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

FRR. Bros¢way—Henxe rae HosTss ea yan Fount Fran? inp'ran Dusow House Bam Apeuizs—Eir Kino. vara: Bowery—Bxoxsx Vow—FaxaLn aon BIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway—La Fars Cuaxrerne— SURTOWS THEATES, ‘hamvers sireot—Buiit’s Smus- ‘saGum—SWEETEEsnt’s AND Wives. LAURA KESNDS VARIETLGS, Brosdway-Masxs axp Vaces—Noverty. 5 i 3 WALLs0K’S THEATRE, Broadway—Love anv Monzy— BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadwas tap QUEEN Be ous Woon & Manse ee re ee WOOD'S MINBTRE.’S, +44 Broa¢way—trmorus Par- Senmanors—Harry Mas, on Tematy wirs Jaran. -RPORLETy ROMEO, OER, SOUS, 68 Brat AYHEN. No. 654 ‘Broadway—Paxonasne Picrouss ev @mxa anv Jarax, In the United States Senate yesterday Mr. Bell, ef Tennescee, made a speech on the Central Ameri- an question. He does not adopt fully the Ame- wean interpretation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty ‘with reference to the British protectorate of the Mosquito Territory. Mr. Mallory, Chairman ef the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a Bill authorizing the construction of ten addi- tiona] war steamers. The subject will be taken up on Monday, when we may look for several violent war speeches. Inu the House a message was received from the President, transmitting and vecommending to the favorable consideration of Oongress, 2 communication from the Secretary of War, urging the appropriation of three millions of @ollars for increasing the military efficiency of the eountry. The Secretary is of opinion that we should increase our supplies of improved warlike ‘weapons, and that we should provide ample sup- ples of ammunition, accoutrements and implements of war for immediate and most efficient use. A de bate ensued as tothe proper reference to be made ef the documents, but before arriving at any con- clusion the House adjourned. A despatch from Washington states that the Sec- retary of the Treasury bas decided to pay the $7,500, 900 Texas claims, a3 soon as the required notice has expired—in July next. Nothing of importance occurred in either branch ef the Legislature yesterday. The New York Know Nothing State Council met at Canandaigua yesterday, and ratified the nomina- tions for President and Vice President, made by the National Convention, with great enthusiasm, The Constitution Hall whigs held a meeting last night to respond to the nomination of Millard Fill- more, when it was agreed to fire one hundred guns in the Park to-day in honor of the event. By telegraph from New Orleans we have a brief gammary of news from California, Oregon and Nica- ragua. At San Francisco the markets were dull. ‘The accounts from the mines were highly favorable. Gov. Foote had been selected by the Know Nothings as their candidate for United States Senator. Ex- Collectors Sanders and Hammond had been indicted for embezzlement. There is nothing new relative to the Indian war in Oregon. From Central America we learn that San Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica have formed an alliance, and that Col. Kinney had proceeded to Granada to bring about an under- standing with General Walker. The steamer Star of the West is now due at this port from Punta Arenas. She will bring the details of the news and half a million in gold. We have news from Vera Cruz tothe 22d inst. The troops in the Castle of San Jaan d@’Ulloa pro- nounced for Tamirez on the 12th, but after some firing, surrendered to the city on the 20th. It will be seen by reference to another part of the paper that the report of the committee of the Corn Exchange, in favor of raising the standard of flour inspection, was rejected by a decided vote. The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, bat no business of importance came before them Out” door relief to the poor will be stopped on the 15th of March next. The citizens of Portland, Me., have ratified the appropriation of $60,000 made by the city govern- ment for building a wharf for the accommodation of the mammoth British steamship. The cotton market was inactive yesterday, and sales were limited to 500 a 600 bales, without quota- ble change in prices. Flour was inactive, with moderate sales at the prevovs day's prices. In the abeence of transactions quotations for wheat were nominal. Corn sold to a fair extent at 73c.a 75c. Rye was dull. Pork was rather firmer, with sales of 500 a 600 bbls. mess at $15 87} 2 $15 94. Sugars were firm, with sales of 800 a 1,000 hhds. at fall prices, Coffee was in fair demand, and closed quite firm, with sales at 11jc.a12}c. The latter figure was for prime quality. Freights were steady, with fair engagements to English ports. To Liverpool 2,200 bbls. fiour were taken at 2s. Sd. Ccnsovs Fuxeran Exrenses.