The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1856, Page 4

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Mus Unies Sates we!) eiesreship Coorge law, Carvem Bermder we) eire Ihe pore the wlermerk, 4s fwe weamk, lor sep owe Tae mie for Caiforns are wiser pare © wh! Ctowe oF CEE © whe Fac Bo tock Meo Nee Yorks Wars Hew -Caiterne edvion— sensaining ibe lave cicligence iro ul. parte of ibe work, ol) be poolieted st ven C'cloca oo the morulae Hinge copies, we wrappert, ready woulling, ex yeast Apenie WL. please tend w ther orders ae ears ae vente meta ie St ae News Whe rieamer America, from Liverpool, had nos leon telegrapted at Balfax op to last cvenny. Wbe & cow iw ber fonrieenth day ont. No pusinese of moment wos trewsacted in ¢ cber . Meamch of Congress yesterday. Mr. Wieon, -o the , debvered « long speech on the political is- mo Which we learn thatthe Kar- vived, .f wossible. In the Evese was considered t'}! the borr of dhe puivate aerdar ae@ournmes* The Sinte Temperence Conveoton 4s) Altany finaliy adjourned yerterday. The proceedimge ap- year to Lave been anything bet havwonious. Mr. Delavan woe reelected President of the Sosiety, ake Convention promeng ise $25,000 where- wiih < pay cf the dels an. 7 06 the cause. x. Delevan declared Bly wilinguses to be victim- weed wo the extent 'e! feur theasand dolla. He will find tet few imitatore. Flowever, if the ‘ee- deaallere fromeh the snem ,@ very Vigorous 2g tney be kept ap ge the wner—co paver, Ve “wewhere we ha correspondence ve ween District Aviorney on and Commodore Vander- ai, Me. Me Keon wants © know ae © © Wwe ve u Bt) Ooster Dg exped) Gon epainss VeL* leteer replies that be bus no knowledge tex, and furthermore thay be ‘+p theortering echemes whatever in the Fontington case yestercey @rfendan: opened with a> ex ends ogy nvere weogrephica sketch of the ac be po of sustaining the plea Do neenty which Was eet cp in his bebali, The extraord.nary plea is adored by @ no less mont, and \ eingolarity 0 fol; the remarks of eriwoner, 4 which © The case of the I eb cergymen, ogair Company, invelving dered persons to ride i yeeter lay pte) ahs Sixto Avense Railroad not the riget of co je-, eerningted wl) Le recolle © «mar chara wae cried tome to e Jedge Whiuog, smd oevided im favor of the mgbt claimed by o be yeonone The Doard of sche met last evening, and minority report of ition eppropriat after ap exciting deia’e ot the Committee on img £200,000 for rk rovemen's wae ioet bya vote of 26 to 20. Two boure were con- eumed in atte king and defending the character of Mayor Wood. Coancilmen Swen end Gray were principal ach he scene. See our report ia ap etner coiame tee of the Board of Aldermen m~ ated n‘o the dep. — ot the Comms Lamps, which is ender the barge Mr. Evling was nd ‘eat iness euntracts, or in as thee for giving them way receiving mor TPE mn work. wan a ls were mhocence and he M wo ween the Umion Derry ¢ | nt MUG. acre Ty, Wee very eo c. ted with mono z0iy am he people and pubvlic consracts, fur on their part they represent them hable to comtinee that ferry withoo' incur Ug severe lowes, and challenge) those who did not Velieve them to buy them out and take the ferry. nterested ronment private gain: ‘TYert the matter stands, both parties squared for the ight. A fall report of their proceedings will be tou sd WM ane ver column. The Tark’s Iams Royo! Stondard of November ed +4 —The demand Tor salt hae not Ween eo a> bie week as tt was last only 33,026 Unshels baring been exported +ince. There are three vessels 2 pur. wo load—whicb w Ke abret 20,009 bach aa, wa chal! then have on band ove ) éve Prive, 19 conte. be Une eiving . ' decent 4 ont through by “ ¢ a.nitinn,f.., Wore ser e py years bad been 1 u yetertey emt ae he towrke eee hcg & NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1856. for wid@ing uplands, aad Ix. fer New Orleans do. ‘The Wicaragun Meeting To-Night—Oar In- Pour wee finn, with an ciaracd vendency {0 prices for commen to geod, and ex‘ra prades of State and Western brande, wbile the sales were moderate. Wheat was quive fms, with limited sales, at about the previews days’ prise. Corn wes rather dull, with sales of Western imrxed at 70c. @ 720. from tore and delivered. Pork wae firm, at #79 12 for eld mese, and at $19 62) for new do. The sales of