The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Fh a a A JABVES GORDON BENNETT, Copgreas—Fiih Dar~we Speaker—The Fur stonlyg not ¥ et Inclined to Fuse. They “.ad some additional kite flying votes for Syeaker yesterday, but adjourned without tie slightest visible approach to an election, excepting the fact that they are one day nearer to it than they were on Thursday, for ‘BFY ick N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cach in acteas THE VAILY HBX. THE WEEKLY fi cents , 87 per enn, ALD, ery Batu . at BM cents copy, or $8 per annum; the European edition, 8A por annum, | that we shall have a Speaker either on this any part af Great Britain, or $9 (o any part of the Qontinent, | oy the other side of Christmas, we are still ge- ontage TOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, coramining import. mut neve, solicited from any quarter of the workd—<f used will be Merally paid for. gar Cun Forxign ConwesroxDENTs Ane PARMCULARLY REGUESTED TO SEAR ALL LEteEa AND PACK: aehs Sexe US ‘NO NOTICE token of anonymous communications, We do ok rekutn those rejerted, ‘JOR PRINTING executed with neatmees, cheapness and des- ADVER TISEMENTS renewed cvary day, riously inclined to believe. The black republicans and free soil Kuow Nothings amused themselves yesterday by falling back again upon Campbell. The vote stood at the close of Thursday’s exercises and the opening of yesterday’s services as fol- lows :— + Wo. 340 AMUSEMENTS: TRIS PYENING. » BROADWAY THEATRE, Breadway—Mary or Maytus— My Nevonvoy’s. Ware. + ») BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway-A Soupiek ror Love— Bauet Dpeeeeeert, gy sonst ano Coapacraemno Baxors—Asrnove. Pennington, 20 9 ‘The friends of Campbell Yuna it was such up hill work that he finally withdrew like Marshall, and left the field in disgust. But what was the result? Nothing. It now looks like a more serious contest between the black republicans and the Northern Know Nothings, while the democrats stand almost like the Cent Garde around Richardson. See telegraphic despatch for the last vote. We are sorry to perceive, that Greeley’s patience and forbearance are well nigh ex- hausted. He calls upon the country to inter- pose and command the election of a Speaker without further delay. He forgets the old fable of the man with his cart stuck in the mud, calling upon Hercules to help him out. “You lasy scoundrel,” said Hercules, “what are you calling on me for? Put your shoulder to the wheel, and push her out.” So we say to the opposition—you bave the majority, and before calling upon the country to come to your rescue, prove that the fusionists positively refuse to fuse, and that therefore a Speaker can’t be elected by the majority. “It will never do to give it up so.” The country is by no means suffering for want of a Speaker. Any time between this and Christmas willdo. We never expect anything or get anything in the way of busi- ness, anyhow, till after the holidays; and so if the whole interval be expended upon the Speaker, there will be no time actually lost, In point of fact, we are rather inclined to think that it would be advantageous to the House, and to the country, if this daily cross- tiring tor a Speaker were continued for two or three weeks longer; for thus the party divi- sions and sub-divisions of the majority would become £0 well understood that all concerned in and out of Congress, would know pretty exactly where to fix them, especially in refe- rence to the everlasting “nigger” question. We go, therefore, for keeping it up, and for giving every man in the House a chance. Why limit the privilege of running for Speaker to only twenty men at a time, when it might as well be fifty? And why run the same old set every day when you see that they can’t pull over the bar? Try a new set. Now that Campbell has withdrawn, try Giddings—(they have slighted old Joshua); and if Smith won’t do, try Jones or Brown try all around; try Bern- hisel, the Mormon, by the plurality system. We guess that would fetch it; and a Speaker with three or four wives ought to$be able to manage two'or three hundred men. Greeley cavesin too soon. Perhaps he hasbeen losing too much sleep since last Saturday to be reasonable or amiable. This dificulty, however, may be easily remedied- If he has to electioneer and lay pipe all night and early in the morning, let him take a nap n the middle of the day, after the meeting of the House. General Webb, or the vigilant Thurlow Weed, will stand guard to relieve him, An old campajgner knows how to pro- vide against ali the usual contingencies of a siege, and does not capitulate or retreat till fairly beaten or starved out. Look at Gorts- chakoff. Jn all the vain experiments of the last five days it is quite possible that the real Speaker has not yet been voted for. We are in no hurry. We can wait well enough till Christmas, The Message, we suppose, will keep till that time; if not, and it should become necessary to alter it in some particulars—such as the af- fairs of Kansas and the projected invasion of Ireland by Robert Tyler’s Irish-American Convention at the Astor House—it can be rea- dily done in the manuscript. Apropos of the Message. It wasawise resolve of the Presi- dent to withhold it from the Union office in the interval to the election of a Speaker. Otherwise the newsboys might now be selling the Meesage on Broadway, at the low price of “one cent,” from the glut in the market, and no Speaker yet! This shows that Mr. Pierce has taken some interest ip the elections for the present Congress. Beautiful weather for the season. Prospect of a mild winter, after all. Ovr State Leoistatvre—Tue ORGANIZATION —Tirp Ur Lixewise.