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'Y i T H E N E W - Y O R K T E I B I T N E . NEW-TOEK, THtESDAT, OCTOBEE 13,1853. A BJBVOI-XJTIOlff lar JOtTK-SfAM SM . In the review of the Exhibition of paper at the Crys tal Palace, which we publish this moming, is a notice of a new Uiscover7 which promises to work a revola- tion in, the production of newspapers as woU as of books. W e refer to the straw p aper of Mr. M bllier , a French chemist and manufacturer. This article is made entirely from, straw, and, as we can testify, after a careful examination of specimens of various qual ities, is as godd as can he made o f rags. By a new chemical process, the invention reduces the fibre of straw or other vegetable substances into pulp, which, we believe, is then finished as paper hy the ordinary methods. The advantage of the use of straw comes from its exceeding-cheapness and abundance. Bags are scarce, and as the demand for paper increases, become dearer, but there is little danger of a short supply of straw. To discover a way of using it- for paper has long been desiderated, b u t until Mr. Mellier, no seeker had found it o ut. W e are informed that his process is simple and cheap, and that when he ceases to claim compensation as patentee for its use, the price of paper cannot b u t fall very considerably. This will work a revolution in o u r journals. I t will enahle those papers which are now printed on small, flimsy and dirty sheets to imitate the example of T he T ribune , and assume an appearance more worthy of metropolitan journals; and it will enable us to use even better and m ^ e -substantial paper than that we employe at present. The printing of books will also be cheapened and improved by this g reat discovery. Another invention of a character no less interesting and important to the publishers of journals of large cir culation, has been patented by Mr. V ictor B eau mont , a citizen o f New-York, though of French birth. ^ is a printing press, which, a t a moderate rate of (peed, will deliver thirty thousand sheets printed on ^th sides in a single h o u r ! Its movement combines he original principles of Napier, which are applied fy Hoe in his great press, with some new «md beantifiilly simple arrangements and devices of the inventor. . I t has a large central cylinder like the Hoe press, on which are fastened the' forms for both sides o f the sheet to be printed. The type are h eld fiwt by Hoe’s patent column-rules. The p aper used i s ' a continuous strip or band, dispensing with men to feed the separate sheets as in other, power presses. This strip o r band Mr. Beaumont arranges v ery ingeniously; he avoids the inconveniences inseparable from having it in the form of a roll, by laying it in a pile, folded backward and forward like a piece of broadcloth; one end o f this pile is p u t into the press, which then draws in its own supply without tearing o r straining the paper till the whole sheet has passed through. As there are no feeders, room is obtained for additional printing cylinders; a moderate-sized press will have twelve of these, and will require three hands to run it, two of them being employed in carrying and looking after the paper. Each twelve-cylinder press will work four of these continuous sheets at a time, or one to each three o f its cylinders. Each sheet will pass twice through; at its first passage one of its sides will be en tirely printed, the forms of the newspaper being im pressed on i t alternately. As it comes out, the machine lays i t back again in the same sort of a pile, so that when i t is all done, the attendant supplies its place. with a fresh pile, and then carries it to the proper spot for it to he taken up and passed through the second time, which prints the side left blank before. Then the mechanism passes it along to the knives which cut the sheets apart, w-hile another contrivance puts them in neat piles ready for the carriers. These knives are very ingenious. A serious difiiculty has been expe lienced in o ther machines designed to p rint a continu- ■ ous sheet, from the fact that an ordinary knife cannot ^ he rd ied on to cut paper which is w e t enough for printing. This inconvenience Mr. Beaumont obviates by making hi* serrated, or saw-shaped knives with long . and acute teeth. The points o f the teeth easily pierce the paper, and once having obtained an entrance, the cutting is completed in an instant. These are the chief features of what we consider a very admirable invention. No presses have yet been bnilt on this plan, but when we state that Mr. H oe has purchased the p atent and is now ready to make them, we say enough to convince practical men that our opinion is well founded. W'e suppose that this press must supersede all others, for everywhere g reat rapidity is required. And though the two of Hoe’s great presses which we now use have cost us a larger •sum of money, we look forward to being compelled a t no distant day to abandon them for machines of Beau mont’s paj^nt in order to supply the enormous and in creasing numbers o f T he T ribune demanded by the public, TU X ! N x : w aiOI>KI< TA X H O R . I t is a remarkable fact that no new apprentices are now learning the old-fashioned tailoring trade—sitting cross-legged, and toiling over gussets and gores. Was and seam, and becoming chicken-breasted and weak- eyed with the pitfless needle. The work is now per formed by women or sewing machines, and men only learn to be cotters. This is a great improvement. Sewing is no work for a man, any more than tape measuring. B u t we hear from Paris, that s ir . Soul6 has turned tailor—^that is to say, of the new school. Stitching cross-legged he rejects, in accordance with the reforms of the age, and confines himself to planning and embellishing garments. His professional efforts are still fiiVther confined to diplomatic clothes; he does not go beyond the rig of an Envoy or Charge d’Affaires. This is still more contracted, being