The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1855, Page 6

124 NEW YORK HERALD. | PRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘W. CORNER OP ~~ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Civpene tie ~ « TUTOR measles BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Fonruns’s Fuoue— CaRoLine —MARION. BURTON'S THBATRE, Chamber street—Livixe roo Wasv—vinck any Hem Macio Cur—Niog Youne Man. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Niont anv Monn me~A LADY AND GENTLEMAN, WETROPOLITAN THEATRE. Brosdway—Afternoon— Bquesrniansri—Hore in tHe Wann, Evening —Zqons- Fain PERPORMANCKY—COURIER OF Lyons, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon and Evening—Waz- ‘WOOD'S WINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway. BOCKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Brosdway—Buom- usv’e Ernrovianw Ovens TROUPE. “Wew "ork, ‘Wednesday, January 17, 1855. The News. Onr special despatch from Washington states that the defeat of Mr. Clingman’s mediation resolutions was owing to the intrigues of Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, who was opposed to their passage. The Congressional proceedings ef yesterday were yather meagre. The time of the Senate was princ!- pally occupied with a debate on the Compensation ‘bill. Inthe House the Pacific Railroad bill chiefly eonsumed the time of members until the hour of adjournmert. Reporta from the majority and minority commit- ‘ees on the bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks were presented in the Assembly yesterday. The bill accompanying the majority report varies im some trifling details from that printed a few days since. Nothing of special importance was trans- acted in either branch of the Legislature daring ‘the day. An unsuccessful effort was made in the Maesa- Chusetts Legislature yesterday to elect a United Btates Senator. The elsction was finally postponed for a week. Governor Pollock of Pennsylvanis was inaugura- ted at Harrisburg yesterday. In his inaugural he @eclares himself in favor of civil and religious liber- ty, freegom of the press, and freedom of worship ; and declares they are the birthrighta of American eitizens, which no royal or pontifical edict can des- woy. He is alaoin favor of the sale of the public works of thst State. In speaking of the defeat of the prohibition bill, he says it now becomes the daty ef the Legislature to consider what other measarsa are necessary to restrain the evilaof intemperance, and recommends the passsge of astringent license law. He condemns the repeal of the Missouri com- promise, advocates the protection of American in. dustry, improvement of rivers and harbors, a judi cous homestead bill, reform in the natcratization laws ; and also declares bimse)f in favor of prevent- ing the immigration of foreign paupers and convicts into the United States. A Prohibitory Liquor bill was reported in the New Jersey Legislature yesterday. Its features are similar to others on the same subject. Tae jaw, if passed, will go into effect in December next. The bill provides for the submission of the Jaw to the people, not as to whether it shal! take effect, but merely to obtain an expzession of opinion om ita merits. Advices from Havana to the 12th inst., received at New Orleans, state that a rumor was current that General Concha had been superseded as Cap- tain General, on account of his conduct in the Saa Boman affair. The ramor, however, was not gene- rally credited, and is considered improbable. Tae Falcon had not arrived at Havana. Mr. T. Francis Meagher delivered a lecture on Monday in Charleston, 8. C., in aid of the Calhoun Monument fund. Over two thousand tickets were evld, end the audience was one of the largest ever assembled in Charleston. ‘The telegraph reports a shock of anearthquake % Hanover, N. H., and at Bradford and 8:. Johnsbury, Vt., about six o’clock last evening, which lased about half a minute, and was most distinctly marked. From Mobile we learn by telegraph that asab- seription is on foot among the slave and colored population generally, to raise funds to aid the suf fering poor of New York and the Eastern cities. One of the heaviest produce houses in New Or- beaus failed on Monday, owing to the suapeusion of Page, Bacon and others. The liabilities of those houses which failed on Saturday are estimated at two and a bsif million of dollars. Their assets, however, exceed that sum, and it is thougit they will ali resume business. Pailures were apprehended at Cincinuati and Louisville, in consequence of thoss which have taken place ia New Orleans. A special meeting of the Whig General Con- mittee wos held last evening at the Broadway House, which was well attended, every ward boing represented. Resolutions of sympathy with those suffering from lack ef employment, and urging pro tection to home labor, were adopted. The Chamber of Commerce held a special meting yesterday afternoon forthe purpose of paying some respectto Commodore Perry for his services in the East. A committee was appointed to take such weasures as might be deemed proper to show their appreciation of his efforte, who will report this sfter- con. The annual election of officers of the Mercantile Library Association was held yesterday, in the building of that institution, in Astor piace. The proceedings were of s sivguiar character, and will, doubtless, astonish the more religious portion of the community. The report will be foudd in another column. The Board of Ten Governors held a meeting last evening, and voted to invite the Legislature to visit ‘the charitable institotions under their control. One thoveand dollars were appropriated to give thema ealtable reception. A petition was received from a body of marble cutters recently discharged by the Board, asking to be again employed. The petition wan referred. Quite an animated debate occurred on the subject of furnishing the rooms of emp.cyés. Bee report in another column. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered the eighth lecture before the New York City Anti- Slavery Society last evening, on ‘‘ Tne contrast be- ‘tween the Northern aud Southern theories of man and society.” Mr. Giddings, member of Congress from Ohio, was present on the platform, and was ealled on to apeechify, but declined. The meeting was one of the best attended of the course. The report is unavoidably omitted in this morning's iaeue. A lectare was delivered last evening at the Mer esntile Library bya gentleman with the nom de plume of Q., on the Crimea campaign and siege of febsstopol. Nonew facts were elicited by the lec- turer; but ne gave @ very brilliant description of the various battles that have been fought before Sebastopol. We are obliged to omit our report. James Green, conductorof the New Haven freight train, was arrested and beld to bail yesterday in the sum of $2,000, on a charge of marslaughter, in caneing the death of two persons on the Harlem Railroad, in November last, through gross neg’i- gence on his part. The evidence on tie inqnest of ore of the persons Killed went to show that no tail Night was exhibited, sud no warning given to an spproaching train, which, in consequence, ran into the freight train, by which two persons were killed and many seriously injared. One of the directors of the New Haven road went Mr. Green's security, and he was liberated from custody. Jadge Mitchell delivered the opinion of the sa- preme Conrt, yesterday, in the million and a hs! truct ere, te pcive to "hs: taxog ef the cose, an NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 117, 18585. rected that the taxing officer should proveed’! saute tex all coste prior to July, 1851, ender the Chancezy Fee bill, and all subsequent costs under the Cote. Judge Roosevelt delivered an important opizion in the Supreme Court, yesterday, on banking and financial affairs, in the matter of the Knickerbocker Bank, in which he stated that all idea of incraasing the asseta, by withholding their sale, for the benefit of etockhokers was injurious to the billholders and depositors, and at variance with all decisions made by the higheet Court of the State in analogous cases of assigament made by insolvent individuals, The decision will be found elsewhere. A verdict was rendered in the Court of Common Pleay against the proprietors of the Bloomingdale line of stages, inthe sum of $700 and costs, for damages occasioned by one of their vehicles running overs man in'Chatham street, in 1853, aud mati- lating his leg 80 badly as to render it sti'l useless, In another part of today’s paper will be foand a correct list of marine disasters, including wrecks ‘upon the Florida Reef, aud arrivals of leaky vessels at Key West, Florida, together with the salvage awarded, «c., for the year ending Dec. 31, 1854, The cotton market at New Orieans on Monday had experienced a slight decline in qualities below good middling, but other descriptions were un- changed. Cotton continued firm yesterday, with sales of 1,500 bales, included in which were 1,000 in tran- situ. Wequote middling uplands and Florida at 8ho. a 8§c.; do. Mobile at 8gc., and New Orleans do. at 9c. Common brands of State flour were 12kc. per barrel lower. Southern and Canadian were in fair demand, but easier to purchase at quotations. Wheat continued to be quiet and nominal. Old mess pork closed dull at $12 25. Old prime was scarce and nominal. New prime gold at $13, and 1,000 barrels new mess, deliverable by the lst May, seller’s option, were sold at $13; and a Jot of long middles bacon sold deliverable free on shipboard, in Philadelphia, at 8jc. There was rather a better de- mand tor sugar, with some firmer feeling, and Rio coffee was in fair demand at 9hc. a 10s. Soule’s Resignation—The Crisis in the Cabl- net Come at Last. The fulfilment of our predictions has com- menced. The crisis in the Cabinet has come at last. According to our telegraphic advices from Washington, published yesterday, Mr. Soulé has resigned the Spanish mission, and Hon. John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, has been nominated and confirmed to fill the va- cancy. He has been prepared at any time to fight with rifles for the administration, and this is his reward. Republics are not ungrateful. After the disclosures which we have pub- lished during the last six weeks, in reference to the Ostend Convention, and the close con- nection of Soulé’s diplomatic policy with the intrigues of the Buchanan clique, at heme and abroad, for the succession, it is hardly neces- sary to explain at length the causes of Soule’s recall or resignation. It is sufficient to know that the filibustering Cuba war policy of Jeff. Davis, Cushing, Dudley Mann and Soulé, which was to be forced upon the administration, which was intended to drive Marey out of the Cabinet, and to give the war clique the ascend- ancy, and which was to carry Buchanan through the next Baltimore Democratic Convention, as the war candidate of the spoils democracy—it is enough to know that this filibustering Kitchen Cabinet and Ostend programme bas fallen through. The abandonment of Medrid by Soulé breaks up the plot, and gives the victory to Marcy. It does not surprise us, therefore, to be re- assured that Buchanan will return from Lon- don at the earliest possible convenience; that Mason’s place at Paris is to be filled by a trans- fer from the Cabinet; and that, late in the day as it is, we may expect soon a complete re-or- ganization of the Cabinet itself, from stem to stern. The only existing trump card of the Buchanan clique seems to be, to persuade Marcy to rest from his hard labor as premier for asea- son, amid the recreations of Paris, and to slip Cushing into his chair in the State Department as Buchanan’s confidential prime minister for the succession. The failure of Soulé’s mission to Madrid, with “ahundred millions in one hand and war in the other,” his failure to bully the Spanish ministry into the sale of Cuba, and