--Our new Legislature, between democrats, black republicans and Know Nothings, is pretty much tied up like the House of Representatives at Washington, We may expect the same difficulties in an or- ganization at Albany as they have experienced al this week in Congress. Meantime, we un- derstand that Mr. Odell, of Livingston, for- merly a democrat, is to be the candidate of the Know Nothings for Speaker of the Assem- bly; and it is said that he “calculates,” by a division of the spoils, to work up a satisfacto- ry fusion in his behalf with the hungry de- mocracy--upon which that paragon of de- mocratic purity, the Albany Atlas, says:— ‘When democrats ask how they are to do this 4 an with what face they will present ‘Uemsclves at ane’ Ge cinnati Convention, after an allfance with the enemies of their party, they ave told that ifthe doors of the De mocratic National Convention are closed against them, ‘shall bave the password that will open to thet the fubterracean pnesayes of the Know Nothing lodges; and they are promised many other advantages if they will abunden their party faith. We do not suppose that Ge- mocrats will be gulled into this intrigue, though the clerkship and subordinate places might be’ thrown in us & make weight. The apectacte presented in Congress, at Warhington, is an instruction to democrate in the Legie- lature at Albany. The united body of demoornts isin Gartely moze respectable than that of the rapacious (yr tions warring against them and against each other, A timely warning, this. Remember. hungry democrats, about'to gathon together at Albany, that the spoils og ie Al Con- vention involve the ‘<evernment at Washington, With its seventy-fit- ¢ millions of public plunder, again; and thea if ye are tapped by & paltry clerkship or so @t Albany now, ye may be ruled out at Cin sinnatl, Wook at the folly of Master John y an Buren, and be wise. BOWERY THEATR! Desrs—€ive's Gant BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers stree-—Farse Panter: x9 ViLiaxiNs AND 18 Dixan ALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Twx DowAasn—Tn: yous Treasvne- Tae SecREr. 5 WOODS MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermiorian Par WORMANCES. BUOKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- way—Boneseve Ores any Necro Minsrax.sy. ry—A New Way 10 Pay Oww New York, Saturday, December 8, 1855. The News. The Ninth Ward National American Club cele- brated the late victory of the party in this State by @ grand banquet last evening at Niblo’s. It was expected that Hon. J. J. Crittenden, George Law ‘and some other distinguished gentlemen, would be present, but for some reason or other they were ab- sent. There were, however, a large number of @peeches made and toasts given, a report of which will be found elsewhere, though owing to the late- ness of the hour we have been obliged to give simply an abstract of the proceedings, reserving ‘9 more full report for to-morrow’s paper. The complexion of our news from Washington this morning does not differ materially from that which we have received day after day since the meeting of Congress. Nothing of importance trans- pired in the Senate yesterday, except that a num- ber of appointments were considered in executive session. It is not likely that the Senate will se- Siously go to work until after the holidays. In the House six additional ballots for Speaker were had, ‘bat no clection was effected. Mr. Campbell, at the conclusion of the twenty-third ballot, addressed the Hosne in a bitter speech, and withdrew from the contest. It is sapposed that the anti-administration forces will to-day attempt to elect Mr. Banks, of Mascachusetts. The friends of Mr. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, are also determined to make a des- perate effort in his behalf. There is, however, not the slightest chance for either of them. Some new man, it is thought, must be presented, before the House can be organized. Meantime the demo- cratic members stick like wax to Col. Richardson. The Board of Councilmen last night had before them two resolutions affecting the Comptroller, one asking the Committee on the Law Department to report whether he was not liable to impeachment, and the other requesting the Counsef@f the Corpor- ation to issue a writ of mandamus against him, be eanre he was not present at the opening of certain bids by the Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies. A resolution was adopted in relation to the Battery enlargement, the time of the contract having expir- ed. A proposition to increase the salaries of police captains to $1,250 per annum, was lost for want of a constitutional vote. Owing to Indian troubles in Washington Territo- ry, the Ninth regiment of infantry has been ordered to that region. It is stated that they will go out by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and that the steamer &. Louis, which has been chartered for the purpose, will convey them as far a8 Aspinwall. Her place in ‘the Havre line will be supplied by the steamer Union. The Central Democratiz Union met at Tammany Hall last evening, when John Cochrane, in a very desponding letter, tendered his resignation of the presidency of the club svhich was accepted. An ad- dress auf resolution @expressive of the principles and purposes of the organization, were read and adopted. These documeuts are given in another column. The mystery which has surrounded the schooner Eudora for some days past has at length been par tially cleared up. The vessel was raised yesterday, bat after a thorough search no trace of the missing captain and crew could be discovered. It is, there- fore, believed that Wilson, the negro cook, sunk the bodies in the river, and measures have been taken to recover them. It is stated that on Wednesday last the Chevalier Hulseman, who has for several years past resided in this country as Charge d’ Affaires, presented his cre- @entials to the President, and was received as Minis ter resident of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, On the same day, Mr. Henry Bosch presented new credentials to the Secretary of State, and was re- eeived as Charge d’Affuires of his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The United States frigate Niagara, now