The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-08-22
New York correspondence.

New YoRK, August 30.
| The tide that leads on to fortune is now at the
| turn Of the flood, and there are a good many
shrewd men who are preparing TO avail themselves
Of the upward rush of the waters in the affairs of
the monetary world. At least such is the pretty
| general feeling in Wall street this morning. AS
the first visible indication of the change fancy
stocks are all frmer, and Erie railroad has ad-
yanced nearly two per cent. since yesterday morn
ing. Something of this improved feeling may have
been oceasoned by the arrival of the Brother iona
than last night from Chagres, bringing not any
gold, herself, certainly, but golden Intelligence of
a couple Of milIons of dust on the way; but there
| is general impression abroad that "things have
been at the worst" and when that is the case the
next change, OF necessity, must be for the better
noticed paragraph in the Republic, day or two
since, about the depreciation of the current value of
Erie railroad stock; the losses in consequence have,
of course, been great; but have the gains. One
of the leading brokers of Wall street. it is said has
made very nearly half million of dollars by sell
| ing Erie ''short;" and very respectable firm of
brokers in Wall street failed on Monday, in conse-
quence, it is said, of their losses in Erie. They
bought, on time at ninety and had to receive il at
seventy.
The stringency of our new gambling law will
probably cause great influx into Wall street this
stuck to their old occupations of turning honest
penny.
The continuation of cool weather causes daily
| influx of strangers and returning tourists, the eff
feet of which is visible in places of public
| amusement at night, than in the streets by day.
4 Mrs. Mowatt made her first appearance last
| ing at Niblo's since her return from London and
was greeted by very full house. She looks ex-
| tremely well, having grown quite stout in person,
and seemed more at her on the stage than
when she played here before. She played in her
own drama of Armand, but was not we'll supported
| by the other performers, the cream of the Niblo
corps having been skinned off by Burton for his
| little theatre in Chambers street, which was re-
opened on Monday night with great eclat. Pro-
lessor Anderson, the Wizard of the North, as he
calls himself, is drawing great crowds of curious
| people to his tricks at Tripler Hail. The professor
gave private exhibition select circle of about
three thousand persons last week, and the collect
ing together of such select circle struck US as
quite the most wonderful feat he performed. Pro-
| lessor Anderson Is not, by any means, common
| jugger; he very knowingly dscards all the vulgar
trumpery which has been the traditional property
of wizards from the days of Michael Scott his coun-
| tryman, down to Sgnor Blitz. He ''comes the re-
spectacle" over the public, and steps the plat
| form before the public Professor Playfair or
any other professor would do, dressed like gen
tleman for an evening party, excepting only that
| he holds in his hand small ebony baton, and
with the selfassured pose of an Irshman, but in
perfectly quiet manner goes through with his feats
of natural magic. Some of his tricks very sur
! prising, but many of them but repetition of
the sleight of hand acts common to all the tribe of
| necromancers. The art of conjuring has fallen
| into disrepute eincc science has become familiar to
| the million.
One Of the popular shows for the select few, Just
now, is the service of gold plate which has been man.
ufactured by Ball, Tompkins & Black, as compli-
| ment to Mr.. Collins, of steamship celebrity The
| plate consists Of four pieces-a poi, tea kettle,
cream-jug, and sugar bowl. The cost of the whole
is said to be six thousand dollars, and the precious
| metal of which they composed ia pure CaIifor
MIA gold. They are placed on silver salver with
a gold border, under a plate glass case, in an
apartment filled with costly articles of taste, but
the gold tea-set s powerful magnet to sight
seers as the "mountain oflight in the Glass Palace.
| II was small undertaking, when Mr. Collins COM
| mcnced his operations for building the magnificent
steamers that compose his line, to attempt to sur
| pass the Cunarders. The amount of money neces-
| sary would have been sufficient to have disheart-
! ened an ordinary man but Mr.. Collins is not an
ordinary man, and to his energy, tact, and perse-
| verance indebted for our supremacy on the
| ocean in steam navigation. The last trip of the
Baltic would be cheap to the nation at many times
the cost Of the gold teaservice which few of the
merchants of New York have had manufactured
as present to the author of the Collins steamers
| Speaking of steamers, there an experiment
| made yesterday In our bay with little miniature
boat impeIled by rotary engine, which was per-
fectly satisfactory to the proprietor, although the
experiment was marred by slight accident. The
boat is only thirty five feet in length, with four
feet draught OF water, and the capacity of the en-
CINE one hundred and fifty pounds pressure to the
square inch. She made eight miles an hour, with
head tide, with but sixty pounds of steam.
Colonel Sherburne, who went out to Paris to pro-
cure the bones of Paul Jones, having failed in his
endeavors to find the remnants of the heros perish
able body, has now petitioned our Common Coun-
| Gil for permission to erect small monument in
| the Park TO the memory of his relative. But New
| York is decidedly an anti-monumental city; our
practical people do not see the need of erecting lit
tie slabs of marble to the memory of men who are
| already immortal; and as for erecting monuments
| to the memory of those who have been forgotten
| seems q useless expenditure still. There
| have been good many spasmodic attempts to
| get up Washington monument here; meetings
| have been held, subscriptions got up, designs
| advertised for, and every expcdent resorted to
| for the purpose of exciting and melting the pub
| lie; but every attempt has proved abortive, and
we still remain monumentless city. Fulton and
| De Witt Clinton certainly deserve monuments in
| New York, if ever men did, but there have been
as many fruitless attempts in their behalf as on
| that of Washington. We cannot be made to see
the of them; there is lack OF generous feel
| ing, nor money for proper purposes; ten millions
can readily be raised for a railroad and three mil
lions for an experimental line of steamers but not
| dollar for monument even to the Father of his
| Country. S. X, S.
| HUNGARIAN ExILEs.-The New York Adend-
Zeitung, of the 10th, German paper contains the
following letter from one of the officers among the
| Hungarian exiIes who brought to this coun-
try in the United States ship lexington Boston
| Journal:
| UAner NC had ahaken off the crueI fettera of