The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK WERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1856. NEW YORK ; JAMES GORDON BE PROPRIBTOR AND DITOR. ‘the seat of F. J. A. Bool, of the Thitteemth district, ‘be declared vacant, upen the ground'that Mr. Bool to put ranners on-engines, and employ @PYIOB H.W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. Sess: to dew Meeaptnane ase Gear He was authorized to do'this, the cost not being beyond two Faeaey | SOS 2 conte per copy, M1 per aneen _ | thousand five hundred dollars. The Board adjourned = wi ae Ey ry till Friday. Syne Bread Britste or Wie ony part Be Contre. bos | The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about Ld Ne aye ee i quarter of Che send woth be py Pongian GoxkxsrosvesTs san Pan ae ‘70 Bmax au Lerrans amp Pacu- “No NOTIC taken of anonymous communicasions. We do net "TOD PRINTING eented with nontress, cheapness and dev ADVERTISEMENTS renewed cvcry day. Wedeame EXE... oe. eee eeee cete ee eee ee Oe D AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Breatway—King Oxarnva— @uscourse 4 Meuwarp, és MASLO'G GARDEN, Bro iway—Rosart Macame—lae ee Wyuras—Raocr. BOWFRY THEATE®, Bowery—Vicrortys—Tus Szoret— BQurey 1axtsM, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambero stroot—Heame asp oi Now Yorx Diaxcrory ror 1866—C1LooK- mAmBW’s dAT—TRIF 0 NIAGARA. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Sru. Warzas Bun ‘HON-TAB, LAURA KEEXE’S VARIETIES, Brosdway—Tut Lr ‘Wanssvaw—Tue Kise oF raz Couns anv THe QUEMR OF TAF ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Eruorun Pea- @emmarcas—Banno’s Dream. BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- ‘way—Nrouo Minsreeisy—Rice arp TL. CHINESE ASSEMBLY ROUM3. Broadway—Sn ksrunran ‘Bmapines By THe Buon Campaen. Sew York, Thursday, January 10, 1856. The News. ‘We published yesterday acconnts of six fatal allroad accidents, which have occurred in various parts of the country sinck the advent of the new year, and we to-day give the harrowing particuiars ofa catastrophe the like of which has not been kmown since the wholesale slaughter at Bar Begton on the Camden and Amboy railroad. The facts are given on the first page of to-day’s paper. Wappears that owing to some defect in the track, ‘the Albany morning express down train for this city yesterday afternoon, came toa halt at the crossing at Montgomery Cove, a few miles below Poughkeepsie, and while standing motionless upon the track, the Poughkeepsie up train came along at full speed, and dashed headlong into the Albany train, smashing to fragments one car, and nearly demolish- img another. A brief warning of the impending danger had been given the occupants of the cars, and several of them succeeded in making their es eape in safety; but the majority of them remained to receive the full force of the terrific shock, and to be buried amid the rubbish of cars and the fire and scalding water ot the locomotive. Three persons were killed outright, and twenty-two were fright- fully scalded or otherwise wounded, many of whom e@annot recover, Among the wounded we observe the names of Daniel Lord, J. D. Gott, Abel Briaut, Mr. Bogart, Miss Gardner, Mr. Pond, Jas. Ladium, and a colored woman named Catharine Howell, all of this city. We are greatly befogged as to the doings of the House of Representatives yesterday. As far as our report extends no progress had been made towards an election of Speaker. Qne of our correspondents, however, informs us that Mr. Clingman was ready jast night to offer a resolution adopting the plurality rule. Should he present it asa party measure the election of Mr. Banks is certain. In the State Senate yesterday, notice was given of bills to amend the charter of this city and re-organize the police force. Inthe Assembly the session waa spent in personal explanations and unsuccess/ul voting for Speaker. In the evening a small party of beth factions of the democracy held a caucus, but adjoxrned without accomplishing anything. Unnsval bustle and excitement prevailed yester- day at the offices of the United States Marshal and the United States District Attorney, and at pier No. 3 North river, where large crowd collected, uctwithstanding the intensely cold weather, to wit- ness the departure of the steamship Star of the West, in which it was conjectured a party of fili- busters would take passage for Nicaragua. Armed with the requisite documents, a posse of the Mar- shal's deputies boarded the steamer, and instituted search smoug the passengers and cargo for ters and materiel of war. Five unlacky individaals were arrested upon suspicion of designing to violate the neutrality laws, when, nothing ape ring to warrant the detention of the vessel, MMB wax allow- ed to depart on her voyage. It is said that Colonel French will be arrested to-day, in accordance with the threat of Mr. McKeon. The Star ot the West took ont a fair complement of passengers, among whom were ove Lundred and fifiy men engaged to work upon the Transit Company's dock at Virgin Bay! We give elsewhere a graphic account of the xeene upon the picr, together with the ‘official docu- ments which passed between the authorities in re- ference to the cearch of the vesee] and the arrest of the suspected partics. Succeeding the snow storm “of Suturday night— the effects of which are sill felt thronzhoutthe country, in the almost total interruption of travel— we have been visited by weather resembling that of the meridien of Greenland.’ Yesterday morning, st six o'clock, the thermometer marked five degreea below zero. This morn- img, at one o'clock, the mercury was at zero —a slight improvement. But we have it mild, compared with other sections. At Marietta, Ohio, they have it at eleven degrees below zero; at Spring fieki, Mass., fourteen below; at Cleveland, Ohio, fourteen below; while at | Hariford, Conn., the thermometer touched twenty-Phe below: The North and East rivers are filled with floating ice, and the ferry boats have great difficulty in crossing. The Delaware river is closed. The rail. roads south are ina dreadfol condition, and im- menge quantities of mail matter have accumulated at various points, The first meeting of the Board of Education was held last evening. Twenty-two ballots were taken for permanent President, without effecting an elr tion, when an adjournment was carried. The exam ple of the zanys at Washington seems to be caught ap eagerly by our deliberative bodies, big and littie. The Know Nothings of Pittsburg clected their candidate for Mayor yesterday by « handsome ma- jority over both democratic and fusion competitor. The Convention of the Veterans of the War of 1812, which has been in session et Washington, yes- terday resolved itself into a society, to be styled the “ United Brothers of the War of i812.” After se veral addresses had been delivered, the meting adjourned, to re-assemble at the capital on the 8th of January next. There was another rise in the price of beef yes terday, a8 will be seen by our report of the traneac- tioms at the drove yards. All the animals on sale were purehased at an advance of oneholl to one cent per pound, and the supply was not equal to the demand. There is said to be a scarcity of beef all over the country, ‘The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen completed their organization last evening, by electing Edward 7. Backhouse President on the fortieth ballot Hall delivered lis aunaal message, a syn which may be found in another column. The cave of the coniirmation of the report of the Commisrioners of the Central Park was again ad- journed yesterday, for the ninth time. It now stands over till the 2iet instant. ‘The new Board of Councilinen commenced busi- nage last night for the year. A petition was receiv- Mayo a8 i 1,500 bales, the market ciosing quite firm. Flour ‘opened dull st the previous day's prices, but closed with « firmer feeling and with sales at a slight ad- vance. Wheat was firm; a considerable sale of ‘Western red was made at $197}. Oorn was easier at the opening, and closed with mere firmuess on ‘the part of holders. About 20,000 bushels of rye ‘were sold for export. Pork sold to a fair extent, at $15 50 a $1576 for mess. Clear mess scarce and wanted for shipment te California, for which market small sale was made at prices ranging between $18 and $19. There was rather more doing in sugars, and sales of 260 hhds. Cuba, 650 boxes and ‘200 bbls. clarified, were made, at rates given in ano- ther ecolume. The ales of cetfee were limited. There was more freight offering for English porte, nd about 10,000 bbls. of flour were engaged for Liverpool, at rates ranging from 2s. 6d. a 28. 9d. a 3a, chiefly at 28. 9d. There were, also, fair engage- The Presidential Question—dovements and Proepects of the American and Democratic Parnes, We give this day the first of our miscella- neous Presidential chapters for the year 1856. From the perusal of this our readers will, in a measure, be prepared for the various move- ments of parties and politicians henceterth, to the meeting of the Know Nothing National Councils of the 18th and 22d of February, and the Democratic National Convention at Cin- cinpati of the first Monday in June. First and most conspicuous in eur present chapter are the proceedings and the address of the late State Council of the orthodox Ameri- can party at Philadelphia, which are very in- teresting. They show that with the repudia- tion of the twelfth section of the national platform of the State Council, under the lead of Mr. Johnston, last summer, the American brotherhood in Pennsylvania became a divided party, and that it so continues to this day. This division throughout the State, upon the slavery question, eatisfactorily accounts for the success of the democratic party there last fall. The wing ot the American party whose proceedings are before us, is the twelfth sec- tion, or national branch of the order—the division which they repudiate is the Johnston and Seward faction, which controlled the policy of the party in the fall election. Read the address and the accompanying explana- tory article. How these two factions are to be re-united it will be for the approaching national Coun- cils at Philadelphia to consider. It is their aflair, and not ours. One thing is quite cer- tain, to wit: that without a re-unionin Pena- sylvania the Know Nothings will have no better chance of carrying that State than the State of Illinois. If they cannot effect a satis- factory compromise, however, with the Joha- ston division, this twelfth section or old native American branch very cooliy intimate that they will at least be avenged by falling back upon the democratic party. Ominous warn- ing, that. Singularly enough, the Waited American Councils of the city of Richmond, Virginia, delilerately laid the twelfth section under the able. at about the same time that the ortho- dox wing of the Order in Philadelphia were making the same twelfth sevtion the test of brotherly communion. This is very curious, indeed. But the Richmond Whig informs us that these united city Councils in question, in thus abandosing the iwelfth section, have out- raged the sentiment of the thirty-five hundred American voters of Richmond, and that the proceediags of the same united Councils, therefore, practically amount to nothing bat a ridiculous experiient of the flaukies of Joha Miner Botts. Very weil. We leave you, brethren of the Order, North and South, to compare notes and settle your balances, if possible. at Philade!phia, From time to time we have given you the benefit of our best ad- vice, the result of some experience and obser- vation in political affairs, and we have nothing further at present to submit. Coming next to the democratic party, it will be seen from the democratic extracts in the general chapter aforesaid, that Mr. Buchaaan, thns far, is decidedly ahead of all his rivala— that Cass and Douglas are out of the way, and that Wise, of Virginia, goes for Buchanan The extract which we republish from one of the late letters of Jobn Van Buren, threatens the introduction of the Syracuse trouble into the grand Sanhedrim at Cincinnati, which may be productive of mischief. The