The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1856, Page 4

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BURTON'S NEW THEAT! —Tee Womper Sortie Iw ACK’S Broa¢way—Ricets axp Wroxes or Wo: WaTils—OUt POR 4 HOLIDAY, Broadway, oppesite Bond st, eas LAURA KEENF’S THEATRE, Broadway -Lovs Crasm —winsy Niger. @HAMBERS STREET THEATRE, (ate RBurion’s)—At- terucou—JOSEPE 42ND HIS BAETAREN—PAUL J ONRS—( 90D vex Norninc—Fvening—Wntiam ‘MILLER AND HIS Max— New Youk ny Day 4D Nig. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—10 A.M., My Neicnson’s Wrre—Linnice Bey—At 2, ¢ and 73g P.M. Cm RRL. 20. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTREL}, 444 Broad way-—Aiiernoon—WEr?O, THE Sess18LB MoxesY. Evening, ‘Tur Orn Cicex, Sones, dc, as 0 BUCKLEY'S BREN ADRS, 556 Broadway—CinDEmELL«, Afiermoon and Evening. BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Brooklyn—Afternoon—Baicaxn’s @are—Josrous Wire—Cowsieax Buoruexs—-svening ~ Pooviss—hisck Kyep Susay, de. New York, Tharsd: December 25, 1856+ The News. Woe steamer Tennessee left this port yesterday afterneon jer San Juan, Nicaragua. She carried out about three hundred men and two thousand dollars worth of provisions to the assistance of General Walker. A posse of deputy United States Marshals, the yvevenne cutter Washington and the gov- ermment steamer Arctic, were in readiness to pounce upon the filibusters; but nothing cccurred te vender necessary the interference of the auathori- ‘ee. An imtereating correspondence passed yester- @ay between Gen. Cazeneau and the District Attorney with regard to the rights of persons desirous of emigrating. We give tuese documents in another part of today’s paper, together with a communica- tien from Major Heiss, criticising the letters of Mr. @eicouria and Marshal! 0. Roberts—published in yesterday's HrnaLy—with reference to the relief of Americans at San Juan. ‘The remaiader of the wrecked passengers from the New York arrived at Castle Garden yesterday im a very destitute condition, and lacking all the weeesearies of life. In the absence of any organized ebority to meet their case, the Commissioners of Bmicration will provide for them, with the under- standing that the consignees of the New York will repay the Commission. The friends of the ship- ed, if they have any, would do well to see to their necessities immediately. At l»st accounts the ship was in a bad condition, and the lighters sent to ber assistance bad not been able to reach ber, owing to the high surf running. In the House of Representatives yesterday the Post Office, Mail steamers, and Deficiency appro- priation bilis were reported and referred. A bill providing for the withdrawal from circulation of all depreciated foreign coin, by fixing the value of Spanish quarters, shillings and sixpences at twenty, ten and five cents, respectively, also authorizing the issue of new cent pieces, was reported, and af- ter some discussion laid aside fortwo weeks. A bill providing tor the admission of Minnesota into the Union was introdyced by the delegate for that Territory. A verdict of twenty thousand Collars damages has been rendered against the city for infringement of Ransom & Wenman's patented tire engines. This is an important matter, as all engine makers embody the invention in t machices, and are, therefore, lide to actions for damages. We publish to-day an extended report of the emer gent communication of St. John’s Grand Lodge, Sree and Accepted Masons, which was held on "Taesday. Our seeders are aware that there has been for some eight or ten years au egly split in the fraternity, and that there are now ture Grand Lodges claiming jurisdiction over the Order in this Meate. The first, of which Mr. Lewis is Grand Master, has three fourths of the lodges in the city and State ander its rule, The second, of which Mr, Myers, is Grand Master, has but few lodges, which withdrew from the first on account of some differ. ence of opinion as to the right of Past Masters to wit im the Grand Lodge. There is a suit pending be- tween these bodies ior the property of the Grand Lodge. The third, St. John’s Grand Lodge, has twice withdrawn from the Grand Lodge, more on scconut of men, we believe, than measures. The report gives an acconnt of their endeavor to return the refusal of the Grand to their proposals. The to the main Lodge Committee w nce body, and whole quarrel, in 4 soziety the main principles of which are union and harmony, is absurd. A letter from Jobu &. Develin, relative to the Htigation between the Board of Almehonse Gover- nors and the Commissioners of Emigration, was re- ceived by the latter board last evening. We give the document elsewhere. The number of emigrants arrived at this port daring the year is 111,423—an ompared with the year pre- have now a balance in merease of 6,424, vious. The Comm oners bank of 6 ° the lst of Janaary, 1°56, they were in debt # The trial of Huntington progresses slowly. The evidence adduced yesterday, a report of which we publish , exhibits the extravegant and reckless mode of living purened hy the accused Wiliam 8. Tackerma Le defaulting treasurer ot the Eastern Railroad, is now on trial in Boston. The indictesgent on which be arraigned charges m the 16th day of Jane, 1855, re Willian "rebels of the Keune. ec apd Portland Railroad, the sum of $5,000, in " fastern Railroad