—A bill, of whica the following is a copy, is now before the Fi- nance Committee of the Board of Couacil- men :-— Naw Yors, Feb., 1858, Crry or New York, cies § ‘To Tam New York Dairy Tats, Dr. For advertising notice of funeral of Councilman Dixon, ‘two times special. . ose $2 Féitorial repori of tune: « Edi orial report of funeral, twent, lars”! Cheap us dirt for a deceased Counci)- man ; but what would an “editorial report” of the funeral of the Mayor or the Governor mount to at this rate? But sappose ail the papers in the city had published an “ editorial report of the funeral of Councilman Dixon,” charging each twenty-six dollars jor the same, what a beautiful bill of costs it would have made! And had not the Board rejected this extraordinary claim for lack of a precedent, there is no telling where the experiment would stop. What « lucky thing for the city treasury that they couldn’t find a precedent! Avstrauian Comriment To AN AMERICAN Mercuant—In anotber column will be found the report of the proceedings at a public ban- quet given at Melbourne, in November last, to a young American merchant, Mr. G. I. Train, on the occasion of his departare irom the colo- ny. After the blustering of our London con- temporaries, the account of this dinner will be read with interest avd gratification. It is not only a well merited compliment to an Ameri- can whose conduct has entitled him to the re- spect and esteem of the people of Australia, but it isan cvidence of the real nature of the feelings entertained by Englishmen towards the United States. Whilst such sentiments as were expressed at it continue to exist amongst the mercantile community, and the great body of the English people, all the efforts of in- trigning politicians and ambitious statesmen will be unable to complicate, to any serious extent, the relations of the two countries. Lord Palmerston would do well to make a note of this Melbourne affair. ‘The Late Know Nething Convention—Tae American Party Demolished—Tae Oid ‘Whig Party Galvanized. - The labors of the late National Know No- thing Nominating Convention have resulted in the formal diseolut'on of the American party, and are to be followed up with asystematic and desperate attempt to galvanize into active life again the stiffened remains of the old whig dynasty. A few words touching the composi- tion of this extraordinary convention, and its results, will enable our readers of all parties to comprehend at a glance the meaning and the “ manifest destiny” of Mr. Fillmore’s nomi- nation. There were three parties of Americans in this Dominating convention, to wit:— Ist. Old whigs, chiefly of a conservative stripe, turned Know Nothings under protests, and mostly from the Southern States. 2d. Regular Know Nothings, in favor of making the American party an entirely new party, upon new principles and a new man whoee antecedents have had little or nothing to do with either of the old parties of the country. 3d. Seward Know Nothings, joining the Order expresly to direct its action, or to betray it into the hands of the Seward coalition. ~ The first set of this classification were nearly all Fillmore men—old whigs, we repeat, anxious to set aside the forms, ceremonials aud or ganization of this new Order, for the more ancient and more agreeable principles and organization of the old whig party. Ia fact, the Southern whig party, having dis- covered in the recent Southera State elec- tions that they had gained nothing by dropping in behind “Sam” and his dark laa- tern, have been laboring somewhat quietly, but very carnestly, ever since, to supersede him, and throw him back in the rear. The second set, or regular Know Notbings, have been working quit. as earnestly to maia- tain “Sam” in the ascendency, as a new, inde- pendent and homogeneous power in the land, upon exclusively Know Nothing principles, and to sink all the whig or democratic antecedents of the brethren in the superior principles of the Order. Hence the leaders of this class wore chiefly in favor of Live Qak George Law as their Presidential candidate. The third set have illustrated their objects and principles very clearly in Colonel Ford’s Bolters’ Convention, at which it is said there were sixty-seven delegates in attendaace from the national gathering of a few hours before. Bat at this bolters’ meeting both the George Law and the Seward Know Nothinge were pre- sent, and the objects of each were very frankly set forth. For instance, the Ohio bolters de. clared that they were opposed to another Am»- rican nomination or convention, “ believing,” as they do, “that the North ought to unite in acommon organization to resist the aggros- sions of slavery; that is, the anti-slavery Know Nothings should go over, without further cere- mony, into the ranks of the Seward Holy Al- liance, the farce of their adhesion to Know Nothingism having been played out. On the other hand, Mr. Hammond, of the Albany State Register, (regular conservative George Law Know Nothing,) declared, at this polters’ meeting, that “he considered the nomi- nation of Mr. Fillmore the most violent be- trayal of the principles of their Order ever put upon avy party in this country. He is not a member of the Order—reports to the contrary notwithstanding. It isa whig ticket, and nothing else. Mr. H. accordingly pledged New York for thirty-five delegates to the (June) Nominating Convention. He was opposed to apy union