difficulty experieaced in effecting a democratic re-union at Albany on a common candidate for Speaker of the Assembly, gives some color of reality to theee threats of the Prince ; but when we re- member that the central organ of the softs, since the original publication of the Prince’s letter, has declared that the said softs will go to Cincinnati prepared to ratify any platform, however strong, on the south side of the nigger question, we must conclude that the Prince and his threats have been laid upon the shelf, to- gether with the venerable Buffalo candidate of Lindenwold. The great stumbling-block to both factions of the New York democrecy at Cincinnati will be the man. If Pierce, Marcy, Cushing or Jeff. Davis should be nominated, the hards will re- tire in disgust; and if Dickinson, Wise, Cass, Douglas or Bright should be the nominee, the softs will unqnestionably pack off again to Buffalo by the first train. Believing, too, that ® primary object with the Cincinnati Conven- tion will be the re-union and harmonious co- operation of the New York democracy, (ia ciuding the forty thousand hards that have been for a year or two working with the Ame rican party,) we apprebend that some such man as Buchanan, or Dallas, or Hunter, or Cobb, in no way mixed up with oar New York d cratic squabbles, will be the only alternative Lastly, the article which we take froma Tro cotemporary on the prospects of the Preside: - tial issue, provided {t shall be carried from ih people to the House of Representatives at Was) ington, is worthy of consideration by all parties concerned. If seven weeks, more or less, required, under the present division of parties in this Congress, to electa Speaker, how many months will It take to get @ majority of the States In the House of Representatives, upon any one of the three highest candidates carrivd up from the people tor President? We dare say, however, that an election sufliziently de cisive for all constitutional purposes, will be 0 od sad referred to a special gommitiee, praying that | made by the royercign people, Gemmercial fer Yeas. ‘Mr. Secretary Guthrie, in his Treasary Re- Port, more than hints that, in his opinion, the year which hes just commenced must be an un- fortunate one for the mercantile world. The wer, ‘he thinks, must unsettle commercial and financial affairs abroad, and the disturbance must be felt here as well aseleewhere. On the | other hand, the foreign bankers in theic annual circulars rather take the contrary view, and anticipate good times. The question is neatly pat in one of these circulars:--“It remains to | be seen,” the writer says, “whether the United | States, as a partner in the Earopean cemmuni- ty, enjoying the use-of borrowed cagital, will prevail over the United States as an indepen- dent producer of corn and cotton, or vice versa.” ‘He decides the question in the affirmative, on the ground that the profit we ehali reap from the eale of our produce will be larger than the Joes we shall suffer in consequence of the con- traction of trade and withdrawal of capital cauced by the war, There can be no deubt but last year had a beneficial influence apon American commerce. It was. wholesome year. When it began, coa fidence was low. Eighteen months of stringen- cy bad broken up unsouad bouses, aud fright- ened all. A scantcrop-+ad alarmed even foreign countries, accustomed to draw their supplies fromus. A general distrust of the railway system, springing mainly from a prevalent be- lief that the chief lines of the country were corraptly managed, bad shaken the character of the most widely diffased class of securi- ties, and bred a general reluctance oa the part of capitalists to embark in new enterprises. American shipping had not been profitably employed. Industry wes generally slack Work was ecarce. People looked to the future with timidity and apprebeusion, But these very drawbacks, under whose auspices the year fifty-five was ushered in, had their advan- tage. Under their nettles ley the old flower. In measure of the seeming perils of the future, grew the caution of the public. Men gather- ed their means together and kouved it. Those who had stocks sold out and bought cheap Jand. Those who usually took haifa million ot spring goods from England wrote down a quarter, and shut their doors. Othera sup- pressed their annual ball, and burst into habits ot Spartan trugality by only wasting a couple of hundred a month. Thanks to these mea- sures, the banks contained $17,400,000 soon after New Year, the imports for January at this port fell off seven millions, and for the whole quarter January-March, nearly twelve For the first quarter of the year, no marked change took place, and a better feeling begaa toprevail. True, the exports of prodace were smaller by a fourth than those of 1854; but this still left a large margin of gain. Gold was coming in freely from California, and the specie export was not heavier than usual in January and February. The spasmodic efforts ot the Allied governments to supply their troops with necesearies created a large demand for American shipping, breadstufls and provi- sions, By the beginning of April, a feeling of comparative security began to spread. It was sudéenly and happily checked towards the close of April by the revival of large exports of gold. Over five millions of gold were eent abroad in May. This temporarily put a stop to speculation, and threw money so freely into the banks that their line of dis counts aciually exceeded a hundred millions during the dog days. About the same time, it became certain that the crop would be ample and generous. That the foreign world could consume it, could not do without it, was quite certain. Enterprises which had been abandoned in 1853 and 1854 were resumed on the strength of this promis- ing symptom. In ihe West especially, men who saw before them the most undeniable of all tokens of prosperity, embarked in commercial operations with hardihood. There was but lite change in the securities which are usual- jy dealt in by stock gamblers at the Brokers’ Board kere. But all solid