The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMBS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, SUFFER NW. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS @eiume XXI.. Re. 26 AMUSEMENTS TOMORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THRATRE, Brostway—inex Mssx—Don’r ‘Jupon by Areeskarces, BIBLE GARDEN brosdway—Scnooimssres—Gus vd Dretyement Rico. TERATRE, Sowery—Hxxxe res Burrs, 08 teen Bommmax, BURTON'S CNEATRE, Obembers strect—Lices WHEN Woo Oan—Tas Op Doron Sovsnnon. WaLLACG’s THEATRE, Brosdway—Wao Srexxs Pinse —Sruep ras Proves. LAURA KRENF’S VARISTIES, Broadway—Mucu Apo awour Noruing—Bivss. | woo! INSTRELS, 444 Breadway—Ewuorius ‘Pas- poe anons Buse BLomDE na. ty BUCK) "§ BURLESQUE OPERA Hi 588 warsmecno Mis canitt—BeaCve AND THE x ‘AOADEMY HALL, 663 Broatway~Paworamic Pworgnes ter Omns ax Jaras. Sow York, Sunday, January 27, 1856. The News. Our report of the proceedings of the ‘House of ‘Representatives yesterday, thoegh very brief, is fall of pith and importance. A number of resolu. fens were' proposed by the ‘black republicans to ‘est the eonse of the House upon “he slavery qeestion,as it specially relates to the agitation of | ‘the subject in and out of Congress, and*to the resto- ration of the Missouri restriction. HK will be re. | , membered that, under the rule, no debate was per- mitted upon the declarations contained in the rese- Jntions alluded to. We will recapitulate the business ef the day. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, proposed, in sub- mance, tirst— No man ehali be elected Speaker who does not fully and heartily wpmpathize with a large majority of the eountry for ‘estoration of the Missouri compromise, or who shal! te to exert himself for the restoration of that restriction. This was rejected by a majority of one. h— The restriction shall be restored as a proper indication ef the wisdom, patriotism and plighted honor of thegreat statesmen who Impored it, ax the necessary and certain means of reviving harmony and conevrd among the States ef the Union. ‘This was adopted by a majority of one. Thirdly— Useless and factions agitation of the slavery question, dm er out of Congress, is unwise and unjast it every sec- ‘then of the Union, but until the restriction is restored it de a solemn duty we owe to the pas’, present and future ‘to stexdily and firmly persia! ic the +fforta to that end. This was rejected bya majority of three. Mr. Puller—we presume it to be the Know Nothing can- @idate for the Speakership—proposed a reaifftion, @eclaring that The agitation of the slavery ques'ion is unwise, and ‘unjest to a portion of the people, injurious to every sec- Yon, and ought not to be countenanced. ‘This was adopted by one majority. Mr.Meacham, ef Vermont, offered a resolution, asserting that ‘Toe repeal of the Missouri restriction was an example for useiess and factious sgication of the slavery question. ‘This was adopted by a vote of one hundred and eight to ninety-three. Thirty-two members were abeent. The sentiment of 2 majority of the Honse, ‘as indicated by the votes upon these several propo- sitions, is unmistakeable. The deciarstion that the Speaker shall be of the black republican stripe was Tejected, as was also the assertion that the restoration ef the Missouri restriction shall be persisted in, One of our correspondents states that the plurality Tuke will be again brought forward on Monday or ‘Tuesday. next, by a democrat, and that its adoption ia not unlikely. We devote a large portion of our space to-day to @etters from our correspondents at London, Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, and liberal extracts from our Jate files of foreign papers. The letter daguerreo- ‘type, asit were, the state of the public mind, at the four capitals whence they are dated, upon the important and absorbing questions of the day. Among the extracts we give a speech of Lord Elgin, Jate Governor-General of Canada, upon the affairs of Europe and America, and the opinions of several of the most renowned British Admirals upon the ope- rations of the Allies in the Baltic. The investigation in the case of the Chief of Police ‘was adjourned yesterday, in consequence of the ill- ness of the Recorder and the absence of the City Judge, who was engaged in the trial of Ebling. The weunsel for the defence was also absent, but the counsel for the prosecution were both present. The investigation will be resumed on Saturday next. The trial of Mr. Ebling, Commissioner of Streets and Lamps,-on the charge of bribery, was concluded yesterday. After some hours deliberation the jury reported that they could not agree upon a verdict; but the Judge instructed them to deliberate farther gpon the case. Up to nine o'clock last evening the jury had not reported their decision. They were, therefore, locked up for the night. Elsewhere we give a report ot the evidence ad- duced before the Aldermanic committee, at their meeting yesterday, in support of the claim of Alder- man Drake to retain his seat in the Board, against the counter claim of Nicholas Seagrist. The In- spectors of the First district of tne Twenty-second ward, it will be seen, swear to having counted for Seagrist the scratched ticket alleged ia the petition of Seagrist as having been thrown aside. The re- maining testimony aims to discredit the testimony of Felix Callahan, who swore to having voted for Drake at the last general election, though not a naturalized citizen at the time. The evidence, though closed, shows nothing rebutting the state- ment that eight votes given for Nick Seagrist were not reckoned in the canvass, From the official report of the City Inspector we learn that there were 375 deaths in the city during the past week, namely: 55 men, 75 w- men, 133 boys, and 112 girls, exhibiting an in- crease of 51 on