with the republican party. He had no objection to that party going up with their kite, but it must be on the tail of it.” Tue results of the Convention, thea, are simply these :— First. The old Southern whig element has triumphed—the remains of the old whig party take the precedence, and a siraight out whig, having no connection with the Order, secures the nomination. The mejority of the Conven- tion thus decree a formal repudiation of Kuow Nothingiem, and the substitution of the pres tige and principles of the old whig party in its place. Second The Northern Know Nothing bolt- ers (including the George Law mea) call another Nominating Convention on the 12th of June, in the city of New principle of the restora’ compromise ; and they repudia ings of the Villmore Cou its admission of the Roman Catholic ¢ from Louisiana, hostiiity tomanism being a cardinal feature the Americaa organization, Third. The speedy ion will necessarily follow of ithe seceding ultra Ty Know Nothings with the Seward Abolition Holy Alliance, includin mass of that class of Northern Know Nott Congress by the Know Nothing of Mr. Banks, and his Seward abolivioa pro gramme. Such being the triangulation of the late Krow Nothing party, the question recars— what is the prospect before We thio it may be briefly summed up. Mr. Fillmore will probably carry the three States of Delaws Maryland and Kentucky. We co the results of the lute Souttera ele ir demoralizing effects upon the b party that he cannot do much better. R Giated by a powerful division of the Order in the North, it would be folly to concede to him a solitary State north of Mason & Dixon’ from the support either of the democratic or the Seward party, On the part of the regular Know Nothing seceders, should they nominate George Law, or any other out-and-ont Ameri can, on the 12th of June, upon a Northern baeis as oppored to Fillmore, thoy may secure the State of M t the Seward boltera will Nothing left wing to the Nia thus leaving the field from Maine to Wisco: the next thing toa clean sweep to the demo cratic party. It is ecarcely necessary to « the management of the Fi The privilege toa single de the whoie electoral ve mitted to represent in the street to do this egate, were but imitat the democracy at B: Quatticbums aud Gener as precedents ore no jt doings, we can only pronounce the system of these packed Conventions as to “ anti-sla’ ine, ‘or we fear th imore ification ¢ who NEW YORK HERALD, | fraudulent and destructive of the freedom of elections, It is a system which transfers to star) coterie of cunning managers the souls and bodies of the rank and file of the party, with or without their consent; it forestalls the free exercise of public opinion, and reduces many an honest man to the last resort of a choice of evils in the act of casting his vote. In the language of Mr. Calhoun, these party caucuses and conventions can only be corrapting and degrading, resting, as they do, upon the single principle of “the cohesive power of the pub- ic plunder.” Taking things, however, as we find them, we have to deal with the results of the Koow Nothing Convention as with established tacts which cannot be reversed. Mr. Fillmore, as @ concession to the old whig party, has beea nominated as the national Know Nothing can- didate tor the Presidency. He has been de- serted at the threshold by @ Northera detach- ment or two of seceders, that leave him no cbance, from present appearances, of the vote of a solitary Northern State, aad with bus a sorry show for more than three States in the South. The Northern seceders—betweenm the Seward league and the democratic party—are in no better predicament in view of a sepa- rate movement; and thus the late astounding American party~ springing up, like Jonah’s gourd, in the course of a night--has died and dried up before dinner time. Its fate was ominously toreshadowed ia the election of a Speaker for Congress Betrayed by the Deli- lah of Sewardism, it has failen into the hands of the Philistines, Months ago we indicated the only course for aruccesstul national orgaaization in opposi- tion to the democratic party and the Seward alliance. It was the formation of aa aati Pierce party— a conservative party—a party of practical “retrenchment and reform” ia the administration of the goveroament at Washing: ton— an open undieguised party—a party with- cutéark lanterns and with the sworn pro- scription of aliea born and Catholic citizens abolished—a party of noa-intervention oa the slavery question—a party of practizal measures and wholesome changes; and witha new and popular man from the masses of tne people as its Presidential candidate; buat, above all things, a party united upon the watchwords of “retrenchment and reform,” instead of this nonsensical cry, “Americans shali rale Ameri- ca,” which means anything or nothing. I: is only by proving to the American people the necessity of a new order of things at Wash- ington, and by providing the means for the end, that they will rise to establish it. Thus was the work accomplished in 1828, in 1840 and in 1848, The American party