The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK FERALD. SaBES GURDON BENNET?, YROPR BOR } 4p EDITOR. p< atonement iron won- PPNED F. WW, CORNER OF WisssU LwD FULTON P78. poco contn onan 7 basa 2 ones 7 cary oly Brea Briskin, or 8S any part @? Eondincnt bh '¥ CORRESPONDENCE, endaining ted fromeny Gustaf use wll be # finaeaeenn ‘v0 Baal aut ano Pace: ‘So ITICE taken of anonymous comnunieations, We dont TING excouked with reatness, eeapnese and dee —- VER TISEMENTS renewed every day. FR] teimame 1X eee 363 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENIBG, speaeay THEATRE, Browdway—Kisc Cascmno— YF, om run May ann raw TERR, z WERLA’S GARDEN. Proudway—Four Lovans~Jovizs— MEDINA. BOWSRY THEATRE, Bowery—Ouven Fwrsr—Bqued ae ANE, BPRTOWS THRATRE, Obambers sxeet—Ni Yeawe Bva—Oaw Dovcu soveavon—fas Svacran Baisoxoou. WARLACH’S THEA’ Broadway—Po-0s now 1as— TRR, LAURA EXENE’S VARIRTIRG, Brosdway—Dausus or Deayeione— Masns SND Faces—Vaurz oy Viowsss, ae. MINBTRELS, 414 Broadway--Brworuae Pua MOCRLEPS BURLESQUE OPPIA HOUSR, E58 Brend- Wry -Bommave Ovens py Negeo MuwsramisT, DOFALDAON’S OPERA HOUSE, 3 Brosaway—Prei0- KLYN ATHER.MUM, Brook)yn—Prsiornsy Mowoan ICHOREAN 701RMR. Maile for Burope. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION YOR EUROPE. Whe Cunard wai) stermship Asia, Capt, Lott, will leave Basten, on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Ro Emopesn mails will clore in this vity at a quarter te two o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Wee Hunstn (printed in Fnglish and French) will be padlished at vine o’clock in the morning. Aingle copies, tm wrappers, sixpence, Babscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Heraco will be received at the follo ring pisses in Burope:— Laspon—Am. & kuropean Express Oo.,17 and 38 Corohi. PaRic— de. do, 8 Plas de Ja Bourse YERFOOL— do. do. 7 Ramiora strogt. Asvexvoo1—Joln Hunter, 12 Exchange sireet, Rast. ‘The con‘ents of the Burapean tition of the Bemaw will embrace the news received hy rant and telegraph at the office Guring the previens week, and to the bour of yadlieation. The News. Our special despatches from Washington state that the friends of Banks are using their atmost ex- ertions to secure three additional votes, the number ‘Mhat he lacks of an election, and wil! make 4 brash this morning, with the hope of electing him. The administration is said to be anxious to effect an or genization. It ic stated that on one or two occasions ast week Mr. Banks received just votes enough to eleot him, bat Lefore the result could be announced several gentlemen were sent for, who, voting for wome other candidate, defeated him. We lay before our readers this morming a mage of $mformation in regard to the position of affuim in Central America, and especially in Nicaragua, A Iktter from Mr. J. W. Fabens, Director of Coloniza- ‘tien for Nicaragus, to the editor of the Heraxp, will ke found of interest to thoxe contemplating emigra- thon to that country. From China we have a most interesting account ef a trading Wage, made by the Hamburg ship Bingapore, from Hong Kong to the ports of Na- gasaki and Hakodadi, in Japan. When at the last wamed place she found two American whalers and ene American bark, the masters of which vessels ‘tried very earnestly to open an uninterrupted trade for provisions, Xc. withthe natives. At Hokodadi the Japanese wonld not recognize the Hamburg fing, asserting that they did not-know of a treaty with any outside nation except the United States and Engiand. A bullock could not be hag at any price, and no tish was allowed to ve sold except through the Custom House officers. Visits to shore were freely permitted, and the people were anxious & learn words of English. The Singapore confirm- ed the report of the taking of the Kurile Islanfs by the Western allies. Three Chinese sailors who were taken prisoners by the beate of the U. S. steamship Powhatan, dering the late engagement with pirates, were tried in the Bupreme Court at Victoria, and found guilty of murder on a charge of killing two men of the crew of the Powhatan’s second Jaanch at the time when Lieutenant Orlando was blown up. The Judge had reserved the sentence (death) ona point of law. We have a file of Bermuda papers dated to De- eember 10, but they contain little news. The Royal Gazette of that day says:—H. M. steamer Medea Yeaves thie morning for Antigua. H.M. 8, Corn- wallis, Capt. @. G. Wellesley, arrived on Sanday from