The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFION NX. W. CORNER OF NASBAU AND FULTON OTS. SRS pie Mt cree So nt Renerlageal oa ents ‘Or $3 per annum; the European Edition Walmer. Senta per copy, $4 ner oom oa Pe Fo its was ‘annum. of each NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Itatiax Orrga—La Tra’ viata. WINTZS DEN, Broad’ opposite Bond street.— Magic TES Oem O’Doswen Laon ‘ASSURANCE. BOWERY THEATRE, Peassovtso Durcuman. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Rovaust— Bace rox 4 Wivow. Bowery.—Tas Hippsx Haxp— LAURA KRENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Tas Mowxsx Bor. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Last Days or Poursu—Baonze Doxkey—Kinc oF Cross. BARNUM'S AMERI MUSEUM, Broadway.— and bw Naame es Busraxen—Livinc Oetiost: TLS, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bupcesqves, Sones, Dances, Ac.—Jack Cave. Brosdway.—Hoouey & Camenrtt’s 'BLO'S SALOON, ie een Sons, Buacesque Dances, &c.— mm Ermorian Imavccaation Batt. 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Advices from California to the 12th, Oregon to the 6th and British Columbia to the 4th inst., also Washington dates to the 31st ult., have reached as by the pony express. Trade at San Francisco had assumed a healthy aspect, business transactions had increased, and the country demand had much improved. The steamer John L, Stephens sailed on the 11th for Panama, with 232 passengers and $1,009,000 in gold, of which $929,000 is for this city. Bhe also brings $16,000 worth of Washoe silver ore. The census returns of California indicate a popula- tion of balfa million. The tenth anniversary of her admission as a State was celebrated in great style on the 10th, by a partial suspension of business, @ procession, a banquet and a ball. There was much excitement in Oregon respecting the silver mines of the Cascade Mountains. Some of the assayed ore yielded $4,206 to the ton. Lieu- tenant Mullen had completed the wagon road to Fort Benton, 393 miles in length. Steps were being taken in Washington Territory to punish the Indian pirates who had sought refuge in Victoria. Mining ia British Columbia was in a prosperous condition. We pulMish to-day some details of Mexican news which will be found interesting. The most active preparations were going on at the capital, at the latest dates, August 29, to receive the liberals, who, to the number of 20,000, were expected to | commence siege operations ina week from that | time. The Archbishops assented to the proposi- | tion tosend the church plate to the mint, anda quantity bas already been melted down. The fo- | reign ministers, with the exception, of course, of | Pacheco, persist in refusing to recognise Miramon, The capital was crowded with families who had fied there from the country towns, and cae | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET succeseful in the Presidential election. Thea | Iltle bit pedantic. Booth Fourth district Michae! Tuomey was unaaimoualy nominated. Nothing was done in the Eighth dis | trict. | The Republica City aad County Gonveation, at | their meeting last eveuing, nominated John Keyser | for Register and William R. Stewart for Supervisor. The Board of Aldermen did not organize last evening, a quorum not being present. It was un- derstood that many of the members were absent in | Consequence of the death of Nathan Peck, Bsq., | father of the President of the Board, which took place in Connecticut, on Saturday last, at the very house in which he was born, eighty years ago. It is only about six months since the “golden wed- diog"—the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Peck’s wedding day—wasa celebrated by a aumer- ous circle of friends. The Board of Councilmen met last evening and | transacted a large amount of routine business. Nu- merous reports of committees and papers from the Board of Aldermen were received and laid over. Mr McConnell presented a preamble and resolu- tion in favor of amending the ordinance relative to the licensing of cartmen, so as to compel the owners of public carts to pay a license of $2 50, and fifty cents for the renewal of each license. of Buchanan and Fillmore over Fremont was 45,000, and that in no subsequent election have the republicans been able to bring up their vote to a smaller deficfeacy than 24,000 of their vote for Fremont. Of the vote of 1856 there ‘was a republican deficiency last year, on the test question of Secretary of State, of some 24,000, and a united opposition deficiency of nearly 60,000—making a total reaerved vote of 100,000. We have no hesitation im saying that full two-thirds of this reserved vote of 100,000 may be eet down against the republican party, to say nothing of the new vote which will be added to that of 1856 in our November elec- tion. The materials are abundant for a popu lar conservative Union majority against Lincoln in New York of fifty thousand, with prope: efforts