confined to Ameri can diplomats. And the article which is his specialitS is a velvet coat with standing collar. According to a particular statement we have of this m atter, his desire in cutting ont this coat was to fix the fashion for v irtu ous republican diplomats for all time. There has been a.gTeat difficulty as to the precise stuff and cut neces sary for the democratic representatives in Europe. Some were o f opinion that soldier clothes, as emblem atic ofWvil functions, and a sword o f peace, were alone ihe^thing. Others believed that nothing but apparel such as the tailor describes in Petruchio could enable, the radical reservoir who goes hy the name W Envoy or Chargfi, to pour forth the glories o f his dear country at the shrine of whatever European monarchy. At any rate, this is a nice question, equal to the standing fight between the classicists and romanticists in all arts. It is a question upon which the happiness of empires may depend,, and which the circular of the S ecretary o f State still left unsettled; for he left a loop-hole for fancy men to crawl out of in making up a court wardrobe. Our fiUibuBtering friend, Mr, Soul6, is a man of parts, how ejer,and o f a fine sense of the fitness of things. In all history we suppose there has never been so splendid a model tailor. Wonderful, doubtless, is his genius in the shape o f coats; great his skill in the texture and tin t of v elvet; sweet his invention in the flowers and fionrishM o f embroidery. In these facts, we hail the ev i^n c e o f his capacity for his greafand brilliant mis sion. Nobody who couldn’t fashion a coat would be up to such A duty. No mere designer o f jackets and -trowsers, no common goose and thimble would answer here. Thrice stupendous and brilliant is the idea of «ending<l^> $ P f^r in o rder to acquire Cuba, a man who is o f the liOne S tar tribe, ready to seize the w h e ther Spain be nolens or roleiu, u id of whi^h&ct «rei 7 biihlgo and nmleteer o f the Peninsula is aware before h e presents his credentials. B a t Mr. Soul6 has shown himself equal to this task, shown it in the fqee o f a ll E urope, and with all the 'dandies o f P aris to ad m ire and applaud. H e has invented a new livery for republican diplomats! Henceforth who can doubt his ability to twist Spain around his finger? W e admire hugely Mr. Soulfe’s notion o f having the velvet coat with a standing coUar. Spain is so puno- tilions. Onr relations w ith her this side of Cuba axe so enormous. W h en W ashington Irving w as there, picking up inaterialB for his pleasant fictions—that done, the political business was so overwhelming that he fell asleep. E v e n Ms p lacid iemperatnent conld not stand it, so be asked to be recalled. He made the sweetest parting speech to the rollicking young queen that can he imagined. Since Ms literary reputation ceased to awaken the public to the fact that there was such a place as Minister to the Spanish Court, they were exquisitely ignorant thereof until poor Mr. Barringer h ad that awful bother in getting his carriage from Cadiz'to Madrid, and Lad to pay so high for wood and chickens. A man inside the great pyramid, without a light, could not be more completely buried than an American Plenipotentiary at Madrid. In other places onr Ministers contrive to do something. A t Na ples the Chargfe accompanies the Americans to Hercu laneum and Pompeii, and also drinks toasts aboard a stray American vessel-of-war when a deck-dance is given to the notabilities of the place. At Vienna, the Chargfe gets an American out of limbo in the nick of time—that is to say, when the Government ahooseB to let him go. At Paris, the Minister k an agreeable companion to lots of young chaps who liv e 'i n the Boulevards, the Eue de la Paix and the Eue Eivoli, and his house is a pleasant place of re sort for young ladies just coming out. In Lon don, the American Minister is a capital fellow for a guild-jollification o r a cattle show—where h e can tell the auditory that in America they read the Bible, Shakspere, Gulliver’s Travels, and Jack the Giant Killer, and that the two nations are one, and that be cause Ireland is such a beautiful country to live out of, America is just the place for immigrants—the more the merrier. But what is to b e said and done in Spain ? W h at use really can Mr. Soule, diplomatic tailor, make of his velvet coat, standing collar and silk embroidery ? How can i t be displayed to advantage 7 No Americans go to Madrid. Nobody speaks the Young American vernacular there. They have no public dinners, and no bovine Congresses, except bull fights without speeches. Now that it is made^ the model coat is practically useless except to acquire Cuba. W e are, therefore, interested in the success of Mr. Soul6’s vel vet garment, standing collar and all, and feel assured that, diplomatically speaking, it will triumph. A Lone Star of diamonds hung round his neck, and per haps a Californian gold ring through his nose, might pos sibly have added to the splendor o f our diplomatic tailor' in the eyes o f the bull-fighting, nepo-driviug grandeesi of the Court of Spain. No mention is made of thosei appendices; are we to imagine that M r Soule hasi adopted them? One adverse point, however, remains to he told. Mr., Belmont, having spent upward of $30,000 hy way of ap prenticeship to diplomacy, was very properly on the sacred spoils system, sent to the Hague. Now h ere is a mission worth while. Not that any Charge at the Hague ever did anything, not even scrape up the pedi grees of the Puritan Fathers, which would have made good Plymouth Eock thunder—hut our relations with Japan!