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BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Oun Exr— Woman's Lirs. ‘WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tow ap Coun- way—ARTrUL Dovoxn SRETROPOLITAN THEATRE, Brondway—Equrerrian PawroKuarces. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Evsracus. Evening —MencusTH. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 589 Brosdway—Buew aav’s Ernorias OP UPR. DONALDSON’S OPERA HOUSE, Hope Chapel, 718 and Broad way. New York, Thursday, February 1, 1855. The News. William H. Goodwin, Know Nothing, has been -@leeted to the New York State Senate, from the Twenty ninth district, over Loomis, the Seward coa- Hition candidate. The Rev. Mr. Goodwin takes the seat vacated by Governor Clark. Thin msy b3 con- sidered a great triumph over Sewardiem. Compared with isst November, the regult is as follo Majority against Ullman, Nov. »1854. Majority for Goodwin, Jan., 1865 1,823 000 Know Nothing gain in two counties in 3 months... 3,823 Henry Wilson was yesterday elected to the United States Senate, from Massachussetts. He takes the place yacated by Edward Everett, and now os: cupied, by gubernatorial sppointment, by Julius Rockwell. Henry Wilson is a native of New Hamp. ahire,and is about 46 years of age. He went. Mossachusetts in 1830, poor and friendless. He worked for a time as a journeyman shoemaker, at Natick, devoted his leisure hours to study, became & politician, and took the “stump” in 1840 for Gen. Hartieon, and was known as the “Nstick shoemak- er.” In thet campaign he was elected to the Legis- Iature. In 1844 he was elected to the State Senate, and again in 1845. In 1848, he was a delegate to the National Convention, voted from first to last tor Daniel Webster, and, after Gen. Taylor’s nomination, he withdrew from the convention, returned to Mss. wachusetts and acted against Taylor, aided ia ‘Ven Buren’s nomination, became the editor of the Boston Republican, and the leader of the free soi] party in that State. In the coalition of 1850, between ‘the democrats and free soilers, be was elected to the Benate, made President of that body tor two years, gave up his paper, and returned to the shoe trade. In 1863 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, was en active member, and, for two years, was the free soil candidate for Governor. Since ‘then he has returned to the common sense, joined the national movement of the Know Nothings, and ia now a member of the United States Senate, and ‘will hold his sea’ till the 4th of March, 1859. Yesterday was the day appoin’ed for the choice of a United States Senator fr2m Minois, in place of Genera] Shields, but there was no quorum present in the joint convention of both houses of the Legis Jatare, and the election waa postponed. Col. Bis- se)], itisthought, will be the democratic candidate ‘The Vaval Commissioners have advertised for a Joan of one million dollars for canal purposes. Hon. Hamilton Fish, Senator in Congress from this State, has left Washington for the South, to recover his health, which has become greatly im We publish in another column a fall report of the meeting of the distinguished public fanctionaries having under consideration the subject of encroach, ments upon the harbor of New York. Tne Com. missiovers of Emigration have invited the whole party to visit the institutions under their charge. ‘We publish elsewhere Lieutenant C. G. Hunter's original commnunication to the Secretary of the Navy, detaiiing the reasons that bad induced him to take so extreme a step as that of bringing home his ‘vessel without orders. In this document, which is dsted off Sandy; Hook, Jan. 23, Lieut. Huater de. mands that, in case this explanation should not appear to the Secretary to afford a full justification of his conduct, a court martial should be held to in- vestigate the facts. It will be seen by (he annonncs. ment received by telegraph that the Presideat has not only declined to grant a court of inquiry, but has struck Lieut. Hunter’s name out of the navy Tint. Arumor wes in town last evening, that Como- troller Fisgg having taken $180,000 wo:th of checks to the Msyor’s offive for his signature, was robbed on returning of the whole amount—bad bis pocket picked a the story goes. We are unable to state whether the story is true or not, if it ie, the pay- ment of the checks have of course been stopped aud are of no use to the thief. From the Cape of Good Hope we have received files to the 11th of December, contaiuing five days later intelligence. The news isimportant as show. ing thet a renewal of the Kaffir war was daily ex- pected, and that great alarm existed in the minds of the frontier settlers at thelr critical position. Is ‘was evident that the natives were hourly plotting in secret as to the best means of attacking the colo. nista, and Sandilli—their popular chief—had re. sorted to a curious method for divining the probable Inmve of @ renewal of hostilities. The massacre of twenty coloniste—under circumstances of great crn- elty—is confirmed. Some of the papers caution the people not to be over sanguine in their expectations of profit from the Namaqualand copper miaes. A member of the Cape Town Logislature proposed to | colonize the place with Russian prisoners taken in the present war; bat it appears that the Tartar mews of the fall of Sebastopol had jast reached the honorable gentleman. The Dutcn Reformed Caurch of North America was making much progress. A very able lecture was delivered last evening in the Tabernacle, by E. W. Andrews, of this city, on “Our Republic: its relations to forsigners and for- eign nations” —explaining the genius and tendency of Know Nothingism. The public were not suffi ciently