The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1854, Page 4

also to be catechised for the non gyoeq. K HE R. ALD. i ance of the Aity thousand dollar 9p” jomiated } by Congress fr the ioprevement of the savigation JAMES GORDON BENNETT, the Hndson river Several vills ‘9 which our ) ne er deewty interested were U gder eraridera- — . tio. in the Senate ye-terday—amor ¢ them wa notice = proposing to make the Cor gnissioners of Eni- Forme aus NOUS priticn ‘elective officers ; othe 43 relative to harbor ments, preventing ¢he Harlem Railroa ing thelr track 0 ' yher companies, creating | ® tew judicial districs 1a the Twei'th, Nineteonth ard Twenty-second w?yrds, and a rather importaat AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. y—Jous Overy Bowory—M SY TUPATRE, ~BLsck ByEp Furax adway—Domestio ROONGe WAY THEATRE # ame, wt our 2p ade ishes in fal! « ATARACT OF THE GANGES. measure, W i bh ° ao poade splice in ny p oncerning the eteenth w Park. Afte . ae ES one weot—Pawere Pace | Concerning the N’.ceteenth ard Pai Ke tor Mr. vESs—MASK# AND faces Parents ann Gvaa- | Dik nson had enlightened those present upon t contents of the ¢ wa gressmen to urge the purchae jJovernor’s me-sage, an attempt was to bring up the resolutions instructiag our Ca: of Mouat Veroon, atham steeet—atternoon neue T AMUN. HEAT sire Kary. bye WA{LACK'S THEATRE, Brosdway—Bacwston or } 4, failed by 18 Phe) onle featores oF ancl PAUSS vince or DuusaseRatame rae wine, Y Put it failed by 18 to 11 The oaly featares of general interest in the Assemb y were the introdac- +MERICAN MUSSOM—Atterneon—Gew. Tew Ticuam of platiy sanul tolls Yhief of P enn ik eo ‘Anu. ivesing—Youna Winow seu | tion of 3 relative to caaul tolls, the Chief of Po woe Lor Cony é hee, &e. DWAY MENAGERIE—Sramese Twins axp Wun The Baltic brought little local news of any im- ome pertance from either England or France. I¢ was dXISFVS AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad ut veror Na ould soon elevate dn eetnaieder talents we Come ett aid th. t the wi jeror Nap leon would soon elevate seme of bis personal friends to the dignity of YOOW S MINETRALS, Wood's Miasteel Hall, 44¢ Broad ae i 5 . A ; eag—ErwMorcan Miner REL Princes of the Empire. Tne ministerial nomioa- ~ on or PE6i year hi beeu published ia SUCKLEV'S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Brosdwar-—Bucx- tious fur the present year had been pi i" sar's Exiorran Urera TRovr Paria. Ye bave detached statements of all the trans- actions which preceded the Sculé duels; of the prom cession to the ground, and the fights, with the latest medical bulletin of the state of the wounded Marquis. BANVARDS UR er mix Hoy La HENISH GALLERY, 063 1A, 805 Broadway.—ianonama Brosdway—Day and Evoning. 659 Broad HGROR BLITZ—Sruvverast 1. Institurs, Our files from Buenos Ayres are duted to the 9th of November. We giv from the leajing points of the news, whien «ill be found to poste both a commercial and politiwal interest. Altho the mini had not issued any celined programm of action, the people hoped thut its course would be d economy. Sever made in the cay Pentiam’'s Girr Bx stracts nore Ch PEL, 7: eRKAN 6 LAN ART—Si3 Brew. Fork, Oxtdsy, Jan ancy 13, 1854 Mails for Europe. ave one of reforis, coneilistion a improvements were about to b showing the goud eifects of even a three montis v24 NEW YORK WEUKLY HZRALD. fae United States 1 ip Nashville, Captsin | peace, eae Berry, etl leave this p noirew, tor South: The Board of Aldermen met last evening, and a re- solution was passed to the effect that the Hudsoa peenaey River Railroad Cumpany should be compel’ed to tak: aves up their present lines of railroad slong Hudson ani aes other streets, and substitute grosved ones in their a Sarope— place. We are glad to see that the Board passed a Lirrrroot-—Johu Hanter, Ne sesol ation to inquire into the resson why the stree!s Lamon f of this ciiy are kept ia such @ disgraceful condition ¥ Th Lhe Council cen were als ession and part begat petess ed in a very spirited debate on the subjact of reform Revoil, No. 17 § as will be seen by our 1 report appeuded to Tho European mails will close at half part tea o'clock | the minutes of the regular proceedings. The Board of Supervisors met also last evening, bat to-morrow morniog The Wrkty Heap will be pabliebed at half part ala beyord the o ry rontize of business nothing was @’sleck to morrow morning. Siog’e copies, in wrappers | Coxe. ; sitpecce. Professor Stanbly's lecture on Russia very “Fries ers iuieresting subject during the present state of Eure —which was to have bees delivered Jast med Whe State of Busope England Preparing Wor, +, in its leading features pean a: evening at the Brooklyn Athenwam, was p we the 26th iustaut, in consequence of tue in t state of the weather. sa variety of telegraphic despatches and tter relating to political matters, marine ur pages t day contain full report of the Coroner's tigation in the Lutener murc case; the late Post office robberies; the revolt aud desperate assault on the captain on board the ship Defiance; important Gecision on the Mechanics’ Lien Lew io the Court of Common Pleas; interesting opinion and decision relative to the bey faxes, Kc. for The news by the Balti is more and more warlike, and in reference t» the The return of Lord Palmerston to the Cabinet, it is un- policy of England is of the highest moment. derstood, is equivalent to a deliberate de‘erminatio"™ to prepare for a war with Russia, His counsels are held to be indispensable to decisive and upited ac- tion. The majority o? the Commons will doubtless be with the war party of the Ministry, for the pubiic in favor Whe Great Spolls Principte Trumphant to Congress—'Dhe Spoils! The Spolls! “To the victors belong the spoils!’ It ts now alittle over twenty years ago that this great demoralizing doctrine was first enuneiat- ed hy Goy. Marcy in the United States Senate. The common practice in barbarous warfare, o! turning over @ conquered city to pillage aud de- bauchery, was thus boldly proclaimed as the proper reward to the successful party in our sentiment of Evgland 1s unquestionably of armed intervention for the preservation of Turkey. The decline in the French funds, Palmerston’s return to uificant interpretation of the movement. It is con. strued at the Bourse as foreshadowing the call of the Continent to arms. ilty Louis Nap:leon—none with regard to the univ wiehes of the French army and the people. on receipt of Ministry, is a most with There is no diille France is ready, and is only waiting the tardy movements | political elections. It was a shocking confes- of ber ally across the Channel; so that, when the | sion of unblushing corruption; it was de- Cabinet of Ecg'and begivs to move inthe same di | nounced as such, all over the country ; and the contempt and disgust of Mr. Calhoun coucera the cohesive power of the public jflan rection with the popular rentimen’ of Eng France, ané the United States, the barometer of the | 198 * ; if side : ler. was e expression of public opinion Bourse gives warning of # barricate. der.” was but the SADE easI On OF PaO iOr ine y i j upon this abominable maxim of the spoil The consent of the Sultan to detail s representative : } oS frat Nevertheless, from the day that it was fi to the new conference of the Great Powers at Vienna gmounts to little or nothing, when he declares that enunciated on the floor of the Senate down to this hour, the spoils and the spoilsmen have held the balance of power in Congress and in the Cabinet, in the ratio of the amount of plaa- der in the Treasury. The spoils!—the spoils! the evacnation of that effect, is cation. Nor are the ¢ymptoms in Austria of an in he Vrincipalities, or a guarantec to the sive gua non of Turkey for a pacifi What a splendid clination to side with the Czar favorable to peace. Nor is the dubious attitude of Prassia satisfactory. | iustration of the full developement of this In fact, the prospect of a warby England and Fs noe | Spoils doctrine we had in the administration of bly, Van Buren! The public expenditures, from t ioevitably, at all hazards, unit of the Czar cainet R Austiia with Austria is immediately destroyed. sition ‘ical than t ja m) thirteen millions a year under Joha Quincy Adams, were swelled up to forty millions —tive millions were appropriated by the spoilsmen, in princely defaleations— thirty millions from the Treasury were squandered among the States— the State banks were,inflated to explosion—th: whole land was deluged with shinplasters-the country was corrupted with swindling specula- tions, and the universal demoralization, distress and bankruptey which followed found a fitting solution in a general bankrupt law. The great spoils principle was thus carried the cause oth As it is, her po- 8 vastly mere cr of Tar! hin the diver From the revolutionary elements fied Austrian dowinions, she will, perhaps, in any alliance, only escape destruction in a general con- test, gland and France in the final treaty of pexce. The latest news fiom London, of the depression in the Stock Exchange, goes strongly to conficm the from the saving intervention of FE: French interpretations of the recall of Palmerston. | 64 the experiment was complete--the reac- In a word, from the courage of the Sultan, the | tion was tremendous; but the temptation for wra'h of Nicholas, the warlike consistency of France, | another carnival of the spoils has been gradu- and the pressure of public opinion, the British Ca- | ally reviving until now it is distinctly fore- shadowed in such magnificent proportions as binet are buckling up for a continental war. Such f : k Ps is the olution of the news by the Baltic. The Cam- | totally to celipse the paltry revulsion of 187. , A ; ; «7 | The spoile!—the spoils! Tyler could do bria and Europa may bring us intelligence still és * . ; i eo ad aaa nothing with them—Polk was engro:sed of eaten . | with the Mexican war; but under the The News. Cabinet policy of Gen. Taylor the great maxim of Marcy was again developed in Gal. phin swindles acd Gardner claims, and jobbing chemes of general and special legislation These cases, however. were sporadic and ac dental, rather than the resalt of the old « demic in the atmosphere. It was reserved fi the present Congress and the present adminis- tration to restore the pestilence in all its most ghastly shapes and forms. Now, the contagion hangs over the political horizon of Washingtoa like a thick cloud; and. like the fearful hand- writing upon the wall, we may eee. chini through the sickening vapor, the call to the vultures, of “ The spoils! the spoils!” war-cry of Marcy rings out again, that “to the victors belong the spoils.” and the spoilsmon are gathering in; and Congress and the Cabt- net are leagued with the outside coalition. In the year 1852 we had a great triumph of pr ciples; in the year 1853 we have the spoils spoils. Ex-Secretary Clayton occupied the attention of the United States Senate, yesterday, in replying ts the lengthy spec. of Gen. Casa on the day pro- vious, in which a most scathing rebuke was adrainis. tered tothe former gentleman for permitting him self to be out-generalled by Sir Henry Balwer in the negotiation of the treaty for we settlement of the CentraljAmerican difficulties between t tnd Great Britain. While nm the be as well to direct altenti published, fiom