The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW Y‘oRK HERALD. JaMT', GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. can OF AND FULTON OPP" 2X. W. CORNSR OF NASSAU srs. ~~ AMUSKMENTS TO-MORROW BVENING, THEATRE, Brosdway—Beavry AND THE Se | INBTEEL, Browtway—TuE Sacnet MARRIAGE CongreseThe Thirty-th" 4 vote’ —They The final experimen’ , yesterday er of the House of é Represe present Congrete, " grows 18? ¢ the fasionists are coming to foc 4 and t at Mr. Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr, of moerat, and? gatiya See soil Know Nothing, will probab! vote yester’ gay wae —for Banks, 100; Richard- son, 73; NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1856. fer Bpcater ay for a Speak- otatives, for the Begin tr , geo Day Massach’ asetts, formerly a de- g tide ¥, on Monday. The. last WIBLO'S GAR! Faller, 30, Zollicoffer, 3; Peaning- Kagee— Asan ———— tov, 25 * settering, 14. Nece to a choice, pOWEKY THEATRE, Bowery—Gawier—Day Arran T05 | 4 jo. a ao eeary , Wenpirc eh tals BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Hawure—Tuae Mr. Banks, therefore, falls short twelve SexcTib BsYDRGKOOM, votes ef an election, and there is au aggregate LLACK'S THEATERS, Broadway—Laby im Durrrouties Fe Miche reursoriox. WOODS MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Remoriax Pen- TORMANCES. KLEY'S PURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 639 Broad wee Tuiisuaun OFERA AND Neono MumerKessi. ACADEMY HALL. 663 Brood way-ErmrortaN MUSICAL 8D PiemurstouRNAN FE NTRKTALNAENES, THIS EVENING. APOLLO ROOMS, Broadway—Mus, Ganas’ Sacrmpbeocram: ap Son. wew Yors, Sunday, In the Uuited States Senate yesterday a petition ‘was presented from Commodéere Smith, remonstrat- ing egainst the action of the Mate Naval Board in placing him onthe retired ‘list. Ne-other ‘business was transacted. In the Bouse the balloting for ‘Speuker was renewed, but-withaut any result. Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, is regarded by some a: certain of suosess. On the last ballot he lacked but twelve votes of an section. Our correspondents, however, clearly demonstrate the impossibility of such a contingency. Last night the wirepullers were actively caucusing. Whether their efforts will lead to a sclution.of the problem which so puz- zles the politicians, time alone can determine. Hon. James M. Mason was yesterday re-elected to the United States Senate, for aix years from March 4, 1857, by the Legislature of Virginia. The eleventh day’s proceedings on the trial of Lonis Baker, for the homicide of William Poole, have closed, and the testimony is still unfinished. It will, in all probability, be completed on Monday. ‘The report of yesterday will be read with interest, particularly the evidence of Tom Hyer, who is so well known in the sporting world. Mr. Brady will sum up for the defence, aud Hon. Ogden Hoffman for the prosecution, when a larger audience than has yet attended may be expected to be present, to listen to the weil kucwn forensic eloquence of these learned advocates. Aninteresting article, showing the conclasions to which the Legislative committee appointed to inquire into the condition and management of the Building Associations of this city, have been led by their inveetigations, is published in to-day’s paper. It appeara that these institutions have absorbed not Jcss than one million dollars, drawn mainly from the hard earned savings of mechanics, washer- women, and even sewing girls, numbering over twenty-five thousand persons, a few of whom have received back a moiety of their investment. A large proportion, however, never have been, and never will be, reimbursed to the value of a copper. The system is pronounced a gross fraud, and the committee will report in favor of revoking the charters of the associations, without distinction or reserve. According to the official report of the City Ls spector, there were 368 deaths in this city during the past week, viz., 74 men, 76 women, 127 boys and 91 girls, showing an increase of 33, as compared with the mortality of the week previons. There were 11 deaths of bronchitis, 6 of congestion of the yongs, 46 of consumption, 18 of inflammation of he lungs, 7 of congestion of the brain, 8 of inflammation of the brain, 13 of dropsy in the head» 12 of other dropsical complaints, 4 of diarrhwa, 6 of dysentery, 11 of typhus fever, 8 of inflammation of the bowels, 5 of palsy, 2 of smallpox, 28 of convul, sions (infantile), 12 of croup, 19 of scarlet fever, 6 of hooping-cough, 16 of marasmus (infantile), aud 4 of apoplexy. There were also 8 premature birth:, 39 cases of stillborn, and 12 deaths from violence, ir- cluding one murder and one suicide. The following is the classification of discases:—Bones, joints, &c. 2; brain and nerves, 76; generative organs, 4; heart and blood vessels, 11; lungs, throat, &c., 105; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 24; stillborn and premature births, 47; stomach, bowels, and other digestive or- gans, 61; uncertain seat and general fevers, 29; ur’+ nary organs, 4; old age,4; unknown, 1. The nativity table gives 250 natives of the United States, 68 of Treland, 25 of Germany, 10 of England, and the balance of other European countries. Our correspondeut at St. Thomas, writing on No- vember 9, farnishes a concise summary of facts re- lative to the commercial position, resources, popu- lation and export and import trade of that and the other Danish settlements, which will be found very interesting at the present moment, on account of the critical state of our relations with the mother country. The capitals, both of St. Thomas and St. Croix, are very important towns. The islands have an aggregate negro population amounting to fifty thousand, most of whom, since the ill-advised mea- sure of emancipation, huddle in the towns and live ina state of wretched idleness and consequent dis- ease and misery. With energetic prodacers the islands would be soun highly valuable to the com- mercial world. The Legislature of Florida convened at Talla- hasee on the 26th ult., and the Governor trans- mitted his