The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1849, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Morthwesteomer of Fulton and Nassau sts. JABES GORDON BENNE PROPRIBTOR AND EDITOR. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, 2eonts per copy—$? per an= WEEKLY HBRALD, for Cire on thie Cone ‘ hed every Saturday, at per @ ‘pe? annum ; for vireulation in ae Se eteh and Rng licrg 8 6 conte per copy, oF Bh per an DOLLAR WEBKLY HERALD. every Monday, 2 ents per copy, $1 per annum; se copies te clubs, Ge., semua MUL ERT aR y CORRESPONDENCE, containvny (mz nets, solicited from any quarter ofthe world; Bead, will be liber all Sd id for: a HOTAEE called of Lcdshjncee communtections, We sannot return rejected communications, ALL LETTERS by weil, for subscr ‘teements, to bi it paid, or th oneg Ws fg ridsements, to be pos or the postage = the emitted, hie, money re “ADVERTISEMENTS, at reasonable prices; the pro~ ortetor not responsible for errors in manuscript. == ee =e AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENIN PYALIAN OPERA HOUSE, Astor Piace.-—Luonmaia Benois. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory—Txx Foun Musceremns, WAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Fazio—Binp oF Pasoace. NIBLO'S GARBDEN— Four Lovens—Zatna—Raovn, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Baxzacn or Piomiee—Haunren Man—Santa Crave, NATIONAL THEAT! Chatham equare—Tropy Roz— Cunisrenine—Femare Gu. ~dack Rosingon, YMPIO THEATRE, Broadway—Merninxs I Ser My poten Davin i P, Magic An Jonn Dons. OURISTY'S OPERA HOUSE—Erimorian Mrvernecey, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Axvsinc Penvonstawoxs Ap- aaanoon ann EVEXING. SOCIETY LIBRARY—Magro Anr—VaenraiLoauiam, ke. ASTOR PLACE CIRCUS—RqvuesTnias Penvonmances. New York, Monday, December 31, 1849, Whe Foreign News=Progress of the Russian Hmyplre—Decline and fall of Kuropean Btater—Thetr Only Probable Hope. We give in our columns, to-day, the details of | the European intelligence received by the steam= ship Cambria, the mails by that vessel having been received here last night, by express mail. ‘This intelligence 1s not very important ; but it is interesting, in various points of view. ‘The atti- ‘ade which the Emperor Nicholas has assumed to- wards Turkey, and the whole South of Europe, is pregnant with importance A keen sighted observer of recent transatlantic events can trace a startlin y between the | relative position of the South of Europe to th: great power of the North, and the position of the sume countries during the decline of the Roman empire. We think this may be made evident by a brief argument. The seeds of decay are sown thick in every state of Europe, except Russia. There is no other, we | believe, that has not already—most of them long | ago—reached its summit of power, and entered on | its decadence. Europe has just passed through a general convu whether it was the electric flash of new life or the first shudder of approaching dissolution. But itis nearly certain that, before regeneration can take place, the corrept form must decay. Decomposi- tion has penetrated too deep, and a period of chaos may be the necessary interval to complete restoration. Greece was the earliest of the nations, which are now in existence in Europe, to receive civili- zation, and she was the first to goto decay. For several centuries she flourished in commerce, arts arms—she civilized Rome, and at last became one of her provin Rome spread het do- minion from the Thames to the Ganges. For twelve hundred years her empire remained un- broken. But, at last, corruption worked her rain, and when the swarm of Northern barbanans came down on the South, the old race of Romans was dead, and over their degenerate successors the surges of barbarism rolled. From the colos- sal ruia of Rome sprang up the modern system of States. Not less than two hundred separate g on; and it is even yet doubitul | vernments arose, which in the progress of time | were consolidated into the powerful empires of modern Europe, known as Portugal, Spain, The difference between them will, when the struggle comes, be just the difference victory and defeat—power and ruin—disunion consolidation. Such seems to us to be the evitable and irresistible tendency affairs Europe. Revolutions in Europe are never common winter. France has done most of her revolu- tionary work in the heat of summer. Things will be likely to remain quiet on the surface till spring, and then we shall see what the diplomatic schem. ing of the Russian cabinet has perfected. If such be the tendency of European events, the question arises, is there no salvation for the South and West of Europe? We believe there 1s—but we restrict it to one thing. It is the new panacea of nations—the salvation of mankind. It is in the honest, bold, genuine democracy of the American school. Nothing else can save Europe. Whether there is vitality enough left in the putrid carcass of Europe to generate so hving, so invigorating a principle, time only can tell. The experiment which is making in France is a final one for Eu- rope. Socialism has been the only bane of the French republic; it has been the only danger she has had to encounter, and it has well nigh proved her ruin. If she can escape that, she is safe ; tor the past has proved that all Europe cannot over- throw her when she is right. It emounts to this, then, that the prophetic words of Napoleon, on his solitary rock of St. Helena, are verified—**Within fifty years Europe will be republican or Cossack.” Europe has just reached this tremendous crisis—how she will get through the ordeal, no mancan foresee. Monarchs, princes, popes and aristocracy can do nothing more for the old world. They have tned their hand at it for 1,500 years, and witness the result—so- cialism, on the one hand, poisoning