Lora Clarendon, Minister Crampton, and Secretary Marcy. These letters will greatly essist in lightening the reader as to the nature and prisent cond about Ceutrai America; besides which Mr. } istle is par ticularly important, from the fi ot that it delves the policy of the administration with regard to this matter. The President yesterday transmitted to the House of Representatives a roass of correspondence Ye- lating to the instructions issued to our naval offivers engaged in the protection of the American fisver- men on the British coast. Lengthy debates took place on the resolution, which was finally adopted, authorizing the printing of fity thousand copies of the Compendium of the Census, and on the Senate resolution concerning the manner in which Senators draw their pay. Judging from our specia' correepondent’s deapstch and the regular report of the proceedings, oar State legislators are preparing sufficient work to keep them busy for double the time allotted for a term—one hundzed deys— particularly if they should adhere to the old system of entering into lengthy and unno- cessary debates upon almost every measure that comes up. Like the reformers in our City Council, many wembere of the Legislature seem disposed to overbaul the transactions of the late and present de mocratic members of the State administration, and it ia probabie that much time will also be consamed in ferreting out and bi ’ ces and peccadilices of ye Secretary of War, at 3 country abject, it may 2 to the lette eleewhere 1 a jon of the dispute the Come one, come all—“To the victors belong the spoils.”’ We have already given an estimate of the gross value of the spoils atthe disposal of Con- gress, in public lands, railroads, patents French claims, steamships, and contracts of various kinds, amounting to the splendid ag- gregate of five hundred millions of dollars~ all of which will come before this Congress fo adjustment and distribution. With such sup- plies atits command, it is simply impossible that the administration can fail in carrying out all its projects and all its nominatioas, espe- cially with such a Congress, and such a medley of spoils seeking cliques and parties as are now assembled at Washington, The Cabinet is a , and the lobby of the igress is a unit is a unit for The elee- vou of Forney, with bis moral and politicsl there spoil men bie fanctionaries Washington, is antecedents, the failure to make the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury subject to the judgment of the Senate, the failure of Mr. Cut- ting concerning the dissmissal of Bronson, are all of the same piece of harmony and conces- sion for the spoils, The + cobe-ive power of the publie plunder” is paramount, and must be till the plunder is exhausted. In this view we are not surprised to “hear from competent authority at Washington, that all the measures and all the executive ap- pointments to office, from Collector Redfield to the Consul at London—from Belmont to the end of the chapter—filibusteroes, Jews, and socialists, avd all— are to be confirmed, because it is not lawful to look behind the record when the spoils are before it. The single. solitary act of independence of the Senate, in the elec- tion of Beverly Tucker as their printer, ap- pears to have closed up the ranks of the spoils- mencn all sides; and so the Senate bave laid dowa their arms. We are even told that the debris of the late whig party bave lost the last rag of their ancient prestige, and are in for a share o! the epoils. The game is Jarge, for the stakes are tremendous. The admiuistratioa—the chief lobby agent outside of Congress —!s the efficient manager within. Five hundred millions of dollars against the defunct ciples of the compromise, retrenchment and reform! Who can doubt the result? There must be harmony Come in to the carnival of the on oll sides, poils. Close up in solid columa. The trea- sury is running over—the people are flush of money—let Californian gold and Southern cotton foot the bills, “To the vietors belong ie President, in his message, has hinted ibat these patent rights should not be disre garded; and Congress are acting accordingly. The Pacific Railroud companies construe the sage into a recomme otie enterprise, and so the Senate have name astrong committee of nine to report a bill. Other railroad land schemes will follow, and som as passed Wall strect will be gorged with their stoc and greedy speculation and swindling will he rampant over the land. In the micantime, the ageuts of the lobby will ga- ther about the Capit. 1, not with fire and sword, consuming all before them, like the Goths and Vandals, but with hampers of champagne and carloads of Jux s, they will gather in. Cun- 0 the oyster suppers * s and routes and parties. will signalise the carnival for the spoils. The Pre- ident will be eulogised on all occasions, the net glorified, and the sp: en of Congress, whether for railroads, or steamships, or gutta- percha, or patents, or miscellaneous contracts, will be exalted to the seventh heaven; for the game is splendid. and the stakes are millions upon millions of the spoils. Such will be the real programme of the pre- sent Congress—such is the real basis of th treaty of peace and allfance between the Cat net, the two houses, and the lobby. But in order to amuse the people, a tub now and then will be thrown out to the’ whale. We chali bave tremendous debates of windy verbi- age on Central America—prodigious karangaes for Buncombe on Mexico and “manifest desti- ny’’—patriotic cbullitions of gas upon tke Kozsta case—old specehes revamped to order on the tariff question—and generous homilies on the homestead bill, and