The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1856, Page 4

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Gubsoripticns wd advertisements for any edition of the rw Youz Huma wi!! be receivod ai the following pisces Ss nas Oo., 61 ‘Wilhaz st, =e *' Page dole Doras Heeereet Seta thainso, Th Meshaege thenek, Made ‘Whe eontenis of Wo Furopean edition of the Huaatp will @mbrace the news received by mail and telezraph at the (GiBee daring :bo previous week, and to the bour of publl- 1 eeeetl The News. Congress re-assembled yesterday at noon. O/ the ‘tee hundred and two members comprising both housee, but thirty-nine were absent. The day was a @elighiful one, snd the Capitol was crowded with politicians and pretty women. Tne Senate despatch- ed the usual routine business with quiet dignity. ‘The House proceeded to qualify its newly elected wembers, and when the credential of Mr. Whit- fiel:', the delegate from Kaosas, was presented, Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, evilently in accordance wots a previous understanding among the republi- ean members, odjected to its reception. A warm @ebate ensued, and much excitement prevailed. Fiwally the question of the admission of General Woitticid was decided in the negative by a vote of Riuety-seven yeas to one bundred and one nays. Pending a motion to reconsider this vote the Hoase adjourned. The democrats confidently expect to muster sufficieat force to-day to carry the motion to yeconsider, and also to admit General Whittield to his seat. The President's message will be delivered to Congress at noon to-day, and immediately there- after it will be iseued to the public in the evening edition of the Hrxatp. Copies of the document arrived at the Post office in this city at fifteen minutes to three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury reached Mr. Redtield, the Coilector of the port, at the same time. Our readers have heretofore Leen made acquainted with the leading teatures of the various departmental zeports through the letters and despatches of our correspondents. We shall, however, as convenience serves, place these papers complete on record in our eolamps. In another colnmn we publish an annoance rent ef the adjustment of the dispute between Eaglaui and New Granada, growing out of the Mackintosh claim, and the consequent abandonment of the pro- ject of blockading the ports of the last named power, Wehave commented at length upon this important intelligence in the editorial columns. ‘The steamship Arago is due at this port from Southampton, and the Arabia is due at Hs! fax from Liverpool. The latter will bring European advices bo the 22d ult—one week later than that brought by the Persia. The Arago left on the 19th alt. Our report of last night's proceedings of the Board ef Aldermen will doubtiess attract the especial attention of our readers. Mayor Wood has vetoed ‘the appointment of a batch of Commissioners of Deeds, and also the Buckman plan for the new City Hall. The reasons which impelled the Mayor to this course are fally set forth in his messages to the Board, which are given elsewhere. A report trom the Committee on Ferries, relative to the refasal of the Union Ferry Compiny to issue comrautation Sekets to passengers, was presented and or- dered to be printed. A resolation is ap- pended to the report, and recommended for adoption, to the effect that the company be di- rected to commute with paseengers as heretofore, and in case of their refasal so to do the Counsel of the Corporation is directed to take the necessary Jegal steps to compel them. The report contains a tabular statement of the income and expenditures ef the Ferry Company during the year ending May 1, 1856, which wil! enable those interested to judge of the propriety or necessity of the recent advance im the rates of ferringe. A resolution, calling upon the Commissioners for a detailed statement of the affairs of the Central park was adopted. The Board also directed that Bloomingdale square be closed. Nothing of general interest transpired in the Board ef Councilmen. The Tammany Society did not convene last night, porsuant to announcement, a: the meeting room was engaged fora ball. As it was in contemplation to elect a Sachem, there was a crowd of the taithfal present.. It was understood that a strong effort ‘would be made to choose a Sachem oppoved to Mayor Wood; put it remains to be seen whether the plotters will eucceed at the next meeting, which is to be held next week. In the case of Louis Baker, the testimony on the part of the prosecution closed yesterday. The de. fence will commence to day. We have files ‘from Bathurst (Australia) to the @th of September. A body of Chinese emigrants bad arrived there. Gold sold at £3 15s. per o mee. The diggings yielded weil, and it was said that a mine of sliver bad been opened at Mount Alexander. Owing to heavy rains the western roads were nearly impassable. The Liverpool and Parametta