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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-21

The ALBANY REGENCY CROWDED OUT.-Tam-
many Hall and the Albany Regency, defeated
in our late city election, labored very industri-
ously with several boobies to help them to get
the control of our late Union meeting, and to
use it for their own benefit, ind in putting their
special favorite for Charleston on his legs
again. But they were crowded out, and their
special candidate for the Presidency got sick,
too sick to sing his appointed part in the
opera. We hope, however. that he is not Sc
riously indisposed, and that the Jou,naiof Com
merce will take good care of him, and Of Tam
many and the Regency, till the weather is
more favorable for all such political invalids
They were too much exposed on election day,
and they must be doctored very carefully.
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THE PEOPLE OvERPowERsNa THE PoLrrr-.
CIANs.-D During the last ten days our city poiiti-
clans who are not with the republican party
have been very active in behalf of our glorious
Union. They had thus arranged it 80 as To-
appropriate all the honors Of our late grand
Union demonstration to themselves We had
advised them that Gen. Scott was their card, il
they really wished to do anything-that he was
the NAH whose name would stir up the masses
Of the people, and bring them to the rescue.
But still, the politicians concerned inside the
Academy contrived to keep the old patriot in
the background as much as possible. They
had his letter read-a beautiful and patriotic
letter; it touched the right chord hut very
little, II anything, was said for Gen. Scott Not
SO at the more independent meetings Of the
people outside. Free to choose their own pro-
gramme, they fairly and squarely indicated
their views in the proclamation of Scott and
Houston as their Presidential ticket. From
this manifestation we see that the people, re-
leased from our pipe-laying politicians, are
ready for action, without waiting for party
caucus or convention jugglers. And why can
not this spontaneous movement be followed up
Gen. Scott is no longer young; but he is still
young enough and strong enough to rally a
party together competent practically to save
the Union.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-21

A PRIZE FOR A MILLoNATRE.-Barb ex-
quisite statue, the "Fisher Girl is nov on
exhibition in the rotunda of the Merchants
Exchange, where the artists necessities have
compelled him to expose it for sale. Here is
chance for some one Of our wealthy citizens
to distinguish himself by his discrimination
and liberality. This work has been pro-
nounced by all who have seen it to be one of
the finest that has been executed by any mo-
dern sculptor, and few years hence its value
will be inestimable. One such object as this
in q Fifth avenue mansion will tell more for
the taste and Judgment of its owner than all
the gaudy frescoes and glittering decorations
with which it is ovcrlaid. The work is to be
sold by auction on Thursday next tomorrow,
Inc I'D, at halfpast twelve. We trust the at
tendance upon this occasion will give evidence
OF 'he interest which our merchants are ex-
pected to take in the new movement in favor
Of art.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-21
The Union Meeting-The Great Conser-
vative Move ment OF the Day.

