The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1850, Page 2

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ATKE, Bowery —Wanvenine Jew — > dors etreoe—Seanous Pa- MUSING PER FOKMAw OMS, “Mew Yoru, Tuesday, February 5, 1850. News from Californ The Empire City is folly due from ¢ ene month later intell gence from California. ooked for with considerable interest. agres, with Itis Danger of the Country— Postion of Things at Washington, Wall street, through all its business ramifica- tione, is beginning to feel uneasy at the prospect of th t Washington, and at the repeated declara- trons coming from various quarters, that the Wil- mot proviso, which the North has been endeavor- wg, for years, to force down the throats of the South, may lead to consequences of fearful and ter- Tidle import. Even the journals of Wall street, the organs of usurers and speculators, in that region of piety, refinement, and roguery, multipliers to in- finity—even these organs are beginning to feel fidgetty and restless, and to look on the question, ats cuuses and its origin, and to deplore the con- sequences that may likely ensue. All of a sudden, at has been discovered by the Wali street journals —by the Wall street stock-jobbers—by the Wall street saints and millionaires—that Garrison, and certain other crazy men in New England, have been engeged, for the last fifteen or twenty years, in « deliberate plan for the dissolution of the Union, en the slavery question—the cause of so much ill feeling between the North and the South. ‘This great and mighty fact has been discovered by those wise men and editors, and saints and swindlers; but they forget that the immediate crisis which now paralyzes public affairs, in the Congress of the United States sitting at Washing- ton—that this immediate crisis has been produced by the sgitations, the follies, the falsehoods, and humbugs set on foot by their own asrociates— the politicians of the Northern and Eastern States They need net go farther back than the last two or three years, and read the speeches of Seward, the messages of Fish, or the @atons of many of the other politiciansin New York, New Englana and Ohio, to fiad the seeds of the difficulties which now paralyse affairs at Washington, and tie up the government of the United States, making it unfit for any purpose or any urein life. For years and years, our columns have re-ounded, day after day, h after month, | with warnings of the approach of that erisis which | was gredually maturing, under the shocking, de- morslizing and misereble denunciations of Sew- ard, Corwin, and such like politicians of the whig party, not forgetting their associates among the Jocefoces. Both parties at the North have been pursuing the same course of policy, producing that state of peblic opinion, creating that alienation be- tween the North and the South, which is now be- ginning to tell in Weehington, and which may lead, before two years have expired, to the division and dissolution of this glorious Union It is not Garnson, nor Douglass, nor any other of the black, white or epeektied, erazy philosophers of Beston, Syracuse or New York, that could have produced such a crisis as now exists in the public affaire of this great and glorious Union, aod which prevents any action, or rather paralyses the pro- ceedings of Congress. They could hav come pliched no purposes of their own, if the whig aspi- | rats and politicians, including many of the loco- feco school, had not entered the arena, and en- | dravored to turn the dirty abolivon weapoas their own advantage for local purposes, Seward ard his associates at Washington are the great, and mighty, and terrible criminals, who will have to answer at the bar of posterity for the destrac- tion of this Union, if it should take place. The whig journals here, as weil as some of the miserable locotoco prints, are equally as deep in guilt, and folly, and in crime. Look even at the eourse of the whigs during the present session of the Legislature at Albeny! Look at the resolu- tions brought wto both branches of that body, by | the little whig leaders ef this State! Look at the speeches and movements of Raymond, from Wail | street, himself, in tion to this very business; but, above and beyond all, examime the conduct of the imbecile, cowardly, and contemptible cabinet, who gave to that noble patriot now at the head of the government, advice which, as certain os night follows day, will lead to alienation, insurrec * or dissolution of the Union, by leaving the agita- | tion of this question unsettled and open, during the present session of Congress This is the position iw which this great Union, this mighty republic, stands at this moment. We are on the verge of a voleano) }©=We have been brought to that position by the Sewards, the Fishes, and the Roymonde, and the Webbs, and the Roote, and all the other leading politicians of both parties, each trying to outgeneral the other, in denouncing and diegracing the South, for the very institution, | the prefite of which our merchants, manufacturers, and bankers strive to getand live on Whatis to be done under euch awful circumstances? Can Gen. Taylor and bis cabinet stand where they are, and