annual mersage on the 28th. The in- ternal affairs of the State occupies the attention of the Governor, to the exclusion of all other matters. The cotton market was firmer yesterday, and re covered fully an } of a cent; middling uplands closed at about 9c. a je. Flour was heavy, at the previous day’s prices, with modcrate sales. Wheat was inactive, while holders of prime lots were firmer, The chief transaction was made in Canadian white, at $2 20. Corn was rather easier, and ranged from 98c.a 100c. for Weetern mixed, from store and de- livered. Rye continued firm, with sales at $1 33 a $1 35. Pork was dull and easier for mess. Coffee was firm, but sales were moderate, Sugars were in better request, especially for boxes in bond for ex- port, Room to European ports was limited and rates firm. Two vessels were chartered for Havre, at full rates. The bark Marmion, 350 tons, six years old, was sold for $12,000. Cononess--Our Srecran Despatcurs—A Nice Irem or Contingent Exrenses.—During the last week our bill of extra expenses for special telegraphic despatches from Washing- ton, for six days, amounted to two hundred and ninety-four dollars, Add this to oar share of the Congressional reports and despatches to the avsociated press, the salaries of Washing- ton reporters, correspondents, &c., and some idea may be formed of the active capital re- quired for the news of a daily journal like the Heratv. This is the sort of enterprise which, set in motion by Mr. Bennett twenty years ago, bas worked out a revolution in the New York press which has placed it so far in advance of the journaliem of every other city in the Union, that there is no probability of any of them overtaking us for the next twenty years tocome. The Hrranp, as the pioneer in this great newepaper reform, has been, and conti- nues to be, co amply sustained by an intelli- gent community, as to justify extra expendi- tures for early and exclusive tatelligence which, twenty years ago, would have been re- garded fabulous and foolish. Onward is the \ssord. Nothing like a bold and independent pecaeteined by a liberal and independent people. of { srty-nine scattering votes, or of fifty-six or fift) peeven in a full house, from which to pick UP , these twelve or fifteen votes, as the case Y say be. Will not this have been accomplish- ed in the interval from Saturday afternoon till Monday morning? Very likely; but not absolutely certain. The difficulty to be over- come is Fuller, of Pennsylvania, and his friends. We find Fuller starting on Monday with seventeen, and, closing up on Saturday night with thirty votes. The other nineteen scattering votes, with perhaps an ex. ception or two upon a pinch, are utterly impracticable for Banks; and the ac- cessions to Fuller yesterday indicate no in- tention on the part of his friends of quitting the field. Should they persist in sticking to him, the fusioniste, asa last resort, may have to fall back upon Fuller, notwithstanding their objections to him as a consenting free soiler to the ultimatum of squatter sovereignty in Kansas, whetber it shall result in no slavery or pro-slavery. Whether this is or is not the beginning of “daylight,” as discovered by Greeley, we don’t know; but we presume it is, though we think that Mr. Fuller is but acloudy glimmering to the Seward leagne as o last resort. We are content, meaatime, to rest the chances of an election on Monday with Mr. Banks. Ef Weed, Webb and Greeley prefer him to Faller, they ought certainly to be able to drum up ® dozen recruits from the floating materials in the course of two nights’ caucus- ing and log rolling. The following table embraces the last vote of each day from Monday, inclusive, upon the three leading candidates: iB If Banks should be elected, it will be a vic- tory of the Northern Know Nothings over the Seward republicans in the fusion; if Fuller should be elected, it will amount to a still greater concession on the part of the Seward- ites, As it stands, Banka appears to be the man, and with his election it will be virtually decided that the black republicans (having failed to buy out the Northern Know Noth- ings) have consented to be sold. And thus we wind up the first week of Congress. The second will doubtless be marked with greater resulta, The Flash Prenching, Flash Politics And Fiash Literatare of the Day. itis a favorite scheme of philosophers to classify the mental and physical creation—to give ages of lastinct, of reason, of reptiles, of monsters. Onaemaller scale and confined to narrower limits, we have periods of local ex- citements, At one time injunctions in the courts of law are all the rage; at another, in- dictments are in vogue. Then again we have our Tailroad and mining manias, our great dis- plays in Jiving, grand social entertainments and extravagances, and now we have hit upon an age of flash preachers, flash politicians, and flash literature. The two latter belong rightly enough to our fast times, They are the legitimate fruits of our period of sudden transitions, rapid mo- tions and marvellous conquests, The eddying currents of eociety are raising gom the bottom and sinking from the top the social and politi- cal elements, Life has become a scramble, and it is giving up a precious batch of flash litera- ture and politicians. There has been but one avenue to euccess: policy has been the con- trolling law, and it prevails as much in the lite- rary as in the political world. Statesmanship has been depressed; books evincing a cer- tain measure of solid reflection have been counted a bore. It is impossible not to see this, even in the highest ranks of diplomacy. The recent conferences at Vienna between the envoys of the belligerent States, the flurry at London on the subject of our relations with England, were mere games played by politi- cians. There are no questions of serious diffe rence between the people of the United States and the people of England; all is between the Cabinets of the two countries—an indulgence of flash diplomacy by those flash politicians, Marcy and Palmerston. We indulge the bope that we are coming to a new and