sugars were confined to about 409 a 500 hdds. Cuba muscovado at Bje, a tie. © i Foeights were dull, avé flour verpool-and London was taken at aslight concession im retes, while the smal) engagemen< in grain varied from 54d. in bulk te éd. in bage. Rates to Favre wore cochangec. fr. Tchanan sud the Great Saving Pria~ cipte of his Adxamistration. Whatever may be ihe deliclencies or doatte dealings ¢ form, there is one gr wing principle upoa which M>. Bucbasan dae definitively taken bis ground, which is wort, three times over. all the platforms constructed by onr democratic carpenters trom 1556 down to the mt aoe ‘This great safety vaive to Mr. Ba- 2 ¢ the ope term principle, to which he y, sincerely, coosiswently and hae occupied this independent position; and, os a necessary Cousequence, every Presiden: since his second term, has fallen into by the board. Martin Van Baren owed his nomination and election in 1836 te Jacksen’s popularity; bat the “Little Magi- cian,” as he was eailed, was not satistied with thie, le war resolved to be re-elected upoo his own merits, and so he straighiway set himself up for asecoud term. The terrible defeat of 1840 was the natural resalt of bie trimming, vaciliat- ing, corrupt and disastrous administration, look- ug inerery thing, not wo the interests of the conn- ty, bat to the caancesof the democrati¢ nomina- evtceme Oaptein Tyler. President by ident, b he eoon became ambitiouso? being Pre- tin kis ownright. He set up shop for bim- White House accordingly, in conjune- Teanga gerd or Si cin asd second cor- In process of time, ment of poral (pro cant) Wise, an independen’ Tylerian national Presidential nomisatieg soraped together at Baltimore. fel) through; and ¢! ended the dicrouy efforts of Captain Tyler yiohis own right, io ao inde- bom vation and elect joa epon the broad form of the 1 Polk, and be tiandered » Mexican war, and al) the way through upon Baltimore ones § a ay with on sa fred Pox Was v as amake wrangling cliqaes of the imore Convention of °48, “ he was of no use, apd so be submitted quietiy to be laid upon the shel? Meantime, Van Burea, who g with the Boarboos er Genera. Baffalo had th B. i st, of an ample revenge * the democratic nomicee and the With thie reveage Vaa Bo- s fur a second term Fillmore, suezeeding to ‘Tyler, throngs an vive with the same ‘a Lis own Kame, expired. Next Mi the Presidency sike wee uetens wes a come oly trom the « s end popu hed «poils p kanes. Pranklo Pier ubtja) ruff aie ¢, 0 secu Mn obd & cond term. his yeare, is siden! he stands elected in bie owa Beha of James Bachkanan. a| ag th execs counterpar dian Empire and Directory. ‘The belle whick rang oat the year 1600, raug im the first East India Company. A few London traders had met in Alderman Godderd’s book parlor, and taken measures to equip certain vs- sels of their own, “upon a pure mercantile bot tom.” Queen Blizabeth, the patron saiat of Woglish filibusters, gave them a@ cherter, aad they became incorporated under the title of “The Governor and Company of Merckanta of London trading into the Bast Indies.’ They have continued trading “into the East Indies” trom that time, and have become conquerors, spoliators, prosely‘isers and ndministrators. They exported from Lendon ordnance and ordnance stores “on a pure mercantile bottom,” ealeulat- jog that there would be @ demand for euch arti- cles of merchandise. “The increase of our re- venue,” they wrote to Bombay, ‘is the enbject of car care, as much as our trade; itis that must make uf a nation in India.’ The Great Mogul was for o time looked upon as the most formida- ble enemy of the Company; but it was soon found that he was got so formidable, after all. The en:- toies whom they most dreaded were much nearer bome. Rival compasies were starting up. The reas were bristing with interlopere, and the Dutch, Portuguese, and, above all, the French flags, waved around them on every side, The Dutch power soon waned, for the traders ofthe Hague were wanting in the plack that marke those of London. The Portuguese decay- ed from the absence of vitality in their nations! existence; but the French were a different peo- ple. Duplaiz was the first man who saw that it was possible to found an pire op the ruins of the Mogul monarchy. or had he only propos- ed to himself the