The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1855, Page 4

52 NEW YORK "gFRALD. JAMES arse” N BENNETT, cite AND EDITOR. @FPICB Ne W. CORNEP ASSEU AND FULTON Sts. THE Due He sf is | , | tits tad ALD va pease con nts | ran, to" ae sy the Burepece dition 4 per an t Brituin, amd $5 lo any part of Re y paid for. B@r OR Forxien Corres ARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO REAL ALL PACKAGRS SENT Ve. NO NUT " Caer of anenymers Communications, We do wot relurn Pg Piety by Mail for Subscriptions er sith Adver ‘he sion be pout aid, or the postaye wilt be deducted from ‘em’ anne putetig, crecuted With neatness, cheapness, and RTISEMENTS renermed every day. 4MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATAY, Browdwey—Manirana—Twe wrranne. fat ste BOWEFY THEATER, Bowery—Nonau Caarxa—Twre MWocwmyt.R—Corcmeta's 80N. BURTON'S THE/ TRE, Chambers etreet—Paroe wit “waves Pare—Sotera's Surrren ‘WAT LACK’S THEATRE, Bron¢wsy—A Monnine Carr —Tux Sietzns—Ovur on Tur Loose. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Brondway—Eqursrmics Prnrvonmanxcer—Losr S0n AMERICAN MUSBUM—AMernccx—Tux Daunwenn— \Poroming—UGOi2"0—Cockwey in Curna. WOOD'S VARIETIES —Mecbanice’ Hal}, 472 Broadway— __ Bocxumy's OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway~Buox- auv's Ermtoriaw Orxna TAOUrE. New York, Monday, January 8, 1835. ‘The News. We anderstand that Mr. A. Oakey Hall, the new District Attorney, has selected Mr. John fsdgwick ap hie sesistant. If we have heard rightly, Mr, Sedgwick ia a Knickerbocker by birth and educa- tion,cnd, we believe, acted an Secretary to the Saratoga Conventien. We presume he is, therefore, like his principal, a Seward whig. The second lecture of the series on Romanism, ander the patronage of the American and Foreign Christian Union, was delivered last evening, in the Presbyterian Church on Madison square, by the * Rev. Dr. William Adams, of this city. The subject takon by the speaker was—~The transition of Rome Pagan to Rome Papal.’ A sketch of the discourse wili be found in another column. Ameeting of German workingmen was held at Hildebrand’s Fall, in Hestor street, on Saturday wight, to make arrangements for a grand masz meeting inthe Park on Monday. After some dis- cussion it was determined not to have a demonstra- tion inthe Park, but instead thereof to attend the meeting ofithe unemploy:d American workingmsa ‘wt Hope Chape! this evening. Tne land reformers were on hand and addressed the sasemb'age, aud a petition to Congress praying for “the right of freo econ; ation of the public lands, in limitsd quantities by actual settlers,” was endorsed by the meeting. ‘The platform of the American workingmea adoptsd 2t Hope Chapel, to secure the psyment of wages aiter work is performed, s2d recommending the ten Donr law, was also endorsed. The meeting was a wery large one, and much enthusiasm vas displayed. A report is given elsewhere. Iw accordance with the orders of Mayor Wood, most of the drinking shops in our city were closed yesterdsy. The streets during the day wore a grave and sober aspect, and the violations of law ard azresia by the police were much fewer than usual oa the Sabbath. The oration of Edward C. Billings, of Yaie Col- iege, before the annual meetiag of the Delta Kappa Dpsilom Convention, held st Waehington on the 34 ‘amat., together with an account of the supper of the weciety, will be found in our Washington corres pondexce published today. A meeting was called im the Park, yeaterdiy, by ® person styling himeelf “ (iereral John Sidoay Jones, of Pernsyivania,’ who proposed to solve the qpestion of the “hard times.” About two dozen per- sozs were in attendance, but instead of discussing the hard times, the “General” entertained hie eu- dience with rambliag discourse in relation to soup, beards, segare, &c., &e. The workmen employed in the Brooklyn Navy Ward held ameetizng on Saturday evening, at the Brooklyn Hote), to take into consideration the no tice given by Commodore Bourman, of an iatended veduction of wages. Great indignation was exhibit. ed by some persons prevent, and | committee ap. pointed ty proceed to Washington and lay the mit ‘ter before the Secretary of the Navy. Jeseph Hali, who suo: Willian O’Brien on New Wear’s Day, at present in the hospital on Blackwell's Ssland, is slowly recovering from the jajuries intiic'- ed on himse'f at theszme time. The pby2! @endance on him thinks it would be impra ot to commit him to prion + the prosent tims, as bis | situation ie very critical. Fhe annual convention of the officers of the New York Biate Militia meet at Clinton Hall, in this 4isy, to morzow. Brigadier Generel Adolphus S. orogge, the Koow Nothing candidate for Lisnt.- Govermor, will deliver the annual address. A severe storm prevaiicd at Dunkirk os Satur: | day. Several unfinished buildings were blown dows, and the depote of tne Erie and Lake Sore Rsiirosds unroofed. A number of very instructive and interes’ Jetters from different various subjects, are wacrning. ‘The flour marke! on Saturday cloved withont far- ‘ther change in prices. Wheat was quiet. Corn @ored at 104c.a l0ic., which woe am advance of one to two ents per posbel. Mess poris, old, soid Solerabiy free ai $12. Prime aes quiet at €12 25. Cotton was firm, with ssies of about 2,000 bates, and the marke! closed at a further advance of absut 4c. per Ib. The corgo of the ahip Prince Arthur, which wae weported a3 ceen in a sinking condition near Singa- { pore, was not inssred in Wall street. Tue only in- ‘pwnrance effected in teat etreet was by Arthur Leary, ‘Heq., to the extent of $17,000 oa the ship. Tae ‘eargo, which was valued at over $200,000, was in- , Wred in Boeton anicleewnere. About to, 000 ad- q@ Woenal on the vesee) war done at Lloyd's, Londen, ing arte of the country, and on given In our iesae thie ¢ Wormers CommenctaL Con veNtion.