The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1855, Page 4

372 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMLS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, ‘OyPFICH %. W. CORNER NASSAU AND FULTON O78 cress 47 Weare BK ee cee renee eee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Orsprnenua—A& Wowa Five TRAVELLER, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Momawrovs Quzation —Oun GaL-IkisuMAN im JaPan—Turam Jack Sucr- Fanve ow Honsrsack. @URTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Jony Jonze— Wuenx Sau. i Oise! Swaxtumarts ann Wives. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Gauz or Lire~ @PLAsniGan AND THE Farpixs, AMSRICAN MUSEWM—Afternoon—Don OCxsaR px Bazan. Eveaing-Rosiva Muapows -Tus Sxitus. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Meohahiee’ Hall—472 Broadway BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway—Bvon, aur's Hrmoriay Orxaa Taovrn, New York, Saturday, February 17, 1855. The News, Our Washington daspatches are very interesting. "Pho movements of the government to checkmate the filibusters are minutely detaiked. We have additional news {rom Cuba which states that Gea, @oncha was well actusinted with the designs of the expeditionists, and thas he had iafued a procla- mation commanding that no quarter be shown them in case of capture. President Pierce has ap- proved the resolution conferring the rank of Lieut. General upon General Scott. A veto of the Preach Spoliation bill hes been prepared, and will proba bly be sent to the House today. We have received the important desision of Mr. McLane, the United States Commissioner, in the sflair cf the disputed import, export’ and tonnage duties at Bhanghae, alleged to be due and owing by citizens of the United States during the vicarious adwinietration of the Custom House at that port by the American and English Consuls, and which ex tended from the 7th of September, 1853, to the 12th of July, 1864. The amount awarded +0 the Chinese Boperintendent of Customs at Shanghae, by this de- cision, is 118,049 taele, nine mace and four cands- wens, or in round figures about $236,000. Tais amount will have to be collected by the United States Consul from the following houses:—Russeli & Co.; Smith, King & Co.; Ball, Nye & Co.; Augus- tine Heard & Co.; Wetmore & Co.; Hiram Fogg & ©o.; Wm. G. Pierce, Frauk Foster, and F. D. Wil- Mame. The award was rendered on tho 234 0f No. vember. We publish to-day highly interesting letters from our Loudon and Paris correspondents, reseived by te Asia, with some additions! exiracta from onr European files. The subjects of the ministerial criais in England, the management of the War Do- partment, the re’ative political positions of Austria and Prussia, with the latest report from Ssbastopol, are treated of at length. An article from tho London Times shows that that journal was dis- pored to look at the position of the British army ‘ww the Crimes ina more cheerful light. Gen, Paez, the Venezuelan chief, has offered his seryives to the British to drill light cavalry corps on the South American system. It is stated that the Western Powers have entered into confidential negotiations with Spsin for the accession of an aualliary force of 25,000 men to be sent to the Crimea. The “ consi- eration” for this service is stated to be the assist- ance of England and France to protect Spain in the possession of Cuba avainst any freebooting attack on the part of citizens of the United States. A satate- Ment to the same effect was made previous to the Sommencement of active hostilities on the Danube. Bpain refused at that time tomake the arrangement. The recent news from Cuba, however, readers it highly probable that the “ consideration” alladed to hee been accepted, and the arrival of a portion of the British West India fleet at Havana confirms the imipreesion. At will be ceen, from a notice in another column, that a meeting cf shipping merchants is to be held at the Merchants’ Exchange today, at ,34 o'clock, P.M.,totake into consideration the lays rogu- Jating the transportation of emigrant passengers. ~ The prerent law was passed when nearly, if not quite, all the American packets were two deskers; but since then they have been built with three decks. The effect ofthe present law, rigidly én forced, will be to cause a large majority of them to be eeized for violation of law, although sctually aflording more room and better accommoda- Mons to emigrants than were provided for un @er the law. {It geems that a new lav, the present sassion, was agreed’ upon jointiy by the Secretary of the Treasury, the sehippiag merchants, ard the Committee oa Commerce The latter reported it unanimously, when it was called up in the Senate. Mr. Benjamin, of Louisi- ana, opposed it onthe ground that Sena‘or Fish, who bad left fer the remainder of the session, had Jeft a bill of his own, on the same subject, with a request for him to press that, and to oppose ali others. In the meantime the Secretary of the ‘Fressury declares that unless a new lav is passed, he will euforce the old lavin the John Cochrane sense of it, which, if carried out, may lead to the seizure and withdrawel from service of about one hundred first class merchant vessels, At the meot- ing to-day, reeolutions will, no doubt, be adopted, arging strongly upon the attention of Congreas the necessity of speedy iegislation on the subject. Re gret was exprraed that Senator Fish should, while unexpectedly withdrawing himeelf for the remaiu- der of the session, have left the subject thus em- barraseed, The United States Senate yesterday was occupied im the consideration of private bills, Phe motion ‘to reconsider the vote laying the bill relative to the privateer Gen. Armstrong on the table was agroed to, and after some explanation