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ners fern NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ppppvAaRY 3, 1855. ¥OL..XxX..~ i ee I tee ss being a dissolution of the Uulon—two repablice | 1, Yeading journa' of Europe take ithe | was hie neglect to keep such watch over the | “« be atepted. To the Presidents face’ they axe ‘lb 8 me 260 Bae ore eee ae Pw) ses Sw HERALD. ; volted; ‘sat They were sovettly punished by the ‘encouragement; confidentially. to Cochrane NEW YORK aaane British ship of war Scourge, which completely de: | instead of one—that there may be more a rouble to interpret that speech of “uord Cia- | minor banks in this city as would have pro nen chy aaeboeabtngal tials of the wrong) JAMS GORDON BENNETT, mol'aded the towns of Christeabarg Fort snd! more public plunder, and that general state f rendon’s and that other epeech, of the French | vented the recent failures, involving heavy Lnockte Wneeneallail tamesaa seamen party PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘bade. anarchy, civil war and social confusion @m | Emperor’s delivered only the other day, | losses to depositors and noteholders, Such | is what these two conspirators are now working to ac~ Judge Roosevelt granted an order yesterday ia the Supreme Court, declaring the Expire City Buak insolvent, and vacating the sssignment made by the bank. He alse directed the injanction to remain permanent, ana appointed the United States Trust Company receiver. A verdict ot $300 was atvarded the etoward of the steamer George Law yesterday, in the Marine Cou:t, before Juége Thompson, for false imprisoa- ment. We have received letters and files of pxper3 from Hevens to the 28th of January. There is nothing new irom the islané. Felix and Estrampea were still in prison, waiting to hear their doom—ancer twin yet whether it will be death or bondage. Preparations, itiewaid, are being madeto strangihea Havans with{sd@itional forta, so as to surround the city entirely ‘with: fortificationa, The letters of our correspondents are published eisewhere. § ‘ers, which needy and reckless adventurers, pogo, fail to reap a rich harvest of the 67” i5, Break up the nationality of this spopotar rev- olutionary movement of the Kyow Nothings, acd throw usin¥> a sections ‘battle for the succession, and ‘who does not, foresee the conse- quences? There will be no Inek of materials for a disuvsion agitation. The admission of Kapeas ey. a slave State, the acquisition of ‘Cuba, the division of Texas into two or three slave States, further acquisitions from Mexico ‘&ec., will be capital enough for the Northern ant slavery alliance; and upon such issues, what ese than the wecession vf the Southern States from the Union canbe the crowning result? Our Seuthern brethren desire a foréign coramerce ‘of their cwn, direct trade and‘kome Manufactures; and hence the slarming -spread of the doctrines of the secesstonists during the was his blind haste to sacrifice the seourities of the Eighth Avenue Bank, whereby six cents on the dollar were lost, which the smallest exer- cise of commercial tact and ekill might have saved. Such was his selling, on quite a recent cccasion, a lot of bonds and mortgages which he held as security for issues, at a depreciation of from thirty to fifty per cent; and actually receiving back those identical bonds, some time afterwards, at their original value, Similar cases might be enumerated without end. Even heavier charges than want of business capacity and vigilance have gyrict X W. OORNSR NASSAU AND FULTON in which the orators of{zially declared their readiness to uge their combination for the pur- pose ef effeolihg their ends in America as well asin Zurope. If it can, with all the superior ability of which it boasts, give such a coloring to these manife’stoes as divests them of all hos- tile import to ‘this country, it will do far more towards awakening American sympathy than it can by appealing to the interests of the cot- ton growess of the South or the corn planters of the West. : As to the opinions expressed by the Ameri- can press with respect to the war, and its con- sequences upon the state of Europe, as the | been brought against him. He has been Times soys, these arp matters of opiaion on | openly accused of the most glaring favoritism which it is hardly likely that we shall agree | to political and personal friends. Wielding with the Western Powers. They are naturally | 9 power commensurate with the enormous de- enough much heated in their quarrel; sore at | posites in his hands and the wide scope given the failure of their invasion of the Crimea; and | by the law to his authority, be has been enabled complish, A general burst up will afford plausible ex-: cure for the withdrawal, by his own consent, of Pie: and their support, for a time, of Buchanan, who pe alro be out-manceuyred, when the field will be left free’ to those who will pay the most money. Forney has expressed’ in,a letter to George Sanders and Levi D. Slamm, his preference for George law for the next Presidency; and at this moment he is making out his plans (among which are the sacrifice of Pierce and Buchanan) to give this gentleman an early support. Parte of the South and’ West are already under canvass for Law; and in a few: weeks—immediately af ¢ adjournment of Congress— the stump and the press be freely opened to him in. - some three or four of the States. The heavy capitalist, Vancerbilt, is said to warmly advocate Law’s election, and letters from some of yeur large mercantile*houses are pleading the necessity of baving a practical man for the next Presidency. In the new appointments that are- to be made in your Custom House, the friends of Law will try and obtain a fair representation, and this will be accomplished if money ard lobbying can bring it about.. Volame XX =——— ORDWAY ‘a Pipe PRAvaE WERY THEATRE, ure Mopsart¢—Ou', WiLpeRmxes. ORTON’'S THEA CRY, Chambers street=BaLancz 07 couoxt Bove Devne--Wenan's Lire. WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tews awp Coux- any—fite URiTIC. os USTROPOLITAN THDATRE, Bresdway—Equastran ParroRmaycus—A fternéon and Eventy. AMERICAN MUSEUM— Biacx Evan Svean-Do Devorp Room. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Me ? Mall-—478 Broadway BUCKLEY'S OP®RA HOUSE, 839 Broadwey~—Bucm. eer's Brastetan Crema Trovre, DONAMESON’S OPERA HOUSE, Hope Obapel, 718 and i) Broadwi oon—Macnurn. Evering ~ Prospects #7 3ew ard’s Re. Bection—The K aow Nothing®-The Siavery Quest#on—Diungor DEATH OF EX‘MAYOR MAURY—SUBSCRIPTION FOR 8. York, Siturtlay, February 8, 1855. 'Phe-Wews. The draft 6f a new city charter, totske the place +f the present abominable one, ‘willbe found ia an- ether partof this dey*s paper. is isthe result of the Impen@*ng. The Sovard Legislative caucus of Thursday evening last, at Albany, indicates tha re-eles- tion ofthe wily demagegue to the United States agitation of the compromise questions ‘ie 1849- 750. A large proportion of the ‘Southern People ‘believe that a separate comfederacy would give them all the advantages of direct irfitated at finding Russia considerably strong- er and more resolute than they expected. Men’s opinions are always more or less the fruit of their hopes and wishes ; and hence the to break many banks to which he was unfriend- ly, while he allowed favorite institutions in no better condition to work their way out of diffi- culties. Rumors, in some instances vague, in others tolerably circumstantial, have connected M. BOOTH. Wasuinaton, Feb. 2, 1855. The anti-Nebraska members of Congress have contri- buted liberally towards the payment of the fine imposed upon §, M. Booth, by the United States Cixcuit Court at~ Milwaukie, in a case of rescuing a fugitive slave, The: foreign ‘trade and of home manufectures, for | British opinion that the peace of the world re- = they ere now so largely dependent hr quires the defeat of the Czar. We, who have New York and the North. And ‘most assured- | 00t sent out soldiers to perish in the Crimea, ly a South:rn confederacy would give the | 90d have not plunged into costly and despe- finishing blow to the commercial prosperity of rate wars, take a somewhat calmer and more this great emporium and tovall the manufac- | dispassionate view of the subject, and do not turing interests of the Northern States. An discover the immediate connection between inside Southern tariff and an outside system | Lord Reaglan’s defeat, and the destruction Senate. The caucus wumbered just one-half of each house, and having, after ‘the'first ballot, made the nomination of Seward unenimous, their-decision is equivalent -to an election, lack- ing one solitery vote. Theactionof the caucus ‘was, 20 dowbt, Lone fide, aud the man wanting, ‘and several over, we apprehend;-were among ‘the absentees. . Something more, therefore, labors of e majority 62the mambers of the BotYd of Aldermon. At an informal mesting, held on Satar- day cvér ng last, « zpecial committee was eppoint- ed to draw up a charter suche the experienc. of the }ntt three'querters of a century would enable five intelligent mon to do. Mcesra. Williameon, Ely, Varien, Voorkis, aud Herrick, composa@ this com- mite. They’tsported the result ef their’ iabors to fine is one thousand dollars, Ex-Mayor Maurydied at one o’clock this afternoon. His loss will be universally regretted by the whole com-- munity. He was weal hy and benevolent, and during. | the time he filled tho office of Mayor, it is said, he dis- tributed more than double the amount of his salary in various and extended acts of charity. He was President of the Bank of the Metropolis, his name with stock speculations; and people have not been wanting to show that by merely selling a part of the securities he holds, and buying them in afterwards, a large fortune might have been realized. These insinuations may be calumnious. But it is clear that a Bank Superintendent should be a special meeting on Thurslay evening, when six- deen of the twenty-two Aldermen were present. T document, es given im ancther column, ‘was u2ani mously adopted, and willbe strongly usped upon th Legislature. If it pasees that bedy 1: becomes 4 | Vixed fact, the usual clause submitting it to the people wae strivken out, it having bvex decided that no legislalive act can-be thus legetined. “than rough conjectures and loose estimates on the part of the opposition will be required to prevent the re-cleciion of Wm. EH. Seward on Tuesday next. We are not mu¢h -surprised at the result of | this Seward cauous, notwithstanding the nume- . rous representations made to us from Albany | of areliable opposition anti-Seward majority of free trade would do the work. A large pro- portion of our Northern factories would thus be traneferred to the south side of Mason and Dixon’s line; and the mass of our transit com- ‘merce with the South would be transferred to Southern ports, direct from Liverpool and Havre. These are the temptations of the South to of liberty inEurope. Bound, moreover, by tra- ditional theories, Great Britain, like all the other European Powers, believes in what is called a balance of power, and lives in perpe- tual agony lest the alteration of some existing landmark should lead to the annihilation of all the present European nationalities by some overgrown monster. We, who look at these above suspicion; and Mr, St. John can blame noone but himeelf if his indiscretion has led to suspicions injurious to his character. Quite independently of these points, the other objec- tions we have mentioned are amply sufficient to warrant the Governor in replacing Mr. St. John by a person less obnoxious to reproach on the ground of vindictiveness, less bound by PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURZ. Wasuincton, Feb, 2, 1855. Chav. A. Davison, of York, La., and ‘Luther Day, of Ohio, were admitted attorneys and counsellors in this.