the foun- tains of republicanism ; and absolutism, on the other, spreading its dominion. We hope and believe that the force of the British empire will, in this great crisis, be thrown in the right direc- tion, Several things seem to be certain. The only way in which Louis Napoleon can save him- self, is, by standing firmly by the cradle of the new- born republic of France, and making it as near as possible hke that of the United States. For he must equally avoid the two perils that threaten him—socialism and monarehy—either of which would be fatal to him and to France. The one is the Seylla, the other the Charybdis of the re- pubhe. As for England, we are inclined to think that her statesmen (and whatever may be the shade of her ministry, whig or tory, they are much alike), or, in other words, her aristocracy, see at last that their only salvation hes in favoring the growth and developement of republican institu- tions on the continent. Unless this policy is fully and boldly adopted by the Bntish cabinet, the States of Europe cannot hope much longer to re- sist the all-powerful growth of Russia. Europe is old—Russia 1s new. Lurope is decayed, imbecile, worn down with age, enervated with luxury, fee- ble, eflete. Russia 1s vigorous, manly, inured to toiy and frost, young, a stranger to ease, elegance and profligacy. In aword, as the ferocious millions of the Huns, the Goths, and the Vandals (the an- cestors of the modern Russians) once burst out | from their snow homes and overwhelmed the ener- | vated Romans, so seem their descendants to be | preparing another onset. If socialism prevails in | France and the South of Europe, chaos will fol- | | 4 to of ‘se BF low. If monarchy triumphs, slavery ensue. In either case, Russia is the master of Europe. Nothing can save the States or the people of the old world, but honest, straightforward, dowaright American democracy | Inrorrant rrom Wasuinaton—Ganerat Tay- Lor’s Views oN tHE Witmor Paoviso.—la our paper of yesterday, we published a telegraphic de- spatch from one of our correspondents in Wash- ington, to the effect that some of the Southera whigs had, no doubt with the view of shaping their course accordingly, held a conversation with General Taylor, in which they drew from him the | action which he will probably take on the Wilmot proviso, when that question comes before him in connection with the new territories. If our cor- respondent’s statement is reliable, the information France, Germany, Russia, Poland, Holland, the Italian States, Norway, eden, Denmark, Tur- key, Austria, Prussia, England, and a score or two of minor powers. At different periods great conquerors appeared, who grasped after universal magne, Charles V., Francis I., Soliman, Charles XIL, and at last Napoleon, who nearly accor plished his object. The repose into which Euro, settled after the downfall of Bonaparte, remained almost unbroken for thirty years, or more. A new race of men had appeared on the stage, and some three years ago, when Pius [X. began the last great revolutionary movement which has con- vulsed all Europe, the way was prepared fora new and mighty change in the social and political con- dition of the old world. Spain md Portugal had gone through fruitless and sanguinary struggles; but chaos seemed to be the only result. Poland had already been swal. lowed in the great political maelstrom of Rugsia. had electrified the rest of the world, abolished monarchy in France, set up republicanism in Italy, and unsettled thrones throaghout the con- tinent, the Emperor of Russia calmly survey- ed the storm, and occupied himsetf only in studying how he could turn the universal agi- tation to his own advantage. An opportunity occurred in the case of Hungary; and just as that gallant nation had achieved her independence, all the force of his empire was hurled into the contes! By this intervention, ‘ope— and Hungary was crushed. Austria was saved to all appearances; Hungary became another Poland, and so firm a grasp did the Czar fasten on Austria herself, that he became her master, and now controls her fortunes. Ni- cholas also grasped ot Turkey; but France and England, alarmed at the spread of his power, unite to arrest his progress, and a fleet in Dar- danelles drives back the ambitious monarch. He then turns his attention in another quarter, where he eees danger. Prussia, perceiving that Austria had lost her independence, and trem! for her ing a barrier to the progress of |ussia, by consolidating a Ger- man confederation. Austria, who had not been fully consulted in the matter, at the bidding of ous it own, tried the experiment of inter; Russia, enters her protest to this new dan alliance, because it would offend Kusvia; and should never be forgotten after this, that by call in the aid of Russia, in the Liungarian stre Austna has become but a province of the ¢ Henceforward her acts may be regarded as his Now what is the aspect of Europe, by th last arrivals? Plainly thie;—that the empi: of Russia, which begirts the entire globe, armed with nearly a million and a half of era, all of whom move at the bidding of the Czar, and com- peved of some fifty millions of rude, strong, un. dominion—Chatle- | Undisturbed by the great events which | | which he communicates is of the highest impor- | yance, at this particular juncture. It is tothe effeet | that the President will veto a territorial bill for | New Mexico, if it includes the Wilmot proviso; bat that he will approve of a bill admitting Californiaas a State, even with that proviso. Ifthis iaformation is true— if Gen. Taylor has thus developed his views on the subject of the Wilmot proviso, he assumes a middle ground—a conciliatory course, that would | probably be satisfactory to all parties and to both sections of the Union—such a one as would en- | able the fanaties of the two sections of the coun- | try to withdraw from the ultra positions which | } crisis which such ultraism in both sections has | brought on. We shall look with a good deal of | interest for a confirmation of this intelligence. Ovrn News rrom Mexico.