The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1855, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, AMUSEMENT: BROADWAY THRATRE, Droadyoy- Mansrawa Two Bonsycastur: BOWERY THEATRE, Be ey THe MromLiaNAKinac BURTON'S THEATRE mave A Favi—Somnra’s 5) WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Tue Soupien's WJonrmar— Tux SuTeRs—GeNTLEMAN YROM IRELAND. METROPOLITAN TARATRE, Brondwey—EquesrRiax Parayonsances—La TovMor Nesix, AMERICAN M' & OnosT iN 5 Faint Heart y WOOD'S VARIETIES—Meo! BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broedway—Bucx. ‘Ermorian Orxas TRO vuBia’s Son. Chambers street—Paive wint ce Lavine Too Fast- vening—IRnon Kino~ ADY. News for the Paciiic. The steamship Star of the West, Captain E. W. Turner, ‘wilieave this port so- morrow afternoon, at 30’¢leck, for Panta Arenas. The New Youre Henarp—California edition—contain- img all the latest news by mail ond telegraph from all parts of ths world, wil be published at wlevon o'clock Qo-morrow morning. Agents will please send in their dere an carly @ poosid! The Nows. ‘The steamship North Star, which arrived yester- Gay, brought-one week ister news from California, and over one million one hundred thousand dollare im gold dust, which is still further decline on the previous semi monthly shipment. The intelligence ie very meegre, nothing having transpired during the week previous tothe 16th ult., the day on which ‘the steamer left San'Francisco, worthy of note. ‘The North Star brought fhe intelligence of a dis- gatrous gale which occurred at Aspinwall orm the Bist alt.,the particulars of which will be found ‘among the news brought by that vessel. News from Oathagena, of “i4th of December, emnounce the ‘tricmph off the constitutional party over the Dictater Melo and his forces at Bogota, on the 4th of the same month, after an obstinate re- sistance on the part of the revolutioniste whefought for two days and lost a great many men. Melo and his leading partisans were takes prisoners, after a total defeat. The joy of the triumph is diminished by the intelligence of the death of General Thomas Herrera, who waskilled. He was much respected, ‘both as a soliier and a politician. This victory puts an end to the revolution, which commenced in May of 1854, when General Herrera, with mest of the members of Congress, fled from Bogata. The official bulletins are given. Advices from Peru state that after the engagement between the forces of Don Domingo Elias and Ge- meral Moran, on the heights of Conde, the former wetired to Arequipa, where Moran determined to follow bim, after uniting his men with those under General Vivanco. However, before the union Vi- ‘vanco was attacked by an army from Arequipa, 1nd Jest two cannon, three hundred and fifty muskets, and a quantity of ammunition. The two generals @ttacked the city of Arequipa, but met with a de- termined resistance for two days from the inhabi- tants. The government troeps were in the end com- pelled to give way, with « losa of 1,500 men killed, ‘wounded, or missing. In three hours after his de feat General Moran was shot by sentence of a court martial. General Vivanco was seriously wounded im the action. ~ We learn from Chile the! the political arena was fer once unoccupied. The report thattthe Araucan Bedians bad revolted in the south was incorrrect, bet the frontier garrisons were being strengthened Is the administration the same parties were in ewer, and the same course of goveramsnt pursued. Laws for the reforming of municipalities, preference of ereditore’ bills, and that of joint stock companies, ‘Were proposed to the legislative body. A destruc ‘Mive fire had destroyed $150,000 worth of property fm Valparaito. No material change in the markets, Dry goods trade lively. Flour was still down. No direct news from the republic of Bolivia. Gen. Aohsa had seized all the money in the mint at Potosi ‘and of the bank, which at least amounts to $400,000. ‘Me likewise obtained possession of a large and vair- able supply of munitions of war, thet was on its way from Cobija to Oraro. We have Australia dates to October 12. The price of gold had. receded sixpence per ounce, 4 new ficld bad been discovered at Lake George. The reports from new diggings are en- Souraging. A continuance of dry weather through- . @at the colony threatened to render the fruit and grain harvest very short. Latterly, however, rain had fallen in some districts. Three Finlanders, who had been taken prisoners of war in the Baltic, ‘nd were allowed to enter the English merchant service, had deserted from their ship in South Aus- twalia, and it was thought were acting as eples for the Russian government. Miss Catherine Hayes had been giving concerts in Syduey with great suc. eess. Her last performance was seriously interrupt- ed by the extempore accompaniment of a baby ia a Indy’s arms, which created great confusion. nr dates from the Sandwich Islands are to the 294 ef November. There is no news of importance. Measures wore being taken for the establishment of ® Sailor's Home, at Honolulu. Thirty whalera had retarned from the Arctic Osean, without a drop of @i. The French war frigate Alceste had arrived from Callao. Mrs. Moulton and Miss Josephine were performing at the Varieties. The national holiday was observed as usual. ‘The news from Acapulco, which we have received up to the 22d of December, is of some importanca, ‘The revolutionists, under Alvarez in person, obtain- ed a signal victory over the fgo troops at the pass of Calvaria, and, according to all appear- ances, they are fally able to maintain the pcaition of imdependence they assumed during last winter's ¢empaign. Reliable acccunta from Mexico hint that Santa Anna is disposed to sell Sonora to raise fands for carrying on the war. We publish elsewhere some translations, as well as the letter of our Aca- puleo correspondent, which will be found highly int erestirg. We give this morning an interesting lette, from Paragusy, an