The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNEDVSE, EDITOR AND PROPRIESOR, enemas QFTION N. W. OORNsR OP 9.48940 a5) PULTO* BTS FEE DidLy WERALD: 2 conte per copy, $1 per onowm. Das. ome per Fak WEEKLY HERALD sory Satartlay, ow 655 cents por san) cr $3 y27 annum; the Busoyean edition, penne F em G reas Br lain, or 8% 40 any part of te Continent, —_——. ste N TARY CORRESPONDENCE, conta ang import. dec. from ony qu srier af Ue workde—t/ used, will be Ba~ OUR PCRMGN CORBBSPO.DERTS 4K pa TicUL4hhY REQUMATRD TOS BAL ALL LETTERS AND PACK ames FT US. eee nS ———————— AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW BVEN Sa. MBOADWAY THEATRE, Broatway—Lady or Lyoxe— ROLand FOR AN ULIVER. MTBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Escueu Orexs—Tux Pew Diawonne- VY THCATRE, Bowery—Tre Ress or Penaita— SBGING aD DidcING—JACK BBRFPAND. BURTON'S KEW THEATRE, Breadwag, opposite Bond wt. —Yux Jescow Wire Jenny Lisp. WALLACK'S THEATER, Broadway -Pavuise—Kuto a. A BAVBA WENF’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway Camiin —a Graves Case, GBAMBEKS ATREET THE*TRE, (ete Burton’s).—In eoman—New TORK BY Vay anv NigE . BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSHUM, Broadway.—Afer- noeo—A Kies is rae Damk—Panpy ram Piewn. avening— OMMDEN La. @EO. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Brond- Way—Emioran Pxxroam noes lmB Oop Cuece BOCK LY 8 SFRERADEAS, 086 Broadway.—Lrmoman Mpreracssy— ON DaienL. BB emer by Donwonrn 4 Bs dew Vorm, Sunday, December 21, 1956. —————————OOOOO— The News. Notwithstanding the heavy continuous rain of yesterday, ihe meeting called in the Broadway Tabernacle to sympathize with, aud send material aid to Walker and his army, in Nicaragua, was a very large and enthusiastic one. Gen. Ward B. Burnett, Colouel of the New York regiment of Volunteers in the Mexican war, presided. Speeches were made by bim; Mr. Oaksmith—f rmerly com- missioned by Walker as Minister to the United States; General Duff Green—who formerly figured in connection with filibusterism in Dominica; Gene- za] Wheat—a distinguished officer of our army in the Mexican war; General Green, of Texas, who acquired celebrity in connection witn the acquisi- tion of that territory, and our two New York friends, Captain Rynders and Mr. Thos. J. Mandy. Letters of sympathy were received and read from Generali Quitman, of Mississippi; Senator Jonze, of Tennessee; General Walbridge, of New York, and Thos. Francis Meagher. A series of resolutions pledging aid tw Walker, calling on the government to send national vessels to San Juan del Norte asd San Juan de! Sur, and endorsing Minis ter Wheeler's course in Nicaragua, were adopted. A eollection wa: afterwards made; and it appears that there was received, in checks, $1,100; from the gests of the Mansion House, $60; from the guests of the Washington Hotel, $50, and in smal) collections $97—making in all $1,307. The eommittee was also notifiel that 1,000 rifles were ready to be placed at their service; that whe St. Nicholas Hote] would send by the wteamer on Wednesday 100 barrels of bread, and the Metropolitan Hotel 5,000 Ibs. of bacon, for the use of the army. It was also an- nounced by General Whea’ that 2,000 volunteers were rendy t» start from New Orleans, and that bundreds would leave New York on Wednesday next. Oar Washington despatch stvtes that orders have ween sent to the government oificers in this city to stop all shipments of men, arms and provisions to Gen. Walker. Now, therefore, all ye filibusters and ¢y mpathivi rs with filiousters, take warning and, in the words of the old eng, “Mind what you are about, and whet you are going to do.” The Belgian screw steemer Constitution arrived yerterday from Antwerp and Southampton. She was twenty-one days in making the passage from the latter port, having experien strong westerly gales through anc the last three days bail ste he no arrival of the Hermen now and the Ameri ly owing to rhteenth is undoubted at this port inst Tie steamship Biack ¥ yesterday with Havana dates to city was healthy. The but prices remained unch jearn tha: the rities to Domi to orders, am govin, the Sp gence from Mex tive to the im Vidanrri’s ac firmed. » Cuban antho- according be voinnteers natur Cons The ed som days since, rela- ni | General io ord prospe Comoniort, and esion to the gore nment, is fully con les issued an for the artes ne K. Gatrison, rgan and ( Willian Waiker, to the Accessory Company ina trespass, for converting and disposing of th of the company to ant also a f and cb ue millon dol. iow dollar daz In conse n the George Law. s for Aspinwall, and rp ennd steaners, lotalned They will sail carly th’s morning. Staten [elond boatman, will take intaLp to the Georg it starts. n the Court