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44 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @FFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSSU AND FULTON ST. AIL V 2cents per WEEKLY HERALD every Saturduy, at Oe conte Ber copy, oF 88 per anuum: ihe European edition $1 per an, Bem ta any part of Gresi Britsin, a fo any ‘part of the Continent’ both to include postage. UNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor- tant neve, solicited from any quarter of’ the weorkde-ty peed will be Wecally pail for. sa OUR FoRRION ConREsPON- Dern anc PanriGUtaRLy REQuEsTED TO ocan ack Lurene avp lackacrs sent us. oan NU: TICE talon of anonymous Communications, We do return those rejected. “ALL LETTERS by Mail for Subscriptions or with Adver- Aigements to be post pat, or the portage wuld be deducted from money remit 208 i ‘RINTING ezecuted with neatness, cheapness, and “7OVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. Volume XX, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Marirana—Two Buzzanns. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Nonan Crava—Tux Locninvarn—CoLumnia’s Son. BURTON’S THEATRE, mbers street—PRripe wiLt wave & Fari—Soruia’s Surreen. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—A Tne Sistens—Ovur oy THE Looms. pana ane METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Eqvesrrian Prearonmanoxs—Lost 30n. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Tuz Drunxarnp Bvening—Ucoxrmo—Cockney iv CHa, WOOD'S VARIETIES—Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway—Bueu- asy’s Eruorian Orena Trouper. TO-NIGHT. METROPOLITAN THEATRE—Sunpay Conosnr. New York, Sunday, January 7, 1855. ‘The News. Im the House of Representatives at Washington, yesterday, leave was asked to introduce a resolution ealling on the President to furnish a list of persons holding situations in the departments, designating ‘those appointed since March 4, 1853, and stating the number of foreign birth ; leave was not granted. My. Ready introduced a joint resolution, which was passed, excluding the Superintendent of public printing and public printers from the benefit of the resolution giving extra compensation to the em- ployés of the iegislative department of the govern- ment. Mr. Clingman made a persona! explanation yelative to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and himself. The House then went into Committeo of the Whole, and after passing neventeen private bills, adjourned until Tuesday. i ia stated in our Washington despatch that large mambers of men are being enrolled by Col. Kinney’s reeruiting agents. Recruits are required to pay 925 in advance, and to be at Baltimore for embarka- tion, and sre promised six hundred and forty acres ef land and three hundred dollars at the end of the year. From the report of the City Inspector we learn that there were 471 deaths in this city last week— an increase of 25 over the preceding week. Of these 97 were men, 115 women, 143 boys and 116 gith: During the week 70 persons died of con- sumption, a mortality no doubt induced by the con- timued inclement weather. Thirty-three deaths are reported from inflammation of the lungs; 11 from inflammation of the bowels; 11 from conges- tien of the brain; 11 from congestion of the lungs; 11 from debility; 13 from diar- rheea, and 5 from dysentery. Croup carried off 21 victims; convulsions 31; scarlet fever 20; typhus fever 8; atrophia 7; bronchitia 9; dropsy 9; dropsy im head 11; hooping cough 5; marasmus 12, and measles 4. Ten premature births, 34 sti!l-bora cases, 2 suicides by cutting of throat, 1 murder by Deating, and 1 by shooting, are reported. There were nine deaths from old age. Of tho entire number, 142 were under 1 year old. ‘Bwenty-six deaths occurred at Ward’s Island; 14 at Bellevnoe Hospital, 2 at the Peniten- tiary, Blackwell’s Iaand, 2 a Randall’a Island, 3 at {s. Vincent’s Hospital, 6 at City Hospital, and 9 at the Almshouse. The nativity table states that 273 ‘were natives of the United States, 111 of Ireland, 26 ot England, 4 of Scotland, 42 of Germany, and 3 of France. There were one hundred and fifty-seven deaths in Philadelphia during the past week. As some foul play was suspected in the case of the young woman found dead in a room of the house No. 24 Rose street, on the 4th instant, the @oroner yesterday held an inquest on the body. The evidence taken tended to implicate John Nuhn, the occupant of the room, and after the examiaa- tion of Dr. Uhl, who had made a post mortem exa- mination, the jury returned a verdict that the de- eeased came to her death by poison, and they had “zeason to believe that it was administered by Join Nuho.” Nuhn was committed to prison. A report will be found elsewhere. A delegation of the “Veterans of the war of 1812” left yesterdsy for Washington, to attend the “Con. vention of the Soldiers of the warof 1812,” which meeta in that city tomorrow. They will also take part in the fortieth anniversary of the battle of New O-leans. Those of the Ve'erans who are in the city ‘will give a ball at Niblo’s saloon to-morrow evening, which it is to be hoped will be well attended. The motion to appoint Commissioners in the mat ter of opening Albany street, was yraterday, on motion of the Counsel to the Corporation, postponed to the 13th instant. Early yesterday morning « fire took place in a sheepskin leather factory situated in Forty-third street, destroying it and damaging several other fwame buildings. A fire occurred last evening in the store of Henry Rhode, 174 Broadway, under Howard’s Hotel, corner of Maiden lane. It did not extend beyond the store. A report of the fire will be found in another colame. A opecial election has been ordered by the Go- wernor to be held on the 30th inst.,in the Senatorial trict No. 29, compri ing the counties of Ontario and Livingston, to fill the vacancy caused by the of Myron H. Clark. ‘We have received oar files of the Singapore Bi Monthly Circular, dated to the lst of November Rast. The imports ot gold and gold dust during a ended on thet day, amounted to 928 Dbuncals from the Archipelago. The rates reported for Australian are:—$29 to $294 for bars, and $23 to $284 per buncal for dust. Exports as above nf. A bill yesterday passed the [ilincis House of repealing all license laws. Henry J. Gardner, the Governor elect of Massa- ebusetts, will be inaugurated on Tuendsy. Tas So War Sreamers.