Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-10-10
Our New York Correspondence.
New YoRk, Oct. 3, 1851.

The pa pers by the last Atlantic Steamer inform US
that the Liverpool Cotton Market was heavy with
declining tendency in prices. The reports Of tho
Money Market are, upon the whole of a satisfactory
character.
Your readers W i'll hal! with satisfaction the inteli-
pence. that Kossuth has positively been released by
the Sublime Porte, and is now on his way to this
country by the u 5 Steamer Mississippi lie will
have triumphant reception in New York.
Louis Napoleon has been giving special Icyee
to the markewomen OF Paris, in the Ely5ee' on The
occasion OF the Inauguration OF a new market-house
The news of the movement OF England, SPAN
and France for the protection oil Cuba is confirmed
The perpexities OF Germany, Political and Com
1nercial, continue nexplicable as ever.
The news from India is of iue general import
ance but thu onward progress OF the revolution IN
China threatens the hereditary succession oil the
7 artar Emperor.
The Steamship, PrometherS, is due here, to-day,
with two weeks later news from California
The urinary meetings of the Democracy, on
Tuesday night were accompanied with more than
the usual quantity OF fighting and rows. Indeed
tn excitement was greater than IT mas oeeh LOT
wears past The Locoioco party OF TINS city appears
TO be divided into two scctlons-ihe Conservatives
mud the Reformers. The brsL having the most
money, have succeeded in number oil the Wards :;
but think that the latter have the majority OF legal
votes In the Seventeenth Ward, Reormers were
on both the tickets. In the Tenth Ward. the llunk-
ers are defeated. In tho Second the Ryndrrs ticket
. came off triumphant, through the eXcrons Of the
members of the old Empire Club. organized during
the Clay and Polk Campaign, and composed, exclu-
siyely. of thieves and gamblers. 1t is impossible to
conjecture, at tn. present moment, what will be the
Gestures of the different Conventions. One tn ing,
however is Ger ain, which tina they will be almost
entirely Eunkers But the llunk'rs, again. are uI'
yided into the strict party men, ana the Land Re-
formers. The latter will make formidable snow
although they may not perhaps have the majority
Your readers certainly can have no idea OF the m
formal manner in which these Ward Primary elec-
tons are carried on They certainly exceed any
thing that could give you an idea OF To illustrate
In the Seventeenth Ward. there was large buily
bully, who having voted several times, came and
presented himself again This time he stood stlI.'
and voted five times more without moving an lnch.
The inspector leaned over and whispered IN his ear
" Come, Bill, damn it, walk round the rocm once or
twce before you vote again folks will begin TO no.
ticc it, BY and by
The individual appealed to took turn or two
round, and then went up and yoled once or twice
more In the Fourteenth Ward, Awful Gardner
and other fighting men were hired to ketp array the
TOters The opposition ticket was nevertheless
found to he running ahead the lights were sud-
denly blown ou; the baIlot-boy taken behind the
door, aud two three packages OF one hundred votes
each, put In The lamps were then re,ighted, and
H., hat.
cases are but an index to what took place in all the
Wards.
am glad to learn that the President has sent Geo
A. Socun, Esq formerly Consul at Rio, as speca AZ
Agent to Mexico, " investigate the Gardiner and
other claims that were before the late Board 1t k
further stated, that circumstances favorable to the
cause OF Dr. Gardiner have been brought TO light
since the WashmgtoH Grand Jury found their nGIct-
mcnt. DR.. GARDENERS return from Europe also
speaks in his favor. Ia any rate much OF the abuse
tnat has been hurled agains: him might base been
spared until after the issue OF the trial. rust that
the truth will be thoroughly Investigated. In the
m:an time 1T will be only proper to regard the claim
being Just, and justly prosecuted, until the opposite
is proved
How are you Off for money ! don't mean you in
dyldually; for, il you be not an exception to the
genera lrulc, you cannot be ''tlush.' Printers are
generally poor miserable devils and those OF them
who nave the misfortune to publish or edit Il paper
are near always so. mean, when ask how you
are of tor money, how do the "ioks out your way
flourish, p-cunlarIyl write teciingy on this sub
jcct. Money isawiully tight in New York There :
no getting hold of it, at all. haven't see shil-
ling, don't know when. The very next | get,
have vowed to hold on to, until hear it sqleal.
Money is now worth q and per cent in Wall
Street; and the re,y test mercantile paper is sold
al the rate OF IS per cent, per annum How is it
tina all these things happen, while the country is in
state OF unboundrd prosperity, and gold is pouring
into us from California, the rate OF 5 600 900, a
week The London papers tell us, that any guam
tity OF money can he had in that city at per cent
per annum There's screw loose somewhere.
The Protestant Episcopal Churoh of tn. diocese
OF New ork, no longer IA Church without Bisll-
OPP. The Annual Convention lately held in this city
elected on Friday last, the eighth ballot, Rev
WILLIAM CREIGHTON, d. d., provisional bishop
The word provisional implies during the suspension
of Bishop Ondei donk but as the restoration oftha
divine 10 his former position is not very probable
Dr. Creighton may be considered the permaHen
bi-hopof this diocese The new bishop is said b,
his friends, to be an able theologian, and goot
man. His views, touching mos, OF the points cf doc
trlne in controversy among Epsaopaans, are un
drrstood to coincide with those of the High Church
party. The bishop is New Yorker, and wa. grad
nated in Columbia College, in l5l2.
Yours truly,