as to the agreements entered into between the friends and opponents of the measure, it was again tabled—24 to 23, The Heuse at an early hour went into comm'ttee onthe Mail Steamer Appropriation bill, Aftera debate ct two days duration, the friends of the Col Mans eteamehips have triumphed. The amendment of Mr. Olds, repealing the directions given to the Secretary of the Navy to terminate the additional allowance to the Collins line, was agreed to—36 | votes in the affirmative, nays not counted. Tao | @ommittee then rose, and without taking the ques tion of concurrence on the ameudment the House adjourned. The steamboxt Commodore arrive! last night in safety with her passengers from Boston, after being bhoeked up in the ice off Sands Point siace Wednes- @ay forenoon. We give elsewhere an accouit of the incidents and sufferings on board. The Lientenant Goveruor of the State, and his eopsriners in the Daily Times, are“to appear before the Marine Court tis morning to show cause why they shonld not be committed for a contempt, avising out of a lampoon published in that pxper on Thursday. The Singapore Bi- Monthly Circular of Deo. 25, has come to hand. The imports of gold and silver Gust during the fortnight consisted of 118 buncals from the Archipelago. The rates reported for Aus tralian are $29 to $29 25 for bars, and $23 to $28 50 per buncal for dust. Uxporta, as above, 1,962 bua- cals. * The cotton market was more active yesterday, 29/4 all grades sbove midiling were quite steady, with a tendency to stiffer prices. Inferior and mid diteg grades were easy to purchase, withvat further ebange in prices. The rales embraced about 3,000 bales, about balf of which were in transita, Flour woe steady, without change of moment in prices. Some purchases were made for export, Wheat was quiet. Corn s0!d at $1 for Jersey white. Pork waa some easier, with moderate sales. Bosf ‘wee firm. Withip a woek cheese hae advanced “NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1855. pound, and is now he'd at eleven conts, owing to some speculative movement. The epirit rappers sssem)lea in fall fores at the Tabernacle iast evening. We present a graphic re- portof the sayings and doings, together with the address of ex-Judge Edmands, the first he has de- livered in this city eince he became a convert to the doctrines of spiritualism. In the New York Senate yesterday, the bill to prevent encroachments on our hurbor passed to a third reading, the section requiring a report respect- ing certain obstructions on the Brooklyn shore hay- ing been struck out, The Lemon slave case reso Intion was teken up, when the dispute between Mcesre. Brooks and Dickinson, relative to the | quarrels of the silver grey and woolly sections of the late whig party, was continaed. We forbear in flicting upon our readers a report of the discussion. A number of bills of local importance were passed in the Assembly. The Prohibitory Liquor bill was considered in the afternoon session, but the question to recommit bad not been taken when the ad- jouirnment took place. We have received a copy of Mr. Weed’s substitute, which prohibits the sale of intoxicating Hquors to be drank on the premises, but permits the sale in quantities not less than five gallons, under certain limitations ani restrictions and punishes intoxication summarily. As yet we do not perceive that this substitute has received the slightest favor from the ultra tempsranca party, and, therefore, postpone its publication. The senseless practice of burning delinquent po- liticians.in effigy has increased since the election of Mr. Seward. Daniel Uliman was served in this wey at Albany yesterday, and Mr. Littlejohn, Speaker of the Aesembly, was hung before the court house at Poughkeepsie the night pravio us. We publish eleewere the proceedings yestarday be- fore the Committee on Pubiic Health, of the Council men, the eubject utder consideration being the ex- pediency of prohibiting the slaughtering of cattle below Fiftieth street. Dr. Downing, City Inspector, ‘ppeared, and not only strongly urged the probibi- tion, but counselled the paesage of an ordisance abolishing slaughter houses from the city altogether. The Doctor made some startling revelations reepect- ing sale of diseased meat, a practice, it seems, of daily occurence, and one which, under the preseut regulations, there iano way of stopping. He re- lated an instance of “the meat of a cow which be bad seized se it was about beiog sold, which was absolutely putrifying, and when the finger pressed sgainst the hind qnarters the matter cxuded as though from an abcess.” No wonder Dr. Un- derbill exclaimed, with every ind cation of disgust, that henceforth he was a convert to vegetarianism, And yet this cort of stuffis daily sold in the mar- kets and butchers’ shops, under the nosa of the City Inspector, snd he has withheld the facts from the public. He likewise stated that were the pub- lic to know all he wis acquainted with in regard to this practice of selling diseased meat they would be actenished. Why has he not “astonished” the public long ago? We trast Mayor Wood will fiad it within the scope of his powers to institute an in- vestigation into this matter. More Cuban Disclosures—Extent of the Con- splracy—Policy of the United States and the ‘Western European Powers, It will be seen from our special correspon- dence of this morning, from Washington, that the government is adopting active measures to intercept the filibusteros, should they attempt to leave our shores, in any suspicious vessel or vessels, for the invasion of Cuba. At the same time we are informed by our Havana corres- pondent, that the local government of the island considers the conspiracy there as practi- cally extinguivhed, through the vigilance and activity of General Concha in detecting