- court, No 00—Josiah 8. Stafford and wife, appellants, vs. the Union Bank of Louisiana. No. 105—Josiah 8. Stafford and wife vs. the New Or- Jeans and Canal Bavking Company. Appeals from the District Court of Texas. On motion of Mr. Coxe, these cases were dismissed with costs, by consent of the partie The pMitical excitomsnt at Aibasy is rapidly % No, 58—Jane A. Cox, guardian, et al, xppellants, v3. imereasing to ‘fe he Tae members of Bott | in the Assembly. ‘We h ll along had our | disunion. Add to them the Seward pro-| matters without the benefit of tradition, are | party ties, and less unpopular among the com- | Charice jon. Argument continued by Hon. 8. P. 7 perder fee x oh Bead agra ice 2 oe 3 gramme, which contemplates nothing less than | eceptics in this affair of the balance of power, Chase for appellee, and concluded by Phitt Smith for branchee of the Legislature have dropped all other ‘basiness, and turned their atteation to the Senatorial question. ' Yesterdsy,in the s#esembly, tne deeato on ‘the resolution defining the: qualifizations of-o United States Senator was resumed. But this wee merely a feigaea-isme ; the ros! question beiug the fitness of Wm. F Seward forthe post to whizkho hebeen nomiected by the esucas of hia podtical adherents. ‘We publish a sketch of the debate, the proper head, from’ which may be gathe idea of the ietense fecling the: prevails in oopesition tothe whig afd aboli ion candidate tor United Sinton Senator. That Seward secured his nomination * through frauc:and o>rraption was openly charged on the floor'of the Agembly; aad that many of tie participators in the whig ocacus acted contrary to pledges given with all the «snct'ty of: an oath wae mot denied. The debate wil! be resumed to day, and will no doubt be continued until Taesday—the day appoin‘ed for ths.election. Our correspondence from ‘Washiagton, published under the telegraphic head, opens arich piaver to the-prospecting politicians of tais metropo'is. The resignation-ot ‘Col‘ector Eedtield, and the purgiag of the Custom House of its corps of shoulder-hitting eft shells bruisers, amd the appointment of respec- table citizens in their stead, are the novelties of the feazon. Yesterday wes, private bill day in Congress, and but little of. general icterest: transpired. In the -Benste Mr. Mallory’e bill providing for reforms in the.personnel of the naval service was considerad and passed. Officers oct of the line-of promotion ‘and mpon leave of absence ar2.to-bs plicad on the ‘reserved list, and those iscapableof performing active daty.are-to-bs provided for. The bil! for the relief of the claimants-of the privateer brig Ganeral ~ Armstrong was discussed by Mr. Benjauia, who opposed the granton the. ground of the danger of ‘the priagiple izvolved. Messre. Ssward, Bayard and Clayton. advocsted the cause of the ciaiman's; but without takivg the qnestion the Sonat jowned. In the: Houee yesterday the bill remitting the duties on goods of Messrs. Belden & Co., confiscated tmMexico, was passed. In Committee of the Waocle hirty-six private bills-were perfected ani favo-ably reported on; but when the commiitee rose it was -@igcovered that the Honse was withoata quornm, and.an adjournment took place, leaving tho prose- -wators of private claima to dance attendanvs for aa. ther week. ~ Cotton was active -yesterday, and the silza em braced about 5,000 bales, including 1,560 ba'es cn 4beapot and 3,500 in tramsiva, indicating a specu. lative movement. Themarket closed at tul! prices: The.movements in another leading staolo have nob been withont interest. Wesllude ts tobacco, Tor Eastern war bas exercised no unfaverible influence on ite value, aud strongly remuuerstive prices havo raled for. a year or two past, while the stock in this tmaarket is kas than it nas been a: the same period within three years past. On tho first of Febraary, 1853, we bad a stock of 8,905 hhds , .8,709 of whith were Keztucky ; 1a 1854, 7.023 bhds, of watch 6822 were. Kentucky; in 1855, 3,360 bhds., 3,070 of which were Kentucky; beiog little over one-: ef the previous year. Pricea range fron 6) #o ilc. per pound, which may ba considered digh rates, end quite profitable to produ in earlier times, Virginia, Laryland aid North Caroliaa prodaced the chie? rupplies; but the great bulk now grown in this country is produced beyond the Alleghany mounisins, and chiefly ia Kentucky and Missouri, with some ia the adjoining Btetes, nearly all of which is styled in this marke! under-the general name of “ Koatucky.” The finsst quality prodned is in Mason coaaty, Konta.ky, near Mayaville. The Continental people are tue largest .cu:toners for this staple, and that used {on France is a government monopoly, aad is purchased im the Vaitei Siates annually by agents of that government. Were the restrictions with whivh its ‘stroduction into forsiga countries are sadiled, abolissed, its consumption would bo greatly in- cmessed. Withina few years the cultivstioa of av inferior qnality, known {n th‘s market as ced leaf, used for segar