The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1855, Page 4

a, | NEW YORK @aMES GORDON BENYET' PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, NASSAU AND FULTON 6T8. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATK Bucuren Seine. BOWERY THEATRE, &: —Warr vy rus Wise ro: Broadway—Cinpererea—A Mowey—-Jack Sneranp BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambors srect—Crrea Tex anv Lowse TWsNtY—CiRO® any KER Magic Cue. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Nicur awv Mory- enG—WIN OMILL, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Equeernian PERvORMANCES AMERICAN MUSEU arncs—HoLe 1x cue V WOOD'S MINSTREL: fternoon—Zewn Me Prive Surn- Evenime—Wasace. 8’ Sall—i72 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 599 Broadway—Bvex- wav's Eriiorian Onaga TROUT Wew Yoru, Tuceday, January 16, 1855, Mails for Earope, ° THE NEW YORK HELALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard well steamship Asia, Gapt. Lott, wil leave Boston on Wednesday, at ten o’clock, for Liverpout. The European mails wil close in this city at a quarter to two o'clock this aftesnoon. Tae Hxnaup (printed in English ap@' French) will be @nblisbed at ten o’clock thiy morning. Single copies, 4m wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements tor any edition of the New Youx Hxxac will be-received at the following places in Europe:— Liverrogt. John Hunter, No: 2 Paravise street. Lonpox..... Edwards, Sandford &Co., No. 17 Cornhill. “ Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catharine street. PaR.,..... Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse The contents of the Europgam‘edition of the Heratp ‘will embrace the news recaived by mailwad telegraph at ‘the aflice during the’ previons week, and’ ¢y the hour of publication, ’ > pce ‘The News. * In anotber part of this merning’s Henaup will be found the detsils of the California news’ brought syesterdsy by the steamship Northern Light, Two «cases of stabbing and attempt at murder are report- ed, the perpetrators’ ot both having been instigated ‘y ieslousy.. The first case was that of a péliee officer of San Francisco, who, as itis alleged, seduced and abandoned a zoung girl, who sought to take summery Vedgeance upon her betrayer. The other was & former Jodgeof a Michigan coort and ex-mem- ber @f the Legislature, who had made indecent pro- pordita to the Wife of,a citizen of San Francisco, and had been repulsed, but till pursued her watil the has band.canght him where he should not have been, and inflited upon him sundry stabs. The new State, in a moral of wiew, is yet cusceptible of a vast doal of pruning. The. Northern Light brought but little over half a. miliien: of dollars, three hundred aud twertyieight thousand of which was shipped by Page, Baoch.& @o., and consigned to their former agents in this tity. The news is unimportant in any particular point of view, but neverthéleas con- tains some interesting items. By this arrival we have intelligence from Oregon and Washington Territories, the Legislatures of both of which assembled and organized on the 4th alt., at their reapective capitols. From Carson Valley; sow a portion of Utah Ter- witory, wé learn that the inhabitants had held a meeting to consult: upon the question of cutting loose from the Mormons, and setting ‘up for them: selves & kind Of independent government, or whe- ther it was better to remain quiet until such time as they weuld be permitted to annex themselves to the S:ate of California. Wise counsela prevailed, and they concluded to swait the consummation of the latter proposition, By thé arrival. of the Isabel: at Charleston, we have received advices from Ayvang to the 11th inst ‘The Faléon was-three days overdue at Hovana when the Isabel left, and fears were entertained for her wafety. The Piiladelphia,.from New Orleans, had arrived at Havana two days behind time. In con- sequence of bad weather, she had been compelled to throw overboard three hundred barrels of flour Her rudder also wes much injured. No popiness of much importance was transacted it Congress yesterday. In tho Senate the bill for wontinutyg the appropriqtion to the Ooliing steam. ers for carrying the mail between this city and Liverpco! was taken up, bus was indefluitely post: poned. The joint.resolution on the Aretic search for Dr. Kare and his companions was passed, and after ashort debaie on the Judicial Reform bill, the Benate went into executive session. In the House of Representatives the time of tho members was principally occnpied with a dedate ‘on the Pacific railroad. Mr. Letcher, who was ap- pointed to take testimony in the alleged Patent ex- tension frauds at the last seasion, reported that he, was unable to compel Mr. Caase, an imporsant wit-)) nees, to testify. A long argument as to the powér of Congress on the subject sprang up, in which several gentlemen participated, but no conclusion im the matter was come to. From Washington we learn that the Hon. Pierre Boulé, our Minister to Spain, bad sent in his resig- pation of that office, and that the Hon. J. 0. Brock- enridge, of Kentucky, had been appointed his suc- eessor. The nomination of Mr. Breckearidgo waa eorfirmed by the Senate, in executive session, yes- terday. Changes in the State and Treasury Depart- ments are expected to take place shortly—Mr. Marcy, it is said, only waiting for an opportunity to | get afirst class mission to Karope. See our tele | graphic despatch fer full details. Several bills were introduced iato the Legislatare | at Albany yesterday, among which may b> ena- merated,es the most important, bill reguladng the rate of interest; one alle sting insurance compa- | nies; amending the city charter; city railroads; | and several others of minor importance. The report