—^Ah, there we are—think o f the Japan blacking, and the Japan nests o f waiters, and all that immense trade of a people-who have done what is impossible— but never fnind that—gr»wn rich without labor-saving machinery and experimental chemistry. Now if we can only open up through Holland a trade with Japan, it will form such a nice sonorous period for a Buncombe speech, and is not Mr. Belmont the man to do it? Certainly; hut this too requires a circus coat,.und Mr. Belmont should have deferred to Mr. Soul6, but he would n o t ! He has actually rejected the velvet shad- belly, standing collar and all, and adopts a blue coat with fancy buttons! W e doubt if the Japan blacking^ind waiters can he secured with such a course as this. It is useless to lament what is past. Mr. Belmont should have made some sacrifices of his love for vulgar simple city in costume, and then Japan might have been an nexed. Upon such apparent trifles depend the destinies of nations! Denmark and a neighbor once went to war, it is said, because one ^Queen could show a smaller shoe than the o ther; and now we lose a bright jewel of the Orient because Mr. Belmont will not imitate our diplo matic model tailor! One thing remains to he done, and wo urge it on the attention of the Government. The Soul6 coat should be brought over hero and the public excitement with regard to its nature be appeased. W e have called it a ahad-helly, but there axe some philosophical souls who doubt whether that he the precise shape. This doubt should be settled. Besides, being the invention o f a public tailor, that shape is public property. L e t the puhlifi have it. L e t the Government procure and dissem inate this model coat among the Democracy, taking care.to conciliate Hards and Softs, Secessionists and Unionists, by giving them equal chances at the pat tern. W e suggest that a vessel o f war he a t once sent to Europe to bring it over, and that a proper func tionary be charged with the solemn duty o f introducing to the United States the immortal creation of Soule. EBlANClFATIOir IN JAMAICA. A staple argument of the chivalric upholders o f n e gro Slavery, is to point to the condition of the Jamai ca blacks. W e are told that the liberation of the slaves there has proved a total failure, that they are worse off than ever, that their condition is pitiable, and that the interests of the island are rained. After all, if it could be fairly proved that in their present state of transition, owing to emancipation, there was a clear declension in their morals and happiness, such as is asserted to exist, i t would prove nothing in favor of human bondage. W e have yet to learn that because a man’s labor produces more under the lash than without it, h e should he lashed, or that his morals would be im proved by buying and selling him. W e axe far from be lieving that any idle Southern gentlemen among us, who luxuriate in fashionable life either at home or abroad, should be p u t into the factory or the field, and made to work u nder the blows o f the overseer’s whip, although their annual wages would amount to millions. W e be lieve in the higher law. 'We believe that no man has a right to profit hy the weakness, ignorance o r poverty of his neighbor, and enslave him therefor. W e scout and contemn, accordingly, the logic which tells us that the negroes of Jamaica produced so many hogsheads o f su gar under the lash, and that now they produce so many less. If we cannot have sugar without Slavery, let ns do without sugar. Sugar is sweet, h u t freedom is sweeter. But it is a falsehood to assert that we cannot have sugar without Slavery. France now produces an nually seventy millions porq^dB weight o f Beet Sugar, the r esult o f free labor, and the^qnantity is steadOy in creasing and the price coming down. I f the pande monium o f sugar plantations w e r e abolished, our North ern ingenuity would rush to fill up the vaouum with sugar made from beets, or som e other suhstance, and the ingeuoities and economies prodneed b y free labor would soon compensate for the snperior saccharine e x pression o f the cane. Bo too i f ootton w e re amuM ated, Northern experiments on flax woul^ g ive us aliabsti- tnte. The idM that man must b e held in bondage on account o f considerations o f commerce is worthy o f Judas Iscariot—worse in fact, for he had the good taste to hsng him self after the obmmiMiion o f h is crime. W e are led to these remarks from an examination o f the actnal workings o f emancipation in J amaica. The slaves there are subject simply to the laws of the realm, n e y are amenable to pnnishnwmt j u s t as are the w h ites and no more. O f course, whatever crimes they commit are not punished by thirty-nine lashes privately on the plinUtion, but they ate brought to trial publicly and legally. It is true there appear more crimes thou formerly, because under the slave system these were private matters for the most part, and expiated by the whipi now they axe all patent. The same thing obtains under all des potisms. In Enssia and Turkey we do not h e » of crimeB to any extent, because there are no public newspapers worth speaking of; hut as we travel from the East to the West, and finally arrive on our shore’s, we find eome two thoueand newspapers, vivified by the magical telegraph, illuminating every dark hole where wrong is committed—even on our slave plantations to some degree. It is folly, therefore, for the defenders of the huge evil o f slavery, to hold up Jamaica as an evidence o f the indiscretion of striking off the chains of slaves because of the increased crime which has ensued upon such emancipation. When we can tell exactly what was the crime before emancipation took place, we shall he enabled to know really the declension of morals assumed to have taken place W h a t we do know of slavery is, that theft is common to those in bondage, as they are wanting in personal responsibility and dignity. John Eandolph reported that he never knew an honest slave, except J u b a ; and we opiue that saintly Uncle ‘ Toms are the exception, and not the T/ie Kingston Journal utterly denies the failure of emancipation in that island, and we hardly need say that such local authority is valuable. It says from the example around it, Americans need not be alarmed at freeing their