railway was opened for traffic on the 5th of Seotember. We have intelligence from Kansas to the effect that thirty-nine of the free State prisoners at Le: compton effected their escape, without committing any violence, on the night of the 22d uit. At the National theatre ia Hoxton on Thursday evening last Mr. M. R, Parker fell accidentally, and a knife entering his side, a rib was broken. Onthe same evening, at the Boston theatre, Bir. (). Johnson received a severe wound in the groin from the acci- dental discharge of a pistol in bis pocket. The holders of United States stocks will find in thie morning's money article an official notice from NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1856. Cee ‘tee Treasury Department of interest to them, and of general interest also, as showing the prosperous coB- ‘dition of the nations! finances. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending 23.h ult. amouy,t- ed to $1,353 ,105. The cotton market continued firm yestendsy, with sales of about 1,000 bales, based apon miédling up- lands at 12jc. and middling ,New Orleans at 12jc. The flour market was rether heavy and some des- criptions of the lower grades were easier, though ia a general way withowt quotable chinge, while sales were to a moderate extent. Inferior West- em graées of wheat were lower, while prime to ‘choiee winter rej end white were without sbapge of moment. Corn was rather easier, and closed at ‘72c. a73c. for mixed, Yéc. for ‘Southern yellow and 74c. a 75c. for white do. Rye ‘was unchanged. Old mess pork was ‘hei «at «$18 50 a 318 75, which checked vsales. Small lots of new sold at ‘Sls 873 a $19, Among other transactions a sale of 3,000-packages of long middles were made for future delivery, sellers option, at 9c. Sugars were quiet, with sales of only 200 hhds. of Cuba muscovado, at firm prices. There was more doing in coffee. The cargo ef the bark Azelia was sold, consisting of 3;600 bags of Rio, and 2,600 do. St. Domingo, with other small lots of Rio, Java and Maracaibo, at rates given in another colamn. The stock consists of 52,600 bags of Rio, and 11,350 mats Java, which, with other supplies of other kinds, gives a total of all sorts of 72,409 bags and mate. Freights to English porta were toa moderate extent without change of importance in quotations, while the market closed rather heavy. The Stormy Weather. The opening proceedings yesterday, of the first day of the last session of the present Con- gress, would geem to indicate that the agitation of the Kansas question has not been foreclosed by the Presidential election. Our democratic co- temporaries have been vainly whistling to keep their courage up, under the delusive idea that this Kansas excitement was but an electioneering trick, and that with the close of the Presidential campaign the universal Northern outcry against poor Pierce's policy of ruffiaa eovereignty would quietly dieaway. On the first day of Congress, however, and in the very act of its organization, the House is brought to the test question of the validity of this ruffian policy of Pierce in Kangas, in a constitutional and logical protest against the admission of General Whitfield as the delegate trom that Territory; for, surely, where the consti- tution and the organic law have been superseded by a bogus government all proceedings resting upon the authority of such government, may pro- perly be denounced, and should be repudiated as null and of no effect, The objections of Mr. Grow, therefore, to the admission of Whitfield as the Kansas delegate were valid objections. The real issue involved may be dodged now; but yesterday's proceedings of the House were only a foretaste of what is yet to come on this Kansas business. The Know Nothings voted with the democrats for Whittield, and at the adjournment the vote stood, yeas 97, neys 101, with the expectation of a reinforcement of (nor a dozen democrats this morning, so that there can be po doubt of Whitfield’s admis sion to-day, unless the reading of the message should intervene, or some spontaneous irregular debate shall sping up and consume the sit- ling. The meaning of this virtual endorsement by the democracy and Know Nothings of the House of Pierce's border ruftian policy may be readily explained. This is a short session. A large pro- portion of the members go out with this Coa- grces, in all probability never to come back again. Their policy and their purpose is to make he most of their time, Galphin and Gardner claims, the Pacific Railroad swindle, swindling railroad land grants, Indian annuity frauds, pa- tent monopolies, spoliation contracts, bogus in- demnities, bogus pension claims, and other arti- cles entering into the fat pickings of a corrupt lobby, are the legislative game for this short ses- vion. Constitutional questions, like that in- volved in Whitfield’s case, don’t pay—they will be turned over, as far as possible, to Mr. Bucha- nan, ond poor Pierce will have saddled him with a load which will inevitably break bis back, un- less he throws it off in the very outset of the new administration. We shall see from Mr. Pierce's message to-day what he and the Jeff. Davis Southern disunion faction expect of poor Pieree’s successor. The first day of the seseion has been signalized by a little cross firing of murketry, the second may be moiked by @ great gun or two, in addition to the bombshell of poor Pierce’s last annual message or farewell address. Frervom or THe Press ty Norta Cano) An obscure, antediluvian-looking paper, printed at Wilmington, North Carolina, called the “Com mercial,” favors the world with the following bit of insolent folly on the freedom of the prese:— IvcaxDiaRy Prmtcanions.