Portemouth, which place she left on the luth October. H. ‘team sloop Rosamond, Commander Orofton, sailed on Toesday last for Halifax. His Excellency Froncis Hinks, Bsq., the newly appointed Governor-General of the Wicdward Islands, wa paseenger by the Curlew, from Halifax, on his way to Barbados from Bermuda. On St. Andrew's Day the Chapter of Bermuda held its usual church meeting. The log book of the exploring ship Resolute, w) ic! was copied and furnished by our specie! reporter, and poblivhed this morning, will be found interost- mg to readers in thie country and Burope. ft furnishes an idea of life in the Arctic regions, aud show the explorers employed their time. Our reporter algo givee an interesting description of the vessel wnd her contents at the present time. ‘We give in today’s HknaLp a table of the pa sages of the California steamers, embracing the kailing days from San Francisco, the date of arrival «wt New York, the number of days consumed in making the passage, and the amount of specie brought by each vessel. It will be seen that the total amount of treasure landed at this port from Walifornia during the year has Veen upwards of for- ty-one and a half millions of dollars, of which nearly twenty-nine millions was brought by the mai! steamers via Panama, and nearly thirteen mi)- fone came by the Nicaragoa rowte. The tir fevence in the amount of specie brought by the two lines is greater than it would have been bat for two causes which operated against the Nicaragua steamers: the first of which was the fact that daring the first part of the year they sailed from San Francisco during the second and third weeks of each month; and as the specie returns on the other side are usnally made wp semi-monthly apd the days of departure of the Panama steamers being the first and middie ot each month, they con’ sequently received the bulk of the treasure, Ano ther cauce which operated against the Nicaragoa steamers was the difficulties in Central America, whieh teemed to render it unsafe to transport specie by that route. An elaborate and carefully compiled table of the proceedings in the Law Courts, for the year 1555 will be found in another pert of this day's Heaatn. it ig complete, with the exception of one or two tranches of the Federal Courts, We publiah to-day a letter from Mr. John Minor Botts, io answer to the letter and resolutions of the American Union Legion, of Brooklyn, recommend sug him asa suitable candidate of the Know Noth'ngs for the Presideney in 1850. In answer he says that the American party has nothing to do to ensure enc coos in 1856 but to keep steadily in view their great original olgect, viz: ‘ that of restoring the direction of American affairs to the hands of those born npon the soil.’ He refers to hie past life in the public service, and varions recent speeches and letiers as ap indication of the policy of the adminirtration in the “contingency” of hia ele tion ' Tio! & iter yeas i . a NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER Si, 1858. before the Young Men’s Democrgtic Association, of Hamilten vounty, Ohio, ie given among our political i purchases of fouthern flour for shipment to the Mediterranean. Fore'gn goods to the value of $1,596,664 were imported into the port of Boston during the past week, The Events of the United States for 1855, We give in another part of thie paper a oare- folly prepared chronological reference to the principal events of our history ae a mation for the year 1855, J is needless to remark on the great valne of sueh an index to every closs of the commanity. It is the posting of the books —the account current of the chief evente of the last year, embeacing every species of transac- tion. Now, suppose the reader had in hie pos- session such a reference extending back to the election of Mr. Adams te the Presidency ia 1825, and running through these stormy days of politics whem General Jackson galled the ship of State, how eomplete would be his abili- ty toreeall to mind every leading transaction of the country, and how soon, by the mere re- ference to the table, could be refresh bis memo- ry and make bie past information available to bim! Chronological references, to the antive woap of businese or of publio affairs, ie quite eqnal to the best elavorated hictory. The latter, with such, has been written upon the tablets of the mind, and all that is required ie the for mer to make it available. In this view we recommend the reader to preserve