allow this great Union, this mighty fabric of political liberty and social rights, to be set on fire and consumed gradaally, by those who are now carrying aloft the flambeaux in both sections of the Union? Will the masterly inactivity of the cabinet, that cowardly ;ou- tion, which none but weak men, cowardly men, and imbecile men would sssume—will that hasten the setdlement of this terrible and threaten- ing question? No—something must be done at this session of Congress, to settle it, The South are im earnest, aud the South are right. The mor the Northern States interfere, by the passage of the Wilmot 0, in aay form or shape, with their social institutions, the first law of nature justifies the South in taking care of ‘hem selves, and warns them todo it Something must be done now, and quickly The syeerable trick were and demegogues of te cobinet, and their advisers in both sections, must be set aside. The grent friends of the Union sthe mighty spirit. o the age, such a8 Clay, nud Ca noun, and Webster, and Benton, and their associvies, are the only persons to whom we en: this dangerous and threatening quret smomediat ly General Taylor, in the White Houre, hex been ime | posed upon by the weak and contemptible cabinet who surround him—w! wanting moral course to face the crisis boldly, have counselled inactivity, inaction, and postponement, ior their own selfish ands. Wake wp, General Taylor! The Palo Alto of political lite is before you Horgime Accipent=Dreaprut Exriosion.— Our readers will find, in another part of this day’s paper, @ full account of a dreadful catastrophe which occurred 1m this city yesterday morning, by the explosion of a steam boiler, which has ocea- sioned a deplorable loss of life. We allude to the explosion inthe mache shop of Mr. Taylor, in Hague street, which took place between seven and eight o’clock yesterday morning. By this sad catastrophe, a great loss of human lite has been occasioned, and the first questions which occur are—Was the boiler eafe? aad, if it was safe, was it through neglect that it exploded ? At present, we cannot answer these questions. It is said, however, that the boiler was known to be defective, and, therefore, unsafe. Oa the other hand, we hear that it was new, and that notning short of criminal neghgence could have caused the explosion. We certainly do not pretend to judge between the two statements. But we do say that it is the bounden daty of the Coroner, who is to hold the primary examination in this case, to in- stitute a rigid investigation into the matter. If tt be found, on such investigation, that the boiler was notonously defective, as we have heard—that it was unsafe—the authorities are bound, by every consideration, to take measures to punisn the par- ties who would use such a machine, to the extreme penalty of the law. This is an extraordinary case —it is a case of very uncommon occurrence in this ;and af any party has been guilty of the crime (for we can call it nothing less) of work- ing a boiler which was known to be defective, we hope that such party will be prosecuted and pune ished as he deserves. Human lite must not be trifled with im this way. If thas boiler was kaown to be unfit for use, it isthe duty of the Coroner's jury to investigate the matter, and for the grand jury to indict the party who used it, knowing it to be unsafe, for homicide. The State has lost se- veral of its valuable members, and the Coroner’s jury are to inquire into the cause of their destruc- tion. If theur death was occasioned by neglect, the parties guilty of such neglect should be made to suffer. ApministraTion ov Criminat Justice 1n New Yorsx—Stoor-Piaxon Business —The receat trial of Drury, for an attempt at the life “of Thomas Warner, and the numerous police examinations of Arliogton Bennet, Drury, and other parties, charged | with offences of various grades, begin to throw a | great deal of curious light over the construction and management of criminal justice in New York, and the mode in which judges, jurors, district attorneys, and lawyers, are made to dance like the famous automata of Maelzel, when the strings are pulled by certain wireepullers and stool-pigeons behind the scenes. For the last twenty-five years there has not been a criminal trial exhibiting such liughable, contemptible, extraordinary, and de- plorable features, as that which has recently passed before us in the trial of Drury. It beats the Old bailey of Old England all to pieces. It seems there has been forming in this city, for some years past, a coterie of thieves, burglars, reporters, editors, judges, and jurors, for the ex- press purpose of making the solemn and deliberate administration of the criminal laws as laughable and ridiculous as the farces sometimes got up at the Chambers Street Theatre, by Burton, or at the Olympic Theatre, in Broadway, by his rival, Mitchell. The recent trial of Drury, with its stool- pigeon preparations, exhibitions, examinations, and other ridiculous attitudes, has cost the people of this city fully to the extent of thirty thousand dollars in money, besides the waste of time and fees of lawyers. All this waste of public time and expenditure of public money have been caused, in tome