corporation. which ckerman fraudulently converted to his own we. Tuckerman js alleged to be a defaulter to fhe amount of $190,000. Tt bas been ascertained that Mrs. Strong and Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, who were passengers on hoard the steamer Lyonnais, were of the party picked up and earried into Bordeau. Judge Davies yesterday rendered a decision over- roling the Mayor's veto of the appointments of Commissioners of Deeds by the Board of Aldermen. The Board of Councilmen met last evening but held a very short session. A resolution for the of covering the defects in the transfer of the title of the Brick Church property to Wesley & Co., was adopted. The cotton market wa: actfve yesterday, and prices firm. The sales embraced about 4,000 bales, based upon quotations given in another columm. ‘The foreign news, with the opproach of a Christmas holiday, combined with the absence of the Canada's letters, had a tendency to check operations in flour and wheat—tranections in which were limited, without ehange ‘n «notations. Wheat was firmly held, and Southern red sold at $157 a $1 60, and choice white do. at #180. Corn was heavy, with sales of Western mixed at (%. a 69). from store, and 0c. delivered. Pork wae some firmer. Old meas sold at $19 12) a $19 26, and new do.at $19 624 $19 75. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 200 bbds, Cubp mayscovedo and 2°6 do, Englich islandg NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 16856, ‘at rates given elsewhere. Coffee was quiz’. Room ‘to Liverpool was reduced, and rates of freighta firm- er, with limited ents of corn and wheat in bulk at 6d.a6)d., and 71, asked im sags. Cotton was taken @ 5-324 a 3-16d; naval stores at 33, and flour ‘m a small way at Is. 9d. a 2s, project is passed, involving the abeorption, in two er three years, by the jobbers concerned, of one hundred and twenty millions of acres of the cream of the public lands in the Western States and in the Territories ot Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, what will follow? There will be nothing left of the public domain but rocky mountains and sandy deserts; consequently, the good lands monopolized by these railroad con- spirators will rapidly rise in value to two, three, five and ten dollars an acre. Thus, at the end of three years these consolidated landjobbers, with the success of this single Pacific Railroad bill, may command the solid basis of a stockjobbing oapital of five hundred millions of dollars! The capital of Biddle’s monster, which overshadowed ond threatened for atime to ruin the country, was thirty-five millions. : We conclude, then, that these existing spoils and plunder schemes at Washington comprehend something more of danger than the amount of the lands or public money concerned—that they in- volve the danger, in fact, of a great national rail- read oligagcby, which in attempting the rale or rain policy of Biddle, bis bank and the pet banka, will bring upon us eventually a financial infla- tion and a general collapse of tenfold greater maguitude than that of Vao Buren’s disastrous administration. Let the sleepy members of Congress, unbought and unsold, open their eyes and send these spoils and land-plundering stockjobbers back to more honest pursuits than these enormous schemes of plunger and power. Send them back home, or they will go on robbing the treasury, plundering the people, ruling Wall street, and reducing the country to the tender mercies of railroad sharp- ers and financial swindlers, like Schuyler, Red- path and Huntington, tili they cover every hole and corger where there are people to be cheated, and money to be made by swindling. Tue Groans or THE Stock GamBiers.— When we mentioned the other day that Wesley of the stock gambling journal, the Daily Times, would have had hie ears cropped had he lived in the days of Queen Aune, we had no intention of re- commending that form of punishment, or sug- gesting that it be revived for his benefit at the precent day. We wish distinctly to be under- } stood as disclaiming any wish to interfere with Mr. Wesley’s eare. . We make this explanation because we notice that Wesley & Co. appear to have been terrified by our clusion, and pursue the controversy be- tween ue with a remarkable degree of heat, but with no particular diseretion or judgment. They make no attempt to defend themselves: perhaps they know the task would be hopeless. They do not deny that they used the 7'imes to upset Jacob Little; that they used it to corner the President on the Brick Church question; that they use it to puff their railroad wares; that it is,in fact, their ox and their ass, and in no one sense an indepen- dent organ of public opinion. All these things the stock gamblers admit by their silence; and the only answer they make to us is that at some former period which they do not specify, the Heratp puffed certain companies which did not ultimately prove suc- cessful. Of this nonsense, we disposed the other day. If the Times can show that during the thirty years of our newspaper experience, we have speculated in fancy stocks, let it do so, and the answer will go for what it is worth. Other replies are puerile, and too contemptible to be noticed. The 7imes began with specific charges, which it bas abasdoned; it now fails back on vague generalities, and loose fasehoods, of which even