what not; but with every decline in the tide. the shell fish, left high and dry, will be gathered by the spoilsmen. All the old party lines are brokea down—all the old party divisions are brokenup. Itis a free carnival-—a general scramble, a matuat ! g game of give and take, a boly al- lience for the plunder all round. Joia hands— ic, there—let the du ue There is something sublime in the prospect thus opened before us—something positively sublime, There are no principles at stake to trouble us. The track is clear. The Southern secessionists and Northern free soilers are hand and glove in Congress, in the Cabinet and in the lobby. It is the era of good feeling revived—good feel ing for the five hundred millions of the public plunder. Never bave we had, ia th this or any other country, such a sp pect for the spoilsmen—never. Like Napo- leon, this epoch will staud in history by itselt. “grand, gloomy, and peculiar.” with a tou the sublime. The end, or the beginving of the end, will probably be millions tor patents, mil lions for steamships, milli for contracts and claims, and millions upon millions for railroads, and un amnesty to all purties and all factions, upon the broad and general platform of the spoils. But as reaction is the law of nature, of na- tions and of politics, we may expect in a year or two the gathering of such a storm of public odium and indignation against the spoilsemenas will realize in 1856 the sweeping judgment of 1840, upon the administration, upon Congress, and sll concerned. In the meantime. let the work go on. The ball is opened. The coalition is complete. “To the victors belong the spoils.” ation of that Q as Cabit ogre ce beg RETALIATION AGAINST Erte.—We notice that Mr. Senator Dickinson has introduced juto the State Senate a bill to prohibit the construction of any railroad track in New York to connect with any Pevnsylyania road within fifty miles of Evie, until the Erie Rioters have submitted to the uniform gauge. We sce likewise that a number of merchants and traders here announce to their Western customers their intention of transmitting their goods to Ohio via Baltimore and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, so as to avoid Pennsylvania altogether. These measures are styled measures of * just retaliation.” We regard them as on a par with the proceeding of the ancient wiseacre who, having just grounds of complaint against his own face, amputated his nasal organ out ofrevenge. Neither New York nor her merchavts will gain anything by depriving themselves of a railway, or sending their goods to the West by the longest route, ia order to punish Pennsylvania. The proper mode of proceeding is to bring the people of Erie and the speculators and politicians of Phi. ladelphia to their senses—a consummation which has already been more than half attained, as we perceive the Erie rioters have agreed to a treaty of peace with the railroad company. APreatine to THE Prorie.—We sce that the Maine law menat Albany talk about passing a law to prohibit the sale of liquors, and appeal- ing to the people afterwards to ratify or dis. allow it. This is sheer cowardice—skulkipg an issue for want of moral courage to meet it, If the people want a prohibitory law, they will ain the Legislature in passing it. If they do not want such a law, they will very soon cleet anew Legislature to repeal it; and no Nlame could be attached to the preseut mem- bers for exercising their functions to the best of tect Juagment penple are all stuil, wud willy, Appedis to tue Lrutelity of the New York Press. The articles given clsewhere, from, the Ex- press and the Times, are well worth a little coneideration, They were provoked by a letter from a railroad agent, complaining that these two journels—one of which cireulates twenty- three thousand, the other twenty-five handred popers, or, perbaps, a few more—charged for his advertisement more than twice as much as the Herarp, which circulates nearly fifty thou- saud papers. Suchacharge might naturally try the temper of our cotemporaries, It is well known to business men that, while in well regulated offices a uniform seale of prices for advertising is established and pursued, alike towards rich and poor, the tax levied by the Times and Evpress on advertisers is always proportioned to the supposed ignorance or liberality of their customer. A shrewd indi- vidual will procure the insertion of an adver- tisement in either for an iacredibly small sum; but a rich company, or a Western agent who is rtpposed to be “green,” is freely bled. Oar correspondent’s letter throws some light on this black mail system, and the culprits excul- pate themselves from the charge in the articles we now republich, The line of defence adopted is peculiar, though by no means original. The Times, accused by a railroad agent of extort- ing money froma Western railway, pleads, ia justifeation, we presume, that the Heratp is the organ of “proiligates, prostitutes aud quick doctors.’ The Express, placed in the dock on 1 similar indictment, also justifies itself, by as- certing that “Mr.Bennett never earned enough to have a home to shelter him’--that “what he as is mortgaged all over head and heels’— hat “he has had inflicted upon him kicks, cafts, aud bruises all over the body”’—that “he has not on his body a whole spot of skin left him that some rough-shod heel or huge paw has pot violated”’—that be displays “ogre-like de- formity,” &c., &e. Tow far these amiable com- pliments excuse the Times and the Expross for taking advantage of the simplicity of a Western railroad agent to impose and levy black mail upon him, the public may judge. Yor cur part. we candidly confess that were every one ofthe ridiculous columnics true, we should still be ata loss to conceive how they can constitutes defence for our cotemporaries. The accusation of the railread agent remains unanswered; and until some more plausible au- swer is made, the Times and Express must be deemed guilty of an offence which can hardly be distinguished from swindliag. Their replies are noteworthy in another point of view. They are couched in laaguage which if uttered by word-of-mouth would necessarily involve the expulsion of the speaker from any respectable house in the city. No public as- sembly could sit and listen to such language. No father ofa family would allow it to be used in his house. No gentleman would associate with one habitually given to express himself thus. And yet these two journals, cluiming a peculiarly select, refined, and respectable circu- lation, write thus day after day, heap obscene epithets on coarse invective, cull from the die- tionary all those terms, which common consent has ostracised, and occasionally serve up a dish of abuse which, for filth and infamy, would make a fishwoman pale with envy. The same is true of the Tribune. Billingsgate would have re-echoed with approving shouts, could the writer of the Tridunc article on the Fry ver- diet bave resd it in open market. Now, what is the net result of this? Do any of the silly people who write this coarse trash fancy that it injures us? A visit to their acquaintance will soon disabuse them if they do. They can learn anywhere that the cutside public takes not a particle of iaterest in editors’ squabbles, and invariably attributes abuse of one paper by another to the trae cause ~—business rivalry. We think we may safely say that we have endured a larger aggregate of calumny and vituperation than any other jour- nalin the country; and yet has it made the slightest difference, either as regards the paper or its editor? It must not be supposed, however, that this style of literature brings forth no fruits. It may not tellin the way the writers desire; but it is by no means barren on that account. You may find its fruits here—when men of character and standing in private society allude to the press in contemptuous terms, reasoning naturally enough that those addicted to the use of such language as that of the Express and Tribune, cannot be the equals of geatlemen. Yon find them abroad, when the English journals refer with indulgent pity to the degraded tone of the American pres --when the Times kindly advi- ses the United States to “try the experiment” of having gentlemen to conduct its newspapers —when travellers wonder that so intelligent a people should be so ill represeuted by their pe- riodical literature—when Santa Anna and other foreigners who have had no other oppor- tunity of judging of us--read our journals and call us “half civilized barbarians.” These are the fruits of the coarse language too fre. quently used here in newspaper polemics. They are or ought to be galling to every man connected with journalism, The public cannot remedy the evil. It must have news; and will still read where it cannot approve. It may testify its opinion by transferring the bulk of its patronage to journals which do not offend its taste by indecencies. But no one or two papers can satisfy the demands of a large read- ing comrvunity like this. The cure lies with the writers alone. When they shall have learnt that to gloat over brutal assaults on an edi- tor’s pereon is to degrade oneself beneath the ruff'an leyel—that coarse terms add no strength to invective—ihat personal calumny neither injures its object nor benefits its utterer nor pleases the public—then gentlemen will not need toblush that they belong to the profes- sion of journalism in America. But not till then. Tux Cotor 1s Everyrainc.—Our benevolent cotemporary, the Journal of Commerce, is eternally engaged in soliciting alms and col- lecting money for this or that black man, or black woman, or black family. Did any in- quisitive individual ever detect the Journal in the act of exercising benevolence towards an unhappy white man, woman, or family ? Mysreniovs Bequest.—Such is Dr. Nott’s be- quest of $600,000 for the benefit of the Union College, at Schenectady. No one seems to know how the deceased realized such a fortune as would enable him to make such a bequest. Canvanybody tell? Sovruery Fronkins.—This name is now gene- rally applied to those journals and politicians which, for the sake of office and emolument, support the free soil proclivities of Marcy aad his*colleagues. The new Governor and Lieatecant Governor of Texas, were insegusated at Austin om the Zist alt, ‘Walliack’s Thentre.- Two New Pieces. Last evening were played two now pieces, fresh from the Lonéon bearte, The first ism comedy, ia three acts wri ten, we believe by Mr Tom Taylor for the Lyceum, acd celled “A Bachelor cf Arts,” Tue clef charsct r Mr, Barry Jarper, (Lenter,) a man of fehion, who bys exhansted ell the pleasures of London life, end is looking for emi thing new, whee he finds en advertisement fecm Mr Thornton, (Dyott,) a retired merchant, wh» desires a ‘tutor, who must be & Bachelor of Arts,” for a “boy of eighteen” Jaeper applies for toe place, and, mach to hiv surprise, is engaged. Mr, Thornton is goloz to Liver pool, and he leares the care cf his femily in the hands of Jasper, who, overcome by this mark of eonf dence, premises to take good care of them. I: ap pears that Jasper's fatber, who resijea at Liverpo.) ja an cld {mend of Toornton’s, and has weittea ty him, telling him if he meets his son to help hia, Jesper finds that the ‘“boy,’? Adolpbus Taventoa, (Vineent,) ia the visti of Adderly, (Rayne