The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. oe VANES CURDO. DBEUNESD, EDITOR AND FR * RIRBOR, wre s.w.0 BH BOF 4S 0 A+" PULTO* OFB —<—$<$<$<———————————eeeee _. Ne, 357 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WROADWAY THEATRE, Broa'w y—Pizamno— Toure ewe HIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Exousm Orxsa—Tun Meweasss int Bowey TRE, Bowery—lamnnse -Peree Wace THES’ ans iN INDIA. RTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadwgy, oppoeite Bond st, Worves—Sormz imp. Bro. dwiy- -Pacuins- Wao WALLAOK'S THEATER, Srmaxs ber! Twas) USA KEENE'S THEATER, 02 Broadway-Caxuce SRS on ness A STREET THEATRE, (Late Burton’s)—Ha- swe Lavy oF 7k Laxk—New fom ay Day np Nione, BABRUM’S AN ERICAN MUSEUM, Brondway—Afer- = . Evening: g—CINDEMELLA—DEaBS OF Drep. weo. cunIeTY & woon's | ey gy aly Cad Broad- gag —Ermovias Pauronances—Tuw Oup BUCKLEY'S SRRENADERS, 685 Broadway.—Ermoras Basore wey — OP oeP ete a. ii Baw York, Wednesday, Detember 24, 1856. li Matis for Kurepe. WHE NEW YORK BEXALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard steamship Africa, Capt. Shannon, will leave Abie port \o-cay for Liverpool. ‘Tho Ecropean mails will close in this cy ats quarter te Geren o'clook <bit murulng. ‘She Buropesn edition vf the Hexaup, printed ‘n French Engtish, will be pwbiishe lat ten o'clock ip the mora- Single copies, ic wrappers, sixpence. ‘Pabecriptions und sdvertisements for any edition of t @ Mew Yors Hax.:y will De received at the following pla: @ tm Burope Lempor—Am. & Furopean Express Co , 6| King William et, —. a = * Pia la Bourse. 9 Coapel street. pi ee Eunter, ‘7 Excbange street, Saat. The copieate of the European edition of the Hmrarp ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at (he office during the previous week, and up to ihe hour wyowticnion, "The News. ‘Fhe sttamship Canada arrived at Halifax yester- day, with Liverpool dates to the 12th inst.—nine days later than those previously received. With the exvep- tion of the announcement that the Par's Conference woald re-open during the present month, and some vague reports relative to the coronation of the Ea- peror Napoleon, and an unsuccessful attempt to as- sassinate the King of Naples, the news is utterly de- void of mterest in a political point of view. Tae London money matket was active, but quiet. Con- sols for money are quoted at ‘4. Terrific gales nad swept the Irish coast and the Mediterranean, causing mamerous casualties. ‘The steamship America, which left Liverpool on the 6th instant for Halitax, was so disabled when off Cape Clear that she put beck to Liverpool, where she arrived ow the 10th. Tbe Canada was despatched with her pas enyers and mails, as above stated. Phe packet ship adviatic, of New York, was wrecked near Daa- garvon on the 8th iost. Three men were drowsaed, but whether they were of the crew or passengers had not been ascertained. The vessel would prove a fotal lors. The captain and filteen of the passen- gers and crew of the French steamer Lyonnais had arvived at Lordeanx, No particulars of their rescue are given. Extensive preparations were om, foot to receive Cap’ Hortstein and officers, of the Britisn @iscovery ship Rezolute. The Liverpool cottoa mar- ket was firm, but breadsnf* bad a declining ten- dency. The incl: mency of the weather yesterday, with the announcement of the Canada’s arrival at Hali- fax, had a tendency to check sales ia many de- scriptions of produce. The cotton marke’, howe- ver, waa firm, establishing an advance the presen’ week of about jc. perl». Thesales embraced about 2f/* bales, ba-ed upon miidling uplands at about 12jc., and New Orleans do. at 13)c. The sales of breadstoife were light, while pri were without charge of importance. Pork sold to a moderate extent at $1) aS) 25 for old mess, and $19 62) for nev. The sales of sugars wore limited to 100 a 200 bhds., and sbout 207 bores, on terms sta‘ed in another colame. Coffee sold to the extent o” about 1 bags Rio, with small lots Java aad Macacaibo at steady prices. Freights to Liverpool were rather stifer. Wheat. in bulk, was taken at 6)d., flour at Is. 9d, and cotton at a. We publish this morning lative to the wrecked «1 on the Jewey Coa gers of the tional p: ulars re k and bark Tasso, V of the passen- hip have arrived this city and the remainder will be forwarded with all posai ble despatch. The narrative bf the disaster which we give elsewhere are gathered from the lips of parcengers on board the vessel, and farnish a com plete bistory of the disaster from the time of her going on shore on Satnrday morning until their ar rival in New Yuk. There ix no steamer ashore at Barnegat, cr any where on the Jersey shore. Mr. Smith, who reported that a steamer was ashore, le’ Squen before it was known that tae second ve-se! bout one aehore was the British bark ‘Tasso, and nota | wteame Another corre-pondence elicited in the filibuster: ing business, has taken piace petween 3 organ sud United States District Attorney MeKeon, with respect to the proposed voyage of the steamship Tennessee. The inqniry is significant, the reply is Ren-commitral; but as to the re we should not be surprised if the Arctic or some other government “vixen” wonld be on the look out for the Tennessee as she seams down tLe bay Mr. M. 0. Roberts has, in secordance with the suggestion of Mr. G ia, ordered the steamsh Granda, on her rev om Aspinwall, to stop st San Joan del cing off such of var countrymen as tr desire to leave Nicarygua, in cluding women, children, the sick and discbled. The Granada will probably reo h San Jnau oa the 224 January. The re eponde upon this ew