end: he bad also a just and éistinct view of the means by which it was to be attained. He wae periectiy aware that the most easy and convenient way by which a Earopean ad- ventarer could exercise sovereignty in India was to govern the motions and to speak through the month of some glittering puppet dignified with tue title of Nabob, He saw that the natives of India under Haropean commanders, and accompanied by a few European troops, could be formed into efficient armies. At this junctare the great Ni- samo, al Mulk, Vicerey of the Deccan and of Carnatic, died. There were pretenders to the government of both provinces, One of thom invited the assistance of Duplaix—just as one of the pezties in Central America invited that of Walker. With a few French soldiers and sepoys be triuzophed every where, and bis banuers waved even over Fort St.George, tne seat of the English fibusters, At this time everything seemed to portend rain to the gers of the British empire in India. But one of the Company’s hookkeepere, who had Mever been remarkable for anything except “fighting, 10 which he wae out of measure addict 2.” finding trade doll, turned his back upon the Grndgery cf the desk and became a soldier. The valor and genius of an obseure Eaglish youth tarned the tide of fortune. From his employers in Earope Duplaix no longer received help or countenance. They condemned policy and sent bim no pocun' assistance. = enemire aceuted him of cowardice, eel by saying that ne kept away trom shot be- cates silence and tranqniMity were propitious to his genius, and be found tt dificult to pucsue bis meditations amid the noise of fre arms, So it is with some of the Nicaragua gentry, we fear They find it more propitious to their genius to meditate their warlike plans amid the shades «f Saratoga or with the q politicians of Waehin, § ov, Bat the heads of the Raglish settlement adop 3 ed a diferent policy from the Preach. Fort S} George had been destroyed and Trincinopoly was besieged. The young bookkeeper, now a ca § t, the capital of the e of the na- siege of Triacinopoly would be rai<ed plan was approved, and putting himself bead of two hundred English soldiers and red sepozs, be set ont. Of the eight s who commanded this little force not one bad ever been in action, and four were factors the company. The weather was stormy, b® Clive pusbed on, through thunder, lightning and rain, to the gates of Arcot, and it fell. Knowio z thas he would not be suffered to remain undie- tarbed. he collected provisions, threw up works, and prepared to sustain a siege. Three thousand men encamped near the town, At dead of night Clive attacked them, slew great numbers, and dispersed the rest. The siege of Trincinopoly wae raicn’; but ter thousand native troops and their Prench allies gathered round Arcot. The little garrison had become reduced to one huodred and twenty Haropeans and two hundred sepoys. The walle were in a rainons condition, the ditch dry, and the stock of provisions svanty. The place murt fall. During fifty days the siege went @. An attempt made by the Company's agents clieve it had failed. Rajab Sabio wied to negotiate and to buy Clive, bot bis offera were rejected with scorn. He determined to sorm the wid selected a yreat Mohammedan festival for the occasion. On every side Arcot war assailed by thousands of mon, animated with the courage of fanaticiem and intoxication. Hundreds fell during the «trugyi*, and the besieg- od passed an anxiove night, looking for ar a) of the attack? Bat when the day brok enemy were no more to be seen. The news was received ot Fort St George with traneports of Two hundred English soldier oy and pride. live, and seven hundred sepoye were sont to Cl od offen- and with this fore sive Operations a thie empire in India, commen: inet Do One can fall to p tof our new Indian Gronada, oar Fi 9 the English flibusie: at that time, our filibasters in Nicaragua are re daced to nearly their Inst et: hew siege and defence of Arcot may yet come off at Ii'vas, or on the Tran: and the n “vices from | Sen Juan may bring tidings of the tarn of the tide of fortune, lowst that the American filibusters ati!) bold their own. Hverything now depends spon the a of Walker and the pluck of hie employers here. Our readers bave already seen that the Hrnatp’s