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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. 4AM ES GORDO NEP, RDITOR AND PROPRIBROR, Orrwer © W, CORNER OF NABBAU Av) FULTON C8 @ebume XXI 4uU -.4ENTS TOMORROW BVENING. SO. OEM! OF MUSIC, Pourvents . —ltauas Orpea— ‘Sean. me. STBLO’S GARDEN, Sroadway—Divertissexast—Tigrs Gove ‘PBaTs—KBMBRALDA- SOWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Oramio—A Losn or 4 ene —_— #UR®ON’S NEW THEATRE, —SLave Acta Ess—AreuTS 45D my Ln etd aaRATR, Broadway—CvogD ND GUN eumre—' fw. LARRA KEENE'S THEATER, 624 Breadway—#£0oND bove— youre New) AMBERS STREET PHUEATES, (late Burton's). —OKs0m, ante Bearan—Goupex Fake PakMEn —VAGe00sD, SARKUM'S AN ERICAN WL ‘Cuancorrs PamrLe—W Wane. ROADWAY VARIETIES, 02 Broséway.—F. D.~Tur 0 MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- es— ine OLD CLoox. er ST's SERENADERS, 585 roadway. err nisy—( “INDPBELLA OGINESE HALL, 539 Broadway—Wonvenrce TRIcKs, BY onern’s Dogs ann Mor kere it. wa ‘UM, srosdwag—After- Dexia MiNsTmaL. Rvening —Ersiorux Mow Yors, Wednesday, December 10, 1856. Ne Mails for Hurope- THE MEW YORK HEXALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Conard mail steamsnip Persia, Captain Judkins, witi leave this port to-day for Liverpool. The European mails will close ia this city ate quarter to twelve o'clock. Fee European edition of the Hwa», printed in Frenoh and Rngiish, will be pubiiebed + ven o'clock in tae morn- img. Single copies, w wrappers, sixponce. subscriptions ead advertisemuuis for any edition of the New York Huns. will de received at the following places Surope:— —Am & B Express Oo., 51 Williaa: st. ai Do. ea: ® Pinge de is Bourse, Ravexroor—lo. slg on street. Iavexroor—John E unter, 12 Bushangoateest, Hast, “Phe News. There appears to be great excitement at the Southwest, owing to reported insurrectionary :move- ments among the negroes, particularly at Franklin, Fennessee, Columbia and Dover. Twenty-four mas” kets and two kegs of powder had been fouad in pos- session of a gang of negroes at Columbia. In Perry county, fenn., fifteen negroes had been killed by their owners; and at Dover, on the Cumberland river, eleven had been hung. One white man, dis- guired as a negro, had been whipped to death. Te was thought a genera! uprising of the negroes would take place about the holidays, and the whites were arming and organizing for defence. Little business was done in the Senate yesterday, the time of that body being principally occupied by a speech from Mr. Coliamer. In the House the prin- cipal subject under consideration was the claim of Mr. Whitfield to « seat in that body, as the delegate from Kansas. He was fivally admitted, by a vote of 112 ayes to 108 nays. Elsewhere we give a letter from a correspoadent at Washington on the subject of a new treaty with Eng'and, comme reciprocity with Spain and the West Iedies, and an item of mach importance to army officers. Another correspondent favors us with a communication describing the ingenious and remarkable manner in which the Pavitic Railroad bill was sought to be engineered throngh at the last session, discussing Mr. Glancy Jones’ mach talked of chances of a Cabinet appointment, and giving seme ideas about Washington hotels and other mat- vers. ‘The steamship Atlantic, with four days later in- tellence trom Europe, was signalled off the ligh ship between Sand 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon. When a few wiles outside the Hock she was bowrded by the news agent of the Associated Press, and the main points of her news were despatched to Sandy Hook through the agency of carrier pigeons, from whence it was telegrephed to the agent of the As section in this city, and by him was telegraphed to sll parte of the country nearly two hours in ad- vance of the arrival of the steamship at her wharf. The news thas sent was published here and in New Urieaue about one hour in advance of the receipt eof the steamship’s pepers in this city. The political portion of the news brought by the Atlantic is not of mach importance. Circumstan- tial detads ave given of the origin of the insurrec- tion at Malage, on the 12th of last month, which show that the rovernment account of it is a complete taivehood. will he seen thet it wes a formidable political revolt, end cota mere amuggling transac- ton, as was or y userted. Some specu bas been created fuet that the colonels militia regimen 2 Ireland had received orders to complete the queta of their respective corps. Poli- tical quid nuncs attribute i) to the little faith enter taived by Lord Palmerston ond his colleagues in the stability of the Freneh allance, whieh is just as pro bable a reason a8 any other, We publieh a couple of letters from St. Petersburg, with from the Lo chemes, which pl ve ina seme editurial comments he Russian reflway fovcible light the visionary character of these pro- ject d the part which the French are playing in endeavoring to bolster them up. The financial ad- vices by this arvivel are of an equally reassuring chu: acter with these prev’ y re 4. The bul- Bon in the Bank of F naes On the in erease, abd money generally is easier. In France. bot ver, matrers retnain yretty much iu the «me wtate as before. From the accounts received from the wine-growing districts il France and Ge-many i seems probabie that unless the vintage of 1867 d prove wines an usaally abundant, we shall r prices than for many years the French vineyards this she hav id past been more bas not eat an one-fifth of an average erep, whilst the yield