building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will not, we learn on good authority, be launched during the present month, as lately reported in some of the papers. The day on which the interesting ceremony will take place is not yet fixed, but will be duly an- pounced. The enles of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales, closing at about vc. for middling up- Jands, and in some cases 9jc. was claimed to have been obtained. Common grades of flour declined about 12} a 25¢. per barrel. The sales included par- cels for export. Contracts were settled at $8 75. Wheat was dw) at about the previous day's quotations with small sales. Corn was casier, having closed at 99c. a $1 00 for Western mixed, with one cargo prime high mixed at $1 01. Rye was firm at $1 33 $1 34, and among the sales 15,000 bushels were taken for export to Germany. Pork was heavy, ‘with a downward tendency in prices. Lard was scarce and firm, with an advancing tendency. Cof- fee was firm, with sales of 1,600 bags Rio, Sugars were quiet, with small sales. Freights continued firm, both for England and the conti#ent. Two ves- sels were chartered for Havre, at p. t. We received St. Louis papers of Wednesday, 5th i mat., yesterday at noon. They came through to ais city in about forty-eight hours, Excretion or 4 Unrrep States Sexator.— This day has been set apart by both houses of the Virginia Legislature for the election of a Senator to succeed the Hon. James M. Mason, whose term will shortly expire. The contest is understood to be between Mason, who repre- sents the old fogy democracy, and ex-Goveruor Floyd, of the extreme western rection of the State, who is the champion of democratic Young America and “manifest destiny,” ana in favor of James Buchanan for 1856, The result, therefore, will be of some importance as a Presidential sign in the Old Dominion. , oh! ye Worktne Like 4 Beaver.—The editor of the American Organ, at Washington, is working like a beaver to prove that it is not necessary that his support as the American candidate for the printing of the House should be limited to the twelfth section Americans of the South, ‘The blackest of the black republicans is “good enough Morgan” for him till after the election, ‘Why don’t he call upon Thurlow Weed, and get the business settled accordingly? Brother Tburlow ie his man. ba Tue Priyt sq op tum SENATE.—~The proprie- tors of the Washington Union, it appears, hay- ing conelr sded that the House printing is des- tined to go into other hands, have turned their longing s eyes to the Senate, and, as it isalleged, are “* oving heaven and carth’ to push out Beve aly Tucker, s brother democrat, and to POC” got the profits of tbe Senate printing them- selves. This is what Dogberry would call “flat barglary;” but the Kitchen Cabinet is not ac- customed to stick at trifles when they are on the scent of the publie plunder. Why don’t Mr. Tucker come out for Mr. Pierce for the succession? Perhaps that would help him among such men as Douglas and Cass. Who knows? The Police Committee. ‘The investigation that is being prosecuted before the legislative committee has already earned a claim to public gratitude for the dis- closures it has extracted from the Mayor and the Police Justices who have been examined before it. From their evidence it appears that the condition of the Police system in this city is so shamefully corrupt that it is absolutely miraculous that so little mischief has been done. It seems that, in many instances, the Police Justices af in the habit of issuing war- rants and releasing prisoners in a manner and on grounds compared to which the recent case of Connolly isa marvel of purity and regu- lerity. That an understanding has. been had between certain abandoned members of the legal profession and certain police officers and turnkeys at the Tombs and the other city prisons, whereby the prisoners incarcerated are not allowed to see any lawyers but those in the conspiracy, who poy for this monopoly @ commission of forty per cent on their fees to the policemen and turnkeys. That a class of individuals exist called “bail masters,” who make @ business of becoming bail for prisoners for a consideration; and who, without assets exceeding a thousand or two or perhaps a few hundred dollars, are accepted by the justices as bail for prisoners to am aggregate amount of fifty thousand. That, with the help of the conspiracy between the Tombs lawyers and the Tombs officers and policemen, poor fellow who is arrested on a charge of crime, is inva- riably robbed of all he has before his trial is over. That policemen make a business of levying black mail on those equivocal estab- lishments which are ex officio subjects for legal puniebment, and that until the Mayor ordered the officerson duty in Leonard and Church streets to be changed every week, a handsome income was extorted by them out of the houses of ill fame in that neighborhood. Such are a few of the more glaring infamies which this legislative committee has been the means of bringing to light. They are emi- nently suggestive. So far as the lawyers and pélicemen are concerned it does net appear that any com- prehensive remedy can be applied. More vigi- lance may be exercised in the engagement of policemen than heretofore, and faults, such as those charged here on the force generally, may be punished when traced to individuals with immediate and inexorable expulsion. The captains of each ward may be held in some degree responsible for the corruption of the men under their command; and the unfor- tunate creatures who are oftenest the prey of the unprincipled offter may be encouraged to defend themselves by denouncing their ty- rants. A portion of the detectives may be employed constantly as overseers, to ex- amine and report upon the conduct of the force in the various wards. With a plan of this nature, honestly and faithfully carried out, it ought to be possible to secure eleven hundred men willing to work without roguery for fourteen