The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-28

The Spring rraae-BusAness Prospects.
The business season is beginning. The
hotels are filing up, and choked as the streets
are, carts are beginning to travel to and fro
with bales o goods A steady influx Of arri-
walls from the West is enhvenlDg the business
| wards; and the new corners are, for the most
part, well provided with plethoric purses, fruit
of the bounteous crop OF last year. Our arri-
! walls from sea are not SO numerous as usual,
owing to the severe weather; but many heavy
laden vessels are hourly expected, and the
| wharves will soon present their accustomed
scene of spring activity
! 1t is possible-it is probable-that we are
entering upon period OF prosperity such
as even our past history can hardly
parallel There perhaps never was q time
when so many elements of prosperity babe fair
concur for our benefit. Past well being and
past suffering alike conspire for our advantage
We have the want &c ground Of 1853 to start
from in the new race; and the depression of
1854 and 1855 has husbanded our resources
strengthened our prudence, weeded ,us un-
profitable enterprises, narrowed our expendi-
ture. Nor is the almost certain cessation of
the war in Europe less opportune. That pro-
digious calamity has been felt from the Gas
plan to Lake Superior, from the Himalayas
to the Rocky Mountains producing everywhere
alarm, distrust, inertia 1t has cast q shade
over every great enterprise even in this coun-
| try; abroad it has involved immense sacrifices
of commercial means, paralyzed industry, and
led to an extensive system of boarding Peace
dissolves these fatal Influences, checks these
injurious habits, restores confidence, and I'M
locks the treasure vault
At bome everything points to good times.
Since the month of February, 1853, we must
have received from California full one hundred
and fifty millions of gold, of which we have not
exported over one hundred millions. Fifty
millions have rename here: swelling the stock
of specie in the country by that amount. Our
accounts by the Webster and Illinois announce
that the prospects of the mines were never SO
promising as at present, and assure that the ex-
port this year will not fall short OF fifty millions.
A like production of gold is guaranteed to us
from Australia. A much larger sum will pro-
baby come to light when the people of Ger
many and France and Russia bring out their
gold from its hiding places and put it again
into trade or interest paying securities.
Nor have the elements thus far proved unpro-
pitious. The heavy storms OF the winter have
for time checked commercial intercourse.
and will thus concentrate business trans
actions into the spring months 1t is probable
that the sales Of the wholesale merchants during
the next three months will be larger than they
ever were during like period before. They
will be only limited by the supplies of the i'm.
porters which are and must remain small
industry, and the decrease in the produc-
ton of foreign manufactured goods. But the
severe winter has been far more useful in
another respect. The heavy falls Of snow
which have extended from Canada to south of
Mason and Dixon's line ensure us-unless
some unforeseen disaster should occur-a
bountitul crop. Farmers are confident that
this years crop will even be greater than that
Of last year.
Politically, what is the prospect? Some
persons talk about war with England. We
might prove it impossible but as no man Of
sense expects any thing of the kind, we will
say no more about it. Uneasiness is felt in
certain quarters about the falling of in emf
grafton. 1t does not seem very likely that the
number of emigrants will fail short of 10000,
at the worst; and really, after the immense
importations of the raw material we have had
Of late years, return to moderation will be
beneficial. Those who are here will be the
better able to improve the land. The coun-
try's progress will be steadied and consoli-
dated. And that running scre-paupsrism--
which is less to be feared on account of it's
immediate than its contingent eyils--will at
all events be healed.
A LARGE BATCH DISPOSED OF.-The Phila-
delphia Know Nothing nomination, though it
has LETT the field still open for a separate
Northern nomination of Live Oak George Law
in June next has effectuaIly disposed Of the
following catalogue of aspirants for the Anne
rican party, to wit -
Hon, JohnJ. Crittenden Know Nothing whig,
Kentucky.
Hon. John Bell, whig Know Nothing Ten
nessee.
Gen. Sam Houston, democratic Know No.
thing, Texas.
Com. Robert F. Stockton, democratic Know
Nothing, New Jersey.
Hon. Kenneth Rayner, wing Know Nothine1
North Carolina.
Hon. John NJ Clayton, Know Nothing whi.::
Delaware.
Judge John Mclean, anti-Catholic whig,
Ohio.
Ex Gov. W. F. Johnston, Seward Know N
thing, Pennsylvania.
Hon. Garret Davis, whig Know Nothing,
Kentucky.
Gov. II. J. Gardner, free soil Know Nothinl'
Massachusetts,.
Hon. John Minor Bolts, whip Know Nothing