of the State Prison Inspectors wus also presented, and will be found in its appropriate place in our columns. A tiew temperance bill, designed to affxct the city and county of Poiladelphia, has recently been introduced into the Senave of Pennsylvania. The provisions of this bill require that the Court of Quarter Sessions shell appoint three appraisers of dealers, distillers, and brewers; and that no license | shall be issued unless the certificate of the apprala- ers be first filed, together with a petition of tw ive respectable householders in the ward where tho | liquor is to be sold, stating that the applicant is of | good moral character, and that public convenieace | will be promoted. ‘There are aleo several other forme to be complied with before the license can be obtained, Drnnkenness js to be made a misde | meanor, atd puniehed by 4 fine not exceeding five | dollars for every offence. ‘A bill has been introduced into the Legislatare of Pennsylvania granting po itical snd civil rights to persons of color, now resi , or who may here after reeide, in that State. Bev vessels at the docks in South street, yes terdoy, ceased joading, because the laborers refuwed to work at $1 50 per day, instead of $1 75, hitherto The excessive complaint about hard times and distress among men sible to work, bardly see med to square with the refusal of se many of that class to fefuse employment at $1 60 per day. Some of the employers were in diffi gulty adont obtaining the necessary labor, and taiked about the possibility of having to apply tothe Commission: era of Emigration for belp. A mectifg of the friends of Page, Biocon & Co, was held last eyening at she Metropolitan Hotel, to take into consideration the pceition of that firm, and ascertain whether they wrre,avle to sustaia themselves, Abont one Hindred gontiemen wers preseat, and inch interest was manifested in the NEW... YORK one of the gentlemen composing the firm of Page, Bacon & Co. / ‘ A resolution was offered in the Board of Alder- ‘man last evening, recommenfiag the aopolutmoat of a special conmittee of five, te act in conjunction ‘with a similar committee from the Board of Coan- cilmen, to preceed to Albsny and procure the pas: xoge of tach emendments to the city charter as ‘would, in their jadgment, most ocondace to the in terest of the city. The resolation gave rise to con- siderable discussion, and, after an animated debate, was reterred to the Committee on Laws. A resola- tion to tex city retlroad cars was also offered, which, after being amended, was referred to the Committee on Ordinances, Nothing of very eepecial interest came up in the Board of Counciimen lest evening. Mayor Wood's first veto was received in relation toa resolution of the Board directing the Commissioner of Repaira and Supplies to emplcy men to take down the ruins-of the-City Hell. Vbe reselation was veteed, on the ground that the mode in which the work was directed to-be done conflicted with the oity charter. Cotton continued quite firm yesterday, and the ssles reached sbout 4,500 bales; abont 1,500 a 2,000 were onthe spot, aud the remeinder ia transit The market closed in favor of sellers. We quote widdling Uplands atSjc., do, Florida at 849. a 8fo5 Mobile at Sfc.,.90d New Orleans end Texas at 8jc.! ‘State and Westra brands of flour were unchanged, With mogerate sales. Canadian wae sometbiag casier et Satoarday’s rates. Southern continued dal Wheat was nemine}. Indian corn favored purchas ere, ch ret 103 © 104 for Sonthern white and yellow. extra lot ot Southern white acid at 106. Mixed was-dull. Provisions were at about Saturday’s quotations, with moderate transactions. - About 500 bbig.lard and 600 boxes short middies of bacon were sold, deliverable-on ship bourd, at.Baltimore, for export, the former at 10c. and the latver at’ The. ‘The Old Women’s Conventions of the Day and the New Kevolation, ‘They have been holding for some days. past, at New Orleans, another of those curious pow- wows, called Southern Commercial .Coenven- tions; and they have been proposing various devices for developing the resoarces, stirring up the dormant industry, and for establishing the commerfcial independence of the Seutn. Among these devices they propose that.tie Pa- cific railroad shall go by some Southern route, tapping the Atlantic at Charleston—thas puvlic lands ought to be voted liberally to, Sovthera railroads--that Cuba must be had—and that it would be a good thing to re-establish the slave trade between the baracoons of the coast of Africa, and the neglected seaports of Mexico. Such are some of the principal expedieats laid before this Southern Convention at New Orleang, the great object of which is to devise. the ways and means tor rendering the South ‘ wholly independent of the North in .domostic manufactures and foreign eommerce. Well, the old women in both hemispheres have lately been stirring themselves, and holding al) sorts of conventions upon matters of science, religion, politics and trade; and this. New.. Orleans} Convention may be classed among them. The gravity and practical utility.of its proceedings are only surpassed by the awfal and” pompous solemnity of the doings of the late grand coun-"|. cil at Rome, upon the paramount question of, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Vir. gin. Tt the learned Roman hierarchy have unanimously authorized the Pope to decree to the allied armies at Sebastopol, “and the rest of mankind,” the Immaculate ‘Conception ‘of the Virgin as a dogma of faith, and as thé true . road to the golden streets of the New, Jerusa, lem, so is the New Orleans conventioa equal. ly unanimous in favor cf a Southern railroad as the true route to the gold mines of Califor- Da > ” : ‘ . Upon other sufgjects the practical utility of the propositions entering into the’dvliberasions of the New Orleans dohvention, ‘até af & par with the recolutions of our’ women’s ‘righta, and other old granny conventions of the North. if the New Orleans reformers have resolved that we must have Cuba, our women’s rights women have resolved, over and over again, that they must have the right of suffrage, the right.