The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1855, Page 4

“108 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND FULTON STS, @PFLCE N. We CORNER ERMS, cash in advan MILY HER AL (SEMEN TS yr copy—87 per annum. every AMUSEMENTS THIS BVBNING. BROADWAY THSATRE, Broadway—Civpenecca -A Buieuren deine. BOWERY _THEATRE, exox boy—Tmovea. BURTON'S THRATRE, Chambers street—Livine too Pasr—18c8 axo ize Macic Our—Niwx fours Mam. wery—Crocw ow Gorp—Con- WALLACK’S THEATRE, Grosdway—Niour axp Monn- yro—New Foormay, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Equgsrniax Puayounancns—Monre C AMERICAN MUSEUM— —Lenp Me Prve Sanc- gings—Hore wy Tue Wars Evening—W aLLaog. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway. BOCCKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 839 Broadway—Buox- axr’s Briuorian Opera Trove. Few York, Monday, Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK HERALD—-EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard mall steamship Asia, Capt. Lott, will leave Beston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool, The European mails will close in this city at » quarter ‘to two o'clock to-morvow afternoon. The Henan (printed in English and French) will be published at ten o’clock to-morrow morning. Single eopies, in wrappers, sixpence, Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of ‘Qe New York Herraxp will be received at the following places in Europe:— Liverroot. .John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. ¥m, Thomas & Co,, No, 19 Catharine street. Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. The coatents of the European edition of the Hern ‘will embraco the news received by mail and telegraph at the effice during the previous week, and to the hour of woblication, By telegraph from Washington we learn that the special committee of the Senate on the Pacifls Rail. goad, met on Saturday to considerthe plans proposed ‘Dy Senators Rusk and Douglas, It is understood the projeot of the latter gentieman was finaily de- te: mined on, and that a report will be made to the Benate recommending its adoption. Three routes are provided for, viz.: a southern route, from the ‘western border of Texas to the Pacific; a central ene from the western border of Miss.uri or lowa to Sen Francisco; and a nort! ern one from the western border of Wisconsin or Minnesota to the navigable ‘waters of the Pacific in Oregon or Washington Ter- witory. The bill sets apart alternate sections of Jand for ten miles on euch side of the route, and doubles the minimum price of the reserved sections, and authorizes a mail contract for fifteen years from the completion of the road, at a rate not exceeding t@ree hundred dollars per mile. The bill also suthorizes the Secretaries of War and Navy to make @ontracts for the transportation of goverament sup, plies for the same period, and makes other im- Portant regulations. For full details see telegraph. We give in another part of ¢o-day’s paper an ia- Seresting ‘account of the Meequite tree and its gum, fiom the pen of Captain R.B. Marcy. This tree ia a variety of the acacia, and constitutes vast fwacts of woodland between the twenty-sixth and ‘thirty-sixth parallels of north latitude, and is des- tired to become highly valuable to sett.ers in the wegions where it abounds. The timber is very du- webie as a building material,is excellent for fire- wood, ant the tree emits a gum, when incisions are made in its baik, very similar, and not in the least imferior in its properties, to the best gum arabic, We give elsewhere an interostiog accourt of the oes of the whaleship City, as relisted by Captain Gifford, who has arrived at New Bedford. The dis- eater occurred on the 6b of September, in Saghalian Bey, ten mikes north of Cape Golovatch. The Cap- tain avd crew wero recoived at the Russian village of Petrowsky, in Siberia, with every mark of kind- nees, and supplied with food, shelter and clothing, until they were enabled to leave for home in the ship Syren Queen, of Fairhaven, A very large meeting of the most influentia! mem- bere of the Bar was held on Saturday, ia the court room cf the Common Pleas, to do honor to the memory of those gentlemen of the profession wa0 perished in the wreck of the steamship Arctic. Most eloquent specches were made by Messrs B. F. Buikr, D. D. Lord, E. J. Burr, Charles A. Peabody, Charles O’Conor, avd James T. Brady, fall reports ef which will be found in another partof today’s peper. A very important decision was rendered in the Bapreme Court on Satu day, by Judge Roosevelt, on contract for the sale of real estate, where tie party purchasing did not cocform to tre terms of the ogreement, as regards time. The Judge re- marked that a person selling real estate has the same right to make punctuality in time as he has sufficiency in amount, a condition precedent in earrying out contracts. In accordance with this view, ho directed the contract to be cancelled. Resolusions were offered at the Southern Conven- tion, at New Orleany, on the 12th inst., declaring the acquisition ot Cuba necessary to the protection ef the commerce of the South, and urging upoa Congress immediate action on the subject. A reciprocal treaty between Spaia and Mexico, for the repeal of laws suppressing the slave trade, was also recommended. Both resolutions were referred. The steamship Northern Light, with dates fcom Ban