unhappy republic, where there has always been some kind of @ fuss for the last @wenty years. In the U. 8. Senate yesterday, Mr. Dawson read a letter from the citizens of Savanna, Ga., asking for the removal of obstractions in their harbor, and sald ‘tat he should report a bill for that purpose. Mr. Pratt, of Maryland, presented a petision from nu- merous merchants asking Congress to provide against the difficulties arising from the abolition of corporal punishment to seamen. Mr. Clayton handed in a petition asking further protection to American manefactures. Gen. Cass moved that the first Monday in Febraary be assigned for the con sideration of the resolutions relative to the freedom of religious worship in foreign countries, which was agreed to. Mr. Fish gave notice that he intended to introduce ao bill for the erection of a Custom House and Post Office at Platteburg, N.Y. Mr. Brodhead, of Penn., introduced s jcint resolution for sending one or more vessels to the relief of Dr. Kane. A petition from citizens of Massachusetts seking for the passage of a law prohibiting the em- ployment of military men in any civil office, was referred to the Committee on the Jndiciary. Tho Jodicial Reform bill was taken up, and debated ‘until the Benste went into executive session. In the House of Sm rom rire the day wee cocupied in the discussion + Dawson's amendment to the Homestead bill, which was finally rejected by # vote of 93 to 72. In the State Senate yesterday, notice was given of the introduction of « bill to prevent issues of stock or a grépter amount of money than is paid im. Mr- —Buixp Mine—Massacre | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, Js.NU Borr gave notice of a bilto ® mend the Savings Bank incerporation Sct, and Mr." 4:o0ks of one to preserve | the harbor of New York, and to remove obstrac- | tions therefrom. ‘The ° «solution relative to the im- | Provement of the navi gation of St. Clair Flats wes called up, and # det ate had thereon, The Senate held an execative Fession but iew nominations were sent in. Inthe 4esemt;jy the standing committees were | announce 4, Tse resolution of Mr. Waterbury forthe | Sppointy sent of a select committee to examive into the cor dition of the saviugs banks, was lost, asd a resol’ sion directing the Committee on Banks toin- | quire into their condition, adopted. Notice was English of the War. British orators in Parliament a3 well as British newspapers represent the present war as one in which civilization is engaged on one side against barbarism on the other. They de pict the Czar as the genius of the latter, aad claim for the Western Powers the title ef champions of enlightenment and progress. They likewise represent that, whereas they are fighting for the extension of freedom, their enemy combats for the maintenance of despot- ism. With these ideas, they convince them- selves they have a right!to American sympathy, dom of the Rregian people. Whether the act was in itself % wise one, and well calculated to attain the end desired, may safely be question- ed. Last century England thought it incem- , bent on her to fight her colonies: she was beat- en, and now thanks Heaven it wasso. Had she been successful, she would not have been nearly £0 great a nation as she is. At the be- givning of this century, the same Eoglaad thought her safety depended on her crashing Napoleon, and this time, she succeeded. The consequence has been grioding debt on her own people, and intermittent periods of tyrauny sivt n of bills for two additional justices of the Mo rine Court in New York, and asking an appro- W .jation for the erection of a monument to Licut ‘Col. Baxter. A bill was introduced inetructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of jimiting the courts in granting naturalization papers. Mr. Blatchford gave notice of a bill to enable the Supervisors of the city and county of New York to raise money by tax, the details of which will be found among the proceedings. Our special telegraphic despatch from Schenes- tady in relation to the Seward Know Notuing Btate Council is decidedly ri It will be seen tant a committee is to be appe to watch the progress of the Senatorial election at Albany, and that Danie! ‘Ullmann receives a large portion of abuse and vitu- peration. It is stated that [the democratic members ot the U.S. Senate will shortly make a demonstration sgainet the Know Notbings. Senator Adams ie said tobe the only Senator of that party who is disin clined to take ground against them. The Southern Convention met at New Orleans on the 8th inst. Ten States were represented, and ore hundred and ten delegates present, including #ighty-three from Louisiana. Gen. Lamar, of Texas, ‘was chosen president. It ia said that the reciprocity treaty has been sent to England from Canada for ratification by the home government, and is expected to be returned to Washington about the 1st of February, when it will become the law of the land. The Old Soldiers and Indiaits who have been in convention at Washington city, yesterday visited the grave of Washington. They were accompaxied by @ large crowd of persons. After retarning to Washington they were formed in close order, and s brief parting address: made by General Coombs, when they were disbanded, and the members of the convention departed for their respestive homes, The Convention of the Military Association of the State of New York brought its proceeding to a Close yesterday, aftera session of two days. The annual address which we publish elsewhere was de- livered by Brigadier General Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, who it will be remembered was the Kaow Nothing can¢idate for Lieutenant Governor. An influential meeting of the drovers and receiv- ers of live stock was held at the Hudson River Ho- tel, in this city, on the lst inst., forthe purpose of considering the best means of procuring an abate- ment of certain grievances which they say are in- flicted on them by