the mortality of the week previous, Of the whole number 229 were under ten years of age. There were 7 deaths of bronchitis, 47 of consumption, 19 of inflammation of the Jangs, 4 of congestion of the brain, 6 of inflam- mation of the brain, 20 of dropsy in the head, 6 of inflammation of the bowels, 5 of dysentery,5 of disease of the heart, 4 of malformation of the heart, 5 of typhus fever, 6 of small pox, 36 of convulsions (infantile), 13 of croup, 41 of scarlet fever, 19 of marasmus (infantile), and 2 of hooping cough. ‘There were also 7 premature births, 29 cases of still- born, and 13 deaths from violent causes, including 2 suicides and 2 cases of poisoning. The following is the classification of diseases :—Bones, joints, &c. 5; brain and nerves, 7%; gencrative organs, S; heart and blood vessels, 14; lungs, throat, &c., 100; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 61; stillborn and pre ture births, tive organs. Second- 1, The nativity table gives 287 natives of the Uniied States, 42 of Ire- land, 29o0f Germany, 4 unknown, and the balance of various European countries. Activity in trade yesterday was checked by the choked condition of the harbor and rivers with ice. ‘The Atlantic docks were so frozen in as to make the delivery of goods from them, ina measure, im- possible; and as large quantities of grain and flour are held there on storeage. sales for speedy delivery on shipboard, were impracticable. Vesseia arriving with cargoes from southern ports find it difficult to discharge them, and in some cases it is found to be impossible. In the meantime the receipts by the railroads were light, and had to be carted to veasels, if moved at all,and at a heavy expease, as the streets, from the debris of the late snow storm, are rendered almost impassible, and as high as two centa per bushel bas been paid for carting grain from the Erie and Hudson River railroad depots across the town from the North to the East river. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 600 bales, without i Flour was without change. There » # good domestic dem: for medium is of Southern and W 1] among » bran sabes were 4,000 harrels st, Louis Bay State € how NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1856. don’t they, one and all, emigrate to Kansas? | Mrs. Juma Dean Haye wy Civcomati~A mills, at $9 12. Wheat was firm for prime lots; red | The Keate National Anti-Slavery Bazaar—Bri- Tennessee sold at $1 95, and Missouri white at $212 $215. Corn was steady, with light transactions. Pork was heavy; sales of meas were made at $16 3, and at the close there were sellers at $16 12}, with- out takers. Prime sold at $14. Sugars and coffte were steady, without change in prices. Freights, ‘were inactive; engagements moderate, owing to Yae difficulties of loading from the present condition of the docks and harbor, The Recent and Present State of Parties. There is something remarkable in the re- cent and present state of parties in this coun- try. It is noteworthy that they took their dis- tinctive form at the close of ‘Mr. Monroe’s ad- ministration—that time of :pergatory to the politician and the political trader. The close of the war inaugurated a breathless calm both here and in Europe. The'Congress of Vienna in 1815 settled all questions by the supreme power of might. Political institutions and cbiefs, territorial claims and conflicts, personal dignities and precedence came under the sta- tutes of Vienna and were settled and fore- cloged. This was the exercise for the time be- ingof the ‘highest authority—an authority that had power to exact obedience to its com- mands. It obliterated from the face of Eu- rope, to the utmost possible degree, all traces of the Napoleons, and it introduced a combi- nation of all the leading States, by which de- mocracy and republicanism, and all monarchi- cal illegitimacy, were utterly proscribed. Peace—a long forty years peace—tollowed. Meanwhile, France had floundered, overthrow- ing the imbecile family placed upon the throne by the sovereigns, and re-established another branch of her royal waiters in the person of Louis Philippe. But the peace of Europe was maintained. The absorption of Poland did not disturb it—the re-establishment of the ' Napoleons did not disturb it--the total diere- gard of the treaty of Vienna by all the lead- ing parties to that compact, did not disturb it Peace had ita foundation for once, to some extent, in trade; trade and commerce and money and humanity had come up and must be heard—and they were heard. Suddenly we had the Russian war—it was the only war that could have been provoked by the British Cabinet without effecting its over- throw—it was the only war under which the integrity of British commerce and the vitality of her manufactures couid have been main- tained--it was the only war which could be carried on by the politicians; and so that Cabi- net has been sustained. But the forty years peace in Europe has been broken—that charm no longer exists. The field is open, and the clash of arms may be counted on asa certain con- sequence of the state of positive disorganiza- tion that exists among the chief continental cabinets. It is pot a little remarkable, indeed, that io the political affairs of the United States—ia the rise, progress and fall of the old parties—iao the shocking state of disorganization and de- moralization of the whigs and the democrats -- there is to be found astriking avalogy to the chief movements of the States of Europe within the period alluded to. The great distarbances in reference to the recharter of the bank, and the tariff, and nullification, by which the very existence of the federal Union was severely tried, correspond almost literally to the furore on the other side when Russia took upon her- self the utter obliteration of the kingdom of Poland, in