The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERASD. JANB3 GORDON BENNMSUL, MBTTOR A¥D PROPRIETOR, DPrHOe H.W. COUNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878. ca shttoncimallean esas theses con Youu ‘KXI. wee. 358 oe AMUSENENTS THIS EVENING, RIBAS GARDEN, Broadway—Sneuise Ormns—Cn sw Brame ens, ¥ TREATRE, Bowery—Huscgrack—Skercas AURTOWS NEW THRATRE, Broadwoy, opvesix Bond eret—Dowery asp Sox—Pan. Pay, 4 WALLAGK'S THEATRE, Booadway—Txe Kean to Rois Der aa a Pose, LAURA KEENW'S THEAURE, 6M Bresdway—Cacia —Com extant vexrus Be @AAMBERS STREET THEATER. Cote Burten's)~New Wore BY lav sev Newt—Gews Davis—Tuw Youre wao Baw 4 Wowan BaBHUM'S AMMHICAN fame Dorr: Sau— Bi 18180 moe ToRrixe Tae FapERs. @R0. CURISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Breod- omy.—Bruvortan PEkvonwances—Pow 01a CLooK. BBORLEY’S SFRENADEKS, 585 Broadway--Ermoruan Maeewtisy Our vencite. BANESS Hall, 099 Broadway.—WorpsaruL TRIoxs Dowern’s Bogs axn Moxxers. ATBAN AUM, 651 Brosdway—Hisvornicat Parntines oF Bevowyiomaay Kvents, ve ———————————————————————— Bow York, Thursday, Noveraber 1%, 1856. ‘The News. ‘The stesmer City of Baitimore arrived in tbe Dela: ware-river yesterday She brings Liverpool dates to the Sd inst., four days later than those previonsly received. The vews is unimportant. There had been an insurrectionary outbreak in the province of Palermo on the 22d ult. Troops had been sent against the insurgents, but the resuls had not trans pired. The difliculty between Prussia and Switz2r land appeers to be widening. Prussia, on one side, has suspended communication with the Swiss government, and the Federal Council, on the other, have rejected the suggestion of Napoleon for the release of the Neufchatel prisoners. There is nothing of importance trom Spain or Frauce. It is, however, predicted that before six months are over Spain will be the scene of a bloody revolution, ‘Phere were reports that the parties to the Puris Con- ference would re-ascembie at an early day. Finan- ein) affairs were rather dull. Consols are quoted at 94} 094}. © tton continued steady, and brvadstatts had undergone no material change. The steamer America is now fally due at Halifax, with advices to the Gth instant. A preliminary meeting was held last evening to concert measures for sending relief to Gen. Walker. Fromvour report of the proceedings it will be seen ‘bat it is proposed to hold a mass meeting of the friends of Walker and Americaa progress at the Broadway Tabernacle, on Saturdsy evening next, Apropos: we perceive by our telegravbic despatches ‘Wat Col. Titus, of Kansas, with one heudred men, bound for Nicaragua, arrived at St. Louis yesterday. ‘The proceedings in Congress yesterday were un- important. The Senate passed the bill relating to the crecitors of Texas, and adopted a resolution @vecting inquiry as to the practieability of mo® effectually securing life and property from fire on board steam vessels. Notice was given of a bill providing for the establishment of a navy yard at Newport, R.L Mr. Weller stated that he should cali up the Pacitie Railroad bill after the holidayr. ‘The treaty between Great Britain and the United States, relative to Central America, was comuni- cated by the President for the information of mem- ders only. towards Gea. Walker, whom he eulogized in the highest terms. Our correspondent st Washington states that a memoria! from Kr. Collins will be presented to Con gress to-day to terminate the contract for carryiog the mail in his steamers, and aleo asking Congress to purchase the ships, as it ix impossible, at the rate of compensation proposed, to continue the line. Amoag the appointments confirmed by the Se nate yesterday were those of James 0. Harrison and Wm. Spencer, respectively as Chief Justice and Marshal of Kansas, in place of Lecompte and Donel- ‘on The testimony given on the trial of Haatington, ebarged with forgery—a report of which we give elsewhere— presents some extraordinary revelations respecting the manner of conducting financial eperations in thie city. Yesterday Mr. Harbeck, the complainant, his bookkeeper, and Mr. Berry, brother-in-law of the accused, wore examined. The eourt room was crowded with spectators. Onr correspondence from Havana, dated 10ch in- stant, states that many contradictory reports pre wailed with respect to Genera! Concha’s resignation or removal from office. Some assorted that bis suv- eeneor would soon arrive, others said thet he would remain in power for years. Commander Palsy, R.N., carrying ont the wide-a- wake policy of Brith maval oficess, landed on the ‘th instant, read the Henan and immediately cejoined his vessel. Toe ooke trade contracts were being daly fallilied. Miss Jare O'Cover, ot Now York, had died in Havana. The steward of the brig George D. Smoure, from Mobile, had heen lust overboard, ina very mysterious manner. Onur correspondent at St. Thomas, writing under @ste of the Sd inst., reports the arrival at that island, of Dr. Kane, the Arctic voyager, en route for Havana. The Doctor was in very infirm health, and proceeda to Cuda in hopes of obtaining relief. The Commissianers of Emigration met yesterday. A commanication was received from the revideot physicion of Ward's Island, setting forth the fact ‘that a reduction of 72 per cent on the bills for medi- eines and 47 por cent on the bills for liquors had been efiected during the past year, as compared with former years, and be bad no dowtt bat similar re mults were obtained in all toe departments under the new organization. This isan enormous redaction, and it becomes a question what became of al the medicine and