The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIEIOR AND EDITOR. SFVICE N. W. CORYER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ADWAY THEATRE, Broadwey—Kise Cainevc— @aveminG 4 Mumma. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Joviea—Rom, an THEATRE, Buwery—Vesronixe— S4/merniax- BURTON'S THEATRE Chuedere poet Nem, T5n, ba axp Taugr—Bonren’s Ni Youu DinectoRe WALLACK’S THES Rroadway—LserLe TREAS ‘BO-Ca-HON-T48—J BN Pre JOUN & C0. . KRENE’S VARIETIES, Brewdway—Tax Kune or we eet asD EEX Ge THE MAKkEt—PERPRORION, ‘WOOD'S MINGTREES, 444 Browdway—Ermoriun Pex- voneanem-aaubos onaan, OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- \OKLEY'S BUKLEAQUI - Mf ohwussD Tit, Neto Mi vse mie: New ¥ork, Monday, January 7, 1856. The News. A now storm of unexampled severity visited the whole Atlantic coast, from Maryland to Halifax, on Saturday last, and continued to rage for from fifteen te eighteen hours. Tn Boston it was the mogt severe storm that has occurred tor seventy years, and in this “tity the “ oldest inhabitant” can remember nothing Me it. The mails have all been detained, and in ‘this city the railroad have stopped running. The sleighing will be excellent for some days to come, asthe ground is covered ona level with from four- ‘teen to eighteen inches of snow. Our Washington correspondents agree in announc” ‘mg the rumored retirem?nt of Mr. Crampton, and it is asserted that he is now arranging his affairs prepar- story to.a speedy return to England. It is likewise rumored that our government has notified Great Britain that Mr. Crampton will not be permitted to vemain; and it is furthermere fumored that in the event of his dismissal the British government wil} have no further intercourse with the United States, and that Mr. Buchanan will be presented his pass perts. Indeed, there seems to be no end to the ru- mors in diplomatic circles at Washington. Wonder ‘if the recent arrests in Cincinnati of persons charged ‘with violating the neutrality laws have anything te do with the propagation of these exciting rumors. The steamship Arago arrived at this port yester- @ay from Hayre and Southampton, after a tempes- tuons passage, with European advices to the 19th alt., four days later than those brought by the Pa- eific. In the editorial columns we have briefly com- mented upon the most important points of the news. ‘The contithed prevalence of peace rumors had eeused a buoyancy in financial affairs, and a cor- vesponding depression in the cotton and provision markets. The Canada, with three days’ later intel- ligence, is over due at Halifax, Our latest despatch fom that city states that a furious snow storm pre- vailed, and that the arrival of the steamer could not be looked for until it had abated. We publish this morning a series of tables giving ‘she total number of births, marriages and deaths in ‘this city during the past year, according to the re- ‘@urns at the office of the City Inapector. These sta- tistice, which are among the most important and in- teresting published by any of the departments of ar municipal government, were made up in our own office, and in advance of the official report, which will not be ready for publitation before April or May next. In addition to the total mortality for every month in the year, these iables give the mi- nutest details in regard to the diseases, the ua- ‘avity, the age and sex of the deceased. During the last twelve months the number of deathe in New York was 22,787; the number of deaths 14,496, and of births 5,595, showing a dis- proportion of 5,21 between the births and deaths. Judging by these figures, it would appear that our population is rapidly diminishing: and there might be some cause for alarm were we not well convinced to the contrary. The disparity is produced by the neglect of parents to comply with the requirements of the law in regard to the registry of the births of their children. The new City Inspector should see that the jaw is more strictly enforced, for as it exists at present it is entirely ineffective for the purposes mtended. At a meeting of the Almshouse Governors on Saturday evening Simeon Draper was elected Presi- dent of the Board on the fourteenth ballot, the vote standing—Draper, 7; blank, 1; necessary to a ahoice, 6. On the second ballot C. Godfrey Gun- #5er was elected Secretary. After the organiza- tion, Isaac Bell, Jr., a hard shell democrat of the Highteenth ward, was selected to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of Ed. C. West. It is nnderstood that Jos. S. Taylor, Street Commis- sioner elect, intends to hold his position as Aline house Governor ; the law, in his opinion, not inter- fering with his doing so, a* one isa city and the other a county office. There is some talk of i &@ Mandamns, coznpelling him to resign one positi er the other. Our correspondent on board the United Stites ship Savannah, writing on November i Janeiro, gives the particulars of the cr vessel when in search of the boats of the lost ship Cleopatra. The run was uninteresting, with the ex ception of a visit to vne island of Trinidada, and the fun of nancnvering around the flag ship of a I’rench Admira! and giving him a lesson in American sea- manship. One hundred and twenty-one merchant ships lay in the port of Rio at the above date. The allied war chips had a joyous time on the receipt of the news of the fall of Sebastopol, but on «! a severe fight occurred between some French and British sailors on the aubject of the claim of each nation to the exclusive honor of having taken the city. Rio Janeiro was healthy, and had been visited by a terrific rain storm. The United States by war Bainbridge had left on a cruise. It was thoughi that the Savannah would visit Montevideo. The re- port of the action of the Naval Examining Board had caused much sensation in that vessel. In Rio Mr. Franklin Palmer had called a meeting of Ame- ricans, and as he did not state the object for which they were to assemble, the fact had caused some re- marks to be made as.to our revolution sympa- thies and tendencies. Coffee was a shade lower in the market. There appears to exist some difficulty between Mr. Robert Scott, United States Consul at Rio, and some of the American merchauts residing in that city. On Saturday dealers in cotton were waiting the receipt of later foreign news, the delay of which, together with the extreme inclemency of the weather, had a tendency to check sales. The stock, continued to be light, and prices to rule firm, while the sales were confined to a few hundred bales. Flour was 6jc. lower for common and mediam grades. 