of the Germau vineyards is more favorable. Bud prospeets, these, for the Jovere of Clos Vongeo! and sparkling Moseile. Toe accounts by th suvhip Atlantic came to baud too late in the doy for their effects to be de yeioped on the produce markets, Cotton was un- aiixcted by the news, while the sales embraced at 1,000 bales, without change in prices. Flour sold to a fair extent at about the previous day's prices. Wheat was in good demand and firm, at $1 65 a $1 70 for common to prime Canada; West- ern winter red at $1 Milwaukie Clab at $144, ont Chicogo spring at #1 35. A lot of cnoice Genesee white was sold for city mitting at $1 75. Corn old moderately et 73c. a 7 Southern yellow, and Western mixed at 72 , afloatand delivered. Pork was firmer and closed at about $19 25 jor old, and at $19 50 for new mess. English prcked long ribbed and boneless bacon sides were in good demend for export, ond within a week or ten days some 6,000 boxes, chiefly to arrive, have been sold at at 0 104e for expor:. Sales of sugars w ned to abont 250 a 400 hhds., at prices elsewhere. Coffee was quiet, owing to the pale of abot 6,000 bage of Rio advertised to be oT auetion to-day, part of which is said to be of ats were wueli nged in rates, wae rather more offering for English porta, end expecially f erpool. The n-tbive tewmship Manchester at Philodelphi» hav cre.ted considerable aneasiness but hopes tor wie . guine. She is now in her twentieth day ‘row Liverpool La Union, the of journal of Tampico, pa eg, in its iesae of the Sch oli, the act of deposi- tion directed by the gurrson of that city, om the the 3orh of Oct ber, against the Governor of Tamauiipss, D. Jaan is brother, D. Zeferino de la Garza, aa yetwation of D. Batogio Gautier Valdomar, in it place. slieged for this deport tien ore th , D. T. T. de la Garza, op whom the inbabi ante of g tral ulipas bad yelied rder-in-Ot fe NEW YOBK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1856. for the realization of the plan of Ayutla, had de ceived, in the most unprincipled manner, those hopes, by concluding coptracts ruinous to the State and advantageous oaly to h'mself and family, by sccording indemnificatious for supposed demages caffered during the las) revelu- ion; and lastly, by conferring, in violation ‘of the cons*itutional rights of the State, the politi- cal command upon bis brother, Don Zeferino, with out any other claim to it than that of his relation- ship with him, whilst he constituted him-eli mili- tary chief. The act further declares that the garrison by nominating, provisionally, D. Bulogio Gautier Valdomar as Governor.and Commander-in- Chief does not intend to refuse obedience to the general government of President Comonfort, so long as it does not deviate from the plan of Ayutla. To this document are appended two official manifestos of the newly appointed Governor, Sr. Valdomar, addressed, one to the garrison, the other to citizens of the State, under date of the 31st October, in which he enters into a more circumstantial deve- ‘opement of the internal situation of Tamaulipas, and demonstrates the unconstitutional character of the policy which his predecessor had pursued during his administration. We give tovlay an extended report of a meeting of the Toronto Board of Trade in relation to the growing importance of the trade of the Northwest or Hudson's Bay Territory. There appears to be a prevailing fear in some portions of Canada that this trade will naturally divert to the United States, and bence this action of the Toronto Board, in or- der, if possible, to awaken a spirit of enterprise among the merchants and capitalists which may tend to develope the benefits of that trade with Ca- nada. We give claewhere further particulars of the rail- road collision at Alliance, by which it will be seen that one ofthe cars was thrown into the rotunda, and another into the saloon of a hotel in which a number of persons were sitting. Eight persons were killed and several wounded. Those killed were not on the train, but on the platform, in the hotel or near the track. The train which did all this mischief was running at a rate of about thirty miles an hour, and belonged to the Cleveland and Pittsburg line. The engineer of the train has not been seen since the accident. The Court of Sessions was occupied yesterday with the trial of Charles Wills and William Conolly, who kept a loan office on the corner of Broadway and Worth street, who are charged with having purchased the goods stolen from Messrs. Crane & Struthers, of 127 Broadway, in January last, amounting to about $7,000. The case was not con- cluded when the court adjourned, and will be re- sumed this morning. During the session of the court, James Pender, Joseph Perry, Richard Green- wood, John Van Patten and Richard Harris were sentenced to the State prison, for an attempted bur- glary of $16,000 worth of silks and satins,on the premises of Sbuter & Hurd, in Broad street, the particulars of which we gave at the time. The pro- ceedings of the court are given elsewhere, and will be found interesting, as showing the way in which burglars and receivers of stolen property do busi- ness. The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday. But little business, and that of an unimportant charac- ter,was doze. Doctor Sanger, resident physician at Blackwell's Island, sent in a communication rela- tive to smallpox, which he said was on the increase, and suggesting that as accommodations were limited, patients be sent to the new hospital in futare. The number of persons now