ject is given in another column. The Senate yesterdyy’ deva'ed, without coming to any conclusion, the bill fur the settlement of th claims of the officers of the Revolution. The House paged the Indien, Pension aud Wost Point academy bills Hon. Joel T. Headley, Secretary of State vered an address on “ The Influence of New Yo in the Revolution,” before the Historical Sovtety lam everug. We publish to-day transla ‘ions Hew by the erlitorial correspondent of the Courrier drs Etats Unis from Ternesece and Kentacky. iis views and statements in reference to the negro conspiracy in the Scull are deserving of attention, as it is presumable that be is aninfiuenced by the prejudices and fears which excite che residents of the South, and whicd are reproduced in thoir news papers He admits that these fears were not alto- gether groundless, and recount: several facts in sap port of that view We have letiers frou ‘The island was quite m St. Thomas to the 2d ult. thy, the erops good and luntington was resumed yesterday in the Court of Sessions The interest in the case contioues unabated. The testimony taken yester- elay had reference to the Wusiness op-rations aad style of living of the accused. See our report else where The Surrogate mode a decision on Tuesday ‘in the motter of the entate of Daniel Hart, de weaned.’ The vesidaary clause of the will de- vised ol! of the testator's residuary estate or pro petty to his five sisters, to be divided eqeally ‘among them. One of eaid sistere was then ecad. The Surrogate was asked to decide whether er share inpoed o; went o her next of kin, He decided that it lapeed, and went to the testator’s next of kin. The testator also made bequests to ‘his cousin, Paris Peccard,” but he nad no cousin by that name. Parol proof was taken, Prin- cella Peceard was the party designated in the will, and that the deceased had always addrevseed said cousin by the name used in thewilil. The Surrogate decided that the parol testimony should be admitted, and ordered the bequest to be complied with ac- cordingly. The St. John's Grand Lodge met last night to hear the report of a committee to confer with the Grand Lodge of the State of New York with a view to a union of Free Masons, now unbappily divided. The committee reported that they were upfertunate in their negotiation, and no terms they deemed honor- able had been proposed. So the @ sired anion is again postponed. ‘The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, and areport of their doings will be found elsewhere. The dispute with the Emigration Commissioners was again npon the tapis,and Mr. Draper formally de- nied that the Governors had attempted te postpoue the action of the legal authorities in the suit now pending between the two Boards, as alleged by the Commissioners. The suit is for $78,000, for the care ot-emigrant lunatics and others preperly chargea- ble to the Commissioners. Under the telegraphic head may be found a sy nopsis of the treaty, relative to Central America recently concluded by our Minister at London and Lord Clarendon. The Misdolngs of Congress—The Nigger Agi- tation and the Pabile Business, The slavery question, at the touch of a North- ern or Southern demagogue, upon the firebrand of poor Pierce's Message, continues to overshadow all other issues before Congress, and to supersede all measures of practical legislation. It is grati- fying to remark, however, that while this nigger agitation is industriously supplied with combusti- bles by the demagogue nigger worshippers of the North and the fire-eating nigger Grivers of the South, there is, on the other hand, among the more conservative, practical and sensible mem- bers of the two houses, a manifest desire to sink the nigger for a season, and to proceed to the public business of the session. These conserva- tives are impatiently waitieg the exhaustioa of the gas and fire and fury of Northera and south- era nigger debaters; and so are we, and so are the whole American peop! Grave questions of public interest— sues of public importance—are also awai action of the two houses. Wiile the nigger wor- shipping and nigger driving agitators are impu- deny aseuroing to themselves and their paltry personal quarrels the monopoly of the time and attention of the House and the Senate, the spoils- men of the lobby are perfecting their echemes for a combined descent upon the public trea- sury, the public domain, and the pockets of the people. Vast patent compaues, by which millions of money have beea seewied through « general tax upon the mechani- cal industry of the couatry, are resolved apoa still turtber millions, if the lobby expeuaitare of a bundred thousand or two will accomplish their work. Gardner and Galphin claims. great aad small, covering several more millions of plunder, are ready for the golden opportuni'y when they may be burried through befure a few sleepy members, without and without debate. Above all, the great Pacitic Raliroad couspiracy, embracing a scheme of land spoliations to the extent of from one hundred end fifty to two hun- died miltions of acres of the cream of the public la vith a privilege. besides. of 2 long arm in the public treasury, is worthy of attention. They are sappipg and mining, while the unsus- pecting honest members of both houses are amused aud diverted with ihe paliry personal Cofges upon slavery between patriotic Union adoring Northern nigger worshippers and Southern disunion threatening nigger drivers. We submit tbat this double dealing game § nigger agitation has been tolerated long enougt } Perha ere Mr. Seward may consider it a matter «f aramount importance that Southern