among all concerned to bring this ma- jority out. To this end the advice which Master Weed ao earnestly gives the republicans should be followed by their adversaries; for organize, organize, now and henceforward, to the close of the battle, is the word. The resolution was laid over. Ja reply to a reso- Jution of inquiry, the Corporation Counse! etated that in regard to the laying of the Croton mains in Fourth avenue, be was of opinion that all work performed by contract. The report the Committee on Assessments, ia favor of donating to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, in Fifth avenue, the eum of $7,123 71—~ a sufficient amount to remit the assessments on that institation--was adopted, Mr. Pinckney only voting in the negative, who, while he spoke favorably of the object of the institution, condemned the whole- sale system of donations. The Board concurred to cause the erection of a prison and lodging house in the rear of the Twenty-second precinct station house. The bill of ex-City Inapector Morton for services and legal expenses in June, 1859, amount- ing to $715 42, was concurred in. The salary of the first clerk in the Corporation Attorney's office was raised to $2,000, and that of the secoud clerk to $1,500. The salaries of three clerks in the office of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department were raised from $1,000 to $1,500, After the transaction | of some routine business, the Board adjonrned till Thursday. A meeting of the Board of Delegates from the was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the German Society, No. 86 Greenwich street. The counsel to the Board, Mr. Robert Johnson, submit- ted a report of operations since June last, show- | ing the number of convictions which had been ob- tained in the cases of ticket swindlers, and a com- mittee was appointed to act upon one of its sug- gestions in regard to the appointment of unworthy persons as ticket agents by the shipping mer- chants of the city. The Police Commissioners yesterday transferred Sergeant Taft, of the Ninth precinct, to the Eighth, and Sergeant Devorsney, of the Eighth, to the Ninth, after which they adjourned. A two mile trot, in harness, between Flora Tem- ple and George M. Patchen, took place yesterday on the Centreville Course. The mare won the race in two straight heats. Time, 4:554—5. According to the City Inspector’s report, there were 480 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 6 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 6 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 1 death of disease of the bones, joints, &c, 83 of the brain and nerves, 4 of the generative organs,7 of the heart and blood vessels, 131 of the lungs, throat, &c., 4 of old age, 32 of diseases of the akin and eruptive fevers, 171 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other di- gestive organs, 42 of general fevers, 4 premature births, 1 of disease of the urinary organs, and 22 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 330 natives of the United States, 89 of Ireland, 39 of Germany, 5 of England, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The cotton market exhibited rather more tone yester- day, while the sales embraced about 2,500 a 3,000 bales, including some parcels for export. Some brokers called the market for some grades ‘¢c. better. The news by the Adriatic has been anticipated by the recent decline ‘m breadstufle in this market. Had she brought accounts of bad weather a decided reaction or recovery from the recent depression would have immediately ensued. As it was, prices were steady and slightly Grmer for corn and some grades of flour, which indicates, however, no de- cided improvement. The receipts of wheat were large. with heavy enles, here and to arrive, at uachanged prices. The receipts of corm were moderate and prices rather sti‘ter. in case of prolonged siege a great deal of misery | isexpected. Pacheco is all powerful there at pre sent, so much so that on the occasion of presenting his credentials no flag but that of Spain was to be seen in the capital. Marquez, who bas been in prison for quite a considerable time, offered his services, and, it being perhaps an hour of need, they were not only accepted, but he was appointed | ba This is said to be | Threats but no- second ia command to Miramon. attrib ¢ to Pacheco’s influence. ra Craz continue to be made thing will be done till next month. Our Santa Fe advices, which are to the 10th inst., | state that Mr. Denver and assistant, who carried | the mails between Santa Fe and El Paso, had been murdered by the Indians on the Ist inst. The | savages destroyed the mail and coach, and then drove of the horses. Fifteen hundred regular troops had been ordered to the Navajo county. A number of Walker's men arrived at New Or leans frow Truxillo yesterday, Walker and Radler, | who were in prison at Truxillo, were to have been | shot on the Lith inst By ocr