liquor ander the old régime. The dovtor admits that there has been a decrease in the numbers on Ward's Island, bat naively adds that there hae been s corresponding “ decrease ia nurses and orderiica.”” A bill frota the Ten Governors, tor the care of emigraut panners and iunatics, excitel Abe ire of the Commise mers. The emigration for the present year has been 140,064 —an increase of 10.25! over last year readers are referred to a communication in another colama, in which Mr. Henry Wells, late President ot the New Granada Steam Navigation Company, t fally exonerated from all participation im certain transactions affe:ting parties connected with that company that are undergoing examina- tion before the police authorities. (n oor maritime column we pablish a narrative of ‘Qe wrock of the bark Liewellyn, on the 9d of Oo ‘wher, while on a voyage from this port for the River Plate. It is written by Mr. Dain, the chief officer wf the vewel, who, together with his shipmates, were rescued from great peril by the Brazilian brig Henrique, and carried to Rio Janeiro. Doubtless the tate Department will make dee acknowledgment of the generous conduct ot the commander of the Brazilian vessel. The favorable weather and fair eupply of stock iu ctive demand for beef cattle y cea i from Tes to 10he. per pe dy. Cows and calves wore in brisk domind at bet. ter prices than last week, #70 a $75 being paid fo good mileh cows, There was a good demand for wea! culves, withont change in prices. Sheep and Jamie wore dali of sale at $2 60099 each, accord ing \o quality. Nearly thirty thousand head of ewinc wrived jy the city daring the past week, and In the House the squabbling among the politicians upon the President's message was continued. Mr. Walker, of Alabama, strongly animadverted upon the course of the government NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1856. notwithstanding this unusually large supp’y, the de- mand, favored by the prevailing cold weather, con- tinued good, with an advance of about one-eighth of a cent per pound on last week's prices, the range being Gjc. a 6fc. There was a better demand for cotton yesterday, ‘The European news by the City of Baltim re impart. ed greater firmness to the views of holdera. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, at fall price. Flour opened firm and active before the news; bat after it came to band, it clesed tame at about the previous day's prices. The transactions were to a fair extent, inclading som» lots on specu- lation. though sales of all kinds were limited. Ohoice white Southern sold as bigh as $177, and choice Wheat was firmer for choice lots of white, do. Canadien was held at $1 80, and Illinoia red was sold at $1 60. Corn was heavy and sales light; a considerable lot of North Carolina white sold at 76c.; for Western mixed 70c. was bid and Tle.asked, anda Jet of old and new mixed Southern yellow sold at Te. Pork was heavier and easier, with sales of pew mess at $19 25, $19 37, a $19 50, and old do. at $19 2 $19 12}. 1,000 bbls. mew mess sold, deliverable next April, at $18, and 1,000 do. deliverable by the 1st of September, 1857, at $17. Sugars were firm, with sales of 500 @ 600 hhds. Coffee sold to the extentof 1,000 bags Rio at 9c. a lle. Freights were dull, while engagemeats were moderate. Grain in bulk for Liverpool was taken at 5d.; flour at ls. 0d., and bacon at 20s. per ton. Ratiroad Speculation, The expansion which may be said to have begun in the years 1850 and 1851, which re- ceived a temporary check in 1854 through the fraud of Schuyler and accidental embarrassments arising from other causes, is now progressing under full sail, and rapidly approaching its goal. Never, at any former period, was there so mach fictitious wealth in the country. Of bauk loans there are at the present time near eight hundred millions of dollars; of railroad stock and boads, twelve hundred—total, independent of other minorexpansions, two thousand millions of paper wealth. Of this enermous aggregate, the abso- lute value of the former item—tbhe bank loans— depends apen the general prosperity of the na- tional trade. So long as trade continues pros- perous, these securities may be fully represented by real wealth: when a reverse comes they may fall in value to any extent, As to the second item, twelve hundred millions of railroad paper, this never was fully represented; for in many instances, more stock was created at the outset than there was money expended, as far instance, when the directors of the Cental added ata blow ten millions to the capital without adding a dollar to their intrinsic wealth; snd, again, many roads finding that they could mot earn or legitimately pay cash dividends, have resorted to the paltry scheme of paying dividends i. stock, which was tantamount to saying that bo- cause their enterprise could not pay seven per cent, therefore it should be made to pay ten. From these reasons, under the most favorable cireumstances, the actaal emount of railroad stock and bonds afloat never had or could have any real adequate representation in materia! wealth, But, further than this, tae roads of the United States are not now worth half what they cost. Ja the first place, they were mever properly bails. They cost one-sixth of the cost of English roads; one-third of that of the French and most of the Continental lines. They were hastily put toge- ther, with slight rails, slight bridges, flimsy structures, cheap equipment, niggardly accom- modation of every kind. This is known to every railroad man: aud, of course, the deterioration must be in proportion to the cheapness of the prime