violation of her covenauts entered into sixteen years before. So, again, the revo- lution in France in 1848—an event of extra- ordinary significance to all the world-—was cotemporary with the treason of the Van Bu- reps in this country, aud the substantial in- duction ot abolitionism as an active and for- midable clement in American politics. The European events to which we have re- ferred have ended in the total overthrow of the old parties and in the inauguration of new ones, with new motives of action, new objects to be gained, and new associations tobe main- tained. Europe is in a condition of adso!ute disintegration, and if we transfer the reflecticns just made upon the state of governments upon that side of the water, to the state of partics on this, we shali have a correct idea of our own political condition. The reflections suggested by this state of things are not at all creditable to American politics. Europe has actually advanced, in spite of her absolutism, the work of free goverament. England is ra- pidly removing all the barriers to popular elective rights. France, in the very act ot restoring Napoleon, has established an example fatal to monarchy, While these signs betoken the regeneration of Europe, the American peo- ple have been taking to their councils a brood of abolitionists and domestic traitors who threaten destroy the republic. The rite of the independent press has been utterly fatal to the politicians, and to parties, of thiscountry. Its first effect was the complete de- molition of the mere party press, and ultima: § ly the release of the public mind from all ov- ligations to party. The independent press here and in England is an institution second only to that of the government itself. As an edu- cational system, it stands foremost of all; asa political instructor it is wholly unrivalled: as a democratic agency it is more potent than parties, politicians, and schools, and minist rs, and laws, and all the learned professions and professors combined. It has released the peo- ple of the United States from party; raised the people of England from ignorance; it has tickied the popular car in France, Spain, Ger- many, Italy and Hungary, and will one of these days pour into it ite lessons of wisdom and fix the requirements of republicanism in tho-. countries. Tur Mae Ligvor Law~Tue Way rr Staxps Berore tue Covrrs.—Hon. EB, C. De- lavan, President of the State Temperance So- ciety, in reference to the trials of the constitn- tionality of the Liquor law, says:— Prosecutions for infractions of the law have in a great measure coared, and the dealers are now as ever in one jndictal civtriet, em dractny has declared the law unconstitutional. ( other hand, the Supreme Court m three other jndretal districts betore which rimilar questions have been brought, have deciged the other way. It ie hopec @ dectsivn of the court of lat resort, in cases now before it, wil not be long delayed. I cannot bat anticipate a tavoraole one Shonld such be realized, there can be no coubt of the ability and disposition of the people to execu the law, “The dealers are now about as busy as ever in dispensing their poison!” In this respect Governor Clark and Mr. Delavan ditfer wide ly; but we rather suspect that the latter is sul- stantially correct, and that the Governor hag been humbugged by Weed and Greeley. But Mr. Delaven hopes for a speedy final decision on the constitutionality of the law from the Court of Appeals. Sodo we. Letuas know as soon ae porsible whether this Jaw, which is practically defunct, is technically dead or | alive. The decision may be useful to the Le- | gisature. Usb. and French Contribuations—Madame Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Minister Wheeler's Siave, Jane Johnson. The New York National Anti-Slavery Standard of Friday, publishes from the pen of Maria: Weston Chapman, No. 6 Chauncey Place, Bos ton, a lengthy official report of that abolition institution known as the National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, including a detailed statement of the contributors and the contributions to the late annual fair at Boston, being the twenty-second of the series. From this official report we make a few extracts illustrative of the active eympatbhy of the abolition philanthropists of Great Britain and France in the cause. The receipts of the Bazaar for December, 1854,were $5,011; for December, 1855, $4,650— a slight falling off, chargeable, perhaps, to the Russian war and the high prices of provisions, causes which affect the subscriptions to phi- ‘anthropy as well as the movements of our domestic exchanges and foreign commerce. The report then proceeds to say that, “for their constant, sympathetic, devoted and abun- dant co-operation, during all these toilsome years, we feel how much we owe our honored and beloved associates in Great Britaia. To our beloved and honored friends, the Webbs, Allens, Haughbtons and Edmundsons, of Dub- lin; the Wighams, of Edinburg; the Patons, of Glasgow; the Armisteads, Baineses and Lup- vone, of Leeds; Mesdames Reid, Massie and Sturch, of London; Miss Estlin and friends, of Bristol; Miss Whitlegge and friends, Manches- ter; S. A. Steinthal, of Bridgewater; George Thompson; Mr. Bishop and friends, of Liver- pool; the Sturges, of Northfleet, with all their vumerous and to us unknown friends, whom (a8 the tribes inscribed on his breast-plate by Moses,) ‘we bear continually on our hearts, though we know not their names’—to each and to all of these we gratefully offer the as- svrance of our deep sense of personal obliga- tion tor the cause’s sake.” A passing eulogium is also paid to the Earl of Carlisle and his sister, the Duchess of Sutherland, who, according to her own declara- tion, “felt impelled to stretch her hand across the Atlantic toa band near to