its editor must feel ashamed. But all this will not help it. Messrs. Wesley &Co. may rest assured that there is but one way of regaining a respectable standing in pub- lic estimation. That is by repenting and amend- ing their ways; by closing up their stock con- tracts, leaving gambling to the faro-dealers, and endeavoring by rectitude, honesty and sobriety, toearn an honest livelihood in that station of life to which it las pleased God to call them. Endeavors in other directions cam only end ia shame, confusion, exposure and increased dis- grace. Tur Dury on Wise Heaps ts Treasvry,—One of our Washington cor dents, in alluding a few days since to the prop - sition to remove the import duty off sugar, marked that that measure could have no effect in reducing the price of the article to consumers here, inasmuch as the Cuban government regulat- ed the duty on sugars exported from that ielaad by the prices ruling in the United States. So, | according to our correspondent, when sugars ruled high in our market the rate of export duly levied by the Cuban government was lowered, The Ramalitics at Washington—Drtft of the Spolls and Plunder Corruptiuns of the Dey. recording to an estimate of one of our Wash- ington correspondents, the fellowing are the several sems of the stupendous sehedule of speils aad plunder projects pending before Con- eres: Pacific Railroad (129,000,000) acrer. ‘Ober Fate avd Territorial ratiroads, Revurn of fre duties... ... Chalice, Hayward & Woodwi 150,000,000 20 000,006 1,000,000 tionary officers and soldiers Frenot spoliation claims Jnterest on the eame.. dais vellaneous pluader. The ‘Pacific Railroad plot, it will be observed, among; all the other schemes of spoliation lies upon the surface of the water like 2 whale ina sheal of sprats and herrings. Qxr correspon- dent estimates the lands which this project will absord at $150,000,000 in value, which is pro- bably full fifty millions short of the mark. It is the monster swindle of the age, end stands at the head of the chapter as conspicuously as stood among the smal! fry the United States Bank in its tremendous efforts to escape from the iron gripe of Gen. Jackson. Ip fact, these spoils and plunder schemes at Washington, headed by this Pacific Railroad conspiracy and its confederate Jandjobbers, gives us the dawning of an epoch of steckjobbing corruption wpon a much grander scale of public spoliation than all the bank frauds and explosions which signalized the disastrous administration of Martin Van Buren. Let us strike a balance between the bank corruptions of Van Buren’s time and the spoils and railroad stockjobbing corruptions for which this Pierce administration will hereafter be distinguished, that we may see where the advantage lies, and the drift of this gigantic spoils system of the present day. In the war of Old Hickory against the the United States Bank, the monster initiated tbat policy of inflation and bank rag over-issues, the results of which bave stood as a warning to ali banking financiers from that day to this. With the removal of the government deposits from the vaults of Biddle’s monster, they were distribated over the country emong a lot of pet banks, aud to show that a national bank was a great national humbag these pet banks, upom the basis of the public deposits, were encouraged by Old Hickory to enlarge their paper issues ad libdum. They did so—the rest of the banks of the country, great and small, followed suit; new banks sprang up here and there like mushrooms, and they also went into the g ‘a! inflation, A short season of hollow prosperity followed, without a paralicl in the financial history of any country upon the earth. In 1836 sueh was the morbid state of this rotten bank rag inflation, that with a natural ca- pacity to export breadstuffs abroad, not only was the flour of the interior arrested at our seaports ai fifteen dollars a barrel, but at this price we became the importers of four from England, of wheat from the Black Sea, aud of potatoes from Ireland. The United States Bask bad gone down. The pet banks, and other State aed local shinplaster institutions, were going on swimmingly, when a call for the pab posits, in order to dis- tribute them as gratuities among the several Siates, brought the pets down with a rao, anl with them came toppling into the dust the who ¢ of that vaet fabric of bank expansion, shinplaster, wildeat and red dog banks, speculations, stock- jobbing, kite flying. and all the swindling devices, of that day of w ale corruption and pab- lic infatuation. Finally a bankrupt Congress came to the rescue of o bankrupt country and @ bankrupt people, in meral baakrupt lay, which, after sponging cut bankrupt debts to tue extent of two hundred millions of dollars, was jus dicionsly repealed. It was repealed apon the broad ground thal atl the bankrupt rogues had token the benefit of the act, and that if it were it might tempt and Svear longer continued in contaminate hogest men tory of the bank rag and \ee Buren’s day, vencement of 9 new financial the bankrupt law, under tion of John Tyler. But foree Pp inflation of down to the cow epoch with thre the blessed o we ony that the schedule of and when prices ruled low in our market ihe and and Irowd —stockjobbing | rate of duty was augmented. And so—this was schemes now awaiting the action of Coa- | reasoning—if the price