The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GUKRVDUN BENNETTS, EDITOR ANU PROPRIESOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NA TERMS. camp tm advance — downey seni Oy wmuuns wns ow oat 9h « wikul Che vader Postage sunpe aot reemtoad as suimertnmon wom THE VALLY HERALD 100 conta per cops THE WEEKLY HEKALD, ory Saiur LJ copy, oF #1 90 per annum we “rile HaSliiy WEALD on Wedtnemlay, wt (aur conte oe “WoLuNtaRy CORRESPONDENC ewe, solteited from any guarter of the liberal rt id 7 cyeaney Weanearas to 1B, comtarning wnportant Noort. if sed will b soe CORRESPONDENTS AK tk LSFTERA AND PACK * Partioutancy ea. AGES KENT UF ADVERTISEMENTS renewed moery day sorted im the Wanaiy He! Fauiy advertisomente tm Hawai, and in the California and European Bdilwon me XXV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Gov MANNEKING—PLE WANT DRIGILIOR, BOWERY THEATRE. 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Binge copies, fo wrappers, six conty ‘The contents of the Evaorsas Eprrion or ram Mausty will combige the news received by mail and telegraph at (he office during the previous week, and up W the hour of publication | The bids for the $10,000,000 government loan— half of the sum authorized to be borrowed by the | last Congress—were opened at the Treasury Depart- ment yesterday. The bonds bear five per cent in- terest, and are redeemable in ten years. A | complete list of the names of the bidders, their lo- eation, the amounts bid by each, and the premiums | offered, is given among our telegraphic despatches. ‘There were forty-six bidders, for various amounts, the aggregate being half a million over the sum re- quired. The premiums offered are less than here. tofore. There were no bids from any of the Southern States. By the arrival of the pony express at St. Joseph, Mo., yesterday, we have San Francisco advices to the 10th inst. and later accounts from Oregon. The political canvass in the Pacific States was pro- greasing with unuseal vigor. An election of United Btates Senators was held by the Oregon Legislature on the 2d inst., in legal form, and resulted in the choice of J. W. Neswith, Douglas democrat, for the long term, and E. D). Baker, non-intervention republican, for the term. The news ef this event caused great excitement among the republicans of California, who believe that Oregon may go for Lincoln if Mr. Baker can be indaced to canvass the State. In- teligence had reached San Francisco of the mas- short | braced about 800 bags Rio | ane 660 bales cotton at Xd. 14 of England 98 ef Ireland, Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun tries. ‘The case of Nathaniel Gordon, Wm, Warren and Dovid Hall, charged with serving as captain and first and second mates on board the ship Erie, which was captured on the coast of Africa with be- ! nine hundred slaveg on board, was United States Commissioner 1 t ven eight & n up before Morell yeeterday, Warren was examined, and gave a nariative of the proceedings of the ship while he was on board of her, A full report of his testimony is given into-day’s paper, Theexamina- tion will be continued te-day, In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, Edwin Hodgdon, indicted for the murder (in the second degree) of William John Cunningham, on the 4th of July last, by stabbing him with a knife, was postponed till Friday next. The trial of John Dunpigan, charged with murder in the second de- gree, was set down for Thursday next. An extensive fire occurred between three and four o'clock yesterday morning, among tho frame buildings known as Townsend's Block, located be- tweea Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets and Six h avenue and Broadway. The amount of pro: perty destroyed is not large, but upwards of twen- ty poor families have been rendered destitute by the conflagration, and many of the inmates of the frail and combustib!e buildings escaped from the flames in their night clothes. A list of the premt- ses burned and their occupants may be found in avother column, Not long since a@ commision was despatched to Havana to examine Isaac VY. Fowler, late Post- master of this city, relative to the liability of his men. The replies of Mr. Fowler to the inter- es propounded to him by the commissioner ished in today’s paper. bon rogi are pu The cotton market was again firmer and active yestor. day, The tales embraced about 6,000 bales, part tn transitu, closing on the banis of about 113%(c, showing an advance of about ye. per pound over the bighest quotations of Suturday last, The recent frost, with accounts of anc ther storm on the Southern coast, imparted more strength to the market, aud caused holders to be leas willing soliers. Few persone now carry their estimates of the crop to four millions of bales, ‘The tlour market was beavy and lower for common and medium grades of State and Western while extra grades were comparatively unchanged Wheat was easier, but active, with free sales at prices given im another column. Corn wag active, and