merits of the ran- ning fight upon the nigger question started in both houses of Congress by the tirebrand of poor Pierce's Message, will show that among the several par- ties involved, all this cross-tiring of an apparent ly random discussion is directed to the same common object of the campaiga of 1860. The republican party have been uadergoing a rigid cross-examination by the democrats in rete- rence to the exact ground which they ecenpied in the late campaign, and their programme for the future; and the democratic party have been put to the same ordeal of a definite statement of i precise position upon ‘he question of slavery ia the Territories, The Southern disunion wing of the @emocracy have been overbuuling Mr, Sena- tor Bigler upon a matter of more immediate im- portance, to wit—the peculiar views of Mr. Bu- cbanan upon the Kansas difficuity—and they have been making a free use of poor Pierce's Message, evidently for the parpose of intimidating and dra- gooning the incoming administration into poor Pierce’s Southern disunion policy. Mr. Bigler has shown some discretion, as the sup; ted mouthpiece of Mr, Bachanan, in keeping close ia to the shore, We presume that he has no spe- cial authority from Mr. Buchanan to say any- thing at all, and that everything which he has said touching the probable Kansas policy of the President el:ct, bas been from those generat sources of information of which almost every pu- litician in the country is ny this time possessed. We think we can detect, too, in the runniag fire of these slavery debates, some decided symptoms of a caving in here aod there, among the leaders of the Southern disupion faction, aud some symp- toms among others of that clique of considerable anxiety, disappointment and chazrin. Returning, however, to the main question of the re-or ganization of parties aad platforms for the struggle of 1860, the developements of these dis- cussions on poor Pierce's Message are very ini»- resting. In the late campaign, the principles of the republicans, both by themselves and their enemies, were very differently represented by dit- ferent individuals in different localities. The democrats misrepresented the policy of the great Fremont party to be, not merely the positive ex- clusion of slavery from the Territories, but a ge- neral crusade against slavery in tbe Southera States. in their stump speeches, Senators Wilson and Seward, and other lights of that peculiar sest, justified this accusation in their tirades against the “slave oligarchy,” by representing the slavehold- ers asa “despotic class,” which it had become the duty of the North to put down, and other similar in- vectives against the South, Tze democracy, on the otber hand, adapted their candidate and platform, with the facility of old campaigners, to the fire- enters of Mississippi and the conservatives of Pennsylvania. To tne former, Mr. Buchanan was held up as the anointed candidate of the Kansas border roffians, the living and faithful embodiment of the Ostend manifesto, and a devoted sympa- thizer with Gen. Walker; while to the bonest German farmers of Pennsylvania, Mr. Buchanan was shown up as the champion of “free Kansas,” and as the sworn enemy of all lawless buccaneer- ing or filibustering at home or abroad. Reduced to a cross-examination in Congress, all these local and sectional tricks of this or that party in the campaign fall to the ground. The repudlicons are brought to the exact issue of their real principles; and so with the democrats with regard te the common ground they occupy North and South, asa homogeneous party. Un- der this Congressional cross examination, there- fore, it is not surprising that we see mach of the fictrtions and extraneous matter of the canvass, on both sides, denied, retracted, repudiated or explained away. Thus Mr. Seward and Mr. Wilson, Jate among the most flaming Northern sectional agitators on the stamp, when called to an account in the Senate, appeared as gentle and harmless as sucking doves; thas Mr. Bigler, who figured at perhaps more than one democratic meeting with baoners flying in favor of “free Kansas,’ explains in the Senate that his mean- ing of “free Kansas” is to leave the people of the Territory free to settle the nigger question for themselves. He has not yet answered the qnestion, however, whether he believes that un- derthe benign diapensation of poor Pierce the settlers of Kansas have or have not enjoyed this frecdom, as laid down in their organic law. Then, agein, brought up to the mark in Congress, most of our Southern