The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1860, Page 6

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The contenta of the Evrorman Eprrios or Tam HanaLp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication, fhe Kew Vork The ows. The election in Maine for members of Congress @ad the Legislature, and State and county officers, took place yesterday, and, as will be seen by our telegraphic despatches, the republicans carried thing. The vote was the largest ever pearly eve cast in tate, and the republican gain is consi- derabie. The steamship Bohemian, with European ad- vices to the 30th alt., arrived at Farther Point yes- terday. Her news is one day later than that previously received We have important news from Honduras. Walker has again failed in his filibustering enter- | Pr The commander of the British man-of-war I whose arrival at Traxillo has been already reported, erdered Walker to evacuate the town, which be did, pursued by his enemies down the coast. He undoubtedly had a severe struggle with bis foes, as by last accounts his force was reduced from eighty to twenty-five men, and he had him self been severely wounded in the face, and one of his colonels killed. Seven of his wounded had been placed on board the Icarus. The bark Roebuck, from Baenos Ayres and Mon- tevideo, !~' rs about two weeks later news from those p . Gen, Urquiza was in Baenos Ayres during the celebration of national independence, Jal, ad during the review some acts of insub- ord! ion occurred on the part of the military, which, however, were overlooked. Elections to the + Convention were to be held on the 5th, 6th and 7th of August. Gold discoveries are announced in the Province of Sag Juan. The British residents of Buenos Ayres had presented an address to Gen. | Urquiza, with which he was much gratified. Trade Was dull. We have accounts from Havana to the 7th inst The sugar market was dull, and freights had slight lined. The health of the city wasgood. The t had arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz $4,700,000 in specie. Miramon was at the capital, concentrating his forces, and the liberals were advancing rapidly oo the city In our Havana correspondence, elsewhere, will be found an account of the late Spanish expedition to San Domingo, its objects, origin, Ac. There is something rather mysterious in the affair. Our Correspondent hints that france has designs on Hayti and sanctions Spain's movements in San Dominge ty the arrival of the overland pony express we Lave es from San Francisco to the ult The people of Cadif are entirely absorbed in the politica anvass, which bids fair to be as virelent es any that has been held in that State. Basiness at San Francisco was rather dull. The sixth annual regatta of the Bmpire City Re: @atta Clob took place opposite Conrad's Park, in ’ the East river, yesterday. The weather was very Gne.a he attendance of spectators unusually large. There were five races for prizes of more or tess value, and the distance run was five w The fret race, for fishing boats not exceeding sev @nteen feet, was won by the Alpha; the second, bix-oared lapstreak boats, manned by amateurs, by the Golick: the @ seventeen feet working boats, by the Joseph Brown; the fourth, four-oared boats, by the George J. Brown; the fifth and last Pace, forthe champion sculls and champion flag ‘was won by the May Bell Roberts, rowed by Pat Pick Lynch, who beat his competi Thomas Burns and Thomas Hunt, by one hundred boats’ | Lengths—time 40 minutes 12] seconds The wills of Vietor G. Audabon, John W. Bow. | Gen and John T. Allen have all leon admitted to} prebate. The property distributed hy chem is con. | & Jersble, but it is bequeathed entir to the r Lives of the testators. j Potice Commicsionere rest - , f nation of patrolman John I Precinct, to take Tet ¢ rh geant Higgans, of the Thirteenth precinet, trans- ferred on Saturday to other wards, were ordered to remain in their old places until further notice. The forty-seventh auniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, in which the American naval forces gained au important aod decisive victory over the British arms, was celebrated yes- terday at Cleveland, Ohio. Some thirty thou- sand persons parttipated in the ceremony of in- fugurating @ monumental statue to Commodore Perry, the hero of the victory, among whom were several survivors of the conflict, and the Governor and staff, and members of the Legislature of Ruode Island, of which State the Commodore was a na- tive. George Bancroft, the historian, was the orator of the occasion. His address, and an ac- count of the celebration, are given tn to-day’s pa- | per. * It is understood that the Albany Regency State Committee have, by a large majority, rejected the | Proposition of the Breckinridge men for a fusion | upon the Presidential electoral ticket. Another | Meeting, however, of the State Committee is to be held at the Bt. Nicholas Hotel, in tis city, on Friday next. | The committee of the Aldermen, appoiated to | investigate the reasons for the removal of Messrs. | Tappan and Craven by the Mayor from | their respective positions of Commissioner { and @hief Engineer of the Croton