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- .alps q and frcm ihs port On sa,ar.r -
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i, a-aooE hon morning til nsekt. AtshosI,
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~. ssesl ip0g passage. Al " II ~ 49,.
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s. e Ano Ailn1is, len hi. port fcr Fisv,r, !.
These were followed, shortly as,S--v.-s
q, .Ae steamer, E9ovida for sarapnsk - -.
+. =. Charleston; and de Roa.st< ~ ~
= 1 ms wasn't 50 very bad business "a I,
single day-uas iii 7.-es7l lof "a
= Al about p. III, last ,irht j.
g amsnlR f1eiae, had arrived, win
!, e snan mat brought By the Niavo... j,
4uen1iy ascertained thar The yns..s - Il q
which had returned from =. $3.50
: ss.le Weaiher for the frs. nivb, 80. D
. Ane Fscfe IS now fully due i ri. 80 J,
: = Niagara brought no further new. ah,, Il,
) haustrlons Hungarian exile He was e-nak.sa ],
arrive a Southampton on the 18th inst. and eres
: preparation has been made for his reception 49,
) a. lnat port and in London. The Livernoos CO.
ION Market was quite dull. The near elo~in. 81
me Crystal Palace had caused trrmprSons
rush q natives and Of others. On oct s .hsra
were io7.Si5 visitors who paid nearly s300 o0 ror
admission Notwithstanding this immense ,bron
everything went of with perfect order.
Ihe big guns Of the Locofoco party Are a;s,,,v
p0salns upon the party iHeir own clai.e..
.-l friends for die Baltimore .-:ss = 'AOse
sse mat sam Houston ia. heen ,a.'-.- as e !
Union speech somewhere in Ter. Ms agfeat
msn. ~ MAJ looted and repadia,e he ses,s'
|. c. AiDu'eu % him in the Donaldson "a
NINA, 3, p'uuenceF he knows Ina. every ,a,.a.
Ie go = 'le Nev York Herald was genuine
Ten, In NE mystery TO you 10 ee.tain
hon, III. =" you honestly what DO know +. /
'espOnaenee and what doni know
yVb;a - .-@n sonneeted with widely eirculate,
and !, 80. I. ms CITY called on me, enc daT
fba, 4. ~ S Sout mysterious manner told nj
ussessien letters from The mos
,as whole tenor Of his Tee 7eisa
some private end in view, apart from The political
purposes he might wish 10 accomplish, so eentn-
ued wiring, being very busy. However, he kept
talking, for some hours, during which he told me-
that Nathaniel Fl. Greer of Iowa had been in this
city for some time, and had been writing 10 proHl
nent democrats all over The Union, requesting their
views on the time and place Of holding the nexf /
National Democratic Convention, and on such 9th |
er topics connected with the next presidential CAM
paign as they might think fit 10 write upon. ny /
informant then told me that friend OF his whe
IS Land Reform Locotoeo leader, was in the
confidence Of Greer and that, through this friend
he [my informant had got to see the correspondence
The young man is himself a Land Reformef, though
a Whig; hence his intipasy with Locofoco ot
the same views, and hence the double motive Of
each in causing the correspondent to be published
first, 10 kill of Sam. and secondly, To- make
walkers chance better My Informant preferreit
As i Wing, to fight against Walker, rather than
against Houston, and lie also preferred il, as
Land Relormef, for obvious reasons while his
I.ocSioco Land Reform friend Wished of course q
kill off Sam.
Well, after some lime il was intimated To- me
that ] might have The correspondence, and make
what use Of il choose, baaIas was cool on tAe
subject, the young man 70 whom refer sat down
and wrote ont for me the points 81 several q ne
letters that have since made much ,alk and prom
ised me thai if / nsed them be would furnish me
with aneEsi re, ssx asys after read the notes ne
portance Of The correspondence. i had got eyer nay
hurry and had time 10 reject. therefore endes-
orea n. nr.seare IL but enud Anu my man, mat
49, Add inc next morning, oai il all came in the
Herald / should here remark that all the infor-A
nation that was given TO me, al the interview re-
ferredsts, asoye was used by me in three or four
papefs Tor which correspond. This correspond
ence Of mine was referred 10 in the leading edioE-
al paragraph Of the Herald, introducing the cores
pondencei.
Shofty- alter ihe appearance in The Herald Of the
| correspondence friend informed me that the
Young ma n ,yho had previously offered il to me was
very much afraid Of getting into an awkward
scrape-that he had been Yer@Rating Greer OF
Iowa, and obi aiming replies from Influential demo-
esats 10 letters thai he bad signed Nathaniel H.
Greefn ndtilas he had obtained legal advice as 10
what punishmeniihe eonviction Of having persona
ted Mr.. Greer would subject him.
Ihave since seen the young Wing and his Loco
foco Land Reform friend, several times; but Ihave
never spoh en- 10 them directly on the subject /,
has been indirectly referred to- however, with a
laugh on both sides Now that have told you
whatI do kD ow on the subject, will conclude by
telling you what ] do not know. / do moi know
positively VIII ether the young man 10 whom have
referred, and his friend, persuaded Mr.. Greer
whether they "ex changed packages" or, whether
Greer actually gave them The Ietters. However,
can and out. One of these three things is certain
III The morning papers contain the Presidsn,t
proclamation on the subject Of the Invasion Of Mex
leo. think that all the Proclamations Of all tn
Presidents and potentaies in the world viii not say
Mexico from, being swallowed up II is her 'des
Il tiny'--arart from what yon or ], OF any man, ma.
! think desirable or right. i
Telegraphic dispatches received from New q
leans, announce the arrival Of the Empire cits
from Havana, with intelligence hat Mr. Thrashel
Editer7of TIE Faro Eadasi1Tat was arrested BY til
:. Spanish Authorities. on the 10th inst. for som
canse nnknewn. and that his private papers hav
been seized and bis friends refused admission to hi
place Of confinement. Owing to The unwearied e.
ertions Of Mr. ThrasAer, in behalf OF the American
who participated in the invasion Of Cuba, his Al
\ rest win most assuredly creaie great sensa.io
D | throughout this country
The rev steamship Daaid Webster, Of Commt
= dore yanderbiit's line between this port and Sa
\ Francisco, which sailed on "Wednesday last Il
3 san Juan, took ont ia TOW, new and beautifI
steamer Of miniature dimensions, (being only abb,
90 toas burden9 called the Central Ameviea, whic
4 Is 10 run on Lake Nicaragua, as connecting lin
!. Of eommunication between The atlantic and Pacif
s oceans. The novelty Of he departure attracted
( large concourse of our citizens 10 the Battery; ar
as these i've specimens q Yankee enterprise mooxs
4 Cd, they were saluiea with deafsning cheers.