the sup- posed ringleaders; while, for “the security of the future,” in ignorance ofthese late Havana Gisclosures, our correspondent at London re- ports the revival of a late important rumor there from Spain. It is this: that overtures had been made to England aud France from the government at Madrid, proffering 15,000 Spa- nieh troops for the service of the allies agaiust Russia, if they will guarantee, first, the protec- tion of Cuba against our filibusters; and s2- condly, a loan of a million sterling on the eon- dition of the Sardinian loan, for a similar con- tingent to the Crimea. Such is the present posture of the question respectively at Havana, Washington, London and Madrid. The present anti-filibustering ac- tivity of our government under the new peace policy of Marcy, is somewhat remarkable. It is a reaction brought very sud- denly about by the terrible anti-slavery working of the Nebraska bill in the late elec- tions. When Soulé set out for Spain, it was amid the cheers and plaudits of the assembled Cuban Junta, He was their man, and they were to await the upshot of his movements at Madrid. His antecedents, his instinets, his in- structions, and the inclinations of the adminis- tration, were all of the filibustering type. His programme was arupture with Spain, under cover of which the filibusters were to “ let slip the dogs of war.” Soulé failed at Madrid. Dudley Mann went over to assist him in con- cocting arupture at Ostend; and that experi- ment wasa failure. Soulé returned again to Madrid, for a last and desperate effort there to precipitate a quarrel with the new government. But the Nebraska bill and the late elections, in the meantime, had created a stampede at Washington; andin the excess of his alarm, Mr. Pierce abandoned the Soulé programme, and fled for shelter under the wing of Marcy, and to a milk and water peace policy, Soulé was met at Madrid with instructions to this effect. He read them, pocketed them, turned upon his heel, and resigned in disgust. Thus the most comprehensive and formidable conspiracy ior ® buccaueering raid upon the beautiful and productive island of Cuba, of which any conception could have been en- tertained, involving thousands of men and millions of money, was suddenly defeated. Who could have dreamed that Nebraska would thus rebound against Cuba, and demolish at a blow the darling measure of a high pressure administration? There was something of positive grandeur in the extensive Cuba plot thus incontinently knocked in the head. Its ramifications extended from Wash- ington to New York, to New Orleans, to Ha- vana, to London, to Paris, to Ostend and Madrid. While Soulé was preparing the mine, the filibusters here, and their associate con- spirators in Cuba, were preparing to run in upon the signal of the explosion. That ap- pointed signal was the expocted rupture with Spain, and justice to Soulé requires the ad- mission that his ingenious and tremendous ef- one (ent p c forts to accomplish it were deserving of better success. He did bis duty to the coalition, It was the countermine of the Nebraska bill that blew him up. After waiting upon Soulé so long for nothing, the Cabinet organs may now return to the Africanization of Caba. There may be agmething in it, after all, The discloeures which have successively fol- lowed from Ostend to Havana, are full of mo- mentous suggestions. The ascertained magai- tude of this buccaneering organization in the United States, thus covertly leading the ad- ministration to the verge of a general war, is suggestive o the existence of the regtless ele. mente here of perpetual danger to the peace of the country while Cuba continues a possession ofSpain, Theimportant arrests made by Gen. Concha indicate a complete system of corres- pondence between this country and the island, in spite of the stringent espionage of the Cuban awthorities. For some months past we bave had, now and then, a vague rumor of a filibustering expedition on foot, but so vague and indefinite as to attract neither the public attention nor belief. This shows the consummate skill with which the vast machinery of this secretly contrived foray has been managed, and suggests the very possible recurrence of another organization, and a more successtul plot, at the first opportunity, under the euperior discipline of the Southern Know Nothings. We are informed from Havana that this last revolutionary enterprise is there considered as extinguished—that the British men-of-war, the Colossus and Boscawen, on guard, are, accord- ingly, about to leave for England; but that, to make all sure, a French squadron is shortly expected in their place, to watch the approaches to the island. But this is an unsafe and a very uneatisfactory state of things, The present derpotic government of Cuba, as long as it con- tinues, must continue to excite schemes of re- volt among the creoles, and from a love of liberty, @ spirit of daring adventure, and a spirit of cupidity, if you please, those creoles will continue to find hosts of sympathizers and conspiraters in these States, able to command money, arms, ships, and all the munitions of war, and thousands of volunteers, ready to risk their lives for Cuba, as freely as for a fourth-of- July excursion. For the sake of peace, for the maintenance of our amicable relations with t-he maritime Pow- ers of Europe, for the sake of our friendly so- ejal and commercial intercourse with Cuba, and in behalf of that great fundamental law of publie faith which lies at the basis of every ho- nest government, it is incumbent upon our ad- ministration to think and act upon some plan for the permanent settlement of this vexed Cu- ban question. Spain wants money. We have asurplus. Can England and France for ever gusrantee her the protection of Cuba against the Danes