taken, and a Court of Directors, something after ion of the London Company, has been | @ we published a dey or two | cot in the back parlor | ows that the new | Lik: is made up with an eye to “all the | Genvals Green, Barnett, Cazencan H € . J Anderson, aad | aprewent od fal | ge Moz ary: Ds Me srgioal; Thomse Francis Neegaer th Tom Piagide the dignatic as | this property of theire for $15 ; another col Morgan the fmancial and steamship, ard Captain Rynders the political spirits that are prepared to take m part in the glory and tho spoils, The military spirit rather predominates in the new Court, and therefore we expect them to exhibit the pluck of the English flibastere, and to pre- pare to reinforce their Clive, whoever he may be; and soon to begin, like Clive, the first offen- sive operations, Vice the new Court of Di- rectors, Tue Proresep Rerenw in ce Crry Go- vernMen’,—The large majority obtained in this State by Colone) Pregont at the late election, has eet a number of politicians a thinking bow they might best use the power which chance ap- peared to have thrown into their hands, Blind to the fact that the majority was mainly due to the persona) popularity of Fremont at that time, and for that encounter they have gone to work to count upon it, and discount it, and write it down as their stock in trade, as thoagh it was theirs for ever, and couldn’t be lost or diminished. One of the first uses to which they propose to put itis to alter the city governments of New York and other cities by acts of the Legislatare. The plan presents a two-fold advantage; in t first place they will be able to punisu thos which went against Fremow 0: the election; second)y, they wil) provice verths for sundry roken down politicians from the country parts. These two birds are to be simultaneously killed Ly the establishment of Boards of Commissioners fox every city which gave its vote for Buchanan, to control the Mayer, and exervise municipal authority; such commissioners being appointed by the Governor of the State, and The plan, as is seen, is ingenious and creditable to the skill of the po. ti- clans, As @ punishment for the “back sliding cities,’ it weuld be most effective, for one can see at a glance that it would render the government o* © ow York even worse than it now is. It would divest the omly responsible city ofticere of their authority, to confer it upon otii- cials owing no responsibility to the people for their acts, andcven more independent of popular control and opinion than the heads of depart- ments now are. What the state of this city would be under such a government, it requires a lively imagination to picture. It is possible, however, that these ingenious though vindictive politicians may find their cal- culations somewhat erroneous when they come to put them in effect. Ibis possible that tue demo- crats who voted for Fremont, oa account of poor Pierce's follies and Fremont’s popularity may not be as willing as the-e gentlemen suppose to let themselves be made the tools of the broken down temperance leaders of the Western part of the State, or the Weed spoils chique at Albany. Li might even happen that (he attemps to weld them like clay should prove the signal for their rebellion, and the resolution of the republican party into ite origina) elemente. New aso Incr nrous Systext or Exrcrionnn! ING POR TH. Vor four or five years past the policy of Senator Douglas to secure the Presidency has been rather of a subterranean, cub rose and rickety character. He has made himself a familiar among the democracy of cross road taverns and city oyster saloons, and all for the purpose of “tickling the ears of the ground- lings” Now all this ischanged. The “Little Giant” bas been transformed, as by a fairy, into quite a genial and courtly aristocrat. Hispolicy, too, for the euccession has been wholly revolu- tionized. Itis a new policy, a delightful policy, and Mr. Douglas should get out a patent right jor it, as Culonel Benton has done for his great discovery for saving the Union. Let us explata, Mr. Douglas was a widower; be had tasted the essings of matrimony, bat was begianing to UCCESSION. uitable temptation to try them ain, when the reigning belle of Wasbingto, fixed him with a smile. Naturally enong : there has been a wedding aud a wedding tox and here we e oar main road. This new Presidential policy of the “Lit Giant” is the inating policy of mingling the honors to the youth and beanty of the bride with the political aspirations of “the happy min.’ The hint wae no doubt taken from the praises sung in honer of ‘Our Jessie” during the late Presidential campaign, General Webb, if we ae nol mistaken, muds a great speech ab Tippecan Indiana, ia which he proved, ia fact, the gray mare was the batter borse,”’ So, putting thie and that together, we suspect Mr. Douglaw is resolved, with regard to the paign of 1860, not to be bebind any sspi with a lovely and accomplished wits him. Accordingly, we perocive that the Gian.” and the bride « \joying, in honor of their buneymoon, a series of charming serenades, intermixed with stump speeches, in the course which the Judge i# necessarily called upon to de- fine hie position. By this beantifal process of electioneeri « is already fairly ia the feld for 1810—so “that, in addition to Col. | Fremont, Commodore Stockton, Gov. Wise, | W. HL. Seward, Jeff. Davis, John MeLean, Jose: D. Bright, D. Dickinson, Sam. Houston, Speaker Banks, and others, up for the White House, we mast now and hereafter include Mr Douglas, the “happy man,” aad the young and *Mosic hath charms.’ Play “ Hat Mone Conxnns. esley ‘ Company, the pro prietors of the De , are really the greates Operators of these days, and the greatest men upon “corners.” How they cornered the great bear of Wall street, and straightened h'm, the world knows ; bet this is only one of their opera tions in the eornering line. Not long since, they cornered the corporation and the trustees of the Brick Church, and bought 9 property which they value at half a million for $270,000. This eas cessful corner was no sooner effected than they fell to cornering poor Pierce, to mike him bay 099. Th tok tome skill and some nerve to corner eo able sa operator as Jacob Little; bat poor Pierce was very easily managed. Wesley & Company have an editor whom they let ron loow in the political field, just bringing him up now and then, on sach questions as Mayor Wood's charactor, in order that he shall not feel his oats too much; by lke ting this editor work along among the ose | | cans, while Wesley bimeelf, who pretends to be Bachanan man, managed the democrats, per Pierce was soon cornered, and etpitulated at | discretion. Nothing like corners ! } Maney Hevevecrn.—Some one has most ogré | giously bumbugged Marey in regard to a pre- | tended filibustering expedition to Venezuela. | Com. Vanderbilt was drawn ‘uto it, and one of hie etoamera (the Daniel Webster) watebod day | and night by orders from Stats Department, | We give a correspondence on the satject, in It won't do for Marcy to be- love overg word Le hee “o0 | Beg. OF GeOrpin, Ban Deer apprinted Associate Joatice of Benrmerow’s Tuarr-—A New Cove or Mo- | nais.—The trial of Huntington, which is now — in progress in the Court of Sessions, before Judge Capron, has assumed a most extraor- one of the counsel for the prisoner. The pro- | secution having proved, so far as it was pos- sible to do so hy a numerous array of competent witnesses, the charges of forgery of which Huntington stands accused, his counsel, instead oi putting in a denial of the truth of those | receive trom y charges, boldly admits that be mot only com- | mitted the forgeries specitied in the particular | indictment upon which he is now on trial, but that he committed a multitude of others. At the same time, however, that be makes this ‘broad admission, be presents as the theory of the de- fence the plea of moral insanity, and | boldly agserta that at the time Hun- tington committed those forgeries he was not morally accountable, being utterly uncon- scious that he was perpetrating a crime. In sap- : port of this theory he gave a biographical sketch of the prisoner from his boyhood, interspersed with nomerous anecdotes of his youth, illustra- | tive of Lis erratic character, and closing with an | account of the various forgeries of his more ma- ture years, All these forgeries, he contended, were but so many witnesses of his moral insanity, i — and he was prepared to prove by competent me- | dical testimony that he is a monomaniac. Win. HH. Harbeck and Charles Belden, who have been on the