fire-eaters drop down from their late demands of everything or disunion, and are willing to take what they can get, as “ constita- tions) democrats.” In the course of this general paring down of party excrescences, we find that while the lead- ing principle of the republicans, on the slavery question, is the supreme power of Congress over the Territories, and their policy the exercise of this power in the prohibition of slavery, that the democrats are still at sea, General Cass, upon his doctrine of “ squatter sovereignty,” has made as many long speeches, from time to tim as were made Curing the last five or six years of “y Mr. Clayton upon the famous Clayto: - Balwer treaty, and on both sides with about the same effect. That famous treaty and this squat- ter doctrine have been still more befogged with every interpretation. According, however, to Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, ther difference among the democrats upon symatter sovereignty of « pretty broad margin. Some contend tha: § gives to the people of the Territory, while yet a Territory, the right to admit or exclude slavery; Cthers contend that slavery, asa right of property, goes into the common Territories of the United States with the constitation; that Congress can- not touch ites a constitutional right; that the pcople of the Territory cannot touch it, being subordinate to Congress; but that when the Ter- titory shall aseume the functions of a sovereiga State, then, but pot till then, can slavery be ex- cluded frem the soil of such State, and only by State sovereignty. Who shall decide when such doctors as Gene- ral Case and General Jeff. Davie disagree? Ia the course of our politioal history we find that Congress bas repeatedly exercised all the powers of absolute sovereignty over the Territories, Soeh was the ordinance of 1787, “ forever pro- ir bis life hibiting ” slavery in the Northwest Territory, now forming the fee States of Ohio. Ia- \ diana, Michigan, Illinois and Wiswonsin: | such was the power embraced in the Mireouri compromise, the validity — of which was recognized in the concurrent policy of | tion of Texas; in the nt for Oregon, approved by President 10, toush- To one of the other compromise acts of 1850-—the alm California— the new policy of populat ec was adopted, against all attempts ty divide it by the old arbitrary line of : th torial povernn opinion concerning the sovereign power over the Territories, but we have had a variety of acts of Congress recognizing different powers and degrees of sovereignty—one cotemporaneous act clashing with another of the same series, and | ®, subsequent act repeating the prevailing basis of pre-existing Congressioval legislation for the Territories—through a period of sixty seven years. We find, accordingly, that neither con- etitutional interpretations nor Congressional acts of legislation afford us any solid ground to stand upon in reference to slavery in the Terri- tories. The safest policy is, no doubt, a medium between the Northern extreme of the exclusion of slavery from the Territories by act of Congress and the Southern extreme that, under the consti- tution, Southern slavery already exists as the law of the Territories, which neither Congress nor Territorial Legislatures can repeal. This intermediate policy of safety, as we uader- stand it, is the policy of assuming that slavery is not established in any Territory, except such Terri- tories as may be acquired with the institution in practical existence on the soil—that slavery cao neither be excluded nor established by the local autborities of a ferritory; and that, whatever may be the power of Coogress, it is most expe- dient to leave the question of slavery in the Ter- ritories to be decided by the people thereof in the act of organizing themselves into a sovereign State. In the interval let the question remain an open question, subject to the great organic laws of climate, productions and the physical adaptation of free white labor or black slave labor to the climate, soil and products of this or that Territory. It was Mr. Webster, we believe, who, in the course of the Senate debates on the great com promise measures of 1850, on being asked if he were willing to trust the Territory of New Mexi- co tothe hazards of African slavery, replied, sub- stantially, that the Creator had “ forever pro- hibited” the institution there, in the physical drawbacks of climate and soil, and that in so clear a case it was hardly necessary to re-enact the will of God. So we would say with regard to all the