of Sessions yeste The proceeding day were the moet varied and intere tranap n that First, awong other rentences Conley, the receivers of stolen goods, condemnad to the State prison for the term of four years and eight mon'hs. Next we have the postponement of the Huntington trial, becanse of om being of the Hebrew falth, followed by remark James T Brady, District Attorney Hall and Jadge Capron, upon newspaper criticism of eriminal trials geverslly, and the Fantington casein particule Then comes the retarnof the Grand Jary. This body take especial pains to compliment the police force of the city tor their efficiency, to which senti ment Judge Capron, having in view certain inci dents of the late election, does nat subscribe. The Grand Jury have failed to indict any of the liquor sellers and this circumstance ix seized upon by the Jodge as a text for an excessively dull homily apon the evils of intemperance, and a display of stati sti ca) information regarding the number of grog sell ers and grog drinkers in the city. Another suit for a receivership was commenced yesterday in the Supreme Court ageinst the Acces. sory Transit Company, in which the plaintifis al lege that they have a claim against the company for nearly twenty-one thousand dollars. They ask also for the sale of the steamships belonging to the line. The case is adjourned to Friday next. Lieutenant Maury deliverea a lectore Inst even- ing, at the Brooklyn Athen@am, on “The Open Sea in the Avetic Ocean.” Our report is unavoidably crowded out. Notwithstanding the stormy weather an attentive andience filled the building. ‘The City Inspector reporta 373 deaths during the past week—a decrease of 66 as compared with the retarn of the week previoas. We are glad to notice fan abatement of scarlet fever, and also of other complaints jnciggugs! ve ehilgreg, The following is ng that have for some time past we find Willa and tritanal the jurymen NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1856. @ comparison of ‘he wamber of deaths for the paz’ two weeks:— Boys, Girls, Tal. 196 138 a oe (OFS “t rf a8o8 pr 38 12 a a There were aiso 9 from violent canses, in- cluding 2 suicides, 7 premature births and 27 still born. The following 18 a classification of the dis eases, and the totel number of deaths in each class of disease, during the past two weeks: — Dee, a Dec, 2. i 92 a Generative organt 7 5 Heart and blood veusels. lo Lures, throat, & 1 4 0; ae Skip, &e., and 61 Stillborn and prematare birth a Stomach, bowels and other digestive or- [ 5. EERE eee + 46 a Uncertain seat and general fevers Urinary organs The number of deaths, compared with the corres ponding weeks of 1854 and 1855, was as follows:— Week ending Dec, 23, 1864 379 Week ending Dec. 22, 1955 329 Week enc ing Dec, 20, 1806 The nativity table gives 259 natives of the United States, 74 of Ireland, 23 of Germany, 1 of British America, and the balance of various European countries. The avnexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variations of the wind currents, and the state of the weather st three periods during tach day, viz:—at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock REMARKS: Saturdsy—Morning and afternoon fair; night jorning and afternoon rainy. night —Morning and afternoon clear. —Morning clear; a'ternoon cl Wednesday — Morning sloudy and cold; dcold: night vory ould Mornibg clear afternoon —Moruling clear; aeraoon clear and cold: nigat recclarday—Morning and afternoon rainy The inclemency of the weather yesterday, with the absence of later European news, due by the America, bad a tendency to check transactions in some descriptions of produce. The sales of cotton were confined to about 600 a 800 Lales, at full prices, the market continuing to rule firm. Flour tor im- ediate delivery was firm, at Friday's prices, with moderate sales. 1,500 bbis. ex- tra State were sold, deliverable in Jannary, at $6 95, and 5,000 do., in the months of January, February and March, seller's option, at $6 90. Wheat was tiem, with limited sales, while prices ruled a: the full previcus quotations. Corn was quiet, bat rather firmer. a! unchanged rates. Pork was steady, with old mess at $19 12}, and of new do. at 2 Sagars were steady, with limited transac- Freights were without change of moment; were moderate. sales ot sgement The Fellef of the Poor—Sanitary Condlison of OW ished a few days ago @ mn im this city, established be the poor, h shows the alarming f pauperis in this city. It is aeserted this document, as it has before been by the t e of New York, that pauperiem increase. The Henan has had vt to this fact on previons ocea- Yy seventeen persons: there is now one in one 1 tw vps for the re not the immediate ob of t statutes, have become ary ina y Where so much