—The six steam frigates ordered at the last session of Congress, are, we understand, slowly being constructed at different navy yards. Weregret to be assured, however, that they will be constructed upon the old fogy eystem of the Department at Wash- ington, adapted to a speed of from six to eight miles anhour. What a pity that, with the nu- merous and beautiful improvements in the strength, capacity and swiftness of war steam- ers, a6 suggested in our ocean mail steamships— what a pity that the old chaps in the Navy De- partment will still blindly persist in their old fogy notions! Cannot Congress do something in this business? Have the Naval Com nittees of the two houses no discretion in the matter? We should like to hear. Our Cabinet, in spite of Mercy, may blunder into a war; aad we should like to know, in view of this contin- , whether we are to have tubs or ships jo which to confront the enemy upon the sea. Tubs or ships ? VOL. XX: important from Madrid—Our Relations with Spatn—Tactics of Soule. According to our London and Paris corres- Pondence, published in yesterday’s Heratn, our minister at Madrid in his conferences with the new Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, has fallen back upon the “soothing system,” very much tothe surprise and mystification of the diplomatic circles of the French and Eng- lish capitals, They ask, “what is in the wind now?” Bot in their conjectures they fall short of the real solution of this assumption of the eha- racter of a peace messenger, by our belligerent Monsieur Soulé, The true solution is simple enough. It was necessary that our warlike minister should put on the domino of a peace maker, in order to obtain @ hearing of M. Luznriaga. Those duels, the rupture with M. Pacheco, Queen Isabella’s former Minister of Foreign Relations, giving him twelve hours notice to answer an ultimatum of peace or war; the Spanish news- paper controversy, implicating our ambassador in the schemes of the Madrid sans culottes for @ counter revolution; his mysterious departure from Spain; his suspicious presence at the Os- tend Convention; his brotherly familiarities with the continental refugees in London; the order of Louis Napoleon interdicting his return to Spain through the French territories; the facts connected with the revoca- tion of that interdict, and in all these things the well established filibustering and domineer- ing proclivities of Soulé, had put the Espar- tero Cabinet fully upon the defensive. Hence, on the return of our Minister to Madrid from his diplomatic and filibustering Presidential mission in the north, Espartero and his asso- ciates received him with cold indifference. It was evident that he had been overdoing the thing. It was manifest that as he stood, fresh from the refugee and Young American reunions at London, the Espartero goverament had re- solved to have nothing further officially to do with him. His only resource, then, was the soothing system; and he has availed himself of his first opportunities to this end accordingly. Hence his protestations of peace to Lazuriaga, which the wily Spaniard appears to have received with some misgivings, but which, nevertheless, have broken the ice, and paved the way for a resumption of negotiations, This was the sole purpose of Soulé under this disguise of an in- nocent dove bearing the olive branch of peace. In due time we shall see him transformed, with a French accent, into the enraged American eagle, terrible to look upon, with his ultimatum of indemnity or war. Soulé is a polite and accomplished gentle- man, thoroughly conversant with all the smooth- est qualities of French, Spanish aod American courtesy. In his travels through France he disarmed even the hard-hearted government spies detailed to watch his movements; and when stopped at Calais by the Emperor’s or- der, the suavity and elegance, and silky po- liteness of our minister so far excited the admi- ration of the imperial officials that they were almost persuaded to let him pass at a venture. It is not surprising, therefore, that the conci- liatory stratagem adopted by Soulé on his re- turn to Madrid, should have been successful in removing the chief obstacles to a renewal of negotiations, Voluntarily disclaiming the cha- racter and the intentions of a filibustero, it is quite natnral that our auassador should cease to be regarded as an incendiary. We, however, regard the gaining of this im- portant point as a concession fall of danger to the Spanish government, and to the pacific relations still osteasibly subsisting between that government and oure. We will suppose that these pacific and amiable declarations of Soulé to Senor Luzuriaga resalt ia the re-open- ing of negotiations upon the Black Warrior and other Cuban outrages against our citizen and commerce; for, they are the cards which our hero is to play. Offers of money for the cession of the isiand of Cuba, considering the uncertain tenure or solidity of the Espartero administration, are wholly out of the question. We shall vot get Cuba within six months; nor, perhaps, for se- veral years to come. We will suppose, then, that Soulé re-opens his budget of Cuban out- rages, and demands “indemnity for the past and security for the future.’ What, then, re- membering his antecedents, the Ostend league, and his extraordinary penchant for hot water— what, then, are we to expect? A humiliating requisition upoa the Spanish Cabinet—twelye hours’ notice—an indignant negative—a de- mand by our happy minister for his passports, and his return to the United States, blazing and crackling as a firebrand of war. Such, we apprehend, will be the ultimatum of these pacific protestations to the new Span- ich Mivister of Foreign Affairs. The first point is gained. The next is easy enough—a de- mand for reparation, indemnity and security, which the poor and proud Spanish nation wil! repel with scorn. The third, or a rupture with the Spanish Cabinet, will follow next, in re- gular order. Soulé, when this is accomplished, will, of course, return, by express to Wash- ington, excite a flareup with Marcy, an explo- sion in the Cabinet, a new Cabinet upon a war foooting; and perhaps, if Congress in the mean- time shall have adjourned, we may also be startled with an extraordinary convocation of the two houses, a war message, and acall upon the “ Order of the Lone Star” and the Cuban juntas, from New York to New Orleans, to “let slip their dogs of war.” It is understood that our administration is now concocting a belligerent message to Con- gress upon our Spanish relations; and we shrewedly suspect that this message is only de- layed in anticipation of a row at Madrid. Within three months we count upon the final departure of Soulé from that capital with a casue belli in his pocket. Break Ur or tae Harv Saeris.—The hard shell committees are enjbying themselves in fighting lustily over the remoant of their power end their prestige. Only a few months ago, they outnumbered the softs in this State, and made Joud professions of loyalty to the consti- tution and sound priuciple. Bat it was all sham. The first national measure broke them up in Congress, and the glittering bait of the epvila completed their ruin. All who could ob- tain the offer of @ bribe broke off from the others, and now the whole party does not con- sist of over a handful of office seekers, who meet to brawl at the old headquarters of the faction. Thus perishes every party in this country which is not based on some broad national principle. “The cohesive power of the public plunder” may help principle to keep men together; but it can- not work alone. May the hard shell corpse Fest in peage, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1856. The pablic will learn from documenjs pub- lished elsewhere that, on the 8th of lastmonth, Pope Pius IX. declared it to be an i n- sable article of the Roman Catholic that the Virgin Mary was conceived immaculate or without original sin. The point hal long engaged the attention of the faithful; ani now, we are told by one apparently well qualified to judge of the Roman Catholic mind, its selution “has given joy to the world,” and may effect ‘the pacification of the nations and a general prostration of heretical and persecuting farces.”” It is hardly worth while examining the giounds on which the Catholic writer founds his expec- tation that a Papal bull relative to the Virgin Mary will demolish Protestantism, or setile the Tarkich question. In these latter days, Popes are not used to wield any euch influence, and their bulls are not per se more formidable than the decrees of Protestant synods or secular monarchs. But whatever exaggeration this last act of his Holiness may provoke among Catholic enthusiasts, there can be no qrestion but it possesses much real importance, and reveals a depth of purpose and an accuracy of discernment that few had expected from the conciave at St. Peter’s. Bigoted Protestants and superficial sceptics may sneer at the reli- gious view of the question; it may serve to point frivolous jokes and indecent sarcasms; but neither the one nor the other can detract from the true significance of the act, It tells plainly as language can that Pius IX., awaken- ing from the lethargy in which he has lain since the reaction of 1849, has once more set himself with his ancient vigor to the practical business of his office, and to the strengthening of the Church of Rome. For, it must never be forgotten, thé most salient of the dietinctions between the various forms of Paganism and Christianity lies in the manner in which female character is dealt with in both. Inthe Greek and Roman mythology— as in the farrago of monstrosities which served the most enlightened nations of the East as a religion—female virtue was a thing unknown, undreamt of. Their goddesses were models, not of godliness, but of prurient vice end immora- lity. By their lives,as told in poets’ numbers, they taught blind submission to every sensual impulse, and set an example which could not have been without fruit in the most virtaous community. Naturally prone to indulgence, the ancient nations rather encouraged than frowned upon the besetting eins of which their mythology furnished them with so attractive a sample. Laws, based upon noreligious grounds, and resting solely on abstract principles of s0- cial convenience, interposed but a feeble bar- rier to vice; especially when poetry, ari and sentiment were arrayed on