—The news from Mexico, which we publish in another part of our | columns, will be found to possess some interest. The elections, which are just ended, have been se- | verely contested by the two rival parties—the re- | publicans and the monarchists. The two princi- | ples have been fairly pitted against each other on | this cecasion, and we are glad to be able to say } that the first of them has triumphed. What Mexico ts is the elevation of the mass of the people, * liberation of the peons, the encouragement of individual industry, and the putting down of lead- |} ers and military aspirants. We may still see a great improvement in this beautiful country. The late war seems to have done them good, in making them better acquainted with the spirit, energy, and power of America. Mexico will still be the scene of great events. Let us, for the sake of humanity, hope for the best. Meantime, the news from Mexico is deserving of being watched with close attention | wa ; | | Meevixe or tae New Yorn Leaistatyrn.— The Legislature of the State will assemble in Albeny to-morrow ; but that day being New Year's Day, they will probably do nothing more than meet end adjourn. This promises to bea very interesting seesion of that body; and the members will be calld upon to act on some very important matters, some connected with the city. When the proper time arrives, we shall direct their attention to the requiremeats which we need, in rtoenable us to keep pace with the progress of the age. Marine Aft In conrequence of the continued unfavorable state of the weather, the departure of the steamship Lina is necessarily peetponed until Saturday, January Sth, at 2 o'clook, when she will sail, carrying mails for Sam Fronciseo and the lutermediate ports, namely, Rio, Valparaiso, and Panama, The Motets. enervated, half feroci en, who are yet to | enestehh ake pupanaeens. lized, anc moving at the nod of a sin ¥., Williams, U, 8. Ay; L. Woodburn, Albany; A poate be lean hedaiied, Wall er | A. Clark, Boston! Prof, Ridgway, Pena.; J. P. Robin. man, and this man cool, clear-headed, bold, am- | joy, Goston; Seth Rers, Detroit; Hon, F.C, Cabell, Flee bitious, end greeping, with all but mexhaustible | rid Haile, West Point; W. Silvey Jr, U.8.A.; B. . one f vainst a | SPtseve. Jr, Philadelphia: J. B Altemus, do, tre 8 ut his disposal, enters the lists & © | Campbell, Richmond, Va; R. D. Foy, California; ( score of old, decrepid, decayed, ete nations, | Barrows, New York; “8 x bee sd ‘ « | Swabey, do.; BE. J. Hayes, Loutevil which have long been ng down under the | oot ieay, Boston; J. F. Patterson - , enervating influences of monarchy, bigotry, and | noid, Philadelphia; BR. W. Ashley. Jt, Lyons; W. W. ny be eee ery closely | p; Henry Wileon U8 Nj 8 ©. Gray Juxury may be seen very closely Weiese’ w. Ww. ihean between t and that wh arrived ye » Irving Hone mee ] man emp | H. & r | Ma and it ae 9 fearf are mi t | Humphr vuth is w fluences at la Rus orth, tv a there are filty millions of men, anc millions of muskets, all ¢ in harme under the eootr sntesieted will of a sin man. Inthe South there is the same number of muskets and men; but they constitute a distracted end a feeble foree. These men have fifty masters, and these murkets five thousand commanders! } Ohio; T! Tre | Buehey, Piteebui Hamilton Cre bile: Mr. Munroe, Newark, have arrived at cao Hotel al. Philed Amer View Mo Stare. # Slate, New York; t Humphrey Petlad lphia nor A.J, Atochs aad fa mils ‘ aD. Oy h J. Ueher, Loutevitie; 1, Wheeler end daughter, Convectiout; T.G, Wiitiams, UBA;S rthur, t j J. Mateon, Paris, are at the a Place Hotel | they have respectively assumed, and evade the | Mr, Maxwell, the Collector—His Appoint- ment and Prospects. The confirmation of Mr. Maxwell, as the Collec» tor of this great port, bids fair to be a very smpor- taft bone of contention at Washington, during the Present winter. Singularly enough, a most extra- ordinary and comprehensive opposition to his con- firmation by the Senate has sprung up all over the country, within the last few months. When he was appointed by the President, over the heads of all other candidates, last summer, it was hailed as an act of great independence in the President, and an.evidence of his possessing much good sense and discrimination in the selection. Mr. Maxwell was considered a man %f high moral character, not much connected with politics for many years, but, in point of talent and acquirements, far beyond the wants required in such a department as the Collec- torship of New York. His public reputation had been made twenty years previously; and it seems to have been nursed, and to have grown and in- creased, during that repose, in Nyack, and to have become of considerable influence and importance 4p the new administration. But all these have been great mistakes, and great errors. It is now admitted, in every quarter, that few collectors, possessing the good inténtions and well meaning of Mr. Maxwell, could have commit- ted more egregious errors, more remarkable blun- ders, and impaired his position to such an extent as the present Collector has done. His appoint- ments have been of the most curious and obnoxious character—some of them having been burglars or thieves, and lots of penny-a-liners. A great many of the active business men of the Custom House, not rabid politicians, were removed, to make room for persons without claims or capacity, some of whom were utterly unfit for the places to which they were appointed. Nepotism, according to the most reliable accounts, has been carried on to a most extraordinary