different ratlroad’compsnizs—the New York Central and Erie in particular—in the tranamission of cattle to market, After organizing, the meeting was adjourned to next day. The body met at Tammany Hall on the 2d inst., when a seriea of very stringent and high toned reso/utions hostile to the intereste of the Hrie road weve adopted, and very many hardships set forth. We have a report of the proceedings, but, owing to its great length, ‘we are compelled to leave it out. ‘ ‘The Board of Education met last evening for thi purpose of organizing for the coming year. In the cave of the contested election of the Fourth ward, where three Commissionere were returned instead of two, the Board declared Judge MoCarthy elected as the recipient of the largest number of votes, and the question of the other contested seat was referred to @ select commttice of five. Wm. H. Neilson, Esq., Commissioner of the Tenth ward, was efected President, and Albert Gilbert was re-elected Cierk The Commissioners of Emigration held a meeting yesterday afterncor. A communication from the Mayor, calling the attention of the Comm'ssioners to the complaint of Dr. Byrnes stating that proper attention was not paid to the health of passengers on their voyage to thie country and after landiog, was placed on file. Accoréing to the weekly state- ment it appears that up to the 10th inst., 9,100 im- migrants have a:rived at this port this year, and that the Commissioners have at present uader their charge 1,992 persons. By an affidavit annexed to the proceedings of the Commissioners of Emigration, it will be seen that a load of pauper German emigrants, who had boon wrecked on Sable Island and taken to Helifax, had their passage to this city from the latter place paid by some unknown person. Buta few days since we recorded the arrival of a number of pauper and criminal Belgians, whose passage had been paid by the authorities, and it seems a settled purpose with some of the European governments to force thair useless and troublesome population upon this coun: try. In the Board of Councilmen last evening the petition of mechanics, artisans and Jaborers askiog that the Board may devise some means whereby they can obtain employment, was received and re- ferred. A resolution, introduced by Oouncilmsa Wild, that the Croton Aqueduct Committee take into consideration the propriety of immediately oon- structing the main receiving reservoir for the Cro- ton Aqueduct, was referred to the Aqueduct Committee. The special committee te whom was referred the petition of Wm. Clancy, claiming to have been elected from the Fifth district, reported that he bad no claim in law or equity, and called tor anew election on the first Tuesday in February. A preamble and resolution from the Governors of the Almshonse requesting the Council to appro- priate such sum as they may deem proper for the purpose of furnishing nctritions food to the poor during the present deyression in businoss, if in their opinion such necessity existe, was referred to the Almshouse Committee. Some other business was performed, and the Board adjourned to the 12th inet. Large numbers of unemployed workmen asiembied in the Park aten early hour yesterday morning. A ‘ter some apeech making, a procession waa formed, and with banners, bearing various inscriptions, marshed through the principal streets of the city, and back tothe Park again. Here more speechifying took place, and a committce was appointed to wait im- mediately on the Mayor, who, in answer to the oom- plaint of the committee, eaid that he deeply sympa- thized with the working men, but possessed no power to grant them relief. Much excitement pre- vailed in the crowd during the day. We refer to our report for particulars. The ‘Longshoremen’s Benevolent Society held a meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Shakespeare Hotel, to take into consideration the reduction of the wages of their employes by some of the ehip- ping merchants. Aftor several speechos expressive of their indignation toward those who had msde such reduction at this unfavorable season, a vote of thanks was poased to the merchants who are paying the priees, and a collection taken up for those who hed refused to work at the reduced price. The Howard Association of New Oricans, on the 9th inst., appropriated two thousand dollars for the rolief of the sufferirg poor of New York. Fiour was without farther change yosterday, with a fair amount of sales. Michigan white wheat sold at $245. Indian corn was one cent a bushel lower, and closed at $1 03 a $1 04 for Western mixed. Tye was firm at $1388 $140. Meas pork sold to a moderate extent, st $12 26, with one small lot at $12.37. 600 tierces Vermont prime mess beef sold for export at $2750. Cotton was and active, pied ge as i he see ees a ices. Freig! a is were tiny, atte fair shipments of provisions and other articles. There have also reco:ntly gone forward considerable quantities of provisions to France, Belgiom, de. and assume an offended and angry toze be cauee it has not alreudy been vouchsafed to them. There is a good deal of misapprehension here. The British, like most other nations, are too apt to fancy themselves in the right underany and all circumstances, and to believe when they have # quarfl, that their cause is not only righteous and just, but humane, liberal, generous, enlightened and religious, when in point of fact, the scales of right are #0 nicely balanced that it is hard for a neutral to judge between them and their adversary. It is only within the last few years that English- men have allowed themselves to be convinced that they were all wrong in the American war, and very far from right in the wars against Napoleon. Eighty years ago the merchants of Londan were severely reprimanded by the Court tor withholding their sympathy from the armies sent to subjugate the colonies; and forty and fifty years ago, a stray writer or speaker who ventured to deny England’s right to crush