of sugars iu the gress, affords a broader foundation for @| United States be reduced 30 per cent in conse- | general financial inflation, expansion, collaps | quence of the proposed abrogation of import du- and bankruptcy ui the currency tinkering ty. the Cuban government will proportionably | Buren combined. hanks—now it is ad compa with all their nd ramifications. Banks are measures of Jacksou and Var In Van Bureo’s time it was the i} | increase its rate of export duty, and cousequ | ly the only advantage of the abrogation will be | to put money in the Spanish treasury Now, the premises on which this ratiocinatioa stock jobbing r various aff useful itutions, a= the world goes, and rail | 5 posed arc false—albeit they were derived | roads have n indispensable public ne- | from the Assistant Secretary of the Trea- ceseity; but although banks and railroad compa- The cxport nies, like fire and water, may be good servants, they are bad masters, and there is no end to the ruin they will effect, give them full play. The banks have had their carnival, and they bay been put under a somewhat closer discipline th @ heretofore: but our railroad corporations are jv. t beginning to be 9 power in the land, and their cour duty levied by the Cuban, government is not a sliding or fluctuating one. It is a fixed daty of 87) cents per box; and if our import duty be re- moved, as we hope it will be, the consumers of the article will enjoy the benefit of the x Sugar is now inordinately dear, and there is no y. the people | | | ' | sury, Mr. Peter G. Washington. | ' ' j reason why, with a plethoric tren bined strength for misebiet is tenfold greater thao | gould be taxed thirty per cent for th that of Biddle’s Bank. For example: the Cam- | of tife, We cannot imagine why Mr den and Amboy Company absolutely govern tue | Wachington—who is supposed to know something State of New Jersey—the Tilt tral road = | oF his business—should thus lead our correspon rapidly advancing to the same distinction fn that | State: and it will oply require a little bill from our Legislature at Albany to put us of New York under a Central Railrond monopoly despotism as de and remorseless as that of Jersey or I) linois. A large proportion of the financial or political managers of these and numerous other powerful raflroad stockjobbing concerns throughout the country ate actively concerned ia this Pacitic Railroad and other land robbing and stockjob- bing plote on the carpet at Washington. dent astray, We are loth to believe that he did eo intentionally, and we are equally averse to form- ing the opinion that he was so ignorant of the | castoms laws of Culm. fut in one or other of | these positions must he be placed, unless he can give rome ingenious and satisfactory explanation. | Let him try. Sexaron Doverss His Prosrevra--A nincompoop who writes stupid things from Wash- ington to an obscure journal published somewhere | in this latitade, vaguely insinuates that we have } Among others, they are plotting not only asus | attempted to injure the character and damage pension of the duty on railroad iron, but the | the political prospects of the Senator from [li- nois. What nonsense! What greenness! What refunding of millions of duties that would other- wise go into the treasury were the existing law | wesaid of Senator Douglas was just the thing to Ano | that the better way to state the case wi | overtak simply repealed to-day. These railroad spoils- | remind the people of the country that he men have a contingent corruption fund to ope- | was still in the field; that be was fresh- rate upon, only limited by the land grants of | er, fatter, stouter, abler, and therefore better Congress. Within the last five years they have | capable of being a candidate in the campaign of secured millfens upon millions from the pockets | 1860 than ever before. Senator Douglas has been badly used by some of his political frienda, and it is to be hoped that he will have better Inck hereafter. He has good sense, and it isa pity that be is so unfortunate as to bave friends who lack that valuable article. of the people, in the shape of the public lands, and these spoils are the basis of their larger operations of this day, under the enconraging spoils and plunder policy of poor Pierce. Now lot uz euppoeg that thig Pacifig Railroad A New Law or Lwex.—The public are per haps mot generally aware that the law of libel im this State is such that malice is always presumed when a newspaper makes an erroneous statement regarding an individual. For instance, if we publish « telegraphic message from Bosten, stating that.A B has been arrested for fitting out a slaver—such message having been trans- mitted to us after cleven at night, by the operator at Boston, who found it in everybody's mouth— the presumption of law is that we inserted the said message out of a fiendish and malevo- lent desire in our heart to injure the said A B, of whom we never heard béfore in our lives, and whose reported doings touching slavers were not made known to us till the morning when we read the message in the paper. We may, it is true, re- but this assumption by proving that A B was eally engaged in the slave trade. That isto say, if we are smart enough, we may at a cost of some thousand dollars obtain evidence that the town talk of Boston was correct, and thus escape paying costs But, in