- to ran for Congress or the Legislature, for Pre? sident or for Governor; and an equal right to the public plunder, as well as the right to wear the breeches, And if ithas been proposed at New Orleans to take measures for reopening the African slave trade with Atrica, our old gran- ny convehtions of the North, of both sexes and all colors, have been resolving tortwenty years past, that slavery and all distinctions of color shall be abolished. So, too, if odr Southern conventions have decreed in favor of liberal grants of the public domain to Southern rail- roads, our land reformers of the North, old wo- men. included, are working away like beavers for the cession of all the public iands in free farms to actaal squatters ; upon the dogma of the Hutchinson family, that Uncle Som is rich enough To give us alla farm, Even the great cardinal measure of these South- ern conventions—that of establishing the bene- fits of direct traffic and free trade between Southern and European ports—is eclipsed by the proclamation of Mies Frederica Bremer, which proposes nothing less than a universal association of ladies, young and old, of all | Christendom, for the abolition of sin and misery | throughout the world. | No, no! Southern abstraction conventions, and speeches, and resolutions, will no more | alter the laws and channels of trade, nor build | Pacific railroads, nor secure the Island of Cuba, | nor re-establish the slave trade, than wiil our women’s rights and ‘old granny reforming | conventions and coteries of the North | abolish the existing laws of society. <Ac- | tion, enterprise, capital, and well directed: in. dustry are the: instruments for developing the resources ‘and wealth of the South. If they would Have direct trade with Europe,” they must put théir ships upon the sea; if they would have mannfactories, they must erect | them. They have the water power, the climate, | the raw materiajs—all the required natural ad- | | | vantages for stecessful competition with the | North, If. they would hove railroads, they must Jook to other sources than the federal road by the Southern ronte, ten good lobby men, well armed with the sinews of w ar, at Washington, will avail more than a Southern convention of ten thousand men at New Or- Jeans. It is gratifying to know that of late years, in Virginia, Teuneseee, the Carolinas, Georgia, and other Southern States, they have been | going to work in factories, foundries, railroads, and other practical enterprisee, in the right way. Let the work be followed up after this fashion, and no Soutberp abstraction conven- tions will be needed to develope the latent riches | aud vast resources of the south. Mr. Wise,,of | Virginia, in his stump speeches, is disclosing the true business policy of the Southern States, dings. A committee of five was appointed to pxpreeg the gonae of the megting to Mr Baron, | uct ds hope that the day for the exhausting ¢x- | { Commercial | committee, “it is ute treasury; and if they would have a Pacific rail- |, | laugh at their laws, or keep a smooth face and | periments of intongible Suuthern abstractions | of New York were satisfied with hi: course as | ‘has passed away. It is somewhat remarkable that this Southern convention at New Qsleans appears to have closed its eyes to the * fixed fact” toat a great and mysterious revolation is at work ull over this conntry; a moral aod political revelu- tion. which is rapidly casting overboard alt the old women’s ptatforms, all the schemes of Nortbern philesopbers and Seathern reformers, together with aii the rubbish and clap-trap of old political fogies, old party hucksters, aud all the rusty and rottea m»chiaery of old party juntas avd Baltimore conventions. Strange, too, that this New Orleans convention, in this connection, bave not discovered the fully of re- solving that we must have Cuna, whatever ob- stecles mey interpose. We say that « great revolatien is at work, mysteriously but potently working out a new order of things in this country. It was com- menced uader an eccentric aad equivocal designation, as most great revelutions do be- gin; but it is developing a streagth which is irresistible, and°au enward tendency which cannot be arrested. It must supersede for the time, all purely sectional schemes, political or -oommercial; all the old party issues of the ? Jocad or genera); all Cabinet pli for the succeseion—for this new go on till its work.is saceomplished.’ zing it, too, as @ great spontaneous uprising of the people, politicians and refyrmers rust sub- mit to be carried with the current or to be driven ashore. Ai Cao w It is'a great conservative revolutionary movement, comprehensive in its sedpe; and be- neficent in its tendencies, in tee ‘extirpation of the rottenness and corruptions which have caused the old paities of the day to stink in the nostrils ot the nation; and beneficent, in restor- ing, upon the basis of the cémstitation, the en cient harmonies of all seetions of the Union. To this end the New Grleans convention may be too fast upon the Cuba question. Mr. Cal- houn’s idea of a Southern sectional balance of power somewhere in the government, is as nearly attained as can be inthe Senate, with- outa dangerous Gistirbance of the ‘existing general equilibrium. The acquisition of Cuba a8 @ slave State, without some equivalent con- cession'to the North, in this view, it will now be difficult to achieve; and the British provinces to