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AWERICAN MUSEUM—Afterneon and Eveming—Evs- acne. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechaxies’ Hall, 472 Broadway 529 Bresdway—Buox- New York, Wednesday, February 14, 1855. The News. The steamship Asia, now fally dae from Liver- pool, had mot made her appearance at Halifax at gen o'clock last night. A northerly wind and clear weather prevailed. The Legislature of Pennsylvania met in joint couvention yesterdsy and ballotted twice for a United States Senator in place of Mr. Cooper, whose ‘term expires on the 4th prox. There were 130 members present, and on the second trial Simon Cameron (K. N. dem.) received 59, coming within seven of an election. A motion to postpone the election for two weeks was then made and carried by three majority. Before the balloting commen>ed, S resolution directing the appointment of a spocial committee to inquire whether bribery or corruption hse been resorted to with reference to the Senatorial election, was adopted, but one member in both bouses voting agsinet it. The special election for State Senator in Philadelphia zesterdsy, to fill a vacancy, ie believed to have resulted in the choice of Mr. Pratt, the Know Nothing candidate. Tae vote ws s very slim one, A despatch from Washington gives the result of ‘the tweaty second ballot for United States Senator im the California Legislatare, as follows:—Edwards, twhig) 36; Gwin, (dem.) 37; McCorkle, (dem.) 13; Broderick, (dem.) 12; McDougal, (dem.) 5; Litham, (dem.) 4. The Legislature is composed of 113 meni- bere, six of whom were absent. The Kuo Nothing State Council of New York ia ‘sow in seesion at Syracuse. James W. Barker, Daniel Uliman, Ger. Scroggs, Senator Goodwin, aud some two thousand other delegatas are in at- tendance. As yet nothing relative to their proeced- ings bas transpired. ‘The proceedings in the United States Senate yes terday present no feature of ‘general interest er importance. The House bill granting the righ: ef way for a subterranean telegraph line to the Pa- eific was passed. Several bills relating to river and harbor improvements were introduced and referred to the Committee on Commerce. The bill for th better protection of passeng?rs on shipboard was vecommitted. A number of bills relative to Terri- torial affairs were paseed. ‘The House of Representatives yesterday wa3 oc- eupied in the consideration of naval matters. The bill providing for more efficient discipline in the mavy was taken up and passed. The sbo‘ition of the “teat,” in 1850, and the neglect of Congress to pro- vide a salutary substitute for that usally effective though brutal mode of punishment, has Jed toa laxity of discipline detrimental to the publicservice. While remedying this evil, it has also been dee ned politic and just that seamen in thenavy shall be rewardsd to some extent for good con- duct. The bill just passed, by providing a system of punishments in the one case, and of rewards in the other, will no doubt lead to the end sought to ve attained—the more efficient discip‘ine of tho navy. The bill providing for a board of naval offi- ers, to pass upon and report the jualifications of officers, with the view of ¥ eeding out the incapables and valetudinarians, and placing them upon a retired Tiat, and also providing for the promotion of the efficient and deserving in the service, wastaken up, debated, and finally passed by a vote of 116 to 46. There was some opposition to the plau of pen- Moning off the retired officors, Messrs. Skelton and ‘Chandler preferring that they should be discharged from the service without pay; but the majority were . more bumene. The bill authorizing the constrac- tion of seven steam sloops-of-war, and appropriat- ing one million dollars for that purpose, was next taken up. It siipulates that four of the vessels shall be constructed at the navy yards and three by private contract. Mr. Bo.ock urged the passage of ‘the bill, on the greund that there was plenty of money in the treasury, which, if not appropriated for proper objects, would fall into the clatches of the spoilsmen, and alluded to the fact that the Know Sothings probably might have majority in ‘the next Congress, This remark called up Mr. Sollers, ‘of Maryland, who said the Know Nothings would soon have possession of the government, and restore it to its original purity. Without conclnding the debate on tie bill the House adjourned. In the New York Senate yesterday the Lemmon slave care resolution was under discussion, @uring which Mr. Seward’s political coarse ‘was severely animadverted upon by Mr. Brooks, who read a letter from ex President Fil- more, Thurlow Weed’s attempt to defeat the election of Gen. Taylor; he also read a letter from Hirom Ketchum, recapitulating Sew. fard’s course upon th2 echool question. These in- teresting documents are given under the telegraphic head. The resolution directing inquiry as to the authority by which Mr. Thomas Dunlap and Mr. James Kelly act as Commissioners of Emigration was adopted. Inthe Assembly a number of unim- portant bills were "passed in committtee of the whole. evening session was held, when no doubt the temperance bill was discussed; but the failed to furnish positive informa, tion upen that point. Our readers doubtless recollect the lugubrious how] of disappointment set up by the abolitionists of Boston, when Commissioner Loring, in obedience to his sworn oath to support the laws of the land, ordered