—The eon, “ention of the Southern States, organized for ti \e purpose of advancing the commercial intere ‘ts of the South, it seeme, ie about toendin smoke. _ It firet met in Baltimore in 1851; rose to ite cu Uminating point in 1852, and was visi- bly on th © decline in 1853. The convention at Baltimore W9 well attended, and at the one held in Me, Wphis in 1852 there were over three thourand de legates present; but at Charleston, im 185%, the sSlling off was great, and the meet- | Kitchen Cabinet, ing ot New Orleans, to be hold to-day. will no ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1856. ‘) The Dtplomacy and Presidential | Pace pha | | mation upon the subject, which, for some weeks | of ie Administration=Addtttonal Inside In- teiligence from Washington. “The leading despatch from Washington in this day’s Henaxp, will be found well worthy the careful study of the befogged and mystified sachems of Tammany Hal), touching the move- mepis of the Cabinet for the succession. It is another of the series of chapters of inside infor- past, have, from time to time, illuminated, through our cohamns, the benighted democracy of there northern latitudes. Our present chap- ter is particularly ¢difying aud suggestive; and for the further enlightenment éf our read- ers in this connection, a brief review of the for- eign policy of thie administrativa, and of the origin and progress of the Buchavan league for ‘the euccession, mty not be out vf place. First, however, a passing werd or two upon the ‘Greytown aTair. We arenot surprised at the @#crepancy reported by ‘our correspondent between the message of the: President, the in- stractions of Marcy, and the despatches of Bu- chanan on this subject. Every reader, we pre- sume, of ‘the annual message, felt satisfied that the President did not there settle the question. It is still open, and between Marcy and Bu- | chanan may be considered as forming an item in the general issue of +a peace or war policy. It is an interesting feeture of the game, and serves very much to heighten the interest of its curtous complications. On the organization of the Pierce adminis- tration, then, a strong, radical, flat-footed sab- terranean democratic foreign policy was adopt- ed, strongly seasoned with filibusterism, and with active sympathy in behalf of the Jacobini- cal schemes of the European revolutionary societies. This programme, chaiked out by Dudley Menn in bis letter from Paris of Feb- ruary, 1853, was substantially engrafted upon the Inaugural; and in the persons of Dudley Mann, Jeff. Davis, and Caleb Cushing wes introduced into the Cabinet. To this ultrared republican and filibustering platform, also, is the country indebted for such European ap- pointments as those of Soulé, Sanders, Sickles, Belmont, Daniel, Robert Dale Owen, and stich. Hence the original bold instructions of Marcy to Soulé, and the belligerent and revolutionary proceedings of that gentleman, from Madrid to Ostend, from Ostend to London, and from Lon- don to Calais, where his high-handed career was temporarily modified hy Louis Napoleon. Heace the original bold instructions to Belmont, and to our representatives at the Continental monarchies generally. Hence the circulars of Marcy upon diplomatic coats and breeches; and hence, too, the mistake of Mr. Spence, at Con- stantinople, in declaring to the Sultan that the United States were enlisted in the cause of Turkey, The policy laid down by Dudley Mann was £0 fascinating as to be irresistible, It was, in a word, the policy of active propa- gandism of democratic principles and manifest destiny in both hemispheres, through a new school of American diplomats, and a new system of American diplomacy, beginning at the tailor’s shop snd culminating in ® general blaze of war. Marcy was, for atime, fairly taken in by this dashing and formidable foreign platform of bis assistant secretary. There was something positively refreshing in it to the old fogy Pre- mier; and for a time he joined in the sports of his Young American diplomatic subordinates, pretty much in the style of the prancings of an old cart borse among a drove of young un- broken colts inaclover field. But, alas! the | Ostend conference disclosed a wheel within a wheel, and the Premier discovered that his subordinates were using him in the game of Mann to overthrow no less a personage than the Secretary of State himself, and to give Bu- chanan the inside track for the next Baltimore Democratic Convention, A declaration of war from the Premier was the immediate result. Marcy inetantly put him- self in a posture of defence, falling back upon a genera! peace policy, very much to the em- barrarsment of the coalition organized to sup- plent him, This coalition consists of Dadley Mann, Jeff. Davia and Caleb Cushing, of the Cavinet proper; of Vorney and the editors of the Cabinet organ and other members of the Kitchen Cabinet; of Buchanan, Mason, Soulé, O'Sullivan, Belmont, Sickles, Sanders, Daniel, Own, sod others of our Ostend diplomatic league; and of Kosenin, Mazzini, and others of the continental London refugees, all com- bined