the opposite side. Thus it came about that when the nations reached the highest period of civilization, their women reached also the climax of depravity; a point not surpassed though possibly render- ed more hideous and repulsive in the dark days of national decline. The mother of all vices—female immorality—rose with the power of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome; flourished most openly when their lustre shone brightest; and when their sun set, the loathsome deformity was the only trace of their former state which was religiously pre- coor Asgust which this unvarying charac- teristic of the old mythologies must have pro- duced in the minds of thinking men, mach of the early success of Christianity must doubt- ess be ascribed. It was a new thing to see a religion the only female in whose mythology was commended to the world’s adoration by her purity alone. Fathers and husbands must have been strongly inflaznced by the vast dif- ference between the disreputable Venus of their own faith and the pure, gentle, undefiled Mary of the Christians. Aware as they mast have been of the persicious example of the heathen goddesses, it was natural to expect that a re- ligion in which a pure virgin was the model for imitation shoald exercise at least as power- fal an influence in the opposite direction. Nor were they mistaken. With the first progress of Christianity, a vast revolution began to be wrought in the condition of woman. Love ceased to be wholly sensual, as it had always been before: women were no longer mere ani- mals; their spiritual nature vas developed, and from being the jest of philosophers, female purity became an object of universal respect end worship. Then woman rose to her proper sphere in the world’s economy, as the help meet for man, and the fountain of all! that is pare, gentle, amiable. From out the transfor- mation sprung at once chivalry, the light of the middie age, and the father of mo- dern civilization; and woman, then first elevated to a rank in whieh the noble qualities of her sex could be developed, bore hamanity’s torch in advance of the rader sex, and repaid a part of her debt to religion by clothing its dogmas with her own charms, Had there been no Virgin Mary in the Christian re- ligion, civilization might yet have been un- known. How much we owe to that feature of our faith it were impossible to teil. Certain it is that almost every quality in which we deem our- telves superior to the heathen can be traced, more or less directly, to the humanizing infla- ence of that ideal model of female excellence. In this view, at a time when Christianity’s hold upon theheart is becoming daily feebler, the effort made by Pope Pius to recall to mind the debt civilization owes to the Virgin cannot but be regarded as a sagacious step. There may be much in the ecclesiastical forms to provoke criticiem or ridicule; but the main end of the decree is fraught with excellent parpose. The world requires to be reminded that before Christisnity, female virtue was not; and that if modern society boasts that claim to prefer- ence over ancient, it is altogether due tothe example set eighteen handred years ago by the mmaculate Virgin of Judea. How far the attempt will avail in checking ‘he progress of religious indifference remains to be seen. There is little poetry left in the world, and the beneficent example of the pore Virgin has been weil nigh exhaust- ed. AJl the tendencies of the age work against it. Education is fatal to mytholo- gical allegories. Free institutions conflict with papal cecrees. Bat all are not enlight- ened, or educated, or free ; and the Pope’s last struggle on behalf of his church evinces mach tact and skill. It must have a trial. When the women of America, having outstripped the men in the race of utilitarianism, are striving at conventions aad meetings to degrade their sex to the rank it held before the Christian era, every effort to give éc/at and prominence to she true feminine virtues—parity and sinlese- ners—abould be heartily applauded, Evrorean Ionorance oF AMERICAN AFPAIRS.— It is only a few weeks since the London Illustrated News got universally laughed at for the gross ignorance of the institutions of this country which it displayed in confounding theelection of the Governor of the State of New York with thet of the head of. the federal | executive, It will be seen by the letter of our | Paris correspondent that a writer in the Presse has just done us the favor of singling us out as | the object of some equally ridicalous blunders. | In his articles on the American press, which | are marked by all the superficial smartness and carelessness as to facts that distinguish the Paris feuilletoniste, M. Bellegarrigae | after paying a fair tribute to the talent and enterprise which have placed the Herap at the head, not only of the American press but of that of Europe, proceeds to say that its popularity and circulation had been in some degree impaired by the part which it had taken with regard to the administration of General Pierce and the Know Nothing organi- zation. A writer must take very little pains indeed to inform himselt upon the matters of which he treats, when he makes statements so entirely at variance with the factsas the above. Had he known a little more of this country, or been familiar with the most ordinary sources of information as regards the statistics of its press, he would have been aware that at no period since its foundation has the New York Heratp attained so high a pitch of prosperity as during the advocacy of the parti- cular views to which he refers. Its opinions