outlay. Forther, the system of beilding competing lines has now rendered it a mattar of rtainty that no road can be expected to pay in this country any longer than it will take to bald arivaltoit. The enly roads in the United States which are really earning sevea per cent ou their cost are some of the Western lines which run through a table country, enjoy a mo- nopoly of traffic, and chat of four cents per mile for passengers, and eight and ten ceate por mile per ton for freight. It may therefore be assumed that, of the 51,- 200,000,600 of paper fleating through this soua- try in the shape of railroad stock aud boads, a very large proportion has no real material rep- resentative whatever. It is so much waste paper: of no more real valne than the notes of wild cat banks, or shares in an exploded lottery. Those who feel disposed to question this as«er- tion—if any such there be—will! tind material for wholesome instruction and profit in the recently published reports of the New York Central and Erie railroads. These are the Tritons of the railroad work. They cost more money, do more business, enjoy greater fame, employ more taint, and we may add, practice more legerdemain than apy other roade in the country. What we fad te be their practice, we may awume to be that of the other three hundred and ninety or four hun. dred roads scattered throughout the cowutry. OF the two, the Erie appears the better enterprisce— for it has cost two millions less than the ( tral, taps the stream of Western traffic farther west and more conveniently than its rival, and carrice produce direct to the seaboard, while the Central docs not couvey it wituia 140 miles of a shipping port. This Eric road, two years since, was on the point of bankrnptey. Hav. ing for a length of time paid dividends which it had pot earned, it was crashed at last ander the weight of the floating debt it had thus in- curred, and was reluctantly compeiled te dix chose some of its seerets, Roseued from ruin by the efforte of some foreign speculators, it has porsved for the past two years the couree of the reformed ond penitent spendthrift. | has aut down ite exponses; it bas di pored uvelesa stock; is bas reduced te te ph stations: it has moved heaven and cach to do a quiet, honest and steady business. Nor has fortane been adverse. lt bas happened no accidents, no flood have carried away its bridges, though they invite such @ calamity; no fires have destroyed its com- bustible buildings; no portion of the road has yet given way. For two years it has purmuod | this steady, sensible course, payiag no money to ite ehareholders, end practising the most rigid economy in every branch of its business; and now at last it comes before the public and de- clares—a dividend? No, it declares that the stockholders must now lend it a couple of millions more dollare, Can anything be plainer than this? Yet, in the teeth of this report, the direo- tors of the Central company, the unequal com- | petitor of the Erie, and a road so circumstanced that the directors are at the mercy of their own employés and dare not discharge them for the groseest offences, dare to come before the pubiic and soy that they have earned ten por cent on $25,000,000 of stock. The history of the Central and thy Erte fe that of nearly all the railroads in the country. They are a gigontic aid to commerce, agricalwre and civilization, and much as they cost, the conntry | will find them a good investment in the end by the enbanced value they will give to land, the inereased production of the territory they inter- sect, and the general diffusion of prosperity they cause, But the railroad companies themselves must go to the wall; some day there will be no more left of them than there is now of the old turnpikes, and the $1 200,000 000 of paper mo- bey by which they are pow represented, will in course of time, vanish like a bubble into air. 'The Natural History of Bulls and Bears. Buffen has told us something about balls and bears, which is very well as far as it goose; but there are varieties of these creatures which are the product of @ very high order of civiliz2- tion, and which, interesting a3 they are, that emi- nent nataralist bas omitted to portray. We pro- pose in few words to supply some part of the de- ficieney. Every period of comatercial prosperity is marked on the one hand by a sudden aad rapid growth of all kinds of financial schemes, and, oa the other, by a remarkanle developement of the passion for gambling which is innate ia mankind. We leave it to philosophers to decide how the phenomena are related, whether the bubble schemes are the parents of the gambling mania, or the mania gives birth to the schemes. For us it is enough to know that both necessarily spring out of and are coincident with eras of general pros- perity, At such periods men bave money to lose, aud their appetite for gain is sharpened by th unusually rapid accumulation of wealth, The grocer, the dry goods maa, the merchant, the banker, seeing their legitimate protits increase at an unbexampled rate, throw off the caution which guarded them in harder times, and forget to iscriminate between strictly business ope- rations and “faocy filers.” The tangible evidences of prosperity which they see around them, delude them into the belief thot all must be prosperous; im so much supshine they see no shade. Accordingly they invest their money in the bubble of the day; take a share in every wild enterprise that is started ; and proceed to endeavor to interest their neigh- bors in like manner. These are the bulls, The bears on the contrary are the unbelieving Tho- mases, who will not admit