dollars a week ; and this without resorting to any such measures as the alternation of officers in different localities, which would obviously tend to impair their efficiency. As to the Police Justices, many plans may be suggested. It would not be impossible, we imagine, for a zealous public officer to obtain evidence enough to indict a few of them ; and there is always a possibility that a jury might be found to convict. But this plan is at best a half measure, and sadly apt to fail at the moment it is most needed. The better method, unquestionably, is the one indicated by Mayor Wood—the ap- pointment of the Police Justices by the Gover- nor. The more that is eecn of the fruits of onr present system of an elective judiciary, the wider is spread the distrust of it, and the in- clination to try at least for a time and in the case of certain Judges, the plan of appoint- ment asused in New England and Virginia, Whether the power of appointment should be vested in the Governor, and under what con- ditions and for what period of time the nomi- nees should hold office, arc matters of detail which could easily be settled after discussion. With regard to the main principle it is be- lieved that there would be a very small por- tion of the non-political citizens of this State who would vote for retaining our present sys- tem asa whole. And assuredly, the branch of the judiciary which calls the most loudly for any change which looks like reform is the police magistracy of the city of New York. Mr. Borts ror THe Presipescy—“Anoraen Marrer.”--In republishing from our columns the correspondence between Mr. Botts and the American committee of the Broome county Triangle, proposing him for the Presidency, the Richmond Enquirer says:—“We may live to see Mr. Botts the Know Nothing candidate for the Presidency; but the election of a so mar- vellous proper man will be another matter.” “Another matter?” Why j“ another mat- ter?” We very much fear our Richmond co- temporary is th the league of Captain Tyler to run Mr. Botts off the track. “Another mat- ter,” isit? And this in reference to a man endorsed by the Broome county Triangle, and who has slept under the same blanket with Captain Tyler! Will Mr. Botts be the Ameri- can candidate? We shall perhaps hear next that thet is “another matter?” Has justice left the country ? A Tharp Case, utt aw Easy War or Set- TLING ITA Coirespordent of the Phildel- phia Aererican vouckes for the truth of the following statement:—~ Mina A——, a volamteer nurse, left her father’s house iu Louisiana, repaired to the scene of aflifction and dis- ease, and discharged the duties of a Rurse with distin. guished zeal and energy. Her health gave way as the epidemic ceased its raveges, and she became seriously ®). she paid her own expenses from Louisiana, and ted with Foutlonen, *ho died soon ater, $100, which is lost. She wae actually charge! with medicines which ane needed, and with one dav’s board, at a hotel in Nor- folk, and with $190 at Richmond, whither she was re- moved when prostrated by disease, Now, in reference to this subject, the duty of the authorities and citizens of Norfolk and Richmond is plain~it is, first to institute an inquiry into the matter, and if these repre- sentations of the case be true, it is, secondly, to indemnify the Indy for her expendigares and her sacrifices in behalf of the suffering people of Norfolk. That’s all. We hope that attention will be called to this subject in the proper quarter. "NBW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1866. AmenicaN ANNEXATION IN THE LEVANR,— One of the Vienna papers hae ‘nade the discovery, through its Athens corres pondent, that the object of the visit of the American squadron, wit’, an Envoy Extreerdinary, to the Piraeus, was of greater political importance thar, the enforcement of the payment of Mx. Knight’s indemnity. Tt will be recollemed that it was suggested lately by one of the Paris journals, that our design in ins%sting upon the abolition of the Sound dies was to raise a muss, under pre- teuce of which we might be enabled to seize ‘upon come “snug little island” in the Baltic. As this thirst for little islands is, according to our foreign critics, our all-absorbing propensi- ty at the present moment, the Vienna journal in question concludes that the main purpose of the visit of an American Envoy to Athens was to negotiate the purchase of the island of Milo, on which, it states, our government has cast a longing eye. 3 , Now, the idea, whether it be correct or not, is not a bad one., Milo. would make a firet Yate naval depot for our Mediterranean squadron. It is one of the group of the cen- tral Cyclades, and has a spacious bay on the north side, stretching northwest and southeast about six miles, which has deep water throughout, and forms one of the best asylums for shipping on the Levant, The whole extent of the island is only about thirteen miles in length from east to west, and about seven miles across in its greatest breadth. It furnishes abundant supplies of iron, alum, sulphur and salt, but no coal. The more elevated parts of the island present a naked and sterile appearance, but the low grounds are said to be extremly fertile, pro- ducing corn, oil, wine, cotton, oranges, and other ffuits, in the greatest profusion. When Thucydides wrote, Milo had already attained historical importance from ite contests with the Athenians. The latter, however, finally suc- ceeded in subjugating its inhabitants, and io putting most of them to the sword. The island is now almost entirely depopulated, owing to a variety of causes, the chief of which may be said to be the intolerant despotism under which it has groaned for centuries. It contains, how- ever, two or three towns, the principal of which, Milo, is situated near seme salt marshes, and is consequently unhealthy. Frequent visita- tions of the plague may also be numbered amongst the desagrémens of this otherwise agreeable little prospective possession of ours. Most