stand, and whose evidence has appeared in our reports of the trial, are charged by the cor scl as being the guilty parties, and with Laving employed Huntington as a toul—an inno- cent too! —in their illegal pecuniary transic- tio: And this extraordinary defence the counsel for the prisoner stated had not been adopted till after the most careful consideration, | and till they were thoroughly convinced by refe- rence to competent medical authority that it | could be fully sustained by the facts which they | intend to present in evidence. Now, if Haating- | ton’s forgeries—amounting in the aggregate to | more than half a million of dollars—were the | result of moral insanity, all the balis and bears | in Wall street are morally insane. Robert | Schuyler was aftiicted with the same disease; | the inmates of cur State prisons are Iabor. | ing under this terrible affiiction, and every man | who commits a crime can urge the same pica in | his own defence, There is, in fact, no such thing | as crime, and all who have been punished for its | cosamission sbould have received the commisera- tion and sympathy of their judges, instead of suf: fering the peralties of the law. Under this code | of morals State prisons are catirely unnecessary, and the man who is guilty of marder or forgery, or aren, sbowd not be held accountable under the law, because, forsooth, he is affiicted wh moral insanity. Amarecr Coxcrmes asp Fasnrovanin Caa- very. All the yonng ladies in the upper strata of New York society are now laboring under a terrible disease~a chronic attack of Italiau ma- sic. The number of American prime donne iccreasing frightfully, and the Italian theatres will soon draw all their eupplies of new art! frem New York drawing rooms, The ma hae also spread to the euronger sex—some of the brilliant lights of Young New York have positively left off curling their mastachios or inventing new cravat ties and plunged bead over hecle into crotchets and quavers. The tymptoms of the disease are visible in several amateur concerts—some in the “large and richly decorated apartments of the aristocracy” —others } in fashionable churches—-to all of which an ad- | mistion fee is charged, and the proceeds given to | tie poor. The singers, having been spoiled by the praises of injudicious friends, sive themselves the most absurd aire, and fully iHlustrate the axiom, that i spossible to tell what a terrible bore we can be until the experiment is tried. Your amateur always assails the most dificult music, and is always conquered by it. The audience is generally composed of the personal friends of the singers; and no criticism is 20 2 vere as that ofa personal friend. This mode of | raising fumde for the poor, by making the rich | suffer, ig not the correct thing, Young ladies were, formerly, more harmless, They made red | worsted puppies and unavailable placushions for | fancy faire; now, forsooth, they must assault | Verdi, Bebini, Donivetti, and a number of other | respectable maatere, who, no doubt, have sinacd | deeply, but who really do not deserve such treat- ment. Fashionable charity is exceedingly well advertised. When fashionable cherity plays the good Samaritan a very large horn is blown about | it. The generous donors make a good thing of it. receiving public applanse in addition to the reward which virtue always has--the con- sciousness of having done a good action. B: ~~ sing! mg pd the oe is very poor charity ie Wan avone tee Danocaern. Criqume ron me Svows.—The democratic cliques in New York, Pennsylvania and Richmond have already commenced qnarrelling about the spoils of the stration of Mr. Buchanan. The cliqaes only fight for the spoilt of the custom house in this city, In Penn- sylvania, the row is between two cliques, beaded by J. Glancy Janes and Jobn W. Forney. They are fighting for the Postmaster Gencralship and the seat in the United States Senate, But the principa) Nichnond clique, more ambitious than the rest, de that the Secretary of State should wa Virg the Seeretary of the Treasury a Virginian——the Postmaster General a Virginica —the Secretary of Warn Virginian—the Minis ter to France a Virginian--the Minister to Hag- Jand a Virginian——two or three of the best con- suls to be Virginians all the good clerkships at Washington to be filled by