this record. To the student of oar politics, to the man of letters, it will be found to be especially valuable. Mr, Clay said in the Senate, in 1850. that there was one characteristic of onr confessed- ly thoughtfal people which to him was matter of peculiar interest and curiosity: ii was the facility with which eveate of greater or less importance were entirely fargottem by the peo- ple—events which in other countries would be ranked of the highest importance and at once placed upon the records of history, The secret of this apparent indifference is no doabt to be found in the striking individuality aud iadepen- dence of the American mind. Fach man feely, to 2 great extent, that he is a government by himse}f—- hence, lexe importance ie atcached to the ections of bodies corporate, and far more to personal movements. That thig isa neces sary result of our syetem is certain; bnt there is danger. under ite sway, that we shall have an existence without a bis- tory—that, in our excessive self-reliance, we thal! loose those admonitions of experience without which government becomes a perpetu- al experiment. Every thing has its history. The Savior of the world provided his repori- ers, and for the history of hia mission. {t is obvious that no degree of individual adyance- ment and independence can compensate for a want of accurate historical Gata and records, There are some curioue facts disclosed by them in the “Index to the year 1855,” which derive additional interest when surveyed ia the rear. For instance, it iz stated that a car on the Now York Central Railroad ran sixteen tuiles in eleven minutes! This record, if it could be made to run backwards for avonts century, Would stir up the inhabitants into a precious commetion. The same time ahead may turn it into a very stopid example of a rapid travel. About a year ago, the good people vere hold- bread, and eome very founy id economy were proclaimed. Pri high now, money scarce, and wv we hear of no more Pa: “the one or the other. ago a great many people were prepay universal crash throughont the whe try—tnt it did not come. i were favored with © super: and if we may eo desomi crops in England, France, Spain, elsewhere. So of courso, our far } deen paid high prices, our Isborers bh been paying high prices, and the defi Statee of Europe have been granaries. Jn strictly political affairs the past year will be seen to have been one of remarkable vici tudes. In spite of all efforte to the cow the old party bonds have been loosened, ax new parties with new rames a: ideas, have sprung ito existence. tionists haying been tarsed into jicans, have fairly risen to streng and en to paralyres in a single year. They up ike the lion and they are ge the lamb. The storm is not the nx tion of the atmosphere. sapplicd from cur Tar, Ogainst we Guatema'ao making war against a State » this hae occurred sinoa the affair, we canno this Valker c in making out the case o have heard {ft ramo and Cushing are to write out chapter fe mey, perhaps, be as lo speciall7 consul at Washington. The long protrac increasing complications of ¢ ican affairs are coming to a solution, evente; and to this extent, whatever may ultimate isene, Gen. Walke: making a public benefactor. Yonr A Oibuster, if you please, ig the only avai diplomat for interpreting all h rabbiah a Brillsh Mosquito protec e@ ood Clayton AbsourxMent oF THE Boakps of ALDERVEN axp Councr.men—Review or THER Last Yuan’s Lason—On the eloce of the year it ie well to take a retrospective view of the legis lative labors of our city fathers during the past twelve months, In January last the two boards of the Commen Council, which have just adjourned sine dic, began their sessions, and for s time gave promise of doing great thinge for our good city; but, like a new broom, they swept al) their energy clean oat, after a brief period ef officio] exertion. What have we paid during the past year for our Common Council, sud what have we re- ceived in return for our money? We have had twenty-two Aldermen, who have received for ninety-six sessions, at a cost of eighty-eight dollars per session, the aggregate sum of eight thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars. In the other Board—of Councilmen—we have bad sixty members, who have also held ninety- ix sessions during the past year, at two han- dred and forty dollars per seesion—being a yearly cost of twenty-three thousand and forty dollars—making, with the sum expended for the Aldermen, a