The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-11

ants Of the country. 1t is power which acts
upon many even of the old fogies, with the
force of an electrical battery, galvanizing them
into new life, and urging them into the progress
sive spirit Of the age
The SCARLET LETTER AGAIN-MR. GAL
BRAIru's STATEMENT-We publish elsewhere in
this paper the statement of Mr.. Benjamin Gal
braith, in reply to the last publication Of Mr..
John Cochrane upon the free soil Scarlet letter
ofGeneral Pierce of lS4e. The memory Of Mr..
Cocbrane, we suspect will be much refreshed
| by the reading OF this statement. 1t is perfect
| ly conclusive. Mr.. Galbraith adheres to the
original facts of his conversations with the Sur
| veyor of the Port He re-ahfrms that Mr. Coch-
rane did admit that he had seen the letter mot
great while since" that he would look it up,
and that it did sympathise with the Van Buren,
| free sellers of 1S4e. If it were necessary. we
| could produce two other witnesses to sustain
the testimony of Mr.. Galbraith but we con-
slider his statement complete settler of the
matter at issue. But to satisfy the public Gu
riosity, and to settle the question beyond all
caviliing, why does not the President per-
NIT Mr.. Cochrane to put his hand in his breeches
pocket and bring out that letter--that mystic
rious letter-that Scarlet letter-to.the light of
day. Till that is done the public Judgment
| must be that it is free soil Van Bu-
rem Buffalo platform letter, which, if brought
out would establish the nomination and the
election of General Pierce as fraud upon his
party, and irand upon the country. The nom
| So. L., ln,4
pearance is enough, and betrays those free soil
| proclivities and associations, on the part Of
General Pierce, which may yet result in trcach
cry from the White House on the Nebraska
| question, unless the South and the friends of
| Douglas are shrewd and vigilant. Let the
| South look to the White House and the Cab-
net with jealous eye. till this Scarlet letter i.
brought out. Why not give us the letter?
| THE lsTnNus or DARIEN-IMpoRTANT NEws.-
We publish to-day an interesting letter from
Robert Nelson, OF the British surveying expe-
ditont detailed from the ship OF WEI Virago,
| on the Pacific side, to make an exploration
across the Isthmus of Darien, with the view OF
ascertaining the advantages or disadvantages
of that sthmus for the excavation of g ship ca
| nal between the two oceans. The report goes
very far to sustain the representations of Dr.
Black, which resulted in the despatch few
weeks since of the slooI of war Cyane by our
government, for an official survey of the route
indicated between the bay Of San Miguel CT the
Pacific, and the bay Of New Caledonia on the
Atlantic side. From the reports of the British
surveying party, it appears that the party
crossed the country until they got within about
eight miles of the Atlantic. of which ocean they
had an excellent view. They encountered o
plain OF some twenty-five miles in length, and
in no part of it did they find the elevation
greater than fifty feet above the level of the
sea.
Ttbis report is confirmed by Lieut. Strain.
of the Cyane surveying corps, and by the
French expedition detailed for the same pur-
pose to the same quarter, then is the question
of the route for the great interoceanic canal
between the Atlantic and Pacific fixed fact
That il will be confirmed We have no reason to
doubt. We shall wait however, with great in
terest the more thorough exploration which will
unqucstionably be made of the whole route
IRON end to end by our own expedition
WORK FOR DEcAyED PoLTTcIAys-We learn that
f.. b. Hart Esq. and others have been appointed
subcommittee. by the National Democratic
Committee at the Stuyvesant Institute, and in.
structed to solicit subscriptions for a weekly
journal that las suffered much in the hardshell
cause, and is even now in the jaws Of death.
Mr.. +. Il. Hart was once a member OF Congress.