his failare to provoke them to a personal rupture, involve the collapse of the whole Os- tend conspiracy, with all its Cabinet and Pre- sidential complications. In the outset Marcy was led astray upon the sans culotte filibustering programme of Dudley Mann. Hence those ridicalous official circu- lars upon diplomatic costume, and the amusing and mortifying consequences resulting from the foolish attempts of our ministers abroad to disregard and defy the social usages of the European courtly reunions to which they were invited. Hence that elaborate and windy document upon the red republican principles of “liberty, equality and fraternity,” known as the Kozsta letter; and hence, too, the origi- nal, pointed and empbatic diplomatic instruc- tions of Marcy to Soulé, Belmont, and others. He was deceived by his squire, Dudley Mann, and by the supposed full and accurate know- ledge ot his assistant of the secrets and intri- cacies of the diplomacy of the European conti- nental powers, and by false representations of the actual strength of the revolutionary circles of France and Germany. Thus, for a season the filibustering alliance of Mann, Soulé, Sickies, Sanders, and Kossuth, promised to as- sume the control of our administration and the direction of the foreign policy of the United States. But, thongh Marcy is admitted a dull and heavy rcholar in diplomacy, and slow in making new discoveries, he stumbled at length upon the important fact that the programme of Dudley Mann was a deep laid scheme for the Presidency, looking elsewhere than the State department for a champion for Baltimore. What, then, was Marcy’s course? Clearly the course which he pursued. He abandoned the Kozsta letter at once. He issued new inetrac- tions to Soulé in character decidedly pa- cific and conciliatory. He took his stand against the entire schedule of our European filibasteroes, and gave them their orders accordingly. Sonlé became restive and intractable, A special commission of three distinguished men, us joint ambassadors to Ma- drid, was proposed, to enlighten his under- standing and to mollify the Spanish govern- ment. Soulé remonstrated, and threatened to return indignantly home, when the happy com- promise was hit upon and accepted, of a consul- tation with Mesers. Buchanan and Mason in some convenient neutral territory on the conti- nent. Hence the conference at Ostend, and its developements and oll the subsequent dis- closures of the progress and explosion of the plot. Sonlé, Dudley Mann and their associates, bad turned the Ostend consultations against Marcy, against his foreign conservative policy, and in favor of the original filibustering scheme of Mann, and cf immediate action to carry it cot. To thie ené, Bechanan wie adopted as their hero for the suocessien ; Cushing and the Kitchen Cabinet seconding the motion. Pitting Buchanan then, and his war policy against Marcy, the old premier was to be displaced, and his old fogy peace policy was to have been superseded by the first of January by a new premier, and a flaming war message to Covgrers on our relations with Spato and the island of Cuba. Our readers will remem- ber that sbortly before the re-assembling of Congress, we were advised from Washington of these expectations; and that the administra- tion would, most probably, begin the new year with a new Cabinet, and a bold and dashing war message, as the last expedient of escaping the fate of Captain John Tyler. The only obstacle to this dashing revolution was Marcy, and the forced resignation of Soulé tells the rest of the story. This forced resignation then, of Soulé, brings on a crisis in the Cabinet. Marcy, thus far, wins. The mission to Spain, “with a hundred millions in one hand and war in the other,” has been countermanded by Marcy. The Os- tend plot, with its war programme, and with Buchanan as its war champion for the succes- sion, has been blown up by Marcy. Buchanan, Cushing, Jeff. Davis, and the whole fiiibuster- ing coalition, fall with their scheme and their active agent, Soulé. Marcy rules the roast; but now comes the struggle upon the reorgani- gation of our European diplomatic corps and the Cabinet. Here there is still a chance for the Ostend alliance. If they can get Marcy to London or to Paris they will doit; they will increase the salary, no doubt, if that is the only stumbling block to Marcy. Forney will see to that. Marcy, once on board a Collins steamer, Cushing, or Jeff. Davis, or Gen. Quitman may be slipped in; and thus Marcy himself may yet be instructed to carry out the filibustering policy which he has to this point so signally lefeated. In this view, we perceive that the Cushing and Forney league are also laboring to get Guthrie out of the Cabinet with Marcy. Guthrie’s old fashioned notions of disbursing the public money, are, it must be confessed, entirely antagonistic to the free and easy school of Forney and the Kitchen. But Jet Guthrie hold fast ; and if Marcy should be called upon to answer to the complaints of Cushing, Davis, and Forney, that his old fogy peace policy is disappointing the just expecta- tions of the Pennsylvania or Mississippi demo- cracy, let him remember the example of Guthrie. Called before the President to answer for refusing to pay to Forney a spurious de- mand upon the Treasury for twenty thousand dollars, Guthrie said : “ Yes, sir, I refused, and I'll be damned, Mr. President, if I pay that money ; but if I am in the way to the execu- tion of your wishes, you know what course to take.” So let Marcy stand his ground; and if a hint at a resignation should reach him, let bim reply, ‘No, sir; you may remove me at your pleasure, but I’ll be damned if I resign.” Let him do this, and he may defy the intrigues of Davis, Cushing and Forney to the end of the chapter. Let Marcy and Guthrie stand their ground. They are somewhat useful to the country at this juncture against the filibusters and their designs upon the Treasury and upon the territories ot our