and Saxons from our shores? Even with that protection her itland is insecure. How are they to guard a sinuous seacoast of fourteen hundred miles against the swift clip- pers and steamers of the filibusters? They may slip in under cover of night from Yucatan, or Dominica, or Florida, and scé the island ina blaze of revolt, in the teeth of a coast guard of ® hundred armed vessels. And let two of three thousand Americans thus effect a land- ing and excite a stirring insurrection, and our government will be powerless to arrest rein- forcements to the extent of fifty thousand men, if required, to make the work complete. A special diplomatic commission, then, to England, France and Spain in behalf of the cession of Cuba to the United States, might possibly be successful in persuading Spain to cede for a good round sum a piece of property which, sooner or later, she must otherwise surrender at less than cost. But if she will not sell, there is still the alternative of an independent State government for the colo- ny, leaving to the State the indemnitication of Spain for the surrender of her jurisdiction While Cuba remains in her present anomalous half-and-balt position to Spain, of an “imperium im imperio,” she will continue a “bone of con- tention ” avd of danger to all parties concerned, till they close upon the bone, as Russia, Eagland and France have closed upon Tarkey. In that event the allies will have a tougher job than Sebastopol, and poor Spain will have to foot the bills. Marcy has been for two years stndying the science of diplomacy, and especially in refer- ence to this Cuba question. Driven off by the Nebraeka bill from the filibustering plan, has he not some other expedient of settlement to pro- pore? Has he learned nothing except the policy of Micawher, of waiting for “ something to turn up?” Leaving Pierce, Cushing, and Dudley Mann out of the question, we commend to Marcy at thie crisis, the trial of a special commission to England, France and Spain. England has a lien upon Spain and her assets, France an interest through the Empress, and so we must treat with all three. Something has turned up. We must choose between a present settlement or a future par upon the Cuba ques- tion. What says Micawber? Tae Bayk Svrerinrenpent.—ExGovernor Hunt arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel a few days eince, from Albany, where he spent some time in endeavoring to secure the re-appoint- ment of Mr. St. John to the office of Bank Su- perintendent. Now, let us see why the ex-Goy- ernor takes such an interest in this matter. Previous to the election of Washington Hunt to the gubernatorial chair, he was President of the Lockport Trast and Banking Company. Upon his election he resigned, but retained his interest as a stockholder in that institation. For some time past that bank has been embar- rassed, and it became highly important that no change should be made in the office of Superin- tendent, so that the favors now extended by the department could be continued. Ex.Governor Hunt, therefore, starts post haste for Albany to to save, if possible, his friend St. John from de- capitation. The immediate cause of the embar- rassmeats of the Lockport Trust and Banking Compeny was the withdrawal of funds belong- ing to the Banking Department on deposit in that inetitution, previous to the regular annual legislative examination of the affairs of the de- partment. Mr. St. John, not wishing to show such a deposit to the committee, withdrew it, much to the injury of the bank, which hassince been repeatedly protested, and is now a fair eubject tor the Superintendent’s care and guar. dianship. He will, of course, let it take care of iteelf and cheat the public as much as it pleases, Ex-Governor Hunt is one of the sure- ties of St. Jobn, and it is, therefore, but nata- ral that he should look out for his protegé, and for the bank in which he is a large stockholder The Lockport Trust and Banking Company would not long survive the retirement of St John from the Banking Department. It has for a long time been sustained by deposits of the public money held in trust by the Superinten- dent. If Governor Clark suffers himself to be made a tool of by these political financiers, he is not the man we take him to be. Toe Pexnsytvanta Know Norninos snp THe SENATORIAL Qvestiox—Avoruer Screw Loost.—The election of a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania has been postponed to the 27th instant. In the meantime twenty- eight Know Nothings have, in a strong mani- festo, (which we published yesterday,) repa- caucus nominee. Among other objections against him, they say he is a Pierce adminic- tration man, a Nebraska bill man, an old trad- ing party politician, and hence they repudiate him because the new American revolution calls for something fresher and better than Mr. Cameron. The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, the chief State organ of the administration, on the other hand, is fighting to defeat the election of Cam- eron, a3 against a political heretic of the black- est dye. The administration disowns him and demands his defeat, ‘A beautiful quarrel as it stands.” We like the progressive ideas of the seceding Know Nothings; but the Cabinet organ makes diecord of the music. How would Bu- chanan do? The Liverpool Journal says, point blank, that heis a Kaow Nothing. If there are no fresh and young men in Pennsyl- vania worthy of the United States Senate, the issue must lie between Buchanan and Cameron. We await the result. The Crisis in England, The newspapers brought by the mail render it pretty certain that Lord Palmerston will be the next Prime Minister of England, and pos- sibly Earl Grey Minister of War. But there are changes at hand in the British Isles of far greater import than this: changes in