negroes, lest such a stop should be folio wed by a revolt of the liberated. No mighty change says The Kingston Journal, was ever known to have taken place, so peaceably as the emancipation in that island; and it adds, that a very large number of those who were themselves owned in 1834, are now, in 1853, and have for some time been the owners of landed prop erty, some o f them to, comparatively, a considerable extent. According to the same excellent.and conclillBive auj tbority on this subject, depraved negroes exist in J a maica in abundance; for blacks form the greater portion of the population, just as in countries were whites predominate, white criminals abound. But it asserts roundly, and challenges contradiction, that in the short period of fifteen years, the race has im proved—not only improved, b u t progressed beyond what might have been readily anticipated- “ On the whole,” continues our authority, “ i f the example of the ex- “ periment, as it is called in Jamaica, is to be in- “ voked, the Americans have not the shadow of an “ excuse for continuing slavery in their Southern “ States for twelve months longer.” W h at say our Southern papers to this? W hat says the Cotton press. W ill they favor us with an answer, ■^e seek the truth in this weighty question, and not the m ere triumph of argument. ~^AM M A irE^ For a period of more than forty years, Tammany Hall has exercised a controlling influence in the politi cal affairs of this^tate and o f the nation. Few persons, of the p resent generation know anything respecting the origin and history of this Society, which, for this long period of time, has wielded a power more constant in its effects and more extensive in its operations on the political combinations of our people, than that-of any other private association or organization of men in the country^ I t is an extraordinary circumstance in our history that an association incorporated by law, exclusively for purposes o f benevolence and charity, should, so en tirely, have perverted the objects for which it was created that very few persons, now on the stage o f ac tion, except those who may have a taste for antiquari an research, even suspect its red. origm. I t may, we think, be confidently aUege<}r<^ai no other in stance has occurred, in the Listoity o f Ihe State or na tion, where an incorporated company has ,io departed, in practice, from fulfilling or prom o ting^e purposes for which i t was created, as has happened in the case of the Tammany Society. In the year 18C5, William Mooney and others pre sented to the Legislature of the State a petition, set ting forth that for several years they had been asso ciated “for the purpose o f affording relief to the indigent “ and distressed memlcrs o f the association, their widows “ and orphariSf and others who might he found proper oh- “jeets o f their charity,“ and praying that the associates might be incorporated, in order to enable them more fully to accomplish the benevolent purposes for which they were combined. To this benevolent and charita ble appeal the Legislature responded by granting the petitioners a charter of incorporation. This charter, in its terms, is one of the most simple of all that are to be found in onr statute books. It consists of a pream ble and two sections only. The preamble recites the application o f William Mooney and others as above thehe tioners corporate powers, “for the purpose of enahling stated, and the first section o f t act gives to the peti- “ them the better to carry into effect the benevolent purpose “ o f affording relief to the indigent and distressed.” For this purpose the corporation is authorized, among other things, to holdrealandpersonalproperty, “provided the “ dear yearly value o f such real and personal estates shall “ not exceed the sum o f five thousand dollars.” The second section is devoted to declaring “the act to be a ptibUc act, “ and ordering that the same be construed in all courts and “places, benignly and favorably for every beneficial purpose “therein intended.” Such was the origin of “ The Soeij “ ety of Tammany, o r Columbian Order, in the City of “ New-York.” Tammany Hall and the political orgies enacted there, are the only visible illustrations of the manner in which this corporation fulfills the purpose of the Legislature in granting their charter. For who has ever heard o f the Society of Tammany, among the ma ny institutions which, hy their acts of charity and benefi cence, do honor to the city of New-York ? Who hag ever heard of its labors in relieving the necessities o f the unfortunate, or administering to the wants of the indi gent and distressed? Who indeed knows anything about it, except as an irresponsible political m&chine ? W h at are the Constitution, Bales and By-Laws of this Corporation, is known only to the initiated, W hether they are consistenfrwiththe constitution and laws of this State and o f the United jStates,—^whether the' Society devotes its resources, in any degree,-to the h*enevoleiit purpose of affording relief to the suffering—whether “ the dear yearly value o f their real and personal estate “ exceeds the sum o f jive thousand dollars,” are ques tions respecting which the public have no ordinary means of ascertaining the truth. They are ques tions, however, which are worthy o f attention, and to which there ought to be some w a y o f procuring a precise reply. Certainly the Society is amenable to judicial process, and can b e arraigned and d issolved for haring violated its Charter. W e commend the subject to the attention o f those whose duty it is to iu- vestigaie and remove public musonoes. There is none whose removal is more to b e ’ desired, no more pestiferous stronghold o f political v ice and corruption. I t ought to M broken d own n ot only because its o i ^ e s are prejudicial to good morals, but b ecause it has e x ercised and still claims a control over the affairs o f the country which is hostile to the cause o f true