in the institution is 5,989, bemg an increase over lust week. The number of petients under treatment at the hospital for the movth of November was 502,of whom 181 were males and 21 females. The number discharged was 145, of whom 124 were cured and 15 relieved. Only three deaths took place during the month. The Committee on Finance of the Board ot Coun- cilmen met yesterday and decided that the $3,000 for coutingent expenses of the Mayor's office, which had been stricken out of the tax levy by the Comp- troller, be reinserted. In reiation to the Central Park, the committee decided to allow the liabilities already incurred, but came to no conclusion as to $250,000 for the ensuing year. The Catholic church in Nurfolk, Va., took fire on Sundoy last, and was burned to the ground. It was a very fine building, and had recentiy been put in complete repair, and at the time of the conflagra- tion contained a magnificent organ and many valua ble paintings. The new ship belonging to the American Coloni- zation Society, named the Mary Caroline Stevens, sailed from Norfolk on Saturday for Liberia, with two hundred and fifty cmigranis. ‘The New British Treaty. We have reason to believe that the new Bri- tich treaty, which has just been concluded by Mr. Dallas, and which will shortly be laid before the Senate for confirmation, is one of the most important diplomatic documents that have lately seen the light It will he remembered that when the United S:ates and Great Britain ratified the famous Clayton-Bulwer treaty, considerable dissatisfac- tion was felt on thie side of the water. It was tbe opinion of many that the United States should not bave departed from their polfey of avoiding entangling alliances, and should have pursued their policy in Central America, inde- pendent of and without regerd to Great Britain. There was no doubt considerable cogency in the arguments. At the rame time, one can uo- derstand the motives which induced the United States government of that day to bend their principles in order to gain so desirable an end asthe permanent entrarchisement of Central America trom British intrigues. It was the be lief of the American negotiator of that treaty and of bis friends~ a beliet, perhaps, not as fully justified by the strict language of the treaty as might bave been desirable—that after the ratification of that treaty, British ag- grandixement and British encroachment upon Central America would be at an end. How that anticipation was disappointed, the world knows. Great Britain chose to interpret the treaty as de- barring ber from future conquests, not from pre- sent possessions, or even a conversion of squatter into actual territorial rights ; and thus the only object which bad induced the United States to make a treaty with Great Britain at all on the subject of Central America, was lost, Under these circumstances Mr. Buchanan be- gan, sod Mr. Dallas has concluded @ negotiation which it may be presumed has finally settled this vexed matter, As Great Britain could not be expected to seem to be bullied out of her preten- sions in the Mosquito territory, and at Honduras and as the United States were firmly resolved to resist the forther nsion of British power in that part of the continent, and to require the withdrawal of the insignia of British empire which had been latterly planted there, recourse was had hy the diplo- | matiste of the two countries to compromise, Tie email and obscure States of Honduras and Nicaragua were made to intervene in the nego. tiation: and apparently, as of her own mere will and gracious motion, Eogland surrendered to the one the Bay Islands, to the other the Mosquito territory. Thus ‘ar the public are generally cognizant of the negot ation, But now we are told, a new treaty in reference to Central American affairs has What material is there for a Central America singe Eng- been concinded ealy in reiene land baa renounced her only possessions there, and dir@aimed a desire to acquire others? We ‘have every reason to believe that this new treaty, while affirming the old principle of the C)ayton-Bulwer convention, namely, that neither ihe United States nor England desire tocolonize or fortify, for their exc)usive benefit, any part of the territory on the Isthmus or in Central America, contemplates a much larger field of operations than that memorable convention, Perhaps the old tripartite treaty, proposed unsuccessfully by Lord Jobn Russell to Mr. Everett, may have contained the germ of this new one. It has reference, as we understand, to Cuba and the Spanish possessions, as well as Central Ame- riea, and bas for its object the consolidation of the present political condition of these colonies, islands and States, with a view to the general pacification of that part of the world, and the extension of trade, It is in fact a commercial and conservative treaty; if the United States depart from their past policy in guaranteeing Cuba to Spain, they do so, no doubt, in return for a grant of commercial privileges so exten- sive that in a commercial point of view, even annexation could give them nothing more. It may safely be assumed that the Reciprocity treaty with Canada has served the framers of this new treaty as a guide, and in some respects a model; and as the Provincial Legislature of Canada was a party to that, by the act giving force to the royal treaty, so, no doubt, the government of Spain is a party to this, and stipulates, gratefully, for the changes by which she is by far the greatest gainer. Such is no doubt the general tenor of