The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-06
New Yorl. oorrsspondsnes.

Stock Market Quiet During Election Gold Going
and Coming Favorable Intelligence from Cali
foTnia-Ihe ELection-1hs Polls Longer Held
at Tavsrns - An English EieefiOn-JohH Bli
Partial 10 JoHttedtions-Dinner 70 Officers Of
GrinneH Erpediti0n-Ih The Asior HOuse aud Pes
tirals-hT Soyer and his Symposium.
New YoRK, November 4, 1851.
Owing to everybody being engaged in election
eering to-day, the transactions of the stock market
have been comparatively moderate, and prices
have receded triie from yesterdays rise. The
exports of gold to Europe and the South will reach
this week to at least million and a-haf, which
will still leave half million from the mportations
of last week. The Ohio is hourly expected from
Chagres with nearly million of gold dust, and the
Promethcus from San Juan with smaller quaint
ty; that there IL possibility of tghtness in
the money market owing to lack OF the precious
metal
Private letters from California fully confirm the
favorable accounts of mining operations published
in the San Francisco papers, and new impetus
has been impaired to California shipments and en-
igration by these glowing and encouraging ac-
counts mentioned yesterday the names of two
new clipper ships now loading for the gold coun-
try; there is another of the largest Glass; equally
beautiful in model called the Invincibe. lying at
the foot of Pine street, looking the very ideal of
swiftness, and bearing the same relative likeness
to the old style of ships that stag hound does to
bull dog. The Inyincible has for figure head
gilt liberty cap, her tapering stem serving the
pole on which il is placed.
1t is not very favorable day for election; there is
chilly north wind, and the streets full of eddy
ing clouds Of DUST which give striking illustrations
ofthe spraltheory off storms. The polling is gongon
very quietly but resoutey and the voteI think will
be a large one The Opposition, fear, will have the
.Ir0I,, -
register, the surrogate, and the recorder-very
desirable Places but of not much political impor-
lance. 1t has heretofore been the almost nvara-
bic practice to hold the polls at groggcry of
kind, and generally Of a very low kind. But there
has been lively movement amongst the temper
societies lately and the polls held in many
cases this season apart from places where liquors
Sold The district in which voted was the
back-roo of cigar shop, which was slight inn
provement upon the old order of things l was
present at general Parliamentary election in
provincial town in England few years ago, and
was astonished at the pomp, circumstance, and
show, the drinking, fighting, bribing, life, hustle,
jollity, and tumultuous movement that attends
popular election in that country. Our elections
tame liieless dull and unineresing to the last de-
gree in comparison with the picturesque and noisy
hustle of election in England. Voting with is
and blue, and the palavcring of candidates, would
have no influence whatever with sober minded
citizens; but it ia a very different affair the
water. The English fonder of Publications than
we They have one to light at the Aston House.
All day the British flag has been flying from the
roof of that great hotel to betoken the presence of
j ohm Bull. The members of the st. Georges So
ciety give dinner to night to MIR Henry Grinnel
and the officers of the Exploring Expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin. This public testmo-
NAL is well deserved, and The paying it is honora-
BILE to the British residents of New York.
The dining room Of the Astor House has been the
scene of strange gatherings festive occasions
since that hotel built 1t is there that all the
foreign societies of the city hold their festivals
during the year on their saints days; it is there,
too, that the New Englanders dine on ForeIather's
day; it there that city fathers feasted the
Prince de Joinvie, exile, and Lord Nor
peth, now Earl of Carlisle; there have been feasts
given actors to politicians, to statesmen; all
sorts of OCCASIONS and for all sorts Of people. The
propretors of that establishment succeed in doing
what the "great Soyer" failed TO accomplish in
London during the time of the Great Exhibition
they hold daily symposium Of nations" One
sits down to table there with representatives from
all parts of the earth. M. Soyer rented the old
house once occupied by the Countess of Blessing
ton, for the purpose Of entertaining daily at his ia
BILE the strangers from distant lands who visited
London during the Exhibition. But he did not
succeed, and saw by the last English papers that
his symposium had been indicted as a nuisance
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