notified of the lecture, otherwise there would have been a more numerous audiencs pre- eent, A sketch is given in another column. We publish elsewhere a report of the proceediogs of the Commissioners of Emigration at a meeting held yesterday afternoon, including an abstract of the annual report of the Board to the Legislature. It is exceeding'y interesting. In the Philadelphia county prison yesterday ‘morning one of the prisoners died from suffocation, and nineteen others narrowly escaped a similar fate, im consequence of the pipes connecting with the heaters becoming detached, and the cells being filled with gas. Cotton) was absut one-cighty of m cant dearer yemerday. The market closed quite firm, though sales were limited, as dealers were waiting private Jettere due by the Africa. We now quote middling oplands at 9¢.; do. Florida at 9}. a 9J0.; Mobile do. st 940. There being no New Ocleana m' ‘ddiing om the market, it was nominal at about 9jc. Com- won grades of four were from ic. to 12)¢. per bar yl Digher, while choice and extras were steyty oy NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1855. previcus rates. Whest was quiet. The news was of ne benefit to corn, which seid at 960. for Sout erm white and yellow, and 943. for common do.; white Jersey was at 5c. Rye tended downward, while cate were firm. Provisions were steady, wit moderate soles. The sales of 500,000 Ibs. of long middles, noticed yesterday, were made deliverable on shipboard in New Orleans, bound toEcgland, at Tic. Provieions continued to be shipped to a fair extent, both to London ard Liverpool, with some parcels to the Continent. In the United States Senate yesterday the French Spoliation bill was read a second time. An effort will be mede to-day to take the finel vote upon this messure. Commodere Perry’s correspondence in the Japan negotiations was recived from the Presi- dent. The resolutions of the New York Legislature, urging the delegation from this State to use their inffuence in procuring the passage of a law grant- ‘pg peneions to the surviving soidiers of tae Indian war of 1791 and the following years, and the widows of deceased soldiers of those wars, were re- ferreé. Mr. Bayard addressed the Senate in vindi- cation of his deceased father against charges centamed in the works of Thomas Jeffzraon, relating to the action of the lIate Mr. Bay- ard, then a Representative in Congress, in the Presidential conteet between Barr and Jefferson. Mr. Pearce regretted that the re- flections upon the character of the deceased had ap- peared in the last authorized edition of Jefferson’s works, bot the Library Committee were not ea powered to employ an editor to revise them. Messrs. Case, Hunter and Mason eulogized the deceased, but exhonerated Mr. Jefferson from any design to calumniate. The discussion as to the best means for suppressing Indian hostilities was reaum:d. Gen. Honston asserted that in all the ware with the savages the whites had ben the aggresso-s. Th's was denied by Messrs. Dodge, Pettit, and Mallory. Gen. Cass announced his intention of speaking on the subject, and the Senate adjourned. In the House a joint resolation, declaring nul) and void the acts of the Minnesota Legislatare in- corporating certain railroad companies, was offred and referred. In Committee of the Whole, a number of billa relating to roads, land offices, public build- ings, arsenals, &c., in Territories were perfected. The bill authorizing the construction of « line of telegraph to the Pacific O:ean coming up, Mr. Rich- ardson moved to strike out the graut of two million acres of jand in aid of the project. This proposal had received tne assent of Mr. Farley, who had charge of the bill, and is, therefors, without doubt, acceptable to the parties engaged in the enterprise. Mr. Benton oppored the idea of a tslegraph liue with his characteristic vehemence. After striking out the enacting clause the bill was laid aside. Our despatches from Albany are upusually intor- esting. The bill introduced in the Senate relative to unsefe buildings, a synopsis of which is given elsewhere, we commend to the particular attention of that claesof builders whom it is especially de- signed toreach. The Know Nothing victory inthe Twenty-pinth district elated the membsrs of that party in the Ascembly to the highest pitch of en- thusiasm, and Mr. Petty seized upoa the cccasion to call up his resolution defining the character aad qualifications ot a United States Senator. A sketch of his speech may be foand in our report of the Ie- gislative proceedings, The report of the Committee on Contested Elections, in view of the approaching election of a United States Senator, is important. All things considered, the State capital just at this time isin an unusnal ferment, to the great perplex- ity of politicians of all parties and cliques. ‘The Twenty-Ninth Distriet—he New Organi- zation of Parties—The Result—Great Con- servative Tstumph. According to our returns, the election to fill the vacancy in our State Senate from the Twenty-ninth Senatorial district has resulted in the overwhelming success of Goodwin, the Know Nothing national conservative candidate, over Loomis, the administration and Seward free soil coalition nominee—thus completely demolishing the estimates ot this new and most desperate and demoralizing political combina- tion. Since the annihilation of the old parties, whig, democratic and free soil, in the late Mas- sachusetts popular revolution, there has been nothing achieved in behalf of the great work of a general political reformation in this coun- try—nothing half so important or significant as this Senatorial election in our Twenty-ninth district. The importance of this result and its significancy