The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1854, Page 4

@S8 BORDOS SESNBTD, PROPRIETOR 4ND EDITOR. TERNS, cook te adwoace, THE DAILY HERALD, 3 vente per copy—$1 per amnunn. TUB WEEKLY HERALD svery Sites lay at OQ sents pe sopy. 0” 63 per snmum; the Eurepeon per annum, fe taclute posinge ALL LETTERS by Moil for Subscriptions or lth Atver pesmpate M0 he pest grid, ov postage will be deducted from Ve money © Pied. JOB PRINTING cxeented with neatness, cheapnen, and A. WER TISEMENTS renewed every day. Coume IX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Srosdway—Incowan -Ga- om SOWBRY THEATRE, Bowory—Equesrnia™ Punronu- Amerr—Cavanacr or rue Gs BLBLO'S GARDEN, Srosdwoy— BURTON'S, Chamiers stroee—Urrae Ten arp Lowun Bwesry—Mipoy Asnone #ATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham strees Afternoon — Bqwrevrsam Penvoumavce. Bremng—Tax EQuasraian Pexvonwaxous—Cuneroy ev OF LAMMERMOOR WALLACK'S THEATRE, Sroatwav-Two ro One— Bove anv Mundex—Ovur on THE Loose. BRTROPOLITAN THEATRE, Breadway—Damon anv Pyrmiae—Goop ror Noruine. AMSRICAN MOSEUW— Afternoon -Onewan oF Gexe- Brening—Onruan or Genuva--Loar or a Loven. WOOD'S VARIETIES— mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway va. WOOW'S MINSTRELS—Minrel Hall, 444 Broadway. GASTLE GARDEN—Eovsersiaw Prnvonmanon. “New York, Wednesday, December 6, 1854. In the Senate resterdsy Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, was chosen president, by a vote of twenty feur to eleven, in place of Mr. Atchison. Nothing fusther of gexeral interest transpired. ‘The proceedings of the House are important. The retolution of Mr. Sollers, ca!ling on the President for information 1especti:g the conference of Ame rican Ministers at Ostend, wa: taken up. Mr. 8., in his remarks, said he had no’ ‘he slightest desire to stzike s blow at the administration in ite present moment of helplessress, but it was dae that the gereral curiosity of the couotry shoald be sratified relative to the subject. He trusted the Ministers did not meet for filibuster ing purpoves. If tney met Jor patriotic parposes, their proceedings ehould be made known. Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, opposed the inguiry, on the ground that it was premature. He justified the meeting of the Ministers, and cou'd see no impropriety in their conduct. The debate waa very spirited. Messrs. Grey of Kentucky, Wash- burn of Muime, Campbell of Obio, Hillyer of Georgia, Letcher ot Virginia, and Taylor of Ohio, spoke in favor of the resolutions. Meaers,Wentworth of Minois, Phillips of Alabama, Cliogman of North Carolina, MeMalien of Virgin's, aad Witte of Paan- aylvania, opposed it. Tae Hous: refased, by one majority, to send the resolution to the Committees on Foreign Relations. A resolution to reduce the duty on railroad iron, and extend credit on the same, vas offered, and promptly laid on the table by a vote of pinety-seven to forty-one. Notwe was given of bills to modify the natura tion laws, and to prohibit the enlistment of persons of foreign birth in the army, and the introduction into the country of pauper and convict emigrants. The special co n- mittee appointed io investigate charges of froid connected with the ex‘ension of the Colt pateat, ebieines leave to continue its deliberations, The reports of the Commissioner of the G +n ral the Commissioner of Patents, a ne Oowmis-ioner of Pensions, are given eleewhe eo. They are interesting documents, and should te rsd attentively. The Know Notbings are everywhere victorious, At Cambridge, Maer., on Monday, their canidid se for Mayor vas elected, and at Lawrence their entre ticket fer muntoipal offices was chosen. At Peoria, Tincie, on Monday, the Know Nothing charcer ticket was curried by over foar hundred majority. Tre Board of Ten Governors yesterday had under consideration a communication from its chairman reviewir g the condnct of the Commisstoners of Wa- jgration ia compelling the Almshouse Department to take charge of emiyrant paupers who had not been five years in the country. A resolution was adopted inviting the members of the Legislature to visit the Governors and look into the matter, and a Bpecial committee was appointed to investigate the wabject, with the view to arriving at a better know- ledge of the facte. The total number of persons in the institntion presided over by the Governors is 5690. Nothing of any particular interest was brought wp im the Board of Councilmen last evening, but a large amount of routine business was transacted, and numerous bills were passed upon in Committee of the Whole and ordered to a third reading. Our report will be found in another column. The steamship Union is now due at this port from Havre. By her we s:all receive four days later news from Euro;e. In to-dsy’s paper may be found additional par- tieulars of disasters caused by the recent unexam- pled storm. The loss of life and property on the Jakes and on the soa coast, from the St. Lawrence tothe capes of Virgiaia, bas been fearful. Tae zailroad trains east and west have been greatly ob- structed during the last three days, but they have mew resumed sometbing of their usual regularicy. ‘The telegraph wires have suffered considerably. For some days communication with the South has been carried on over one wire only. An important suit for trespass was tried in the Bapreme Court, and resulted yesterday in a verdict of $2,000 for the plaintiff. It was the case of Mra. Mary Jane Watson against Adelioe Schermerhorn,tor digging under her p:emises in Warren street, and ‘Rhereby unceremovionsly ousting her ‘rom pcsses- won, Tais verdict. which is a most exemplary one, ‘will teach parties that in making improvements tor Mhemeclves they must not injare their next door neighbors. The news schooner Wanderer, belonging to the Aseociated Press of this city,is a wreck. She was Griven eshore at the Horee Shoe on Monday night, da the gale, and will be a total loss. The Wanderer was about twenty tons burthen, and was once a pleasure yacht, owned by * son of Sir John Harvey, vwte Governor of Nova Scotia. She was purchased Dy the Associates Press of New York to crurse off Halifex, to intercept the Coilins and Cunard steam- ‘ern as they passed that port. She was then broaght ‘t) this city, and hes been used in connection with ‘be Bandy Hook telegraph. We found her very ‘wefal, and regret ber loes. Flour so'd to o fair extent yesterday, withoat obange of moment in prices, Canada white wheat aold,in bond, at $185, and at $215, duty paid; Southern red, $i 92, and Western red, for export, et $1.85 8 $195. Corn was firmer, with free sales, losing a: Sle. for Wostern mixed, 92c. fur old Bouthern yellow, and Sic. tor New Jersey do. Hye wold at $1 384, and Western oats at 55c. Pork was ‘firm, with small sales of mess at $15 75, while deal- ers asked $14; prime sold at $12 25. Beef was firm, with moderate sales. About 800 a 1,000 bales of cotton were sold, chiefly for export. The market closed rather easier for same g-ades. Freights con- ‘tinued in good demand for England, and 1,500 bales of cotton, with grain and other produce, were taken Tor Liverpool, and 5,000 bushels wheat and 300 balos of hops for London. Two vessels were engaged to | Wood st Chincha Islands with guano for Valerc.a, | Bpain, at £5 per ton. The supply of sterling bills was very abundant | yesterday, and rates were periously depressed. A | forced vale of produce bilis of good standiog was | made at 106}, and other first class bills of tha: kiod | were sold at 107. The general range was at 1070 208) The highest sales reoorted of banker's bills sre at 1084, and the very highest asked was 108j, vil of which were below the specie abipping point re ees Tho Treasury Report—Financtul Condition | government, desiznate] 'o visit the several Kaneas City, in which » man named Davis, from | upon » Jarger ecale, and for the embitious and of the United States. We cannot dwel! too long on the uoparalleled condition of our national finances, nor prove adequately graeful to Providence for the ex- | treoroinary prosperity they indicate. While the national debdt of Eog and is four thousaad wil jops, or one hundred aod fifty dollars per head of her population ; that of France twelve | hundred millions, or ovr thirty dollars per bead; tbat of Austria nearly one thousaad milions, or twenty-five dollars per head ; that of Spain about eleven hundred millions, or one bondred do)lars per hyad ; and that of Russia reven hundred millions, or en dollars per head, | our national indebtedness falls short of forty- five millions of dollars, and would be discharged by a tax of one dollar aad three-qaarters per bead of the population of the United States. | Agaip, while Eogland and France are moving beaven and earth to obtain fresh loans, while Spain is preparing for inevitable bavkruptcy, while Austria is endeavoring by dint of arbi- trary laws to compel her citizens to take her trashy paper money, and Russia is employing Mr. Belmont to raise @ loan in Holland, the United States governmen is baying up its owo eccurities at & premium 0! twenty-one per cent, an. Congress is earnestiy adjnred to take some measures to check the accumalation of money | in the treasury. These are facts startling in themselves and upparalleled in bistery. If any nation of past times bad occupied the position that we do, the chances are that it would bave conquered the world, The genius of this age is pacific: it remains to be seen whether abounding wealth be not fraught with as much danger as national penury. Corrup- tion it is sure to bring in its train; witness the Gadsden treaty, the frauds in the north- erm custom-houses, the lobby, and the patent and ra Jroad bills. Whether other and greater evils ure to follow, a very short while will tell. Certain it is that, with such an overflowing Tieasury apd increasing revenue as ours, financial skili is a luxury with which the coun- try seems able to dispense. Mr. Guthrie, aa honest practical man, who is so little of a financier that he bays up the United S:ates acceptances before their maturity at tweaty- one per cent premium, thus returaing besides the interest $121 for every $100 advanced to the nation, minages the Treasury in such a way as to leave little room for censure. He has, in fact, nothing todo but to receive the coin, pay it ont, and recreate his official eyes over the pleasant spectacle of a constantly in- creasing surplus. King Log would have made a capital Secr: tary of the Treasury at the pre- sent time. Mr. Guthrie earnestly recommends in his report that “the revenue from the customs be reduced so that no more money shali be received into the Treasury than is re- quired for an economical administration of the government.” In this suggestion all but incurable protectionists will