degree, by a quarrel among rogues—one set endeavoring to criminate the other; but where the real guilt is, the mystifications of the stool-pigeon evidence have not yet fully disclosed. Summary and general justice, if it could be executed on ail, would probably be better made out by sending the whole batch—accused and accusers, stool-pigeons, and several others, on both sides—to the same place of expration and repentance. Yet, while this vast expenditure of public money and this great consumption of public time are going on, the regular business, in relation to Free A my for Femaics. The Board of Education have had before them, since the 14th of November last, a report of a se- leet committee of ther body consisting of Robert Kelly, Edward B. Fellows, Erastus C. Benedict, James Crukshans, and Timothy Daly, appointed to inquire inte the propriety and expediency of es- tablishing a female Free Academy. The Com- mittee unanimously came to a conclusion in favor of esteblishing the imstitution proposed. But the Board never took any decisive action on the report tll Wednesday evening, when they passed a reso- lution adopting it. This academy is to be the counterpart of the male academy, though the course of education will not be precisely the same. The principles baving been settled, the details will be the subject of more mature deliberation. It will be, in fact, e high school, where a higher grade of free education may be acquired than is accessible in she Common Schools, and such as is adapted to the capscity and quality of the female mind, or to the pursuits in life in which the pupils may here- after be engaged. The report isa well written, able document, and fairly states the objections against the institu- tion and as satiefactorily disposesof them; though there are some points in which we cannot agree with the gentlemen who drew at up. They appear to us to be somewhat carned away by their exees- sive zeal for their hobby, and led into positions at variance with the nature of woman and her rela- tion to man The report more than verges oa the icea of the physical and mental equality of the female, and her consequent right to perfect ial and political equality. It suggests the pos- ity of practically realizing this perfection, and lays down the principle, that in proportion as nation approximates to it, so high does it stand in the scale of civilization. Now, it will be found that truth in this as in most other cases lies be- tween the eatremes, There is a manifest differ- ence, both in body and mind, between the male and female im mankind. This difference has been recognised and acted upon more or less in all na- tions and for all generations. There must, there- fore, be reason for it laid deep in the foundations of human nature, and every attempt to overturn or disturb those natural laws can ouly end in failure. If the principle eontended for be sound, it wall re- sult, when pushed to its Jegitimate consequenees, in the election, some fine day, of a female Presi- dent of the United States, female Senators, a fe- mule Mayor, « female General, a female Captain, and, in fact, a female everything. Now, this is « length to which no one but some Utopian socialist or Fourierite visionary would be dizpowed to go, and the fair sex themselves shrink back from the very idea, as incompatible with their softer, gentler nature. Yet to this goal do some of the arguments in the report inevitably tend ; and we have seen, the other day, an open avowal of those doctrines by @ political sect of fa- netics in Massachusetts. The main arguments, however, in the report, in favor of the new academy, are just and true. One of them is expressed in the following words :— “ Phe elevation of female education will tell wonder- funy uv, he improvement of the other sex They whit wt % to be left behiod in the intellectual race. It wid of good fruits, and not of evil fruits im Telation. | v the cul/ivated powers of the female mind farnish, too, the channel by which moral avd religious truth fs infused into ihe minds aud bearts of children The heart cOnnot clore tiarlf againet these teachings A mother’s Jove Will uploek the portal where no power of eloquence | a of argument could force an entrance 1 pert The lessons tp early ebtidhood are the most precious and | Inety yh had | attribute their powers to the it ther's character, ing. [tin by some, recorded asa gene- great men are the children of remarkable This is equally beautiful and true, and aseigas | | to lovely wWomma ber tree positioa—“ a help meet TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Great Question in Congress, That absorbing topic which animates the coua- try everywhere, east, west, north and south, is now fairly ready for examination and elucidation by the delegated mind of the nation. How far the subject may be treated with that conservative pru- dence and rational deliberation necessary to the adjustment of it,as desired by the voice of the people at large, problem that the wisest cannot solve, and about which we can prophesy nothing, beyond an unusual amount and intensity of vapid declamation. The Senate, yesterday, it appears, Presented nothing new upon the theme. It has not yet leet the