neighbors. In behalf of Pierce himself Jet Marcy stand his ground, remaining inflexi- bly where he is, and let Guthrie hold fast to the keys of the Treasury ; for if these two old fogies go out, we may need a loan before the next Congress to meet the ordinary expenses of the government, and an extra session to meet the requirementa of an unconstitutional war. The crisis has at last come for the re-organiza- tion of our diplomatic corps upon some new foreign policy ; and there is a heavy Kitchen pressure for a reconstruction of the Cabinet. There is danger ahead. Let Marcy and Guth- rie stand fast. Strange, passing strange as it may appear, the solvency of the Treasury aad the good faith of the conntry may now depend upon Marcy and Guthrie. The crisis has come. Let them stand fast. War Between Wall Street and the West= Progress of the Revulsion. The meeting of Page & Bacon’s friends on Monday evening has had at least one good ef- fect: it has shown conclusively that the dishonor of their paper did arise, as we stated, from a gratuitous desire on the part of their corresgon- dents to effect their ruin. At the time that pro test took place, that firm had agreed to pay their drafts to anamount of $100,000; any liability thus incurred being shared by Wm. H. Aspin- wall, Thedraits came, amounting in all to $60,000, and Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Co., interpreting their agreement differently from Mr. Bacon, Mr. Aspinwall, and every one else who has read it, protested them, after a quarter of ao hour’s notice to Mr. Bacon and Mr. As- pinwall. To say that this conduct is at variance with the usages which prevail among mercan- tile men, and that it cannot but seriously affect Duncan, Sherman & Co., is merely to repeat the words which are spoken at every street corner. We have, however, as public journalists, no- thing to do with the transaction in its bearings | on the particular individnals involved: it con- cerns us only inasmuch as it indicates a gene- ral state of things in the mercantile world, to which it is highly proper that public attention shonld be called. It shows, we repeat, that there exists on the part of a certain set or clique in Wall street a fixed, settled purpose to break down the new men of the West, who are monopo- lizing the profitable banking business that has sprung up in that quarter within the last few years. That purpose springs from the meanest instincts of human nature—an inordi- nate thirst for gain, and a desire to sacrifice every thing and every one in itspursuit. It can be the more easily attained at present as near- Jy all the western bankers aro insecure, have suffered severely from the insolvency of cus- tomers, and are all more or lessin debt to New York. If they were met by a spirit of lib- erality and forbearance here, some of them at all events might weather the storm, and be pre- pared for a fresh start after the hard times were over. But encountered as they are in most instances by harshness and severity, many un- necessary failures must ensue, similar in their character to that of Page & Bacon. The disay ters of the revulsion are thus increased ten- , Wil be sure to lead to one ree fold. Just as in 1832 and 1833, the great basi- ness of the United States and States banks seemed to be to break each other, by causing a ran upon this or that branch or bank, s0 now the great concern of the Wall street ret to, which we allude seems to be not to help the Western men through their tronbles, but to hae- ten their ruin, so that agents of their own may take the place of the broken firms. This psllcy + When it i en nent EC NEA eran the popularity and standing of the house of | coils upon its authors, as it must do, they may | McCracken, U.S. rest assured they will not be troubled with any manifestation of pablic sympathy. It may be a small matter to these men of dollars t> receive in the hour of their distress kind letters from those who have known them best, and warm assurances of unshaken esteem; but small as it is, there are firme, to whom it will not be of- fered. ‘The times are not opportane for the feeding of grudges or the gratifying of jealousy and spite. We may vitaperate the agrarian theories and foolish outcries of many of the epeakers who address mobs daily in the Park ; but it is | not in the power of words to lessen the practi- cal importance of these popular demonstra- tions, Ten thousand men calling for work and food, and marching gloomily through Broadway, is not a spectacle to be dismissed with a contemptuous paragraph. Granted that many of these men talk nonsense—being bred to the hammer, the loom, and the shovel instead of the tribune—they must eat none the less, and soup kitchens and balls cannot serve as a substitute for steady work. It is worse than useless to disguise the plain fact: means must be found to employ these macses, or the worst may be feared. If the senseless creatures who are goimg to fiddle and dance this evening in silks and eatins, and eat blanc mange and drink champagne by way of feeding those who can- not get bread and clothing, those who have no worsted or blankets, fancy that the horrors of this winter can be averted by such detestable mockeries, they will be awaked from their de- lusion in some shocking way. Itis work, net alms ; work, not soup; work, not balls; work to employ the limbs and give occupation to the mind: nothing but work that will satisfy the oor. s And why should there be any hesitation in finding work for them todo? Is the city socom- plete and perfect in every particular that no- thing remains to be pulled down or built up, or carted or removed, or enlarged or altered? Why, work is the very thing the city wants most. The wharves want building: they are an inconvenience, and a disgrace ; and before long, whether workmen are plentiful or searce, they must be rebuilt solidly, to answer the pub- lic requirements, ata vast expense. The City Hall is absurdly inadequate to contain the pub- lic offices ; the Hall of Records is in ruins: it has Jong ago been agreed and settled that a new building is to be erected on the site of the latter, at a cost of millions. The streets waat cleaning. The new Park must be opened and graded. All these works must and will be done within a very short period of time. Yet not one of them has been commenced, or is even in way of commencing. What folly is this—to let the workmen starve for want of work now, and to engage them hereafter when work is abun- dant and wages high! It the Park and wharves were undertaken at once, employment would be furnished to thirty thousand men, who would be delighted to work at much lower wages than were current last year or will probably be current next. In 1856, or 1857 perhaps, the city Council will be driven to undertake these works, and will then be forced to pay perhaps a dollar a day more per | man than it would cost now. It is not for want of money that the work is not begun. The city has a million of dollars lying idle in the Mechanics’ Bank. Moreover, money seems | to be so plentiful in Wall street that even the Erie Railroad can negotiate a fresh loan, and the banks show a specie list of over fifteen mil- lions of dollars. Ten per cent premium could be obtained fora six per cent city loan, and would be eargerly taken up. Not a soul would raise a word of objection against a tax to pay the interest for such works as these. These enggestions are trite: they must have occurred toevery thinking man, But why are they not acted upon? Is the Common Council resolved to wait until some frightful catas- trophe takes place before it does its duty? Cannot every man with eyes see that this state of things cannot continue, and that it is fast becomiag a choice between work and plunder ? In times like these, hours are years; days are ages: a week’s delay may ruin all. In the name of all the Corporation honors most, let some action be taken without further waste of time. GENERAL WOOL AND THE ADMINISTRATION.— The administration at Washington, particularly the military portion of it—Generals Pierce, Curbing, and Davis—has commenced a severe onslaught against the position and character of General Wool, now in Califorsia. This war on Wool is worthily initiated by the sneaking pub- lication of some official correspondence between Generals Davis and Wool, in one of the Seward organs. The Secretary at War endeavors to show that General Wool was inefficient in the discharge of his public duties in California, be- cause he occupied himself more with putting down filibusters than Indians. The whole cor- respondence, however, amounts to very little. The old woman’s tirade poured out on the devoted head of General Wool by Davis aud his military colleagues of the administration, | will only tend to place the former in the position of a prominent candidate at the next Baltimore convention. The friends of General Wool will settle the present as well as other old scores at | that convention. THE LATEST NEWS.) BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Latest from Washington. RBASON WHY MR. CLINGMAN'S MEDIATION RESOLU- TION WaS DREYEATED—BRITISH INTRIGUE. Wasmyotox, Jan. 16, 1865. The secret of the defeat of Mr. Clingman’s mediation resolution constitutes an instructive piece of diplomatic mancuvring. Thus it fell out:— It appears that the English and French governments really meditate adopting hostile measures against this government so soon as they get out of the Russian em- darraxsments, But should peace be restored through the mediation of the United States, they could not with good grace turn their arms against the peacemaker, Berides, the interference of the United States for such a purpose woul commend us to the gratitude of the Eng- lish people and neutralize the insidious representations of the Liritish Minister as to our pro-Russian proolivi- ties. To prevent this, Mr. Crampton prevailed upon the President to use his influence against Mr. Clingman’s resolution. Pierce could not see through the artifice, and was vietimized by superior cunning. He begins now to open his eyes and wonder at his own stupidity. | last session, nor in the veto message of Governor | ‘the remaining 354 causes appearing w | of appeals and writs of error in which returns have been Marsbal for Oregon; W. H. Farrar, U. 8, Attorney at Oregon; Samuel Dexter Lecomte, Md, Chief Justice of Kansas. Mr. Kitehen, a watchman at Georgetown, who shot a negro burglar, who attempted to escape, bas been ac- quitted by a jury. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasnincton, Jan. 16, 1855 ‘The propellor Monticello, John Wilson claim- bert Mollison—oppeal from the Circuit Court New Yoru. Justice Grier de- livered the opinion, affirming the decrees of the Circait Court, with costs and interest. x No. 33,—The City of Providence vs. Daniel R. Cal oe error of the Cireuit Court of Rhode Island. Justice Nel- son delivered the opinion, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court, with costs and interest. No, 24—The officers of the Bank of Kentucky vs. Lewis B, Hern—error to the Circuit Court of the Eastern district of Louisisna. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Ceurt with costs, ‘No, 43,—-Peter J, Burchell, appellant, ys. Stewart C: March etal. Argument waa continued by Mr. Carlisle for the appellees, and concluded by Mr. Gillett for the appellant, Ro. 43-—John Fishers, admr., appellant, Wanzer etal, Argument continued by Mr. the Nant. Bree W.Morange, Esq., of New York, was admitted as an attorney and counsellor of the court, Subscription among the Slaves for the North- ern Poor, Moni, Jan. 16, 1855, ‘There is in process of organization here a general sub- scription among the black population—the slaves—in aid of the suffering poor of New York and the Eastern cities. This is a fact, and you will soon find it out. ‘ve. Moses Phillips for Affairs at the State Capital. THE COUNSEL IN THE LEMON CASE—GUARD GATES AT FERRIES—COURT OF APPEALS—THE LIQUOR BILL— MILITIA LAWS--NEW KNOW NOTHING LODGE. Aupayy, Jan, 16, 1855. Thurlow Weed & Co. have for some time past been en- Ceavoring to organize a party of Know Nothings who will support Seward for Senator, They last night suc- ceeded in organizing, with about a dozen members from the Legislature. Mr. Stanton, from Monroe, with Fred. Seward, of the Journal, are leaders of the spurious organization. The monetony and tameness which have pervaded the Legislature from the commencement of the session, seem to be followed by a disposition to debate and agitation, to-day, The three interesting questions—temperance, slavery, and Senator—engrossed much of the sersion. In the Senate, Mr. Robertson introduced a join’ resolution, declaring that both houses will proceed, on the 14th day of February, to the election of a United States Senator in the the place of Wm. H. Seward, whose term will ex- pire on the 4th of March next, When this comes up for consideration to-morrow, it is expected it will be op- posed by such Senators as prefer having a full Senate, asit is now generally conceded that the Senator to be elected on the last day of this month, in the Livingston and Saratoga district, will be able to reach the Senate chamber in order to participate in that matter. The resolution from the House, authorizing the Gov- ernor to employ counsel to assist the Attorney General in the argument of the Lemmon case before the United States Court, came up for consideration. Mr. Brooks preferred that the Attorney General be authorized to employ assistant counsel if he desired, and that the se- ection should be left with him. Twoor three speeches were made, and all the Senators agreed that the Judge who liberated the Lemmon slaves performed no more than his duty under the lawsof the State. A majority, however, preferred the resolution as it stood, giving the Governor instead of the Attorney General the selection of such associate counsel. Messrs, Whitney, Z. Clark and Putnam. are the com- mittee to whom the petition of the citizens of New York, in relation to moneys distributed to sustain schools, was referred, ‘here is no need of @ second guessing w ay be expected an the majority report. ‘Mr. Spencer intends to presenta bill making it impera- tive on companies and proprietors of all ferries between ‘the city of New York and New Jersey, Staten aud Long Islands, to bave guard gater placed either on their ferry boats or on the bridges. The numerous cases of maim- ing and drowning, by a too hasty jumping on these boats, certainly demand some legisiative as the proprietors of those thoroughfares see ter- mined to keep ® deaf ear to all complaints which the public may make. Mr. Harwood, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, made the following report in relation to the business of that court. ‘Those who practice in that “higher law” court may de- rive information trom it:— To tHe Hon. THx SENATE OF THE STATS OF New YORK :— In compliance with the resolution by your honorable body, January 17, I have the honor respectfully to sub- mit the following report First. Phe number of appeals and writs of error unde- termined, in which returns have been filed in this office, prior to January 1, 1855, is five hundred and sixty-one. Of this number, there were filed in the year 847. Oey... nearly one-half of the causes urt, originated during the year 0 be proper to remark, that of It will be observed undetermined in this just passed. It may al nthe record as undetermine ) 8 proportion of these have undoubtedly been settlea by the parties without serv ng notice upon the cerk. This inference will appear now propsrly de- from the consideration that many of them r been noticed for argument by either party. xamination of the calender for the present term of this court, which is uousually large, it will be found that of the two hundred and eighty four canses noticed for argument. 3 only originated in the year 1851, 12 in the year 1852, 65 in the year 1852, while 204 ori- ginated in the year 1854. Secondly. The whole notice un of there origination filed since 49. Te number. The number of appeals and writs of error were pending in the Court for the Correction of Errore when it ceased to exist, and which were trans- ferred to, and bave been decided by, this court, is seventy-eight. Fourth. The number of judgments rendered by this court, and the number in each year, are as follows. In the year— 1847, 1% + 189 184 185 5 1851, ++ 174 Total... oe L264 It should be observed that this number does not em- brace the very numerous decisions upon motions which are heard during term, excepting such us disposed of the cause, B. F_HARWOOD, Clee Court of. Appeals, In the House, the Ma'ne prohibitory liquor bill of last session was introduced by Mr. Stebbins, of Monroe, chairman He read somewhat of a lengthy address, be- ing compilations from the various speeches made at tem- perance gatherings, articles in vewspapers, and from reports mace to the Legislature. No new argument was adduced, nor any origins! reason urged, for the passage of a prohibitory law, it being merely a rehash of the oft repeated declamation by which the peopla have been afilicted during these latter day wonderful temperance times. Previous to presenting this vill, a distinguished Jega) gentleman of this city, who has been a practi val teetotaller a quarter cf & century, placed in the hands of the Cha:rman a bill containing four or five sections only. It declares that no_licenses shall be issued, no liquor sold or kept for sale, and makes it @ misdemeanor so to sell or keop, punisbable, in case the jaw is violated, the same as other oflences against the laws which are’ declared mia- demeanors. It was plain, short, comprehensive, aad ax stringent as the most ultra, sincere temperance person conld desire. But it was not herded, because the man- date is, the “vetoed bill or nothing. Mr. ‘Aitkin submitted @ minority report, which he 3 voluminous, treats the question with