The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-01
New York correspondence.


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New York Correspondence.
Cuban Ercitement-- Money AEarket-Baydrd Iay-
Ior-Ship building architecture.
New YoRK, August, %, 1851.
Our papers, if not the public mind, have been al
most entirely occupied with Cuban affairs during
the past week, and there has been other
ticeable subject of magnitude to talk about and
write about, the "untoward event" of the execu-
ton of our unfortunate countrymen has been, in
at least, proof of the old that it is
an sill wind that blows nobody good" On Tues
day night there was another large meeting of gym
pathizers in the Park, and our Mayor, having the
New Orleans mob in view, very discreetly sent
police force to protect the offices of the Spanish
consul and the Cronica, the Spanish paper pub
lished here. But the precauton was wholly I'M
necessary; not the slightest attempt at disturb
ance Of any kind occurred and it was pretty gene
rally understood that the motive of those who call
ed the meeting was rather to gain proselytes TO
the Tammany party than to express sympathy for
the Cubans. The names of all the men announced
officers of the Park meetings, with two three
exceptions, were those Of Tammany Hall politi-
clans, who appeared eager 10 make the most of the
little capital which the occasion afforded. Among
the names of the vice presidents at one of these
meetings was that of district attorney, N b.
Blunt, who out of town at the time and igno-
rant of the whole affair. Doubtless there
other vice presidents who had little to do with
the meeting as Mr.. Blunt, and whose absence from
town has prevented them from denouncing the use
of their names.
The actual effect OF the Cuban affair in the mo-
ney market is naught. Yesterday the Africa
took freight $S50,o0O specie; the screw
steamer City of Manchester takes 100000
to-day from Philadelphia, and, Saturday,
the Baltic, it is said will carry out nearly half
million. These large shipments of specie, with
change ruling high, and arrivals of gold dust
from California this week, have caused another
slight depression of stocks, and tghtness in the
money market The last weeks bank returns ex-
hibit decrease OF million of specie. There were
three considerable failures yesterday of tobacco
dealers, two of them having been occasoned by the
failure of Essenwein, extensive shipper Of to-
bacco. -
| Bayard Taylor, the poet-traveller and associate
editor Of the Tribune, leaves Philadelphia to-day in
the City of Manchester for Liverpool, intending to
make a tour in Egypt, and join party of German
explorers up the White Nile. The Tribune con-
trives To keep Of its editors travelling abroad,
either in the Old World or the New. 1t is worth
noting that, while all our newspaper editors regard
| a trip to Europe matter OF necessity, not one
London Paris editor has ever thoughti il worth
while TO visit the New World. In our progress
from the East to the West, we like Moors in a
boat, with our faces constantly to the point from
which we are recoding.
Three first class steamships leave here this
afternoon for Chagres, viz the Lafayette, Captain
Stoddard, which was built for New York and
Hayre packet, but made her first voyage across the
Atlantic from Philadelphia to Liverpool; the Bro
Their Jonathan, and the splendid ship Illinois, Cap
tain Hartstcin. The Lafayette stops first at San
Juan. They all carry considerable number of
passengers. There is no apparent diminuton of
the commerce with California, judging from the
number of new ships that are now preparing for
that trade In addition to those recently launched
here, two have arrived within few days from
Maine; one of them is called the Snow Squall and
is painted pure white, antithesis 10 the
Black Squall, which was as black as midnight;
another, arrived yesterday, is called the Wild
Pigeon. These ships are built upon the clip
per model and promise to do credit to their names
The Trade Wind is now in the cradle of the screw
dock, ship of two thousand tons, lifted high out
of water and 30 exposed that the eye take in
at glance the whole harmonious mass Of timber.
In looking at this beautiful vessel, was most for
chilly struck by the remark of John Ruskin, that
ship is the nobest and most beautiful of human
productions There is nothing IN the architecture
of the Greeks that dsplaysa higher senee Of beauty
profounder knowledge of the harnlonies of ex-
ternal forms, than the ships that are daily
launched from our ship yards, the pure creation
of American mind, for nothing like them ever
before known among And with
these superb vessels floating in every sea,
and lying in almost so atess numbers al our
wharves. hear ourselves accused Of nIeriority
in art, and sol distant connoisseurs send off the
acolyes in the temple of art to seek for forms OF
beauty and grace among the remnants of antique
art in Italy. If our ship builders were to model
their ships after Greek galley, one of the
unwieldy vessels that formed the Spanish armada,
they would not be guilty Of any greater absurdity
than house architects are in building their
houses in the Greek and medieval styles. 1t
would have been fortunate circumstance for us if
the temples Of the ancients had been built Of as
perishable materials their ships we should then
have surpassed them as much in our houses as we
now do in ship-building A society Of Presbyte-
rans is now laying the Foundation for a church in
our Fifth avenue, which appears much more ap
propriate for fortress, but il must be in the
heavy Gothic style, with an embatted roof and
donjon-hke tower, as though it were designed to
withstand the attacks of besieging army, sufi-
cient money has to be expended in the foundations
to pay for suitable structure built in conformity
with any sane ideas of propriety and fitness.
S. X, S.
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this paper respecting the delays and charges on