adventuresyreceived ® startling impetus. t was hardly given before the country was recalled to its partnership in the company of ations by an alarm from France. Gold was being bought up at a premium by the Bank of France. Such a policy, pursued steadily, must in time compel the Bank ot Evgland to suspend specie payments, That cur banks would be forced to follow the ex- ample for their own protection, was not to be questioned. Hence a sort of panic—not whol- dy upreasonable—arose here, and checked the tendency towards elation produced by the crops. In the course of a few weeks the ex- citement and the unnatural policy of the Bank of France were brought to an end. Our fears dicd with them. The year closed pleasantly on a moderate business, fairly profitable, on an easy mosey market, and a pretty general faith in destiny and the future. The net balance sheet of the year for the port of New York, which may be taken as a criterion of the trade of the whole country, shows that we received from California some fifty-eight millions of gold, against about fif- ty-eeven and a half in 1854—ot which we sent abroad rather more than in 1854—say forty millions, leaving eighteen to ripen here. Ox domestic produce we sent abroad from New York $63,588,000, against $58,253,000, a clear gain of over five millions; whereas we import- ed only $157,862,000 against $181,755,000, a decrease of over twenty-four millions. These figures indicate a most healthy condition o: trade. The fate of the year 1856 brings on the question we quoted above from a trade circuly We may—indeed it is not unreasonable to suppose we thall witness monetary revnlsions in Europe-—banks suepending, merchants break- ing, money in demand. Nor is it at all to be doubted but we ehall feel the recoil of these convulsions b A suspension of specie pay- ments by the New York banks--a very likely contingency of the present year~—might, and no doubt, in the prevailing ignorance of th: true principles of currency, would create a terrible panic. Many men would doubtiess fail from having lost their wits through foar. Many enterprises would doubUess be orippled hy the timidity of bankers and money lenders Much alarm would throb through the country, How long a period would elapse before men come to their senses and discovered the real burmlesepess of bank suspensions, t t stated with certainty. Bat when they did, it is not to be questioned but they would find the country in o highly proeperous state. No ex travagance, no senselees speculation, no over. weening expansion is going on. Trade is as coutious, as sound in this January as it was in is eatimated that $21,000,000 worth of cal last, ‘oreadetuffs aad provisiens will be shipped in the fiscal year 1855-'56, against $36,696,131 in ‘1854-5, and $68,701;921 in the famine year 1846-47. Added to the cotton crop, which will be large, it will swell our exports of do- mestic produce to over $60,000,000 more than last year, Meanwhile ear industry is prosper- ing and will receive ¢ mew stimulus from Mr. ‘Guthrie’s new tariff. -Gur ships are profitably employed. Labor is abundant, the demand for it inexhaustible. Altogether, notwith- standing the gloomy-shadow of the war, the prospect for the year-is bright and encourag- ing. Tue Procness AND-PRosPeriry OF Tas New Yorx Hera.p.—The following figures show the regular daily Saturday circulationof the Nuw ‘Yorx Heratn for the:year 1855:— fe ac Ui rie Jan. eee eszzrrees SEBESZELSESS 20. “ 11. 58,080 This gives us a solid increase of eight thou- sand in one year; and had we presses of the capacity to work off thirty or forty thou- sand an hour, instead of frem ten to twelve we doubt not our daily circulation now, in- stead of being hard upon sixty thousand, would run up to the brilliant figure of a hundred thousand. In order to embrace within our co- Yumns the latest news from all quarters, we have been compelled to delay going to press toso late an hour in the morning that it has been impossible fully to supply the upper sec- tions of the city in season for an early break- fast. Between some new formof an extra lightning press, and something in the way of rapid stereotyping, we do not despair yet of compassing @ hundred thousand copies of the Henratp between three and seven o’clock in the morning. Itis enough for the present that our advertisers and subscribers increase as fast as we can supply their wants; and we think we can promise them that, with the superior organization of our establishment, and with the tremendous events that are before us, involving the affairs of the whole civilized and savege world, the New York Herap will, for the future, continue to be, as it is and has been, the leading daily exponent of passing events, and the most popular newspaper of the age. We stand now neck and neck, if not a little ahead, of the London Times; and our subscribers are drawn from the most active, enterprising and influential business classes in government and in society, including all creeds, all nationalities, all parties, and every quarter of the Union and the globe. Such are the substantial realizations of the independent programme upon which this journal was start- ed twenty years ago—and our course is still onward. Look Ovr ror Democratic Harmony.