democ racy and to the independence o f republican action. T h ere should ho no lubh center o f authority and or thodoxy asBoag a people whosejipirit and system are those o f individual freedom and p r ivala>dginent. It is tm e that the work o f dissolring a ll the Old political parties is going vapidly forward, and that the Tammany Boeiety w ill h e stripped o f its power in the new state of things, bat i t would freiliiaie and haaten the movement i f i t conld sooner b e brought to a close. I t is quite possible th a t this m ay h e done, and whoever -will under take and a ecompliih the d tty vrill d eserve w e ll o f the Bepnhlic. * - Extra sessions o f the Illinois and Ifiohigan Legislatures u o being agitated b y onr exchanges from those States. A correq»ondent relates the fOHowing circamstances •which occurred v ery recently a t New-Orleans: H e w ent tbitiier in his ship from Liverpool with eleven hlack sailors. B y the law s o f the State he w a s required t o give $500 bonds that he would take them out o f the State. This legal requirement w a s fulfilled on his part; hut, under the U n ited States Law s, he also had t o pay the usual hospital money a t the Cns- tom-House for each o f these men. Two o f them after ward were taken ill, and though. each has a bona fide protection, granted at the Custom-House in Boston, the Collector refused to admit them to the U n ited States Marine Hospital, because they w e re not recog nized as-American citizens. The Deputy Collector a t New-Orleans told onr correspondent that their orders w ere to collect hospital money on black sailors, but not admit them to the Hospital. Application in the presence o f a witness w as tw ice made, ineffectually, to this end. W e call on the Secretary o f the Treasury for some explanation o f this matter. I t carries comment w ith it. Our Government should not require pay for a pos sible boon and then refuse to give it. Such conduct is simply dishonest, '\What says the Secretary? ' The Czas, a journal published in Cracow, Poland, while commenting on the (so-called) letter of Mrs. T yler to the Duchess of. Sutherland, quotes The Tribune as in favor of Slavery.' I t says: “ A journal o f influence and importance f The New-York Daily Tribune) says: ‘All the -world is against ns, and ‘ accuses us of the greatest crimes. On all sides humanity ‘ affirms that we are condemned on account o f our slavery. ‘ W e should he crushed under such accusations, if it were ‘ sentiment; that, on the contrary, it is a beneficent ‘tutioD, we trust it will survive Ml such attacks, etc.’ No such opinions, b u t always the reverse, have been h opmi( uttered by The Tribune. The Czas has been deceived, and as we wish not to be misunderstood even a t that distance, we invite it to correct the error. Some mis take as to the newspaper, or some designed falsehood, may have led to such a misstatement. mblic lecturers with in we have received many requests to add new names to the I'lst, with one or two of which we have complied. Some of our friOnds have however fallen into the mistake of supposing that we in tended to make known the names o f all persons who might like to deliver an occasional lecture, when the fact is that we simply meant to let the public know where persons already known might b e found by Lyceums and Associa tions desii-ing their services. To announce the names of beginners, or of those who only appear at rare intervala in the lecturer’s desk was not our purpose. W e published the other day a list o f pul their respective residences, and since then H a r d a nd S o f t S h e r i . I t e m s .— The Hon. Martin Grover, Soft candidate for Attorney-General, in a recent speech in Cattaraugus County, smd that ho thought that Gen, Frank lin Pierce ought and would oust Judge Bronson and O’Conor from the offices which they hold under him. Whiting, the Democratic candidate for State Senator in theVIIIth District, is said to he so Hard that h e refuses to shake hands -with a Bamhumer, for fear of-catching the itch I N cw-Yorlc C ity N o m inations. M e , o f Superior Court.- { District Attorney —Chaim cey Schaffer. Governor o f the Alms-Houte.—DvnO. Msgie. Assembly—hi. Bennett. mcil District —Charles ■John J . Cornell. BT CITY REFOR VlUth — Ward — Alderman- JXth — Ward — Aldcj-m an- Wmi'an St! Iter P . Voorhis. ii^ BY THE HARD SHERI. DEMOCRATS. Justice o f Supreme Court —^ffhomaa W . Clarke. f Samuel Beardsley. irt( Thomas J . Sutherlan ( Peter V. Cutler, f—Charles P, Daly, ice F . Clark. Justices o f Superior Courts Justice c f Common Pleat- District A ttonit Vih Asset . ......... V lltk Assembly District W e do not understand that the “Eeform” nominations mentioned above have the countenance o f the Cooper Com mittee; they are apparently independent of that move- The “ Hards” advertised their Assembly Nonunating Conventions foriast night, but we could find only about a quarter of the meetings, and more than half o f those were informal. M aine I/a w N o m inations. Queens Co. — ^Assembly, James E liockland Co. —^Assembly, John I, XXI, Jefferson and Lewis — Sen ^ X X I. Jefferson and Lewis — Senator, Gardner Town, Lewis Co.—Assembb Dutchess C Oswego Co.—AssemblyV 1. Abne « — . ---- —^Assembly, 1. Harvey \)istriet Attorney, James ^XXXl. Erie. — Senator, Col. E. W . Cook, of Spring- XH. Washington and Saratoga.—^enaXov, Charles EogerS. T r o y C ity R e form N o m ination. Rensselaer Co.—Assembly, 1. Abram B. OUn, of Troy, Van Buren Free Soiler of 1848. .A. U lster unu , — uoucmuj ., jcuiojauu jsaar] Shandaken, former M. C. C a y u g a and IVaync.—Senator, William. Co.—^District Attorney, Theodore M. Poi XXIV. Cayuga Co.—District Attorney, Theodore M. Oneida Co.—Assembly, 2. A. Pierson Case. Clark, imeroy. L o u isia n a .