sales large wt steady prices. Pork was in moderate re- quest, The sales embraced new mons at $19 26 a $19 30, and new prime at $14 260 $14 60. Sugars were quict, while prices were steady. Tho sales embraced only about 200 4 3(0 hbds, Cuba muscovado and 62 do. melado at +teady prices. Coffee was unchanged, The sales em at live. Freights were steady acd more active. Among the engegements to Liverpool were 90.000 bushels wheat and 25,000 do. corn, atyrates given cleewbere; four at 3s. Sd. and 3s. 45¢4., To London flour was ea- gaged at Se Od., and toGlasgow wheat was taken, in ship's more | bags, at 134. Alarming Progress of Revolation at the South. We publieh to-day a number of letters from Southern correspondents, and articles from the Southern prees, showing the alarming progress of revolution at the other side of Msson and Dixon’s line. The revolutionary programme of the black republicans at the North, and the near prospect of the election of their chief, are pre cipitating the secessionist and even the conser- vative elements of the South into revolution and civil war. Already are preparations for hostilities being made in Virgivia, and the arming and organization are going forward with vigor, as described by our Interesting Richmond correspondence. If we are to believe the state- ment of another well written and eloquent letter from another of the border States, Maryland is also in the incipient stage of revolution, and every border State will stand by the action of any one or more of the cotton States which may secede, and will resist to the death any | attempt to coerce them into subjection to the federal power. The writer says that the at- sacre by the Snake Indians, near Salmon Falls, of | an entire emigrant train, consisting of forty-six | persons, twenty-seven of whom were women and | children. Of the nineteen males in the party six | were discharged soldiers from Fort Hall. Only | one man escaped the butchery, and he, after tra- velling seven days without food, was discovered in an exhausted condition and taken to the Dallas. ‘Trade at San Francisco was active, and the mar- | kets were quiet. The steamship Bienville, from New Orleans Mth and Havana 17th inst., arrived at this port yester- day. She encountered the recent northeasterly gale on the sth, and had strong winds, with heavy sea and thick weather, during the entire passage. When the Bienville sailed a hurricane was antici pated, and the Admiral had issued orders to the Spanish fleet to be in readiness to meet it. The news from Havana is unimportast. The city was perfectly healthy, the yellow fever having entirely disappeared. The United States steamer Crusader was at Havana on the 17th. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- noon, but transacted no business of importance. ‘The following is a list of the chief business trans- tempt of the republican President to force his Northern office holders on the South would be sufficient to commence the bloody fray, but that bis election will be regarded by the South as Cesar crossing the Rubicon. The people of Mississippi and Alabama | speak, through their press, their determination to right themselves outside of the Union, and not within. The Charleston Mercury, which expresses the sentiments of the citizens of South Carolina, is equally bold, and proclaims that “now or never” is the time for action, for the emancipation of the South from North- ern aggression, or the retiring of the Southern States from the Union. That old and respecta- ble organ of the Palmetto State counsels the people not to postpone their measures till after the inauguration of Lincoln, and the armed force of the North is at his disposal, as their action may then be too late. The same sentiment is uttered im Virginia. A Georgia paper suggests the mode of bring- ing the revolution to a crisis. It advises that acted. The sum of $4,366 was appropriated from the receipts of the Excise Commissioners for the | benefit of the State Inebriate Asylum. A reso- | tion was offered by Supervisor Weinman, directing | the Commissioners of Police to provide a ballot | box for the reception of the votes of persons who | desire to vote on the question of ‘ Property Quali- fication.” It was lost. The bill of Sheriff Kelly for the quarter ending October 1, amounting to $5,074 50, was referred to a committee. Several reports were received and the usual routine matter attended to, when the Board adjourned until next | Monday, at three o'clock P. M. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last | evening, a resolution was adopted authorizing the | appointment of Assistant Health Wardens in the different wards of the city at salaries of three dol- | Jars a day for each. The salary of Mr Ewin, Superintendent of Street Improvements, was raised from $2,000 to $3,000 a year. The other Business | transacted was of minor importance. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, when a large batch of reports of commit- tees were presented and laid over for fature action, A number of general orders were adopted; among them were reports from the Committee on Streets of the Aldermen, in favor of paving East Broad way, from Chatham square to Grand street, with Helgian pavement, and Twenty-fourth street, from Rixth avenue to Broadway. A resolution appro priating $600 to purchase a new carriage for Hose Co. No. 16 was adopted. A report directing the paving of Broadway, from Seventeenth street to Madison square, with trap block pavement, was adopted, after which the Board adjourned to meet on Tharsday. According to the City Inspector's report there were 414 deaths in this city during the past week, an increase of 29 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 48 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of aiseases of the | bones, joints, &c., 80 of the brain and nerves, 2 ot | the generative organs, 7 of the heart and blood vessels, 123 of the lungs, throat, &., 5 of old age, 24 of diseases of the ekin and eruptive | fevers, 13 premature births, 91 ef diseases of the | stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 64 of general fevers, 2 af diseases of the urinary organs, 1 unknown, and 2t from violent causes. The ni tivity table gives 270 natives of the United States, either South Carolina, Mississippi or Alabama should secede, and then if the central govern ment at Wasbington should attempt to coerce them, every Southern State would rally around them and the secession would become general, and a new Soutbern confederacy be formed im- mediately out of the broken Union. That Georgia will go with the seceders we are fully | sseured. That alarge majority of the people of South Carolina, Mississippi bama are prepared to take and Ala- the deci. | sive step of secession there is but too much reason to fear. The inflammable materials are there, the train of gunpowder is Jaid, and it only requires that the match of the incendiary, the torch of the Wide Awake, be applied, in order to set the whole South in one bloze. The air is rife with revolution and secession. The partisans of Breckinridge, the partisans of Bell and the partisans of Douglas at the South, and they include nearly the whole population, agree in one thing, however they may differ in other matters. They all concur as to the cer- tainty of revolution if Lincoln should be elected, while each party contends that the election of its own ticket alone can avert the calamity. The Richmond Whiz, and Mr. HiU, of Georgia, whose letter we publieh, insist that only the election of Beil can eave the Union. | The Richmond Bnguirer, on the contrary, de- clares that if Virginia shoald go for Bell, and not for Breckinridge, the cotton States will re. gard this as a casus belli, and secession will be precipitated beyond the power of man to ar- rest its course. Without discussing the points on which the | Southern people more or less differ, we may take that on which they seem to be agreed, and that ie, that the election of Lincoln will be the tignal for a revolt, which nothing but his defeat can prevent. As we sre within a fortnight of — the time when that question is to be decided at the ballot box, we think our readers will admit that we are on the eve of by far the greatest Conger that ever threatened the country, and NEW YORK HERALD, TCESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. of Germany, Sof | that every man who values the freedom he eo- joys, and knows how to appreciate the great- | ness, the glory, the prosperity and the strength | of the United States, ought to ponder well how be may best prevent the impending ruin which | will make there States disuvived States, aud inaugurate a reign of terror, anarchy and | bloodshed without a precedent io the anna's | of civilized nations. That Lincoln will be elected, unlers some | eudden change comes over the spirit of our | Worthern dream, can hardly admit of a doubt | | in any umprejndiced mind which closely | watches passing political events and is capsble of estimating their value. For the consequences no wise man will be disposed to answer, The unthinking multitude, as in all past ages, are sleeping unconsciously on a volcano, which is already uttering its low murmurings, premoni- tory of eruption, and may at any moment send | forth ite irresistible fiery flood to overwhelin | and desolate wherever it comes. Such is the terri ble crisis to which the abolition sentiment and the black republican party have brought the | country at last. | whe Prince and the Press—After the Play. Now that the greatdrama of the year 1540 bas been played out—the chief actors en rowe | for home, and the sybordinates returued to their usual occupations in real life—we find here and there a few scattered souvenirs of the grand performance. Some of these “inconsidered tri- fles” are to be found in the Canadian papers, which ever and anon proceed to fight the Orange battle over again, doubtless with some ob- ject in view, although, to external observers, Canadian