Virginians—and then, why, then, some of the small spoils may be soat- tered among the faithfhl in the other States. York ‘Yias New Cayat. Loas. Another million of the canal joan is advertised for, bids to be opened 15th January. What a splendid business the Politicians are doing! Wonder how many more millions it will take to finish the canals, or whether they are destined to be the vurhe @ hut of politicians pec iad ever? Personal Inteltigenee. { vor. ‘agua has tendered the appointment of !aapector Genera! to Genere! Broce, of mates county, the present \poombent, and he hes secepie: ine place } i, i rumored ip fm Waskiogton that J. W. iT Underwood, Une United Staten Coort fer Nebraska, rice Haden, re. A "ieee Cte, Reeé Radice, of Delaware, te in Waeh U 1 Paw Cent « ‘aia amee Fe), sedi * effect that arrangements hel been meie in ih'e city for | dollars a cay. After due consideration \t wae paeeed by~ | acclamation, by « large majority ; but some waggiet mem - | ber imsisted upon the ayes and nays being called, upor. | ween the Philadotphie Leger, neutral, and the Peanspt | the lowest bidder, while the /’ennsyluanian arguer that | ly Wn his sister and nit! | Daly wee nrrested eee ae ov Naw Yorx. v. 8. Demce sonar’ Dec. 18, 1866, C, Vanownnitt, Esq , New York:— ‘Suk—Information bas reached the Department ot State 40 the effect that arrangements are in train in (b's city ior , the purpose of a hostile military expedition agatust the: republic of Venezuela. It is reported that you are to sup- ply transportation, armé and munitions of wer for the’ expedition, I have been instructed by the Attorney” Genera) 0: the United states to investignto the subject, eud Ideem it my dety (o ask whattrath there fem the tor as it is im’ your power to impart me, Jask this the more ri osnune | feel assured that a8 8 good hala Ln ly aid in the of such awa, eas end publi citizen, w acriminal violation honor of the United ates respectfully, JOHN Mc EON. v ch Digt. Avtorney, No. 6 Bow2.xe (away, New York, Dec, 19, 1806. Hon. Jorn McKaoy, United States District Attorney— imax Sim:-—-Your letter of the 18th inst. steting that information bad reached the Department of aie to she the purpose of a military expedition against the republic: 0: Venesuela, with e iurther statement bao it ned beer reported that I have Ley sag to » ny ‘traneporta - tion an¢ munitions of war for the |, hee beer received this morning. , iD reply, to cay that | have no knowledge whatever, of apy such intended ex; Sas were pie Decent to farpish it any Permit me to f which the Se repostio of Nicaragua the of w! i now Lam at loss to socount for the condce: of the pertice through whose agency this grest ipjcetice hae | been dove me, vulese they may have su that aL. bustering w to be made respectable by eepociation of ces concerns ni enters Lt 3 8) &re notori- onsiy concerned in ite enter, Mare ban ig not the @ $n] with uivusteriag” of Nicarsgua,) of @ militay invasl Tepeblic, as when {t aseumes the more property of ocr entcean aie ees, onr citizenn. exe Bocreal to any of the ees which my came ‘bec! ; &ud that you will ‘hig assurance ve my counte- py eg tg Cg any invae! r v = obedient servant CG Sweeny. Political Movements. Anam 10 Face te Music—In the South Caroline. Eouse of Representatives @ bill was recently introduced to imcreae the pay of the members from three to five: which yote the bill wae rejected by seventy-ope to forty. Pours x Consgcricct.—The Fillmore Americans (#. smn)! faction) and national whigs of Connecticut are tc hold a union Convention to nominate cand:dates for the: Apri! State eleetiom. The republicans and Fremont ame. Ticare will probably unite upon a ticket. Re-Or nsx oF Tum Brosoway Thmatee.