ia demolished. The available remaing of the old whig conservative party are to be resuscitated, aud Know No thingism, no longer the head, is to be the tail ofthe conservative opposition, aad the tail also of the Seward opposition to the demo cratic party. Repud@iating Pierce aod his Ca binet, the prospect to the democracy is a greater triumph than they have ever yet achieved. Between Seward and Fillmore tue old opposition party was destroyed, and the new opposition army, all-powerful ia the ag- gregate, bas been divided and cut to pieces. Thus much from present appearances. When the spring opens we shall more clearly see the composition of the landscape. Ten AppitionaL Steam Sioops-or-War — Mr. Mallory, of the Naval Committee of the Senate, has introduced a bill for the buildiag of ten new steam sloopsof-war. Very well. Letus haye them. We shall want them, peace or wer, but especially if there is to be war. We recollect, however, that two years ago Con- gress ordered six steam frigates; aud we be- tieve that of these six, one has been finished and sent to sea—the Merrimac; another was ‘eunched a short time ago at Norfolk; an- other in this city the other dey—the Nia- gera; und that the other four will probably be completed within a year ortwo. At this rate we ball have a war and a peace with England before the proposed ten additional steamers shall have been duly armed and equipped for battle, Can’t the old fi y Department get along a litt! ‘astvee of materials and builders. 3 act; bat provide also for Iding of the ships they may mmeciate bui order. Tae S1 Acatr—Wnat 1s to Ba Dove?— The cor d complaints of the traveliing public with regard to the outrageous condi- tion of Broadway, bas at lengta indaced Com- missioner Ebling to try another very notable scheme to relieve that thoroughfare. He proposed to the storekeepers along the ron’: to cut down the ridges, provided they will cart away the dirt; and where they do not conseat to this arrangement, he intends to scrape an pare off portions of the dirt hills, whie be spread over the at: wit 8, to be crushed by the ho et, thawed by the sun, and finally washed off by the rain, when it comes, into the sewers, This plan is in perfect keeping with the pal tering half-and-balf course Commissioner Eo ling bas pursued since the commencement, ia dealing with the debris of the late snow storms, On the one hand, it is unjust to the store- keepers to ask them to pay for what they have already been taxed heavily by the city to have done for them ; and then it neath the dignity of this great city to resart to such paltry means to have our strests cleaned properly. It would not cost over 000 to have all the snow mountains in Broadway top- pled into the rivers, or dumped as imanare in the public Parks and on the Battery, where it would serve an excelicnt purpose, y wit not Gone forthwith? ther be- Al) that remains now, it scems to ne, is to Where is Genin? All other ave been tried, aod they won’t do. fenin, then, come forth, a modern muni- cipal Hercules, to cleanse these Augean streets aud save our city from this deep potlution, Vifl he do it? call on Genin. } nister To Nicaragva,- Major Heiss, of New Orleans, a regular manifest destiny n, has been sent as bearer of despatch Nicaragua. Now, a8 Gen. Walker's gov tter the refaeal of Marcy to accept his Minis- r,) has snepended diplomat terconrae with United States, it may be jor Hetss hae some power to restore the entente cordiale with Walker in view of a speedy war with Hag- land. Who knows? NESD. The Peace Conftrrences in Paris=Net Re~ It is settled that the Peace Conference meets at Paris at the request of the Emperor of Rus- sia. This cannot be regarded otherwise than as fresh triumph for the diplomacy of the Freach Emperor. At Paris the envoys cannot but feel some effect from the influence of their Freach surroundings; to choose it as the site of the conferences evinces on the part of the Emperor of Russia a regard for France, a desire for peace, and a respec t for his antagonist, which was hardly to be expected. The Moniteur gives the names of the Pleni- potentiaries, They are:— FOR FRANCE. Count Colonna etewonl, Mialster ot Foreign Ataira of the Emperor, and Baron ueney, his Eavey Lix traordinery and Mixtater rienipotentiary at Vien: a8. FOR AUSTRIA. Ceurt Baol Sctauenstein, sinister of Foreign Affairs of the Ex peror ot Auntie, and Baron de Haoner, hiv ne Extraordinary Minister Pienipovsntiary at ‘Bile. POR GREAT BRITAIN. The Earl of Clarendon ¢rincipal secretary of S'a'e for Foreign Affaire, and Lord Cowley, Ambassador of lng- tana at Paris, POR RUBSLA. Count Orleff, Member of the Council of the Empire and Aive-de-Camp General ot the Emperor of Rusma, and Basow de Branow, hie Envoy Extraordinary aud Miaisver Plentpotentiary to the Germanic Ounfederacion. FOR SARDINIA, The Chevarier Massimo d’Azeghto, Senator of the king dom of Sardinia. TURKEY. ¥OR Bs A goodly show assuredly. Buol Schauen- stein is one of the greatest statesmen, and the representative of one of the oldest families of Austria. Lord Clarendon inhegits tha title