compari- son with which the substitution of this for that lord, or the fall of this or that ministry are mere child’s play. From the accession of William and Mary to the present day, England has been ruled by a clique. One hundred and seventy years has the great British oligarchy held supreme power, and trodden the people under foot. Not with- out fitful bursts of impatience, dark symptoms of uprising on the part of the down-trodden. William weut to his grave without hearing of them. Anne served as shuttlecock to the aris- tocratic battledores till she, too, died knowing nothing of the people. The two first Georges spent their swinich lives in unconsciousness that there was a people atall. But the third George began to learn. Outspoken remonstrances, and fleree mobr, nay, stones rattling on windows and peers’ carriages overset were his teachers. It was neceseary to compromise, and a few men of the people, much to their astonishment and to the delight of blockheads, were raised to power; these, of course, to lose their popular origin, to blend with the aristocracy and to betray the cause which had raised them. Then more out- cries from the real people, and more quakiog of lordly knees, and paling of lordly cheeks, An impulse fierce, almost uncontrollable, is given to the movement by the French revolution. This time no compromise is tried; but the gullible masses are hushed by a senseless de- claration of war with France. For twenty years men are too busy cutting French throats to think of English rights, At the end of the slaughtering, the people have been bled so freely as to require repletion before they can fight with spirit at home. With years their strength is strong again and the battle is renewed with the aristocracy. AU the prestige of England’s military glory is on the side of the latter. The Duke of Wellington belovgs “to the order;” he will die for it. Parliament is sold body and soul to the peers: members wipe the lords boots, But by this time there is a new power in England, the press The Edinburg Review and others as bold de mand parliamentary reform; meaning, the over- throw of the nobility. Ten years they fight; then thd lords, fearing worse, sulkily succumb | For ten years or so, the people are satisfied That cycle accomplished, up starts Dick Cob den, and asks that the lords be no longer al lowed to tax the people to keep up the price o corn, and hence land, wherein lies their wealth Then another long fight, at polls, and meetings and Parliament and printing press. But it ends like the former ones: the lords walk out of their houre into the lobby so that free trade shall pase. A pretty strong foundation here for the con- tinuance of the war. Accordingly Mr. Locke King or some other nobody moves for Parlia- mentary reform, meaning the old story; and Lord John Russell the model trimmer resists it for a while, then whips round and fathers the bill himself. This time it is a serious matter, the margin left for monarchy being quite fractional, and universal suffrage close at hand. At that critical moment the war with Russia— it was a war with France which saved the no- bles in 1793—looms up, and fora time no one thinks any more of the war that is being waged at home. The nobles are in an ecstasy. How grievous their disappdintment! The foreign wer has hardly begun, and the poor fools have hardly settled themselves in the best offices of State, when the domestic war bursts out more desperate than ever. Men see that the aristocracy have ruined the army, demoral- ized the State, disgraced the nation. That they are fighting bitterly with each other— Lord Russell tripping Lord Aberdeen, Lord Derby quarrelling with Lord Newcastle, Lord Palmerston refusing to act with Lord Derby, all the lords together in a confased hand to hand scramble—ominous symptoms of’ portending ruin. And with one voice the men of England pronounce their doom. Saeer- ingly, bitterly the great London Times tells us that Parliament has adjourned to keep holy the festival of King Charles the Martyr; as though beheading had not been too good for the fellow, and as though every one in England did not know it. Angrily this or that leading man asks the people whether they will sell themselves to the people; and even the street ballads—that epeaking literature of the masses —call for “lords in deed, not lords in name.” There is a wonderful significancy in all these facts. That the day bas come when the final battle between the men and the noblemen of England must be fought, it were venturesome to assert. Tricks have saved them before: dodges, falee promises, lying pretexts; the armory of tricks, dodges and lies may save them again. But the oftener these allies are used, the feebler they must become. Every time the lords are driven to shirk the great issue, it strides nearer and nearer to their hearths, grows huger and huger in the lessen- ing distance. What if the people, sick of Lord Grey as of Lord Newcastle, sick of the whole family of lords and peers, should rise suddenly and knock them bodily on the head? Stranger things have been seen in France. Not all the virtues of the Chorieuls or the valor of the Rohans could save their noble houses from the iron heel of democracy or their noble necks from the sharp edge of the guillotine. Down they fell, not in the long lapse of time with the duet of a weary conflict bedraggled with their ashes, but suddenly, in a day, in an hour, with a shock and a crash which shook the kingdom. So terrible, so stunning was the fall that to thig day they borg got recovered, and from the year wherein the nobles of England tricked the with a baseless war with France, that country has had no nobility. Mili- tary chieftains have given odd titles to their generals. Old Bourbons have tried to galvanize life into the corpses of the Faubourg St. Ger- |. main. Louis Philippe has created a republican peerage. But of the old nobles—the like of whom bas governed England ever since the Great Protestant Revolution (it saves time to call things hy their old names, absurd though they be) France has had none since the Con- stituent Assembly. Herein she isin advance of England. : Tue Oprra at Nro10’s.