The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1855, Page 4

4 iV NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND BDITOR. AMUSEMANTS THIS EVENING. FHRATRE, Brondway—Tue Rryats—Sonas, Way ge Mixsrams—Buaggy AND THe Bast, Bru , ay Woun's FBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tow Swoet Manniace— Kary— As7uovai. BOWARY THKATRE, Bowery—As You Lixe It—Tuson’s ABT BT. ONS THEATRE, Chambers stroet—Faiss Pav, see WaseaD Un THOUSAND MILLERS, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway—Finer Niout—Tne Cautonsta Wipow—X, ¥. Ze WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Brusortax Pea- POU ANOES. TKUEW’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSB, 539 Broad- ea Bumaoavs OPERA AND Neano MumsTnuasy. ACADEMY HALA, 663 Groudway—Ermor1an MUSICAL AND PearsicMORE Ad bNTORTAINMES TH. MBCHASTOS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Amenioan Jovunte Boi RiNorRs anv Vocatssts, “now Yorn, Wed nesday, December 12, 1855. minke tor Guvepe. EW YORE GHAALD—KDITIOH POR BUROFB. ‘The Collins mail steamsbip Atlantic, Capt. West, will Weve this port to-day at noon, for Liverpool. she European mils will elose in this oity at half-past ten Poleck thie morning. Yee Bena (printed im English and French) will be prdPiahed at ten o'clock in the morning. Single eoptes, fn wreppers, axpenes. Subscription and advertisements for any edition of the ‘Wew Yous YxBarp wil! be received by the American and Ruropean Express and Exchange Company at the ‘ollowing Plaeet in Sarope:— Loxpon. 17 and 18 Cornbill, Pans. . 8 Place de ls Bourse. LavEmPool. . «+. 7 Rumford street. ‘Zhe contents of the European edition of the Exnaw ‘will sobrace the news received by mail and telegraph at fhe vce Curing the previous week, and to the hour of peasescu. ‘The News. Our despatches from Washington give the latest news relative to the Speakership. After forty-five Dallotings, the House adjourned yesterday, and the end of the struggle is still remote, unless some new plan is adopted. The conferences last night are said to have been unsuccessful in securing additional ‘wotes for Mr. Banks. It is believed that, after a few more trials, he will be abandoned, and that the re- publicans will concentrate upon Pennington; but it 4s also believed that neither Banks, nor Pennington, nor Fuller can command a majority of the votes of the House. In this state of affairs the demoorata gain courage, and confidently predict the success eventually of one of their number. ‘The steamship Northern Light, which arrived yea- terday afternoon from Nicaragua, brought two weeks’ later advices from San Francisco, and news from China, Australia, the Sandwich Islands and Ni- earagua. The intelligence from California is very ex- citing. The Indians in the north were continuing their @epredations upon the whites, while those in the south were taking the cue from their more northerly brethren, and were beginning to show signs ot dis- satisfaction. General Wool and staff, with a com- pany of United States soldiers, had departed from San Francisco for Oregon, where he will probably enter with such spirit into the contest with the dis- contented savages as shall teach them a lesson not soon to be forgotten. Gen. Wm. H. Richardson, United States Marshal for the Northern district of Quliform™, was most brutally murdered in the strects @f San Francisco, onthe 17th November, by a man named Chas. Cora. It was with difficulty the citizens eould be restrained from applying the code of Judge"Lynch to the murderer. Lieutenant Archi. bald McRea, commanding the United States reve- nue cutter Ewing, committed suicide on the 17th ult., on the deck of his vessel. Two worthy eitizens of Monterey, Hon. Isaac B. Wall, collector eof the port, and T. 8 Williamson, an oMicer of the county, bad been assassinated on the highway, ina spirit, it was supposed, of revenge. The accounts from the mines were generally very flattering. The new discoveries in Table Mountain were continuing to create considerable excitement, and the whole region had already been taken up in claims. The news was brought down on the Pacific side by the meemer Uncle Sam, which sailed in connection with the J. L. Stephens, from Panama. Both ves- sels were short of the usual number of passengers. From Central America we have files of papers from Granada, (Nicaragua,) of November 24, and San Juan dei Norte to December 1, which con- tain highly interesting news. The order of things imangurated by tne new government had produced the most happy effects, as evidenced by the revival of trade and agriculture, ang the return of a number @f families to their heretofore deserted homes. Colonel Parker H. French had resigned his seat in the Cabinet as Minister of Hacienda, and was duly appointed Minister Plenipotentiary—with extraor- dinary powers—to the United States. The Colonel arrived in the Northern Light. The commander, with many officers of the United States steamship Massachusetts, had arrived in Granada from San Juan del Sur, and were introduced to General Walker and the executive. Colonel Wheeler, Minister of the United States, was entertained at a grand festi. val, on the 11th ultimo, given by Don Carlos Tomas, ~ at which President Rivas, Commander Walker and all the chief officers ot State were present. Mr. Whee- ler made some happy remarks. Mr. J. W. Fabens, Yate Consul of the United States at San Juan del Norte, had been appointed Director General of Colo- nization, An important decree had been issued in Granada, giving great encouragement to settlers from other States. A recruiting and financial mis- sion had been despatched by government to Califor. nia. A good many emigrants were expected from New Orleans. A number of members of the Kinney Union, over their own signatures, indignantly