politics are, like the ways of Divine Providence and the verdict of petit juries, ut- terly inscrutable. A little clearer are the com- ments of the Halifax papers upon the letters of the special correapondent of the London Times. The criticisms which we have deemed it neces sary to make upon the Thunderer’s letters are mild as June breezes when compared with the trenchant and crushing attacks of our Nova Scotia cotemporaries. The Halifax editore— we have published elsewhere some citations from their articles—accuse the London Times corres- pendent of incompetency, stupidity, helplessness and intentional misrepresentation. To use a law- | yer’s phrase, they have not left hima leg to stand upon. And so we leave him to be slaughtered in the house of his friends. So far as the general eubject of the Prince's reception is concerned, it was a grand poetic comedy of real life and mavners. The heir ap- parent starts, like a nineteenth century Telema- chus, upon his travels, and, with his Mentor—a difficult réle, most admirably filled in our come- dy—escapes all the shoals and quicksands which beset his Grecian prototype. The first act opens in the British provinces, and is justa little serious. Some of the characters are hor- tibly jealous of each other. Others nuree se- cret aspirations, and walk about expecting every moment to receive the accolade of knight- hood, or to be decorated with the most honora- ble Order cf the Bath. When cold water is thrown upon their pretensions, these chaps su!k and phi- losophize in the true Wormwood style. Still our comedy moves on pleasantly enough. Young Hamlet and his train are much glori- fied, and countless flat-hatted, rosy-cheeked tirens wave their white arms beckoning Tele- machus to enchanted shores. There are ludi- crous incidents, too—clownish Mayors, Dog- berrian policemen and rare specimens of puffed. up officials of every grade. As the play pro- greeses we find it becoming a little more seri- ous—the Orange element giving it just enough of variety to prevent it from becoming stale by constant repetition of /ftes, balls, addresses and triumphal marches. Distinctly the best portion of the comedy was enacted in the United States. When Telema- chus left the Canadian shore he shook off his royal state; petty jealousies, small aspirations, little intrigues, threatened rebellions, were all forgotten. The Prince, young, fresh, buoyant, full of animal spirits, found himself in a new country, the people of which partook of his own characteristics—Young England and Young America embraced and kissedeach other. Men- tor may have shook his head at some infractions of courtly etiquette; the May Fair and Horse Gusrd swells were poesibly shocked with the freedom of Western manners—all this helped the comedy; but the Prince was like another young Rapid, or Rover, or Jack Absolute; or, better than all, Prince Hal, of Falstaffian fame. Doubtless he understood our people better than any of the noblemen and gentlemen about him, as he came among us fresh and free from an- tique prejudices. Undoubtedly he liked young free America better than old fogy England, with her thousand stupid restrictions and ab- surd forms of etiquette, which fetter royalty, so that neither hand nor foot may be moved ex- cept by rule. The actors in our comedy are numbered by millions. Everybody, from the President of the United States down to the little maidens who are just able to wave their tiny kerchiefs, is in the bill of the play. And everybody has tried to play his or her part as well as possible. So we must not be hypercritical. Let useven say a good word for the fine old pecunious gen- tlemen like Peter Cooper, who played Polonius, or Malvolio, or Lord Duberly, in our comedy: they were as important to the play as the dames and demoiselles who assisted the Prince in his | terpeichorean operations. When we have the lights, the dresses, the beauty, the compliments, the banquets, and all the pomp, pride and cir- | cumstance of the dramatic art, we must likewise | have our jesters and our clowns. Otherwise | our plsy would be dull. As it is, the new comedy bas had what the French call a yeri- table success. The accounts of its performance | will attract much attention on the other side of the water, We fancy that some of the nobility | and gentry—the old fogy section especially— will be bothered entirely with it. It pnts ue in a new and most favorable light before the world, and is worth all the money it cost, and more, too. Avsornen Mevioat, Moxver.