total of thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollara—a rather extravagant price for municipal legis lation since the month of January last. The question arises whether we have receiv- ed the worth of cur movey? In fact, would it not have been better for us to have paid this amount to ke delivered altogether from our city fathers, than to have given it for the work tuey have done? The Board began very well, dut, like a epavined horse, they broke up whea but a short distance om the track. In the way of appropriations, Jast winter, when want and hunger held in their embrace of death thou- tande of onr poor, the two Boards responded to the call cf the distressed sround them, and grave away from the public trea- sary $26,000. Of thir, $11,000 was par celled ont to the “Ward Relief Asso- ciations,”? and $15,600 was given to the New York Society for Relieving the Condition of the Poor-—but how much the poor obtained of thie amount, and how deservingly it was Gistribnted, has not since, sppeared. This was no doubt s charitable act on the part of the Aldermen and Councilmen, and per- baps wil! be regarded as the bright spot in their last year’s history by those short-sighted philanthropists who believe that it is better to give the poor money than work-~better to make # man dependen* upon sims than the in. dependent provider for his own wante In the way of ordinances ve.y little has been done; but perhaps this is rather a matter for congratulation than otherwise. The first ordinance of any importance enacted was one “for more effectually enforcing the excise laws.” Jt will be remesbered ‘that whea Meyor Wood first esme into power, he mode a powerful onslaught upon the Sunday liquor dealers. This gained the anplause of both the temperance men aad those who cnly occasionally indulge in creature comforts, It ‘Was @ popular move; and the two Beards fellin with the course of the Mayor and passed aa ord!- naneée in March, fixing a penaity of $10 fine, or, in default, ten days’ impriscument, for selling Viquor without license, or selling it at all upon Sundey. This looked like a show of official vigor; butsoon the glory of attacking Can- Gey liquor shops got into discredit and was forgotten, and now this ordinance, owing to its peeniiar construction forms one of the many ‘dead letters” upon our siatate books Of the other ordinances, the only remai tug one worth not cing was passed last March, es- tablishing "a public building stock,” created for a loan of $140,000, to bear interest not ex- ceeding five per cent, and to be redeemable— fifty thousand in 1855 and Afty thousand tn i866. The money thus raised (and to be ought by the public in shares, at $100 per: share) is to be applied to reimbursing the city treasury the amount expended for public dition. buildings and to the ereetion of ench « i al baildings as mgy be required. It is rather a curious fnauciel operation for the eliy of New York tq emuark in, to ra ney in way to er buildings, and sueh a ap $140,000, dout year after year squand ries or nouecerrary the thice i © Board feventecn ticaton ar yearly a schools, or the cutsing a Attore way of street it the past year, the two Bo i g Dinety-four stre the way of p t so great av 2 Board been hey have e discus: Neon tio Nard Shell Sibany to day. Jvised of ite object. ITOW. The Arg Bal sig g Perhaps the bards are of nal! enaita WON eevee ng mee mee memes ue heen nwa * Apsourrion Priverries---Axoraer LETrer rrom Josaca R. Givprvas—We publish, this morning, another letter from Joshua R. Gid- dings to his Ohio home organ—the Ashtabula Sentind—giving us another inside view of the manocuvres of the abolition league at Washing- ton, to geta Speaker. The material point of this mild and affectionate letter is the reso- lution adopted in black republican caucus, that they make no objection to a candidate for Speaker belonging to the American or Know Nothing party, provided he agrees to earry out the black republican platform of abolition- izing the committees and the business of the House as much as poseible. This resolution accounts officially for the zeal with which the Giddings, Weed and Gree- ley league support Mr. Banka, But what a commentary upon the anathemas of Seward, the Albany Journal and the New York Tribune, against the “dark lanterns,” “savage proscrip- tions,” and “secret abominations” of the ‘Hindoos!” All these denuncfations are thus shown to be mere humbug, hypocrisy and moonshine. Think