concur. Fortunately for the country, the number of those who advocate the taxation of the whole people for the benefit of a few privileged class- es has now become almost insignificaut. In face of the broad fact that the public revenue exceeds the expenditure by twenty millions of delays, nine men out of ten will approve tie reduction of that revenue in the only way in which a reduction can be made—namely, by sbolishing or lightening the taxes, Mr. Grath- rie’s scheme for remodelling the tariff was considered in these columns twelve mouths ayo, avd there appears little to be added to what was then said of its merits. The few alterations which have been since adopted by the department are in accordance with the views expressed by this journal. That the free list should be made as large as poseibie, and that the duties on sumptuary articles should be fixed at 40 instead of 25 per cent as origin- ally proposed, will not be denied by any en- lightened economist: With regard to wool, the statistics furnished by the report of the Trea- sury afford strong reasons for arguing that the coarser as well as the finer qualities should be admitted free of duty. The annual consump- tion of wool amounts to 300,000,000 lbs., of which only 60,000,000 Ibs. are produced in this country ; on what ground is it sought to retaiu a tax which must be so onerous? As we un- derstand the repert, it is the intention of the Department to include salt, tea aud coffee in the free list. To this we trnst that coal may be added in committee. All articles of general consumption should pay as little as the wants of the government will allow. Reciprocity with the British pro- vinces will answer the came effect as free trade in some cases, as in lumber, and some deacrip- tions of coal. But it will not suffice alone. Canada cannot supply over one fortieth the de- mar d for unmanufectured wools. The balance in the Treasury at the close of the last fiscal year was upwards of twenty-one millions. It now amounts, we believe, to some- thing like twenty-seven. This is just thirty- one millions less tban it should contain. With- in the past year seven millions of gold have been abstracted from the public coffers on the frivolous pretext of purchasing land from Mexi- co, but in fact to enuble Santa Anna to estab- Vish a despotism on our southern borders; aud three more are to follow as soon as the bound- ary Jine is drawn. Twenty-four millions and upwards haye been spent in purchasing twenty millions worth of tae public debt. There was no necessity for this purchase. The credit of the State was good. No new loans were re- quired. No creditor pressed for payment; on the contrary the holders of government securi- ties refused to part with them lower than tweu- ty-one per cent premium. The fact was the administration, like any country farmer, have an idea that debt is @ horrible thing, and that the State should pay its debts off as soon as possible. Hence three millions of dollars have been absolutely thrown away, and from these various causes, the Treasury balance instead of being fifty-eight millions is only twenty-seven. We have now one suggestion to make to Congress. The very first examination made of the accounts of the Collectors of Cussoms has brought to light four defulcations, some of which were for very large amounts. While the spirit of corruption is abroad, it would be well to ascertain the condition of the various sub treasury vaulis. The gentlemen who con- trol these treasure chests certify that such and such sums are in their hands; bat 80 did the Collectors who helpe: themeelves to the public money. In these times, 8 man who bas under his control a million or more in gold may easily make a forvane by using it; the tempta- tion is very great, So great in fact that Con- gress is bound in justice to the nation to take steps to ascertain the truth of the enb-treasury reports, A committee sould be appointed, acd respectable persons, unconnected with the sub-treseories, and actnaly ¢ unt the gold , | therein, The least benefit that would acerue | | from this precaution wonld be a geseral diffa- | sion of confidence, and a cessation of the inju- } rious doubts which are being freely expressed — | in cer tain quarter-. | Tae Kxyow Normines—Cuniovs Doines IN | Now Yorx—Danoer Aneap.—We poblish to- | day, from ove of the Seward organs, a docu- | ment purporting to be an “official report” of the | “proceedings of the Grand Council” (of the Kiow Nothings) 0° the State of New York, on the 17th of November Jast, at 128 Nassau street. This ‘« ficial report” was, mos: likely, sur- | reptitous)y obtained by toe Seward organ in | que-tion from some instrument of tbe arch-agi- | tator in the aforesaid Council. However ob- | tained, the publication is suggestive of a deep- laid plot on the part of the Seward coalition to break up the order of the Kuow Notbiogs in this | State by fomentipg diseusions among them. | If this can be accomplished, there will be but little remaining to be done to disperse, root and branch, the Know Nothings as a national organization. We understand that already the order in this | State are suffering from the evils of incipient demoralization—that they are already divided into two factions; and that the Barker faction, from some cause or other—we know not what —was repudiated by the late Grand National Council at Cincinnati, and that the opposing faction