Water De- | partment, were to have met yesterday after- afternoon at two o'cluek. -There was only one member of the committee present, however, and | the investigation did not proceed, though Mesars. Tappan and Craven were present. A communi- | cation was received from Mayor Wood, declining | to attend the meetings of the committee. | The summer is past, and as regards the public health the season has been a very favorable one. | According to the City Inspector's repoft, there were 514 deaths in the city during the past week, a | decrease of 10 as compared with the mortality of | the week previous, and 44 less than occurred | | during the corresponding week iast year. ‘The re cay ituiation table gives 2 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c, 82 of the brain and nerves, 5 of the generative organs,’ o* the heart aud blood vessels, 117 of the lungs, throat, &c., 7 of old age, 42 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, Ls2 of diseases of the stomach, bowels aud other di- gestive organs, 64 of general fevers, 5 premature births, 2 of disease of the urinary organs, and 30 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 375 natives of the United States, 81 of Ireland, 30 of Germany, 10 of England, 1 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. The cotton market was “steady aad prices unchanged, while the sales embraced 600 a 700 bales. Fiour ad- vanced five cents per barrel for some descriptions, while the market was more active, with purchases of State and Western brands on speculation and for abipment South- | ern flour was firm and prices uachanged, while the de- | Wheat was active, and some descrip | mand was goed. tions of the Detter qualities were firm, and sales, here and to arrive, on specalation and fer export, were large. Corn was also Oirm, with large sales at prices given else where. Pork was steady, aud in fair demand, with sales of new mees at $19 46 a $19 50, and of sew prime at $14 1234 a $14 26. Sugars more steady, with a good demand from both the refining and grocery trade, with sales of about 1,100 bhds., 930 boxes aud 850 bags at rates given in another column. Co‘lee was quiet, awaiting public sales to be held to-day. Freights were tolerably active, with wheat engaged for Liverpool, in bulk, at 124;4 , and chiefly inship’s bags at 154 A vessel was chartered for Glasgow to load with wheat atp.t. A British bark for Bristol to load wheat, in bulk, was taken up at 125¢d. in ship’s bags. ‘The Politicians Beaten and the F le—The Daty of the Monster e: The pressure of public opinion has forced the leaders of the democratic factions to ar- range the basis of a union of all the conserva- tive interests on a single electoral ticket, so thatthe Empire State may be saved from the disgrace of permitting ita voice to be cast fora radical revolutionary candidate by a fanatical minority of the people. This consummation, so devoutly wished for by every patriotic citizen, has been brought | about against the will of the shortsighted and | selfish managers of the two political organiza- | tions, and is a manifest acknowledgment on their part of a conviction that the masses | will not support either of them separate ‘ly in their insane projects. It had be- come evident to the managers of the | Breckinridge interest, the Douglas in- terest and the Bell interest, that without a fusion the State would be lost,and each set wished to avoid the blame of bringing about such aresult. Under this conviction they Have made wary advances to each other, but each striving all the time to cheat their opponents and secure the lion's share of the public plunder. | This bas been the constant aim of Dean Rich- , mond and his clique, and of Gideon Tucker and his set, in the recent negotiations between the which is in itself an equitable fusion of the electoral tickets, and now only waits the rati- fication of Green and Richmond, the chairmen of the opposing State central committees, to | present the united conservative ticket for the support of all classes of the people. The details of this negotiation, which has re- sulted so differently from what its conductors desired, ure curious and instructive. The Richmond, Cagger & Co. committee, finding that the onus of a refusal to fase om an electo- ral ticket was resting on them, and doing them great injury in all parts of the State, ap- pointed a sub-committee, composed of Ben. Wood and two others, to confer with the Breck- inridge men, but gave this sub-committee no authority to clinch a bargain. In view of this step the Breckinridge committee, presided over by John A. Green, met at the Astor House, and appointed a similar sub-committee, to confer with Ben. Wood and his colleagues. These sub committees met and warily sounded each other. After ascertaining their respective views, they presented their several ultimatums, upon which they thought no agreement would be made. The Breckinridge men demanded ten electors, | being an equal number with that arranged with the remnant of the old Know Nothing organiza- tion, and the Douglas men refused to concede more than six, On obtaining this result the Breckinridge State Committee passed a series of faming resolutions, authorizing their chatrman to arrange a fusion on the rejected terms, and adjourned sine die. This put the onus on the Douglas sub committee, as the proposition was an equitable one; and Ben. Wood, as soon as he found that the Breckinridge committee had finally adjourned, wrote a letter to its chairman agreeing to accept, as far os he had authority, the terms be bad before re. ed, and to recom- mend their adoption by the Douglas State Com- mittee. By this system of mutual cheating the com- | mittees bare each overreached themseives, and agreed to accept an equitable fusion, and they hrown the whole onus of rating the Richmond, Cagwer & Co., by re hject to Jobn A. Green ad Dean NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER lI, 1860.