The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1855, Page 4

| | aco NEW, YORK HERALD. 34 mES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. BFF gon N. W. CORNER OF NASSSU AND FULTON STS. an ed Per ane $5 to any part of Ser, to any Contine ‘ yOLU ICE, containing impor- O Fda ie from any quarter of the world—if used will be liberally sar OUR FOREIGN Comarsron- wenrre ane Parric LY REQUESTED TO SEAL 7 Tene and PACKAGED SENT US, bgt : MAIS WO FICE taken of anonymous Communications, We do mot return (hove 7 BROAPWAY THEATRE, Broadway—CrvpenEcia -A Buicnien Seine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Croox or Goxrv—Cor- azox Boy—Timovn. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Livine roo Past—Cincx axp Her Macro Our—Niox Youno Mas, roadway—Niour awp Morn- WALLACK’S THEATRE, mmo—New Foorman. METROPOLITAN TH Pumvormances—Monte ATRE, Brosdway—Rauusreiax st0, AMERICAN UUSEUM—Afternoon—Lewp Me Frye Surt- wones—Houe i Tux WaLy. Evening—War.aoe, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ He 72 Brostway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Broadway—Buox- euv’s Erworian Orera TRovre. New York, Sunday, January 14, 1855. The Nows. ‘The most painful event that we have had to re word for many a day is the deatruction by fire of the residence of Mr. Haven, at Fert Washington, yes- ‘erdsy morning, apd the death of three of his daugiters -by suffocation while endeavoring to effect their escape from the burning building. A brief account of the occurrence is given on the first page of to day’s paper. ‘Considerable inquiry was made yesterday to know if the information of the failure of Page, Bacon & Oo., of St. Lovie, had gone forward to California by the steamer of last Friday. It was understood that ‘the intelligence had been transmitted by that steamer; but as several firms telegraphed to New Orleans to send the news to Mexico by the steamer which leaves for Vera Cruz to-day, it is eupposed that it will be cemmunicated by the Ramsey route wo the steamer touching at Acapulco about next Sanday, bound from Panama to San Francisco. This will place the news in San Francisco one week abead of that carried out in the steamer which left this port on Fridsy last—a very important gain of the to those interested. The friends of Page, Bacon & Co. held a meeting last night at the Metropolitan Hotel. We publish the correspondence whieh passed between the meeting and Mr. Bacon, on the fiest page. ‘The members of the bar of this city met yesterday to exprees their sorrow at the untimely loss of three of their nfvet esteemed associates, Messrs. Edward Sandford, Abner Benedi:t, and Henry A. Brady, who were victims of the Arctic calamity. A series of resolutions suitable to the occasion were adopted, eopies of whivh, signed by the officers of the weet- img, over which Chief Justice Oakley presid:d, are to be transmitted to the families of the deceased, -a8 @ mark of sympathy and condolence. ‘The official report of the City Inspector comes to us this week in a new and enlarged form, designed ‘to afford a more comprehensive and explicit state ment of the weekly mortality. By it we learn that ‘the total number of desths in the city during the past week was 413, viz.: 70 men, 78 women, 158 -boye, and 107 girls. Thia shows a decrease on the previous week, notwithstending the ab sminable weather we have experienced, of 58. Of the whole mumber, 42 died of cousumption, 18 of bronchitis, 29 of inflammation of the lungs, 11 of congestion of ‘he lungs, 7 of apoplexy, 8 of congestion of the rain, 12 of diarrhoea, 18 of dropsy in the head, 4of dysentery, 8 of heart disease, 8 of inflammation @f the bowels, 37 of convulsiozs (infantile), 11 of ezoup, 10 of debility, 18 of acarlet fever, 29 of maras- mus, and 6 of measles. There were also 2 premature ‘bir chs and 33 cases of stillborn. The list of deaths from extertal causes includes 1 from burns, 4 from vasualties, two from drowning, two from fractares, and one from poison. A new and intelligent feature of the report is the classification of diseases that Dave proved fatal, in the following form :—Bones, joints, &c, 3; brain and nerves, 90; generative organ, 6; heart and blood vessels, 10; lungs, throat, &c., 120; old age, 3; skin, &c., and erup- tive fevers, 29; stillborn avd prematare births, 35; stomavh, bowels, and other digestive organs, 72; ‘uncertain seat and general fevers, 40; urinary or- gens, 3; unknown, 2. The nativity table gives 264 natives of the United States, 75 of Ireland, 55 of Germany, 6 of Scotland, and the remainder of the whole number is distributed among various European eourtries and British America. There were 79 deaths in the public institutions during the week, ef which 55 occurred at the emigrant hospital on Ward’s Island. Mr. Thomas N.Carr, late United States Consu} fer the Empire of Morocco, has farnished us with ® most interesting communication— which we pub: igh to-day—relative to the vast and hitherto unde- veloped field for American commerce which is pre- sented by that wealthy and populous quarter of the globo, Africa. European nations have been long since convinced of the great profits to be realized feom a sucvesstul opening of the interior trade of that country, but they have as yet made but little Progress in the realization of the pursuit. It is now considered that the recognition of the inde- penden:e of Wednoon, situated in Western Barbary, on the borders of the Atlantic ocean, affords an op- portunity not to be lost sight of by our goverameat for perfecting mer