do not lie in the simple fact that a Know Nothing has been chosen over the head either of 2 Seward man or an adminis- tration free soiler, but in that other and more comprehensive tact, of the new organization of parties upon which the election was made to turn. We have advised our readers of this extraor- dinary reconstruction of prrties in this most remarkable case. We recur to it now because it may stand out hereafter as one of the most conspicuous landmarks of the great work of political regeneration commenced in 1854, and destined to be consummated in 1856. Briefly, this Sepatorial election foreshadows on the one hand a fusion throughout the North of all the Seward and administration free soijlers, and other anti-slavery factions, against the Kaow Nothing party, on the other hand, formed of the conservatives and Union men of all the old po- litical parties. In this Senatorial election, Loo- mig was the coalition nominee of Pierce, Sew- ard, Seymour and rum, while Goodwin, as the Know Nothing candidate, was supported by the independent conservative people, wholly regardless of old party distinctions. These are the considerations which give the commanding interest that we attach to this election. and well defined reorganization of parties in the North. The coalition between the Seward and the administration party may appear to some very extraordinary and surprising, but it is perfectly natural under the cir- cumstances. The Know Nothings have un- dertaken the task Of “crushing out” the rot- ten Pierce administration, root and branch, and the no less desirable work of breaking up and clearing out W. H. Seward, his seditious section- ol programme, and his anti-slavery dissension Northern coalition. —acommon cause against the Know Nothings. And the same principles and instincts which united the Buffalo free soilers of the Van Baren and Pierce party with the factions and fag-ends of Sewardism at the Saratoga Convention, very naturally brought the same materials together Senator in the Twenty-ninth district. This fusion was all the more natural from imperative upon the administration and upon Seward to check the onward movement of the Know Nothings now, at every point and in every case in which there is a possibility of arresting their progress. The results of the November election in the Twenty-niuth district threw out the hope that by a junction of the forces of Seward, Seymour and Pierce, they might carry their man by at least a thousand majority. The temptation was irresistible, and Here we have the nucleus of anew | lition condid.te for the overthrow of the Know Nothings. The reeult is perfectly astounding. There appears to be no assignable limit to the reserv- ed forces of the terrible Know Nothings. Their majority may be two or three thousand, where they were in a minority in November ; a few hundred votes more or less makes no material difference. It is sufficient that they have made a clean job of it, and have proved that even in Western New York, where Seward was sup- posed to be invulnerable, the Know Nothings are not only competent to cope with him sin- gle banded, but are abundantly able to roat him with all the free soil forces of the adminis- tration at his back. From this election we may form some esti- mate of the astounding progress of the new re- volution in New York since November last. Clark, the Seward standard bearer, and Sey- mour, the administration candidate, polled two thirds of the popular vote of the State in that contest. But the popular mind was con- fused, and the vote for Seymour and the suc- cesses of the Seward party were due to the pressure of the liquor question. The present trial of strength in the Twenty-ninth district was a fair issue upon the exact merits of the Know Nothing movement against the combined strength of Seward, Seymour and the admi- nistration, and according to the result, if the same tests were now applied throughout the commonwealth, the Know Nothings against the allied forces of this Pierce, Seymour and Sew- ard coalition. would carry the State by at least fifty thousand majority. We call the attention of the young men ia our Legislature, aspiring to @ political fature, to this suggestive view of the subject. This election in the Twenty-ninth district shows that at this day the Know Nothings can com- mund an overwhelming majority in this State against all other parties combined. The de- feat of Loomis distinctly foreshadows the total extirpation of the administration and Seward tree soil factions next fall, from Long Island to Dunkirk, and from the Pennsylvania line to the St. Lawrence—a clean sweep. I+ will be another Massachusetts election, the liquor issue being out of the way. Let every man in the Assembly, therefore, with any ambition for far- ther political promotion, think well of it before he hangs himself upon Seward’s re-election. He may give to Seward a six year’s lingering death in the Senate; but the election of next fall, a8 surely as the return of November, will make short and decisive work of his supporters in the Assembly. We maintain, however, that in view of this manifestation of public opinion in the Twenty- ninth district, in the event of a failure to super- sede W. H. Seward at this session, it is due to the people of this State to postpone the election that they (disembarrassed by the liquor ques- tion) may have afair opportunity upon the specific issue of the return of the Auburn dema- gogue to the Senate. Very few, we venture to predict, of those who may vote for his re-elec« tion this winter will venture to be candidates for the Legislatare next November. The Seward party and the administration may combine their forces throughout the State; but the result in the