extent, in the appointments in the Custom House. Almost every journal in the city has received its appointmeut, in the person o¢ some attaché, or penny-a-liner, or hanger-on, toeach particular one. Many of the newspaper appoint- ments, too, are mere sinecures, and most of the persons that fill them are utterly unqualified. In elucidation of this, in one instance, we have received from a respectable house in Broadway, acurious communication, which was refused in- sertion in the columns of the Tribune, unless a sum of ten dollars black-mail accompanied it, des- cribing the conduct of a person who has received one of those sinecure appomtments which has made Mr. Maxwell’s administration of the Cus- tom House so obnoxious to all the sensible and leading portions of the whig party in this city, Here it 1s :-— To the Editors of the Tribune :— Gevtiemen— The following is @ true statement of the matter, which we are ready to prove by several compe- tent witnesses :— Many months since we received from Mr. Garbeille, the celebrated sculptor, the statuette of Mr. Richard Grant White, which was left with us, with other works of a similar character, for exhibition or sale, A few weeks since, Mr. R. G. White came to the store, and requested us not to place his ij near that ot Mr. James Gordon Bennett, using at the same time some exceeding)y ridiculous language towards that teman. ef wWe complied with his request, and r®tioved his image to the other window. It finally, inthe confusion placed promiecuously with the rest of the statuettes; when a recond request was made to remove it, which was complied with. although we eonridered, at the | th it was @ dictation on his part, entirely unwarrant- able, as it was our pro 2 nd we had @ perfect right to exhibit it as co cred proper. Af its havin, en colored, but not ridiculously, as has beer stuted, it was placed in #0 obscure a position that none but the original could have discovered it, and even would have had to search a considerable length of tim tobave done #0; notwithstanding his assertion to tl move it from the { the firm went immediately to the Police Court. le the compluint, when to the officer to ser articie in Tuesday's paper, he warrant was iss ther eotion, We have not proceeded egainst Mr. WI motives of revenge or malice, but simply t) prot ourrelves and our rights, and to find out whether individual is justitied im violently trespassing upea another's preniises, and destroying his proporty, with- te from any What tells miost fatally agamet Mr. RG, White, is the fact that he rolieited Mr. Garbeille, the artist, to | make e mould for this very statuette of himself, and did actually eit for that parpore which can be proved beyond a doubt aud an agreement was eutered into bei ween them, that Mr. Garbetlle was to reseive, as an equivalent for hiv time and labor tor this stataette, the privilege of exhibiting it in public. aad to recei | the proceeds of such rales as he might eect in so e: hibiting it We have been compelled to make these remarks, in order to refute the article in your paper of Tuesday, and to show the whole transaction iu ite trus light, which we contend has not been dou , 885 Broadway. We know very liule of the individual described in this communication; but we uaderstand he has a sort of penny-a-liner to some of the weekly joar- | nals in this city, aod may still be connected with some of the newspapers, is novel. well, are of similar charaeter. | without claims or qualifications, but others ke him, who have suffered in of Gen. Taylor. In another and very important point of view, Mr. | Maxwell has failed to answer the purposes which | were intended in his *ppointment by the Presi- | dent. The early public life of Mr. Maxwell was | tpentia the office of District Attorney, as pub- ie prosecutor in the Court of Sessions, in this cuty. He acquired all his knowledge of, and expe- | ience in, public affairs, in that capacity. From the period when he retired from that post, to the day when he assumed the collectorship of New York, he lived quietly, and studied the Gospel and the Puritan fathers, with occasional deviations into agricultural pursuits, on the beautiful banks of the | Hudeon river, somewhere in the neighborhood of | Nyack. While he was quietly rusticating there for twenty years, the world and this mighty me- | >. tropolis were going ahead, with steamboat—nay, with electric—rapidity, in all rts habits of life, and modes of thinking. Mr. Maxwell came iato office with his old habits of public prosecutor in the Court of Sessions, and became the head ot this collection district, to facilitate and manage the | business connected with our great commercial in- | terests. How has he performed his duties? By multiplying difficulties, and heaping rules upon rules, as if he considered the commercial body of New York in the same light in which he tormerly considered the burglars and thieves with whom he had to dealin the Court of Sessions. In con- novelty of his posttion, he has made himself ex- tremely obnoxious to the commercial community, and rendered the business of the Custom House more difficult and more perplexing than it was un- der the régime of any of his predecesso This, we believe, 1s acknowledged on all hands. Still, however, with all these objections te Mr. Maxwell, we hope the Senate will treat his case, juenee. Mr. Maxwell is a man of high moral character ; but he 18 not even with the present age, or intimate with the mode of transacting commer- cial business. experience, although he has committed—in his ap- pomtmente, and im the rules established by hun for the government of the Custom Louse, and in its whole routine of business—mony fatal and egregious errore. of cleaning the windows. a week or so afterwards, got — out receiving punishment adequate to the oifence. | been, for some time