deny the statements made by a writer from San Juar> signing himself “ One Who Knows,” which appeared in the Heraup of November 5. Mesera. Shepherd &H also write to say that only one sale of th grant lands in reality had been meade, and tha yands had not been hawked abont Wali street. The yield of the gold mines and the salubrity of the climate are defended. Onur files from Anstralia are from Port Philip, August 29; Melbourne, September 2; and Sydacy, September 4. Government had proposed a new constitution for South Anstralia. Bath report a very fine yield at the western goldiiel and that many thousand people were us: ployed. The executive of New Zealaud ceived some salutary parliamentary checks relative to the quartering of troops on the people, and an attempt at a State Church preference. Trade was dull in Sydney, and the accounts from the coantry bad. The establishment of a line of steamers to New York waa still advocated. In Melbourne the flour market was unsettled, with a downward ten- dency. The gold trade was brisk, and brokers bought at £3 16s. 6d. per ounce. In Sydney, boots and shoes went off well, and silks commanded a very high price. The gold market there was flat but the demand was good, and some went off as high as £4 per ounce, We have news from Honolulu (Sandwich Islands) to November 3. The King had returned froma tour of inspection of the islands, and was making vigorous exertions in perfectigg many public worka, The Hawaii voleano wes making fearfal progress, and the safety of the town of Hilo was really men- aced. The principal provisions of the reciprosity treaty with the United States were published. Trade was very dull in Honolulu, bat theatricals were in great vogue. We have news from China dated at Shanghai on September 9, and at Hong Kong on September 15, Very little is published regarding the progress of the revolation. The British aloop-of-war Bittern and merchant steamer Paonshan had committed great MRBUBUG, Mg & pyre UF Clee pubes aug y NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1855. ‘China Mail says that intelligence had been ob- tained of the long lost sooner Nymph. An Ame- riean reaman, by the name of Boggs, recently de- poeed before Vice Consul Winchester, at Ningpo, that he had been a prisoner to a portion of Apak’s piratical squadron for se"eral weeks, and during his captivity was informed by the second in com- mand that the Nymph had been taken by force and rent op tothe Shan-tung. Boggs also stated that there were lying on a hard pebble stone beach at Cuapod, two large anchors, with their chains, one of which is marked 3,185, with “S. A. Boston.” Piracy was very rife. At Shanghai the port was lull of ship. ping, but freight was not equal to~tonnage. Inter- nal improvements were progressing steadily, and the state of the settlement was looked on as prosperous and heaithy, Patna opium had gone up from $290 to $325, and a stock of 300 chestsonhand. The total mercantile shipping in China, on Sept. 13, was 68,000 tons, exclusive of laying up vessels and coasters, and of this total 23,532 tons belonged to American ports. Trade was good at Amoy. Our correspondent in Matamoras, Mexico, writing on 28th of November, informs us that the rumors of an invasion of the country by Americans has en- tirely subsided, and that General Gadsden had con- demned the late action of the Texans, in a letter ad- dressed to Governor Viduarri, as a gross violation of our neutrality laws. Santa Anna’s friends were en- joying a great triumph in beholding the serious differences existing between Garza and Vigaurri, as well as the hostile attitude of the States of Tamauli- pas and Neuvo Leon towards each other. Vidaurri, claiming supreme authority in the three States, as commarder-in-chief, had declared Garza in rebellion, and had closed the ports on the line against foreign commerce in order to punish him. The supreme government was inactive, but the people of Tamauli- pas, say that Vidaurri usurps an authority not con- templated at the beginning of the revolution. News- papers were extending all over the country. The fever had subsided on the Rio Brayo. By direction of the President, District Attorney McKeon has instructed Marshal Hillyer to keep a sharp eye on the expeditions gaid to be fitting out for the invasion of Nicaragua. We may, therefore, expect to witness, one of these days, the reproduc- tion of the farcical blockade, by a squadron of gov- ernment ships, of some suspected merchantman, as in the case of the steamer United States, last sum- mer, or perhaps a renewal of the bark Maury affair. President Pierce is great on the enforcement of the neutrality laws. The Forrest divorce case came up yesterday in the Superior Court, and, in consequence of the engage- ments of one of the counsel for Mrs. Forrest, was postponed for the term. The Board of Ten Governors last ev adopted a resolution directing the removal of in fixtares which have been set up in @ room on Randall's Island by Roman Catholic teachers, contrary to the rules and regulations of the Board. The discussion on the question, a report of which we publish else- where, was somewhat exciting. Mr. Clark concluded his address to the jury in be- half of Louis Baker, (charged with the homicide of William Poole,) yesterday evening at six o'clock. He spoke from 11 o'clock A. M. Mr. Whiting will commence the summing up for the prosecution at the sitting of the Court this morning. It is very probable that he will occupy the greater part of the day, so that it is not unlikely that the charge of the Judge will not be delivered until to-morrow. The Police Committee continued their investiga- tions yesterday, and examined Captains Carpenter, Norris and Dowling, whose testimony will be found very interesting. Jndge Edmonds submitted an