this most important treaty. We for- bear from comment at present; the docu- ment itself will soon be before the public, and then a sounder opinion may be formed. But taking for granted that the general tenor of the treaty is to effect euch alterations in the con- dition of Cuba as to throw insuperable obstacles in the way of its peaceable acquisition by puc- chase, we cannot but admire the skill with which the expiring Secretary of State with his last official breath deals a wound to his rival. It is Marcy all over. He thought, and £o did others, that he had betrayed Buchanan to his death when he went to Ostend; having survived this, the new President is now assailed in a new and yet more vulnerable place. A treaty guaranteeing Cuba to Spain at the inception of Mr. Buchanan’s ad- ministration would deprive that gentleman of his most promising chance of glorification; and would clear the way, in 1860, of many obnoxious rivals. But we have yet to see how the dexterous manceuyre will be viewed in the Senate. Tux New Caner AND CABINET SPECULATIONS. —We publish, from day to day, the speculations of our correspondents at Washington and Wheat- land, &c., concerning Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. Numerous other journals are very actively doing the same thing; and yet it is evident that all these speculations from all quarters are mere guess work, or the shallow trickery of ambitious politicians. Mr. Smith, Mr. Brown or Mr. Jones wishes a place in the Cabinet. He wishes to get his claims under Mr. Buchanan's eye. All that is necessary to do this isto get his name—Smith, Jones or Brown— put into,the newspapers as very likely to be one of the new Cabinet. According- ly, the aspiring gentleman goes to au amiable newspaper correspondent, directly or indirectly, and crams him with the important on dit; and if the thing is done adroitly, the news will not be limited to one journal, but it will eppear sirmaul- taneously in half a dozen in different parts of the Union; and all of themare sure to find their way to Wheatland. We clip the following Cabinet list from the New Orleans Delia, as those “whose appointment would meet with general approbation or excite the least opposition: — From Prxnsyivania—Mr. Dallas, Secretary o° Stats: i Broauead; J. Glancy Jones; H. B. Wright of om From imGinta—Senator Hunter, Secretary of State; Governor Wise; Thomas H, Bocork, the late abie Caair man of ibe Committee of Navel Affairs in the House; Mr, Seddop, tornyr member of Congress from Rich ioond. who ‘was nominated by the Virginia delegatce a: Cincinnati for Vice President. Faow Naw Exotssp—Sepator Toucey, of Connecticut, formeriy Attorbey Gereral uncer President Polk; B. F Haliet. the prinerpal autbor of the Presidential platforms cf teveral Nationa! Conventions; Henry Hibbera, of New Hampsbire. the caly ene of the New Rampebire delegation who stood by the admiz'ttration of President Plerce aud the Nebraska bul From tHe Wrer—Senator Allen, of Ohio, formerly pro. she Serateas the most riving maa from tho maae decidedly the best speech dary in bis State; Governor Wright, of { jul candidate over the Know Nots wt State, ane to whom many aac: fi ciion of Governor Willerd; (Mr. Robinson, "et thie state, i* wieo apcken oi, ® former member of Con sree ond sreurch femcerat); Richardson, of litineis, ao- moc rave Romine tor Speaker of the present Congress, iets Cemoerstic cand'dste for Governor, and the special friend of Judge Dougiae. From tm Seon » Sovriwer—Senator Rusk, of Texans, Noetr oeter Coneral. Cereral Qcl'man, of Mieets sipni, ‘Secretary ot War; Col. EG. W. Patier, of Low ata, lormeriy of the regtlar army, lovtnate friend of fackron, cfhioer iy the inte Mexican war, and a conpisient. ¢euncerat; Governor Jehmioa of sia: Burt and Orr, of South Carolina, Our New Orleans cotemporary further declares that such appointments as Dr. Gwin, Senator Bright, Howell Cobb, Stanton of Tennessee, R. 4. Walker, and Marcy, would be apt to raise a brecze: and we think that to this list might be adéed Governor Wise, Dix and Dickinson, Joba Van Buren, Mr. Donglas, and a host of others. But we care very little about the Cabinet, for we dare say that if Mr. Buchanan's first experi ment does not suit him, be will try a second, and a third if necessary. He occupies an inde- pendent position. Previous to his nomination, we know that he etated, in London and in Paris, that be was not a Presidential candidate, that he had been twice or thrice rejected by the demo. cracy, and did pot eare to obtrade himself upon them again. After bis nomination he declared he would not serve, im any event, more than one term. We suppose he will repeat this declara- Uon in his inaugural, He will thus be released from all necessity for the petty shifte and tricks of such aspirants for a second term as Martin Van Bugen, Captain Tyler, James K. Polk, Mil- lard Fillmore and poor Pierce. On! the per- sonal infamy, the party troubles, the shame and disgrace to the country which would have been avoided had poor Pierce set out with and stack tothe resolution of serving but one term! Mr. Buchanan's position for one term, and no more, is, indeed. a great saving principle. It will ena- ble bim to be bonest, to epeak the truth, and to act independently in ali things, having no axes to grind and no fish to fry at the next democratic convention. In this view, we care very little shout the composition of his Cabinet, to begin with. If it does not work well be can change it, | without any favors to aek of this or that man or clique