of a dypasty of British statesmen, Russia will be represented by two of the most distinguish e@ of her nobilvy and the strongest of ber pudtic men. Even Sardinia has foundin Massimo d’Azeglio a representative whose fume will enbapce the ancient lustre of his country. As for France, she has the Baron de Bourqueney to represent her old nobility, and the son of the old Napoleon, well tutored by his cousin, to personify the present genius of the empire The conferences will be a season of unmiugied geieties and unprecedented splendors) Ru- mors of gay balls and reunions, of splendia shows, and cestly entertainments have already reached this side of the water. Each of the Plevipotentiaries will doubtless do his best to outshine the others; the Parisians will put them ol) on their mettle aud try them by the severe etapdard of Parisian taste; altogether the month will be a season such as Paris bas not seen since those old days of the absolute m»> nerchy long ago when the great monarch re ceived his guests with a magnificence whicb poets pronounced super Oriental. If any one doubts that, under circumstances like these, ané emotions such as imperial fetes, Pariciau balls and the rest will inspire, the Pienipoten- tiaries will hasten to make peace, his opinions of human nature would be worth studying. Such—this conference, with its noisy gaie- ties, and genial splendors—this assemblage of his allies and his enemies in his capital under his nose, for the purpose of settling the affairs of the Continent—this apparent willingness of England to concede terms of peace, notwith- standing the report on the state of the army and notwithstanding the Redan—this genera! coali- dence not only of the French people (aot aa easy thing to win by apy means) but also of the crowned heads of Earope, great and small, the baughty Austrian novles, and the trade de- mecracy of England-—this general feeling, which is as much as to say, “ Settle the matter as you think best~we leave it to you and will be bound by your decision ’’—such is the frait of three years’ diplomacy by Louis Napoleon. Most certainly neither the arms of peace nor those of war ever won like reward in sucha period before. The greatest heroes in history, judging by net results, were fools to this Napo- jeon. It can never be useless—it ought never to be wearlsome—to repeat the striking contrasts of his cereer. To draw men’s minds once more to the time when the head of the family, driven to perish miserably in a tropical isle, left a few scattered, impoverished, despised relations to seek a scanty subsistence in Europe; people so bowed down and crushed out by the weight of calamity that the eulogist of the prisoner of St. Helena confessed his inability to trace the retreat of his nephew. To recapitulate once more the romantic story of Louis Napoleon the exile, the beggar; then trom this to turn to the splendid Emperor, radiant with glory, and fame, and gold, and popularity and power, To see him dating an Imperial decree from Windeor Castle, and leading the Qacen of England, slowly and solemnly, te the tomb of the First Napoleon, reminding her that is was her uncle who put this uncle of his io & slow, lingering and dreadtul death, and that they, the nephew and the niece of the victim apd the murderer, are there, hand in hand, palely gaziog on this me- moriai of the past, and possibly pledging themselves to atonement. To watch him | Teceive the request of the Emperor of Ruy sia—whose predecessor would not even ac- knowledge him—that the peace ce, ferences moy be held under his eye, in a ct amber of his Court, so to speak; and thus not only affording ground for a strong surmise that the step is that of a vanquished foe to his con- queror, but committing in no small degree the honor of Russia and the safety ot Europe into his bands. To see the representative of Aus- tria--mouldy aod motheaten with ancestral pride—crowding the ante-chamber at the Tuileries, and cheerfully, servilely awardia to the French Emperor a respect they deny to the Czar and to their own. To think that if God wills this child of bis shall be a boy, his cradle may be rocked by the plenipotentiaries of the four grestest Powers of Europe; and that not reluctantly, through tear or com- pulsion, as was the case with the King of Rome—but gladly, eagerly, impatiently, It is very doubtful whether all history con- tein another such example of vicissitude. Measuring the actual power of the French Emperor againet that of those with whom he might be compared, and making no allowance for the difference of circumstanc.s, it is cer- tain it does not, Important t¥ Trer.