The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1855, Page 6

116 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, SPFICE N. W. CORNER NASSAU AND FULTON 6S. 'S THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Cinveaeraa—A Buronven seine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Money—Jack Snerany Warr oy rus Wisn-ron-Wrsu, BURTON'S THEATRE, anp Lowex Twanty—t Chambers street—Trvea Tew © AND WER Magic Cue. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Nicur awv Morn- NG— WIN OMILL. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broaéway—Equrerasan Pamvounances AMERICAN MUSEU auxGe—Hone 1x. cus WOOD'S MINSTREL BUCKLEY'S OPERA Hous: fav's Ernioriax orpxaa TROVE. fternoon—Zenp Me Pree Sun. Vvenime —WAbiaos. Mocbsnics’ Siall—472 Broadway. | 589 Broadway—Bucx- Malls fer Earope, * THE NEW YORK HERALD-—EDITION FOR EVRErE. ‘The Cunard well steamship Asia, Gapt. Lott, will leave Boston on Wednesday, at ten o’clock, for Liverpou. The European mails will close in this city at a quarter bo two o'clock this aftespoon. The Hxxaxp (printed in English and French) will be mublished at ten o’clock this morning. 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Pe In anotber port of this merning’s Hensup will be found the detsils of the California news brought yesterdsy by the steamship Northern Light, Two «cases of stabbing and atfetpt at murder are report- ed, the perpetrators, ot both having been instigated ‘by ieslousy...The first case was that ofa péliee officer of San Francisco, who, as it is alleged, seduced and abandoned. a zoung girl, who sought to take summery Vengeance upon her botrayer. The other was & fornier Judgeof a Michigan conrt and ex-mem- ber $f the Legislature, who had made indecent pro- pordita to the Wife ofa citizen of Sen Francisco, and had deen repulsed, but sill pursued her uatil the hus- band.canght him where he should not have been, and Safligted upon him sundry stabs. The new State, in a mural point of view, is yet susceptible of a vast doal of pruning. The Northern Light brought but little over half a. million of dollars, three hundred aud ‘twerityieight thowand of which was shippod by Page, Basch & @o., and consigned to their former agents in this tity. The news is unimportant in avy particular point of view, but nevertheless con- tains some interesting items. By this arrival we have intelligence from Oregon and Washington Territories, the Legislatures of both of which assembied and organized on the 4th alt., at their respective capitois. From Csrson Valley, xow a portion of Utah Ter- titory, wé learn that the inhabitants had held a meeting to consult upon the question of cutting loose fromthe Mormons, and retting ‘up for them- gelves 3 kind Of independent government, or whe- ther it was better to remain quiet until such time as they weuld be permitted to annex themueives to the B:ate of California, Wise counsels prevailed, and they concluced to await the consummation of the latter proposition. By thé arrival. <{ the Isabel at Charleston, we have received advices from Hyvany to the Lith inst | ‘The Faleon was-three days overdue at Havana when | the Isabel left, 9d feara were entertained for her mafetr. The Piiladelphia,. from New Orieaus, 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 floar Her rudder also wes much injured. No hapiness of much importance was transacted ix Congress yesterday. In the Sengte the bill for vontinutyg the appropriation to the Cling steam: i ers for carrying the mail between this city and | Liverpoo! was taken up, bus was indefinitely post: poned. The joint.resolution on the Arctic search for Dr. Kane and his companions was pasied, and after ashort debate on the Judicial Reform bill, the Benate went into executive session. In the House of Representatives tho time of the members was principa'ly occupied with a debate ‘on the Pacific railroad. Mr. Lotoher, who was ap: pointed to take testimony in tho alleged Patent ex- tension frauds at the last session, reported that he, was unable to compel Mr. Caase, an imporeant wit» nees, to testify. Along argument as to the power of Congres on the subject sprang up, in which several gentlemen participated, bat no conclusion in the matter was come to. From Washington we learn that the Hon. Pierre Boulé, our Minister to Spain, bad sent in his resig- nation of that office, and that the Hon. J. 0. Brook- enridge, of Kentucky, had been appointed his suc- eessor. TLe nomination of Mr. Breckearidge waa eovfirmed by tie Sevate, 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 j get afiret class mission to Harope. See our tele: | graphic despatch fer full details. Several bills were introduced iato the Legislatare | at Albany yesterday, among which may bo enu- | merated,es the most important, « bill regalacing the rate of interest; one afte sting insnrance compa- nies; amending the