— The Whigs of the 1st District have nomi nated Thomas S. Mackey for Congwsa. B I TELEOEAPH TO THE NEV-TOBK TRIBUltB. WHIG NOMINATIONS. A lbany , Wednesday, O ct 12,1853. The Whigs of the IVth Judicial District have nomin ated Amaziah B. James o f S t Lawrence. The Whigs o f the XlVffi Senatorial District have nom inated George Eichords of-Warren^or the Senate. SEE Poi INATOEIAL NOMINATION. , Wednesday, Oct. 1 _ -GHKEEPsiE, Wednesday, Oct. 12) 1853. Eobert D . Barnard, of Hudson, was to-day nominatec IS the Whig candidate for Senator from the V lIIthD ist. ____________ >r; Wm. Porter,of Jordan,fo District A t torn ^ ; T h ^ M Eobinson^for Superintendei JU D I C U L NOMINATION. A lb a n y , Tuesday, Oct. 1 1 , 185: fiad l^ , of Troy, has been nominated for near .Clinton, Ai which wm take __________ DEATH OF BAENABAS BATES. B oston ; Tuesday, Oct. 11 , 1853 , Barnabas Bates, formerly Assistant Postmaster of New- York, and the advocate of cheap postage, ffied here this ”'®£^llorgeiiee alluded to_ yesterday are said to 1 Commerriabst. aercial-st. •47,000 of the foiged paper was in the of LubanS, Beecher, of Boxhuiy. These forgeries lenoed three years since, but the paper was uways nromptly taken up until Saturday last. Toe holders are not iimlm^ to prosecute, as no loss will be sustained. Ma son is a member of Mount Vemon-st. Church, and has alwey> maintrined an excellent character. O I T T ITEM S , P oor B o x !—W e said this on Sunday evening ae we cam e do w n Broadway.- W e h a v e s a id i t t w e n ty tim e s since that, aloud, and five times tweiity mentally, we have repeat ed those two words, ‘‘Poor h o y r They are litOo words, common words, only seven letters, easily spoken, often spoken, y ^ ’fliey have a great deal of meaning—painful m e a n in g s o m e tim es. T h e y h a d o n S u n d a y n i g h t T h e y often tell a whole story. They did in the present case. This is it. • O u r e a r w a s f ir s t a ttra c te d b y a little h u m o f vatoes, v o ices of boys, singing a march; it was the Eogue’s March. What could it be for? We looked and listened. Half a dozen boys with sticks, mutating t h ^ children who carry guns— one hod tied his handkerchief upon his stick to imitate a Sag —^were singing and marching behind another boy. He was about twelve years old, and carried a bundle in hia hand, tied in a common cotton handkerebie^ such as we carried when about the same age. His dress said, just as plain as his language, “ I am just from the country.” Hia tormen^ ors, for such thby were, were in high glee. Their glee made US sad, and we said, “ Poor h o y !” and walked away. We could not go on, and so we went hack. The poor boy had stopped to remonstrate -with his pereecutors. ■ “ What for do you want to follow me a-singing that ar for ? I wish you would let me alone. I haiu’t done nothing to yon.” ‘Y We cried poor h o y ! again, and then we Jould not torment the poor “ do it for ?” “ ’Cause he’s Ain’t that rich, boys ? Hurrah for greeny! Ve cried noor b o. v ! affain. and then we told Vhy don’t “ show fight. He’s a greeney.” Yes he was green. That was „ . the boys they should not torment the poor boy, and asked “ what did they got no spunk. W hy do he his appearance,his homespun coat, and unfashionably i ments, and when he replied and told them to go aw let him alone, they set up a shout o f derision at his c enough for city boys, well-dressed boys of parents whom no one -would dare to say were not “respectable.” Could they say themselves, that it was respectable to let their boys run in the streets on the Sabbath, singing and march ing like wild young savages, after a poor,^boy from the country, whose only fault was that he had not yet learned to be as wicked as themselves—he was green—he would not fight. He did not look like a fighting b o y ; his face was a mild pleasant one, rather pensive, and he had a soft blue eye. But he was green. He had been green enough to sit down upon a door step to rest his tired limbs, and that was enough to draw a crowd of idle boys around him with their ivoking remarks u unfashionably out gar- away and country- fied language. Then he got up and thought he would walk away, and so get clear of them, hut he could not shake them off. Poor boy ! he had left his country home among the mountains of Norfliem New-York, to seek his fortune in the city, and this was the first fortune he had met vrith. It was an unkindly welcome. We drew him aside and ques tioned him why he had come to the city. “ I came because “ I had read so much in the newspapers about the prosper- ‘i ity of the city, and how every body gets great wages and “ money right down every week; and I thought that was a “ good place for me, as I was poor, and my mother was poor, “ and I wanted to try to do something to get a home for her “ and me too. No-w I have got here, I don’t know what to “ do, or where to go to stay all night. I have been walking “ all through town till I am dreadful tired, and I have not “ seen a single tavern sign. Can you tell me where to find “ one?” We told him where to go to find a plain lodging place, and advised him to turn his face northward in the moming. Go hack to the country; poor hoy he is green in the ci^, and not disposed to fight his way through fife, so he must go hack to the country. He always will be a poor boy here. H o t C o r n D o n a t io n s t o t h e F iv e P o in t s H ou s e OF I ndustry , from S kpt . 25 to O ct . 