of these disadvantages would, no doubt, be greatly mitigated, if not removed, by Ame- rican enterprise and skill. Artesian wells would supply pure instead of the brackieh water which now causes so much disease, and strict quarantine regulations might prevent the visits of that dread Levantine rover—the plague. Under all the circumstances, we go in‘strong for this new aequisition. It would give us, as we have already said, just such an excellent naval station and point d’appui in the Levant as Commodore Perry has succeeded in obtain- ing for us in the Japanese waters. Politically speaking, it might be of great future use to us—very great. With one leg on the Milo and another on a rock in the Baltic, like the Colossus of Rhodes, Brother Jonathan would be likely to cut a conspicuous figure in Euro- pean affairs. Fashionable Intelligence. WEDDING IN HIGH LIFE—GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE METROPOLITAN HOTEL. At 8 o'clock last evening, at the Metropolitan, Mr. Fd- ward Arthur Lawrence, of this city, was united in mar- riage to Mias Mary Mickle, daughter of ex-Mayor Mickle. ‘The ceremony took place in the parlor of the hotel, and was witnessed by nearly three hundred of the relatives and intimate friends of the parties, Among those pre- sent we noticed enator Dickinson, Governor Dimond, ot Rhode Island ; Hon. Robert J, Walker, Commodore Ni- cholson, U. 8.N.; Thomas Francia Meagher, Esq., Hon. J. W. Denver, member of Congress from California ; Gen. Feeandor, of Mexico ; Stanhope Prevost, Eaq., Judge Roorevelt, Charles H. Morgan, Eaq., Hon. Preston King, Fx-Mayor Kingsland, Gen. Tallmadge, and many other dintinguished persons. The array of carriages made quite an excitement about the hotel, and the audience at the ceremony numbered as many asa thousand. After the ceremony a splendid entertainment was given, in- cluding a soirée dansante, in one of the large diningrooms, and a supper, in the best style of the Metropolitan, was given in the other. This may be contidered as the open- ing of the fashionable season, Broapway TueaTKe.—Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne took her farewell benefit at the Broadway theatre last night, and Produced (‘Mary of Mantua,”’ # five act play, written by herself. The house was crowded in every part. Our critical notice is laid over till another day, on acount of the pressure on our columns, Mrs. Hayne will make her last appearance to-night, when the new play will be re- peated. The Marsh Children will make their début on Monday. Marine Affairs, Steamer VaNpeRnit,—This gigantic steamer, named as above, in compliment to her owner, Commodore 0. Van- derbilt, under whose immediate superintendence she has been constructed, wil] be launched from the shipyard of J. Simonson, Greenpoint, aéjoining the Tenth street ferry, on Monday next, the 10th inst., at 9 o'clock, A. M. She is the largest, and pronounced by competent judges, to be the strongest steam vessel ever constructed in this or any other country, ‘The Sing Sing Prison Fire. FURTHER PARTICULARS—LOBS, $60,000. We stated yesterday that a serious fire had broken out in Sing Sing prison, which destroyed the hat, slate and plavking shops, which are attached to the main prison. It originated in the hat shop, about half-past six o’clock iu the evening, and spread with great ra- pidity, and soon the entire ravge of the south wing, a ten story building, and a one story building running at right angles with the south wing, weré in flames, and from the combustible nature of the materials used in hat making—wool, wood, alcohol, &c,—it was found im- possible to cheek it, ‘There are a couple of engines kept in the prison yard, and these were brought immediately into requisition, and were worked by the convicts and the citizens, All the engines in the village, siso, were on hand, save one, and the members cf thit one refused to work unless paid therefor. ‘Thr ‘convicts expected to tecape, ana their cries of ex- ultation Were distinctly heard above the nolse and con- fuston conrequent on the occurrence. None of them, however, tl ‘the prison is full, thee Deweres, Cones god tay Meesaies efinin the alls ht ore. sent. feared the main buildi: ald pat apt og) ecrtone it was saved; the whole hat shop and buitdings, however, were burnt to the ground, It was morning before fi serigun casualties occurred except the fall ofa man from ‘the roof, who was somewhat praieed the fall. . . Watson, the hat contractor, is the princi; odierer by duis Bre) is lous being over 840,000, He ts — in the offi Beekwran Lafarge ices i 000 Fulton, W'burgh ....$3,000 3,000 «6,000 Merch, & Trade be have been fired. ‘The loss to States will ser eee $15,000. One will result, and that is, better buildings will re- place them. Pergonal ln Ce. tee rome, Nov., 1865. To 1eR Eprror Ov THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL:— 1 ea ib the rounds of the Western papers, sta | I were near being arrested at the free club im this city. You will of course have ez; the malisious falsehood, but I deatre to add (bat I have not only not been to sny of the free love ‘but have no ‘of going, either theri Ro cations for any other bas So N. SAN a9 ~ THE LATEST Cawe. Axpany, Des. 7, 1865. The whole vote for the city amd ceunty af New York for Judge of the Court of Appeals for the long term is re- turned by the New York Canvassers for Samuel ‘*8,’’ 3el- den. This will compel the State Canvassers to give the certificate of election to Mr. Campbell. Mr. Selden loses the vote of Dutchess county also, which is returned for Samuel ‘‘8,”? Shelden, United States Supreme Court. Wastincton, Dec. 7, 1855. No. 66 of last term.—James B. Peck et al. appellants, vs. John Sanderson. Motion for re-hearing argued by Rush in support, and Waln in opposition. No, 12.—¢amuel C. Hemenway, plaintiff in error, vs. Joshua W. Carr, assignee, Error to Circuit Court, United States, District of Maine. On motion of Mr. Rowe, for plaintiffs, stating that the matters in controversy had ‘been agreed upon and settled between the parties, the writ of error was dismissed with costs. No, 7.