impression left upon it by Mr. Clay— or, if it have, the more is it to be wondered at. The time is at hand, however, when the superior house will be the theatre for discussion—and we await, with patience, the dawn of its extraordinary intellectual developements upon the subject. The various curious and entertaining movements of the political doctors in the House of Represen- tatives, yesterday, will be adequately appreciated throughout the country. The pauent will have a severe series of appliances and means to contend with and submit to; and what particular form the malady will present, when science and quackery have done their best and worst, it 1s impossible to prognoeticate. Our report 1s full of meaning, and rapidly throws up some remarkable points, which demand and will command observation. It will be perceived with what a ludicrous display of skill various practitioners are at work at this early stage of the business upon which they are to be engaged. Some are nervous, hurried, spasmodic, in their movements, while each one shows himself to be in earnest, though for precisely what particular end can only be a matter of conjecture. By and by we shall know everything. Mr. Root’s resolu- tion of December 31st, with respect to our new ter- ritory lying eastward of California, was first swept away, by a vote of 105 to 79. Then came Mr. Dis- ney forward, with resolutions to make changes in the constitution, by which the will of the people of the District of Columbia shall be made to govern the action of Congress with respect to slavery in that District. This wonderful scheme, enclosed in the resolutions, was laid onthe table. Mr. Gid- dings’ resolution, thrown in by the way of fuel, shared the same fate; Mr. Inge commencing the opposition to it, to prepare the way for his own re- solution, which aims a blow at the cabinet, over the head of the President. It will speak for itself —but es Mr. Inge intends to speak also, to make a more imposing matter of it, we will dismiss this fascinating theme till we hear more upon it from ats author. ‘The most important resolutions, in their aspect, as coming from the South, are those of Mr. Cobb. Though they propose no plan or remedy, yet they may not be wholly lost upon the House. It is rather early for such measures. They would rob many a brow of laurels anticipated. We must have, unquestionably, more patriotism, more talk, mere planning, ambuscading, advancing and re- treating, before we can come to the only true way of settling this important and inspiring subject. News from Washington, OUR SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. acarmerons t Monpay, Feb. 4, The yote againet Mr. Root’s previous resolution in the House to-day, is a good sign that the North is giving way. The free soilers are very much “taken all aback.” The moderadoes are in good spirits; but the vote does not settle the questioa. ‘We would have a compromise for the territories, but the extreme South will demand a division of California. They will not agree to admit that Siate as she stands, with or without the proviso. They must have a new State out of Texas, at the same time, to marptain the balance in the Senate, and a part of the Culifornia sea coast. | for man.” Those who would place her in any other relation—tither in the degraded rank of a | slave to the male, or elevate her above the sphere | Ged and Nature have ordained for her, would violate the laws of creation, and make woman her- | selt unheppy as well as man = The argument that criminals who are really guilty and ought to be women ure ofien fovnd possessed of masculine tried, is neglected, delayed, postponed, and not | minds, and sometimes of a physical appearance and his associates are very busy, very quick, and the public time and public money in such stool- pigeon mysteries as we have just seen pass betore us in the trial of Drury. But no such pro > | itude, activity, and exertion are exhibited ia the disposal of those whose indictments have been liying over for months and years, and who calculate from this very delinquency to escape unscathed from the punishment that might be awarded to them by the laws. The trial of Drary 18 only one of a large lot—a sample of a prodigious assortment of such ca Whether Drary be guilty or not guilty, whether Warner be a man of virtue or not, itis certain that a more atrecious, disreputible, and impudent system of getting up evidence, has never yet disgraced any community or any city, as that which we have seen exemplified in this par- ticular cave of the Drarys. Go on with the pigeons—hurry up the hot cakes thought of at all. Mr. Distnet Attorney McKeon | superior im strength to some of the other sex, does not afl ct the mam question ; for these are excep- | very rapid in their movements in consuming | tions to the geveral rule. Nor does the fact that | the majori'y of women possess some mental facul- ties in a higher degree than man, such as quick perception, invalidate the other tact, that the intel Jectual calibre of the gaan is superior in the main, his judgment sounger, and bis reasoning powers stronger than these of the woman. The secret of wemen’s intluence is not in her strength, but in her beauty, her