—TR IPLE SHEET. mittee to fuse the Presidential electoral ticket | tunity will be afforded the former to, express | grouxd that Lincoln and the republican party with ten Breckinridge electors, and the Dougias sub-committee have recommended an accept- ance of these terms. The object of the several managers was to prevent a fusion, o that they might not have to divide loca! spoils, and to | throw the blame of a failure on the opposing | faction. One wsnts to go to Congress, another aims to be » great local politician in view of possible federal spoils, and all prefer fight- ing each other and letting the State go for Lia- coln rather than give up their petty local aims. They have cheated each other, and overreached themselves, to the manifest advantage of tbe country. Dean Richmond and his corrupt Al- bany clique have got themselves into a position technically known in Wall street as a corner. Instead of having the blame of a defeat thrown upon the Breckinridge faction, it is thrown upon them. If they refuse to ratify the action of their sub-committee, it will be an open confes- sion that they are working for Lincoln, and this will be the last of the rotten Albany Regency. Richmond, Cagger & Co. will subside into the bosom of Thurlow Weed’s Albany junto, and we shall hear no more of them. Or Albany correspondent telegraphe that | news of the proposed fusion has thrown Cagger & Co. into dismay, and that Richmond has etart- ed hot foot for this city, to endeavor to break it | up. But it is too late, The ball has bees | started, and the people will sccept the fusion | witbout the politicians. Should Richmond re- fuse to ratify the arrangement his eub- ordinates have blundered into, then ail that will be wanting is that the great Union meeting which is soon to come off iu | this city ehall present a Union ticket of ten | Breckinridge, ten Bell and fifteen Douglas elec- tors. and appoint a Vigilance Commitive to see that the corrupt political manegers do not sel! themselves to Lincoln and attempt to burke it. | The merchants aud property holders of this city, whose vast interests are at stake, should at once raise one hundred thousand dollars for | the expenses of the election, and confide it tothe | Union Vigilance Committee to see that it is | honestly expended in printing and circulating | documents, and other necessary and proper ex- himself upon a subject about which he has been remarkably eilent up to this time. Mr. Douglas has been making a great many speeches all through the country—Sonth, North and East—and expatiating upon a va- riety of topics, chief among which were the antecedents of Mr. Breckinridge, into whom he has been pitching without stint of words or ve- hemence; but he bas never definitely stated whether he (Mr. Dotiglas) is in favor of fusion — that is, of a union electoral ticket against Lin- coln and Hamlin in this State. If he is not in favor of fusion, then he is electioneering for Lincoln; and as, without fusion, he cannot get one electoral vote in New York, of course he may not only be defeated, but may be atterly crushed out, in November. —————— Reception of the Prince of Wales in New York—Disclaimers of Party Feeling ta His Regard, We publish elsewhere an article from the Metropolitan Record, the official organ of Arch- bishop Hughes, strongly condemnatory of the diegraceful party feude which offered a tempo- rary interruption to the good feeling and har- mony that have everywhere marked the recep- tion of the Prince of Wales in the British Pro- vinces. This article, taken in connection with the emphatic declaration of Grand Master Ca- meron at Toronto that he would trampie his is working for Lincoln, and against himself. regalia under foot if a riot resulted from the At the barbecue of to morrow is just the fit | contemplated processions of his fellow Orange- ting time to explain himself explicitly upon | men, affords indisputable evidence that the that point, and it would be well for some one | conduct of the extremists of neither party has to aek him the question while he is delivering | met with the concurrence or sympathy of ita re- Mieceefioms cognized head. It would, indeed, be surpris- The Presidential Question—Pubite Sentt- | ing if in this nineteeath century there could be ment Right, but Our Old Party Hacks | found amongst the educated classes of Canada All Wrong. In all great political revolutionary or reac tionary