Territories, Southern slavery will not go or stay where it will not pay; and it will not pay in those cold latitudes, the products of which yield too small a profit per acre, and the climate of which cuts off too mach of the year and exacts too much of clothing and fuel to make the labor of the tropical negro re- munerative. We dare say, in conclusion, that the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan will be shaped upon this combined policy of Territorial non-interveation, Congressional nou-intervention, the laws of cli- mate, soil and productions, the .physical laws of the white and black races, and sovereiga State jurisdiction. Upon this policy he will demolish our Southern fire-eaters,break down and disperse the republican party and their offensive policy of the Wilmot proviso, and reorganize the demo- cratic party upon a solid, sabstantial and con- sistent platform. We have no doubt that under this policy Kansas will become a free State ; and this consummation, thus secured, will take the main plank from under the feet of the republi- can party, Let us await the new admicistration. Averican AntrSiavery Wrirers ts Exewisi Jovurnais.—A great deal of noise has been made in some of the papers recently about the birth- place, parentage, residence and pursnits of a Mr. Hurlbut, who was bornin South Carolina of Yankee parents, educated at the North, aod writes anti-slavery articles for the Edinburg Re- view. We bave reason to believe that Mr. Hatl- but is not the only person en this side of the At- antic who writes abolition and other articles for the Briti-h journals. Many articles abusing the United States and their institutions, and filled with invectives against living Americans, are written here and sent to the other side of the wa- ter, where they are offered for sale to the high- est bidder, Mr, Hurlbut is only turning a penny by pursuing the same line of business, Mr. Hurlbut is a literary man, residing in New Yor | and is the editor of Putnam's Magazine. He is associated with a clique of publishers headed by Parke Godwin and others of the same schoo § who believe in anti-slavery principles, aud no- thing else. They bave an anti-slavery God—an- ti-slavery religion—anti-slavery politics —anti- slavery fashions, and anti-slavery breeches for all that we know to the contrary, They are wi § edueated, visionary, one-idea men, and sbout as practical as the members of the Women’s Rights Conventions. They are great at killing dogs. They have killeda number of magazines and jour- nals with as little remorse as is felt by the exeen- tioner of the dog pound when he drowns aa unre- deemed cur. Their last effort in this way was the murder of a very respectable ma- gazine established by Mr. Patna and circulat- ed in the South. We hope they will coutinue their contributions to the Edinburg Review, Blackwooe Magazine avd the London Quarterly until they kill them off aleo. Some of the same coterie have been operating upon Slarpers’ famous magazine until it begins to show symptoms of dilapidatio J So the Messrs. Harper are looking about for a chance to lay another egg where it will bring forth a chicken, and they have announced the forthcoming publication of Harper's Weekly New poper, which has kicked up a tremendous bobbery in the hebdomada!l newspaper world. The H+. pers imagine that their weekly will drive all we others out of existence. We beg to differ with them. We intend to publish a weekly ourselves. shortly, and we shall see which will carry off the palm. Srocksonpine Journatism.—The stockjobbers of the Daily Times attempt to justify their use of that paper in their stock jobbing and land- jobbing schemes, by asserting that the Hera) is equally guilty; they confess that the Times is the organ of the bulls, but they state that the Henan is the organ of Jacob Little and the bears. We congratulate Mr. Jacob Little on th’s discovery; it will be a surprise to him the mo gratifying, ae, if his memory is as good as people suppose, the Hrraxp is the last paper he might have expected to become his organ, We have not seen Mr. Jacob Little twice in six months; we have had no dealings or words with him of any kind; we don’t know anything about him or | hie enterpriees, and don’t care. We believe that a newepaper editor cannnot | sneceed in his business woless he attends to it and to nothing else. This the stockjobbers of the Times, Mevers, Wesley and Company, will some | day find ont to (heir cost. The history of journat- iem in this city should have taught then better. | Moses Y. Beach once owned @ promising paper with an increasing business, and fine prospe but he couldn't be content; he would specu in banks and stocks snd ol) surte of subemes: and the consequence ia that the Sun is what it is. Mesers, Wesley & Kovaleki morst take notice, or the Daily Times will follow the Thus we not only have extreme differences of | Sun. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1856. Tue New Puan ror Germne Orvice.—The new system of getting office, by hiring Captain Rynders, and giving him a hundred dollars to get up a serenade for the aspiring politician, has met with success toa certain extent. It is gene- rally considered that the adoption of this system | has increased the chances of Mr. Robert J. Walker for a seat in Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet. This opinion is especially prevalent in musical circles, and with the gentlemen who form the sidewalk committees when the target companies parade. Dodworth and all his men are perfectly certain that Mr. Walker will walk into the Cabinet through the instrumentality of the “Anvil Chorus,” arranged as a quickstep, and “ Hail to tne Chief” played in double time. So enthusias- tic is the reception of this barmoniously brilliant idea among the politicians, that the Empire Club boys desire to send Captain Rynders on a special mission to the Patent Office at Washington to take out a patent for it. Meanwhile, before the gallant Captain gets out his patent we would re- commend the serenade system to all hungry ap- plicants for office. Look at the number of fat things to be distributed in this city, and then look at the number of brass bands to be had for a few dollars. There are in addition to the thirty or forty first rate berths in the Custom House rome seven hundred subordinate places, out of which the old fogies may be played, and into which the patrons of the new system may be blown. Of course, the Collector, Surveyor and Naval Officer must have a very large band, with the loudest trombones and the biggest bass drums. Nothing but a monster concert will do for them. Then the emall fellows can come down by regular gradations to a small band, a drum and fife—a duet on two flutes is sweet and inexpensive—while several Jarge barrel organs can be had cheap during the dull times, and for very small affairs a Jews- harp overture might answer the purpose. While they are about it,we would suggest that there are several hundred Cabinet officers in embryo apd full Ministers in expectancy floating about Wheatland during these stirring times. Would it not be a pleasant idea to send Dodworth on a musical mission to the home of the next Presi- dent, and let bim try the new system directly un- der Mr. Buchanan’s nose? Tne Time Barcarn Sysrem.—It is proposed in certain quarters to procure from the next Legisla- tare a law abolishing the system of time bargains in stocks, flour, provisions, &c., &., and making it a penal offence to buy or sell in that manner, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. It is all folly to attempt to’prevent by legislation people from. buying and selling, whether they Have'the afticles or not. Time bargains are un- sauthorized by law, and the winner at them can gov | which this middle class is fatal | other by no process known to the courts collect the proceeds. This is sufficient for all practical pur- poses—all attempts to legislate beyond this is like endeavoring to legislate as to the time when the sun shall rise or set. Temperance legislation and laws against’ time bargains are twin ab- surdities. + Provs Prvcx.—The Reverend Dudley A. Tyng, of Philadelphia, who was lately kicked out of his cburch for preaching a political sermon, has set np an opposition conventicle, leasing it himself for the purpose. This is regular pioad pluck, aud Belzebub, with all other sinners, should imme- diately show their admiration for the parson by becoming members of his new church. He’s ex- actly in their line. ‘The French Steamship Lyonnais, Yesterdsy’s Hanan covtained the foliowiog paragraph im reference to the boat picked up by the ship Noptuoo at Liverpool from New York:— were two chron tern ‘Syygiass, and toveral va- — French, some being the of the curonoms. ‘One chronometer was marked David ~ Barr, ‘n Baugran, and among other entries was one of « pay meat ma Porto Plata, 4to Al 1856, of £18 tuerling. The Marie, Baugran, eailed from Porto Piste for Hamburg Avgust 2/, put into Aavana September — jary masts, and was con temned and sold at that P ‘The Captain Raugran mentioned inthe above extract, after