—Every week or two we are compelled to record a care of death by poison, ariting from “the ignorance or care- lesenees either of physicians or druggists. An- otber case of this kind occurred on Saturday, in Sullivan street, in the death of a child, by the administration of morphine instead of quinine, the result of alleged carelessness on the part of the druggist who made up the doctor's pre- scription. ‘The laws regulating the practice of medicine the public from ignorant physicians and iacom petent druggists. Grand Juries and the District Attorney can do a good deal towards checking malpractice iv both these protessions if they do their duty. fearlessly; but there ie only one certain mode of prevention, and that ia the enactment of a law whereby po unqualified physician can pre ecribe, and po uneducated druggist compound, medicines except on pain of severe and exem plary puvirhment. The things called diplomas, by virtue of which a mun is now considered regular physician, are often nothing more than licenses to kill patients. The whole law should be remodelled, and the educated pbysician tbould be subjected to the same tests and put upon the same footing as he is in the cities of Europe With the same rule applied a'so to druggists, we should have very few, if any, euch groes cases as this last one to comment upon. D) masties i Democracies—The Charac- teristic Contest of the Age. There is a class of politicians in Eogland, of which Lord Grey is a representative man and the London Post a medium of utterance, that are much exercired at the growing power of the United States. As a echool they can be properly denomi- nated the dynastic, and the great object of their fears and hatred is the practical democracy which is in successful exhibition here. Without knowing anything more of our government than can be obtained by a theoretical study at a distance of three thousand miles, and a limited perusal of an occasional party newspaper, Lord Grey rites in the House of Lords and pronounces our government a failure, because, as he opines, an unbridled democracy has removed the checks and balances imposed by Washington; and the London Post assures its readers that the Prince of Wales will return to England frem America, having acquired wisdom by observing the evils of an unbridled democracy here. To the first of these fallacies Mr. Everett has replied in a courteous and logical oration, and the second will no doubt receive a com- plete refutation from the impressions with which the Prince and his suite have returned to England. But there is a more broad and philosophical view to be taken of the position of this dynastic school of politicians than was adopted by Mr. Everett, or will be apparent in the impressions of the Prince of Wales. The great error of the dynastic school of politicians is that they do not recognize the im- mente change that has taken place in the theory of government that prevailed previous to the closing quarter of the last century. The world has moved, and is still moving, but they are like the ecclesiastics who compelled Gali- leo to recant his assertion that our globe re- volved on its axis, because, as they said, such an idea was in contradiction to the Bible. But in epite of priests and politicians, the world still mover, and bence the conflict between the dynasties and the democracies. According to the first the art of government is an art exer- cised by born legislators, who constitate 8 euperior class in eociety, clustering round the throne and filling all the public posts of emolument and honor for their own and the public good. The great principle that lies at the foundation of their school is, that the safety of society and of government lies in the preservation of their sacred aristocracy, and of the dynasty that relies upon them. But the world has left them far behind in its developement of the art of government. To- day nations are guided, not by family hatreds and dynastic asptrations, as in the days of the Bourbons, but by the great material interests of the people. As these are developed the nation becomes stronger and government more consolidated. The growth of England, whether it be in arms, in wealth, in moral power or ma terial force, is due more to the energy and liberty of individual exertion than to a wise foresight on the part of the governing classes. Its navy first drew greatness from the private energies of its Raleighs and its Drakes; its prosperous colonies, either in America or Asia, were all planted by private companies or indi- vidual seekers of wealth and glory; its vast commerce is due entirely to the unaided skill of its merchants; and, in fact, if we study criti- cally the history of the developement of Britain’s present greatness, we shall find not only that it is the fruit of individual enterprise and exertion, but that between these and the go- verning aristocracy there has always been a conflict, in which the latter were opposed to true progress. Thus her merchants have had to contend, until within a comparatively short period, with the foolishness of the governing class. Her colonies are still hampered with a similar contest, and the occasional shame of her arms is always traceable directly to the in- tervention of the aristocracy, while the glories belong to her yeomen. Herein, too, lies the secret of Louis Napoleon's success in France. He has comprehended the necessity of govern- i0g with the material elements of the country, while the Bourbons could never