higher order of politics—to the sway of stateemanship. Just now Congress ix engaged ina purely political manwuvre pre- paratory to the Presidential election, They could and would elect a Speaker in two hours but for the necessity of preparing for next year’s operations on the ‘road field of the Union. We have ao flash administration, we bad a flash inaugural, and shall have a flash Message; Wut the time is rapidly approaching when such tricks will noJonger win. But the most remarkable feature of the times is the descending effort of a considerable por- tion of the clergy to popularize the ministry —to create a mere flash sermonizing. That office, heretofore regarded as isolated from all professions, disconnected from all mere secular influences, is becoming a democratic political institution, vieing with the fieree leaders of party in the depth of its follies and in the breadth of its designs. It is working its way into the very centre of our political disputes— becoming a party in its most loathsome aspects. What is actually occurring in Congress is en- itled to hut little weight; it is outside of Con- grevs where the great causes are operating to shape the destinies of our country. Within five years, for instance, almost an en- ire revolution has been made in the bases of religious operations and in the character of re- ligious instructions and teachings thrpughout the federal Union, Three thonsand clergymen sent to Congress a remonstrance against the pastage of the Kansas act. They thought it their duty to descend from the pulpit and to enter the political arena, They undertook to decide that popular government, when applied to a Territory, was a moral heresy, demanding their reprobation, and that politicians and stateemen advocating it were committing acts of treason against the cause of religion. It was an easy descent from this position to the arena of general politics; and as their ideas of the Kaneas controversy were solely deter- mined by the question of sbevery involved ia it, they became at once anti-slavery men in its broadest sense. ‘The Baptist and Methodist churches had dis- solved their union by the lines of the free and the slave States) The Presbyterians had been agiiated by the same intermiuable question of dirpute; other religious associations had been periodicaliy disturbed by diecussions upon the fame point, Recent efforts in one of the tract societiee—an institution looking solely to general religious instruction—to effect its Givigign on Southern and Northern grounds, evinces*a deep seated and growing hostility between the various social, religious and po- litical elements of the two sections of the country. Such is the general aspect of affairs outside of political circles, Is it not apparent from this showing that there is even less conservatism, less practical wisdom, in the strictly religiously community than in the political and social? Precisely where we had most reason to look for sober couneels and for calm and judicious examples of moderation, we find the most ignorant pre- sumption and the most fatal efforts to over- throw the federal Union. Those who should have use@ their offives to allay, excitements and to strengthen the common political bro- therhood, to soften asperities, to explain dif- ferences, and, above all, to advise obedience to the laws of the country, have entered the field to preach treason to the Union, to foment sectional animosities, and to hasten on the period of armed hostility between the North and the South. . Of all the various professions and ciasses, that of the ministerial is to-day foremost in its hostility to our existing institutions—foremost in its deuunciations, so far as the free States are concerned, of the South and of slavery— foremost in sowing the seeds of permanent estrangement between us and our Southern brethern—foremost in efforts to destroy the great compact which binds us all together as one great people and government. This is an instructive lesson. We say nothing of the folly that, under any circumstances, brings clergymen into the arena of politics; nothing of the tendency of such a state of things, so far as the cause of religion itself is concerned. It is enough to view it in its social and politi- cal bearings and in its inevitable results, in degrading the profession of the ministry as a class; to estrange them from the people, who are more patriotic, and ultimately to array them as a political party before the communi- ty, and to sink the office to the rank of a low intrigue to secure the ends of faction. There is a wide distinction between the office of a re- ligious teacher—a man “called” in the par- lance of the university to be a messenger of peace and the exemplar of order—to inculcate and promote all the comities of life, to extend its charities, reconcile its differences, accommo- date its interests and secure its unfon--and the politician who acts upon the maxim that all is fair in his way, and who proclaims that tbere are “no Sundays in revolutionary times.” Not so much the institutions of the country as the institutions of religion are endangered by this state of things. A necessity is imposed upon the conservative clergy to redeem their profession from its political elements, They are disgraced by association with such men. The cause they would advance is fast sinking in dignity, in integrity, and in moral grandeur. They are losing that special con- sideration which attached to them as peaceful messengers in a holy cause--they are becom- ing politicians—using low devices and decep- tive and inflammatory appeals to gain the popular ear and applause. The least ac- quainted with the peculiar structure of our government—all their lives separated from and ignorant of the people—they are the last | of our citizens who should be consulted in regard to constitutional rights and political moralities. All Sides of the Kansas Question. Elsewhere in our impression of to-day will be found a carefully collated, arranged, re- vised and prepared history of the Kansas ques- tion, together with a great deal of valuable historical, geographical