wrappers, has greatly increased ia Pennsylvania, Ghio, New Work, and the New Eog- land states, and some exports of it have even besa made to Havana, to be used by sogar manufac: torers. Fiour and gra'n were without marked | misgivings upon the subject. We knew from all their antecedents, that the silver grays, how- ever bitterly they.may hate and denounce the | ascendancy of the Auburn demagogue, were net to be trusted. They want backbone, are feeble in the kmees, and ‘have never exercised the moral courage-of striking their dreaded enemy. where the hand dealing the blow might be detected. He-uses them when wanted, or kicks them out with impunity when they stand in his way. A teeble clique of puerile grumblers are the silver grays. We heve also distrusted the rough estimates of the opposition on another account. They have overlooked in the Assembly the influences of those outside Know Nothing movements of Utica and Schenectady, which Seward has adroitly used to embarrass and weaken the ac- tion of the Order.against him. With anything like an equality of raw materia!s to begin with, Seward and Thurlow Weed are hard to beatin Pipe-laying and in suksidizing accessible time- servers, tide-waiters, and needy spoilsmen. In this case, too, having absolute command of the State plunder, we may rest assured that they have been using it to the best advantage. It may appear to the Know Nothings in other States very extraordinary that Seward, after bis formal speech against the Order in the Senate, should contrive, without a recantation, to steal into their camp in this State, and make 8 satisfactory diversion from their tores in his favor. But it isan old game of his to eeize upon every new political movement—anti- slavery, or anti-Popery, or no matter what— and in some plausible disguise to appropriate it to his purposes. Thus he contrived this Know Nothing defection, which has not oaly resulted in the outside councils at Utica and Schenectady, but which has thrown into the Astembly some fishy conservatives, whose votes upon this Senatorial question may lead to the breaking up of the Know Nothings as a great homogeneous national party, and to the most dangerous and calamitous revival of the anti- slavery agitation. The caucus vote for Seward at Albany looks the bleody overthrow. of Southern society, and secession becomes the palpable alternative of tel‘preservation. Reelect Seward, and: his programme is endorsed by the State of New York in the name of its people—his partisans resume the field on the offensive, and the con- tingency of a disastrous sectional campaign upon the slavery question becomes a living question. Ia this view of the subject, the Know Nothings of our Legislature, and the conservatives there of all parties, will appre- ciate the heavy responsibility which attaches totheir action upon this important issue of Seward’s re-election. The danger is imminent. Tuesday is the day. Seward is the issue, Shall he be re-elected? We pause for the ac- tion of the Assembly. The British Press on American Sentiment. We find in the London Times an article— republished elsewhere—commentiog in a tone of some bitterness on the sentiments which are eupposed by that journal to prevail in the United States on the subjectof the Eustern war. As the Times singles us out as the expo- nent of American opinion, we are in a measure bound to set our British cotemporary right on these points wherein he has fallen into error. It ie not true, as the Zimes states, that either the American people or the New York Henap “sincerely desire the triumph of Ras- sia, aod our [England’s) humiliation’ So far as we are concerned, when we find the Times so ignorant of the way matters are managed here as to suppose tha Russians of the name of Nichoff are paid to write Rassian leaders in the Heraxp, we are not surprised that our sentiments should be misrepresented, even in this gross manner. Still we should have hardly thought it necessary to remind our trans-Atlantic readers that the editorial columas of this journal have coutained no expression that could be interpreted into a desire for Ruesia’s triumph or England’s humiliation. We have, as is our custom, freely opened our columns to correspondents on all sides- American travellers like Dr. Cottman, have very much like treason in the Know Nothing camp. Where there is treasen there is danger, in all cases where the defection holds the balance of power. In this instance the danger to the Know Nothings threatens their very existence. The election of Seward is the test question of their conservative principles, and of their prestigé of invincible strength. His suecess demoralizes all their late Northern con- servative triumphs, and throws this new Ameri- can party backjupon Virginia and the South as a part of the Seward anti-slavery coalition it- self, Re-elect bim, and his sectional organiza- tion and-disunion anti-slavery programme con- tinues—the anti-slavery agitation receives a new impulse, which may possibly overcome the non-interventioa policy of the Know Nothiags in all the Northern States, Massachusetts not excepted. There is evidently a Know Nothiog split at Albany upon Seward’s re-election, and, under the circumstances, it is significant of a general demoralization and disorganization of the new party. This is the great object of Seward, and the immediate necessity of the Pierce administration. We are aware that the tools of the Cabinet contribated their mite towards the election of a Seward Assembly—the hopes of the adminis- tration manifestly hang upon Seward’s suc- cess; but his eleetioa wili be none the less disastrous to the Know