The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-25
THE REPUBLIC.
TcoHaxsposD.Sos OF THE arpuBLIo.l

Steamer Preliminary Meeting of the Merchants
a Conu1sazione an the dhen9um- Thompson, the
Aboiitionist, coming TO Boston-Iripir Hall and
Jenny Li,.d-Ihe Financial Furry hipping
New YoRK, Oct %, 1850.
The Cunard steamship Asia has just arrived at her
dock, Jersey city, direct from Liverpool in eleven
days, lacking one hour and half She is the fast
est of the Cunarders, but has not made such quick
time as the Collins steamer The news by this
steamer is unimportant The City of Glasgow
steamer also arrived this morning from Glasgow,
it being her last trip to this port Hereafter she will
run between Glasgow and Philadelphia The Ohio
steamer arrived late last night from Chagres, via
Havana, bringing two hundred passengers. few
years since all the world went down to the Battery
TO look at the little steamship Sirius then perfect
monster, that had performed the miracle of cross
ing the Atlantic by steam in twenty days. Now
three steamships of two thousand tons each arrive
within few hours of each other, and excite no
more attention than the arrival of periauga from
Barnegat. The amount OF gold brought by the
Ohio is not stated but it is said to be considerable
The passengers coming back from California are
now quite as numerous as those going.
A meeting of merchans held this morning
at the Howard Hotel, in Broadway, TO make pre-
liminary preparations for public meeting of our
citizens, but particularly Of those engaged in
mercantile pursuits, in reference to the anti slavery
agitation which now threatens the community
The meeting will probably take place on Saturday
next, and will leave no doubt of the soundness of
public opinion in this city the subject of slavery
agitation. Those who act in the preliminary stages
OF his affair merchants Of the highest class
respects wealth and influence, and are almost
wholly Wings.
rather novel meeting took place last evening at
fhp fhop in roo I,,ay
prietors invited all the subscribers, and good
many who were not, with the ladies of their fani-
lies to a nuersazione. The spacious and elegant
rooms were crowded to excess with the elite of the
city; the ladies, as they should have been, being
greatly in the majority. There was plenty of gas
light, and no lack of light talk but the entertain
ment was purely social and intellectual The ices
and oysters which essential TO all parties in
New York missing. However, it was sufli
GENTLY refreshing to be in a crowd of two three
thousand beautiful ladies, all talking together at
the tops of their voices The first attempt at
versa zione successful that the spirited pro-
prietors of the splendid Atheneum will probably
"try again. in the same way.
learn from a friend of George Thompsons, the
noted Abolitonlecturerw no visited hscountry some
ten or twelve years SINCE and was mobbed in Boston.
that he was to leave Liverpool on Saturday last in
the Cunard steamer for Boston, and will probably
arrive there next week. Mr.. Thompson ia now a
member of the Imperial Parliament, and is coming
during the TO assist his Free soil friends
in Boston, and lend his aid in defeating the Wing
ticket. His arrival in Boston Just at this time will
be very likely to cause some excitement there, as
well as in every other place he may visit.
Owing TO the necessity for some alterations about
the stage in Tripler Hall, Jenny Lnd's concert,
which was to have taken place this evening, has
been put off until tomorrow. good portal. OF
Jenny has at last been published by Goupi Co.,
from daguerreotype taken by Root, of Philadel-
phia. 1t is very much like her, and affords relia-
BILE idea, to those who have not seen her, of her
general appearance.
The little bit of financial furry in Wall street,
noticed in my last has not had any serious effect.
Stocks to-day generally rather heavy, with a
slight decline in most of the fancics; and the tide
of speculation is checked for while; but, in the
present easy state Of the money market, it is not
probable that there will be any serious reaction.
Our wharves were never more crowded with ship
ping than this time / undsrs that there are
constantly ships waiting to discharge cargoes, for
lack of custom house weighcrs and measurers
While the shipping business of the port has nearly
doubled, the number of revenue officers has been
actually diminished. There are now thirty vessels
advertised for San Francisco, among them ships OF
the first class, from 500 to 1000 tons. The Wash
ington Irving ship of the fret cass, formerly one
of Trains line of Boston and Liverpool packets,
is now loading for San Francisco, in the North
river. S. X. S.