The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-12

the arrivals many Of the inhabitants at times in
clined to think the allied Baltic or Black Sea fleets
are in their waters. The health Of Barbados was
never better. The yield Of sugar promised to be
unusually large-equa to sixty thousand hogsheads'
American produce was in demand, at high prices.
An election for State officers and members of
Congress took place in Mississippi on the 9Th and
9Th inst. From Washington we learn that last
evening Secretary Davis received despatch stating
that the State had gone democratic by a large ma
jority, electng the entire delegation to Congress,
and securing the Legislature.
In Louisiana, as far as heard from, the Know
Nothinrs have elected one of the four members OF
Congress, namely George Eustis, Jr., in the First
district.
Mrs. Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia, preached to
very large audience at the Friends Meeting House,
in Rose street. in this city, yesterday morning. Her
sermon was somewhat discursive in its character,
touching but slightly woman's rights and aboli-
ton. In the afternoon the distinguished lady at
tended the Friends meeting in Brooklyn.
We learn from the directors Of the American Elk
press Company that the assertion in the telegraphic
report from Washington, that they had notified the
Treasury department that they will not pay the
fifty thousand dollars lately lost in TRANSMISSION
rom Dubuque, until compelled to do SO by law" E
| entirely without foundation, there being mutual
understanding and arrangement between the De-
partmept and the company, which the latter are
AIRED and expect to carry out.
On Saturday the sales Of cotton reached about
900 bales The whole advance, since the arrival Of
the Asia, has been full &C. The stock in this mar
ket il much reduced, and good deal lighter than
usual for the same season of the year. Wheat was
steady for prime lots and rather easier for ordinary
or common qualities. Indian corn was unchanged.
Pork was the same, with rather more doing. The
public sale Of Rio coffee made yesterday exhibited
an advance of about &c. Sugars were quite steady,
with fair demand. There was no new feature to
notice in freights. Dry fruit and especially raisns,
promise to be high this winter. The remainder of
the last cargo, received here from Malaga, sold
yesterday. Boxes of bunch rasns brought SO 65 !;
halves, 81 SIS quarters, 95c., and boxes of layers,
81 25. Dates to the 10th from Malaga have come
to hand stating that heavy storms and floods had
occurred in the southern part Of Spain, which had
inflicted further injury on the fruit crops.
The Financial Condition OF the City Govern
ment-What n Field for Corruption!
There are comparatively few among our vast
population who fully understand or realize the
Importance of the financial condition of Our
city government, or the great Interests intrust-
ed to the care of our corporate authorities.
1t is the general belief that the public money
is misapplied, that our officials, or portion of
them, appropriate considerable amount Of it
to their own use, and that, in a word we are
required to pay more than double the amount
for the value of the work performed. This is
the general belief; but in regard to the cond-
ton of the city finances, the knowledge is, as
we have said, limited to a few Of our citizens.
We propose, for the benefit of those who have
never Investigated The matter, or who have had
but little time to devote to it, to give o clear,
simple and brief review of the whole subject.
During the past ten years the real and person
al estate of our city has doubled in value, and at
present, as will be seen from the following ia
BILE, amounts to nearly five hundred millions Of
dollars