Nothiags and the peace snd harmony of the Union. Cast him out of the Senate, either by this or (in holding over the election,) by the next Legislatare, and the coast is clear from Maine to Texas, for an overwhelming triumph in ‘56 by the Know found us ready to publish their pleas for the Czar; while our Paris and London cor- respondents have stated the case of the al- lies pretty fairly. The Times may be better informed of what passes in America than we are: but up to the present time we have yet to learn of the first real indication of active sympathy for Russia among tie citi- zene of this republic. Bande of Irishmen—of the patriot stripe—have held meetings here, at New Orleans and very possioly elsewhere, and may have cheered the Russians as they would have cheered any enemy of England. But this country, we will take leave to say, is not yet a dependency of Ireland, nor are the Irish the only or the principal people in it. At this pre- sent writing, in fact, Irishmen are generally in such disrepute that though they speak and write what they please, their espousal of a cause is actually likely to incline American opinion towards the opposite side. The people of the United States, we repeat, are and have been neutral in the contest. This, it seems, ie not enough for Eagland. We must take sides with the allies, or be charged with dishonor, corraptioa, unnatural prejadice and eo forth. This proposition may seem clear to it is not at all clear tous. They may consider al) who are not for them as against them ; bat we on our side are surely entitled to hold oar- selves aloof froma struggle in which we have not the smallest shadow of interest, How absurd, too, and inconsistent fur the Eag- lish to be constantly whiaing about the abseace of “sympathy” in America, when all over the and do not believe that any danger of universal sovereignty exists. We think that Napoleon ought to have learnt from his own experience how impossible it is to unite several distinct and hostile nations under one government; and the angry belligerents of Western Europe : bu’ | ing in bis name. Over these securities no one has should have known better than to fear that Eu- rope would ever become Cossack. Looking at these turmoils through an unprejudiced medium, and by the light of history, we regard the ex- tension of Russian power in the direction of Turkey as far more pregnant with danger to the Russians than to the Western Powers of Europe. The possession of Constantinople might render Russia a great Asiatic Power; but it could not,in our opinion, increase her strength in Europe. We have more faithin the Eaglish and French than they seem to have in them- selves. Something must be allowed for their present dejection; but even were Lord Raglan cut off with all his army, we should not be prepared to expect a Cossack conquest of Eng. land or France. Mr. Sr. Joun anp THE Bank DePaRTMENT.— It is propozed in the New York Senate to re- move the Banking Department from Albany to New York, In connection with this change it is understood that the present Banking Super- | intendent, Mr. D. B. St. John will not be reap- pointed, but that the office will be conferred upon a new man. Both of these meaeures com- | mend themselves to public favor.. The location of the Banking Department at Albany is @ mistake. The day it was made & eeparate department it should have been re- moved to New York, where three-fourths of the banking business of the Unionis done. The in- convenience which has already been felt in sending or travelling to Albany whenever it Wes necessary to do business with the Banking Department can hardly be exaggerated ; and occasionally actual injury has been suffered by noteholders in consequence. It has fre- quently happened within the past two years that securities—especially mortgages—have been sold by order of the Bank Superintendent at Albany—where there was no one to buy— for considerably Jess than the price they com- manded here, and for leas than the amoant they were pledged to secure. Itis quite pos sible that it would be inconvenient for the Bank Superintendent to send securities to New York for sale : but is it not obvious that a place where the business of the department cannot be carried on without loss to the public, is nota suitable place to have it located? Hereafter when the local jealousies which cause so much inconvenience to the merchants of New York have disappeared, it will appear incredible that £0 ridiculous an arrangement should have sub sisted for four years, Whatever may be done with the department hewever, Mr. St. John’s removal is a matter of imperative necessity. If that gentleman had been the best of public officers, and the ablest of Bank Superintendents, it would still be pro- per that he should be removed, ia order to e:- tablish the wholesome system of rotation in of- fice. He has already served one year over the period for which he was elected, and it is time that he should be replaced. He has at present something like twenty-six millions of securities of various kinds in bis hands and under his con- trol, including twenty millions of stocks stand- | any control but himself. Even the Legislature does not look deeper than the report which he farnishes them. It is positively alarming to i thirk that so vast an amount of money ie in | the safe keeping of one man, and that the owvers have no better security for it than his honesty. We intend to cast not the slightest | imputation on Mr, St. John; bat surely the | | signs office in preference to the giving up of political munity with whom his duties bring him in con- tact, and on whose co-operation much