many cases, this canuot be done. Witnesses travel away, or die; some will not speak; others cannot be found when the trial comes on. So the simplest plan for a news- paper in this State to pursue, when it has made a statement which is denied by a party interested, is to pay up a reasonable amount of damages— enough to keep the party for a few months-—and to look pleasant. Our neighbors in Connecticut do not impese such a tax on truth as this. They have a sbort law, which runs as follows:— AN ACT TO PREVENT VEXATIOUS LIBEL SUIrA. B) it epactea by the Sepate ava House of Represeanta- tives, in General Assembiy convened:— Seo. 1. That in every action for an alleged libel. the de- ferdant may give proof ‘of itention; and-uniess the piainuff shall prove malice in fact, be shall recover Lothing his actual damage proved, and specially al- Jeged in the declaration. Why ehould not such a law as this be passed by our Legislature? Surely it is not reasonable to make the newspaper publisher responsible for accidents as though they were intentional of- fences; or to punish the former mone severely than the common law punishes unintentionally inju- rious acts. Let the plaintiff in suits for libei be compelled to prove either actual malice or actual damage. If he can prove either one or the other, then let the paper pay; bat lo bleed the paper, when the plaintiff—invariably a man of poor character, who regards his libel suits as a legiti- mate source of income—proves only the publica- tion, aad neither shows that he has been injured nor that the editor wanted to injure him, is cer- tainly absurd to a degree. A Laxp Jos rm Trovsie.—It seems that Wesley & Co., the stock gamblers in Wall street, and proprietors of the Dajly Times, have no title of any practical value to the Brick Charch property, which they desire to sell to the United States government for a Post Office site. if poor Pierce purchases that corner, it cannot be used for a Post Office. It must be devoted to pious purposes, and the moment that a Post Office is erected there the Corporation take possession. That is the law laid down by the courts. In this view of the case we recommend poor Pierce to buy the property and build upon it a monastery, to which he may retire like Charles the Fifth of Spain, when he got tired of the splendors of empire and the distribution of the spoils. Poor Pierce, as the prior of a monastery in New York, will be a stauding warning to those who may attempt to follow in his footsteps, and govern a country without mental balance or public virtue. Tue Arrai or Honor Between Meacuer axp RayMonp.—The newspapers are still disenss- ing this matter, without appearing to have any official information of the progress of the quarrel, or accurate accounts of the cause of the dispute. Let us have the correspondence. Where are the papers in the case? What wes the difficulty? Who gave the insult? What was the point of} - salt?’ Did Meagher incur the mortal avimosi y of the nigger worshipping joucnals by supporting Mr. Buchanan? What is it all about? Let us have the documents, so that we may know what we are talking about, aod understand the right and the wrong of the matter. A Bain vor rae Lovey Memorrs ve Wasn- ineTon.—Messrs, Dunigan & Brother, No, 151 Fulton street, have published a beautifully bound and engraved book ef a devotional character, containing prayers, engravings of the Saints, end pious poetry, all of the Catholic church. On the title page there is a picture of an angel with two beautiful wings, just flying up to yen, with two lambs bearing croses, and two gold crosses on the covers. We recommend this pious vo- Jume to the particular attention of the rascally lobby members at Wasbington, who are going to perdition as fast ay they can, as a book emi- nently calculated torceall them to their senses and save them from the pit of darkness. Tux Ustrep Starks Serna re ON Triai —Ofticially there is a cause involving the free- | dom of a nigger of the name of Dred Scott, now on trial before the Court of last resort at Wash- ington; but tbe people are beginning to th ak 1d be the United States Supreme Court on trial befo 2 the people and the constitution, The issue of this trial will be looked forward to with some interest, 2. H. Mill, of Georgia, who has been ported av coward for declining to accept the chailengo of A, H. stepber x poken of ag a man of exemplary Chrietian ou racter, and much beloved by ail who know bim. RES, Atrien—Mr TL Routh, Mon and wife, New York and & For Liverpool. in the real, Mr Champion. de 4 ven, Nev trent Cineianst). Adophus Ret Bogland; Joby Kean. Cana ms Pale: Scotiand, Daniel indo: 0, Me Brandon, MrJSsyre. Totals Dew ning, do, Mi Williamsburg City Se was few nights sirce as, Mr. Lawrence wore returning from Wullamebarg to jamaica, they met in the cotrkirte of the city two men who proved obebighwaymon As sova as the carriage parted ibe moa turned and cut the straps which {astened om # trunk and valise to the wagon, and wore discovered in the sct of carrying thom of, The robbers were purtued, when they dropped the trual and cootinced their flight with the vaiwe, wott! they found ot impeded their progress, and ihey would be —~") they sbandomed this also, acd then escaped. saath Woot Sratietios —The United States prodace 62,500,000 ba, of Wool annually. Tacy conseme 71, 000,000 ibs. They ia thon, about 14,500,000; thet i, the Untied rtm litte more taan ove fourth of the Wool copsemed by our We should be abie to export wool rather than be compelled to import it. There are five manufact coca ey all in the State of Maseachusette conaume in tl regal, Treo 060 1be., which {: one-Uith Of Ibe entire wool crop of the United States. Ohio is the greatest woo! growing State in the United Slate. her el 10,198,000 Tous New York +! next, her clip 000 Iba. Ohio Farmer, December 6. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, From Washihgton, THE NEW COINAGE BILL—IMPORTANT DECISION IN TRE SUPREME COURT, ETC. Wasninatox, Dec. 24, 1866, No session of the Senate to-day. ‘The Committee of Ways and Means in the House re- ported three of the General Appropriation bilis, which were referred. Toe bili proposing a change iu the cur- rency was debated at some length, and, as itisa meatier of great moment to the commercial interest of the coun- try, was postponed for two werka. Mr. Herbert read a defence of his action oa the California Land bill of last session, and asaailed (ien. Denver, who will reply at an early day. Congress will not be in session to morrow. ‘The President has nominated (homas D. Condy Marshal of South Carolina. ‘The House Committee on Naval Affairs have concludea © repeal the biil amendatory of the act to promote the efiiciency of the Navy precisely as it was passed in tae Senate. A delegation of the Kaw Indians, from Kansas, have arrived here, but being without an interpreter, were un- able to make their business known to the Commissioners on Indian Aftaire, Many of the members of Congress have left for home to enjoy the holidays. The Rhode Island case decided in the Supreme Court to-day, embraces a series of events for near a century. The lands are covered by manufacturing estab- Mshments and flourishing villages, and haye been ‘throughout past generations without the question of legal ownership. The bill alleging frauds and claims was deemed by the court defective, and the presumption being im favor of the present occupants the decree of the Circuit Court of Rhode Island was affirmed. Thalberg’s third concert at ihe National theatre at- tracted a brilliant and fashionable audience. Postmaster General Campbell and many members of Congress were Present. The performers were most cordially grected, and ecrything passed off admirably. Madame D’Angri was enthusiastically recetved, THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SEOOND SESSION. House of Represeatatives. ‘Wasuiscron, Dec. 24, 1856. APPROPRIATION BILLS, Mr. Camprrti, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the Post Office, Mail Steamer and Deficiency Appropriation bills. NEW OOINAGE, Mr. Paeirs, (¢em.) of Mo., from the sams committse, ai tender, aud whether such laws have expi sbould be ascertained before this bill be pressed to tinal action. Mr. Joxas, of Tenn., raid that the ing a fair investigation was to send A Voice—That’s a fact. Mr, Wakeman said euch disteriations were made twen- or thirty !imes every session. All bills which ones desired to stranzle be moved to send to the Co: mittee of the Whole on the State of the Union, the p-acti- eal effect of which was to destroy it. Mr. Jowzs replied that those he desired to have stran- Bled deserved to be 5 Mr. Qurtay, of Migs., thought the triends of thie bill ——_ eflectua) means to kill it by pressing do inite now Mr. Jowes moved to table the bill. ed morn marae wd eee votes. ie further consideration of 4) i) was thon poned for two weeks. — SPHECH OF MR. MERWERT, Mr, Heenrat, of Cal., made an hour's speech in reply to Mr, Denver, om the subject of the California land pa- tent.. ‘THE ADMIMMION OF MINNRROTA, sem, delegate from blinnesota, iatroduced a bill ‘Dg the people of Territory to form « conat! tution and State goverat » Preparatory to aimiesion ef on Union en a tooling with the original States. jour United States Supreme Court, Wasuinctox, Dec, 24, 1866, ‘Case ) 0. 13.—Elizabe'|) Moore vs. Green and Hawkins. Judge McLean delivered am opinion aifirming the decree of tho United States Circuit Court of Rhode Island, with coate Cese No, $9.—Obediah !!. Piatt vs. Chauncey Jerome, Error to the Caited States Circuit Court for the Westera District of New York, The matters in controversy be- tween tho partics having boon settiod it was ordered that the writ of error be dismissed, Case No, 20,—Jeano Harisborn vs, Horace i. Day. Argument continued. Case No, 43.—The Commercial Marine Iasuraace Co. va. S¢ward Oliver. On motion of counse! for appellee the cecree of the United States Circult Court of Massa- Chuseits was aflirmed, with costae per stipulation to the Terpective parties. The Negro Troubles tn Kentucky. Lovers, Dec, 24, 1666. The Hopkinsville Mercury says that Ned Jones, a ceie- brated negro preacher there, had been put in jail by a Vigilance committee. A {ree nogro preacher, named So! yi , Wes bong at Cadiz, Ky, on Tuesday, and another at Pembroke on Wednesday last. ‘The Mayor of Louisville has issued & proclamation, stating that In consequence of \aformation which shows a disporition om the part of the colored people to rise against the whites, that all slaves be imprisoned during the holidays who are found absent from home after half | past eight o'clock in the evening. ‘The Mi from New Mexico. St. Lovis, Dec, 24, 1856, It Ws