city charter; city railroads; and several others of minor importance. The report of the State Prison Inspectors wus ulso presented, nd will be found in its appropriate place in oar columns. Anew temperance bill, designed to afisct the city and county of Poiledelphia, has recently been introduced into the Senate of Penngylvania. The provisions of this bill require that the Court of | Quarter Sessions shail appoint three appraisers of | Geulers, distillers, and brewers; and that no license | hall be igsued unless the certificate of the appraise ers be first filed, together with a petition of tw.ive respectable householders in the ward whero tho | liquor is to be sold, stating that the applicant is of | good moral charsetor, and that public convenieace will be promoted. There aro aleo several other forme to be complied with before the license can be obtained, Drnunkenness ja to be made a misde meanor, ard punished by a fine not exceeding five | one of the gentlemen composing the firm of Page, Bacon & Co. A resolution was offered in the Board of Alder- man last evening, recommendiag the aopolutmeat of a special committee of five, te act in conjunction ‘with a similar committee from the Board of Coan- cilmen, to preceed to Albany and procure the pas- xoge of sack emendments to the city charter as would, in their judgment, most condace to the in terest of the city. The resolation gave rise to con- siderable discussion, and, after an avimated debate, was referred to the Committee on Laws. A resolu. tion to tex city reilroad cars was also offered, which, after being amended, wes referred to the Committee on Ordinances. Nothing of very especial interest came up in the Board of Counctimen last evening. Mayor Wood's firut veto was received in relation toa resolution of the Board directing the Commissioner of Repairs and Bupplies to employ men to take down the rvins-of the City Hall. be reselation was veteed, on the ground that the mode in which the work was dizeeted to-be done conflicted with the oity cbarter. Cotton continned quite firm yesterday, and the sales reached about ¢,500 bales; ebont 1,500 a 2,000 were onthe spot, eud the remeinder io transitn The market closed In favor of sellers. We quote middling Uplands at 4 }c., do. Florida at 840. a 8§c5 Mobile ot Sfc.,and New Orleans and Texas at Sze. State abd Westero brands of flour were unchanged, Pith. moderate sales, Canadian wae somethiag easier at Satarday’s rates. Southern continued dal Wheat was nomina). Indian corn favored purchas- ere, closing @t 103 2 104 for Sonthern white and yellow. An extra Jot of Sonthern white sold at 106. Mixed wesdull, Provisions were at about Saturday's quotations, with moderate transactiona. About 500 bblg. lard and 600 boxes short middies of bacon were sold, deliverable-on ship bourd, at.Baltimore, for export, the former at 10c. and the later at 7ht. "The Old Women’s Conventions of the Day and the New Revolation, They have been holding for some days. past, at New Orleans, another of those curious pow- ‘wows, called Southern Commercial .Conven- tions; and they have been proposing various devices for developing the resvarces, stirring up the dormant industry, and for cstablishing the commercial independence of the Seatn. Among these devices they propose that. the Pa- cific railroad shall go by some Southera route, tapping the Atlantic at Charleston—tha puslic lands ought to be voted liberally to, Southera railroads-—that Cuba must be had—and that it would be a good thing to re-establish the slave trade between the baraccons 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 Orleans, the great object of which ia to devise. the ways and means jor rendering the South ‘ wholly independent of the North in .domestic manufactures and foreign eommerce. Well, ihe old women in both hemispheres have lately been stirring themselves, and holding all 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. It the learned Roman hiérarchy have unanimously authorized the Pope to decree to the allied armies at Sebastopol, “and the rest ef mankind,’ the Immaculate: Conception of | the Virgin as a dogma of faith, dnd as thé true road to the golden streets of the New Jernsa. lem, so is the New Orleans couventioa equal- ly unanimous in tavor of a Southern railroad as the true route to the gold mines of Cualifor- nia. " ‘ Upon other sufgjects the practical utility of the propositions entering into thedeliberasions of the New Orleans éonvention ‘até Af 4 par with the resolutions of our’ women's ‘rights, and other old granny conventions of the North. Jf 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 run 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 it ithas been proposed at New Orleansto take megsures for re-opeaing the Africap slave trade with Atrica, ont old gran- ny conventions of the North, of both sexes and all colors, have been