Francisco to Des. 23, arrived at New Orleans nj the 13:h inst. She brings $600,000 in specie for New York. We learn that about one half of the own of Vallacito was destroyed by fire on the 224 ult. Flour was selling at $14 per barrel, lard 149., bacon 13 jc, and hams 16c. per Ib. We published yesterday a brief telegraphic de- spatch from New Orleans stating that the steam- ship Prometheus bad arrived at that port, with California dates to December 24th. The despatch states that the markets in California were very @all. The crops are said to be abundant. No rain had fallen to benefit the mining interest. Onur despatch from New Orleans, of the 12th instant, states that the cotton market was unchang- ed, and that the sales for that day amouated to 6,000 bales, and for the week, 25,000. Meat axp Drink ror tHE Poor.—We hope that the starving poor of this city will wait patiently until those measures now in progress for their relief shall be comploted. We hear of several splendid balls and parties, full dress and calico, under way; and the dancers are making every preparation to give these balls ach a character as will materially increase the qmantity of soup to be dispensed to the poor. ‘They are getting up silk and velvet, as well as ealico parties, and we may expect to see all the richest styles of dress—all the newest patterns of jewelry—all the most delicate European Jaces—all the most expensive exotics for bou- quets—ao)l the luxuries of the season for the suppers, including any amount of champagne— and all the new dances, polkas, mazarkas, and the German cotillon. After the dresses -have been admired—the jewelry inepected—the pertame of the flowers ipbaled—the laces criticised—the polkas polk- ed, the mazurkas finished, the German wound up, and the suppers of cold duck and cham- pegne duly devoured—the poor people will re- ceive the surplus in soup. Therefore, we say, let the starving poor wait patiently, for the fashionable people have taken the matter in hand, and they are to be danced ont of their misery. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1866. Henry A. Wise on the Stump—The Cabinct Orgens-and the Know Nothings—Wise and Seward, ‘We published yesterday an oxtline of one of the late popular speeches of Henry A. Wise, who is now ont in Virginia ow a stumping tour, as the democratic candidate for Governor. This israther a novel feature in our Northern re- | Perts of Southern politics, and affords a very Yavorable view of the peculiarly Southera in- stitution of the stump. Brief, too, as is our report of the speech in question, it establiches the facts that Mr. Wise is an experienced and sagacious politician, and an able, ready and eloquent speaker. : It is evident that Mr. Wise anticipates a de- feat. He betrays this conviction in the drift.of his argument. He exhibits none of that saucy mockery of his oppoaents which has heretofore characterized the champions of the Virginia democracy—none of that exulting confidence concerning the rubbish and clap trap of Balti- more resolutions, democratic principles, and democratic invincibility, which has hitherto ruled the State. He has nothing to say for Pierce or his confederate spoilsamen—he appears to have virtually abandoned them to their fats, and to have adopted at last the sober policy of resting his case upon the great local interests of Virginia. His last speech is rather that of an independent, progressive statesman, prac- tical and free spoken, than the harrangue of 4 | tgol of the Cabinet. It looks as if he had cast off the shackles of the Richmond Cabinet Junta in disgust, and had taken the field as an inde- pendent candidate, upon the common sense platform of practical and tangible utilities, in- stead of the stale abstractions of ’98 and ’99, and such trash. Mr. Wise, also, appears to be desirous now rather to conciliate than to exas- perate the Know Nothings; and but for the dead carcass of the administration, which he is in a measure compelled to follow, it would be a difficult task to defeat him upon the strong progressive Virginia policy which he has for himself adopted. Itis unfortunate for Mr. Wise that he is iden- tified with thecause of a sunken dynasty—un- fortunate that while he is conducting his case before the people of Virginia upon practical questions of the first consequence to the State, that he should have to carry about with him the bad odor of Pierce and his administration—unfor- tunate that the Cabinet organ at Washington, and its faithful lackey, the Richmond Enquirer, ehould persevere in their unavailing efforta to get up the hue and cry of abolitionism against the Know Nothings in Virginia, just as the old fisherman’s wife insisted upon sweeping the ocean waves out of her cabin with the tide still rising against her. But this is the last despe- rate trick of the Cabinet spoi/smen to create a diversion against the new American party, which seems to be carrying everything before it inthe “ Old Dominion ;” and it is, therefore, quite natural that the Pierce fugleman should stick to it with the tenacity of despair. From the specimen which we have given our readers of the stump speeches of Mr. Wise, it appears that he has softened down his antipa- thies to the Know Nothings, from fierce hostili- ty to facetious by-play. He knows all about their signs, grips, pass-words, triangular pieces of paper, and-so-forth ; but he is not one