of the efficiency of the department must depend. Tux Custom House Laprogiio—Latest Frou Wasurmetoy,—Our special despatch from Wash- ington, of this morning’s issue, touching the business of the extraordinary gathering of soft shells, at Washington, presents the mission of John Cochrane to the White House in a some- what different light trom our advices of yester- day. Marcy, Guthrie, and other old fogies, it appears, have brought the President to a very happy expedient for the conciliation of the hard shells to the proposed nomination of poor Pierce for the succession by Tammany Hall. The plan is, as we are informed, to discharge from the Custom House ninety-seven pugilists, short boys, slung-shot rowdies, drunkards, jail- birds, watch-stuffers, thimble-riggers and stool- pigeons—all soft shells—and to put in ninety- seven decent hard ehells in their places. Red- field, they say, stands by his short boys, and if they go he goes. Cochrane, it appears, backs him up. How could he forget the services of thoee rufflans at Syracuse. Marcy, however, seems to be too strong for them, and there is danger that ninety-seven deeperadoes will be thrown out of the Custom House, and turned looee upon society, without a moment’s warn- ing. We call the attention of the Mayor to the necessity of providing an additional police force in view of this threatened soft shell sortie from the Custom House. Still, everybody must admit that Marcy is right. If short boys and migcellaneous loafers and vagabonds have failed to reunite the democratic party, let decent and regpectable men be tried. Ninety-seven of this clase, we should think, in these hard times, could be picked up in New York to support the nomination of Mr. Pierce in consideration of the spoils. Let Marcy insist upon the ejection of the short boys, and let our active Mayor pre- pare the police to give them a warm reception. The administration is looking up. It is be- ginning to cast about for honest men. Make way for the sortie from the Custom House. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important from Washington. THE NEW YORK COLLECTORSHIP-——A PURGATIVE FOR THE CUSTOM HOUSE--GRORGE LAW AND THE PRS- EIDENTIAL QUEBTION, ETO. ‘Wasutxaton, Feb. 2, 1355. I have information of a reliable character to the effect that Mr. Redfield, your Collector, has sent in his resig- nation, and that there is a probability of its acceptance, Mr. Tweed, present member of Congress, is spoken of by the secret few as his successor. Since Mr, Pierce has made up his mind to stand fora re-election, a careful examination has been made into the character of those holding office in your Custom House, witha view to reform—a movement that has encountered the opposi- tion of Messrs. Redfield and Cochrane. The ascertained treachery of one of the administration leaders of your city towards Governor Seymour, and which that gentle- man alleges effected his defeat, has been placed before the President, with the assurance that like treatment in im stere for him. This view of the matter ands sup- porters in Mesers. Marcy and Guthrie, who suggested the postponement of the fusion meeting that was to bave been held in Tammany Hall, to some future period, In the meantime, changes are to take place, and the President bas expressed himself in favor of equal dis- tribution of the spoils among the hards, when the fusion meeting may with propriety be held at oli Tammany. Here is the rub—here rests the difficulty. Redfield re- power and patroange; Cochrane, not quite so iade- pendent, sounds the alarm of distress to his numerous colleagues in office, and a general stampede for Wash- ington is recommented and adop'ed. These gentlemen beist upon the non-acceptanee of the Collector's rexig- mation; that the act would be attended with fatal consequences to the party of the administration onpeeet lo. 59—James Rhodes, a) al. Argument commenced by and continued by Bibb for appellees. Interesting from. the State Capital. THE UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP, AuBany, Feb. 2—4 P. M. Although we are not perfectiy sure that a Union na- tional man will be chosen in the place of William H. Se- ips for appellants, ward, yet the country will know, when the history of” this legislative canvass is written, that we have been- eonquered only because we were attempting an impossi- bilty. We believe that the fate of the arch-demagogue + is sealed; but if he eucceeds, it will be h's last triumph, ~ nor will he be able to outlive the intclerable odium that - will cover his name before the next Senatorial term ex- pires. If he gets into the Senate, he will: bea plague - spot there, Yet, Union men everywhere understand that : the earnest and the mighty effort now being made to de- feat this manis the strongest pledge this great State: could give of its fidelity to the constitution, and ita reve- rence to the spirit of its founders, The amountof cor-~ ruption here—the intimidation, the bribery, the lying, and the trickery resorted to—are beyond belief. Weed and bis men are growing desperate, because their- chances are growing smaller. If it did not seem too good... to be true, I ehould have no hesitation in telling you that Seward is sure to be defeated, THE WHIG LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS—SEWARD'S CHANCES ~~THE RECRRANT KNOW NOTHINGS—THE DEBATS IN. THE ASSEMSLY--THE OATH OF THE JBSUITS—COUN-~ CILMAN TOM DUKLAP, ETC., BTC. Atwany, Feb. 2, 1856, The proceedings of the whig caucus in the Assembly chamber last evening was conducted in an orderly and’ respectable manner. The lateness of the hour before the. meeting was called to