telegraphic despatches it will be seen that the Prince has arrived atChicago, and with charac- teristic promptness visited its prominent places of interest, and started off on a tour upon the prairies His snecess as a sportsman, however, was not so marked as it might have been, owing to the un- favorable time for the sport. The people, being wrapped up in politice,do not appesr to have made any creat demonstration over his reception, and he has consequently enjoyed more quiet than at any other place in America. A special mes senger hed arrived from the en bearing the royal mail. The party start for St. Louis to-mor row. A shocking tragedy was enacted yesterday in Morris street. An English shoemaker, named Pierrepoint, ia a fit of jeslousy. shot a Mrs. Jones, to whom he had been paying attentions. The wound is deemed a fatel one, as the vali entered the right temple and could not be extracted by the surgeons. Full particulars are given elsewher A terrific boiler explosion occurred yesterday af ternoon in the marble works of W. W. Wallace, at Pittsburg, by which several persoas were killed an many severely wounded. The force of the explo sion was so violent as to carry the boiler through several walls. The schooner Neptane’s Bride was wrecked in the storm of Thursday last on Malcomb's Ledge, between Seal Island and the Wooden Ball. Cap- tain Brows and tweive of the crew were drowned. ‘The Breckinridge Convention of the Third district nominated John C. Mather as their candidate for | Congress last evening. No nominations were made in the Fourth and Sixth districts. Elijah Ward was | pominated in the Seventh The Tammany Convention of the Third Congres ional district, after nominating Richard T. Comp ton as their candidate, broke up ia a row last even- | Ing. The Convention in the Sixth district failed to make a nomination, after the enactment of several éeqracefal scenes during the mecting. No nomi ostion was made f& the Sereuth district. In the pew mess at $19 $1425 Sugars were in good demand, with sales of 1,900 & 2.000 bhde. and 1,468 boxes, at prices given in another columa, Coffee was quiet but drmly he'd. Freights were ulte steady at Saturday's quotations, with heavy engage- ta of wheat for Liverpool, in buik and imship’s bags, at 4104., and of some 2,260 bbis. dour at 3s, 94., and boxes cheese, by sailing vessel, at 60s., with some 300 bales cotton at 7-324. for compressed, and \(d. for uncompressed. Rates to the Continent were firmer, while engegemeats were fair. The New \ork Union Movement—A Pantie at the Republican Headquarters. Our intelligent political readers, from the ar- ticle which we transfer to this paper from the New York union movement the sword of Da- mocles is suspended over the head of the repub- lean party, as by a single hair. Thurlow Weed, who knows every inch of the ground, is alarmed. He significantly inquires, “ Are not the republicans in some portions of the State taking too much for granted *” for he suspects that “the division in the democratic party is not so serions as it seems to be.” He says truly, too, that “ New York is to be the battle ground,” and that “we are therefore justified insounding out this note of alarm, and of warning our friends against the neglect of any single agency ordi- parily and wisely employed in the most closely contested elections.” Thus, from this cloud suddenly gathering over the republican camp, we perceive that this grand idea among all good Union men of a common cause against the disunion pro- gramme of the republican party has something in it of positive strength. Indeed, the success of this New York union movement for the sake of the Union is a most encouraging political event. The pressure of public opinion has been too strong for the managing old party hack politicians concerned, and thefr petty per- sonal feuds and factions disputes. They have been superseded by the paramount question of the defeat of Lincoln. so loudly demanded by | the solid Union masees of our people. The re- ult is» common Union electoral ticket for New York, upon which all the conservative forces of the Empire State. old line democrats, whigs, Americans and repub!icans, Clay men, Fill- more men, Dovglas men. Breckinridge men, Bell men and Fremont men, may be rallied into a popular majority of 50,000. We have so frequently shown, from the offi- clal records of our last four years’ elections. the immense resources of this State against the republican party and ite ‘one idea” of an in cessant and no-qnarter conflict with sla very, that it were wecless here to re. | produce the @gures. Swifice it for the present | that in 1856 the combined vote to New York done for the city casting over $260 should be | democratic usages, or American principles, or of | old whig principles, or any euch rubbish. Al! various national Emigrant Societies of this city | Roman Marches, in order Let there be no more of these ridiculous fac- these things are “obsolete