was accepted as the legitimate Know Nothings of New York. Both factions are epposed to Seward—both will have their delegares at Albany in behalf of the eiec- tion of a member of the order to the United States Senate in the place of Seward. But if they are divided in New York among themselves, what, in a national view, wil! be the result? Similar, unquestion- ably, to the result of the Democratic Ba}'i mere Convention of 1848. The New York Denocrats sent to that convention two sets of delegates— a Van Buren set and an anti-Van Buren set. Both seis were admi'ted; bu: the Van Bureo set would accept no compromise of “this sort. They returned home, went to Buffs!o, and, joined by the abolitionists in the nom n.tion of Van Buren, they succeeded in defeating the Baltimore democratic nominee. From that de- tection the great democratic party has gone down rapid}y to destruction, The remains of it, including tree soiters and secessionists, keeping up the show of a national organization, are the Cabinet coalition at Washington and their pensioned spoilsmen throughout the | country. From the same sort of spirit in the whig camp, General Scott was defeated in 1852. These warnings should be remembered by the Know Nothings. Nor should they forget that New York holds the balance of power in a na tional campaign—and that in a Presidential contest a party divided in New York hag al- ways been defeated. In a word, unless this division and these existing dissensions among the New York Know Nothings are speedily healed, the mischief will extend t» other States, and by the year 1856 the new party, which, it united, would be irresistible against all other parties combined, will have been broken up «nd trittered away in miserable equabbles for precedence in the coun cils, in view of the spoils. No party canbe sue- cessfol which quarrels over the plunder before the battle is foucht. Nothing could be more demoralizing and ruinous than this wrangling over the spoils in prospective. If there is to be a dispute for the loaves and fishes among the Know Nothings, let them follow the ex- ample of the New York democratsin ’52: First unite to win the spoiis, and then quarrel ani =plit up, if necessary, on their distribution. No thing like the lessons of experience. They are full of practical wisdom—especially in politics, tull of wisdom. The Know Nothings, we repeat, can have no healthy national organization w.thout unity among themselves in New York. Her- they must unite, or they will fall to pieces 94 na- tional party, from their bad exampl: «re, of demoralization. Let them proceed to Lusiness according}y, for a harmonious reunion in this State. as a solid party. Let them follow the exomple of the order in Massachusetts, in ~' .nd- ing to the doctrine of non-intervention ou the slavery question. Let them plant themrclves in open hostility to the administration and its spoilsmen—the only general party organization arrayed against them. But, above all, let them postpone the division ot the apoils till the spoils are secured, or they are gone. Believing that the national programme of the Know Nothings and their principles, as promul- gated from Massachusetts, are eminently calcu- lated to demolish the projected anti-slavery crusade against the South, and the corrup: epoilsmen and party hucksters of all the old broken down parties, we are disposed to give this new organization @ fair trial, and the ad- vantage of the very best advice. We cordially second their arrangements for the defeat of Seward in ihe Assembly, their hostility to the adminiatration, and all the old corrupt parties and factions of the day. But unle:s these inci- pient elements of dissolution among the Kaow Nothings in New York are weeded out—unless there is harmony among themselves as a homo- geneous and consolidated party—the agents of Seward will first widen their existing divisions into a regular hard and soft shell split, and then slip in between them, to the continued possession of the State, as between the two ‘actions of the suicidal democracy. That's all. lwvortant rrom Kansas—Tae First Exec- Tron.--An election was held in Kansas on the 29th ult. for the choice of a delegate to repre- sent that Territory in the Congress of the United States. The candidates put forward were, J. W. Whitfield and Robert P. Fienniken, the former being the pro-slavery or squatter candidate, who is represented as being in favor of leaving it to the people to say whether slavery shall or shall not be recognized in the Territory, and the latter is for abolishing slavery at once and forever. We have but few returns of the election, but as far as received they indicate the success of Gen. Whitfield, and the establishment of the principles of squatter sovereignty by a majority of the inhabitants of the new Territory. The following are the re- turns :— Whitfield. — Flenniken, Douglas City. ++ Boh 6 Lanrence City. | Shawnee Agency. 