The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-23


lent hand in stirring up the fermenting cauldron
of politics.
The Tontine Insurance Company, Of No. Is Wall
street. after due investigation into its affairs has been
closed by Comptroller Cook and the report Of the ex-
aminng COMMISSIONS placed in the hands OF the At
toey General for his action thereon. That this COM
pany has been frauduleny organized, and has trans
acted its business without capital, is abundantiy
proved by the report alluded to. Its method Of opera
ting was simple one and one that has been frequent
ly exposed in these columns To enable the officers to
take the required oath, the company borrowed John
Thompsons check for 100000, for the of which
for few days they agreed to pay $780, Having
procured certificate, the borrowed capital was with
drawn, and the company proceeded to transact bust
ness without dollar in it's treasury. For six months
they have issued policies, and their books show
acapital Of So ,000 with liabilities exceeding $4,000
So we go. Who is the next customer?
Warrants were yesterday issued by the Recorder
for the arrest Of Wm B. Reynolds, Of offa contract
notoriety, Bartholomew B. Purdy, Commissioner
of Repairs and Supplies, Francis NJ Curry, Coun-
Gilman from the Fiftysecond district, and exCoun-
Gilman Henry Bleakley. The first named was taken
into custody and admitted to bail in the sum OF ST.
500. A portion of the presentment of the Grand
Jury, developing system OF corruption OF stupen-
dous proportions relating principally to the bust
ness Of the Street Department, and the gross par
TALLY and injustice practised in awarding contracts
is published in to-days paper.
The case of the United States against Manuel
Echeverie, who is charged with fitting out vessel
at this port for the purpose Of conveying slaves
from the coast of Africa to Cuba, came up in the
United States District Court yesterday, and upon
90 o.
poned The District Attorney, in the course of
his remarks urging speedy trial of the case,
stated that within few years past be had reason
to believe that fourteen vessels had sailed from this
port in ten months to be employed in the above
trade.
convention OF hop growers was held at Coopers
town on the 10th inst. Reports were read from
seventy hop cultvators, stating the actual and est
mated yield of certain territory, and showing a
falling OF of nearly forty per cent in the yield this
year, compared with that Of 1854. Agricultural
societies were recommended to offer premiums on
hops
The sales Of cotton yesterday reached about 900
bales, and the market closed steady. Flour was
active, and for good common to medium grades of
State and Western, in many 123 cents per bbl
higher The sales footed up 900 bbls. chiefly
for export The receipts Of wheat were large, not
withstanding which prime qualities both red and
white, well sustained in price, while inferior
and common qualities were heavy. For amount of
sales and quotations we refer to another column.
Corn closed at Ole. q 92c. Pork was dull. Lard
was firm and in brisk demand. Sugars were quiet,
without change in prices Coffee was inactive.
Freights to Liverpool were rather easier. 10000
bushels Of grain were taken at 9ad. l03d in bulk
-. ~
They continued firm to London and to the Continent.
New York politics-Prince John Van Barren
md w. III. Scward-Hnrd Shell Ratification
Wing Resurrection-tsreat Excitement.
The combustibles are all in blaze, and the
kettle Of fish compounded by our New York
| politicians is boiling and bubbling with as
| many potent ingredients as the witches caul-
dron. Our present text is suggested from the
stumping adventures OF Prince John Van
| Buren, and W. ii. Seward, the hard shell demo-
cratic ratification last night at the Metropoli-
tan theatre the democratic whig mass meet
ing last night at the Old Broadway House, aad
| a. live whg" State convention which is to
| meet at Constitution Hall to-day.
To begin, then, we publish this morning, at
Buren, at Oswcgo, which is very interesting,
as furnishing the official Interpretation of tue
Syracuse soft she'll platform. We now under
stand exactly the meaning of the Cassidy aud
Van Buren, resolutions on the niger question.
First, upon the presumption that strict adj
herencc to the doctrine of popular sovereign
ty," Of the Nebraska bill, will secure the ex-
1esa 1fr lo,ta 81,
sent to try the Nebraska bill but, secondly,
if that should fail, they arc resolved that Kan
sas shall not come into the Union until popu-
lar sovereignty in the Territory shall surren
der to The dctation Of the free soil majority OF
the House Of Representatives at Washington.
Thus the Prince, with the dignity of the lord
of the manor, sits asJide of the fence, with one
leg Oh the hard side and the other on the soft
side-with one hand raised aloit for the com
promises Of the constitution, and the other for
the old Buffalo platform. He goes for the Ne
braska bill-that ought to satisfy the hards !;
he goes for making Kansas free State, any
how, squatter sovereignty or no squatter so
vereignty, and with this the softs are manifest
y content.
III tueliHoic, Wnlic ioI the coHiIofb OF Inc
Sachems OF Tammany and the Custom House,
the Prince endorses the Pierce administration
on such measures of its foreign policy as Grey
| town, Cuba, and the Koszta letter and its
bountiful expenditures for the spoilsmen, of
| from seyenty-ive to eighty millions year, be
| 1t understood that the softs do not approve the
| conduct Of the administration in reference to
| Kansas. Not a bit Of it. On the contrary, as
the policy Of the softs is to make Kansas
free State by act Of Congress, if the thing can
not be done by the free soil squatters OF the
Territory, the Prince logically argues that il is
perfectly absurd for the Buffalo democracy to
publicans in the dastardly way they have been
doing for the last two or three weeks. Snch