ideas.” There ia | ‘but one idea, one question, one alternative, ia this canvass—the success or the defeat of this republican party end its crusade of extermina- tion against the “slave power.” New York is called to the rescue—New York holds the balance of power—she can, and we hope she will, wield it to the defeat of Lincoln, in a choice between the supremacy of the constitu: tion, under which we are bound to recognise and respect the domestic institutions of the slave States, or the “irrepressible conflict.” under which Southern slavery is to be put down within the brief term of Lincoln’s administra- tion. Garibaldi in Napiec—The New Era of Italy, and Beering on Europe. Garibaldi has entered Naples, and Victor Emanuel has ordered his troops to occupy the “to prevent the po- pular hatred from unloosing itself against the oppressors of the couatry.”” The importance of these two events, which come to us in the news from Europe by the Adriatic, cannot be over estimated. They indi- cate the early triumph of the Napoleonic po- licy in Italy, which aims at a reconstruction of ancient and enduring forms upon the new elements of the present age. For twenty cen- turies the national intellect and life of the Ita- lian peninsula have been oppressed by strangers, and rendered almost abortive by intestine divi- sions and foreign rule; yet, if we follow its history backward on the stream of time, we find | that, even in its decay and almost impotence, it has beer the cradle of much of our present civilization and art; that still farther back it was the guardian of our faith; before that it re- ceived and expanded the elements of the expir- ing civilization of Greece, long previous to which we find it the only founder of States on the power which enabled it to bind for so many ages many heterogeneous peoples in one State. The simple exclamation, “I am a Roman citi- zen,” preserved the individual from oppression and spoliation by local tyrants and military rulers, and secured a judgment on his rights under the great principles of Roman law. The degeneracy of the empire has been imitated in the transitory creations of Charlemagne, the hollow assumptions of the Austrian and Russian | empires, and the imperious spiritual sway which the Church of Rome bas sought to perpetuate. But the entrance of Garibaldi into Naples, and the advance of Victor Emanuel’s troops into the Papal States to establish the rule of law and justice. are events which verge on the re- establishment of the Italian nation on the only permanent principles on which society can be constituted. An Italian kingdom of twenty-six millions of people, freely working under the great scheme of regulated liberty, must pro- duce vast results in Europe. We pass over its effecta in the material point of view: for how- ever great these may be, they will be far sur- passed by the moral and political events that will follow. The Papal empire becomes re- duced now to a mere spiritual expression, in which it will be more powerful for good than ever before, and impotent for evil, which it should always have been. The Italian intel- lect will now be able to work ont its mission under the forms which it created, and which so long constituted the life and energy of the | Albany Jowrnal, will discover that in this | Roman republic. Their modernization into a constitutional monarchy will preserve those forms from the degeneracy that attended them in the time of the Cwsars, and perpetuate their influence in the affairs of continental Europe. And ‘it is there that we may look for the chief results of fLouis Napoleon's Italian policy. With a Latin kingdom or ganized on truly constitutional principles, ab- solutism becomes impossible in France, and must disappear from Austria and Russia. ‘The logical mind of Louis Napoleon has seen this clearly and acted upon it. He knows that the Napoleonic dynasty can only hope to re- main on the French throne by making that thegine a constitutional one. He foresees that — a constitutional throne cannot be permanently established in France until similar thrones exist around it. These can be created omly by @riv- | ing the Austrian dynasty from Italy and Ger- | many, and when this is accomplished no man claiming to rule by virtue of “the grace of God” can drive the Napoleonic dynasty from France.. There will be no more empires to make common cause against the liberties of the French people. Hence the entrance of Garibaldi into Naples is the signal, not of the overthrow of King Bomba-—that sig- nal we bave seen long since--but of the overthrow of dynastic rule throughout Eu- rope. France, Austria and Russia must acknowledge the ruling idea of constitutional government. By this we do not mean of con- stitutions granted by kings in moments of fear, to be taken away by them when confidence and pride again sway them, but constitutions made and enacted by the people through their leaders | and representatives. | What may be