The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. pailiar anemic JAMBS GORDON SSUNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, epwres XW. CONNES HAREAU AND FULTON OTB, _—— eed AKUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. DWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Crows Diawompe TED Bere. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory—Mvsteni0vs Fauiry. ap Osx jn Fim Buxrrarn. - WEBLO'S GARDEN, Broa¢way—Lucy or Lamuzanocon Bre sr—Somr amavis. BURTON'S THREATS, Chambers street—Urrza Txs AED aly Fay im Naw Youx, 8 Broadway—Two Ones emsiwan ran Milbans—aurrer Dosen METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Rossens—La ‘Four vz Nese, AMEKICAN MUSEUM—Aftern ire a? Home Mawn Me Five fuittings. Bvoning—Vixcrxrvs. WOOD'S VARIETIBS—Mecbanioe’ Hall, 472 Brosdway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 580 Broatway—Bucx- aav’s Evmsorian Orzna Taovre. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Minstrel! Hall, 444 Broadway. ———— Wew York, Tuesday, December 19, 1854. Malls for the Pacific. ‘SE NEW YORK HERALD—CALIPORNIA EDITION. Me United States mai) stéamsbip North Star, Capt. ‘Warnack, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon at two @eleck, for Aspinwall. ‘She mails for California and other parts of the Pacific, ‘WH close at one o'clock. The New Yous Weex1y Henatp—California edition— oentaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, will be publiahed at eleven o’clock to-morrow marning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence. Agents wil) please send in their orders as early as pos- Ds. The News, In the Board of Councilmen last evening a com- Munication was received from Comptroller Flagg im relation to the publication of the proceedings of ‘he Common Council and the city advertisements. ©m referring to the document, published im our zeport, it will be seen that the Comptroller pro- poses to give the corporation advertising to two German papers, ‘he Times, the Sun, and the Even- tug Pos’. And we have no doubt but that the @omptroller would gladiy have given it altogether te newspa_ers printed in the Gorman language had be found them sufficient y numerous for the purpore. Failing in th’s, he advises the advertis- mg should be given to two papers of insignifi eant circulation, excluding the journal of the larg- est daly issuein the city. The attempt of the @omptrolicr to publish the city advert'sementa in the Germap papers, and his otherwise absord sommunication, will no doubt pe thrown overboard by the Council when brought up for action. The matter of extending Albany street throng) Trinity @urchyard was then taken up, and after some de- Date in committee of the whole the Boa-dadopted, ” en recommendation of the committee, tho minority yepert of the Comm'ttee on Streets, agaicat the ox- tension, by a vote or 39 to 12. The report was or- @ered to a third reading. ‘Fhe Board of Aldermen held long session last evening. The principal matter before them was the vmended report of the special committee ea ‘Ruilding the New City Hall, which, after some de- ‘Date, was adopted. The amendments are unim- portant. ‘The Board of Supervisors transacted business yes- terday, but, with the” exception of confirming the * extimates cf the Heard of Education, nothing of © geme-al inte-est transpired. Later sdvices from Europe are now due. The America left Liverpoo! on the 9th instant for Boston ‘via Holifex, and we may therefore receive telegraphic veports of news from the latter port to-day. Tae Washington lefs Southampton on the Gthiinstact for this port, ard the Sarah Sands left Liverpoo) for Portland cn the eamp day. It is probable, how- ever, that we shall receive intelligence firat from Ha ifax. Im the Sexate esterday Hon. Robert W. Johnson, Bewly elected member from Arkansas, was duly queiificd acd took his seat. The President's annua Mestage was referred to the appropriate commit- tees. The bill giving sixty-six thousand dollars to ‘Me heirs of Baron De Kath elicited eloquent eulo- gies from Messrs. Badger and Clayton upon the ser- Viees of that heroic soldier, A strong effart was made to pare the bill, but it was referred. Genera! Worth’s heirs bave petitioned for relief. General M@Biekis reported s bill @o increase the efficiency o/ the army, and gave notice that he should call it up fer corsiderstion at an early day. A general de bate aprarg up upon the bill establishing a Board of Ovemmissioners to pass upon private claim: against the government. The sabject was fiaally meferred to a select committee of five. When wo Teflect upon the unfortunate difficulties that grow ut of the Commission on Mexican Claims, and tie O@ppertanities for corruption and plander which guch bodies generally afford, the necessity or use- fainess of the proposed Board may well be quee- toned. The bill creating a new department of tre gtvernment, to be called the Department ot Lav, was taken up. It makes the Attorney General the Principal cfficer ex officio, and provides for au As @istant Attorney General, to be apptiuted by ths President and confirmed in tne usual manner, and also authorizes the appointment of a chief clerk. ‘ce supervisory powers of the Secretary of the In- terior over accounts are to be exer ised by (pis new department, and ihe Solicitorship of the Tres: aary is to be one ot ita bureaus. The