—The Commercial Adver« tiser of Jast evening conspicuously publishes the following notification: Gramrvine INTELLIGENCE rRoM Mr, exceedingly gratified to be able to state, of » gentieaun who came passenger tn © Asie, ani eho raw Mr. Buchanan on the very ev of his d=. yartore, that that gentleman assured him that al! pains of difficulty between the United stares and Great Bria a were in # fair way of adjustment, and would be adjasted in a very few Gays. Now, whether this is real news or a trick o tke bulls of Wall street, we must await toe ertival of the next steamer to determ’ Meat time, let the hears growl on, AY, FEBRUARY 27, 1856.. Transatlantic Steamships—Progress of Steam - and Baterprise. On the 234 April, 1838, a tremendous excite- ment prevailed in New York. “From an early hour in the morning until dark’—we quote the language of this journal—“myriads of per- tons crowded the Battery to have a glimpse of the first steam vessel which had crossed the At- lantic from the British isles and arrived safely in port: it is said that every Englishman in the city at one time or other during the day was gazing at the dark looking vessel (the Sirius,) with the American colors at the fore, and the flag of Old England at the stern, The excitement was further increased by the ar- rival of the Great Western from Bristol, which left that port on the 7th instant, making the passage in fifteen days—thus solving the pro- blem of possibility, and showing what can be Gone by enterprise, expenditure, courage and skill. The Sirius is, however, the pioneer. It is a singular coincidence that both vessels should have arrived on St. George’s day, the patron saint of the country to which they be- long.” On the 3lst March of the same year, the London papers alluded to the experiment doubttully, “There is really no mistake,” said the Zimes, “in this long talked of project of navigating the Atlantic ocean by steam. There is no doubt of an intention to make the at- tempt, and to give the experiment, as such, a fair trial. The Sirius is absolutely getting under weigh for America.” Eighteen years will soon have elapsed since these donbts were uttered, and their solution tbus enthusiastically recorded. What a change! We have fourteen lines of steamers actually running between the United States and Eu- rope, comprising no less than forty two vessels! Their rise and progress is curious. The Sirius and Great Western did not long enjoy a monopoly of the ocean ferry. They were quickly joined by the Royal William (which made a trip or two), the City of Liverpool, the British Queen, and President. Soon the Sirius and British Queen were sold, the President went down, and their place was taken by a new line, got up by a com- bination of Scotchmen and Bluenoses—an astonishing set of people for enterprise. The new line was called the Cunard line, from the leading Bluenose, and launched four steamers —the Acadia, the Caledonia, the Britannia, aud the Columbia: they commenced to run about 1840, and ran from Boston and Halifax to Liverpool. In 1843, the Oolumbia was lost— the only vessel ever lost by the Cunard line ; all the lives on board were saved. Shortly after, a French line, consisting of four steamers, was established, but after a few trips it was abandoned. Then a Belgian line was organized, and also abandoned. Soon afterward, the first American line of trans atlantic steamers was inaugurated by tha sailing of the Washington for Bremen. She was shortly after foliowed by the Hermann; both of which ships run still, with apparent success and profit. They were followed at an interval of tour or five years by the Collins line, which launched successively the Atlan- tic, Arctic, Baltic and Pacific: and are now building the Adriatic to take the place of the lost Arctic. P Latterly several new lines have been estab- lished. The American-Havre line, which was started a few years ago, having lost its two versele—the Humboldt and Franklia—re- placed them by the Arago and Fulton. Glasgow started a line of screw steamers to New York, and another line on the same plan was shortly afterward started between Liverpool and Philadelphia; without, however, competing with the Collins or Cunard lines, Quite recently a screw line, consisting of the Minna and Brenda, has been established to run between London, Cork and New York; they will probably be called the Corkscrews. The Cunard Company has also begun to run a line between Havre and New York; a Belgian company has launched vessels to ran from Antwerp; and the French are going to ran veesels with warlike names trom Havre on their own account. Altogether we may sum up the ocean steam lines established between the United States and Europe in the followiug table:— LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK. Class, Collins line. Curard line,,....+.+ Cunard dite Seotch Mne. Cork live Cunard ne. Freneb line,,...,., - Alm Old Havre line......Arago New Havre lire...... N Ind, Havre lin AM Belgian lire... Duc de Brabant Congress..... NEW YORK, SOUTHAMPTON AND RREMEN. Bremen line........ Washington ..Padale wheel. Hermann .... a VIVERPOOL AND PRILADELPINA, Phlladelphia line... . City of Baltimore, City of Washington, . City of Manchester. In addition to the above, a line has been established between Portland and Liverpool, in which the Sarah Sands and Canadian ran. The disasters to ocean steamshtps may like- wise be summed up as follows:-— Never heard of. Ali hand is waved. ‘ever heard of. All hands saved. ‘A few only saved. ‘This bill of mortality is really very small when the total namber of steamers afloat is considered. As science progresses, even this proportion will be lessened. We may hope that, when we have a hundred steamers afloat, we shall neither hear of lost vessels, nor feel excited or anxious, with good reason, when a steamer is unduly delayed. Appointment by the President, NY AND WITH THE ADVICE ND CONSENT OF THE SENATE, Aptonio B. Rabbicon, Surveyor of the Customs at Nes qually, Washington Territory, vice A, Benton Moses, deceased, "The Filthusters by the Northern Light Pat Ashere at Sandy Hook. ‘The Northern Light sailed on Monday afternoon, having cp board sbout two hundred filibusters for Nicaragua. On arriving at Sandy Hook, the tickets were examuned, and forty of them were found to be spurious; whereupon the holders of them were put ashore, and after a day’s hard travelling, found their way back to the city, intensely dirgusted with the whole affair. They complain loudly of the inhospitable treatment they received at the hande of the New Jersey farmers. The following is the state- ment of one of them :— SHATEMENT OF FITZGERALD SEBASTIAN WEED. We went to the office of the Mining Company, and they told us there that they would purchase tickets and leave them at the St. Charles Hotel, with Ma- jor Hall, for us. We saw Major Hall, and he gave us tickets, which we deemed spurious, and told him s0, when he assured us they were all right, and referred usto men who looked like policemen, who stood at the gang- way, and who said the tickets were all nmght. The vesso soon after sailed, and nothing occurred until we madethe Highlands, when the tickets where examine’ by the Cap- tain and Lieutenant, and pronounced spurious; where- upen some forty persons who held thei were arrested and placed in the wheelhouse. The Lieutenant wanted to put me in the water closet, which led to a quarrel, and I knocked him down. We were soon after taken and put on board the pilot boat Enchantress, No. 18, and landed on Sandy Hook, seven miles from apy habitation. The nearest point was the Hook light, which we marched to, ‘and were treated kindly by the keeper, Mr. Brevort, and by Lieut. McHenry, of the cutter Washington. We or- ganized into # military company, and I had the honor to be elected captain. We marched across the Horseshoe on the ice, and exdured all mancer of hardships before we arrived at this city. We were treated in a very in- ospitable manuer by the New Jerseymon, who re- fused us any succur in our distress. We were late for the boat to New York, but the captain returned and took us on board, though we had little or no money, and altogether he behaved like a cen. tleman. It was a person named Parker induced most of us to go, and we consider ourselves treated outrageously; even Capt. Creighton, who was sent out to take charge of the emigrating party, turned away when I asked him for relief. We consider ourselves a respectable as most of those who went, and feel very indignant at whet has occurred, We, the undersigned, endorse the above in every re- spect. Fitegerald Sebastian Weed, Oliver Holstein, George Louis Smith, Milton Campbell, Charies Del) John Ha! Jo. W. Duning, Jacob Cole, A. Potter, Peter Oole, ‘Thomas Smith, ‘Thomas John Lee, Charles H. Whitlook, The following is a fac simile of one of the spurious tick- ets :— nares. rhe i 24 | xnw YORE AND CALIFORNIA sT#4M. Sing SHIP LINE, 83 fe ‘Via Nicaragua. % a te Asconreny rare Commeny (it ican -~ © |Stoerage ticket, No. f0.—Not transferable, and et good he ths voyage oye 2520 | we —— ih nner et -a-4 ir, omnes al e ESE GE dancertod actdnest Ge wnn and aoe: py 2 8 lon ot whatsoever nature 1nd kind excopted in £56, x|the steamship Star of the West, to leave New SEEZl rox on thie date, SEES For CHARLES MORGAN, Agent. ee | (No signature.) BES25| | ~Dogs willbe charged $25 oaon, wadl #2 Be ia Reeaae eit ber bhewed te teece Sues ips or state rooms. sé 253 ‘The ship wil! not be accountable for & 4s luggage, goods, or other descriot = ] property, noless bills of iuding are! Ti S| signed theretor, se ulations of the steamer to be| é A strictly complied with. Lees eee CTS Ee Sete Ba erneaeer eons ‘The following are the names of the paseengers of ths Northern Light:— First cabin—# § Conner and lady, D 8 ertord and lady. CO Ferry. ‘err’, Dr Voiney’ 4 bud indy, De kW Biakenbey 3 Moanisons George Merrill, and lady. br J Blakenn, J 3 Mc George Wilkes, Me k= vden sod lady, MrJ Fridenburgh, Mre Pane, ‘Yoln v-ssiman, Mr Howland and lady, Aaron Mesa, Mrs Howland, Nis Howland, Mrs Ford and Andrews, Mrs Holilogshead, Mr. Hwuva mon, atwo daughters, ft friend, F Thayer, NO Btevens, Brikye, WH Perrine, WF Bayles. Charles Partridge, Mrs Abby H savage, Z Jenkins. Mr Wi Mr Underwocd. J J Smith, A 1. Benshaw, LW Woods, L bomaa, § Davis, Jobn T Brown, 3 .