antile arrangements with the Sheik Beirock of that territory, fom which great national benefits would flow. A prompt aud jadi- chous treaty is al! that is required. The situation of the plave, its harbors, capabilities of produce, population, aud articles ot staple trade, are duly pointed out and enumerated by Mr. Carr in his peper, which will repay ® careful perusal, The bill which was passed in the State Senate on Friday to amend the charter of the Sixpenny Sav- foge Bank of this city, only provides for changing ‘the location of the bank, and amendigg its charter by striking out the word “Empire.” In another part of the paper is published two Jetters from our correspondents at Paris. They eontain graphic descriptions of the opening of the Regislative session and of a reception of one of the ministers, and also an account of the grand State Christmas dinner at the English Ambassador's, by way of contrast; all of which will bo found exceed- ing)y inte: esting. Marshal Keyver, of Philadeiphia, has put a stop te the “bloodless revolution” at Erie. Our tele grophic despatch from the seat of war states that the railroad had been nearly repatred yesterday, and by this time, probably, the trains are passing *-* *, The town authorities offered no re e redoubtable Marshal, being entirely a view of hie papers, that he was too ty companies of Boston ard vicinity, nly of Irishmen, have surrendered and been disbanded by Gov. Gardner, osen Know Nothing executive. The sof the Governor, in opposition to f foreigners, contained in his inaugu- 4 the soldiery to adopt this step, on the part of foreigners in that 1 themselves permanently in the ia bas proved a failure, cansed either € of popular disapprobation or the of some public fanctionary. ~anicipal election at San Antonio, ‘Texas, the Know Nothi* g@ were a0 evefal bya very | ange majority. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY: 4, 1855. : The New Liquor BUl—No Consequence—The Real Work of Temperance in other Hands. We published yesterd*y, at large, the new Maine Liquor law agreed upon by the joint committee appointed to deliberate and report upon the subject to the two houses of the Le- gislature. It is substantially the bill of the last session, Clark’s own bill, with a few secondary modifications. Possibly it may be passed; probably it may be overruled by the necessi- ties attaching to Seward’s re-election; but, in any event, the thing is of little practical con- sequence, the real work of temperance having been boldly taken hold of by other hands, com- petent and resolved to prosecute it im their own way. The consistencies of our peddling Albany politicians and philanthropical refermers are remarkable and somewhat refreshing in these degenerate days. The Redeemer of mankind was a pattern of temperance in all things; yet at the marriage feast of Cana of Galilee, he changed the water into the most delicious wine upon the table. Our Albany reformers, on the other hand, propose to change all sorts of liquor, our lager bier and wines in- cluded, into Croton water. They are at- tempting a miracle, and they will fail. But it is the consistency, the charming consistency, between the bill introduced to le- galize our primary elections, and this new li- quor law that challenges our special attention. The primary election bill proposes to legalize ruffianiem, ehort boys, and the cliques of whis- key drinking cut-throats, aud vagabonds of all sorts, that have, for so many years, exercised the mastery in our political affairs, through the grog shop influences of our primary elections, If this bill only comprehended an appropria- tion to the heads of these rum hole cliques on election days, it would be eomplete. A special committee from the Pewter Mug and Coal Hole of Tammany Hall should forthwith proceed to Albany in behalf of this amendment. On the other hand the new liquor bill pro- poses to shut up the grog shops entirely, and to limit the sales of alcoholic stimulants of all kinds to the use of such articles for mechani- cal, chemical, medfoinal, and sacramental pur- poses. Of course, these available exceptions will be made to cover the whole ground; but how we are to reconcile this measure with the primary election bill is a.question of very diffi- cult solution. We repeat, however, that it is of little conse- quence whether this Maine liquor law is passed or fails to pass. While our present system of primary elections and grog shop electioneering caucuses continues to control the movements of our political parties, drunkenness, tobacco chewing and segar smoking, bad liquor, filthy tobacco and the nastiest segars will continue to rule the roast. In another view, the party having the Maine law in charge may epare themselves the trouble of all further anxiety upon the subject; and good and sober citizens may also congratulate themselves that a new power bas come into existence, which will strike at the tap root of drunkenness and ruffianism, in the absolute destruction of our present debasing, demoral- izing, brutalizing and disgusting grog shop system of primary elections In a word, a new, powerful and mysterious temperance perty has taken the field, on a platform different from that of the Maine liquor law, but calcu- Jated to do more real good in behulf of temper- ance, decency, law and order than all the Maine liquor Jaws in the United States. This new party are the Know Nothings; and heir temperance platform is the total abolition of our existing rumhole system of primary elections. Can any man estimate the good