private » 1 ¢ diserimination which a mprlled to make between yea! uh nd imposture enables them to throw moch wnitary condition of ¢ ever, that th ef nted to the public ey epared as they might be. Thus we e report of the thirteenth annual meet bie association, already pablished in the nogine © not as « number of persons relieved by » year past was over 115,000—one- of ow whole population: at least such ng of the t olamn of afterwards slated to bea le ough it ii Probably these may have been the } wt times these persons were jeved. It wever, 4 statement which needs revision be- made the groundwork of cor reitean b gislation. doubtedly th bee muc ty ewell the the whole charity of ran * of Pauperi iblic and private b of the ravages of di may be foreseen and pr t eanitary reg wnt choose to regard our oblig:$ n and Christians. What a dreadful ® neglect of these maxims, ta of medical and politic § omieal lag ps! In a great city lik nentable to see how vast is the num- ber of y deed. Two great cemeteries, peopled from our midst, contain, it is supposed, more then eighty thousand graves, though both of recent origin Pay sheree other large tract« of land have re- cently been laid out as places of interment, ard re aleo rapidly filling up. Our Potter's field isa series of many strata of mouldering corres piled on each other in ghastly beaps. Hospitals and dispenearies are multiplying around us, aod it ia Ve yet no interposition of bumanity stays the career | of mortality. It is the opinion of the learned of the medical faculty that a oonsidera’ propor- tion of the lives cut off in large cit under some general sanitary regulations, might be prolonged. It is an eetablished fact that “ cities are the favorite haunts of epidemics "—that there life has the least average duration, and that two per cent of deathe fe a very healthy mortality! In London the deaths are in the ratio of 1 to every 59 persona; in New York, 1 to 35 and 85-100; Philadelphia, 1 to 47.81; in Boston, 1 to 30.88; Baltimore, 1 to 56.19; Charleston, n | On Long Island and on the | | ed with &.C., im former years, 1 to 35.38, but now, by tanitary improvements, the ratio is bat 1 to 52; Chicago gives 1 to 28.62, and New Orlesas 1 to 15.22. The particular agencies which act #0 severely on the populations of large towns— such ae are epidemical, or engendered by filth, vitiated air, unwholesome water and bad diet, and are infectious or contagious in their charac- ter—are now ranged under the title of zymotics. The amount of mortality from this class of diseases is very large. Of the total number of deaths in the Uvited States forty per cent—almost one- half——are caused by diseases which are within the control, not of medicine, bet legislation. In our own city, thirty-five per cent of our deaths ave traced to cymotic causes. What, then, are the ovvions daties which devolve upon the public authorities with such facts before their eyes? And what are the necessary steps te be taken to avail ourselves of the advantages which scientific research now places within our reach? A first necessity is a copious supply of pure and whole- some water—not merely to those who can pay for it, but those who can not. The purveyance of water should not be the right of private com- panies, who naturally restrict its free use, but a sacred trust reposed ia the representatives of the people. Fortunately for New York this wise policy has been engrafted on our system ; and its effects, clearly foreseen by the sagacious men who planned and carried out the introduction of the Croton river into our city, is now producing the best consequences, Pure air and good ventilation are also indis- pensable to the health of public towns. These conditions are constantly overlooked; and unfor- tunately because there is no remedy but the strong hand of the law. Public attention has of late, under the influence of legislative inquiry, been turned to the subject of tenement houses in this city, and the condition of their famates. A fruitful source of disease was detected. Stringent jaws to reguiate the building of houses, to detine and give to each man, woman and child a sn ieney of space to breathe and live in, appear in- dispersably necessary: and as society has assumed to itself the right of self protection against fires and various other risks of life and property, with- out regard to any counter individual interests, it might go a little further and see that houses and ities were built disease-proof. Sewerage and paving are also valuable—indeed, indispensable--conditions of sanitary preservation, The one carries off under ground the filth and waste water which would otherwise accumulate in and permeate the soil—the o' eeps down the slambering i of infection beneath us in their caves, permite