with regard to General Pierce’s administration are those of the country at large; and the prin- ciples of the new political organization to which it has thus far held out encouragement, believing them to be the only safeguard against the degeneracy and corruption of the old par- ties, bid fair to have as wide spread and univer- sal a currency. Had M, Bellegarrigue noted the results of our late State elections, he would have seen that the Heratp had no popularity to lose by its sympathy with the Know No- things, Any further doubts, however, that he may entertain on the subject he can easily solve, by reference to the affidavits respecting our circulation deposited in the Comptroller’s office, and @ copy of which he will find in the Heratp file for December last, at Galignani’s, or at the office of our agents, Mesers. Livingston, Wells & Co. He will there see our daily circulation in that month, set down at little short of seventy thousand—a larger amount than any other daily journal in the world can boast of, Ovr Forzren Postat RELATions.—The ocean mail service is one of the most important sub- jects which will be brought before Congress during this session. Since the establishment of the Co)lins line of steamships we have en- joyed the advantages of speedy and frequent communication with all parts of Europe, at Teasonable rates of postage. Previous to that time we had no postal treaty with England. Each enclosure was counted as a separate let- ter—thus, a bill of exchange enclosed in a let- ter made it double, and forty-eight cente post- age was charged. By the treaty the mail was divided between the Collins and Cunard steamers, and the rule of weight as the stand- ard of postal charges was adopted. Now, we may send half adozen enclosares under one envelope, and if it does not exceed the stan- dard weight, the letter is charged only a single postage. This immense advantage is solely owing to the Collins steamships. The busi- ners is an immense item in commercial affairs, The Pacific, om her last trip, took out sixty- seven thousand letters. Had the old postage rules been in force, the account would have probably reached fifty thousand dollars. Thus it is apparent that the Collins line has saved our merchants a great deal of expense, The Albany Journal has an excellent article | on this sabject, which we quote:— THE COLLINS STEAMERS. The question of enabling this magnificent line of Ame- rican steamers to continue their weekly voyages across the Atlantic, with a regularity which almost defles the elements, is again before Congress. Some desire that the ernment should terminate a contract with Mr. Col- ins for carrying the United States mails. Without pay- ment for this service—a service previously perfor: by British steamers—there could have been no American ror Bog the scheme was too formidable for unaided en- terprise. @ steamers themselves are noble specimens of naval architecture. In speed and accommodations they are unrivalled, So far, though these steamers have been performing constantly for five years, not a dollar of their earnings has yet been returned to stockholders. But though no cash dividends have been realized, their proprietors have enjoyed the distinction of seeing their ‘vessels bridging the Atlantic Ocean #0 gracefully as to challenge the world’s admiration. The pride, if not the pockets of stockholders, has been compensated. While no enterprise is more worthy of support, or en- Joys more largely the popular favor, it encounters oppo- sition. What enterprise, however lofty in purpose or beveficent in results, ever failed to occasion jealousies ? fo far, the government has aided in sustaining the best Une of steamers in the world, for which aid the line has formed its mail service with great regularity, return- to the Post Office Department nearly as much ‘money ae it draws from the treasury. The opposition to the Collins Jine is based on some feelings of petty jealousy of the glory and prosperity of New York; but there should be enough patriotism in Congress to put down such meanness. The Collins steamers are justly considered as one of the proudest examples of American progress and improvement; and as such the line is entitled to the support of the government, even if it returned nothing. But when ‘it is clearly proved that the line has really been of the greatest advantage to our merchants and others interested in cheap ocean postage and rapid eommunication, Congress should not hesitate a moment in the course to be purrued. Tax Mayor anv THe DeraRruents.—We un- derstand that Mayor Wood, in the exercise of bis concurrent authority with the heads of de- partments, has demanded certain informstion from the governors of the Almshouse, and has met with a prompt refusal. The question has been referred to Mr. Robert J. Dillon, the Coun- sel of the Corporation, for his opinion. It i greatly to be feared that he will decide adverse ly to the Mayor and the public interests. Mr. Dillon, as Counsel for the Corporation, receives business which nets him something like $30,000 ayear. This be obtained, it is said, by an ar rangement with his competitors for the office, whereby the unsuccessful applicants are con- soled by an occasional slice of the plunder, and meanwhile Mr. Dillon is fast feathering his nest. It is natural, under these circumstances, that Mr. Dillon should be a conservative and a bitter foe to revolution in any shape. Should Mayor Wood persevere in the reforms he promises, a collision with the Corporation Counsel would be inevitable sooner or later—and the latter may anticipate it by deciding in favor of the governors