the enle of his vessel at Havana, came to this city and took pavsage in tbe stesmelip Lyonnais, and was no doubt one of the two captaius who har cb: containing about twenty-five persons, as stated by Mr. Lugulerre, the second officer of the steamer. Tho above extract, in addition to the letter from Captain Peabody, strengthens the view we took the other day in relation to the nafety of those who wore in that boat. We clso stated yesterday that Captain Taylor, of ship Logan, from New Orleans, arrived at Havre on the 26th wit., and reported having seen on the 19th of November a jarge screw steamer, under sat] only, in latitude 61, longitude 21, and which wae supposed at Havre to be the Lyonnais, as she head not been heerd from, Captain Taylor in his report says sothing about which way the steamer was steering, but we sro led to inter that it was to tho eastward; if 80, there is somo- Ubing myrteriowe about {t, as no steamer that we are evare of, cxcepiing the Lyoanals. was due from this side of the Atlantic, and thore that bad arrived \n Sarope pre- vious to the tnilirg of the Africa, on the 99th, could not have been in the locality described by Captam Taylor. We belive there is some bope yet, and we anxiously await further news from Europe. TRALeRRG AND BIS ConraxyY. Tae concerts of M Thal- berg, at Niblo’s Saloon, this week, have been great tri- wumpbr, Niblo’s Garden being packed with ta: ‘eof the city. There has been quits a struggle in mutioat circles during the past month between Thalbory’e manager, Uil man, and Marctzek at the Opera. The Thalberg party bas the succers and the dollars, aad Maretzek has beaten & retrost to Havana, giving Thsloerg ® clear fle'l, Tos concert on Thursday was one of (ho richest mustoal treats ever given io New York. Of Thalverg’s performance we have aiready epoken at length It wes superb as ever. Madame d’Angri’s oxovution 0! the Una ove poco Ja wea magvificent, hor execution and groat wealvh of voice making her, singing this celebrated cavatina, fuer ‘han anything wo bave heard since Malivran. Mme. Pa- tania, too, sang &@ pretty wal's very pretilly. We commend M. Thaiberg and Lis company to the kind ofevr ot,our readers in the cities where he will give concerts during the next two weeks. Ma. Devreter amp Taxxysoy.—Mr, Dempster, whore fame as 0 vocalist is #proad over ¢very portion of the United Btates, lat:ly retarned to Rogland, and has paid a Visit to Alfred Tennysou, the poet iaureate. The voonlist Bang to the poet hie celebrated can‘a/a * Tne May Quoen,”” which Mr, Dempster made so popular in the United ‘States. Sranisn View or Frenca Potrrics—The Eeta- * v1 Mecrid journsl, patro ised by Marshal Narvaez, blished ap articic on the 16th of Noverwber, coviaining the following extraordinary statements it it there be just now nothing romarkable in Spain, (t aansunoed that great events will probably goon oosur in Fraace, ‘The news of the state of the Fr: empire are vory far from satiafactory. The hourgeoisic beg's* to be tired of the romewhat socisliat system of bis which consists in # the tox; Sh of the working clases, vast public work: , hnw. My ” ever muoh they add to the glory ef the emplr ver the have become distarteful to or peotsia, which ii We esse, Wed Derive to pout at the | Fmperor Unless the Emporor epeectiy conciliates the clare by rome Cp measure o/ pudlic economy, ih very posaiv) we MAY 8000 fee & proclamation of Orlesniem, for no better reason than that it is likely te ben cheaper goveroment ha Imperialiem. to make againat the are girendy martnure 8 RUportors are falling away. empire ie decieive m1 pout the throne, Ranovat c pe THE QUARANTINE.—An effort will g kersion of the New Jorey 1. re Toobtee U connent ot the State for the ho New York Qoarantine to Sandy Hook, and as « prejireinery to thie, the ‘tnt seem aceirone to A ow Ly? certain facta of the case not Feveraliy known, a a pears in the Trenton A of a boat / HOE’S PRINTING PRESS MANUFACTORY, A Visit to the Workshops—New | for the New York Herald, and for the Lon- don Times, and Hlustrated News. We have informed our readers heretofore, sometimes ae an apology for the occasionally late delivery of the Hxeacp, that our presses, powerful as they are, were not able to keep pace with our circulation, and that we were having built new emgines and presses of power much superior to those now in use. The ten horse power engine which now drives the presses of the Heastp is Boon to be replaced by one of twenty-five horse power, and our two four-cylinder presses are to be replaced by two of ten