Lis whom kee Jove to Mra. Tho nton, and who endeavors to bring about awarriags between the con nnd a cest-cif mistress » Miss Mount stewart. He slo ascertains that oue David Wylie (L. Tuompson,) a meney lender, has ia his pa fetsion a Lill forged by Mr. Thornton's father, aad thet ty mears of this eecrat he draws from the son of the forger on annuity. By a ssies of wellarsanged mances vres, Jarper succeeds in exposing the villany of Adderly acd Wylie, ard getting posession of the bill, The pieos occupies two houre and a 4 entation, and bas but one fault; There is too manok taik in it for the strength of tue plot. The sitastioas are good; the char. acters pretty weil drawn, although nll ihe weight of the Flece ison the sbonldersof Jasper, and the dialogue is generally plosrant and sometines witty. The piece war well noted. Mr. Lester ceresyes high praise for the casi taletyle in which he played Jape, amd tome portions of bis cronten scene wee inimitable, Mr. Taompson over acted the chaincter «f Wylls bat made several fas points, Mr. Dyott should bave given us more fxi- viduality in bis rendering of Mr, Thornton; be bes played teo or thes “old men? recently and, although the characters are disfastire, he dvesscs Smakes np’? snd playa there all alike. Mr, Vinosot very well with the partof Young Thornton, ani Mr. ¥. Chipperdale’s Mattbew was a good Ittls bits f acting Mrs. Conover and Mrs. Stephens had charac.ersof w great importance, but msde the mest of thea, Té oenery acd mountiog of the pieos was got, a2 they al waysareatthis house, Tuo play was quite successful, acd Mr. Lester being called ont, announced it for repesti- tion thie eveniog Mr. Thomas Norton’s last new fares, “A Pretty Piose of Burisers,”’ first played at the Haymarket, Nov. 13 1858, was alo payed. Annexed is» sketch of the plot:— Mies Charlotte Shee (Mrs Stephens) bas purchased a Lodge at St John’s Wood at she equest of ber lover, Capt. Merryweather, % A. (Mr, Brougham,) to waom the expects toon to be cuarrind Just aa che gets qiisvia her new quarters, she receives a letier from her suitor, stating that bia ratore home must be postponed for three montcr, end while contemp'ating the disappoiatmect oa hiv eerly arrival, he recatves a visit from ber friead Farny y,' (Mrs. Cmeay) & cbarmiag yonog widow, avd her own brother Launoolot, a pbysictan, (Walsét.) Mira Shee informe her friend Ranry trat ner orctauer is greatly adcicted towrdravs to engage his of his grief. She assente, but i win bis heart, beeause she torarce ap unknown fri ‘fe Wheo she bed failen from # Boulogna peoket into the see, sie Geautley, to better try the expsrinent, pro poses to appear the mistress of the house, aud to roc-ive Tauncelot alone Ske uncer .skea io play ber part, whos itappeats that the Captsiv’s letter, cignifyicg hia de vention for three months, ir only a ruse aac that ia real ity he bad alceady reacted London, Ths Captain arriver at the L. dye first, whea the W dow Grantley. tektwg him for Mr, Shee, coamerce: to carry ou! her part, by mak ing Jovetearfally towards bia He intimates taat a4 sue is a Boe widow. snd as toe Cop ain is not expectel hone for three Monthy thashe wilitike up his qasrters at the Ledge, which camtes grest ciflicalty, Leureslot Shoe arrives, antin the course of conversation, Mrs. G aatlay Tecogeites in bim the geatiewan who had saved har lite, ané ap exp enztion takes place on the part of Misa Shae, when sil parties are made happy by 1wo weddings closing the reene The rituations arc not new, but tbe dialogue ts emart, and the characters were eo well acted that the piece was extirely Fuecersfal, Mr. Walcot’s rendering of the bash- ful suivor was capital. The “Pretty Piece of Basfness’ is to be played again to night. Broadway Theatre—The Cataract of the Ganges. ‘The equestrian drama of tie ‘ Cataract of the Ganges,” nov in the third week of ite revival at the Broad way thes tre, has met with the mos‘ fisttering success, aad bid fair to have quite as great 2 :un as on the occasion of its first reprceentation in this city on the boards of “Old Drury.” Last night, in spite of the deluge ithou’, the cataract within lost rons of its attractions, but (ischarged ite “real water” to the satiofac ion of # house filled from parquette todems, Though we have already giren a ay vopels of the play, perhaps a briof recapttula beoutof place. The plot if plot it caa be ca lei, slender enough. Iam Saheb, R:jah of Guzarat, (Hower. is posseeeed of am only child, = By ths lw cf his mation—the Jabrejihs—all female foe sre condemned to ke summarily put to deata, M ved, however, by the prayers of the dying mother, he consents to rave her life, though a! the peril of his own, by the concealment of her sex, and accordicgly causes her to be educated asa boy, and the heir to his throne. At the time of the opening of the play this child, (Matame Ponisi,) has attired the years of manhood. The Eaperor of Delhi (Mathews) at this time declares war agaiast ths Rajah, who is forced to depart, committing his deughter asasacted trust to Iran, ( sanergen,) « young Bialoo warrior in the service of the Rsjah. In the mesutim: Makarra, # Bramin of the Jahrejah tribe, (Conway,) is ea trnsted with the sole management of affsics duriag his absence. Alter the lapse cf several months pence is offered to the head of the provicce of Guzerat, on ecn- dition that Zam ine, the Rojch’s daughter, eli wed the fon of Ackbar, Emperor of Delhi, Mkarra, in parsasnee of bit own plans of self eegrandizement, assames the re sponpibility of accepting the terms during the Rujah’s ad- esnce. Zamixe attempts resistarce to the tyreat’s order, butin vain. The ceremony is about to be