—To” popular stabliaBment wil! open for the season cn Monday next, under the dircction of Mr. E. A. Maraball, who bes beeas ita leseee since 1849, and the stage mamagemer: of Mr. W. R. Nlake. The opening of the house bas been delayed by building im the vicinity, and advantage bas been taker of tue time thu aorded 10 repair, stremgtber, rencvate, and rett the theatre in every department. ice new wai! i# much more cubstantlal than the old one, Tre entire ipterior of the ibeatre has been renewed, acc tt looks av- freak and bioom'ng as a girl cf sixteen on s bright May morning. Mr. Heister bas painted an aci crop afd scur. tein--the latter, an im'tation of brocade greer, wit besvy geld ir age, wauperb. The company will include tevera! very popular artiste—Mr. Biake, Mr. ioraine, Medame- Ponisi, Mr. Thomas Placide, Mr. and Mre. A. 1. Daven. port, and others. Mre. Davenport will be remembered as Miss Livzie Weaton, one of the prime favoriier at Bar- tons, inree or tour seasons ego, The openicg pay will ‘be the “lady of lyons,’ in which Mr, Eerry Loraine, whe comes with the bighest recommendations from the: Englieb preas, will play Claude Melnotie, and Mra. Laven port Paciine. No doub: the tex thousand patrece of the theatre wil! rally im full forse for Monday nigrt. Mr. 1o- raive wil! play « short star engagemen:; then .bere wii! be & Cer scam Opera season, with Mile Johannsen ts the pris domme; alter which Mr. Forrest will appesr, and play, We Goudt not, a long and proiiabie enpsgement. Mr. ©. 4. Mareball has aleo taken the lease of the new Academy of Music in M’btladelpbia, which wi!) shortly be cpened for operatic purposes, The stockho!cere there bave admission’, but Bo right 19 seoured places. Prosomres Git Pastis, —A question bat arisen bo vanien, democratic, ip regard to the city prinvag. Toe Léger contends that it should be given oet by cotiract to it shorlé be & part of the spoils, and bestowed «pon tre “pewepapers which bave toidly fought the bacses of the scoceasic! party. Srvwmmurinne.—A New York correspendest of the | yous /rets enamerates the maey politica! changer that bare come ever the Tritun, im Wis city, amc predic ‘tbat (2 1269 that paper will advocate the recpeciwg of the tlave trade, and eld im the election of e mar to the Presidency who &® pledged (© that mesture. Stranger vente have happened. City Intelligence. Tare oF a Viaky Orn Liny—Among the death cotlere in yesterday's Henan was the announcement ¢! ibe do. Conse of Mre. Dleanor Hants, aged 112 years, for ifiy years of which she had veen a resident of thie city. It ip toneidcm that this ace (# attaimod tr this e'iy that » pare.og Lotice of this lady would mot be O16! place ‘a ovr colemns. The maid-n mame of Mre. Henne war MeKatee. She wae born in the county Monagres, ire land, ‘m the yeas 1744, gad came to thie cocn’ ear 188, with ber husband, Thomes Feo Hnea tor it ware there {§ some Clapete edovt the he hosted died in the yeer 109, since a She came wo thre chy the pelle fever bas visited \| twice aud (be chelers three times. She is an ol¢ resident of ‘the Tenth ward, baviog "ved there ower turiy years. Mere. Eanpe cce'léren, Bad sever cbii¢ron, © * erty twee very little reamed her faculties unimpsirec w ta A cous) —On Thursday evening, aboc! eit © clock, ae the He, Mon sveaue ferry best Agnes Wat eriercg toe boy, about twe're years of are, etter nok pene eter Frevioun to the boat being wonde fast to the briog vinelng bie ooter. veil ve- iween the bo ana tritge } ioto the water. fe war rex cved by Mr. E. Touen, ove of the bridgerien Sheriffs Court. Before Frederick 1. Vontee, Eeq., Under Sher!", and «Jury AUTION TO IMMIGRANTS. Dre, 18.—Jawes I, Lapel-y ca. George . Da was an sotion brought by Mr. Lapeley, & reed State Of Vireoor!, egainst the defendant, » corge Wo recover $600 damages ‘or deli auding b fom of $279 2D open the eaie of paseage tow boat, the Voted States Mall Steamebip Company ¢ t'camer Louw, [leppoare by the evidence st. Smyth, a O° ia wecan win . 3 rt of Jepuary lant, i t Der chilérets for tee parpose Of forward) om of the Upitied States Mai Company'® censeir fs Mr. Lapeley. ®ho, it appears, re ied New + Ork ther for the frat time, after be bad proce es ae and her family, wea! ty loot Company, nearing e ont, the whilet ee employed he wae met by the sexed Lapsioy What be war looking for: and Cros inronmed, be @tated that be was an employs of ine | “tater Dal Steameh p hey ant offered to tr Imintie te tbe'y offloe. but instead Mm inte an of .e in Warren Bejmeeh ‘he Steneeaes ie letter to bim, and aaa eer poh ay oT oer and, paid Daly 88%0. the dey, when the steamer wes about starting, the fe Lone m- boar, aed the Gret time jownd thet ly deceived ee on fiten to him veing for oniy, w the compony’s writ @ prices wortm for $126. Mr. i Wee Obligca to allow hn femily f© p #0G ih the Ptenmer, ed then inetitoted thr est on. belt wo be tne