bill also makes Provision for auditing and adjusting accounts, @aims, disbursements and expenditures. It gives to the First Auditor those arising in the Treasury Department; to the Second Auditor those of the Iaterior; to the Third Auditor those of the Army; to the Fourth Auditor those of the Navy; to the With Auditor those of State and Law; to the Sixt) adior those of the Post Office. The accounts of We First and Fifth Auditors are to be revised by tee First Comptroller, and those of the Second, Whird and Fourth Auditors by the Second Comy troller. The bill also makes provision for claasify- fag the clerks of the State Department, fixes the milary of the Commissioner of Pablic Buildings at 93,000 per annum, and allows that officer two @erke, one of whom is to be Superintendent of the Public Grounds. In the House yesterday Mr. Phillips, of Alabama, tmteoduced a bill providing for the construction of six sloope-of-war. Mr. Clingman again pressed his seaohution requesting the President to offer the media‘‘on of our government in the pending war da Barope, but without snocese. In committee of ‘he whole, the Indian and West Point Academy Appropriation bills being in order, a letter from Mr. Benton was read, in whieh he deprecates the move- ‘ment to prohibit slavery by law in the Territory of Kanees. Toat Territory has rights under the terms of the Louisiana purchase which cannot be set aside. An interes ing decursion on the ‘objects and princi: ples of the Know Nothings occupied ‘he remainder ofthe session. Mr. Barry, of Mississippi, dsvoted ‘mm hour to # speech in condemnation of the Order, dissecting its movements and purposes, and etig- matizing it, not only as illegal, but as a combina ‘ton to take away th» rights of citizens. It was, tm his opinion, s chiJd of the Alien and Sedition | ‘Yaw’, end antizepniblican in its tendencies. He wae replied to wy Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts. Both gentlemen were listened to with marked at- feation. After the committee rose, the sppropria- ‘thon bills were passed. ‘The flour market continued firm yesterday, and mere difficult to pu chas: a; Satarday’s ricea for export, and hence transactions were Yather restrict aa There continu: d to be a tolerably wide margin te ail leading articles between cash and time sales, wxoeeding largely the ord nary interest which ao ‘evues om credit ealer. Osnadian daty paid fair white wheat sold a $2 09; corn was firm but not ae hve, #960. & O6c.; rye wie ecaros and firmat$l 40 $1 45 pelted. Mose pork closed dal at $12 75, aud prime ab $13.120 $12 25. Bineo Baterday sfterneen ‘the sales 0 cottes have reached about | 500 bales, ‘Without farther decline in prices. Shipments of Produce were making 0 @ fair extent, at about the current rates of Satarday. ‘The proceedings at the annual meeting of tha Representatives of the N-w York Fire Department, held on the 11:h inst., were unu-ually interesting. The trustees report that, notwithstanding a large increase in the number of applications for relief éuring the pact year, the means of the department have been adequate to the emerge cy, besides leay- ing a balance :n hand fo: immediate use. A reso- tution was adopted, authorizing the trastees to ap- ply to the Legislature for permission to increase the permanent fund to $150,000. The question as to whether the representatives of a cuspended com: pany were entitled to participate in the proceedings of the meeting having been 1a'sed by the Chief Engineer, a resolution declaring suc: representa- tives entitled to seats and all the privilege: of mem- bers was adopted bys vote of ninety-six to sixty- six. We shall pub‘ish the offic'al report of the pro- ceedings to-morrow. In the case of a M-. Young, who was brought up on attachment yesterday, before the United States Circuit Ceurt, for refusing to obey a subpoons to at- tendasa witness in a criminal case before the United States Grand Jury, Judge Betts decided that the party having paid his passage for a voyage to Europe previous to the service of the summons, he was not bound to attend; that the excuse was sufficient, and the attachment should be forthwith discharged. How much Je:s incumbent wasit on the Austrian Consul to forfeit his passage, and leave his baggage on the steamer Baltic, when served on board that vessel With © summons to attend as witness in a police court of limited jurisdiction, one hour before the eailing of the ship. The decision of Judge Betts is based upon both law snd justice. Were it otherwise, every man about to go upon a voyage would be hable to the most vexatious an- noyance. The case of Heilbuth, charged with smugg'ing five hundred dollars worth of goods on board the steamship Washington,was commenced in the United States District Court yesterday, Judge Hall pre- siding. A report of the testimony taken will be found elsewhere. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Hugh Hagan, who dicd from the effects of a blow froma cart rung, yesterday rendered a verdict against Dennis Garrick. Tce prisoner was committed to the Tombs for trial. The arrivals from sea yesterday generally re- ported heavy weather, with more or less damage to hull or spare. There were also a large number of deaths on board vessels from Earope. Tue packet- ship Underwriter, from Liverpool, had forty-three deaths; the Sarah G. Hyde, from Antwerp, three; the Advance, from Havre, seven; the Westphalia, from Bremen, nine, eight of whom were infants; the bark Sylpbide, from Bremen, three; and the Hamburg brig G. Von Oldenberg, from Bremen, one death. : Progress of the Revulsion of .1854—Distress Among the Working Classes=—Causes. and Eftects. The readers of the Heravp this morning will peruse with no small degree of interest the ex- traordinary reports which we publish to-day of the disastrous workings of the present financial and commercial revulsion among the laboring classes of this city, and generally of our North- ern States. The first of these reports is from our own reporters; the second chapter is from newspapers of other cities and towns; and the third is from the New York T'ridune, appended to which is the preposterous argument of our anti-slavery and high tariff Fourierite philoso- phers, touching the causes of this lamentable depression. The effects are before us ina shape troly formidable and startling. They extend to all the varied interests of our working classes. Railroad builders, ship builders, house builders, carpenters, masons, iron workers, printers, pub- lishers, merchants, tailors, all our prodactive interests, in fact, are suffering from the general stagnation and suepension of business—even the theatres and eating houses are seriously af- fected. Thousands of able-bodied, active work- ing men and women in this city alone, are now thrown out of employment; and, from the facts which we have collected and from all the exist- ing signs of the times, the evil is just commenc- ing with the beginning of a hard and crael winter. It is quite possible that, before the return of spring, we shall have in this sin- gle city of New York, from twenty-five to thirty thousand of our industrial population, possessed of willing and able bands, but with nothing to do for the subsistence of themselves and their families. We may alse expect a proportionate degree of suffering in Philadelphia, Boston, Lowell and other commercial and manufactur- ing cities, and throughout the North, from Maine tothe Western borders of the immediate valley of the Mississippi. On the other hand, Baltimore, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans may share, to some eonsiderable extent, in the prevailing evil which is upon us, but we ven- ture to say that generally throughout the Southern States they will be comparatively exempt from the overwhelming distresaes of the ordeal which we are destined to pass in the North. From the Atlantic to the Mississippi, north of Mason and Dixon’s line and the Ohio river, we shall come off better than we can now avticipate, if before the expiration of the win- ter there are less than five hundred thousand working people, inoluding their families, de- prived of their employment, and their means of subsistence. The first natural inquiry among reflecting minds, in view of this distressing revalsion, ia, what are the causes which have brought it about? Our Tribune philosophers charge the whole thing to the absence of a high protective tariff, and to the evils of Sonthern slavery. ‘It is to slavery and free trade, according to these philogophers, that we may justly charge all the existing and pros. pective mischiefs of this present dark and thickening revulsion. A high tariff exclading foreign manufactures, would have saved us; but the slaveholders of the South have dictated and enforced the opposite policy of compara- tive free trade. This absurd, this utterly pre. Posterous view of the subject, is beneath even the usual shallow sophistries of the Tribune. It is consistent, however, in this, in holding the slaveholding syetem of the South responsible for all the financial miechie’s which may affect the country, including the evils of Northern, overtrading, excessive stockjobbing and greedy swindling. But that anti-slavery maligaity is truly contemptible, which, ignoring the facts | visible to all eyes, stoops to the impudent ac- | cusation that we may charge this existing re- vulsion to the slaveholders of the South. What are the facts? What are the causes of this unseasonable and wideepread revulsion? | They are here:— 1. Excessive bank paper inflations upon the basis, real or imaginary, of California gold. 2. Excessive stockjobbing in railroads, over- building, over-trading, extravagant living, and wild goore speculations. 3. The Eoropean war. 4. The jate dvought. First, 4 comparatively limited clas eng sgod 4 in the California trate began to launch cat in large investm-nis, grand financial enterprises, splendid estebliebmen's, magnifi ent stores, and the like. Next outalders were seized with the eontaz‘on ond calle upon the banks. The banks responded—tie country was filled with peper money. Upoa this fictitious basis of bank rags the credi: sjstem was inflated likes bag of wini fo irs fullest tension. Millions were absorbed in railroad adventures, in min- ing bubbles, in manu‘actories, in importations, in sp’endid houses and +plendid stores. Real estate at a single boucd advanced some thirty, some sixty, and som: a hucdred percent. All to be paid for in the good time tocome. A general strike for higher wages, on account of high rents and the high prices of provisions, followed among the working classes, ands general advance was conceded, Now the whole fabric is tumbling down; and within eight | months