in- structive and valuable statement in regard to the criminal jorisprudeuce of thia city, and some useful suggestions as to the manner in which the abuses that exist in our police department should be re- moved. A full report will be found elsewhere. ‘The troubles in the Fire Department of New Or- leans, mentioned by the telegraph, arise from the adoption of an ordinance putting an end to the voluntary associations and adopting the pay system. The ordinance lets out the maintaining of the Fire Department by contract, this contract to be sold by the Comptroller to the lowest bidder, the purchaser to give security to the amount of one year’s contract for the faithful performance of the provisions of the ordinance. He is required to keep on hand four ex- tra fire efigines and four extra hose carriages; he is prohibited from sub-letting his contract; he shall have police power at all fires; he shall receive an in- ventory of all the property placed under his control, and shall return the same at the expiration of his contract. - The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales in transitn, and 1,000 do. on the spot, at about the quotations given in another column. The flour market opened dull and at a decline, but rallied and closed at $8 564 a $875 for common grades. About one-third of the sales were made for export. Wheat was dull and prices nominal, with- out transactions of moment. The scarcity of ves- sels, and the advance in the rates of freights to Liverpool, had a tendency to check purchases for ex- port. Indian corn was steady, at 98c. a $1, from store, afloat and delivered. Pork continued heavy, with moderate sales. Sugars were in good demand for refining and for export. The sales, in bond, to the trade and for refining, reached about 2,000 boxes and abont 700 a 800 hhds. of Cuba, a good part of the latter to go to Baltimore for refining. Freights to Liverpool were again firmer and higher, with full rates for London and the Continent. Congress and the Speaker—Porty: fitth Vote— Banks Apparently Used Up. They had six more trials yesterday for a Speaker, Mr. Banks sticking fast at 107 through five successive experiments, and falling off to 106 in the sixth, when the House accommodat- ingly adjourned. Mr. Stanton had asked, wpon the third experiment, that an adjourament be accorded the fusionists, to give them another out-of-door logrolling c to dram uj; half dozen volunteers required to give Mr. Banks an election, under the impression that with the aid and advice of Seward, Wileon, Thurlow Weed, Gen. Webb aad Greeley, they would be able to fetch it with another hard night's electioncering. There is something ominous, however, in the final vote yesterday, reducing Mr. Banks to 106, and in the “bobbing around” of one of Fullew’s men, bere and there, but never to Banks. It looks as if Banks had run to the end of his tether, with the last expedients for splicing it exhausted. We observe, also, that there were two votes advanced ia several instances yesterday for Mr. Orr, of South Ca- relineg, as feelers perhaps, for the Southern whig and Know Nothing vote. Should this overture be accepted today by the impracti cables of the scattering majority, and should they prove their readiness, bona fide, to unite upon Orr or Cobb, it is possible that Richard- son may withdraw, and thus throw the whole democratic strength upon their new candidate, and carry him in. The pertinacity of Fullerin refusing to give way to Banks may be understood from the following statement of Fuller's platform, as communicated by a friend of his to one of the democratic organs ot Washington. “Mr. Ful- ler belongs to the Cooper wing of the whig party of Pennsylvania, os famously national as the friends or adherents of ex-Governor Johnston are anti-alavery.* ** * No other gen- tleman of the North stands on broader national grounds than Mr, Fuller with reference to all questions now in issue.” This accounts, then, for the milk in the cocoanut. Woeed and Greeley Wau livid Muciviiole bare us inte taken J Bons. a wonderful liking to free soil demoorate in preference 'to free soil whigs. Henoe their ar dent swpport of Preston King as the Seward candidate for our Secretary of State; and hence their present partiality for Mr. Banks. Their simple object is to crush out the last vestiges of the old whig party, for fear it may come to life again; and so they despise these stiff backed eld whigs as heartily as in his last days they despised Daniel Webster. The chances, then, are that the negro fusion- ists will have failed last night to secure the derertions from Fuller necessary to elect Banks; and in requital we suspect they will not condescend to fuse upon Fuller on any terms. We are therefore in expectation of some extraordinary diversion, one way or the other, in the House to-day, and of some deci- sive result—possibly a decisive defeat of the fusionists in their own game. But the fusion- ists have got the plurality card in reserve. Let us wait the result of last night’s pipe- laying. Mortality Statistics of the United States— Bow We Live and How We Die. We have before us the “mortality statistics of the seventh census of the United States” — embracing the cauee of death, the age and sex, the color and condition, the nativity, the sea- son ot disease, and the duration of illness of the persons reported to havedied in the year previous to 1st June, 1850—a work of exceed- ing great value: as well from the variety of the information it contains as from the lucid manner in which that information is presented. Such works do quite as much honor to the country as to the census office which is intrust- ed with the duty of preparing them. It is not absolutely accurate of course. Many persons foolishly thwart the aim of the Marshal, from private reasons