and his arguments are enforced with sub- ng. There are some points dwelt upon by Mr. Aitkin in an original and forcible manser, were neither embraced in Mr. Dewey's masterly pe Both reports have gone to the press for publi. cation. When the question came np for a second reading of the bill, or the title, rather, Mr. O'Keefe objected, which he imagined would be ratal for the day: But the Speaker decided that a majority coald order to eading. This was done, and General Sherman, the Clerk, commenced the reading, when Mr. Leigh moved to suspend the farther readi This was done by a majority vote, and the Speaker decided thatas the read- ing the second time had been commenced and afterwards suspended, the bill bad virtually been read the second time, The bill was then ordered in charge of the Com- mittee of the Whole, to ba taken up for action oa Tuss- day next, one week from to-day, the 2d in days previous to the olection of Senator in th and Livingston district fore the Howse, the interesting question aris Will be fivet accomplished, the passage of the probibitory bill, or the re ectlon of Williamm H. Sowa to the United States Senate? That's a pazsler. It may be well to state that i the votes taken to-day, tae | temperance members outnumbered their opponents two to one. It is understood here that important amendments to | the militia laws of the First Division are about to be CONFIRMATION OF THE RESIGNATION OF MR. SOULE, | ETC., Ere. WASHIN GTON, Jan. 16, 1855. ‘The Union of this morning confirms the resignation of Mr. Soulé, and the appointment of Mr. Breckenridge. The Star of this evening contains the confirmations by the Senate yeasterday:—Abrabam @. Meyers. Florida as Indian Agent in New Mexico, W. R. Hackley, Flor da, U. & Attorney forthe Southern District of Florida; Dasiel M. Rates, Delaware, U. 8. District Attorney for , Delaware, C1, Lids, Posumapier at Newara, Obie; Joba z proposed by the military committee of the House, The commit ee this year is fortunately composed of practi- cal men— one, Captain in oils of the Tompkins Blues, another ees Cocks, both having been attached to the city itaty during a nomber of years. The most be pe amendment is in relation to the General Board of Officers of the Division, of which there reems to be considerable dissatisfaction as to the dis- of the sommutation moneys. General San- will be early on hand to see “that his reems to have the volunteers under his this session, He presented « memorial for their rebef. What {+ the Hon James. Gooley up to? His face ar nat heen coon here Anping the, eeer'an there far: bet ie merneg We cents of members were loaded with | |. Our engagements maturing at New York on to be a ch delivered by ct at the village ue, Sul county, on the of November last. It abuses President Pleree and other dintioguished democrats, but bears no more relation ta any legislative question than it doey to the aflairs before Sebastopol. is Temarked that be be a Know No- thin jor the United Statee Senate, and exhi- bite phiet as a’ testimonial of his ‘hostility to the administration. ‘ THE BOWERY SAVINGS BANK-- DEATH OF EX:SENATOR VAN BOHOONHOVEN, BTC. ALBANY, Jan, 16, 1855, ‘The following communication from the officers of the: Bowery Savings Bank was presented to the Senate on ‘The amount deposited from the first day of 854, to the first ay of January, pamphlets punention ‘The amount pai Amount of interest received on The amount of interest paid to depositors... ‘The rate of interest paid to depositors was 5 per cept per annum on sums less than $600, and 4 per cent per appum on sums of $500 and upwards: also an extra dividend in July jast at the rate of 2 and 23g per cent. ‘The amount of expenses of this institution during the year 1854 amounted to $15,209 The number of deposits received w 41,366 ‘The number of drafts paid....... 38,107 ‘The number of new accounts... 10,675 The number of accounts closed. S221 The number of open accounts on the Ist day of January, 1855, ; 22,996 New York City.$1,028,868 average cost..98.9434 per 100° New York State, 260/360 inane (Si haa 269 369 «$1,746,431 The cost as well’ ax the present value of the banking house and lot if........ s,s seseeeee $128,832: No other real estate is owned by this institution. The amount of cash on hand on the Ist day of January, 1555, was, $731,433: Namely in— Butcher’s and Drover’s Bank, 63,535 Bowery Bank... 26,058 Proadway Bank 42)413 Pacitic Bank. 30,390 ‘Tradesmen’s Bank 28,075 Continental Bank Fulton Bank, Manhattan C In the vault o! ++. $731,483 No loans have been made by this institution upom noter, bills of exchange, drafts, or any other persona? security whatever. The statement is subscribed and sworn to, asa full and true ¢xposition, Ly le Mills, the President, and G. H. Coggershail, the Secretary of the bank. W. H. Van Schoonhoven, formerly State Senator from Rensselaer district, cied this morning at his residence in Troy, after a few hours illness, The man Gill, who has been under examination before the Police Court here for several days past, ona charge of poisoning his sister-in-law, has been sent before the Grand Jury. Inauguration of Governor Pollock of Penne sylvania. PuiLapetema, Jan, 16, 1855, Governor Pollock was inaugurated as Governor of this State at noon to-day. The following is an abstract of his inaugaral address > Republican institutions are the pride, and justly the lory of our country. To epjoy them is our pri fo maintain them our duty. Civil and religious ber- ty—freedom of speech, and of the press, the rights of conscience, and freedom of worship—are the birthright and the boast of the American citizen, No royal no pontifical decree, can restrain or destroy them. Inthe enjoyment of there blessings, the rich and the poor, the high and the low, meet togetner—the constitution, in ite full scope and ample development, shields and protects them all When these rights are assailed, these priv’ endangered, either by mad ambition, or by influences for- eign to