that fortunes can be made in an afternoon or a week, and give aa earnest of their ineredibility by betting with the bulls on the rise and fall of the commodity gam- bled in. We saw such a period of prosperity and speca- lotion from 1832 to 1836. The country was do- ing well; trade, industry and agriculture were thriving at an unexampled rate; and the contest between the State banks and the United States Bank poured a flood of fictitious wealth into Wall street. Elated by this real and fancied prosperity, the bulls appeared and bet heavily that bank stocks would rise. To them rose up shortly a herd of bears, who bet that on the con- trary, bank stocks would fall. For four years the contest was waged with varying success. There were corners made then, as now ; and the great bears of that day were sometimes caught by the great bulls, and the papers kept by the great balls were in great spirits thereat, just as we see it in our time. But the end ot it was that they ali broke down together, and of the two the bulls were the most hurt by the fall, for they went out of sight, and were never heard of again. The present time shows us these interesting animals ina like predicament once more. For the last four or five years the country has been doing very well; farmers, merchants, manu- tacturers have been making money; the banks have expanded largely, and the railroads have added twelve bundred millions to our paper va- lace. On tbe strength of this, the bulls have ari- sen once more in great force, and are resolutely bent on cramming their wares down the public throat, This time the commodity gambled in is not bank stock; it is railroad scrip aod shares They are of no permanent value for the most part; but the bulls « aly to bet that they are jewels of rave price.” The bears, legitimate @rscendants of those of 1834-6, deal in facts re- specting these securities and offer to bet that they Will fall. "The head of tbe bulls, as it seems, at this t me, is Mr. Wesley, the owner of the Deily Times newspaper; he bets with Mr, Jacob Litt @ dhe great bear, who has no newspaper tob & him. This Wesloy gets up corners, with the hep of other bulls of Woll street; he fires away at poor Jacob Little in his paper, and says he ix no better than « common gambler, a« though Wes- ley himself were in a different Vine of business; and one , he eatches Mr. Little, aad breaks hin. Upen which, Mr. Wesley, who is seid to be very pious, and to pay largely for devo- tional purposes, has his paper to represent the aflair as though he had rendered the State a service; and gets his editors to draw fanoy pic- tures of his cornering Mr. Little and breaking him, in the style of St. George killing the Dragon. So these bulls and beers coon. Some day the bears will get the upper hand, and then Wesley will be down, begging for mercy; and then, no doubt, he will have his editors alinde te him in the etyle of Fox's Martyrs. and prenoance stockjo Dbing « very immoral and improper em- ployment. The moral of all these bull and bear fights ie that people should keep out of them. In the env, all bulls must be ruined, and al) bears may, and usually are; and the stocks which they nw to gamble witn never fail to go bodily to perui- tion. Prudent men will therefore let Wesley the bull ond Little the bear fight til) they finish each | other, withent interfering; if they have money | to invest they will take care not to put it in the scourities whieh these operators knock ap and down; if they own any such etock they will sell | it out direetly. in | Srock Gaxnnnve Jovrwarew —Wesley & Com- | pony, who own the New York Jim, acknowledge with unblashing impudence that they arc icading stock gamblers in Wall street, and that they suc- | oveded in cornering their great rival—the head ot the beare—Mr. Jacob Little, This is the fet time that any Wall street gamblers have ever had the effrontery to openly boast that they owned @ daily journal and gambled in stocks in Wall street at one and the same time. These stock gamblers who own the Duily Tims, say they don’t interfere with their editors, writers or reporters in any department. We suppose, also, that they extend this system of non-interference to their coachman, their fast trotter, their cook, their steward and their chambermaid. All | gammon! If stock gamblers, or any other | gamblers, own a daily journal, they use that journal for their own purposes, whatever they may be. The 7 is as mach the property of Weebey & Conv and as fally under their contre), as their ox or their ass teepect they seem to possess an advantage over thei adversary, Mr. Little, the grea goome to have no journal to advocate his views this bear, who Mispmecrep Lerrers.—We publieh in another column 6 list of uncalled for letters in the Phila- deiphia and Pitteburg Post Offices, which have been sent there by misdirection, and which are intended for mercantile firms in this city, Boston, Pittsburg and Cincinnati. This list, as those others which we have published reeently from time te time, is got up and furnished as by Mr. Walter B. Dick, of No, 393 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, whose only inducement for doing so is his very landable desire to do gratuitous service to his fellow mea. When he first com- menced sending us these lists we furnished him witb directories of New York, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia, which were indispensable to him, and we continue to send him the journais of those cities in which the uncalled for letters are advertised. Some five or six weeks ago, in calling the at- tention of our mercantile community and the Post