—John H. Graham, plaintiff in error, vs. Alexan- der Bayne. Argued by Messrs. Browing for plaintiff, and Williams for defendant. No. 8.—William C- Atwater, Nehemiah Carrington, }i- Dellant and appellant, vs. brig Ann ©. Pratt, L. C, Pratt, claimant, Argument commenced by Mr. Rose for appel- ant. Disaster on Lake Erie. LO88 OF THE SCHOONER HELLIWELL—TWO MEN DROWNED. Burrato, Dee. 6, 1855. The schooner Helliwell went ashore on Sunday in Long Point Cut, Canada West. The captain, mate and crew of the schooner Lowland Lass went to the rescue of those on board the Helliwel!, and while doing #0 two of their number were drowned. The crew of the Helliwell were rescued on Tuesday. Three Steamers Barned at St. Lous. Sr. Louis, December 7, 1855. Three steamboata were burned at our Levee to-night. Loss $70,000. Partially insured. No lives lost. ‘The Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad. Boston, Dec. 7, 1855. ‘The Board of referees have awarded $180,000 to Messrs. Moore & Dunning, the contractors for building th Pe- nobscot and Kennebec Railroad. The directors contested the claim on the ground that the parties had been paid in full for the job. ‘The Canada Outward Bound. - Haurax, Dec. 7, 1855. The R. M. steamship Canada, Captain Stone, from Bos- ton, arrived here at 11 o’clock last night, and sailed again at 124 for Liverpool. The wind is from the north and bl ig strong. Resignation of Captain Harrison of the Steam- ship Africa. Boeron, Dec. 7, 1855, Captain Harrison has resigned his position in the Cu- nard mail steamship service. He brought out the Ame- rica on her present trip, andon his return to Liverpool will take charge of the mammoth iron steamship now building on the Thames, Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PmLapetpnia, Dec. 7, 1855, Stocks firm, Penniylvania State Fives, 8444; Reading is Canal, Railroad, 43 island Railroad, 193; Morr: 1234; Pennsylvania Railroad, 4235. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. Puiaperriia, Dec. 7, 1855. The transactions in iron during the past week have been very few. The sales of pig were only 600 tons. No. lower, $27 8 $28; No. 2, $25 a $26; No. 3 firm at $23. American bars declined to $67 50a $72 60, Rails, $62 50, Other descriptions unaltered. New Orteans, Dec. 6, 1855. ‘The rales of cotton to day amounted to 5,500 bales, at a decline of 3c. a 3c., middling being quoted at 820. Sugare firm; ‘conef less than an average crop is anticipated.” Molasses, hice ar new. Mined pock ells at $20. Flour $9 75.0 $9 87. Freights advancing, id. refused for ectton to Liverpool to-day. CuaRLESTON, Dec, 6, 1855. The sales of cotton for the week add up 12,000 bales, including 6,000 to-dsy, the market clcsing better. We quote middling at Sige. ‘The receipts for the week have been 20,000 bales. creased receipts at all Southern ports up to this time sre 337,000 bales over those of last year. acvanced 1¢.; sales of goodat 43/c. Barriwony, Dec. 7, 1855. Red wheat, Sc. lower. Flour held at $9 per bbl., with- out buyers.” Corn declined. 12:30 P. M. Aunany, Dec. 7. Floar in active demand to the home trade; sales 4,000 bushels of prime four rowed barley at $1 27, and 5,000 bushels om private terms, ‘Corn—Selen 3,000 bushels in lots at $1. Onts— Sales, 2,000 bushels of State at 48c, Whiskey, 20¢, Hay selling at $15 « $17 per ton. Atnany, Dec, 7—6:30 P.jM. Barley.—Sales-~18,000 bushels, at $1 22, cash, tor Jef- ferson; $1 24 for two rowed, and $1 27 for four rowed, Dressed hogs range from $8to $8 50 at tho railroad de- pot and from the hooks. A lot of 800 Chicago sold on the track on private terms. Burravo, Dec. 7—6 P. M. There is nothing in our market beyond the sales to the retail trade. The weather is clear and pleasant. City Intelligence. A Famy Powonep py Eavmna Diskasep Mutrox—Ove DEAD AND Five StrveRix.—The family of Mr. Fox, re- siding at No. 149 First avenue, were recently poisoned by eating diseaeed mutton, purchased by Mrs. Fox on Wednesday of last week, at Washington market. It ap- pears that the leg of mutton was boiled on Thankagiving Day, but not partaken of until the following Saturday, when Mrs. Fox, her two daughters and a female visiter ate some soup which had been prepared from iton that day, and were soon taken sick. Doctors Downs, 0’Rorke and Brady were called in and administered medicines, which gave relief, but the cause of the sickness was not attributed to the mutton, On the following Wednesday, the meat remaining was made into » hash and partaken of by the whote family, all of whom were immediately taken sick, and on the following day Mrs, Fox died, Be- fore her death rhe stated where she had procured the mutton. Corcner O'Donnell was notified of the occur- rence Yesterday, and proceeded to the house for the pur- Eee investigating the case, but owing to the impossi- ility of procuring the posal Sia be was ob- Uged to adjourn the investigation until to-day. Dr. O’Rorke made a tae mortem examination of the body, but found no bes ; the contents of the stomach will, however, be subjected to chemical analysis, Efforts aré being made to ascertain from wrom the diseased meat was purchased. Mr. Fox, together with three of his chik’ren and the visiter in question, are now seriously ill from the effects of eating the meat. Custom Hovss Sezvre.—The Custom House officers seized five cases of merchandise yesterday, from on board ® vessel of the Transportation line, bound for Philadel- phia. ‘They were taken to the public store, No. 12 Broad ‘The goods were traced to a house in Greenwich street, MonrezvMa Associariox.