1,590 bbls. common Michigan were sold at $8, cash, payable on the day of delivery. Common to extra State ranged from $5 15} a #8 37}. Wheat was steady, and in fair demand without change of moment in prices. Corn was firm, andin good export and* Eastern demand. Pork was again Jower, and sales of mess were pretty freely made at $16 26 a $16 560. Beef and lard were dull. Sugars were steady, with moderate sales. Coffee was quiet, ‘The news from Rio was considered to be some leas favorable for holders than was expected. Freights to English ports were made (oa fair extent, at steady vates. To Liverpool they were some what easier, while to London they were qcite firm, with more offering. To the continent there was no change worthy of notice. We published in the Heranp of yesterday a full report of the second day's investigation into the charges made against the Chief of Police. There were a large number Of witnesses examined before the Board of Police Commissioners in regard to the nativity of Mr. Matsell, but all their evidence was based npon the bearsay of otber partics, none of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1856. whom we’.¢ present. Oe witness stated that she | Indian Adfairs im the United States—The White came frm Bugland to this country in the same and the Red Races. vessel ¥ sith the Chief's family—that is, his mother» Having given the interesting report of the father,, sisters, and brothers, but she could not tell | Commissioner of Indian Affairs to our readers, how “any there were, and whether there was a boy | it has occurred to us that the occasion is an ap- ar ged George (the Chief), among them. The | propriate one to make some observations upon Tat of the evidence related to the English a¢ | the past eondition of the tribes in this country count of the Matsell family, the busines PUr | in connection with the rapid extension of our sued by the father, the house in which | onticr limits, It is impossible not tose that he lived, the fact of the Chief having in his youth gone to school in Tryon row, and of his | ‘he aborigines are everywhere regarded as having presided at a political meeting at a more | Something less than men. We have sought to advanced period of his existence. A great portion | improve their condition by establishing :mis- of the evidence was also cumulative on these points, | sioriary schools amongst them; they have been none of which, the defendant's counsel contended, | pensioners upon the public treasury—wards of were of any legal force so far as the question of | the executive departments. They have always alienism was concerned. Next Saturday will also | excited a large share of public sympathy, and apenas by the-proseonsiag ss the epapioatinn’ strong hopes have been entertained that they of their own witnesses, of whom we understand : might be reclaimed from barbarism and ele- about forty have been subpoonaed. If it is their in- ial eal andeell: tention to give their testimony, it will be three or | Vated to the apheres of social, moi four months before the investigation can be brought | gious enlightenment. toaclose. The defendant stated, through his coun- The Indians are certainly an interesting race, se}, that he had a considerable number of respectable | and it is agreeable to read the accounts which witnesses who were ready to testify that they had | the federal Commissioner has given of the hu- been told by the father and mother of the Chief that | mane efforts of the government to promote erwan ern in the Unliad- pains: their welfare. Hé is sanguine of final success in these labora. He reports the existence, within our extended Territorial limits, of three hundred and fourteen thousand of these red men of the forest—these remarkable links which seem to unite the brute with the human species. Not a comment is made upon the statement which the Commissioner has publish- ed in regard to the number of his wards. He sees nothing in this fact to influence his opinions concerning the destiny of his people. Tle encourages ‘us with considerable progress among the Chippewas of Michigan, and the combined Chippewas, Ottawas and Pottawattamies of Wisconsin, and a majority of five tribes have also evinced no little ad- Zhe News from Europe. The Arago arrived yesterday, after an unu- vally long passage, briaging dates to the 19th ult _ Her news ia not of much importance. The leading fact is the rumored accession of Swedon to the Western alliance. This is stated positively in a telegraphic message from Stock- holm to the Daily News, andis probably a fact. It does not appear that Sweden is bound to take the field against Russia. She covenants not to alienate any portion of her territory to the Czar, or entertain any proposal _.om him without communicating the same to the West- ern Powers. It will be remembered thai the active adhesion of the King of Sardinia to the tot half so great in relieving them of their lands, as through the corrupting influence of annusl annuities, in degrading and prostitat- ing them by our contact with them. Money is their great curse--it is the bait which invariably draws to them a swarm of selfish, hideous rob- bers and low debased villains, who with poison in head, heart and hand, infect the poor Indians; steal from them, debauch their women, and sow the seeds of permanent evil