the effects of this re-establish- | ment of the national life of Italy upon its own | mind and energies time only can reveal. But | we cannot ovee estimate their value. The | people who firet worked out the problem of po- | litice! society, who grasped and improved the intetlectnal developement of Grecian ciritiza- petuated the existence of Christianity, and who, even in their decay and degradation, reeusci- tated the expiring arts, gave « new impulse to commerce and organized the laws of naviga- tion, may be expected to do much in any aad every career they may adopt. The new ele- ments of society are in every way available to the great principles of the Roman republic; and, worked out under these, with equal justice to all classes and every individual, by the new life and energy.of Italy, ite intellect may soon again change the face of Europe. How te Pat Down Fanaticism. Agreat public meeting of the enlightened citizens of New York ought to be called imme- diately to denounce the revival in our midst of that epirit of religious famaticiam which ‘has depopulated and desolated Christendom for ages. It ought to be nipped in the bud before it bears its fatal fruit {or the poisoning of our social relations, and the loosening of those bonds of fraternity and equality which ought to unite together all citizens of this republic, without regard to their religious creed or the place of their nativity. It is the most dangerous element of national discord that ever entered into the politics of a people. Many atime has it been a wedge to split up nations—a small portion of the thinner end being at firet introduced, and creating but little alarm, but driven home by degrees and by repeated strokes, till it had accom- plished its deadly work. It has been the cause of the most bloody civil wars in Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Great Britain and Ireland. In those couatries it has shed torrents of human blood, and even in the United States, when they were yet British colonies, it put to the rack innoceat men and women, and ostracised the Quakers, the best and most inoffensive citizens. Cod- dington, Winthrop and other Episcopalians were exiled. Vane, the fourth Governor, one df their own sect, was banished because he would not identify himself with their persec::- tions, and Roger Williams, a minister of their own, had to flee the colony and take refuge in Rhode Island for merely preaching toleration to the Baptists. Even women were persecuted for their religious opinions. As for Catholics. according to an act of 1647, @ person only suspected of Popery was to be banished, and if he returned was to be hung; but, warned by a previous law, which enacted “perpetual imprisonment or death” against Papists, and authorized the arrest “without warrant” of all who were suspected, the Catho lica kept out of the colony and escaped the penalty. The founder of the persecuting sect, which took root in New Engtand, was Robert Brown, from whom his dis. ciples were called Brownists. Several of them had been hanged in England for their opposition to the Episcopal religion as by law established. They gained nothing by experi- ence, but, on the contrary, established a State religion themselves. and denied liberty of conscience to all who differed from them. There was nobody to persecute them here; but they were determined that the system of perse- cution should not die, and so proceeded to com- pel all to join their church and observe their ordinances, or suffer the severest penalties. They believed themselves to be the saints of the Lord, and the land to be consequently theirs by divine right, and all outaide of their commun- | ion to be reprobates. This spiritual pride is the basis of their whole superstructure—the arrogant assumption that they were better than other men. “Stand by thyself; I am holier than thou,” was their impudent and presumptuous language. The next step, establishing a State religion, like the Jewish theocracy, with punish- ment even to death for disobedience, is but the natural progress of the sect. Toleration was not to be thought of. Hence, according to Belknap, we find Oakes, President of Harvard College, in the year 1675, declare that he “looked upon toleration as the first born of all abominations.” Hutchinson informs us that toleration was preached against as asin in rulers that would bring down the judgment of Heaven on the land; and Mr. Dud- ley, one of their distinguished leaders, died with verses in his pocket, written by his own hand, of which the two following elegant and highly postical lines may be regarded as exhib- iting the spirit of the whole, and putting the creed of New England in a nutshell:— Let men of God in court aad churches watch O’er such as do a toleration baich. Judge Story, a New England man, justly ob- serves:—“The fundamental error of our an- cestors—an error which began with the very tettlement of the colony—was a doctrine which bas since