the north of ug are, not yet ripe for anuexa- tion. The truth is, that, judging from. this. great aational copeervative movement of the Kuow Nothipgs, which.discouvtenances the revival of the anti slavery agitation, which aims to restore harmony between the North “aad the South, which holds to the exact doctrine of non-intet- vention in the domestic affairs of the several Statee, which appreciates the hazards of at- tentpting, yet for a season, the further ucquisi- tio of foreign territories—judging, we say, from these aspects of this covservative.move- ment, we donbt whether, for some years yet to come, we shall annex, Cuba, or Mexico, or the Sondwich Islands, or any other outside country :whateyer. bys ‘Here, then, is:,ony ~position. - While the old women of-both the Old World and the New are holding, their political,’ social, religious and eerventions, and while the old vd huoksters of the duy, in and out of the Vabinet, North and’ South, are laying their pipe ‘and ehaping their plans for the next swind)ing rational council at Baltimore, we are | endeavoring to open the eyes of all concerned to the vanity of their labors, in view of the great revolution undertaken, and under way, by the spontaneous action of the American people. Clear the track! More of Flagg’s Economy. Decidedly the most amusing exposé of Mr. Comptroller Flagy’s financieriug was contained in the report of the Corporation Committee of Ways and Supplies, published in yesterday’s poper. It seems that the Comptroller has been in the habit of advertising under the ordinances for tenders for supplying the Corporation and its departments with stationery; but, instead of awerding the whole joh to the lowest tender, as the law provides, Mr. Flagg selects from the tenders of each the articles set down at the low- est rates, and thus makes a coutract with half a dozen houses instead of one. Now, it is quite obvious to every one who is acqusinted with business that a statiover, like every other mer- chant, cannot afford to sell a lot of goods worth $100 at the same rate of profit as he would a lot worth $1,000. The stationers who tendered at Flagg’s request—there were only seven, most of the trade having seen too much of Plagg’s mode of doing business to desire to deal with him—threw in some articles at lower rates, proportionately, than others, looking to the aggregate profit to make the account equare. To their dire confasion;: Flagg bas picked out of each tender the very articles they thus threw in almest at a loss, jected the other items- ‘The consequence is tat in the words of the 'y impossible to procure even the most ordinary description of articles at the prices named.” . Our experience of Cor- poration doings leaves us in no doubt as to what the result will be. As was done in the case of the street contractors, the contracts will not be fulfilled, and the city will be com- pelled to pay full retail prices for all its sta- Wonery. Needless to add that Flagg actad in defiance of law. No such dissection of tenders was contemplated by the charter or ordinances: the framers of those laws directed the award fo ve made to the lowest bidder, regarding each tender as an integral whole, Thys Flagg sayes the money of the people of New York. If he contented himself with break- ing the law, snd setting. the Legislature and, Common Council at defiance, looking out the while fur the public welfare and interest, some excuse might» be urged tor his refractory tem- per.’ Babgp violate the law and at the same tind 46, ¢ the public expenditure by ad- fer olish croichets of his own, is too F be borne in silence. Let the Comp- trollgr choose between his two propensities. | Let him either bully the Common Council, and | Increase the taxes. People might suffer Flagg tu set law and authority at detiauce if he was | aa economical guardian of the public money; or they might submit—being tolerably accut | tomed so to do—to bis extravagance, if he set an example of subordination and respect for the popfilar will. But to be bullied and fleeced all | ‘at obde Ja putting their temper to too severe a | trial, ‘The fact te, we think Mr. Flagy’s race is nearly | zon, We spepect he mugt have beendeluding him: | ‘velfinto the belief that he was a popular officer, and faney ing, because the Journa/ of Commerce custained him in bad English, that the people | rv + tere? y . +) YERRR, TOROA CATUART 26, 206) 0 VOL, XX, But, while Wikoff gains popularity as an | Comptroller. He will fiad ous bis mistake ere | emasing raconteur, and fills his. pockets with long. The exposé of bis scheme to secare te | doilars, the people of sentiment are unanimous city advertising for his purty organ—the | in execrating him as one of the most heartless Evening Post—bas not been forzottev, Nurave | speculators in Jove that ever feigaed that the public blind to the faet that the city adver- | bervic passion, and think that if Miss Gamble tisements are at present buried in journals | bad occupied the other wing of the. Genoa which are not seen by wore thay one huodredtl | prion, aud that if both bad been coufined there part of the pepulation ; and consequently thus | for three yewrs, three months, three» days and every cent paid to tbem fer pablishing Corpo- ration matter is so muon stolen from the pablic pocket, Mr. Plegg calls this ecouomy: we call it extravagance. We think—aud most people will agree with us—tbat it is ab-olutely wasteful to give $1,000 aycar for advertising toa newspaper which no ove reads, whereas it might be economy to give $20,000 for the in- sertion of the same matter in a journal which | lies on every table in tle city. Flagg consi- Gers it cheaper to act on the opposite priociple, and to save $19 000 by throwing away $1,000 on the obscure journal. It is all a question ot