wherever they go. We are quite tired of these annual bulletins from Washington expressing strong hopes of the future, and remarkable only for neglecting to state the true causes of the degradation of the Indian races, which in truth are to be found in the cruel policy of the federal Union itself. It the government will suppress its present system, and drive out of office its twenty thou- sand agenta—ite blacksmiths, its superinten- dents; annul its treaties—most of them procur- ed by fraud, and nine out of ten without the knowledge of the Indians themselves—and em- ploy its army to remove the tribes into the in- terior, as remote as possible, and annually supply them with blankets, calicoes, guns, am- munition and other need/ul articles of use, instead of the money now paid, the tools and implements of agriculture and the thousand articles they never use, we shall be subserving the cause of humanity, and posterity will give us the credit of having, very late in the day, done our duty to the poor Indian. We concede that there would be difficulty in carrying out this suggestion to the full extent. The Supreme Court has declared that the In- dian tribes must be recognized as independent nationalities—a very fogy and absurd decision, and one wholly founded in precedent, and as completely rejected by reason. But there alliance was preceded by a similar league. Much has been said about the true policy of Sweden at the present crisis. Her position is undoubtedly difficult. Should Russia, by any chance, prove the victor in the present contest, Sweden would find that she has committed sui- cide by strengthening the bonds which unite her to the Western Powers. If, on the other hand, Russia is baffled, and the cost of the war is such that the victors consider it just to punish her, a present of Finland would proba- bly reward King Oscar for his timely support. Another subject of gossip is the visit of Coant Esterhazy to St. Petersburg. We give else- where a very significant article from the Lon- don Globe— generally supposed to write under ministerial inspiration—on the subject of his mission. It seems to be understood that he is the bearer of the ultimatum of Austria; and that in the event of his failure, the Emperor will join the Allies. Here, at all events, this story will be received with doubt and indifference. Austria has evinced no desire to participate in the war in any contingency; but on the coa- trary a very lively anxioasnesy to keep out of it, and amuse the belligerents with never end- ing negotiations. It looks as though she was doing so still. The London Goh: speaks of the terms which Count Esterhazy is instruzted io propose to Alexander, as if they were not only injurious but positively insulting to Russia; it is curious, if this be true, that Francis Joseph should have chosen. for their bearer a stetes- man whose Russian sympathies are notorious. It is said that the Czar is about to emanci. pate his serfs. The rumor needs confirmation. The late Alexander always meditated this de- sign, and had his practical ability been equal to his theoretical ingenuity, he would have tried it in Russia as he did in his German provinces. He bad a scheme in his head for the abolition of slavery not only in Russia but ia the United States also. Whether the present Czar follows his example as far as this, remains to be seen. From the seat of war there is no news; and except the death of the poet Rogers, there is no item of particular moment in our London advices. Tue Mons Srorm or tae Frera Anp Sixtu.—The cldest Revolutionary soldier among us will concede, has conceded, we doubt not, that our monster snow storm of Satarday and Saturday night last, over-lapping into Sau- day morning, was fully up to the high water mark of those Russian snows which w th great winter peculiarities of taese parts when he aboy. Very likely there have not been above a half-dozen such snows in Now York since cld Peter Stuyvesant went sleigh- riding on “the high road to Boston,” now known os the Bowery and the Third avenue. In another article we give to-day a detailed account of this Arctic visitation, as far as present information extends. We doubt not this storm has covered a vast areaof country, for our last deepatch of Saturday night from Washington, informed us thatit had been snow- ing there all day. The railroads, of course, have been blockaded in every direction; but in opening the tracks, those sturdy workers, Pat and Mans, Tom, Dick and Harry, will get an extra job or two, and thousands of poor laborers in thisand other cities and towns gathered yesterday, and will gather to-day, their subsistence for several days, clear gain, from the application of their shovels to the snow- drifts piled up in Labradorian style upon every side. Thus we have still the old saw about the “jl wind” fully realized: although, take it alto- gether, sleigh-riding and murdered horses, obstructed streets and never ending slush and mud included, our opinion is that twelve days and nights of continuous rain, in a moderate way, would be less disadvantageous and more convenient to this city than this twelve hours of drifting snow. We have reason to fear that this storm may be but the overture to a hard and trying win- ter; but still we hope for better things. Cer- tainly, if the year 56 is to be as remarkable in ‘all other great things as in this terrible snow squall, it will be a year of prodigious events, Now Not Posten Ur—The Richmond Lnquirer ndulges in the following congratulations on democratic harmony. Jlear him for his cause :-— The Cemocracy is now on national party. Scetional feuds and sectional feelings are bliterated and forgotten. It is the party of tle consti- tution and the country—the only sheet-anehor of hope to the conservative and patriotic, Let vs endeavor to pre- serve its unity and integrity, not divide it by discussions as to the superior claims of the North or the South t: the next Presidency, The vemocratic party