every sympa- thy of her heart,” and this while her own white tenantry, in some cases, have been subject- ed to cruelties which would disgrace the most savage of our Indian tribes. Among the new Britigh contributors to the Bazaar, Lady McCas hilland Lady Blackburne “receive the warmest acknowledgments for their exquisite gifts.” Next come the “friends of the cause” in France. Of these our lady reporter of the Bazaar says:—“To our excellent friends in France, also, the Monods and Kellers, the André-Walthers and de Staels of Paris, the Guépins of Nantes, the Girauds of Angers, and the friends cooperating with them in the south of France and in Switzerland, we would express no less cordial and grateful acknow- Jedgments.”” And here we have a bit of romance, exqui- sitely Frenchy, both in the idea which sug- gested the contribution and in the application thereof. Mrs, Chapman is here in her true ele- ment. Hear her:— While dwel\ing for a moment on the exquisite taste and great value of the gifts from France, (which, in common with ali others, shall be more particularly and fitly ac- kuowledged to each individual donor when the time avd wccamor serve.) one which I received through the ls- 4 Madame Isidore Gecffroy St. Hilaire, merits pe- culier gratituce. It isa complete trousseau for an in- tant, without usme or itseriptioa; but which, in ali its little ecmponent par‘s, tells more plainy than words could co, that the bereaved heart of ‘some peasant motber founc relief in serding the little garments, no longer neecedjn her own home, to give to some slave mtner, a fugPive from her own birthplace, that her child may be born in a free land. I showed to Mra. Stewe, who was often present with us on this oceasion, this affecting proof of her influence; and I pledge myselt ‘o that maerpal beartin France, that it: pious inten. tion shall be fulfilied, How thoughtful!—how delicate!—how en- tirely apropos and seasonable, considering the violent winter which is upon us, carrying the bow line down even to the borders of Georgia! “A complete trousseau for an infant !’—“ be- reaved heart, of some peasant mother” for “seme slave mother, a fugitive from her own birthplace, that her child may be born in a free Jand 1’ That “peasant mother,” or Madame St. Hilaire, undoubtedly got the idea from “Uncle Tom,” for Mra, Chapman suthoritative- ly says that she showed this trousseau to Mra. Stowe “ as an affecting proof of her inflaence.”’ But mark the sequel. It is singularly curious and interesting :-— Such a slave mother came into the hal while we were ‘bus engaged in raising funds to abolish the system that bears Cown with a power so deadly upon four inillions of perscns in this self-stylec land of freed mm. It was Mrs ene Jobnson; anc all our friends present thronged round to veicome und thank her—the strong-hearted womsn, . amid the thousand paralyzing influences @ siave- ing vation brings to bear upon its victims, toox ad- tege of the decision we procured on the ** Med Case,” ‘n 18:6, and claimed her freedom ucder it. We met her not as One we were to condescend to and patronise, I: Wasa profounc satisiad@ien to us to take by the hand, as our cc-'atcrer in the cause, one whem nei tan ats nor esjolery could overcome, but who swore, in the face of the world, for the truth, for her children, and for the man in prison on her account, that the miserably cou- temptible nited Sta es Mizister to Nicaragua lied wheu he ‘aid sbe Joved slavery and was happy t retarn to it Gur beloved and honored friends, Lucretia Mott, Sarab Pugh, Rebecca Plumly and Sarah McKim, who gave tne support ot their companionship to Mra. Johnson, when she was confronted with Wheeler, will rejoice to hear that she is comfortably settled in the midst of as, ouc rien¢ ond neighbor; and, that ‘we shall want ere she ‘Wauts !’”" How charmingly romantic, to be sure! Ma: dame Geoffroy St, Hilaire, from a bereaved peasant woman of France, sends an infant’s trousscau complete, for the benefit of some lave mother hurrying to the North “that her child may be born ina free land,” and while the present is on exhibition at the bazaar, lo! and behold! in comes the identical Jane John- ton captured by the Philadelphia abolitionists, with her children, from Col. Wheeler, eur Ni ceragua Minister, ashe was passing through the city; and Jane Johnson wins the prize! This will be @ plum for Passmore Williamson. We are not altogether satisfied, however, that Jane Johnson, in preferring African “freedom” in our hard Northern wintry cli- mate, trousseau included, has done better than ebe might have done by going with her master down to Nicaragua, where green corn and watermelons are among the fruits of January; where summer reigns all the year round; where the dividing lines between whites, Indiaus and blacks have been obliterated by the most tho- rough admixture of the several races; and where slavery and fugitive slave Jaws are unknown, The object of these bazaars isto raise funds for abolition lecturers, pamphlets and periodi- cale, in order to keep up the agitation. This last anniversary of the Boston national estab- lishment shows that the league between oxr own propaganda and the abolitionists of Groat Britain and France, notwithstanding the ox- pences of the war, is still actively maintained, and that our women’s rights women engaged in these bazaars are still devoted to “Uncle Tom” and bis family with the same blind fa- naticism that disfiguishes the philanthropy of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and of her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. But if they are There we ot the East would be relieved of them, and there the “border ruffians” would ultimately, perhaps, reduce them to reason. Progress of Education in Lower Oanada. We have before us the Report of the Super- intendent