—The Italian opera season at Niblo’s Garden will commence sbout the lst of April. Messrs.UNman and Jacobsohn have engaged some of the first European artists, among them Signora Brambilia and Mdle Lagrange, of whom tle European critics speak in the highest terms of praise, The arrangements for the season will be on the moat liberal scale, ‘Tue Exousn Orera aT THE BROADWAY.—Miss Louisa Pyne takes a benefit at the Broadway this evening. It is to be her last appearance. This fact alone will cause tho house to be filled to overflowing. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, _ Abelitionism in Harvard College. Boston, Feb. 16, 1855. At « meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard Uni- versity, in the Senaté chamber, yesterday afternoon, Gov. Gardiner in the chair, the nomination of Judge Edward Greely Loring as Law Teacher in the University was submitted for approval. Without debate, a vote was taken, and resulted in yeas 10, nays 20. This action is im consequence of Mr. Loring acting as Commissioner in the rendition of the fugitive slave Burns, and, in the view of some, foreshadows his removal from his Judge- ship by the Legislature. [Special despatch to the New oe Tribune—Seward’s organ. REJECTION OF MR. EDWARD G. LORING—GREAT RE- JOICING IN BOSTON—FIRING OF CANNON—"THERE 18 A NORTH.” Boston, Friday, Feb. 16, 1855. Ata meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, in the Senate chamber, the nomination by the Corporation of Edward Greely Loring, (of Burns mem- ory,) as law lecturer, was rejected without discussion, by a vote of 20 nays to 10 yeas. ‘The following named gentlemen voted in favor of Mr. Lonng:— R. A. Chapman, John H. Clifford, Rev. Dr, Gannett, 8. D, Bradford, Dr. Walker, President Dr. Blagden, . of the College, Thomas Worcester, Mr. Andrews, cae Emory Washburn, » C. bapbaed 6 Governor Gardner voted against Mr. Loring. Thus kidnapping has been rebuked in conservative Harverd | * There is great rejoicing in the city, and twenty guns are to be fired on the Common to-morrow. About three bushels of petitions have been presented to the Legislature in favor of Judge Loring’s removal as Judge of Probate Off with bis head ! So much for Buckingham. Remarxs.—Actording to the above spssial des- patch to Senator Seward’s organ—the Tribune —the abolitioniste are carrying their agitation into col” Jeges and literary institutions. Thus Mr. Loring, 9 United States Sommissioner, is not permitted to lecture before the Law School of Harvard University, simply because his constitutional oath compelled him torender Burus back to the South aa a fugitive from justice. What a curious law school is that of Harvard University, to repudiate a solemn statute of their country in the presence of students, who are sent there from all parts of the Union for the expre:s Purpose of learning aud respeciing the laws that govern the affairs of this republic! Further from Havana. CUBAN ACCOUNTS OF THE RUMORED INVASION—NO QUARTER TO THE PILIBUSTERS--INTENSE BXOITE- MENT. New Onueans, Feb. 13, 1865: ‘The advices by the Empire City, from Havana, confirm the accounts by the Crescent City and Isabel, and, in addition, it ia stated that General Concha was fally posted relative to the designs of the filibusters. Colonel Kinney is represented as the chief of the expedition, bat Generals Quitman and Henderson as the prime movers, The Pampero conveys a part of the expedition. Seven hundred acres of land are ottered to each soldier. General Coucha has issued a proclamation commanding that no quarter be given to the filibusters in case they are captured, and saying that he relies upon the strength and loyalty of the people to uphold him in his efforta to defeat them. A squadron of Lancers have revolted at Pinar del Rio, All is confasion in the island, and troops are moving about in all directions. Interesting from Washington. THE CUBAN FILEBUSTERS—MOVEMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT TO CATCH THEM, ETC. Wasmncton, Feb, 16, 1855, The Navy Department has issued orders to New York, New Orleans and Boston to keep in a state of prepared. ness certain steam vessels chartered by government some two weeks since to] meet a hasty demand. Two private steamers have been chartered by government in | New York, one in Boston, and two in New Orleans. In the navy yards atthese ceveral stations every thing is in a state of readiness to meet the demands from this city, yet so quietly managed that but few are in the secret. It is supposed that twenty-four hours notice would be all sufficient te get these vessels off on their missions. George Law's steamer, the name of which I now forget, repairing in New Yora for some private ex- pedition, will not be pérmitted to leave your waters un- til her destination is ascertained and her cargo exam- ined into, The Grapeshot, of notoriety, ia understood to be in the neighborhood of the Narrows, freighted with her old cargo of muskets, &c. The brig-of-war Bainbridge is instructed to “speak her,’ for what end can only be guessed at. These active preparations are all made with aview toCuba. The telegraphic report that reached here yesterday, of the expedition baving sailed from New Ofleans, is not believed in. The government look apon it asaruse put forth by the leaders to get important information of the force that would be likely to meet the expedition, and of the material on hand by Concha to defeat it. It is, however, believed that the filibusters designea taking immediate advantage of the Cuban ar- my’s return, to set sail for their selected parte of the island, where, comparatively speaking, they would be likely to meet with little opposing force, the first alarm heving proved a counterfeit. This new conceived mititary movement, if attempted, will prove a certain failure; the government bas its re- liable informants in every suspected spot in the Union, and no expedition will be allowed to leave without en- countering the fullforce of the government. It will turn out that a member of the Cabinet, an ¢x-Senator, members of Congress, New York capitalists, and the editor: of one of the President’s organs, are the coun- sellors and conductors of this desperste enterprise. THE NATURALIZATION LAW8—VETO OF THE FRENCH SPOLIATION BILI.