resolving for twenty years past, that slavery and all distinctions of color shall be abolished. So, too, it odr Southern conventions have decreed in favor of liberal erants 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 lands in free farms to actaal squatters; upon the dogma of the Hutchinson family, that Unele Sem is rich enough Yo give us alla farm, Even the great cardinal measure of these South- ern conventions—that of establishing the bene- | To their dire confusion; Flagg bas picked out 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, yousg 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 will 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 Nave direct trade with Europe,”| they must put théir ships upon the sea; if they would have manufactories, they must erect | them. They have the water power, the climate, | the raw materiaje—all the required natural ad- | dollars fur every offence. A bill has been introduced into the Legislatare of | Pennsylvania granting po itical and civil rights to persors of color, now residing, or who may here. after reeide, in that State. Beveral vessels at the docks in South street, yes terday, ceased ioad! vecause the laborers refused to work at $1 50 per {nstead of $1 75, hitherto paid. 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 refuse employment at $1 60 per day. ome of the employers were in difficulty adont obtaising the necessary labor, and taiked sbout the possibility of having to apply to the Commission. era of Emigration for beip. A meetitg of the friends of Page, Bicon & Co. was held last cyening at the Meiropotitan Hotel, to take into consideration the position of that firm, and ascertain whether they were,avle to sustaia themselves. Abont one handre:! gontlemen were vantages for execessful competition with the | North, If. they would have railroads, they must jook to other sources than the federal treasury; and if they would have a Pacific rail- road by the Southern route, ten good lobby men, well armed with the sinews of war, at Washington, will avail more than a Southern convention of ten thousand men at New Or- leans. ' tr atifying to know that of late years, in Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, and other Southern States, they have been | going to work in factories, foundries, railroads, and other practical enterprises, in the right | way. Let the work be followed up after this | fashion, and no Soutbero abstraction conven- tions will be needed to develope the latent riches and vast resources of the south. Mr. Wise,,of o d much interest was manifested in the paren da ‘A committee of five was appointed | to expres the pongo of the mogting to Mr Bayon, Virginia, in his stump speeches, is disclosing the true business policy of the Southern States, Let as hope that the day for the exhausting ¢x- tion. aational conservative movement of the Kuow Nothings, which.discountenances the revival of the anti slavery agitation, which aims to restore barmony between the North ‘and the Sonth, which holds to the exact doctrine of non-inter- vention in the domestic affairs of the several | come, we shall annex, Cuba, or Mexico, or the | people. Clear the track! t periments of intengible Svuuthern abstractions has passed away. It i. somewhat remarkable that this Southern convention at New Qsleans appears tw have closed its eyes to the “fixed fact” toat a great and mysterious revolation is at work ull over this country; a moral aod political revolu- tion. which is rapidly casting everbourd alt the old women’s ptatforms, all the schemes of Nortbern philosophers and Seathern reformers, together with ail the rnbbish and clap-trap of old political fogies, old vasty aucksters, aud all the rusty and rotten m»chiaery of old party jeotes aed Baltimore conventions. Strange, too, that this New Orleans convention, in this convection, bave not discovered the fully of re- solving that we must have Cuna, whatever ob- stacles may interpose. We suy that a great revolatien is at work, mysteriously but potently working out a new order of things in this country. It was com- menced under an eccentric and equivocal designation, as most great revelutions do be- gin; but it is developing @ streagth which is irresistible, and au onward tendency which cannot be arrested. It must supersede for the time, all purely sectional schemes, political or -oommercial; all the eld party iseues of the country ; #1) whig and democrati gements, Jocal or general; all Cabinet pl fatrigues for the succeseion—for this new uw ion must go on till its work.is aceomplished, Recogni- zing it, too, as® great spontaneous uprising of the people, politicians and refy mit to be carried with the curreat or to be driven ashore. AM TMHO uw It is a great conservative revolutionary movement, comprehensive in its sedpe, and be- neficent in its tendencies, in tee extirpation of the