performed, when, at the crifical moment, the father returos, forses ‘&® paseago through the crowd, and, driven to the Jas! re fort, confesses the fatal secret, and proclaims the sex 0; hie child. By law the lives of both should be forfeited for the deception, but the Brahmin offers hfe to the fa ther on condition thet Zamice should be yielded np av a Propitiatory meri tee to Juggeraaut. The offer is rejeo'sd, but Mokarra, resslved that his prey rhall mot escaps kim; carrics her off by force, no:withstanding the resistance of iran, aided by Colone] Mords unt, an English ¢ fiesr feion ily tothe Rajah (Pope) and their emall party. In the secoai act we are introduced to the sanctuary 0’ Brahms. Mo- harra bere throws off the mask of sanctity and proposes marriage to Zamine, but is refuse’, Imagining himself secure he drinks to excess and falls into a deep slamber. Meantime Zemine, aided by Mordaunt’s servant, Jack Rodinon, (Davidge,) who has been concealed in the ap- partment, attempts ercape, and finally, through the op portune srrivel of Iram, sacceeds. Ths third act termi mates with a general combat in the neiyhdorhood of the terrific cataract, inthe midst of which » gallant stesd, bearing cn his back a rider: upposed to be Zumina, dashes up the sivep ascent. The death struggles of the Brah- min, who has received ® deadiy wound ia the affray, and the succeeeirg tableau close the avene, In pleces of this kind, which depend msinly on scenic eflect for their inverest, it is bardly just to criticise the dialogue clorely, The ‘ Cataract of the Ganges” is nel- ther much before sor b biad the average of prodactions of this description im this particular. Certainly the syeeches Put intothe mouths of the primsfpal char: acters possess no very startling originality, but the rmart Cinlegues between Mordsont’s servant, Robintoa, and Ubra, Iran's elster, (Miss Gougenheia,) are not destitute of cleverness. The characters for the most part were well eustained, Mr, Conway, as Mokarra, did as much with his pert ss the poverty of the language would admit, and his “make up’ was exoellen in gmeral, thongh we -ere not previously aware that patent leather gaiters formed a necessary item in the costume of a Grand Brabmin, Madame Poniei was quite respectable in the character of Zamine, Messrs, Pope, Lannergan, Howard, and the remainder of the corps dramatique acquitted themselves with various cogrees of abihty. The fun of the piese is supplied almost entirely by the two last mentioned personages. Davidge, as Jack Robia- son, has great y improved. His actiog last evening was more subdued than usual, and the character, really one of the most conspicuous ia the piece, though connected but slightly with the main plot received fall jastice. The pretty and spiritucile Mise Gougecheim, as Ubre, was excel'ent, as usval. The Hippodrome horses have now become accustomed to their novel duties, and the proces- sions go cf admirably. The cataract has been mach Im- proved Ins ygeee to its ap me the increased flow of er makes it really pectzcls. Upen the bole, the piece, ia it innova Ssiios wiluriebly repsy @ riei!, aad will doubtless keep poswes- won of the metropolitan tage for several weeks to come. melancholy, and bega her stiops, aud win binnfrom ten’ inet ahe con nevor strong predisponition 1 who ouce muvad her Naval Intelligence. Tr ie stated that by a new mail arrangement le‘ters in- tenced for the Pensacola Navy Yard, must ba aldresed, “Navy Yard, Werrington, E-cambia oounty, Fla,” io tend of “Navy Yard, Pemsazcis,” oa /ormerly, MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS» orriciat.. Stated Session. Hoann oF ALurnaen, Jan 12, 185. eg, Peentiate Atéetaoe. | 4, foffatrs. Howard, Wood Boactman’ Wake or’, Merttek, C, the foll wang ma the aoe saad ‘sideraen Ohsisty, Chauncey, and’ nd? Sciences ~Aliermen Williamson, Woodward, and) | 9-4 lderman Mott, Blant treets—> 4 chris Ferries 21 aon Voor Finouce nn Chau € «partment-Aidamen’ W, Tack gad Goverk, a Horrick. i Boariman, ang r eink cmmiitee on decousts ~12ermen WiMlinacon, Woo. "6 rot wt my “Late Department ~lilerman Wake nan, Barkews ve: a0» Teowbridee, Blunt, Orcinances * 4 vison Lord, Wakeeras Police A dev _ Pblic Health * Public Buildings on Bluckwell’s Island, Randall's Island, and Bellevue Aatublishment — aldeimen U, as. Puower, Voor Y Ayueduct—Aldermen Channety, C. H. Tackor, aad: ond Gas—Aldernen Biaut, Horrioy, and Wiliams Mott and Lora loftmmiro, nd Yoo bin, n Boardaan’ Wakemsn. ‘aad 0. 1, Vagkos, Aderuan Urown, 120 bridge, sud Board: o Rifai a tegetie—stternen Draks, W. Tooker, ang Fords Atverm on Wakeman, Mats, ard W. Tnekor. Batre ‘and Offices ~aideruen W. Tucksr, Boduize, and Aléormen C. 1 Bede wie brea “fam Sire alvermen Dra Whcites Piers and Slips “Aldermen Boardman, Take, bun eve t Siverwan HOwARD declined upon wiie) the Peotdent bat pl On wetin o side Committee wre anno ‘We mipures of the ects g wee read aud approved. VeTITE NS. By Alde- san Cxauncxy—Vstition of Audcow Tl Sanda, te Moap ol.tec m Comaiaorcr cf Deoas Po Uommister of Sainries sid Othe B Petition of J. H. Olmstead, + da a th ea er of Deeds ‘fv C 1omittes on Sa nue, an additional Seonding don Kalronda. nm iss Petition ot Wm. Tallmage, to be eede To Comaitieo on be same m iv cher of Ones Ky ptaerme be xpp inte larien enc fy ¢leermon Cuaun be sprel ter Commisstorer of Beds. iy lnries 3d Ctlie By the wave Cor mi..oc er ot Deeds. fern Py to same —"etition of Franklin H, Chorchilh to bs ap- poued (ommesoner of Deeds, Zo Uemmittes va Saisriog and Uft e Petition of Wook a: d Laddir Compyay No, sell placed ia the Latiing Obs )-rstory, cu Fire Deps shin st o— Vet tt a of “bi gi Company No. 16, to