from the strike of the employed for an wdvance of wages, we have a general strike among tie employers for a reduction, In this jubilee of paper inflation, exjansion of credits, stockjobbing, speculations, wild extravagance, luxury, fast horses, and swin- | dling, the parties concerned unfortunately omit- ted in their estimates of the day of settlement the probable drawbacks of the European war, the general drought, the marine disasters, and losses by fires and frande of the past year. But ina contagious stampede of speculation all practical estimates are lost sight of, and fools and sensible men mingle together upon morus multicaulis, or a South Sea bubble, with the came avidity. Still the piper must be paid, and in this instance the dance has been sudden- Ip interrupted by short crops, and a perempto- ry demand from our European creditors for a liquidation. No more loans. They are ab- sorbed by Sebastopol; while short crops cut short our credits in the estimates of our proba- ble exports from the year’s productions. Thus the evil is magnified; for while busines: of all kinds is ruinously reduced, including a reduc- tion in the wages of labor, the prices of the prime necessaries of life have increased and are still increasing. Now, the following table will serve to illus- trate the comparative working of this whole- sale revulsion as between the North and the South, or the slaveholding and non-slavebold- ing sections of the U.ion :— People. Banks in the United States..........5.4.1,200 Depending upon them for discounts, em- ployment, &¢........0e00e8 reneaaa oi 2,600,000 Manufacturing establishments in the Unitdd Btaten......cccssessees cons cece 8,000 Operatives and others employed in them. 1,050,000 Railroads in the United States........... 400 Depending upon them for dividends and employment.........0+++ pic gett Baba 1,000,000 Employed iv ship building and in shipping 500,000 Population......csseseessceeceesseneceeeee 6,050,000 From an examination of the census statistics, touching the locations of these banks, factorie:, railroads, &., we conclude that not more than one-eighth part of the five millions of people dependent upon them live in the Southern States. Nearly four millions and a half of these dependents reside ia the North; and so the pressure of these cruel times falls most heavily where these banks, manufactories, and railroads are most numerous; and where, to the greatest extent, they lie at the basis of the business operations of the whole community. For example, here in New York the business of ship building is perhaps not more than five per cent of what it wasa year sgo, house build- ing not more than one per cent, and our-vast mercantile buziness of all kinds in the aggregate 8 diminished to not more than twenty-five per ecnt of the aggregate of last December. Simal- taneously our Northern manufactories are running one-half, one-third, or one-quarter time, such as are not closed; and the diminished work in the construction of our rail- roads is equivalent to the employment of one man out of every hundred employed within lees than a year. Not alone does the prevailing evil extend to the operatives, in a vital poiat of view, but people whose little capital has been invested in banks, railroads, &c., find their dividends cut off, and themselves reduced to absolute want, or toa ruinous sacrifice of their investments. Hundreds of widows and orphans of this class may now be ranked with the laborer without employment. The Southern States are not responsible for this revulsion. It is due to the’ banks, the rail- road and manufacturing monopolies, and kite- flying financiers of the North. And we feel in the North the dead weight of the reaction, while the South is almost free from its pressure. A high tariff would not relieve us. The thing is an absurdity, a Barnum humbug upon its face. It would but inflate the bubble in another form, producing, in a general collapse, the same bitter fruits of wide-spread destitution and misery among the poor and the defranded, while the monopolists and rapacious financiering gam- blers would very naturally take good care to provide for themselves, as they have done, are now doing, and as they always do. What are the remedies for this accumulation of troubles and sufferings? Liquidation, con- traction, economy and charity. Harsh medi- cines, with » grain or two of sugar ; yet none but these will restore the patient. Time, too, will be required to effect a perfect cure ; aud in the interval the crisis of the disease has yet to come. Onr reports exhibit a fearful amount of impending starvation slready in our midst. It will yet be worse, here and throughout the North. Yet in the face of this prevailing dis- trees and prospective suffering we find oor abolition philanthropists harping upon the evils of Southern slavery. But while we know that Southern slaves will not be denied their bread for lack of employment, what re- Nef bave our abolition organs to propose for their famishing free white neighbors literally starving for want of work? Our reporters and theirs count them by thousands. Relief— relief—have our Seward cotemporaries not even a word of relief? Cot. Benton’s Lecrure.