knows no North, no South, Does our Richmond cotemporary take the Albany democratic papers? Does he read them, and their information concerning the democra- ey of this State, hards and softs? Docs he know that they cannot harmonize upon a Speaker? That they are still divided and quarrelsome ? If nay, then let our enthusiastic Virginia editor study the doings of our demo- cracy at Albany, and tell us which belongs to “the eheet-anchor,” the bards or the softs? ermined, yancement in Texas! This is, with trifling va- riations, the sum total of Indian civilization, after two hundred years of effort. From many millions of men and the sole masters of the continent—from many hundred tribes existing in the pride of superiority—the ac- knowledged chiefs of empire and of domain in America—they have been reduced to a trifle over a quarter of a million of men, and to-day give up scarcely a single hope that hu- man efiorta are capable of élevating them to the scale of civilization and Christianity. It would almost seem as if Providence had closed the doors of progressagainst them. Unknown to the Christian age, to the Egyptians, to the Chinese, to the Hebrews, to the Greeks and to the Romans, they have steadily resisted every effort to introduce amongst them the arts of civiliza- tion which existed in those nations. This may seem to be a harsh judgment, and one uasuited to the spirit of Christianity and to the temper of the present age; but we prefer to look the matter in the face and to be rational and prac- tical. We cannot ignore the past if we would, and there is not-in all the variety of our rela- tions with the red man, in peace or in war, poli- tically, religiously or socially, a solitary sign of their regeneration and enlightenment. It is vain to say they have been severely and harshly treated—it is vain to refer to their ori- ginal strength and rights on this continent, and to their present weakness and dependence —these things prove rather their stubborn re- sistance to all the efforts of civilization, than the cruelty of the white races. The sun gives his rays to the white and red alike; the earth is impartial in the fruits it bears to those who apply the conditions of production; and so it is with the conditions of civilization—they too, are fortunately impartial, generous and communicative. These examples to the Indian have been valucless—and it is precisely such causes which have been foremost in leading the white race step by step to its present condi- tion of enlightenment. A stationary people can no longer hope for a protracted existence—and this is made ob vious by the simplest comparison between the would be no just grounds, however, for reject- ing the whole machinery established for the civilization of the tribes, and treating them as races of irreclaimable savages, entitled to the sympathy and the aid of the people of the United States during their short remaining career of existence. There are hundreds of blacksmiths in the Indian service, at high wages, who are scarcely ever employed. They are the instruments for introducing habits of labor, themselves setting the example of idle- ness. The Indian department, embracing all our relations with the various tribes is the most corrupt of all the operations of the gov- ernment. Jt is founded in benevolence—in a humane desire to promote the welfare of the sayages—but it has been perverted into an in- strument of persopal peculation and whole- sale official plunder. It is very easy in such a condition of things to produce an interesting statement of the progress of the tribes; mean- while the great fact stares us in the face that civilization with them is retrograding--their moral condition more and more debased— their spiritual affairs horribly caricatured and degraded—their social interests worse and worse, and their numbers fearfully declining every year. Dr. Daveca.—We publish elsewhere a long extract from a letter of Mr. Russell's, the Se- bastopol correspondent of the London Times, impugning the veracity of Dr. Davega. Simi- lar assaults have been made upon the Doctor by various other parties in England; perhaps it would be well for him to put a stop to the clamor which‘his letter has created, by making an example of Mr. Russell. He has, no doubt, the means of showing the truth of all he stated in his communication to us; his character might seem to require some such vindication. For our- selves, we need hardly state that we publish Mr. Russell’s statement as we did Dr. Davega’s, as matters of current news, without endorsing either. More Bacxsonr Lisiwest Waytep.--It is re- ported from Washington that the fusionists upon Mr. Banks for Speaker, are beginning Anglo-American and the aboriginal and Mexi | tg show signs of weakness in the can races on this continent. The former have backbone, notwithstanding the daily driven out the latter, just as the English arc | jgprications of Kansas nigger liniment driving out the natives of the East, and as Ruseia is steadily advancing upon the Ottoman cmpire. The same grand scheme of operations is going onin every part of the globe. Judged by the standards of experience and philosophy, it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that the native barbarous races of both the Eastern and Western continents are working out their destiny precisely as an over- ruling Providence intended they should. On this side of the water the Indians never held more than a mere right of passage—a highway privilege of the country. They never turned the earth to uses of production. They added nothing to the wealth or the civilization of mankind. While population was crowding on production in the Old World, they occupied the New, and withheld it from the uses of the human family. Their expulsion was a high Christian duty—a work of humanity—and what is pow exhibited is suilicient proof of the justice of this idea. The chronic efforts of the governmont to edu- by Weed and Greeley. But this will never do. If