of Education for Lower Canade for the last year. It is rather more interesting than such documents usually are; chiefly from the fact that in Lower Canada the people have lived until quite recently without any educa- tion at all. Farmers-—or habitants as they are called—of the age of forty and over, perhaps do not read in the proportion of one out of a hun- dred. Of late years vigorous efforts have been made to establisha general school system. The priests have very laudably taken the lead ia the matter and have fought the prejudices of the unlettered people with such success that at the present moment the total number of children receiving instruction at echools, aca- demies and colleges in Lower Canada, is about one hundred and twenty thousand, or rather over one in eight of the whole population. This average is considerably below that of the Northern United States. The school-goere in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and most of the Northern States are one in four of the whole population. The average is the same in geome of the Southern States—North Carolina, for instance, which has been erroneously sup poged to be a backward State in the matter o/ education. But the Canadians are in advance of the people of the Old Domi- nion; among whom the number of persons returned as studying at colleges, public schools, academies and other schools, is only about 77,000, or about one in twelve out of the whole white population—exclusive, of course, of the students who are sent to northera institutions of learning. In former times Vir- ginia took a higher stand than North Caroli- na, the proportion of persons who cannot read and write in the former State being about one intwelve, while in the latter they are one in six or seven. In Lower Canada, they are pro- bably one in five. We find the number of “colleges” largely onthe increase in Lower Canada. These col- Jeges are for the most part schools of the aca- demy class, managed by Roman Catholic pricete, with priests for masters, and generally contriving to secure the most promising of their pupils for the church. It is not clear that such institutions are an unmixed benefit. There is such a thing as mischievous learn- ing; and there are systems of education which are woree in every way than ignorance. Itis to be hoped that the Roman Catholic colleges of Lower Canada do not belong to this clasa. The school system of France upon which it is believed they are in some measure based, is nota good one; and the only portions of it which rescue the whole from unqualified condemuation have been borrowed from the encyclopedists, and modern thinkers, who are probably not in favor with the priesthood of Lower Canada. A worse system of education than that of the old French Jesuits—more iu- tile in its results, more degrading to the youth- ful mind, and disheartening to the energies— hae, it is believed, never been devised. It is, of course, to be hoped that the Lower Cana- dian plan is widely different from this. Aiter all, common schools—and practical echools—are what the Canadians want. They want something like the national schools of Treland—with agriculture classes, and chem- istry classes, and other classes on common tense subjects of every day application; and without any trash and nonsense about meta- physics and logic, or lying histories, like Rollin’s or Loriquet’s, to bewilder boys, con- fuse their brains, and to teach them to be fools and hypocrites, If the Canadian govern- ment would improve its elementary schools so as to make them equal to its model schools and aeeimilate these to the Irish national schools— the colleges might safely be converted into theological seminaries, and used exclusively for this purpose, A single good normal school would then be all that would be wanted. Tuzy Ovent to Have wap Crurcurs.—We give elsewhere a report of a qheer debate in the Chicago Board of Aldermen. It appears that the conscript fathers of that flourishing city are getting feeble, and they have voted themeelver a supply of gold headed canes, at forty dollars each, and have ordered the City Treasurer to pay for them out of the public funds. We apprehend that this remarkable transaction was caused by the spirit of imite- tion, which is so prevalent in the rural districts, and which gives rise to the most ridiculeus blunders—as, for example, we have a hotel here named for a very successful merchant, its owner, and immediately Astor Houses spring up all over the country. In Boston they have two great hotcls—the Tremont and Revere houger, both names derived from purely local causes, Tremont was derived from the three hills on which Boston was built, and the Revere House property was originally owned by a conservative old copyer- emith named Paul Revere. But there are Tremont Houses all over the country; sud adrinking house, which was the scene of a horrible murder, is dignified with the name of the other crack hotel in the Modern Athens, as if it was entitled to particular reverence on account of the bloody fray that took place ia if. New York has lately been notorious for the corruption of its officials, and the Chicago people seem desirious of imitating our indicted aldermen and councilmen, 80 they poke their fingers into the city strong box and appropriate forty dollars worth of cane apiece. Their con- etituents onght to lay the canes over the alder- men’s backe. EXTERMINATING THE Witp Fows.