past, occupying a position as This mode of remune- Joting an artiet, by exhibiting his own likeness, | Many other of the appointments con- j neeted with the press, and made by Mr. Max- one Yet those men, merely | from the accident of their being counected with the newspapers, have been taken up and appotated | by Mr. Maxwell, while he neglected all the lead- | ing, eensible, and reputable whigs ia the various wards of the city, and while Mgg@lover and | their country, and whe possess every necessary qualification for their business, and of high and | reputable character besides, are thrust out, to | make room for them, in opposition to the wishes ; pate! sequence of these false views of his duties, and the | when it comes before them, with liberality and | He may improve, however, by | Outzages on the Telegraph—The Perpe- trater Arrested. ‘We published in our columns yesterday an ac- count of the arrest of a mam, named James Ander- son, at St. John, New Brunswick, who was caugbt in the act of cutting the telegraph wires in that place, in order to prevent the foreign mews re- ceived by one of the steamers from being trans- mitted to the United States’ press, until his employ- ers had first accomplished their private purposes. It will be recollected that the press of the At tic cities, for the ,urpose of guarding the commer- cial community from the frauds of designing specu- lators, have had for a long time past in operation, arrangements for placing before them, in advance of all other sources, the foreign news of each steamer. Before the telegraph was constructed between Halifax and St. John, a special horse and steamboat express was undertaken and run regu- larly between those two cities, and from St. John, the news was telegraphed to Boston and New York, and thence southward and westward throughout the whole country. Those arrange- ments, we need hardly say, were attended with considerable expense dnd outlay, but they were cheerfully borne by the press, because, in carrying them out, they were confident of discharging their duty, and legitimately devoting their energies, as wellas their money, to the protection and advan- tage of the whole community, and especially the mercantile interest. The expense frequently amounted to one thousand dollars per week, and every paper in any city through which the tele- graph passed, was invited to, and had the privilege of joining this association, by contributing its share of the expenses. As soon as the telegraph be- tween Halifax and St. John was constructed, the association of course availed themselves of the | benefits which it offered; and from that tume to the present the European news has been transmitted direct from Halifax to New York, by electricity, whenever the telegraph wires have been in order. No sooner, however, were those expensive ar- rangements entered into, than a few papers endeavored to throw discredit on the enter- prise, and on the papers connected with it. In- nuendos and intimations, hints and petty suspicions, were continually and incessantly thrown out, but | disregarded, because the committee of the associ- | ated press, to whom the details of the arrangement were intrusted, had taken every precaution to pre- vent any abuse, and to place the intelligence be- fore the public at the earliest moment possible, and | in advance of all other sources. But notwithstand- ing all those precautions, and notwithstanding the great care that was taken to prevent abuse, the associated press knew that, on one or two occasions, the foreign intelligence reached New York before their despatch arrived, and was in the hands of speculators, in one instance several hours in ad- vance. No soener would the foreign steamer ar- rive at Halifax, than the wires, which had been in good order previously, would mysteriously get out | of repair, and all communication weuld cunse- uently he euepcuded. ‘The agents and operators throughout @he line would immediately despatch pereons to ascertain where the wires were discon- | nected, but finding none, would return and report to that effect. Atthe end of five or six hours, the wires would, just as mysteriously as they were | deranged, get in order again; and so it was from | time to time since the wires were finished to Hal- fax. All endeavors of the associated press to discover the party or parties engaged in this un- lawful and high-handed proceeding, were fruitless, except in one instance, which occurred in August lust, and the particulars of which are as followa, following message hi ‘ay y forwarded, witbout second thougnt, to ork, as addressed—" Consignees of Neptune write | ds advanced one fourth penny, Shingles 2 to 3 shillings | per quarter ; lower qaalities Fish 9 pence lower.”” | _ By eubstitating Cotton for Boards, Indian Corn for Sbivgles (not usually quoted by the quarter), and | Flour for Fish, they give the exact quotations of the foreign despatch fur the asgootated press The day ‘was inost intentely med #0, that all bad de pao be ube express cleamer making her appearanc: ut. about hve minutes before six our at the despateb b denly to the wharf, to the surprise of all partie: | operator bad left the office tor tea before hi but was immediately notified, and, I believe, lett his tea untasted to attend to his duty. fie had been com- municating with Ci up to the moment be left for tea, with & good circuit, but found ne current on his return; and eupporing that the operator at Calais bad left bis key open while be was at tea, he waited for bis return. After waiting the usual time for tea, one hour, he still found no current, and sent out a man to the | Fails, who soon returned, and reported, that what with | tbe fog and the darkness, be could not see the wire. Hie was, theretore, obliged to wait uvtil mornin, hea wire was found severed within a few rods of