the streets to be kept dry and clean, and largely adds to the convenience of locomotion and the promotion of cheerful and healthfn) exercise. Va tion, and that frequently, is also im- portant as @ sanitary measure, which should be enforced by Jaw, as ‘t is in some parts of Europe. One of the m things which medical ting is the effect of the ground of streets upon The physicians of Buffalo, w Orleans, have for some d there was a close connection be- tween the opening of sireet ditches, lot excava- i nd sewer drains, and the health of the re- nie near these places. It is most 8: torily proved that the opening of made earth for the purposes of sewerage, during the summer n followed on several occasions, in and unusual sickness e inhabitants who lived A fatal malaria seems to have heen with deadly power. In the ity of New Y here, both on the east and west 8 of ities of made A dwallings ing sewers 8 f sewer- creas he lines of em in p our sanitary y of these pro- ail which kuow: how to n which orig’ the extra profit of disobligil te the sonoyed companies, and which sox bis chief p on bis job, t would be well if our Board of Health should ® ries of observations to be made of the ges and deaths w occur in s where sewers are being con- would throw much t upon this , and lead to some contrivance 1 consequences might temporarily pest doubt, that the tants should go hand in hand with jon of sewers. 38 the statesmen ¢ It ie certains gland have the subject of bealth of towns. Many admirable re have from time time been laid before F ent. Associa- fons called “Health of Town A-«oc'ations” exist compo istinguisbed personages, who bav paid great attention to it and published the re- alte of their obs ions. Some of these aro very crrions. For mple, it was found that | improved drainage of only tw sin Man- ster diminished the snr ty of the town more then twenty per o commie joners appointed by the 1 1845, have since that period published @ number of valaable ris on the sanitary condition of the tow.@ icte of England and Walej i nopnlk ue die nied maases of evidence and the re- sults of personal examinations of more than fifty towne. The latest we have secon recommends no I than thirty 4 4 proportions for votion British leg re, most of which we be re been adopted, We regret th want vente us from considering this whole length ite magnitude demande, York is deeply interested in the principle. is fair to infer that with an impro- ving sanitary condition much of the squalidness a chedneseof poverty will be removed. Let i man fram@senjoy pure air and pure water, and it will be in « better condition to exereiee ite powers than when prostrated by fever or benumb- cold. Our benevolent acsociatione, therefore, whom we would not discourage in their henevolent exertions, may not anprofitably em- ey themselves in looking after the sanitary condition of the city, and seeing that the poor have health at their command as well as soup. More Dreis—It appears that the Hon. H. J yond, whose name appears as the editor of he 7 and who is Licutenant Governor of the Stale, lately received a challenge from Thomas Franeie Meagher, Mr. Meagher objected to » paragraph in the 7imes insinuating that he had broken hie parole, and proposed to prove that he had not done + ly shooting at Mr, Raymond. Under the cf ances, there were seemingly two cousses to porsue, One was to enclonp My, ) Meagher’s note to Mr. Matecll, with a request that he #hould be taken care of ; this was evident- ly the proper course for a man in Mr. Raymond’s position, as every one will perceive on a moment's reflection. The second was to fight Mr. Meagher. This would of course have been a very foolish plan, as it couldn't help Mr. Meagher’s honor, however the duel ended; still, considering the times, we are not inclined to think that Mr. Ray- mond would have injured his prospects of distine- tion at Washington had he shown that he would not be bullied. Instead of pursuing either of these courses, Mr. Raymond, as it appears, weakly ac- knowedged in his paper that he didn’t mean what he said in reference to Meagher’s parole, and the latier acknowledged — that he was satisfied. The inference is a very painful one, Tt is that Mr. Raymond had neither the courage to obey the law by handing Meagher to the police, nor the courage to break the law by fighting the duel. The Stook Gambler’s Journal. The stock gamblers, Wesley & Co., and their journal, the New York Daily Times, evade the question at issue between us. They enumerate some six or eight companies of various kinds which they say bave been puffed in the Heratp, and subsequently exploded. The Times is not posted. Not six but six hundred companies of various kinds, mining, manufacturing and rail- road companies, have at some