re- sults we may reasonably expect from the extir- pation of these primary nuisances? Peniten- tiary convicts, burglars, midnight assassins, and all the filthy savages who, with their bludgeons, slung shot, knives, pistols and whiskey, manage the nominations ot our pri- mary elections, will be thrown out of this em- ployment and driven into the State prison orto some honest calling. Society will thus be re- lieved of areign of terrorism, peaceable and inoffensive citizens will have the privilege of voting without the fear of violence, and the dregs of the corner groceries will cease to dic- tate the selections of our law makers and the instruments for the execution of the laws. We are cordially in favor of this temperance move- ment, and congratulate our respectable law and order loving fellow citizens of all parties that it is fairly under way. The Know Nothings have taken the matter in hand, and their quiet secret councils are rapidly displacing the influences of the whiskey drinking cliques of our primary elections. We venture to say that the hired bullies of these election managers, will find themselves next fall, here and elsewhere, throughout the State, reduced to the extremi- ty, toa very great extent, of hard work fora living, either voluntarily outside, or forcibly within, the walls of Sing Sing. The quiet and peaceable councils of the Know Nothinge, in this view, have been doing already a world of good in behalf of the cause of temperance, law, peace and order in the community, aad for the restoration of decency at our popular elec- tions. We say, then, that it makes very little differ, ence whether the Maine law is passed or post- poned. Asastatute it will be practically a dead letter. So, too, Mr. Aitkin may pass his primary election bill, ifhe can. It will amount tonothing. The Know Nothings are rapidly winding up these primary election nuisances, and the rum drinking and tobucoo eating can- nibals who have so long controlled the political affairs of the State and the country. Th: Kuow Nothings are the real practical temperance par- ty of the day. Tue IMMAcuLaTEe Conception ov THe BuESssKD Vinors.—We give our readers, this moraing, as highly appropriate to the day, two distinct ar- ticles on the subject of the late decision by the grand council of the Catholic hierarchy at Rome, and the late proclamation by the Pope, of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. One of these articles is from the Freeman’s Journa’, the annointed organ of Archbishop Hughes, and is, therefore orthodox, gtaciour, loving, pious and acceptable, The other is from the Crusader, the special orgaa in this city of that arch-heretic Gavazzi, and a Know Nothing volunteer; and is consequently heretical, impioas, and revolutionary; and so, in the absence of the Archbishop, we may ven- ture to charge the faithful to beware of it. Outsiders are at liberty to read both articles, and judge for themselves. Meantime, the de- cree has gone forth; the church will adopt jt throughout the world, aod he that disbe- | lieves will be sccursed. Read, and choose ac- j ‘ordingly. Hard Times. qi Our city reporters note that Mr. A. T. Stewart supplies from nine to twelve hundred peop'e daily with soup. Mr Lindenmiiller does the same thing in Chatham street, and charitable com- mittees discharge a like duty in each of the populous wards of the city. Three days ago & long procession, composed of able bodied men, paraded up and down Broadway, bearing 4 bapner on which were inscribed the words: “We want work.” The same day, hundreds of ship carpenters, caulkers, and other hands em- ployed on board ship were discharged by their employers, partly because they would not con- sent to a reduction of wages, and partly be- cause there was no work for them, at any rate of remuneration at all. In several of the large printing offices all unmarried men have been discharged and those who have been retained work only three days a week, turn about with others. The chances are that if the reader of this will step up to the Park he will see a crowd of angry men, complaining of want and misery, and muttering fierce denuaciations against somebody. These are signs of the times, by no means to be carelessly passed over er ueglected. Do what you will with man, his nature remains the same; he hungers, thirsts, shivers from cold, loves his wife end children just as much in hard as in flueh ‘times, in 1855 as in 1837 or in any former year; and if the worst comes, he wili always run some risk rather than starve or let his family starve. Men are not born riot- ers: they become so, under intolerable pressure, and from misguided impulee. It is high time for the public of New York to inquire whether the pressure now resting on the necks of the poor is not intolerable, and their impulse mis- guided. That the existing pressure of want is cruelly severe is beyond question. There has been no approach toward a fall in the price of pro- visions, and the facts mentioned above show bow work has fallen off The poor would starve now were it not for the soup kitchens. Equally clear it is that the impulse of the unemployed masses is in general radically wrong. We have already had occasion to no- tice the absurdity of several of their demands, such gs'that.calling upon Congress to prohibit the export of flour. Others of more recent date are equally at war with reason, sound policy, and the law. The whole action of the unem- ployed workmen is based on the grand fallacy that it is the business of the State to care for them, to give them work