in &@ common cause against Marey. ence the wrangling in the Cabinet and in the Kiteben, between Marcy and his subordinates, and the troudles and embarrass- ments of Pierce io his ridiculous efforts to keep up a show of unity aud harmony among the rebellious instruments of hie administration. The leading aspirants of his Cabinet regard Mr. Pierce ss a mere automaton, the locum tenens of the White House, nothing more. Onebing has confessed as much in his late fa- mous letter to Judge Black, of Peisylvania. In that letter the President is set down as en- | tirely out of the question for the succession, and Buchanan appears as the favorite of Cush- ing. A late member of the United States Sc- nate, to whom the letter was communicated by Judge Black, or Paul R. George, who carried it up to the White House for the enlightenment of Mr. Pierce, will bear us out upon this affair. And this is but an item in the curious catalogue of tho harmonies among the aspirante, plotters, and counter-plotters of this administration. How dignified the position of John Tyler, as President of the United States, in contrast with that of Franklin Pierce! What rank in- justice was that which charged General Taylor with being nothing more than the Good Man Piiday of his Cabinet. Look at the position of poor Pierce. He ia ® vobody among his official subordinates—the pliant too} of such men as Cashing and Forney; ignorant and innocent of their designe, or lack- ing the courage to disobey them in their work of treachery against himself. What is to be the end of all this? There stands Marcy, sin- gle handed, aguinst the formidable Cabinet, and Ostend diplomatic combination to displace him and his policy, donbt dex ronstraie that the convention is all | and to make Pierce himself a runner at the tut exNinct, The fact ia, that its action has resulted Sn ax) Teal good,the objects for which it wos called Rawe 10t been attained, and the pnb- lic has loct aU -intereet in ite proceedings and confidence in 1t# DNdertekings. This is chiefly the fault of the’ delegates themselves, who talked a great deal, S4V¢ grand banquete, and did nothing. Besides’ ‘Dis, the direct use of mich a convention as ‘te one in question has sever been clearly prove 2; @2d the Southern press generally has become” lukewarm in ite gapport, and, in many instanc, %#, oppoted to its existence. The probability iv, ‘berefore, that a charlot wheels of Buchanan and of the new re- volutionary and filibuslering platform fastened upon bie back by Dudley Maun, Soulé, Sickles and Sanders, There stands Marcy, the main- stay of an administration leagued against him —an administretion without either head or tail, or apy fixed purpose or policy beyond the schemes of fillibustering conspirators, Their firet object is to oust Marcy, their next ia to promulgate from the White House a platform of the combined principles of Lopez and Kos tath—a deacent upon Onde, war with Spain, with with England France, and active in whem ee me pee ev yeearleesy from Paris to Reme. And upon the hue “and ery of a general war they propose to use Bu- chanan as their tool for the Presidency. This is, indeed, a fasciuating and exciting } programme. It propose to give usa field for our warlike strength fully equal to its highes: | capacities. But, considering the real ob'jests and aims of this bellicose anti-Marcy a®minic- tration coalition, and the materials of which it is composed—red republican French. refugees, Irich disciples of Lopez, Englidh socialists, | German money-changing Jews, reckless fili- | busteroes and unmsdérupalors spoilsmen— we are compelled to take ‘the side of Mar- cy. We tnow thet he is a crnceited ignoramue, an old fogy, behind the age, a trimmer for office, and acormorarit for the spoils; but standing as he fs, single“handed against this revolution- ary Buchanar league for the succession, we are bound to stand by Mercy. Against Cnshing, against Ferney, Soulé, Sickles and Sanders, and their associates on both sides of the Atlan- tic, we bave no other alternative than to sup- port Marcy till there is a decided change in the wind. ‘Marcy hae been *ealing openly with Mr. Pierce—the treachery of Forney and Cashing is established. In the impending explosion, who is to retire—Cashing or Marcy? Let Marcy hold his ground. “It is a beautiful quarrel as it stands.” Hard Times and Their Remeatcs. There are at the present moment, at the low- est computation, from fifteen to twenty thon- sand persons out of employment in this city alone. If we add to these the number of indivi- duals who are entirely dependent upon them for support, and averaging perhaps four or five in a family, we have a sum total of present distress and prospective embarrassment which is alarming to contemplate. The spectacle of 80 many unfortanates suffering at once from the pressure of want and the rigors of a severe winter, is sufficiently painful without having its horrors aggravated by other considerations. But those other considerations, distressing as they are, will at least have one usefal effect— that of awakening attention in the minds of many who would otherwise have no feeling for their suffering fellowcreatures, Tnese persons willnot be able to blind themselves to the fact that crime is an almost invariable concomitant of misery, and that unless steps are taken to prevent the spread of the Jatter, and to relieve its present necessities, its ultimate evils will re-act tenfold more heavily upon their own pockets, in the