—We publish to-day the lecture which Col. Benton ie to deliver to- night at the Academy of Music, on the physical geography of the vast regions lying between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, in referenee to their adaptation to settlement, aud the constraction of a railroad across the continent. It isa very interesting discourse. Thoee who read it will be the better qualifiea to appreciate it from the speaker—those who de sire only to see the speaker will be saved the trouble of listening and have the full benefit of his discourse in advance. It is the same lecture which the distifguished orator, geographer and historian has recently delivered in St. Louis, Baltimore and elsewhere. ‘The first class of our great statesmen, coeval with the Revolution, Washington, Adams, Ham ilton, Jefferson, Madison, &c., have all passed away, The second class, springing up with the war of 1812, Olay, Oalhonn, Webster, Jagheos, Jeb Quincey Adams, Crawford and Bentos, have all gone except Benton. He has eutlived his generation, eutlived his party, outlived his thirty years im the Senate, and is still as tough, rugged and strong as one of those western baf- faloes of which he s0 much delights to speak. He belongs to ne party now — he belopgs tohis- tory and tothe couatry. He has survived his | political rivals, written his own biography, and is therefo'e free to lecture upon matters of sci- ence and !earning. He is a remarkable man, he has had a remarkab'e career, and his appear- ance at the Opera House in a learned lecture, between the performances of Mario and Grisi, is certainly a remarkable thing. Old Bullion, too, will probably draw the very bes: house of the season, which will not be £0 very remarka- ble. Let-all who desire the full enjoyment of his lecture read it in the Henaxp this morning, and then go and hear him deliver it to-night. It is very interesting. Let all the stockholders of the opposition New York, Atlantic and Pa- cific Railroad Company attend. ‘The Campaign in the Crimea. Another steamer from Europe, now daily expected at Halifax, will bring us farther news from the Crimes. Her arrival would hardly be looked for with more intense intereat if our own troops were engaged in the struggle, ‘When our last adv'ces left, the condition of the allied army was such as to arouse the most lively apprehensions not for its success but for its safety, and to awaken, in England, for the first time, doubts as to the propriety of the expedition against Sebastopol. Reduced by losees in battle and from disease to one-third its former strength, the reinforcements which have been cent from England will not place it on anything like a footing of equality with its op- ponents: while, on the other hand, the de- fences of Sebastopol are not materially in- jured, and the garrison is receiving daily fresh accessions of strength. The British offigers who were told on the morning of the fatal day of Inkermann that the rambling of wagons had been heard in the valley below, ca’med their apprehensions by making up their minds that it was merely fresh reinforcements arriving in the city by the Perekop road: formidable as was the realitf, the mistaken supposition iadi- dicates a state of things yet more perilous. With free access from the north to the city and the forts, and a garrison already double if not treble the number of assailants, the Russians well may feel secure at St. Petersburg, and look forward with confidence to the annihila- tion of theenemy. Shonld the allies remain in their lines, fresh sorties with increased force will decimate their numbers, Should ao assault be made it is certain that the loss they will suffer will render the success of the movement extremely doubt- ful. Even should they take the city by storm, they will be unable to hold it against the northern forts; and will ran some appprecia- ble risk of being blown into the air by # mine. Thus, if the allies succeed in all they project, success may involve destruction: and if they fail, the wintry gales of the Black Sea teach al- ready that the fleet will afford a most insecure refuge. A more gloomy prospect never at- tended a military expedition. » There is a singular and portenteus daalogy between the invasion of Russia in 1812 by Na poleon I. and the expedition of the present year against the Crimea by the troops of his nephew and Great Britain. Both expeditions startei under bright auspices, and with high hopes. So gallant en army as that which crossed the Niemen to conquer Russia in 1812 was never mustered in modern times: so splendid a flect as that which sailed from Varna in 1854 was never seen before. Alexander, in 1812, bade his soldiers allow the invaders to enter tue country: Nicholas, in 1854, directed that no opposition should be made at the landing at Eupatoria. Spite of checks, Napoleon marched steadily onward to Moscow: the allies overcame every obstacle on their way to Sevastopol. If tiey drove the enemy from the heights of Al- ma, Napoleon forced the passage of the Daieper at Smolengki under very similar circumstances. If they resisted the attack of a superior force and retained their ground at Inkermann, Na- poleon proved the prowess of his troops with equal éclat at Borodino: and though the slaugh- ter of the Russians at the former battle was prodigious, it was not by at least a third as great as that which signalized the latter. The last ecenes in the drama have yet to be played. But there are many indications leading to the be- lief that Sebastopol will prove