and topographical in- formation, much of which has never before been published. So much information, poli- tical and otherwise, cannot be found anywhere else in 60 small a space, and we commend it to the attention of those who desire to become “posted up” upon the most important and dan- gerous question which has arisen since the adoption of the federal constitution. It will be seen that the naked question be- fore the people of Kansas is that of negro slavery. The men of the North have taken the initiative; and, urged by the Seward or- gang, they are ready to shed white blood that blacks may be free. Everything is sacrificed to this, The advancement of their own Terri- tory—the perpetuity of the Union—the hap- pinees of the people of the Territory and the adjoining State of Missouri—the safety of the homestead end the comfort of the fireside, are all to be sacrificed to make political capital for a few Northern agitators like Seward, Greeley, Reeder and company. When men are shot, their houses burned, their families driven from the Territory, it pleases these philorophers; it makes a pleasant excitement, and keeps their namesbefore the people. It is agitation, agitation—the beginning and the middle and the end of Mr. Seward’s platform —ngitation, without accomplishing anything good by it; but, on the other hand, stirring up misguided men to treason, and drenching our fair prairies with fratracidal gore. We have never believed in the glowing re- ports set forth by aid societies and other in- terested parties as to the future of Kansas. It looks dark enough now, and the present dis- turbances will check emigration for the pre- sent, Those who desire to go should wait a little, The matter wil! soon come before Con- grees, and it must be settled. The present im- beetle administration, which is alone respon- sible for the terrible state of things in Kansas, bas not long to live, and it is to be hoped that our next President may be favored with back- bone and brains enovgh to execute the laws without respect to persons. Mr. Pierce can bombard Greytown, bully Denmark, or lock up from the eager hands of newspaper agents his precious Message, but he cannot restrain a handful of fellows who are outraging the laws on our Western borders. It is to be hoped that Congress will force the executive to do something. Thecountry has had enough of “masterly inactivity.” Read our history of Kansas, and look ont for the next despatches, Tae Congressional ira National Printing Office. We publish elsewhere an article from the National Intelligencer, giving a history of the public printing of Congress. It is of peculiar interest just now, when the spoils of the prin- ting appear to engross public attention at Wasbington, and the office of printer seems, from the eagerneswith which it is oveted, to be scarcely less desirable than the Presidency. Meeers. Gales & Seaton, the pubtishers of the Intelligencer, were themselves public printers from 1819 to 1829, both for the Senate and for the House of Representatives. But at that time the country was small, and a very mode- rate allowance of public documents satisfied its wants. During the ten years of their print- ership, the aversge amount received by them every year was onsy $36,370; and ont of this they had to pay higher prices for paper and presswork than now obtained. Hence, they claim that their profits were very small. For five years after Gales & Seaton were dis- possessed, the printing was done by Duff Green of the 7élegraph. Gales & Seaton then obtained it again for a couple of years, and were suc- ceeded by Blair & Rives, of the Globe ; who, with Thomas Allen, of the Mudisonian, held it til] 1841. Gales & Seaton again enjoyed it tor a couple of years, till, in 1843, they were supereeded by Blair & Rivea. In 1846, a recolution passed Congress deciding that henceforth the Congressional printing must be given out by contract; this plan lasted some six years, In 1852 it was superseded, and an act was passed by which the rates of compensation were fixed, and the work required to be done in such a manner as to satisfy an officer to be appointed with the title of Superintendent of Public Printing. This plan is stillin force. Under it, Robert Armstrong of the Union obtained the House printing, and Beverly Tucker of the Sentinel, the Senate printing at the last session of Con- gress, Not to waste time in beating the bush, it may be said roundly that it is a bad plan in every wey : wasteful to the nation, unsatisfac- tory to the public, pregnant with corruption for politicians, It is estimated that the print- ing of the last Congress cost one million and a half of dollars, besides half a million spent by the Executive Departments for their printing. The price for each separate job being fixed by law, the printer reaps the benefit of every Jabor-eaving and cost-saving invention ; and as these have been tolerdbly numerous since 1852, the rates of pay— which were then large and liberal—sre now exorbitantly high. It is eati- mated by persons quite competent to form an estimate of such matters, that the profits ofa single session’s printing for the House alone rather exceed than fall short of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What claim Mr. Robert Armstrong, or Mr. Nicholson, or Col. Forney may have to bleed the country to this extent, apy reader may discover if he can. And if there be any who conceive that it is a benefit to the nation at large that this monstrous sgent of corruption should be perpetuated from year to year, tempting the journals of the federal capital to abandon all pretence to manliness, and exhibiting to the world the digraceful spectacle of the leading politicians of the United States engrossed by a scramble for so many thousand dollars, it will be ex- cecdingly edifying to hear what they have to fay. There are two plans by which the mischief of the present system could be avoided. One 8 by a return to the plan of 1846, which was abandoned nominally because the contractors made their tenders too low, performed the work badly, and failed besides, and because