of the Almhouse on this question, We have no information on the point—but only deem euch an event likely. If it occurs, Mayor Wood's projects will receive a fatal check, and the era of misgovernment will continue for a time. It fs consoling to think that Mr. Dillon’s | | own fate reste in the balance. Wise my Viner avn Sewarp 1s New York. —Henry A. Wise in Virginia, and W. H. Seward in New York, are the chosen champions of their respective partizans against the Kaow Nothings. But the tactics of the chivalric Virginian and the steathy New Yorker are as widely different as day and night. Our Richmond correspondent aptly compares the gallant Virginia “rene- gade whig”’ to the brave and dauntless Don Quixotte, monnting his Rosinante, and boldly sallying out in broad daylight to attack the Know Nothing windmills wherever he can fiad them. Seward, on the contrary, is like the meaking Camanche Indian, stealing into the camp of the white man under cover of dark- ness, and carrying off the spoils. In this way he has been picking up all the loose odds and ends of the abolition camp, the Know Nothing camp, the Irish Catholic camp, the temperance camp, and the wholesale and retail grogshops. The probabilities are, however, that Wise wiil be put hors du combat, from an ambuscade of the invisible enemy, and that Seward will be taken in his own toils, The result in Virginia depends very much upon the result at Albany. Wise and the saministration are scarcely less interested in Seward’s re-election than Seward himself. We await the result. Norice tro ovr New Terecrarmic Corres- PoNDENT aT Wasuineton.—Our new telegra- phic correspondent at Washington, who appears to have free access to the arcana of the State Department and the Kitchen Cabinet, will, we hope, continue his researches into the still hid- den secrets of the Ostend league and its Earo- pean revolutionary and American Presidential bearings. Having given us the original projét of A. Dudley Mann, we should now like a spe- cimen or two of the confidential explanatory letters of Soulé, Mason and others, A docu- ment or two from Belmont on the subject of the Rothschilds and the Russian loan, lately agitated in the newspapers, would also be very interesting at this time. A Nove.ty ror THE THEATRES.—Burton and Wallack have been very active, this season, in bringing forward novelties. Burton has given us “The Upper Ten,” “The Heart of Gold,” “Apollo in New York,” “A Nice Young Man,”’ and several other pieces. Wallack has brought out several clever adaptations from elegant French comedies, and an original five act play. ‘We would now recommend to these worthy managers the dramatizing of the lives of the three greatest chevaliers of the present time— the Chevaliers Greeley, Barnum and Wikoff. The life of Greeley is a record of unsuccessful attempts at Fourierism and newspaper editing; of Barnum, of successful attempts at swind- ling; of Wikoff, of unsuccessful attempts at love and politics, Such a play would be sure to draw. Let us have all the chevaliers in their own original and peculiar style of cos- tume. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Wi ARRIVAL OF SOLDIERS AND INDIANS—COLONEL KINNEY’S RECRUITING AGENTS--UNITED STATES SUPREME OOURT. The arrival here of over a thousand of the soldiers and ndians engaged in the war of 1812 makes the city quite ively The Indian delegation is in charge of General E, W. Benson; Henry Weston, Sachem; Samuel George, Chief of the Onondagas; Peter Wilson, Sachem of the Cayugas; John Beechtree, Sachem of the Oneidas; Joha Bennett and Jacob Bennett, young chief warriors; Jocob Shengs, Seneca war chief; Daniel Bread, war chief, from Green Bay; Jacob Rowlis, war chief, from Western New, York; and Dr. John 8. Denny, State Interpreter. Kinney’s recruiting agents are enrolling a considerable number of men. Recruits are offered six hundred and forty acres each, and three hundred dollars at the end of the year, but they are to pay twenty-five dollars in advance, and be at Baltimore for embarkation. The following cases will come before the United States Supreme Court next week:—Monday, 8th—No. 3, State of Florida vs. the State of Georgia. Wednesday, 10th—No. 40, West vs. Cochrane. Friday, 12th—No. 1, The United States vs. Coxe; No. 42, Burchell vs. March, The Maine Legislature—The Governor’s Mes= 5 sage. AvGusra, (Me.,) Jan. 6, 1855. The Legislature of this State elected, to-day, Alden Jnckson, Eaq., Secretary of State, by one hundred and thirty-four votes against thirty-three for T. F. Boynton. ‘The Governor’s Councillors were also elected, em- bracing three whigs, three Morrill democrats, and one free soiler. Gvoernor Morrill’s message occupied half an hour in its delivery, and embraced few topics other than of local interest, The message was strong on those distinctive points to which the Governor owed his election, namely: Temperance, free soi] and naturalization. He recom- mends a short session, economy in State expenditures, and the passage of new laws. Governor Crosby went home this afternoon, appa- rently rejoicing in his release from office. Passage of a Bill in the Itlinols Legislature Repealing the License Laws. Cmoeaeo, (.,) Jan. 6, 1855. A Dill passed in the House of Representatives of this State, to-day, repealing all license laws, by a vote of 51 to 21. From Philadelphia. THE CHARGE AGAINST THB COMMERCIAL BANK OF PHILADELPHIA. Pur.apetrua, Jan. 6, 1855, The charge against the Commercial Bank of this city is now being heard in the Supreme Court of this State. Affidavits were presented, charging the officers of the bank with discounting paper at