of Seward, Giddings, Weed and Greeley concocting a resolution in Con- gress consenting to all these horrible “Hindoo abominations,” provided the “Hindoos” will fraternize with them upon the Speaker! Again: Greeley would have us believe that a high protective tariff is the cure-all, the universal panacea, the all healing liniment for all the financial and commercial evils which occasionally afflict the country; but when he finds some of his disciples who really believe in this fustian, voting against Banks because Banks believes in the monstrous heresies and rascalities of free trade, Greeley, Weed and bretbren denounce such disciples as traitors of the blackest dye, These points in this letter of Giddings, in con- nection with the high tariff and anti-“Hindoo” principles promulgated through the Seward organs, wil} explain the difficulties of a fusion among the fusionists.of Congress, There are men among them who honestly believe that a high tariff would be a great blessing, and that Hindooism is » great abomination; but Sew- ard, Giddings, Weed and Greeley are more flexible. With them, principles are but scare- crows--the believer in them is but a fool, and the stickler for consistency, when the plunder is in view, is but a traitor and akrave. Such is the purity and euch the morality of Seward- ism reduced to practice. Read the letter of old Father Giddings, Cox. Parker H. French Pourrery Onperep To Go Homs.——We published yesterday a briet extract from a long letter of advice addressed to Col, Parker H. French, Euvoy Extraordinary pnd Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to these United States, from our United States District, Attorney, the cream of which is as follows:— ‘The courtesy extended to you {s that of going to Wash- ington and of returning to the foreign country from whenos you elaim to come as minister, within » reasona- ole time, in the hopa that ne further complaint will be wade agatoet you, and ip tendering to you my wirhes for your safé return to your own country, I re- mein, &e., &e., ‘ JOHN McKEON, U. £, District Attorney, “The courtesy ” of allowing the ambassador t6 leave the country “within a reasonable time,” is certainty a remarkable stretch of liberality. And then, the hope that ‘no further complaint” will be made against him, marks just as strongly the benevolent turn of mind which characterizes the amiable Attor- ney Genera}, Caleb Onshing, in all things. Of course, Mr. MeKeon is acting under the inetruc- tious of Mr. Cushing. Yet it is very remarka- bje that the British Minister, Crampton, proved guilty of violating our international neutrali- ty law, ehould be permitted to continue in his official pesftion, while the Minister from Nica- yagua, against whom nothing in violation of our pudlic faith has been legally established, thouid mect with no better reception than ‘‘the courtery” of a “reasonable time” within which to leave the country, at peril of being snapped up and putinto jell. Gentlemen of Congress, organize--do organize—without her quibbling, and give us the President's to know the difference of Crampton and that of or be ), or the distine- French (if the } e (ion of Mr. Pierce betwixt tweedle dum and twoedle d they So it appears ve nent here as the Traz ey y late proceed broug owner, or partn the equilo tr And what has Mr. to say? Will he mit these accusations against him end r understandin, ay, Will take we dare & MANY Hate Rear Mr, Collector Redfield has notified the a District Att y, McKeon, that three Custom House officers implicated of the in the Northern Light reinforcements to Ge- neral Walker, “Hall bas resigned, F'arneworth has been suspended, Thud we see t set aside and lector. Why 4 roft shell associates in tt nd Creighton removed.” gs of T any Hall y our Tammany Col Vochrane keep his uly posted p concerning tho Lene . Tue Burro Kxow Noturves, in convention, have approved the anti-Banks course purmed by Mr. Solomon G. Hayen in Congress, and have appointed him their delegate to the Phi- ladelphia Nationa) Council of the 22d Febru- ary, naming, also, Mr. Filhmore as their candi- date for the Presidency, Mr. Haven being of the law firm of Fillmore, Haven & Co., will doubtless stick to the copartnership; but we fear that George Law has the track south and east of the Cayuga Bridge. The combustibles are beginning to crackle. Hurry up the dele- gates. Convention or Anti-Nepraska Eprrors.