Offlee authorities to the advantages which they derive from this voluntary and gratuitous la- bor of Mr. Dick, we infqrmed them of his request to be furnished with copies of the directories of Charleston, S. C., Savannah, Mobile, New Or- Jeans, St. Louis and Louisville. We took it for granted that his request had only to be thus sig- nified to insure its being speedily and thankfally complied with. In that assumption, however, we bave been disappointed. The directories have not been furnished to him, and he justly com- plains of this regardleseness by our merchants of their own interests. We should suppose that the managers of the Chamber of Commerce would not need to have this very moderate request repeat- ed. Mr. Dick’s labors, slight and humble as they are, may be the cause of saving thousands of dollarg annually to the merchants of this city, and they should be ashamed to have him ask the second time for a few books necessary to the pro- per performance of his voluntary task, and which would not cost more than a few dollars, We trust that enongh has been said on the sub- ject. a The redoubtable Col. Plack, of the Exen- ing Mirror, has joined Wesley & Co., the bull stock gamblers of Wall street—the owners of the Zines newspaper—in publishing a string of false- hoods about our affairs. During the thirty-jive years that we have been connected with the press we never bought or sold « dollar’s worth of stock on speculation, nor did we ever puff any or deceive the public. If Col. Pluck wants to add a few dozen new subscribers to the 450 readers, all told, which he has, and if publishing un- truths can ele out bis existence another three montbs, be it so. Brash up your whiskers, put on & double dose of pomatum, and make your last speech as the representative of the preas, at the next gralis oyster supper. Wrstey & Co., the stock gamblers who cor- nered Mr. Little, and who own and control the Daily Times, are informed that neither the pro- prictor of the Heraiv nor any person connected therewith ever has been or could be concern- ed in stockjobbing speculations of any kind. The only stock that we ever dab- bied in was that of the New York and Boston Telegraph Company. At its incep- tion we took fifteen hundred dollars worth of it: that is about the last we ha ver seen of it, These gamblers of the //vily Zvuer need not think to involve usin any of their Wall street opera- tions, or to mix us up in the contests between the bulls and the Expansion Srock Gamntive.—-Weeley & Co., with their proprietorshin of the Duily Limes, bave plenty of confederates in their stock gam- bing operations in Wall street. heir operations have extended to Albany, where they have many associates, and we perceive that both of the Al- bony newspapers—the Benning Journal aad Argus —are interested in the Wall street affairs of Wesley & Co. Their eveltation over the smaa up of the great bear, Mr. Little, may do well for the present; bet one o! these days ther may come @ turn of the wheel to give these gam- blers bad Juck, Turn Ussos Feeiy Comraxy.—A_ protended examination of the books of this concern has been gotup by som its friends, end resulta are paraded berore the pu Thisis ail bum- bug. No ove but the bookkeeper of the compa- ny and the directors understand thelr books; strangere.can be mado to find anything that ‘4 wiahed in them, just a6 rival churches fad texts for everything in the Bible. Let us hear no more of such tricks. We do not desire to prejudge the Union Ferry Compony; but we think the many gersshould ave the nevesity of a real end thorough examinatien of their aff + Nie. ‘Tee Avmiat cc —Rumore the detention of thie «com Several woele must olapne ere she oro pal to see. ‘The Adriatic # ati!) lytrg et the Newelty Worker and oGers & fine epportanity for & viet from there eurions of |o mpecting eon ing malace The ecaloss sarge of eabire ia ther side, tee lofty and apacious saloons, sa and pentcine ero all complete, and forniahed, toc, with & ‘uo! Gr oueMers# irparn o¢ everything we Dave yoteran. The bertis are reedy for ooocpami-, the bode made, and everytairg fo fet prepared to ent Nery 9 net yet in order, sor will ft be for some time tcome. Theemeinen are construed op & Dow pisu, one evhion Vr. Roretio Allen iatorme co be been food w work with qreat succesr op beard we Aregc— that stesaner hev.o¢ awede cpwarde a twenty voy Agee Wich them, J/ot (he anglers of the Adrintio conte’: {provement op “hese of the Arago, iO the ehape Dew condensers. ©" ane civet to rederstend that cog owaler reshes theo ct some £1,000 e'reeleting copper pipes, comdensing (fo ateom in its course, Aud {i is bope’ Alet the arrangemen. © |] eave from 890,008 $100,008 wenunlly ie feel and weer and teor of the bollers. The bende of thee piper sere pot co wit! India rubber, which {00nd not (© answer, sod the tere reqairad to edeot an Alteration causes the prevent delsy. \ initorn are not per mitied to inepect the eneite room of the #teemer bet there le comer irrable Rummering perc ov te We, aad wo are tappy to ePow tha: remoral of Cho dork? w not bo corrary, am baw Deen tated. Mr Allen botlovea the «i. teration osm be ef ected im three or Geur weoke, as tho AaTALe Is Expected to Mel im the Inet werk Of Jemanry. avouet wwe Mar Romana—We learn that Jena ©, Samford, (or many years \seletact Ivetmerior a Fic rence, Oneida county, wae arrested on Sat urdiy inet, or Mail robbery at Florence Tt apprars thet yalvable joe bad fer some Gime beon per olnet romewhere on their way from New York aod otucr places. to offices ia Piorence, and Mr ilelbroox, of the Post ont, after Severe) days oxporiments, He in tracing