the fendition of the fagitive slave Burns Bince that time the fanatics have been unceasing and in tueir endesvors to procure the removal of Mr. from the offiee of Jadge of Probate, to which he was appointed by Governor Briggs, in. 1847. Against the petitions to the Le of Massavhusetts, urging his removal, has entered @ protest, in Which he principles that guided his condact in lif decision in the case alluded to. We ia another colamn, and direct 6a bright: spot in the rank and abolitioniam, and as a manly vindi- against the machina. found F Ht Es NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. VEBRUARY 14, 1853. latyrinth bat'by over the corpse of Mormo:-| THE LATEST NEWS. from which have only as yet made their appearance in the American newspapers. It will be seen by what we publish to-day, that extensive changea are contemplated by the Spanish government im the Constitution and laws of the island, in order te se- cure the fidelity of the population to the mother country. Whether those suggested’ wil. have the effect proposed time alone will show. In another column we publish an sqvount of # dia- Dolical attempt by some unknown misoreant to assassinate a lady, by shooting, om Monday evening, at her residence, in Broadway. As yet 20 clue to the villain has been obtained, sed the affair remains &@ profound mysvery. ‘The cotton market yesterday was without further change of moment in prices. The sates embraced about 700 a 800 bales, he stock was again becom- ing reduced, and that on sale, especially of New Or- leans and Texas middling, was light. Flour was without change of moment, while sales were mode- rate, including small lots for export. Prime South- ern white wheat aold at $2 28,and Michigan at $2 40. Corn was quiet, and sales lightat $1. $1 Ol. for yellow Jersey and Northern. Southern and ‘Western was held above the views of buyers. Pro- visions were without marked change in prices. Considerable sales of valuable real estate were made yesterday at very full,and in some cases at extravagant prices, considering the late hue and cry about the hard times and scarcity of money. Ex-Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania, hss been elected President of the Erie and Sunbury Railroad in place of Hon. James Cooper. Within the past three weeks upwards of five thousand three hundred and fifty bales of cotton, valued at more thana quarter of a million of dol- lors, have been destroyed by fire at the South. The twelfth anti-slavery lecture of the season was delivered last evening in the Tabernacle, by the Rev. Samuel J. May, of Syracuse. The audience wasamall. The burden of the reverend gentleman’s lecture was a eulogy of Wm. Lioyd Garrison. Mayor Wood has determined to send back to thelr own country the thirteen Belgians who arrived at this port from Antwerp some two months ago, and who have dusing that time been detained in the Tomba. The Belgian Consul has received notification of this design. A report of the proceedings of the Board of Alms- house Governors, held yesterday afternoon, is given in another column. There were 7,095 persons in the institutions under the control of the Board on the 10th inst.—an unprecedented number, we be- lieve. The Czar and the Four Points. The explanations given in the House of Com- mons on the 23d ult., by Lord John Russell, in reply to an interpellation by Mr. Layard, re- specting the then state of the Vienna negotia- tions, throw but little further light on the real motives and intentions of the Czar, in what is called his acceptance of thé’four points. It ap- pears that at the conference held at Vienna, on the 28th of December, between the representa- tives of the three Powers and the Russian en- voy, Prince Gortschakoff, it was {distinctly inti- mated to the latter that the allies proposed in their interpretation of the third of these arti- cles, to put an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea. Prince Gortschakoff declined to agree to such an interpretation, but requested time to communicate with his govern- ment, Atasubsequent meeting, held on the 7th of January, at the Austrian Foreign Office, the Prince read a memorandum which he had received from St. Petersburg in the interim, and which ret forth the viewsofhiscourt. The ministers of the other Powers refused to receive the memorandum, and again empbatically de- clared that “they must require as the basis of negotiations, the consent of the Russian pleni- potentiary to the interpretation of which he had already received information.” Prince Gortschakofy, it is stated, then withdrew the memorandum he had read, and declared the ac- ceptance, on the part of his government, of the communicated interpretation as the basis of negotiations. It does not require any very profound know- ledge of Statecraft to appreciate the exact value of this diplomatic juggle. How any one could be deluded for a moment into the hope that anything seriously affecting the question of peace was to result from it, it is difficult to conceive. The situation of things must indeed be desperate when we find people ciinging to euch crumbs of comfort. Only think of the Czar, after riding his high horse so Jong and so proudly, and thrashing the allies after approved Muscovite fashion—that is to say, by keeping shady and letting them use themselves up— now falling on his knees and crying peccavi to his enemies. The spectacle would certainly be a Christian one, but notwithstanding his