movements, our old party politicians, while they imagine they are leading, are in re- ality far behind the march of public opin- jon, At all events thus it has been in all the vicissitudes and changes of our political par- ties since the day of Gen. Jackson’s elevation to the Presidency. The democratic party, which was created by Gen. Jackson, was founded upon the one great idea of the prostration of that powerful mo- neyed monopoly, the United States Bank. With the prostration of that institution the le gitimate mission of the democratic party of any half-dozen intelligent men to countenance such fiagrant violations of the laws of hospi- tality and decency as these wretched sectarian syuabbles bave led to. In presence of the obligations contracted by the invitation pressed upon the acceptance of the Prince, all were bound to aink their personal differences in the one effort to render his vieit as agreeable and grateful to him as possible. But as subjects, overflowing with professions of loyalty, absti- nenee from party manifestations was still more obligatory upon them. They knew that they could not identify him in any way with their disputes without ‘ damaging him eeriously in England, where the law Gen. Jackson was accomplished, and the whig party of Henry Clay was beaten from the field. re pac gf * ™, ange acemnens iri Since that day the successes of whigs and 4e- | morefore it has t i ieee: heses- mocrats in our national contests, with a single spectable members of both parties tb publicly exception, have been the results of accident repudiate conduct which involved them in a orsome desperate expedient for the passing common odium. hour. The fact, as we suspected, turns out to be, In 1840, with the United States Bank out of then, that it was only the fag end and rabbie of the way, and upon the financia! troubles result- the two religious denominations that took part ing from the pet bank system, the rematas of in the recent scandalous The enlight | penditures, By so doing New York can be ear- | ried against Lincoln without a doubt, and the national conservative interests of this metsopolis | will have defeated the revolutionary and de- | structive designe of the black republican and | abolition fanatics. Let every man prepare for | | the work. | Exrraonminany Activity or tHe Fann } Trave.—The fall trade is opening at an advanc- | ed period and with unusual activity this sea- son. The city is full of purchasers from all | quarters of the country, and the business pro- mises to be ene of the largest and most profita- ble we have ever enjoyed. The abundant har- | vests of the West, and the fine cotton crop of | | the South—which, notwithstanding the partial drought which visited some of the Southwestern States, is exceedingly large—have imparted a wonderful stimulus to trade in the metropolis, One of the strongest evidences of the prosperity of business is the immense increase of advertis- ing which we experience at the present time. We have never had such @ flood of advertise- meats pouring in upon usat so early a period of the fall season before. On the days when we do not publish a triple sheet we are invaria- bly obliged to leave out some advertisements until the next day. It is impossible to accom- | Gea. Juckson’s democratic party were 6 badly | oneq and sober portion of the Canadian beaten that many sagacious men supposed that community are no more to be blamed this wus the finishing blow. But this detusive | fo, them than are our own public triumph of the whigs was turrod to ashes upon | tor the sectarian or political excesses that their lips, with the disastrous efforts of Mr. Clay | goour amongst us from time to time. The burn- to re-establish that exploded institution, a ing down of the Catholic convents and chapels United States Bank. Defeated by the vetoes of | in Boston and Philadelphia, and the scenes Joba Tyler, the bank question was again put | of bloodshed and violence of which Balti- out of the way, and the whig and the democra- | more, Cincinnati and Louisville were at « later tic parties were again left without any great period the theatres, cannot, with any historical overruling specific issue between them. truth, be charged to a spirit of religious or In this exigency the leaders of theslemocracy political intolerance on the part of our people at bit upon the expedient of the annexation of | igrge, They originated with the very scum of our Texas, for the campaign of 1514, against the | population, and met with neither sympathy nor whigs under the banner of Henry Clay. This | spproval from the educated and decent portion was a happy bit; but even the popularity of the | of the American public. It would be just as fair Texas annexation project would have failed | t charge the Protestants of Newark with the against the universal personal popularity of | riotous excesses committed by the so-called Mr. Clay had he not written @ little half way | protestant societies that visited their town the annexation letter to Alabama, which turned | other day as to identify us as a nation with the over to Birney some fifteem shoueand anti- | gyents that disgraced some of our principal slavery whigs in New