shape of the increased taxation to which these forced additions to our criminal statistics must lead. But what are the remedies, it will be asked, whichare best adapted to meet not only the immediate pressure of those cvils, but to carry our laboring population safely through the orisis that is at present wolghing #0 heavily upon them? The question has its dif- ficulties, but itis susceptible of an auswer. It is not, however, by the ineffective palliatives that have hitherto been suggested or attempted, | that a solution can be given to them. Calami- | ties like those of which we are now speaking are not to be repaired by eleemosyuary efforts, either on the part of the public or of indivi- | duals. Talk not to us of soup kitchens, where alms are doled out underneath the very coun- ters that have ministered to the extravagance | which has caused all this distress. Abstain | from insulting the misery of the poor, by ‘‘fid- | dling” schemes for their relief—schemes which suggest but too aptly to the mind the philan- thropical occupation of Nero while his capital | was barning. It will, no doubt, suit very weil | the tastes and inclinations of those who bave | set the example of extravagance, to nonifest In the first place, the prodigious evpansion of | Clry’s election. These are bad symptoms for the city will néces-itate the execution of these | the beginning ; very bad, indeed, considering Works withio the next quarter of a century, or | that the re-election of W. H. Seward to the As itis, the proposed piers @7.d , Senate has yet te be achieved. We very much perhaps less, docks me daily becoming more essentie). for the requirements of otf commercial shipping. In ihe next.there are so many perfons out of em- ploy ment,that labor can now he "ead xt a less cost than it probably will at any fdture period; add- ed to which consideration, it bas become a ques- nity, how we are to provide work for all these idle hands, both of policy and necessity, we know no mza- sures which recommend themselves so strongly to the attention of the public as those that we have suggested. Five or ten millions laid out in this way, will, to say the least of it, be as usefully and profitably employed as the twelve or fifteen millions expended on the Croton aqueduct. Tue Kyow Normincs snp TrevperaNnce Laws.--We are persuaded that nearly all of the misery and crime which have been caused in this country by rum can be traced to the man- ner in which political affairs have been di- rected by the men who have co long raled primary meetings and nominating conventioas. These meetings have been held in grog shops, packed with rum delegates; business has been traneacted ine sea of rum, and the power of grog has carried, nct only the nominations, but the elections also. Thus, the drunken rowdies and loafers that abound in every city have held in their hands the fate of the city, the State, and, sometimes, the nation: Rum being thus acknowledged as a power in the State, it has been allowed the highest place, and that candidate who was willing to pay for the largest quantity of grog had the best chance for a nomination in this part of the country. All the nominations have heretofore been controlled by these drunken rowdies, who have long disgraced the old parties. Hence the demoralization of every department of the gov- ernment, and the conviction upon every man’s political affairs. The Know Nothing order is the sign of the first movement against these rum hole conven- tions and grog shop politicians, It is the na- tural effect of popular indignation against the corruption of the old parties, as displayed in the nominating conventions aud primary meet- ings. posed of quict, sober, temperance men. They do not meet in rum shops—grog forms no ele- ment in their successes, and they do not elevate drunken rowdies ‘o the highest offices in the gift of the people. The movement is, therefore, strictly a temperance one. This is one of the most beautiful features of the or- der. If it possessed no other merit than this, every sober temperance man, every good citi- dation of that reform which we have so long | needed. If the Know Nothing party retains this great moral power, neither the rum potiti- cians nor the grog shops can stand against it; | and if it should be successful in all the States,in the next general elections, there will be no ne- cessity for the enactment of temperance laws of doubtful constituticnality. There will be no necessity for calling upon the Legislature to | enact laws to make men temperate, or, in fact, to enact any sumptvary lav. The Know Nothings are quiet, sensible men, | who have come out from the old parties, dis- | carded all their tricks and humbugs, and put the State, city and country. We care nothing | their sympathy for the misery that surrounds them, by fresh extravagances, which only tend | | to aggravate, instead of diminishing, ihe evil. | We can very well understand the benevolence which eagerly catches at these opportanities | of displaying itself in fine silks, costly Jases, and glittering jewels, and which, from a sump- j tuously spread supper table, complacently telis | the shivering and starving crowd outside—' "Go | to, good people, until we have done; be patient | awhile: you shall have the crumbs and cheese | parings of our meal.” It wasa be ance of | this sort that prompted the thonghtless Marie | | Antoinetie to ask why her people could aot | i eat cake when they were famishing fur want ot | bread, aud