order by Mr. Blatchford, and the smali number of members in attendance, cast some.sus. + picion upon the result. It was not organized until half” an hour after the time appointed. A large audience of’ he friends of Mr. Seward crowded the lobbies and galle- ies, who awaited the call.ng of the roll in the most aga- nizing suspense. After the list of Senators and members. of the House was called over three or four times, and sixteen Senators and sixty-four Assomblymen responded’ to their names, the fears vanished. They felt confident. of success. The votes cast were sixteen of the Senate and sixty-tour ef the House, just one-half the strength: of each Lody. Upon one Senator absent, Mr. Barnard,, the friends of Mr. Seward can fully rely; so that seven- teen votes, being a majority of that body, wilt certainty be given for that gentleman’s ro-elec- tion on Tuesday next. The arrival of Mr. Good- win, the newly clected Senator, and that of Mr: Storing, who is at home indisposed, cannot alter or affect: the result. The sixty-four votes in the House last night are sure when the election takes place, which is a ma- jority upon any day of the session, as it rarely occurs that the full number of one hundred and twenty-eighd are present. If it should happen that every seat shal} be filled on Tuesday, it will be a very easy matter for the managers to obtain sufficient to control # majority even then. Further, in the event, which is not probable, that the Know Nothings mak imroad upon the vete of vight, the fact is now ascertained that two, and par- three barnburpers of the House, aad one certain, if not two, in the Senate, will vote for Mr. Seward to counteract the Know Notbings. Butif this emergency does not arise they will not go over to the whigs quite so soon. fuch are the facts as they exist this moment at the capital, and they tel! unquestionably that Senator Se- ward will be re-elected. That decision the caucus deter- mined last evening, and it 1s irrevocable. But the election ot teward bas entombed more than. twenty yhigs, elected under pledges ta, amd by votes’ of, K Kothings, tho Simon order. They tted, and tke brand of imfamy and ho age | dy visibly stamped upon their foreheads, Les them vote for Seward cn Tueeday next, as they did for t night, and they will each and every one become Fo deep in po.itical perdition that their fossil re- can never be guthered for resurrection. ow tor the Maine law; what will be ite fate ? Every+ bod; predicted that the election ef teward was the all- abdvorbing question, Everybody knows that several lead- ing members of the Houre were elected and came to the le ture at an immense sacrifice of time and money, whose Jegal and othe ifers toan incalou: Jable amount in their be earth); pangs the they now aid the Maine law tices, tempe- ravce bigots aided them im accomplishing the only measure of b tession w for? Will the leas pels, far ever posterous prohibitory bilf no’ the ® law, and adopt it as their part: platform? Thisinterrogatury will very soon mect with: " & response, Notwithstanding the result of the balloting in caucu lart night gave strong indications as to who the is likely to debate on Mr. Wy, Mr. Water! ly in reply to the Lge te wae the first eprech of any note wi that gentleman chaage. Old méw pork was ra‘uer easier. To | Nothings. Lot Seward ke re-elected, and the ‘world, the Russians excepted, there is no race | public eafety—not only for the present but for | ‘brovsheut the State, ss it would produce dis tobe with machetes, and ‘on scostat of the penis Liverpool and to the Continent provisions wer? | Northern victories of the Order will be butas the | or nation againet which these same English are anette Miser elicited ea ee going forward t> a fair ex'ent a+ previous ra To the former, rates for cotton, grain, a! rather favored shippers. empty battles of the Alma and the Iokermana, with a crushing defeat at Sebastopol. A cam- #0 constantly plotting as the United States! Is it becanse England and Frauce sent oat consuls the future—requires that the system of rota. | tion should.be thoroughly carried out in this office, in order that each superintendent may | ence and increase of numbers. Marcy replies that the story ie old, hi dit before, and as friend to Gen. Pierce bas egested material change, not Pewarl, was ned to with tention by a large snd somew! ditory ting Ox cited He declared himself in fayor of per the largert Liberty in religious opisioa, Our readers will ficé in another clamaax ia: | Peign will have been lost. The anti-slavery | to prevent us making a commercial treaty with | be a check on his predecessor, and that no such | MY im avd about New York, but elsewhere rette Caibolice, have equal’ rights with Frotees teresting account of a scene which occurred yester | Coulilion will take courage—they will proceed | Dominica that we are to eympathise with them system of frauds as have been brought to light | Metectability, intelligence and trustworthizess here riment, in the ‘od: eae ge pony oe day afternoon on board the Empire City, a for | moments praviousto her departure for Giviaa. A Cuban youth, namad Frank Hernandez, was abon leaving this country, in company with Mr. Cristyb. Carro>eli, on bis return home, whea his unele, D a Joseph Hernaadez, made his appearaace on bom i; aod om finding that it was against his wish oo Was going, brought him asho.e, aud the vessel pro eceded on its way without bim. We haxe nowa from Liber. $9 ths 15th Novem er, As an cvidenve of the progress of civilization, the isbabitauta were forming political party combins, tious fn oppes berte, who bas alre kas come to be regarded an a sort of old fogy, The propristy of introducing the Maine liquor law, by jegislative action, created considerable dtseussioy, The corner atoue of & new Eviecopal ciurch, desigaed to be the Jargeat in the repud'ic, was laid witn aly dhe ceremonies, at Monrovia, on the 39:5 October, and a schooner of tuirty-five toas, the largest ever ber | party, and it may be the crisis to the Union | itself, There is imminent danger that Seward’s farther to demoralige the Know Nothing army by corrupt bergains for the pluoder—suspicious end hestility to the order will extend in the South and, by the year 1856 the present Union sud bational party and platform of the Kaow Nothings way be swallowed up in a sactivnal disension contest upon the tlavery question. Clouds overhang the sky at Albany, sar- charged with all the elements of ruin aud dis ruption. Itis theerisis of the national unity and power of the new conservative American re-election will destroy the prestigé of the na- tionality of the Know Nothing organization, That gone, and the old parties frittered ty pieces, there is no escape from a sectional contest for the Presidency upon the slavery question, It is the object of Sew ard’s coalition—it would be a built in Liberia, was Jeunched on tho came day, The natives of Accra, on the Gold Coast, hadre | in their troubles? Is it because the agents of the Fireign Office are perseveringly engaged ia distorting our metives and thwarting oar aims in the Sandwich Islands that we arc to sympa- thise with England? Is it in memery of the threats held over our heads by Eagland and France that they would protect the Cuban au- thorities in harassing our trade, or ia mock thanktulness for the perseveriny endeavors of the same powers to prevent the annexation of Texas—peopled as it was with our own clti- zens—that we are bound to sympathise with the Western Powers? or is “ American sympa thy” viewed in Hogiand in the same light as canine affection—to be elicited by onffs and | kicks, by hard words and o steady course of unkindly treatment ? These are the poiats which the Times should | eet to work to expla'n, and not the eflly calou- | in the career of Schuyler, Forsyth and others should be porsibie in the Bank Department. In the individual case of Mr. St. John, the eystem of rotation would involve no injustice, For, whatever may be the merits or capacity of | that gentleman, it is notorious that he has not given satisfaction as Banking Superintendent | to any class of the commanity—except perhaps his personal friends. Attempts have been in- | discreetly made by the latter to show that Mr. St. Jolin’s anpopularity was dae to the vigilance with which he ferreted owt and punished die honest bankers. This would be in the highest degree honorable to him if it were trae: but it | is not. It is precisely his want of vigilance, | and more especially his want of mercantile | knowledge and experience—not at all sur. prising inan Albany politiclan—which have led to the gemeral demand for his dismissal. | wirdfall to the more desperate of the secessionists of the South—the yltimatum of both extremes jasiors of some Obscure trader, of whivh no ane here has ever beard anything. Le; | Examples of these shortcomings of his are plen- | tiful ae bad bank notes, Such, for instance, | | and about your Custom House are noted pugilists, gam cally, that he refused giving money when called upon, ond that he was no friend of the administration. Bishop Hegher, though absent, had his influence with the President, and the proposed scheme was unavailing. after are to be considered in the appointments to office Ninety-seven persons at this moment holding place ia blers, drunkards and thieves, and these men, whose nomes bave been shown to the President, obtained their situations through the recommendation of some of the Pierce ieaders who are now in Washington urging their retention in office, The removal of these men, ani others of not much better character, {1 determined upon, let the consequence be whatit may; the with. drawal of Redfield, Cochrane, Fowler and others from office, cannot prevent the change. A recent caucus was held in Fowler’s room, but none present were willing to preside, and with the exception of Samuel J. .tiden, none were fouhd bold enough to protest against the de. clared resolves of the President, and it is not yet certain that this person was speaking for or against the proposed policy. An effort was’ made mn the early arrival of there New York gentlemen to get John McKeon displaced. They reasoned that the Dietriet Attorney did not associate with them politi- on of our laws, the nw tive bora citizen should ru met combat ted the higber law doctrine;—the sectarian school 4. the arrow national policy of Governor Seward, contend ing that such principles and tal to the true interests of t go" he awarded to Catholics the perfect — to the enjoy ment of their religious sentiments, he thought the vowe which were taken by the bigher orders of that chureb were not congenial to the princi of this free govera- ment, in ort of which Me Lamport read what fe he Jesnit oath. From the inteme in- ich the merobers and audieace | stewed wo ite ree di are induced to believe that its appear ance in print would be gratifying to the readers ef thie: Heratp. We have therefore transcribed it, as followe>— f Almighty God, the blewot rf Arb the blovted les ter and St. sately be destroyed; therefore, to pees Tebsll od will defend this aoe Cushing and Forney warmly approve the policy avout aa —s—s—s—s—s_e dh oat of and hie ong ‘erurpers of ae See gland, and all Ve aru do renounce and ve. W. B. Farmer ot + *