Senators os wld understand exactly what be did say and what he did not say in the late Presidential can § His impudence, however, in this matter; is ouly cqaalled by the cool assurance of po H for while Seward, after preaching he @ and there a regular crueade against the South § a slaveboldipg section, and against the slay j holders of the South as a class, modestly gets up in the Senate aud proclaims that he is innocent as a lamb, we see poor Piefve coolly throwing the whole burthen of his bloody crim and terturiem in Kansas upon the Northern c @ societies. Then, again, Mr. Wilson” may from dey to day protest and reiterate in the Senate his devotion tu the Union and the constitutional rights of the South; but what will this avail him with the facts of his stumping tour through Penn- tylvania looking bim in the face? Next to the opp: New York, Mr. Senator Wilson did as much as any other man, rangues, to turn the current of the Union senti- meut of Pennsylvania against Col. Fremont. The least. therefore, that is eaid by such constitution- upon the sectional nigger agitation of the late mpaign, the better. Looking to the other extreme, one would think that to such nigger driving disunion agitators as | Senators Brown of Mississippi, Mason of Vir- ginia, and to such secession members of the Hfouse ae Keitt, 1 sand Quitman, are we en- | tircly indebted tor the salvation of the Union; | und that they alone have the right to sit iv dyment upe 1 other politicians « uli other = parties, from every —sectio ot th untry, These Southern extremis | and pol alceusors have recently received som ‘i xecilent hints trom Wheatland, and if the | uw a little wiser, these outgivings, offic the President elect, would be suili¢iunt to keep | wiiciously quiet, at least for afew weeks | sort, agaiast Nortbern Congres si r worshippers and Soutwers ni driver i their ase pa Worse than useless nigger agitation upon Pierce's Message: against ail sectional distur bersof ihe public pe jinst the land jobbing, treasury ropb poor ng. and plunder couspire of the nf | to the honest, independent. unbought and unsold members of boi he We appeal to them to put an end to thie spoils and piander the slavery contcoversy. and to | firatagem of indispensable business 1 proceed to the nies of the session, while yet there is sufficient time divcetion stave off everything and remaining for « carefal of every bill The plan of the lopby is to days 4 of th to the last two or three | cession, and then, in the to slip ia and stip through their plunder. rves this purpose of the lobby nvidet of the “noise and contusion. vations schemes for the publi nigger agitation most admirably, aud it ehould be the first object of the honest members of both houses to put it down, avd proceed to the public bus'ness, .| poliey of Tue Sevxarorsmr.—Speculations meet our | Tee Corron Cror or 1856-'57.—The despatch eye in various of our country cotemporaries | from Waehington published in yesterday morn- with regard to the election of e Senator in | ing’e Heraxp, te the effect that « member of the room of Senater Fish, On the strength | Congress had obtained information which showed of the majority given by this State for | that the present year’s crop of cotton would not Fremont, the politicians of the republi- | exceed 2,700,000 bales, took the commercial can party estimate that they are going to rule | public in this city with surprise. The story is the Legislature, and give themselves some | not credited. It must be borne in mind that the trouble about choosing a man whom they pre- | data upon which the intelligence is alleged to sume that body will make haste to elect on his | have been based was derived from planters, who first nomination. The informal caucuses of the | probably have not yet sold out their cotton, and republican politicians have net hitherto been | hence, from the nature of circumstances, they unanimous in opinion, Some prefer Thurlow | may favor the “bull” side of the question. Weed, some Preston King, some Lieutenant Commercial men and brokers in this city, who Governor Raymond. J it is understood that | represent both the buyers and sellers of cotton, the friends of each of these three are busily | or the “ bulls” and “bears” of the trade, and engaged in killing off his rivals. whose whole business is devoted to finding out A little reflection may save some of these per- | everything about cotton, are likely to be much sons some trouble. The republican majority— | better posted about the probable yield of the crop so called—in the Legislature is a fortuitous acci- | than members of Congress, or even the planters dent. It is an aggregate of two separate and ) wo grow the article. hostile elements which happened to coalesce on The following table gives the crops since Col, Fremont, through a common aversion to the } 1852:— poor Pierce, and a common dis- irust of Mr. Buchanan. These two elements, har- monious on the single point of supporting Col. Fremont, are not likely to agree on any other. In fact they hate each at bottom so heartily, that a division between them may be predicated with certainty the moment it is attempted to use them in the aggregate for any other purpose than the one for which they originally com- bined. Barnburners on the one side, Seward whigs on the other, have not changed their na- ture by adopting for a time a new name. They could coalesce the more readily in support of Fremont, because the barnburners were naturally opposed to Buchanan as a foe to the Van Baren dynasty, while the Seward whigs opposed him as a matter of course. But unless some fresh acci- dent should occur, equally