when they want it, and generally to relieve them of the responsi- bility of looking after themselves. This prin- ciple, which is of French origin, has been widely disseminated among the operative classes by a set of political imvostors calling themselves Fourierites; and is stiil, in various shapes and forms, put forth in the colamas of the New York Tribune. Acting upon it, the crowds who assemble in the Park and parade Broadway, believe they have endured grievous wrong at the hands of the State and so- ciety, breathe vengeance, and demand present relief, not as a favor or a charity, but as a right. Assuredly a more dangerous as well as erroneous impulse never excited haman beings. Torender any class or set of men responsible for the existing etate of things is obviously to ignore the first principles of political economy, and to shut one’s eyes to the process which has | been going on for the last six years on every side; for the workmen to charge their saffer- ge on this or that class, or the State, is to for- get that they bad their share in producing the revulsion by accelerating and stimulating the expansion, that they helped wages to fall, by compelling them to rise formerly. Nor have they a shadow of right to shift their burthen'| from their shoulders to those of others. If the workmen of New York had not believed the rant and trash circulated in the columos of the Tribune, and relied more on themselves and less on the State; if each man had looked to himeelf for support and help and not at all to the unions, associations and other vile eu.nbi- nations which have been organized under the advice of the Fourierites, their distress would bave now been far less poignant and our danger hardly perceptible, Nor are these the only causes of peril that surround us, While thousands of workmen are unemployed and narrowly escape starvation, iveredible to relate, a most buoyant state of things exists in the higher financial circles. What o contrast! Soup kitchens in Reade etreet, and—if financiers are to be believed— overflowing banks in Wall street. Crowds pro- menading Rroadway with woful banners call- ing for work, and starving wives and cbil- dren in hovels on the East river—while the magnificent bankers and merchants down town carelessly put their hands in their pockets and subscribe four millions to aid an embar- rassed railroad. Only think—within a quarter of amile Mr. Stewart feeds 1,200 able bodied starvelings, and twenty or thirty operators agree to pay out in hard cash, without a pros- pect of return, four millions of dollars—enough of money to relieve all the distress. The con- trast beats fairy land hollow. Universal ruin on one eide—a plethora of money on the other. Starving workmen and overgorged bankers. Fathers of famities, honest, steady men, vainly begging for four dollars to buy bread; insolvent Tailroads, fresh from one imposition on the pub- lic, and utterly lost in character and credit, coming forward and getting four millions at a swoop! Howcan the workmen be persuaded that the state of the times renders it impossible for their employers to pay them the same wages as formerly, when a loan like this san be negotiated? One thing is certain. If the Erie Railroad can obtain four millions of dollars for the ask- ing, the city of New York could get any sum that might be needed, and there is no excuse for the Corporation not undertaking the neces- sary works at onee, Let Mayor Wood apply to the parties who tendered for the Erie loan—- they must have millions to spare; and let the docks and City Hall be forthwith begun, Wall street will cure the hard times, Sreecn or Henry A. Wisr.—We publish to-day a report from one of our Virginia cor- respondents, of & late clectioneering speech of Henry A. Wise in that State, against the Know Nothings. The late Staunton Democratic Con- vention, at the dictation of the Kitchen Cabinet at Washington, were compelled to nominate them. Butif the report be true thigt the Inte Gov. Smith has resolved to ru", gs an inde- pendent democratic candidate, tt en indeed, will Mr. Wike be subject to a “fi a the rear,” from which there will be nor acape. Mr. Smith, from his familiar title of « Dytra Billy,” has an old political account “g settle, dating back | to Van Buren’s adm’ istration, when Smith was a Van Buren ¥ pail contractor and Wise |: the leader of the hostile forces in Congress against the admi pictration and its office holders, | Virginia is the {ast chance for the administra- tion, and Vir-ginia is flickering in the socket ; but if “Ext ¢a Billy’ is in the field, the candle is out already, Pe tent Extensions at Washington. We bar little or nothing this session of ap- plicatfons from patentees to renew patents on 8pPp eal from the decision of the Commissioner. The President had enough last session of at- tempts of this kind; and as he seems to have given it up imdespair, it is to be presumed the Kitchen Cabinet are rather afraid to move. There are however over half a dozen appli- cations still pending before Congress; among which are that of Mr. Colt for his pistol, a reap- ing machine and others. It has been repeated over and over again in these columns that Con- gress has no business whatever to reverse the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents. That officer is the best judge—under the laws— whether a patent ought or ought not to be al- lowed to expire; and fora body of two hundred men to attempt to sit on appeals from his de- cision is perfectly preposterous. If the Com- missioner be incompetent te