Napoleon was immediately clapped into the stocks. Now it is John Bright who is mob- bed and burnt in effigy : it is the United States whose “sympathies with barbarism aod despot- ism” are complained of and groaned over in St. Stephens and elsewhere. Let us look into this. The allies call Russia a despotiem; and such assuredly it is. From the days of Peter the Great, the Czar’s throne has been despotic; and with the exception ofa few years at the beginning ofthe reigns of Al- exander and Nicholas, it has been more than deepotic, it has been tyrannical. But what is France but @ despotism? Napoleon III. has quite as much of his own way as Nicholas; and the Russian people seem to have quite as large ashare in the government of Muscovy as the French in that of France. No man pretends se- riously that France is not a despotism; and none who have thought over the coup d’etat, and the other measures of the imperial govern- mentcan deny that it has been and may be still a despotism of a cruel and most tyrannical or- der. Wherein then lies the difference between Nicholas and Napoleon, Russia and France? If Englend is trying to break down one despot- ism, she is helping sustain another; one at least counterbalances the other. We say no- thing for the present of the despotic features in the British constitution: the House of Lords, the rule forbidding generals to notice the bravery of common soldiers, the hereditary monerch, the privileges of classes, dc, kc, though they should be taken into account if Russia isto be placed beyond the pale of na- tions in consequence of her depotism; the case of France, so magnificently eulogised in the British Parliament, is enough to settle the pre- and revolution on the contineat ever siuce. On both occasions she was clearly wrong. It is quite worth inquiring whether she may not be wrong again. If Russia had been allowed toseize Torkey, the chances are very great that her rain would have followed. Seduced by the charm of a genial climate, and habits of oriental luxury, the Russian aristocracy would have deserted St. Petersburg and Moscow for Constautinople, and in spite of all the efforts of the Czars the capital of the empire would have been removed to the shores of the Dardanelles. From that day Russia would have ceased to be a European Power. No nation has ever been transplanted with success. Removed from the snows and wilds in which the Muscovites have grown to strength and might, and settled in the gorgeous plains of Turkey, the Russian ebaracter would have lost its nerve, and would insensibly have assimilated to that of the Turk. A residence of one century and a half at Byzantium enfeebled and destroyed the Ro- man empire; the empire of the Czars, torn from its native home, and planted on the same soil, would inevitably have met the like fate. Na tions are like individuals; half their lives are epent in search of objects which are ruin us when attained, or in trying to avert seem- ing dangers which are really benefits in dis- guise. Governor Garpyer’s IyavcuraL AppRESS.— While the Know Nothiogs of New York are languidly combatting tee intrigues of Mr. Se- ward, thoce of Mossachusetts have set to work vigorously to lay the axe at the root of the tree. Gov. Gardner’s address to the Legisla- ture contains the most empbkatic and thorough enunciation of Know Nothing sentiment that has yetappeared in print. One or two points therein are worth notice. It is, as the Gover- nor remarks, a most striking fact that the ruin of all republics of former ages has been brought about by the agency of foreigners. The case of the Greek republics and Rome are familiar to every student. Until the Macedonians in- vaded the Peloponnesus both Athens and La- cedemon were powerful and flourishing States; their downfall dates from the period when the men of Macedon found their way among them, divided their souncils, and by fomenting disu- nion paved the way forthe northern conqueror. Rome in like manner ruled the world until the fatal notion of conceding to the conquered races the rights and privileges of Roman citi- zens become a law of the State. Then the neame—so long the dread of despots—became a byeword. When Roman citizens were found fromthe banks of the Ebro to the shores of the Levant, speaking half a score of languages, obeying fifty different systems of laws, and moved by constantly jarring interests, then de- sent case. If England is entitled to our sympathy because she eombats a depot in Russia, she has a right on the same princip'e to our hatred because she allies herself with and sustains a despot in France. What is meritorious in the one is compensated by what is reprehensible in the other: and the position of England is just the same as if Nicholas were @ republican President or a constitutional mopareh. Next, as to civilization. Admitting all that is eaid by Briticth writers to be true—Raseia aims at the conquest of Constantinople, the dis- perelon of the Turks, the overthrow of Mahome- tenism, and the erection of a Russo-Greek em- pire on the ruins of the Porte. England aims at the defence of the Turkish empire, the main- tenance of Islamism, the repression of the Greek power. Which of these two plans tends most directly to help civilization? Surely not that which seeks to prop up a system, social, religious and political, which of itself is totter- ing to pieces; which by universal testimony is incapable of further developement or adapta- tion to the demands of the present day; whose Jeading features are female debasement, intel- lectual sloth, sensual indulgence, popular igao- rance: but rather that which seeks, now that Islamism has had ite day, to sweep away its mouldy ruins, and to replace them by a young and vigorous social and religious system, full of eap and promise for the future, and suscepti- ble—as is shown at St. Petersburg—of re- ceiving the imprint of the highest forms of civilization, England misleads herself and tries to mislead others by regarding