a second Mos- cow. It is possible that fair weather and good ships may keep open a constant communication during the winter between the'allied camp and Constantinople; that supplies may reach them in sufficient quantity, and men in sufficient force to enable them to hold their ground; that the valor they have hitherto displayed may make up for deficiency in numbers; that some unforeseen contingency may weaken the strong position of the enemy. But these are mere chances, resting on remote possibilities. The probability is that the Crimean expedition will be destroyed. Whatever of horror there may be in the mere contemplation of sueh a catastrophe, ani however the world might deplore the loss of so gallant an army as that now encamped before Sebastopol, it is by mo means certain that humanity would be a eufferer by this issue of the struggle. It is sad to hear of the death of brave men; but ’tis the trade of the soldier; and to the world at large, the destruction of o few regiments more or less can only be a sub- ject of abiding sorrow when their loss involves sacrifices of national security or popular well. being. If the Crimean expedition is successful, nothing will be gained for the allies but a pernicious increase of self-esteem and self- confidence; certain to lead, in the end, to far greater disaster than the destruction of the Crimean army. Nothing tangible will be gained, for not even Sebastopol ean be held; and it is quite clear that a reverse would call forth Russia’s strength with far greater effect than hitherto. At the same time, it is more than probable that the cap- ture of Sebastopol would induce Austria to lean to the side of the allies, and would thus commit the allies to the maintenance of her despotism in Italy and Hungary. In this case it is likely that the success of this fresh Holy Alliance would be an injary to the cause of hu- manity and civilization. On the other hand if the allies are beaten back with loss from the Crimea, the German powers will be thrown in- to the arms of Russia, and the Austrian army now in the Principalities, will move in the di- rection of the Turkish frontier.. France and England, if the alliance holds, or.France alone, if it gives way, will be compelled to appeal to the democratic sentiment in Europe to make bead again t the enemy. They will in all pro bability rouse Poland, Hungary and Italy to arms, sad under the tri-color flag will convert England asks American sympathy. The sympathy of the American masses would be se- cured to the democrats of Europe fighting sgainst despota of whatever nation. But when despots ight among themselves for territory, he bas the best right to our esteem who shows the most honesty in the work. Kossora’s Srzecu.—A speech of Louis Kose sath, which has never been delivered, is pub. lished in several city papers. It relates to the Eesterr war, and shows how the allies have blundered in every particular, and would have done far better to make Louis Kossuth their general instead of Raglan or Saint Arnand. Among other things, it says that the war should have been commenced in Poland, whither the allies ought to have transported their troope— in balloons, it isto be presumed—and roused the Poles; with various other matters of equal wisdom and foresight. Kossuth came to this country with three speeches, which he spoke over and over again to gaping audiences, realizing by the operation a net profit of one hundred thousand dollars. How much does he get for this Jast speech, which was not spoken ? THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Further from Mexico. Baurmmons, Dec. 18, 1854. By the arrival of the Southern mail as late as due we have received New Orleans papers of Tuesday, contain- ing the latest Mexican news. ‘The Mexican papers give accounts of the elections in of General Santa Anna at Vera Cruz and the city . In the former city not asingle negative vote been received, and in the city of Mexico on the first day of voting twelve thousand four hundred and fifty- ‘two votes were thrown, with but one vote in the negs- tive, which, according to private letters, was thrown by @ carpenter named Mendoza. Accounts from other places had not been received. The voting was to continue for the next two succeeding days. ‘The newsin relation to the movements of the revolu- tionists is scanty. Aramor was reported in the papers that the city of Acapulco had pronounced against Alva- res, and nominated for Governor Don Thomas Moreno, ‘The town of Tejupileo, in the district of Sutlepec, was attacked on the 14th of November by a body of about fifteen hundred insurgents, under the command of Gen. Pinzon, and the attack continued during the 14th, 15th and 16th of that month, but was unsuccessful. The government despatches state that the insurgents were put to flight, with great loss of life, and had taken fp a position on the neighboring hills. . We find no notice in the Mexican papers of Genera) Alvarez, or ef any operations in the State of Guerrero, On the morning of the 27th ult. the government of Mexico received intelligence, by express from Michoacan, stating that the insurgents had attacked the city of Mo- relia with twenty-five hundred men and one picce of artillery, and that, after six hours fighting, the enemy were driven from the city, leaving in the streets and suburbs three hundred killed and a large