purpose. If the object of the C.mmon Council was merely to see their notices in print, why there is no reason why the Democrat shoald not answer #8 well as the H»gaup; but if they wanted'other people to see them, every child can’ perceive that, whatever were the cost, they should be printed in papers which are ‘read. ‘Phe gross absurdity of the present arrangement with respect to the city priat- ing, and the impndence of tne report. in ‘which Flaggy;recommendec that tne fa- ture i the city should he sacrifice to those ening Post—not less than the rid ick by which the station- ers’ tend be nullitied—can only be ex- plained on: rsupposition that Flagg supposes he is highly popular, and dares anything. He willfind ont his mistake. He has now been thuroughly tried and his merits are known. He is a mun totally unfit to be entrusted with the functions of his present office. He is wed- ded to crotehets and theories ; is forever start- ing di and objections to every usefal proposition ; never went straight to an object in his life, but creeps round, and beats the bush until all whodeal with him become disgusted. His ideas of economy are invariably of thé.can- dle end crder. He will refose to pay a poor clerk,on the ground that some trifting informali- ty exists in his engagement, and will take ad- vantage of bis pcsition to try to defraud helf @ dozen stationers y but the very consequence of these foolish endeavors to save-a few dollars involves the city inan uno expense of thongands. The clerk m eplaced at a high advance on his the cost of a lawsuit must be borne : the stutioners refuse to ‘pubmit to his dictation, and the city pays fall Tetail instead of contract price. ; the streets, left, dirty in consequence of Flagg’s quarrel with the contractors, must be cleansed at an enormous advance on the stipulated price. He’ says he jis right—be is actuated by principle, pablic. t, and so on; but where is the use of thesefffe motives, if the result is invariably, unifogmly detrimental to tie public incerest? What.is the use of Flagg talking of his desire to be economical, when under his administration the city taxes double in four years? It was the same thing at Albany, when Flagg’ dnd the Albany Regency ruled the roast: they were always talking of eccuomy, and their superior zeal for the pub- lic good, apd meanwhile the taxes were ever on the increase, and the State worse governed than at any former time. Flagg has not changed a hair since then; nor will he, so long as he is allowed ‘to gratify his purty predilec- tions and his cantavkerous disposition in the Comptroller’s. office. Tne CaBiner SQuaBeLes ror THE SUCCESSION —Pirnce a CaxprpaTe.—We are advised that it is a mistake to suppose that Gen. Pierce has abandoned the field for the succession—that, on the contrary, he is still a candidate for the honor of a second term. He is said to be very hopeful against ‘all his democratic rivals, from | the suppositions that off by the Nebraska bill, that Bachanan won’t do, that Cassis too old, that Cusbiog is | to greep,and that Marcy may be managed. We further understand that the lately discov- ered treachery of Cushing and Forney against Pierce and in favor of Buchanan, has thrown the Executive completely over to the side of Marcy,-which blocks, for the present, the Buch- anan and Soulé game of the Ostend Convention. And hence the return of Buchanan to manage the plot, which was to be in the spring, is now said to be postponed till next fall, unless the wind at Washington should shift again to his advantage. Another thing which goes to prove that Pierce is still a candidate for the succession, is his speech to the Veterans of 1812 on the occa- sion of their late call at the White House. Gen. Cass was among them, and the President made, in the courre of his remarks to the old soldiers, some highly complimentary allusions to the patriotism and statesmanship of Gen. Gass. Some say that this was intended to aid in the re-union of the New York hard shells with the soft shells, in spite of the fact that fine words butter no parsnips. However this may be, we learn that Tammany Hall will very shortly make a formal nomination of Gen. Pierce for 1856, And why not? Has not John Coch- rane, has not Sachem Purdy, declared that, against all enemies and all rivals, they would | hold the President in their arms? Did they not fay 80 on the last fourth of July? Aud | would not John Cochrane and his democratic associates in office, and John Van Buren, still out of office, be the most ungrateful wretches in the world should they refuge, at this crisis, y any declaration of gratitude which might be | useful to restore to Gen. Pierce the whiphand of the Cabinet in the matter of the succession? Consider, then, that Pierce is stilla candidate for 56, and look out for the proclamation of t Tammany Hall on the first fairday. Where is the Cushing and Forney kitchen coalition now? Tne Taree Curvatiers in Brocrariy,—It is now nearly a week since the autobiography of the Chevalier Wikoff was published, and it has | already taken the wind out of the sails of the Chevaliers Greeley and Barnum. Barnum’s coarse attempts at wit have only excited dis- gust among his literary readers, and they are very apt to think that he better deserves the | fifteen months in the penitentiary which was suffered by the Chevalier Wikoff. Greeley’s book is as dull and stupid as his own columns, On the contrary, Wikoff has created quite a sentation, such as it is, and a very curious sensation it is, too. The sales, of course, are very much increased by this sensation, and it is generally supposed that. the publisher of Wikoff’s book will be obliged to issue three mes a8 many copies of it ag of Barnum’s or Greeley 't : Douglas is killed | | three hours, they would have