The New York herald., 1850-01-06

days of January, May and September. 1t is not
expected that the Aldermen will give up their com-
Portable evening sessions until they obliged to
do il. There are many reasons why they should
prefer to keep up the present order of things, not
the least weighty of which reasons may be found
In the temptations of the tea room.
Well, Aldermen are but men, after ALL and why
should they not be tempted by the savory odors
which arise from from the city kitchen. Indeed,
why should they mott
American Stock RisinS In Europe and FALL
Ing at Home.
We hear a great deal, and wnte a great deal,
about stocks on change, at home and abroad; and
occasionally, by way of variety, put in para
graph about La Bouvse, in Paris-for It has been
pretty well understood that Frenchmen cannst get
along without Wall street shavers, TO skin their
eye-teeth for them. But there is another kind of
stock, of which we wish to speak at the present
time, that may be considered rather important at
this period of the world, when humanity, its weals
and ITS woes, has become almost as important as
the price of cotton, negroes, bananas, cinnamon,
and other aromatic productions of the earth, and
that ls-humanlty. This stock rises and falls like
all other. The time was, when our Jefiersonian
stock was so much below par IN Europe, that it
would have taken political Sam Patch to dive
deep enough to find IT. Ii is true, that such men
as Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte-to say nothing
about such men as the Earl of Chatham-took our
scrip Of this kind at par from the beginning; but
Europe has been the habit so long of undertaking
this country, that whenever we think of that great
continent, we picture 1t with habItual sneer on
its face whenever it looks towards the West
This sneer is now rather antiquated affair." il is
true, but we can the traces OF il on the Euro
pesn face, even IN our own times, without the
Of spectacles. There but few books or journals
printed the other side of the water, that, when
we take them up, DO not make us think Of a man
that met the other day, in one OF Kipp N
Browns omnibuses. lie was evidently young
gentlemen, but he had so long INDUCED IN the habit
of sticking up his nose, as though something eter-
nay smet bad under it, that, by the physical effort
he had, al the age Of twenty or thereabouts, fur.
rowed a set of the deepest sort Of wrinkles under
his eyes, which rendered 1t impossible for very
sedate looking pair Of speetacles preserve their
equanimity. They looked, on the top of these
wrinkles, like an i'll built boat iu the midst oi
the surge; or what would be still better for our
Illustration, like an old tar taking ride on horse
back.
But Europe is coming TO her senses. The tune
has gone by when the Edinburgh Review gravely
asks, "who reads an American book 7" Marshal
Kent, Story, Irving, Cooper, Prescott, Ticknor
and host Of other Americans, have made them
answer that question themselves. The last war
with England posted up some of their books; but
the ledger account was never fairly earned out till
old Zack crossed the Rio Grande, and gave fits to
Mexico. Taylor, Scott, Worth, Ringgold, Dun
can, and many thousands of brave men. vindcated
our military fame on the plains of Mexico, az
Dobly as our great authors and artists have done
before them.
At last, when Europe finds that with all her
beasted stability Of monarchy, she cannot ouiride
the storm and give security to her own throne 7;
when even the imperial despot Of all the Russias
is glaring his ferocious eye upon Kossuth when
Austria hits up her imploring voice. TO the Northern
Bear, for protection against Kossuth, BEN, Dem
binskI, and UJhazi and when Plus ~. cannot,
and dare not attempt to go back to the Natican-it
turns out that Washington wss no Joke that
Thomas Jefferson was engaged IN no school boy
play when he wrote the Declaration of Indepen-
dence that Madison was occupied in pretty
sol,m business when he concocted the Constltu-
iion and that thirty confederaied republics are
beginning 20 become something Of an item in the
accounts which European statesmen are casting
NJ, in making their general calculation about the
probabilities Of the future. In OF the principal
Lsndon journals, in an article entitled "The
junction Of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and the
growing greatness of America" we find rather
sober estimate made Of the resources of this
country. and a somewhat honest account Of our
progress hitherto IN moving down the formidable
crop OF obstacles which oppos, d our advancement
with civilization and all its means to boot" to-
wards the placid bosom Of the Pacific. This
article to which we allude, says
a gr,st change has recently taken place in the
fortune aud Of the republic II has snatchea
than ite IeXian acquisitions 10 has added ad-
oticnsi degrees of latitude to is Pacific cosft com
bsck IRON toe oosst aud eastward 70 the Rocky noun
tsins. lies ccuntry In It, surface and varied in
Its resources ls universal wealth goes far 20 realize
the ~ DorSdo oi our ancestors The inert
Witch formerly chAractsriysd the Pacia. co..t
hae difappeared quick imputstvs fs has dsd
At and already has the in question begun to
exercise that inhUsnce over the political and CONNER
esi relations Of naukind which is vet dsstinsd so
lareeiy 70 WELD. SO great has h.., ,ha
change wrought within the last three year. in the
prospects of the tniou In 1915 IL looked foruar4 10
the sdmission st ZONE distant day Of tFo ne state.
the Pacific In 1Sfq " is called upon 70 coutstn
plate the speedy rise Of GALAXY y States, comprehend
nentn
And so this wondersuicken genus goes on TO
dIlate upon the growth Of oar empire; and the
ssppy. who was evidently born ard bred on the
island that Julius Cesar, IN an acl OF Pastume,
went to conquer and made but holiday sport Of at
hat, seems TO think that because the country has
grown very biz. IL never can be governed. II is
really funny to see what Engishmen write about
ihis country. With a puiria, which at best wlen