of them. He is unfortunately against them, and if they intend to sink him, he is quite willing to sink with W. H. Seward. The Cabinet organs and agents at Washington, Richmond, Ne York and Albany, on the other hand, preferring that Wise and Seward should swim together, are laboring with the zeal of martyrs in the common cause. And £0, while the Washington Union, Richmond Enquirer, and the rump of the Richmond democratic sweat house, are urging upon the Virginians the necessity of extirpat- ing the Know Nothings as a nest of Seward’s emissaries—ithe instruments directing the movements of Tammany Hall are, we have good reasons to believe, actively co-operating with the secret agents of Seward in behalf of his re-election. Manifestly the re-election of Sew- ard will operate to the advantage of Wise, in the same proportion that the defeat of Seward will work in Virginia to the advantage of the Know Nothings. It is evident, then, that the administration desire the re-election of Seward as a stepping stone to the salvation of Virgit The mock heroics of the Cabinet organs con- cerning the alleged anti-slavery instincts and tendencies of the Northern Know Nothings are very amusing. These organs cannot under- stand how it is that good democratic adminis- tration Nebraska men should have been cruci- fied in the late Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Il- linois, Michigan, Iowa and other elections, or how the Know Nothings should have combined with the free soilers in the election of anti-Nebraska free soil men in such cases, unless the Know Nothings are thoroughly seasoned with the leaven of abo- litionism. But this question is more simply explained upon its true definition. The Know Nothings set out during the last summer to take the field’ for the Presidency. Their first duty was to clear the track of existing obstruc- tions, The administration and its spoilsmen occupied it, and Seward and his Northern anti-- slavery league were preparing to enter upon it. The first duty, then, was to remove the goods and chattels of the administration and their spoilsmen from the course; and the Know Nothings, to this end, used the implements at hand. So, then, if good Nebraska men were thrown out with the other materials of the Ca- binet coalition, it was because they were part and parcel of the imbecile and corrupt estab- lishment at Washington, which it was neces- my to set aside. laviog pretty thoroughly cleared off the administration and its materials from the Northern portion of the great national race- course, the next thing required was the re- moval of the Seward anti-slavery coalition. The Know Nothings accordingly commenced this work in New York in our late State elections, and followed it op with the most astounding results in that headquarters of abolitionism, the old re. yolutionary commonwealth of Massachusetts. But the job remains uafinished in New York while Seward sits in the Senate. Let him be defented, and the Know Nothings, holding un- disputed possession of the North, will then | have nothing todo but to carry Virginia, in order towash out, like a spring freshet, the | whole Southern section of the Union, The dullest scholar in party politics will thus perceive the vital importance to the adminis tration and to Hevry A. Wie of the re-clection of Wm. H. Seward. In this light it is not neces- sary to get a permit to the secret sittings of the Tommany Coal Hole or the Kitchen | Cabinet to understand their line of action at Albany. It is unquestionably fn behalf of ' Seward’s re-election. How amusing, thea, to | the blow will tell both ways. It may strike i YRAUHAL BWAQWOM G.IARTR BHOY MN OW VOL: XX.. THY PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL—-1:1F KROTPROCITY BILL. IN NOVA SCOTIA—THE Ch) TAL AMERIOAN EXPE DITION. Wastunomy, Jam. 14, 1855. ‘The probabilities are in favor of the passage of the Pacific Railroad bill by the House, ontthe 16th; but as three of the select committee in the Senate have res« pectively independent plane ef their own, it will’ pro~ Dably go back from the Senste so altered that tha House may not compur, . Advices from Nova Scotia represent the people of that} province as highly pleased with the effects of the reci procity bill. Arrangements sre being made for muc! larger exportations of coal from J’ictoa next season. Recent advices from Centre! ica promise the ex’ peditionists am entrance into | boundary lines as they may de upon such conditions aa will be complied with By Col. Kinney and his associates. ! ey every honest reader, and how extremely con- | succeed in effectiffg the ruin of their rival; to- | foreign minister, and deserves some consolation temptible must appear the affected holy | morrow their turn may come, and how shall | after the defeat which is about to befall him. horror of the Cabinet organs at. their disco- | they ask for mercy? At the hour we write, ali | Either nomination would receive our support. -veries of the affiliations between certain well | is doubt, uncertainty, gloom in the future. A known anti-slavery mea of the North and the | mail from Europe, a disaster at home, or even Know Norbings! For example, they have dis- | the natural consequences of the events of the covered that General Wilson, late a prominent | last ten years may at any moment revolutionize free soiler, will probably be elected to the Uni- | Wall street, and shatter