rotteaness and corruptions which have caused the old patties of the déy to stink in tne nostrils ot the nation; and beneficent, in restor- ing, upon the basis of the comstitation, the aa- cient hurmonies of ali seetions of the Union. To this end the New Grleans convention may be too fast upon the Caba question. Mr. Cal- houn’s idea of a Southern sectional balance of power somewhere in the government, is as nearly. attained as can be iathe Senate, with- outa dangerous @istérbance of the ‘existing general equilibrium. The acquisition of Cuba a6 a 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 noth of us are not yet ripe for anuexa- The truth is, that, judging from. this great NEW YORK. HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY .16, 1865, 18 must sud- |) Statee, which appreciates the hazards of at- tumpting, yet for a season, the further acquisi- tion of foreign territories—judging, we say, from these aspects,of this conservative move- ment, we donbt whether, for some years yet to Sonawich Islands, or any other outside couatry ;whatever. ‘ ‘Here, then, is: our position. . While the old women of both the Old World and the New aro holding, their political, social, religious and commercial eewventions, and while the old ny hucksters of the day, in and out of the ‘abinet, North and’ Sodth, are laying their pipe ‘and shaping their plans for the next swindling national 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 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 job 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 statiorer, like every other mer- chant, cannot afford to sell a lot of goods worth $100 at the same rate of profit ashe would a lot worth $1,000. The stationers who tendered at Flagg'’s reqnest—there were only seven, most of the trade having seen too mach of Plagg’s mode of doing business ty 4esire to deal with him—threw in some articles at lower rates, proportionately, than others, looking to the aggregate profit tu make the account equare. of each tender the very articles they thus threw | in almest at a loss, jected the other items- ‘The consequence is tMat in the words of the | committee, “it is uttefly 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- tionery. Needless to add that Flagg acted in Gefiance of law. No such dissection of tenders was contemplated by the charter or ordinances: the framers of those laws directed the award | fo ie made to the lowest bidder, regarding each tender as an integral whole. Thys |lagg saves the money of the people of. New York. If he contented himself with break- ing the law, ond. 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.’ Bab gp violate the law and at the same tind 16, @ the public expenditure by ad- hering! oolish croichets of his own, is too ¥ be borne in silence, Let the Comp- VOln, Xe of New York were satisfied with his course as| But, while Wikoff gains popularity as an Cowptroller. He will fiud ous bis mistake ’ere | amusing raconteur, and fille his. pockets with long. The exposé of bis scheme to secare the | doilara, the people of sentiment are unanimons city advertising for his pyrty organ—the | in execrating him as one of the most heartless Evening Post—bas not been forzottev, Norace | speculaturs in Jove that ever feigaed that the pnblic biied to the fact that the city adver- | heroic passion, and think that if Miss Gamble tivements are at preseat buried in journals | bad occupied the other wing of the. Genoa which are bot seen by were thay one huadredsi | prion, and that if both bad been coufived there part of the pepulation ; and consequently tha; | every cent paid to them fer pablishiag Corpo- | ration matter is so munob stolen trom the pavlic | poket, Mr. Flagg calls this ecouomy: we | call it extravagance. We think—and most people will agree with us—that it is absolutely wasteful to give $1,000 ayear for advertising | to a bewspaper which no ove reads, whereas it aight be economy to give $20,000 for the in- sertion of the same matter in a journal which | lies on every table im tlie city, Fiagg 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, woy there is no reason why the Democrat shoald not answer #8 well as the Heap; but if they wanted'other people to see chem, every child cam’ perceive that, whatever were the cost, .they should be printed in papers which are ‘read, “The gross absurdity of the present arrangement with respect to the city print ing, and the impudence of tne report in worecommendec that tue fa. the city should be sacrificed ening Post—uot less than fick by which the station- be nullitied—can only be ex- supposition that Flagg supposes he is highly popular, and dares anything. He willfind ont his mistake. He has now been thuronghly 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 crotchétg and theories ; is forever start- ing a and objections to every usefal proposition ; never went straignt 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 & 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 a dozen stationers } but the very consequence of these foolish endeavors to save-a few dollars involves the city inan uno expense of thousands. The clerk placed at a high advance on his the cost of a lawsuit must be borne: the stutioners refuse to ‘submit to his dictation, and the city pays fall retail instead of contract price; ; the streets, left, dirty in consequence of Flagg’s quarrel with the contractors, must be clcwused at for three yeurs, three monthe, three days and 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 little moral princi and just as little heroic eevtiment of action: In literature Wikoff is a sort of Rousseau, deeply dashed with the modern politician and the Wa)l sireet floancier. The present book i | probably the beginning of a ‘literary carcer of @ novel and eccentric character, and it is very probable that the Chevalier Wikoff will give us the other chapters of his life’ with the same naive té, and in the same Chesterfieldian style, that bas immortalized his courtship with Miss 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 figurante—he originated the tactics which Barnum, as a pup- pet in the hands of Jenny Lind, afterwards adopted. 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 Fanny Elisier 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 ‘onLouis Napoleon and his affairs; another on Lord Palmerston and the British diplomatic service; and every yesr 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 ‘amo the most valuable philosophical works. Tue Crry Cuarrer iw Tae Legisiature.— ot the Legislature beware of adopting any of the foolish bills to reform the city charter which have gone from here to Albany. They are all, or nearly all, schemes originating in the diseppointment of some office seeker who wants @ place, and thinks he can get it under a 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, ond astimilating the city government to. that of’ ties federal Union, concentrating the whole 5 ibility on the Mayor and Alder- men. ,"Then.good government might be pos- sible, and simplicity would be introduced into every déphrtinét.. But not till E caver whe: Ate an enormous advance on the stipulated price. He’ says: he), right—be is actuated by principle, pablic t, and so on; bat where is the use of these-fffie motives, if the result is | invariably, unifozmly detrimental to tie public interest? 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 and the Albany Regency ruled the roast: they were always talking of economy, and their superior zeal for the pub- lic good, and meanwhile the taxes were ever on the increase, and the State worse governed than at any former time. Flagg has not chatiged a hair since then; nor will he, so long as he is allowed ‘to gratify his purty predilec- tions and bis cantankerous disposition in the Comptroller’s office. Tue CaLamity av Fort Wasuineron.—There wapa re- , Port in town yesterday that Miss Anna Langdon Haven had died from the-eflpcts of the suffocation she expe- rienced at the bum the residence of her father, on Saturday me - We are happy to learn that such is not the F 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 MR. SOULE, MINISTRR 10 SPAIN—AP- POINIMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF MR. BRECKEN- RIDGE, OF KY., TO FILL THE VACANCY—PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE CABINET, ETO. Wasmwerow, Jan. 15, 1865, The truth of the announcement made in the Heranp on Tuesday last, that Mr. Soulé had resigned, bas been : GER : established to-day in a manner which leaves no room for Toe Canixet SQuanpins ror THE SCOCESBION | Gouyt, and is another instance of the reliability of your —Pierce 4 Caxprpare.—We are advised thatit | jnrormation. is a mistake to suppose that Gen. Pierce has | ohn, Breckenridge, of Kentucky, was nominated abundoned the field for the succession—that, on | this afternoon as Minister to Spain, and confirmed unan- the contrary, he is still a candidate for the | ‘ously, vice Soulé, resigned. inde Glen paca beeen iakTs auvanld talbe very The dangerous iliness of Mr, Mason in: Paris, and the ~ | probable vacancy in the mission, bas hastened the com- hopeful against all his democratic rivals, from | pletion of the programme which has for some time been the suppositions that Douglas is killed | in contemplation for a change in the Cabinet. off by the Nebraska bill, that Bachanan | Very recently Mr. Buchanan was written to to ex- won't do, that Case is too old, tbat Cusbiag is | ene places with nies ee has determined to leave We further understand that the lately discov- | sion, and Mr. Mason’s illness will probably furnish #n ered treachery of Cushing and Forney against | opening sooner than could be provided by Buchanan’s Pieree and in favor of Buchanan, has thrown phy <8 aren: rae a a ; no the Executive completely over to the side of | Pita "ae 5 frente anegtep pat osednrgreed Marcy,,which blocks, for the present, the Buch- | . 