The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1856. EW YORK HERALD. ne JAMNBS GORDO’ BENNE?®, RDFFOR AWD PROPRIETOR, paarenetneieneaee eee @PPIEN N. W. OOENER OF WASEAU AND PUBTON Erte ‘ 8. sash ’ Boe TERATD: 2 ants ve, wry $I per onmumm BERRLY HERALD cory Birla Uy oman vee ah | the Buropeas etition, hong eS Gece Drilowm, or 9 40 siny part of te Comment, pacbwowntude GOL UW T 1K) CORRESPONDENCE, comatnieg import cencies Bem, any qearter of Ue works wey well be Sanmeck inns Bmevsers £0 Saat aa way on. j “To ROTTER taken of anonyrous eammusiation, We de UOTE RIN TING executed with neninens shempuens and cee VERTISEMENTS renewed esory doy. ' Betume £XE.......... AMUBSMANTS THIS EVSENING, > MBOADWAY THEATRE, Breadway—Narore ame Pui- ny WePn1—Dow 0454% DE dAkan—Niw Footman, UR FOUBIGN OOBBRSFONDETTS AUB ry 1 YS GARDEN, B.osawey—Bxouss Oreza—Taw pa Bouoes or Tae Kecransr. g OWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Kixc Joux—Brrsey Ba i WRTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond st. a Mitt Nonr-berne 107. 18 THEATRE Rroadway -Tis Riouts 4xp ves oF Wokan- Hiawseres—Joux Donne. BAI (BA KEEWWS THEATRE, 6& Breadway—Mamms Ben @ Dou THE Hasnom. WBERS STREET THBATRE, (late Burton’s)—Rex? ‘wo or Mosttea—M.psicur Revess. UWE AMERICAN MUSEUM, Breadway—Ater BARN ze at FoMB—A Pimasayt NeIGHBOE. Kvening— \e—damnick Box. + eso of (BISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad way Erm» Wau Fauvonmaxore—New Yeau Cate, WS SERBNADES, 55 Broadway.—Prmiorsan KLE puckin US Sane, B THEATRE, £2 Broatway—Faenen Pen- Dyer ye BM. Devos Hanser. ew Wor &, Tuesday, December 30, 1856. am KEW Yt RE 'EBRALD—EDITION POR EUROPE, ‘Mo Onnard + keamsbip Canada, Capt. Lang, will leave Beston on Wedn eeday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Bho mails will tlose in this city at half-past two o’clock (weir afternoon. ‘he Baropenn ¢ ition of the xnarp, printed in Frenek and Rogiish, will be published at ten o’clook im the morn- tug. Stacie copies |, 19 wrappers, sixpence, ‘Subeor puions ai id advertisements for any edition of the aw Vorx Hmnaty will be received at the following piaces ae t& Earopean Express Co., 51 King William st, , r . aae— Do. 40." 8'Place do la Bourse, Kagremroes—— Do. do. a streot. Egwaros.—Joun Hunter, 12 Exchange stroet, Rast. ‘Nhe eontants of the Huropean edition of the Hers eifoombb'ae tho news received by mail and telegraph at ‘he ice during the previous week, and up to the hour ef pr diloation. che News. ‘Whe steamship Tennessce, which lef: this port on the 24th inst. for San Juan, with men and supplies fer Gen. Waiker, broke her shaft during a furious gale on the 25th, and was compelled to put into Worfolk. We are iatormed that the James Adger will be desprtebod to-day for Norfolk, and convey ae engers of the Tennessee from thence to ‘Meir destination. This unavoidable delay of the weinforcements and supplies may have a very disastrous influence won the fortunes of the Americous in Nicaragua. The Tennessee had be- @woen three and four huadred recruits on board ‘Phe steamer Texas sailed from New Orleans yester- @ay with five kundred. With these accessions’ Gen. ‘Walker wil! prokably be enabled to resume offensive operations Information has been received from England to the effect that, in the event of the blockade of the ports of New Granada by the British, Aapinwall and Panama will be regarded as neutral ports. The eourse intended to be pursued in regard to this mat- ter had not been definitely settled upon by the British government, but it was generally believed that the policy indicated above would be adopted. The Court of General Sestions yesterday was crowded almost to snffucation by persons eager to witness the finale of the Huntington drama. The wmaming up of counsel for and against the prisoner eommenced with the opening of the Court, and ter minated at eleven o'clock last night. We give a full weport ekewhere. The case will be submitted to the Jory to-day. The steamship Quaker City arrived at this por yesterday, with Ha dates to the 25th inst. Our eorrespcnuents confirm the report that Gen. Concha % to be superseded in his office. The sogar mark ¢ was frm. The stock on hand amounted to forty-five thousand boxes. Three