pro- fessions of orthodoxy, it passes our powers of belief to give Nicholas credit for so much apos- tolical humility. Let us see what are his real objects in the diplomatic lie of which Prince Gortechakoff has been the medium. We need hardly point out» in the 'first place, the absurdity of the hypothe- sis that he will ever willingly consent to treat for peace on ® preliminary basis which annihi- lates forever the supremacy of Russia in the Black Sea. What does the interpretation given by the allies to the third point literally mean? The destruction of Sebastopol as an indispen- sable condition, and probably the forfeiture of the Crimea iteelf as contingent one, in case the Russian navy is left on its present footing, which, in the event of the submission of Rus- sia, would be extremely problematical. With- out the execution of one or other of the two first of these stipulations, any treaty which pro- fessed to effect the object aimed at by the allies | would be wholly inoperative; and they have shown that they are fully alive to this fact. In adhering, therefore, to the article objected to | by Prince Gortschakoff, they convey a meaning which Russia cannot misunderstand, but which, under no possible state of circumstances short of the most calamitons and frretrievable ruin, can she ever consent to. The very worst ‘position to which she might be reduced by a protracted war, would not impose upon her severer or more humiliating conditions. What, therefore, are we to think of her sincerity in declaring her acceptance of the allied constraction of the con- ditions laid down as the besis of negotiations? She evidently does not mean what she express ¢s, end means what she does not express. In thie, as in every otter diplomatic phase of the difficulty, she is endeavoring to foil her enemies by her Oriental talent for diesimulation, and by the superior skill of her combinations. It is not uolitely she will succeed. The whole secret of her pretended return to moderation in the present instance, lies in the fact that Austria was driven into a corner by the stipulations of the treaty of the 2d of December, and that she was obliged to lose her or come to her re- lief. Had Rupsia persisted in refusing to ne- gotiate before the clore of last year, Austria would have been compelled by the treaty to commence active hostilities against her old ally and benefactor, which is about the last thing she desires to do. Besides, in view of the diffi- culty of degiding the minor German States to sonte Gefinite course ef action; it yng meces- sary to gain further time. Both objects have been accomplished by the results of the ‘recent conferences. Months will now be con- samed in fruitless discussion on points respect- ing which the parties can never hope to agree, whilst, in the meantime, Russian intrigues will be completing their work of disunion in the German Confede: ation, and gathering together the elements of a counter coalition. Such is our interpretation of the Czar’s acceptance of the four points. They must be sanguine indeed who see in it any hopes of peace. ‘The Mormons and Their Destiny. We publish elsewhere another singular Mor- mon sermon or lecture, delivered by Elder Or- son Hyde, at Deseret, on the 6th of October last. It appears to contain nothing particular- ly new, but reiterates, almost in tve same old language, the same old fallacies about the Bible and polygamy, which have been the stock iu trade of the Mormon orators for some time past. Simultaneously with this discourse, a letter, genuine or spurious, we will not undertake to say which, appears in several of the papers, signed Sarah Young and Eliza Williams, in which one of these females announces that she intends to deliver lectures on Mormondom, and that she will expose Brigham Young and his friends thoroughly, having had ample opportu. nities for acquiring information on this subject while an inmate of the harem of that modern apostle, All this looks very much like the puff anticipatory. Mrs. Sarah Young may have been, as she says, the spiritual wife of a Mor- mon chief, and may have seen strange things in Utah, for aught we know to the contrary; but her way of announcing the fact reminds one 80 strongly of Joice Heth, and the Fejee mer- maid, and the woolly horse and that order of humbugs, that her threatened exposé of Mor- mon horrors will pass, in the minds of nine people out of ten, for a mere trick to draw au- dienees to her lectures, It is pure folly to talk of the Mormons con- temptuously and slightingly. They are a great fact; a living body, growing greater and more formidable day after day. While thoughtless peo ple here are sneering at their polygamy, they are adding to their numbers by the thousand, and becoming more zealous in proportion to the slights put upon them. Planted in the heart of the continent and acknowledging some sort of dependence upon the United States, they still regard themselves as a race apart, talk of the American people as they would of foreiga- ers, and evidently look forward to a separate and’ distinct destiny of their own. We may laugh at them, rail at them, threaten them as we please; they are growing all the better for our ill-will, and gaining proselytes from all parts of the world. We cannot, either by con- tempt or violence, evade the solution of the problem which is every day drawing nearer and nearer, and which someday must be colved, if it cost the Unjon its existence ; what is to be