the war as a contest between herself and Russia, compating her own institutions with those of Muecovy, and arguing as though the question to be decided by the war was whether England thould become despotic or Russia liberal. This is all misconception and error. England’s in- stitutions are no more involved in the war than ours. It is Turkey, not England, that is at stake; Tamism, not Protestantism; the Sultan, not Parliament; seraglios and pashalica, not free arsemblies and an unshackled press. If the allies conquer, the net result of the war will be the maintenance of the Sultan’s government for a while, in the shape of an Anglo-French Protectorate, till either Abdul Medjid breaks down in spite of foreign support, or France and England quarrel, or England changes her mind on the question as she has done about the war with this country, that with Napoleon, and the character of the present Emperor of the French. If on the contrary, the Czar is ultimately suc- ceesful, the net result of the war will bea Rus. tian conquest of Turkey, the expulsion of the Turke, and cither the annexation of the do- minions of the Porte to Russia or their erection into a Russian protectorate with the Greek re- ligion, like modern Greece. No one has ever supposed that the Czar intended to go any further, and to assail England at home, Com- mon senee ig too plentiful in Europe for either of the belligerents to entertain views of con- quest or internal interference with each other. Turkey alone is at stake; and the argument that because England is generally more civilized than Ruesia, therefore the war is one of civili- zation against barbariem, reate upon a misap- prehension of the real question at issue, and is nothing but a fallocy. Whether the Western Powers did right or wrong in golng to war with Russia is a matter for their decision, not ours. It is quite clear cay began to be felt at the capital—the nation- al vigor was gone—and there was none of Rome’s pristine strength left to repel the bar- barian. Precisely the same thing occurred with the Italian republics of the middle ages. Guelpbs and Ghibelins, Germans and Swies, French and Austrians invaded the little inde- pendent States of Italy, sapped the bond of union which had united the citizens of each, and dissolution and enslavement speedily fol- lowed. Ifanything is taught, by history, it is that the first duty of the statesman is to guard, as the palladium of the State, the pure and un- adulerated nationalty of the people. That duty has been sadly neglected hitherto in this coan- try. That there should be a necessity for dis- banding bodies of srmed foreigners marching under the German or the Irish flag in the Uni- ted States—or for diseountenancing the sale of the compact Irish vote or German vote at elections—argues a culpable indifference in past legislatures. The time is not past how- ever for remedying these errors. We can still neutralize their effects by reforming our | naturalization laws, and, while we encourage the advent of sober steady meu who come hither to settle and amalgamate, in process of time, with ourselves, imposing heavy restric- tions on the importation of paupers and con- victs, and denying altogether the privileges of citizenship to those who have so disgracefully | abused them. The marked contrast between the patriotic tone of Governor Gardner and the seuitious | whine of Governor Clarke cannot have passed | unnoticed. The former is wholly oocupied with dhe welfare and advancement of his country, and its protection against foreigners : the lat- ter can find nothing better to do than to excite i] feeling between two sections of the country, and preach a crusade against the South. Gov. | Gardner, speaking in the hotbed of | abolition, where war has been waged against elavery for forty years, not only denounces agitation on the subject, bet by implication censures those who are con- | stantly stirring up strife, and serving the de- | signs of rival powers by trying to weaken the United States. “The dominant race,” rays he, ‘must regulate the incoming class. Such | is political destiny, and history provesit.” If | this be true of the European, how mych truer | of the African? If we are bound to regulate | the Irish and the Germans, how much more the negroes? How much more plainly incumbent | on us to provide against the encroachments of a race numerically formidable, and unlike our- selves in mental and physical organization, in every trait of mind, heart and body, than to guard against the same danger from races whose forefathers were our own, and whose na- | tional character is only distinguished from ours | by the effects of a couple of centuries of seps- tion and different mode of living! Secretary Marcy on Crrizensuip.—We have seen a letter from the Premier to a distin- guished Cuban gentleman, at present a resident of New York. The Secretary informs his cor- respondent that a declaration of intention is not a renunciation of allegiance to another Power, and “that such renunciation can only be made and accepted when [he] shall have | applied for naturalization to the proper court, and eball have proved to its satisfaction (your) title thereto.” This doctrine confficts with that contained in the Korzta letter, and both practically that they did so because they feared | are from the #ame source. It ie a remark- the power of Rusria, and not because they | able instance of the elasticity of statesmen’s eared one etraw abont civilization or the free, minds. , THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, THE SEWARD KNOW NOTHING COUNCIL, The Southern Convention. BABMORATIC SENATORS AND SECRET SOCTETIES THE OLD VETERANS AT MOUNT VERNON, Railroad Difficulties at Erie, &o, iy &, The Seward Know Nothing State Council. ARRIVAL OF SEWABDITUS— ORGANIZ4TION—THE PLATFORM—COMMITTEE TO ATTEND THB LEGISLA- TURE-—THE HERALD—DENUNCIATION OF DANIEL ULLMAN, ETO. ETC. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THR NRW YORK HERALD. : Scmmvrcrapy, Jan. 10, 1855, The bolting Know Nothings are in session in this quiet village, and there is considerable of @ flurry in town, This morning trains commenced arriving bearing freights of faithful Sewardites, who have resolved, as a last resort, to make a desperate effort to lead off a por- tion of Know Nothing strength in the Legislature on & false tack. Some weeks since bolting lodges were formed here and in other placos, with a view to the present con- ‘vention being held in time to bring its influence to bear upon the United States Senatorial election. About one hundred members left the old lodge here, and formed a new one. There are about one hundred members present. A.M. Clapp, of the Buffalo Express, who failed to get admitted into the old organization, represents Buffalo, and the other delegates are all of the same stripe. The Convention met at 3 o’cloek this afternoon, and appointed committees on permanent organization and the platform. These committees have not yet reported, but the platform which is already prepared takes broad ground in favor of freo soil ; declares that freemen, free soil and free speech, are the true elements of republican American principles, and distinctly adverse to principles of foreign governments. It hits the old order by de claring the determination of membera not to counte- nance any proscription of Americans on account of devo- tion to freedom, and adopts the main planks of th Massachusetts Know Nothing platform. ° . A representative from [Syracuse is chairman of the Convention. Aresolution was introduced to print a circular and send it round extensively to members of the old loiges, known to be favorable to Sewardiam, but mat with op- position, one member declaring it was necessary for the purpose of securing success in their present immediate object to preserve the strictest secrecy, and that Uncle Sam’s postmasters were act to be trusted. The motion was lost. ‘ A motion was also made to meet at Albany at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, but this was opposed on the ground that an incursion of so many members of the order into the Capito! would create alarm at once, and the entire plot would be blown. It was urged that the most effective method to defeat the movement against Seward, would be to appoint & committee to attend the Legisla- ture until the election of United States Senator is dis- posed of. This being concurred in, the Convention ad- journed at half-past eight for one hour, They are now again in session to receive the report on permanent orgauization and to adopt the platform. This done the committee will be selected to attend at Albany, and the convention will adjourn to meet after the eleetion of United States Senator. Every attempt has Deen made to keep the convention private. One member during the meeting referred to the Hrratp, saying that a notice had already appeared in its columns, and ‘‘There was no knewing if that sheet did not even at the present moment hear all that Was going on.’’ He was correct, for your correspondent wan inwardly chuckling over his remarks. It was given out that the meeting was composed of the Sons of Temperance, but, forgetting this ruse, seve- ral of the members, in high glee at the prospect of dis- organizing the oki Know Nothing party,,proceeded di- rect to the bar of the hotel and took drinks round. The convention meets at the room of the Young Men’s Association. In the course of some remarks made,Daniel Ullman was denounced by one speaker as @ truckling, false-hearted political hack. Strong reinforcements of Seward men from the West accompanied the delegates and proceeded direct to Albany this afternoon. (From the Regular News Agent.) Scumnxorapy, Jan. 10, 1865. A Know Nothing Convention assembled here to-day, and about one hundred and twenty-five delegates were present from various parts of the State, mainly from the central portion of it. The cities of New York, Brooklyn and Buffalo were represented. The Convention is mostly composed of those persons who have become dissatisfied with the action of the original lodges, and the delegates are principally sece- ders from the old lodges and parties who failed to get ad- mitted under a former organization, and their object now is to effect a perfect State organization, so as to counteract the political influence of the old lodges, which has been used adversely to’ Mr. Seward and his partisans in the State, The convention met this afternoom and evening, and are now holding a third session. Nothing of irport- ance has yet been done. The Old Soldiers Visiting Mount Vernon. Wasminatox, Jan. 10, 1855, The old soldiers visited Mount Vernon to-day, stopping at Fort Washington on the way bach. The weather was beautiful, and the soldiers were full of gayety, and were accompanied with crowds of beautiful ladies. Daguerreotypes were taken of the different groups at the mansion, Mrs. Washington and children included, and at the tomb. We noticed Mra, Washington rest'ng on the arm’of in oid soldier from Kentucky, the son of an officer who fought under General Washington at Yorktown. We regret we cannot give the eloquent speeches from Mr. Wilson, the eloquent orator of the Six Nations, end from the president of the Convention. Several speeches were also made on board the boat, the most interesting of which was by Dr. Sundown, a Seneca Indian. It was interpreted by one of his tribe, Tt was full of historical reminiscences, and he was fre- quently interrupted by outbursts of applause. After he had concluded, General Coomas addressed the old soldiers in behalf of the red men who once owned this beautiful country, but who now had scarcely enough of it fora graveyard. He said some of them had fought by his side, during the last war with Great Britain, with perfect sel/-devotion, and had shared with | him in captivity and-suffering. He would scorn to be the beneficiary of a government that would take every. | thing