Congress made up its mind that all future con- tractors would do likewise. The real reason was that the political parties were sorry to lose so much spoils, and gladly agreed to restore the old corrupt method. If a majority of the present Congress are imbued with integrity, they could readily be brought to see this, and to re-establish the tender and contract system. The notions that irresponsible parties will ob- tain contracts—that reeponsible parties will take them at too low prices—that the work will be done badly—are mere moonshine. Let the proper precautions be taken by Congress, in the way of exacting ample security: let the present office of superintendent be preserved, and all work be submitted for his approval, and let the printers take care of themselves. There need beno apprehension in Congress that they will rush as a body and cut their own throats, though at first one or two foolish ones may do so. A good mode of printing the Congressional documents would be for the government to establich a natiogal printing office, on the same principle as it now keeps up a national ar- mory. The ideais an old one with us, as every one knows; and long, long ago some of the best thinkers in the country were satisfied of its feasibility. We have now a new Congress, in which men uatrammelled by old party affini- ties are likely to have a majority; they could give their constituents a plain evidence of their honesty of purpose by removing the public printing out of the arena of party politics, by establishing a national printing office. The expense of a building and the salary of the public printer would all be repaid by the saving the country would make the first year. And as the country Increases, and the Congres- sional printing with it, the amount that would be thus rescued from the fangs of politicians would probably support half the public officers at Washington, The Pardon of William Klesanc, It appears by the following that William Kissane has deen pardoned by Gov. Clark, on the official application of the Governors of Ohio and Indi the solicita- tion of two ex-Governors of Ohio, the istrict Attorneys ofseveral counties of that State, and about one hundred and fifty other prominent men of the West. Gov. Clark's Jetter of pardon to Kissane gives the reasons for this act of clemency :— Stave or New Yors, Exourive Derartwest, | Atnany, Deo. 7, 1856, jf Sm--You were convicted of an ingenious and compli- cated crime. Not waa the evidence ageinst yow sur. prising in its sty bat yg own con‘ersion at the time of sentence established Ite truth beyond « daubt, Before entering the abode of your pumishment you deli- ‘yered a speech to the Court not more remarkable for fn- dications of your mental capacliy, than for a test of your conscience and manly feeling. ‘The bistory of your lile which hos beem given me fa a vivid instanceof how un- happily noble impulses and a strong tatellect may be perverted, You bave engaged in orime, and you have tasted of ite bitter fraite. Upon men of your ability and reflection such lessons ought not to be disregarded, but accepted aa the incentives to & new and bonorabie career. Tt Fas been reprerented to me by persons high in ad- ministrations, in execu‘ive and tn judicial autuority, that certain ends of public justice demand your pardon; that theee ends will be better subserved through your literty than by your continued confinement. Hitors of gareties porsessing high character and standing bave alro interpoced in your behalf. The application came to me order such authority aud with such weizht that they elicit in your behalf my execative mandate for your resforation to your family and to society. Jp granting your pardon, it ts my earnes: hope that the ecnfidence of those who have epplied (or it not te wisplaced or abured, and that hencefor ward soclety may claim you as a valuable citizen, « Wass BANE, MYRON ¥, CLARK, THE LATEST NEWS. THE KNOW WOTHING BANQUET AT NIBLOS. Speeches of Danfel Ulan and Mon, Joh M4. Botu,. In yesterday’s Himatb we gave a report of the banquet which was given at Niblo’s on I'riday evening, aud whic wos intended asa celebration of the recent victory of the Know Noi? ing party in this State. Wewere obliged, on account of the late hour to which the proceedings were protracted, to give merely a synopsis of some of the speeches. The following are full reports of those of Ar. Ullman and How. Joha M. Botte: Dasren Uniwan paid:— Lacies and gentlemen—We have met to-night round This fevtive bowsd to exebange our congratulasioas om the result of the secent victory in our Bustle, (Cheers. > We have reason, sir, (o congratulate ourselves, to con~ gistuiate cur state, and to cougratuiste oar commug country. Dwisg the past year the Amesfcao party, ike other o ganizations. Las had its trials amd its vicis~ situces. The victory which one year ago was wishin our resch, Wae snatched from our ‘grup by the hand v€ ueachery. The nvble State of Virgiaia—the Ol Do- minion—making as galiant o struggle as ever honored mip, was yet cvertarown by unexpected numbers, The old North’ State did not, alas! come up to expee ation. Masrochuretts, the old revolutionary swerves from her anchorage, and Ohio, the young giant of the West, went after strange gods. But Kentucky, gal- lant Kentucky, inet our fullest expectations. (Lead ap- Bileetion of a United States Senator for ‘Virginia. Ricumowp, Dec. 8, 1855. The Hon. James M. Mason was elested United States Senator to-day for Virginis, over George W. Summers, (Ameriean,) by 58 majority on joint yote. Escape of John W. Rand, Bank Robber. oxcorp, N. H., Deo. 19, 1865 Jobn W. Pand, the noted bank robber, broke jail again last night, by sawing off the bars of his cell win- dow. The large dog kept at the jail was found poisoned in the yard. Active messures have been taken for his recapture. Loss of the Bark Nautilus, of Boston. Boston, Dec. 8, 1855. The bark Nautilus, of and for Boston from Smyrna, wos abandoned on the 4th instant, in lat. 43 lon. 69. Fhe bad been leaking since the 2th of October. The crew were taken off by a British brig, and arrived at