feared that the Sante Fe and Salt Lake maiis will be greatly deiaye:| by the deep snow west. Major ford’. Losses in Kanens, St, Lovts, Deo. 94, 1856. The correspenient of the Republican, writing from Westport, eays tbe: Mejor Buford bas published a state- his loss by the Soutbern emi- een upwards of $10,000. Hin Philadelphia, Pen svmiema, Deo, 44, 1866, There wera 4 dinner to Mr. Bechanan yesterday, at Mayor Vaax’s residence. Mayor Wood, of New York, ‘Was present and returned home this morning. Mr. Ba- chanan ret to Wheatland to morrow. Mr. Bache Sinking of the Steamer Altamont. Orvctsnan, Dee, 24, 1856. ‘The steamer Altamont san). at Marietta yesterday. Her cargo will probably be taved, bet im a damaged cond) ton. The boat is « total loss. Rotlroad Agctdent—Arrest for Murder. Burraro, Dec, 24, 1856, On Monday «train on the Cleveland and Toledo Rail. road was thrown of the track by breaxing & whee), George Bartiett, of Bula!o, had his log broken, aud several others wore injurod. De. Hi. B. Bigelow, of Rochester, was arrested there yeatercay for the murder of Julia Rosendale, by attempt- ing an abortion, from the effects of which she died on Sunday last, His examination was postponed (li! Fritay. ——$——— Low of the © Lennox on Lake On- tarto. Oswaeo, Dec, 94, 1856, The eohooner | enpox, which left gston three weeks since for Toronto, baw hot since been heard o/, and all hopes of her #afety are abandoned. | own crow Of seven men, sho had on boart fy . longing to the schooner Loohiel, who were work!ng thelr pastageto Toronto, Al! are supposed to be lost. State of the Weather, &e. Rowrow, Neo. 94, 1866. About cix inches of enow fell inet nig snowing this morning. The weather is a md it continuse Additional from Europe. Hauprax, Dec, 24, 1666, London papers received by the Canada state that on Wednesday, the 0th inst., console opened at 98% to 9836, \o dividend, and by midday they had improved to 9434 1B 6475. | Tae London Datly News, city article, dated Thoraday | evening, Dec. 11, esys the dey had been @ quiet one op the Stock Exchange. The funds exhibited steadiness, consols closing at about one sixteenth lower than yester- day. In other departments steadiness also prevailed, speculative business being checked by the approach of the fortnight’s xettlements. ‘The Sound Steamers. Bosron, Dec. 2¢, 1856, ‘The steamer Metropolis, of the Fall River line, reached Newport at 10 o’clock this morning. The State of Maine, |. Port, and remained thore ti/! seven o’clock this merning, Markets, PHILADELPHLa STOCK BOARD. PHt.aDeLpaia, Deo. 24, Ly a Stocks steady. Pi Ivania dye 84; Reading > road, 42%,; Long Island Railroad, ; ‘Canal, liv: Penauylvasia Railroad, 415 Yate; Morn ‘i | Fashionable Movements—The World Above Bleecker, The fashionable world is just now getting up the scenery, properties and costumes for tts annual satur- nalia, which begins with the Christmas holidays, and ends with the beginning of Lent. There must always bea new ‘‘rage’’ every year, and tho rage this year is com- bined in opera music, private charitable concerts, ama- teur theatrical representatious, and immense Ruesian sable capes a! unheard of prices As we remarked the other day, the rage for opera music is one of the most dan- gerous of fashionable diseases, In its diagnosis it is not unlike bydrophobia, and 1s similar to that"disease'in the fact that the victim may carry the seeds of it for months before the symptoms make their appearance to the un- initiated eye andear. Tho patient has an aversion to general socieiy—she speaks with mysterious music mas- ters in unkown tongues—imakes long journeys to out of the way music shops—has confidential interviews with the proprietors thereo!—carries home suspiciously thick pamphlets, with the Paris imprint—distarbs the household at unseemly hours with unearthly shrieks and noises, vocal and instrumental—talks wildly about shakes, solfeggi, dimipuendo, rouiades, staffs, signatures, and, other occult technical terms. Night and day is beard the laboring of the grand piano, the howling of the incipient, prima donna—the cospeito! of the enraged Professor—the muttered —— of pater familias—the mild maternal appeal—the suppressed grow! of Young New York, as he stufla his fingers in his ear and hies to his club, where the fellows know what is what, and don’t annoy themselves with any nonsense about art, £0 that the clos rougeot is of the proper temperature. The second stage of the disease breaks out in the form Of soiree musicale to about five bundred particular friends four bumdred for the chicken salad and the balance amateurs, who congratulate the prima donna upon her splendid abilities, then go away and say that the idea of that young person imagining that she can sing is unpre- cedentediy absurd. The final stage is an appearance in Public, generally for charitable purposes, when true charity would seem to dictate the propriety of sparing some six or seven hundred unoffending people from such 80 infiction. The case is now desperate; but by carefully removing all the objects which produced the madness the patient may work through it, A grand coup has been made by giving the victim a severe course of street. organ music; but that is only to be used in extreme cases, and !