York, thus turning over | cities at the periods referred to. It is notorious this State to Mr, Polk, by the vote of which he | that many of the leaders in these ontrages were was elected. not native born Americans at all, but belonged In 1848 the family quarrel between the Van | to the same imported elements that have | Paet Gaeeertiny ot Raw FORE HO Sha thee caused all the recent trouble in Canada. cratic Convention at Baltimore resu'ted in the | me same of persons will, in all defeat of Gen. Cass, by turning over the elec-| places and circumstances, take | toral vote of New York to Gen. Taylor. Thus pleasure in law and in setting | class under all resisting the modate all our advertisers in the ordinary dou- , the election of 1844 and that of 1548 were both | themselves against public opinion. It would ble sheet editions. Yesterday, for example, we | determined by the mere diversion of the anti-sla- | he hard indeed if others were to be held re- were compelled to hold over a full column of | very balance of power of the Empire State,and | sponsible for their misconduct ; and we there- advertisements, for want of room. | thus this anti-slavery element loomed up into « | fore can understand the anxiety of all respect- There is nothing to cloud the splendid pros- | formidable engine among the managing politi- | ghie Canadians to repudiate any connection pect before us but the unsettled condition of cians, especially of the whig party. with them. They hold individually just the the political relations of the country, pending | The contest of 1852, however, decisively ex- same sentiments in their regard as are enter. the Presidential election. If, among all the | hibited the feebleness of this anti-slavery ele- tained generally by the American public. agitation and speeches of the different candi- | ment against the united conservative forces of | One good has resulted from there demonstra- dates, the people could get before them the | the country, in the election, almost by the | tions They have brought out into broad re- issue, plain and simple, upon which to vote for | unanimous vote of the severai States, of an ob- lief the sterling character of the young Prince, some one man of conservative tendencies, to | scure New England politictan over the most | anq increased his popularity amongst all defeat the dangerous revolutionary faction led | distinguished military chieftain of the age. This | rational and liberal minded people. The by Lincoln and Seward, and the other abolition | was the result of an issue which the people ac- | grmness, dignity and sense of justice agitators, two to one even of the Northern | cepted between the position of Pierce, as the that he has displayed under such trying States would go for him. The only danger now | head of s conservathve movement, and the posi- | circumstances augur well for his future career to the realization of the magnificent promises of | gon of Gen. Scott, as the supposed instrument | 4, @ raler. In this country, where religious commercial prosperity before the people is the | of W. H. Seward and other anti slavery agita- | toleration is a fundamental principle of our con- even as It is. Tur Exxcrios ty Maiwe.—Our telegraphic despatches from Maine show that the election in that State yesterday is like the handle of a jug, all on one side. Lincoln and Hamlin’s repressible conflict, and Seward’s policy of abolishing the army and navy, in order that emancipated and free negroes ia the North may be permitted, unmolested, to carry civil war and fear that this sectional agitating party of Lin- | tors to compass the control of the government. | coln and Seward may be successful—a party | This election of Pierce was a conservative | which, if it attains power, will disturb all the | triumph ageinet the slavery agitators; but be relations of the country, political and commer. | was too blind to perceive it. He accepted it cial, which may lead to local insurrections and | asa victory of the democratic party, and the - gecesi aiiidtiey. GIRS: Gaetbndt Nadie | Yenkenrel-Chet “pay “‘Atiayhid Gs tale fatal | oe uamtenn.steees... Ho ned net dsond hare uiglas and Breckinridge interests, which have | them, it is not to be expected that people will | Wlunder. Thus, overlooking the resulted in forcing each party into @ position | hase much upon so uncertain a future, and the | the real issue of his success, poor , with wonder is that business is so active just now | Mr. Douglas and the managers of the demoera- ir- | instantly stitution, and where religious ascendency can never hope for recognition, bis conduct will in- sure him a still more cordial reception than any that he has met with since he has set foot on any recurrence of the embarrassments that have people and | istely beset him. The enslorsement of Arch- bishop Hughes, and the emphatic discourage- cy in Congress, was led astray to that ruinous | to, rt srelmeten eal offering to the Southern democratic pro slavery Gisposition that may exist to renew the misera. politicians of the Cincinnati Convention, the | pie dissensions that clouded for the moment bis otherwise brilliant progress. powerful democratic party was a miserable