The New York herald., 1851-12-22

The next news will be doubly important. Let
us wait for the details.
NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS OF THE UNION
The BRANCH MNr.-The good people Of Philadel-
phia viii, no doubt make desperate effort to give
Kossuth brilliant reception after the fashion Of New
York. They are welcome to try it; and doubtless
Genin and barnum, If applied to, will furnish them
with the necessary pictorials for show. Downing
VIII probably 20 to rally the colored population
to the rescue and initiate them into the scientific
principles of doing up superior dish of oysters, in
every style kossuth, fresh from ''the noise and
confusion" of Broadway, will enjoy the repose and
grateful quiet of Chestnut street, and IL will benefit
his health to remain there several days before
plunging into the more bustlng city Of Baltimore.
We wish all success to the PhiladephiAns and trust
they will not be behindhand in their e"material,
financial and political aid to the cause Of Hungary
They are quite welcome to get up a central
committee Of their own. But there are two ideas
with which they have been sufficiently deluded
already-the idea that Philadelphia is . seaport,
or can be made q seaport; and that other and more
delusive idea, that the Philadelphia mint can con-
tinue to do the minting for New York The great
commercial and financial centre Of the Union is the
real seaport of Philadelphia; and million or two
millions Of gold dust by every steamer from the
Isthmus, requires q branch mint in New York.
The Philadelphia establishment may be made
competent to do the work; but Phadelphia is one
of our suburbs, and we want mint in the heart of
the metropolis of the Union.
The position, the commerce, the population, the
growth. the expanding and expansive prosperity
of New York, all stamp her as the metropolis
Of the Union, now, henceforth, till the Union
shall cease to exist. Steamships, railroads,
telegrsphs, all concentrated upon this splendid
little Island, have, within the last ten years,
fixed the destiny OF New York as the Lendon of
America. All other cities on the continent are but
tributaries-all the inhabited inhabitable world
contributes to eur prosperity, in a constantly
swelling aggregate of trade from all quarters of the
globe. There IL nothing like it, has been nothing
like it, and will be nothing, anywhere else in
the world, Like what is yet to come. Boston,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore are but suburbs
of New York-nere suburbs; and their csmpeti-
tion with each 9th in railroad enterprises to abb
serb the traffic of the great West, only opens new
channels Of wealth to the Empire City, whose unap-
proachable supremacy abserbs them all. Phia
delphia viii do well enough as an enterprising
suburb. Invalids and drab-colored merchants
may SbJOy Qulet auu VI lte sIreets,
but it is mOnotonous and lonesome to even the
bellies from Broadway. 1t is absurd, however,
for Philadelphia, SO far up the shallow waters of
the Delaware, to set herself up as seaport. New
York is more convenient for her expectation and
imports, excepting the single article of coal. 1t is
equally preposterous for Philadelphia to presume
upon maintaining the very inconvenient Office of
the mint Of all our California gold The centre of
trade and exchanges, the great depot Of the Cali
fornia mines, should be the locality of the mint
not branch ef the concern at Philadelphia, bat
the mint. Give Us q branch, no xever, and let US
coin the gold shipped into this port and Philadel
phia is welcome to all that goes up the Delaware.
Py the by, let our represen atves in Congress- and
George Briggs, especially, look to that san
Francisco project II is a trick Of Chandler and
Company, no doubt, TO wheedle us out Of the
branch mint, with which We are willing TO be
satisfied.