— Democratic hard shells, let it be remembered that notwithslanding we have,.according to Profestor Meriam, passed through the twelfth section of the present cold cycle, the demo- cratie soft shell State Convention for the ap- pointment of delegates to the Otncinnati democratic national gathering meets in Syra- cure today. Let it also be remembered, that although Syracuse is one of the coldest places in the United States south of Ogdensburg, the soft shells, since their defeat last fall, have be- come amiable, conciliatory, hungry and warm in tbe democratic cause; and then, hards hells, you will experience no surprise if your soft bretbren adopt the flat-footed platform of the Nebraska bill, Think of “ the cohesive power of the public plunder,” amounting to seventy- five millions a year, and prepare for democra- tic harmony, niggers or no niggers. A special mnersage or messenger from Washington wil! fortify the brethren against these cold winds of the North. THE LACKEST NEWS BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Soft Sheli Democratic State Convention. Synacvsk, Jan. 9, 1856, ‘The State Democratic Convention meets at the City Hall to-morrow, to elect delegates to attend the National Cocvention at Cincinpatl, But few delegates have ar- rived, Pittsburg ond Allegany City Municipal Elec talons. Prrtsnunc, Jan. 9, 1866. Mr. Bingbem (American) was elected Mayor to-day, by 286 over Irwin (democratic), and 474 over Volz (fusion- ist), The anti-Know Nothings have ® majority in the Couneiis. The Allegany City municipal election was also heli to day, and the citizens’ candidate (Mr. Adams) received a small majoxity for Mayor. f The Convention of the Veterans of 1812, Wasunxcios, Jan. 9, 1866, The Old Soldiers’ Convention re-asyembled this morn- ing. A regolution was adopted for the appointment ofa committee, to consist of one from each State, to frame a constitution for the “United Brothers of the War of 1812,” into which the Convention is resolved. After an address by Judge Woodward, of New York, on the subject of invalid pensions, some eloquent remarks were made by the President, Judge Sutherland. The usual complimentary resolutions parsed, and the Con- vention adjourned, to meet again in Washington on tne Sth of January, 1867. New Jersey Legisintare. ‘Trewton, Jan. 9, 1866. No organization of the House took place to-day, nelther party being ready, A vote for Speaker will prcbably open proceeaings to-morrow. Fire at Bellows Falls, Vt. Bexlows Fata, Jan, 9, 1856, The building oceupied by J. G. Flint, peg manufactu- rer, and Wm. Stone, planing mill, was destroyed by fire this morning. Loes about $5,000. Partially insured Wire at Syracuse, Synacesn, Jan. 9, 1866, A dwelling house on Genesee street, owned and ocen- pied by James M. Taylor, was destroyed by fire this evening. Insured in Moatgomery County Insurance Company. buisilil siallel d westrauctive Fire at Newport, Rol, Provioner, Jan. 9, 186 The Touro House, at Newport, belonging to Charles Devens, Jr., together with two dwelling houses adjoin- ing, owsed by Robert D. Coggeshall and Mrs. Geoffrey, wore destroyed by fire Inet night, The Touro House was insured in Vrovidence for $10,000. Marine Disaster. Bowron, Jan. 9, 1856, ‘The bark f'mma ¥. Chase, of Portland, trom Cardenas, arrived at Holmes’ Hole to-day, having bad forty-four hogeheads of tnolasver washed overboard. and sustained cvneideable damage, Jo We gale of the 0% ian WICARAGUAN FILISUSTERS. Departure of the Star of the West—Recruits morning taformation was received at the United States District Attorney’s office that a large num- ber of men woud leave om the 9ih inst., by the steamship ‘Star of tke West, for Nisaragua, where they were to join the forces of Gen. Walker. The affidavits of the parties who furnished the information vere taken, stating that they beliewed these men were enlisted for Nicaragua, and that they had been organized for » warlike expedition to that State, in violation of the laws of the United States. ‘The persons named in these affidavits as the offending parties were Lieut. William 8, Kneass, who is said to be one of Kinney’s leading men ; Capt. Francis V. R. Mace, professor of military tacties ; Wiliam Littlefield, Charles ‘fani'h, Thomas Craig, Robert Love and J. Price. Allo these were going under the general name of laborers, but were, it wae firmly believed, in reality recruits for Walker. aInéermation of these facts was immediately sent to Washington, and the following letter was addressed to ‘the United States Marshal by Mr. Joachimssen, Assistant United States District Attorney—Mr. McKeon being con- Gned at heme dy sickness :— U.S. Disrrict Atronngy’s Orvice, ) ‘ January 8, 1856. | j £1—From reliable sourees, I am led to believe that the steamer Star ot the West, for San Juan de Ni ua, wi) carry a porticn of the detachment of the invadersot the State of Nicar You are the executive officer of this district, ve to request that -you will use the lega] as well as te moral influence of your position and o} The powers of our oie to prevent these per- sone from leaving. 7 respectfully youre cy. A. T. Huxyer, Fsq., U.8, Marsbal, On the receipt of the foregoing, the United States Mar- thal beld himself in readiness to prevent the departure of the alleged Glibusters, Meantime Mr. Joachimssen obtained warrants of arrest from Commissioner Stillwell for the apprehension of the parties named in the affida- vits. While these preparations were in progress, the Aseistant District Attorney received the following letter fccm Mr, Taomas Lord, President of the Accessory Transit Compeny, enclosing that of which he speaks as haviug received from Mr. Joseph R. Mali, and which we sub- Join :— Orrick oF THE Accessory Tranarr Compayy, Naw York, Jan. 9, 1856, Hon, J. McKvow, United States District Attorney :— Drar Sin—I bee to hand you enclosed s eopy of a let- ter from J. R. Mali, on the ‘subject of payment for the pantages of some one hundred and twenty-five persons, who prefer to go outin our ship to-day. As the letter enclosed contains all the information we have of the pas- sepgers referred te, we can see no objection to taking them. If, however, you have any such information as would render their going out in our ship a violation of avy Jaws of the United States oz any treaty obligation, have the goodness to send it to me by the bearer, asd thereby oblige your most obedient servant, THOS. LORD, President. The following is the enclosed letter referred to by Mr. Lord — Mr. Morca. New York, Jan. 8, 1856. Dix Sim—One hundred and twenty-iive mechanics and laborers, anxious to proceed to Nicaragua, but being unable to pay their passages, have called upon me to assist them. They agree to poy their package money upon arrival. ‘The government (f Nicaragua being hea- vily in my debt, { am prepared to offer a bill on sight, payable in Granada, for the fall amount, Pease pro- vide the bearer with ‘the necessary tickets. JOSEPH R. MALI. the