—THE LIGUTENANT GENERALSHIP APPROVED—POWELL’S PAINTING OF DH SoTO— GEN. SHIELDS AND HIS DEFEAT, ETC. Wasatvaton, Feb. 16, 1855. We understand that Senator Jonos, of Tennessee, will shortly introduce in the Senate a preamble, stating that the constitution confers upon Congress the power to extablish a uuiform rule of naturalization, but that it is ilent upon the subject of emigration; and a resolution that the power to regulate emigration never having been delegated by the people to Congress, the govern- ments of those States afflicted by the influx of foreign- ers, ponsers the whole power to make laws regulating their admission cr exclusion. A veto message has been prepared by the President against the French spoliation bill, which will probably be sent to the Senate to-morrow. The President bas approved and sent to the Senate the bill creating Winfield Scott Lieutenant General of the United States, Powell's great painting of Be Sito discovering the Mississippi was placed last evening in the vacant panel of the Rotunda. Crowds of visiters bave thronged the Capitol all day to see it. The Intelligencer of this morning contains a note from Senator Shields, in which he says that Judge Dong- jae and his colleagues in the House, exerted them. selves to secure his re-election, and are as much dis- appointed at the result as himself. Bue Thien ascures the Tpteltigencer of an attempt to VOL. xx... ereate ill-blood between Shields and Douglas by a re- cent publication. UNITED paves rea! ‘ASHINGTON, Feb. 1855. Jobn §. Watts, of New Mexico was adm: eye an at- bones f fois counsellor of the United States Supremo Cow Gay. No. 73. Stephen J. Lewis, administrator, award it. Bell, asnignee of J. Bell, Jr. was commenced Ws ir Chilton for the appellant, and continued hy Mr. Bradley for the appellee. The following cases will come up for trial next week:— Psi i jo, 44—J. O. Fremont ve. the United ten. Wednesday, 21st—No, T4—Ayres vs. Carrer. Thursday, 22¢—No, 77—The Baltimore Pactet Compa- . Bailing. ene No, 78—Judson vs. Corcoran. ~ Friday, Latest from the State Capital. THE WAR OF THE WHIGS—THE TEMPERANOS BILL— FLARE-UP IN THE ASSEMBLY—APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSARY GKNERAL— DANIEL ULLMAN BURNT DY EFFIGY—A NEW COUNFY PROPOSED. Auuasy, Feb, 16, 1855, The audience about the Senate chamber were amused an hour or two this morning, in listening to Messrs, Brooks and Dickinson, in revealing certain transactions in the late united whig party, and particularly what was said to havo occurred in 1848 ia this city, when a public meeting was in embryo to defeat the election of General Taylor. Mr. Dickinson read a lengthy primted letter from Thurlow Weed, contradicting the one from ex-Pre- sident Fillmore, read by Mr. Brooka some few days “since. In this, Mr. Weed says that Mr. Fillmore waa freely consulted in relation to that meeting, had fre- quent conversations on that subject, and when anally over, and General Taylor was not denounced, Mr. Fill- more congratulated him (Weed) for having brought the meeting to such a happy issue and preserved his (F,’s} pob'tical character from injury. Mr. Broous replied by stating that he was willing, all the world over, to leave the people to judge between the statements of Millard Fillmore and Thurlow Weed. Mr. B. alko produced letters from William Lacy and Jameg Ridd, Esqs., of this city, fully confirml: assertion that the intended meeting to denounce General Saylor _ to en and arranged in the office of the Boening journal. ‘The debate was quite as spicy as on any previous oc- casion, but neither gentleman alluded in the least to the resolution, viz : authorizing the employment of counsel * to defend ‘the State in the Lemmon appeal case. Mr. Brooks intimated that Mr. Filimore would isaue a re- joinder to Mr. Weed’s letter. The bill for the relief of Lioutenant Sweeney, of the New York Volunteers, granting him two handred and fifty dollars, was passed. It passed the House yestsr- day, x new dodge is on the tapis in relation to the tempe- rance bill, Late in the session last evening, just previous {o adjouroment, the Honorable William W. Weed, dele- gate in the House from Erie county, and a leading whig, rose and presented a substitute for the paeacg oes law uncer consideration. Coming as it did, from such a dis- tinguished member, it received the most respectful con- sideration. The substitute was read by the Cleritand ordered to be printed. It contains only sixteen short tions, and is much less stringent than the one before the House. There is some political financiering about this engrossing matter, and the result may prove that the predictions made at the ra? part of the session, that the prohibitory bill would he thrown overboard after the election of Seward, will become truthfal history. The ultra-temperance fanatics are highly incensed at this movement of Mr. Weed of Erie, Quiteu flare up occurred in the House this morning. Mr. Leigh rore and stated that the