geatleness and love; and that a | hogher degreé of eaucation than the mass of wony | have Yet cceems ta, we cootrbute to the mu Dappners of beth axe doubt, Tt a peeves, oH proper, as the we thet the & ly be the same in all respects Hog tan, having preciwely the same hing over # thorough ecientific course, eton to the wets, or direeted to the ve world or to the practice of a learned prote uo Nor is it proper to assume, on the other handathat ony educeion tor females avove the range of common se al a must be a | range, st | wah ey | bueiwere of tb | | Let us have the younger Drury, Arlington Benget, | pom ” ny o " er « pegs oe L oa yh Amnby D “h, | Barincd oF flowers, to be pla yon the head of and all, put in the box. Employ the lawyers on both | out ond benuty, bat sogmso fade, te wither, to sides, and if the developement of these mysterivs | fone ite tragrauce aud tbewhe be way This costs one hundred thousand dollars, who curest | wotien pre i be poly — exteurively, and the et fethele eCocetem taker much of the Not the tax-payers. See 1 te y any. Vege complish- Veny Late rxom Havtr—By the brig Haytl, Cap are eed, hut must not be ace tain Cutte, we bave received the Journal of Commerce ‘The ie the spe¥ifice of true mental cultivation. be her oF sven ae institution i train of Port au Pri thing bats pom- | iny » higher «1 Of femote venchers tor our cour pous parade of the doings of the black Emperor, Faus | mem gehovls, ean hardly be ove The low tin, let. This imperial monarch bar published slongor | Ath ‘omic nie of Lhe majority of the present teach. ance regulating bis civil household, tio, * hy wen ihe subject ot frequeut comment in rulating eppotnting mar | ers t wf chamberiaine almoners. pages he. Ko athe Krandent style of Napoleon— atleast on paper The same Journel publiehed an anonymous letter froma Haytion in defence of the pew emperor puffing and praising the black prince ed nauseam and tothe shies The letter it is pretended, wae written im Paris as an anewer to the terrible jones of which Faustio the First hae boon the butt in all the Parke papers but was refused inner. tion in the pavers Asthere papers are rend at Hayti, under the nore of the erif made emperor, it re fome answer to be made. that hie emperorenip pot rink beneath the lned of ridiculs and beach. 4 it wan w good Idee to call it @ Maris letrer, frst time at Port au Prines. b be publiched perhaps, at Paris Bey and rimilar absurdities of the apes of monarchy and folly, the paper is totally barren of mew information or discurrion. ter ublished for the Sport! Intelligence. Tre Comme Trortive Between thirty and forty horses were entered for the purses whieh lowed on the Tet inet, for races during the months of April and May. on the Centreville Course. The above, with the matebes to take place, will make the searom ma. | | usually gay. some dering buteler rot —On & clothin, Cory Couns, Before Judge Greenwood — The Feb Twary term of thie court commenced yeaterday F Jurors were eworn, and nothing farther done. Ny BT. —Refore Hie Honor Jud term of this court ere rworn . February Sth: - Comevt oF tHe Nevnewtaxes.—The President hee op eed B OH Dien. of Boston Netherlands. for the States of Masachuetts, Meime, | New Hampebire, ond Rhode island. the eeneal reports aed it is heped that on im. tw) be eftectee through the tastrumen- the temole demy The report ob- hed by the want, at to educate females 10 a great extent rhow All the teocher® in the primer *, all mm the sand folly helf of those in the sare females Li is exceedingly het they shooid have this province as signed to th They are by nature fitted to be the teachers ¢ They have a peculiar moral and itelectwat aptitude for dealog with * desirable t you hte am Aunin he estanlishineat of a higher te reresary 10 complete the eyetem js wetnal state a want Owe half of the her ha un de, the education is care mm. Ow the female side, it ete inaites at 6 oe” We shut! Only make one other extract :—“ Simi- lar cettnions have been established in other cies. Lt hes been determmed by the Board of “on of the erty of boston, to estabien eueh ® reheol there hie Fotete Digit schools are in ehccesstul operanen tn Balimere, and are xeco pored eh fe embarraseny ch ldren from ail chases of « repowed, wall duff iD the female They reve The academy tens They are o propery e+ sndueted for the at the Common: cost, benefit, end receive all Supreme ee Met own Ure Bort. Che piaintitt the i [ihe members ef the bar of the © Abe 0! te preven! @ gold wath and el Af the oMoer of the court of thete ap. proeletion of bie eMctent attentive gad obliging ova dvet ) ate oleek. eomber, csi “ that the Committee port to the House, with ae little delay ae practicable, a Dull oF Dille providing @ territorial government or goverm Bia ee by Mexioo by the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidslgo, lyiog eastward of (aiifornia, aud prohibiting slavery therein.” , & ye By HOPRIOK | Hie Ogle, U r By the next steamer, the Senators and members of the House are expected from California. They will present their constitution to the President, to be submitted to Congress. He will recommend the admission of the State, and upon that question the South will take a