—The Montezuma Association, composed of persons who served in the army and navy of the United States during the war with Mexico, have re- cently elected Com. Perry to the office of President. Last Thursday evening the members of the Association were entertained by be Soe ae at mel — om i second street. Amo! one present were Gen. Burne! Col. a fee balland Kimbark, Purser Harris, Capt. Lovell, Chief ingineer Gay, and other well known military characters, ‘Tae Cepar Street Finr,—The loss occasioned by the fire at No. 42 Cedar atreet, on Thursday night, will not amount to $3,000. Mr. Jacob Lansing’s loss will proba- bly amount to some $1,200; his insurance on stock amounts to $10,000, divided in the Mechanics’ and Traders’ and Phoenix Insurance Co’s. Messrs. Bancroft, Betts & Co. are insured for $10,000 in the Union Mutual and Excelsior Insurance Co's, their loss will amount to about $250, by water, Messrs, Holmes & Anthony, on the secord floor, are insured on their dry goods for $5°000 in the Pacific Insurance Co. ; damage about $200. The canons to the building will amount to about $600; in- sured for $5,000 in the Union Mutual. Messrs. Wolf & Rosenbaum, No. 40, have met with trifling damage hy Ing companiess=Atloaite, 81,000; Byultable, $1,000; ing companies:—Atlan' j Equitable, $1,600; City, 82,200, ; ‘ Fung ty Greaywict Srrerr,.—Shortly before 12 o'clook last night, a fire was discovered in the boot and shoe store kept by Samuel S. Remson, at No. 206 Greenwich street, corner of Vesey street. The firemen were quickly it ibe ogee naghodige odin ni it had time to opal beyoud rear pet of the store. Mr. Remson ‘has an insurance of 84, on his stock, in the Commer. cial Insurance Company, and one other company, equally divided. The lons probably amount to From the appearance of the burning, when ¢. Mr, Remsom narrowly escaped being suffocated. @Finz ww Biseckrn Sruxet.—About 10 o'clock yesterday morning, & fire broke out in the building No. 321 Bleecker atreet. It originated from the stove pipe and was extin- ished with of water before any damage was guished with ® for of tro for the First district about halt ‘ast 12 o'elocktyesterday afternoon, was caused by some ile vieious boy calling out fire up the stairs leading to the primary in the Demiit Dispensary, frightening the children. Fortunately, however, none were injare. in getting out. about 8 0’ wi y 4 chimney being on rien ayo. 227 Tweltth street. BURNING OF A er after 5 o'clock last even- , the alarm of fire in the First distriet was caused by the of a barn, st the corner of Thirty-nint! street and Madivon avenue, Joes about $150, The Budora Mystety. TBE VESSEL HIGH AND DEY—THE SRARCH FOR CUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Ciry Istaxp, L. I, Bound, Dee. 8, 1865, ‘The long and arduous task of raising the Eudora and bringing her ashore has beea aecomplished at last, but without any important result, for the bodies of the sup- posed victims have uot yet been discovered, although nearly every part of the schooner has been strictly searched. At high tide this morning about 934 o’elock, the wreck was warped in towards the shore some fifty or sixty feet, and was with much labor placed on on even keel, As soon as the tide began to recede it was apparent to all that the vessel would be entirely out of the water, and that a thorough search throughout her entire hold, cabin, and forecastle could be obtained in the afternoon. It be- ing generally expected that the work of raising the vessel would be completed to-day, a lange con- course of people from New York, Harlem, New Rochelle and White Plaina were, for the eleventh time, in attend- ange, all anxious to lenda hand in the search for the dead. About 2 o’clock P. M., as the Eudora lay with her stern) towards the shcre, and as the tide had fallen from around her frame, all were startled-with the news that the water was rusbing out of the holes made to scuttle the vessel, and that there was every prospect of her being soon afloat. A great rush was then made for the wreck, and: sure enough four auger holes, one inch and « quarter in diameter, were plainly discernible in the starboard bow. The pas Aires Taleo out of the schooner with such ity and in such lume as to give it the ,. velocit such @ vo! gi ae. rt ance of a cascade after beow. fall of rain, had been mace from the forecastle, and were enough to fill a vessel in few hours. The wense body of wi flood tide set hole bored in the larboard bow, which plished, all hands set to work and bailed eat way, and right well did, they perform thelr labor, fori way, and right wi ay, parks, about two hours afterwards the water had subsided to the depth of several feet, rendering .a search throughout the vessel quite an easy matter. The cabins and state rooms were then searched, ferihen nares Setar ae but ro Saya ecvered; clothing consisting of undershirts, drawers, coats, pants and vests were, on examination, found to be deeply stained with blood. Several of these articles of clothing were found tb have been cut with a knife or Bclasors as if they had been cut off the dead after the deed was committed, so as to render r ition impossible should the rea render up the corpsel, mate’s also stained with blood, was discovered under the All the clothing, numbering some twenty articles was: Several aver thingn: tee ling the Gy fain po res other , inclu 8 pistol, were found rcattered about the cabi ™ ¥ Finding that any further search in the cabin would be useless, the hold snd were then searehed. Tha cargo of coal had shifted completely to larboard, and it was found necessary to shovel it back to the other side, in order more effectually to ecute the search. Some twelve or fifteen men, including the crews of the wreck- ers, succeeded in # short space of time in the desired job; but nothing thet could ie apy "Wy pred ta (ander. the cabin Roce) aut is oreeenle are’ to ‘under cabin floor) and the were a) hig cape but Cagreg ence. 4 o’elock the holes in the bow were uy yy, Mr. ‘Hien no an to prevent the advancing tite frou filling the vessel, and all on board were again set to work bailing, so that at high water the Eudora could be floated off the beach and brought ‘ide the dock constructed on the island, almost in the immediate borhood of where she