of the party. A gentleman called on us the other dey, chuck full of and running over with new Cabinets. We told him that upon that tubject there was but one point wpon which we desired to he satisfied ; and that we hoped, North and South, the new Cabinet would be a Cabinet of | white men, without a nigger init. Let oa wait and eee, The days are getting shorter, and the nights are getting longer every revolution of the glove, Things will teke a turn after Christyav. Land Sharks in Washington. We publisd.ed in yesterday’s Hera a commu- nication fran one of our Washington correspond- ents, pictu’.ing the lobby agent system as carried on in the halls of legislation, and describing the characte ristics of the various classes of operators, Itis ree'tly time that the people of the United States shoul@, fully comprehend the mode in which their interests are sacrificed at Washington, and should insitt upon the purification of both houses of Con- gtees from the contaminating influences which sew beset them. We do, and shall continue to do, our duty in the premises, by exposing and calling public attention to the state of things in Warhington, because the mode in which the af- fairs of the nation are transacted ther> is at once prejudicial to its interests and disgraceful to its republican institutions, This lobby agent system which we have been exposing is of modern origin and growth. When we were in the habit of attending the sessions of Congress, several years ago, it was then unknown, «rif practised at all, it was in such a compara- tively insignificant manner as not to attract at- tention. It is within the last eight or ten years, perbaps, that the lobby has become a secognized power in the State, and it s within the last four or five that it bas aseumed its present large and alarming pro- portions. If allowed te continue and progress as it has done, the legislation of the country will be, ere long, not in the hands of the people’s repre- sentatives, but in the hands of the lobby. We are already, indeed, upon the very verge of that condition. For the last two or three sessions, most of the measures that have been carried through Congress—particularly those wherein private or corporate interests were affected—have owed their suecess more to the efforts of the lobby than to their inherent merits. In fact, to such a pass have we come, that, in the House of Representatives, the lobby, and those whom it succeeds in enlisting, are generally able to pre- vail over the honest, incorruptible members ; and private claims and railroad grants, however fraudulent in their conception, are carried through in spite of the efforts of the minority, which is composed principally of Southern repre- sentatives. At the present session the combination is so great--particularly in reference to the Pacific Railroad scheme—that there is but a slight prospect of the minority being able to oppose a successful resistance to their efforts ; and it will not be at all surprising if the footing up of the measures of this session should show a loss to the country, in public lands and otherwise, of three or four hundred millions of dollars. If such should unfortunately be the result, it will be attri- butable for the most part to the toleration and encouragement which have been given to those land sharks at Washington. It is difficult now to rid ourselves of this incu- bus which preys upon the nation and is sapping away the vitality of our institutions. As we have said, the lobby has become a power in the State. Its baneful influences permeate and cor- rupt every branch of the national govern- ment, except, perhaps, the judiciary; and eventhat may tall before it if its progress be not at once arrested. In Washington the patronage of the lobby enters into the calculations of the hotel keepers even for more than does that of the mem- bers of both houses. The lobby member when in pursuit of high game is most lavish in his ex- penditures. He occupies the best parlors in the hotels, gives sumptuous aad costly enter- tainments, and is most liberal in his wine orders. ‘The proprietors of those miserable caravansaries, known as the National and Willerd’s, would de- plore as the worst fortune that could befall their business any change by which an estopel would be placed on the operations of lobby agents ; so, too, would many of those indigent and corrupt politicians from the Northern and Western States, who see in their position as representatives nothing more than a capital opportunity to make a fortune. To them lobby agents are the springs ard sources of wealth. The operation is simple. They bave merely to vote for the renewal of this or that patent—the passage of this or that bill, granting large gratnities to contractors, or lands to speculative railroad companies, aud the guid pro quo is conveyed in such a delicate and ungom- promising manner as will leave the member at liberty to answer satisfactorily apy impertinent question which investigating committees may propoundi Why will the people elect to Congress, as they do, men whom they would be loth to employ in any office of trast in their own business? Why will they send there the nominees of corrupt par- ty orgenizations—men who have only brains enough to be petty politicians, and too little re- gard for integrity to care about even the reputa- tion of honesty? Of course, 20 long as the people vote for such representatives, so long will the lobby increase aud flowish. Yhe wonderful prosperity of the country at large—the ease with which some Jucky individuals