1B Fourth distriet, - ‘Three preeinets, = One precinct, not named 8 We learn by telegraph that Whitfield was some seven hundred votes ahead of Flenniken north of the Kansas river, and that he was cer- tainty elected by a large majority. The election did not pass off sa quietly as could have been desired. A disturbance occurred at the polls at Mireouri, was wound. d, and died wih nao hoar. A wan was also killed at the polls in the town of Boston. The result of th'seJection isan important one. , The grestes’ « fforts were made in New England, New York apd Oh «, to throw veters enough into the Territory to elect an. ut-and-out aboli tion delega'e to Congress, and the above shows — with what succe-s. Squatter sovereigaty , seems io pre. onderate in one, at least, of the new Territories The President’s Message and the Greytown Outrage—A Clear Case for Congress. There is a sriking contrast between the general meek and ebrietianly oneo the P-esi- dent's message, and its ballying ustification of the infamous bomba:dment avd barning of Greytown, Wiih regard t» England, France | and Spain, cur Exceu'ive “roars as gently a3 | 8 sucking dove,” but n reference to Greytown he assumes the character of he ruffian, and with the bravado of : roffian seeks to us‘ify a series of unlawful acts, which cannot 'e de- fended from the facts, or the jaw. or precedent, or the ueages or opinions of civilized people. The first complaint agains: the inhabitants of Grey: own is, that they were a number of “ ad- venturers.” Without going further back, so were the settlers of Plymouth Rock, of James- town, and all other places. Our Weatern pio- neers, our emigrants to California, were and are adventurers. All men are adventurers, more or less, Some are fortunate, others are not; but the most unfortunate of the present day are the political adventurers of the Cabinet coalition at Washingtor. The next charge against the people of the burnt village is, that they had the audacity to change its name rom San Juan del Norte to Greytown, and sub- sequently to assume the character of “a sove- reign and independent State.” Most people in these days of progress and “squatter sove- reignty,”’ would say that these crimes were searcely sufficiect to justify the judgment of bombshells and firebrands. But this is not all : “They proceeded to assert unfounded claims to civil jurisdiction over Punta Arenas, a posi- tion on the opposite side of the river, under a title wholly mdependent of them, of citizens of the United States, interested ia the Nicara- gua Transit Company,” &c. What does this mean? That Mr. Pierce has set up a United States colosy of Americans at Punta Arenas? It so, be has been guilty of @ violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which forbids all colo- nization or attempts at colonization in te in- dependent States of Central America, by either of the high contracting parties. And was not this Nicaragua Transit Company under the ju- risdiction of Nicaragua? We take it that Mr. Pierce had about as much right to interfere upon this question of territorial jurisdiction between Greytown and Nicaragua, as he would have io interfere in the war between Santa Anna and Alvarez. The crowning act of impudence of these Greytown “adventurers” was their “arrogating authority to arrest, on the charge of murder, a captain of one of the steamboats of the Trassit Company.” And why not? Why suppress the truth? Tve captain did commit the killing, and within the sssumed jurisdiction of the Grey- town authorities, They were bound to arrest the man accused and try him, and, if found guilty of murder, they were bound to hang him. They believed their jurisdiction would be disput- ed, and £0, very naturally, we think, they “went to assert it by force of arms.” Our minister, Major Borland, interposed. He believed the captain innocent. He saw him from the deck of the steamer deliberately shoot down Antonio in his bungo, and yet he believed the captain innocent. In the face of all the witnesses and all the world, our President says so. But Major Borland, after “preventing bloodshed,” went over to Greytown, where he was pretty roughly handled by the “adventurers ;” and so the trouble thickened until the gallant Major found it necessary to organize a temporary military force at our expense, for the protec- tion of the Transit Company and their people sgainst the bloody Greytown “adventurers” on the other side of the river. These’ compli- cations of the imbroglio were all the result of the unauthorized interference of our minister in the affair of the assassination of Antonio. But it appears, also, that this “pretended community” had been guilty of plundering, and sheltering the plunderers, of the depot of the Transit Company; that they could only be treated as “a marauding establishment;” ouly as a piratical resort of outlaws, or « “eamp of savages.” And so the eloop-of-war Cyane was sent down, and after some parleying, to give color of justification to the outrage, the oifend- ing village, the ‘marauding establishment,” “the pretenied community,” the “piratical resort of outlaws,” the “camp of savages” was bombarded and burned to the ground. The overt acts committed by its people or authorities, were the alleged stealing of boat load 0° pro- visions from the Transit Company’s depot, the attempts to arrest Captain Smith upon a charge of murder, and the breaking of an empty whiz- key bottle over Major Borland’s nose, amid the excitements of a mob. Now, we should like to know by what au- thority, except that of the divine right of the filibuster, Mr. Pierce denounces the people of Greytown as marauders, outlaws, pirates and savages. We believe that the principal pro- perty holders and residents in the town were Americans, honorable and respectable men; and that there were others—French and Eng- lish—also respectable, civilized, and honest