Twenty-ninth district strongly foreshadows their overwhelming de- feat. The conservative, Union-loving, indepen- dent people sre rising, still rising, aod the wholesome revolution which they have decreed, cannot be stayed. The administration, Seward and Sewardiem are doomed. Shail Seward, then, he re-elected? What say our aspiring members of the Assembly ? by the House of Representatives calling for all our diplomatic correspondence with Spain, Eag- land and France, upon the Cuba question, not heretofore made public. Now for it. Let Marcy send it all up. Any farther negotiations for Cuba for a year or two being entirely out of the question, it were folly to be squeamish upon the subject. Let all the correspondence go up, including all of Dudley Mann’s original instruc- tions to Mr. Pierge, and all the letters and pa- pers of the Ostend Convention. Now for it. Moranity anb Prery iv ovr Stare Luarsna- TUKE-~PROPOSED Bic Yor THE CLOSING OF BaR- bens’ Suors on Sunpays.—We see,by the report of the proceedings of our State Legislature, that one of the members of the House an- nounced his intention at some future day to in- troduce a bill for the closing of barbers’ shops quite a sensation among some of the knights of the razor, bat the majoriiy appear to regard it as an excellent joke. The pious member has doubtless some excelient reasons of his own to support him in what he has undertaken, and we should therefore like to see the bil! and all its provisions before venturing any remarks upon the subject. of religion and morality? done yet for the promotion of Christian piety, and the sooner our worthy representatives set about the work the better. We think we can aid them with a few valuable suggestions. It should, for instance,be made illegal for a citizen to warh his face on Sunday, or to pick his teeth after dinner—in upon the administration free soil candidate for | the desperate necessity of the case. Itis equally | to the morality of eating breakfast, dinuer or supper, at all, we entertain very atrong cov- | scientious scruples, as the process of cooking | on the Sabbath is evidently a violation of its The policy of the admi- | nistration and of Seward is, therefore, the same | the so-called People's Convention brought for- | ward Mr, Loomis a* the Pierce and Seward coa- | commenced against the ungodly. The goodold | resolutions ky wey of emendment to Mr, | sacred character, We might go still further and re-enact the excellent old Blae Laws of | Gonnecticut, and make it a misdemeanor for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday. It is to be feared that we need some such stringent laws to reform the morals of our people; and we are of the opinion that Mr. Munday’s proposed bill | will not go far enough. No person should be allowed to cough or sneeze on that day, and, as to laughing, such a grave offence should be | promptly punished with a heavy penalty. We have no apprehensions, however, that tne in- tereste of religion will be neglected while they are entrusted to the pious and devout Chris- tians of which our Legislature is composed. Let sinners, and especially barbers, who are in the foremost rank, tremble, for the day of retribution is at hand. The good time is coming when the vile, heathenish, and abomi- nable practice of shaving on the Sabbath will meet with its just punishment. Let all true Christians rejoice, for the days of the Puritane will soon be revived in all their glory and purity. As for the barbers and their im- pious work, we only wonder we could have tolerated them so long, and we consider it buat just that a vote of thanks should be tendered to the zealous member who has placed himself in the van of the great crusade which has been Now For Ir.—A resolution has beea passed | on the Sabbath. This movement has produced | Meantime, while it is yet in em- bryo, would it not be well for some other of | our legislators to bestir themselvesin the cause | There is much to be | fact, in regard | Puritan wo hung his ost for killing a rat on the Lord’s Day should hereafter be held io pious veueration, and a marble statue erected in front of the Capitol at Albany, ia commemo- ration of the great service which he rendered | by that act to the cause of morality. Highly Important from Washington—The AntisKnow Yothing Demonstration In Con- gress a Fizzle. The spoils administration of General Pierce is gradually concentrating its forces on the election of Heary A. Wise a3 Govérnor of Vir- ginia, If the Old Dominion could be saved from the grasp of the new party, Pierce thinks he could be re-elected in 1856. Heury A. Wise belongs to General Pierce---body and oreeches; | and, though a Buchanan man originally, has left a sufficient number of hostages ia Pierce’s bends to assure the latter of his faitn. He has ason Secretary of Legation to Brazil—he has another occupying a clerkship in Washington— be has a near relative who is employed as a physician in one of the public hospitals in the same city; and thereis, in short, no oue bearing the name of Wise, as a noun proper, that has not in some measure shared of the spoils of office. If Henry A. Wise himself has not been offered a Cabinet appointment or « foreign mission, as was intended in the original programme made at Concord, it was becauge the mutual jealoa- sies which existed between him and Caleb Cushing under the administration of * Tippeca- noe aud TyJer too” are not yet forgotten, and between two such daringly ambitious and un- scropulous men there ean be no peace, unless they can be made to move in different spheres. Henry A. Wise, therefore, was promised the governorsbip of Virginia; for though General Pierce has nothing to do with the nestowal of that office, yet the practice of the