discharge his duties, let another be appointed. Dissatisfied applicants will find plenty of people to take up their case and present charges against him. But so long as his characteris unimpeached it savors both of absurdity and of corruption to appeal from his sentence to Congress,-where by tar the greater part of the members must be totally ignorant of the point in dispute, and even the best informed cannot form so accurate an opinion as a functionary whose sole business it is to attend to such matters. Applications for renewals of patents would be less frequent were it not for a class of in- dividuals who, as patent lawyers, exercise some influence both in the House aad in the lobby. Many of these are mem- bers of the House, and though they do not, it is it to be presumed, receive pay for their ser- vices as legislators, make quite a handsome thing out of their arguments before the Commis- siover and committees. It would, perhaps, be unfair to charge the bar generally with foment- ing litigation, though the world always gives them credit for doing so. But that section of the bar which affects a speciality for patent cases, is entitled tono such consideration. The developenients made in the examiaation be- fore the committee appointed to inquire into the charges which arose out of Colt’s applica- tion last year, show pretty clearly that the rules followed by patent lawyers are not those of the Supreme Court, or indeed of any judicial body in the country. The first object sought by these gentlemen scems to be to bribe the press; the most candid avowais on thishead were made by several witnesses. Five hundred dollars in hand, and two thousand more in case the pa- tentee succeeded, were, we are told, the usual | douceur to the correspondent of an influential journal. That this or similar sums have been paid for the advocacy of particular claims through the medium of letters from Washing ton, there seems every reason to believe; with what success we may judge from the host of ap- plicants who thronged the capitol last session How far the system was gencral, we can only -eonjecture; but the revelations made by the witneeses chow that it was usual, and sush being the case, a careful agent would not be likely to omit any precaution, however immoral, which might affect the issue of his client’s applica- tion. This single practice throws a flood of light on the system of applications to Congress for an extenrion of patent rights. Rights which cannot be asserted under our free government without the use of corruption on this wholesale | plan cannot be founded on any solid or sub- stantial basis. Where 4 man attempts to carry his point by bribery it is fair to infer that he is in the wrong. Congress will do well toremem- ber it, Meanwhile newspaper proprietors will learn a leseon from the report ot the committee, which may be of service to them individually and to the press at large. The evidence taken before the committee places it beyond a doubt that bribes have been taken, and to.a very large ex- tent, by individuals figuring at Washington as letter writers for the press; and it is not un- likely that in many instances communications, resulting trom these corrupt transactions have found their way into respectable journals. Negligence on the part of newspaper editors, and reliance on the integrity of correspondents, cracked eurthenware and steel pronged forks, cannet forthe life of them comprehend how a man like themselves, toiling as they do, should have earned a set of silver plate. Others hint that the anoaymous present came from Tammany Hall. At the time Gen. Pierce was elected President, a strong move | was made among the merchants and mechanics of Temmany Hall to present us with a set of | plate as a token of the recognition by the de- mocracy of the value of our support during the campaign. We have heard nothing of the matter since. At the time the idea was first mooted, we did not think the democracy could afford to give a service of plate to any one; but since then, they have been fattening on the spoils of office, and what with the Castom House, the Post Office and the Nayy Yard, may have scraped together enough to pay Messrs. Ball, Black & Co—the idea being of course to purchase our good will for as long a period as the service would pay for. We commend this idea to the investigators of the mystery. Again, itis shrewdly suspected that the Know Nothings are at the bottom of the matter. Se- crecy is re peculiar characteristic of all their movements; their type is the hand moving to strike or to reward in the dark. The Hunatp favors the Know Nothings; what more natural than that they should instruct their grand questor to slip a service of plate under our door on a dark night, merely as a stimulus to our zeal? Our cotemporaries are dull not to have thought of this. Must we set dowa the gift as a token of admiration from the New York State Council? Or have the Barker sec- tion thus sought to testify their gratitude for our services? Let some one enlighten us, Buionpers or Country Eprrors.