The New York herald., 1845-08-26


collecting type, &C., tor its organization, gentle
man Of rare commercial talents and education, and
would soon acquire and maintain an envlabe repu-
taion in your city or Liverpool Besides, there ls
Merchants Exchange, immediately fronting Lafay-
ette Square. Municipal Hail. which, If not equal to
your City Hall, will greatly eclipse, in beauty, any
other IN the country You will naturally say your
of pee! in the way Of city adornments Such is not
the faG, All these things are forced, as it were,
upon US by one man, than whom this or no other
city in the world-although that is large word.
can boast of more than his equal His name is
Samue!J Peters. He not only projects but, IN all
cases, he munifcently subscribes himself, being
man Of fortune. You will again naturally say to
yourself, or aloud, what an idol Mr.. Peters must be
with the people Such is also varient from the fact
Unlike any other people, probably, on earth, their
love of talents, virtue, and invariably useful enter
PRISE is completely absorbed IN their jealousy OF his
superiorty-a superiority as unostentatious, and as
assduously concealed. as was that OF our Marshal
His usefulness In such city yours, where the ele
ments OF society are comparatively so different, be-
with all its numerous casts, much more ho
mogenl0us-wOud be adequately appreciated but
when we seem to desire, as far In us lies to imi
tate the Kilkenny cats-to eat one another up when
We have nothing else to eat, morally speaking-he
ismore often reved than praised and when prais-
ed, with few exceptions, done in manner to elicit
the disgust of his friends The public education of
this city is now prosecuted on scale commensurate
with Its remotest wants and Its system on foot
ing as munillcent and udlclous the most approved
lights have dictated. He is the father of this sys-
tenn, and It remains to thousands, now participating
in its Benefits and to millions unborn who are to do
so, to DO him that justice which their ancestors
puslllanlmously withhold. In short, he is the head
and front of every useful improvement which has
taken place since the population numbered 30 900.
Our part of the political world is quiet that it
hardly merits comment, although the two candi-
Du Buys, Wing, and Johnson, Democrat, are now
At work canvassng the upper parishes They are
both so personally popular, that strange to say they
create no party excitement and their respective par
ties seem disposed to permit the result to turn that
pivot: The State is SO thoroughly Anneration. and
Du Buys SO thoroughly anti ditto, that apprehend
Johnson will be elected We have no Wing party
here now worth speaking of. They have as many
guished leaders, are in doubt whether the land
marks Of the Democrats are not the true roads,
after all, to that bourne from whence no ma
ton will ever ret1rn without the robes of that
greatness incidental to the perfection of political
wisdom and exhausted resources. They reason
thus The tariff reduced to the revenue standard
the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands
nexaton, il you viii, Of the whole continent Of Ame-
rlca to the United States, are experiments not yet
tried and who knows" if properly tested, that
they are not the very things we want? They seem
to be satisfied that out Of the ruins of the IT, States
perlty, which they thought impossible and why
may not similar temples be wrought out of those OF
protection, government land offices, and present
boundary lines These are their doubts and rea-
sonngs, and they are not peculiar to our Wings,
which is fully exempliied in the recent elections in
Alabama
Our Tyler Collector of the Customs, Tom Barrett.
still holds on, and will, no doubt enjoy his office, as
said in my preceding letter. until after our January
elections Seth Barton, the Solicitor of the Trea-
sury Of the United States, formerly citizen Of this
city. has recently been here, and reviewed the
whole democratic ground He plainly saw that it
.'oud not do for Mr. Polk to disturb the harmony
OF the party at this juncure until after the jan
uary elections; seeing, as he did, the cohesiveness
Of the Irish and knowing as he ascertained, their
nnalterable love for their felow-countryman, the
Collector. Barrett boldly contends that he is as
good democrat as the Baltimore Convention-or
any other convenlion-ever manufactured; and the
irish, TO mau, believe every syllable of it. Be-
sides the natural cohesveness OF the Irish in this
quarter, and their implicit belief in the democracy
OF our Collector, he has the honor of being the Con-
sui OF his Holiness, the Pope of Rome. After the
January elections, however, he will have to walk,
not that Mr.. Polk loves his democracy, friends, des-
cent and holy commission less. but that he loves his
two niece's husbands, Barnett and Plcket-the sons
in.law OF Gen. Walker-more. Will you believe it,
when assure you, which do, that every democrat
have ever seen in this State is office seeker, or
would have Office If he thought he could get it!
Snch l. the mania for IT, that nightly meetings
held TO devise ways and means to induce the Presi-
dent 10 dub them public servants. What commen-
tary surely on the morals OF the rising and falling
generation OF this part of the sunny South, where,
north OF Mason's and Dixon's line, il only thought
necessary to come, stick up a shinrle and make a
rapid fortune. Your Yankees become too intoIera-
bly, lazy after they have been here some TIME, that
many oi them refuse to chew bread after it is put
into their mouths, and hence their love of democra
cy and government pap
BY the bye, great efforts are now being made to
establish amsgnetc telegraph between this city and
Mobile, and the wire has been arranged, learn to
some considerable extent. After the return OF Mr.
Peters from the north, have no doubt the enter
prise will be successful, until when, | apprehend
very little further will be accomplished
Don't you think that the letters ST N p Willis, of
which the Mirror speaks SO much and anxious that
every other paper will do the same, which, if they
would see ll-irst, stupid affairs, and are un-
worthy the perusal OF any but half witted chamber
maids. How Willis manages to successfully
humbug such an enlightened public yours, even
We out here, can't conceive for the life of us |
suppose you are all afraid to pain him IN his true
literary character until after the Interpretation OF
your law Of libel shall dovetal into the greater the
yer stop until you explode the would be legal doc.
rne, 'the greater the truth the greater the libel"
or we shall be melted into grease poi, by such as
Willis in their libel suits. We can almost excuse
Cooper and all his suits, for amidst his madness
there is much Intellectual ore.
New cotton is coming in quite freely but It ls
sod ~ !, droleis, a. such irregular Prces na' 70
and is selling al to cents. Our stock, including
all shipboard not cleared, is about 1000 bales
The weather has been most propltious throughout
this State for large crop, and from Mississippi and
Tennessee we have heard nothing to lead to fears
Of diminished anticipated production. In Alaba
ma sad complaints are extensively made
about the drought and the opinion is general that
no more than halt crop will be made. There will
be cotton enough made in all conscience, notwith-
standing. Our stock Of sugar is reduced to about
5000 hogsheads, and is gradually leaving for
Western and Northern markets, AT advanced prices.
What your fire consumed God-send TO the
sma-fry SPECTATORS here, who are, in consequence
enabled to realize and cents for their impru-
dent speculations late in the season, which will
about bring them out whole. There is no doubt
that growing crop will be an overwhelming one,
amply sufficient, without undue speculation, to keep
down prices within the pale of wholesome ex-
change. Prices will open at about &c. per pound,
and vary between 81 to Sc during the season
p. S-General Gaines has made requistion,
since the foregoing was written, for one thousand