favorable to an uo- natural union, we venture to say that we have seen the last of their combined action. From this reason we apprebend that the schemes of the three republican leaders whose names we have mentioned as candidates for the Senatorship, are not likeiy to be attended with The total supply of 1854-55 was 3,527,845 bales, about 300,000 of which it was sapposed belonged to the growth of 1853-54, but was kept back by low stages of water in the Southern rivers, and hence appeared in the shipments of 1854~56—showing the actual growth of that year, as stated, at about 3,227,845 bales. Hence a crop of 1856-57 of 2,700,000 bales, would be a decrease of 527,845 bales on the crop of last year, and far below any other crop since 1850-’51. It would fall below the supply of last year by 827,- 845 bales. Such a falling off, if once made ap- parent, would probably send up prices in Liver- pool to a point they have not attained before in thirty or forty years. ‘The prospect of a reduced crop is apparent enough, but not to the extent claimed by a mem- ber of Congress and his planting friends, who mainly represent the sellers an@ not the buyers of cotton. Letters, data and estimates supplied from all parts of the South by both bears” and “bulls,” success. Nor in reality caa the fact be deeply | to leading houses and brokers in this city, show regretted. Of the three the first, Thurlow | the following points:—First, that under no cir- Veed, is a corcupt politician who has | cumstances is the crop likely to exceed 3,000,000 spent his life in manmuvring for the dis-} bales, or by a very small amouat, if any, while it posal of spoils; and who, to secure | caspot probably fall much, if any, below power and office in this State, has embraced every ephemera! meoia of the day, anti-masonry, anti-rentiem, anti-slavery and anti-liquor; throw- ing each to one side when it had served his par- pose, and transferring his affections to some new delusion. The second, Preston Kiog, is a good naiused well meaning harmless man, who fan- cies that be received on his shoulders the falling mantle of Silas Wright. He owes all his prestige to this idea, and would infallibly, were he elect- ed to the Senate, figure as a double of Senator Fish. Lieutenant Governor Raymond, the third republican candidate, has not yet proved that he possesses any claims to so high a rank as the Senatorship. At best, he bas only shown him- self to be an adroit paragrapbist. He may pos- sess higher qualities: but the fact is not known, and it would be a fearful lottery to elect him. We incline to the belief that the next Senator fyvom New York will be a new man, whose name will not be heard tilla day or two before th election; and we imagine that this new mau will be 2 democrat. Tor W on tHe Jersey Srorr—More Aw Wayrrep—The winter bas scarcely com menced, yet already numerous disasters have occurred on our coast, seeming to presage a sea von of unusual calamity. Experience has point- ed out certain spois more disastrous to the mariner than otherr. Barnegat and its viciuity have pre-eminence among the number; but th system hitherto obtaining on that shore for the relief of shipwrecked vessels, is utterly inefti cient, aud it is high time that means were taken | to remedy the ccowing exigencies of the case. Some years since the goverament coastructe a namber of emall honses or shanties on the for the storage of life boats, mortars, &e., ut without reference to affording shelter to any who might require it. Th 2,990,000 bales, Some extreme ‘bears’ push estimates one or two hundred thonsand above three millions of bales; and some extreme “bulls’ reduce them as low as 2, 000 to 2,800,000 bales, both of which may be considered out of the way. An average would be nearer the truth. A crop limited to 3,000,000 bales in the present increased consumptive demand, will form an inadequate supply; and should monetary matters become easy in Europe, we cannot expect to witness avy reduction from the present bigh priecsof the article. We will here state a fact worthy of note, not adduced in a former ar- ticle—that eo inferior is Surat cotton in point of length and strength of staple, that it caunot be profitably mauufactured in England without an admixture with a large proportion of American cotton. A gloth made exclusively from Surat would be in a measure worthless: and hence the secret why American heavy piece cotton cloths sell better than the Eoglish in foreign markets, because they are made exclusively of American grown cotton, while Eaglish heavy or coarse cot- ton cloths are said most commoaly to contain more or less Surat, which renders them less durable, Ovr Crry Ramnoaps axp tae Syow.—Now vhat the winter bas fairty set in, and that snow lies deep upon the streets of the city, we think it * appropriate to address a few remarks to the managers of our city railroad’, We have a keen recollection of the sufferings and incouvenieues. endored last winter by persons residiag up tows, in consequence of the blockade of the streets and the ineficieney of the rail mpanies in keey ing the tracks clear, and we think that if the matter be only attended to in time, and if the companies liberally perform their duties to the buildings °°} public, there may be no interruption whatever to five miles apart, and only a few of them are | the regular running of the cats. snpplicd with the pee y apparaias for etfect- | ty fair weather there can be no just complaint ing communication with ships in distress, su" | as to the management of the city lines of railroad, as mortars, cradles, Xe. The eost of the baild- | oye, pt, {ndeed, that