been happily exploded. I mean the necessity ofa union between church and State. To this they clung as the ark of their safety.” The doctrine is exploded, but a remnant of the old leaven still works, and it is hoped by the fanatics it will yet leaven the whole mass of the people. A letter from James Cudworth, dated from Plymouth, in 1658, says:-—“The anti Christian persecuting spirit is very ac- tive, and that in the powers of this world, be that will not whip and lash, Persecute and punish, men that differ in matters of religion, must not sit on the bench, nor sustain any office in the Commonwealth.” This man had been » magistrate himself in the colony. Among the ancient Jews a poor man was sen- tenced to be stoned to death for gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath. Following the in- | stitutions of Moses, the first draft of the laws of Maeeachusetts by Cotton Mather made profaning the Lord's day « capital offence. The punish- ment of death was erased by Winthrop, but no alteration was effected in the provision which for- bade persons from walking in the streets or fields on that day, after the example of Christ | and bis disciples. In Connecticut the Sabbath laws were as follows:- No one shall ran on the Sabbath day, or walk in his or elsewhere, except reverentiy to sad from ‘ victuals, make beds, sweep See oe ¢ ere Oars ee @ erecting themselves into « spiritual oligarchy. have borrowed their persecuting ideas which they are attempting to engraft upon the free spi- ritfof our laws: and injthe republican party they find willing tools. The unconstitutional liquor enactments, the Sunday regulations against tra- velling or refreshments, and the despotism of the new police system, are the offepring of a re- publican Legisiature. the first instalment of ! tion, who exlarged the foundations and per-| what isto come if the party should only be not only will the Southera Gistes be coerced into the abandonment of their tnstitutions, but the men of the Nort will be brought under the iron discipline cf Brown'sm revived. The Ger- man is now deprived of his loger bier and bis public “garden” on Sunday. But the time may seon come when he will not be allowed to walk even in his private garden or yard, or to kize his vow on theSabbath day. If, then, this intolerance is to be crushed out before it gains strength, let citizens of all nationalities—Ame- ricaa, Irish, and particularly German—assembie in a great public meeting to pronounce against the revival of the abominations of the dark ages, upon which every liberal and enlightened mind looke back with horror. Forrest and the American Drama—The Latest Metropolitan Sensation. It has been very truly said of ua that we de- light in sensations. Sometimes our sensation is political, eometimes diplomatic (as in the case of the Japanese), sometimes historical and poetic (na in the visit of the Prince of Wales), eometimes maritime (as in the voyage of the Great Eastern). These sensations react upon the newspapers—we mean newspapers in the true gene of the term, which reflect the state of the public mind—and we bave sensation de- scriptions of the latest eeasation, done in the sensation style. That makes sensation journal- ism. which is of the very highest order, because it depicts passing events exactly as they im- press themselves upon the masses of the people. To be eure it bothers our British cousinseome- what; but tbat is to be expected, in the natural course of thinge. They will know better by- and-by. Just now the latest sensation is in the Literary, artistic and fashionable world, and it is a theatrical one. It is a long time since there was a theatrical sensatioa in New York. Latterly the legitimate drama has at- tracted no special notice. It seemed as if all the great actors bad died out, and left no successors. Melpomeue, in point of fact, has besM prt NBN the retived list. Thalia, Eu- terpe and Terpsichore bave reigned supreme, The tragic muse, in utter despair, had resolved to swallow her own poison. The old playgoers mourned over, the departed glories of the Park, and betook themselves to long dinners aad short whist. French comedies and melodramas kept the theatrical stage, and the votaries of the classic plays solaced themselves with the Opera. But nous avons changé tout cela. A mighty magician, in the person of Forrest, has changed in one week the whole order of things theatrical, and restored the masses to their old time alle- giance. Shakspere, a sensation playwright, is once more the prime favorite with the public. During the past week Mr. Forrest has played Hamlet four times, to houses which have been literally jammed. With each succeeding per- formance the demand for places increases, and the run of the play seems likely to be almost interminable. People put themselvee to all sorts of inconvenience and personal discomfort ia order to get a sight at the stage, and ladies re main standing in the lobbies and corridors