The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-09

packets between New York, Charleston, Ssyao-
ssh, New Orleans, Havana, Kingston Dam. }, and
Chsgres. In connection with J. 8. Stevens, ESQ.,,
and others, he owns the railroad the sthnus
Of Panama, which, il IL anticipated, viii be COM
pleted and in full operation during this year.
The monunt nts Of Mr.. Laws enterpr re, ability,
and energy, iu his own country, would satisfy any
man Of ordinary aspirations bus they seem to have
merely whetted and aroused his ambition. The
Panama passage has been talked Of, and written
about Tor more than two centuries, by the
English, and French, aud Spaniards. Canals have
been projected at different times Railroads have
been conte plated for twenty years over the
18th mus, and surveys and estimates made; but Mr.
Laws attention had not been devoted to it but q
few mspths before the work was underway, and
already upwards of twenty miles are finished. He
saw that this work would be of immense impOr.
lance, not merely to this country, but to Europe;
for once in operation, and the English Mediter-
rapean route to China and7the East Indies, via
the Isthmus of Suez, will be given up; for the en-
tire Atlantic trade to China to the East ladies' to
japan, to the Pacific Islands, Yves. Coast Of South
America, and to Australia, must 20 over this road,
rendering it, doubtless the profitable stock in
the world He now visits the 18th mus, We learn, to
project and locate docks, and to direct other in.
provements connected with the railroad. No one
doubts Mr.. Laws pecuniary ability. " is esti
mated that he is worth from five to seuen miti0ns,
ind his fortune Is daily and hourly augmenting
by his activity and enterprise, regulated by
ere at practical foresight He has yet failed
in anything he undertook, except when he va
beaten in ls49, by the Hon. BOBBY Brooks, for Con
gress because the free sellers leagued Sgains
him on account Of his not "shelling OUT the cash
to pay them, for which he was very censurable. It
is said he had profound contempt for the confess
Tor the seat ard for his antag enist and hence 70
fused to open his pure strings If Mr. Law would
60 into Wall street, which, since the discontinue
Of all the great men there, ia without any expanded
Intellect to control monetary operations, his genius
would soon effect a revolution and reform, in the
financial world Things would be carried on upon
large and magnificent scale, and he sould be
worth to the financial credit OK New York. thaa
regiment Of the small spectators that ow have
the sway. His letter above shows, that his genius
is not cramyed or limited to nero speculations of
peace or ordinary matters; but compasses the drift
Of European events, and he requisite means Of
meeting them
Weregsrd MIR. Laws Won,saclan,tento, above Civ
en-. As the most important public document Of tae
day The republican patriots of Europe have 10 It
practical means pointed cut to them Of doing some
thing. Talking and writing merely, will never eE
fsct any change there. The London 7ialcs, Gt.iig
manu- and the Moniteur Of Paris, will, Of course,
insert this notice. and if the revoiutionits have any
discretion, they will dispatch n agent to this city
immediately, with the .'where1ith" to mako proper
arrangements. George Law is their man. No orc
kor ;,s 49, Irr;so - I
he can for them. He is yet yeung, being scarcely
forty, and oflarge stature standing perhaps SKIES
three inches high, and well proportional Though
Mr.. Law, in early life, WAS not favored with
classical education, he has cultivated and improved
his mind by laborious application, and by
tensiye travel in this country and in Eu-
rope. lie is Of the same family as the famous
banker, John Law, the author of the Mississippi
and South Sea schemes in France and England, at
the first part of the last century, and which would
probably have succeeded, bu. that fosls and knaves
took their management out Of his hands. His an
cestors we're nearly allied TO those Of Lord Eenbo
rough, late Chief Justice of England, and cf Ed
muni Law, formerly Of Washington City. Every
thing that George Law touches seems to turn late
gold, the same . if touched by the wand Of Midas
He If, in himself, pi1cr-a quarts rock, richer
than Col Frenent's Mariposa diggings. He will
probably make out Of his late canal contracts, in
his state, amounting to several hund cd thousand
dollars, say fifty per cent clear profits and still the
State will be the gamer by his great experience and
skill in such works. The practical means and
measures adopted by George Law, in behalf of re-
publicanism in Europe, are worth all the speeches
and efforts Of forty Kossuths in half century, and
the Revolutionary Committee to boot.
THR ITALIAN OPERA TRourKs-PAsr, PRESENT,
ANB FUTURK.-To night t.o grand operas will be
produced at tho rival houees-both of the same
character-the heroes being two terrible follows
for breaking ladies hearts, but, some hos other
very popular with the sex, es, cola ly the greater
devil Of The two. Full houses may therefore be
expected ut the representation, this evening" Of Don
Juan, at Nibo's, and Robert the Devil, at Astor
Place.
During the laat uock, the contest between the
two troupts, for fame and supremacy, has been
spirited and well fought. Both f,nYes have been
attended by troops Of friends" but on the whole,
Nblo's has been the most crowded. Both in money
and numbers it has had the superiority But the
contest is not over yet, and the race is not always
to the swift, the battle to the strong There is
many slip between tho cup and the lip, and it is
only the troupe that porsoveres to the end that ihsl
be crowned with victsry
This contest il one Of endurance and pluck, ~
well as Of musical skill and science, and superior
quality of voice Self denial is necessary, and re-
oeipts for the presen. must be and the
goal kept steadily in view. Whichever troupe 6rat
quits the 6eld viii undoubtedly be regarded as the
beaten troupe, and the other troupe will crow loud
and long over it. If "the uppor ten /" want the old
house to hold out, they must attend it, not only
fashionable nights, but every night it is open, and
the Bosio tronpe must look TO its laurcs in the So
lection Of as good operas MS Mare,zek.
Whatever may DO the FINAL issue Of the struggle
between the two rospes, there is no doubt that the
permanent establishment OF the opera ut fifty cents
will result from it, and We shall havo that highest
Of epjoyments in future rs cheap ne theatres, or
- atka- n,ar4nn,art cnnseit.l ,,snrlda. ris.