following:-— Yours, &c., Accompanying the foregoing was Mr. J. R. Mau Sin—You ask me the question, “Will I accept a bill as above alinded tor? Loe I will accept your draft in favor of Charles Morgan, on order, for $4,000. PARKER H. FRENCH, To the letter of Mr. Lord, Mr. Joachimssen replied as tollows:— U.S. District Atrorygy’s OFFicr, Jan. 9, 1856. Sm--Your note and enclosure were received about half-past 11 A. M., and when I was about to go to Court. Mr. MeKeon, I regret to say, is detained at home by in- Cisposition, and it becomes my duty to reply to you. The letter of Mr. Mali, and its endorsement by Mr. French, indicate that the men proposed to be sent out in your ship to-day are copneeted with the parties whoo ihe President bas proclaimed to be the invaders of the State of Nicaragua. I have other evidence l that the intention of the parties is not that of being laborers, but that they are part of an organized armed expedition. 1 bave siso evidence that euadry persons belonging to that expedition have slready had tickets issued to them in @ manner varying from the regular course of business. Such arrangements. if carried out, I must look upon as infractions of the laws of the United States. Very re- spectfally, Y. J. JOACHIMSSEN, Acting U.S. District Attorney. Tuomas Lory, Feq., President of the Accessory Transit Company. In addition to the parties named in the affidavits, Mr. Jcachimssen was prepared to arrest, if it should be deem- ed necessary, the 125 lavorers referred to in the letter of Mr. Lord, and to eeize the vessel for a breach of our neu- trality Jaws. Not having received any answer from Washington in reply to his statement of the particulars, the Assistant District Attorney sent the following tele- graphic despatch to the Attorney General yesterday morning:— U.S, Arrorsey’s Orrick, Jan. 9, 1856. Affidavits are being made which require the detention of the Star of the Weat. Send order by telegraph. She sailgat3. Thetime presses, Mr. MaKeon still sick. P. J, JOACHIMSSEN, Caren Crema, Attorney General, Washington. To this Mr. Joachimssen received the following reply: Arrornsy GEamRa’s O7rict, ) Wasurscrox, Jan. 9, 1866.” j Joun Mek row, Esq, U. SeDistgict Attorney, New York:— Yours by telegraph this cate received. The Presi- cent hes ordered Capt. Bigeiow to arrest and detain the Star of the West on your évice, aud desires you to act on proper proofs. C. CUSHING. Thus armed with all the authorily and power of the law, Mr. Joachimssen, accompanied by United States Deputy Marshal Thompson, and officers De Angelis, Horton, Ryer, Weekes and Miller, started from the District Attorney's office abont two o’clock yesterday atternoon for pier No. 3, North river, from which it was advertised the Star cf the West would leave precisely at three. The captain of the vesrel was not there to receive them on their arrival, but his place was filled by the Purser who afforded them every facility for the prose- cution of their search after the suspected fili- busters, He showed them the list of the passen- gers, upon which were found the names of Lieut. Kneass, Captain Mace, and three others, all of whom were arrested on a charge of being engaged in a hostile expe- dition against the State of Nicaragua, in violation of our neutrality laws. The hundred and twenty-five spoken of by Mr. Lord were permitted to go om their passage on the representation of the officers of the vessel that they were laborers employed by the Transit Company for the completion of their wharf at Virgin Bay. To prevent apy communication with the vessel or any person from leaving it Curing the eearch and examination of the pas- sengers, the gang planks were removed, and a thorough investigation was prosecuted. ‘The egenta of the expresa companies showed them freight Usts, but the vigilant officers failed to discover munitions of war, or aaytbing that bore a warlike eppearanoe upon them. While aboard the steamer, Mr. Joachimaven was in- formed by Mr. Ogden, ene of the directors of the econ- pany, that in consequence of the letter from the Distri-t Attorney’s office, the arrangement with Mr. French had not been completed. On betng acquainted with this im- portant fact, and finding the manifest all right, Mr. Joachimasen informed the officers of the steamer that they were free to leave, During the visit of the Assistant District Attorney and the Deputy Marshals thero were between three and four hundred persons assembled on the pier. Of these about a burdred wore military caps, and, !t was reported, intend shortly to join the forces of General Walker. They were considerably amused by the scene enacted on board tho vessel, and although some- what less boisterous than the crowd which assembled there on @ pimilar occasion, about two weeks ago, the Uniled States officials were ovideatly not in the best oréer among them. Such flattering cognomens as“ old pudden head” were freely bestowed upon them, and the President denounced as ‘a humbug” for interfering with « peaceful emigrants.” Among the most conspicuous of those on beard was Counci.man Kerrigan, who, it may be remembered, was one cf thove who figured #o largely ta ‘the affair of the Northern Light. He informed o few per. sone confidentially that he had about fifty men with hin that be was their captain, and that ke was going to Ni caregua to sesist General Walker. This fame, however, he was not interfered with, and went off rejoloing at bis escape from the oflicora, As the steamer loft the dock he awended the paddle box, and was grected with nine tro- mendous chert, which were followed by three growus for the President. A portion of the crowd remained on the wharf till the verse! disappeared down the Bay, It is not at ull improbable that the cne hundred and twenty-five laborers will join Gen. Weiker. We have no reason to doubt that they are engaged by the Transit Company to build their wharf at Virgin Bay, but they may, when they get down there, prefer to employ them. selves in building up a ftate; and if they should do no, it wil be difienlt to pievent them from entering the Nica ragasn army