throughout a performance which continues dur- ing nearly four hours. And in these vast crowds, which might be doubled if the theatre was sufficiently capacious, the most perfect order reigns. While the play is going on there is the most profound stillness, broken only by fierce bursts of applause. It is clear, then, that Mr. Forrest bas made a sensation. and that he returns to the American stage without a rival near the throne. He over- tops all bis fellows, as Ulysees towered above the Grecian hosts. It is not to be wondered at, either, that there are persons who do not understand the merits of the new sensation, and who attempt to put down Forrest by at- tacking him for the very peculiarities, mental and physical, which have made him so success- ful. These fellows are generally foreign advea- turers, washed across the Atlantic by the over- flow of Europesn civilization, and they stupidly expect to mould matters ia this new country, full of live mes and fresh vitality, tp the con- ditions of the old and effete European sys- fers. It is the same thing with them in letters as in art. We remember one of these philosophers who had written a book and complained because it was called a “sensation novel.” “Very well,” replied the reviewer, “I shall be very happy to correct the statement, and to say that the book made no sensation whatever. “ And that is always the case with such people, who are so far lost in the contemplation of their own presumed im- portance that they can see nothing of what is going on around them. As to Mr. Forrest, the seeret of his succeds is plain enovgh to people who understand the American mind. Acting, according to Shakspere and common sense, is to show the very age and body of the time, and by conse- quence to be varied according to the idiosyn- cracies of the player's audience. Thus the Greeks had their style, the English theirs and the French theirs. The American style has yet to be formed. Mr. Forrest has commenced the work, and as we are building up a new civiliza- tion upon the relics of the past, ahd as our art and literature are necessarily «a composite, in which we take all the good in the old schools as a foundation, and then work it up with our own ideas, it follows that any slavish imi- tation or reproduction of any one system, no matter how excellent it may bave been in its day, will never answer with us. Here is the great error made by some of Mr. Forrest's critics. They have generally a little learning, some facility of language and a technical know- ledge of what are called the canons of criticism. So they wrap themselves up in their self con- ceit, and attempt to measure the pyramids with afoot rule. That is, if Forrest does not play Hamlet as Brown, or Smith, or Jenkins, did twenty years ago, it follows that Mr. Forrest connot play Hamlet at all, and the public is | very stupid to think that he can, and to pay him so handsomely for attempting it. And the fast is that, in the opinion of the old pleygoers who remember the great actors twenty or thirty years ago, Mr. Forrest's Ham- let is unlike the performances of the character by the elder Kean, Charles Kemble, Booth or Macready. Kean waa fall of fire, mercu- tial, enthusiastic, electrical. He played for great points, and made them. His was the of « man of genins, wild, erratic and impulsive. It could | not be said of him that he belonged to any na- tion or country—-his kingdom was all Christen- but, Like everything else, Forrest leaves all these traditions to the sleep of the just, and plays Hamlet as he understands ix, taking the plain meaning of the text, and coa- veying it without any nonsense or affectation to the audience. The’ people say, “We can ua- derstand Forrest, we know what he is at, cod therefore we accept and exait him.” The pertormance is a fullblooded one. The actor eeems in earnest, and in all bis characteristics he is thoroughly American. He comes, to use @ favorite expression of Jackson, from the “body of the people,” aud represents it fully. Still, Mr. Forrest is no brawler; he is not rude nor vulgar. He ie simpiy alive man, ful! of mental and physical vigor. And he tempers the fortiler in re with a judi- cious admixture of the suaviler in modo. Nothing can be finer than his meeting with his o'd echoolfellow, bis scenes with the players, and his farewell to Ophelia. And his delivery of the noble soliloquies gives to them beauty. And, to sum up, Mr. Forreet’s Hamlet— the ideal of the character, we mean—is entirely | hisown. He has brought to bear upon it a fresh, vigorous American iotelligence, and of coume it is the best performance for aa American audience. Itis the Hamlet of to-day, and the actor renders the story as if its inci- dents ocenrred yesterday. So Mr. Forrest has given us the freshest and most agreeable sensation of the day. It is not likely to die out very soon, either. We under- stand thet he is engaged for three hundred nights, and receivea five hundred dollars pec night. This engagement will be flaished ia about a year and a half; so that Mc. Forrest will evjoy a clear income of one hiinared thon, sand dollars per annum—a pleasant admixture of the bank note and the laurel. And when he finally retires from the scene of hia present triumphs, we should not be at all surpriazed if some sevsatien constituency in this city or | Philadelphia should take him up and send him to Congress, to give the Hoosiers and fire- eaters some iden of good language and good manners. They might, indeed, have dome a great deal worse. Newsrarer Amentrtes.