the liniment fails, let them try the “poor man’s plaster.” Let every humbug be exhaust- ed before fusion is confounded for the lack of backbone. The Common Council for 1836, The Board of Aldermen will organize to-day, at 12 o'ek ck, when the nevly elected members will be sworn in by the Clerk, and the Board will prosead to the eleo- tion of a President. We understand that there is no ap- prekension of any time being frittered away in hopeless opporition, as the ex-Prosident, Alderman Barker, of th+ Fifteenth ward, has been unanimonsly agreed upoa in whig caucus for re-clection, Alderman Barker fs a tan, frem bis expe:iexce, his sauvity and his firmness, as well as from his minute knowledge of parliamentary useges and rules, eralnently «ualified to preside over a body amongst whom there fs too frequently much cap- tiourness, irregularity, ascerbity of feeling and expres- sions of bad temper, Alderman Barker ¢éan subiue a qarirel by throwing oil on the troubtod waters, and can cali a refractory member to order without offence. Such aman contrasts too favorably with sowe of bis prede- cessors to admit of a doubt of lis re olegiton, Bat then the body will not Le a Board properly organized until they rc-clect as Clerk the yeteran, Valentine who cate, civilize and Christianize them, constitute | ls grown gray in the public service, and than cne of those stubborn features of policy trans- | “bom there is not @ more faithful, efficient «9 obliging public officer. We ventare to assect mitted to us from our ancestors, which, like the Indians themselves, is capable of resisting the force of experience and the teachings of common vense and justice. They are actually dcaraded by contact with the white race. They show a capability for engrafting upon themselves all our vices, and for successfully resisting all our virtues. Benevolence and phi- lantbropy in this way have been the bane of their people--the curse of their intercourse with us. It is very kindly, very clever, and very Christian-like to set on foot projects for the enlightenment of the ignorant and the re- formation of the depraved; Lut there ought to be an end to such efforts when their fruits ar seen to be increased vice and depravity in th ohjects sought to be bencfitted. Notwithstanding, then, the paternal and earnest spirit of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and his humane suggestions looking to the civilization of the Indians, we submit to Congress whether there should not be aon entire change in our federal policy toward them. They should be regarded a a permanent tax upon the United States—they should be protected, cared for, ard, for porsible, provided against want, and especially against the too harsh cucroach ments of our people; but this silly ofort to raise them to the dignity of American c to introduce them to the arts of civ that if the Poard was ever composed of twenty-two particans of one shade of politics, they would not in the face of universal public opinion harbor fora moment the idea of opposing the re-clection of David T, Valentine, as Clerk of the Common Council. Ilis deputy, Jobn H. Chambers, who eucceesfully imita @ the good qualities of his worthy chief, will be also unani- mously re-elected, as will also Joseph B, Young, firet assistant, Reeves E. Selmes, second assistant; Hart 19 Weed, Sergeant at Arms; Horatio N. Parker and Thomss Flender, as officers, All these gentlemen have so per+ formed, their respective duties, that it would be impolitic and unjust to replace them by any political intrigue or desire to create offices for personal friends, After the organization cf the Board, the elostion o° President, and the re-appointment of the Clerk and the other officers, the President will appoint the various committees, The seat of Alderman Drake of the Twenty. second ward, will be strenuously contested by ex-Assem- bly man, ex-Serjeant.at-Arms and present “Sage of Ploomingdale,” Nicholas Seagriet, Mr. Sengrist contends that Alderman Drake holds the seat only by an allege’ majority of one, and he has engaged the professional services of Wm. M. Evarts a# counsel, Diake is epnii- cent of retaining his seat. The subjects of building the new City Hall, and the petition of the Metropolitan Gas Comfeny for permission to lay pipes through the city, will be the most important cases up for consideration. There will be a livety session amongst the city fathers. ‘the new Board of Councilmen for the year 1856, assen:« ble te-day to commerce business, The members will be sworn into office to-day, at 12 o'clock noon, by his Honor the Mayor, at theie chambers in the City Hall, 1Le first cession will be taken up in organizing, und from presont appearances, more than one session may be taken wp to cilectizg this, The yarties are almost evenly split up, ns as and in selecting th rg ofllesr they may give to imbue them with the epirit of Christi- | :epetivion of the work of Washington and APany, Thoro anity should cease. We should regard them as | are several Itichmonds in the field, all anxious to they are—as more than two hundred years of | the pub! ¢ in the capacity of 1 : ent of th A of intercor ith them have proved them to bo | Commellmen. ‘There is Lut little of business waiting for arya D ™ to be | ie new Beard to cvmplete, The old Board swept of —1 etter off, more virtuous and, if possible, more | 1, arly all their papers be a they adjourned, . | 0) y 8 ver of importance whicl il come betore humane when utterly separated from us than oo rt ym the report of the Comantttee upon tl when brought intocontact with us Our sin is | coy of tpg Coanptsoley log "he yar 106, wW tox THE LATEST NEWS. BY BLECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the Canada. Baurax, Jan, 6—8 P. M. ‘The steamship Canada has not been heard of up to the present hour. A furious gale and snow storm pre- yails here. The snow is already four feet deep, and there are no immediate prospects of an abatement. Of course there is