of their own, by refusing to communicate the information required, Others are ignorant and forget. A few escape the notice of the puVlic officer. But, even allow- ing for these causes of inaccuracy, this work throws more light on the paramount subjects of health and disease than any volume or set of volumes that have gone before it. The public may be already aware that in 1850 the total population of the United States —white, free colored and slave—was 23,191,876; that of these 2,244,648 were foreign born, and 17,742,915 white natives; that nearly nine mil- lions were over 5 and under 20, and nearly nine millions over 20 and under 50, leaving five mil- lions and a half for infancy and old age; that up to the age of 80, the males are in slight ex- cess, but that after that age the females slight- ly preponderate; that of the free white males, 1,596,265 are engaged in trade, manufactares, mechanic arts and mining, 2,400,583 in agri- culture, 190,329 in law, physic, divinity and other callings requiring education, and 27,613 in the civil and military service of the State. Most of these important statistics have already been made public. From the mortality records we learn that the total deaths during the twelve months pre- vious to 1st June, 1850, numbered 323,023, of whom 264,601 were whites. This is in round figures, nearly one and four-tenths per cent on the total population, she lowest mortality, we venture to say, that has ever been recorded in any settled and civilized country. Foreign countries compare as follows:— Annual Mortality, United States i According to this table, if health can be measused by figures, the United States is nearly twice as healthy a country as England, France or Prussia, and more than twice as healthy as Austria and Russia. Some allowance must be made, it is true, for omissions in these returns of cure, but similar omissions must exist in the European tables as well; and, besides, in the table given above, the stillborn are omitted altogether in the English, French, Prussian and Austrian, but included in the Ruseian and United States returns. If the comparative statements were placed on an equality in this respect, it would be found that the disproportion is really enormous. The gross yearly increase of population in this country in 1850, was set down at 4.4 in round numbers, from natural causes and immi- gration computed together. Deducting, there- fore, the mortality—1.4—the net increase is about three per cent per annum, at which rate the population doubles itself in some twenty- three years. Paseing to the examination of the cases of those 323,023 who died between Ist June, 1849, and Ist June, 1850, we find that nearly half of these—or 131,813 persons—died of what the report calls zymotic diseases—mean- ing thereby cholera, and the various classes of contagious fevers. The yéar 1849 was a cho- lera year in some paris of the country; 31,506 persons are returned as having died of it, one third of whom were foreigners. Yellow fever wee milder then teual; avty T85 having died of 4. OL the sporadic diseases, namely, those which cannot be suspected of being contagious, the most fatal class was discases of the respi- ratory organs, to which cause 17 per cent of the total deaths were due: consumption and pneumonia being the most fatal varieties of the genus. Diseases of the brain come next, with a relative mortality to the total of nearly eight per cent: over half the deaths classed under this head were those of children who died of convulsions and simi- lar accidents during teething. Nearly four per cent of the total deaths were caused by dropey; a singularly large mortality for such a disease. Out of the whole list only 9,027 died/of old age. The proportion of foreigners to natives in the mortality returns is as one to ten; in other words, ten per cent of the dead were born abroad, balf of this ten per cent in roland, and a quarter in Germany. But the returns of deaths from each particular disease show con- siderable variation in the proportion. Thirty- three per cent of the deaths from cholera were of foreigners; but barely six per cent of the persons who died from disease of the brain were born abroad, and barely six of those who died of diseases of the digestive organs, Theso variations are easily understood. In 1849-50 cholera was the scourge of the emigrant, whom it afflicted far more severely than the native citizen. Dyspepsia, on the contrary, is the peculiar disease of Americans, and usually epares foreigners; while brain diseases wore naturally most felt among children who were patives. ad Some curious fallacies are afloat with regard to the relative healthiness of the different sea- ond eigh for spring. Yet it appears that on the Cuor His Earns Ovr anv Tear Our His whole, the winter and fall are the most healthy end epring the most fatal seasons for them. The figures are:— 18,209 deaths. 791 1279 858 Cholera, as every one knows, confines its ravages to the summer: out of its 31,506 vic- time, 18,243 died in that season. Dyspeptic patients (to use the word in the common, and not the scientific sense,) generally die in au- tumn and summer, but especially ia autuma; in winter they appear comparatively safe. Like consumptive persons, old people, ia the eecond childhood, should fear the spring: it is the-fatel season for them. i It is not easy to get at the occupations of the persons who died, in order to compare the various callings in point of healthiness, This result can only be obtained when our statistics are far more complete. Thus we find, accord- ing to the table, that more persons died, pro- portionately, among those. engaged in agricul- ture than among those engaged in trade and mechanical arts, which, of course, is an absur- dity. The error arises from the farmers tell- ing