0414 to allow himself to be the legates of Marcy’s anan and Soulé game of the Ostend Convention. | pjunders. . And hence the return of Buchanan to manage Mr. Guthrie will also go out. the plot, which was to be in the spring, is now | This change in the State and Treasury departments said to be portponed till next full, unless the ee zaps ag peel be ca ir pis er gr iggs shoula shift again to his | sy not at ah pele ts Sa but the following z changes are not improl Viz. Another thing which goes to prove that | moat ex rvaneempmeke, of New York, now here, Pierce is still a candidate for the succession, is | and ex-Governor Cobb, of Georgia, will fill the vacancies, his speech to the Veterans of 1812 on the occa- | and should Cushing be provided with a miasion, Toucey, sion of their late call at the White House. Gen. | * ee oniaen telgetog We tg ohh eden Cass was among them, and the President made, | yut pierce alone is favorable to him—all the leaders of in the course of bis remarks to the old soldiers, | the democratic party desiring that he should leave the some highly complimentary allusions to the | Cabinet. if both the English and French missions be- patriotism and statesmanship of Gen. Gass. boned Morepdh is more than probable Cushing will re- ceive one of them. Some say that this was intended to aid in the | "rs re is no doubt that strong Buchanan influence is re-union of the New York hard shells with the | 4+ work bere, and these are some of the results, coft shells, in spite of the fact that fine words | The change in the Cabinet carries with it » change in butter no parsnips. However this may be, we | the foreign policy of the administration, which now, learn that Tammany Hall will very shortly | hing eget ite Taam is anti-progressive, anti- ‘uba, and anti- ¥ pwnd “ane ay ee ae Oh pingsdend Mr. Slidell, upon seeing the announcement in Inst rane, bas not Sachem Purdy, declared that, against all enemies and all rivals, they would | hold the Prerident in their arms? Did they not | tay 80 on the last fourth of July? And 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 refuse, at this crisis, | 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 j Tammany Hall on the first fairday. Where is | the Cushing and Forney kitchen coalition now? Tne THREE CHEVALIERS IN Procraray.—It is | now nearly a week since the autobiography of the Chevalier Wikoff was published, and it has | and at,once posted for Baton K. week's HERALD of Soulé’s resigaation, became alarmed, to look after his re- election to the Sevate. Mr. Soulé jing written to his friends to present his name, Slidell’s chances are mi- ute. RESIGNATION OF MR. 80U MINISTER TO SPAIN— APPOINTMENT OF HIS ESSON—THE SMITHSO— MIAN LNSTITUTION, ETO., BTC. Wasurvetox, Jan, 15, 1855, ‘The Hon, Pierre Soulé bas resigned his office as Minis- | ter toSpain, and John C, Breckenridge, of Kentucky, has been appointed as bis successor, and will be cou- firmed to-morrow. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution met 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 in rumored that the minority membera refused to attend | any further meetings of the board. Adjourned to mect again on Saturday, 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 choose’ between his two propensities. | Let him either bully the Common Council, and | laugh at their laws, or keep a smooth face and | Chevaliers Greeley and Barnum. Baroum’s increase the taxes. People might suffer Flagg | coarse attempts at wit have only excited dis- aa economical guardian of the public money; | very apt to think that he better deserves the or they might submit—being tolerably accné | fifteen months in the penitentiary which was tomed so to do—to bis extravagance, if he set suffered by the Chevalier Wikoff. Greeley’s an example of subordination and respect for the | book is as dull and stupid as his own columns, popfilar will, But to te bullied and fleeced all | On the contrary, Wikoff has created quite a | ‘to set law and authority at defiauce if he was | gust among his literary readers, and they are | ‘at ouce is putting their temper to too severe @ | seneation, euch as it is, and a very curious | trial, The fact ts, we think Mr. Flagg’s race is nearly xon, We spepect he mugt have been delnding him- | jg generally supposed that. the publisher of ‘sulf into the belief that he was a popular officer, and faneying, because the Journa/ of Commerce ee | sensation it is, too. The sales, of course, are | very much increased by this sensation, and it Wikoff’s book will be obliged to issue three tmes a8 many copies of it ay of Barnum’s or custained him in bad English, that the people | Greeley’ already taken the wind out of the sails of the | twelve miles from that city. UNITED STATES SUPREME CORRT. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 1855, 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 Legislature, ELECTION OF STATE TREASURER, Harntenvra, Jan, 15, 1865. Eli Slifer, native American, was elected by the Legis lature State Treasurer to-day. The vote was as follows: —Slifer, 89; E. W. Hamlin, democrat, 36; scattering, 4. Postponement of a Trial for Marder. Syracuse, Jan, 15, 1855, The trial of Alfred Fyler, for the murder of his wife, has been postponed until February, on agcount of the Latest from the AMENDING THE NEW YOKK CITY CHARTER—MONUs MENT TO COL, BAXTER—THE UBUBY LaWS, ETC. Atpayy, Jan. 15, 1855. There was ® quorum present in bath houses this morn- ing, though the Assembly was rather thin, more than one-third being wbsevt, ond among them a majority of the New York city celegation. They ought to be more prompt, especially as they can make the passage from ‘Thrty-first 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 a bill relative to city railroads. What its provisions are is not distinctly known, as it has not yet been perfected, Mr, Speuce said he should introduce a bill to enable the echool of the Five Points House of Industry to par- ticipate in the distribution of the common school fund of the State, If correctly drawn, such a bill will receive no opposition. Mr. Spence Jaid on the Committee on Inst table a resolution instructing e Companies to inquire into the expediengy of so amending the general iusurance f Jaw, as to probibit mutual insuranze companies fromy insuixg policiegof property out of the judicial district in which they are located, and to prevent companies lo- cated in otver States, whose capital assets are wholly or n partof premium potes, from issuing policies upom 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 such companie ‘the expense of such examination ihe ~enate, in committee, passed the Assembly bill to fac Ltate the Senatorial election in the Twenty sioth district. There was no opposition, and the silence of Mr, Se ward’s friends ix presumptive evidence that the fier 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 a false security. They will be awahened from their somnambulism when the enemy opens a bold front, when it will be too late to re- sist the pressure. In the House, Mr. O'Keefe intends, in a day or two, to introguce a bill amending the cborter of the city, so as to make appropriations in a more di: manner than is now authorized by cil. At present, if alarger amo and fifty doHars is wanted ‘or any. of publication and other u:eless ms . time, are indispensable. He Brats 30 to amend the charter ax to give the Council greater facility in making appropriations, by means of which several public works mies be speedily commenced, to the great relief of the sullering poor, and te allow the Frc’ symp to have some vent to the partial relief of the dist Mr. Waterbury has introduced a bill erection of a Ce Rall to the meni : Pr he late Co), Buxter, and other officers, who fell in the war. It provides forthe appropriation of five ) dollars by the State, the monument to be e1 Greenwood Cemetery, where the remains of those ot, officers repose. The money to be placed at the disposal of the Govercor of the state, aud that he take the neces- sary 6{eps to secure ite erection, The numerous friends of the late Col. Baxter may rest assured that all possible exertions will be used to eflect the object. It is feared, however, that the dilspidated condition of the State treasury will be a strong obstacle in the way of procur- yg the neceseary means during the present session, The sutject of interest and usury is again in agita- ‘tion. This morning, Mr, Aitken introduces a bill simi- lar 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, he ple ss interest Mate: ees Tay agree upon; provided the time torun of sucl missury note oF bill of exchange shall not exceed wix months Sec. 2. Whenever, in any action brought on such pro- missory note or billof exchange, it shall appear upon a ph ading, and proofs in the action to that effect, that a greater rate of interest has been directly or indirectly re- ceived, takea or reserved, than seven per cent per an- num, and at that rate for a longer time, the defendant shallrecoyer his fyll costy, and the ;laiatift shall recover and be entitled to the principal, aud no more. See. 3. Any party having paid upon such promissory note a bill of exchange, ot the description named in the first section of this act, more than at the rate of seven per cent per annum, may recover back the entire inter- together with costs of suit, in an action of d the suit is commenced within six months yment of interest. cares wherever the rate of interest i¢ pecified, seven per cent per annum, and at that rate