administra tion to interfere with, and attempt to control, all local elections throughout the country, gives sufficient color to the preteasion of General Pierce that he is the legitimate source of all power and office throughout the Uaion. Henry A. Wise is now General Pierce’s man, and his election would be an endorsement of his administration. The whole energy of the Kitchen Cabinet—the only Cabinet which is a unit—is brought to bear on it. All the clerks of the public offices are enjoined to write, preach and pray for Wise; and all the power and patronage of the government are at the disposal of the friends of Mr. Wise ia Congress. But Mr. Wise has made one great mistake—a mistake which is bound to destroy him, and into which he was led by his impetuosity, his morbid ambition to distinguish himself in a new cause, and his general waat of discretion. Henry A. Wise has attack- ed the Know Nothings—he has made himself the avowed champion of the adopted citizens Surely when the question was first proposed to him, he took a week to reflect upon it; but he came at last to the conclusion that Know Notbingism would not last over a year, and so—fired a broadside into it. His letter of acceptance utterly repudiates the new creed, and denounces it as anti-American in prin- ciple and tendency. The official clap-trap in Washington—the Union—caught the inepira- tten from Wise’s letter, and like a clock thas has been caretully wound up by its owner, has since been periodically striking at all secret societies. Meanwhile, it was perceived that the stage thunder of the official organ will not turn its neighbor’s milk, and that something more sub- } stantial and reliable must be resorted to, to | prevent a general rout in Virginia. Members of Congress and Senators were asked, begged, cajoled to take the matter in hand, and to thunder against Know Nothiogism in the forum. This has been tried in the House of Represen- tatives in Washington; but the thunderers were answered, and Know Nothingism, instead of losing, has gained ground by the operation, As a last resort, an anti-Know Nothing Con- gressional caucus was called by Senators with a view to agree to some plan of action. Itwas proposed to pass resolutions, submit them after- | wards to a mixed caucus of Senators and mem- bers, and to publish them as soon as they sbould receive a sufficient number of signatares, Every signing member was then to be pro- nounced an anti-Know Nothing; while every recusant member was at once to be branded with being a member of the secret society. Well, the caucus was called, and a committee | appointed to draft and report resolutions at an adjourned meeting; but when that meeting took place, two only of the three resolutions, | drawn up by Governor Bright, were agreed to, and the third—which contained the very pith and substance of the whole matter—stricken out, Other meetings have since taken place, but they were but thinly attended, and nothing important was agreed to. We here submit the resolutions which were partially adopted, and the resolution which was disagreed to, Resolutions agreed to:— Resolved, That in our system of goverament, froe speech and open discussion ‘are essential, not only for the purpose of consulting the public mimi, but also to secure a du ponsibility to the people in rd to politicad act j} and that all societies which deliberate and determine upon measures of public policy secretly | and apart from their fellow-citizens, pursue a course | which must become dangerous in a popular government, | and will destroy in the end that fraternal! feeling and sense of common interest so necensary amongst cicizens | of the same State or confederacy. | — Resolved, That the establishment of religious froedom in this country wag one of the great objects of the con | stitution of the United States, which provided no other | qualification for office, in point of faith, than an oath to | support that constitution, which proscribes ‘That no re. | hgicus test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United Stases,”’ avd | declared that ‘Congress shal! make no law reepecting aw | establishment of religion, or prohibiting the froe exer- | cise thereof’ Any political combination, therefore, which seeks in any manner to attain these ends, thus | prohibited, violates the spirit, although it may evade the letter, of the constitution, ay fully and completely | Be same were accomplished under the forms of | law. The resolution disagreed to ran as followe:— | Resolved. That we utterly repudiate the idea of per- | petual allegiance, determined by the accident of birth, ‘as maintained by the monarchical goversments of the | Old world; that we hold to the right to leave ourcountry | and adopt another by an act of voluntary choice; that the power conferred ‘on Congress to pass iniform laws of | ralization is in the nature of a trust, which ought to be executed in a reasonable manner; that it is reasena- proper to require of an alien, before naturaliza uch & preliminary residence, and euch other evi- | | dence as will satisfactorily show that he intends to re- | | main permanently among us—that he ‘“eustaina a good | moral character, is attached to the principles of the con- | stitution of the Bnited States, and well disposed to the | | good order and happiness of the same.” | These resolutions, skilfully drawa, and al- | lowing considerable latitude of political con- science, were nevertheless deemed too strong; ' and the third, which is really the one which | concerns the adopted citizen, was entirely | thrown out. This does not look like backing Henry A. Wise; and what is worse, General Pierce is said to have got frightened, and to | advise more conciliatory measures, It is | doubtless a proof that the caucas movement is | at an end, and that the leading Senators who have taken ® handin it have been betrayed | by the administration; that Mr. Weller, the | | other dey, offered the firet two of the above | Cooper’s regolutions in regard to foreign pau- pers and criminals. There was probatly no other way of getting them before the public. Know Nothingism will never be put down under General Pierce’s administration. For that purpose General Pierce possesses neither the required conrage nor firmness of character. It was the utter want of principle, and tbe un- ceasing vascillations of bis mind, that called Know Notbingiem into existenee. Under his (General Pierce’s) tostering care it has theiven and will continue to thrive; for every step manifesting his political imbecility, and every act furnishing proof of bis entire incapacity to rise toaconception of the dignity of his posi- tion, makes new prose)ytes for the secret order. There is but one way to check the growth of Know Nothingism now. It is the resignation of General Pierce, accompanied by that of his entire Cabinet, and their immediate return to their respective homes. This might possibly elect Henry A. Wise Governor of Virginia. Quien sabe? ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION— “Down with THE Finreusters!’’—It may be questionea if the civilized world has ever wit- nessed so melancholy an example of incon- stancy and weakness in the administration of the affairs of a great country as is présented by the actual federal government! It came into power with the loudest pretensions ; but up to this time it has not fulfilled a siagle pro- mice, nor accomplished asingle object of honor or advantege, either to itself or the nation. Whatever measure it has initiated, great or emall, it has invariably abandoned in the end. It advanced principles in the case of Koszta, which it has refused to apply in every subse- quent instance of similar character. It issued a ukase on the subject of diplomatic livery, and yet every beggarly charge d’affaires and attaché of legation struts abroad in all the turkey-cock magnificence of fluokey upholstery. It was vehement in favor of the acquisition of Cuba, sent a filibuster to Spain, and elevated the fraternity of the Lone Star with extrava- gant promises, and ended with recalling its own agent and thundering the penalties of the “laws of neutrality” against the very mea whom it had encouraged to violate them. It bristled up against the Netherlands, gave the Dutchmen the fearful alternative of war or a compliance with its demands, and then backed clear out on a quibble. It sent an androgyne miesion to Santo Domingo to make a treaty which it dares not submit to the Senate. It negotiates for guano in the Galipagos, to find out afterwards that the islands are innocent of the article ; buys a desert for a railway route, to discover what everybody else knew before, that no railway route exists amongst its sav- age wastes. Wherever we look, whether it be to Mexico, to the Sandwich Islands, Spain, Santo Domingo, the Netherlands, or at home, we find the same unvarying spectacle of broken promises, pretense without performace, feeble- ness and folly. The sole act which illuminates the dreary re- trospect, and which has shed imperishable glory upon the President and his Cabinet; need we mention it? Do not the glorious “ stars and stripes” flutter, and the bold eagle expand ite wings sympathetically when we name the victory cf San Juan next to the capture of Bomereund, the vastest martial achievement of the century ? Central America has been the last division of the globe to which this comprehensive adminis- tration, after exhausting Europe and the isles of the sea, has directed its attention. Crowning glory of its brilliant career, it encouraged a body of adventurers to consummate the vic- tory of San Juan by a lawless invasion of the Territories of the Central American republics, of whose territorial rights it has assumed to be the defender. And when the adventurers have perfected their organization, and distributed | generalships and judgeships, and “powers and decorations,” and made every man of their number an officer, with boundless tracts of landsand uncounted gold in the perspective, (all for “twenty-five doilars, paid in ad- vance,”’) lo! the fickle administration withdraws its countenance, and orders the argus-eyed marshals of the seaports to prevent effectually the fruition of the hopes which it has encour- aged, if it did not originally inspire. Yes, after Marcy’s endorsement of Kinney’s stupea- dous enterprise—after all that he has done to | giveit currency and favor, we are now told that it is to come under the anathemas which fell upon the deluded ‘Lone Stars,” and is to be cast into outer darkness. The President will issue his proclamation, says the telegraph, and the sun andthe moon shall stand still, and Kinney and his new republic shall both be bundled off to the limbo of brainiess schemos, and al} the mooncalf projeets born of folly and ignorance. We await now the next developement of ad- | ministration imbecility, wondering much what new steltification it can devise, or how achieve a lower depth of popular contempt. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Senatorial Election in the Twenty-ninth District. Rocusster, Jan. 31, 1855, Great excitement and exultation prevails here to-day, in consequence of the Know Nothing victory in Ontario ond Livingston counties, Mr. Goodwin, the Know Noth- thing candidate, being elected by a majority of over 2,000, A salute of one hundred guns is being fired in honor of the victory. Henry Wilson Elected United States Senator from Massachusetts, Boston, Jan. 31, 1855. ‘The State Senate balloted to-day for a United States | Senator, and confirmed the choice of the House by one majority. Henry Wilson is therefore elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Rdward Everett. Forty votes were cast. Gen, Wilson received | 21, BM. Wright 16, scattering 4. Chicago. RAILROAD COMMUNICATION BTOPPED--THE ELECTION FOR UNITED 8TATES SENATOR. Catcaco, Itt, January 31, 1855. The condition of the Western and Southern roads are desperate, by reason of the snow. No communication | by railroad hay been had with St. Louis or Springfield for eleven days. Seventeen locomotives are frozen or buried in the snow onthe Chicago and Mississippi Rail- road. To-day was fixed upon for the elestion of the United States Senator from this State, but there was no qneram present in the joint convention of both houses. A great effort will be made to-morrow to secure a quoram, and make an election without the assistance of th teen. From the sonth, Barttsrore, Jan. 31, 1855. Jobn Mitchel wee at Natcher, em route for Baton Rouge, here he would necept the hospitalities tendered bim by the Loaf gislature, ‘The ship Mocaroh of he Seas, which bas recently been et Pensacola testing the Dry Tock there, bas arrived at New Orleame. VOL... THE CONTESTED GHaTS AND TRE BLECTION FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR —THE MILITIG—WHAT A SENATOR SHOULD BB—REJOICINGS OF THE KNOW. NOTHINGS, ETC. ALBANY, Jan. 31, 1866: During the month past which the Legislature has been in version, no day inthe Hogse of Assembly hax been one of such general interest as to-day, Although not a single bill has been passed, nor one debated in commit- tee, neither a resolution of any importance adopted, still the debates upon two propositions only elicited the at- tentive consideration of the members, and a large audi- tory convene i for an entirely different purpose. Mr. Ramsay, Seward whig, of old Schoharie; Chairman on Privileges and Elections, submitted a report on the contested seat of Mr. Ivans, of Kings county, democrat, claimed by David S. Wells, The report is unanimous in favor of the gitting member, as not the least particle of testimony was adduced to establish the claim of his contestant. ‘he chairman thea aub- mitted another report in the Orange contested case, Mr, Seldem, democrat, holds his seat by a declared majority of the canvassers of four votes, ‘The seat is claimed by A. 8. Warner, Seward whiz. The majority of the committee reported a resolution to the House, declaring that Mr, Warner was legally entitled to the seat. The minority of tne committee entered a pro- test, declaring that a proper opportunity had not been given to Mr. Selden to rebut the testimony on the other side, This statement aroused the attention of the House, and the friends of the sitting member wished to refer the matter back to the committee for fur her investigation; and among these was Mr. A. G. Williams, whig, of New York. It waa evident from all that could be gathered from. the debate, that Mr. Seward’s friends desired tu oust a democrat, ond instal a whig, whose vote on Tuesday. next would be cast for that gentleman as United States Senator. There being now only four days before the time will arrive to test the question whether Mr. Seward. is the choice of the Legislature. The State rey made this morning, with resolution attached, to foist a vote for him into the House, shows beyond « peradventure that his chance is more doubtfal and des- perate than his friends have been willing to concede. It. shows that they had no sincerity in the boasting and de- fiant tone they have uniformly exhibited, that their candidate could walk through the House of Assembly. with seventy-three votes in his pocket. Had the vote been taken this morning upon the resolutson for admit- ting Mr, Warner, the democrats aud independent whige would have been defeated. Knowing this, it was con- cluded to let the m ‘tter lie over for further considers- tion. The important question now arises, wil) the House permit a democrat to be ousted, in order that his. seat may be oveupied by a whig devoted to the iatereste of Mr. Seward? Is the woolley whig strength sufficient to accomplish it before Tuesday next? Who knowe? Mr. Cocks offered thi Resolved, That the Commancer-in-Chief be requested to direct the Adjutant General to take such measures as may be necessary to enforce in the first milta- ry division a compliance with section eight, ar- ticle one, of title four of the militia laws of this State, passed April 7, 1864; and in so doing to cause such transfer of companies ne be necessary to ac- compheh a uniformity of dress in the several regimenta, so far as can be done without changing the dress of any company. Mr. O'Keefe, who Lat thought there was some ec le. cat under the meal, made objections, and the resolution. lies over a day under the rule. It is understood the only object of the above is to place infantry companies together in brigades, as also artillery troops, &c., as there is an impracticabliit, of drilling and {mancuvring the regiments and ore gades with any certainty of improvement in di'cipline as they are now constituted. It is said that the amend- ments introcuced to the First Division militia law do not accord with the sentiments of some of the geveral offi- cers. If there is any improvement upon the law as it now stands, it is quite certain that the Legislature will regard no mere personal considerations, let objections come from whatever quarter ies ae. “Sam’? held up his head boidly in the House this morning. The election in the Twenty-ninth Senate dis- irict yesterday ingprred him with confidence and em- boldened him with courage. Mr. Petty called for the- consideration of his