comprehend anything but their dynastic claime. In no other country, however, do the material interests of the nation so constitute the true life of government asin the perfect democracy of the United States, This is the true secret of our wonderful growth and prosperity. It constitutes us as a strong people and a weak government, a rich peo- ple and « poor government, and an enter- prising people and a listless government The fact ts, the material interests of the people | guidé and govern them, while the government merely administers the forms of national ex istence. This is what the Priace of Wales has seen here, and the impression of which he can not but carry back to England. Order and se- curity withcut troops, and pwblic action and enthusiasm without the stimulus of authority. But we have anotber thing here which he may not have seen. We have a class claiming the right to govern, just as the aristocratic classes _ of England claim that right. It is a set known among us as the politicians. It selects all the | candidates for public office from its cliques, it assumes to be the only class that knows how to direct public affairs, and between it and the material interests of the country there is a | greater or less degree of constant war. It ridiculed the nomination and defeated the elec- tion of General Scott for the Presidency in the past, and today condemns the intervention of the merchants and manufacturers of New York . in political affairs. Yet—Lord Grey and Mr. Dickinson, and the compounding of drugs etand in need of | the London Post and the New York immediate and radical reformation, and we hope Triune to the contrary notwithetand- that the next Legislature will noteeparate with- | Ing—the great material interests of out giving ne come tringent etatnte to protect the world constitute the true basie of govern: seek to administer government, but they do and will contro! its action and its poliey. Everywhere they are in strict alliance with the @emocracies, and whenever the dynastic school departs from the precep's they inculcate, @ con- flict at once eprings up between them. Such a contest bas for years been going on io England, where ove party wishes the nation to take part in the dypuastic etrifes of the continent of Enrope, and the other insists upon holding it sloof therefrom A similar conflict is rising here, and the material interests of the country are beginning to move against the follies and the eelfich antagonisms of the politicians who constitute our dynastic school. This conflict will not end with the present political revolu- tion, but it will increase in vigor and earnest- nees until every interest is Jnvelved in it, and our old political Bourbons of all parties are swept away. Tue TRanspLantation oF Trees 1x THE CeN- TRAL Park.—The attempt to transplant forest trees to the barren soil of the Central Park has proved, as every one knows, a magnificent failure. The whole process, from beginning to end, was a blunder, and the result is that we have nothing now but the curious anomaly of a Park without shade—an artistic desert of al most valueless ernamentation. It is stated that one of the Commissioners, Mr. J. A. C. Gray, has just brought from Paris plans of the carriage upon which full growo trees were 60 euccessfully transported there io beautifying the etreeta of the French capital; but unfortunately it happens that immense sums of money have already been fruitlessly expended upon the withered stumps which now decorate the promenade in the Central Park, and we greatly fear that the introduction of this new contrivance will not do much to improve the system of transplantation adopted there, if radical change in other respects is not effected. Tbe fact is that the soil of many portions of the Park is not adapted to the growth of large trees, nor is it deep enough for that purpose. The only way to secure the suc- cess of the experiment is to blast holes of some ten feet deep, and of sufficient diameter, ia the rock which underlies the soil, asd fill them with good stuff; in this way the trees may be planted, as in a vase, but to expect a full grown forest tree, fresh from the virgin soil, to grow in two or three feet depth of mould, is absurd. We are afraid that in the endeavor to push the work of the Park ahead, and make some show for the money expended, too little con- sideration has been given to the very first prin- ciples which should govern the designers and constructors of the work, as is manifested in this matter of transplanting trees. While demolishing a good deal of the beauties which nature contributed, art has been dragged in too much to give an appearance of labor, wH@H is of little or no service. Let us in etance, for example, the multitude of bridges under construction, the object of which can be accounted for in no other way than that there are alarge number of architects among the employés on the Park, who can do nothing else there but build bridges—a suggestion which reminds us of the story of the English no- bleman who resolved to embellish his baronial mansion with nothing but the works of a na- tive artist, and, happening one day to be struck with an admirable representation of a red lion over an inn door, sent for the painter, and forthwith inducted him into one of the halls of his new domicil. “What design would you suggest for the space over this mantel ?”’ asked the nobleman. “A red lion would be very good,” responded the artist. “And what de- sign for the spaces on either side?” “I think two red lions would be just the thing,” said the painter. “ What,” said the nobleman, “ would you decorate my whole house with red lions?” “ Why,” answered the painter, “I can paint nothing else!’ And so with the archi- tects of the Central Park—they can de nothing else but build bridges, and hence we have a bridge at almost every turning. There have been many terrible blunders so far in the construction of the Central Park, but the most fatal of all is the absence, of shade so absolutely essential to enjoyment. Aa un- sheltered waste of greensward, in this climate, is more of a purgatory than a paradise. No amount of ornamental architecture, picturesque lakes, or winding rambles, can make up for the loss of that ever welcome shade which the London parks and the Bois de Bolougne afford to the visiter. Mencuaxts axp Potrtics.—Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, in his recent letter from Bingham- ton to John A. Green, chairman of our Breck- inridge State Committee, while agreeing to support, as a last resort, the Union electoral ticket arranged by the Cooper Institute Volun- teer Committee of fifteen, takes care not to let the occasion pass withont a backhanded com- pliment to our patriotic merchants. He thus says that “I concede the utility of ‘boards of trade’ in commerce, but not in political or- ganizations; and I believe the cause of true constitutional democracy generally makes bet- ter progress by firm adherence to principle than in turning aside to consult the dictates of temporary expediency,” &c. Mr. Dickinson proceeds further to throw cold water over the Union ticket, by saying that every manifesta- tion of the temper of the Douglas democracy betrays their hostility to any fusion anywhere | ealculated to aid the cause of Breckiaridge. In reply, we have first to remark that the slur of Mr. Dickinson against the merchants of this city is in bad taste, and betrays some thing of the contracted view of the sub- | ject of the mere professional politician. Horace Greeley, from day to day for weeks past, has been ridiculing and caricaturing cur mercantile fellow citizens for pre tuming to take an active hand in the work of this great Presidential contest. He, too, ap pears to think that it is only the politicians by trade—our professional hucksters in political offices, spoils and plunder—who have any right to dabble in the business of party politics. But | the fact is that there is many a mercantile firm | | in this city which has a greater interest in the | great issues of this Presidential struggle than all the men on this island put together who live upon party politics as their vocation. Something is gained from Mr. Dickinson in his acceptance of our Union electoral ticket; but he would have done much better had he spared his lefthanded allusions to our “boards of trade.” It is the duty, at this crisis, of every man in this State, of every party, who is op. posed to the inauguration of “the irrepressible conflict” at Washington, to lay aside all other considerations, in view of an honest and earn. ment in America and in Europe. They do not | eet effort to a defeat Lincoln. Let every maa ia New York epposed to his election accept our Union ticket in good faith, and, like honest Sancho, bid “God bless dhe giver, nor look tue gift horse in the mouth.” Otherwise, it is sheer folly and nonserse to talk of the possibility of redeeming the State. ———————— | Tue New Harrem Bringe—Biack Repvstt- can Notions ov a Swivptx.— One of our black republican contemporaries, with a view to damage a political opponent, who happens to be amember of the Board, made a fierce on- slanght yesterday on the Commissioners of the new Harlem bridge. The article is made up of such gross perversions of facts that it requires but a brief and accurate restatement of them to dispose satisfactorily of its allegations. In 1857 the Legislature passed a law assum- ing, on behalf of the counties of New York and Westchester, possession of Coles, or Har- lem bridge, at the end of Third avenue. The law directed the Supervisors of the two counties to keep and maintain it as a free bridge over the Harlem river. By the same act the Mayor and Street Commissioner of New York and the County Judge and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester coun- ty were appointed Commissioners to rebuild the existing bridge whenever it was found to be in an unsafe condition. By another clause the repairs and maintenance of the present bridge