have ell paged in 9 ing Obsxvatozy fo Com- © Lepa ‘ment --Pettioa ef Hose Com piny No % sd Hoss ell plas 0 Late 1B conlaca iat te 02 Fire Department. ~Fevition of Ardcey H Mitchell, ter correc od. To Commistes on Fira reco! beeds. ‘fo Co amittca on Sa Petition of John Sedgwiet, to Conmittse oa Ba. otitten ef Juhn A. Preter, to bs acpotated To J wmittee on Salaries sad ut a mitren « by (he rawe Compe y Re di \o have w ting vbeervat ry. n Cuaurcry —Petition of Ex obave® ir a aro boli p sced in the vatory. Jv Ccromitiee on WAKEMAN. —P* issioner of Deels iaxt —Petitioa of Jamos W, Walsh ts havo evrp ive mepicw rew in tre banda ct Phowas Usruley, late ‘Vo Committee on Flusnee. By clderman Waksxax—Letii n of Engine Co. 45 fora py house. ‘to C im ttes on Fire Department, By tie Persipent—Petition of J. 1, Coddington for eo rechoner tx 4 Committe: on Finenea, fyal eroan WakyMas—Poti joa of U. B. Whoelee ty be mthiseione: of Deces. To Committes on Sala ‘M_W. Divine to b> appointed s Gommie- To Comuttea on Salagies aud fo Ty slderman 1RownainGe—Tetition of kd ‘A Hrasoe to be rppointed * Commissioner of Deets, To ree Sutton on Se’arive oud + Mi ine Company abel. g Obrer~ Wm. Bravton, to To Commitice on Sax Torice sie otrance cf Henry Hays sn@ eer in Suffvlk street, betwosa, To Committee ox Sewors. Petidos of Biwia R Bo ‘Fo Come iv! By oi derman WAKEMAS to be appoiited a Commissioner of Deeds. Eala ies ane Offices, RESOLUTIONS. By alderman Morr—Keectved, That Napoleon B, M forthe and he iw hereby, appointed Commirsioner of Deets for the erty aud ecuaty of New York, in the eof Chariso d, duc ared AGopted on division, viz. ruative Aldermen W:llismeon, Blaat Baird, Hott. Hoverd Woodward, William Tuoker, Vourhis, Trow. jonrdman, Wakeman, Covert, Katy, Channosy, Wr vident, Aldermen Lord, ‘hiveriok, G Teker’ wett Drake—2h By 4) ¢ ma cay - Resolved, That 8m th B. Lang be, ano he 1} ppointed a Commissioner of Deeds ani fir the ci unty of New York, in the place an stad f Wi ede, wheas term of office hag expired. jee aad Offices, dn the city sua county of New Derby in the piece and seed of eLavghiin, whose tera ot office haa expired. To ios and vflices, ‘ey~-Resulved, That John D. Skid more be, and he is appointed a Commissioner of Devs i acd forth county of New kerk, ia the ince ag rtead of B njamia J Fonte, whose terms of offs ae +apized. ‘To Committee cn Salaries and Ufises. by alderman Cnavncey~ Kesclved, abatdooiu &.F, Kelly Bo. suc heis / ereby, oppeinted a Comumissioncr of Deeds 14 andr tie city aud evunti ex York, ix the piaea and term of ‘office hss oxpieed. ‘OMoos. clved, That the Vommiain immodiat ty t> cause Cf Streets sud Lamps o9 ire caves wa hein ahe Pours ward to beclesred of ive an: ape trerame leveled in tho « rience of ve iclea, and tho ashes removed, ant the expentes thereot charged to the contractor. fo Cuumittoo on Ulsi ba htrects By alderman Roarnaan —Kes Lvod, tha\ the Commlasion- trot Str ete and Lemps be required $9 {arnish t) ths Board * gepy of the acviral contracts for cleaning atree +. Alaprad By ¢iderman Buuxr—Resolved, That Thos 4. Haat be, anc bets hereby, x ppoiuted » Com minsioaer of Dovds for tas city ard county of New York, To Comaisiee on Salarios and Moen wn, sli iy the eame—Whereas, within the part year thosalaries of ny. flicers in the eitwent depareucntsof the Corporation ¢ beon reatly increased by tle late Board of Commo. ive heCorptreiler be, and is horeb: cd to repert to,this Board, At sa carly day, all ss ioe thas have bs ‘ea ed sinoe what th ealaey of it th: aries now are, chch onehias beem Increased with Whether ia his opigion said ia: how much the tixes must bo increase of salaries, Whioh the slewing pevem die nd reso- ard of Ar oe Aldermen Vo- acopted byt ¢ Board of Aldermen Novem- of the Hudson River Railroad Com- rage to the travel on the line of ie treet to Thirty-tirst stroet, j eit cnuelog 1a meres injury to the tealie in breaksee of vo ici while cro: said rails, y dangerive human lie by the reckless manner ia waieh th therefore be it reso. son River Railroad Com te rasta Hudson orai streets, (or be con By the seme—Wreros: luvion were jnesed ty t tober *pimilar to tbo the Harlem Railroad Cemprny: sud i; atthe nu Keilroad Company in eight wonths from the ease of their failing to comply Rissioner Ve, abd fh of rai? track trom OC} street im Like treet by Fequited w com iste the eame of ths resolut.oa; and im vrein, that the Com- nt is hereby atm to pew ay = rails art) repair st the street sae % seni as adopted. “a ee in" CHAUNCEY—Reselved, ‘That th Pelvee besequestet, Surepert te thas Board ohetocet re, tons in the sorvice ef the Pelion De viilorm (ree ake ~Retolved, th +f eS Ly oan ot pat he nae a bor Sy perpcons aad by what RESIGNATION, By Alderman Brvxt—Kovignation of R Con missioner of Deeds. John lace of vig Aldermen Brown, Williamson, Hefeire, How'd, Woodward, 'W. Tacke bide, Boardman, Wakeman, Covert, hristy, Biaat, Baird, Voornis, coy, aity, Chi Haris G LY id the ram hols oa the Sabbash. in Boarnman—Whereas, by & rosolution of cf Aldermen an ordingnce wa passed, and bas beceme @ law, for tae op ming of of Albany sireet, feom Green et to Brom tway Whereas, it is believed that the opening cf ssid street is unaccessar for, and will ener ha» ex’ See Resolved, That joard, a of the provisions ‘aaop ed. of inity of Fourtesnth * river, of some other sritadie piace ia. ity. T> Committes on Mack ° (feted at the Inet tela Maclay 20 ies “Dy ‘alderman Lonn—Reo port the ramer and reside Longe whoue emo of «five 1 Capire dunog by alder ‘By Aidorman Waxaxan—Rerolved, Yhat the preliminace ee i#é#...44....§Be......A---.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee