The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1855, Page 2

2 THE LEGINLATIVE POLICE COMMITFEB. —————— Examination of Mr. Beale, Agent of the New Yerk Prison Association — Mr. Edward Blankman—Capt. Leonard, and Mr. Gray, Keeper of the City Prison— Farther Dis, closures of Criminal Abuses, déte., dia., dic. The Committee of the Legislature, appointed to iaves- tigate the abuses existing in the police system of New ‘York and Brooklyn, met yesterday in the City Hall, and examined severa} witnesses. All the members were pre- sent, consioting of Senators Crosby§(chairman), and Hop- kins, and Assemblymen Baker, Stuyvesant and O'Keefe. ‘The first witness examined was Abraham Beale, agent ef the New York Prison Association, whose testimony was not concluded on the last day of the investigation, Mr. Crosby asked him if he would continue his§testimony im regard to abuses that he knew to exist. « I am afraid, ssid Mr. B. in reply, to answer any questions with that perspicuity thet I would desire. In lookieg over the newspapers, I see hat half of what I said {s iuvorrectly reported; one stated that in my opinion Judges should be elested apd not appointed, w! # second says I stated that they should be sppointed and not: elected; another, that I said, ander a solemn oath, [had seen magistrates dcunk on the bench, and ancther again that prisoners could mot zeun letters out of the prison without the aid of the keep. et, who should be feed; this system of reporting will dy- ptrcy mw: efficiency —will. utterly annihilate my use fulcess. Mr. by.—] understood, when the question was put toyou: “Did you ever sees magistrate drunk on the bes ? that you answered yes. . Beale.—I did, sir, Mr. Crosby.—hen it is so reported. Mr. Stuyvesnnt,—Would you have any objections to giving the name of the lawyer reterred to in the case re- ported, in which he obtainéd money from a poor woman, under pretence of geting ber husbend from Blackwell's Island’ A. If itis any satisfaction to the gentlemen, I might itis not Friday, nor Saturday, nor Sunday: I amin the Dalit: ct'vistlingy tha olipr-pelicay therseneware.ao négas rated there that no improper conduct can take piace; sometimes young prisoners are placed in company wiih elder offencers; on last Saturday I saw seventeen boys tm one cell, and-they were allowed the free use of tobaceo and jipes; some were put in for burglary, some for petty lareeny, and come for assault and battery; some boys are allowed better furniture in their rooms; I know of a boy who was taken up as a witness, named George Havh- away. who has been in prison fifteen days in dufanit of $260 bail; he has had no opportunities to clean himself, and has been without soap or towel or clean shirt daring that time, snd has 1 prodabisity lost bie sitauth the magistrate knew at the time he committed bin t priton hy nevor could furnish the bail; 1 nave never re que:ted e magistrate to leave a race in my charge (oc in- Wertigation; 1 bave uever known of » case in whieh officer took a warrant fer assault ing the day, and neglected 10 serve it. a re: party at night, and detaining bim from his family in the station roure, I have never known of a cnse of a prissuer having been Cismissed withoat examinati 1 have never hnown oO! @ prisoner being kept in the Sixth ward station houre some days i Wr. Stuyvesant stated here, that athe Tombs Sundsy morning, he raw a party iemporarily cow wih nkex ness, pay the fire, belore the exa-aination, t tee 58 of the prisoo, and ov cischarged. Mr. wid he desicea to make a few odservetions on ‘the system of prison discipline, and the necessity of mak- ieg prison refo1 mations. r. Cro-by all they wanted to know at present. was wbout the city prison. Mr. Beale pre dto remark thaton Friday lost, ho was on Bieckwell’s Inland, when about furty prisones told him that they could get olf the island for lit ic money=the ice for a lawyer ranging from $2 to $25—— and that a man called ¢DPorgie nail to Bave ben a constable, was in habit vielting the inland avd’ tekizg off ten or mo ners @ week; he alse called on Mr. Kel know how it was done, wen Mr. K. formed himfbai he did not know unless it was by a habeas eorpus; he afterwards called upon the District Att ray, nd was told that such conduct would not be allowed im future, for that he him-elf should put a stop to it. Mr. Hopkine—Is Porgfe Joe a constable now? Mr. Beale--J believe not. This closed Mr. Beale’s evidence, and the nex! witnoss was Edmond Blankman, who testified as follows:—I am a Jawyer;1 know of some sbuses in criminal Jurispru- detce; a !argenumber of ‘emales who were arrested by the order ctthe Mayor, charged with beeing sireet- walkers; they were tuken up one night; I was applied to the next mornirg by some ot their friends or members of their farilier; the persons who applied to me haviog stated under oath that some of the feinales were highly ble, and not steeet walkers, I, ia accordance their request, applied to the Recorder of the city in one care for a writ of babcas corpus; I did this on toe ition of the sister and husband; on « represeutation af facts anda defect in the reeord of commitment she was Promptly dixharged by the Recorder; on another Gocasion, a dey or two after, I was again applied vo for « similar application in behalf of a female who, it apoear- ed from a siatement made to me under oa:h, had gone out between the hours of 8 and 9 in the evening for tie porpose of procuring medicine for a member of » family Who was ill—while ste was on the way from the drug store, with the medicine in her band, ahe was accos‘e by an officer, and arrested as ao strect-walker, and taken to the Mayor’s oflice, where she committed to prison Im that particular case J was o) lized to apply for a weit of habeas corpus and a writ of certivrari, for war the writ might bo properly made out; wy application was argued bet Justice Roosevelt, ana the woman was hirged en certiorari; on the morning of ber ai charge there were some thirty or forty cases of a similar kind a:gaed before Justice Roosevelt, and all the parties were cis- In reply to a questfon from Mr. O'Keefe, ns to what fret ‘er facts were necessary to prove a woman to be a strevi walker, the wines replied that the fact of prostitution abould’ bejproved. It has been he'd, continued tie wit pens, that where a street walker conducts hereell properly in the streets she should to protected by the authorties Mr. Stuyvesant—Don’t you thiok if the Mayor broke jonable houses, it would put a stop to pros- Witness—That is a question I cculd not answer. Mr. O’Kecte—Couidn’t you tell # prostitute iu the twinkling of an eye? Witnese—Some people might, and some pe ple might Mr, Hopkiue—An expert has a right to give an opinion before the coumittee, and Mr. U’Keelv appeare to be one. vghter br a c X fe~ Every one is an expert who bas been in New Youk but s few months, ° Mr Hopkms—Did J vaderstand you to say that thos» 20 oF 40 persons were discharged for want of suiiictent evicence? Witnese—I could not ray, but the two I represented Were respectable partivs. P Captain Leonard, sworn, testified as followe—I am captain of the Second police district; my duties are de- fined by written instructions and verbal orders; T make daily returns to the Chief's office every morning, and to the. magis rate in the case of persons arrested; I dor: Snow that the Chief of Police has visited my stati, within the last year; 1 think he bas been once within the last two yeurs; I have never heard of a person boing dia- ebarged Without an examination; the magistrate way haave heard the caseand discharge; I have heard of peo, @echarged for throwing ashes in the street, and Ht» fencer discharged without a penalt; wayseif I woule have dove the same " bling houre in John street, aud there ‘is another in fon atrect; T gave all the icforination in my power ®'out it to the Distric: Attorney; i don’t chimk I have the right to suppress a gambling hous ofiiver hax @ right to go into such a house without 's wocowut; | agver kane of the Chief taking any measures vw) supp) them; in laying cut my posts for policemen, | tix iv so that they con ovly mect a few in their beat; I make them ut es poxsiole; in speaking o: the ont visiing the station hone, Tabonld state that the rules requiie) him to visit them, @r eaure them to be visited, be i noeh ashe can > himmeli in his office, aud I think an ould » erintend- emt would be of great service to the departmies', It 1s the duty of the Ceptain to take charge of the police at fire, tH the Chief arrives; for a number of years the Chie? has Deen at ali fires, but recently he has not; he was, I under stand, at that Jast night in Fulton street; it is the duty of the polce to caution people against entering mosk auction stores; Mickie, when he was Mayor, had posters placed oppesiie them, warning strangers, but they did no good, for the auctioneers told the strangers that the Poster was intended for the next door, and the merchants aay others who did business near the auction store Degen’ of the Mayor to take aay his posters; some ot the suctioncers had & banner opposite to the Mayor’s place of Duriness, cautioning the public against buying his ‘* short eat.’ (Laugh‘er.) Mr. Crosby—The money made by the mock auctioncers te made out of citivens? Captain Leonarc—No, sir, it is made out of those the rural districts; I knew of one in stance where a Fourteenth ward policemen got bit; icy dealers, the @red complaints were made agiinst them for sole joney out of them; Tne w ere where a complaint was made from hon| tives ; there is one thing | would wish to apeak of, Hace [have been 2 member of the department somo eight or ten men hhave been killed in the cischarge of their duty, and I ‘think there should Le o funa in the department for the benefit of the families of such men. Mr. Croshy—Don’t you find that an increase in the BZ Rotld euprly a better class of men for the servien of department Capt. Leonard—Yes, air; decidedly «0: if the w: men exceed those paid to mechanics, there wil moneh better class of men applying, ar th since the wages were increased; the applicant ts reqaired to get hix spplication signed by twenty-five reapectable pr mien in regard to the Chief of Police, I think he does as much now as any man could do; he is engaged to hia office from morning till night. Mr. Baker—' your practics in regard to search- "7. parties asrested over uight? Laptain Leonard—I have adopted a rnte in all oases to search men, and take everything from them at the time, whether they are willing or not; Ido this for their pro- tortion aa weil as for my own; I have frequently known parties who have charged the officers with rovbing them, and I have therefore nd it necessary to follow this rule in every instance. set” O'Keefe—Is there any specific law upon that mub- Captain Leonard—tI don’t know that there is; if there in not, ihere should be a law; there is a rule that all pro- ee, taken from a person must be brought before a jus- ¢n the following morniog, and this role ‘ap- plies to ali prisoners; we give’ the amount of pro- og Ory from prisoners and lodgers in our returna at end of every tix months; we bad = man once brought in drunk and he said he bad forty dollars in gold sewed vy in the tail of his rhirt, but when we searexed him wo he had nots single cent, and I don’t be- eve he had seen teen pence of his own for twenty years; neither nor my men can be df without on examination before the commissioners; present Board of Commissioners have adopted « rule giv. im regard to gambling houses and witness raid tinat in ae out of every Purpore of baking. P yen of bes re has been NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER V1, 1855. werute would not knowa well known ores, Ir. Stuyvesant—Have to regent before They are elevated in office? Capt. Leonard—Sometimes they old associati: with the tricks of tl Mr. O’Keefe—Bat they never formed a part of that as- vociation ? Capt. Leovardé—Of course not; each one of the detec- tives have a journal in which they write down every’ they do, srecytiing they nee, pear submit ie ee every morning form, ; the cetectives seldom wear the unif: they but they make outsite, from persons who give them presents fur rn gee ty; they must, however, get permission to receive rom the Mayor, John Grey, Warden or the city prinon, sworn, ‘testified a8 follows:—My duty is to take charge of the ‘prisoners when they are brought to the prison; ‘there are four city priscns; One on the corner of Centre and Franklin atreets, cue in Essex market, one in Jefferson market, andone on the corner of Eighty-fourth street and Fourth aveune; the ast one is a mi-erable place. Mr. Crosby—Is it a fact that. in the ‘city privon boys, ranging in number from five to twelve, are confined in the tame cell?’ Mr. Grey—Yes, sir. We sometimes put them in to- ether, for we would mot have room to keep them sepa- rate; I have one rocm in the city prison, over 100 long, in which we keep witnesses, Mr. Croshy—I saw there myself some six or seven boys, and several of them were smokiog. Mr. Giey—Yes, sir; wel), they get tobacco in there, Mr. Croaby—-So far as your experience goes, don’. you think it is rather injurious to the morals of these boys to have so many of them together? Mr. Gre: ‘bey are only kept in there for two or three bo ‘8; wo have had some as long as two weeks. tr. Crosby—Lid you ever know one to be there over two mon hs? Mr. Grey— Such a thing might be, but that is the fault of the Judges not cahng for them. Mr, Crosby—Do you make your returns every morning when the special sestions are held? Mr. Grey—Yes, sir, every day, Mir. Crosby—Is it eustomary for tha Judges to take those witnesses that have been Orst confined ? Mr. Grey—Sowetimes they arraign them and send them back to us again; we don’t allow lawyers to g> into the prison, nor even into the yard, when a lawyer comes, we rend for the prisoner, and put them both in the re ception room, und alter ‘they are turough, we send the prsoner buck. Mr, Ciorsby—Could the man who has charge of mes- sages ‘o prikorers not prevent the pre-ence of evansel by Urirging lalee messages? Mr. Grey—I have unbounded confidence in the men who is cimployed for that purpore, und don’t believe he could Le reached in that way; Lbave nothing to do win the lockup at the Chiefs office; vagrants are genecaliv di coargen through a habeas corpus; vf a man bas got om vep hin iu prison, Know of a prisoner to be dis- your city prison, pat who was oaly k Maria to take inv vo the Ieland? toem to be dis. y have ial L cherped mn Markt prison; shy a habeas corps. Hiave you not heard of cases of piisdners city pison who were found dead ia the Mr. Cros! cox ined ia the know of four mon who were fonnd dead, wsed by some gas which escap Mr. Cronby~ location ? Mr. Grey—Yee, sir, it ix as healthy a plaeo as Lever lived in. Nv, Creeby--Well, you of course have superfor accom modatirnsy Mr. Grey—The part I occapy ison the same lot with the rest of he building. Mr. Crosby—What do you think of the accommodations sre they ax they ough? to ber Mr. Gréy—Yes, sir; but at one time they wore not; prisovers besides having heattby cells, have got the whole yard to run about in, Atthis stage of the examination, a motion was made by Mr. Stuyvesant and adopted, that at the noxt mest. ing Captsins Carpenter, Downing und Norris, of the po ise, and ex.Cily Judge W. K. Beooe should be examine. The committee then ac journed to this morning. Jo you consider the prison ia a healiby Fire Marehal’s Office INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGIN OF FIRES. ‘The following synopsis of testimony taken by the Fire Marshal exhibits conclusively the careless manner of de- positing coul ashes to be the means of producing fire at No. 42 Cedar street, on the night of the (th inst. It also shows the origin of the fire at the Demili Dispensary, on the Gth inst., to have been caused by means equally as thoughtlens: AK IN THE DEMILE DISPENBARY. Hemy I, Mack testified that he resi¢es in the Demilt Ligpensery, as apothecary of the insiitution; on Wednes- doy mornivg. 5th December, about ten o'clock, my at- tention was directed, by Or. Bronson, to a bulg ng down of the ceiling order the bail; I then heard @ ernckling noise; in about a minute after come plastering fell down, ¥hen we discovercd considernzble smoke and heas; I im- nicciately gave the alarm of fire, when the firemen came acd put it out; since the fire I've made an exunination ot (be premises as to ite origin; the Fire Marshal ex- plained 10 me how, in his jucgment, 1 originated; a wooden epithex, partly Glled with cawdust, i¢ ceome, is ml-sing from the reom: it is believed that some one at the neviing on the previous evecing theew either the eno of n segue or a pivee of Lghied paper iato the spit- vox, fromwhich the sawduct became ignited, and tuus bunts hele throvgh the flooring; 1am cf the opinida tha the fire originated as represented by the Fire Mar- shal. ‘Su Sweeny testified —I am janiter of the Denilt Dis I reside with my fainily fa the balding; over hecary khop and reception room there bball for public meetings; on Tuesday evening ‘ie +) it be fore vhe fie~ there as a Know Nothiag meet vthe Lal; after they lett I oxtinguiehed all the siet ier the meeting broke up, and locked the out ¢ turned off the registers to throw the heat in yensasy; I went into the hall again about 11 o'clock and turned the regisier so 18 to throw te» heat into the school room on the third floor, at that time I did not Ciscever ary emell of smoke; in the public hal f bad eight wooden *pitboxes placed about the hall; each LOX whs about two-thirds full of sawdust; after tho fire, the Fire Marshal making an examination of the p emiver; he asked me how many «yitboxes I had fn the ball; I replied aight; he then reqvested me to gather them up; I did go, but could only find seven; in these boxes weird picces of burnt paper and segars; [ am of cyinien that the tive originated trom the sawdust im the ing box tehing fire from «ome lighted segar oc piece Prihrown into it tbe night previous; I do sovin- tend to vee wooden spitboxes filled with sawdust any more in the building; Ido not believe them safe. PNY IN PEDAN STRAET—CARELINSNESS WITKT STIRS, Charles O'Conner testified—I am in the employ of Jacob Lansing, No, 42 Cedar street; I act ag cleck; it is my business to inke charge of the fourth docr, whish is used asa manufactory of wantillas, &.; Iwas oa the fourth floor about 644 o’elcek on the evening of the fire; I think there were eight or vine girls 0% work on that floor on tat afternoon: Mies Gaines aud Miss Thoapscn s rep up the floor; I held open a bag, and they put the «weep iugs in; they consirted of three or four pounds of cuttings and cotton wadding; the bog was placed about 12 inches or so from the ashbox; T nave been informed by Mes. Wood, since the fire, that Mev. Hanly, ene ot the work women, took some ashes out of the stove beSweea Land S o'clock on that afternoon, and that she plaved them in the tin ash box, near the wall; it was neur this box that 1 placed "he bag of sweepings; | have examined the room since the fre, and cannot ray but whas it must have oc curred from the ashbox. Anirew MeFarland teatified—I am employed by Ban. croft, Betts & Marshall, No. 42 Cedar street; Mr. Lansing acts es their agent, 1 furmsbed the tin ashbox for the deposit of ashes on the fourth floor, and to the best of my knowledge the bottom of it was sound; in reference to the origin of the from the examination | have made sinee the fire, 1 should say it originated in som way from the axhbox; I am satisfied it not take from ihe stove. Mayor's Office, CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCB8—NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS INVOLVED. William H. Ritter, who has a contract for supplying the Gand Trunk Taiiroad in Canada, with axles, wa arrested on Friday afternoon, in the city of Rochester, by officer Hope, of the Mayor’s office, on a charge of perpe- trating a wholerale fraud upon Ames’ Iron Company, of Litebtield Co., Conn. The officer encountered some ditt. culty in effecting his arrest, as it was claimed that tho Sopreme Court Sad juriscic‘ion in his case, and could tabe bail for lis safe appearance there. Judge Selden finally adjusted the matter, by holding the wgcased to bait in the sum of $5,000, to answer at tne Court of Geno ral Seselous in this city, ‘on the first of January. It ay- pears that on the ninti day of January last, am ngres- ment was made between Mr. Ritter and Horatio Am the maneger of Ames’ Iron Company, that the iatter should send gm to Rocheater $9,000 worth of railroad car axlee to the firm of Carpen'er & Dutton in that city, which flim Mr, Ritter répre-ented as having the contract for the Grand Trask ae — eae sent on ae. cording to agreement, bat shortly sit was die coveent that Carpenter & Dutton were insolvent, and thet they had no such contract, the represeatations of Ritter being untrue, as he bi: £ was the real contrac tor, No money fe Ro ag sent in pay weak for tue exles, Mr. Ames could look upon the affair in no other light than as agrand fraud on the part of Mr. Ritter Hence he immediately proceeded to the Mayor's office and in an affidavit, taken before Justice Osborne, set ferth the whole scheme. A warrant was théreupon is sued for (he apprehension of Ritter, which was executed As above mentioned, by officer Hope. Coat of General Sessions. Refore Recorder Smith, There was acme little delay in opening this Court yes terday morning, owing to the change made in the detailed police offcers of the Court, by his Honor the Mayor. geant A. V. Davis, who, we understand, has been at tacbé of this Court for hve years past, and for years the logether erier of the Court, has been remeved, with nix other officers, vix': officers Spicer, Lowery, Worlbridge, Parton, Bostwiek and Fieree. The newly appointed area officer W. B. Walsh, crier of the Court, in place of Ser. — Davie; and First ward; Gaughan, th ward; Gray, Sixth ward; Mice, Sesond ward Files, Fifth ‘ward. ‘The day was oceupted in the trial of a conductor on the Sixth avenue railroad, charged with appropriating «ixty- seven cents, railroad to hia own use, cave was not ended at the close of the Court, MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. ROARD OF SUPERVISORS. This Board did not meet in session last evening. Four o’elock in the afternoon is the hour named for organiz” tion snd ro!) call, Yesterday, at five m'nutes to fou’ the City Ha lclock, ten minutes to four by the cia the office of © Clerk of the Board of Aldermer | 14 aye minutes pas four by the clock in the chr .4.. or the Supervisors, ' ayor Wood entered ther as, and in bis naturally agile and business like mano’ » wyiceg qnickly up to the char, and said: “Cler’, wit please cali the Mr. Valentine having dor 4 wo, it was found that rell,”” nive members answ ‘the seonced to his Honor, he rep’ det, in BaP een ke has » he ‘nui ‘ae leaving Supe: 4 Briggs, Barker and som other res mo astonishment, and 3 _ lesson in official pungtuality, BOARD OF ALDERMEN. This Board met yesterday afternoon at the usual hour, ‘the President, Alderman Barker, in the chair, After tho reading and approval of the minutes the following busi ness was transacted :— Report of Committee on Asseurments—Ia favor of con- firming apportionment of ascessinent ia the matter of the opening of Tenth avenue, from Seventy-first strece to Blocaggngdale road. Adopted. Rey where not already grooved. Referred to special commit. tee, with commanication from the Mayor on the same subject. By Alderman Briccs—Resolved, That the Street Com- missioner be, apd he is hereby, requested to report to this Board the cause, if any exist, why the sunken barge at the foot of Roosevelt street bag not been re- moved. Adopted. By Alderman Trownnip6e—Resolved, That the Com missioner of streets and Lamps be, and he ia hereby, au- thorized and directed to instruct the clerks of the seve ral warkets to collect seventy-five cents per month from every cerson using the burners in the markets where the gua is taken fiom the Corporation pipes, and 16 pay bi reme to the Comptroller with the market fee‘. Adopted. The following communication was received from the Mayor aud read :— Mayor's Orricw, Dec. 10, 1865, To 1Hy HON. THE BOARD OF ALUERMEN:— ‘CrsTLew en On the Mth vanowry last, in @ communica {oo Au Boar de of he Cou mon Couneli, {called attention to the * neers of grouving the Kuss pavement in Broad buding | eor aloutexpiring. wibout any conclave on the tuljec', it Was agaip alluded to in a special mesa ihe Losrd 01 Counéilmen ou the fd Inet, a copy of whien t neved marke in reply to shis communication, the Board 0! Councilmen, on the 6th tnst,. pasted & resolaxon (anne, 1), whlch declares that es eaely aa ast i nner proposed by nue, but, tat know, no noice whatever hus deen taken of It by the Board of and that faction bad been taken the evil complain ¢0, of Would have been removed long tivee ‘The fo lowing ix Ye resolu fon referred toin the me is Honor the Mayor—paseed by the Board of Gcuneilin Februwry 1eth janis Resolved, ‘ihet ihe Commissioner of Repairs ant Supplies be, and bo’ is hereby, direciad (0 udvertise {or proposaly fo groovirg ihat portion f ihe Ruse parement vot already ¢ vov ed, a ws proving the same ut the Inter the va of eack i that orcs krovdunys the upper s zrcoved at right angles with the live cf the atre3! ner tbat (he space between the grooves and join shull pot exered six ivehes, the grooves to be nov 1x8 sha ove and © quarier inch wide on We surince, nor lees tha three quarters of an inch in depih; mad that be seod the same to the Common Council ‘or sur.her aetion Fibls beso, the responsibilty tor tbe condition of Broadway throughout the year, rests exclusively with the Beard of Al dermen, en, ‘0 which no exoeption ‘k in tuch me. Hize the resolution of the Counelim could be luken, been ac opted ut onee, a very large smount o. Proper y could have been saved to its Ownees, which bas been destroyed by the condition uf Broadway during the present yee Permit me, therefor tion to ihe matier. #4 Councilmen for the grooving of the tus ¥, Which was sent to your Board in Febroary list for con currence, be called up aud passed. Very respectfully, FERNANDU WOOD, Mayor. Alderman Howarp thought the aubjéct an important one, as it would give employment to @ large na siber of yoor wen curirg the winter. Alderman W. TcckeR was of the opinion that tre gcoov ing is not neceseary. Aldev man Vantay thought it should be: done, and be. lieved the beet way todo tits would be te gevove at in tervals of thice instead of six inebes, and at right angles with the j ints of the stone. Yodo this would ovst trou $60,(60 te $75,600, Aldermon SurERs rela'ed cases of serious accidents re- sulting from the present smooth state of the pavement. Alderman Hrwrice ssid there was n» money 1a the tres sury for the purpose, and ny appropriations had been mai c, co he thought it vould be useless to refer it to a coumittee. . Alcerman C. H. TuckER was in favor of referring it. Op motion, the whole subject was re‘errei to a Spectal Commitice, coneis ing of Alvern eu W. Tucker, Voorhis, nd Howare. Alcernan Bnicos presented the follwing preamble and 1c:Olution,end moved its adoption:— ‘ef of Police has been declared va son of the ine iibllity of the present {uzen of the United States be respectfully requested to no- minate acuilable perso: ipply a vacune Alcermen Howanp sai he Police Commissioners had he eppcirtivg power, and the resolution was clearly out of order, We tave, he added, nothing to do with police: men, and I call upon the President to rule it out. ‘The Cnai decided that the point of order was not well A’cernan Buccs said that the Bosrd hold its powe: fom rhe people, and they were acting in aecurdanoe with their ‘eclings. Alderroan Howsnp had read the pclice Jaw, whic Gave anthority only to the Police Commissioners over the tolice Departient. It took away the power trom the dermen, because it was said they aoused that power. ‘ibe Freupest guia that the Bcard had the right to pass the resolaivn, Alée:man Drake thought that there was nothing wrong in it, as it war moxely the passage of a resolution. Altenmen Howsrp—There is no vacancy, and how ean we make (ne? ] appeal from the Secision of the chair, the vole on the appesl was taken, with the following result:—Yeas, 10; nays; 7. Sefthe Chair was sustained ‘the vote on the adoption wis then put, Afrmative~-Wiliiumson, Moser, Fox, W. Tucker, Voor- bis, Briggs, Barker, Christy, Ely, C. HM. Tucker, ’ Drake —il. egative—Brown, Raird, Hoffmire, Howard, Trow- biidge, teins, Herrick, Varian—8. A report im favor ef concurring with the Board of Coun- ciimen was receive! from the Commitive on Ordinances recommending the adoption of au ordinanes for tha com plete organiza tion of the Bureau of Assessments. Adsp:- ed, On motion of Akderspan Howano the report of the Co. mittee onthe Fire Department, consurring to build rewhoure for the wee of Hoek avd Ladder Company 14, and ansccision to the house of Hose Company No, also a vew > give for Engine Company No. 22, was con curred ip. ‘The Board adjvurned till Thursday afternoon, BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. ‘The Councilmen met last night at thelr chimbers ‘x the Cily Hall, uke President, D, D. Conoveg, in the cli. ‘The minutes of the ‘ast meeting wore read and adopted. Petitions were first in order, but none of impor ance were presented. Resolutions being next in order, a resolution was offered by Councilman Wilber and referred to spectal ¢° mmittes. directing the Street Commissioner to report to the Boar the rewron why the enlargement of the Battery is no* completed, and all the iaforina‘ion he may hyve on th subject. ‘tue report of the Committee of Conference, to whom were referred the differences between the twe ards, re xpecting the remeval of offal, &e., was then eslled ») as the special order of the day.’ Tals report recommeated the following resolution ad specifications:— »Eouaived, Tost the City I fr be, art be hereby tx au thorized and directed imay to advertise, for twenty days, pro ls for the sale of, then to. ‘ell, to Nps gd bidder, who eball furnish adenhuate security, the right and pr: vilege of colesting and removing dead horses, and other doad anizoa’s, blood, offal snd other refuse matter and nuisances in nceurdance With the following specifications, for the teria 0° five yeurs next thereafier; tte contract to be prepared | y the ‘Conwtel to the Corporation. SPECIFICATIONS First. The contractor +hal] collect and remove from al! nar's of the city (o the dock and eilp at the toot of Forty-Afh st, set, Fast river, or to such olber docks or alipa as tie Gummo Counell may, at any time or Umea hereafter vide, olldend horses and otber dead animats; and shal’, 5. a!’ times provide and keep, at his own cost and expense, vach » number of sultable carts as thal! be necessary for 8 prompt and fatthf es ‘mance of suci work; said carte shail beep Proved und ileented by the City Imepecior diy Becond. ‘The cc nivactor shail. at all tines, provide 7 uch dc OF Hip as id, wuitanle umber of salt Je boats, seows, barges or vesiels for recelving, r Feceive therein all dead horses, and. o-her deat. eicon 41] Licod, olf, and other refase matter from butchers’ alaugh! er boures, and ments, end silo thas! be ofieyed by amy xpectfully to cal, your earnest atten k thet, the resolution of the Boara of Wementin road ‘ ae per on or Third, The contractor shall suttable boxes for the rece otion of all 5 ish, at his own cost and ex- # oF com ns to he , one at each police station hv ise y and (ne At the offles of the City Toepector. and to cause all orders or complainta to be collected from each aud every station boure, and trom the office of the City In peeior, ‘A Tenet twice every day; and shall cause af! dead animals to be removed, tn accordance with the contract, 88 F000 a8 posal bie alter thé reeeption of any such order oF compluia’ or other notise. - leas' once in every day, re, horses, animals, blood, offal and ‘other mat a al to some suitable and proper youd (he limite of the etty; and whenever ine Inepeccer rail so direct, such removal ehall be made tice in cock day during the months of June, July, August ond Beprember. sahantes he a amotnt of thirty thou. formance Fifth. Approved send do will be required for the taithful and execation vof the couttacy tothe end of the terme, which ore ‘ ehaly iar ee within three weeks of the ve of euch year, every ot the work to be \ fcrmed aw requited, xnd°nny neglect or’ refusal’ on ine part of the cor ieactor, 10 perform the whole or any part of the *Ipmations of the contract, or of ihe requirements eifeations, shall sufficient to empower and authorize City Inspector to proceed to pertorm so much thereof ampball be ceglecies or refnved, at he expense of, and chargeable by the Corporation to (he contractor sod his sureties, and such refa- fal Cr peglect shall atihortze and empower the Common Coun. cl, at any time to revoke and anno! suéh cont i Sdjourned;” and taki: 4 jast arr fon, no doubt, at this t of Committee on Streets—In favor of concurring to agvertine for proposals ‘to grove the Russ pavement Sat” ag sbendoned i, and shall forfelt all right to soch * uisition, under $260, ‘The Comptroller ehust bf these uisitions were in the hands of BiDena, of a special be, line, to run between the hotels an¢ all steamboat endings in the city, was taken up. Atew mioutes after this way called up, Councilman Ciancy entered the room, and being it surprised that it was vefore the Board, ssked if it was taken up in its regular order on the calendar. ‘The Present raid it was not taken up in its regular order. Councilman CLaxcy (somewhat excited)—Well, this is man’s is turned, Py pretty piece of business! When who is opposed to a measure three millions, that measure is its or¢er. I won’t submit to this. what autnority faite oh mere Board, I should like 1 now Councilman Coorsr (in the chair)—This report lay be fore me on the derk, ard I took it up. Councilmen Crancy—Well, if you can’t do better than that, you had better get out of the chair. A motion was then carried that the regular calendar be reeumed. After the transaction of some further unimportant business, the Board adjourned. up, ani out of Williameburg City News. BFFECTS OF THE GALE—A OHURCH 8TEKPLE BLOWN DOWN AND A 6UG AR MOUSE UNKOOFED. Op Sunday night about 8 0’slosk, during the strong gale of wind, the roof of the People’s sugar refinery, situated in ‘First etreot, at the foot of South Second, was blowa off The root, which covered the main building, was about 7 feet in length, by 85 feet wide. As it was raised up in» the air, {t broke in the centre, and one portion was ca ried over two dwelling houses and oame down with a tre mendeus creth in South Seeond street, a distance of over 60 rede, The other portion was carried across th etreet and struck agaiost the aouse No. 174 First stree cecupied by Mr. Willinm shepard. ‘The portion and fron steps were ecnriderably rmasbed uv, and’ the fence ani trees in front we e@ entirely demoli-! Quite a nave of pares of glace were demolirhed in the two a/jotainy bouses by flying tregmer ts. Owieg perhaps to the storm but few persone were abroad and no one was injured. During the same gale, the sreeple of St. Mary?4 Catho- lie Chureh, sisuuted at the corner of Leonard and Remse streets, was blown down, and slightly damaged ons ¢n rer of the dwelling op the oppoxite vive, The steeple wa about 1:0 feet in length, and has always been cousidere Corgerous, The door on the first platiorm was sail to b open, and, as the seesle filled with air, It was easil, car ied over, Some condeable excitement was caunt! from @ rvmor that aman and boy hac been kifled,, Search was made, avd sl that wes found was the mutilated re maine of an aged dog. ‘Ihe bark Cape Fear, of New York, parted her fastenin, on the New York side, end drifted ‘over tho river, wher: th- was made fast, ai the foot of South stceet, by uv ferry hands, New Patents Issucd. List of patents Issued from the Uniled States Pate: t Ofiice, for the week ending Deo. 4, 1855—each bearin; that date— Toowas Batty, cf Brooklyn, N, Y., for improvement i: suspending ships? yards, Eravtus B. Bigelow, of Boston, Mass,, for improvemen in cutting pile tabrics, * E. W. Bullard, of Hardwick, Mass., for imp.o od mode of bonging window saehes. Daniel Campbell, of Washington, D. ment in military baddies. Thomas A. Crandler, of Rockford, Ill, for improve ment in making plow mould boards. : Jobn A. Cole, of Washington, D. C., for improvemen' in muchine for sawing out tapering blocks of marble. ‘Alonzo f. Linemoor & Levi J. artlete, of Sallebury for improved instrument for cliamlering the edge soles. &. Thema: A. Elden, of Westbrook, Me., & Wm. J. Thor, of Hollisten, Mase.,” for improvement in the a-range jampers of cvoking apparatus. C., for improv: of mext of flues aud Joseph T. England; ot Baltimore; Md., for improvement ip railroad car coupling. Peter Fai: bsirn, of Leeds, and John Hargrave, of Kirk- sto, In the coubty uf York, for, lwprovermant te wool cembing machines. Patented in Eog and Nov.76,-195?. Henry Fornercok, of Eldridge, N. Y., for improvemer in feet wa: mers, Joxeph rani of New York, N. Y., for improvene:, in military wages, Samuel li, Giuman, of New Orleaus, La., for improve ment ia begasse furnaces. Semue: Hamotiton, Jr., of Tolland, Mass., for improved burglars alarm. Jesse W, Hatch, of Rochester, N. Y., for improvemsn io wechine {for cutiiog out begt and shoe soles, Horace 1. Hervey, of Quincy, Ul for impr.ved burglars alarm. Geo: ge A. Howe, of Worcester, Mass. , for improvement in hand cotton pickers. Matthian Keller, of Philadelphia, Pa., tor improve nen in evitirg the fronts and backs of violins, Fdword N. Kent, of New York, N, ¥., for improvement in ama!garators. re Kershaw, of Boston, Mass., for improvemeni. n locks. Hosea Lindsey, of Ashville, N. C., for improvement in pumps. Mints, R. Markillse, of Winchester, J1l., for improvemen’ in kpoke machines, G.M. Moore, and J, Newton, of Watertown, Comn., for Imprevement in machine for seourtog, knives. i H. Pomeroy, of Bloomingtcn lL, for dinprovemen in locke. Itaa2 Rebn, of Philadelphi>, Pa., for improved photo- graphic bath. James Hi, Sampson, of Grafton, Mass. in hoot tre Charles echinz, of Camden, N. J., for self regulstiny hot blast for furnaces, Nathapie) Simons, of Providence, R,1., for improvemen in cloth stetch ng rollers. Jobn Tremyer, of Philadelphia, Pa, for fmproved 2 of connection between regulator valve and gov % stem, Daniel E. Trve, of Lake Vilinge, N. H., for improve blind fastener, Tevi Van Hi for improveme..| vn, of Now Kaveo Conn., for improve- ment in marhines for paring ané slicing apples. Richard Vere, of New York, N. Y., for improvement { quer zerushing muchines, Moves D. Wells, of Morgantown, Va , for improveme: in band reed rower, R. C. Wrenn, of Covi ston, Ky., for Improvement in machines for preparing cotton reed for planting. vohn H. Gatise, anklinville, Va., astignor tv Atrsbam Eéwards, of Towanda, Pa., for inprovernent i water whi els, Joby Taggart, of Roxbury, Mass, assiguor to hime! end Vernon Brown, of Boeton, Mass,, for improve. mechine for ehenneling stone. Charles C. Tolmap, of Shelburne Fa.ls, Mass., assiy te James Eangent and Dan, P. Tueker, of same place, mlet, wait B, Clarke, of Newnsn, Ga., for umprovemeni machinery for opening and feeding cotton to the gin, Rr-Isetr.—Samuel Slocum, of Providence, f. 1., machine for #tekimg pins in paper, Patented & 80, 1841. Extended September 30,1805, te The Neutrality of Brazil—Theatrical Com: plimenis to France, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Brazil has broken ita neutralfty. France and England conjointly, have just been the odje st of the gravest insul that a nation can receive from one with whou it is a peace. It is true the Japanese habite of the B avilians naturally place them beyond the law of nations. are is, tis said, what heppened at Para on the 26th of Ia’ August, ard was renewed on the 30th of the same mon Suxpay, 26th—I accompanied Mr. Ch. Kleppor to ‘he theatre. This is what we witnessed:—They represent da piece for a benefit. A ‘arge and very fine Cossack dance! @ solo, in character, and was greatly applaudea. 6" ov this a male and female singer—such as there only a. at Para—h.wled a very interesting, merry song. This due ended, there appeared a made up éwarf, annouaced in the bills posted up as “s French officer arriving fiom Sebastopol!” This laughable carricature was dressed in ered jacket, which had one belonged to an English de rerter, the headdress the historical hat of the old Napo Jeon, in which was displayed @ tri-eclor cockads of t g French, as large a¢a dish. This dwa-f voce @ mask, on which there had been an attempt to produce a beard moustaches, and a profile of the present French Empe Napoleon IIL. t this moment, if the theatre had tottered under bravos snd applause, po one could bave been surprise! but what astonished me war to #00, in the Prestient’s box, the Vice President of the Province applauding more than any one an iveult of such a neiure—which cannt be without results, It must be,as has been s0 ofte: nid, that the Brarilian is as destitute of common sense a+ of bg 4 ease, to aves nasa = far. On Tho; ‘80th, the same farce was repeate}, wiih cnir peeullarity: the celle. for Napoleon Pequens (little Napol aos bf weed Were more numérous and more ‘The Chancellor of the French Consulate was presert at this representation, from which I couclude that the French ment will soon learn how the Brazilian wathori honor the game and colors of France. Al aqed : remember aright, was conquered for # much ese ineult. Para, bu is fol Paraenses will cost the free navigation of the Amazon, Tue Lave Trurararnic Fear—Last night, at 10 o'clock, two telegraphic operators sat conve to- geiber in the office at New York—not orally, but by means of ‘he wires’ —their words from one to the other by the way of New Orleona, completed over the whole ronte, and they unica withent fhe aid of any other operator. A dispatch dated New York, November 26, 10 o’elock, 25 minutes. P. M., (New York time.) was received here at 9 o'clock, 10 mineies P.M, (New Oricans time) — New Orleans Courier, New. POLITICAL INTELLIGEN ——— Letter from Francis P. Blair. SILVmn SPRING, MARYLAND, Doo. 12, 1855. To Messrs. Daxuw R. Goopios and Lewis Fes} ot the Republican of Wasbington elty, D. G.z— - hen ite avoid encoun’ gg ite Poco 5 wiaithed sigeatf to if, Pam cous ode , that in the main | concur in the aims of the Assvci- ation. To exclude slsvery from the territories of the United States, and to rebuke the violation of the com- mises which were made to stand as covenants 3e- ween the slave and free S-ates to effect that exclusion, are, in my opinion, the most important movements we ie eanank ta aaa ‘since the revo. lution. The extension of slavery over the new Territories would prove fatal to their prosperity; but the greatest ca'umity to be apprehended it is the destruction of the conlederacy, ov wiich the welfare of the whule try reposes. '¥ conquest of this elemen’ of discord, which has so often threatened the dissolution of the Union, increases the danger. Every surrender of the fre States invites invasion. The cause which your organization i+ intended to pro- mote may well craw wits support men of all pariios. Lifferences on questions of , ou constitutional con- truetion, of moces of administration, way well be werg- 4 to unite men who believe that nothing bu’ concert of ction cn the par: of those who would arrest the spcead f slavery cam resist the power of ihe combination now embcdied to make ‘ivemrace the continent, from vceaa 10 ocean, ‘Ihe repealing elause of the Kansas bill is predicated on the nullity ot the clauro in the constixat on whish gives Congress the power ‘to make regulatious reapecting the ‘Lerrituries” of the United States. Yet nothing is clearer in the bistory of oar government than that this phease, : ivipg powor to Congress ‘to make reguin‘ions respecting the Texritor ”? was meant to give it the power to ex- clude slavery trom them. Mr. Jefierson’s resolutions of 1°84, declaring ‘that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude im apy of theSiates,” Iuid off in the Westera Territory, ‘Was purtey! ie renewed in the Congress of 1185, waish added, ‘teat this regulation shell be an article of oo a- pact,” and it was .o voted unanimously,by the delegations of exght ‘tates out of twelve,” It wos passed by the nnanimous votes of all the States by the Copgiers of 1787, which sat contempuraneously with the convention forming the constitutiog, wad chat constitution gave Congress the power to make reguia- Viens respecting the Territories,’ and moreover adivmed the valicity of ube engsgoments entered isto betore the sdopiiem of the constitation,” by the confederation cre ot whish eogegements was thui made by toe regu- lotion ex Jucing slave. y from the Teritwias, lous tas pee ew of the confeveration and (he constitution united coun in giving a double sanction to the exclasion, ‘he firs? exer wer of enseting Mr. Jaiterson’s interdict gf rlavay in the territories then hekd by tie Unies previously give au La- jon, by adding, * thts regutsiion shail be an article of compact,’? &e.; aud the eouvestion guaria- teed this ‘ ocgassment,” entered dato under the canto desation, by ceciuring ‘it * valid,” and employed the same teins, ‘regulation of the territories,” (0 rus mit the power here exested to future 4. In the face of Ui bixtery, acd the letver 3 constitution gronting the power to make whatever regulativas it Ceemed fit respecting the Errritorics of the Untied Suites, the authers of the Kansas aod Nebeaska bill deny the copstitutionality of all the regulations which exctale slavery fiom tho Territories, and set at naught »li the precedents that confirm them, wi ich have f Hoaed in un- interrupted succession, fom the foundation of tho gov- ernment. That other clause in the constiiution, empowering Congress to pass laws to prevent the" migration or iy ports fon” ef slavew after 1808, snows the fixed pucp se ef the fuanders of cur Union tu timit the increase of tis evil. ‘The e-nsequence was an inbibitien, whigh pre- vents # South Caroling planter, who bas slaves im aba, frem bring'ngtbem to his home plactation; aud to re- move *his oontruction to the increase of slavery withia the Unior, and open Africa to supply the demand muds by the new set, the Noithern nullifiers are aleeady cailod on by their Southern allies to lend their aid; aad cer- tainly those who embrace Mr. Catnoun’s doctrine, as stated by Mr. Douglas, that “every citizen hes an ina- fer able right to move into any of tho Cecrituriea witt: bis property. of whatever kind or deseriptioa,” the eo: tution and esmpremies notwithstandiog, can hardly r fuse it. It was on the annexation ot the Mexican tercito- ries that Mr Calhoun asserted this prluciple, to unzetilo the fixed pollcy of the nation, boginaning with the era of the Paciniati‘n of Indep:ndence; and he applied it alike to the compromises of 1620 and'1830. Mr. Douglass thus sums up the porition taken, aad the re-ult:— Uncer this section, a8 in the cage of the Mexican law in New Mexico and U1ah, its adiepuied point whether slavery ix probi- country by valid ousctusent. The decision Of this quest op involves the conetitu'lonul power of Congress a Jaws prescribing and regulating the domestic institu ona of @ various Jerriiories of the Union. In the opinion of thove Territories, the eighih section Ut the, ust Drapardiert thee ade wnisaion ot Missouri is pull and vold, wi tment in a large por tion of the Urion sus! the cons'itu ion of the United States sasures to every citizen an inalievable right to wove Into avy of the Terricories with bis property, of “Vhatever kind and deseviption, and hold and enjoy the same under the sanction of law. Your yommittes do not feel shemselves called upon to enter Int. the discusaton of these controverted quesions. They involve the #:me grave fexues which prodaced the agtztion, the sectional strite, ant the fearfal struggle of 1800. From this iv appears that the oempromi 1860 involved the question of the validt ¥ of of 1820 and 36 law of Mexico, excluding +levery from the now'y coved Mexican territory, and the liw of our owa Congiess exslucing it from thit north of the line of $6.20, Mr. Douglan’a cou mittee report recommenced that, as * Congres deeroed it wise and pradeut to refratn from decid ing the matters in controversy, then, either by affirming or re Penling ihe Mexican laws, or ‘by an act declarmory a tae true tent of the onnaiitution, and the extent of the protection ntford ey it to sve procerty in ihe Territories, so your coumilire are not prepared now to recommend a departure trom ihe course pursued on that memorable ‘ocasion. eliber by ll log cr repesiing the eighth section of use Miesourl act, or by any act declara/ory af the meaning of the constitution ia reepect Wo ihe legal pointe in dispute. There yasrages are quoted to show that tho ixaues made Ly Mr. Calhoun, as to the ennsitutiomiht; of the two compromires of 1620 and 1860 were expressly lett cpen for judicial decision by the commistee, wh» neverthelees swept away, by a cluure eubsequently add- ed to their bill, not only ‘the Missouri compromise of 18:0, but also the compromise of 1850, which left un touched the Mexican Inws Problbluing’ slesecy in the ceded territories, and which Webster, Clay, Benton, aad all the leading ligita of the Senate (aith the exception of Mr, Calhoun) prououaced valid, and an effestual restcic tion, This repeal was the adoption of fr. Cathoun’s nallify- ing doctrite in excnzo. The power of Cougress to make laws excluding slavery forever from ity Tarritorins ‘as such, was denied. and ell the Territories wore opeared to slavery, on the ground of the “ine Hena se right? ot every citizen ‘to move into any of the Territories with his perty, of whatever kind or deseription;? anc the Inw of squatter sovescign'y wae superaided, and substitaced for the reve eignty of the United States ver the. public do- wmoin. Thus tell. at the dicta‘ion of Mr. Atchison, sup ported ty the cowli.ion effected between the waigs and cemocrats ot the South, under the pressure and thr» the inirigves of the nulliliers, Mr, Je‘ernon?s noble cip'e, endeared to the country both for ite moral grax. deur and politics] wied m. tered in the Dech denunciatie, of bringing « ogert It, is the first thougit ut- tion of Independence; und to the King of Great Beitsin for the eriao Y to our shores, it adds, as the deepest on, that he has prostisuted his prerogative by suppressing every legislative uttempt to prohivit or to. restrain this exeorable commerce.’? ‘The first es attempt tu restrain the progcess of the mischiet which the King of Great Britain visiied upen this country was Mr. Jeiferson’s resolution exclud- ing pavery from the territory of the United States, in 184; the next was that intr duced by Ratus King. in 1785; tho third that of Nathan Dine, in 1787—oll receiy- ing the vote of iwo-thirds of the States of the enmfade- racy, ard the last the umanimous vote, The fourth inovemens was that in tue convention which formed the cossti'ution itvelf, providing against the tm. or ation of slaves after 1808, declaring the binding vali- ity of the engaements extered into by the Uongresa of the confederacy on the part cf the government of the United States, to exclude it from the Territory, and re curing to the new government the powsr of maklog elmi- lar provisions for future acquisitions of Yeretiory. Phe fifth regulation, to :esirsin the progress cf slavery, was that of the C. mpromive ot 1820—the sixth, thet of 1850. It is remarkable, that although these grea: measures had their origin with demoern'ic leaders, federal aad whig leaders of greatest renown upited in theic support. The constitutional provisions om the subject had the unacigous suflrage of li the ilustrions man in the con- vention who framed the constitution of the United state«; and from the rilence on the subject in the state Conven- tions called to ratify the constitution, it may wall be pre. sumed that thece also were unanimous in thelr approval of what had beea done under the confederacy, and in the new tion, to restrain the introducticn and Mmit the extension of slavery. And may not wen of ail par Ves now unite ty restore what the patriots of all parties, during the first seveity years of our government, con- trivuted to establish ? The work of rest ation is simple and easy, if the men hor the ja‘¢ innova' ion on te long settled policy of the nation can be induced to relinquish petty dit- ferences on tronvitory topics, and give cheir antted vol in the next Precideotial election, for some man woose capacity, ficelity and courage can be relied upon to op- pore the irene which the present aduwinistration he « made to control it, The con est hee grown out of Presi- dential aspirations. The dection of the people at the polls, in choosing a chief magistrate, will end it. Senn re will easil comply when the nation’s demand is backed hy presidential power and patronage, and hopes of the future, which animate the leading inem bers of the body. ‘The administration bas staked iteelf on the support of the party of privilege—-of cluas interest—which makes ita unit. It confides in the success which has crowned the oligarchy everywhere in the Wid World, and recured ite triumphe, on’ the maxim “Divide and conquer.’’ The whigs and democrats, of the South aré a combina- tien to carry into the next Presidency # me candidate abeclute in maintaining the revealing o'ause of the Kan- see bi, which nullifies the principles the provisions of the constitution made to give then ef- fect, and all the compromises which bave been made fn pursuance of them, with the sanction of all sections of ‘nt the majority favorable to tbe policy built up with © majority ilt up our pment will accept the intue tendered by gir leg a «| f t AAAs ae! y in| ny po RR | ail will be restored that has ‘peen lost to free 8, North ard Son slavery, The compromises of being restored, the: vill not be an inch of the 4nd an a ere cones tan. ane thes of Calhoua and rorelytes, who touk the peculiar charge of the “State rights” party. They sunk under the universe) conviction that their zeal for State rights was an ardent- pessinn to reach politicat power, at basard of extin- ishing, in the bicod of Ss 100es the wise and free vtitun jons it bad cost #7 much to establish. Our innovsting democrate, who put under foot the representative principle; who violate the known will of their constituents; te scorn their instructions to re- drees the-wrong they bsve committed; who reply to the suffreges that conden n their conduct, that t! are not democratic suffruges; who, in ‘be plentitude of their fa- fallibiliny, read out of the democratic party Maine, New Hewpehire. Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, repo Michigan, Miipois, Wiseon-in 2ni lowa, because Pre will not submit to the will of there, their represen- tatives: who have set up a test which must ever exclude Maseachuretts, Vermont and Rhode Island from ita ranks; who bave bartered away 11 recused to them all by compacts—will soon learn that democracy ¢oes not re- ae in abe cogeniantion of futziguers, but in the mass of e . 7 ry of our great repnbile, that ics demoe: asprin, grat the wil and flourial-ee in the fresh alr of” our wide-spread country; and that its rich harvests, {m- partirg bealth, strength and spirit to our whole system, is gathered annually at the pola, The demoe: which is bred in caucuses and cabinets is @ sort of hot bed pe iee—suited to the taste of epicurean politicians, whe ppetites are therr principles. Incunbants and ote ants of offi ies and dignities claim a sort of patent sight fa the macbive of government to createa to their purposes, Their innovations in the: macainecy »re contrivances te renew their privileges fur new terma, nd the people are the eubjects who are to be used up in it—to pay tribute for this privilege, and take price in the ekill of the operators, The telegraph wires and the Cincinnati Convention: re to bring all the masterly comtina‘ions of the admi-~ nistration in contact with masses at the 2) ted time, But, will the wires work? Undoub.edly ple, far and wide, will have their instruetions from operators; but the response will bably be a thander- bolt to thore who have viols' their thee their remonetrancers, and, as a consequence, have ar- rayed brothers from the ent sectiong of the Union to thed each others’ blood, in civil war, om. the plains of Kaneas, Yours, respecifully. AIR. MOBILE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The entire Know Nott: g ticket for city officers, in- cluding aliermen, was elected in Mobile on tne 3d fast. ‘The folowing is the vote for Mayor :-— 3. M, Withers, Kow Nothing... 