the trath about their dead, while the city folk concealed theirs. The only fact stated in the table that is worth noticing is the vast disproportion between the deaths of old age in the city and the country, the former being hardly one-fourth of the latter. ¥ In comparing the mortality in the various States, we find that NewYork,with a population of over 3,000,000, registered 45,600 deaths in a year, being at the rate of 1.5 per cent, which may be assumed as the mortality of the whole Union. In Massachusetts the mortality nearly reaches 2 per cent of the population. Ohio is even healthier than New York, the mortality being only 1.4 per cent; in Ilinois it is the same; in Indiana only 1.2 percent. In the South the mortality is about the same. The per centage in Louisiana is 2.3; but that of South Carolina and Mississippi is only 1.2; and Alabama, Florida and Georgia are set down— erroneously, no doubt—at 1.1. The real mor- tality is obviously much larger: two per cent would probably be a fair estimate for the whole territory south of the South Carolina line: and something like 1.5 for ‘the North- western States. Tue Preswwent was Hearp at Last or Gen, Warxer—Mr. McKeon’s Procuamation.—The President of the United States has at last heard that Gen. Walker is in Nicaragua, and very strongly suspects that there are certain move- ments on foot in the United States to reinforce the liberating army of said Walker. Accord- ingly, instructions have been issued to our United States District Attorney, Mr. McKeon, who has come out with his proclamation, which our readers will find among the news articles of this paper. Who could have given Mr. Pierce this early and official information that we are at peace with Nicaragua, that Walker is # filibuster, and that in permitting reinforce- ments to go to his army from our shores we shall be: guilty of a breach of good faith? Marcy, we suppose, has been asleep for the last month or two, and Gen. Jeff. Davis, our filibnstcriug Secretary of War, has had no dis- position, of course, to interfere with the filibustering adventures of Gen. Walker. We believe that Gen. Wool, for presuming to inter- cept anoutgoing detachment of Gen. Walker's recruits from San Francisco, was roundly lec- tured by Gen. Davis, and sent back into the interior of California to look after the Indians. It is very curious, too, that Mr. Wheeler should be sent down as our Minister to Nicaragua, after the esiablishment of General Walker in that country, and should recognize the government set up by said Walker, only to be repudiated by the administration. Did Mr. Wheeler go down there without instructions? or, if he had instructions, what were they? We had come to the conclusion, from the con- tinual shipments of troops from San Francisco to Walker, by our government mail steamers and other vessels, that this enterprising man was a protege of the administration, enlisted in the great object of Americanizing all Central America. Mr. McKeon’s proclamation, how- ever, disinfects us of that preposterous idea. Gen. Walker, in the meantime, goes ahead. He has just given Mr. Pierce and his philosopher Marcy a delightful nut to crack, in detailing as the Minister to Washington from Nicaragua, to succeed Senor Marcoleta, the persevering and intrepid Parker II. French, who resigned his place in the Walker Nicaragua Cabinet to accept this new post of honor. Will Col. French be accepted at Washington as the rep- resentative of Gen. Walker? If we don’t get a Speaker for a day or two, we hope the Pre- sedent will so amend his annual message as to tell usall about it. Gen. Walker, with the aid of Gen. Davis, we apprehend, is more than a match for Pierce and Marcy combined. A few days now will settle the question. A Cuniovs AND A PainreL Ture.—Thurlow Weed is beginning to see wonderful things in Washington, Writing to his organ, up at Al- bapy, he discloses a very painful discovery, after this fashion :— Kt is @ curious thing—a thing which tells painfully against the honesty and patriotism of our day—to see Mr. Haven, the puriner and representative of Mc. Fill more, when the direct isane in Congress ix the Nebraska ewindle—an {sane tevdered by the administration—exert- ing all his intiuence and art to defeat the elec ion of nn apti-Nebraska §} r. How often I have wished that every clector in the connty of Erie could see and hear their representative moving and whispering around, firat with slavery men ond then with Rati moe having no purpose but the defeat, firet.of Mr. Campbell, and now of Mr. Bands. When 'I remember that both Mr, Fill- more ond Mr. Haven owe all they are to earnest, even to ultra, profeseions of hostility to slavery, and now see them aiding In the extension of that evil into free territory, It is imporsible to restrain emotions of abborrence and scorn. ‘There is not_@ reapectable slave- hclder in the Union that I would not sooner see elevated than euch traitors. We were afraid of this; but Master Weea will learn to be patient and reasonable after a month or two at Washington. The ma- chinery to be managed there is heavier and more complicated than that at Albany, and will grate a little for the first week or two. Mr. Weed’s “ abhorrence” and “scorn” of the unfortunate Mr. Haven need not have extend- ed, meantime, to Mr. Fillmore. We believe he is in Europe, and entirely innocent of any “whispering” around the House, with “slavery men” or “doughfaces,” to defeat elther Camp- bell or Banks. Keep cool, brother Weed. The fusioniet troubles are not half over yet. A Sovrnern Portrait or Mr. Pexsiretox,— A Washington correspondent of the Charles- ton Mercury, in discussing the subject of the Speekership, says that “ Penningten, of New Jersey, stands next to Banks. He is a woolly headed federal whig. His mouth looks as if it were naturally fitted to the trumpet of phi- lanthropy, and his nose seems as if it had taken o fondness for nealm ringing.” Whata profane COUFUMPUVE propse Geo We Winter, | Ket are these Southern free eters "mica, Tenxcuz.