the rorvery dirserly eet yanter, the vicinity of ceeced on Saturday ivaly to the above deputy porten: He woe ht to Rome and sateequenty to Ue) ned before ube | ited Stata Commie: oner, an: jm (he cem of $6,000, apd committed to ) that surety. This cage is @ somewba: po Peraanel Intelligence. Geo, Sp Sanders was in Cuwoaats 06 the Léth inet., an bis way to his old home in Kontuony. mF. Pack apan, gp os elect, arrived im iI iphia on Toesday evening, ee! f Moppog et his old quarters, the Merchanta’ Hovel. General Hamilton, of Texas, Who wre formorly mom hor of Copgrose from South Caroline, and the second of Peedotph im bie celebrated dee! with Mr, Cay Waeringter. The Hon. Enoch Irae land, sud Gen, Shields, are ARRIVAT, From Bnenos Apres in hip Margaret & ire on vondannet at B » bare Three Brod Therher! Knaop—Wm KR Barber, 3 oie the weerage. oe low Isto Gororner ot Mary. wa igton THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the America, Haurax, Deo 17~—9 P. M. Tho steamship Ameria bas not yet been sightod olf this port. She is in her twolfth day out, with three days jeter news, Negro Troubles in Kentucky. Lovisviis, Dec. 16, 1866. ‘The correspondent of the Journal, writing from Camp- bellsyile, Taylor county, Kentucky, on the 10th, says that a negro boy had disclosed a plot of the negroes in ‘that neighborhood to riee about Christmas day, Several arrests bad been made, and an examination was bad on the 9b before Justice Cloyd, but nothing was elicited save the statement of the boy, that he overheard the negroes say that they intended to make war on the whites about Christmar, and that if he would join them they would make bim rich. The megroes are reported to pos- sors guns, pistols, ho. The correspondent adds that con- sideradlo dissatisfaction exists generally among the negroes, which, if not promptly suppressed, may lead to gerlous trouble, Lovisvitum, Deo. 17, 1856, ‘The City Counc! of Clarkesville, Tennosse, instructed the Resorder to uotify ironmasters and other owners of slaves that no slave will bo permitied to come to the city to remain more than two hoors, unless accompavied by a respectable white poreon, under jpg wives and their master’s passes ace Persons having slaver going to or trom Christmas fes- tivities are not to allow them to pass through Clarkes- ‘ville unless a respectable white person will keep them together, and not allow them to mingie with the negroes at Clarkesville. Garzarm, Tenn , Dec. 15, 1858. Davidson, who represents the Third Cougressional district of Louis. jana in the House of Representailyes, having voted egainet the reeolation denouncing any acd all prepost. tons te reopen the African slave trade, feels a little shaky in regard to the view wrich will be taken of that voto by his constituents to the “tate capital, and hes there- fore come out with the folowing explanation:— Hai ov = Hovss, pe e mae the application of tne wy, By reason of tbe ey! Cy ays wd form rt the previous que fg ste ridge, 01 Tepner ses, avd ois party of this House, | war compelled to yore no" on the jenunoiatory reroluion of the Africam slave trade, i denire to ray that this vole dues not, and shall not that J am im favor of the re opening of that trade; for if}. bad the power vested in me vy a tle vow to decide in favor of that proposivien 1 woula not vote for ii. The ob- ject of that gentleman war t-aneparent. Since the elec- tion of General Cuiium ww the clerkship of this Bouse, ae veward for his opporiiion tote Kansas and Nebraska Dill, by @ purely sectional vore, apd since tho attack D; the’ Hen, Lewis D, Campbolt and Humphrey Marshall upon the Presidents toeseage, it was apparent UDxt the Sou'bern men, who eoule iake the wind ont of the satis of the bonorabie geptieman who represents tho Lous. ville district, would bave to do something whicn, whilst it might be defended at howe, would pass tho Ruvicon on ihe eiave question Norin; therefore we have this day had this yeaolution of devusciation, which mapiioaics the memories of the jathers of our republic and framers of our constitution, thrust like a lirebrand upon us. I voted ‘po’? because uO practical god wan contemplated by tte Paseage, because \¢ was un «ive aad jupoiit and be- onuge 1 Consider the resolution 1n the shape of & bid for ‘uture eupport from thet sectional party who desire to divide the South upon side insuss that tasy may destroy ovr constitution. Ii remaine to be seen if couree can win, lam compelled io ars you to publish thie nove that my position say not he misunderstood. THOMAS GREEN DAVIDI0ON. A Sovrmmes View OF THE PXTRNSION C¥ StavERY,—The Nashville (Tevnessee) Banner, of the 12th iust., eays:— ‘The extension of slavery ir of no such vite! importance te the South at present, Lor can tt be for gencrations to come, fever. If, tm the course of time—ol conturica—it of inexora- ccereity—of life an “rath to the South—it will be ‘Thirty negrooe have been arrested here on suspicion of being concerned in the conspiracy. The citizens havo appotated @ committee to examine into the matter. Cincxxyamt, Dec. 17, 1358, The latest advices from Cumberland river state that twenty-five iron forvasces in that region have stopped operations, apprehensive of a negro insurrection. Message of the President of the Cherokee Nation. St. Lows, Dec. 17, 1856. The message of Jobn Ross, President of the Cherokee ‘Nation, is recetved. The affairs of the Nation are repre- sented as in & prosperous condition. Cizilivation is pro- greasing steadily, and religion ana education receives marked aitertion. Ho represents the argent veces sity for providing payment of the national dobt, and an