tbat in a period of similar distress | euggesied to the enlarged and philuathropic mind of England’s premier dake the sibstita- | tion of curry powder for the main element of the popular food. No! sonp kitehens, con. | certs and balls—whetber the staple of adorn ment of the latter be silk, calico or linsey | woolkey—or charitable subscriptions, ibera iy | headed by the Corporation, will go but a short | way towards relieving the pre of the | | preeent crisis, The inflnence of their proceeds | upon the condition of our poor may be likened to that of so many drops of water upon the | great body of the ocean. | Still logs will the remedies suggested at the | | mars meetings of the distressed operatives | themselves bring about any alleviation of their | sufferings. Scarcely one of the ideas throwa out by the speakers at these as:emblages has had a practical object or beariog. They de- | mand relief as ® right, and not a: a favor; end | not content with enunciatiog a principle fru. ciently broad in its application, the visionartes | who get up these meetings call for an} equal division of property amongst the maases. | Do they require to be told that those who have acquired property have accumulated it by their own energy and prudence, and that ia a coun- try like this, where there are no oristocratic or artificial barriers to a man’s progress, ihe ab- sence of wealth bat too frequently attests the absence of the qualities necessary to its attain- | ment? All such absurd theories can, there- fore, only have the effect of recoiling with dis. | gtace upon their propounders, The truth is, we are now suffering from the pe slodical pressure of one of those cycles of expau sion and contraction which must always affect us more or Jess severely ns long as the monetary system of the United States continues oa its present basis. Individual efforts can therefore furnish no cure for its evils. Fhe only com- prehenalve and practical remedy toat ocours to us, is for dhe Corporation to vote a large ap propriation for the opening of ali the streets | | and avenues, as far ag Harlem, which are laid out in the city maps, and also for the construc- tion of stone docks and piers on the North river, } from the Battery to Canal street. The open- ing of these new streets and aveaues would ne- cosearily lead to the excavation of vast masses of granite, which would form the best possible j here to the pr | dlers have got the lion's ebare. mind that a radical reformis needed in our | The Know Nothing councils are com- | tion vitally affecting the peace of the commu: | Viewed, therefore, in the light | | are acted upon, and the President of the United States | asrailing them {9 an official paper. i | in nomination men of their own stamp, who | have been elevated to the highest positions in | | for temperance legislation if this practical tem- | perance party succeeds in carrying the next | geners) election. Frnxaspo Woop, raz Narotwon ov Mop.—We trust that ons new Mayor will give the lie to the covert ssrcasm of the proverb, that “new breoms sweep clean; will net relaxin his eff.rts when his broom grows old, Thus far he is wieldiog it most vi- gorously, as may Le seen by the vigilant eaper- vision that he hes established over the street contractors, and its resulés ore beginning to tell in the improved cundition of the streets, respecting which complaints bave been sent in, Meyor Wood base undertaren an arduous task in eecking to keep the city sebordivates to the strict ‘etter of their duties. He wil! enconnter much }) will end no simals amount of calamay in the disvbar; fit; iples laid down in his exsellent inaugural, he wil: meet with the approval aud support of all whose good opinions are werth having. The skalking beads of departmonts who have hitherto deemed themzelves irreapon- sible to any authority save their own pleasure, will, vo doubt, throw every sert of obstacle and pie will carry him through if he only shows an honest determination to persevere in his re- forms, Go ahead, th: ve, Mayor Wood, and whilst we think of it, give usa cast of your broom in our quarter, We have been wadiag to our office through four i.ckes of mad for the last fortnight. Tne Harp Times snp Tun Banks.—The news- | papers are busily engaged in proposing reme- , dies for the bard times, and some propose the establishment of a great national bauk, with a capital of five hundred millions, to abeorb all the Siate bonks and incorporated inetitations of the same kind. This is simply a revival of the old national bank project which agitated the country twelve or fifteen years ago, and was set aside in a very decisive manoer. The present financial system of the country, with its barks, bonds, State credits, and every branch of the credit system, is an expedient one, aad contains the secret of the prosperity of the country, and its rapid material develope- ment and power. That the present system has | faults is undoubtedly tzae, but it is the pest that can be devised. A national bank would centralize the financial system, and thus extin- guish the very feature in the present system lish o tiaancial despotiem foreign to the cha racter of our institations. Governor Cuank AND THE Srors—Treason mw Tee Camp.