on some of them there shoal ings was defrayed by an appropriation from | 4. Jarget number of cars, Bat in winter we Congress, Metallic life bouts were purchased, but | tog often teu the public convenience disregarded, wey ¢ Seward campaign managers of Philadelphia and | by his abolition bq! © | ing wew al abolitionists as Senaters Seward and Wilson, | lobby, we | Tats | they are useless for the service required of them. | and that no extea eflorts are made to azcoms Upon examination of facts attending the va- | gate the vast numbers of people who patronize ious divasters on the Jersey coastducing the past | tise core. And the only reasou for this » en years, we find that the lives saved have in} t6 je that whon the snow lies deep upon the elmost every iastance been due to the exertions | dreets it requires an unusually large force ot of wreckers in common cedar fishing boats. The employes tw keep the tracks clear, aad the daily occupation of fishermen on that shore has expense thercol the directors seem determined to taught them how to construct the best deserip- | } tion of boat in which to trust their owa lives at | | all times and seasons. Immediately s of a wreck turee or four of them rash to the shore, ram the light cedar bark into the surf, and, it the sea upset her, they put matters | right ia a few minutes, and proceed on their ex- | pedition. The metailic Tile boas cont y. is heavy, and however valuable open | avoid. DS y part ise | ceedingly mean. it ptible piece of business forcompanies who realize large profits on their enterprise to shirk from the fall and | liberal performance of the daties that devole» If it requires a force of w huud or a thousand laborers, and an outlay of tvo 0 twenty thousand dy . such pouriousacss on obtain. <a conte { upen them. { on the » th ars to keep the tracks fre a, in such emergencies as those aliending | from snow or other cactions and to allo« | lows of the Arctic i Lyonnais. is totally un | tie regular trips to be made, the companies tuiied for shore service, requiring. as it does, the 1 should not meauly sbriak from the necessities o exertions of balf a dozen mon to twunch iti | ge case, And if they did not, there might b the face of a tremendous swell and gale setting | jipjo or no interruption to traific. We noticed on in shore. Those who have assisted in such a | Monday uight that white the Second and Thied ments of excitement know how seldom a boat | ‘s v¢ companies aud probably the Sixth and is launched on the first trial, and when tne: | Jighth—had four horees attached to each car, the taltic craft is upset a fresh ood loager deley | ooss of the Fourth Averne Company were slowly a which may peril the lives of hua | geawn by two. This is the sort of menaness drede,. The gowernment for 4 Barnega which deserves to be reprobiicd. Let the rail is so small that without te a * OF! youd companies keep a sufficient number of the fishermen seareely any lives would be | janorcrs along the line to shovel off aad cart saved, and the willingness with wich these men | away the snow from the tracks, and the requisite risk their own safety is so well koowns that their | number of horses in their cars, and trafic need courage has leconte proverbial, Two of them, | yot be interrupted, as it was last year, to the Jolm Jones and Jotn Parker, have just fallen | serious detriment of business, and to the gress victims to their disinterestedness ia endeavoring | Jose of many to whom time is moncy. We hope to save the paseengers of the New York and ‘Tasso, and Congress should immediately look to it that the families of these noble meu do not not safler want through the low of their hue | 9 New Lerrviany WHORE, bonds and fathers, engaged as they were in « | We understand that Gen, Duff Groen is prepar- work which they would never have ing a remarkable and most curious political aid upon to perform were it nol for the literary work, ander the title of © Nvcollections of the government. of a Washington Politician who was Thirty Every emigrant ship should be obliged to | Ycars out of the Senate.” As the title partially carry ® mortar with a complete set of tackling, | implics, this “thirty years” of Gen. Daif Green's cradle, &c., 80 as to communicate with the shore | will be @ historical refutation when neccesary. Something, however, wust bo | of the “thirty y of Col. Thomas H. Benton done tmmediately, in view of present exigen nelnding the great men, the small men, the for the ebronicle of disasters has scarcely tarned | gir at es, and the first page, and yet already execeds the aye. | Coneuses, and interviews, and plots, aud couater: rage of calamity, More houses and suitable ac. | plots, and what not, of commodation are required on the Jeteey coust, | Volumes of sIfconee bitterness additional mortars aud cradles must be sent there, against Calhonn, Gen. “thirty yeacs” atul the noble fellows who have risked their lives { Of pereonal observe tion at Washington will thas | must be rewarded, «0 as to offer an jncentive to | Come into collision at e very assailable poiat with | others, Let it be done quickly, | Benton's thirty years; and there ary many that this word in season will not be without its results, anp Pourtican | heen called remissnos political experienc political events, questions and par tenfon’s two ponderous and personal Creen people whe, after having read Benton, will feel called upon to read Green to get a correct idea of the thirty yeare in the controversy. Gen. Green’s thirty years will also comprehend a full description of the affair with Gen. Webb (then Colonel) and those “mahogany stocked pistols,” In a word, since the publication of Benton’s book we have seen nothing calculated to make such a stir among the old Jackson-Benton-Van Buren democracy as this proposed thirty years’ expe- ience of Gen. Green, Kansas Laxp Specunarors.