cylinders, With the increased facilities which Wwe will thus acquire we will be able for many years to come to keep pace with the wonderful strides which our Circulation is taking, as we will be able to print trom 150,000 to 2£0,000 copies in the same space of time in which we now print our edition of 60,0C0 or 70,000. The new presses and engines in question aro now ip course of construction In the far-famed establishment of the Messrs. Hoe, of thiscity. To these gentlemen are we indebted for our ability to meet the requirements of our constantly increasing ctroulation; aud to them is the country also indebted for her great reputation abroad in that branch of manufacture. {t should certainly be the cause of no small pride and self gratification on the part of Americans that a New York firm should be able to carry the palm over two such nations as England and France in the construction of machinery—a trade which both thoee countries have long cullivated, and for thelr improvement in which they have achieved high reputa- tion, Yetso itis, The Patrie newspaper of Paris, and the Times, Illustrated News, and Lloyd’s Weel:ly, of Lon- don, have all had recourse to the superior skill and talent of the Messrs. Hoe, aud othor Syench and English jour. nals will probably follow their exaaple. ‘The establishment in which the works of this firm are carried on occupies most of the block running from Grand to Broome streets, nud from Sheriff to Willet. It wae built in 1885. The present members of the firm are Messrs. Richard M., Robert aud Peter S Hoe, sons of Mr. Robert Hoe, a joiner, who emigrated from England in 1792, and founded the business in connection with Peter Smith, the inventor of « prees which bears bis name. The business was originally carried on in a portion of the block bounded by Malden lane, Pesrl, Pine and Wiliam Streets, and subsequent!y ia Gold street, where the prin- Otpal office still remains, The business is not confined to the building of ligttning presses morely. It extends also to the manufacture of hand presses, steam engines, saws, type cases. &c. The woikshops are very interesting, and well repay the trouble of a visit. From the foundry where tho castings are made, to those work- rooms where the minutest portions of the ma- cbinery are finished and polished off with as much accuracy as would be used in the works of a watch, there is much to excite wonder and admiration. There ie not « crank, or rod, or pin in the engine or Presses that is not fazbioned, and completed and polished: by machinery ingeniously cont-tved and adapted to the purpose. In fact, among the three or four hundred work- men cmployed on the premises there is bardly any manual labor performed, except in the forge. Every- thing down to the minutest shaving of a line is accom- plished by machinery. ‘The construction of the presses and engines for the Hunay employs at the present time the strength of the establishment. They are approaching compiction, and will probably be in full op:ration in March next. The frame work of each of the presses is thirty feet long, Seventeen feet high and six feet wide. Each of them has ten cylinders, the main cylinder to contain the type being sixty six inches in diameter. Their ‘united capabilities ‘will be from 40,000 to 60,000 impressions per hour, inde- pendent of another six cylinder press now in use, and ‘which it is intended to retain. The engine is one of twen- ty-flve horse power, and is ofs beautifal model. It io Supposed to be one of the bandsomest aud best ever con- structed in the United States, The Messrs. Hoa ballt one fsomewhst similar in design for the Bible House of this ‘city, and that is the only ove like it im the country, Tts length is 17 fect and ite hewbt 10 feet 4 inches. Tae ten horro engine which we pow use Is to be taken out to make room for it; and we will then nave one of fifteen and one of twenty ive horse power. The presses cost $50,000 each, and the esgice $4,600. These improve- ments will cost us altogether in the ne!ghborhood of from eighty to a hundred thousand dollars. The London Times is having built one ten cyliader prese of the same model as ours, The work is being done in anestadlisbmen} in Manchester under the superintend- ence of one of Mr. Hoe’s men, When oars are complete, there is to be one of eix cylinders pat in hand for the Ilustrated London News. Last month a press was also sent off to Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper. The Girt of Mr. Hoe’s lightning printing presses that ‘was put up in tne United States was