only, shall be charged, paid and received. oS e fifth section repeals all acts inconsistent with the above. The question of interest and ua isone which will be thoroughly ‘discussed by fre present. Legislature, ‘The Chamber of Commerce of the ely of New York are making a move for free trade in money. A bill is being” prepared siving money lenders the power to collect any Amount of interest agreed upon between borrower aud lender, so that capitalists having ready may dis- pose of it to the best advantage, as merchandise is sold. ill Governor Clark, after expressing the opinion he did in hin message, sign the bil (rom the Chamber of Com- , merce? W1be Speoker presented what/purported on its face, the sonual report of the Inspectors of the State Prisons. On examination it was foupd to be subscribed by only one of them, Darius Clark. It was said General Storms? name was attached, but it is not there, though Dr, Clark says the General agreed to sign it. Mr. Kirkpatrick re- fured to attach jignature, which means that he in- tends to submit unter report. ‘the one presented to-day will not be printed until the other appears; and then aa the two will probably be at varian’ other, the people of the State will possess just as mack | informatien, to be relied upon, as if neither were made. Mr. Augustus Scbell, having taken the good advice of the Hrnarp, has called a meeting of the (late) head hunter state commirtee tegether. True notise Gret eared in the Utica Gazette, which intimates that to he official organ. The mevting is to be held at Congresa all, in this city, on the 25th instant; immediately after which the important fact will be known whetheg democratic “ fusion’? is to be aceomplished. Massachusetts Politics, > Bosrow, 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 councile of the Know Nothings the subject /has led to warm dis- cussion ahd bitter personalities; and it is said that many of the prominent members of the order have withdrawn from it in consequences of differences of opinion. ; The following printed cireylar was circulated in the House to-day:— by To THE MEMBrRs or THY AMERICAN ORDER IN THK HOUSE 0} REPREEENTATIVES -— All members of the House of Representative who bé— Neve in the freedom of debate, who refuse to sanction & high handed course of political action, and who are ored to the election of the Hon Henry Wilson to the Inited States Senate, are requested to meet in caucus, in the Grecn Room, on Menéay, the 15th inst., 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 discus. sion, it was voted unanimously to postpone, if possible, the election of the United States Senator for one wees from to morrow, and if preseed into an election to-mor« row to vote forthe Hon, Alexander H. Bullock, of Wor- cester, for Senator, jn opposition to Mr, Wilson. Missouri Legislature. Bovraw, Jan, 15, 1855. In the Missouri Legislature, on the 11th inst., 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 firet ballot, Scott received 53; Doniphan, 59; Benton, 99; Wileon, 1; Jackson, of Cape Girardeau, 1, A second ballot was taken, with the same result, Judge Scott then withdrew his name, and Governor Sterling Pierce ut in nomination, A vindictive debate sprung up on this, when s vote was ordered to be taken, which resulted as follows:—= Donophan, 58; Pierce, 55; Benton, 39; Wilson, 1. On the 12th, Mr. Atchison was again nominated, and the snti-Bentonites announced their intention of standing by him to the end. Portland and Kennehee Ratlroad Company. Banaor, (Me.,) Jan, 15, 1855, A socond railroad meeting was held here on Satarday evening, at which another’ committee was appointed to investigate the propriety of a new loan to the Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company, and to inquire what, further expenditures will be necessary to complete thé toad. The following, among” dther resolutions,;was passed:— Resolved, That the Legislature be requested to post- pene all action on any application made to them for the parsage of an act authorizing the further loan of the credit of the city of Bangor, in aid of the said company, until after such investigation is had, John Mitche! at Cincinnati. Crvainwatt, Jan, 15,1856. * John Mitchel was received at the Burnet House this 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, ‘ Shooting Affray at Cmeinnati. Civewxxati, Jan, 15,1966. A distressing affair occurred here on Saturday night, in front of the National theatre. A young man fained Jennings circulated reports unfavorable to the character of & young lady recently married to H. H. Ormabee, & clerk in the National Telegraph office, who, meeting J ning in the thestre, called hii out, and asked him if b® was the author of the alleged reports; and be replying im the a@irmative, Ormabes took gut» pistol and shot him, vi INSURANCE . COMPANIES— SEN. 1L BLEOTION— > a EEEEEEEOEE—aoOOoOoOi7——___OO