The New York herald., 1845-04-23
Boston,.

/ Boston.
Correspondence Of the Heraldl
/ BosToN, April 81, 1916.
/ The "Nat,pe" War still Raging-A Rowland for
an Oliv1-British Steamer not Arrived The
| Haitian Arrangement-Mails to Camada-Ver.
| mont Ra,lroad-Ihe Sugar and Molasses Spec's.
| lation-Battie Of Lerington-Q Doings there
| Sometimes-State of Ifade-Ihe Devotees OF
| lianmon inpading the Temples Of the Lord. &C.
The contest between the "natives" and the
wings, IN the city government, increases in heat.
| The other day the native mayor and aldermen ap.
pointed one Rowland Ellis, whole hog native,
superintendent ofburial grounds" probably think
| ing it we'll to appoint one of their own party to
that grave office in consideration Of the early fate
which the charter election in New York porteDds
TO the natives here. The common council, how
ever, thought this consideration OF no Importance,
aud most unceremoniously threw the aforesaid
Rowland overheard, and elected full blue whig
| named Lincoln, TO superintend the Last resting
places OF our citizens Whether the naive"
oranch of the government will have spunk enough
to give them Row and in return tor their Oliver,
| or rather Lincoln, know not, but judging by the
past, think they will recede into their shell of BIZ
gotry and let the registering, free hearted, don't
care d-n wings, have their way.
AT the time OF writing you. hatpas Z. M, the
| Caledonia mail steamer. from Liverpool, has not
arrived. This IS her seventeenth day out, and we
are in momen,ary expectation Of hearing her sig
| nal gun. The same causes Qog and icel which
have doubtless kept the Caledonia back, and may
tor day or two to come, without giving rise to
any serious apprehensions for her safety Some Of
the guild nunCs who are in the habit of getting halt
q story, and quadrupling i'll when they tell news,
say that che is no. TO stop at Halifax on her way
here, and will therefore make quicker passage in
consequence. This is not true; the Caledonia will
stop at Halifax. land her passengers tor that city,
md Ia 10 SnCb a w m N n RN n
will not leave her Canadian mails there, the new
post office arrangement allowing them to be brought
to Boston and forwarded to Canada ria the Boston
and Concord N. H. ralread John Bull will thus
get his letters from the old man, and his quarterly
allowance some days quicker than heretofore. The
transmission OF the Canada mails will be still more
expedited when the Vermont railroad is completed,
and branched eff to Lake Champlain. This will
be ere long, as the company has got all its stock
taken up and is pushing the business of contracting
TOR ths roads ahead with great rapidity.
by the Great Western corroborates the supposition
made some time since, ard confirms the result
then figured Il appearsthat the crop Of the British
colonies for 1885, exceeds that for 1874 by twenty
millions OF pounds, and that the stock in Europe
greatly exceeds t,at Of the previous year: Thus
you will perceive that the largest deficiency
claimed in the Cuba crop is counterbalanced, and
that the speculative prices at which the article is
low price of cotton has turned the attention Of the
southern planter of the United States to the more
extensive culture of sugar, and the crop for the
resent season will probably be proporticnably in
reased, and will exceed that of last year by
han 200 600 hogsheads When you consider THE,
you will see that it is no small item. The prices
from the nature OF the case, will be fiuctuang du-
ring the year, but they must come down. Molasses
mas experienced the same speculation as sugar,
aud could figure you out like result, one article
depending in no small degree upon the other from
their very nature. At the presen'smoment, the su-
gar and molasses markets stationary, the prices
JUS! holding up thick there will be downward
ura in few days, aud then look out for squalls
This day is the anniversary Of he battle OF Lex
nsion, but the coed folks Of the town take no par
ocular notice OF its return, fraueht as II is with
| such patriotic interest. They have plan OF cele-
oralng the day once in three years, Just 80 as TO
keep Inc spirit alive; and yet no. incur too great
l an expense Tor small town like that OF LexIng
| ton have been on the spot during one of these
celebrations, and have witnessed some of the most
spirited sham fights that you can well conceive OF
The plan is always to initiate in the sham battle
the exact movements and result of the day which
IS celebrated part of the troops represented the
scattered and unorganized militia OF the colony,
md the rest the royal detachment from Boston.
he march to c Concord y You can cal he hardly Sr realize
the spirit that still burns in the hearts of the Yam
KEGS, as they recall the memory Of those times.
nave seen the spectators SO excited the occasion
Of one of these celebrations, that they have actu-
ally risen eN ncsse upon those representing the roy
Al party, and attacked them with stones and other
misses-the military finding very little sham about
Il
yer, corrected in moment, and something all
round" soon restored good feeling between the
mock red coats and their plebean assailsnts.
| Governor Morton has got home, and is to 60 into
to Washington was for the purpose Of seeing what
was his chance of getting the Judgeship Of the
United States Supreme Court, in case Story re.
slsns How this may be, do not know, but il
on prepared to assume the Collecorship, is pretty
strong evidence that he is not to have the Judge
| hip Story is to be elected President of Harvard
Coilege-so hear-and he told his students, al
the law school, the other day, that he hoped soon
| 70 be able to spend more OF his time with them.
| These two stories are rather Inconsistent, TO be
sure, but, then, they both tend to show one thing
VIZ. that he contempates vacating the Judgeship
| Mr.. Woodbury. seems to stand the best chance
| Tor that post, if Story vacates it, and would make
very good judge. He has not the depth o
| legal requirements that Judge Story has, but, then
| he has rather more common sense, and law enough
| for all practical purposes.
The Presidents private Secretary, J.. Knox
Walker, Esq, has arrived here, and taken lodgings
Commodore Nicholson, at the Navy yard--so
hear. The object OF his visit to Boston. just al
this moment, excltes good deal OF speculation
| Nous verT0ns.
derstand the foolish speculation in goods fright.
l enlng some people, and keeping back the grea
mass OF customers who want TO get their spring
supplies. The season is also somewhat backward
marketfIn the course of two or three weeks
though, affairs will wear brighter aspect, and ouI
merchants be heels over head in business. The
greatest business doing Just now, is building, and
that chiefly Of stores. Rents are very high this
spring. and tenements scarce. The new stores and
houses that are going up, are mostly engaged a,
soon as their foundations are laid, and many al
old codger wakes up in the morning and finds his
house sold his head, 10 be torn down guttec
to make store of. The latest case is the pulling
down ofthe BsptIs, mec,ng house in Federal street
substantial and commodous brick structure
nearly new. Granite stores will shine in is place
ere the year is three months older There is also
plan a-foot to buv out the Rev Hosea Baow's
meeting house, ia School street, and put up stores
there in which case the UniverseIist Society wor
Shipping there will probably buy more convenient
lot for less money, and put up splendid temple
with the abundant ava,is OF the old house. IL il
thus that IN this pious city the temples OF the Most
| High have TO give place to the money changers
and there. IS no man from Nazareth to stay tn,
ard A.,F ttot