the soundest credit. ted States Senate, from Massachusetts, by the | No man can say the storm shall not strike him Know Nothings! What does this signify? Mr. | down. How uaspeakably short sighted under Wiee was formerly the great Southern Ajax of | such circumstances, for the men who should be the whigs in Congress against the federal | placing shoulder to shoulder, and aiding each policy of Jackson an@ Van Buren; but who | other as far as their own safety will allow, to doubts bis democracy now, except Billy | seize the opportunity of crushing their rivals, Smith? And so, if the Know Nothings elect | and quarrelling together! How bitterly the General Wilson to the Senate, weare confident | managers of the State and the United States that he will prove a conservative upon the | barks muss have thought of their suicidal strife, slavery question, in accordance with their | when both were prostrate, and all was ruin sound national principles. around! We have shown that the fortunes of the admin- istration, of Wise, and of Seward are blended together, though each party is fighting a sepa- rate battle. We have shown the despicable system of warfare of the Cabinet organs. The game of Seward is equally mean. Under pre- tence of a legal argument before one of our courts in a patent case, we find him absent- ing himself from his official duties at Washington, (though still pocketing his eight dollars 8 day,) and making and publishing a sneaking electioneering speech to help hiscase at Albapy. A patent case of Senatorial digni- ty most truly! How striking the contrast of the manly and open electioneering policy of Henry A. Wise, before his electors, face to face, freely and eloquently discussing the great practical interests of his State, ever ready to confront his adversaries in open day! Pity that the success of Wise should depend, in any degree, upon the success of Seward; pity that, in spite of himself, he should be tied to the dead carcass of the administration. Pity that the great popular work of the new politi- cal revolution should involve the sacrifice of such aman as Wise. But so it is, and we must bow to the will of the people. A New Feature in the American Trane witn Arrica—Tue Law Mvsxers—We published in yesterday’s Hu- RALD a very intresting sketch of the financial and commercial condition of several of the Alrican States, and we understand that there are still more interesting developements to come from the same source. The author of the sketch referred to--Mr. Thomas N. Carr— was once Consul of the United States at Tunis, and Jately returned from a second visit to that country, where he had been employed to get off some of George Law’s muskets. For Some reason or other--which may be mere fully explained when the case of Thomas N, Carr against George Law comes before ‘our courte—the muskets did not go off on this oc- casion, And these unfortunate weapons—not- witbstanding all the sales and purchases al- leged to have been made, and all the move- ments of the mysterious vessels in various parts of the world—-are still snug and safe in this neighborhood, ready at any moment to be used for the capture of Cuba, the revolution in Mexico, or the reconstruction of Poland, We learn that Mr. Carr intends to give a suc- cinct history of the muskets at an early day, and as there isa great deal of public interest felt in the matter,-we have no doubt that his revelations will command a large share of at- tention, and that the muskets will be made to 40 off in some shape or other. Arrival of the Steamship Northerm Light at New Orleans with $600,000 In Specie, New Onurans, Jam. 19, 1856. The steamship Northern Light arrived hore today, with dates from San Franeirco to the 284 of December, and with about $600,000 in specie for New York. Flour was selling at $14 per Dol., lard st 14. per Ib. Dacon at 154; ¢., and hams at 1 | About half of the town of Vailecito was destroyed by| fire on the 22d ult, ‘The ships Flying Eagle and Alabama arrived at Sara Franeiseo from New York on tie 22d of December. AyorHEeR Lerrer rrom FLaco—Frvancrer- ING AND AboLitionisM.—We give in to-day’s Heratp another extraordinary letter from Comptroller Flagg to the Board of Aldermen. The document is so interesting that we purpose to examine one or two of its strong points. The present statement of the Comptro'ler was called out by a special resolution of the Board of Aldermen, directing him to report the amount of money paid for advertising during the past year, and particularly the sums paid for extra advertising to his abolition orgaa, the Evening Post. It seems that the special ad- vertising given to the Evening Post was ex- clusive patronage to that journal, which has a circulation of about fifteen hundred copies. The rate paid was fifty cents per line for four- teen publications, and fifteen hundred extra copies were furnished for distribution, whether gratuitously or not we are not informed. This extra issue increased the circulation to three thousaud copies, equal to one-sixteenth of the daily issue of the Heraup. The advertising of these notices, says the Comptroller, “ was given to the Evening Post, as the proprietors of that paper offered to perform the work ata less price pet line than [those of] any other The Southern Convention. New On1eans, Jan. 12, 2855, At the convention being heli here to-day, resolutiona were offered and referred declaring the acquisition of, Cuba necersary for the protection of the and for the security of the Southern coasts, and urging tha immediate action of Congress upon the subject ; also ry commending a reciprocal treaty between Spain and Mex-| ico, for the repealof the laws suppressing the slava trade ; alsoin favor of a railroad from Norfolk to the mouth of the Onjo river. Mr. Marshall, of Mississippi, read a long report about: the institution of slavery, showing its value to the South; and several speeches were mace by others on the Pacific railroad project. New Lrve or Mar, Sreamers.