men, who, with the Americans, monopolized the business and property of the place. We have shown heretofore that the government of (irey- town was regularly organized, and that its mu- Bicipal powers were conceded on all hands. The hard names, therefore, applied: to the town and its inhabitants by Mr. Pierce, are without justification, in fact. They are but co many mean and gratuitous insults to the community in question—artfal dodges to cover up, in noise and bluster, the lawless bombardment and burning of Greytown. But the paramount question at issue is a constitutional ene. The constttation has wisely confided to Congress the exclusive power of making war. The bombardment of Greytown was an act of war. It was, therefore, a violation of the constitution, because it wes not authorized by Congress. The President is sworn to support the consti- tution. Ifhe has violated it im usurping the power to make war, he has been faithless to his oath, he is unfitted for the office which he holds, and becomes a subject for impeach- ment before Congress. It is all important that the provision of the constitution which re- strains the Executive from war sbort of an act of Congrers, should be rigidly maintained. Is is necessary to guard against this prompective usurpation by the Executive of the war power | Dictator of Mexic telich porpo-es of a military desposiem. i In tbis light, we bold it to be the duty of the Heute of Representatives to institute an in- quiry into this Greytown business, as ao act of war under the illegal autbority of the President alene, involving the penalty of impeacb-sent, aa prescribed in the constitution of the United States. If the Executive may make a conve- nience of the constitution upon such paltry excuses a8 thore for this Greytown outrage, Congress may as wéll adjourn at once, aad give us the counterpart of his Serene Highness the JouRNATISM AND 118 Durricuntres—Arrrtirn oy THE PunLic FoR THE ScanpaL or Paivare Live.— The morbid taste exbibited by newsps- per readers for the prarient details which are occasionally disclosed in the trial of divorce cases, renders the task of the journalist often a delicate and difficult one. If he were to con- a AAS I ER EI OO 8 tO EEN TOE ES | the appointment of Civil Secretary and Superintendent’ sult cimply bis senee of right, be wonld sup- | pre:s everything which has a tendency to de- moralise the public miad, by familiarising it with vice; but if he takes into consideration bis own interests, be will do as others do, and leave the task of moral reform to some more | disinterested and chivalrous member of the con- fraternity. The public are but too apt to re- , gard a newspaper as a mere vehicle of intelli- gence, without reference to its higher and no- | bler purposes, and the journalist who takes a different view of it must be prepared to make large sacrifices to his conscientiousness, It he omits from his reports of the proceedings of the jaw courts details which are not only revolt- ing in themselves, but poisonous in their iaflu- ence on the public mind, he not only gets no thanks for bis scrupulousness, but inferences are drawn from the fact unfavorable to the fusi- ness character of his journal. The results, as regards its circulation, are obvious. ‘Those who may be disposed to agree with him in | unfortunately, but a smill | opinion, form, fraction of newspaper readers; and were he te address himself merely to their tastes, he would contemporaries outstripping him in the race of public favor. But few palists have moral courage enough to face this conrequence; and thus it is that the news- paper press is so frequently made the unwilling vehicle of much that is detrimental to the public morals. We have been led to make these remarks by the pubjication. a few days since, in oar paper, of the disgusting incidents of one of those ca- tastrophes in domestic life which destroy the happiness of 20 many families, and which, ua- happily, notwithstanding all the puritanism and cant which have become the characteristic features of our New York society, seem, like a gangrene, to be only spreading the more rupid- ly from the efforts made tocloak them. It was entirely through an inadvertence of supervision on our part that the details of this case were al- lowed to make their appearance in our columns, for the pesition in life of the parties did not ne- cessitate our deviating from our usual rule of giving as litt!e publicity as possible to such mat- tere. We regret the circumstance, as tending to encourage a bad precedent, which it would be tor the advantage of the public, as well as for the peace of individuals, to abolish as soon as possible. As long as the public themselves, how- ever, hold ont a premium to the pub- lication of the filth and obscenity dis- closed on there trials, we confess we do not see much hope of their effectual suppression. The keen competition and jealousy which exist amongst the conduc- tors of the newspaper press, will always pre- vent any general harmony of action amongst them on the subject. They will abandon no part of the recognized province of journaliem which may give an advantage in point of cir- culation to their rivals. Unfortunately, the features to which we allude are amongst those whieh gratify most the common failings of the human mind, and it is therefore not to be ex- pected that they will prove any exception to the rule. One or two leading journals whose influence is built upon ® more solid basis, may endeavor to discourage by their example a practice which they justly hold to be fraught with pernicious consequences. This will not, however, cure the evil. Itis trom the public themselves that the remedy must come. Were there no readers to hunt after and gloat over these deplorable revelations, there would be no journals ready to supply them. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. MR. CAMERON AND THE BUCHANAN MEN. Wasuineton, Dec. 6, 1854. The Ster says that Simon Cameron has made peace with the Buchanan interest in Pennsylvania, and that he will most probably receive their support for the office of Senator from that State. From Albany. THE @OVERNOR ELECT AT ALBANY—DETENTION OF THE BUFFALO MAIL TRAIN—FIRE, ETC. ALany, Dec. 5, 1854, Myron H. Clark, the Governor elect, arrived here this morming, and is now stopping at the Delavan House. The Buffalo mail train due here at 11 o’clock last night, did not arrive until 1 o’clock this afternoon. ‘The store of &. W. King, on Second street, im this eity, was destroyed by fire this morning. Loss, $10,000, Insurance $4,500, part of which is in the Long Island Company. ‘The Anthony Burns Rescue Case. Boston, Dec. 6, 1854. The Rev. F. W. Higginson and Martin Stowell, Esq., both of Worcester, were to-day held in bonds of fifteen hundred dollars each, on the charge of being impli- cated in the attempted rescue of the fugitive Anthony Burns. Political FLECTION OF A DELBGAes 10 ConGRENS FROM NEBRASKA. Loumvms, Dec. 5, 1864. The St. Louis Republican says that Whitfield, the pro- alavery candidate, is elected a delegate to Congress from Kanzas by a large majority. KNOW NOTHING TRIUMPHS AT LAWRENCE AND CAM- BRIDGE. Boston, Dec. 5, 1854. 1. 8. Raymond, the Know Nothing candidate for Mayor of Cambridge, was elected yesterday. The whole Know Nothing ticket was elected in Lavg rence, (Mass.), yesterday. Albert Warren was their candidate for Mayor. Collision on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad. THE CONDUCTOR KILLED—ONE PASSENGER INJURED. CuxvELann, Dec. 5, 1864. A collision occurred on tho Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad at five o’clock this morning, by which a condue- tor by the name of Seymour was killod, and one passen- ger bad his leg broken. Loss of the Ship Arcadia. ‘THE PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED IN LIFRBOATS. Hauirax, Deo. 6, 1854. The government schooner Daring, from Sable Island the 4th of December, reports that the ship Arcadia, Capt. Jordan, twenty-eight days from Antwerp, and be- longing to Warren, N. 8., was completely wrecked on the southeast side of the northwest bar of Sable Island, while « strong breese was blowing from the south south- soon find his less punctilious | jour- | | train which left New Brunswick for Jersey City yester- west, and daring a thick for. She was beaded with cargo of iron, glass leo’ om! other merchandise, and a crew twe by lifeboats manned with crews from the island. abtp became a total boas after stricing, mot gi the crew and passenger 10 save anything belong: ing to them but what ws them at the time, and the} are now in the most destitete condition imagizable. ‘The Paring brought to this port forty-seven meu, eighteen wemen and twenty-e ght children from the un- forturate ship, not one of whom can speak the Engli Linguage. Appoit(ment of on Oficial im Canada. Monrreat, Dec. 4, 1854. Viscount Boryren, Ear) of Albemarle, bas recei General of indian Affairs of Canada, in room of La Cliphant, who has resignes t returns to England wi Rarrimors, Dec. 5, 1854. ‘The Hon, Thos. H, Reoton delivered # lecture bef the Maryland Justitute this evening. There was an im- mente audivnce in attendance to hear him. His sub- ject wos—Westerm Geegrapl y, with reference to ite adaptation to the settlement and construction of # Pacific railroad "Markets. sa se scat New Quuzane, Dee, 1454. | ¢ sales of cotton today w vel large, amount to 12,500 hi 8. We quote middling: | Riv coffee ts kK Las fallen, and is now selling at $17 per- . Sterling exchange is 7} a 814 per eent premiam. UsciNNati, Dee. 5, 1854. The réceipts of hogs here up to thie date are 34,000 | short of the receipts at this tue last year. held firmly at $4 50a $5. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Purtapsuraia, Deo. 5, 1854. Money ix unchanged. Stocks ere steady. We quote Reading at dog; Morris Canal at 11; Island Rail- roadat 1174; lennsylvania 5’s, 79%; Pennsylvania Rail- road, 4. ——____. Additiona! Particulars of the Late Gale. The gale from northwest still continued at noon yes- terday. ‘There were ne port arrivals in the morn ing, except the Charleston and Savannah steamships. xcepting the brig and schooner ashore at Long Branch, we do not hear of apy new disasters, either on the beach. or in the hays cad rivers. The Southern steamers ar- rived do not repert any disasters to the southward. The mail train on the New York and Erie Railroad, due at 93g o'clock om Monday evening, arrived at 3 o’clock on Tuesday morning, having been delayed y the snow which, especially on the Delaware Division, is blown upon the track so as to detain the trains. The Cincinnati express, due at 23¢ o'clock P. M. yesterday, arrived at about 10 o’cleck last evening. The Gay at 734 o'clock, and which was due at @ o'clock, did not arrive antil 123 o’clock. In the afternoon the trains ran more frequently, and kept the track clear, by which means they ran regularly and arrived in time. VESEBL ASHORE AT SETAUKET, AND PROBABLY LOSS OF THE CREW. Ox Frew, Serauker, ScrFok Co. Lose Istan, Dec. 6, 1831. } Jaxes G. Buxserr, Esq.