Gloucester yesterday. Her cargo consisted of wool, fign, &e. prance ear hie I male eel Fatoe) me Cg _eargoeatisy, that rested upen the Amer pa e ‘State of New Canal Navigation. Tore’ "Wo! kee tue” mighty {aberenta’ thes bung Burrato, Des. 8, 1855. | upon our ¢fforts. Here, Mr, that party was ‘Weather raw and cold, with the appearance of rain. | founced, and bere the battle was to be fought whole was to end either io its fall or in its victory. AIR the evgines of power were set in motion against us, A overpment at Washington, vacillating, corrupt and weak in everything else, ve against us, Tae factions of the democratis party’ divided upon all other subjects agaivet us, and “fusion” hurled its bitterest denuncia- tions sgainst the American party, ely the whole prees of the State teemed wt coliguy expressions of contempt for the American party. reg on c- ue tt ‘Wind north. Canal open. Locxrort, Dec. 8, 1855, Canal still cpen, No boats passing. Weather clear and cold. Aumon, Des. 8, 165. Weather freezing. Water being drawa from the Canal. It ia now about a foot lower. Rocanster, Dec, 8, 1855, temen perambulati our State, informed Weather cold and clear. Canal open, pies i party ‘woul ears ie mene by 50,000 roel jority, aud a leadiv this ci:y announced to a Lyons, Deo. 8; 3855. | Seay auto Gurld thet tin republleas feakoniota wena ear: Canal open. No boats passing. Weather clear and S ry the State,by 20,000 majority. We met them with facts cold. we met them with arguments—ve pul our prin- ciples to the world. We wrote them even upon the arch of the heavens, that all the earth might read. They mot. our facts by falxehood. They met our aaa with centempt and obloguy. Every epithet that their imagi- Cixpe, Dec. 8, 1855, Weather clear, but cool. Canal open. Port Byron, Dec. 8, 1865. * © No boats passing. Canal open. Weather clear and | nations could Cevike wero aie at our heads, such ag cold. “midnight robbers,” ‘the dark lantern party,” ‘bigots’? Syracuse, Dec. 8, 1855. and ‘‘violators of the constitution.” But a, by these denunciations, firm in the prineiples upon which we were organized, and coeramnting Wie fater~ ests that were depending’ upon our action, ke our fa— ‘thers of old we steadily pushed on the columa, (loud. cheers,) and with warm hearts and strong arms we ea- tered into battle, and thanks be to God we conquered. (Enthusiastic upulanse.) We have redeemed our Stute, (Cheers.) We have established firmly here the Ameri- can party, and on the first day of January next the of our principles will be unfurled on the dome of the Capitoh of the nation, never, never to be stricken down. (Loud applause.) Aye, and as the glad spread over the land’ a thrill of joy ehot milliors of hearts—as the news spread from oil to city, from hamlet to hamlet, from villege to village, frcm town to town, and from mountain to mountain, from the tongues of thousands and tens of thousands spread over theeurface of this vast republic, there went, pie glad shout to heaven of exultation and triumph. (Cheers.) We bave reason to rejoice. the breadth, the height and depth of this victory, can be estimated by no man. Never before in the history af this government has there been establiched at the North: a sectional party on a strictly sectional basis—a geo- grophical party—such as George Washington, in his farewell addrese, in the most earnest and affectionate, terms, warned his fellow count:ymen One Canal open. Weather clear, but old, Unica, Dec. 8, 1855. Weather clear and cold. Canal open. Canovonanm, Dee. 8, 1855. A large number of boats bound east are getting along slowly. Weather cold and clear. The canal open, Arrival of the Kuoxville at Savannch. Savaxnan, Doc. 7, 1865, ‘The steamer Knoxville arrived here fom New York on the 5th instant, with all on board well. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOOK BOARD. Priapevria, Dee, 8, 1855. Our stock market was dull this morning. Pennsylva- nia, State Fives, 841; Reading Rallrond, 433%; = Island Railroad,’ 1234; Morris Canal, 1234; Pennsylvania Railroad, 42. * New OriKane, Dec. 7, 1855. ‘The rales of cotton to-day foot up 16,000 bales, at a de- cline of 3¢¢., mostly in the lower grades. We quote mid- ahing at 8366, a 8%e,; gales of tho week 65,000 balos. The year receipts of the week have been 188,000 bales, against | ego, at Auburn, in this State, met a convention of citi- 64,000 last year. ‘Stock ‘on haad, 250,000 bales. ” zens, who, whatever their intentions may have bien— Marine Affairs. ‘Te Packer Sup Avrora, Capt, Banting, arrived yes- terday from Liverpool, with 452 passengers. Of there, there were from Irefand, 821; England, 67; Sootland, 17; United States, 6; Wurtemburg, 9; Prussia, 5; Holland, 32; Poland, 41; and from Italy, 2. There were 213 malos, whatever their purpores may have been—in tact, un= furled the foul and filthy black flag of disunion, Whore the American Couvention of 1854 deliberately resolved thet there should be @ ‘convention to nominate a candi- date for President of the United States, formed excla~ rively of delegates frem tho free States of the Union Whatever those cltizens intended, their action led directly to disunion; and when in 1866 the suc- cessors of tbat American Convention met at Sy- axd 280 females, Adults, 845; under 14 years, 107. By Hace b noy the i png ern of ne Party are ocenpation, 242 iaborers and servant; 8 manufacturers | hey deliberately futled the flag of ihe whig pry, and weavers; 9 merchants; 2 tailors; 28 artizans and | marched without beat of drum inv the black repul tradesmen; 13 farmers; 2 farriers; 4 clerks; 1 governess; | Convention, fu-ed, and took another step im advance 5 t. battle upon that is- 2butcherr; 5 dreesmakers; 3 miners; 1 teacher; Sen- | \owerds disunion. of your ary taroughea pager gireers; 8 millers; 8 weavers; 4 tivkers; 2 musicians; 1 | denounced the.fucionists as disunionists. They reasoned with them, they submitted tacts to them, and they derzonstrated te. the ple of the State of New York, that whatever the tntentions of these men may have deen, the result was disunion. We can estimate the value of this