—We learn that Commodore Vanderbilt has made a propo- sition to the Post Office Department to carry the mails to Southampton and Havre alter- nately with the Collins line. His intention is to build five steamers, to enable him to run a temi-monthly line. Two of the five are now on the stocks, and will be ready for service ina few months. Commodore V.’s proposition is to receive a proportionate rate of pay with the lines now in existence for carrying the mails, New Onvmays, Jan. 12, 1855. By the arrival of the steamship Orizada at this port: to-day, wo have dates from the city of Mexico to the 5th and from Vera Cruz to the 9th inst. Her news, how- ever, is unimportant. ‘Business Failures. _ New Oxseans, Jan. 13, 1855. Commercial Crisis f , oaive, ad two paper.” Nov this is not meeting the question | and in this way establish a weekly line of Ame- | 4 Prominent banking hou 4 produce firm, anc ° ie Noted Bho eres | fairly. Taking the difference in the cir- | rican steamers to Europe. We hope he will a and tobacco houses suspended payment here to. Spade culation of the two journals, let us| succeed. Congress cannot do better than to Weather in Bostons Boston, Jan. 14, 1855. ‘The weather cleared up laet night, and to-day it ha’ ‘been clear and cold, the thermometer standing at eight degrees above zero, Axrival of the Southern Mail. Barrimors, Jan. 14, 1855. By the arrival of the Southern maif here as late aw due, we have received New Orleans papers of Monday Inst, but they contain no new character appeared in our columns yesterday morning. It was between H. D. Bacon, of the house of Page & Bacon, bankers, of St. Louis, and a number of residents and merchants of that city, who happened to be here on Saturday; and conveyed to the former the sympathies of* the latter, on the occasion of the failure of the house of which he was a member. In his reply Mr. Bacon observed that he would hereafter “publish the facts, which would show that had good faith characterized the conduct of our (Page & Bacon’s) correspondents,” the suspen- sion would not have occurred. Such a charge made at such a moment by a man of Mr. Ba- con’s standing in reference to firms equally eminent, is quite worthy of attention by the public at large. On whatever grounds it may reét—these must for the present remain un- known—it shows that a state of war existed be- tween the financial houses of New York and the see what the Hwraup would have re- ceived at Comptroller Flagg’s economical rate. Only about forty-four thousand dollars! And yet Mr. Flagg tells the Board of Aldermen that the Evening Post received the work be- cause its proprietors offered to do it cheaper than anybody else. According to its circula- tion, the Evening Post received three times as much as should have been paid for this work; and the statement that it was the best offer is “a misrepresentation of fact. There was no competition, because no one was informed that there was anything to compete for. The Evening Post received about four thousand ’ dollars worth of advertising, which, by extra charges for printing extra copies, etc., might be easily swelled to seven or eight thousand dol- lare. Comptroller Flagg’s alleged reason for giving this patronage to the Post will not hold water. encourage all ocean mail steam lines. It is the cheapest way of keeping up anavy. The war in the Crimea has fully demonstrated this fact. Without the Oriental, West Indian, Cunerd and other mail swamers, it would have been imporsible for the Allied Powers to have despatched reinforcements in time to have becn of any use to Lord Raglan und Gen. Canrobert. The Arabia, the last to leave Marseilles, car- ried seventeen hundred French troops, besides abundant munitions of war. With ten or twenty steamers like the Baltic, Pacific, and Atlantic, troops could be transported to any part of our Eastern coast in a week ; and with steamers of equal speed ori the Pacific, troops could be sent from New York to San Francisco in less than three weeks. Let Congress think of these facts. . Forerren Minirany OrGaNizattoss.