done with the Mormons? The closer that problem comes, the more in- teresting grows the resemblance—so often noted —between the fellowers of Mahomet and those of Joe Smith. Events, we know, repeat them- selves ina never varying cycle; and it does eeem, on reading the lives of Mahomet and Joe Smith, as though the latter had been in- tended to play in the nineteenth century the part the former did in the seventh. Both founders of new religions, a striking similarity in the times at which they flourished afforded both a favorable prospect of success. Sale, following Prideaux, says of the period at which Mahomet appeared :— What by the ambition of the clergy, and what by drawing the abstrusest niceties into controversy, and dividing and subdividing about them into endless schisms and contentions, men had destroyed that peace, love and charity from among them which the gospel was given to promote, they had lost the whole substance of their religion while they thus eagerly contended for their own imaginations concerning it; and in @ manner quite drove Christiavity out of the world by those very controversies in which they disputed with each other about it.” Would it be possible to paint the present state of the Christian world, with the myriads of sects and churches and various readings of the Bible, and countless hollow forms, in language more vivid than this? The coincidence continues: “Men of all condi- tions,” says Sale, ‘‘made it their sole business to get money by any means.” This was said of Asia in the sixth, not Americain the nineteenth century. ‘As the Roman and Persian empires were declining, so Arabia, at Mohammed’s set- ting up was strong and flourishing; having been peopled at the expense of the Grecian empire, whence the violent proceedings of the domineer- ing eects forced many to seek refuge ina free country, as Arabia then was, where they who could not enjoy tranquillity and their con- science at home, found a secure retreat.” Substitute “European” for “Roman, Persian and Grecian,” and “America” for “Arabia” and this passage might find a fitting place in any history of the United States. Weare too near the days of Joe Smith to judge him fairly yet, and it is quite itapossible to find out the trath concerning Brigham Young. But there is a striking analogy between their religion and that of Mahomet. The latter came at a period when men were distracted | by discussions on subordinate points of theolo- gy and built his system the simple formula— “There is no God but God and Mahomet is his prophet,’ Every one understood this at a glance. The Mormons, as will been by the ser- mon published elsewhere, aim at a similar sim- plicity. Mahomet appealed to the passions of the people, turned their vicious propensities to his own advantage by legalizing polygamy | and setting the example himself. So did Joe | Smith; and who shall say that the passions are less powerful to-day than they were twelve | centuries sgo, in the deserts of America than in those of Arabia? There are many people, we know, who will smile at historical parallels of this character, perhaps think them singular, but bestow on them no lasting attention. This may be error. The time is at hand when we shall be bound, yes, be bound, in spite of oureelves to dispose of the Mormons. How is to bedone? Shall we re-establish the intolerant laws of other ages, and abolish liberty of conscience? The spirit of the present time is opposed to any thing of the kind. But shall we coalesce with the Mormons, give them the right hand of friend- ship, and sit down beside them as brothers? Imporsible. If John Smith the Mormon has dom or over the corpse of Christianity. Sooner or later the confli¢t must come. We must put them down or they must put us down. This may seem ridiculous at present when a company of infantry could on a pinch set De- seret to rights. But there are over two millions of Mormons:in the world, all of whom have be- come Mormons within the past ten or fifteen years; any one can calculate at this rate of pro- gress how many there will be in the year 1875. Who knows, too, that the contest may not come at a time when the slavery question is distract- ing the Union, and every man’s hand turned against hia neighbor? And when it does come, who Will fight the best, think you, men who are fighting for their church, their faith, their homes, their rights, their social existenee, or men who are fighting for the maintenance of an abstract law, and the upholding of iatoler- ance? "Tis a subject for grave and anxious thought. Cox. Cour Anp HIs Pigrors—Extexstve Pre- PARATIONS FOR A GENERAL War.—lIt will be seen, from our Washington advices of this morning, that Col. Colt bears the deteat of his patent extension like a philosopher and a man of business. He is himself opposed to this monopoly legislation; but was drawn in and done for by his lobby friends, acting in behalf of another special extension of his patent for seven years. His present patent, we believe, has several years yet to run, and in that inter- val he has resolved to supply the civilized world with his revolvers. And when his pa- tent expires he confidently counts upon his superior machinery, materials, skill and expe- rience, a8 sufficient to secure him against all competition. He has now an immense pistol factory at Hartford, involving a capital of several hun- dred thousand dollars. He has a still larger establishment at London, for the supply of the British army; and