victory, if we should attempt to take « view ot what would have bcen the result, if Diack repubii- cans of New York had carried the State. We can esti~ mate its velue, if we had seen at Cincinnatti, the other day, a coavention of thousands and thousands of dele- fates from the Siates north of the Potomac, instead of a miserable forty-three from a few States lye f ting ound the Obio. We could estimate the value of this vic- 1 ery LS di et gone in ore of Be es, ot see them & part upon the floor o! sustained, rupported sod invigorated by the fact, that ‘the Empire Sta’e etood by them to sustain and su ‘every step they took. Gentlemen, I have spoken than wae pA intention, There sre ished men present wkom you will be de'ighted to hear; therefore, I do not wih to consume the time which is fo be allotted to hem. (Cheers,) The Cuainmvan baving dispored of the regular toasts, some of which, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, were not responded to, said he had nowa sentiment to offer, which be felt assured they would all feel pleasure in responding to. He would give — The Hon, John M. Botts, of Virginia—a dintioguished patriot and statesman, wnose soto devotion to the Union, and services in the great in cause, are entitled alike to the admiration and gratitude of our country. When the applause with which this sentiment was re- ceived had sabdued, Hon. Jous M. Botts rose and sald :— 3 I feel obliged to you, Mr. President, for the sentiment you have givon, and'I feel grateful’ for the reception Which it has met from zou, my friends, to-night. I feel oud to be in ascociation with you, my gountrymen, my rethren, the members of the v atic American party. In proposing that sentiment, sir, you did me no more than justice when you announced to this assembly that [ was the devoted friend of the Union of the States, from ore of which I am here among you now. It was be- cause I knew I would be among the friemla of the Union and of the constitution that I am here; and 1 find myself eurrounded, sir, not by the friends of the Union and the constitution, but 1 rounded by tbe mothers, wives and daughters, and I trust the sweethearis of the American penple.. (AR plaure.) I have heard you, gentlemen of the national American pariy in the Northern States, denounced, at my own home, as an abolition party, and I have remained here in the elty of New York five days for the attorney; 1 naval officer; 1 artist; 1 goldbeater; and clergyman, ‘Toe Steameur Kyoxvmae, Capt. Ludlow, arrived yes- terday morning, from Savannah. Purser Wandell will accept our thanks for papers in advance of the mail. SrxamemP VANDERILr.—-The steamship Vanderbilt will be launched to-morrow morning, at 9 o'clock. Those who witness the Isunch of this magnificent vessel will be well repaid for their trouble. Target Excursion Companies, The ocld weather appears'to have checked scmewhat the ardor of our military friends, as there were not #0 ™mapy of them passed the HeRatp office as usual last week. We noticed the following: — The E. 0. Perin Guards, Capt. Gwynne, went on their first annual excursion to Hoboken, where they shot for fifteen prizes, They numbered 30 murkets, and were cum- pored, for the most part, of young men from the Ninth wi The Genin Guard, Coptain Dan. Donavan, paraded 60 iuskets on their annual excursion. They proceeded to Hoboken, where they shot for twenty-five prives. They locked well, The Jas. Brewer Light Guard t urned out 20 muskets on their firet annual excursion to Hoboken, where they shot for twelve prizes. John Vanderzee officiated as captain, ‘The Geo. Jordan musketeers, J. Moore, captain, paraded to the Red House, Harlem, on the 4th inst., whore they rpent a pleasant ond temperate day, knocking sport out ofa target, eating a good dinner, and drinking pure Gro- ton water. They numbered 70 muskets, and returned to the city early. This company is named in honor of Mr. George Jordan, the tight comedian at Burton’s, ‘The Peter Mabie Guards, Captain George W. Jackson, fa fine company, will parade to Hoboken on the 17th inst. ‘The Gentlemen’s Sons Guards, Captain OldBoy. created quite a sensation last week. They were a rough, hardy setof young fellows, and every one of them dressed as his bumor # |. The asresement was 50 cents a head. It was an odd looking turn out. Police Intelligence. CHARGE OF FALSE PRETZNCES AGAINST A MERCTANT. Samuel Jackson, recently » commission mershant with his brother, at 72 Broadway, was yesterday arrested by officer Smith, of the Lower Police Court, charged with haying, by false and fraudulent representations, in April last, obtained silk and eatin yestings, clothes, onda large ‘arpose of attending this fesiival, to hear what ab ittion quanlity of other goods, to the amount of $6,207, from | \rdimeute would be expressed or introdused. —(Criew of defendant, as teniloped ta obtalalog the nsona ee ane | “sNeze, nouel?) Tam proud to bear my testimony to the South that there has been no sentiment expressed here to-night that would bave the remotest tendency to s sec- tional charadrer. {apes and a voice—'*We woald not have them.”’) It ling all been nat patriotic. Imny perhaps, Mr. President, labor under some mis- take, and 1 fol would bard to be infermed sp to the true character of this organization, to which myself connected. Gentlemen have spoken here to-night with becoming pride of the victory lately tohieved! ‘your own State and in this ward; and others have a sui greater triumph in the Presidential election ent occasions, represented that he had customers for them; that he woud effect sales and make returns 23 ible. On these conditions, and fully beliey- tements thus made, the complainants’ deliv- ered the goods to Jackson, who sold them to parties not named to Mr. Shener, sent them out of the city by express,j and eventually fhiled to ac- count for the goods as per ment, and ig still in- debted to the compleipant and ihe members of his firm for them, Mr. Shener made a lengthy affidavit before Justice Connolly, in which he cl that the repre- re s sentatlons made ‘by the accused resniting in bis obtain. | of 1895. That