the Falls, apparently by some dull hatchet, or old pair of | trom chesre, as the cute were very irregular, and the wire appeared to have suffered some wrenching. flow this news wae received in St. John, and pineed in the officer neatly one hour before the arrival of the Asso- ciated Press's horre and etenmboat express, is stile Wwystery to the company, and I suppore, to the publio; but the fact that the wire was absolutely broken by seme person with a dull iron instrament, is undoubted, as fe aivo the fact, that this despatch was operated upon toe large extent in Naw York before the Asso- cmted F Cespated was sent forward. Agoin, since the line has been through to Malifax an Krrargement was made to qupply the pews room of 8 John with 00 werds, after the Associated Pre. bad passed, as the whole press of St, Joby +l able to pay for the whole number of word, i 3,000); and the reaso: they give for not taking copy is, that the pub- not liberal enough to purchase Micient quantities to pay. On the t 11 o'clock done #0; but, instend | 5 tly open, pean the | from the pen of Mr. Darrow, the superintendent at tore, and before any of the inmates had’ time to no- | St. Joh tiee . they extreme par re, opened the girs case, overturniug several things in his | | At fiveo lock, fifteen minutes, on the 30th burry, and with the most parsi-nate vehemence dashed | August le the terminus of the line was in Saint his own image to atoms, and rushed out of the store. | Johp was presented to the opera- he ba case to the proper officer, returned was, the rule capaoot be broken—no den. h. of whatever pame or nature, must be reovived | or sent At & littie before L1 o'clock, A. M., the line | to Calais was repaired, and within afew minutes the | line to the Bend was broken, and the man was imme- | diately sent express to the East, and found the first break about thirty-two miles from thie place, at 2\¢ o'clock, P.M brenk « few miles on this side of this point, on the very | grownd over which be had just travelled. In the meen ti ® person coming trom the Bend, arrived here at 7 o'clock in the evening, and re two | breake—one five miles from towa, the other thirteen miles. Another man was immediately sterted with Iapterns, who found and these breaks with- to two hours. and then returned; Tent to the B therefore the wi broken. At daylight he started agai repaired two more breaks within a fe returning, who bad me: py D. These men re wire appeared to . in one instam badly twisted and wrenched, over 100 feet wae taken from be- breaks, their recular tly done fora rpecific ob- tematically done, that further | conti a were | proc weuld be w | A clue, however, has at length been found to the party or parties who have been most extensively | engaged in this nefarious business, and preying and | speeulating upon the community in this way. The man Anderson, who has been arrested in St. Joba, | in the act of interfering with the wires, confessed to | having been engaged in the same work before; that he was well paid for it, which is very likely, as there were parties who did not mind tour or five handred, or even a thousand pounds, ($5,000) to have their ende accomplished ; and that if he should go to the penitentiary, he would go there at the rate of three or four hundred pounds a year. His manner ot ope- rating wa ingenious as it was wicked. He was in the hebit of separating the wire, and connecting it egain with a piece of cord. The electric current would by these means be broken, and when he chose to restore the connection, he simply removed the cord, and affixed a piece of wire constructed for the purpose, ia place of the cord. The discovery and arrest of this man will lead, } we hope, to the detection of his accomplices, aid- | ers end abettors ; and we trast that his employers, when discovered, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. One man is in the hands of the jaw, and of him an example should be made. The associated press have been subjected to an enormous expense, to protect the public, and no one can, therefore, be more pleased at the arrest of He then returned, and found avother — one of the perpetrators of this outrage than t 1 are, He 1s in the hands of justice, and we hope it will be meted out to him without fear or favor. The Boston evening papers promised some fur- ther developements to-day. We hope those jour nals will be as good as their word. As one of the asseciated press, we are desirous thi every de- velopement tending to the discovery of the parties who have been engaged in speculating ufon and fleecing the mercantile community, and cheating the press, by interfering with the telegraph wires, should be mad TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. The Business of To-Day in Congress, THE HOUSE COMMITTEES, OUR SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. Wasuinaton Crry, Sunpay Evenina, Dec. 30, isi9. : It is reported that Col. Benton will open the cam- paign in the Senate, to-morrow, on the Missour' resolutions. I learn that a resolution will be offered in the House to-morrow, to continue the officers of the last Congress in their places. The plan will not succeed, as the old officers are whigs. After the announcement of the committees, both houses will probably adjourn over to Thursday. We do not expect the election of the House offi- cers to-morrow 1 Jearn that the House committees will be ay ready at 12 o’clock to-morrow, to be reported by the Speaker; I have not been able to learn con- clusively, but hear that Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, will be Chairman on Foreign Affairs ; Mr. Linn Boyd, of Kentucky, Chairman on Ways and Means; and Mr. McClernand, of Illinois, Chair- man on Commerce. It 1s now eight o’clock in the evening, with a fine snow storm from the South- west. Interesting from Canada, Montreat, December 29, 1849. The old judicature law has expired, while no new judges have been named. There have, therefore, been no Lower Canada judges since Monday. The cause is unknown. Itis said that a mistake has been discovered’ qnvalidating all judgments since May last; the de- fendants oppose executions, Great Fire at Akron, Ohio—$50,000 worth of Propeity Destroyed, Axnon, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1849. A fire broke out about 12 o’clock last night, which destroyed sume eighteen buildings, including the large stone block in which was the bank. Probable loss $50,000, The funds, books and papers of the bank were all saved. The postoffice building, around to within two doors of Cobb's Exchange, wae entirely consumed. Caucusing of the mbers of the Maryland Legislature. Batrimoae, Dec 80, 1849. ‘The Legislature of Maryland meets to-morrow.