bave rapidly at- tained immense fortunes through business or speculation—the immense impetus that our trade and commerce have received, particularly since the acquisition of California, have created ov all sides a morbid desire for wealth and a prop «- tional vegardlessness of the means by which that wealth is to be acquired. Our North- etn and Western representatives are, for the most part, men who have the or an of acquisitiveness inordinately developed ; and eo they seem pretty unanimously resulved to moke bay while the sun shines. ‘The trifling compensation of $3,000 a year, attached to their position as representatives, is al- together insufficient to support their families in Washington in the style in which they are com- pelled to live. Few business or professional men would be content with such an income. The member of Congress who has to depend on his ralary finds that it is entirely inadequate for the decent maintenance of bis position, and the con- sequence is that he is too often open to the ad- vances of the lobby member. in fact, that was one of the strongest arguments made at the last session in support of Mr. Orr's bill increasing the compensation of members from $8 per day for each day of the session, to $3,000 a year—an in- crease equal to 100 per cent. But we fear that the passage of that bill will not ensure the ineor- ruptibility hoped for from it. The largesses of the lobby are altogether too muvificent to be declined by minds of common stamp. The increased salary is trifling in comparison with what may be made by unscrupulous men. There are two ways by which alone this dis- graceful evil of lobbyism can be, if not wiped away, of least much diminished. The first is for constiiuencies to exercise more vigilance and care in the selection of their representatives; but of that we bave not much hope, at least ia those States where party organizations are ail power- ful. ‘The second ia for the honest, incorruptible members of the House to insist on the paseage and ; enforaement of arale excluding from admission } om the igor e)) paecus except the reporters tor the associated press and for the Congressional Globe, None others have any legitimate business there. But above all, exclude those individuals who claim a right to the floor on the ground of being ex-members of Congress. They are the moet dangerous and disreputable of lobby mem- bers, and their exclusion, if it do not even weak- en the strength of the lobby, will at least do much to purify the moral atmosphere of the House. Out, by all means, with those sharks who prowl in legislative waters! Down with the lobby! Tar New York Spors—Tue Coitxctor, &o. —The spoils of the federal government accruing to this city are of such magnitude as to co the greatest attention from all that m horde of drones and spoilsmen wi and dependence is the public . subject of the division of our Néw#Kork spoils has not only attracted the active attention of all our local expectants, however, but as far South as Virginia, as far West as Buffalo and Ohio, and as far East as New Hampshire, the demo- cratic organs and spoils managers have taken the matter in hand. The Richmond (Va.) Junta, close upon the heels of Mr. Buchanan’s election, undertook to say that the New York democracy were not entitled to anything, and that if they received even their own spoils it must be con- sidered as a gift of charity, and not as an act of justice. We thought at the time that this Rich- mond coterie, in this business, were travelling a little too far beyond their own kitchen range; but let.that pass. ‘The cliques and the number of their aspirants in this city for the spoils which belong to the victors are so numerous as to be really laugh- able. Beginning with the offices of Collector, Surveyor, Postmaster, &c., and running down to the smallest Custom House berths of runners and laborers, the schedule to be covered involves a regiment of offices, big and little, but nearly all filled by good democrats to begin with. Among the most active of the city cliques for these spoils is the New York Hotel clique, representing a rank and file of about 4,500 men, according to the vote of Mr. Lib- by for Mayor. Commencing with the Custom House, and to make that sure, this cique have agreed upon no less than three candidates for Collector—Robert J. Walker, Augustus Schell, (Pierce's particular trouble for the same office,) and Judge Parker, our late democratic candidate for Governor. Now, these are respectable end capable men, but against each of these there may be raised some good and valid objections, enti- tled to respect by Mr. Buchanan. For example— Since his retirement from the Treasury, Mr. Walker has become a stockjobber and railroad speculator, and has the fire full of such irons all the time. He would hardly do for our Collector, whose whole attention should be given to the duties of his office. Mr. Schell is a good andcom- petentman; buthe lies at the very root of that old hard and soft shell equabble, and surely it will not be the policy of Mr. Buchanan to re-open that old sore, if he can help it. As for Judge Parker, he is from the interior of the State, and is better versed in spring wheat, Durham cattlé, and such things, no doubt, than in the vast and complex commercial operations of the great port of New York. The Collector of this port should be a citizen of the city, practically conversant with its commercial operations, and not a man from the “rural districts,” whose term cf service in the office will be merely that of a 1aw