—We have Frqm Columbia, Compania, 8. C., Jan. 14, 1855, We have received here New cleans papers of Wednes¢ day, but they coptain nothing of importance. Markets. New ORLEANS, Jan. 12, 1855. Our cotton market is unchanyed, The sales of the day amount to 5,000 bales. The rales for the week add up 26,000 bales, and the stock on hand, exclusive of ship- board, is 180,000 bales, Molasses is selling at 17c. per, Lethe te) Qie ; flour, $8 25, bacon, side, 63¢¢.; lard Xe. Coffee—Sales for the week, 8,500 bags, at Be: a 9. perld.; stock on hand, 80,000 bags. Freights are une changed, Mostte, Jam. 13, 1855. leading financial house of the West. Mr. Ba- heretofore published the official order of tho | The sales of cotton here for tie week foot up 9,000 « In the course of a further survey of the pu pekhe sales of cotton here for the week foot up, 0, Nlraphedat pata ie tag ree aa Comptroller’s letter, we find that the journals | Governor of Massachusetts disbanding eight band. is. 43,000 bales. Preight se. dim abtinelionge’ This they may deny, but they can hardly deny that whether from policy, or prudence or some less honorable motive they were directly in- strumental in breaking down his house. It is of course true that a banker trasts whom he pleases, and the “ Currespuudeuts” are the sule judges of what is right for them to do; but when a wealthy firm is ruined by an act of theirs, much suffering ensues, and the public at large have some right to inquire why and how it was done. Page & Bacon were en- gaged in a most lucrative branch of the bank- ing business, and some one or other among militia companies composed of Irishmen. The | rates. example of Governor Gardner should be imi- tated in other States. If Irishmen, Germans, or Frenchmen desire to serve in the militia, there are plenty of skeleton regiments to be filled up. They have no right to exclusive charters, or to wear foreign national uniforms, or to be known by foreign names. The militia is a national institution, and should be every where a consolidated American body. which received one thousand dollars each for advertising the city notices are those of the most limited circulation. Thus, a journal cir- culating two thousand copies is paid one tho1- sand dollars for doing work which a journal circulating fifty thousand copies was willing to do for six thousaud dollars. This is certainly a most novel style of econo- omy, and it seems to have been the settled policy of Flagg to conceal the Corporation no- tices in journals of the smallest circulation. It will be seen at once that his statement that he advertised in those journals which offered to Provepence, Jan, 13, 1855. The cotton market for the week has been moderately active at irregular prices, closing to-day with a firmer feeling, Inu wooi the sales amount to 41,200 Ibs. at about the same a of prices as last week. Printing clothr—Sales 41,200 pieces. Political nce. The House of Representatives ich of the Massachu- etts Legislature will ballot to-morrow for a Unite® States Senator to serve Sut the term of Edward Everett, which extends to 1859, and whose seat is now occupied by Julius Rockwell, by appointment by the Governor, ‘The House caucus was held on the 12th instant, and re+ ‘sulted in the choice of General Henry Wilson, of Natick. The result of the first or informal ballot was as fol- | More Trovrres ar Erre.—It is somewhat curious that the riots which have broken out “the correspondents” must fill the vacancy oc- fresh at Erie, should be traced in so great a | lows:— casioned by their failure. Moreover, the mo- pict wnat wk lowest price, is an | | oscure to the German population. For one weet Votes. 353 ment the suspension took place, unusually full . American name, at least five German occur 178 A further instance of the Comptroller’s poli- cy in the remarkable letter now under conside- ration, is contained in the fact that he prefers as the organs of the city government the a»oli- tion journals—those newspapers which have always advocated doctrines subversive of the progress and the prosperity of thiscountry. These facts prove the utter worihlessness of the Comptroller’s pretensions to economy. He has adopted it as a principle that the Corpora- tion desires to hide its proceedings and its no- tices from the public eye; and he has distribyt- ed the a@vertising in the shape of spoils to weak and tottering journals that could not live | without it. In this manner the sum of ten thousand dollars has been expended by the i City Council to back up a few obscure newspa- pers, in order that Comptroller Flagg might accounts of the disaster appeared in three of the mcrning journals whose money column is understood to be at the service of a certain financial circle in Wall street; notably for the purpose of announcing to the farmers and traders of the West that Page & Bacon were no longer competent to transact their business, and that they had better transfer it to the Wall street firms which proposed to succeed them. These circumstances, taken in connection with Mr. Bacon’s letter, will be likely to produce a general impression that the house of Page & Bacon was wilfully broken down by rival houses in Wall street, from pure jealousy and avarice. Nor will that impression be confined to the case of that firm alone. Other failures have occurfed in the West, where blame has been laid at the door of the same Wall street circle; and the inference from the whole will be beduly glorified. that a struggle is pending between the Western Tue Frenca Misston acain Vacant.—We bankers and those of New York; that the latter | May expect tohear in a day or two that the are endeavoring to ruin and destroy the former, | French mission has been vacated by the illness and that they have already succeeded in one or | Or death of Mr. Mason, and that hosts of ald two prominent instances. | candidates and new are urging their claims to A timilar contest between two other classes | the place on the President. There will be for of financial men is within the memory of most instance Mr. Dix, to whom it was promised by of us. About the year 1829, the strife between | the President, and who though a free soiler of the United States Bank and the States banks | 1848 is no wore in this respect than John Coch- | among the rioters. So it is all over the Union. Nine-tenths of the riots, law-breaking, violence | and crime are the wo:k of foreigners—mainly Trith and Germans. Can any one wonder that the Know Nothings have suceeeded? -~ N.