when the French, Russians, Austrians, Prussians, and Turks, are each sup- plied with a factory, the cavalry of their re- spective armies will be rendered as deadly as the point blank fire of a battery charged with grape and canpister. Col. Colt is induced to this enterprise of supplying all the Eu- ropean belligerents with his revolvers, in order to prove his neutrality in the present war. That’s fair. John Bull cannot object to that. Perhaps, also, the general distribution of revolvers among the contending armies, may operate to shorten the duration of the war, in lessening the time which would otherwise be required to complete the work of slaughter. This is a» bumane view of the subject, in which Colonel Colt may be considered as entering the field as a peacemaker, at so much per pistol, wholesale or retail. From present appearances, however, his plan of operations may bring hin in millions upon millions of money before his revolvers will become a drug in the market. Kuyyey anp Cvsa—Waar’s iv tHE Wisp?— The evidence increases in support of the gene- ral suspicion that the real destination of the Kinney expedition is the island ot Cuba. It appears that Marcy’s manifesto has not disband- ed the organization. This we hold to be very strong circumstantial proof that Cuba isthe real ultimatum of Col. Kinney. Marcy’s mani- festo outlaws the Mosquito colonization scheme —declares null and void the land purchase from the half naked Zambo called the Mosquito King,’ upon which, perchance, Messra. Cooper, Cost Johnson, Captain White, and others, pro- pose to settle their squatters, and re-affirms the Monroe doctrine. A British fleet is at Greytown, ready to co-operate with the troops of Nicaragua and Costa Rica against the Kinney emigrants. Persistence, therefore, in this absurd colonial Central American invasion, is out of the question ; and if this Kinney organization be still intact, Cuba is at the bottom of it, and ere long it will probably be at the bottom of Cuba. In connection with this wild goose enterprise, the significant movements of the filibusters, and the preparations of Gen. Concha to give them a warm reception, must not be overlooked. There is no doubt that a large amount of money bas been collected into the liberation treasury of New Orleans ; and a general idea seems to pre- vail among the initiated that there will very ehortly be bloody work in “the ever faithful | island.” There is evidently something in the | wind, and the Captain-General of Caba unques- tionably supposes it to be a Cuban revolution: simultaneously with a descent of the filibusters on the island. Hence, while he is arming the | mulattoes, he is searching among the creoles for contraband instruments and munitions of war—and making some ugly discoveries, too. We must also bear in mind that the filibus- ters have been quiet for the last year, in the hope that under the management of Soulé, | they might obtain the glorious advantage of | a war with Spain. Soule has proved a dead failure—there is no hope of Cuba, in any way, under this administration. Thus the fili- busters are thrown back upon the original | plan of Lopez as the only plan for securing the | liberty and the spoils of Cuba, while, if they | propose a descent, there isno time to be lost. England and France are now sbsorbed in Se- bastopol, and ‘Sebastopol is not yet taken.” This is the nick of time, It is the right season { of the year. Theclimate of Cuba nowis genial and healthy; two or three months hence, to the | Anglo-Saxon it will be poisonous and deadly, | Delayed till May, the invasion must be put off | another year. In the interval there may pos- sibly be peace in Europe, which, if it comes, will enable France and England to place an im- passable cordon of ships around Cuba. Upon the whole, therefore, considering the | excitement and military proceedings at Ha- vana, the mysterious movements of the filibus- ters, the continued organization of the Kianey | expedition, the war in Europe, the failure of | Soulé, the seasom of the year, and the imbe- | cility of the administration, we should not be | eurprieed if we were even to hear of a repeti- | tion of the Lopez tragedy in Cuba out-and-out. | The books of the Kinney company are still open for volunteers. Who joins? Marine Affairs. Queer IwportaTion.—The ship Glance, from Glas- | gow, arrived yesterday, has on board, as part of her | cargo, twenty-nine tons of turnips, in bulk, consigned to | & party in this city. | ‘Tus Sraam mp Kyoxvinte, Captain Ladiow, arrived | yesterday morning from Savannah, bringing us papers from that city in advance of the mail. Ex Alderman W. W. Fream. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yona, Feb. 13, 1865. Having seen in your paper and « number of others that Wiliam W. Fream was sent to Blackwell's Island six wives, we cannot send John Brown the Christian to jail for having two. There must either be no Mormons among us; or we must all be Mormons. There fs no way out of the ‘got } pease mg BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Ballettings for United States Senators in Pennsylvania and California. Interesting Letters from Millard Fillmore and Hiram Ketchum. COLT, CUBA AND THE KINNEY EXPEDITION, der, dic, dee Non-Arrival of the Asia. Haurix, Feb. 18-10 P. M. There are no signs, up to this hour, of the steamship Asia, now due from Liverpool. The wind is north, and the weather clear. Fennsylvania Politics. THE UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP—COMMITTEB AP- POINTED TO INVESTIGATE CHARGES OF CORRUP- TION—THE ELECTION OF STATE SENATOR IN PHI- LADELPHIA, Harriseuna, Feb. 13, 1855. The Legislature met to-day in joint convention, for the election of United States Senator. Number of members present, 130; necessary to a choice, 66, Cameron bad Buck J.P. Jom Scatterin; On the second ballot Cameron had 59; A motion to postpone the election two weeks prevailed —07 to 64. Aresolution passed both houses this morning, direct- ing the appointment of a select committee to investigate whether corruption or bribery has beem resorted to for effecting the election of a United States Senator from this State. There was only one negative vote in both houses. ‘The special election to-day for State Senator, in Phila- delphia county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Fowlkrod, (democrat,) was conducted very quiet- Jy, and the returns received go to show that but a slim vote has been cast. It is believed that Pratt, the Know Nothing candidate, is elected. Ballotting for United States Senator tn Call- fornia. Wasnincron, Feb. 13, 1855. By a private despatch from New Orleans, we have the result of the twenty-second ballot in the California Le- gislature for Senator zt Edwards, (whig). . 36 Gwin, iar? ae . 37 McCorkle, (dem: 18 Broderick, (do.) 12 icDougal, (do. Nathan (supposed Latham). The previous ballots were about the same. The Legis- lature is composed of 113 members, New York Know Nothing State Councll. Syeacuss, Feb. 18, 1865. The Grand Council of Know Nothings for the State of New York is now in session in Corinthian Hall. James W. Barker, of New York, is presiding over some 1,700 delegates. Daniel Ullman, G. A. Scroggs, W. A. Good- win, and other noted members, are present. Nothing re- lative to the proceedings can be learned, Interesting from Washington. COL. COLT AND HIS PATENT—HE APPROVES THE AC- TION OF CONGRESS—HIS PLANS—SUFFERINGS OF THE LOBBY—ALVARADO HUNTER AND COLONEL KINNEY—ANTICIPATED DESCENT UPON CUBA. Wasuinaton, Feb. 13, 1855. Col. Colt left here very soon after the defeat of his Dill, He took the action of the House upon it much more kindly than his agents and friends of the lobby who got him into the scrape. Upon hearing the final vote he eaid, ‘It is mght; and the fact is, I am opposed to all this monopoly legislation myself; but my affec- tionate friends manifested such deep concern in my be- half aa to be perfectly irresistible.” Col. Colt’s specia! agents, ex-Senator Jere. Clemens, Mr. Lawyer Dickerson, and others, on the other hand, are discorsolate, and could only be temporarily comforted by a first class oyster supper, garnished with champagne and se- gars, The poor newspaper correspondents, who ex- pected to bag so much in various ways, some in kid gloves and perfumery, and other articles of French Dijouterie (so indispensable to the ladies), some in re- yolvers, some in cash, some in fancy stocks, and what not, will never get over it. They are done with Egerton. Col. Colt, in the meantime, has gone off to New York to make preparations for such an increase of his pistol fac- tories as will bring him in a million dollars a year. He has now animimense factory at Hartford, Comn., and a still larger one in London; and he is resolved to prove his neutrality in this European war by furnishing all the belligerents with the same six shooting pistols. To this end he proposes establishing a factory respectively in France, Austria, Russia and Prussia, and probably one also at Constantinople. And ashe possesses the ma- chinery and the secrets required in the manufacture of his revolvers, which ne patent can give or take away,"he is confident that his pistols will be preferred to all imita- tions,from Nicholas and Napoleon down to Bill Pooleand Tom Hyer. Alvarado Hunter ia soon expec‘ed kere to join the Kinney expedition, which has not bsen knocked in the head by Marcy’s manifesto, as many suppose it to be. The Kinney volunteers are willing to risk the outside chances, suspecting, as they do, that after passing by the Western end of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea, they will tack about, turn their backs upon the Mosquito coast, and make all sail fer the Eastern end of Cuba, six hun- dred miles from Havana and the body of the Spanish troops. By this movement they count upon a success- fal landing, and such @ revolutionary rising as will enable them to march triumphantly from the Fastern te the Western extremity of the Island, gathering strength as they go, like a rolling snow ball. The Quitman orgavization, and the dlibustering juntas in New York and New Orleans, are said to be branches of the Kirmey expedition, which is to pioneer the way. The treasury of the filibusters at New Or- leans, we learn, is able to command at any time a mil- lion and a half of money, and that all concerned are preparing for a terrible surprise to General Concha. You will have perceived that he is alarmed, and is en- rolling the mulattoes, and making all the usual prepara- tions for repelling an impending isvasion. English and French vessels of war are also mysteriously increasing at Havana and that neighborhood. It is reported that George Law ia to supply the invading expedition with muskets adepted to the ball and cartridge of the Minte rifle. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasuixotos, Feb. 13, 1855. No. 53,— Wm. Short’s executors, et al., vs. Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. Error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Justice Campbeil delivered the opinion of the court, affirming ju with conta. No. 44.—The United States, appe , va. Archibald A. Ritchie. Argument continued by Mr. Bibb for the appellee, and concluded by the Attorney-General for the appellants. Latest from the State Capital. THE TEMPERANCE BILL—THE COMMISSIONERS OF EM: IGRATION— DUNLAP AND KELLEY INQUIRED FOR— AWKWARD REMINISCENORS OF WHIG POLITICIANS— LETTERS OF MILLARD FILLMORE AND HIRAM KETCH. UM-—WBED'S TREACHERY TO GEN. TAYLOR—SE- WARD'S COQUETTING WITH THE CATHOLICS, ETC. ALBANY, Feb. 13, 1855, An was expected the Select Committee reported back to the House the probibitory bill in nearly the same shape hich it was committed to their hands. This renders impossible to amend it im any important particular. ‘The majgrity have allowed debate upon it for a week, du- ring every afternoon session, and on the 2ist inst the final vote will be taken in the House, No one doubts its paseage through that body by as large a vote as it re- ceived last year. The indications gow are, that it wil! also pase the Senate in the precise shape adopted by the lower branch of the legislature, and to take effect on | the first day of May next. Landlords and tenants may as well agree upon rents for the forthcoming year in ac- cordance thereto. The resolution making inquiry of the Commissioners of Emigration why Thomas Dunlap and James Kelly off- ciate’aa members of that board, was adopted this morn- | ing. Neither Senators Hopkins or Dickingon, by whove motions it bas been twite raised any farther objections. So the Commissioners will a send up the int without unnecessary Nay. ‘The debate of last week was renewed. Mosars,, Dickin- Brook pied most of the time in jsceaee each understood a4 The the silvers and large share in Trorhat co hes beck as the tite when Thurlow Weed fetermined to. defeat Gem. Taylor constitut ‘tion agrant, I ask to deny the | account ot the old General’ ofs same; 004 parsons whe gave You the wound | flo rom the comms of nether Ona io against me J will hold casion Mr. Fillmore’s name Les ge ory 4 i: ‘That gentleman has"been requested to give hie 4 as he was then in Alba; State, Thies hipatatements> LBITER OF MILLARD FITA.woRE, Praag ‘ Borvata, N. Y¥., Fob, Ly R Sin—I have yours of whieh you Inquire whether I was, privy to; cun antes a apy resolutions drawn by Mr. Weed or pod, po upon at the Albany meeting ia Ai to deteat General Taylor, to which Thee tonne! that I neither drew nor advived the * such resolutions ; that on eotering Mr. s v Hy u % & if i office, just at dusk, I foun?’ lim wing such resolutions for the meeting wi then bedn He read them to me, which was the first know. ij Es calied. ledge I had of them, and I protested against t! the meeting, and on my remonstrance, as 1 understood. Mr. Weed consented not to present them, but to have the meeting postponed. These are the but in retirement I would choose to avoid all ged pecially such as arises from political controversy; nevertheless, if it be essential to the th of history that you should make known the contents af this letter, you are at liberty to do so. I om tru! MILLAI MORE. Hon. Exastvs Brooxs, Sensie Chamber, Albany. It is stated in private circles, that notwithsanding thie denial ef having participated in the preparation of those resolutions by Mr. Fillmore, that they are still in exist- ence, bearing evidence of bis alterations and interlinea- tions. They may be produced. Mr. Brooks, in his speech to-\iay, produced the follow- pr tag written by Hiram Ketchum, Eaq., of the city of New York :— New YORK, Yall street Drax Sm:—You have seen fit to intredwee 1855. io the de- date in the Senate the szhoo! - tion to the office of Circuif Jule, in May, 1841, amd the withdrawal of that nomination by Gov. Seward. Sines these topics have been broug!t before the Senate, I am desirous that the facts siould truly appenr. Senator Dickinson ¢ay#, my nomination was for weeks. It was sent to the © Fee og eee Set he: acl hs? 26tb. He says also, that Gen, -. Talmadge and himself, made a representation to imp that my nomination would not be confirmed, and that he withdrew it. It happens th a that tune @ member of the & action so tar as he was co: od; witness, I never heard of the facts stated b; Gen. Root, is dead. y. Mr. Dickinson before he the statement. The facts. relating to the whole savubject are bi these. In the year 1824, the Legisiacure gave the cor- poration of the city of ew York power to dis- tribute the portion of the school ed to, and raised for that city among such imatit and schools as should by ordinance be designated. der this law the Common Council excluded froma Cian oa tion in this fund schools established by all religious de- nominations, including, of course, Roman Catholic schools. In 1840 the Koman (utholic schools tioned corporation for a participation in this |. In Oc- tober of that year they were heard before s full council, through Bishop Hughes, at great length. Others were heard. leppeared on that occasion, The corporation investigated the subjected with care and patience, and many of its members visited tae schools, and then re- jected the Caper with, I think, entire unanimity. The oman Catholics then applied to the ture. Their etitions were referred to the Secre' of State, Hon. Techn C, Spencer. In 1841 be mace aa Ylabncase 7 suggegting a plan which