but little, if any, chance of the expected steamer making this port to-night, Important from Washington. MR. CRAMPTON TO BE DISMISSED—THE COURSE OF ENGLAND IN SUCH 4 CONTINGENCY—THE SPEAK- ERSHIP, ETC. Wasuinatoy, Jan. 6, 1856. Tlearn from an authentic source that our government willnot, under any contingency, permit Mr. Crampton to remain; and further, that they have notified the English government if they do not recall him they will be com- pelled to dismiss nim at once. It is also rumored in certain diplomatic circles that should our government dismiss Mr. Crampton, England would refuse all intercourse with the United States, and give Mr. Buchanan his passports. ‘The reports to the effect that Mr, Crampton has been empowered by England to abandon her pretensions in Central America, under certain cirsumstances, is em- phatically contradicted. Mr. Banks will, during the coming week, fall down to eighty votes. Then an attempt will be made to adopt ‘the plurality rule, which will be successful. Then I will tell you who will be elected Speaker. D MR. CRAMPTON PACKING UP—THE NICARAGUA QUEB- TION—LIGBT WANTED--PENNINGTON STOCK ON THE RISE—TBE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. Wasnincton, Jan. 6, 1856+ ¥t is rumored in diplomatic circles that Mr, Crampton fs arrangirg his affairs to return home, What’s up? Will Mr. Marcy favor the public with his letter of in- structions to Minister Whooler, if not ‘incompatible with the public interests?’ It may sppear in the co- lumns of the Henarp. What a different face the Nicara- guan question would wear ? An effort is making to transfer Banks’ vote to Penning- ton; it is thought the latter might be elected. Several members of the National Democratic Committee have arrived. The second day of June seems to be the favorite day for the meeting of the convention at Cinsin- nati. K. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. House of Representatives. : Wasnxotox, Jam. 5, 1856, Mr. Frureepcr, (K. N.) of Tenm., eaid the action ofthe House demonstrated t¥o propositions—first, the gentlemen yoted for have enthusiastic friends; secondly, if cither is elected, he will not decline the honor of the chair. He did not believe any successful candidate would so conduct himself as to occasion just re- prehension for his official conduct. im the pre- sent condition of the public mind, it will be injurious to the country to elect as Speaker a gen- tleman who is the embodiment of the extreme sentiment of either section. He proposed, as a compromise Mr. Millzon, of Virginia, who was opposed to the alion sut- frage feature in the Nebraska bill, voted against its pas- eage, and was not in the dempcratic caucus which nomi- nated Mr. Richardson. He appealed to the moderate aud oonservative men to assint him in putting an end to this strife. Mr. Broom, (K. N.) of Pa., did not agree with Mr. Ether idge in ‘his willingness to descend from thetr exalted pesition, and pursue the course suggested. Let all who were elvcted on the paramount issne of Americanism come together and agree on a candidate, or let the House adopt the resolution which he offered, namely:—That the friends and supporters of the prominent candidates for the Speakership be requested to withiraw them from the further action of the House, and that the members re presenting the different parties in the House meet, each party appointing @ committee of five, with the view of selecting a compromise candidate for the 5; ‘ship. Mr. Minigox (dem.), of Va., was sur that his name had been announced for that position. He re- quested Mr. Etheridge to withdraw the nomination, for reasons personal to himself, He had been ussoctated with his demoeratic friends in their carnest effort to elect Mr. Richardson, and the proposition placed him and his friends in an attitude neith@r wished to assume, Mr, Eruencr reluctantly withdrew his motion. Mr. Srevnexs (whig), of Ga., opposed the resolution of Mr. Broom, considering it wholly impracticable, and reviewed with ¢isapprobation the principles of the American party. Arunning debate, involving the merits of the seve- rai parties, particalarly the American, succeeded, after led. The House which Mr. om’s resolution was then voted twice for Speaker. The last ballot was as fellowes— MNETY-SIXTH BALLOT, s y. ‘Adjourned. The Latest from the State Capitol. STATE OFFICERS READY TO REPORT—ASLASHER COMING FROM CLARK, LATE STATE ENGINEER— DEMOCRATIC CORRESPONDENCE-BAILY’S CHANCES FOR THE SPEAKERSBIP, BTC. ‘Atnavy, Jan. 5, 1856. The reports of the late State officers are all prepared, and, together with the Governor’s message, are neces- sarily withheld until the organization of the House. Governor Clark has been consulted as to-the propriety of sexing in bis meysage some time during the early part of next week, even should no Speaker be chosen. Some of his advisers, who approve of the course taken by President Pierce, have urged a similar course here. The forthcoming annual report on canals, by Mr. Clark, late State Engineer and Surveyor, will be one of the most interesting documeats of the kind on record. Mr, C. has struggled through two years of incessant op- postion by the Seward mojority in the late Canal Board, and now he is about exposing, in an official character, the prefiigate and partial conduc’ of that majority. Some eighteen months sinse he was placed under pro- ecription, He is now about enlightening the people of this State uyon matters of canal policy, with which no man is naore qualified to do. The question of theSpeakership is beginning to be nar rowed down a trifle, Both Know Nothings and black furionists Lave, on several trial, exhibited their ful; strength, the fortaer 41, the latter 85 votes. The deno- crats have not concentrated their own strength, In con- sequence of the cavalier manner in which the sofcs were taken on caucus night, they have not united on Mr. Baily, the hard candidate, but littered away their votes upon various other meml