—We hope the proseat Legis- lature will pase a law io prevent the circulation in thie Biate of \pcen¢iary Northern ‘aad other peri. Odicals (hat Gow to our midst 0 produee disor. der and citeatisiaction amcog us Our own presses @ not perm tied, withou, giving olfencs to some persons, report matiers aff-cting (he Institution of slavery, ‘sary to an intelligent view of (be subject, in regard to Outside preneure upom i; whiis the New Yor« Hav. other pablications of a like » abovoding with abusive and tneuitiog commen and re cords, fa'se snd calumnieus, are freely circula'ed ad paid for—the proprietors gen to ther wealth oy Weleture abould think it Es $F they can fully meet the case by rendering it person to receive them—'or the receipt sumptive evidence of tptenuon to cireulation. Our ven, however, who have cyntro! of th: ‘will best know how to manage the affair. The sore point with this chap is the support which such Northern journals as the New York Heratv receive from the South—the proprietors adding greatly to their wealth by Southern pa- tronage.” But this is a great mistake. Our cir- culation in all the Southern States is less than our eirculation in Connecticut, and our Southern cir- culation is greater now than ever heretofore, Spoilsmen and party organs have labored for | some time under the miserable delusion that the New Youk Henao’s consistent advocacy of the constitutional rights of the South isdue to Sonth- ern patronage. But the fact is our Southern patronage hae had nothing to do with the course of this journal, and no measures of Southern restriction against our Southern subsori- bers can touch elther our profits or our course a: an independent organ of the independent American people. We stick to the con- tion, and the constitutional rights of the people and of every section of the Union; but this adhesion to the constitution involves the “ freedom of the prees.”” In thie view we dare, we defy any disunion agitator of the North Carolina Legislature to try | the experiment of making it a penal offence for onr North Carolina subscribers to receive the New Yors Heranp. Let them try the nullification experiment of bringing the authority of North Carolina into conflict with [the supreme law of the land and we shall join iseue with them at Meeting of Congress—Symptoms of are o part,ef our great constituency. They are intellir,amt, Union loving men—their rights are ours, amd their cause shall be ours if we can only bring these insolent disanion censors to the test. We dare them to the test—we defy thea — ‘we fap our fingers at their impotent malice and foty. Before six months are over we expect ‘they will be brought to their senses, and we ad- monieh our silly cotemporary of the Wilmington Commercial, ta view of some little droppings of the spoils ef the new administration, to have a care, for it will not be a nullification adminis- tration. Have a care. Take a timely hiat from the Richmond Enquirer, and cease this folly of Southern nullification. The New Granadian Difficulties—The Trac Mede of Setting the Panama Question. We publish in another column the news that the difficulties between England and New Gra- nada have been amicably adjusted. There only remains, therefore, the arrangement of those pending with ourselves to remove all fears rela- tive to the difficulties between that republic and the commercial nations of the world. The Pana- ma question, and various others existing between our government and that of New Granada, are giving Marcy and the diplomatists at Washington a vast deal of trouble. What with the over cau- tious subtlety of the Secretary and the claims of the New Granadian Minister, Mr. President Hoagly, of the Panama Railroad Company, and the numerous sufferers by the riot on the Isthmus on the 15th of April last, the Cabinet have got into a fog. Mr. Commissioner Morse, meanwhile, stangs waiting for the instructions relative to his Bogota mission, but from present appearances seems to be in a fair way of getting no instrus- tions at all. These questions must be settled, however, and the sooner this is done the better for all parties. Our citizens who were plundered , at Pavama bave already waited too long for the indemnity and repara‘ion that is due