The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-27

ringue? Are they sensible. intellectual honor
able, amiable? Have they even the poor re-
commentator Of high blood, or hereditary
respectability? Alas Shocks father was a
joiner, and his own hands have been hardened
by the use Of the plane. Jenkins grew his own
potatoes, and supplied fashionable families with
the vegetable when fashionable people lived ia
Dey street Stubberslops painted doors and
windows in his early youth, and Mrs. S. mixed
the paint. Worse than this, Shocks is a stupid
dog-headed clown Jenkins is mean and mar
row minded; Stubberslops believes that Dick
ems wrote Shakespeare, and that the "Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" is the work of Mr.. Barry
Of the Broadway. Respectable though ignor-
ant, Sin the humble station in which they began
life, they are now snObbish, contemplate and.
extravagant.
The News BY THE EuROPA-The intelli-
gence brought by the Europa on Saturday, va
ries but little in it's positive features from the
previous aspect of the war question. We gather,
however, from the statements and rumors of
which it is made up, an impression decidedly
favorable to the chances of pacific termina-
ton of the Difficulty.
We learn, in the first place, that instead Of
being confined. as it was at first supposed, to
the extravagant and inadnissible counter pro-
Ject which ne had presented to the Court of
Vienna, Count Orloff was furnished with a Sc
cond and modified proposition, which he subse-
quently delivered to Count Buol, but which the
representatives of France and England refused
to entertain, under distinct orders from their.
governments. This fact would seem to indi-
cate that the Emperor's mind is far from being
positively made up as to the course he will
pursue, and that the door is still open to nego-
tiation. The Vienna correspondent of the
London Chronicle appears to write under the
impression that the question would be settled
by arbitration, and he states his conviction
that something of Importance, that is to say,
something Of peaceful character, was in
the wind" The Gear is said to be SUIT
feriDg from severe attack of bile, no
doubt caused by the anxieties and perplex-
tiles by which he is beset; SO that it is
not improbable that when Count Orloff returns
to st. Petersburg he may receive fresh instruc
tions to carry out the objects of his mission-to
which the famous counter-project appears after
all, to have been only intended as mask-on
the principle of the Irish agitator, who always
inculcated the expediency Of asking for much, in
order to obtain part. The Emperor of the
French has. as we have stated. written to the
Gear to make last appeal to his good sense;
80 that matters seem to be generally tending
towards the point at which it was always our
opinion they would arrive, namely-the adjust
ment of the questions at issue by general
congress Of the European Powers
From the seat of war we have nothing of a
upon Kalefat had not as yet taken place
Some small advantages had been gained by
the Turks at Giurgevo and one or two other
places, but they did not affect in any serious
way the respective positions of the belligerents.
The allied squadron were to return to the
Black Sea on the 18th ult., having under their
protection two Turkish conveys freighted with
men and ammunition for the scene of operations.
The GADsDEN C0UNTRY.-The letter which we
publish to day from st. Louis, represents, on the
authority of Major Stein, Of the United States
Army, that section of country acquired
by the Gadsden treaty, in rather o
more favorable light than usual But it
must be remembered that the Majors ex-
plorations have been chiefly in New Mexico
west of the Rocky Mountains. and that his
incursions into Sonora were naturally along
the water courses where he could obtain for
his men supplies of beef wood and water We
have no doubt that Capt. Cooke, who went
through the heart of the Gadsden country.
from one end to the other, and General
Kearney, Lieut.. Emory, Prof Bartlett, Collector
Collier. Lieut. Beale, and Col. Fremont, who
have travelled the whole journey of the ella
route, describe faithfully the general character
Of the country, as that of the desert The fertile
places are like those GASES in the deserts of AZ
lea, very beautiful and productive, but few
and far between-ten acres of fertile land on
the average, perhaps, to ten thousand acres of
desert But for all that it may be worth twen-
ty millions as place of refuge for decayed
politicians Who knows?
THE MAINE LIQUOR LAW AT ALBANY-The
tilt between Senators Brooks and Dickinson on
the Maine liquor law project seems to have ter
minated in the discontinue of the former A
mania for quotations and an overweening de-
sire to pour out whatever scraps Of erudition
he had learnt in the course of his editorial
career seemed to have deprived Mr. Brooks OF
the advantage necessarily enjoyed by the an
tagonist of sumptuary laws. As often happens,
too, with men of superficial attachments, Mr..
Brooks had forgotten to read the books he quot
ed and thus discovered, to his utter confusion,
that when he fancied be had been quoting Solo
mon, he had merely been repeating the sophisms
the writer Of the Proverbs places in the mouth
of the foolish woman" These blunders gave
Mr.. Dickinson an advantage of which he did
not fail To avail himself In frnfh the vote on