de- Revival or tae Leorrmate Drawsa—Rentree lusion. or Mx. Fornest—Some time ago it was freely What next? To save themselves from abso- | stated, in the prees and private circles, that it was lute annihilation, the managing politicians at | the intention of Mr. Edwin Forrest to close his the reign of terror into the Southern States, are Cincinnati were compelled to cast overboard | long and honorable connection with the dramatic endorsed in the most thorough manner by the both Pierce and Douglas, and all others con- | art, and to retire altogether from the profession Maineacs. Washburn has been elected Go- | Cernedin that Kansas Nebraska reopening of | of which he bas been the acknowledged head vernor, and all the members of Congress and the slavery agitation, and to take up Mr. Bu- | for more than quarter of a century. In view of of both houses of the State Legislature are sup- chanan, whose perfect innocence in that matter this report, we suggested that as Mr. Forrest posed tobe of the trae abolition stripe. This | 2° man could question. Mr. Buchanan's per- | was still in his prime, enjoying all his pristine settles the question of the duty of the national | sonal popularity, by the narrowest possible es- | vigor, tempered and chastened by careful men- conservative men of New York. They stagg | ®P* saved the demoralized democracy froma | tal culture, as he was without a rival near the between the Northern and Southern fanatical, | °*hing defeat. | throne, and as all the great actors—Garrick, sectional factions; they it will be that It was hoped that this narrow escape from | Kean, Talma, Macklin and othera—had re- will receive the shock of a collision: their inte- 4¢struction would operate to teach some les- mained on the stage even longer than Mr. For- rests will be the first to suffer and the greatest | sons of prudence and wisdom to our demo- rest, he should at least gratify his legion of ad- sufferers, and their paramount duty now is to Tatic politicians; but the evidences to the con- mirers by playing a roupd of fareweil en- stop there tides of extreme sectional fanaticiam, ‘TY are before us in the present disjointed gagements. We are glad tobe able to an- New York must save the Union from the terri. 4 confused condition of the overwhelming nounce that Mr. Forrest has acceded to ble results that would flow from the election of fFC** oppored to this anti-slavery republican the generally expressed public wish, and that a fanatical Northern President. {t is in the Pty. The whig party has been dead and be has already commenced his campaign, hands of the national conservative men todo Duried for eight years; but still there are halt- having played in Baltimore during the this, by presenting and sustaining a union eleo- | 198 Old line whigs all over the land hopeful of last fortnight, and being now pre- toral ticket, in which the three schools of con- ® Tesurtection, and halting upon old whig prin. pared for a long engagement at Niblo’s Garden, servatives shall be equitably represented, Let ples. The same may be said of the debris where he will make his renfv/e in the character ' them remember the olden time, when it was, O te late American party and of the late of Hamlet,a réle which he has la(terly made said, “as goes New York, so goes the Union;” | democratic party. The old party hacks of each his especial study. and jet every New Yorker throw aside all local | 8 #ticklers for their party principles and plat We are Jed to call particular attention to Mr. and partisan preferences, and determine to go | forms, and what not, when all these things are ; Forrest's farewell performances—we presume into this Sight asa national man, and to win it on | the useless remaining rubbish of parties that that he intends now to take his leave of the the broad basis of the union of all for the sake | BA¥® ceased tobe. palaces We vata, of all. Such are the incumbrances which block the In the first place, Mr. Forrest, whatever his —_--— | way tos cordial fusion of the overwhelming | faults may have been, Is the only great actor Tue Graat Dovorss Banorere To-Monnow— conservative body of the people North and | that this country haa ever produced. There A grand Douglas barbecue will come off to-| South ageinst this slavery agitating andseo- | bave been others who enjoyed popularity morrow at Jones’ Weod, for which the most | tional republican party. But some important | for a brief period; a few, perhaps, who gave pyri amneeny are being made; bands | steps ha; ¢ been made in the removal of these q of music . parading the streets, calling atten- | obstructions, and weet the two months inter- tioh fo the fact that a mo: + ox will be venting tothe day of the great battle the gon. } tus sel? of great excellence; but after their | little hour they have faded out. and left Forrest | hearts of his audiences, aad establishes betweem them and himsel:’ that electric current the ae- cret spring of whict: is true genius. ‘Then, again, Mr. Fyrrest adheres etrictiy to the English classical drama. In the estimation of our theatre-goers he is to the works of Shakspere and Bulwer wht Rachel was te Corneille and Racine. I Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Richard