—A journal published in Toronto says that the United States should be “ spat upon” because, he says, “the Hernan, Times and Tribune, the leading organs of public opinion, are openly on the side of the Czar” in the present war. Here- upon another Canadian editor takes his brother to task and corrects him by stating that the ERALD, Times and Tribune are of no account in the United States, American opinion being represented by the Courier and Enquirer, Journal of Commerce and Commercial Adver- tiser. We hope the Canadians won’t “spit upon” us, if we venture to observe in the first place that no journal in this country that we have seen has taken the side of the Ozar, or done anything more than see fair play between the belligerents; and secondly that whether the Herarp, Times and Tribune, with a circula- tion of 120,000 daily, are “of no account” or not, the Courier and Journal represent Ameri- can opinion just as truly as Lioyd’s List and the Shipping Gazette represent that of Eng- Jand ; and the Commercial Advertiser occu pies the same position here that the venerable beldame of the Standard does in London. We charge nothing for the information. Tue Deyrists.—We publish elsewhere a statement made by several dentists of New York, whose purport is to remove the impres- sion left on the public mind by the meetings recently held here in connection with Dr. Beole’s case, and to restore chloroform to its former estimation. We fear they will not suc- ceed. The dentists who met and declared what they had seen, stated facts which our cor- respondents to-day do not contradict. All they say is thatin their practice they bave seen none of the evil effects of chloroform. This does not | prove that those effects are not produced; and | until the veracity of the professional men who met here come weeks ago is directly assailed, the presumption will remain‘that they are, and that anesthetics of this character had better be absndoned by the faculty, ———___ THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington, CONDITION OF HON. JOHN Y. MASON’S HEALTH —TIS EUCCESSOR ALREADY SPOKEN OF—ARDEMPTION OF 2HE PUBLIC DEBT -THE SMITHSONIAN ICSTITUTION. Wasninaton, Jan. 13, 1555, No notice of the death of Mr. Mason, our Minister to France, has been received by tha government here. The last advices were dated Paris, Dec. 23,5 P. M, and | represented him to be thea in a critical conditign, from an attack of paralysis, The Star of this evening says that Governor Seymour is spoken of as Minister to Paris, in the event of Mr. Mason's death being confirmed. The redemption of the public debt at the Treasury Department, last week, amounted to $105,000. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution met again to-day. The question before the board was the adoption of Mr, Meacham’s resolutions, submitted at the last an- nual session, These resolutions say that the law of the Institution requires the formation of a library by an annual appropriation of valuable works upon all depart- ments of knowledge; and that a cammittee of three be appointed to superintend the expenditures for that pur- fully account for such things. For the futare | itis to be expected that proprietors of influen- tial journals will exercise more vigilance on the subject: so that if a man pays money to correspondents for corrupt purposes, he may lose it and his object at the same time. Tuat Service or Pratre.—The press is much agitated on the subject of a service of plate which, as was stated in the Heratpa few days ago, was dropped like a foundiing at our door on New Year's eve. are disposed ofin the like manner, some mark on their clothing or some peculiarity in their nose, eyes or chin serves atterwards to identify their unnatural parents; but our foundling bore no such distingu'shing mark, and its pa- ternity is shrouded in mystery. This mystery has given riee to much conjecture; hypotheses have been put forward without number; and quite a number of respectable journals seem bent on discovering who it was that presented us with the New Year's gift. Some mention the name of several distinguished merchants as the donors; and it has been sag- gested that, after the manner of the immortal Toots, we presented ourselves with the plate, had our name inscribed thereon, and left it stealthily at our own door; contriving the whole scheme with 8 Machiavelism worthy of some higher subject than a few silver toys. But it is to be noticed that in the quarters whence this suggestion proceeds, plate under any circumstances is a mysterious object, whose rarity wraps itin an almost holy wonderment; Mr. Wise, we presume, on account of his | and to receive a whole set all at once seems emphatic stand against the Know Nothings. something so fabulous, eo beyond all human He appears tohave been the only aspiring | ken, that it is unhesitatingly set down as the fruit of some inscrutable but obvious impos- | take this position. Hence he was nominated ture. The Finnish peasant cannot be per- and sent out against the Know Nothings, like | suaded that the marble palaces he sees in the Don Quixotte upon his campaign against the squares of St.Petersburg are intended for the | windmills. The speech we give to-day shows how same purpose as his own squalid hut; and so this democratic kaightof the Cabinet is fighting | these men to whom the world hes gruiged | democrat in the State who had the courage to When babies | | | | | | vs, James 'C. Ridgway; No. 47—the id R. Le pote. The resolutions were rejected by a voteot three for, ten against them—thus sustaining the course of Professor Henry, The Regents voting for the resola- tions were Messrs. Douglas, Choate, “Meacham; agaiast them, Chief Justice Teney, Messrs. Pearce, Mason, Eng- lish, Stuart, Hawley, Berrian, Rush, Bache and Totten— Mr. Towers absent. The subject was fully argoed by Messrs. Meacham and Choate for the resolutions, and by Mesers. Mason, Pearce and others, against them. UNITED STATES SUPREME CounT. Wasuineron, Jan, 13, 1955. The following cases will come before