increase of the schoo} fund, and recommendsas @ moana 0! accomplishing these objects a retrocession of the neu- tral land. Respecting tho complaints against persons connected with the American Board of Missions, of tam- pering with the slaver, ne says, slavery being recognized by the Jaws of the Nation, is entitled to protection, and ‘the sgitation apd disturbance of it by citizena of the United States is wholly unwarrantable. Lone of uke Brig Braziilan. Nasrvcxer, Dec. 17, 1556. ‘The brig reported as ashore yesterday, off Muskeget, is the Bravitian, of Salem, from Ybiiade!phia tor Boston, with a cargoofcoal. The crew were saved, The vossel ie breaking op fart. The Virginia Search Law. Bavrmons, Dec. 17, 18546 The schooner Morning Light, bound from Baltimore to New York, bas been seized at Norfolk for evading tho ‘Virginia Search law. Southern Mall, d&c. Barrmonn, Deo. 17, 1856. New Orleans papers of Wednesday and Thursdey last ere to band by the arriva! of the mai! as late &: due. Cornelyos Hugher, from Connecticut, bas been arrested et Alexandria under the charge of ioducing slaves to rua of. ‘The directors of the Baltimore and Obio Railroad have declared a divkiend of thirty per cent out of the earniags of the road. The dividend is declared in scrip, converti- bie in June next into bonds of the company bearing six per cent interes!, and in 1862 convertible into stock o the company. The Vity Gouncile have authorized an ap peal to the Courts to prevent the company carrying ou their pur pore. Departure of the Arabia. Bostom, Deo. 17, 1858. The Coward steamship Arabia sailed today at noon. ‘with Ufty. four passengers for Liverpool and twenty one for | ailfax, she takes out $769, 00 in specie. The Nashvine at Charleston. Cuantestox, Deo 16, 1856. The United States mat! steamship Nesbvilie, Captaic Fwen, arrived bere at il o'clock on Mondsy sight. Markets. PHILADELPBIA STOCK BOARD. Puntavairma, Deo. 17, 1886. Stooks do\l ‘Penmsy!vanie 5's, $4? Railroad, 42% ; Lovg Island, 12>, ; Morris Cana, 154 ; Pennsylvania ghcates Cuancesror, Deo. 16, 1966, Cotter —Sales to-dey 1.160 bales. at improved prices. ‘We «uote midolirg fare at ly nie. Misdirceted Letrers. PREPANED BY W. se DICK, OP PHILADALTHTA, Lit of letters advortsed in the Philadelphia J*ubite Ledger, ob Monday, Deo. 16, remaining in tho Post odice, Phlladolpbin, unvalied for— SEW YORK HOLERE. Carter & Brother, or Carter CONCINATT notes, O'Coonor & © Co, 90 aoverinised. Hogbes & Co. jowon & Sbater. ROTOR 11 oh. “Wm. Hager, Jr, & So, Barry & Brother. Myers & Brother, Lea's, Morenall & Co, Serve & Co ‘Wm F. Barrott & Co, Walker & Son. ‘Toom peoa & Co. PATAHTRO, Tay HOUSER. S, Jones & Co. ‘ Arthurs, Royers & Co. List of letiere advert ived in the Putebure Digpaich, om T Savorday, Lec. 19, remaining in the Pittsburg, Pa., Pest tio vesTON ROU AMA, C.D. Kellogg & Go. Wilaina & Ce. Broekiyn City News. on Retaniv® vo sim Jomepieties ov tae New Yore oF Common Pinas —Judge Morris, of the County Covrt of Kirgs county recently made a decision relative te the jurisdiction of the New York Court of Common Pleas, The caso upen whieh the decision ie Lared is that Of “tha People, x. vel. Sheldon PT. Church, against Je- rows Ryersen, Pherl of the county of Kioge.”’ The re later wor arrester by the Sherti? on an execution againet Ris person, a from the Goort of Common Pleas of the oty of New Yors, and directed to the responden\. He now brocgdt op on & writ of babeas corpus, in order to obtain bis release, 06 the grovad that the rount7 of E)ngs is not within the jurisdiction of that conrt, end tbat it cae pot Peoe aN OXeoetion againet the person, di- rected 10 the bert? of any county ox tho ety and overty of Now York. Jedpo Morris delivered an clato- Tete opinion, reviowing tbe mumtuter bearing oa tho case, and evstaining Me rolator’s ples. Tio war then die Charged. Tt te eed that thin is the first onee involving YRTLADIL YTS A Orsi, Ternden's Expreas. ths point wDieh bas ever beem raises, end it will prove Diy ve carried beiore the next General Term, on & writ of orien. ce. ew Counvt Proreytiasy —ia tne K M Supervisors yesterday, ea acl was suomiited for preventetion to the [egwiature, seking for sath riy joan net siore then $26 (CO to completes the new struc Thue far the bullding bae cost about the land upon which it Is erected, and eur ro ne ing tote. abo 0 =“ There is yet about $5 000 bereasary Co complete it, There is some talk of orecting * fence abowt the grounds, which It ia estimated will cost 155.100. The net af prepares, ie wo be in the lands of the Assemblyman from this for pre- teniet on to abe Leg lature, Superior Court. Before Hon. Jadge Sicvson FXO LLING & COLORRD CLERGYMAN FROM PHB CITY CARs. Bee. Th Reo. Samuel Pennington . The Siok ings County | cleo ip the Uvion, if the Union lasts so tong, Bab if it contd ror, it weuld then be t:me epongh to insist upon ox- tension n if disruption of the Union should be the DCO. A Fatam RUMOk AnoUT SaNDISG BRNTON TO THE BENATE.