away and give nothing in return, These Indians were poor and the government rich. He hoped his brother soldiers would contribute enough to send them home, and make the pot boil when they get there. He concluded by saying that when the great chief, Colonel George, wan a brave soldier on the Niagara frontier, he was willing to take him by the hand as a brother, and he would do so now, (which he did.) ‘There was then an old-fashioned shaking of hands all around, which was followed by three successive war whoops om the part of the Indians. Mr. Wirson, the Indian orator, then spoke with great emphasis and effect, and was followed by Col. Baldwin, who intredueed an old colored sailor, who spun a yarn of much interest of the trials and dangers during the war. On reaching the National Hotel, in this city, the old | solders formed in close order, and were addressed by General Coombs, in a brief farewell speech. Fonds were then raised by the efforts of Col. Young and Col. Baldwin, to pay the expenses of the poor nol- diers and Indians, and all retired to their several abodes, fatigued, but delighted with the events of the day, ‘The Southern Convention at New Orleans, New Onrxaws, Jan. 8, 1855, ‘The great Southern Convention met here to-day. Only sixty delegates were present, Mayor,Lewis was clected as the temporary Chairman, and ® committee appointed to nominate permanent officers, when the convention took @ recess, On ve assembling, General Lamar, of Texas, waselected permanent President, Ten States were represemsed, and ndred and twenty delegates were present, includ- ing eighty-three from Louisiana, Resolutions were of fered for the improvement of the Galveston bar and barbor, and for the establishment of a marine hospital there, Adjourned until to-morrow. VOL: xx. From Washington. NSTRATION AGAINST TH KNOW NOTHINGS—THE bar 32 BILL—THE PACTFIC RAILROAD—HEALTH: OF MB. MOBRIS—CONFI:MATION BY THE SENATE, sey pee Wasuratox, Jan, 10, 1885. ‘The democratic Senators have had a preliminary meet- ing, sad will shortly make « demonstration defining the porition of the democracy. vpon the subject of secret nocieties for political purpeses, Mr. Adams, of Misais- sippl, in naid to be the only democratic Senator who is disinclined to take ground against these societios, The Pacific Railroad will be the special order of the il) the 16th inst. ee of Ways and Means will endeavor te call up, on the first opportunity, the bill reported by them at the tast session, to regulate the duties on im- porte, This bill continues an ad valorem duty of & huadred per cent on liquors, &c., and establishes * Wale of Aaviss Bother articles, of five, tem, fifteen an twenty per cent ad valorem tiepectively, with a free list. of s few untmportant articles. ‘The bill recommended by the Secretary of the Treasu- ry also continues the duty of a hundred per cent ad va- lorem on liquers, &c., but establisnes @ single rate of duty of twenty-five per cent 4d valorem on all other arti+ cles, except those enumerated in an extensive free lint. Senator Norris, although not out of danger, {s more comfortable to-night. The Senate confirmed to-day the treaty with the Chippewa Indians, alse the appointment of W. W. Drummond as Judge of Utah, and also of C, P, Ellis, an postmaster in Ohio, locality not ascertained. U. Se SUPKBME COURT, Wasumaton, Jan. 10, 1855, Supreme Court.—No, 40, Edward M, West, plaintiff ie error vs. Joseph Cochran,’ The argument im thls cause was commeneed b wing for the fplaintiff, and continued by Mr, for the detendant, Latest from the,State Capitol. THE ROCHESTER MILLERS—PROPOSED LAWS—THE LEM+ MON CASE—ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTERS-—-THE PROMIBITORY LAW, ETC., ETO. . ALBANY, Jan. 10, 1855. Neither Senators Adam Storing, of the Chenango die trict, nor Zenas Clark, of the St. Lawrence, both demo- crats, have yet taken their seats. Both gentlemen are detained at thelr bomes, unfortunately, by illness, These, together with the Ontario district, makes three Senatorial district, at peesent unrepresented. The old claim of the Rochester millers is again being gelvanized, This morning Senator Bishop presented a pe- tition, signed by Thomas Kempshall and others, praying for an investigation of their claim against the State for using the waters of the Genesee river to feed the Erie and Chenango canals, The petitioners claim damages, which, if allowed, will amount to millions, as they al- lege a sustainment of injuries for many years. Aatruggle ensued as to which committee the subject should be referred, whether to that on claims or the one on ca- nals, the friends of the petition desiring the former; it was referred to the committee on claims, however, by a decided vote, and will be fairly investigated by Messrs. Hopkins, Hitchcock and Williams, ‘hatever report these gentlemen prevent, will undoubtedly lay the fully before the fry boone and the public. It is Lat? ire to investsurplus funds belo: to the bank fund stock, and Mr. Sherrill has laid the Senate this bill; — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BANKING DEPARTMENT TO INVEST CERTAIN SURPLUS FUNDS, The people of the Stateof New York, represented in Senate and Asrembly, do enact as follows: — Sec. 1. The Su: intendent of the Bank Dey nt is hereby authorized to invest any money in the Treasury, Delonging to the Bank Fund stock, becoming due later than the ir 1859, upon such terms as he — deem for the interest of tle anid fund, provided sai stock shall not be purchased ata price exceeding the par value thereof, There appears to be something wrong in the action of the late barnburner Comminsioners the Land Office, in granting certain lands to an individual; and Mr. Brooks this morning introduced a joint resolution upom the subject, as follows: Resolved, if the Assembly concur, that the Attorney General, if'in his judment the public interest requires, institute proper action in the Supreme Court, for the Purpose of vacating and