time or other been “ pufled ” in the Herarp, when they deserved it, and the same eompanies have again been exposed and attacked when that was the treatment they deserved. As that isa course which appears to us after thirty years experience, to be proper and _ ust, we propose to pursue it in future; though, of course, we cannot ensure that the managers of every company which shall claim our approval wil) so judiciously conduct its affairs that it shall be ultimately successful. A careful study of the columns of the Hera. will therefore enable the editor of the Times to make a much larger list of companies which all the counsels of this journal did not prevent the managers from ruining. But this is not the question at issue. The question is—do Wesley & Company, steck gamblers and operators in newspapers, brick churches, city lots and little villains, use the Times for their purposes, and does that journal, which belongs to them, endeavor to delude and blind the public in order that Wesley & Com- papy sha)! make money? We assert that Wesley & Company do uni- formly use the Times, and that its editors, whether wilfully or not, we know and care not, do persistently misrepresent facts, in order that Wesley's speculations and gambling operations may suceeed. We assert that the Zines from day to day misrepresented the state of the money and stock markets ,in order that Wesley & Company might succeed in cornering Mr. Little, and that when they had done so, the Times bad the indecency to exult and gloat over the foll of a man from whom these gamblers may have received many favors. We assert that the Tines was used by Wesley & Company in their endeavor to corner poor Pierce about the Brick Church; the editor being directed to say that he did not desire the government to buy the property. in order to make poor Pierce think that Wesley and Company were not anxious to sell. We assert that Wesley & Company, bull speculators, and large venders of railway securi- ies, do systematically use the Times to advertise r wares, and in its columns do represent that to be good and valuable which they well know « heart to be worthless. And we assert gene- rally, that the main object and purport of the Times newspaper is to give aid, comfort and pro- tection to the speculations and gambling opera- pany: that all the rest —its politics, ite literature and the rest—are shams, thrown in to make believe that it i- éwepaper, like the Hersup, or Tribune a that many w since, Mr. Wesley, the 1 of Wesley Company, ey- snd actually took the steps toward dissolving the concern because ® doubt was raised of bis right to control the Times for his own purposes, not to, If the Times have further stomach for the fight, these assertions, Let it show, is not the property, and not the of a Jarge stock jobbing house in Wesley & Company. Or let it Wail street. show that, during the thirty years of our own we newspaper experience, have been equally guilty--that we have speculated in stocks, or hecome the too) of speculators. Jt it cannot do any of these things. let it 4old its peace. A man may hold 1 up. though be be the servant be cannot expect to be recog- to be made a scavenger of the asters revenge. Tur Is axp or Ccna.-The Queen of the An- # the glory of Spain. She is guarded with ve and cherished with affection. Ever since the Ostend manifesto made ite appearance the Span'+h forces on the island have been gradually wed, and large synadrons watch around ber Cuba contains from thirty-two to thirty five thonsand syaare miles of the richest so and its products are immensely valuable. The population at the close of 1455 was estimated « 1445,462, divided, according to Mr. Thrasher whose misfortunes became so mach a subject of interest with bie American friende—as fol- Slaves .... « . This population bas i Among the free blacke, strange to say, are a large number of property holders, and they are by no means so generally degraded as their brethren who are slaves, ‘The estates of the island are estimated to be as follows :—Sugar estates, 1,442; tobacco, 912; cof- fee, 1,682; and grazing, 9,950. The annual value of the products is about $60,000,000, consiating in part of—sugar, $18,699,924; fruite, $14,839,050; molasses, $1,409,728; segare, $1,267,496; tobacco leaf, $500,000; coffee about $6,000,000, according to the tables of 1852, ‘The imports of the island are about thirty mil- Jione of dollars armually, and the exporte about twenty-eight millions While England receives but a million and a balf of the producte of Cuba, the United States take nearly seven millions, ‘The commercial eystem of Spain, however, checks the commerce of ite dependency, and leads toa great deal of smuggling. The duties are mostly ed valorem, the valne, however, being as