number wounded. Their piece of artillery was captured, and a number of prisoners taken. The only loss spoken of as dl sustained by the government troops is the death of General Echaguray. The official despatches received at the seat of govern- ment state that the different bands of insurgents, under the command of Generals Huerta Pueblita, Arias Pinzon and others, had united for the purpose of attacking the city, and that the number of disaffected people who joined them in the town bad increased their numbers to more than three thousand five hundred, Theofficial accounts do not say that the insurgents lost their artillery We also learn from the Mexican papers that the am- nesty published by the government bad hada most hap- py effect, and that in the town of Coyuca alone General Tuboaja had received the adhesion of more than one thousand men under it. They also say that the insur- gent chiefs Ribas and Salinas had accepted it with their bands, and that several small towns had sent in resolu- tions of acceptance, A correspondent of the New Orleans Bee writes that the government ateounta of their triumphs over the re- volutionists are unworthy of credit, and that the reported surrender of Acapulco arose from the attempt of two of Alvarez’s generals to betray him. He had them exe- cuted in consequence, and sent their bodies to the gov. ¢rnment troops who were marching to take possession of the city. From Wi 6 THE DERD IN TRUST OF MESSRS. SELDEN, WITHERS AND 00. ‘Wasuixarox, Dec, 18, 1854. ‘The Globe publishes to-day the deed in trust of Mesers Selden, Withers & Co., occupying four columns of that paper, which directs that the trustees shall apply the assets of the firm, when realized, as follows: First—To all proper expenses of trust. Secondly—To the redemption of the bonds of the Vir- sinia and Tennessee Railroad Company, amounting to one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, and now in the hands of J. T. Sentter, of New York, the agent of the Bank of Hamburg; of Dennistoun, Wood and Co., of New York; and of the cashier of the Bank of Commerce of New York, Thirdly—To the redemption of notes issued payable to bearer, in notes of Virginia banks, under the name and denomination of Exchange Bank notes. Fourthly—To all other creditors, including the State Of Virginia, equally with the classes to be fully satisfied, in the order in which they are named. The third and fourth classes to share the fund as betwoen the members of said classes rateably. Any balances that may be due to the clerks or employeés of the firm to be taken as part of the first class of liabilities, and be paid equally with the expenses of trust. It ia aleo provided, that if said partners shall, within sixty days from the date of this deed, agree with the board of public works of Virginia, or other persons hav- ing authority to act for the State in any arrangement in relation to the debt due the State, it shall be the duty of the trustees in such an event, upon a call of the said partners, to deliver over to the agents of the States the bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to- gether with interest coupons and the arrears of interest, or such portions of them as the call of the said partners shall embrace in the fulfilment of the said arrangement, the said partners feeling an earnest desire to arrange the debt due the State upon terms satisfactory to all, and consistent with justice to their other creditors; if no such arrangement be made within the time specified, then the deed to stand asif no such provision as this last named were contained in it. Racixm, Wis., Dee. 18, 1854, ‘The schooner Whirlwind arrived here to-day with a part of the crew of the propeller Westmoreland, She reports the sinking of the propeller in twenty-five fathoms of water, eighteen miles this side of Sleeping Bear, and the loss of seventeen lives. —$——$_____ Destructive tions. ~ A ROLLING MILL IN ST. LOUIS DESTROYED. és Lovmvitte, Dec. 18, 1854. ‘We learn from St. Louis of the destruction by fire of the extensive rolling mill of Messrs. Chouteau, Harrison & Valle. Five hundred tons of unfinished work, and twelve hundred tona of iron that was undergoing the procesa of finishing in the building was destroyed, The total loss has not been ascertained. The building, ma- chinery, &¢., were insured for one hundred and ten thousand dollars. LARGE FIRE IN TROY. ‘Troy, Dee. 18, 1864. A fire broke put here Jast night, about one o'clock, in Dr. Thorne’s stable, in Albany street, in the roar of 68 Firat treet, and before it was extingniahed some six or egit barns and sheds, together with the French Cathe- Me chureh of £4, John the Baptist, in Ferry vee destroyed. Vive horses were ip at py ae the barss. The lose on the chureh is about $10,000, for which there is am insurance only of $2,500in the Me- chanica’ Mutual ef this city. The whole loss by the fre is put down at $12,000. The fire was the work of an in- cendiary. From PRILADELYELA, ‘The members of the City Councils, and a large number of the citizens started this morning by the Reading | saree to attend the opening of the Sunbury Rallroad, between Milton and Williamsport. The celebra- tion takes place at the latter place to-morrow. Most of the execursionists intend going on to Buffalo and Nie- gars Falls. Gnow is now falling here, and they can’t get. away, folks are consoling