apprentice. We do not consider the case of Mr. Redfield, or of Judge Bronson, as an excep- tion to this rule. What Mr. Buchanan may do in the premises we do not profess to know, nor do we profess to care a great deal. He should, however, and pro- bably will, be governed by certain general prac- tical considerations, especially in the appoint- ment of that officer charged with the collection from the world’s commerce of the bulk of the re- venues of the United States. The man appointed to such an office shonld be a well known resident of the city—a practical man in a commercial view, and a man more familiar with South street iban the Sixth ward, or the coal hole of Tamma- ny Hall, or the caucus room of the New York Hotel—a man more addicted to business than to politics and the dirty jobs of spoilsmen. With these qualifications our Collector may, and per- haps sbould be, a warm friend of the President as a party man; but he should be, not a man repre- venting the four or five thousand votes of this or that clique, but a man identified more broadly with the forty thourand votes cast by this city for Mr. Bucbanan. There are such men in this city, and such a man, we hope, will be put in the Cus- tom House. Who is to be this happy man, we do not exactly know; but that such a man will turn up in good season for the consideration of Mr. Buchanan, we have every reason to believe. Bro- ther democrats, don’t put all the coal on at once. Inter-State Navieation—Voyace rrow Lake Cuamriars to New Onteans.—The New Or- leans papers of the second of December record the orrival at that port of two sloops—the W. H. Wilkins and M. Canfield—from the port of Essex: on Lake Champlain, in this State. The objects of the voyage and the route taken by them are both very curious. They started from Essex, a town on the west shore of Lake Champlain, one hundred and tbirty miles north- east of Albany. It has a steamboat landing and a thriving population of about 1,200. The voy- agers then proceeded up the lake and passed through the Chambly Canal and entered the St. Lawrence near Lake St. Peter. Thence they sailed to Montreal, and passing onward through the Lachine and Cornwall canals, and entering Lake Ontario, ascended the Welland canal into Lake Erie. Crossing this lake to Erie, Pennsyl- vania, they entered the Beaver canal, and passing down to the town of that name, reached the Ohio river, following it to its junction with the Missie- sippi, and eo to New Orleans—in all a distance of about twenty-eight hundred miles. From Whee!- ing the sloops were towed to New Orleans by the steamer Lotus, ‘This is the first time that this route has been attempted. By the canal between the Fox river and the Wisconsin small crafts have occasionally passed frem Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. ‘Theee eloope were constructed, as we infer, for the engar trade on the coast of Atiakapas; and if so, will ply on the Bayon Teche, navigable for 200 miles above the Gulf of Mexico, which has a port named Franklin, where large steam- ers and sailing vesrels are loaded with sugar, cot- ton and maize for New Orleans, New York and other markets, We have no information as to the cost of these Eerex sloope, nor of the expense a‘tendiag their inland voyage. Be this as it may, it is another cxample of Ameriean enterprire and of the reta- tione existing between the North and South, ad- ventageous to both, and which it would be the greatest folly in the world to have in other form than ‘hore of peser, ficndship and commese, Srockxsospme JouRNALIsM.—Every great blow up, failure or explosion makes revelations of a peculiar character, Thus the failure of the great bear of Wall street reveals the fact that one of our daily journals which pretends to have a coi frolling interest in it, and of course .it for tMeir speculative purposes. It seems ia one" of the largest houses engaged in stock spetulddtons affected by the recent blow up of Mr. Little, owns the 7'imes newspaper. This ac- countisfor the milk which has been flowing front the “cocoanut of that concern for the past eigh- m months or two years. How can the commercial community have the slightest confi- dence in a journal the proprietors of which are mixed up in all sorts of stockjobbing operations with the bulls and bears of Wall street? The proprietors of + and independent journals should keep’ aloof from all speculations, all money: ns and all stockjobbing ar- rangements, as We have done during thirty-five years’ experience of newspaper business. Tue Niccer rw Concress—When will the United States Senate and House of Representa- tives finish their eternal, everlasting, never-end- ing, always-recurring nigger controversies, and pay some attention to the business affairs of the poor, suffering white Anglo-Saxon race? Will these distinguisbed washerwomen be eternally washing and scrubbing their dirty linen before thirty millions of people on this side and one hundred and fitty millions on the other side of the Atlantic? Are the two houses never to have done with this public washing of the dirty linem of the peculiar institution of the South? THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Contemplatea Negro Insurrection s r in Tennessee. Fifteen Negroes shot and Eleven Hung. ONE WHITE MAN WHIPPED TO DEATH. ARMING AND ORGANIZING OF THE WHITES, &e., &o., &o. Insurrection Among Slaves in Tennessee. Cincinnati, Dec. 9, 1856, ‘The Louisville Journal correspondence of to-day says there is great excitement at Franklin, Tennessee, owing to the projected tpsurrection