The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-25

darcy McGee also delivered q lecture which was
wei a'tende At The Tabernacle N the claims OF
catholicty the early discovery of Americ,; the
object being to pcove that the aim of Conn bu was
that of missionary Of the Church as ell of dis
coverer.
The L. F. Msasher Club held meeting last night,
and agreed to pr sent coagratulatory address and
a purse containing q OF money, to John Mitchell,
the Irish patriot, on, bis arrival in this city.
Our telee raphic ews this morning is very BRIEF
owing to the sterm that has prevailed for the
past twenty ur hours materially interrupting the
operations OF the wires.
In the stock market yesterday there was more
animation and the leading fancies advanced Flour
and wheat were 'rae cheaper; cotton steady; pork
varied little, and infreghts engagements were mode
rate.
The large and splendid hotel at Fort Hamilton,
kept by Fl. ID. Clapp, and owned by Mr.. George s.
Gelston, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday
night, and about fifty thousand dollars worth of
property consumed. full account will be found in
another column An interesting feature in this casu-
atty was the saving of the lives of two persons by
dog.
On our inside pages will be found letters rom our
correspondents at Washington, Albany, and Goshen;
the continuation of the trial of the and officers
of the steamboat Henry Clay; the proceedings OF
the Triennia Protestant Episcopal Convention, Po-
lice, Theatrical and Musical and Financialan Com
mercial Intelligence, &C., &c.
The Restoration OF the BOurbOns-Thc Van
Buren, by nasty Revived.
We have before us at length in the removal
&c ha Coll oct nj
New York, the last act in the coup d'etat OF the
Cabinet by which the Van Burens are restored
to power. Gov. Marcy can now exclaim with
Louis w.: :" The State-I am the Statew
The eliminating point of the free sellers has
been reached Faction has triumphed over the
spirit of union, which, rising above party in the
contest Of 1852 elevated Gen. Pierce to the Pre-
sidency. That verdict has been set aside, and
the question is again presented to the American
people:
Shall the Van Burens administer your go
vernment?
Are you called upon to suppress your own
convictions Of duty. and abandon the true in
terests Of the country, to uphold set of men
in whom you have no confidence, and whose
past career, in and out Of Office proves them to
be traitors to your constitution and the most
dangerous enemies Of your Union? VIII you
stultify yourselves by ignoring your recently
pronounced decision against those disturbers
OF the public tranquility. and come up to the
support of a Cabinet who are using, we will not
say how shamelessly, the patronage OF your go
vernment to foist upon you men whom you con-
in WI
conduct since has only proved the depth of their
treachery and the justice of your decision
against them? Are you bound to receive those
men into favor now, and make them your trus-
tees, with evidence fresh upon you that in
every instance where you have contided in
them they have sacrificed your highest
interests, turned traitors to your counsels, VIC
lated your confidence, and betrayed your cause?
Either you or they must have changed. Has
the constitution lost any of its value since the
inauguration OF President Pierce? Is it less
important now than in 1S50-in the midst OF the
compromise struggle; than in 1872 when party
lines were obliterated in the triumphant move
ment of the people to sustain the Union and to
put down its enemies, that the public admins
tration should be conducted by men of unques-
toned patriotism? Was the election of Pre-
sident Pierce a token Of approval Of the abo-
litionists and free sellers? Did it signalize the
return to power Of the Van Burens, and the
prostitution Of the public patronage to strike
down and immediate men who had never fall
tered-whose faith had never been questioned?
Is it any better that the public enemy of 184S
treason, and now stands side by side with those
whom he betrayed? Can we believe in the sin
cerity of such repentance, and the honesty Of
his present faith, when his conversion was fol-
lowed by rewards bestowed upon him in ODE
dience to his own insolent demands and which
were actually made condition precedent to
the abandonment of his former heresies and his
support of the cause he had just betrayed?
Have we found in the history of "reviyals" any
such example of an honest surrender Of opin-
ions and the instantaneous reception Of doc
trines against which the delinquent had strug-
gled for years, and to maintain which he had
abandoned ancient associations. broken long
standing PARTY ties. and arrayed himself at once
among the most bitter and relentless enemies
Of the use to which he was converted? r
The free soler Of l84S differently situated? Do
we find anything in the history Of his rebellion
to exempt him from popular odium?-anything
in his present acts to warrant the conviction in
our minds that he is more sincere now than
when he gloried in acts Of open treason against
the constitution, and widely proclaimed his
hostility to those men from whom he is
receiving daily tokens Of approval and favor
Has he, since the hour of his detection at Buffa-
10, ceased to malign the national democracy
and to be-little the Union spirit Of the country?
Is there man in the State of New York who
believes that the actual opinions of one promi-
nent free soler Saving perhaps, Mr.. Dix who
never gave his heart to the work. of 1913 have
been changed, and that he now honestly and in
good faith sustains the national sentiment of