them. In order, therefore, that-justice may be done to all, we have determined to come to the assi:tance of Marcy, and to help poor Pierce and his Cabinet out of this quandary. The points in dispute are these: First, indem- nity to the sufferers by the Panama massacre; se- cond, an arrangement of a postal treaty with the government of New Granada, so that our Cali- fornia mails shall be subject to no delay or tax on the Isthmus; third, security tor the safety of the transit across the Isthmus for all time to come. The first of these points willadmit ot but one settlement. Our citizens, confiding in the faith of treaties and their contract for transit with the Panama Railroad Company, were brutally and barbarously plundered and murdered. For this immediate reparation and indemnity should be demanded. No argument against it will avail, and we have reason to believe that had it been firmly insisted upon by our government that of New Granada would bave accorded it before now. The insane Pierce policy has been the only ob- stacle that has delayed its settlement. On the second point asimple review of the matter as it stands, will point out the only way of arrangement. At present we have no postal convention with New Granada. The old one that was formed before the Panama Railroad was built, has expired by notice from the New Grana- dian government. Our California mails are therefore crossing the Isthmus by sufferance, sub- ject to the following stipulations in the charter of the Panama Railroad Compauy and its contract with the government of New Granada:— Art. 38 All the correspondence whicn may arrive from the territory of the republic, or irom foreygs couo rien, to be transported over the Fatiroad, whatever may de it cestination, shall indispensably pass throag> tae Post offices of New Granada, which sball open with the company #2 anmval account of postage in order to com- pore with the ebare of profit which may beiong to Granada, in conformity with the arrangement ic the inirweth article of this contract, aad in order to guard again tt apy frend tp this resp: ct, Art, 29. In coprequonce of the sitpulations in the pre- ceo lng article, the company b.ods i weil not toreoerve auy otber peckets Of Correspendetce tose those waren as be delivered to \t by the Post officers ot New Granata, to be carried by the railroad \o the port of embareatoo, or to the point on the Irthmus to which they may be dos ned on the line of the said road; com dying with the Girections which the executive powrr may iay down oa the subject, and a.s0 with those whict may be given for carrying op the eaid road the correspondence of ‘oreign Bations which ne be delivered to the company by tne cfera'# ot the republic for this object. Art, 80. The executive power sball at all times deter mine what foregn nationt msy be permitted to trane- Port their correspondence acrose the 1sth nus of Panama by the ralirosd; but im all cases io which the mails of fore'gn nations are permitted to pase by che Isthmus of Pename, all the covtracts or pecuniary arrangements for their traneportation by tbe railroad shal! be made by the Company, and all pecuniary proce ede of such contracts and arrangements shall go into the funda of the company. ae Dranoh of ite profs. In con, for thie pri. vuege the company obliges iise'l to transport by the rat! Yond. tree of charge, ail tbe mails of Now ‘iranada; and moreover to pay the goverument 0/ the repuviic five percenton ali sums of money which it may receive in virtue of paid contracts and arrangements, whether saca some proceed {rom contracta which the compumy may contracts and arrangements, in no case shail |} on this account pay to the government of New Granada less than $10,000 per annum, 2. That this payment shall be over and above the three per cent of the net proms of the en- terprise to which New Granada ia cn’itied, aod 5. That the power of the company to cate: or pecuniary regulations shali not manner to the coptracta or foreign pation or nations, tor om the Isthmus of Panama. It will be seen by perusal of these stipulations- how complete are the reservations of the govern- ment of New Granada in relation to the transit of mails across the Isthmus. These regulations con- flict with the interests of our citizens, by subject- ing their correspondence to liability for postage in the territory of New Granada and causing delay in the transit of the mail. The only bene- fit these restrictions can produce to that gover.- ment is the pecuniary one of postage on the cor- respondence, which, by the foregoing stipulations, must pass through ite Post offices. A pecuniary benefit can be compensated by a payment of money. Let our government or the railroad company buy from that of New Granada a recision of these stipulations. Such a step will answer the double purpose of freeing our California mails from their present liability and providing a fand out of which to pay a proper and just indemnity to our citizens for the outrage of the Panama maseacre. We now come to the third and most important point, which is the future security of the transit across the Isthmus. Interested parties have thrown around this question a mass of doubt and complication under which the true issues have been ignored. Under the head of “ Rights, Im- munities and Exceptions’ it is stipulated in the charter of the Panama Railroad Company as follows:- Ar\. 