usurious rates after the clone of bank hours, and on account of which the re- ceipts between May and November had amonnoted to over eleven thousand dollars. While the argument was pending, the Judge suggest- ed, an matter of inquiry, whether the court had juris- diction, as the charge apparently was a criminal one, over which the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction, ex- cept to review the decisions of inferior courts. From Boston. STATE COUNCILLORS—INAUGURATION OF THB GOVER- NOR, ETO. Boston, Jan. 6, 1866. ‘The Legislative caucus, in secret session last night, selected the following ticket for State Councillors:— Benjamin H. West, of Boston; C. D Hunkins, of Haver- hill; Elmer Bridgman, of Westboro’; Horace 1, ) Of Greenfield; John WV. Foster, of Brimfeld; Chandler K. Ransom, of Roxbury; David Davis, of Kdgartown. For Secretary of State, Ephraim M. Wright was renominated by acclamation. Henry J. Gardner, the Governor elect, will be inaugur- ated on Tuesday next, when he will, most probably, de- liver his address. Rev. Lyman Whiting was to-day elected the chaplain of the Senate. State of the Weather, Catars, Me., Jan 6—8 A. M. The weather here is clear and fine, and the thermo. meter is down to zero, Wind N. N. W. Eastport, Jan 6—8 A. M. The weather is thick and cold, and indicates an ap- proaching snow storm. Bangor, Jan. 6—8 A, M. A cold, clear morning—wind northeast. PorTLAaND, Jan. 6—8 A. M, Weather cloudy, and looks like snow. Thermometer ‘ten degrees above sero, MONTREAL, Jan. 6—6 A. M, Thermometer ten degrees above zero. Weather cloudy. Ooomvencna, (N. Y.,) Jan. 6—9 A. M Thermometer sixteen degrees above zero. Weather | cloudy. Burtaneton, (Vt.,) Jan. 6—9 A. M. Weather cold and cloudy. Wind south Concorn, (N, H.,) Jan. 6—9 A. M. ‘The thermometer stands at eighteen degrees above vero here. The weather is cloudy, The Southern Mall. Bautimons, Jan. 6, 1855. ‘We have no mail this morning south of Augusta. The Charleston papers speak of the horse transporta- tion of the inails as having gone into cperation, but the papers still continue to arrive here in the usual time. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, PuiLapetrata, Jan. 6, 1855. Stocksare dull. Reading, 3714; Morris Ci ae Long Islend Raslroad, 1334; Pennsylvania 4255 New Onuxans, Jan. 4, 1855, Pennsylvania fives, 814¢. ‘The Asia’s news, received a this city at noon to-day, caused a better and firmer feeling in our cotton market, the sales reaching 9,600 bales, Sterling exchange is quoted at 634 a 74g per cont premium, Arrival of the Glasgow. The British screw steamship Glasgow, from Glasgow, arrived yesterday morning, with about one hundred pas- sengers. Progress of the Municipal Revolution. ‘THE PEOPLE CONSTITUTED A GENERAL COMMITTER ON THE CONDITION OF THE CITY—THEIR REPORTS: ‘TARREON— REPORTS OF THE POLICE, ETC. The number of complaints recorded on the book at the Mayor's office increases daily. The public are beginning” to realize the importance of this register, and they have, so far, displayed an active desire to assist in carrying out the objects for which it bas been opened. By it every citizen igiconstituted.s committee of one to report any nuisanee“which should be abated, and any negle:t of duty on the part of those employed by the city govern- ment, whetker police officers, contractors, street inspec- tors, or others. Each complainant is required to give his name and residence, to state the nature ef the grievance or nuisance, and the name of the party against: whom he makes the complaint. This statement is en- tered in due form upon the register, and the proper au- thorities are at once notified, when the matter is attended to. The plan is quite simple, and as it is easily under- stood, every person should lend his assistance in carry- ing it into effect. We are glad to see that those who are unable to attend at the Mayor’s office to make their complaints in person, have, in accordance with our suggestion, adopted the equally effective mode of stating them in the form of » communication. The perceptible improvement in the appearance of many of the streets, is the best evidence that can be given of the operation of the new system, and if the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps enforces his orders with the same strictness, there is no reasom why any thoroughfare in the city should not be as clean an the cleanest. . The following are the reports made by citizens and by the Police:— CITIZENS’ REPORT OF NUISANCES, ETC. That the Harlem and New Haven Railroad companies encumber the Fourth avenue, by permitting their freight: and passenger trains of cars to remain 0} ite Thirty- second street, ro that renee int to cross are compelled to go to the block below. That the sewer in Whiteball street is caving in, and tly endangering the lives of persons travelling rough the street. ‘That Hallett, Dow & Young, corner of Water and Wall streets, encumber Water street, near Wall, witn three S. ‘That the owner of premises No. 12 Amity place has @ nuisance in the yard in the rear of his houre. That Chatham street, from Pearl to Duane, is in a fil- thy condition, and has not been cleaned for the last month, That the sidewalk and street in the rear of the Post ote is continually obstructed with mail bags and coal en. That the slaughtering establishment at the foot of Nineteenth street, North river, is a nuisance. ‘That Baxter street, from Chatham to Walker, and Bayard street, from Bowery to ve not cleaned during the winter, and are in a filthy condition. That Benson street, from Leonard street to rear of 358 Broadway, is in a very