Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-11

the year just closed 1,24O of which were final pa
pers. More than two-thirds of the number were
taken out in the criminal court. The courts Of
the city Of New York, during the same period, as
reported by telegraph few days back, did not
issue above double that number. We have the
fact therefore, that st. Louis according to its pop
ulation, is greater point of rendezvous for Euro
pean emigration than any other city Of the Union.
American Dependence.
FIVE have true American party among us, we
hope it will distinguish itself by doing all that an
organized body of men can do to relieve the coun-
try from repetition Of evils which have caused
the present commercial distress. As government
we have been acting the part Of spendthriN. We
import more than we export, and, as conse-
quence are overwhelmed with foreign indebted
ness. We not only drink foreign tea and coffee,
which cannot very well be helped sweetened with
foreign sugar-which we could help, if We would
but we must be clothed in purple and fine linen
from abroad We walk on foreign carpets--the
extrayagant among US we mean-wear foreign
coats pantaloons and vests and sometimes foreign
boots and shoes. Our cigars are Havana made,
our preserves foreign grown, and our choice wines
and spirits are all foreign In our foreign vest pock
ct is q foreign made watch fastened around our
neck by foreign made ribbon. We travel upon
foreign rails often warm our feet by foreign GOALS
send abroad raw American cotton to be manufac-
tured into cloth to warm our cold American bodies.
Hence it is that we import fifty millions year
more than we export Hence it is, too that we
to-day owe three hundred millions of dollars to
Europe. tits as individual consumers Of foreign
luxuries-for foreign necessities we must have,
and can easily pay for, too-that we have created
this foreign debt. To meet 1t as 1t arises, we
sending abroad specie from quarter Of a million
to million and quarter of dollars by every steam
er. We receive the precious metals from our own
shores on the Pacific, in vast quantities, twice a
month, only to despatch 1t twice as often across
the Atlantic, there to meet the constantly accnmu
lating indebtedness for the Injuries we consume at
home. We do not propose to fix bounds to any
mans tastes desires, much less to prescribe the
place and manner of expending his own money !;
but it has struck us that If we have true Anne
rican party among us, we should show that fact by
an endeavor to encourage more OF our own indus
try, to consume more of our own goods, and to
rely less upon Europe for what we eat, drink and
wear and use. So much foreign debt in these times
is serious evil, and we should at least labor hard
to make our imports and exports square with each
other.-N " Express.
From the Correspondence of the N. Y Jonr of Com.
Goings ON in Rome.
You have no idea of the goings on in
this Rome at the present time. Cardinals carriages
fill up the principal street. Every Cardinal has
red carriage and three footmen dressed in red liv
cry. The Austrian Cardinal has two servants with
him, dressed as richly as ever saw any servants
in my life They are both fully six feet tall very
handsome looking fellows, wearing whiskers and
moustaches
Upon their heads they wear Russian cap of
fur, and coats trimmed very heavily with silver
braid, while from the left shoulder Of each hangs
another coat trimmed in the same style their
trowsers are also heavily trimmed their boots are
white doesSin, having white leather tops and spurs
Every body took them for some distinguished
guests, at the reception given in honor of the Car
dina
Here, amidst all this style that we see every day.
II becomes much matter of course. But you can
form no idea of the msgnifcence In which some Of
the cardinals ride. Their horses generally groan
under the weight Of the plated gold and sver har-
nesses. As body the cardinals look like 80 many
old women dressed up. The English Cardinal Wise
man IL the best looking ofthe lot.
Two churches here have been dressed In
magnificent style In honor Of this great affair.
They are hung with all kinds Of colored grapes,
all burning. The Virgin is dressed in satin and
jewels, and wears gold crown. On the corners
Of the streets there are generally paintings Of the
Virgin, and on Friday night every one was lighted
with some ten or twelve candles.
Rome after Advent Sunday, Is generally filed
with pipers, who come from the neighboring towns.
So Of course they are now in their zenith Of blow
ing. They wear short clothes, colored stockings,
and cloaks all in rags, and many are patched with
pieces of many hues.
The Roman beggars are also another great curl
osity here. AT every church door you find them
sitting in chairs with their little tin boxes which
they rattle at you as you pass. A woman went into
a store the other day 10 beg. The man had moth
ing less than a fve-cent piece. This he gave 10
her, and she cooly put her hand In her pocket
brought out handful Of change, and gave him four
cents back. So you see they make regular bust
ness OF it.
There is 30 much TO see here In Rome, that
don't know where TO begin TO write St Peters is
the greatest thing here but II Il Is too large to write
upon. To give yon an idea af the size Of it. ii viii
hold two hundred and twenty thousand persons
upon the ground floor. As large a story as this
may seem, II has been proved we made out an
estimate the other day, and allowing two square
feet TO each person. II viii hold one hundred and
| fifty thousand.
Everybody states that no less than forty-two
thousand we're there upon the 8th. Never has st.
Peters contained so many since the opening. Near
the high altar Is statue In bronze Of 81. Peter.
The toe Of this statue IL nearly kissed off and on
Friday, It was dressed up in gorgeous STYLE having
on one Of the Pope's mitres, and being surrounded
with candies and full three inches Of the toe kiss.
cd off.
In the coolest Of weather, this church IL always
warm, and in the hottest always cool It is a per
feet world in ITSELF and you can spend week here
and the seventh day II would appear larger and
more grand than ever.
The municipal authorities Of New Orleans have
selected Grcenough's plan for q statue TO Judah
Touro-cost $4,000
HORRIBLE DEATH.--0n the LIST inst, young
woman at Detroit, Mich in the absence Of the
other members Of the family, got intoxicated, and
her clothes taking fire. her body from the feet 10
her neck, was so dreadhlly burned as 10 cause her
death in few minutes after the return Of the
family.
EDrroRIAL STAMPEDE Messrs Scott, Duroc, and