for that purpose. Yerterday afternoon, Mr, Joachimysen, the ayslstant oy the District Attorney, imformed several gentiemen, a few moments before the sailing of the Star of the West, that Colonel Dahan i: Zeene vol. be arrested. the morsing of the ds: steamer, (ol proper tribu- nal. The first proceeding will he by a bench warrant. It will be nace show thet he has been personally ce ncerned in fit ing out in this cicy, “a warlfke or inva- sive expedition sguinsta frieadly Power, at peace with the United States.’” It will be remembered that the District Attorney, in a letter published in this paper a few ag, gave Col. French to understand that unless he in the steamer ef the 0th, his privileges aa the representative of @ for Power would be withdrawn; that is to say, he would be arrested. If Col. French had acted upon this threat, and had taken pas*ege on the Star of the West, he would also have arrested, as others were, upon the same nds. arrest was inevi- table in avy event, and could it have been effected at the instant of going on bard the steamer, the circumstance would have ‘added materia'ty to the confidence of those who are endeavoring to conviet them. The buethen now reats with the administuathon to prove that the Nicara. uan Minister has violated the neutrality laws of the United States, The following is a ist of the passengers on the Star of the West, amengst whom ix Mr. Van Dyke, bearer of de- i patches to Nicaragua, anc Col. Wheeler’s private necre- ary — Wells, Fargo & Co's menunger, Freeman 2 Co's messenger, Feil enger, Capt CH Baldwin and we; Judge h B Stevens, Key WF. Bake’. hi Simmans, Button. end wife J Fisher tmmith, 4 May wife and ‘ ervant; Mra L Ro- Vinson. inant andservant; B Krause, Jobn Myers, Jasob My - cra, C Faville apd wife, WF Casbwan A A Mealer, John Mor- Char Bestho'z H'Vap Seva wife end intant; Col New- irk, AW Reve, wite and to infants; Mra PE Wygart and bild, Miss D © Wygart. KE D Puray, Mise H Housel, Thomas J Van Dyke. David Center, CM Schell or, App Davi? aud tourehidren. Mise ath Davia, J Aus in, Mra R¥rombery anc infant, Win Lewis, Mra Kate Sullivan ang two intents, WK Re gers, J Walon, Mra W Hollmire, 8 Far- map, wile and two children; Mra a Ker, 1. Judson, wlie and three children; A Vieux, Mus Lawior Sam Laturop,'W H Wy- gar and browber J Asibury, » Waodiog, J 8 . Pa Tard. J Fehwarizes, Mrs Howards and two abildren, Wo Devis, @ MTurner A Hallenbeck. G MoUotfer C Dougherty, C Heurbart, F Macy, C A_heexov, B Cutler, D Murray, X Cory and wife. R A Bo) mee Dewh J ¥ Reynoids, J 1? Aldrich. G R Sayles, A Folt, M Hall CH Van Ness, 8 M'Neweomb, B R Kobinson. D Chustalios, TL. vatiey, 1H Dusenberry, J Me- Ardie. L & Hedges, K Bendilver, G Holfield, Mrs M Nagle. @ Wi Ghaen, T Crawls and wite, A Arata, Mes Jas Lewis, Nie Merat Coyle, W B Stewart, J L Ager. L Cumming, © J Xecker, Thes O'Malley. Miss Mary’ Pendegrast, J Demit, D Harley, J H Boyle. Jos Rilmester. J Reddington, J kicharda & Whit- ford. J Martin, 8 Merrill W aymes, Henry Ward. W B Stew- art, F Haldelesand, B Beddington, and others in the steerage. Gur Indiana Correspondence. InpiaNaPouis, Dee. 23, 2855. The Weather in Indianapolis—Hog Trade—Immense Loads of the Animals Supply of Pork for New York—Price of” Pigsin St. Louis—What the cash Sales do for the Wes! ~ Railroad Travel—Situation and Growth of Indianapolis —Its Trade and Importance. After a service at church, one may be pardoned so slight an offence as getting up a letter to the Hanatp, A. sudden cbange from the warm rain of yesterday gives us to-day a wind as cold as if it came direct frem the North pole, and never breathed on anything until it reached the streets of Indianapolis. But cold as it is, the manifest destiny of the hog triba is not affected; and even the ca'm of the Sabbath is dis- turbed by # “movement”? in pork—yet on all fours. A drove of several hundred swine is now passing my win- dow, on their way to some railroad train or packing houre—not moving like thore who, possessed of cevils, rushed ‘‘into the sea,” but waddling along with all the gravity and deliberation appropriate to the condemned om their way to slaughter. they are suggestive, too; a liv- ing ocmmentary on apeculation in provisions. Their size and fatness and numbers prompt the inquiry, how is it with the pork trade? ‘Well, Ihave no desire to interfere with anybody’s for- tones.” If people have “gone into hogs”? at $6 50, | hope they may realize immense'y, if they can. But yesterday, coming from Crestline to thie place, we met train after train with these doomed pass 8; Many of the trains made up of double storied care, slthege. The rapid tran. sit on # railroad gave me 10 epreruaity w count; but the number of swine met in a few hours on one railroad sling atorenees beat pretecrrs rs Their yeraes was mainly, I suppose. the city of New York, 2 some may poasibly yield up their bristles, im Cleveland. “And from all Ican tearn, this transit of sive pork te your cit: is likely to go op for some weeks yet, probably unt? about the Ist of March. In acverting to any branch of business, one not en- torely posted may injure some interests by statements mace in gocd faith. I am. therefore, cautious. Yet there are reasons for believing that the prices at which hogs have aleady been contracted for in large numbers cannot be sustained. You are aware that I have not the most remote interest in the matter, one way or ano- ther, and will therefore uncerstand that I wriw not to influence markets for my own purposes, but to inform your readers, I learn frcm St. Louis that prices there are already giving wey. From $6 and$6 50 there has already been « drop down to $5 50; and even at this rate, as | am in- formed, packers ere not anxious to incur large reepon- sibilities. In Cincinnati and Louisville a similar state ot things exists, and also at other important packing potats. ‘Ihe reason of this decline is, that the country i# found to be fuller of hogs than was expected. The prices offer- ed by packers in the early part of the season have lod the farmers to pen a large portion of their stock; and the sbundant