among the slaves there. Twenty-four musk«ts and two kegs of powder had been found In the possession of a gang of negroes at Columbia, Tenn. In Perry, Tenp., fifteen negroes had been killed by their owzers. ‘The Evanzville Journal, of the 6th instant, learns that there was much excitementin the neighborhood of Dover, riapd river amovg the negroes. Many of lers bad been arreeted, and eleven hung. One white man, disguised as » negro, had been sentenced to nine bundred larbes, but he died before the penalty was fully inficted. The whites were arming and organizing for defence. An vpivion prevailed that a general uprising would take piace among the negroes during the holidays. Escapes of slaves were urusually numerous. Affairs in the the South. TBE SOUTHERN CONVENTION—COMMITITEE ON THE RE-OPENING OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN SOUTH CARO- LINA, ETC. Barmors, Dec. 9, 1856. favannab papers of Satardsy say that a large number Of the delega'cs to the southern Convention were already there, and from avpearavces the assemblage would be vez, large. e epecia! committee of tbe South Carolina ee. ture, cn the Governor's recommendation to reopen the slave trade, have reporteo. aeking leave to sit during the reces# and report at the next session, ‘The «hip Arkwright. with the relieved by Gen. Harvey, had left Key Weat tor Ne Norfolk ire in Nortoik op Monday last i the Catho- Py pots ard reverul«f see ad; buildings. The So carried the city of at the muni- Savanwan, Dec. 8, 1856. cipal elec Large numbers of the delegates to the Southern Com- mercial Copveniion ai here Virginia tends the larrest ing prevails. ¢ been down at Wilmington, N. C., mos y. apd the cops quence is that an immense num ber of mesrages heve coilected at that point, 80 that there in little probability of the reco!pt of any additional intelli: gence from Savanpab to night. Message of the Governor of Iowa. Th f Gov. 6 of lows,’ brief and d © menenge of Gov. Grimes, of lowa, an Yoteo to the materis! interest amd flaances of the State. ‘The toisl available revenue was $246,000, aa inde dtecness $128 000. Gov G. recor diate provision of $56 Dor de ave January 1 the &npe: Nop having tailed 10 pay the $60,000 directed by the Lepisiature. He aleo recommende the Improvement Company, end says thet the past th Was currentiy nonet tbat the mt of the United ye bad failed to ciuzens of Kaasas for the reason that 20 off) ce of the outrages committed be them bed been received by bim. In consequence Ibis, the Governor oeeme it bis duty to ) Sident of crimes committed sgainst former citizens of pry nag oo Ce the protection of the ? aes Laan of the Rallroed at Alliance, Ohio, Prrvsncru, Dec. At about 7 o'clock Inst evening a train on the ge eff and Titeburg road rap into an express train on the tnd Penusylvenia road at Alliance, Ohio, ef the passerger cars of tbe latter cars was thrown into the rotunda at the other through a public room which of Sourheck’s Hotel, in whieh several Ung Bouh the rotopda and sitting room Killlpg eight persons avd wounding several the wounded are Coeries Coats, engineer, Rorb, thigh fractured and otherwise badly hu ductor on Cleveland and Pittaburg red, Fieloig On' and lady, aod Cotimbia, ta., badly hurt, and J. "painter, Sark coun y, Obio, ge A list of the Killed was exearapbed yesterday. Moet of the killed and wound- wot (n the care, but sitting iu the public room iy eocurred. in left Piitebarg at SP M. yesterday, and ar- ance bebina time. The passengers bad just got through supper, and the train had barely started atd gol scrors Che track at the junction when the Cleve- land train came dasbing along, and before tts headway = be at at 3. collision oeourred. aeaane ro. funds, into w 10 car went, presents the appearance of e total wreck, It is said the engineer Pitteburg trata ne Be cee dexpatch lars of the Acoident, and ts from Mr 5 of the Pitu- burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road :— Prresmvne, Deo. 9, 1886. Kone were killed on our train, aad but thre wounded, aed aia i 35 2 a5 a g 33 three versons on the next ie, that the Cleveland and statement. The engineer ot em mince, bas not been rern au erancna, Deo. 90 P, M. ‘The verdict of the Corone: jury bas no. yet trane- pired. Several #innosees were examined, who testified that the Cleve! train ran into the town of Alliance at & fearful rate speed, at not less than thirty five miles per hour, The condvewr of the Fort Wayne in sup. pone that the Cleveland train would be cheoted jo time, according to the roles of the road, but tt seemed to in crease ip epeed ax jt came forward, without sounding tho whistle. When the colleton ooourred, it caused @ tearfot wreck. None of thore ov the Fort Wayne troin were killed, Dot three wore tojured All the wounded aro doing well. Mr. Brooks, of Now Jersey, who waa kill was to pave been married to @ Jady (m Alliance, Ware. The ured the Boerow, Dec. 9, 1856, At tho mupictpal lection in Roxbary ‘yeeterday, John B. Sleeper, the present incumbent, was elected by & plurality of 263 over Jobn J, Clarke, the candidate of the opposition. In Charlestown, Timothy T. Sawyer, the preeent incum. bent, received 1,847 votes to 408 for George W. Warren, the candidate of those opposed to the present govern- ment. Court of Claims—Loan Office Certificates, de. Wasmacrox, Deo, 9, Aeeit having been drou ry tarse eorcamaes of eae to rere ne value of forty three oertificates € the Congres# of the Confederation, Chiet Sua: Jue. grete. Judge Blackford however dissented, on the ground, —————————— ——