somewhore in Janu. ary or February, 1847. The first that was put up abroad ‘was in the office of the Paris Patrice in 1848. An agree ‘ment was made at tue time between the proprietor of that Journa’, M. De la Marre, and Mr. Hoe, that the Istter should go on md exploit this machine. Tho egrcement, however, was never carried out, owing © Louis Napoleon’s restrictive measures against the prees, and probably to the fact that Mr. De In Marre—who was a banker—had al! his attea- lion directed to operations on the Bourse. About the rame time bir. iloe proposed to the proprie- tore of the London Times to put up @ press for them. Tho Proposal, however, was vot accepted. They were thes having & press puilt by Appiegath, which was pat in ops- Tation in the fall of 1849. Tne peculiarity of this machine we that ta cylinders have a vertical motion, not hortzon- tal as Mr. Boo's, While Mr, Hoo wasin Paris, he hap. pened io meet @ celebrated Kuglish machinist named Whitworth, with whose firm in Manchester he had long: trapracted business This Mr, Whitworth was then at- tending the National Exporition of Paris. He was after- warda sent to the Exposition in this city as one of the British Ccrnmtssioners to tai notes of the improvements in machinery mace bere, When Mr. Hoe met bimin Paris he was accompanied by Mr. Penn, a celebrated Civil cer, whore plan of putting in wooden bearors for the shaft of boilers bas attracted much attention, They went with bim to the Satrie office to examine tho Bow press. Afver they had examiacd it, Mr. Whiiworth said that he had teen the Appliegeth press, which wan being betit for the Timer, and which was not then quile finjebed, and that if be were one of the Times proprietors, or could have bis way in the mutter, he would le: the Whole of that thing go, and get in & pros built on tho American system, as bo termed it, The Times cid wend parties to Paris to examine tho Patrve pret, but trom the fact that these persons wero themselves engaged on the Applegath machine or inte- rented in it, they reported unfavorably, If Mr. Hoe had bad a prees in London, or if sume of the Time: people had gone themec!ves to ece it ip aris, there is little doubt but that the efforte of there interested paritics to keep him from tntroducing it a Lendon would not have been even temporarily successful. Subsequently, when thie same Mr, Whitworth cume to the United States, he examined the presses a) work in this establishment, and exprested himself highly pleased ‘with them. He taid that be bad taken the occasion of telling the Times proprietors what wore bis convictions in regard to the difference of quality in the Hoe aad Apple- gath presses, Ono of the Moo's was in Bogland last rummer, and while there made a contract with the Times to build them a press. They desired either that 't should de built by Mr. Hoe in England, or that hs should engege this ame Mr. Whitworth to build it at his estavlishment io Manchester. The latter plan wae adopted; and an arrangement to that end wat made with Mr. Whitworth, one of Hoe’s men going out to superintend the work, The drawings are copied from those made for our Prevees, in which soms \mprovements have beon operated. When the proprietors of the Times saw one of Hoos Presses in London, they were fo well satiefiod of its sin. i Kelty, completeners and capability, in comparison with that of Applegath, that they derigned to order » six cylinder presse to replace the nine cyliader one they had; eeonted to Mir How's suggestion that they had aten-cylinder one, They intend tohave threo bailt altogerber, Like ourselves they had got to tue limit ‘of the capacity of their presses, and now alto expect, at ‘we do, to advance their cirou ation ip proportion to their (Reremeed facilities, Naval Intelligence. ‘The Liebon correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, ww on the 1¢th ultimo, eays:—The large here bas been increased by the @ | Gh Plates storm frigate Merrimac. Hor ¢: portions bave, naturally enough, attracted the of cur nave) officers, who, bowover, seem Iitlo disposed to coho the croaking ot some of the Kinglish pepers se to her invinettility. A Nove SpRounation.—The Washington corres ponden of the Philadelphia /mzwirer Matos thet smo ad individaais have purchased of the proprietor of Ver! on all the trees and shrabbery loft on the estate at 8 Cort of twenty thoussn: 4 that the samo partice bare erected a the railroad de} ‘Washington, at a cost of provad! more. 10,000, Toe ree Ie to be reimbursed b; manufacture ane cate'et Wesbingion or Mout Veruse cutee |