—The Richmond Whig, (12th section American,) thus speaks of the American Organ at Washington, lately gone over to the black republicans, at a venture :— Ob, no! The Washington Organ just now is in no humor to spprove of snything Southern. Its sympa- ‘thies and convi-tior pen to be where the most votes for the public print ¢ to be found—and that 1s on the ive of the Nerth, Southern man who votes for the Who, then, are to give Mr. Vespasian Ellis the printing for the House? We understand that the black republicans have another candi- date or twocut and dried, and that the Organ joined the “cause” entirely too late in the afternoon to be entitled toa penny. If Mr. Ellis were to mix in a little democracy with his new free soil principles, perhaps he might do something. But we hope that he will not insist upon any Southern man casting his vote for printer at the peril of having “ his ears chopped off, and bis tongue taken out by the roots.” Better fall back upon the Oronoco sarsaparilla trade. Tax Lrrtim Curcken anv Tue SPEAKERSUIP, —We remember reading, some time since, of an old farmer down East, who was wakened one morning by a disturbance in his henhouse, and on going there he discovered three hens he had mourned as lost, but which had been setting up in the loft all on one egg. The egg had hatched o miserable little chicken, And all three of the old clucking hens laid claim to it, and fairly killed it with kindness. Such, we fear, will be the result with the Speaker, who is to be claimed respectively by Know Nothing free soilers, free soil demo- crats, and black republicans, as their own ex- clusive little chicken, provided always that they succeed in hatching it. THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. Missouri Rallroad Appropriation Bill Passed. Sr, Louis, Dec. 11, 1855. The Dill making large appropriations for the com- pletion of railroads in the State, recently passed by the Legislature, and vetoed by the Governor, was passed to- day, over the yeto, by a two-thirds vote. United States Supreme Court. ‘Wasuinaton, Dee. 11, 1855. No. 151. John Rynex, plaintiff in error, vs. Sally B. Miller. Error to Circuit Court, D.C. On motion of Cox, for defendant, the writ of error was docketéd, und dis- missed with costa. Nos. 10and 11, John ©. Wilson ¢ al. use of Ocean Mutual Insurance Company vs. steamer Palmetto; and Henry A. Barlow e al. use of same Company vs. sainc. Argument continued by Mayor for appellants, and Steele and Renerdy Jobnson for appellees. Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Boston, Dee. 11, 1855. ‘The following is a comparative statement of the foot- ings of our bank exhibit ror the two weeks ending Dec. 3 and Dec. 10:— Dec, 3. Dec. 10. $31,960,000 $31,960,000 49,421,000 48,704,000 2,909,000 Affairs In and about Boston. DEATH OF WILLIAM SUMNER, ASSAULTED BY MESSRS. COBURN AND DALTON—MUNICIPAL ELBO- TION—RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Bostox, Dec. 11, 1855. William Sumner, the young man assaulted by Messrs. Coburn and Dalton, a short time ago, died at his tather’s resicence, in Milton, this morning. Dalton has sinee been arrested, and Coburn probably will be during the day. At the municipal election in Roxbury yosterday, John S. Sleeper, on the liberal Union ticket, was elected Mayor by 88 majority over all other candidates. In Charlestown Timothy T. Sawyer, the citizens’ candi date, was elected by a plurality of 659 votes. Last evening Lucius D. Ashley, while attempting to get aboard of the Waltham train, after it had started, fell, and had both his legs cut off. He died soon afte the accident, He was brother to 0. D. Ashley, President of the Bard of Brokers, and a young man highly spected by every one who knew him. : Ratiroad Accident and Death, Prrveriep (MAss.), Dec. 11, 1855. A man named B, A. Johnson, of Hinsdale, and employed as track repairer on the Western Railroad, was instantly killed at that station this morning, by being run over by freight train that was backing down. The Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the above, and attached no blame to those concerned in the manago- ment of the train, From the South. Bautimone, Dec. 11, 1855. The steamboat Summit, for New Orleans, with five hundred bales of eotton on board, had been destroyed by fire, Boat and cargo a total loss. The contract for maintaining the fire department of New Orleans had been awarded to John Youens, for five years, at one hundred thousand dollars per year. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Punaperrmia, Doc, 11, 1865, Stecks steady. Pennsylvania State 5's, 844; Railroad, 44 Island Railroad, 1244; Morris Canal, 12%; Pennsylvania Railroud, 4244. NEw ORLEANS, Dec. 10, 1855. Cotton unchanged. Sales to day 6,500 bales. Sugar has acvanced tse. on the better qualities. Molasses de- clined ssc. Corn, 84 a 873¢0, Atnany, Dec. 11, 1855. Flour—Demana restricted. Grain—Sales of 1,600 bush- els of Genesee wheat on private terms. Barley-7,500 bushels sold at $1 22, for Jeffervon county. Rye at 81 27. The weather iscold. The thermometer this morning stands at 23 deg. Fahrenheit. Tus Dramancc Fuxp Brvevrt.—This association has its Snnual benefit to-night at the Broadway theatre, It ix now paying $3,000 per annum to ili and retired actors, and it is to be hoped that all who favor the stage will give their mite to deserving institution. The bill in- cludes the comedy of “The Rivals,” in which M-. W. R. Blake makes his first sppoarance this season, and the very clever pertormance of the juvenile comedians. Broapway = Tiearre—Tue Exe = CoMEDLANS.