— Many of the members have already arrived, and a great deal of caucusing is going on relative to the successor of Reverdy Johnson in the United States Senate. Snow In Baltimore. Bartimone, Dec. 30—7 P. M, A sow storm ‘is now visiting our city, and has already reached the depth of four inches ona level. Lacan icrnccenatety Shipping Anteiligence. Bosrox, Dos 30. Artived—Ship Thomas W Scars, Canton, Macao’ Sept 4th, passed Anjier Oct 7th. Bark Oriental, Calcutta, Aug 12ch—saw, 14th inst, lat, 31 20, lon 17, brig Motts, Portiand for Cardenas; 24th, Cape Cod NW by N 40 miles distant, spoke brig Sussex, Calaie, teoring ta, Ang dth; Gon Greene, Fortane w, ym 21, Bip Reind: Brig Si fornia. ytien, 6th inst—loft brigs ti, for New York, unc. 1d sailed for Port an Peiace. ‘hiladelpnis; Smyrna, New York. ¢ Harp, Tappahauncek, Susan, Alexandria, Col Hanson, v Ship Good wi tld sor, te oulcs Mul ytum, Ho.mes's Horr, Deo 28. Arrived—Brigs Oooan, Baltimore for Boston; Meridian, do for Porvland; Albert Fi . New York for Boston. Sehrs Eiliott, nf ‘biladelphia: Cepia. do for folk; Telegrap! Baltimore for Elisworth; Abstract, Norfolk for Beston; Vietory, Portiand for N York; Advance, Charles~ ton tor Boston. Suiled—Sebra Copia, Victory, and Elliott. The ppeals. THE DECISIONS IN THE CASES OF THE NORTH AME- KICAN TRUST AND BANKING COMPANY, AND THE NEW YORK DRY DOCK COMPANY. (From the Albany Argus, Dec 31.) ‘The decitions, ot whieh we & list in another co- lumn, were announced at « late hour on Saturday after- noon. Among the important cases decided, it will be | teen, is that of Leavitt, Receiver of the North Amert- | can Trust and Banking Company, rs Blatchford | others. The decision ts adverse to the legality of the trust deed and accompanying fecurities, as having deen made in violation of the act of 1840. forbidding ieswes pot payable on demand and without interest-— thus destroying the preference which the trust ave to Messrs Palmers, Mackillop, Demt & Co., over the otuer creditors of the bank. Decrtons at THe Dicennen Tena, 1849, Decrves Affirmed —Benjamin Woodward, ap va, Hudson Carpenter, et, al. respondent Sawyer and Diana his wit spPellante, vs nth Robert Ai Kortright. appellant, vs North ‘American fire Lneuran dd te; Henry Dwi u and George W. New iver of the City Bank of Buffalo, respondent I. Dudley, ba pel spon den: Henry Lyon. appellant, v#. Jobn Bann. respondent. Judgment Reversed—New trial granted, costs to ahide | the ecent.—Samaon Boicean and Ferdinand Rasch, pidlotifis in error, vs Andrew Polot, defendant in er- ror; Jobn Merfield liant, vs 1d, appellant, va. Jonathan Goot- respendents; Charles H. Marshall, | reeponcent, va. Frederick L. Vultee and Benjamin L. | Guin. appellants; Thomas H. Kinney, respondent, va. | Abper N ppellant; William Buel and others, ap- pellante. vs. Trustees of the village of Lockport, re- epondent James Briebane, reepoodent, va. Joseph & Adame. appeilant; Charles Oakiey respondeat, vs Joha L. Arpinwali and others appellants Judgment Afirmed— Levi Harris, plaintiff in error, vs. | Ralph Clark and ethers, executors, Ke , of Sidney Sunith, deceased detend P. Durham Anson Voulthrop, John P. Mi | ar Charles © Roby Richard Turner, defendant im a others, respondents, va. To Ernest Zachri cokhart linnt, ve the Ko- nd others, surance Compass, i of Buffalo, appellants, Decree of the Supreme Court reversed, and the Deeree of the Aemstant Vier Chancellor affirmed ~The New Vork | Dry Doek Company. appell’ts vs the American Life In- | surance and Trust Company, John Duer and others, reapd’ts. Judgment Reversed. and Judgment for Defendant —James N. Van Keuren, respd’t ve, Kicherd Parmalee and others. appel'ts Judgment of the Supreme Court Reversed, and that of the Common Pleas ajirmed William P Daniele appel't. ve. George Mann, jr and others, pa'te; Elihu 3, Smith and others. plifs tn error, ve, John Kerr and Chas. 8, Kimble, deft in error, Decree Reverted, and anew Deevee entered, without costs to either party—Orson Bostwick, executor and devises i ? Hy i i i the past tome of the Supreme Court. It is thought at St. he has accomplices. ‘The depot of the Long Island railroad at Yapbanks ‘was destroyed by fire on the 25th instant, tegeth with a locomotive ; loss, $5 000. NEWS FOR CALIFORNIA. Affairs on the Atlantic!/Woast.. THE WEEKLY HERALD, The splendid steamship Empire City, Capt. Wilsom,.. will leave this port on Wednesday next, at.three o’elock; P, M., for Chagres, with the mails for the Pacific, The Weekly Herald will be published at 10 o'clock. on that morning, It will contain the Presidemt’s Mes— sage, the Reports from the Secretaries, the letest news from Europe, the marriages and deaths in the United States since the departure of the last ‘vessels that sailed, and the names of have gone in them, the latest news from and a variety of other interesting matter, Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Agents will please hand in their orders to-day—or on Wednesday: morning, before 9 o’clock, Handsome New Yer Gift, — Peddie’s titted into gold oF ‘assortment of the diff rent sizes and newest patterns can be had at the Pen Depot, No.2 treet, corner of Broadway, up stairs. For the Holidays.