LI, and Cardinal Richelieu Mr. Foxrest finds a repertoire in which he has no rival. Ie these latter days, when 6o much French trasie is placed upon the stage, it is indeed refreshing to know that there is still one actor who ad- heres to the works of the great master, and labors to give a just and pure artistic interpre- tation of the immortal creations of the first dra- matic author that the world has ever seen. Mr. Forrest upholds the true dignity of the drama, and ene of his performances is a better defence of the etaye than could be gotten up by a regi- ment of pamphleteers or an army of parsons. If, after making the tour of the country, Me. Forrest shonld etill determine to retire from the stage, it is mot possible that he can remain idle. He is im the prime of life, full of varied talent rich in mental acquirements. Why should he not appear in the political theatre? Some years ago we remember ¢hat he declined a Congree- sional nomination; but he may not now be of the same mird. He would be s most valuable member, and would not only teach our legisla- tors how to speak intelligibly, but also how te behave properly. Mr. Forrest would not be too old, either, for the Presidency. We will be bound that he would make a better chief magis- trate than the ci-devant rail splitters and brokea down political hacks who are continually ia- triguing and manceuvring to make their devious paths end at the door of the White House. Sewing Machince—Reported Extension of Howe's Patent—Outrage om the Public. It is rumored, we know not with how muck truth, that the Commissioner of Patents has granted Elias Howe, Jr., a further extension of his sewing machine patent for seven years. This, unfortunately, the Commissioner has powee to du without reference to Congress. After the first term of fourteen years, to which the pa- tentee is entitled, has expired, a discretionary power to the above extent is given to the de- partment, but for any further privilege the ap- plicant must go to Congress. ‘The impolicy of extending patents after the first term, unless under peculiar circumstances of hardship, is now generally admitted. Ia justice to the public intereste we must protest against the action of the Commissioner in Mr: Howe's case, which does not at all fall withia this category. He has received, according te his own admission, upwards of half a millioa of dollars for inventions which are simply im- provements, and which, if he had never entered the field at all, would have infallibly suggested themselves to any ingenious mechanic. We do not by this mean to depreciate the practical value of his discoveries. We merely mention the facts as an answer to the argu- ments used before the Commissioner in sup- port of the claim, and which arrogate to Mr. Howe the entire merit of the economy in labor effected by the invention of sewing machines. We repeat that his combination of the needle : E i cteted eee. ereecereteedi termined to get rid of—a vested interest part of the inventor in all the future proceeds of his discovery. But the injustice of the pria- protection afforded to the patentees by the law, is from seventy-five to a hundred dollars, although their expense of manufacture does not fair remuneration for their labors, it is mant- festly against the interests of society that Con- gress should give them longer monopoly of the benefits of their ingenuity than will suffice to effect that object. We contend that this has been done in Mr. Howe's case, and we protest, in the name of the poor, overworked creatures for the improvement of whose condition Provi- dence evidently inspired the idea of the sewing machine, against ite price being thus unnecessa- rily enhanced. Should the reported extension of this patent turn out to be correct it will lead to one import- ant resalt, We have always been opposed to the placing in the hands of any public officer a power so dangerous as that which is confided to the Commissioner under the law. Were he never 80 honest it would expose him to unjust tuspicions, and in any case to temptations which not one man out of ten can resist. Just look at the enormous value of the interests involved in such patents as those of Colt, the India rub- ber companies, the Telegraph, and fifty others that we could name. Of what importance it would be for the owners of any of these to find » Commissioner of Patents accessible to the influence of a bribe, It would be well worth their while to give such a man one, to representative of the tragic muse. Mr. | three, or even four hundred thousand dollars to roasted whole upon the occasion servative elements of the North may be brought | Forrest's style fs his owl, ana is g**eotially [secure a seven years’ extension of « gizaniic Both the President and Vice President who | to emulate the exnanple of the Union men of | American. He despises small obstacies, minut | monopoly whose profits amount to sererat would Hike to be—Mesrs, Dongias and John-| the Seuth. In | mMionis We object, therefore, to any pub this view. in spite of foolish and | prettinesses of speech and affectations of man in the ' cer. Witt ’ i to the " ed to tt of cficer being exp