— ‘The St. Loutn Democrat says that the story of an alliance betwoen the Benton men of Missouri and the Know Nothings, for the purpore of electing Benton and Kennctt. United Statem Senators, is made out of whole cloth, It further contends that the ttory bad its origun in the co- jumps of the Missouri Aepubiioan, and has been kept up by the Zvening News in order to poke fan at the Republican. Police Inteliigence. Au Aro» Tickar Swivpis —Lather Cleveland, ot Kendall Mills, Matne, app»ared before Justice Osborme at the{Lower Poitce Court yesterday, and preferred a com- plaipt against Stephen Gorden, proprietor of « passage ticket office located at No 146 Cedar street, for having: swindled him eat of $25 by means of a bogus passage ticket for Charlerton, 8 ©. The magistrate issued a war- rant for the arrest of Gordon, who abused the ofiicer ia = most daring mapner, raying be did not care a d—rm ebout the Mayor, Police Magisirate, or anyone else When asked by officer Fariey if the ticket tn possession of com plainant had been issued by bin. ne took it ia bis bans, Jooked at for ® few mum nis. and then tore it up, ia tae eco of De Pewee aoe ~ Cleveland. = act was aces m pan! by prouse abuse against e Mayor, Police Magistrate and ail others in suthority. Gordon was locked up tr the Tombs for trial. BurciaRigs anp ARsrsts.~George Forrest, Samuel Benbaso and Wiiliem Gardner wore arrested on charge of paving burgiariovaly cutered the premises of Patrick Farrel’, No. 25 Hem‘too street, and stealing $60 worth of vaiuables therefi trial by Jestice Brear: Henry Foster was arrested, charged with baving broken into the store of Pn! Sheri No. 16 we Ktreet, and stealing theretrom, Juatice Brennan committed tor trial. Jobm ‘Taylor was also srreciwd op charge of borg! , in breaking into the apartments George Olmetead, No 19] Oherry street, containing clothiug, Ac the from the prema te ed of this burglar tp asuemary manner by commit- ng bim to the Tombs for tria! SnooTine Avraay Berwexs Neckors At @ late hour oa Tuesday nigbt a sbooting aifray took place in Worth street, near West Broatway, between two negroes named Jobn Smith and Andrew Jackson. Jackaon, \t is alleged, called @mith a swindicr which so annoyed the iatter J from bis cut pocket and tired it at ‘The v capo was foaded with shot, ber ot which took effrs coon Jackson and a’ ir hia face in an uny hve canner, Smith was t nto custody by the Filth ward pcheo, and was comumit- jo Bg \be Tombs to answer a charge of felonious as- revit Four Promeixc Yous Yew.—John Jenkins, Jamon ark, John Smith and Jobw Liudsey were arrested by the Fourth ward police on a charge of enteriog the boare ‘ng hovee of wre. Ma apa Leating her ebtldrs erve! apd tur jostif promicing outbs w brought belore Justice Osborne. at tae ower Police Court, where they were committed for wie), AN ALLEGED Fromys rom Jvetice —Abrakem L'ipp- man, ap alleged fugisive from jvstice, was brought to thin trict Attorney. Rive ves ScrRmep.—At en early bour yoeterday Worning the captain of toe coal barge Pattereou, tylag #* foot of Sixteenth street Kay . or eaptal of frigbtening them of pirates left e new boat bebiod them, and also e ousotty of plander which they bad obtained through the nigh. News from 4t. Domingo. CUBAN VERSION OF LOU AIRS—POLIOY OF TRE GOVERNAENT, a8 KEPORTED ABLOAD—POSI- 1108 OF GENERAL SaNTANA—ADDRESS OF PRESI- the Diario of Hoven. Dec. 10.) receipt of tewrpspers from Sanw Domingo city to Nov. 9, A proclamation of Gerersi Barz rhows that the public Meet of the guvereusest baving, wdcrensed. iit ts Vue ‘of the goverpment having ade in order thas it migh: revoke the extraordinary wer of levying treops gr d w Genera Venice this, ‘the General was deprived of nis me permanent Srscret instaee! ing Ceclares inoom| * ers on the President the command of | forces ne well an the aireciion ration #. Santana wan at Seibo, whenee i dent uncer date of Oct. 23, gs given word, nor will i fell to eniorce the obligation of porition in order to porish reveroly tho first who shal’ to pet tp exeourion any factions plang *’ eath |» the proclamation of the Cresent alluded date Noy 6—~ ‘ ral rejoicing caused me chapgee recently ciected in ovr politcal wane. ard £0 pase cvately manifested by the je, bot Lritete our enemies Wiabing to troable our Repo! Dew, they rsoried io the O@hobee) artiice of propagate Trio TUMOT?, In Order tn eRa* porate avd PrOTOKS we te» dword:rt, Forthnaveily, ‘hey did not succeed In deiviog the people of Sento Domingo t commit exceseer; but as ‘With oor cries of joy Bnd seative acciawations some few ‘yolore of clecontent were mingled, owt aiversaries did Ot negiec! to prout by them for the parrose of oatum piating }0u, ata for ing; € some people with « for o feat im regard to thei tafety Ae thie is Keely to ba THilous consequences, in Order to s}ep the ¢viL'n ite Crig'a, I besten to address myself 19 50:0, tu] te oe hort you to moderation and vigiinnee, With regard to pub- beste chee ae ‘anor of trouble may be quali. ced an criminal, onr government cannot conteat cave them ‘aneoticed. ‘iy ne You, Dominicans, join aronnd me, rinse me to great'a provi of ronidence by eléating moto tne of the blo. Lend me aperre tosmeton, by sbowke yourselves ponte ane 5 eftivens. te Pure that at the *mall Miiehe waa foreibiy romo Jrom tbe ears op tho day in «ueation. The hour for 0 Pt ot Deving @rrived, the case wae suspended Thurrdny morning. RAILWAY CALAMITY. Dee, 1eP eer B Bemey, Public A ntristrater, we. The bucton River Railroad Company. Tota was an wetion for Wilr ga German by ranning Over him at the corper of Cae) etreet, Det Im consequen se of negivence on tao of the deceased, an ade need by the (ertimony ‘or thy Bee, {ne rane wer dis m' teed. | Clamorons imarfestations rea Abstain | i» my duty to repress thom. | pp downy ma done have beon upon the oo opersiion of f jondly alm, thea, Dominicans = | Fete ali disordors, and be asrured that i Roars Oavent in tne Ior—-We ‘wards of sixty caval hosts, loaded wih )— yg : 4 frozen bein of the canal at Lasalle, whore they w eee . biy romain enti! next spring ioe at Peru, and another at the ond of the cage Pres, Dee. 16. O00 steamer is fart in ths chanuet.— Uni Louls to New Oricane, aod on+ milifon in eilvor ¢oli ‘bullion from the letter ot) io Ihe - ean