¥. Bryant, of Barre., N. P. Banke, Jr.,* of Waltham Charles Stearns, of Springfield Scattering. .......4, “Mr Banks is the present democratic Know Nothing: member of the United States House of Representatives from the Seventh district. ‘The result of the second or decisive ballot was as fol- Error or Mr. Wisk.—Mr. Wise says that | Know Nothingism first saw the light in the | Fourth ward of the city of New York. He is under a mistake. The Sixth and the Four- teenth wards are entitled to the honor. The first, when rum, and rioting, and trafficing in the Irish vote rendered election time a hideous diegrace to the city; the Fourteenth, when Archbishop Hughes went to Carroll Hall to make a political speech to the Irish. These were the true cradles of the Know Nothing re- volution. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, which were thrown on the, Jast ballot, (46), it will be seen, was lees by seven thatz upon the informal ballot. The whole number of mem. bers of the House is 879. The nomination of the caucus secures the election of Gen, Wilson on the part of the cuse, It is understood that the Senate will make no caucus nomination. Gen. Wilson is not the first choiee of that body, but cutside influences will be brought to bear upon the members, which may secure. a concurrence with the House. If Alfred B. Ely, Esq., who is under- stood to be the favorite of the Senate, can be induced ta - forego his claims in consideration of receiving \he At- torney Generalship,’ the way may be smoothed fbr the deetion of Wilson. The Boston Journal says.— Those who were incredulous when it was charged that there was a bargain or understanding by which Cenerab Wilson wax to have the nomination for United Statew Senator, must now acknowledge that the statement, im- probable as it at first seemed, was well grounded. If ere was not « tripartite treaty, there was a mutual Important from Washington. THE PACIFIO RAILROAD—PROJECT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE. Wasnixaton, Jan. 14, 1855, The Senate special committee on the Pacific Railroad met yesterday to consider the (wo projects presented by Senators Douglas and Rusk, and finally determined to 7 began, and from 1830 to 1836,those institutions, | rane, several other nominees of the administra- | report to the Senate and urge the adoption of Senator | URderstanding, having the force of a treaty, that Gard- 4 5 = ; hho could’tn all i a on one side as well as the other, were conduct- | tion, or the President himself. Mr. Cobb has a , Douglas’s bill, with slight amendments. patton for Oovgrens Br Appletoa's “Sisties was to stat ed more with a view to break each other down | chance; at one time it was thought he was kin Pec bales: ae alerting hee ane ReGelawcrclen Wands sell eae eee, than to fulfil the designs of their creators. The | eure of the appointment, and his claims are as | ‘the p bring seute; Yiebd hid weiteea taoene of tileaoesk Pek sae hie ae to this honor, Geueral Wilson has sole object of the States banks seemed to be to | good still. After Mr. Wise of Virginia has | or Jowa to the Bay of San Francisco; the northern route, | gramme as ex; ec early in the campaign, ‘png ‘ally injure “the monster,” by trying to break iis | been defeated by the Know Nothings, he will | from the western border of Wisconsin, or Minnesota, to Wie Si ny a Hh con gull eo branches, or discredit it in Congrcss; while on | also re-enter the lists; and eloquent and able | the navigable waters of the Pacific in Oregon or Wash’ | campaign “pene and on untin o) oet aes souk the other hand, the vast facilities possessed by | as he bas proved himself by his last speech, yg atic as alteenpiesectonmet leak tee 100: sligw thrmentves tr teen tg tt the United States Bank enabled it to wage | will stand fair chance. John Van Buren is | sites on each side ofeach route, and doubles the mint. | ‘Ue, Notwithstanding thelr denunciations of the oli” terrible rivalry with its minor competitors, and | out of the question; Mr. Cutting has had quite | mum price on the reserved sections. It also authorizes | Emcient invisumentsin the nenivot saeeed tacte eeast Nicholas Biddle took care to neglect none of | enough of politics for the present; and the other | mail contract for fifteen years from the completion of | g¢rs for carrying out their ambitions. h 6 P H 4 ’ hit. ix barely possible thet owing toa division bet we ther, ‘Thus Sighting for public favor,both were | old candidates will probably refrain from | the road, at s rate not exceeding three F gem dollars F the two Houses: or to the imporapbility of open * | | per mile, which is the price now paid on first class | a candidate, be selected induced, in the pursuance of their antagonistic | ceurting a seccnd disappointment. Now ones Pt Ma! Tos iisg authorises contieets to be made by candidates who have Yeon. brought ‘forwssd tn this policy, to court support by extending unusual | in abundance willspring up in their stead. case there would be » chance for Mr. ‘and even for policy y g the Seci of War and