—Game, tince these late suowe, has become abundant and comparatively cheap. In Grant county, Wisconsin, venison sells for three cents a pound; prairie chickens, pheasants and rabbits one dollar per dozen; quails, forty cents per dozen. From these prices, and from similar reports from other quarters, we have no doubt that a general war of extermination for the last three weeks hae been actively prosecuted, from Maine to Wisconsin, upon the wild game of ali kinds, and at such a rate of destraction that, with another winter like this, prairie chickens, pheasants, rabbits and quails, and even fresh water fish, will soon be as plentiful in the Northern and Middle States as lions and tigers. And it is, perhaps, as well; for with the extinction of the precarious resources of bunting and fishing, thousands of strong but azy fellows, living like the Indians, upoa these savage pursuits, will be driven from noe- cessity to more useful and commendable em- sincere ip theiy zeal lor negro freedom, why | ployment, Let them keep at it, Disaracerur. Imrosrtion—Wi Tuere Be Wan? —The following case between the husband of Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne and a Cincinnati news- paper reporter, reveals the existence of a some- what mysterious but decidedly belligerent state of affairs between the high-contracting parties. In the Cincinnath Daily Columbian, a few days since, there appeared under the local head the following article :— JULIA DEAN HAYNE AND HER ENGAGEMENT AT THE NATIONAL. ‘Mrs, Jutia Dean Hayne clored an it of two ‘weeks, Saturda; at the Nat theatre. | She f a) ret ae * Joan of Arc,” end sustained the ‘Wreschost in manner worthy of herself and of her reputation. Though, aa we before remarked, the charac- ter seems not suited to her style, she entered into ita minutise with a spirit and grace so just and true ‘as to.elicrt the warmest encomiums of the very fine audi- ence present. Speaking of her audiences, naturally gives mise to » regret that they should have been so shm during it here. Julia certainly plays as well as she ever did, and, we thant, with a still nicer appreciation of the text, ands more faitbful delineation of its soul, than ever betore. Surely her form bas lost none of its grace, her limbs none of their symmetry, nor ber tace any of {te sweetnes, since #he last played upon our boards to overflowing houses. This falling off of audiences must certainly then be ane to ee trees ee ee that of personal uppepal ' 6 best house eo engage- menhwae that of Se ericing of her benefit. Thia tact, among many, no less apparent to others thin to our- selves, convinces us that this ot auditors is to be imputed altogether to a combination of circumstances over whieh the Julia had no control, and isin no way indicative that she herself is otherwive than before, ab object dear to the hearts of the people. It must have been that she entertained such a view, (and who shall ray itis incorrect?) or she would never have given utter- ance to the following epeech, Saturday evening, in re- sponse to the earnest call which absolutely demanded her appearance before the curtain, in tones that would brook no denial:— Lapiss Any GexrirmeN—This warm and generous recep- tion. guliguabing, 92 1 fee), from Sioeee of Joss, hearts, gratifien me withthe arsurance ve not ys ether ceased to be un object of one and esteem. Weedon if Temy that in mowents of cv I have dared to doubt, T’ktew not what my ‘fede migst be, bat sorely x jog thus, he it the fault not yours, but mine, and thi seurktia wan oa the toga \. aes . ot owned aot he Thave, youre ‘Among the number, te!l me sircum: may So blamed, ‘and that some other day a kivder fate may ‘smal vor here, where most I and URED at Beals A og Tutus ua en afew are spared to bless and soothe mny patn adown the vale, ware Tee pee neanen fit the eoul to take its final flight to “Ot “cfroumstances over which the fair Julia has no control,” we are left somewhat in the dark; but a glimmer of light is thrown upon them by the following belligerent card to the Cincinnati Commercial :-— ‘A CARD. Ky., Jan. 16, 1856, In the columns of the ian and Enquirer, of Tuesday, I find a communication under the editorial head, professing to be a criticism upon Mrs, Julia Dean Hayze, with a rpeech, said to have been delivered on Sa- turday evening, at the ciose of her engagement at the Na- tional theatre. I desire, through your paper, to stamp as ‘8 falsehood the entire report, and brand the author saan unblushing Har. No such speech was made, either then or at any cther time. I have taken measures to ascer- vain the perpetrator of this eowardly act, and in the meantime beg that you will give pubifcity to this com. munication, I am, very reapectfully, your obedient ser- vant, ‘A. P, HAYNE. Gatr Hover. In reply to this “Card,” the reporter of the Columbian, over the name of John F. King, ad- mits that Mra. Hayne never made the absurd epeech attributed to her; and that his article does not positively say that she did; that he thought the thing would be understood, ia fact, asa quiz; but he also suys that he did really regret to see her audiences so slim, and was not altogether pleased to observe citizens generally carry their prejudicesagainst others to such an extent as to seem to igaore ber unimpaired claims to consideration as one of the first of American actresses.” The re- porter further disclaims any disrespect of Mrs. Hayne, but declares that he holds her in high respect and esteem, apologises for his unwar_ rantable conduct, and says that if Mr. Hayne is not satisfied with this he need not be hurl- ing his offensive epithets at the reporter froma point full a hundred and fifty miles off, but has only to call upon the offending party to be con- vinced that “personal fear’ has had nothing to do with his explanation. We think the merits of this case may be briefly tummed up: The silly and ridiculous speech put into the mouth of Mrs. Hayne was an unjustifiable and outrageous proceeding in every sense. Qn the other hand, the vio- lent card of Mr. Hayne does not mend the matter; but we trust that subsequent nego- tiations will have obviated any necessity for active hostilities between the parties. This is a tronblerome world, aud withoat a little phi- logophy and diplomacy we can’t get along at all. Important Depate x tHe Unirep Srares Senare—Mr. Ciayton on tHE Ciayton-Bur- weER Treaty.