allowed the formation of vol: | untary associations for the establishment of 5 ‘These associations, when formes, would have beea cor- rations quite as close aa the Public School . ey would, mozeover, have aliowed Roman Catholice to, form , associations among themselves, establish schools fer their own children, appoint their own clergy teachers, and their clergy would Bave drawn their salary from the sshool fund. It is believed the was sub- , and had the certain appro! of Bisho; Hughes. After this report was drawn, Gov. Seward eame to the city of New York and juested an inter- view with the trustees of the Public School . ‘The interview was held, the plan was the Go- vernor; the trustees were not con’ 5 they op- sed it. On the 30th of April, 1841, the trustees sent the Legislature a remonstrance against this report, soe. Saree to be heard This remonstrance was re- fe by the Senate to the Committee on Literature, composed of Gen. Root, Mr. Verplanck and Mr. Hunter. This committee held a meeting to hear parties in the Capitol on the 8th of May, 181i. This meeting was at- tended by a number of Roman Catholies from the of New York, representing the schools of this de: - nation. They were heard through two of the bar, Wright Hawkes, Zeq., anc the late Mr. McKeen. 1 was Leard on behalf of the Public School Society at some length. On the llth of tae same moath, Tuesday fol- lowing, the committee reported a bil. On the same day, 1 understood, gy was sent to the Senate. 7, the Senate to the further consideration of the report, and Senater Nicho. las moved that the further consideration be pos} to the first Sunday of vanuary, next ensuing. On motion, the ayes and nays were taken; were down in the affirmative and ten in the tive. The bil? the Jost. On the ene of the ayes Senator Root nor Senator vote, as 1 was informed, the Governor with- drew my nomination. On the 26th, the next day, the Senate adjourned. Now, from that day to this, I have been of opinion that Governor Sew: who was very anxious for the passage of tois bill, and ex to me, on the 8th of May, his full belie! that it would pass, withdrew my nomination because his favorite messure failed; and to +how his entire sincerity to the friends of that measure, Bishop Hughes and the Roman Catholics of the city of ‘New York, was therefore nacridced upon the soil of my native State, not thirty miles my birth pegs, please those of another id not born in my country. I know I shail be for say- ing that I did not contemplate this transaction wit campuansecy, 20 this view of it; but Senator Dickinson puts a new on the whole affair, According to his statement, my withdrawal was from kindness and deli- cacy tome. What a» pity that such kindness should have been concealed from the public for fourteen years. Yours, very respectfully and ear Hox, Euastcs BRooxs. iRAM KETCHUM. This exposure of the reasons why Mr. Ketchum’ name was withdrawm from the Senate, is one of the strongest evidences of Seward’s truckling to the Catholic power. It is well that the statement is out, as it will open the eyes of many of those who voted for him se- cretly, upon pledges made that the Senator had no Jeanings towards Bishop Hughes or the Catholic voters. et SEWARDITES BURNED IN EFFIGY. Aupasy, Feb. 13, 1865. Speaker Littlejohn wae suspended in effigy on a cross, and burned in front of Capitol, last night, and Dr. Thompron was treated in the eame style in front of the Journal offize. Considerable excitement was occasioned by these scenes. The Departure of the Africa. Boston, Feb. 13, 1855. ‘The steamship Africa will leave here for Liverpool, at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning, and the maiis will close at 8 o'clock. Sunbury ard Erie Railroad Company. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13, 1865. Ex-Governor Bigler has been elected President of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, unanimously, . Delegates to the Steam Fire Engine Exhi- bition. Parrnson, N. J., Jan. 13, 1855. The City Council of Paterson have appointed Messrs. Joseph C. Toad and Edward G. Ford a committee to at tend the exhibition of the steam fire engine, about to be exhibited in New York, from Cincinnati. ‘The Loss of the Br. Bark . Puraverrata, Feb. 13, 1866. ‘The captain and crew of the British bark Blythewood, before reported ashore, finally abandoned the vessel on Saturday jast. Two of the masts were gone, ani she bad eight feet of water in her hold, The vessel and cargo will prove @ total loss. Arrival of the Southerner at Charleston. Cuantaston, Feb. 13, 1856. The United States mail steamship Southerner, Capt. Thomas Ewen, arrived here st five o’clock, from New York, this (Tuesday) morning. Markets. PRILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. Puitapeuraia, Feb. 1 . Stocks have improved. We quote ican ag at 9834; Morris Canal, 15%; Long Island 16%; Pennsylvania Railroad, ; Pennaylvania State fives, $60\.. "The money market is unchanged. ‘ azz: Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS, Nicholas—B. Ohio; Ju Foot, 6 Belden, joo. A. Sti Mem 1, Ution;’ A ; J. W. Bate, N. Ee Whitam Keep, Pegkpors ities Sea ‘Albany; R. Asay? Doctor Blackman, Newburg: J. C Jovasoh, Mem is; John Prtae Batinerst Soest Fi Boston; P ot - Shaplhagalbiapeabe gk jouse—Hon. A. Fraser, jermont, Dre ATA, Mayer, + . A. A. Ha: Dent t. Ne ; Albans, Vi; Jon Ketchum, Dover Plains: ichigan; J. H. Ball, the Senate: nate, May 11, 1841, cer- Senate adjourned