Afcer the adjournment yesterday, a correspondence took place, [which is In- serted in yesterdsy’s Hrnatp,] by which it appears that Mr, Baily steps squarely upon the national platform which the softs desire, Mr. Clark is a member from Jefferson, and Mr. Gray from Warren counties, neither of whom have yet voted for Mr. Baily. It now veoms that on Mon- day evening or Tuesday rorning he will obtain the entire democratic strength, 48 votes, which is 7 more than Odell, the Know Nothiog, has received. Then. if the plurality rule is adopted, Mr. Baily may succeed, Destructive Conflagrations. DISASTROUS FIRE AT SYRACUSE—WAITING BLOCK IN ASHES—LOss $200,000, Syracusn, Jan, 6, 1856, The Weiting block, corner of Salina and Water s:reets, in this city, was destroyed by fire this morning. It was owned by Dr. J. M. Weiting, of this city, and valned at $100,000. It was insured for $08,000, mostly in New York: companies, except $10,008 in Albany and northwestern companies, ‘Wetting Hall,” in the upper story of the building, was the largest assembly room in the city, and much nsed for political conventions,” being centrally lo- cated, opposite the Syracuse House and near the Giobe and St. Charles hotels, The Crouse Bank and House e'egragh office were in the block, The books and papers of the bank and the instruments and fixtures of the Telegraph office were saved. The entire stock of goods and clothing {nthe store of J. T, Ballard & Co., merchant tailors, was destroyed; insured for $22,000. A portion of the same block was occupied by lawyers, most of whom lost thefr books and papers, The grani'e buildings adjoining the Wieting block on Water street were nearly destroyed; meurance $10,000, Messrs. Mar- vig, May & Heermans, hardware dealers, in the )uild- ngs on Water street, were insured sufficiently to cover their loss, The loss of E. 8. Dawson & Co., dealers in lery and hardware, was also oovered by insurance. On Selina street, the ‘Wicks block,” containing the Me- chanies’ Hank, was much damaged; insure | for $6,000 tn New York compantes, The stock of Butterworth & Co., hatters, was also considerally injured, Total loss about $200,000. GRRAT FIRE AT MIDD: POWER COMPANY'S BUL 100,000 OT —THR WATER DESTROYED—Loss Moprerows, Jan, 6, 1854, ‘The extensive buildings belonging to the Middletown Power Company were destroyed by five this morning, ‘There were two four story brick buildings, about thirty feet apart, with the boiler room between them, The fire was discovered about one o'clock, and owipg to the suow storm and extreme cold the firemen were unable to vicc. de Lames, Ake oe baled ws ne eat nyUSnE SINE Ena NEN neeneeneeeemeneeeeeeen nen GenpennPRRRRRNUEREEREEERRER RES ERRERREREEEe about $100,000, The duildings were occupied by N. Bacon, Jock manufacturer; Bishop & Lewis, ditto; C. & F, Hubbard, rule makers; Chamberlain, Lewis & Co,, ditto; Oooley & Co., ditto; the Americap Buekle Co.; J. North, truss manufacturer; J. Danforth, ditto; A. Ruff, laces; Nelson & Parkhurst, machinists, an@ Henry White, glazed paper manufacturer. The insurance is partial. The fire ie the most disastrous ever knowm here. One hundred and fifty mechanics are thrown out of employment in consequence of it, Its origin is eup- pored to have been the work of an incendiary, ———_——_—. Alleged Breach of the Neutrality Laws. NINE PERSONS ARRESTED IN OINOINNATI—MEDITA TED DESCENT UPON IRELAND. A Cincisvati, Jan. 5, 1856. Nine persons, all Irish, were arrested in this city last evening, by the United States Marshal, on charge ofvio- lation of the Neutrality laws. They were, this morning, held to bailin the sum of $1,000 each, to appear on Mon- day afternoon. It is the impression that they were act- ing in concert with parties in New York; and elsewhere, having in view a descent upon Ireland, Death of a Virginia WasHrncton, Jan, 6, 1856. William M. Harding, 2 member of the Virginia Legia- Inture, died on Saturday, from’a dose of morphine taken through mistake, Execution of Miller, the Murderer. Bartimorg, Jan. 6, 1856. Miller, tho man convicted of the murder of Dr. Hade?: and Frederick Graff, at Cumberland, in this State, s few months since, was hung at that place yesterday, at I o'clock, in the presence of 8,000 pérsons, He died pro- testing his innocence, Rumored Failures in Boston. Boston, Jan. 5, 1856. Three failures are reported as having occurred herejto- day, one s heavy clothing house and the other two job- Ding houses. ee The January Term of the Law Courts for 1856. This being tho first Monday of the month, the law courts will be opened for the transaction of business. The legal campaign of 1856 virtually commences to-day, though it seldom happers, particularly at the beginning of a new year, that all parties concerned are ‘‘ready for the fray.” A vast amount of litigation, however, ap- pears on the several calendars, and lawyers are likely to reap as rich a harvest during the present year as they evar, have! done in this most litigous and “lew-loving’? community. For instance, there are 1,777 causes for trial in the Superier Court, many of which are suite against railroad companies for deaths and injuries caused by alleged negligence; agsinst {aswace companies, for shirking their responsibility to ply risk on life or fire Policies; and against other institutions, for the various causes of action to whish public companies and extensive firms so frequently submit themselves. One of the fore- most on the calendar of the Superior Court is the vase of Fowles agaiost Bowen & McNamee, well known merchants down town, and strict members of the chureh in upper- tendom, for written libel on the plaintiff, an ex-member of tneir establishment, which astute lawyers, twelve ju- rors and some judges have believed to be a slander to the tune of $6,000, but which ex-Judge Campbell thought en- titled to revision, and granted a new trial, hence the cause comes up again this term. There is, also, in this Court a caze at the suit of Giles against