—We transfer to our columus this morning, in eztenso, the recent important debate in the United States Senate on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The speech of Mr. Clayton, prima facie, makes a clear case of dou- ble shuffling and bad faith against John Bull, and a complete vindication of the wisdom of Mr. Clayton himself in the negotiation of that treaty. But unfortunately, “it won’t stay put” where Mr. Clayton puts it. His speeches upon the subject, from time to time, would fill a large volume; and still the working of the treaty, and the loopholes in it which England has apprepriated to creep in and to creep out of, as ooeasicn may require, are quite enough to satisfy us that in 1850 our negotiator, Mr. Clayton, was sold—that the treaty was a trick —and that he didn’t see through it. But apart from these dodges upon techni- calities, the plain intent and objects of the treaty lave been sufficiently violated hy Eng- Jand to render it a nullity—a dead letter. It ought to be so declared by our government, executive and Jevislative—the first thing after a settlement with England, for what she has done and failed to do in the premises. At) that is necessary to bring Palmerston and Cla- rendon to definite understanding and repa- ration, is a bold and uncompromising demand for & yea or nay—peace or war. We expect much from the Senate in the prompt solution of this squabble. Tho eubjoct is set apart as the special question for to-morrow, and Gen, Cass and others will no doubt throw a flood of light upon it, and materially contribute to strengthen the evidently failing strength of Mesers. Pierce and Marcy. A firm stand will secure the right without the hazards of war; and this being done, all further trouble for the future will be avoided by knocking this Clay- ton-Bulwer treaty in the head, and by falling back upon the Monroe doctrine of British non- intervention in the affairs of our independent neighbors. Tur PretspurG ANtTI-SLAVERY Con ANTICIPATIONS OF THE AROLITION Li je Ohie State Journal, (black republican,) in com- menting upon the General Anti-Slavery Oon- vention which is to meet at Pittsburg on the 22a February, and upon the Know Nothing National Council, which on the same day is to meet at Philadelphia, thus boasts of the ex- pectations of the Holy Anti-Slavery Alliance: — As this meeting at Pitteburg is to be an informal and advivory one, for the purpose of consultation, we trast as many of the republicans af Ohio as can conventen ly attend will be present. ‘ise occasion will be a very in- teresting and important one, The Know Nothing Cm- vention will be in fession at Philade!phia 6. We loolt for nothing but a grand explo: ecaasion. Th rates from the Southern States wil! insist upon the support of the Philadeiphia platform ot Jung last. The delegates fom phe troy states go inswugt- scents cakes saa shivered to atoms on this rock. The North will toen find its duty and interest in a union upon some common basis whieh all the filesoe cf the constitution and the inion can rally. Let the repudlicans of Obio be fully, represented at Pittsburg. There it is. The Philadelphia Council is to- be “shivered to atoms on this rock” of the- slavery question, Wm. H. Seward tas decided it--Gen. Wilson has declared that it shall be: done—Mr. Banks, the Seward candidate for Speaker at Warhington, has sunk his Know: Nothingiem in hie abolitionism to this end, and from fifty to sixty Northern members: of Con- gress, elected as Know Nothings; have been working and voting with the abolition Banks party in Congress. All trese facts render it certain that the Philadelphia Councils of the 18th and 22d February will result either in the rapid recopstruction of the American Order upon a colid basis, or its speedy dissolu- tion as an independent party. Let the dele- gates to Philadelphia go prepared for active. and decisive work. Mr, Borrs Comes vr Missiva.—The late Know Nothing State Council of Virginia voted down the motion of Mr. Botts to set aside the twelfth section, and re-affirmed the whole Phi- ladelphia platform. Mr. Botts and his little Richmond movement are thus set aside by the State Council. What will the New York Broome County Triangle brothers think of this? THE LATHAST WAWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Trial of Messrs, Coburn and Dalton. Boston, Jan. 26, 1866. ‘The trial of Messrs. Coburn aud Dalton progresser- slowly, and will probatly occupy two or three days of next week. Josiab Porter, who was also severely beaten by the defendants in this case for alleged intumacy with their wives, was on the stand nearly fewr hours. His testimony was not importent, being confined by the ruling of the Court to his general intimacy with Sum- ner, and the identification of a letter alleged to have Deen written by Sumner to Mre. Dalton. The letter it- self was not put in as evidence, From the South. THE SOUTHERN MAIL—COLD WEATHER IN TEXAS— ALL QUIET ON THE MEXICAN FRONTIER, PTO. Bautimorg, Jan, 26. 1866, New Orleans papers of Saturday of last week are to hand. They contain Galveston dates to the 15th inst. ‘The weather was very cold there and at Austin. Advices from the Rio Grands report the Mexican frontier quiet. ‘The ‘sea serpent” appeared off Corpus Christi. Sad Accident on the are River. PHILADELPHLA, Jan. 26, 1856. ‘This afternocn, as a large company were upon the De- laware river, oppotite the upper part of the city, the ico- gave way, carrying down a sleigh containing a gentleman. and four Iadies. One of the ladies, a widow, by the name of Albright, was drowned. The others were rescued, Schooner Arcturus Ashore. Boston, Jan. 28, 2866: ‘The Cape Cod telegraph reports that the schooner Arc- torus, of Saco, Me., went ashore yesterday on Great Har- ber Bar. The crey were all saved, though badly froat- bitten. The Weather in Boston. Bogros, Jan. 26, 1856. The weather here during the pact forty-eight hours has deen clear and steadiy cold, the thermometer averaging about eight degrees aocve zero. Markets. PHILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. Pawapetpuia, Jan. 26, 1856. Btocks are firm—quetatious as follows:—Pennsylvania fiyes, 823,; Reading Ratiroad, 427%; Long teland, 14; Mor- ris Canal, 13}; ; Pennsylvania Ruilroad, 433¢. ‘Tur Ligur GuarD IN THE Wxst.