far as postible, fixed determinately by a tariff. There are daties levied also on the importe of the island ite)’, aod # Giscrisajpation ie made, though not a very liberal one, in favor of Spanish bottoms. The revenues which are extorted in these and va- rious other ways are estimated at sixteen millions of dollars. The Governors General acquire for- tunes very rapidly during the few years they re- side in Cuba, and very hard things are said of them, particularly of O'Donnell, who a few years since was entrusted with the care of the govern- ment, and returned home with an enormous for- tune. The slave trade flourishes, in spite of all the pretended efforts to restrict it, and is winked at by persons high in office, It is understood that Mr. Marcy is endeavoring to chose his career in the State Department by modifying our commercial relations with the mother country, and placing them on a more easy and liberal footing. But the delays and the chicanery of the policy of the Spaniards will long intervene before anything can be effected. So well known is its principle of delay, that it has given rise to a well known proverb, “Let my death come from Spain.” Tyerorar Burst Ur,—The teetotal humbugs have now entirely burst up, and are broken out- right. They may be set down among the bank- rupts of the day—debts, twenty or thirty thou- sand dollars; assets, nothing, and the members will not paya cent to liquidate the liabilities. Mr. Delavan, the amiable, pious, religious, tem- perate, water drinking, wine eschewing head of the concern, at first refused to continue in office, but was afterwards persuaded to serve six months longer, but the whole affair has virtually exploded. This is always the end of these absurd, fanatical, one-idea people, who want to reform the whole world by force of nonsense, After dementing the people of this State, and half a dozen others, they now come forward and ac- knowledge their folly and their defeat, and that the natural result of their operations is the in- crease of intemperance, more drunkenness, a greater consumption of ardent spirits, and less water drinking than is in accordance with the dictates of common sense. One of the most sin- gular results of this teetotal movement lies in the fact that notwithstanding its ridiculous and absurd character, it was the means whereby Mr. Seward secured his re-election to the Senate of the United States. He has now invested four thou- sand dollars in the liquor trade in Auburn—the liquor being designated by the comprehensive le- gal term “et cetera,” thus going beyond the Touchstone of Shakspere in his estimation of the value of an “if.” Philosopher Touchstone is the only parallel to Philosopher Seward; one was ready to admit that everything was covered by an “if’—Philosopher Seward has hit upon a still finer cloak with his “et cetera,” “et cetera.” Wanxtep—Materials for a sketch of the Life and Adventures of Wesley, the stock gambler and proprietor of the Daily Times. All communi- cations properly authenticated will receive at- tention, if addressed to the Editor of the Times. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the America—The Weather. Baurax, N. $., Dec. 20-10 P. M. We bave, as yet, no tidings of the steamer America, now fifteen and a half days out from Liverpool. ‘The exceeding cold weather of the past few daye bas been wucceeded this evening by anow here, and by heavy rain at other poiate between here and New York. The Present indications are that the America will be unable to enter the port before morn.ng. Interesting frows Washington. SECRETARY MARCY AFTER THE FILIBUSTERS—AID FOR TRE ATLANTIO TELEGRAPR—PRIVATE CLAIMS IN THE ROUSE—ANOTHER DUBL EXPECTED, ETC. ° Wasursctox, Dec, 20, 1856 #H) am informed this evening that Secretary Marcy has rept orcers to the District Attorney and Marshal ic New York, to keep vigilant watch the! mo expedition is fitted out, or versels leave that port to carry eltber men or arme of apy bind Nicaragus or to any other quarter, and that if anything of the kind does exist they arc clothed with full power to arrest a!l parties concerned. Acopy of the Pennsylvanian was laid on the desk of each member of the House to-day, which contained Forpey’s article of three mortal columns, headed ‘‘ Men and Measures.’ Many of the members, witrout reading ‘t, kicbed tt under their deake. emen from New York, connecied with the pany, are here, an’ bave called on the President and secretaries Marcy and Dobbin to-day, with the view of eplisting the goverment in lending tts }d counte pance in carrying Out the great enterprise of uniting Amer'isa and Europe by an electric cable, 1 understand that the object of their mission if likely to be crowned with entire success. The Britieh government have alrea- dy offered al! the aid required by the Company. ‘The Fowke war tn session to-day, in order to gain time for dissipation next week. The proceedings exhibited the lobby inteence strongly. A bil! allowing the widow of Captain Samuel Angus nine thousand five hundred doilare, war ordered to be engrosted, and would bave passed but for the management of Moeers, Jones and Teteher, Mra. Angus hae not the shadow of a claim upon the government. Her husband wae diem'tsed from the service in 1824, by President Monroe, and afterwards allowed half pay for life, The widow is now receiving the same pension. Bul a black republican committee say Captain Angus, if he had no} boen dismissed, might bave remained io the navy, and there fore bis widow should be allowed hie full pay, lees the amount paid the Captain in hie life time. A parailel to thie case cannot be found on record, and yet every efiort was made by the republicans to posh the bill through; but they fatied. They will yet pase it. The bill granting # pension to the widow of Com. David Porter was ordered to ite third reading, and will be passed without objection. Com. Porter died in 1843, at Constantinople, and the bil! allows the widow half-pay from that date during ber natara! life. Another duel ls on the carpet here. The challenging party is from the South, the other from the North. It is thought the Southerner is not too anxious to Aight; bat bis friends say \t must be done. A distinguished South- ern M. C. if the adviser of the challenged, THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. House of Representatives. Wasnmotos, Dec. 90, 1866. Mr, Mocr asked but did not obtain leave to reporta bill, Preparod at the Post (ffce Department and approve by the Post Office Committee, taxing lottery circulars and Buch clase of mai] matter with letter portage. Adjourned, State of the Weather. Warrsotoy, Dee. 90, 1966. ‘The weather is milder and rainy. Toe thermometer is above zero, es r Provaperrus, Dec, 20, 1866. ‘The thermometer at 45 above zero. Weather rainy. Markets, PRILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. Book! Pennsylvania tate 6: n64: Rendtog Ret 8 inactive. , ' ron, 423; Morris Canal, 14%; Long Inland Railroad, 1234; Peuneyivania Ratirosd, 47). Vinorwta Ixon Manvracrony.There are at Richmond several gentlemen trom Iva. come on for the . Legisiatare hav’ ited them a very Wheral charter for the purpose veloping this great staple of our State, they desire \ irginians Interested to ald im the enterprise by subscribing to the stock. yubsoriptiqn will be neveral viacse. Lawyers on the Duty of the Press—Hunting- ton’s Trial Psstponed—Sentences pf Prison- ers—A Remarkable Device—Wlils and Con- ley sent to Sing Sing—Speech of Wills—Re~ marks of the Juege—An Avaricious Coun- sel—Jas, T. Brady, Esq., the District Attor- ney and Judge Capron tell Editors how they ought to Conduct thelr Newspapers— the Grand Jury Compliment the Police, and so does the Judge~Grand Temperance Oration, &c. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Capron. Duc. 20.—This being tho last day of the term, the morning was occupied in passing sentences. Gustave Michael, who was tried and convicted sovera! weeks ago for obtaining @ large sum cf of money from * man named : “ Schmidt, was brought up, He represented himself as @ policeman, and told Schmidt that he had purchased an Amount of gold dust that had been stoten, Schmidt wae avery timid map, and Michael succcoded in obtaining money from him ‘‘to settle the matter.” The Judge im passing sentence remarked that the crime was committed ‘unaer very peculiar olrcumstances. The prisoner pro- cured fsome witnesses who testified, to facts (if they were to be believed.) that wonld show he could not have committed the crime of which be had been convicted, They swore that the Prisoner was laid up in bed with lame limbs, which would have rendered it impossible for him to have oom- mitted thecrime, The Judge at the time of the trial, al- though the jury convicted him, thought there was room for doubt, but subsequently a remark was made to him whicb he thought unlocked the whole m; and satis- fied him that tbe jury were very did en. tirely right, and that wee “this: The had ® brother, and the medical men thought they were testifying to the prisoner’s condition, when in fact it was his brotber who bad the lame legs. The eae ve called Micbacis, and the questions put to the witnesses ‘were, ‘*Was Michaels contined to his room?’ Tae wit- nes pritoner, as bis Christian neme was not mentioned. He ‘was sent to the State prison for three and a half years. George Willers, who was tried snd convicted for stab- bing Mr. Pettigrew, in the Bowery, was sent to the Peni- for six months. Willis and FConley, the loan brokers, who were con- victed of receiving $7,000 worth of laces, knowing thems to bave been felonious); sentence. Mr. tobe present to move for a new trial, as bis (the pri- doubt 4 rem tke patience and" impaulty which te oul oe an wi Court exhibited on the trial it would be governed in tts. decision upon the facts developed. He acknowledged bis warmest thanks to bis counsel for the manner in which be discharged bis duty; nothing more oould be done for bim and his confederate then had been effected. ht the verdict was unexpested by a msjority pe that heard the evidence; sorry to impu, motives of object of was to de! from the repetition of as far ss Con! ~) bimsel( de unnecessary. made u| 8 different cours: co future, ‘and if permitted they would leave New York immediately. that bis Honor would not stigmatize thelr character in such ap indelible manner as that they could not here- a oe ae Senta ee re -, made a very fecling appeal judge, but, as ‘will be seen, wibcat avail. Judge imo passing sentence, sald that there were several circumstances: surrounding this caze which distinguishea it from any ' otber that it bad been his tortune to be concerned in since be had acted in his present cay y. Those were cir- starces that not only to his sympathy, but force in them with referemce to public derations. The amount ot Soeparty token Ss Sane Seatennes i i i 3 i i iE bali 83 3 clit is i & 3 ; 4 ; 4 vat 1 big Bs eH Ege F iat He 8 g H 8 fraction _ dollars, they were ~ p= + ky . question presen! hn bigh life, thore who had been surrounded al! their li dy iwfoences, who had arrived at r\ iJ i i i m—" such all those reetraipis and committed crime, w! Court could with the Jeast show of propriety Ty seemed to ri & iss tah # HY resolved never to do. years ago ance of the Court was confinement for four years tmonths in the State prisen, A lady, who wan to be the ‘Wife of Ocnley, clang to bim tenaciously after the sentence: ‘Was pronounced and he was moved to tears, Wills took the rentence like a philosopher. It was said (hat be was well known to the avthorties in Europe, and had served several terms in prison there, Conley, it ie reported, also was a noted pickpocket on an extensive scale. It seems that as Wills and boars he exhausted al! their ra eee for them ‘her tribunal unless Before the jury was James T. Brady, Raq. rose and’ said—May ‘t please the Court, Gestiemen of the Jury—1 desire to draw your at tention to publications about Se one ee ee io Swo of the morn! papers, the Haxirp and Times, and it may be in journals, but I bave not bad ao rte efsecing ikem. Your Honor bas toid that while they were empanteled é panel, nor even with each other, On tha! subject, of course, I do not interfere, and I never will in any case, Ae far ag my relf am concerned jurors may co what they please yatever imey be their view of the defence wi ich @ com ducted either by myself n!one or lam associated. When a jury hae try tuch serious case a8 the present one, involving per- sopal liberty on the one hand and pubilc justice on the _ Teball =. 2 are r= ndyvestionable apd upapproachab! grity until plainly sppears, and ft has never appeared to mo in the whole course of my professional life that any man who served any vordict rendered, by any- thing ele than a ‘tious conviction. 1 do not care how much these jurors talk among themeclves as thie trial . Your honor will not sup; chat Ido not appreciate the caution which you are in the habit . Another thing thet bas been customary, expecially when there is a long recess in & trial, as from till Monda: nore, ia to tell the oat ae ld not read the public newspapers, expect e ff editorial comments apoe the trial, 1 do not even object to their doing that. T am ly wilting that the jury should read every article in the New ¥ pert, ahbough the tone of those articles will be directly againet the acovesd. Indeed, it is always #0. Ihave been engsged tn trying criminal cases since | wae twenty one yeare old, and | ever kaew f of the press sympathising with » 4 always been sgalaat Bim, / & with the bey bu do pot want to te hem se men sad (yp wt tg vene it iv jome arti- MP. Huntington, because | ean onl; in the honest of ‘usual epjoy i Tolnim may be erro. made, ard such things that may ly belong control of aay news: *f client, tor the purpose of availing myself of chance 1 eball bave to defend him, not against wha: ap- evidence, but what cannot possibly fal) to hare upon thie cause, For me to anppose that the time will ever come when yes will ab. b ot grone wi All gentiomen (the jury | correct ) te be pee to eee ts art RBALD ex jon as to wi dorcluston of thle oase ought to be, Tail wot dtesuee t point further, Ido not think | could conmyrace rns m of gentlemen Who haye discussed thie thing io porver thet J thet