—A very uniqne and original performance transpired at the Broadway theatre on Monday, and was repeated last evening. Pisnche’s capital burlesque, “Beauty and the Beast,” was given by the Marsh (roupe of juvenile some. dians, The children, with the corpe dr ballet, also infan- tile, number thirty-four, and they gave us the noatest performance of this plese that we have ever soen. It seemed like looking at a very clever company through a reversed opera glass. Thoy did not miss any of the points, and made all the hits in the dialogue tell. The star of the troupe is the low comedian, Master George Marsh, who is just two feet and six inches of the ris co- Burton must look to his laurels. His drunken scene was capital. He looked so quaint, and his style was no refreshingly natural, as to place him at once high in the favor of the audience. He was also capital in Jem Baggs, and sung the immortal chant relative to the misfortunes of Vilikins and his Dinah with groat gout. ‘The little girl who played the Beast was also very clever, and got a de-erved encore for “ Red, red rose,” which she rang very nicely. As may be supposed, the children made an immense hit, and we have rarely heard so mach hearty laughter in any theatre. The blasé critics re- Jaxed for once, and laughed loudest of all. The house wos foll. The same bill is up for to-night. The closing limes of the original epilogue are significant:— ‘We are all America’s sons and daughters, And quite a8 good as those from across the waters, Nivwo’s Ganraw.—The Rayels have produced the ‘ Se- cret Marriage,” a new and clever comic pantomime, Tt went off last night nicely, and to the gratification of a full house. The Turf. CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. Tempay, Dee, 11.—Mateh $1,000, —TROTTING. le heats, best thrae THE STANWIX MALL TRAGEDY, Trial of Louls Baker for the Homicide of William Peole—Olose of _the Argument fer the Defence. THURTRENTH DAY. COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER. Hon. Judge Roosevelt presiding, Deo. 11,—The in‘orest in the termination of this issue: inc eases in intensity as the proceedings draw nearer and neerer towards thet point at wiich it will become the grave duty of the jury to pass upon the momentous question tobe submitted to them. Of course (as has been usual since the commencement of the trial) all the avenues leading to the court rooi were censely thronged long befo:e the bour to which the court stood adjourned, and not a few reti ed much disappointed at being unable. toobtein access to the cout room. Ji Roosevelt took his seat Sy the beach at LL o’clock—Judge I - toll also occupied @ seat upon the bench da a portion ofthe day. Baker sprered weil, but exhibited a greater amount of emotion than we liad noticed him te do throughout the coursg of the proceedings. He was visibly affected oy. the conciuding remarks of elog betd edi: ‘th ‘ a fe regret that the excessive pressure of Coreeas istened to news Upon our space compels us to omit the of Mr, Cla:k’s able argomeut; which was throughout with marked atveation. At its conel Inc ge Roosevelt, having*cautioned the jury in his manner, adjourned the court until We yy morning, at 11 o’clock, The Forrest Divorce Case. SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL TERM. Hon, Judges Duer, Campbell aud Hoffman, presiding, Dro, 11.— Kdwin Forrest, Appellant, vs. Catherine N., For- rest, Respondent —Mr. Van Buren moved on the above: case on the part of the appellant. Mr. Chase said that at the present time It so happened that the counrel who was to argue the case for the plain- ‘tif was engaged, and therefore he must ask the indul- gence of the Court to let the matter stand over, and he supposed that trem what bad heppened in the case pre- vious'y to this time between the learned counsel (Mr. Van Buren) "and himself, he would not press the cage, Judge Duer—What is the dificulty? OF course, unless the opposite counsel consent to this, you must atate some reasom why Mr. U'Conor cannot attend to it. Mr. Chaie—I hope the opposite counsel will not put me to the necersi'y of stating matters that occurred between us profesmonaily in reference to his csse, which would render it very proper that be should assent to my request to the Court. Mr. Yan Buren—I move on the case. Mr. Chase stated at ength the Listory of the previous postponements of the case, and said he thought he could, ‘with justice, ark the learned counsel to a) the Court to grant this motion; but tt he was disappointed in. at— Judge Duer—Counsel on the other side must say whether they assent, otherwise you must state why the counsel is not ready. If Mr. U’Conor is in some otber case at this time, of course this must go aside with- out prejudice. Mr. Van Buren—Jf the Court please, I don’t understand now tris elaborate sta‘ewent that haa been made to the Court in reference to previous postponements. This case was tried four years ste was commensed about four years ogo this day, The judgment bas been rondered about four years, and a decree of divorce sigiven, al- lowing Mrs.’ Forrest—as she then was—$3,000 » year, which would now smount to abont $12, counsel fees being, of course, included in the {eehet Not a cent has been paid to her. In the meantime the proceedings. have been stayed by sppeal, and I believe ‘he Court will bear me witnees teat no motion has ever been made in the case, or trial commeneed, or proposes to be that hasever been delnyed or postpone! at my suggestion, Arrangements have been made from time to time, out of court, I grant, by which the ease was not brought on. But T think it’ was never realized, in our ab any time. that I was vot prepared to argue it and try it. Mr, Van Buren eventually suggested, that if Mr. 0 were now ergared, and that engagement were of such a character tha; 1t coulé not be dispensed Mi possibly he would attenc to-morrow, and the counsel for the ap- pellant would be quite willing to move thig case to-mor- Tew, or even Thursday, It could be argued in two 5 Mr. Chare said Mz. O’Conor bad informed him mornirg that be could not be roudy for Tharsday. Jucge Duer insisted on knowing what thenature of Mr. O’Conor’s engagement was, and refared to t & post- ponement unless the counsel for the other consented. Mr. Van Buren would not press on the case if Mr. O'Conor ent word that he had an engagement that he could not dispense with; he did not want either to take it by default orto incommode the opposite counsel. Some further corverra:fow ensued, which was ulthmste- ly terminated by Judge Duer stating that he believed Mr. O'Conor was now engaged in preparing an argament in ® cate involving @ vast amount of money, which was to be argued before Judge Campbell and him (Judge Duer) on Saturday, and if he (the Judge) were Seting profes. prose pe be would advise Mr. Van Buren vo let case off, Mr. Van Burgn—Certainly, i the aetociate counsel bad an much knowledge of Mr. O'Conor’s engagements as the Court, ! should have sgreed to it before. ‘The care, accordingly, went off for the term. Court Calendar—This Day. Gommow Pixss —Part 1.—Adjourned to Monday, 17th. Part 2-—Not, 1400 to 145, lucloniva, suviaan Count—Cireuit,—Nos. 1051, 516, 625, 531, 27 820, 444, 864, 427, 1680 g871, 474, 2126, 663 to 579, % Surxuce Covrt—Special Term.—Nos. 98, 66, 6, 7, 8, 10, 18, 95, £6, 81, 95, 69 t0 107, 118, 128, 182, 136,138, 158, , 184. Unrrab States Disrricr Cover.—Nos. 41, 49, 51jto-60, Sermon Corkt.—Now, 890, 107, 837, 708, 700, 110, 711, 712, Bid, 103, O48, O42, 16, 15, 22, 81/401,’ 226, 202, 318, T14; 41454. 854, 855, 866. 59,800, Boi, 80d, 864, 86d, 856, 868, 448, 365, 616, 687, 775, B23. sny other Gentlemen who appreciate the best and most fastefal het in america sbould bu itot KNOX, whove only store in at 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton street. Meade Brothers have ived an great French Exhibition, just clored in Paria, Sha the pabiie o canna hay ho, which ary ue. ¢ public to exemive our phoiogray ; equalled on this continent. One of outs ‘wes one tte {he Emperor of Buasia, King of sardinia and King of en er Astor House. Ses an ect Lampratypes.—' asa are remarkably fine specimens OLMER’ depot of art, 200 Uroadwey. Vane 3 cents, photographs $5, on sale. Anson's Size ptnctae tog amre ieseeey ace for G) cents, and equal to those made else for ANSON’, 689 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hal. That Exhibitors may Succeed without hi bugs! 3g tbe public, our friend BANT A shows in a very - Fy manner, When heopened bis assortment of indies! and eit. been made up, and ain legance aod st beretofore of: fered In thia tuurket,“be: published a nen is our dalig papers, and this has been suilicient to keep his store con. in where ele the ery of Hnually crowded, while most ever “dull times” ts raised. Fair dea! ‘been the secret of his success. Follow the crowd to 106 Canal, corner ef Wooster st. frmaietintens Groans aie Music at Half Price—Pianos and Melodeons, from the best Boston and New York makers, at t bargains. 5c, $66, $00, and $100sat No. 388 Brosd@eay. weg HORACE WATERS, Agent. Brocateles, Satin Delaine: nices, Window Bhades, Lace Cu: GUSON, 291 Peace aie oetr ete tua ‘om never betore brought & F. tablished'a reputation for ‘welling poodn Shes. aod Thole kaso thetr and increasing trade is preciated. ge gcse gecpuege Gerh cphealee he Bt Millinery! MilUneryt-Wm. 8. Irvine, 12 Canal Ca invites the attention of the Iedien to his splendia sesortwent of Log ‘and winter sputhoery, of ribbons, mentot cloaks and tala. et 4° ‘ Cloaks! Cloaks! Ladies Cloaks !=A Large ysqriment, and very cheap, in the Bee Hive. 827 Grand .¥. Al Hing olf, at ‘great sacrifice, the large stock feathers, Sowers, rlbbon, trimmings, to, Call and see. 8. D, HAWKINS, proprietor, Cy ory nk Blok Assortment of Tore totee #bell dress com! ot by paverns, Teen bt A. 43, SAUNDERS £07 Iroadway — pects bondibanaaliie bg Portable Dressing Cnses of an entirely new and campact form, turplehed wh aricles, the nae o¢ whieh dp ot detract from ue! rn, ALA. & J, x ry 7 Astor House and 3&7 Broadway. TREN Oe ae pn i Fancy Cutlery, Embracing a large Vari of sportsmen’ peo Ban pocket ves: of the mont rare a4 uta ernie, ), aD aarortm nt tot J. SAUNDERS’, No. ‘Astor House and $8] Broadway. a" Over Coats, &c—Our Stock of all kinds of ae es, bo Md Sater garmenta, shat me , &e., de., te ve 4 DB DEVEAN & C0,, 20%, 200 atl 300 Brosd ea ‘en's ciothirg and furnishte cemprebensive variety of Every garment is labelled at there ts uo deviation. po ‘To the Ladica of New York and Brook): Those who cannot obtain their dre. Ty Ee a a ag Futon 4 ve. ITT, BON & 00,, Bt corded linen collars, beaatifal dozen each; slay’ rich eraviia, gloves, wafers TRA PEREGO & SON, 61 Nassau street. Carpets! Carpets!! Carpets!!1—Superb Me~ dailion velvet carpeia from the Paris Kxhibidion, splendid ta- peairy Brussels trom the celebrated mau S oy Sons, Halifax, Engiand, just reseived, at HIRAM ANDEM- SON'S, W Bowery. .’ Noab’s Ark of Presents adenoma ttle’s emny No. le to see, oe pop eg were so many curions of ingenully, ‘in toys uneful (rites collected fm one Dince; toys, from Denny whistle up to the mysterious boxes of legerdemain; dolls, from the face downwards: olagaasies, in porvelain, and binguie, music boxes; ebiidren's kitrben furni'are and accoutrements and chiltren’s parlor furniture; boys’ warlike mechanical instruments; soldiers to which boys can 2 cap India rubber toys. archery puzzles, masks, garner amount ot brain that * employed om such matter } pecPic, & most curious place t vill, in (is paruewar oly,