filthy condition; and that the oc. cupant of No. 7 Benson street encumbers the stsect with old iron and boilers. That Sixteenth street, between Seventh and end avenues, is encumbered b; bao and drays standing inthe street; that the sidewalk is also obstructed by charcoal boxes and other articles, and that the street has not been cleaned for a length of time. ‘That Pine street, from Broadway to Nassau street, is in a filthy condition, the mud Velag neart; ay That Fourteenth street, from Union to avenue, is ina filthy condition, not ha been swept for a long time. That goats and hogs are allowed to run atlerge in Twenty fifth «treet, ‘teenth ward, committ! nuis- ance on the stoops and sidewalks, and skrubbery. The occupant of house 69Seventh street (on the same bleck with or,) complains of a nuisance origi- nating from the adjoin' premises, 71 Seventh street, which is covered by a tenant house, owned by Patrick Brady, of East Broadway. A sewer made of earthen tiles is laid from the privy or water closet of house 71, along the cellar wall of 69, which, having been laid, 8 tly at times, and always ina heavy raim the cont run into the cellar of house 69, causing such an effluvia that it is unsupportable, and detrimen- tal to health. REPORTS OF THE POLICE. Ninth Ward.—Hamersley, Clarkson, Downing, Cor- nelia, Gansevoort, West Twelfth and Thirteenth s, are reported asin a most filthy condition. The Inspec- tor intormed the police captain of this district that on account of the weather for the past few days it had been fy ge to remove the filth; but he assures him that as fast as it becomes in a condition to cart it away . oe be removed, and the streets kept clean here- after. Eleventh Ward.—Complaints from almost every street in this ward are made to the captain. The carts, he says, do not call for their ashes, and f some instances have not called fora week. They also neglect to ring their bell on their reunds, Some of the streete have, however, been cleantd, but none have been swe) in a proper manuer; and altogether the ward is in a plorably dirty condition. Twenty-first Ward.—The Third avenue, from Twenty- sixth to Fortieth street, is in a filthy condition, the mud in some places being three inches deep; as is also Thirty- second street, from Fourth to Lexi: mm avenue. The top stone of the culvert corner of Thirtieth street and Third avenue, is broken and in a dangerous condition. Twenty-second Ward.—In relation to the streets of this ward the captain says:—‘ It is hardly necessary to complain of any one in particular, for they are all in a. very filthy convition, although there has been some im- provement made in cleaning the gutters and cl away the arhes, which would not have been done but ford e stringent ie regulations of the Mayor.”” imps Not Lit ponite 147 Waverley place, 35 Washington street, 7 Creenwich 10 and 80 Ham- mond street, corner of Waverley place and Hammond street, corner of Twelfth street and Seventh avenue, 10 Grove street, 55 Hamersley street, 60 Leroy street, 35 Jane street, centre of Abingdon square, corner Morton and Greenwich streets, corner of Leroy and Greenwich streets, West street near Hamersley, 201 Sixth avenue, 169 Eleventh street, corner of Greenwich avenue and Eleventh street, 8 Jane street, 71 Eighth avenue, Thir- teenth street near Hudson, Hudson street near Four- teenth, 29 Greenwich avenue, 24 Charles street, two om Eleventh street, one in Goerck three in Stanton. street, one in Mangin street, four in street, Twell street, one in Bight srw, Wied ant Green the f atreets an b: in tonal darkness ‘aeaty a night: avenue, fom 4 Sixty-second to Righty sixth street; Seventy-first street, from Third to Fifth avenue; Seventy: ninth street, from Third to Fifth avenue; Eightieth street, from Second to ; Eighty-first street, from Second to Third Fighty-second street, from Third to Fourth ave-~ hty-fourth street, from Avenue A to Pifth ave- hty-fifth street, from Third to Fifth avenue; Kighty-sixth street, from Fast river to Fifth avenue, Personal Intelligence. Col. Doniphan has recovered from the injuries he re- ceived by the upsetting of the stage last week. AA the Howard totel-Hon Joel W ows ’ a ; Bd- rd Crane, Boston HN: Siater, Frovidenees Gr ky Feed, A , Norwioh; Dr. a 5 bon, in bark Swan— Rossetti, and The- F Migacae re eal Thos oe rom Mar eeitien, in lennese— rahe, From Cardenas, in bark Esccriaza—M John Cook.” DEPARTURES, scamabip, Keoxvilie—Rev Geo and Indy, Miss Jane = a) Sto: age, Me (oimes, JI Stephenson. & Sears, Jno D- B Youag, usan Holm His, Jom phon Me ER Morris Smith, A ‘A Crocheros, b the Jamestown—Mr If Manning, Ke, Mary MeCance, Robert 4 on Mr per "Mise Freeman, KP Heaeb, A Kw * Kose, Mire ser, De Kol te irs Neely tnd von, Metra? One W Parcel, Burd Therese MeAlister, JW Br; Craw, Willishs Hey wards Lady —> Mr Birjer, Mr Hertandes, Mr Moore, 9 bie, Mr Biney, Mr Turner, Mr u' Neil, Potrle, lorie, two Hiaves Giorgi Misa M Egon DAT noe, Sep nto, q rem C ponte, TB , nohs, CA Goodman, Rawar A For Charleston, in the James Ad ~ obi wife, P Logic, "W'F Clark, J 4 Bowie, @ Bashectl Gre. Ls Soran SW chant. "Pekeoe Bs Meitch Mr T Groom, Miss Giles, Mise Baton J 3" ay Wi , A Gleason, Mi i Politieal In’ SENATOR IN THe Twenty-Nivtu has ordered a special election in the district, to fll the vacancy occasioned is own ae jor.—The Governor nioth Senate nation of the office of Senator, to take inst. The election of U. 8, fret Tuesda: that it is if arivi argon "Jan. on the Senator takes place on the of Febroary, just one week ‘aftorwards—t0. just possible forthe new Senator, by hard . in his seat on that opeasion.— Albany