received no more | than their deserts. | Barnum’s book is the most vulgarly written, | Greeley’s is the most stupid, but Wikoff’s hag | the style of a Chesterfield in his “ Advice | bis Son,” with just as litle moral princip! | and just as little heroic sentiment of acti In literature Wikoff is o sort of Rousseau,, the Wall sireet fioancier. The present book is” probably the beginning of a ‘literary carcer of @ novel and eccentric character, and »it is very probable tbat the Chevalier Wikoff will give us | the other chapters of his life’ with the same naiveté, ond in the sume Chesterfieldian style, that has immortalized his courtship with Misa Gemble. ‘The Chevalier Wikoff was the predecessor of the Chevalier Barnum in theatrical humbug. It was Wikoff who first set all the American people running after a foreign jigurante—he originated the tactics which Barnum; as a pup- pet in the hands of Jenny Lind, afterwards cadopted. Now, if Wikoff, with the spirit of ') thé, “ Confessions of Rousseau,” and in the style of Chesterfield, gives us the details of his es- capade with Panny Elister through this country, it will cell even better than his account of the Gamble affair, Let him think of it. After that, he can give us a book ‘on Louis Napoleon and his affairs, another on Lord Palmerston and the British diplomatic service; and every year produce @ volume, sometimes on Russian, sometimes on Italian affairs. Then the Wikoff library will form a valuable addition to our. standard literature, and take its ‘place ‘amol the most valuable philosophical works, Tue Crry Caarrer w Tae Leoisiature.— et the Legislature beware of adopting any of the foolish bills to reform the city cbarter which have gone from here to Albany. They are all, or nearly all, schemes originating in the disappointment of some office seeker who wants & place, and thinks he can get it undera new twist of the charter. If anything in the way of reforming the charter can be done, let it be by a bill placing matters on the old foot- ing, and astimilating the city government to that of wiry federal Union, concentrating the | whole ibility on the Mayor and Alder- men. .'Thep.ggod government might be , pos- cible, and simplicity would be introduced into every ‘déphrtmébt.: But not till then, s:: Tue CaLanity av Fort Wasuin@ron.—There wawa re- , port in town y that Miss Anna Langdon Haven had died from thenetlgcts of the suffocation she expe- | rienced at the the residence of her father, on Saturday mori F We are happy to learn that such is not the she is living, and was yesterday pronounced out of danger by her physician. It will be recollected that Miss Anna Langdon was the one rescued | by Mr. Hopkins, her brother-in-law, from the balcony window. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important from Ws RESIGNATION OF ME. SOULE, MINISTRR 10 SPAIN—AP- POINTMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF MR. BRECKEN- RIDGE, OF KY, TO PILL THE VACANCY—PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE CABINET, ETO. Wasmerow, Jan. 15, 1855, The truth of the announcement made in the Heraup established to-day in a manner which leaves no room for | doubt, and is another instance of the réliability of your information. Jobn €. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, was nominated this afternoon as Minister to Spain, and confirmed unan- deeply dashed with the modern politician and. on Tuesday last, that Mr. Soulé had resigned, has been | | imously, vice Soulé, resigned. The dangerous illness of Mr, Mason in: Paris, and the | probable vacancy in the mission, has hastened the com. | pletion of the programme which has for some time been in contemplation for a change in the Cabinet. Very recently Mr. Buchanan was written to to ex- change places with Marcy, who has determined to leave the State Department, and for the last six months has | only been lookiug fora safe retreat in a first elass mis- sion, and Mr. Mason’s illness will probably furnish sn opening sooner than could be provided by Buchanan’s return, It is known that Buchanan willnot accept the State Department, his friends alleging tbat he is much too smart to allow himself to be the logatee of Marcy’s blunders. Mr. Guthrie will also go out. This change in the State and Treasury departments involves, of course, a complete reorganization of the Cabinet. Whatfurther has been determined upon we are not at liberty to state in detail, but the following t changes are not improbable, viz. :— ‘That ex.Governor teymour, of New York, now here, and ex-Governor Cobb, of Georgia, will fill the vacancies, and should Cushing be provided with a mission, Toucey, | of Connecticut, will also be called upon. | Mr. Cushing is struggling for the State Department, but Pierce alone is favorable to him—all the leaders of the democratic party desiring that he should leave the Cabinet. If both the English and French missions be- come vacant it is more than probable Cushiog will re- ceive one of them. ‘There is no doubt that strong Buchanan influence is | at work here, and these are some of the results, The change in the Cabinet carries with it a change in | the foreign policy of the administration, which now, | owing to Marcy’s influence, is anti-progressive, anti- Cuba, and anti-inangural. Mr. Slidell, upon seeing the announcement in last ‘week's Hina of Soulé’s resigaation, became alarmed, and at,once posted for Baton Kouge, to look after his re- election to the Senate, Mr. Soul wing written to his | friends to present his name, Slidell’s chances are mi- nute. RESIGNATION OF MR. SOULB, MINISTER TO SPAIN— APPOINTMENT OF HIS SUOCESSON—THE SMITHSO- NIAN LNSTITUTION, ETO., ATC. Wasursetox, Jan. 15, 1855. The Hon, Pierre Soulé has resigned his office as Minis- ter toSpain, and John C, Breckenridge, of