¢ siways dangerous. The rage for private theatrical representations, ta- Dleaux and cherades is a barmiess and amusing rage. ‘We lately attended one of these representations at a fashionable boarding house in Fourteenth street. The Jadies had « charming iittle boudoir theatre, gave a capi- tal performance, and afterward a soirte dansante. In Pugiand petie comedies are frequently written expressly for private representation, and some of the very first dramatists have employed their pens for the exclusive entertainment of their friegds. Weare glad that the fashionable world here bas so sensible an idea as the Setting up of private theatricals. There are bundreds of comedies evited to the drawing room—the performance of which not only results in the entertainment of actors and audience for the time being, bot is a valuable school of manners, graceful bearing, correct pronuniciation of the language— three of the chief points im the character of a tho- roughbred man or woman. So we have rothing to say against the rage for private theatricals, + Am to the rage for furs, the ladies excuse their extrava- 1 t mania for returning to fret priaciples and arraying themselves in the skins of wild beasts, by saying that a Set of Teables Insts a lifetime. Mathematical Jadies unpopular ciety, #0 they forget that it costs nm dred a year in interest of the money invested to wear sablos, 80 that in twevty years the furewi'l have doabled the first cost. The furred ladies, however, improve the sppearance of Broadway on « cold day, and as to the ex- bat Ws perhaps the exclusive affair of the gentle- men who fost the bills, The mania for extravagance ia dress extends to the men, and has its bemoficial side in | adordimg employment, at hugh wages, to hundreds of cunning artivans aod expert workwomen. As the price | Of the raw meterial in advanced, its beanty must be en- hance’—as it beacty is enbanced, the workmanship must be equally improved—the best workmen must have the best prices, aad good prices make good workmen. Thig week the fashionablo werld—im fact, the entire world ef New York—is towsding tho note of preparation for the holldays, Tho grent fancy bazaars in Broadway an elsewhere are (bronged from morning ti!) night with fn! classes of buyers, from the stout apprentice w! | vente bis little savings im the firat pledge of youthfal af fection, to the carriage people wlose purchases are fgared up im thousand’. in hundrods of bappy homes the | @bristcoas evergreen typifies the freshness and beauty of the fair Cogers that enwreath it, The Carnival bas com- menced. Money ts poured out like water, Noone stops {Lo coumt the cost. Vive la joie! City Intelligence. | Gwnuermas Day —it will be no news to the little folks to ‘tell them this is Christmas day. They need no reminder | of that fact; bot there are cortain old fogies who never | believe that anything tak es place unless they are notitied of \t \n the newspapers, aod for their information we with to state that thie is Christmas day, acd hopes know iedge of the fact will do something towards soften- | ing their hearis to the kindlier charities of the season. | Christmas is not much observed in this country, and more’s the pity. \/4 country people observe it religious- ly, awd around 20 other season of the year are there so many holy and chavientpg irtivences, With them it tea day for the cult!vation of domestic virtaee—/amilies loug separated are reunited, and the old home, not seen tor many, many long ycars, becomes again filled with ite old occupants, The large foreign population in this city makes the observance of the day more genera! with es than with ouher cities In the United States, Oar marke are a perfect wilderness of Christmas trees, gaily decked with flowers, while the stalls are covered with a profusion of— Muttone, and fat } Herons and Dooves, and bacon Jere, Peacock, AWAD & Teal, mal! pigeona, widgeons, aad, 0, Piem p , pancakes, apple pies and cas ard. Christmas greens to be sean in all parts of the stores, saloons, vate houses; aud the Romau Catholic and Epiecopaltan churches are also decorated wiih them, The sects just mentioned wil! have services tn commemoration of Christ's birth to-day, but we hear of mo other celebration worth mentioning, except the extra performances at the theatres. Let us all observe the day becomingly, and try and bring back the good old times spoken of by the poet — A man might then behold, At Christmas in each hall, Good to ourb the cold, Ani ment for great and small; Black jncks to every mec _ Were Glia with wine aad beer; howe enye di ; nbors were rend! from the Ww thie old cap was new. ‘ine Late Storw—Derertion or Travat.—The snow storm of Monday extended ovor a large district af coun- try, and was much more severe towards the north than im this Intitude, Between Albany and nie the mow fell to the depth of twenty inches, the trains on the Harlem and Hudson River roads were detained for three hours until the track was cleared. It snowed steadily for two days in Albany, and the storm raged far All the mails {rom this city north were de- the tracks oven Dow are in yory bad order, The Cineinnati express on the Cantral road, doe at Albany MOA. M., did not arrive enti! Inte in the afernoon, ‘The snow wae also yory revere on the Sound, amd the Hi pet out on Stontogton, the’ mall due at 6 o'clock ALM, ad Tet eenive until 4P. M., white the eastern railroad mall was oniy ome hour from Fall River for New York iast night, put into New- —