—Mutiny, “open treachery,” has broXew out among the whig supporters of Gov. Clark, The Albany Register coafesses it, Ceplores it, and protests againat it at a terrible sidered in the dSyision of the spoils, Outsiders, hangers-on, camy followers and Jeremy Did- ‘The silve material fer the construction of docks. Thig project, which some twenty years since was pictured forth in magnificent colors, ie now beeen dee BOR) Ls Crem thew Le wed THER, gtaseare evidently comted ont. thoogh they perrist in the Ceclaration shat they wae vu | mats than thi >that isto say, that he | | before the courts. | bis annual message, in defence of that lawless trangac- zen and every wise one, should join it without | delay. It possesses in this principle the foun- | fear that Thurlow Weed has been overdoing his revenge against the whig conservetives in the distribution of the plunder. Is Seward so perfectly safe that even good whigs can be thrown overboard with impunity ? We shall see. ‘Gov. Clark has commenced the weeding out-of his party with an unmistokeable design of reducing it to the Seward abolition coalition platform. We are anxious to see the test ap- plied upon the election of a Senator. Delay is dangerous. There is mutiny in the camp. Tue Mayor Versus THE CoMPrRrolnixR AND THE Corrorarion Counset.—The Mayor has already refused to sign some warrants which have received the signature of the Comptroller, and all that are not accompanied by a specifi- cation of the items. It has been the custon for the Mayor heretofore simply to put his name to them without questioning the legality of the claim, but Mr. Wood has announced bis determination to examine all the accompanying papers before he wii] consent to sign the war- rants. Afew days ago a warrant for over fifteen thousand dollars, bearing the signature of the Comptroller, was presented to him, but he re- fused to endorse it, on the ground that some of the “items’’ were exorbitant. Among these was one amounting to eight hundred dollars, while the services performed were not worth perhaps one twentieth of the sum. Yet the le- gality of this claim was admitted by Mr. Dillon, the Couneel to the Corporation, who has already placed himee)f in an attitude of hostility to the work of reform commenced by the Mayor. Let Mr. Wood persevere, however; he will have the people in his favor, and if Mr. Dillon stiil persists in his opposition, let the matter be tested Itis time that this peculs- tion should be put a stop to, and those who in this contest take the side of the dishonest and currupt should suffer with them. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Curious and Instructive from Washington. SICELES’ DESPATOHES—THE GREYTOWN AFFAIR AND TRE BRITISH GOVERNMENT—JOHN BULL URISTLING UP AGAINST MH. PIERCE—THE SPANISH GOVERN- MENT AND 8OULE—A OBISI8—MORE OF THE BUGHAN- AN PLOT FOR THE PRESIDENCY, ETO. ‘Wasninotow, Jan, 7, 1855. 1 bave just been informed that the despatches brought from London, by Mr. Danial E. Sickles, to the Depart- ment of State, are of a highly important, and of a some- what quarrelsome character, in reference to our rela- tions, not only with Spain, but with England, The Eng- lish matter exhibits a startling discrepancy between the | despatches from Buchanan to Marey touching the Grey- town outrage and the defiant argument of Mr. Pierce in tion. T understand that the British government has taken | strong exceptions to that part of the President’s message in which he treats of the Greytown bombardment. The subject was supposed to have been settled by Mr. Iu- chanan, in accordance with instructions received from | Washington; the government, that is Marcy, binding Itself to the payment of losses to British subjects who wore in- jured by the assault, The unexpected blast from the President has re-opened the subject with additional feal- ing on the part of England. In this we have a fair sam- ple of the Pierce diplomacy—the State Department issuing ‘ts orders toan American representative, which Can it be wondered at that foreign ministers at Washington should encoun- | er diMfeultics of an unusual character when acting with our government ? It ia said that the representative of a great European Power (Trance) suggested to his government the policy of suffering to lie over several questionsof importance, from the difficulties attending thoir settlement, in the | President and Secretary of State thinking and acting dif- ferenily upon them. The winding up of this administration will not only be a relief to this euflering country, but to all the Cabinets of Europe, who are male to {cel the necessity of having a reliable government to treat with. Cushing and For- ney are more eagerly counselled with by foreign diplo- retary of State himself, Here we set lized Eorope, in te abuse and corrup- eminence in an American Cabl- an exemple to « tion of power atte | net. One of the results of this state of things is to be found in the re-opening of the Greytown difficuitios, Me. Marcy pleads noooasity, and promises payment for the | but if be will only ad- | annoyance in his way; but the voice of the poo- | which has been found so beneficial—the rivalry | between moncyed institutions—and also estab- — , | Buch, will see the prepriety of freeing tho rate. Ther@ has been nothing like justice con- | act; Mr. President vtters defiance, and refuses any pe cuniary consideration. Just treatment, ami judivious | peliey! Fr will be borne in mind, is engaged in | a wer with Russia, This, in part, is explanation for the | boldners ef our executive. The Sponish government, through its minister has placed before the President the benefitn that wouid likely acorue by a change of our represeatative at Madrid, The subject was introduced