—&, correspondent in: Chicago desires us to say that the ry corps in tha city, which is the “exact count rt in dresa’’ of the New York Light Guard, have resolved to accept an ivita- tion to participate in the selebration at Cincinnati, and that the Chicago soldiers hope to meet their New York confreres on that interesting occasion. We have not been informed as to the action of the New York Light Guard in this matter. A New Actor 47 Burtoy’s.—Mr. Barton announces the engagement of Mr. H. A. Perry as the priveipal light comedian at his theatre. Mr. Perry is one of the very best American actors, and he will doubtless be a great favorite at Burton’s theatre. He has played briefen- gagemen's at reveral of the city theatres. Sr. Perry will make his first bow to the Chambers street sudience on Monday, as George Gossamer, in ‘Laugh When You Can.’ On dil that the “ Winter’s Tale” is im rehearsad at this house, Watiack’s THratre—'' A Curiovs Cask.’—A two act comedy under the above title was done last night for the first time here. It was written for Mr. Charles Matthews, and first played at the Princess’ theatre, London, three or four years rince, when Mr. Matthews and Mrs. Stir- ling played the principal parts, The plot runs thus:— Mr. Charles Stanton (Levere) is » pawnbroker who has an intimate though inquisitive friend, Mr. Twiggleton (Walect.) He is marzied, but is inconstant. Mrs, Au- brey (Mrs, Walcot) is an oid fiswe of Stanton’s, and Mr Aubrey (Norton) is very jealous, Mrs, Twiggleton has heen flirting with a German baron, and every one thinks that her sister, Mrs. Aubrey, is the true culprit. The last named lady, to save her sister, purchases the German’s silence and induces him to Jeave the country, by pledging. her diamonds to Stanton, The jealousy of Aubrey makes him think that the act bas been done tor another purpose, and obliges her to get them back. All the parites are placed ina curious position, but the denouement clears Mrs. Aubrey, and confouncs Twiggleton, who is taught that while he is interfering in the affairs of every ene else, he is blind to matters that touch him very nearly. Itis » very nicely constructed piece, with crisp dialogue, od@ situations, and full of lively, bustling action. The bar- den of the piece rested npon Mr. Walcot, who acved the principal pait very nicely. Lavra Keene's Varueris— Mipas.”—Miss Keene made her first eseay at burleaque Inst evening, and pro- duced the musteal piece called ‘ Midas,” done on this o¢- sion for the first time in New York. The burlesque is not brilliant in the dialogue but it has some twenty or thirty songs and choruses, the ¢xecution of which gave an op- portunity for the display of the excelient vocal and in- strumental force attached to the Varietics. The Apollo was Miss Rosalie Durand, and she confirmed the favorable impression she has already made as a vocalist, receiving a deserved encore for her song, “Pray, Goody.” Miss Durand, with a little more taste and cultivation, would be one af the best, as she is now one of the most popular yooaliste ofthe day. Mr. H. Hall made a very good Midas, and the affair, which is only a pleasant trifle, was quite sue cessful. It will be given sgain on Monday, with ‘Much Ado About Nothing,” with Miss Keene as Beatrice, and Mr. George Jordan us Benecick. Fatan Rariroap nquest at the Ne 1a man, U0 years from fracture of the Jey ult., by being eaugh and Erie Ratlroad cars at Piermont, Verstet, ‘Accidental death.” Deceased was a native of Ireland. Charics’ London Cordial is Superior to the best of brandy, even in its pure ciate; and when the didi culty of obtaining’ that article in ts purityd unies from Custom House Jock, is considered, this gia ts not oniv the best, but the atest liqueur which can be adopted lor family use, as’ its pu- rity Ia guaranteed by each bo'tle being sealed and labelled under the proprictor’s signature, to cousterielt which ig a felony, Be careful in purcharing Charles’ Londone: that ft is absolutely “ Charies's,”” Unprincipiod “peresia are in the habit when {tis asked for 10 attempt to sub- stitute an article with a similar title, got up in imitation ot its Look forthe signature of Mr. F. Charles on the label; aiso, the stamp on the seal, and buy none other. Charles’ London core ial gin 19 put up in aquare botties of one quart, and may be bad of all druggists and grocers in the United Slates. Price, $1 per bottle, or wholesaie of the sole importers, re DE VENOGE & CHARLES, 135 Pearl at., N.Y, Hat Binding Machines.—I. 1, Sin, wl M, or . have ready for sale machines for binding seve Neu meee other kinds of bats. The machines do the work far better and faster then an; thers, M faster than any others, Call’ and see thet at ‘No, 308 The Comeo—Daguerreos One Ii tas neous sitting; happy Suponion: Srrteres eautituly, the salt very pink of ones’ Taki ql lyn, (Fulton ferry. ‘en only at WILLLAMSON’S, Brook sens Families, Hotel Keepers and Others Would. do weil in visiting the Cloaing sale of wet goods at D, THOMAS’, 141 Spring street, corner of Wooster. Asthe whole must be Ck . it ry still further reduction will be made, A er inducement to evouomists, oh rarely inet Wh, UBO) as such bargsias ‘ are