decided stand. They know that if they resign the Senate to the North, they have no security tor the future; and with the Nash- ville convention to fall back upon, they will require a compromise with California. Gen. Houston was superseded in the Senate by the censua,bill. The motion of Mr. Badger, to con- fine the census to the enumeration of the people is still pending. It will be supported by the South, because the statistics will interfere with the enu- meration upon which their representation in the House depends, und because of the uncertainty of statisties thus collected by incompetent men. Mr. Clay’s compromise is the special order for to-morrow. Karl Grey’s Canadian letter is satisfactory to the South. ee THIRIY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasninorom, Feb, 4, 1850. Numerous petitions and resolations, of no general in- terest, were received. THE CRNEUB RILL— THE CONTRACT AYATEM OF F Afver some debate relative to priority of Senate proceeded to the consideration of the eensus bill Mr. Davie addressed the Senate in explanstion and support of the bill end im opposition to an amendioent submitted by Mr. Dawson. proposing @ form of tables diferent from thet reported by the committee Mr. Dawson supported bis amendment, and afer fur. | ther debate, sundry amendments were offered, among which war ope directing the printing the census dovu- mente by the privtere to Congress. at the rates paid to Lem for other Congressional printing mm. the course of the debate upow t Lanp gave notice that he duce a properition in favor of abolishing the contract | ayatem. because under its operation. the printing could not be properly exeouted without ruiuous los to the coptractors .ethorn, Sylvester, S| Sebenck, paniding. ‘Ste- a ny tn PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, tne r ‘on = me neem whether they people sepeaate , do or mate territory betenging to the United have an inherent right to frame their own domestic laws, and to establish their own local go- yerpments, in all cases where the provisions of such awe do not confiict with the provisions and limitation: of the comstitution, or the proprietary rights of the ent; the Committee on the Ju- fay. Brevare a0 ‘amendment to the constitution, to this ef the of the District of Columbia x 8. to one the action of jon to existence ery within ite lifts Mr. Concea moved to lay the resolutions on the table. to. INDEMNITY TO NAVAL OFFICERS, Mr. Scmencx introduced s bill to indemnify all off- cers and men in the vaval service whe bave lost pro- Pe fire, shipwreck, or otber casualty, Referred the committee om Naval Affairs. MR, GIDDINGS ON THE KIGHTS OF MAN, Mr Gippinés offered the following: — Ww we held there trutis to be self evident—that all anne ted equal; are endowed by their Cr: w eval in cchatituting governments in ang terri bag ag moved to lay the resolution on the table. Agreed to, 104 to 89. DOOKKERFER AND POSTMASTER, ing Justices of the Peace to fill vacaneles other than at ir. Fox, on the relation to the Gas Light Company of Brooklyn, favorably, with- out amendment. BILLS PRESENTED, en Yanv introduced s bill for the relief of Norris L. il] to prevent the exhWition of cir- gave notice of s bill alt map of the city ot New York. aane Mr Leavenwonrn. notice of @ bill in relation to the Mapufec(vre of salt in Onondags. Mr J. W. A.tey, pureuant to Dill te create the delegation trom New York. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, Pie Mores wnt ato pp of the Whole. au- thoriz'ng Surre gates to invest surplus moneys arisi trom the rales of real ertate im certain cases. Also, rs uct waking appropriation for the relief of the i lyp Orpbav Aryliom. Also en act im relation to docu- meniary rvidener: all of wbich were reported to the House, Alro, tor thy sperdy disposition of certain suite: browght by the Attorney General in relation to maao- rial Utie Mr Favyw urged the necessity of the passage of thie bill, as bundred- and ‘ho avin this State were vi- tally inter 4 Heurged also, that it was te the perce of thin Stare that these suits should dispored of. The House reported progress, and asked leave to wit again Mr O. Aicewx moved to go into Committee of the Whole op the bill in relation to the Buffalo Savings Banh After some diseussion, the Committee rose and Mr. Oups arked leave to offer a resolution, that as the House has postponed the election of Door-keeper till March 6th, the Sergeant-at-Arme be authorized to per- form duties of the same till that time. Mr. Hovsron objected to this.as the not ofter it when Unio was cailed for ntleman did ations. Mr. Rousmson then offered Mr. Sixrnens raiced @ question of order, whether that resolation would chavge the rule, which requires 8 day’s notice to do; besides, the duties of the Sergeaut- at- Arms were peeked in the rules: The Srxansi hi Mr. StepHexs appealed from the chair. Mr. Wirtiame gave notice of an amendment, thatthe Sergeant-at-Arms likewise discharge the duties of Post- aster, Dp . ‘this question the Speaker overruled, and the reso- lution ruled out of order. Another ineileetual effort was made to choose a Door- Keeper. rostac Mr. Brown, of Indiana, ini the rates of postage. Referre mittee. & bill to