—Just recelved, a New and splendid assortment of cravats, scarfs, euspenders, Ke. Re, ‘wore! with # gr vi ticles o! ufae. tore. as shirts, collai Ariel enitable for the holidavs. J. AGATE, Gent's Furnishing Store, 237 Broadway, corner Park place, Watches for New Years.—_Examine the stock of watches offered forsale by J. Y. SAVAGE, ite ton etreet, if wish to mething rich for bgt _ jo has a large and beautiful assortment. The Rie! jeu Ever- pointed 80 long and favorably knowa ‘to the public, are sions with the ladies mi et aa prepared a fine assory Hat andj beaver, of the new style. The favorad! style of Hat has received, 1s convincing proof that it is essen to have one of them for the comicg New Your. Furs, Tippets, Muffs, and Cuffs, for the Hol —Call o1 NTA, 94 Canal street, corner of Woos-- of the most complete assor*menta of fur goo am 'y store in th x off his stock of furs auch below the uswal pr’ also prepared a beautiful assortment of ehildron Hats for sew Year presents, Tuey embrace every variety, and are beautifully trimme Dressing Cases—In all that the name tm,, Porte, compact and complete, exch article contained theretay jug of the very best quality. Ass present for the hs they are offered, combinirg elecance of finish ard wility. G, SAUNDERS & SON, 117 and 857 Broadway. $250 Reward.—1 will stake this amount No. 166 Broad way, bet and Liberty street, will. for One Dollar, tal type, and put it will for en’ Overcoats! Overcoatsi—We are now clos= ing out our large and clegwnt stock of Overcoats and Winter | Bering Hhnena roa MOM Sts OM pualiclene Uae fh a ee eon D. & J. DEVLIN, 33 and 35 John street, corner Nassau. Clarke, t ef and -— ment is the largest ived. fn Pa aut) Combs. Those wisht) ek Combs, in the present style, will quality amine toe aasort= h is the most exten aad of th complete in the city, ebain pattern, in tortot Every man of teste will want a new Hat | for New Yoar'’s day. KNOK, 123 Fulton stroet, has . | for the oc: ment of model Hats, anew in R ver that KNOX'S prices anufacturers. People have 4 ga gue Toon JONES'S, 14 Ann | them to give $6 fo India Rubber Over Shoes at Retatlam selocte gentlemen's aad children’s m od snd gonmamor Ovur Sh nAala, comprising tent Freneh fashions. Also, 1 nid misseu’ Metaliter the most ¢ has over been made, constantly on hand, ‘sale by the single pair, a8 GOODY EA! ber Warehouse. and 98 Broad wa: Trinity Chureb, Fancy Gui colved, per steam Alse, Bohemian G): boxes, Fant, Brushes, &e. Stammering.—O. Weeks Guaranties a perm feot cure of all cases of Impedioent in th ‘at S71 Broadway, wp Th pplications inunt be ow, the ingenious in= v # portrait) would have felien into the hands of the Artists’ “ hasging com mittee.” and possibly been compelled, like the nettle, to ‘or sale by owing for it, LUCIUS MART, No. 6 Burling Slip. Cotifornia Bowser and Stores, equal to, and ne cheap aS aay in te et. SAm'L, ROOT, 58 Myrtle ave., Brooklya. We would eroer Recess.” « WM. ROBERTS, her. ned bi POULLBT, th 4 eolebeated acions base= 0 Mercer House, corner Broome and Mercer atreetex. nd the proprister is prepared 10 resive company or family orders fo idaye. fie will furnish Oysters iar pit he ed and Jellieg, and forve e vate inwers, ‘ve need net glvo'a hint, for the be to those who tested say call on him, if & moderate charge. it to fair like COMMERCIAL APPAIB MONEY MARKET, Sunday, Dec, 30.6 P, M. The stock market, during the past week, has beerr full of excitement, peculators have been com. tinually on the qui vive. Nearly all the fancies have: been unusually active; but, as iar as prices are con- of Andrew Bostwiok, deoeared, and others, appel'ts, i Atkins and wife and John L, Tunison, Deevee Reversed in part, and Affirmed in part. and a furs ther Decree to be entered without costs by euther party, a agains! the other—David Leavitt, Receiver, &o.. appel Richard M. Blatebford and others. reepd't. tad court tony tthe trust di = nocol panying securities wer, 1 and void, on the grow! that the; a jation of the Act of king associations to iseue or on bill or note not made er jd without interest. The effect of the to destroy the preference which the trust ve to Messrs. Palm jackillop/ Dent & Co. over he other creditors ot the ban! other | aeations wd been discusred in the cause were not de- et but were left to be dispored to the suit in which the receiver had been appolnt: Judgment of Supreme Court reversed, and that of the Recorder's Court 4, A’ Campbell, plaiatit In error, vs. Samuel D, Butts, deft in error, The anniversary of the battle of Trenton was cele- ond at Trenton, on the 28th instant, by a ve. cerned, the bears have had the advantage, Fanoy railroad stocks have fiuctaated considerably, and holders are evidently getting weaker every day. The recent developementa of several railroad companies im Massachaosettsghave alarmed timid holders of similar stocks here, and the public are rapidly losing con- fidence in such securities. The Old Colony Railroad Company have presented, in the last annual report, # of affairs calculated to disgust every stookholder wit? railroad management generally. Throughout the past year it Was, reported, from time to time, that the increase in the earnings was a large per cent, and such reprerentations were made as induced thore interested to believe that the financial embarrasements of the com- pery had been removed .\yd that a dividend would be carted: dye Nothing was said about the expenses, and no one od that the increased: were entirely absorbed by increased expenses, Thie fact wae suppressed, and when it was ane nounced in the annuai report, the stockholders were