that triamph ts within our reach, the purpote of cheating him ont of huis property. The | Mcranee, (fs have, ne dont Pal ens accured was taken before the magistrate and committed to the Tombs for triai in default of $10,000 Lait. He is 50 years of age, and a native of V’biladelphin, Sr, Jack- son denies the charge made against him, and hopes to be able to establish his Innocence, +hould an examination be afforded Lim. ARRESTS ON SUSPICION OF STEALING COTTON. Yesterday officer Glerew of the Third ward police, ar- rested three men, giving their names as Joseph Sham, Abrabam Sherwood and John Abrahams, on suspicion of having stolen three bales of cotton, valued at about $100, belonging to Robert H. Humilton, merchant, at 51 Sonth street. cotton in question’ le part of & large quan- hooey a few pes. pom in took fire on the pier foot of Robinson sireet, and was pitched tato the dosk to quench the flames. The isoners were taken on board the tloop William MeNiclt, lying at the foot of Vesey street, and at first dented all knowledge of the cotton; but on raising the hatch, which had been spiked down, three Dales of the stolen property were found secreted in the hold. They then admitted ‘taking the bales from the carried by # de over the festive board; but, sir, if it Le carried at al by the American party, {t mast be by drivin *ymptom of sectionality from ite platiorm, (Loud cheers.) It is « national platform, ant it must have nothing but nationality upon ita back. Applavee.) What ix the American party) What is it itt has brought us together, a new and distinct organ- ization, comparatively within the last few months, | may way? Has it not been because men of all who are more devoted to their country than to party, caw the anger that existed in the foreign Influence that was ex- ertod over the institutions of country? What is i sir, that bas brought me, @ whig, and you, a whig, oflier gentlemen that I sée around me, aa’ whigs, upon the American platform? It is known, sir, that I have always, since myjfiret entrance into public life, been a warm, zealous and enthusisstic whig. I tind myself now upon an American platform, yet no less a whig than I eae T wert upon Men! ioe I by eee an of the demecratic party here, standing uj form with me; and what has brought us vee te thie teuke cf common danger (Applanse.) to us When I ray I om no less a whig, I mean that bak] ont, ing them secreted as described, the pre- | 1 have veen "ao reason to change pi of my tormer take a Otis eae The, fefendants were } ooizirms, but we lave agreed 10 Babi them in abeyance pore Veen justice Welsh and committed to await an | 4 preater and more important question to the invereste ‘ the nation hes ariren. Those questions, not of a ciple but policy, which bave divides the whig and 7 cratic parties heretofore—such as the tariff, {aternal im- provements, and such likeare questions of a domestic Basure, always wikia our control, and eubject to ouc own action, and need but experience upon the part of tive people to Becide” for themselves, und to raverse the dec ision of the day by legislative action. But bere is « dit erent question that has ai may that might be yet be- youd onr reach, and we have found the necessity of ar reoting itat once. J say that I have come down fom my eee and have met my brother democrats upon tig American plotform, to accomplish our great objrot, and, to far as I am concerned, I am determined not to let eny otber queation interfere with me in the consomma- tin of that great end. (Applauee.) Ihold {+ a> para- smount to any other question and every other consurr- tien. If ony gentleman here of the Ameriean party pro en to introduce bis democracy upon that platform. 1, matter of course, would sagees to introtace my whiggery upon that platfcrm; and whet would be tha conrequence, but to reduce us back to our original #le- ments? If any grotleman proposes to imtroduse the question of anti-slavery, Southern men will in- troduce the question of slavery, and, as a matter of course it will create a division, and reduce them back we thelr original elements, What have we to do here with whiggery or democracy=-slavery or anti-slavery? (i.oa0 cries of ‘nothing, nothing !'?) Our platform med up in one word. It needa but one word that should be written in broad, b:il- be seen in the ni well 8 the Americanism.” (Applanae.) 1 word thee It that we ras Toeetiee to the RTEALING OF Of% PAINTINGS, ETC, Yesterday officer Ayrea, of the Third ward polices, arrested @ man named Charles A. Haskins, who stands charged with having, on the $4 {nstant, and varions other occasions, #tolen four large oll paintings, valued at three hundred dollars, two small lithogray table cutlery, spcoms, a barrel of glass ware, one ed sofa, card tabe, window curtains, stoves, arm chairs mantel ornaments, and various otlicr articles belonging to Mr, David Hl. Keonedy, of the Manhattan Hotel, Mase rey streot. The accused was taken before Justles Oon. nelly, and beldfor s hearing. It is said he had aecom. plices in the larceny, but their names are not mentioned im the ofiidavit on file in the police court. CHARGE OF PASSING COUNTERFEIT MONFY. A counterfeit $3 bill, on the Mercantile Bank of Salem, Massachusetts, was panned to Mr. James Blackwood, of (8 Bighth avenue, as iv alleged by Charles Chew, a specu- Litor, with the felonious intent to cheat and dofrand, ‘The affair being brought to the notice of cftloer Kelly, of the Ninth ward police. he arrested the accused, who taken before Justion Sestes, and sean for & heat the nt, it ie jeoles passing the counte with a guilty knowledge of its true character, pe tli nsctha vAemaenag Coroners’ It co Drath my DrowsrxG.—Coroner O'Donnell held in- quest yevterday upon the body of William Kinney, «2. tive of Fr gland, twenty-seven years, who. while peas pe ing up the gang of a coal barge lying at the foot of | y gua! < onstt oe ee hp be 2 Palonce, “tnd fling te he | fo the ‘eve the Forguition ot ti Aarons " ioe Ga Ganhets meee, leu He | cide questions of constitutional difienity betwern Nowth and Soutd; and an slteration--2 Bay Stare, ever.