—Poor Pierce having played out his game of ruffianism in Kan- sas, and the republicans having made the best of it that could be made in the way of political capi- tal, we are now discoveriug where the balance of power lies in Kansas, as between pro-slavery and no slavery, It lies with the land speculators, and the issue of free Jabor or slave labor will be controlled by the land question. If black slave labor will make the lands of Kansas more valuable than free white labor, then we may safely con- clude that Kansas will become a slave State; but if vice verea, then she will become a free State, for the land speculators will look to their interest] It is very certain, too, that lands in Kansas as a free State will be worth two or three times as much as they would command in a slave State; for while manufactories, villages, mill seats and town sites follow the movements of'a free white popu- lation, the labors of a slaveholding community are limited pretty much to the plantation. When Governor Reeder was sent out to Kansas, he went out to make money iu Kansas land opera- tions, and he knew his policy and pursued it. It was to make Kansas a free State. Poor Pierce, however, had the Cincinnati Convention to look after, and Reeder will eventually forgive him. At all events, Kansas, as far as the North is con- cerned, may be safely left to the Monroe doctrine and the land speculators. Manvracture or Great Mey.—When Anne Boleyn was in prison, awaiting her sentence of death, she wrote to her husband and executioner-- “Your highness hath pleased to raise me first from the condition of a gentlewoman to that of a maid of honor ; from that of a maid of honor to be a marchioness ; from a marchioness to a queen; and as your power could no farther go to elevate me on earth, you now dezign to raise me to be a saint in heaven.” Some of our cotemporaries appear to be pursu- ing a similar plan with regard to Mayor Wood. They made him Mayor, by abusing him. When he was Mayor, if they had let him alone, he might have passed out of notice; but they con- tinued to abuse him, high and low, till the people re-elected him, Re-elected, and Mayor once more, it might have been expected that Mr. Wood would have escaped their attentions, at least for a time ; but no, these journals contiaue to abuse him, and he consequently continues to rise in public favor. They may say what they like about his private character and political delin- quencies; there is no question but be is the most efficient chief magistrate that we have had tor twenty years. These journals and these per- sons bave only to keep on abusing Mayor Wood systematically for afew weeks or months, and they will infallibly make hima great man and the chief of his party in this State. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, From Washingto: THE PROCKEDINGS OF CON@RESS—THE COAST SUR- VEY—ADVANCE IN LAND WAREANTS, ETC. Wansuxcros, Dee, 23, 1856, An eapoié was made in the Sonate to-day by Mr, Ben- jamin, who stated some of the committees appointed clerks, not to transact pud.ic business, bat the private correspon \ence of Sonators—to do their (ranking wad ren to the Departments for their constiinents, (a his metion Beelect commitiee wax appointed to remode! the rules on ‘this eubject and check those abuses. Un motion of Mr. Clay, of Alabama, « resolution calling for ail tne (aste re- lative to the pay and omolameats of Genoral Sx0tt was adopted prior totaking up the House bill granttag him twenty thousand dollars extra. Mr. Soward called for all information in (be poszessiva of the President relative to the submarine telegraph, made into a map Nemeroue pe- Uitious of a private charactor were presouted aud referred, noveral asking damages on acsouat of the action of Post master General Campbell in suspending approprietion Tha bu! providing for the sotilemeat of the accounts of Revolu- Wonary oflicers was taken up aod disouseed as it came from the House. Where tive years’ full pay bad been received this bill gives ball-pay for life, payadie to the widow or children—rot grandchildren. Without soa! action on the andjec’, the Sen sto aJjourned. ‘The liouse pumponed the wideration of the Preat- dent's meseage till Toexday next, abd parsed the ledian Appropriation bill, which provides for {aifiiliog the treaty ‘with the Seminoles west, who bind themselves to re-enter Florida end terminate the prevent war b) tacaciag the hostile Indians to emigrate westward. The lavalid Pen- sion and Miltary Academy bills also were passed, The joint resolution from the Senate relative to the Texas fon paseed withea! a division. ‘The Secretary of the Treatury communicated to both houses of Congress the report o Prove-sor Backs, te Periatendent of tho coass survey, which shows the ex- penditures (or the past year to haw eaated to ine enormous sum cf balf a mil!ion of dollars, bosides the sa- lary of an army of ofliciais It appears from the report of the Superintendent that the survey has besa carried oc dortrg the year in all tte States and Territories of tue Allsutic, the Gulf of Mexico, apd the Paciic coast, The survey i@ more thao half finiebed of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 'rofestor Bache estimates that from tea to twelve yoars will God che fleld work esreptally completed ia e seck.ont buat two, recentiy begua. A general hydrographic rocoano'ssance Las been Tmoade Of the const of