25. The company i authorized to propose to the exeevtive power such regulations as it may judge | per for the police, security, ure and preservation of ite * commbnication, ports, works and eetablishments of all kinds; but euch regulations shal: not be carrie* in to efleet without the express approbation ¢f the kxecative power, which, even after baving approved them, may nol oF alter them if tt proper, provweding always jo erpforwity wich the 'aws of the republic. art. 3). The services of all kinds which the any ie to afford on the railroad during tho period of privi- lege, shall be given oe by Me agente, and wite 7. the material belonging to {teelf, unieee itehould chooes to perform them in another way In oliciting and accepting the initiatory pow- er for the establishment of regulations for the police, security, etc., of the road, ports, works quired a sort of municipal control on the | Isthmus. This power it exercised for a time, and before the railroad was finished we were frequently enlightened upon the smart doings of Ran Runnels, as the chief of their police. | The Isthmus was at that time much more iafest- ed with evil characters than it now is, and yet the transit was maintained in a safe conditioa, | Toward the close of 1854 this police ceased to exist. Two causes, we are told, contributed to this end. One was tbe expense it entailed upon the company, and the other was some divergence of opinion between the officers of the compauy and tbe Governor of Panama as to the appoiat- ing power. With the jealousy that always characterizes a weak government, that of Panama began to en- tertain fears of the company’s police, and claim- ed the power of appointing its membere, When such great interests as those of the company and its passengers and trade were at stake ina little State that, like Panama, is always in a bavkrupt condition, prudence would have dic- tated that some means should have been found to have settled this question without a confiict, But a conflict did ensue, and the police was dropped. Since that time the company has never proposed to the government of New Granada any plan or regulations for the police and security of its roads and ports, It has the power and the means to establish a police, and if it does so the Isthmus will be secure for all time. Let it, therefore, bring forward a plan to establish them at once, and pay for it as their cbarter stipulates, We shall then hear no more of a necessity for national ships in the ports or for the seizure of the Isthmus by this or any other government. Tue Tripuse anv rts Poxttica, Buuypers.— Our cotemporary, the 7'ribune, draws upon its imagination and not its memory when it insinu- ates that the Hiratp ever gave any support or countenance to the platform of a convention held at Philadelphia lost summer, and calling iteclf republican. The Hera.p is aware that that con- vention, as also another subsequently held in this city, ratified the nomination of Col. Fremont al- ready made in the columns of the independent press. But the mere endorsement of this nomi- nation by these conventions did not and could not,render the original nominors of Col. Fre- ment responsible for any platitudes or rubbish which such conventions might emit in the shape of platforms. The Heratp supported Col. Fre- mont on the strength of his historical tame, and notorious merits. For the platform called re- publican it cared nothing. Its experience of platforms teaches that they are uniformly words used for the concealment of thought, and public deception. Its acquaintance with conventions satisfies it that they are invariably assemblages of corrupt politicians, who lead an irregular life, possees no honest means of livelihood, and are mere vagabords with no claim whatever to re- gard or notice. It therefore eschews them all, conventions and platforms. The very platform now presented to the Herarp by the Tribune as the embodiment of Tribunitial wisdom 1s so absurdly drawn that in one paragraph it says that “Congress has sovereign power over the Territories,”’ aad in the next it says: “We deny the authority of Congress to give legal existence to slavery in any Territo- ry of the United States.’ Which of these two statements contain “the 7rilune’s sentiments ex- actly %” Our cotemporary is again in error when he supposes that we propose to assist ia the editor- thip of the Trilune, or to play mentor to a Fou- rierite Telemachus. Our design was more mo- dest; we merely tried to improve the occasion of Colonel Fremont’s defeat by apportioning to the Tribune its proper share of responsibility there- for, and showing the reason why a zealous and powerful advocacy of a candidate in the columns of that journal might in reality injure his pros- pects. Butthe 7ribune bas itself put the case so aptly in the article now under notice that we shall merely quote its words. “Electing a President,” says our cotemporary, “js quite a subordinate consideration with us, and we shall be willing never to elect one if we can the more effectually subserve the ends of Justice, Freedom aud Humanity.” This is precisely the danger. The 7’rilune does not go for the constitution, or the laws, or the Bible, or any other known standard of right; but seta up for iteelf whatever standard of Justice, Freedom and Humanity its momentary whim may suggest, and goes for them atall hazards. This may be, and in one sense is more heroic, than adbering to the old standards; but when we see that the rage for being ahead of the world has already misled the 7ribune into an advocacy of compulsory teetotalism, and at least a friend- ly regard for Fourierism, women’s rights, and a host of other isma, we can easily understaod why the people distrust it and fear it. This is what we meant when we said the 7vibune would have to mend its ways or it would never clect a President. We can eee now, from the official returns, that setting New England and the Southern States both out of the question, Col. Fremont {s in a popular minority in the central States of the Union, which decide all our elections : the votes for Buchanan and Fillmore outaumber his. N» small proportion of this majority thas given to Buchanan and Fillmore was due to the dread felt by steady, quiet people lest Col. Fremont should’ be led away by such guides as the New York Trilume, in chase of “ Justice, Freedom and Humanity” by some new and short cut. The people at large, you see, think Justice, Freedom and Humanity pretty well cared for in the consti- tution; and they bave a mortal fear that the Tribune people, in their rage for larger doses of the three blessings, would put them out of the way altogether, in rome such general blow up as a cervile war or @ social war, if they had a chance. Of course, the people may be doing the Tribune an injustice by believing this of them; but when this eame 7ridune tells you it can’t abide the gait which suite the rest of th: world, but must be ahead, in its own words, that it must be the “tug which tows” society along, it is not unnatural, after all, that it should be sharply watched and strictly judged. Tue New Lrertatere.—From all we can hear the new Legislature threatens to be one of the worst we have ever had, and to sink, before & year is out, into unmingled contempt. The members were elected hy the popular enthu- sinem in favor of Fremont, no hand or act of their own having anything to do with their triumph, They bave two important matters to take up at the start—the one is the selection of a Senator in the room of Senator Fish, who, to the eatisfaction of bis friends, his own benefit, and the advantage of his State, is now going to ro- tire to private life. It is tobe hoped that the Washington. Our North Carolina eubsctibers | and establishments, the Railrond Company ac_' Legislature will not select the man who has heen nominated by certain country politicians, and who has even received the commendation of a journal of this city—Mr. Preston King; who, a good natured, imbecile man, would endeavour, were he sent to the United States Senate, to re- vive the old Albany Regency at Washington, and would infailibly cut a most ridiculous figure. The man to be chosen must be an independent, inteKigent man, competent to represent the State, and to act without bidding from others. This Senatorehip, together with the ‘city charter,” are enough to engross the attention of the Legislature when they first meet. We shall soon see whether the stories which are told of the members are justified or no. “ Tue Corporation tv 4 Stare or Anarcny.— We publish this morning two important messages from the Mayor to the legislative branch of the Corporation. The Mayor interposes the veto power against the action of the Common Council in relation to the new City Hall, and also with- bolds his approval from the list of Commissioners of Deeds, eighty-nine in number, nominated by the Board of Aldermen. The Mayor's message vetoing the joint resolu- tion by which the Buckman plan for the new City Hall was adopted, is eharply written, and will redound to the credit of its author. The Mayor says very frankly that neither the Board of Aldermen nor himself have the re- quisite amount of information upon architectural tubjects to decide upon the merits of any plan, which is undoubtedly the fact. And in the se- coud place, he recommends the appointment of a commission of men who have the requisite in- formation upon the subject of architecture, and whose position and reputation place them above the suspicion of