resolution, offered some few days since, cetining the character avd qualifications of a Uni- ted States Senator. He spoke strictly to the question. some ten or fifteen minutes. He contended that a fena- tor should be a friend tothe public schools, without any sectarian bearing—that he should be « national man, and not a man whore speeches, acta and votes have been ditccted towards the dissolution of this Union —that he should be 2 man who believes in no “higher Jaw’? in legislation than that of the American constitu- tion. Dr. Hull moved to amend, at the end of the resolu- tion, by adding the words “and a friend to human free~ om. Mr. Leigh took the floor and commenced a epeech, which had evidently been previously prepared. Heche: ‘tates Senator as be- racterized the position of a United ing one of ert eminence. Aman should be selected who is not a isan, because before six years more roll around pailical issues will be presented to the people, other than those which are now considered as izg orthodox. He took a lofty flight, and mingled among the Cesers and mad Anthony’s of early days, and finally lit down upon anti-slavery of the present times. Mr. L. was mounted upon his ch: under whip and spur, snd as he was about burnishing bie thoughts for a grand display of oratorical flourish, some gentleman rose and moved to extend tre time of the session ten minutes. Cries of “finish your hour.”” “proceed,” ‘ was in no mood either to extend speaker. Mr. O’Keefe, seeing that the amount of steany then up could not ponaibly ‘be worked off withia any reasonable time, objected to extending the session. He was time for dinner. is hundred colored men on Long Island, Privilege of voting at elections. This whale eekjeet has n referred to him by his cowmittee, This is a matter which requires a wide and extensive search ameng the papers, Jaws and documents: and he hoped that the ses- sion of the House would not be exten-ed, nor an after- noon session ordered, as the time of members was neces- sary iu their various committees. One member offered one proposition, anetber some- a = : ee eyed Pei pate) when the hour of 1:45 having ive e Speaker adjourne3 the House until to-morrow morning, at 10 orelock, ¥7Upon the floor of the House this morning was Mr De- Javan, the temperance president, Daniel Ullman, and se- veral other gentlemen of public notoriety. ‘The success of “Sam” in the election yesterday is the universal topic of interest among members and lobby drones, ‘The Know Nothings are taking courage. They are bolding up their heads, and now talk of “screwing up their courage” for a field fight on Tuesday. There is a mere possibility that the Kev. and Hon. Yir. Good. win: will be permitted to take the vacantTwenty-ninth seat in the Senate on Tuesday morning. The chances, however, are against him, as the power of keeping him out is infthe hands of Mr.fSeward’s friends. Dare they take the responsibility? The whigs hold a caucus to morrow evening to relect thetr Senatorial candidate, Will the Know Nothings go int The democrats have not eoncladed whether to hold a caucus or scatter their votes. Many think the barno- burners will not adhere to a caucus, if held. From Washington. THE KINNEY EXPROITION—CaPr. GIBSON’s CASE— THE TAKIFF QUESTION, ETO. Wasutxoton, Jan. 91, 1855, Col. Kinney states that the fire-arms reported as being at his quarters here were merely specimens of cew im ventions sent him by manufacturers, in order to get hi opinion of their value, and that they have no connectio} with his expedition or men, as might be inferred from | despatch heretofore published. The Star says that Capt. Gibson denies the authenticit, of the letter recently published, and says it is a garble, statement of a memorial to the Dutch government Capt. G. intimates that Gov. Marcy has acted in bat faith with him from the first. ‘The Star says that Secretary Guthrie has not made + compromise with the Committee of Ways and Means 0} the subject of the tariff, and that the only effect of tak ing up the question in Congress at this period of th session will be to defeat many other important mes tures. Information has been received at the Treasury Dv partment that a judgment has been rendered in the (i cuit Court of the United States, for Texas, against Jo Rates, late Marshall of that State, for $20,000, due th United States. UNITED STATES SUPREMB COURT. jan. 31, 1553. th of Pennay vania, is now before the court. It involves the vatidi! of the law of that State, which imposes a tax of som thirty thousand dollars on seven hundred thousand de lars, devised in Pennsylvania to D. Short, of Ohio, af J.C. Short, of Kentucky. George Short, of Cincinna: opened the case for the Messrs. Shorts, and was follo» by Messrs. Scott and Hood for Pennsylvan Ewing in now closing the case for the plainsits ease is inapostant, and excites much interest, nm F. Perry, of Ohio, and Henry J. Horn, of Pen- ‘a, were admitted as couasellors of the court. Death of Bishop Capers. CHARLESTON, Jan. 31, 1855. Bishop Capers, an eminent divine ot the Metnodit Fpiscopal Church is dead. time or cut off the Non Arrtval of the Africa’at Boston, Bostow, Jan. 31—11.0 PM. The steamship Africa, sow due from Halifax, has mt yet made her appearance here, The weather i« clew and fine. Race Between Nat Blick and Garrett Dave. Citanceetox, Jan. 30, 1855, In the three mile race to-day between the borves Nat Blick and Garrett Davis, the former won. Pmuapercrata, Jan. 31, 3855, Owing to 4 defect in the furnace for heating the Moy amensing prison, the gas escape| (rom the air chambers and filled the upper ter of cells. This morning, twenty of the prisoners were foun] overcome by the fects of the nolvome atmorpbere. One of the p isoners, John