the Supreme Court next week:— Mcnday, Jan 15—No. 1—The United States, appel- lante, vs. Daniel W. Coxe etal; No. 42—Peter J, Barch- el, appettant, vs Albert C. March et al. eaday, 16th—No, 42—John Fisher's administrator va. Moses Wanzer et al. Wedne: , 1ith—No, 45—The United States, at rela tion of Aaron Goodrich, plaintiff in error, vs. Jaues Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury. Thursday, 18th—No, 46—Edward Herndon, A City o! Mant, joston, plaintiff in error, vs. Dav aran. Th. Railroad Troubles at Erte. Eare, Jan, 13, 1855. The repsira on the Lake Shore Railroad have been prosecuted with vigor, in spite of severe storm of snow and rain which has been prevailing, and will be so | far completed by to-morrow that the trains will be able to pass in the morning. No resistance was made on the part of the town authorities, though they showed themeelves and requested a sight of the papers by which Marshal Keyser acted, Their request was com- plied with, and they departed, satisfied that he carried too many guns for them. The road is safe till the 8th of March next, The Farmers’ Bank, at Mount Holly, N. J., Entered by Robbers. Petcapenrata, Jan. 13, 1855. The night watchman of the Farmers’ Bank, Mount Holly, New Jersey, was found in the bank, this morniug At 6 o'clock, bound and gagged. He says, on entering the building last night at 0 o'¢lock, he was seizod, tied and gagged by four men who had previously entered the bank, and that he remained in that situation all night. The robbers were in the bank from nine in the evening until three this morning, but did not succeed in getting b od vault open, nor did they carry any money away with them, ‘The Binghamton and Elmira Mal! Robbers, Troy, Jan. 13, 1855. The examination of the six mail robbers who were ar- | rested at Elmira, a few days since, for robbing tye mails at Binghamton and Elmira, was held before United States Commissioner Peach to-day, and resnted in their mitted to rar ee which ay ay bak) oR r ADVICES PROM GALVESTON— ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF INDIANS—THE PAOIFIC RAILROAD, ETO. j Convommta, Jan. 12, 1855. We have received here to-day New Orleans papers of Sunday last, containing the following intelligence :— Advices from Galveston to the 2d inst, state that a party of seventy-five Indians attacked Dr. Gidding’s an® Capt. Skelman’s company of fourteen men on the 15th af November, near Limpia, and that they routed their assailants, wounding and killing seventeen of them. a public meeting in Palestine, called to decide whether Governor Pease or Mr. Raymond, the State ‘Treasurer, was right in regard to the deposit tendered by Messrs. Walker and King to secure the Pacific Railroad » contract, after some discussion a committee was ap- pointed to draft resolutions on the subject. The majori- ty reported that Mr. Raymond was right and the Gover- nor wrong. The minority report, which was the reverse, was, however, adopted—only seven persons dissenting, out of about two hundred voters present. Iu the municipal election at San Antonio the Know Nothings were victorious by a large majority. Jacob Ober, a coal merchant, of New Orleans, has been murdered by a man named Hogue, in consequence of difficulty arising between the parties relative to: some business transactions. From Boston. THE OESSION OF BOSTON CORNERS TO NEW YORK—~ FOREIGN MILITARY COMP ANIRS IN MASSACHUSETTS: DISBANDED, Boston, Jan. 13, 1855. Governom@ardner bas issued a proclamation, in com *pliance with the act of Congress on the subject, ceding to the State of New York that part of Massachusetts. known as Boston Corners. In compliance with the recommendation.of Governor Gardner in his message to the Logulature, the following military companies, composed of foreigners, have been disbanded, ‘viz. :—tho Columbia Artillery, Capt. Cass; Webster Artillery, Capt. McKinney; Shields Artillery, Capt. Young: and Sarsfield Guard, Capt. Hogan, of Bos- ton; Jackson Musketeers,Capt. Proctor, of Lowell; Union Guard, Capt. Lineban, of Lawrence; and Jackson Guard, Capt. Driscoll, of Worcester. From Charleston. BURNING OF THE BARK J. W. DYER WITH A CARGO OP COTTON, Cuarueston, Jan 12, 1855. The bark J. W. Dyer, of Portland, Maine, loaded at Newport, Florida, with a cargo of cotton for Charleston, was burnt on the 7th inst., when at anchor in Spanish Hole, and only eighteen bales saved. The captain cut away the masts, weighed anchor, and ran the vessel ashore, where she was scuttled. He was half owner of the vessel, and was only insured for one-third its value, Railroad Collision at Brockport. Jan. 13, 1865. While the freight train on the Niagra Falls and Lock- port Railroad was standing at Brockport, an emigrant train came rushing along and ran into the hind car of the freight train, injuring three persons—one of them ~ fatally. The engineer of the emigrant train supposed the other to be on the switch, and, passing on, ran com- pletely through the car of the freight train, making q complete wreck of it. James R. Thompson, late collec. tor of this port, is among the injured. Railroad Accident and Death. Syracuse, Jan. 13: 1855, James Kane, a brakeman on the freight train on the Oswego Railroad, to-day, while jumping from .one car to another fell between them, and met with a horrible death, bemg dragged some distance, and terribly matf- Jated before life became extinct, The iMinols Legislature. Cucago, Jan. 13, 1855, The election of United States Senator from.this State has been postponed by the Legislature until Jan, 3lst. ‘Weather Reports, Boston, Jan. 13, 1855. At sunrise the thermometer here stood at 40 degrees above zero, and at 2 P. M. 50 degrees above. The weather is thick and sultry. This evening it commenced raining hard. Barmmorg, Jan The weather here has been ear eal to-day, which is quite an acceptable chai from the ani mists which have been prevailing for the past Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Stocks are firm. Reading. 