California wegoa. Every bar. bor bas been surveyel aad & considerable portion of Washington Torritory. Awong the dovelopements made jm the bydregraphy of the senvon, the moet worthy of notice \¢ the cxvensive bank of comparuively suoal fround betwoen Geor, i Misnamed. The report is vo Much valuadle information interest of aii portions of the o ‘The bill reported by Mr. wttcher in the Howse to day, Asa substituts tor the ponding tari revition bili, js the fume as offered by bin t Are ago, whon it passed the Bouse, but which ‘ated to receive the sapctioa of the Senate. The bili proposes to reduce the present rates twenty per cont on apd after the Istof July, 1857, and enlarge the (ree lit with *pecitied articles which cater {nto manufactures. the object being to rednce the apnua receipts to forty or forty tive millions of dollar The Provident bas brovght ‘nto the market one miliioa and 2 balf aeres of land |ying in the north of fowa, which has caused on active demand fer iand warrante, at an Advance of three cents per nore, Toe selling price isnow ninety twe oents for ene hundred and twenty acre war- rants, and ninety tie cents for one dred and sixty and one hundred and eighty acre warrants. United States Supreme Court. Wiemweror, Dee, 23, 1966, No, 90, Isaac Hartehorn ot al, plaints, vs, Horace HB. Day, Argued by Mr. O Conor for piaintiits by Mr Richardson for detendant, Roston Weekly Bank Statement, Rosrow, Deo. 23, 1966, ‘The following are the footing® of our bank statement for the part week compared with the exhibit of the week bo evious.— Cirenianen | of the vomtractiog | teetr = political Nicaragua, | of Yocatan, and on the sonth by the river Sorastoon. Whe Treaty Between Great Britain and the Wasuinctom, Deo, 28, 1856. By the first article of the treaty between tne United Btates and Great Britain, the contracting parties agroo jowwtly to propose tothe republics of Nicaragua ana of Costa Rica the arrangements contained in the following articles :— A territory comprised within the following limits shai? De set apart for the Mosquito Indians, And then it gocw on to establish the boundary. The boundary isto be de> signated and marked by two commissioners, to be ap pointed, one by her Britanvic Mejesty and one by the President of the repubiic of Nicaragua. By article third, the Morquito Indians, confining them- selves within the territery designated, shall enjoy the right to make, by their national council or councils, and to convey into effect, all such laws as they may deem necessary for the government and protection of all persons within the same, and of all property therein belonging to their people, or to such persons as have connecied them- ‘elves with thom. Their rights of property snd of local government within the territory defined shall be recog- ized, affirmed and guaranteed by the republic of Ni ogus, in treaties to be made by that State with the ted States and Grest Britain, respectively; and the re- public of Nicaragua in each of these treaties shall stipu- Jate and engage that it shali enact laws to prevent the parchago of land# from the | Moagui and the introduction and gre nod egressions along their wes'era and northern Mosquito Indians shall not be able to cede their territory or rights to apy ctber State without the consent of bend United States and Great Britain, each separately e: pressed; it being, however, undorstood that nothing stall preclude the conclusion of ‘such voluntary compact and arrangements bewwoen the republic of Nicaragu: ae Indians, by which the. latter may be ed and united with Leggo former: but it ahail peas such cage, that the said Mosquito Indians the same rights, and ve liable io the aemse dation as - citizens of the said republic of Nicaragua. By article four all the territory south of the river Warcoe, or Segovia, not ‘oluced within the limits of the reservation set apart for the Mosquito Indians, shall, without Serionen to the rights of the republic of Honduraa, or to any question of boundary between that pon and the republic of Nicaragua, be recognized i declared to ve within the Itmite and sovereigniy of the republic of Nicaragua on the fol conditions :—The republic of Costa Rica shall retain for Pe oltizems the freedom of navigation up and down ed river San Juan, from its mouth to the mouth of the Sera Pique river, with liberty to enter pnd quit the af San Juan or Seer toe with their vessels, to store their cargoes in that port, and without being subject tc. any duties of import or export, tonage duty, or otber tax or public charge whatever, ex for Night money and other necessery port > The aaa of Nicaragua and Costa ‘shall allow the Lerritorial disputes between ‘and the limits or ex tension 10 be given to the town of Juan or Greytown, i€ the game cannot be amicably adjusted between them- selves and that town, to be settled by the arbitration of the United States of America and Great Britain, who, ic any doubtful point, sual! be able to call for the decision of third party. all | bona Jide grants of Jand for due consideration mad name snd by the authority of ‘the Mosquito dees Lak tbe I Ast of January, 1848, and lying bey oud the limits of the territory reserved for said Indiane, shal! be condrmed, provided the same shall not exceed in any case the extent of one i@ previously to that date by Spain, we ot Centra! America, or ciber of the present Biutee ot Contral America; und further, tha: nc such grant within either ot the said States shal! inciade territory deserved a its DAijner ol forws, arsenals or other public buildioge This stipulation is in no man- ner to Hee ates of land salde previonsly t0 