corruption. This commission to have full power to decide upon the plans. Tne Mayor has hit the right nail on the head. There is an immense amount of humbug about this new City Nall project; and, without posi- tively condemning the Buckman plan, we must say that house carpenters are not architects, and that more ability is required to design a new City Hall than to construct a platform for a poli- tical meeting in the Park. Then there is no end of the expense, and the affair would start with tome absurdly small sam—say five millions—and only be finished when further appropriations were denied. The veto power is nearly all that the present ridiculous charter gives to the Mayor, and he has used it rightly in this instance: The other veto—in relation to the Commis- sioners of Deeds—is an equally good thing, in a somewhat smaller way. The office of Commis- sioner is an exceedingly important one, and for political purposes the Aldermen have thrown aside nearly all the old, tried, capable incum- bents, and substituted in their place inexperienced young men—a dangerous precedent, and one which should not be allowed. Thus the Mayor and the Common Council have came to a dead lock, in which the Mayor has the best of it. He, having another term before him, can afford to wait, while the present Common Council has but one short month of life. During this month we may expect all sorts of schemes and corrupt jobs, in order that the outgoing legis- ators may have one splendid haul ut the city treasury as an agreeable wind-up of their official existence. This City Hall business, which has been hanging on for two years or more, was one of the grandest of these schemes, and every tax- payer will feel relieved to know that it is nipped in the bud. We hope that the Mayor will be equally bold in suppressing other jobs which will be introdueed. The want of harmony between the powers is undoubtedly distressing to the obbers, but it is a good thing for the people. Tue Sovrnenn Democratic Press axp THE New Apminisrration.—The Richmond Enquirer is pleased at the conservative vone of certain Southern democratic papers in reference to the incoming administration; and says “the New York Heratp is much puzzled to explain the more moderate tone which the press of the South exhibits since the close of the canvass.” But this is not the case. There is no puzzle in the matter at all. The spoils will explain this “ more moderate tone” at once. Our democratic cotemporaries of the South, descending to this “ more moderate tone,” bave an eye upon the pols, Still, with an amusing mockery of con- sistency, our Richmond philosopher adheres to the disgusting absurdity that with the election of Fremont “ the Union would not have survived a twelvemonth.” This is the shallow pretence and the sorry excuse for the insane ravings of treason, rebellion and civil war, of the Richmond Zn- quirer, and the whole Southern disunion pack, through the late campaign. Since the election, they are hauling up to the wind, and we hail it as a good omen. Ifthe Union can be saved by the spoils it will be a good thing; but we have a sus- picion that Mr. Buchanan will look to other and nobler expediente than the public plunder for tecuring the loyalty of the South. The spoils would go but a short way among the numerous horde of Southern fire-eating expectants. They must be brought up to the mark of submission to the constitution and the will of the people; and doctrine, isn’t it ? Brooklyn C Intelligence. ‘Tae Union i anuy Company.—The following petition Presented to the Common Council last evening — honorable body to aod atip atthe fort of Fulton steceu, owned by. ‘he , for the «ferry between thal piace, sund'a convent in the ety of Kew York, ant thoy wo higher rates of “all be charged them Union Ferry Company, one cont for ear fort passenger, eleht per hundred for cart Ucketa, Be, = JOHN A. DAYTON. The petition was referred, after some brief ooserya tions, to the Forry and Water Rights’ Vommittces for Howe ror Trcaxt Cxttpamy.—The Special Committee Personal Intell} . ‘The President bas rr ized Onaries F. Looney as Conmul-Genoral of Austria of the port of New York. Mra Fenny Kemble is to give @ series of Shaksporian readings at & Louis, commencing Ike. 10. Capt. Carr, late from Kaneas, where he was en. oud nne slavery caaro, arrived in New Oricane friine 70d Uh, He intended 10 g0 ont for Nicaragua oy the next trip of the Tennessee Bishop O'Conner, of Pittebut has left that city for Korope for the benefit of his 5 Papehley Lenn oes peg yA apd of color de- » Ki baving left the beech ia tc, Ve erummed ths practice of toe law, he fg AES - 5 wen rone: Judge THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, News from Mexico. Barrowoxg, Dec. 1, 1856, New Orleans papers of Saturday, the 22d ult., are to band They contain the latest advices from Mexloo, which copfirm the succsescs of Vidnurri, aud allude to more revolutionary movements, News from Kansas. Cmcaco, Dec, 