— A small schooner of about thirty tons burthen, (New Jersey built,) with signal of distress flying, called the Catharine Allen, came ashore during a violent galo at about 3 P. M. this day, at this place. There is every appearance of the crew huving been lost. The resideuce of the owners not being known, I avail myself of the columns of your widely circulated journal to make the above facts public. At this time she lays broadside to the beach, the ses breaking over her. Lbave had every precaution taken | to prevent her going to pieces, and at the next tide, as she is without cargo, she may be driven up high and | ary. Jara your obedient servant, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Old Field. TELEGRAPHIC. WEECK OF THE NEWS YACHT WANDERER. Sanpy Hoox, Dec. 6, 1854. The news yacht of the Associated Press, the Wander- er, is & teins wreek. She went ashore about one o'clock this morning, in the Horse Shoe. The crew huve éifected their escape, after suffering much from hunger, thirst and cold, for the pest thirty hours. Tho yacht parted her small chain at twelve o’clock on Sunday night, and dragged the other, which was twice the usval weight for vessels of her tonnage, when it was slipped with a buoy attached. She was covered wih ice, and no use could be made of her sails. She was anchored securely im the- Horse Shoe on Sunday, but tho wind suddenly chopped round avout midoight to the northwest, and it has been. blowing a gaie ever since. DATENTION OF THE MAIL—THR LATE stonM— MARINE DISASTERS, ETC. Aupany, Dee, 5, 1854. We have received no mail from Buffalo since Sunday evening. ‘The steamer Manhattan left here for New York st four o’clock this afternoon. The weather has moderated, and there are now indics- tions of more snow. ‘The steamer Isaac Newton, which left New York last evening, came up to between Tivoli and Hudson, ané then returned. At Hudaon there sre three sloops, with the steamer South America, frozen in, and all well freighted. There is also a canal scow boat in the middle of the river, op- ponite Catakill, frozen up. There are three sloops above the lighthouse at Sauger- ties, and one sloop and one schooner below the light house, high and dry. The barge plendid, of Albany, and the barge Lady Clinton, of Troy, laden with produce for New York, are- ashore between Saugerties lighthouse and Malden. The propeller St. Nicholas, of Stuyvesant, is high out. of water in the narrow channel below Coxsackie. Two boats laden with lumber are sunk at Ross Point, near Tivoli, Ten or twelve canal boats are ashore or sunk betwoen, Esopus Meadow and Kingston Point, THE STORM ON THE LAKE, Oswao, Dec. 5, 1854. A severe gale, accompanied with snow, has been raging here for the past two days, and much anxiety is felt for the safety of vessels which cleared from here on Sunday. Thesloop Samson has just arrived, and” reports severs. ‘vessels ashore on Lake Ontario, EFFECTS OF THE GALE AT NEW BEDFORD, NAHANT AND NEWBURYPORT, BTC. Boston, Dec. 5, 1854, The gale of Sunday night blew down two new houses. at Nahant, At New Bedford and the Vineyard the storm was ac. companied with heavy thunder, wind and lightning. Nearly all the shipping in the harbor of Newburyport received damage from the gale. A SCHOONER ASHORE. CLEVELAND, Dec. 5, 1854, The schooner Mansfield, with a cargo of iron, went shore in a disabled condition last night, and has become- total loss, The crew were saved. SOUTHERN MAIL FAILURE—STORM IN RHE SOUTH. Barrons, Dec. 5, 1854. We bave received no mail this morning from south of Washington, the gale having prevented the boat on the Potomac from running. ‘The weather here is clear, but a of wind - ailed al! night. bis siete WRECK OF THR SCHOONER B. R, JOHNSON—LOSS OF EIGHT LIVES. Burrato, Dee. 6, 1864, The schooner R. R. Johnson, loaded with wheat, went: ashore yesterday at Fairport, and then broke and went down, with all hands on board—eight in sumber. LOS6 OF THE SCHOONER OXFORD—THE STEAMER ONTARIO ASHORE, Waranrown, Dec. 6, 1854. The sehooner Oxford, with twelve thousand bushels of corn for Gen. Angel, of this place, was driven violently against the dock at Cape Breton, and so mach injured that che sunk on Sunday night. The steamer Ontario, freighted with two hundred tons of merchandire, went ashore at Nichol’s Island, seventy- five miles above Kingston She is owned by Hooker & Jaques, of Montreal. Fears are entertained for many other vessels that have not yet been heard from. ‘The storm has been of the most terrific description. THR STORM AT QUEBRO. Queneo, Dec. 5, 1854, The storm is raging at this place, and also at porte below here. Great fears are entertained for all vessels in the Gulf. A great deal of timber haa been carried away, anda number of vessels have sustained damage at the wharves, FFFROTS OF THR STORM AT MONTREAL. Mostamar, Dec. 5, 1854. During the severe snow storm of Monday, a very high ‘Mast, carrying the telegraph wires of the Boston and ‘Vermont line over the St, Lawrence River from St, Helen's Inland to Montreal, fell, and crushed tm the roofs of «ling at Bie. a 9c. per | They are Exchange ia plenty aud dail. # i