was then lying aground, the search in the bold, a parep. tone was found amon; the coal, which rome of the ers on suggested might have been a portion of a human frame! but their con- jectures were quickly dispelled, for physician bei bye the visiters, a ae it to have been the Dose & sheep. Atter the versel had been pretty well searched, and all were certain that the bodies were not on board, ‘name Tous were the speculations entered at © as to the proba- ble whereabouts of the dead. Some thought they were securely anchored at the bottom of the stream, while others believed that the negro had cut them up in small s pieces, and burning off the fi then threw the bones overboard, so aa to make iden’ ition a matter of im- soy and Tn from the 8 @ certainty. ptain MeClennon thought it qnite probable that the negro bad buried the corpses on ear? Island, and ac- cordingly intends to survey the ground to-morrow in or- der to see if freshly disturbed spot could be discerni- ble. Heart’s Island is uninhabited, and of very extert; so it will take the gentlemen some days to make a piper re ier of the grouud. residen’ ite Plains, who was present the search to-day, informed your Gerrenjontent ante had had an interview with the prisoner Wilson, who seemed quite low [eased and gentle in his disposition and manner. He feels the degradation of his sltuation most keenly, and was quite moody, as if he had sorely re- ented for his and was toon to suffer the con- sequences of his own acts. “If,” said this it] 5 « this fit of despondency continues much leer Sere E a probability of the prisoner's disclos ng the t- ter to the proper authorities, and tallag Cap. A roolé where the bodies of the crew of the ill fu Arnold. may be found.” But this isa mere bes friend Wilson is too shrewd to do anything that would im - ‘ther in petition hag s be rete Rate As to the identification of the bodies, Capt. Arnold says that the deceased captain can be easil: Tecoguised by 4 mark on his leg, and that deceased had his name printed in India ink on his arm. Pratt, the mate, can also be —— Pines constr Cees We) that, although ave been sti of 1 el recognition will not be very Gitleuit matter, Hog, No effort will be spared to effect the recovery of the bodies. Already two experienced watermen, from Hurl Gate, have been engaged to drag for one mile or more potted as oes, ed Eudora came to anchor. A num! 1 islanders have signified their willingness to aid Capt. Arnold in the search. All here fee 7 [phe at the unsuccessful efforts made in searching for the dead, for now there is no certainty of the P oie ed bet Beene in prison for more than a few 8. Should the bodies be found some weeks from this date it will oe ie matter to identity them; in which event, no indictment for murder will be found against the negro, leaving hanging out of the question altogether. | For stealing the gocds from the schooner and scuttling her, the prisoner may be punished severely, but the | people here can never be satsfied if he escaj from the « eo Lynch law is the u ost just now the minds of the residents of Westchester Ce WRECKER. Mr. Branch and the Chief of PelicemA Seck- dolager from the Secretary. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Mr. Mateell, in a most extraordinary communication to the Common Council, still asserts that he is a native of the city of New York. Many respectable Americans and Englishmen swear that he was born in Brandon, England. Theodore Sedgwick certified, at the residence of Minister Buchanan, in London, that George Matsell’« name was recorded in the Brandon baptismal register. Rey. Samuel Warren, the Reetor of Brandon, and Johy Clark, the Postmaster of Brandon, and Charles Farrow, the parish clerk of Brandon, certified that George, Au- gustus and Elizabeth Matsell are recorded in the Brandon register. Those who went to echo! with George in Bran- den and in New York swear to the fact. Mra. Hubbard, of Brandon, swears that she was present when George’s mother was confined with the birth of George. His godfather and others swear that they saw him baptized and received into the church of St. Mary’s, in Brandon, in 1811—the very year in which George swore before the Police Committee he was born. Mrs. Elizabeth Kervan, of Bloomingdale, and Mre. Ann B, Cud- ipp, of Yorkville (sisters), and others, swear that they came over in the ship Perseus from England, in 1817, with the Mateell family, and havea perfect recollection of George, and have known him from 1817 ¢e the present time. These two ladies belong, with Mayor Wood’s wife, to the Rev. Mr. Richmond’s church in refer for a knowledge of their Nase" David and Sainuel Webb, the, diatiogalabed a builders, and to other eminent citizens. 4 Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, “ancient cords in that office, in which George returns his six ehiluren as aliens, vis.: " Al and Hi; sided i H committee, tor ten months past, ‘unity to defend Hable Out ap Cecretary re public duty as Secretary req Mr. Mateell says in his Council, on Thursday evening, that his turalired citizen. Now, on Pn poy , Mr. Matsell swears “that he did ‘ther was ever paturalized.” Mr. Mr. Matrell’s coupeel, baa proved falee to Mr. this monstrous inconsistency or 5 oe od no dodging it, fe pon cal and Wakeman were present ag spectatory, say under oath, that his father was never naturalized which his fathers naturalization report and blan\ affidavit confi:m up to 1819, @ little more than one yra; after bis arrival in the Perseus from men Briggs, C. H. Tucker, Hoffmire m; an many spectators also heard bim thus swear, and it is or the original minutes. Mr. Matsell aleo says in his oom mu rece ny father’s pat been mutila! seme tremely curious to Loew if the pA yy aE, oi we am,’ or ‘aliens’? or ‘ Wael » of “Gi born in Brandon in 1811,” are matilated be ond the renetration of green re This look Hike one of bis old tricks, And {e is mot out of plac here to invutre why he kept hiv father’s naturalization te i if a i