The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-13

There arc four hundred soldiers in the hospital at
Annapolis, a few OF whom are rebel prisoners.
The water in the Ohio river at Wheeling mea-
sures but three feet, and none but the lightest
| boats can now cross the bars.
| Ex-Governor George N. Briggs, of Massachusetts,
| who was wounded in the face and neck about q
week ago by the accidental discharge of shot
gun, died yesterday morning at nine o'clock, at
! Stockbridge.
The taking of testimony in the case Of the vii.
letts Point mutneers before the Coroner, was
concluded yesterday but up to late hour last
night we had received no intelligence as to the
verdict OF the jury. report of the evidence is
| given in another column.
| To a communication received by the Commission
ers Of Charities and Correction from the Board of
Supervisors asking if there will be any diminution
! in their estimate of expenses for next year, the
| Commissioners replied yesterday that there will
not, as they have already reduced the expenses of
the department over $40 900 per annum. A com
munication from the physician Of the city prison
informed them that jeremiah Flynn, confined for
murder, is suffering from phthisis pulmonas, and
recommended his removal to the penitentiary hos
pita, in the name Of humanity The number of in
mates in the several public institutions of the city
at present is 1920, decrease of twenty-eigbt
during last week. The number admitted last week
was $3.50, and the number discharged, transferred
or who died was 2,34S.
The steamer Pelican, Jones, which arrived yes
terday morning from Providence, brought on
| freight one hundred and two bales Of cotton.
The cotton market was comparatively tame yesterday
large holders having to considerable extent withdrawn
from the market. Prices, however, continued firm The
sales embraced about 500 600 bales closing the
Of about 22c for mddng up;.nds The market for ship
ping grades of State and Western -four Arm with the
| turn Of the market for most grades in favor Of
| the seller. Tho demand was fair for export and
! for homo Wheat was active and in good
demand for export, chiefly for France Good ship
| ping qua les were rather frmcr, whiio sales were
active Corn in good request, with free sales at f
prices. Pork firmly held, especially mess for
| which $l3 10 was bid and $14 $14 - asked small
sales were made at the latter figures prime sold at
50 IS and at $40 for heavy extra barrels Sugars were
again active and &c. per h. higher the sales embraced
about 900 hhds. and JOG boxes and 100 hhds eado
at rates given in other column Coffee rrcr aud
active with sales Of the Cavaliers cargo Of $500 bags
Rio Mt lac, and $500 bags do. from other cargocs
13c. al5llcthe latter figure the highest Of the
season Freight engagements were moderate while
| were without change Of importance
| Tremendous Revolution i'm State Politics
| in New York.
The prediction so frequently reiterated in the
columns Of the HERALD, within tho last few
months, that the stupendous uprising of the
people Of New York, in favor Of the preserve
ton Of the integrity Of The Union, would prove
the harbinger of an equally salutary awakening
in relation to State politics, has begun to be
verified. Such tottering and downfall of the
systems of treachery, violence and barbarism,
which have prevailed, to greater or less ex-
tent for nearly a quarter Of century, have COM
menced, rs must inevitably bury in ruins all
who have co-operated to sustain them. The
methodized rottenness and corruption with
which party organizations of every stripe and
model have become identified, will for the first
time, under the auspices of the Peoples Union
| Convention, receive an effective check and in
| future elections combinations will be made with
exclusive reference to measures and ideas,
without regard for the profigate requirements of
petty demagogues, and little aspirants for place,
pelf and power. Albany Regency depravity,
under the rowdy misrule of Richmond, Cagger
and Confidence Cassidy, will be buried in the
same political grave with tho fanaticism of
Greeley & Co., and their INSCRIPTIONS abettors,
in Tammany Hall, will have at last met with a
fate worthy of their infamous antecedents The
| nomination of the State ticket headed by Mr..
Dickinson, settles the question of the election in
! November and it may be confidently expected
that tie people will adopt its policy as a pre-
cedent, and that each successive year, conserva-
tive candidates for Office will be put forward to
stem the political heresies of the hour, and cor
respond to the exigencies of the period
The impetus which was given to trade COM
merce, agriculture, manufactures and finance
by the annexation of California to the United
States, together with the gigantic strides that
were subsequently made in the means of inter-
national municatior-opening markets all
over the globe-rcsulted in such an upward
bound to the already vast resources of the
country, that the thoughts and energies Of all
who are not drones in the national hive became
| directed, with an approach to exclusiveness, to
the acquisition or augmentation of property
and the management OF affairs Of State conse
quently fell into the hands of the basest and
most yenal intrisuers The result of the culpa
bic apathy Of the sound and conservative por
ton of the people, has been nowhere so deplo
rablc as in the State of New York. Some five
or six thousand so-called "active politicians, ,
distributed between the metropolis and Lake
Erie, living by place, and considering the money
in the city and State treasury, as we'll as the
canal patronage, to have been created for thei
benefit, have succeeded in establishing close
borough cliqueism, the iron yoke of which ha.
been patiently borne through sheer lack Of zeal
perseverance and unity Of action on the part o
those whose duty it was to have shaken it of
The gravest political cares and responsibilities
which right-minded, intelligent men had so i'm
providently cast of, have been gpeediIy snatch
ed at, for the sake of the power, patronage
and plumber, which the possession of govern
ment gives, by such creatures as dis
graced and stult;fed themselves th,
other day at the Convention which was pre-