with mach de! cacy, an’? the Pres 2 desire, on tiement | reason be here ald not with expected under sement. President ree at once came to the rescue of his minister. Mr. Soulé’s offical conduct ha rited and received the approbation of b vermucnt, and there | was vothing to warrant a re He would furtber remark, that § terest in a prompt adjustment of Americaa to cans pein would @ change, this which bad too long remained neglected. He gave apse ra kindnesa, but atthe sametime with a becoming Lrmneses and resolution as magistrate of the American Union, this movement of the Spanish Mimst was hastened by the announcement in ie paration by the t, upon the Cuba and other questions. expected to delay, if not entirely to do away, tho « necessity for apy euch messege. This paper, T aru Aidently assured, would before this have been sent to Congress, it appears that important despatches, created a nacernity £ Tko English Mintster | tary Murey a lope fora | further forbearance on the part of the United svates | with Spain, as she is under a new government, an’ oa‘ | fering from the bad effects of past administrattone Tean state positively that our affairs with Spain ace ina very critical condition—a fact that before lung yox will be mace to realize in full. Your Collector will shortly receive instragtions not appoint any Buchanan men to office, President F is at last becoming sensible of the movements throughout the country in fwvor of Buchanan as anecesror. He cxprosses a readinesa to cupport Mar intheevent of his failing io get a re-nomination Buchanan is wholly out of the question with him. Preparations for the next campaign are alrenty way, How can Cushing retain his placa in the Cabin when ia warm support of 4 man whois pronounced byt! President as his pereonal and political enemy? Hoy Forney retain his influence with the President, «hile evetly and openly urging the claims of Buchanan? Wi honorable men these questions would almit of no b tancy as to the eharacter of the answer, a Cushing and Forney © are honorable mon, was ing but brought by Mr. Sickles, writing itin a great hav also expressed to See m to r from the performance of ¢ disagreeable may find bimvelf under a neceosity to execute lopg, if the hint hore giveu ie not attondea to. INJUNCTION BY THE SUPREME COURT, Wraurveroy, Jan Last week C,H. MeCormick applied to the Suprema Court for an injunet'on to restrain J, Manning & Co , of Illinois, from manufacturing reaping machines, which was opposed by the defendants on the ground of the in convenience of mating Out © case co far from home, act | they made a forma! application to the Oourt to have the | case tried at the Mlinois jt Court in June next which application wae grente?, the defendants being re CG olicg bond of , Lng aes eels Noe ae wee Ly lee Adnan oorery | De Pau, who was at that time unmar | Mra. Mo: | fer the transaction of business, | for which this convention nas been caliod is to | millions | brated in the | for the denetit of VOL. XX. Severe Gale at Dunkirk. Dounxmx, Jan. 7, 1855. A \errifio gale prevailed here during allthe day yester- day, end lasted uatil widnight. Several temporary aud unfinished buildings were blown down, the passen- ger depot of the New York and Erie rwilroad, the depot of the Lake Shore road, and the new shop owned by the Dunkirk Locomotive Company were e!! partly unroofed. Markets, Provipencr, Jan, 6, 1855. Cotion.—The deman’ for cotton during the past week has Leen seats, wit moderate sales, at irregular ni prices, Wool.—The market is more active at unchai prices, Sales, 54,300 lbs. Printing cloths—Sales, 14, 800 Ibs. Obituary. MADAME SILVIE DE GRASSB ALEXANDRINE PP PAU, Madame De Pau died on the Sth inst., in the eighty- second year of her age, at her residence, No, 2 De Pau row, Her funeral, which took place at two o’clock in. the afternoon, was attended by her numerous rela- tivee and a large number of friends. The ceremo- nies were celebrated in St. Anne’e Caurch, Bighth street, by the Rev. Dr. Forbes, who pronounced a glow- ing eulogy on the character of the decease], In accord- ance with the rites of the Catholic church, of which Madame De Pau had, during ber long and eventfu! life, beon a devoted member, the sacrament of the Mase was celebrated in addition to the usual prayers for the dead, At the conclusion of these ceremonies, the remains were conveyed to Calvary Cemetery, and there deposited beside those of her husband, who died in the year 1835, in the sixty-third year of his age. On the cofiin was the following inscription — eooecco ooo ole sooo Ooo SsO CSCO Sruviz De Grasse ALRXANDRINE De Pav. rm tw Paris, 1772. = ° ° ° o ° ° ° ey in New York, January 5, 1655, e0d00000 COSOSCCOCOOCLO ODODE DOOC0000ES Madame De Pau was the youngest of the six daughters of Count De Grasse, whose effective service in the warfor our national independence should never ceace to be re- garded with the mostgrateful feelings, The Count com- manded tke French fleet, but independent of this he con- tributed one hundred thousand dollars, which he ob- tained from the sale of, his patrimonial estate of “Tilly,” towards the maintenance of the cause in which he had enlisted, The De Grasse family were among the oldest and most aristocratic in France, tracing their pedigree: as far back as the eighth century, and were allowed privileges at court which were enjoyei by few, i! any, of the French nobility. The Count himself was per- . mitted to enter the presence of royalty with his head | covered, and had the fleur de lis among his armoria} bearings. The Count De Grasse arrived at a most opportune mo- ment during our revolutionary struggle. He sailed from France about ihe end of March, 1781, with a powerful fleet, consieting of twenty-six ships of the line, and followed by an immense convoy of (wo or three hundred merehantmen. series of manceuvres, in which he severa! times outwitted the Faglish admirals Rodney and Hood, he blocked up Samer and York rivers so as to cut off Cornwailia’ re- treat, and landed three thousand French troops, which joined those under the command of Lafayette, increas- ing the French force to seven thousand. We need not recapitulate what followed, as it is known to every one acquainted with the history of our Revolution. Asa re- turn for the signal service which he had rendered, and After a most successful, er the active part he took in the war, the Count De (Grasse _ Was presented with four pieces of brass cannon, with their caisson, &e, He was also rewarded by his sove- reign, Louis XVI., whe conferred upon him several titles, as a mark of bis favor, for the successful minner | in which be performed the important mission upom | which ho had been sent to this country. During the Revolu‘ior of 1789, which led to the almost total extinction of the French aristocracy, the De Grasae family were forced to tly from Paris to escape the fate which threatened all of noble birth. Madame De Pau was secreted in a barrel, and in this concealment’ eluded the rearch, which waa never relaxed during the reign of terror, for every one of noble birth. While in Paris she saw the bead of the Priacoss de Lamballe, car- ried on the point of « pole after her execution at the guillotice. In company with her three sisters, Madame 1, exsaped from Paris to Havre, where they embarked for the United States. On their arrival at Boston they were received - with marked distinction by General Derby, and General Hamilton and Aaron Burr used (heir influence with Congress {n obtaining for them a pension of one thou- sand dollars a year each, for four years. After a brief residence in Boston, Madame De Pan went to Charleston, where she married Mr, De Pau, also a native of Fr but who had long been a resident of that city. Mr. Ve Pau had, by his mercantile abilities, accumulated a large fortune, and was tae first to estab. lish a line of packets between New York and Havre. After the death of her husband, Madame de Pau con- tinued to reside in thie city, and up to the day of her death continued to wear the widow's monzaing rest, She wae noted {a private for her aumervus and uncstea” , tatious aets of charity, and was beloved by a large cir-' cle of friends, The unique and handsome block of build ings which she erected some years ago, in Bleecker «treet, and which bear her name, is only a portion of a fortane of some four or five hundred thow liare whien she hag bequeathe? to her children. She hes left four daugh- tersand one son, another having died last July, in Phil- adelphia, in the filty-fifth year of bis age. The following are the names of the surviving children —Mre. T. 0. Fowler, Mrs. Samuel W. Fox, Mrs, i. W. imer Livingston, Mrs, Washington Mr. De Pau. Battic of New Orioans. he custom heretofore, lor the Veterans of Th Tt has beer the W £1812 to celebrate the anniversary of the Bat dle of New Orleans in the various cities throughout the Union, bet this year they have departed from it, and they will hold & granc convention to-day, ia commemo ration of that great event, in Washing’ A delegation from the V ein this city, lefton Saturday morning for Washington, where they wil! meet delegations from Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and the ot’ conve . After ization of the bh will take place immediately on the arrival of the veterans, a procession will be forme marching along Pennsylvania avenue to jon, w 1 be nied by the fcllowiog militery companies, so A, Re, Presidect’e Mounted Guards, Capt. Pock; Wasbington “ Light Infant . Capt. Bright: German egert Capt. Schwartzman: aa Capt. Smith; Marion Litiemen, Capt Shekel. The Washington National Mov cm Chief eran end Al Committee of Arta dent and Officers of Poldiers of the American flog and mus Pre chureb, the pastor of which (Mr. he proceedings with prayer. Af members take dinner, and at five o'clock will r The principal object the claime of *he Vetornns to one hundred a acres of land in return for the services whieh ¢ dered inthe war of i812. A bill has been aires duced ta rene by Mr. Brodhe of there c'aims, but i tod also to ine all who fought in the Indian wars apd che children of the sold: the Revelation, ex ludiog only the Mei Should this b be pn he to fety of Teruma Williamsburg News. G ‘Ve Po6—COLLIMION. Te consequence of the deus (og: 4A. M.tos P, 5 ck yesterday afternoon the ferry voat * Onelacha, while endeavoring to enter the Grand strset ferry +p, ran into a ship lying at the dock with grast force. ‘the ladies’ cain was stove in, and the boat erably damaged, dut no one was injured. Besvrrr ror The Lenveretar 3 OL —The use of the Fanestrion Institate, 61 South-Fourth street, together with a fine stud of by has been ously tendered, th by the proprie- tors, Messrs. Wooden & Co al in to take plico on Wednestay evening aext, and will afford a fine op-, portunity for young ladies and gents to display their skill im horsewawabip, and at the same time assist in w charitable Th nd rine will he Py ° freebaeate wal bs served vp.