the. Jet o omer, 180. bee onirg of Nicaragua ebali con atituie and declare the port of Greytown or San Juan e Seer as ey aay, plone odie oecg the sove- reign of tho republic. whose inhabitants shal! enjoy the following rignts ry immupities: —The right to govern themselves by means of tneir own municipal govern- ment, to be administered by legisiative, exeoutive ~ judicial officers ot their own election, their own negotiations; trial bs ju poy tg own courts ; neeriect freedom raligiooe betiet and of worship, public and and es: The munmicipa: goverpment sball Bay no duties on goods exported, nor any duties on goods imported. intended fer tana ‘transit across the Ietbmous, or tor cousumpuon without the city, ror any: Cuties of tovnage on veeveis except such as may be ne- cearary for the police of the port and the mainenance of the nece-sary light houses aad beacons; provided that. the preeent condition ; bell not interfere with or prevent the levy of a temporary dety on imports for the purpose of the peyment to the Mo=quito lodians a8 stipulated in article 5; exemption from military service, except for the detince of city and within the bond: of the wart. 5 provides that the republic of Nicaragua shal) enter into positive treaty stipulations with each of the two governments of the United States of America and Greek Britains that will mabe the grant of treedom to the city reytown, Or San Juan, subject wo the condition that ‘the ‘municipal , of the said city rrtory recoguized xnd deciared by the ‘iteclene or pe ‘the limi# and sovereiga.y of the each & Patt Mead for the vendo marking out the inland bour aary conkelnes vy e . vo be eet apart for the Mosquito indians. mites Appotat each ® commissione, for the purpose of ts ‘oon upon the Lona fider of ail grants of lands: they sat farther sppoint €ach & comtnirsioner, for the porpose the amount, she period of du: ed mode of payment of the cag ‘wo the Motquito Ind.aus according to the rd article feventh provides that the commissioners shalt at aball be berea‘ier fixed. ‘uvely named, and before pro. ceeding to Dusiness, they spall make and guoecrive « ole! eclaration thet they will impartially acd care- mine and decide upon all the matters referred tc them for their devimon. The commissioners to appoint a whird to act as arbitrator or umpire tm aoy cave or cares in which thoy may themrelves ail sr ym opinion, rele Binth provider that Loe two goveramencs biad themac! ves in case (he republios of Nioaragua and Cow 1a Rica, or eiiber of them, should refuse to accept the» arrangements contained in the preceding ariicier, not te propore por consent to any other otee” Ganek more fayorable to the refasiog party ones OF co iis, DALLA CLARENDON, REPORTED ARTICLES. Article 1.—Whereas, the arrangements set forth provided as ap jeretofore . to the Mosgeito Ie he other, the treaty of thie date are equate jubstitete for the extended *by Great Britain gans;, and wheress ove or ti or both obstacies of the salt arrangements ; and underaiood as filows. —Taat in carrying Oat the sald arrangements, tng irom the circomeiances or relations of the repeblic 0 of “ouligatory by tom ar a4 executed semay be practicable that = whiebever two contractiog parties may soonest dod ime!’ political relations with the repadlic of Nicarage it to do ro shall first prepore simp'y to thet repe Srrapgements cootsined in this treaty, aod abe. obiata, by mean« of & separate treaty, its assent to these ar rawpemenia, the ober covtractiog party emerging aud re- serving to l'self the right alro to conclude with the said republic, at ane moment, a treaty containing the waid arran, oa whereas, tho relations of am!ty bet ween periios, andthe neutrality o sey aod nication. 1) canal or railway their pe tection bas been or saat! be e\tcaded, may be further as sured by «rme definite errangement on two other ques- understoot her Bri led the Relize, or Beitiet by the Nexwan province not And is pot embraOed in the trcary entered iuto betwen the contracting parties on the 10ta of Aprti, 1390, ent Ubat the limits of the said Belize ow the woes, ae voey ex inted on the oald 10th day of A orii,1860, shall, {' veible, | be settled and fixed by treaty Between ber Rritannic Majceiy sod the republic of Gustamala qitois two yeare from the exchange 61 the ratification of this lwetrument; which eaid boundaries aud }imits shall nol at any time hereafer be extended. \slacde and their inbabi ants of Roatan, Boos, Utila, Barboretta, Helens end Morat, etuate! in the Hay of Honduras, snd known ws the ‘ay Islands by @ convention bearing Cate 2th day Of Aut et, 1859, between her Britanic Majesty and the. repanlic ot Hoa duran, constituted and deciared a froe terriory under the sovereigaty of the said repuplic of Honduras, thetwo contracting partice do bereoy mutually engage to resog pige and respeot in all future time the indepeadence and mee. sala (roe terrivory af & part of the repadtic art ‘The present 6 articles —— -¢ 9] same force and validity astiney had been ord jor word pny Ag vay CTT saiono hme ber Britannic y oeeet an sball be ratified by the prewvars' ‘of ‘ped | eaten, by aud with the advice and consent of the Sena'> therent, acd by ber Britannic Majesty, aod the ratidoatons shal) de excharged at the same time a» those of the Treaty. GEIRGE MW. DALLAS. CLARENDON, Dowe at London the 17th of October, in the year of our Lord 1866, TUIRTY-POUKTH CONGRESS, BRIOND SESSION. te. Wasurteros, eo, 28, 1866, PORTH ICATIONS, Mr Burien presepted toe vint resolation: Careline Legislature reistive to the fort!) Royal Harbor. TRE OCEAN TH ECRAPE. Op motion of Mr. Srwany, of N.Y reaoluticn wae ,