—The Tilinois tree soil journals are discussing the pro- priety ofa convention of the anti-Nebraske edi- tors of that State, in order to a more harmoni- ous agitation of the nigger question. Hadn’t they better wait the developement of the fusion polfey of Congress? How can the brethren ex- pect to be enlightened in Illinois, while they are all yet in the dark at Washington? Hold on. [SESE THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From W: EFFORTS OF THY FRIENDS OF MR. BANKS—PENNING- TON’S FRIENDS ABOUT TO DEFERT BANKS—-THE WAR IN EUROPE-—THE MESSAGE, ETO. Wasmncrox, Dec. 30, 1855. The friends cf Banks have been, since adjournment yesterday, moving heaven and earth to secure three votes, which is the number he lacks to effect an elec tion. I was Informed this evening that they have evory- thing out and dried for to-morrow; but they have so often failed, I give it tittle credence, 1 was positively assured this evening that Pennington’s friends would leave Banks to-morrow after the firet ballot. Letters received here from highly ereditable sources in England and France lately contradict the rumors of peace between the belligerents, and state further that Prodigions efferts are being made by the allies to concen- trate all their forces for the spring campaign. The statement that the messsge had not been seen by sexne members of the Cabinet is all fustian, I was in- formed by a gentleman, who ought toknow, that it had been thumbed so much that the President was ashamed to send it te Uongress, and, therefore, had it gopied again. D. THE DEMOCRATS AND CONTINUOUS VOTING—THE AD- MINIFTRATION ANXIOUS FOR AN ORGANIZATION— SLEIGHING, ETO. Wartuneton, Dec. 30, 1865. The republicans will weke another brush to-morrow for Banks. The democrats say they will vote for continuous balluting until an election is had. If this be dome, you may anticipate an organization within the next two or three cays, The administration is now urging action. Captain Skiliman, the Kit Carson of the Plains, is stopping at the National, ‘The tingling of sleighbella enlivens the avenue t2- night. B PENNINGTON AND THE SPEAKERSHIP. Waxmimatox, Dec. 30, 1865. The parttenlar friends of Pernington are scheming to give bim a run to-morrew for Speaker. It will be all in vain, and can amount to ncthing more than another day’s procrestination. Thie ovening a choice to-morrow looks inprobobdie; for Tuesaday the chance is better. B. TRE VOTING FOR 8PEAKER—THE HERTZ TRIAL— OONTINUED SIOKNESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANBY, ETC. ‘Wirmnoton, Deo. 30, 1856. Mr. Banks, last week, on one or two occasions, obtained precisely votes enough for the election of a Speaker, but before the result could be anncunced several gentlemen: whohad been sent for, hurriedly entered the House and\east their snffrages tor another, thus turning the scale, ‘The report of the trial of Hertz, in the British enlist- ment ease, padlished in the Pennsylvanian, has been sworn to by the phonographer as correct, and has been filed in the State Department a# on authentic record of the proceedings. Owing to the continued rickness of Chief Justice Taney, he fs not expected fo tako his seaton the bench during the present term cf the Supreme Court of the United States. ‘ Destruction of the Gas Worms at Middie~ town, Conn, MipptEtowN, Conn., Dec. 30, 1853. Tne gas werks in this place took fre about 2 o’clock this rocrming, from the purifier. The chain, to which was attached the weight, broke, aud the weight fell upon the puiifier, waking # hole, and letting off the gas. A terrific explosion followed, tearing off the roof and forcing out the walls of the building, The Weather—Sletghing=Missing Mail, Praperpnrs, Dec, 29, 1855. The wrather io clear and cold, with One sleighing, oc- castoned by 2 pretty heavy fall of snow last night. ‘The PchuyIkill river opposite the city is tight, but the navigation of the Delaware ie not impeded from heavy floating ion, from the many steamers that continually keop erosuing and running up aud down the river. Ry the mail of Inet night the bag or pouch containing the New Yor’ popera is missing, and was probably sent frcm the Post Office through mistake to Baltimore. Bnew Storm in the East. Bostox, Dec. 30, 1855. eight inches of snow fell herve last night. The has been cold and clear to-day, and there is ex- ighings Bouthern AMICTs, MARION AT CHARLESTON. CHARLERTON, Dee. 29, 2856, from New York, arrived at her bie (Saturday) noon, UGUSTA AT SAVANNAH. AVANNAM, Dec, 30, 1855. rived here to-day