3s; Morris Goecl, 173 rag tl ys , 85; 6 1395 5 Island Railroad, 1434; Pennsylvauia Rairoed, aa Penn- sylvania fives, base. The money market is rather easier. Cnantestox, Jan. 12, 1855. The sales of cotton here to-day amouut to 1k bales, The sales of the week have been 11,000 bales, at prices. ranging from 63¢c. to 83c.—an advance of 4¢c. per Ib. Middling a quoted at’ Bo. a 81¢¢. The receipts for th wee ay bales, and the stock - ive of shipbodra, , {8 20,000 bales. scampi wivio aa 1855. ‘The Loss of the Steamer Arctic, MEETING OF THE JUDICIARY AND THE RAR There wes a large meeting of the members of the legal profession held yesterday, in the cour! room: of tte Common Pleas, to pass ealogiams on the memories and express their regret at the sudden and calamitous deaths of three members of ihs.pro- feseion, who perished in ths wreck of the illfated: steamer Arctic, Cite’ Justice Oakley was called on to preside, and touching and eloquent enlogies were deliverd by | Mes:re. B. F. Butler, D. D. Lord, E. J. Barr, Chas. A. Peabody, Chas. O’Conor, and Jas. T. Brady, re- ports of which shal! appear in to morrow’s HsgaLp,. The following resolutions were spoken to, and unanimously adopted :— The loss of the steamer Arctic, by which so many hearts and homes in our own community and elawhere - were stricken and desolated, has again brought the members of the bar of ‘the cities of New Yok and = / Brooklyn. At our former meeting we expressed aur sen- timents cf respect and sympatby in reference to our Fit brother, Samuel M. Woodruff, Esq. whose leath was mede too certain by the intelligence hen re- ceived, The painful conviction is now forced ujon us, that among those who perished in that awful estastro- phe, or were left upon the oceen to meet a li and, if possible, a more dreadiul death, were iso of respected brothers, Kdward Sandford, ‘Abner Jenedict and Hevry H. Brady, Weqs, In view of the saidreality, which bat now convened us, it is, therefore, Resolved. That while we bow with hm and re- verence to Him whose band has fallen thus heavfy upon. our ranhs, and heartily sympathize with all wio bave been called to share in this great calamity, we leem it our privilege us well as our duty, along with At irivutes of hener to the memory of our brethren, publicly to ex- cx Mbit of sorrow and condolence octasioned y their dea Reselved, That in the death of Edward Sanéford, in the prime of life, the profersion and the State have sus- tained a heavy loss; that we put on record our know- lecge of his excellences with grateful remembrance; that, ax an able, learned and eloquent lawyer, he stood in the first rank of bis profession; that, as aa indus- trious, persevering and honest man, he had eur high esteem, and his social and genial ‘personal jualities greatly endeared him to us asa friend; and we deplore with Forrow his untimely revomal from the flell of uso- fulness, when his bopes and our expectations were ia the fullness of their aceomplishment. Rerolved, That in the death of Abner ened! Vp the bar of this city has lost one of ita moat valued mem- bers, and the community a citizen of eminent worth and usefulness; and that this meeting sympathise with his {amily and friends in their deep afifiction and irreparable lone. Resolved, That by the calamity which has clad our country im mourning, we bave been called to lament tho h of & member of our body, in the person of Hepry Austin Brady, whose fidelity, gentleness and purity of character, justly endeared him to his friends, and render bis removal and loss to us, as it is to them, & source of unfeigned sorrow. -_ Resolved, That in token of respect for the of our deceased brethren, Fdward vandford, Abner dict and Henry A. Brady, Esqa, and of for their we will wear the usual ‘badge aye Resolved, That In testimeny of our heartfelt thy with the bereaved famide of the deceased, ce eeere taries of this meeting transmit to them respect! valy, copies of the resolutions passed at this meeting, signed by the officers thereof. a si Keselvid, That the proceedings of qi ty the officers thereof, be pebicten quiere thelr diree- » Brooklyn City News. ovr For TH: Poor.—The Brooklyn Soup Ass>ciation commenced operations on Friday, at noon, and, for the first day, did quite a big business. The place in which ‘the soup is prepared is in the rear of the City Hotel (Military Garden). Many prominent citizens called to see how affairs worked, and some seventy families ap- plied for aid, and all were supplied in proportion to the number st home. One kettle full only had been ~ ared, and tents were «xbausted in about jours, Hereafter, should the dem: warrant it, the four kettles, capable of holding ten barrels, will be filled, and the soup dealt out every day. Fine. —Friday night, at 10 o'clock, a fire broke out in two-story frame building at the foot of Amity street, owned and occupied by William Mairs. The flames ex- tended to an adjoining three-story frame building, both were soon enveloped. The materiale being combustible character, it was Fe cee! to save houses, and they were totally yed. ‘the furniture was saved. George mourning for 4 ~ : ' fete