Navy for the sume perio’, | {nasthere would Ve a chan eae accommodation to their customers; antil, at | It has been intimated to us asa thing by no | for the transportation of government supplies, at arate | preeted with andinguioed pleeune loube ty aguised | vasure, we do not doubt, by ‘th, both had. th: - likely, that Presi , seein, | not ding in the a, ate the now paid f & majorit; te of the Commonwealth. | length, both had expanded so far that contrac- | means unlikely the ident, seeing his | 20 pres cereg Neng ee Leave the $90 beapebee eh: Winietions Le- administration fallen so low that even Mr. Wire dared not allude to him in his speech, will en- deavor to repair his past errora by offering us the French mission, and requesting us to take charge of the very tangled web of our foreign | % | neti) i We Riow BOv How this may te, Pat | pletion of the succeeding one hundred miles, and so on, tion was impossible, and one common ruin en- veloped both, The States banks had killed the | United States Bank,to be sure; but in doing so they had committed suicide themselves, The leson should prove a warning to the Wall stret fmanciers who may feel inclined faleture will , ater In place of Hon, John Vettit, whose term i on the 4th te March next. bli an The Legislature of Mlinois have by joint action agree? to go into election, on the Slat inet., for United States Senator in place of Hon, James Shields, whose term ex- pires with the preseat Congress, The Legislature of Pennsylvania will go into elestiow No money to be paid from the Treasury of the United States until the service shall have been performed; and no lands to be deeded to the companies until one hun dred miles of road skall bave been made, and then only three-quarters of the land pertaining to said one hun- | dred miles, reserving the other fourth until the com- | * to-ds ® . El ~ to build themselves up on the ruins of | to prevent misconception, we beg formally to | throughout. can, | aarvcntred tee nentabtinn 1 cok etl ba slicied.” the Western houses. It is quite possi. | withdraw our name as an applicant for the of- | Tho secretaries of War and Navy, and the Postmaster | ¢ Governor Ui Sater! of Pennsylvania, will anne ble for combination here, in the pre- | fice, and announce our determination to refuse | General, are required to issue an advertisement for | amitters have been appolgted be lath weeeehee at ibe ae it should it be offered us. Under other circum- stances, the great need that is felt for some man of common sense to look after our Euro- pean relations might have induced us to forego our inclinations and consent to serve the coun- down the Western man, but it is sure to recoil | try as foreign minister. But, at present, Mr. on Wall street. In flush times, whon mistakes | Pierce has 0 thoroughly disorganized parties hardly seem of consequence, and all is pros- | at home, that we feel we can be of more service perous, & eherp competition for business can | in recording the progress of the Know Nothing | cnly benefit a country, ond con hardly entail | revolution, and guiding its counsels. The ad- | any ferious disasters; but when the tide tarns, | ministration bad better select Mr. Dix, whose rpitefn) jealousies and commercial strife addten- | claims and ability are good ; or, should he do- | fold to the danger of the position. To-day the | cline, or be unavailable from some other rea- correspondents of Messrs. Page & Bacon may | son, Mr. Wise, who would make an excellent | sealed proposals separately on each route. No proposal to be accepted which does not guarantec the completion of the road within ten years, anda deposit of five hundred thousand dollars with the government, ia United States or other par stocks, which sum may be refunded in amounta of five thourand doliars as soon as that rum shall have been actually expended in the con- struction of the road. This plan places the three sections of country on an exact equality, and leaves capital, enterprise, and as- ture to decide which route will be first made. Mr. Rusk’s plan, which was not agreed to, proposed that the United States should loan to each of the com- panies ite bonds to an aniount the interest of which would pay for the transpertation of mails end govern. ment supplier, "his would bare required a loan fo the three routes of about sixty millions. gislature to superintend the civic port of the programme. A number of military companies of Philadelphin wil! be in attendance, A discussion on the propriety of the Know Nothing or- ganization is to take place at Hirmingbam, Conn., on the Tth inst., between apeakers selected vy the Anseinia Ly- ceum and the Birmingham lustitute, latter defend the organization, At the manieipel election i Colambia, Pa., on the Sth inst., the entire Know Nothing ticket, from Chie€ Burgess to Iligh Constable, was clected by majorities ranging from 144 to 248. ction for mayor of the town of Alexandria, | came off a few cays tines, and resulted In the elec! of Mr. Adolphe Rachel, the aoti-Khow Nothing candi- date, by a majority of feurteen votes, ‘The Tegtslature of Florita on tho Sth inst. » an election for fnte officers, with the fullowing r T. W. Brever r sent hard times, to injure the credit of any Western house, or even to ruin those which have dealt to any large extent in railroad paper; but it must be remembered that i *, Clerk of Supreme Court, ime_peemm ee