the true interests of the nation, and at war with love of country—that noble impulse of the American heart, which prompts it to revere home and native Jaxd as sacred objects of its affections—it is then the Dalle t-box io its omuipotence, speaking in thunder tones the will of the peeple, rebukes the wro1 the freedom of the zen. To the Ameri n—the independence of the citi- ople have these blessings been committed as a sa trust; they are, and must ever be, their guardian defenders. The Amencan citi- zep, indepen ent and free, uninfluenced by at- tachments, unawed by ecclesiastical authority or ghost- ly intolerance—in the strength of fearless manbood, and in the bold assertion of his rights—should exhibit in the world a living illustration or the superior benefits of American republicanism; proclaiming s true and single allegiance to bis country, an: “the God that made and preserves us a mation: * * * * * * * In many questions of national and truly American baw Ler ue protection of American Jabor and in- justry, against the depressing influence of foreign In- bor and capital; the improvement of our harbors and rivers; the national defences; the equitable distribution of the preceeds of the public lends among the States, in aid of education, and to relieve from dest and taxe- tion; a judicious *‘ homestead bill,’ reform in the natu- ralization laws; and the protection of our country against the immigraiion and { mportation of foreign pau- pers and conviets—in all these, we, as a State and peo- ple, are deeply interested; and to their adoption and promotion every encouragement should be given. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, he said, wae ® vioiation of the plighted faith and honor of the country, which bad justly received a stern and merited rebuke. Withfregard to applications for chartering new banks, he rays, an extravagant, improper or unreasonable in- crease of them is not demanded by the community, and cannot be justified or defended, and that the present financial embarrassments demonstrate the necessity for legislative caution, He will uot, however, he says, hesitate to sanction the rechartering of solvent banks meriting the confidence of the community. He spraks decidedly upon the necessity for the sale of the public works, In alluding to the defeat of the liquor robibition questio: says it becomes the duty of the .egisleture to con: what other legislation is neces- sary to correct the evils of intemperance, and recom- mends the passage of stringent license law; alto a law to prevent liquor traffic on Sundays In bis allusion to the pardoning power, be says the demands of justice will not be overlooked, and to vent abuse, and protect the executive from imposition, he recommeads that notices of intended applications ps teboe be published where the trial and conviction took place, Massachusetts Legislature. UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ELECT A U. 8. SENATOR. Bostox, January 16, 1855. In the House to-day, on the question of electing a United States Senator, the minority proceeded to carry out the line of proceedings marked ont at their caucus yesterday, It was soon perceived that they were strong enough to prevent the taking of a vote. General Devereux, of Salem, moved & postponement for one week, stating that the nomination of Mr. Wilson had been unfairly made, that no discassion had been allowed in the caucus, and that within five minutes of its meeting a ballot was taken by pre-arranged consent, Mr. Prince, of Essex, (a Wilson man) believed the no- mination to have been fairly made, He was in favor of tuiting themselves in the election of a Senator; and, then, if others were willing to unite with them in a na-~ tional party, to change the naturalization and similar laws, they would be ready. Mr. Switt of Boston, said it was not their duty to ia- quire whet the South would say, if they sens Mr. Wil- son to the Senate. Massachusetts would declare whe in- tended to stand by her principles. Several of the mem- bers who voted for Mr. Wilson in caucus were in favor of the postponement, Mr. Vore, of Boston, objected to the candidate. He had heard the members of the House say that after they had elected Mr. Wilson they should not care a fig for Amrrican principles, ‘The election was then postponed for a week by a vote of 197 to 235, New Jersey are. THE PROHIBITORY Law. TRENTON, Jan. 16, 1655. The Prohibitory Liquor law bill was reported to the House to-day by the special committee, It is similar in its provisions to the law of last year, and to that of the Eastern States, where it bas been passed. The act is to take effect on the 18th of Decenther, 1855. A vote of the people in favor of or against ia provided for at the next geveral election; and the decision then arrived at ie to be considered as nothing more than an expres- sion of the opinion of the people of the State—the act Still to co into effect om the 18th of December next. An adverse decision afterwards, however, at the ballot box, Will render the law a dead letter, and will, itis believed, nsuch an event, be repealed by the Legislature which in 1856. ices of the renewal of the charters of several spes cial banks were given in the Senate to-day. ‘The Fatlure of Messrs. Page & Bacon, Cinernnatt, Jam. 16, 1865, We find the following card in the St. Louis Repupii. can of the 13th inst. :-— TO THE PUBLIC. Orrice oF Page & Bacos, St. Lovis, 12th Jan.—10 M. It is with most unfeigned bey we are forced nounce to you the necessity which compels us i the deors of eur office to-morrow ‘We need a peesvure coperatiied tn op capaeons nt re unpa: our fineec’al bow revere and crushing have been re peatedly and suddenly precipitated upon during the last few weeks, After with @ resolution and diligence onknown wie and having triumphed over the difficalties of that day’ meeting ther all, to the mmouet of nearly @mitinn der arm, We haw heya ibe vrais, Wik Us persouauy, wag , and vindicates ‘ to no other power but