Kentucky, | has been appointed as bis successor, and will be coa- | firmed to-morrow. | The Regents of the Smithsoniah Institution mot this | morning ,and disposed of all questions of controversy between Professor Henry and others,by a large majority; | two only voting against the present management. It is rumored that the minority members refased to attend any further meetings of the board. Adjourned to mect again on Satarday, 27tb January. | The Northern mail train from Baltimore was detained | two hours and a half this evening, by the breaking of the cylinder at the head of the engine, when about twelve miles from that city. UNITED STATES SUPREME CORRT. Wasnixaton, Jan. 15, 1866, No, 42—Peter J. Burchell, appellant, vs. Stewart C. | Marsh, et al. Arguinent was commenced by Mr. Gillett for the appellant, aud continued by E. B. Washburne, Esq. for the appellee, Pennsylvania are. ELECTION OF STATE TREASURER, Harrtspona, Jan. 15, 1955. Eli Slifer, native American, was elected by the Logis: | lature State Treasurer to-day. The ycte was ax follows: | —Slifer, 80; E, W. Hamlin, democrat, 36; scattering, 4. | Postponement of a Trial for Marder. Syracvan, Jan, 15, 1855, The trial of Alfred Fyler, for the murder of his wife, | has been postponed until February, on wocount of the | Rbtence pf importastt witnesses, | INSUBANCE . COMP ANIRG— AMENDING THE NKW YORK CITY CHARTER—MONU> MENT TO COL, BAXTER—THE UBURY LAWS, ETO. ALpayy, Jan. 14, 1855. There was ® quorum present in both houses this morn- ing, though the Assembly was rather thin, more than the New York city celegation, They ought to be more prompt, especially as they can make the passage from ‘Thirty-firet street to the capitel in four hours, In the Senate, Mr. Field, at the request of a New’ York senator, (Mr. Barr,) gave notice of @ bill relative to city railroads. What its provisions are is mot distinctly known, as it has not yet been perfected. Mr, Spence said he should introduce a bill to enable | the rchvol.of the Five Yoints House of Industry to par- ticipate in the distribution of the common school fund of the State, If correctly crawn, such a bill will receive Ro opposition, 9% Mr. Epence Jafd on table a resolution instructing the Committee ou irsuramce Companies to inquire into the expediengy of 60 amending the general iosurance issuirg policiegof property out of the judicial district in which they are located, nnd to prevent companies lo- cated in otver States, whose capital assets are wholly or Dpartof premium notes, from issuing policies upon Property in this State; and to inquire into the expedien- cy of making appropriation so as to enable the Comp- troll«r,to pay agents to exam'ne insurance companies, im L caves where such companves refuse or are unable to pay ‘the expense of such examination the -enate, in committee, passed the Assembly bill to fac litate the Senatorial election in the Twenty vinth district. There was no opposition, and the silence of Mr, Se vard’s friends ix presumptive evidence that the ex lected cannot reach nis seat before the first uescay in February, the day when, as the Jaw stands, the Unitea States Sénator must be chosen, The Know Nothings have been lulled into @ false wecurity. They will be awakened from their somnambulism when the enemy opens @ bold front, when it will be too late to xe- sist the pressure, In the House, Mr. O'Keefe intends, in a day or two, ta introduce a bill amending the cbarter of the city, so as to make appropriations in a more di manner than is now authorized by cil. At present, if a larger amougf€’ and fifty doHars is wanted ‘or anj of publication and other useless and 1 te of time, are indispensable. He purposes 3 amend the charter as to give the Council 'y in making: Appropriations, by means of which sev+ral public works a be speedily commenced, to the great relief of the suffering poor, and to allow the to Feseas 8} have some vent to the partial relief of the di: Mr. Waterbury ‘has introduced a bill, ing erection of a a to the memory of the lat Co). Baxter, and other officers, who fell ii Greenwood Cemetery, where the remains of those at. officers repose, The money to be placed at the of the Governor of the state, and that he tuke the necos- sary steps to secure its erection. The nnmerons friends of the late Col. Baxter may rest assured that all possible exertions will be used to eflect the object. It is fi however, that the dilspidated condition of the State treasury will be a strong obstacle in the way of procur- yog the necessary means during the present session. The sutject of interest and usury is again in agita- ‘tion. This morning, Mr. Aitken fntroduces a bill simi- Tar to the one betore the last Legislature. These are its provisions :-— Sec. 1. No promissory note or bill of exchange, whe- ther accommodation or business paper, shall be void by reason of any paying or receiving, or agreement to pay or allow, such rate of interest as the parties may agree upon; provided the time to run of such promissory note or bill of exchange shall not exceed six months. Sec. 2. Whenever, in any action bebe on such pro- missory note or billof exchange, it shall appear upon a plading, and proofs in the action to that effect, t greater rate of interest has been directly or indirectly ceived, takea or reserved, than seven per cent an- num, and at that rate fora longer time, the defendant sballrecoyer his full costy, and the ;laintiff shall recover Ep sey to ha cipal, aud no bral ‘ec. 3. party haviog paid upon such promisso: note a bill of exchange, ot the description mica santice first section of this act, more than at the rate of seven per cent per annum, may recover back the entire inter- est so paid, together with costs of suit, in an action of Jaw, provided the suit is commenced