The Union meeting at the Academy of Music
on Monday evening opens new era in the po-
litical history Of the country. 1t was the
largest, the most enthusiastic, the most singu-
lar and most instructive meeting ever held in
New York. Some twenty thousand persons, of
all ranks and parties, must have assembled in
and around the building, the three outside
meetings rXceeding by far in numbers the
meeting wltijn. 1t was grand and decisive
demonstration as to the strength Of the Union
sentiment in this imperial city-the same senti-
ment which elected Fernando Wood Mayor of
New York fortnight before. It will have an
important influence throughout the country,
not only By kindling the flames of enthusiasm
and suggesting similar meetings, but on ac
count Of its practical character. 1t differs from
all the Union meetings that have been previ-
ously held, both in what was said and what
was done. The salient points of this remarka-
BILE demonstration are three
First, the speech of Charles O'Conor, at the
| inside meeting.
Second, the nomination of General Scott for
PRESIDENT Of the United States, and Sam Hous-
Ton TOT Vice President, at two Of the outside
meetings, and the reception of SCOTS name
In the inside meeting with an enthusiasm which
was equal to nomination.
And third, the recommendation to hold SINH
lar Union meetings all over the land.
As to the statesmanlikesp speech of Mr. OConor.
it was the only one that rose to the height of
the occasion, and comprehended the trpe na,urs
| Of the issues between the North and tho so,,,b
OF all the Union speeches made at thi; meeting
or the meetings in other cities, it alone has
grasped the subject with mastery hand. All
the rest were mere defamation, or consisted o,
the vague gcncralities and platitudes of the
old politicians, beating about the bush, ant
avoiding the real points of the controversy
Even Caleb Oushing's speech at Boston wa
only remarkable for the vehemence of its gene
raj abuse. O'Conor's speech is of total,
different character. He seizes the bull by the
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TIE House ORGANIZATION FoRNEY FOR
CIERE.-1t is very well understood that the
programme of Thurlow Weed for the organiza-
Ohio, for Speaker; Mr.. Bowles, of Massachu-
sets, for Printer, and John w. Forney for
Clerk of the House. But why this vagabond
politician Forney for Clerk?
We had supposed that the republican party
plumed itself somewhat upon its pretensions to
social and political responsibility. How, then
with such pretensions, can this party in Con-
gress stoop to pick up such treacherous
reckless, disgraced and degraded creature as
this fellow Forney? The republican candidate
for Speaker, apart from his endorsement Of
Helpers handbook Of abolition treason, is con-
coded to be a man Of good character, COM
handing the respect Of political friends and
enemies. We think, too, that it would now be-
perhaps, the best policy of the democracy to
permit his election as Speaker; for thus he and
his party will be made officially responsible
before fhe country, for their Helper endorse
ments and for all the consequences
Mr.. Bowles, the republican candidate for
Printer, is also respectable man, and free from
any such crushing objections as those which
cling to Forney. But unless the republican
party have become insensible to shame and re-
gardless Of anything like decent respect for
public opinion, they will repudiate For
ney as they would hardened con-
vict. That infamous letter of his in the
Forrest divorce case should have forever
driven him into obscurity. We know that
some years ago, with an overwhelming demo-
cratic majority in the House, that letter would
have defeated him, but for misapplied chari-
ty and the pressure Of mere party considera-
tons. We know that that letter produced on
the minds Of the opposition Of that day such a
feeling of disgust for Forney that they regard
ed his election as little better than the en-
dorsement Of said letter by the House. And is
not the infamy of Helpers pamphlet sufficient,
that the republican party in Congress now, in
their turn, should be required to endorse For.
ney's infamous Jankson letter?
| 1t is all the more surprising that the repub-
ucaus should tAinS, sQg q moment, of doing
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MOVEMENTS IN Property Or TOwN-THE
CRY EXTENDING NoRrHwARDs.-Sin the Cen
trail Park was commenced there has been
great movement going on in the northern end
of the island, and property in that vicinity has
rapidly been acquiring an increased value.
Before long we shall see the whole line of the
Harlem and North rivers covered with stores
and factories; and when the Harlem river is
cleared, as contemplated, and navigation es-
Meeting the East river with the Hudson, the
entire space between Tubby Hook and Harlem
river will be thickly populated, and devoted to
business purposes, of course with the exception
of that portion around Washington Heights,
which is not available for streets, aud which
nature specially designed for rus in a,rbe. Up
to that point the ground lying between the two
rivers is comparatively level, admits of an easy
grade, and can be easily converted into streets
and avenues.
1t is already contemplated to construct
village which will occupy all that space; and
with that view we perceive that some five hun
dred lots are to be sold at auction to day at
the Merchants Exchange
The natural tendency of our population to-
wards the neighborhood Of the Central Park,
and the us a tergo with which the increase of
business is compelling the trade and commerce
Of the metropolis to extend themselves in that
direction, are manifest to every one The pic
turesqe beauty Of the park, as we'll as the natu-
raj charms of the locality itself, affords an at
traction without parallel to erect residences all
around in that vicinity, while the pressure Of a
rapidly increasing trade must compel us to con-
vert that portion of the island lying above it,
as far north as Washington Heights, to business
and manufactures. There can be very little
doubt, then, we think, that all that portion Of
the island will be so occupied in few years,
provided that the Corporation or the Legisla-
ture do not interfere with private enterprise by
getting up any jobs there, by appointing Com
missioners to open up streets, and so forth, as
they have done elsewhere. The Corporation
has already got through one infamous railroad
job for the profit of few individuals, and we
have no doubt that attempts will be made in
the next Legislature to get commissioners APP
pointed for opening streets, and all that sort of
thing, in this locality. We hope all such at
tempts will be resisted and defeated. There is
no need of any commissions, or jobs of any
other character. The work will be legitimately
accomplished sooner and better without the aid
of legislation.
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Mark cts.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK BnARn.

PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20, 1859.
stocks dull. Pennsylvania state S. Reading Rail-
road, Morris Canal, 50 Long Island Railroad 11;
Pennsy vania Railroad, $685.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10, 1852
Cotton-Sales to day 1900 bales a, irregular prices
buyers DC mand reduction which Is refused The Euro
pean advces caused less tirmncss in tho market
Freehs-Cotton TO Liverpool 932d, some vessels ask
ing I'D.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 20, 1859.
Cotton-Sales day, 1900 bales at irregular prices:
we quote mddling at 1876 lie. The sales OF tn last
three days add up % bales the receipts 500
bales-against a. 0C0 for he same time last year Re.
cepis 10 date ahead OF last year. bales Sugar
dull and quiet at &C. 7Ac Molasses 42c Oats
sic:
Sight exchange on New York, u x per cent dis.
count.
MOBILE, Dec. 10, 1859.
Cotton-sales today, 1900 bales u decline Of &c
midding 10hc lossc.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 10, 1859.
Cotton quiet; sales to. day 500 bales.
SAVANNAH, Dec 10, 1859
Cotton inactive; sales day 500 bales, a. irregular
prices
CINCINNATI, Dec. 20, 1850
Flour dull, heavy and dropping, at SIS 20 SIS 30 for
superfne. Whiskey unchanged Wheat dun but prices
unchanged. Hogs advanced Csc sales nj So So co.
receipts today, 2,70o Mess pork Sl6 rs ste So Bnlk
meat 6l4c., and sac. for delivery IN February Lard
loo. 10Ac Green meats advanced-sboplders &c n
SIC. sides, TIC. Hams, 7a4c a TIC.
IiiHADEfpmA Dec. 90, 1859.
Flour quiet and dull Corn active at S2I,c Oats
steady. Whiskey unchanged.
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The INSTRUCTOR OF THE GREAT REPUBLICAN
PARTY COMING HoME.-It is announced that w.
H. Seward is on his return passage to this
country on the Arago, and will probably be in
New York within few days. When he left for
Europe in May last he was escorted down the
bay by large delegation of the republican
party, and on that occasion he made parting
speech, one or two extracts from which will
show that he anticipated the practical illustra-
ton Of his .'irrepressible conflict doctrines
which the country has since witnessed at Har-
per's Ferry. Speaking on beard the Josephine
he said:-
will only say gentlemen, in expressing my thanks to
you, that the point of separation that I
trust may be my good fortune to return amongst you
and resume the duties o,o temporarily suspended in The great
cdase Of freedom and humanity
1t was in this great cause Of freedom and hu-
manity that John Brown made war upon the
Commonwealth Of Virginia, and shot down its
peaceful citizens
And again, addressing the republican dele
cations from Brooklyn and Jersey City on
board the Aida, he used these Words
do so the more readily, because know that at last the
great questions Of justice and humanity before the American
safely left to your hands, if the ccer re-
turns
Here it will be perceived Mr.. Seward modest
~ denominates himself the instructor of the
great republican party, and the great republi-
can party, as there represented, acquiescedvery
quietly in his assumption of that title.
And perhaps Mr.. Seward can justly claim the
position he assumed; for be it remembered that
in October, 1853, he enunciated the brutal prin-
cples Of the ''irrepressible conflict" and issued
his bloody declaration Of war against the South
at Rochester; andin October, 1859, John Brown
carried them into effect at Harper's Ferry.
The instructor" now returns to renew the
"irrepressible conflict for freedom and hui
mainly which the recently executed traitors at
Charlestown commenced.
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Disastrous Fire ana Loss OF Life.