10 inclusive : CotmtiY G ill ; R. V. -W., * 5 ; F., U l ; J . McGee, *S ; Cash, $ 2 ; Benj. T. Jerrup, $3; Fi_r«t Preibyterian Church Lsnsin^urgh, $6; ~ nh Jackson, - r. . , j..,- — ,, ------ , -------- ------ - ----------- - ----- , . . ---- , Two Ladies Bangor,------, S i ; Dr. Bay, $175; The Tribune Vender’s mite, * 1 ; C. T. Draper, W., $ 1 ; Mark Cornell, $5,- R. H. Needles, $263: Lady from Phil adelphia, $ 1 ; Cordelia Howard, $ 6 ; S. S. First Congressional \ \ Bnrnan, $ 1 6 M _ ;'iV H .H u g ^ a n d W . Sewing Machines presented some ei Industa-yIndustry hyy I.l. M.. Singer.inger. Hundred h M S . kncwledged its utility. WASHINGTONIANA. Correspondence o f The N. Y. Tribune. m e r e are Strong m aications irom various quarters o f a fierce quarrel b etw een the Adamantine and Puttyr Head Democracy in Congress, from the very opening o f the Session. The feeling on both sides is bitter ana unrelenting. The Adamantines are m o st respectable, not because the Union party was ever o f any account, but because they are infinitely the better class o f men— better educated as a general thing, bette more honest, and in every way more sincere ble than their adversaries, the P u tty Heads, comparisen the follow ing: Adamantine,: Putty Heads: TkAVT«.w c ’' —im V an BuasN, — „ „v;cause they are infinitely the b etter class o f ___ better educated as a general thing, better citizens, more honest, and in every way more sincere and relia ble than their adversaries, the P u tty Heads. Take for parisen the following: Adamantine,: Putty Heads: D aniel S. D ickinson , J ohn V an B dren , G reene C. B ronson , I saac V. F owler , C harles O’C onor , P reston K ing , G. W . C linton , J ohn A. Dix. Look a t these men and their acts, and say which of them are high-toned, consistent and honorable, and which are time-serving, hypocritical, and treacherous to their former professions. There is a difference, truly. The Administration, you know, is Putty-Head to the death. Pierce’s anger is kindled against the Adaman tines, and he has determined to conqi in the attempt.” The latter will prol Eemovals will be made, and Eiecut: on errands of annihilation. Probal himself (the President’s and swear. If so, thei The Sentinel, which started in this city some time since under the management o f Beverly Tuckey, a dis- )oinied applicant for the Marshalship in t t e District ly holding many ot the best clerkships. When General Taylor came into power, and Judge CoEamer and Fitz- Henry W arren took possession o f the Post-Office partment, only two Whigs could be found therein. Out of nearly a hundred when Mr. Fillmore went out and Pierce came, the Loco-Focos held equally with the Whigs, and there was one W ebster man. Now, out of the one hundred clerks (or thereabouts) there are b u t eight nominal Whigs, and I believe not one who has been known as an active Whig for some years. At one time during^ Mr. Fillmore’s administration two chief clerkships of the D epartiienfr b e c a m rv a ^ n ran d the office o f Second Assistant Postmaster-General. They were all filled by the appointment of DemoMats.' The D ^ a r tiM ^ s applied were those of the Interior, Mr. Pierce is a narrow minded man, as every body who can read may k n o w ; and so we find the ad ministration, instead of attending to the legitimate business of the country, (such as regulating the mails, for instance,) devoting its time to balancing the patron- ae-e between its Adamantine and P u tty Head adherents, if ^that were the people’s business. Secretary hne leaves his desk'at the Department and goes to ii. Loco-Foco qnarreh a« if that constituted any p a rt o f the service for which he receives $8,000 a year. Secretary McClelland has also been away on the same kind of employiflent. Five years ago he was a \Wilmot Proviso man, a t work up in Wilmot’s Districti He won’t own to i t now, h u t your readers up there will know whether they saw going about in 1 ^ 8 , and what he was doing, must say a word in regard to the improyements in .. aShmgion since Congress affioumed in March last. They have been very considerable. Probably no city in the Union, considering natural advantages, has ad vanced more rapidly within the last ten months than Washington. Eeal estate has more than doubled, on an average. In some p arts o f the town it has'eren quadru pled, and more. But the rise is n o t tdtogether a healthy le rapid rise of real estate. Washington miaJa fi „ manufacturing city—its advantages ale good. » can be brought here at small expense. But at pro: there is little to sustain it except the constant stream, of gold that is pumped out of the Treasury, and Cold -dresses,® snmptuous llT ligrpSfto’iice8 l'M ? to % U 8 S course, of j;he transient population. Among thehetter clasBof .permanent residents are to be found the e i cellent o f the earth—purer because they live uncon taminated among the corrupt and abominable workers of iniquity. J auu pave aDoui me same convemences. TOey are built by avaricious landlords, only to rent ./ When vacant they need no sign to tell you they w a n t' an occupant. “ Is there any pump to your house ?” you. ask o^thejittle anddried up owner. No. Any cistern ? s property. The most or- potatoes from r.w upon the value oi if The markets are high and rather poor, dinary apples are sold for $ 2 a bushel; pumtucB $1 to $1 50, and everything else in proportion. On the whole, Washington has taken a decided s tart since the latter p a rt of 1851, and will in a few yearsbe- come a desirable place in which to live. The worst nuisance a t present, is the dost, which fills the air like + - + NEW-MEXICO. Extraordinary- In d ian F i g h t . W e are indebted for the following accoimt o f one o f the ihost desperate and remarkable affrays with In dians probably on record, to a correspondent; and, al though i f occurred more than a year since, y e t having never been fully and properly in print, i t will lose none of its interest: Correepondence o f The N. T . Trihnne. N e w -M ex ico , Monday, Aug. 8,1853. It -was on the moming of the 9th of April,' 1852, that Mr. Grandjean—a Swiss by birth, and for two. or three years a ' ag -with three Ameri cans in the vicinity o f Corrafites, State of Chihuahua, (being resident of this country—was traveling at the time in pursuit o f a man who had gone off with some property belonging to the former,) where he was suddenly Burprised by a party of nearly a hundred Apache Indiana. This occurred between the hours of eight and nine o’clock, when the little party had, for ten minutes only, arrived at the Eio Santa Maria,and had dismounted for the purpose of camp ing, after having traveled over a hundred miles with scarce ly a stoppage. As the