—In the telegraphic report of the Prince of Wales’ movements, pub- lished in our issue of Saturday, there occurs a paragraph which would not have appeared bat for the lateness of the hour at which the de- epatch wae received. We allude to the passage which reflects censure on the reporters of two journals—the London Times and the Tridune—foe certain steps which they thought proper to take | in the discharge of their avocations. The ia- siduation that they intruded themselves on the special train of the Prince without permis- sion was probably suaceptible of expla- pation, and if true, should have beea accompanied by a full statement of the ciroam- stances. But we hold that it is wrong for re- porters to make such charges against eack other at all, for their duties are sufficiently in- vidious and arduous without having added te them the embarrassments of a personal comtro- versy. Having accounted for the manner ia which the paseage in question crept into our columns, we may be permitted the remark that our Eag- lich contemporaries, but particularly the Londoa Tires, are pot themrelves over particular in the language which they employ towards the Amesi- can press. We observe, for example, that they have latterly taken to using the epithet “sea- sation journals” when speaking of our news- papers. English journalists should remember, however, that as the characteristics of the two nations diger, eo occasionally does the meaning of the same word at either side of the Atlantic. ‘We are a young, ambitions and energetic people, ever aiming at distancing in the race of enterprise the older communi- ties of the world. We are daily achieving things which our rivals are content to dream of, or which they have despairéd of accomplish- ing. If we startle and compel their admiration by our discoveries and innovations, we can fairly lay claim to the character of “a sensation of which it is the organ, we are satisfied to: ac- cept for our newspapers the title of “sensation journals.” To the same classification belong all those great names which have given value and celebrity to the literature and science of Eag- land. Shakspere and Milton were sensation bvarde, and Bacon and Newton sensation philo- sophers. In applying the phrase to our news- papers out of vexation for the manner in which they have been outstripped by them in the re- ports of the Prince of Wales’ progress in Cana- da, it is but right that our London contempo- raries should be informed that an Eaglish terms of reproach may be a full favored term of Yaa- kee laudation. Mone Caxenixe News rrom Pexssrivaxa— From various intelligent sources in Penasyi- work in that State against the republican party. Of itself that party in said State is in a very feeble minority. In 1856, with the whole force of the Fillmore party to help it in the October election, the Fremont cause was lost. What chance, then, can there be for the republican cause in this approaching Peansylvania October election, with anything like fusion among the democracy, when we are assured that trom fifty to sixty thousand Bell-Bverett men. old line whigs and Americans will support Foster, the popular Union democratic candidate for Governor’ Ob, but there are Hickman and Forney ia the way. We know it. But Hickman, having joined the republicans, can do no more mischief in the disguise of a democrat. Tired of that flimsy domino, he has, like an honest man, thrown it off. As for Forney. his position is very well understood. Bought and paid for by the republicans at the last session of Congress, he te simply doing his best to serve his masters in the character of a spy in the democratic camp. All this being known to all men, Forney and his little clique in this | Canvass are making fools of nobody but them- | selves. We count. therefore, upon a splendid victory to the Union cause in Pennsylvania fn ber coming October election, In this view, how- dom. Charles Kemble was the most graceful, | ever, let our New York political financiers be. gentle and sweetly melancholy of princes. | ware of all Pennsylvania party money beggacs. © | Let it be remembered that when Forney was He excelled in courtly observances and the petits soins of bigh life. He paid much atten: tion to new readings, and was at times justa ‘called before the Congressional Com- mittee to account for the New York democratic ' ie! |