M., with all on from New rd well. Markets. Provroey’r, Dee. 29, 1865, endy, moderate sales and prices vnchinged. et is quiet, betag near the close of the Printing cloths—I'rices sirm, 500 piesre, on ov Day ov Darawrcre. wot tho steamers of thiy favorite Ine om New Yor\ have been changed from Wednesdays to tordsyr, emdon Saturday next, January Sth, the Pa- + will leay col. Thenceforth they wil day. Returning they ston of Saturdays, Wiliiamsbarg City News. : LinsenJust before daylight, Townsend, of the Fifth dis- ‘0 puepiciows looking young men f Grand eal Secomd streets, ma bundie. He obtained the Moers. enterod the howe, and led np the proprietor, Mr. Keizer. One of the boyn mp tighter, nnd elated that he had been putting T on searebed the house, and found sin eflver cake basket and somo ad spe Kelzer and the two boys, who their nax en at Nelson Barnett and Matthew Keily, worm # nd ponvagea to the Wee Lt On foturdag, Mra, G-tithe, residing at Second atree’,’ called at the station house, ey. Tt had been stolen from her vious, ae entrance having been ey in the basement door with islivn Of the prisoners will take eTROCD, og the present yoar, in the Thir- rés, eighty-four dwelling houses f which sixty-five were of brick. ¢ of erection thirteen brick houses, teenth and lourwen have been ere: the nd five fram ATION STATISTICS IN BALTIMORR.—- year of 1856, there have been the ful- of foreigners naturalized and declarations f to become naturalized citizens fn the severa: courts of the city = f intent ivd. Declared Intention, 69 480 408 253 127 14i2 taralized in the preced- 10, showing an increase of 144 p 1800. Ip 1854 no leas than 3,268 persons declared stion of Decoming citizens, and im 1855, only ‘b declaration of taten showing a» de- WWE td weeny aoe dy Cholera of Dr. C. A, Deininger, of Reading, Pa., and, Dr. D. P. Jones, o Baltimore, Mad.—Rigors of a Cri- mean Winter, dc., de, ‘ liant plumes snd flashing armor, and the impetaous usb of horsemen from quarter to quarter, indicated the © affection equa! to that of children for # fond snd doting parent. The palace of the Governor, fronting upon the ben’e, vard, was specially fitted up for his reception. At o’clock crowds of the most anxious began to coliect, and asthe afternoon advenced an immense threng was secu hurrying trom every part of the city towards the place where his Majesty would alight. From some cause hiv arrival was delayed until a late hour, and night. closed in upom many on eager and expectant face. But asif by enchantment the darkness was illuminated by s thou- sand brilliantly colured lanterns, which adorned the © trees surrounding the boulevard, and, together with tha gay trappings of the soldiery, »nd the gaudy attire of the softer sex, this beautiful promenade presented a scene of the most enlivening deseription. But the impatient crowd had not long to wait, tor the loud huzvas ot the more distant portion of the populacg gave evidence of the near approach of hia Maje:'y, and soon, greeted by veciferous and almort deafening shouts, a travelling post carriage, drawn by six horses, and pre- ceded by an escort of Cossacks, drew up in front of the- Governor’s residense. From it there alighted. man of the most unassuming exterior, in stature about six foot, and attired in a plain blacs cap, and overcoat of coarse gray cloth, With a smiling salutation to the upturned faces arourd him, he passed in. This was the Emperor. On the following morning—ss is his custom in every place through which he passes in travelling—he pro~ ceeded to the church for the purpose of engaging in di- vine service, after which he visited the several hospitala of the city. Jt was in one of these that J had an op- portunity of observing bim more closely, I never bebel® a countenance more expressive of nobleness and truth, uf high and determined purpose, blendid with all that is good and genticin the human character, It was here that his affectionate disposition was more signalty dia- played. When he observed around him the mutilated bodies of his poor soldiers, with pain and ‘suffering de- picted upon their countenances, he was dceply affected; many of them he embraced, and as be turned sileatly away, his moistened cheek bespoke the depth of feeling and poignant regret which swelled his bosom at the right of these sad necessities of war. He remained here but day, and departed towards the southward, for the purpose of inspecting the fortifications opposite Sebastopol. At