corn crop afforded the material to put them in fist rate ocndition. An experienced packer with whom I have conversed estimates the increased weight over last year at twenty per cent. He thinks, too, that the number ot hogs is a'so much larger than last year, so that the enthe pork crop is greatly in ad- vance of spy previous season. If this view is correct, our Western farmers bave reason to fear that the hogw * to be marketed may be made to go off at a considera- ly reduced figure. A little panic among the packers is likely to run them down aa much below as they may have been above the proper range. In any event, the returns to the West om hogs alone, will this year be enormous. The profits do not, of course: all go to’ the fsmers. but are shared amopg +e classes. ‘The merchants will find increased demande for oods, and the railroads ivereared freight and passenger usiness: and the builders of houses, mills and agcicul- tural machinery increased demand fur their services and products. And the whole thirg tends, in the end, to a greater diffusion of educational tacitities, leading, possi~ bly, to # higher order of civilization. But on thia topic, enovgh for the present. It wil requires separate :et- tertodo even rcanty jurticeto the actual progresa which ike great West ie makizg in education, morals, manners, refinement and reiigion—a progress which sa- tisfies us that we are already well up with our Kasterm brethren, i* not in advance. Yon are indebted for this hasty letter to the fact that our western roads de not ron trains on Sundays. Ican- not leave here til to-morrow morning, when I go to st. Louis by way of Terre Haute and Vincennes, taking the Chio and Mississippi railread, with its nt broad uge cars, at Vincennes. Whenin New York, the other jay, Iiound that the ticket ta were not selling through tickets by this route te St. Leuis. I was inform- that ‘‘the connection was broken.” It appeara there is some difficulty in adjusting the time tabies, and a of @ few hours occurs at Vin~- cennes. The matter, 1 em advised, will be arranged jn @ few days. Aa it 1s, those well posted prefer this route to St. Louis over any otuer, as it takes them through in Jess time and distance. Fre aypers be vay bmn a dead level, and the country in every direction is of similar character. Yet Indismopolis is already a piace of consequence, and seems to be rapidly Ag the State ot Indiana prospers, so will her capital fiourmh, It is now the most imporiant city in the State, considering: its political as well as materiel advantages or resources. Railroads extend in every direction—tney radiate from this as @ centre—so that when you look ata map of In. diana you are reminced of the old fashioned spinning- wheel that your grandmother used, and feel like putting sy finger upon cne of the apokes and Siving it a whirt. sone ary . ig ttat commerce ever do much for Indianopoiis. Her trade can, comparativel, deat local. Bat she will be, to a : mane. uring centre, ™. for rail- roads, farms, milla, Ee iteuatabenreresmicas implements and machines is now gett'ng to be o lai business in the West. The foventrve genius of country has of late years found its aceount in pro- viding the farmer with means to economise labor and Practically multiply his elective force; and the sppetite for Jabor-saving and wealth- increasing machinery among the farmers “grows by what it feeds on,” just ax every- thing else grows, or ought to. Remarks of Horace F. Olark, AT THE HARD SHELL CELEBRATION OF THE BAT+ TLE OF NEW ORLEANS. Mr. yen age ioe tee bees oe sed which has just engraven its ‘upon the story has been am eventfal one. It has witressed the varied Fhenes of the conflict now reging between the great powers of Europe: and republican America has sympathized from time to time—now with the moro dazzling chivalry of Imperial France, and ever with the cesperate resistance of cold and despotic Russia, While our attention has been thus attracted toward the scenes of a struggle, in the result of which we can hardly bave serious national concern, events of by no means incovsiderable consequence have tranepired at home, But this is not the place to recount them. America is our home. Here our first and lant offecti: ns cluster; here we trace the glorious memoriee of the past; bere rest the founcations of our bright hopes for the future, Mr, President, an event auch as we com- memorote brings to view our own political horizon, and ihe eye stretches to read the story which the year is to tell ofour national progress and our political destiny. We must not be unmindfal that the year upon which we bave entered ia the era of the selection of a chief magistrate of this great pation. That the place which first received undying renown from the immortat Washington, acd which gathered new glory from the administration of the illustrious man whore memory we celebrate, and who, if he way not the first great nrchitect of the liberties of his country, nevertheless accompiisl much to strengthen theit foundations, and to adorn the sublimest editice whieh hu man ingenuity has as yet constructed, ix to be filled anew. That some one of our people ix to be invested tor a term of years with powers which cannot lw exercised but for the greatest amount of evil or of good; and that our beloved ecuntry and fé fostitutions are to sustaim anew the ebock which near @ gcore of times they have hevetefore with Deer encountered. This day there has assembled at Washington a committee of the last na- al convention, whese duty it (sto appotot tve time when tle Cincinnati C: nvpntion «hall assemble the pre- sent yeor to execute ite 1 tant trast. To that con- vention the naslong! arty of the State of New York ba their ves: and the fact, even tt unimperta ot, is not to pars unnoticed, that another body of men within this State, profeceing with ns the democratic creed, & body not insignilicant ia respect of m in the Fhill with which their party machinery f Very many of the adherents of the en, and many, if not all of those ite patronage, Lave also sent delegates ed. a body embract exph ing whe have en Paw,