snnulling the letters patent pone Pee ot the Commiotaeies rad ice to Her uyggles for certain lands water, bearing date tho Hk day of July, 1862, Sy brie es companies bg take notice of follo’ bill, now pending e Senate, introduced by Senator Spence:— a AN ACT RELATIVE TO UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS OP INSURANCE: The people of the Btate of New ¥ ated e je of the State jew rese! im Senate tog Assembly, do enact as teases Sec. 1. Every insurance company or association for fire, marine cr life risks, conducted on the mutual prin- ciple or otherwise, now or hereafter ‘ted, or or- nized, or doing business under any general or special law of this State, on or before the first day of September next, and enpuaily thereafter, shall cause to pub- Mashed for six successive weeks, in one public newspaper printed in the county in hey | such company or asse- ciation may be located, and im the State paper, a true and accurate statement, verified by the oath of the treadurer or presiding efficer, of all dividends and inte- rest declared and payable upon any of the stock, bonds or other evidence of indebtedness of said company or as- sociation, which, at the date ef such statement, shal? have remained unclaimed by any person or persona authorized to receive the same, for two years then next preceding; and the word ‘dividend’’ shall inelude al <— issued or declared due for unpaid earnings or pro- ". See. 2, This act shall take effect immediately. At twelve o’clock the Se sate went intoexecutive secret session. There was ly any business before it—only a few unimportant nominations sent in, which were re- ferred to rerpective committces, By next Wednesday some of the most lucrative nominat will be received from the executive chamber. ‘The Senate took up the resolution from the House, re- goetes the members of Congress from this State to use cir endeavors in improving St, Clair Flats. Mre Crosby, in the course of his remarks, gave the Know Nothings a ‘distinct rap,” which was itly replied to by Senator Whitney, who stated that the Amerioar ty would encircle the whole Union, whose object wae reform the abuses which bad crept in both the old rties. He spoke fora few minutes with considerable force and earnestnees. It is the first time he has been called out this session. No Senator made sny attempt toreply. It was otherwise at the last session. The resolution from the House authorizi the Gov- ernor to employ counsel to assist the Atterney Ge- neral in the argument of the appeal im the Lemon case, was taken up, Mr. orig. ee the ayes and noes were orcereo, remarked hy e ho) every Senator would vote in the affirmat Mr. Paw deaized in- formation, and Mr. Bish: about giving it, whem Mr. Groaty informed the Senctor from taste (Mr. P.) that the reasons were stated in the Governor's message; and if the Senator had read the message, he had undoubted- ly seen the reasons stated. Mr. Putnam seplicd that he had not read that Portion of it; when Senator Hop~ kins (always on the wing.) moved the Senate adjourn, in order that the honorable gentleman might have opportunity to read the message. Carried, amid laughter: t) ber une chamber. he ‘ ie in relation to the Potice Department, intro- duced by Mr. Stuyvesant in the House, appoints four ere by the miners who have pm charge and management o! police appointmeuts: other matter, taking from the Mayor and Commom Counei) the authority now possessed, As several efforta made heretofore, by The islature, to remove Chief Matsell, have all signally failed, the friends of the new Dill will probably succeed this time, because just such: four commixsioners wiil be appointed asare derired—in. deed they are already selected, though their names do- not appear in the bili,The t me of the present Chief, by this bil, is toexpire on the Ist day of next July. After a long struggle this mor the House final oa that each Gs] com: shall be furni with a copy of the Revised Statutes, A large number of the honorable gentlemen desired each a copy, ae part of spoils, The Speaker, Littlej the House this morni pg biped the conm ews of rable Mr. Blatchford is Chair~ several days since, the man of Ways and Means, alias Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. It will: be bis duty todisentangle the finans inform tl US ppt the wheels of bankrupt treasury. hotiase of Gomer. jum ’ Erie, Chairman of Canals; Jonathan of Rensselaer, ‘n Railroads? A. Davidson, of Al- n Banks; G, D, Willems, of Oneida, om insurance; Mont on Judiciary. bers bays only two chairmen, ind Means, and Mr. A. G. Wil- important committee of two-third bills, isa member of Trade and Commerce, and Mr. Seagrist, on Expenditures in the Executive Departs ment. The committee in the House on the Prohibitory law, are ready to report. Thore are «ix who will present the Dill of lost year, with very slight modifications. All the stringent featores of the old ove are retained, There is not the least softening down. Mr. Stebbins, of Monroe, the chairman, being an acute constitutional lawyer, haw stricken out some features which he supposed might be Plonouncet uncenstitutional if carried to the courts he minority intend to present « counter report. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE Temrm BANCE SOCIETY, Auuaxy, Jan. 10, 1855. ‘The annual meeting of the New York State Tempe. Trance Society will be held in the Assembly Chamber here, on the evening of the 17th inst. Two Thousand Dollars Voted for the Poor of New York. New Onckaxs, Jan. 0, 1855, The Howard Association of this city voted, (o-/ay, the sum of two thousand dollars for the benefit of the poog of New York. From Boston. ESCAIE OF A FUGITIVE &LAVE—THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISEATCRE. Bowtox, Jan, 10, 1855. The Evening Telegraph, postscript this afternoon, states that & warrant was iemued to-day by United Stater Commissioner Charles 1. Woodbury, for the arrest of Jobn Jackson, am slleged fugitive slave, who it ig