1,206 Hugh Monroe, demcerat....... 621 Know Nothing mojority.... Pr The Port Gibson (Miss.) Reveille has hoisted the names: of Hon Henry A. Wixe for President, and Hun. Jeff Davis tor Vice President, A democratic meetng was held tn Loutsyite on the 7th inst. at whieh del gates to the State Convention at Frankfort were appoiute:, and the fir of the demo- cratic members of Congress reectved an encoaraglog word. Theatres and Bxbibitions. Breapway ‘Ir ie trouye of Juvenile com». Siang, Lnown as the Marsh Company, will make their eecond appearance before a New York audienea this eve- ning Iho performonces of these children are not only pleasing but surprising—they having been trained so carefully as to enable them to play their several pares in a style thet would do eredit to experienced adults. Their selevtions for this evening ere “Beauty and the Beast” aud “The Wandering Minstrel.”” Ninto’s,—The chaste and pleasing en‘ectainmonts af- {rdes by the Ravels and ballet troupe gre stilt among te Get in the estimation of the public’; the house is nightly crowded. The first pleco on the list this evening is the new co entomime entiiled ‘ fhe Secret Mac- riage” Yo wed by the ballet called ‘Phe Eloy s went,” for which M. Brillant bas arranged number of desusiful dances, ‘To conclude with thet great favorite, “ Asphodel,” which will soon be withdran. _Bowany Trmatre.—Thore highly popular ar'ists, Ms. 1, 8. Homblin and Mr. k. Eddy, will ogain appear this evening. serported by the entire strength of the com- pany. The first piece is ‘The stranger; or, Misanthropy and Repentance,” Mrs. Shaw in her great part of Mrs. Haller, Mr. Eddy as the Stranger, and Mrs. Jordan as the Counters. The nfterpioce constants of th eomedy of “fhe Jealous Wife”? Mr. Johnston as Mr. Oaklyy, and Mrs. ‘Ward ay Mie, Oakley. Benton's Tazaree.—The manager announeca that, owing to the great success of the now piece, called “Fale Pretenees or, Both Sides of Good Society,” it will sy tight this week, — Messrs. Barton and mes Dughes, Thorne ard Burton, and Miss ‘Thorne, have superior parte, and the minor characters of the comedy are well sustained by the members of the twlented coupony ‘Ihe amusements witl close wlth “Turning the Tables,” Mr. Burton as Jack Humphries, Wattaek’s Theatre —The admirable ifttle comedy called “The First Night” will be produced this eveniag, by request. The principal characters are ia the hands of ersre. Lester. Nortou and Stewart. Mrs. Hovy and M Stephens. ‘Ihe charming comedy of the Little Tr sure? will follow. The ruperior monner in whioi all the characters of this piece are played was rendered i decided taverite, “The Hole in the Wall,” wirh Mr. Holland as Thomas, will conclude the perfor:ances, Woev’s Mixerret --This company continues to be argely patronized. The programme for vhiy evening variety of atnusing fea‘ures, ine! the hakesperean represeu‘atin of “The Maju rade Ball.” Tuckiry's Emirsavens.—The yooal and in-tenmental talent of this weil known troupe attract as large audiences asever. The burlesque of ‘Villikins and His Dinah’! to- night besides innumerable songs, &e. Acapkwy Ha4tt,--Messra. tieree, Raynor, and others who formerly beiorged to the selebrated troupe of Christy's Miretrels, will perform for the second titae at this boll to-mght. Jargs numbers of their old fiiends will flock thither tc see them. MecHanics’ HALL.—The Juvenile tronpe of dell ringérs and vyocalis's present a ramme of great variety for this evening. The. slog of thle company, h cempored entirely of chiléren, is declared to wurpaan all other attemptr at the art. The ANNvaL Preevt of the American Dramatic Fund Associa‘ion will transpire at the Broadway theatre to- morrow (Wednesday) evening. . The principal attracti will be the comedy cf Tre Kiivals,* which fil be given: with a strong cast, incloding Mr. Blake, who wil maka Lia first appearance this ceacou and play Sir Anthony Absolute. Miss Larka Kegxe announces thet che will open the Metropolitan theatre cn the 20th iastant. ‘Chere will bo seme altera‘tons in the stege, aud the reoond tier will be fitted up with private boxes. Tuere ix also to be a new act drep, new proscenium drapwy, and now scemery throvghout. We have seen no lixt of the company, but hear that {t inclu¢es Me. H. Hall, Mr. Thomas Pivelse, fee Kate Saxon, and others well known to Metropol an audiences. The GkRMAN ‘InraTRE.—It may be unknown to many of our citizens that there is a very pretty German theatre— the Siedt—in the Bowers. On Wednesday evening Mme. Emidt, the comedienne, bas a benefit, when.“ Macheth” will be produced, with new scenery, costumes, &e. Fai Riven, Mass —We have a bill of a performance of “Still Waters Run Deep.” at Columbian Halt, on Satur- te produced Jordan, Me Gay last. Mosera, J. W Lanergan, E. Handford, Miss 0. Bervard, ard Mr, M, W. Fiske are ‘the priacipal mem! of the company. aie wt Bostoy.—Miss Adelaide Phillips bas appeared at the Poston theatre, as Couut Mollasin ‘The Levit's Bridge,”? end Louies in Sheriden’s “Duenna” She was not well supported. and the «ifuir was a failure, At the Yat! Mr. Fleming, the manager, bad a beveflt on Friday, a was presented with a tervice of plate. The Gaztte aye The receipts of Mr. Fleming's bevefit on Friday even- ing ($499 £0) were trnsteed by Gilbert Oncmings, end the actora, who expeeted to receive today back ries due them, were surprised to find “no funds” to meet their wants. Mr. Fleming wh» has had bat poor sac: cesé this season. has given them the theatre for noxt week, when they will hare proceeds oa the -Oommon- pealtta plan,” aud we hope to see them. liberally pa- 1 onized. The season at the Howard, under Perren and Back- land, comm«nced on Monday, with ‘‘The Little Treasure, ”” Miss Louisa Howard #s Gertrade, Misa C. Crampton is inthe company. the Mendelsohn Choral Society gave the “Meseish’” on tunday night at Tremont Temple. bg A. Phillips made her dévué in oratorio on this occa- sion. Cuantetox, S. C —The season was anvounred to close ‘on the Sih inet. with a benefit to Mra. Slosn. Un Mon- day, M. Felix, who was wailing with Mle. Rechel for the Havana steamer, anroanced that the Freach troups, except Rachel, would give two performances. Mr. Gus- tave Naquet has a rs hie va of egont for M. Fo- Mx, and has returned to New York. Dernor, Mict.—Mr. W. Davidge has od an engage- mentof two weeks in pa ides wi and com- mencesat Detroit on Monday, Deo. 10. Ax AcTREe on Fink.—On Tuesday evening an anc- cident, vhich might bave been atiended with fatal 1¢ rultx, ceourred to Mademviseile Julie, at the Plymouth theatre, Shortly after +he hed appeared in the intro- ductory bal'et in the fairy extra’ nza of the “Good Woman in the Wood,” her dresa caught fire, and the materials (tar alan) of @ light, ,combuati- be character, she was almost ~erawr in | enveloped ip flemen, A'l presence of mind appeared at the samo tine to desert her, ond she to the side of the tage, where the was caught by # tall and power‘al man iemed Hooper. Her stete of however, was such that be wes unable to hold her; she him anide ard rushed acrcss the stage enveloped in the flames of her burning ders. At the cther the was caught b; » mar ramed Fitch, but afier he had been pe oe burnt in bis encenvor to hold her and put ont ¢ tore berrelf away from him sleo, Mr, Ne ermbe ts Age le: ce WN ‘arrived, ihe and baving now Mademobelie Julie down, and the fire was ¢ in now recovering, although Axornrr “ Conripence May.”—The Barlington (Vt.,) Free Prees piver by account ot the doings in that town ofa swindler himself the ‘“Paron de Yescy,"” and professing to be the son of ‘Hon. mr Murrey, of Quecn Victoria’s Household Guards.” lie «ferved to be a convert to Methodiem, and asserted that Ke had reeent’y ec me into ion of a fortune of forty- five tLowend pounds sterling ansum. He went for a to preach ip ibe Me dienor, many of them doubtless of on Fnglish Paren in a Vermont pulpit. was a Fe the ye fife Migr onli ges pe Lge next year on preserves Far! of Dalkeith, in Scotland, &6., &e., with other simt- lar hom buy the matter