within six months after auch payment of interest. See. 4. In all cares wherever the rate of interest ia not specified, seven per cent per annum, and at that rate only, shall be charged, paid and received, one-third being absent, ond among them a majority of ~~ rs \L BLECTION— Jaw, as to prebibit mutual insuranze companies from 2 war. It provides forthe appropriation of five ‘aan “4 }-éollars by the State, the monument to be @ / e fifth section repeuls all acts inconsistent with the akove, The question of interest and usury isone which will be thoroughly discussed by tre nt Legislature. ‘The Chamber of Commerce of the city of New York are making a move for free trade in money. A bill is being” prepared giving money lenders the power to collect any amount of interest agreed upon between borrower and lender, #0 that capitalists having ready may dis- se of it to the best advantage, as merchandise is. sold. ill Governor Clark, after expressing the opinion he did in hin menage, sign the ball from the Chamber merce? Whe Spesker presented what'purported on its face, the annual report Of the Inspectors of the State Prisees’ One examinaticn it was foupd to be subscribed by only one of them, Darius Clark. It was said General ms? name was attached, but it is not there, though Dr. Clark says the General agreed to sign it. Mr. Kirkpatrick re- fused to attach his signature, which means that he in- tends to submit a counter report. The one presented to-day will not be printed until the other appears; and then a the two will probably be at variance with each. other, the people of the State will possess just as much. informatien, to be relie! upon, ag PP ceither were made, Mr. Augustus Schell, baving taken the good advice of the Hinarp, has called a meeting of the (late) head hunker state committee tegether. The notice first aj eared in the Utica Gazette, which intimates that to he official organ. . The mevting is to be held at Congresa Fall, in this city, on the 25th instant; immediately after which the important fact will be known whetheg democratic “ fusion’? is to be accomplished. Massachusetts Polltics, * Boston, Jan. 15, 1855. Much opposition is manifested to the nomination of Henry Wilson to the United States Senate, both in aud out of the Legislature, In the ward and town councils of the Know Nothings the subject/has led to warm di cussion ahd bitter personalities; and it iv said that many of the prominent members of the order have withdrawn from it in consequences of differences of opinion. 4 ‘The following printed cirgylar was circulated in the House to-day:— ‘ To THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN OF REPRYERNTATIVES -== All members of the House of Representative who bé~ lieve in the freedom of debute, who refuse to sanction @ high handed course of political aetion, and who are ored to the election of the Hon Henry Wilson to ‘tl United States Senate, are requested to meet in caucus, in the Grecn Room, on Menéay, the 15th inst., immedi- ately after the adjournment of the Honse, In compliance with the above call, about one hundred members of the House went into the Green Room of the State House this afternoon, when, after a brief discuse, sion, it was voted unanimously to postpone, if possible, the election of the United States Senator for one wee. from to morrow, and if pressed into an election to-mors row to vote forthe Hon, Alexander H. Bullock, of Wor- cester, for Senator, jn opposition to Mr. Wilson. Orpen 1x THe House Missouri Legislature. Burra, Jan. 15, 1855. In the Missouri Legislature, on the 11th inet., the bal- lotting for United States Senator was resumed. The name of Mr. Atchison was withdrawn, and that of Judge Scott, of the Supreme Court, substituted. On the first tallot, Scott received 63; Doniphan, 59; Benton, 99; Wilton, 1; Jackson, of Cape Girardeau, 1. A second ballot was token, with the same result, Judge Scott then withdrew his name, and Governor Sterling Pierce was put in nomination. A vindictive debate sprung up on this, when a vote was ordered to be taken, which resulted as follows:—w Donophan, 58; Pierce, 55; Benton, 39; Wilson, 1. of Com- , 7 On ‘the 12th, Mr. Atchison was again nominated, | and the anti-Bentonites announced their intention of standing by him to the end. Portland and Kennehec Ratlroad Company. Baxaor, (Me.,) Jan. 15, 1855, A second railroad meeting was held here on Satarday evening, at which another’ committee was appointed to investigate the propriety of a new Joan to the Portland and Kennebeo Railroad Company, and to inquire what, further expendituros will be necessary to complete thé Toad. The following, ambng” ther resolutions, -was passed :— Resolved, That the Lagislature be requested to post- pone «ll action on any application made to them for the passage of an act authorizing the further loan of the crecit of the city of Bangor, in aid of the said company, until after such investigation is had, John Mitche! at Cineinnatt. Cuverxwatt, Jan. 15, 1855. John Mitchel was received at the Burnet House thie morning by the Mayor, the committee of the City Coun cils not attending, A mass meeting was held at Green- wood Hall to-night, at which the members of the City Councils were denounced for their action in welcoming Mr. Mitchel to the city, Pn Shooting Affray at Cmeinnati. . Ciserynati, Jan, 16,1866. A distressing affair occurred here on Saturday night, in front of the National theatre. A young man rained Jennings circulated reports unfavorable to the character of a young lady recently married to H. H. Ormabee, a clerk in the National Telegraph office, who, meeting Jend nings in the theatre, called him out, and asked him if was the author of the alleged reports; and he replying im the adismuative, Ormsbep took puta pistol and shot im, a SSSSSSS:'dS=