reduce the Post Office Lom- THE NEW TERRITORIES. Mr. Goxnan gave notice of the introduction of a re- solution, instructing the Cemmittee om Territories to ine into the expediency of admitting Vaiforvia with sent constitution, reserving to Congress the right te form a State or States eut of present boun- north of 36 30; also, to embrace provisions for States in Texas terrivory, according to the annexation iso, acknowledging the right of the pe»- ple of N jexico and Deseret, to so govern themselves ‘asto secure their liberties; also, in said generai bili to purchase certain territory from Texas. THE MOME DEPARTMENT, Mr. Tuomrson, of Mierissippi, introduced @ bill to Fepeal the law establishing the Home Department, oviding for ap Assistant Secretary of the ('rea- Joliector of Customs, Referred to the Commit- tee of Ways and Means. Mr. Tromrson also asked to offer a resolution calling on Mr. Ewing for the number of clerks employed by hamamtaal sanction of jaw, and what are their du- ‘he House refused « suspension of the rules. THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. A resolution was adopted, after refasing the yeas @nd pays, giving to each member twelve additional copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendsz—ia all twenty-four. DELEGATE FROM NEW MEXICO. Mr. Baxen presented the credentials of Hugh A. Smith, asking admission as the delegate from New Mexico. Reterred to Committee on blections. RESOLUTIONS OF INQU Mr. Cons, of Ala , introdu preamble. concluding with resolutions.that the Serate appoint twelve mewbers —ix from the South and six from the North - aud tbat toe House appoin enty— ten from the North and ten fcr m the Bouth— to meet and devise @ plan, predicated On constitutional privelples. to settie existing diffioul tier; and that they eubmit the pian to the two houses that the harmony of the two sections may be perpetuat- ed. Objections rising —it lies over. Mr. Ince offered a resolution, that under the consti- ress alone bas the power to admit new ‘no other department ought te interfere; tution ( States, therefore, Ki d, That the interference of the President, throu of Thomas Butler Ki Was unauthorized by the ob, aud was flagrant violation of the province of Cc he moved the vious question, on its passege. It ‘was not seconded” He then gave notice that be iatend- ea to debate the resolution when he could obtain the ing backs on foreign ealt, for piok! sapuigslonier ieabia Gratenared . Adjourned. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE: Senate, Anant, Feb, 4, 1850, PETITIONS. By Mr. Urnam and Mr. Bracn, for amendment of the law in relatien to fees of Sheriffs. For a repeal of the school law. Mr Miccen and Mr. Beacn, fora repeal of the usu- ry laws. M_ Beacn, remonstranee against a direct road and bacon, Ko. for that for pickled Auburn and Rochester Railroad Company. Mr. Croax, against bridging Lake Champlain. Mr. Jonsson, for @ law regulating fees of County Judges in Ontario county. Nir Contiss fer a police justice in Newburg Mr. Cross, remonstrance against the bill extablish- Pewee of civiland criminal jurisdiction in Brook- yu. pen against the Hudson ebire lroad Company —referred to the of the Whole, Also in relation i gan for the relief of Charles A By Mr Cour @ bill to repeal the law for the registry of births Marrisges and deaths- read asecond time and eo mmitted to the ( ommittee of the Whoie Also, Vill to authorize Nerris M. Woodruff and Samael Stockley to rei en of rocks ta |odiee river— read twee, and committed By Mr Beach, to print ten times the usual number of Fepert and bill amending free school law. Agreed to, The report of the Auburn Savings Lustitution was re- eetved RESOLUTIONS Mr Ssvpen, requiring the trustees of Shakers’ 9o- totes to report the ety, P vot im relation to certain trasts, passed April ‘39 at the parsagedof said act ; alro, the ameunt ince the parrage cf such act, with s particular n of the kind, quality and value of the same; sy ail real aud personal estate sold since April 15th, Bill t the charter cf ibe Canandaigua snd 0 amen! charter of the ( Cornypg Katiroed Com Ap aot te au- theorize Joby A Dix to builds from Mauwersing aren to the main land in Rye, Westebester county, ing of the emumeration of popa- |} statiction! tatormation He thought. with several other Senators, that the statis thes to be orliecied ‘the conus, were siwaye im- Prriect and con-equently useienr ft ODE ADE tedious discussion, without: , the Senate, ate quarter past four, House of Representatives, THE TRRRITORIES— sm ROOT'S RESOLUTIONS, Wasnisorton, Feb. 4, 1860, ‘The resolution of Mr. Roor, offered on the Sist of De. im order. and was amended s008 to read | Territories be instructed to rem + fora) that part of (he tereiory ceded to the United | Mr. Hicciapp rained @ questic ther this resolu- tom Was ip Order before the States were called for reso- a Mererend, Mor arter Phelps, Pp o vm Ubi, Bitch, F @ vid Liem, Bek web, Bows med | Wang, Miowing Ville were paceed te Committee of the | ‘A act in relation to the Uties Water Works Com- c-msolidation of the Aubure and Syracuse road, aud | Mr. Cour, for a general term of the Supreme Court | £ Committee of the Whole, reported progress. Fires