1, 1866. We bave Kapeas dates to the Sith ult. Thirty-nine free State prisoners at Lecompton escaped on the night of the 22d ult, No violence was used by them, The report that Jadge Lecompte had issued @ process against Gov. Geary for contempt of court is not confirmed, The Boston Slave Case. Bostom, Dec, 1, 1856. ‘Tue examination of Pnilip Do Mena and Joaquin Nogret, on the alleged charge of being engaged in the slave trade commenced this forereon. Hon, B. F. Hallett conducted the case for the governmest, and A. H. Fiske for the de- fendants. The testimony up to noon developed nothing ‘mportant. ‘W. 3. Messerve, Mayor of Salem, was the only wit- nese examined to-day. Bis testimony was confined to « the details of the arrest ot Negret and Demena in Salem, and the report of conversations beld with them, &o. The name of tho slave schooner which Nogret claims wv filted out at Wilmington and sunk off Cape Cod to obtain the ten thorsand dollars on board is given as the Tete, Paulita and Watchman. The result of the examination £0 far indicates that Negret is insane, or has been, or has practiced a rather steep hoax on some of the authorities of Salem. ‘The turther hearing of the case bas been adjourned till Wednesday. Accident on the Manassas Gap Railroad. TRE BNGINEER, FIREMAN AND CONDUOCTOK KILLED. ‘Wasuinctom, Dec. 1, 1866. An accident ocenrred oa the Manassas Gap Ral!road on Saturdey, at the river station, Warren county, Va., in copsequence of the bridge over the Shenandoah river giv- ing way. The engineand five cars were precipitatea forty-five feet into tre river, and the conductor, engineer and fireman were killed, and John G. Buck, » passenger, of Warren county, was fatally injured. United States Supreme Court. ‘Was inctox, Deo. 1, 1856, ‘The United States Supreme Court met this morning. All the Judges were present with the exception of Messrs. ‘Wayne and Nelson. Frem Newfoundland. Sr, Jouva, N.F., Dac. HA. M. The weather bere is clear and cold, and there has been fine sleighing for the past few days. Wind northeast. The telegraph is working ¢irect to Port Hood. Marine Disasters. CuatHam, Mass., Dec. 1, 1866, ‘The bark Solomon Piper remains ashore on the bar, and is fli of water, The sea is so rough that boats can- Bot board her, The crew are safe, The brig China, from Philadelphia for Boston, reported ‘as anchored cast of Monomoy with loss of spars, on Satur- day night, succeeded in riding out the gale. The echooner Cassia, of Dennis, from Elizabethport, ‘with a cargo of pig iron, is ashore on Monomoy, full of ‘water. ‘The eteamer Enoch Train passed by here at half-past nine o’ciock this morning, with the ship Queen of the Pa- cific, in tow, for New York. Nayrvcesr, Dec. 1, 1856. ‘The schooner Sarah Allen, from Calais for New York, with a cargo of lumber, went ashore at five o’clock op Sunday morning. The crow were all saved. The vessel ‘will probably go to pieces. The cargo can be saved. New York Canal Tolls. opening of navigation to date is $406,407 31, against $270,432 24%or the same time isst year. Increase, $136,- 975 07. Disaster to the Steamer Monarch. Oswaco, Dec. 1, 1866. The Canadian steamer Monarch ran ashore near Toronto during the gale on Saturday morning, and is full of The Ohio River. Cotton bad advanced Dales at 1130. w 1140. for Sterling excnange iid. Fi Flour quiet; extra Obio 8,600 . ‘UB 18,000 vushels st $1 11 a $1 113 for 064 168,790 bushels corn, 13,850 warm and pleasant. j L ES H J i 3 Before Hon. Judge Clerk, Dre. 1.—Jeremiah G. Hamilton vs. The Accomory Transit Company, Cormeliua Vandertili and oh-ra,—The following ‘8 ordered to be inserted in the judgment proposed by the Aeferdant's attorney — ‘The Court as matters of that on the 18th of Fe § ochre tte, iran hn nal re in 00) 3 that the of the pr oe Py ES pursoant to said decree, is ta the ‘he control of the detendont, deinrd the present menegement and arrangemonts of raid company , but to leave ibe samo (0 be Jetermined by s majority of ihe stockholders when they deom it to net fn rolation thereto. Tho Court farther finde that ft would be detrimental to the interests of the oompiny to appoint at prevent a receiver of tte cifeote, ant that to srant the relief preyed for in the complaint would pro- dnoe irreparable injury to the masa of stockholders. The Court further finds that the piaintiff has not proved frand oF Any Conduct injarious to the iy oF rights of the company on tae part of the den Jers. It \ therefore concluded and adjudged that ‘be complaint should be dismissed with comts. Fuom Taxas —The Galveston News, of the 15th Net , bas the following :—We find it very dificartto gather whe retarna of this State. So far as heard from, the de- Ik ts now boheved mocrats bave carried every county. tbat Texas will give Pachavan any to 15, E hic! fj General's offiee, and another (im which the latter wae killed. Ont —— ee Ald to the French Refagees. Naw Yorn, Deo, 1, 1960, st these $6 to the Com. PaaN AMER TORS.