themselves with the proba- bility of the party being snowed up. John F. Obl, an enterprising and esteemed merchant of this city, died suddenly this morning, aged 00 years, Charles B. Peddie, a gold pen manufacturer, committed suicide here on Saturday, by swallowing prussic acid. ‘The cause was pecuniary difficulties. His remains were: taken to Newark, N. J., where his mother resides, Closing of Navigation at Wheeliug. Wuxruina, Dec. 18, 1854. Navigation remains closed here by ice, with but poor Prospecta of its opening immedistely. From ° STRAMER NORWICH FROZEN IN—WEATHER. Atsayy, Dec. 18, 1804. ‘The steamer Norwich, from Kingston on Saturday at 12 o’clock, arrived here at 2 o’clock last night, having experienced great difficulty and sustained much damage from the ice, her wheel being so badly broken as to be useless. The Norwich is frozen in in the basin here, aud is likely to remain sa until it becomes warmer, Teams at Castleton crossed on the ice within twenty feet of the Norwich. Snow fell during last night to tho depth of three inches, and the weather to-day is ex- tremely cold, the thermometer being ten degrees above ‘The Hendrik Hudson, which left New York on Saturday evening, is now opposite Bristol, but is expected up- « uring the day, Snow Storms at the East. \ Bostox, Dec. 18, 1854. About three inches of snow fell here last night, and the weather is still cloudy but meee Dee. 18, 1854. A heavy snow storm commenced here at 11 o’clock to- day, and the weather is very cold. peg es 18, 1854, About four inches of snow fell here Ste Sprmarmip, Dec. 18, 5 The snow here is about two inches deep. The weather is moderating, but continues cloudy. Pana) nt boers tna moraing, at the folowing quotations:— first morning, 0 follow! qu 8:— Reading Railroad, 2743 Morris 11; Long’ Island Ratlrosl, 12; Pennsylvania Railroad, 4034; Penasyivania Btate 6’s, 8034. The rates for money have ‘no change. BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. standing the diffe Tetveen the batese Notwit! rences between atehers pha ee “be bt ee inne offerings of cattle ware very meounting Raat He Tena, including 200 head of tee "patchers? - sociation, Sales of 160 kool made, at ranging from $2 75 a $4 on the . Hoge were in de- mand and the market firm, at $6 a $6 25 per bundred. Lor Dec. 18, 1854. It {s estimated that only two hundred aud eighty thousand hogs will be killed around the Falls this year. A For flour there is good deman: icipally for the East. Thirty-one hundred Sambal Pree Upper Lake wheat were sold to-day, at $1 77, to be delivered in Co- hoes. Dressed hogs are selling at 6c. a 63¢. per Jb. for te. ee : Borrato, Dec. -18, 1854.9) Flour.—Fiour is in moderate demat y, and wo have no change to note in quotations, The'stock of de- sirable brands on hand is very limited. Sales of 300 bbis. fancy Indiana at $8 87}¢; 100 bbls, fancy Wiscon. sin at $8 75, and 100 bbls. good Wisconsin at $850. ‘There is nothing doing in sxcegt in a retail way. Corn is nominal at 70c.; barley, $1 20; rye, $1 20, and scarce; oats, 40c. Whiskey is scarze and firm, 80 bbls. at S7c, Bales of City Politics. HARD SHELL PRIMARY ELECTIONS—NO FUSION, The national democracy held their primary elections last evening, between the hours of sixand seven. Ther was considerable feeling manifested in some of the wards between the so-called fusionists and the old line hards but asa thing, the; of uietly, By ee eee ates that the majority of the delegates elect are of the hard- est stripe of the national democracy. What has become of the fusion movement inaugurated in the Chinese As- sembly Rooms last Saturday evening, by John Cochrane? Does this look like its consummation? TIB 80FT SHELL PRIMARY ELECTION. At the last meeting of the Soft Shell General Commit- tee, Wednesday, the 20th instant, between the hours of 6and 7 P.M., was designated as the time when the General Committee for the ensuing year should de elected. Inspectors were also aj ted for the vari- ous wards. ‘ ‘WHIG PRIMARY ELECTIONS TO-DAY. In pursuance of the call of the Whig General Com- mittee an election will be held to-day, between the hours of8and9A.M. Five delegates to the General Committee, tive Committee, are to be chosen. It ia expected that ere will be Cg disturbance in some of the wards between the iw Nothings and the Seward whigs. boi verbinge tong Aaah a Arran, carry fore hard {0 tell what the day rie forth. ‘ CE.” Nisa Esq., at Northport, L. L.,on the 16th inst. She is owned by Van Brunt & Slaight, M. G. Smith and others, of this city, and is designed for the general freightiag business, Capt. John M. Weaver will command her. ect aye dR lgeentteeme a ing can toad jaant and dashing than the of the HAT f year. Sola for 88.50, at 16 Nasser pire, ose: Hats and Furs..Knox taken the shine off hats was his only forte, the superior beauty and much as he does the gents his beavers. His stores, at No. under the Preseett House, in of all whe desire hats or furs. to make a note of it. Anson's Jarge Stns Deguecresty pes, bad Saroe egewbere,. ANBON’S; 660 , appoaite Be RS U. B. patent, ‘invention taking two portraits at on at Brest net i a il g 3 of t cornices’ in the ity, Youths’ ant Children’s Clothing. Dargains in youthr’ and children’s clothing at the old stand of f. G. OLSSEN, 74 Bowery, who is sailing off Dis whole stock below cost, in order { ments in the storo, e