Flagg—the plain- tiff contesting his right to the Comptrollership of this city. ‘The argument for a new trial in the celebrated Forrest divorce case is on the calen¢ar of the general term of this court, which contains about 160 causes. On the special term calendar there are 153 causes. Judge Woedruff takes his seat as one of the Justices of the Superior Court, in the room of Judge Campbell. Judge Hoffman also takes his geat, he having been re-elected. The Suprgme Court general term will also open this day. The Lemon slave case is set down for next month. It will be recollected that a family named Lemon, owaing eight slaves, were removing from Virginia to Texas, and while passing through New York the abolitionists ob- tained a habeas corpus, and brought them up before the late Judge Paine, who was compelled to decide that, ac- cordirg to the laws of this State, a slave becomes free when his owner willingly takes him into a free State. The cight slaves were, therefore, manumitted, and Le- mon and his family became thus impoverished. A sub- scription was set on foot to remunerate them, which Judge Paine himself headed with $100. The present suit is against the State of New York. The Attorney General will be counsel for this State, and the Attorney General of Virginia for the Lemon family. ‘The Circuit and the apecial term of the Supreme Court will also be opened to-Cay. Judge Whiting was elected at the last election for six years. Judge Cowles was nominated by the Governor to fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge Morris, but his seat is contested by Henry E. Davis, Esq., who was elected by the people. In the Court of Common Pleas there are over sever hundred causes on the trial calendar, ‘amongst which ig the suit of Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, against N. P. Willis, the poet and editor, for # libel—damages are laid at $50,000, There is another action pending in this Court, which promises some curious details as to how contracts are obtained. It appears that a gentleman, whose name is mentioned as ‘‘a candidate for the highest office within the gift of the people”’—(Anglice, President of tbe United States)—being at Washington, was employed to act ax agent by several parties in this city, who were anxiout to obtain a heavy government contract. Congress had already passed a resolution that a contract should be made—but whom was the Executive to select? The con- tract was obtained through the influence of certain par- ties, and suits are now commenced for the ‘“cousidera- tion.” John Minor Botts is the plaintiff in one of these nits. Judge John R. Brady takes his seat in the Common Pleas, in the place of Judge Woodruff, and will preside at Chambers this month. The Court of Oyer and Terminer stands adjourned ta the second Monday in the month—the 14th instant. The accesror‘es in the Poole murder, it is presumed, will not be put upon trial until the case against the alleged prin- cipal is disposed of. Itissaid, however, that some of the parties may plead guilty to manslaughter, and thus savea deal of tedious repetition ef the horrors of the Stanwix Hall tragedy. The trial of several persons charged with keeping gambling houses ia likely to bo one of the most interest- ing features of the month, as well as one of the most im- portant in ilsissue to the well being of oar citizens— particularly to our fast young men. Numbers of these hells are at the present moment in full blaze in New York, and seem to bid ¢efiance to the law, or else to hoodwink the authorities, It is evident that heretofore the failure of the prosecution has arisen from the fact that witnesses have been tampered with, and induced for ‘a consideration” t> leave the city. In the present cases indictments have been found against Patrick Hearne, No. 537 Broadway, and his partner, Alexander Edgar; S, Hillman, Murray street; George Beers, Chambers street; and Joseph Hall, Broadway. We understand that the witnesses against the indicted parties aremen in high mercantile and re- spectable business positions, who have “ suffered some’? in the operations, The prosecution have taken care that one of the victims, Mr. Osear 8. Jennings, shall be forth- coming on the day of trial, as his testimony seems to be that upon which the whole charge hinges. Tae pablie look with anxiety to the result of these gambling house aifirs, and the curious reader will find atartlieg developewents in the proceedings. They will probbly be tried in the Sessions this week. The imine Court calerdar is, as usual, very heavy. Judge Mayrard, who was returned at last elestion, takes the place of Judge Birdsall, The United States Cireuit Court is engaged ina patent a The United States District Court term commences to-morrow. ‘The term of the Court of General Sessions for the new year begins today. The calendar is very heavy and it will require some hard work on the part of the Judges ond District Attorney to reduce it, The bench wil be taken to-day by Judge Caprom, the newly appoin‘ed City Judge, in place of stdney H. Stuart, rosigned. Mr. Ca- pron comes fiom Herkiner county, where for severat years he has been engaged in the practice of the law. For four or five months past he has been a ree of this city, The first case of importance in which he yas retained here being the case of the Carson League against Coleman “& Stetsor, of the Astor House, charged with selling liyuor in violation of the Ma‘ liquor law. Jn this suit Mr, Capron was the counsel for the prosecution, and wed the case before Kecorder: Smith. Juege Capron is a man of about forty-five years. of age, and in politics a inember of the Maine law, free- soil school, His present appointinent by Governor Clark to the position of City Judge, is for the time intervening between this and the first of Jenuary, 1857, when the office will be given ova to the succesful ca election of November next, For the past three months Aepertve AN ie pede opie Uae Lemedd ws sue aay,