WOMEN AND BOY HORRIBLY BURNED.
HARTFORD, Dec. 20, 1859.
The fuse factory Of Joseph Toy in simsbury, took Gre
at about half past o'clock this morning. and
rely destroyed The fire took in the lower part Of the
building while the employees at work in the upper
story and the flames spread with such rapdy to cut
of all chance Of escape consequently females
burned to death, and two others, together with boy
the Of the badly injured that is believed
they survive The names of the dead as far as
ascerained, are:Catharne Brissey New York State
Mary Jane Bacon, Of Smsbury, Hannah and Harriet
Head (sisters other females not ascertancd
and married woman named Iampson. Physicians from
this city in attendance upon the injured The origin
Of the IRE is unknown. Loss not reported.
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The Southern Pacific Railroad.

NEW URIKANs, Dec. 10, 1859
Dr. FowIkes, President Of the Pacific Railway leaves
here for Philadelphia via Memphis morrow to consum-
mate new organization in that place with Hon Edgar
THOMSON Of Philadelphia President; Colonel Samuel
Tate, Of Memphis, as Land Commissioner, aud Hon. v
Stevenson, Of Nashville General Agent Of the Com
pany INC stock sales reported President Fowkes by
pied to the construction OF the road The company g
stock books are Closed with conditional offers for the
whole unsod stock of the company at par Texas episIn
fioD Of favorable character is anticipated
Ihe prospects of the company highly satisfactory
TO the New Orleans stockholders and regarded by CAPT.
tasfs as solid reality. President Fowlkes achievements
silence the rebuke of his opponents ana eae his friends
who talk OF grand dinner in his honor
GdenCc
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fairly terminate until near one O'Clock on Tues
day morning, and at five O'Clock the columns Of
the HERALD presented full report of the whole
proceedings, speeches and all, both imide and
outside the ball Of meeting the work OF ten
reporters. And these reports to whk,h we
have referred were not mere sketches or con-
densations, but full and graphc-as 1t were,
veritable daguerreotypes Of the transactions as
they took place. This is our way of rnakiog a
newspaper.
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The New York Decentralization eos
Europe.


Europe.
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ten O'Clock this morning
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ACADEMY or MUsIo-RETuRy OF MISS ApElxA PArrY--
The fashionable world will muster in full force this even
ing at the OPERA to assist at the yentee of tte Pat
who returns to the metropolis after taking Philadelphia by
Storm As there will be only two Opera nights this week
tonight and To- morrow, and I'll February tho
hatiuis will make the most Of them To night Miss Patti
sings in "Lucia = and to morrow the "sonnambula''
will be given. sgnor Brigno sings tho tenor parts in
both Operas
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DISTINGUISHED EQUINE ARRlvAs.--William Cooks cello
bratcd troupe of horses and ponlcs from Asteys Amph
theatre, london, arrived In the Borussa Non
day last. Tcy TO appear together with Mr. Cook
entire company at Nibc's Garden in the beginning OF
January.
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Another Eject OF the seIrrepresssbIe Con.
fltct.o

0tct.',
SOUTHERN MEDICAL STUDENTS QUITTING PHILADEL-
PHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 20, 1859.
At a meeting OF Southern medical students to-day IL
was resolved to secede in body from the schools In this
city and go to the Southern colleges There was large
attendance Jefferson College will lose two hundred and
will proceed in body morrow night in special train
from the Baltimore depot The proceedings were con
Quoted throughout with great decorum and proprety and
there was exhibition OF violent feeling. number
will 60 to the Richmond Medical College
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EvENING

ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING
ACARSMY OF MUSIC Fourteenth saee,.-lrALAx oes-
NIRIo'S 0ARDER broadway -Evo u,1oxs on THE
TteHr Rors-NiooDkAus-GKEss Mossrxn-
BowEsY THEATRE. Bowery.-axD R.ucxR-uoop
WisThR GARDEN, Broseway, opposite Boud street.
OcrcRooA.
wAILACKS THEATRE, Brosd~sy.--EvERrsoDr'
FniEsp-FosrY AND Furry.
LAURA KEENE's THEATRE. 6ei Broadway-DIsrAsr
RELATIONS.
FASH WosEs-pAppy THE PirER-ouE ENGLISH Uousis
FREScH THEATRE, taS sroadway.-covEli's MUSICAL
ENiRRTAIssEsT.
BARNuN's AMERICAN MUSEUM Broadway After
noon and Ereuipg-i.A Torn DE NssLE-JoHs JONES.
BRYANTs NINsTREIS Mechanics Pail, Az sroadwsy-
NfBfYo's SALOON, Brosdwsy-f;Ap. CHRIsIY's MIN
SONGS, DANCES BuRIEseUEs, Ac-DuIcixER
SwifEs.
WOODS MINsTREL's, 40 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SONGS
DANCES, &c.-NEw YyAR CAls.
NEW OPERA HoUsE Tao sroadysy-DRAYroS's g, p Ar.
orEARs AND LYRIC PRovsRBs.
CHATHAM AMPHITHsATRE-Eau REEroRx
AScEs-fUrsAS-FRESoHs rr.
TEMPLE HALL. Ninth street King soIo3oss TEMPLE
HOPE CHAPEL, TO Brcadway.-wAuGHs ITALIA.
Naxy yorL MAJ In necA m, 1xar 1890
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this foolish thing, when we look at the course
of Forney since the last Presidential election.
He has betrayed, insulted, derided and abused,
in the most malignant and INSCRIPTIONS way,
his best friends, of high and low degree; he has,
in his impotent rage against them, trampled
everything like common gratitude and common
decency into the dust, and has only the basest
treachery to the democracy to recommend him
to the republicans. What security have the
republicans against similar course of trea.
cherry, should they take this faithless camp
follower into their confidence? Let them trust
him and make him their House Clerk, aud
he will hang like milestone upon the
neck of their party. Political morality as
dished out by Thurlow Weed, is not always of
easy digestion; but this dish of Forney as the
republican candidate for Clerk Of the House of
Representatives is simply disgusting. There
can be no necessity, no object, no advantage,
nothing but dead weight to any party acting
as the highest bidder for Forney.
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The Virginia Democratic State Conven-
ton.

RICHMOND, Dec 90 1859.
A caucus of democratic members OF the Legislature OF
this State was held here tonight It fixed upon Thurs
day the 10th OF February, the time to hold Demo-
cratic State Convention in this city.
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A White Man and Twelve Negroes

SAVANNAH, Dec. 20, 1859.
white man and twelve negroes were drowned in the
river this morning, in consequence OF the capszing Of
boat.
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NINtTNNAT IpC 70, 1903.
despatch to the Commercial says that Hon Linn BOYD
died at his residence in Kentucky Sunday
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AUARsMy OF MUSIC. Fourteenth seee,.-lrAIxAx oes-
RA-LBsia IAMNGkAooR. =
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NIRI.oS 0ARDER. broadway -EvaI on TN
Tour RoPs-NiooDkAUs-GKEss Mossrxa-
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B0wERY THEATRE. Bowery.-axD R.NcgR-Qo0
NATuRgp aEErrEksS-MAGic r"ys-LaucHsG hvssA
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NAILS FOB EUROPE

New York, Wednesday, December 81, 1859