The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-09

than Mt the same period last year. flour anu
wheat were also firm yesterday, and closed with m
inward tendency in prices; in fact, the demand for
Richmond -four for export to gold mining districts,
ard other southern tropical ATTITUDES, has quite
haust the ability of the millers 20 meet it; it I.
also snid that the coopers have exhausted tho supply
of -four barrels; the last sale Of Haxhall made
at 81 Cotton was firm yesterday, with = light
stock in this market. freights were also Arm, and
promise moro yemnne-stive rates for ship owners
For particulars, we refer to our trade report in
snother column
Both boards of the Common Council net last
evening at tie Usual hour; but no business Of pub
lie Importance was transacted beyond what is re-
corded in the official report elsewhere published.
in the Board Of Assistants, petition, presented
on behalf Of the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company,
praying fer extension Of the road to Vesey street.
was referred to special committee Of three. TIE
Aldermen adjourned until to- morrow, and the AS
sistants until this evening.
Tho Board Of Supervisors me. Yesterday and sp-
proved of the proceedings of tho previous meeting
after which, there being business Of Importance
TO transact, the body adjourned till next Monday.
Mrs Elizabeth Cakes Smith delivered a lecture
yesterday evening, at Hope Chapel, Broadway, on
''The Dignity of Labor for which see our re-
port.
The proceedings IN the different courts in this city
yesterday were characterized with unusual interest,
as will be from the reports elsewhere given In
the Oy and Tern1iner Patrick Mccormick vas found
guilty slaughter in the third degree in having
caused the death of John Heavy, in May last. Nc
Cormick was sentenced to three years aud ten
montbs-confne1nept in the State prison. The Court
of General Sessions was occupied with the investi.
CATION of riot which occurred on Sunday, the l2.h
September. The fracas grew GU. of religious con.
troversy.
The highly important and interesting case re-
specting Mrs. Lemmon's slaves, was called on yes
terdsy at II o'clock, in the Superior Court; but on
the application of Mr.. Lepaugh, the counsel for
the claimant. it stands adjourned until to day. a.
4P. n. See our verbatim report rs to the applica-
ton for postponement
The report of the City Inspector, published in
another part of our paper, shows an increase Of
twenty-five deaths, as occurring during the past
week, over the number reported for the week end
ing Both October. This increased mortality is
evidently attributable to the foggy damp and uu-
wholesome weather which we have had for the last
eight days, as the deaths caused by diseases,
which are either induced or aggravated, by such
state Of the atmosphere Thus, there are sixteen
more deaths from consumption and seven more from
Inflammation of the lungs during the week. The
same influencing cause, reduction of temperature,
has diminished the deaths from cholera infantum to
eight for the week, and rendered the infant popua
tion more healthy generally The sanitary state of
the entire population of the city is very good.
Our inside pages are to-day filled with great
variety Of highly entertaining matter. of portion
of which the following merely the heads:--Con-
fessons of a Seward Organ, and Movements for
1916; Letters from our Albany, Washinston, Que.
bee and London Correspondents; Thrilling Sketch
Of a Hunting Expedition in the Interior of this
State Those fond of chasing panthers, wolves,
deer, and other game, should not fail to read it
Personal Memorials of Daniel Webster; Theatrical
and Musical; Monetary and Trade Reports; a great
quantity Of local intelligence of all kinds, and
many columns of advertisements.
Confessions of sewardlsm- The Wing Party
Defunct-What Next:
The Seward organ, par erceHence, the greater
Ajax of socialism and abolition sedtion, after
beating about the bush like man strangely be-
wildered since the Presidential election, comes up
at last and looks the real issue full in the face We
refer readers to the article copied elsewhere in
our columns to-day from the New York Tribune.
and endorses all that have said for the last ten
vouches for the literal ful6ment of our oft repeated
predictions that it would be the death and desruo-
ton Of the whig party.
We have felt satisfied that the philosophers Of the
Seward organ would be compelled to face the
music, before they could satisfactorily to them
selves account for the terrible tornado of public
~, VII; oh has ~
Maine to Texas 1t was useless to pie ad the plea
of free trade, or the Catholic vote, or the disap-
pointment of Mr. Webster, or the GOODNESS of Mr..
Fillmore, or the democratic frauds" of the can
vass or the Halo movement, or the streachery'' of
Joshua II. Giddpgs to the whig party, or anything
Of this Sort al things else the cause or causes
of the crushing defeat of the Baltimore whg ticket
SO long as the question of Sewardisn was evadsd.
As the socialist philosopher consoles it at last,
Sewardsm was the part Of Hamlet in the tragedy
upon which the whole plot of the play rested and
to which alone can be attributed the fearful ami
iDdiscriminate slaughter of the closing scene.
The people recognized, oil over the land, on.
prominent and paramount issue in the canvass, and
that issue was between the Union, the constitu.
tion and the compromises based upon the constitu-
ton, on the one hand, and Sewardsm, the "higb-
er Iaw," the revival Of the slavery agitation, Sec
tonal discords civil STRIFE the horrible atroci les
Of St Domingo, and the dissolution of the Union,
ON the other. This was the prominent issue of the
canvass. Tho people have met it, and their solemn |
judgment against the agitators of the higher Law
and abolition socialists has struck them with con-
sternRtion and confusion like the continuous vbra
tiors Of a heavy earthquake rolling under their
feet. And we are here reminded, th.t when in
any Of the volcanic districts of South America m
earthquake comes on, and the inhabitants Of a
town suddenly find it undulating aud topping into
ruins, from the upheaying waves of subterraneau
ERE, and great chasms opened in the earth, and
houses and temples are swayed to and fro like boats
upon the stormy ocean, that then may be sson
mon women. and children. fYing in consternation