select committee on 80 much of the Governor’s message as relates to the imprisonment of witnesser, was ready to report. The tlemar commenced readlug the document, when Mr. ‘ager interrupted and wanted to introduce a resolution relating to the subject. The Speaker decided that Mr. Leigh was entitled to the floor and reading hts report. When be concluded, Mr. Stanton stated that as one of the members of the select committee, he disagreed to much of the matter contained in the report. Mr. Baker, one oft es select committee, ‘also dis EO report. Mr. Wager then ofered a resolution, the report back to the select committee. He’ said there were statements contained jn the report which he be- lieved to be untrue, and language which was disrespect- ful to a foreign nation, The revolution was adopted, and the report goes back for correction The new Commissary General is Colonel J. H Hobart Ward, of the city of New Yori, in of General Lea, who hing held the station for several years, and was not ‘&n applicant for ey serge Being a gentleman of military ability, there is the best reason to congratulate the militia of the State in having an able and intelligent bead ot the Commissary Depsrtment. The rage ‘or effigy burning inereases. The burning of Speaker Littlejohn bas produced a retaliatory spirit, omipel and last vight the old clo’ of Daniel U"'man, with straw end smeared with tar, was burat in front the Journal office, Petitions are pooring in numerously ev day, pray- ing for the erection of the new county of |, On the Hudson river, The proposition ie, to take from’the * county of Ulster the towns of Gardner, Shawangun':, Plattekill, tg nao ani from Orange, Crawford, Montgomery, New Windscr, Cornwall and Newburg. The popwiation in this district is about 34,000, leaving the old counties each with a population of something like 46,000, The capitol of the new county would be Placed ‘at Newburg, to which ali the plank roads, turn. pihee, and te branch of brie Railroad, running into the interior centre. Nearly sll the inhabitants withe in the region named ¢o their marketing at Newburg> and those and the Ulster towns, when compel to perform a journey to Kingston, the capital, proceed southerly to Newburg, cross the river, and take the rail- road through Dutchess coun s far north as Rhine- a and Aes {cress the river to their own county. Sa regard to the ftowns in Orange county, proposed to be incorporated in the new county. In attending county courts at Goshen, the people crors the river into Putasm county, and alight from the cars at il, recross the river to Newburg, and then proeced rome twenty miles into the interior, The present location of the county buildings in both Ulster and Mong 4 will remain asat present, at Gossen and Kingston. © proposition for the new county of Highirnd seems to meet with appro- bation thus far, ANOTHER RESPITE OF PHELPS THE MURDERER. Aupayy, Feb. 16, 1855. Another respite of three wecks has been granted by the Governor to Phelps, the murderer of his wife, wha was to have been hung this morning. Another Effigy of Speaker Littlejohn. Povcuxrsrsr, Feb. 16, 1855, An effigy, labelled “Little John the Perjurer, may God help him,” was hung on a tree in front of our Court House last night. It created little excitement, and was taken down this morning by two Irishmen without opposition. From Boston. STRIKE OF THE LABORERS ON THE NEW PORK CEN- TRAL RaILROAD-—ARREST OF GOV. GARDNER— EFFEOTS OF THE FRESUET, ETC. . Bostow, Feb. 16, 1855. About four hundred laborers on the New York Centra? Railroad struck yesterday for wages due to them, Many of them are the heads of families, without the means of obtaining the necessaries of life. Their claims upon the company are said to amount to between seventeen aad eighteen thousand dollars, William Finlay, a lad fourteen years old, was arrested in Providence to-day, charged with stealing funds to the amount of twenty-two hundred dollars from his em- ployers, Mesars. Jenkins & Coffin, of 22 Doane street, ia this city. A warrant was issued from the Police court to-day fer the arrest of Governor Gardner, for the violation of a city ordinance; he being of the firm of Denny, Rice & Gardner, dry goods dealers; and the charge is blocking up the side walks with bales and boxes of goods. The fine will probably be paid without allowing the matter to go to trial. The northern trains detained by the freshet, arrived this afternoon, At various points the water on the track was quite deep. The Boston and Maine road has suffered considerable damage. At Wilmingtoe and North Andover culverts have been made of such exten as tostop the passage of the trains. At Haverhillan arch stone bridge across the river has been carrie away. There is also a serious culvert at East Kingston. Large gangs of men have been put to wor” ‘orepa these damages, and itis expected they wi #e so far completed as to allow the trains to pass to-morrow. Opening of Navigation at Prrrsvora, Feb. 16, 1855. Navigation is open here. There is now eight feet of water in the channel of the Ohio, end the river still con- inues rising. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Puitapenpata, Feb, 16, 1855. at the a 15%; $7. Money continues a ew OntmA: ‘ Pe sang Fenn has ber firm to- 8. eights to Liverpool are rather firmer. Sterling exchange is quoted at 6 a 8% per cent um. , 1855. oN, Feb, i The seles of cotton here for the week have been 10,000 Warheotean from Ge. Oe. per Ib, 8 decline of c & ye. OB ‘week's quotations, peee| Sod Sp 40s doles. The stock. exclusive of ahi a in 22,000 bales. Thers is no change to report in rise to 3,000 THE AFRICA AT HALIVAX—HER DEPARTURE FOR te Feb. 16, 1865. LIV . The steamship Africa, from on, arrived A dg a Lge ie and sailed for foe SS See ee eee Se ETc, The stenmedip Kept Qargline, dence for