¢ L Thomas, BSiyers Hove Sharkey, Mre Mitte, Mr Heiser ‘Joba Harvey, ro air Wm Leugloee, 8. Kapdall. J 1 Guin, WG Beleber, Prod Hamilton, CB Ruth- ‘j i i 5 i es Manuell, G W'Pell, Sias Hoadley. P a Coates, Mr Johnson and lad; de Armas, John Creighton, Aba Paston, Faston, Jobn C ssichardeon. na rs ere Mr McCauley and lady, Mr Allan an b Parker NB Wooiey, Rnfus 0). Ferre, H P Willard. Jobn G_Alimond, Curre, Cg tee 3 Ww 5 Wilson, Mrs Kerry Waldron, Avstin Wing. ‘Alfred Higgins, Wi Parker, Steohen Smith, N Charles McGowan, Pierre Rounier, F Stetson, © Stetson, Mist A Britton, A D ¢ ampbell. Mrs tydis Bryant, OT Campbell, DL Camptell. Mre M Cambell. Miss M_ Campbell, wr Byat , John Coyne, Mrs Guylit, Miss C Quinn, Miss uran, ‘Miss Sumbot, Miss Kells, Mra P Ostero, Sirs Zopiocio, ir Connell tiles Files Young, tobe Stullb, lady and chdees: Cont ies Ellen Young, Jobn 8 ai > James Weir und lady, and 460 others, x Jersey City News. Tux Atws Hover.—Mr. Wm. Whitley, Superintendent ofthe Alms Hours of Jersey City, and Overseer of the Poor, in his report to the Common Council, for the quar- ter ending January 31, 1856, eays, that during Novem- ber, December and Jenuary, 190 adults and 570 children were relieved with groceries, and 214 families with coal. The amount expended in relieving the poor not in the Alms House, was, during this time, as follows:—In groce- ries, $€40 02; nursing children, $23; for shoes, $10; for transportirg paupars, $11; for iuterments, $10. Total $44 02. The number of inmates in the Alms House, November 1, was 57. Admitied from Noy. 1 to February 1, 61; making a total of 118, Of this number, 61 were adults and 57children. Of there 7 men were ¢ischay, 6 women obtained situations, 7 boys were eent to emp! ment, 2 girls were adopted in families, and ore man died— leaving 85 persons in the Alms House. Feb. 1. The ex- cera of the Alms House, during the quarter were, 27:12, for Cheng meat, dry govds, shoes, feed and straw, wood, lumber, hardware ind soep. Goods on band weluding coal, amout to $400, which is deducted from $627 12. The three last quarierly reports show that there bas beer expended during the nine months covered by those reports, $4,562, inclu: ing cea, ‘MEETING OF THE ComsON CoUNGL.—Ad adjourned meet- ingof the Jezsey City Commoa Council was held at the Lyceum last evoning, Alderman Lyon, President of the Board, in the chair. A communication was received: from the Mayor, calling the attention of the Common Council to the fact, that bills affecting the intevests og Jersey City are pending in the Legislature, concerning which immediate action should bs had. He referred to the bills relative to the omnibus routes, the Jersey City and Bergen Point Railroad, and the Jersey City and Ber- gen Point Plankroad. The Council directed that the Mayor and City Clerk should address a memorial to the Legisiature, askirg for protection to the rights and in- terests of the city, if any attempt to outrage them is mate by parties imterested in those bills, The specie’ committee he ate! to investigate into the cos; of Hook and Ladder House, No. 1, reported progress. The Wa‘er Commissioners presented their semi-annual report. They mention the probability that Hoboken and the etty of Hudson will become consumers, in the course of ane- ther year, of Passaic water, by woich means the reve- uves of the water works will be equal to thelr expenses. The report of the Engiceer and Register, and the finan- cial statement of the Commissioners, were embraced im the report. After the transaction of some other busi- ness, the Board adjourned, Risienep.—Alderman Richard R. Rappelyes, one of the Aldermen from the Fourth ward of Torey city, sent his resignation to the City Clerk on Monday. Naval Antellgence, The following ia @ list of the officers of the steam frigate Merrimac, at Boston :— Commender, Capt. G. J. Pendergrast. Lien‘enints, George W. Harrison, Edward Donaldson, F. Key array, John M. Wainwright, Joseph B, Saith, M. /’. Jones, Caesby Ap R. Jones, Master, John W. Danington! Purser, Themas ?. MeBlair, Surgeon, D. Harlan, Passed Assistant Suogeom James ¥. Harrinin. Aseiscant, sar eon, Kéwin R. Derby. Purecr’s Clerk, John F, Fargu- son, Captain’a Clerk, —— Smith. Walker. Ac ing Boatswain, Thowis G. Bell, Master's Mate, Robert Owens. Gunner, R. N. Peake, Carpenter, ems sInbple, atime pes: Tavis Rogers. Chief ogineer, m. He seistant Engineers, A, i M. Adama, C. I. Loriog, H. ee eter BL B. Nomen, R. M, Partieman, al nos B. Taylor. Second LicutenA&t of i gg ae tof Marines, David. Boarawain, James Apsovnxseyt oF, NNESST 3 Ssne Leer! Z Vion to xoyourn sine die on the 2d of March, Novel, Briliiant, Origin gant and remarkably cheap. KNOX be ready on Thureday morning, the 2 style of bat is novelty that m spring siste of bat in as * P I, Strikingly Ete- spring style ot hat sill inat. -Kuox’s sprmg rdadmtyation Kner! ; it «ine? in conce} '# «pring style of ye” hy pring style of hi in. ly elegant” economical price of ine dolla Bovox’s aprin Ibe ready for ingpec'ioa 6% the ieremen 108. Rt Knox's eatablishment eorn ot Broadway and Pul teAy m Worthy of Know.) U0” strect, and all will acknowledge | White, the Hatte: Fulton street, where a Jar; caps and travel ing bage m GR hota just imsued will HITS. batter, 148° Fulton Broad way. has Removed to U8 varied assortment of Naja, found. The spring *'y0 at very gontee! and asi. 1 between Nawswu ao} / { |