ln Bosten. Boston, February 4, 1860, The paper hanging wavufactory of Merrill & Co., at Cambridge, texeiber with a considerable quantity og atcok, was nearly destroyed by fire on Saturday night, On Sunday night, the houre of C. Hathaway, at South Boston, was considerably damaged by fire. The Steamships Southerner and Georgia. Cranceston, February 4, 1850. The eteamrhip Southerner, Berry, from your port, was detained bere until last evening, in consequence of the low tide ‘I'he steamer Georgia, also from your port, took the wails on board at Savannah, on Thure- Gay last. but failed to touch here for them, and they were, consequently. left bebind. Markets, New Osreana, Fel The cotton market has deen v prices have a downward turn, the o Lo 400 bales, mciuding @ parcel of m! 113s [If these quetstions poset agrees decline of full balfs cert since our advices of the Riow ts held firmly at oceries exhibit no special change, O geDera: cr local Lews of importance. Bactimone, February 4—6 P, M, The market for breadstuffe, provisions, and groceries, Bomipally the same as on Saturday - beid frmly, with tuir demand, Weather cold and racipg. Shipping Intelligence. New Onceans, Jan 26. Arrived—Ship Mediator, N j brig Paul, do; bark Rove Standish, Philadelphia, nr ee pes Arrived—Barks Savannah and Peter Dersill: New York, A rrived—Schrs Lew! Bengat, New Yorks Jostey and ed—Sehrs Low's, 7 Statesman, Norfolk for th b - 8. Feo2. ALI Arrived—Sebr Glenroy, from Richmond. esr ‘ie Arrived= Ship Sarah from Mobile: sohe Empire, Tangier: B Brig Baywood, fre erp ae Seta a, ge water, Jeremic. Bounes's Hore, Feb 2. Arrived. B: Serah Willis Ch at tek dog dee Lyrae Pabladlp 4 t Portemouth; ate, do Abigail, Prowmectown for Neel ‘angiers York, Lucy Baker, Telegraph, John & Prine, *druneh Grane, Chy, via Drvenval, Virginia, for do; do; Sally Bad, “ie jy ‘atiersot, Phila, cho, ior StJobn, N B; Mary He hee ¢ P jobile; sabre ‘Thos Fenucr, Pia; ine tel Bo echrs Deane, Elizabeth Lovisiaus, albert Thow.s. Net s te ‘Norfolk. Supreme Court, GENERAL TERM. _ Before Judges b.dmovds, is bel eel elewhere conve wey xo off for the he by consent; but i the netics tba. such engsgement will A celerdar et Bil matters bearable om s; éaye will be beard in the order in ig be clerk tor eutry. On special motion (he enieposr wiil not be called The Court also nowverd. that under the new statute : about # 0 cvuses to the transferred APPLACATION TO BAIL THE DRURYS. The ret the ( ourt 4 counsel barge of a counterfeit, yt jexistrate at $1.000—on the bribery the batt bad not been fixed; and on the 1 for an Attempt to elder Drury are re jury dia nok ’ and when the onse te not capital, there fs good ire Srgur the prevent case as be understood the | Hew wouls net be eppored: but ax to the bey ‘inonere had been already three the evide ner th you expect to convict in that: * that of a convieted felon! «y~ | don’t suppose your honor, nor JOur aeecctates, can be to be aware of What evide wer the prosecution will have in that case, Mr Graham. (seting Attorney Geveral, that all Ube carl ke we, is that the defen curedof bribery. Tbe indictment is found, and the questo im he eutit or in- to assume to bribe- and that: ulm act to amend the charter of the village of Water. ort te reasare the tntenest <f the State in curtain Mes — for the relief of the Florida Bridge Com; Q road Heghany Cattarangus, Chau tauque counties j for the relief of the Syracuse Coarse Salt Com- Heating drinks. Mr. Mantis, for @ reduction of tolls om foreign salt, Mesers. Hatt and Burnovens, on same subjret. Mesers. Fox and Winston, in relation to Sheriffs’ exe- cutions, Mr. McLean, (2) for @ reduction of tolls om forsiga walt. Mr. Fisx, of citizens of Brooklyn, that the rate of ic de increased. fof T03 hy A) gentiomen of New York city, for the education of negleeted and destitute ebidren. Also. of So puree a the city of New York, for continuaver of oo Avtimon, for @ modification of the new school . Scupoen, against any alteration in the pilot law M Laavaxwentes, of of Syracure, that the corp:ration may be allowed to use salt water in sprink. ling streete ‘Also. againet reduction of tolls on malt Mr. Fran, of the elty of Brooklym, for the education of neglected ebildren ported favorably & Dill to provide for Mr Aspnvwe te the education of inaten obsidren in the State. REPORTS OF COMMITTFES Mr. Bouten, om that part of the Governor's mes- to the preservation of pubite health, by 7 by bill, favorably, im relation to married ot Property, im their own right, by *i A. Gaxum, favorably, «bill ip relation to appoint- ot ponirhwent 1 cane te chem Thal on the todietwent for an attempt Are pot before this court; all they ean know Prisoner bas been tried om @ which peraity of fen years tm; ment ‘trom and though the jury to tha case bare di hat the enormity of the oft ball S e (sr 6) ruben would give their decision on the a the Sapertor No caver bring ready. the court adjourned, #* ohirndar will pot be called watil Mom=- day, the Lith ipet, oe Cntendor—Thue Day, ene ar — Now 2. 81, 84, 56, 87 Go 64, 520, ST Straeme Count, Crxectt Covet —Nos, 288, 200 to Con men Press —Now 20, 4954, 52, ' 99 Low, 114, 1iW, 129, 196 SSR wre Ketehilsnment for Sale.—A