every point the same Joyfiy greeting awaited him, and at head-quarters the roldiers, unrestrained, crowded sround his earriage, hugging the very horses in their delight, and all eager to obiain § glance at the face of their beloved sovereign. His pre~ sence sione inspired a hope and an ardor whieb agthing , else could effect. One circumstance connected with his visit to this place, and which has created no little talk, ts interesting and worth mentioning. A young American surgeon ate tached to this service solicited, and obtained, an inter- view with the Grand Duke Michael. His object was ta intercede in favor of a friend of his, an Itallan—M. Lamy drians, an officer in the French army—who was reverely wounded and taken prisoner in the memorable Sction at — Balaklava, and who still, sick and suffering from the ef. fects of his wound, remained # prisoner in one of the in- terior towns. The interview, though short, was of the most social and ratisfaetory nature, entixely free froar the ceremeny usually attendant upon such ocecasions, The Grand Duke promised a favorable consideration a the matter, and on the following day it was the sabjec of conversation among officia! circles, that in conseyuense af the intercession of a young American surgeon the Ent peror had given freedom to the Italian, Landriana. This act was an evidence not mere of the goo loess of heart which characterizes the Emperor, than of a dis~ position on the part of the government to regard with ex- treme favor the Americans now engeged in its sorvice. This disposition has been repeatedly evinecd in oumer- ous instances. One of the most disagreeable duties attached to the mevical depariment of the service, is the necompanying of transports of sick and wounded into the interior, some times two or three hundred miles, in uncemfortabie wagons, and exposed to every variety of weather, Prout this, we only have been entirely relieved, Jn no instance, that T remember, haa « request been made by us, regard- ing our comfort, or in any way pertaining to cur eorvice, that bas not at once been graciously accorded. Indeed, +o marked has been this preference, that it has excited coupidereble jealousy on the part of the German and other doctors engaged in the service. Refore thie time intelligence has reached the \'niled States of the death by cholera of two American surgeons, Chas. A. Deininger, of Reading, Pa, and D. T. Jones, of Baltimore, Md, Both attacks were sudden and rapidly fatal—both dying within the same twenty-four hours, and both buried in the same grave. A handsome mouu- ment {a in course of preparation to mark their last rest ing place. This place, and the Crimea generally, have been healthy during the past summer, and the two cases of obolera mentioned were isolated ones. ley blasts aud biting frosts admonish us that the rig- ore of a Russlan winter are near at hand, theugh we have heen unweually favored, up to almost the present tims, with a continuance of warm and genialeunshine. From present appearances, there willbe little done in the way of active hostilities thia winter, buth parties being en- gnged in preparing comfortsdle quarters——though the facilities for acquiring information relative to the proe gress of the war are rather eca reo in this quarter, The numerous readers of the Hxnavo are better informed on that eudject than the residents of the Crimea. MEDICUS. 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Our are tor a etre tpereened are edvined ela make s selow- penny ny capt, Hoela remeailog ek oa ‘o te largely In hat t 4 desideralam ‘gesential to tuoir ‘suseean Frosh 50.000 gentiemen will bay new Knox hate at KNOX'S only wore, No, 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton sreet, wi hid # For New Re oly Prownta, die, &cThe Public withing to select from an exienaive variety of set and fancy articles from $1 to $200, embrating Taraitare ne every description, Planofortes, French plate and other mirrors, of} paintings with rich silver plated table ware, port- ble deakee fancy boxes, obits” furs, Bulle oF rovemond ant other styiew of furniture—over 1,000 articles on consignment from manuiacturers, trporters, ie., and old at a ren: sacri- fee without abatement, No delay in Purchases at Private sale, and celivered to any partof the free of ex fence, for thie day only. Ladies will do favor by calling at No, St Nassan street, between Fulton and Jo: TCNIS MORRRLL. 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