party were resting themselves, and. preparing to bathe, the Indians made their appearance. A t the point of surprise the ground was extremely unfavorable I of numerous bushes, . would he sure to j res. To cross the river to attain a clear groi ■was Mr. G.’s first movement, leaving four valuable mu ter were too close upon them to allow jrved to snatch up their arms. The In- ms commenced firing ere the party had crossed, and fol lowed close in their rear. There were three rifles and & a quantity o f blankets, and $525 in gold in the hands o f t Indians. The latter were too close upon them to alii ' 0 snatch uj ereth ep artj r. T h e r e w e r e 'tl of Colt’s revolvers in the party, numbering among them forty-two shots. Aware that, their chance for escape was impossible, and resolved that if they must fall they would die game, the four posted themselves, at a distance from each other, a( right angles, the better to withstand the attack made upoi them from aU sides. On dashed the Indians, with farioui 3 lls,^a ■' ■ • . ....................... d fi?e4 w ith d e a d ly aim . cTne C h i ^ w a s r u s h in g aho __ horseback, giving orders to the others, who were d mounted (as is their custom in charging, i His w hite horse was singled out, and, though on the fuUgallop, was tumbled to the ground. One red skin had brought a large stone, and digging an excavation behind it, was firing from a dead rest. Naught hut his head was seen; hut he had time to fire but two shots ere a bullet crashed through hia brain. The fire from the attacking party wounded three out o f the four men, among whom was 1! !Yound-_. , , ____ in the thigh, hut no bones ken,- althougli each supposed so at the. iime. They to stand u p ; Mr. G., the only one wounde ‘ lia b le t( __ from the river b y the enemy. Mr. G. proposed to meet one half way if both parties laid down their arms. To this they assented, and an Indian advanced, and Mr. G. also to meet him, but when about 100 yards distant, perceiving the Indian had sonlething concealed under his blanket, he declined going farther. Again, from a distance, the Indians renewed their fire, which they kept up till night. Sentinels were posted in considerable numbers, and constantly during the night be heard the caU, in Spanish, “ Sentinel, with aid iself along, Ih e night ‘Comrades' early the next morning. Stealthily twisting himself a flat to the ground, he made good his escape. The wore away—Mr. G. alone on his feet, his two comrac sitting -wim arms in hand—moming came, and with it a re newed fire, at a distance as hetore,'from the Indians. Nothing bnt a certainty o f some o f their lives being sacri ficed, should they again charge, deterred them from doing so. These Indians dread to lose any o f their number, and all who h ave fought them say they may be kept off a long time h y pointing yotur gun at them only. I know o f an instance o f a ntan’s k e e p ^ off fourteen Indians for two hours thus and not firing .till the expiration of that time, when an Indian bit the dust and the rest fled, ’ ’ fired was I\ ■ the Indians held a consultation; many went off in variojis dirpetions to look for the track o f the fugitive. In about half an hour they found it, and fearful o f a new arrival, brought up their horses and all soon moved off. But stiu no aid arrived, and Mr. G., fearful his comrade had been killed or lost his way, determined himself to set ont for Bereneo that night. H e i ’ ’ ’ to lay them, and covered them over with grass in o: e n tire h o u r s . H e th e n se t o n t, h is w o u n d s ti f f a n d p a in in g h ^ m u ^ , | a ^ h^ping^ partly dragging the wounded minutes when he sav advancing a party whom, in the dark, h e m isto o k f o r I n d ia n s .' -C o n sequently h e a v o id e d th e m . Unfortunate mistake! The party were the md his com- p a m o n h a d ob tain e d . „ aside to avoid Ms supposed enenfies, he lost the road. H e was armed only with a brace o f revolvers, and ’ ere he felll in with aid—not having, all water or a particle of food—which, to days o f the fight, was six days with- t nourishment of any kind, besides the suffering hia wcund caused him. At last he observed what h e • supposed a party of Indians. It was at the time , , jvolvers, idered four days ere he fel in with aid—not having that time, a drop of water or a particle o f food—which! gether with the two days o f the fight, w as six days out nourishment o f an y kind, besides the sufferir escape, was impossible, and h e ----- ^ ------------ ” ---- them, and sell h is life as dearly i them -with a revolver cocked, agreeable surprise, found they were sent out from I for him—^not In d ian s , b u t M e x icans. M r . G . w a s t h e n taken to the town, and most hospitably reoeived and treated. a t t h e h o u s e o f M r . H o t e , a n A m e r ic a n re s i d e n t o f t h e place, who was then working a silver mine in the yiciaity. To the extreme kindness of Mr. Ffote and the attentions of his wife, no doubt, Mr. Grandjean owes h is life, and not ta the Mexicans, as the sequel wul prove. Xbe Judge andPrefecto o f Beienco would not allow him. to leave the place without a paym eidof $528. H e was told that should he attempt to escape without thia-daymeiA, ’--’liim ! Mr. G. remon- _______ _ _______ ifferings, a n d lo s s e s b y - sscals were inexorable. _____ ______ _____ ; G . l e a r n e d t h a t th e M e x icans s e n t t o aid him were ordered to bring him in dead or alive, and i f dead, to rob him o f everything about hia person—wateto arms, jewelry, &c. Such i? Merican character, and a l m ^ daily examples of similar extortions j;a:acfcicod on mo Americans here, occur. Ih connection with these remarks, though foraign to n ^ story, I w ill relate the following.: „ But afew days ago, a party of CBrigrantsto Cahfom a were stopping at Magoflinsvdle, opposite the Paso Dm Norte, when a number o f their oxen was missing. The head of the party crossed tho river and f o i ^ severM o f