were left with the Boards of Supervisors of both counties, thus showing the distinctive character of the duties allotted to each body. In March last the Commissioners met and personally examined the bridge, and filed a certificate in each of the counties to the effect that it was incapable of further re- pairs, and must be reconstructed immediately. Shortly after they appointed Mr. McAlpine as engineer, to superintend its re erection. Of the fitness of this gentleman for the duties assigned him there can be no question. He constructed the naval dry dock at Brooklyn, was Assistant President and Chief Engineer of the New York and Erie Railroad, served one term as State Engineer of New York and three terms as Railroad Commissioner. As to his having been appointed through the intrigues of the Mayor, it turns out that he was | scarcely known to Mr. Wood atall, and was | elected by the unanimous vote of the Board. Two months later Mr. McAlpine submitted” his plans, with an estimate of the total cost of the new bridge, amounting to $225,000, which plans and estimate were adopted without a dis- sentient voice. On the 10thof the present month the Commissioners met and accepted of- fers from three responsible parties for the en- tire reconstzuction of the bridge for a sum not | to exceed $210,000, and the work was at once commenced. ‘The assertion that the Legislature had passed an amendment to the act under which these steps were taken is utterly- false. All that it did was to insert in the New York Tax bill an item of $25,000 for the expenditure on the bridge for the current year. The Corporation Couneel, in reply to a resolution of the Board, gave it as his opinion that the Commissioners were authorized to construct such a bridge as they deemed necessary, and were not to be governed in its cost by the appropriation re- ferred to, except so far as it limited the expen- diture for the current year. The Commissioners have been guided en- tirely by this opinion. The contracts entered into with Messrs. Nevins, Van Cleave and Roche compel the latter to furnish all the money required until further appropriations are made. So far are the estimates of the con- tractors from exceeding those of the engineer, that they fall short of them by over ten thou- sand dollars. They have undertaken the work at $17 a yard for masonry, seven cents per pound for the cast iron, and nine and three- quarter cents per pound for the wrought fron, all furnished and put up. These prices prove conclusively that no favor has been shown in the matter. We have stated enough to expose the ma- licious epirit which has dictated this attack on the Commissioners. They have done no more than they were directed to do by the act under which they were appoint@®, and they have ob- served the utmost caution in carrying out ite provisions. The contracts are fair and reason- able; they sre below the engineer’s estimates, and they are given to responsible parties, who have undertaken to find all the necessary funds untjl the full amount is appropriated by the Legislature. What more can be expected from the Commissioners, unless, indeed, they have failed to provide for a swarm of hungry ex- pectants? Tax Merroro.itan Caxpipares ror State As skmpLy.—It appears, from the list of candidates for State Assembly that werpublished in yester- day's Herat, that there are already eighty different persons in the field, having obtained the nominations in some form, in the seventeen Aseembly districts of this city. These candi- dates represent all shades and grades of New York society, from the roughg and strikers up to our best citizens. A large number, how- ever, are better qualified for a residence in the public institutions at Sing Sing than they are to represent this city in the Legislature at Al- bany. These philosophers, having obtained the nominations from some of the numerous factions or sidewalk cliques in their several districts, now consider their election certain, and are looking forward to the rich placers about Al- bany with full confidence that the cliques that nominated them possess the power to place them safely in the next Legislature. There is ng better evidence of the complete demoralization of the democratic party than is found in the squabble of the several fragments of that once powerful organization in the several Assembly districts, and the character of the men who have been brought forward by them. Whilst the democratic factions are keeping up a Kilkenny fight and trying to eat each other up (which, if accomplished, would no doubt be a blessing to the city), the repab- loans, with the exception of two or three dia- tricts, are marching in one solid column, confi- dent and even boasting of success. In the Eighth and Eleventh districts the republicans are, however, engaged in an “irrepressible con- flict.” In the latter district one branch of the They are assisted in their efforts by the Tax- Payers’ Amociation of thet district. Tt te the duty of every property holder and