hundred and nineteen Coo- Bes, landed from Amoy, went off quick at an ave- wage of $306 per head, A heavy northerly gale had prevailed for several days previous to the 25th, On the morning of the %d the brig Bostor> Capt. Dexter, fiom (Galveston for New York, drifted on the reefs about ten miles westward ef Havana. The vessel would prove a total loss, but & portion of the cargo, consisting of hides and cot- ton, would probably be saved. The La (range opera troupe opened at the Tacon theatre on ihe 20th inst, with “Ii Trovatore.” There was a good house and a pretty good share of upplause although at first the audience was coldly critical. The people were enjoying the festivities of Christmas and }nsiness was interrupted. If Congress do not increase the pey of the officers ef the army, that arm of the public defence will noon love many of the most gallant gontlemen in the service. Brevet Lient. Col. Raton, Captain of the Third infantry, hax thrown up his commission solely because of his inability to support his family apon the meagre allowance provided by government. Gol. Katon is an officer of whom “ honorable men- tion” has been made on varions occasions. He served as aid-de-camp of General Taylor throughout the entire eventful campaign of that stern old war vior in Moxico. Liewterants Higgins and Hielman, lately attach- ed to the sloopof-war Levant, of the India aquadron, have resigned their commissions, and are om the way home. Despatches from New Orleans report great alorm acd excitement in Mississippi, growing ont of ap prebended toxurrections of the slaves. Many negroes had been arrested. In the Board of Supervisors yesterday a report adverse to releasing the Brooklyn Ferry Company from toxation was adopted ananimously. ‘The tax emounta to $619 95. The company have a capital of $100,000, and own real estate worth $55,170. The Board of Aldermen last evening adopted a resolution reqnesting the Counse! of the Corporation t commence proceedings against the Union Ferry Company, if snid company do not extend the com mutation privilege to parsengers within ten days after the passage of the resolution. The propriety of purchasing the lot of land between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, on the East river, for an ap town market, was warmly discassed, bot no deci- sion was come to. A resolution, adopted by the Hoard of Conncilmenon the 9th of January, 1855, to repeal the resolution staying all proceeding» with regard to the extension of Albany street through ‘Trinity churchyard, was taken up; but the Board would not concur, to the home of the dead will re- main undistarbed, at least for atime. Mn the Board of Co uncilmen lat evening a com- muvication was received from the Mayor vetoing the contract for fogging the south side of Cathe rine etreet, from Ook to Hast Broadway. We give the document elsewhere. The facts stated by the Mayor es@iciently justify hie action in the agffag d property owners sbould be thankfo! that the bead of one department of the city government at Jea-t is disposed to protect their interests, notwith- gtanding he may not have the power so to do. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 4500 bales, chiefly for export, based upon middling at 130., and middling New Orlewns at 13/c. Flour wee egain dp, apd prices favored purchasers, especially for the lower grades. The stock in this market was estimated at sbout 255,000 bbls, the wheat at 531,000 bushels, arfd corn at 1,960,000 bushels. Compared with the same period last year ‘the stocks cf flour and wheat are materially ander the amount, while the stock of Indian cora is largely in excess of that of Jast year. The sales of wheat yesterday were quite limited and confined to small lots, at $1 78 for prime white Canadian and $1 68 for inferior do, with Southern red and IMi- nois winter grown red at $157 a $160. Corm was du)l at 68e.a 69c. for Western mixed from store apd 70c. delivered. Pork sold ut $20 for new mess and $19 37) for old. Lard was firm at 12{c. a 12jc. The sales of sugars:-embraced about 300 a 400 bhds. of Cuba muscovado and zbout 1,000 boxes at prices given in another column. Freights were steady, with moderate engagemenie. Coroner Bennett, of Kings county, held an inquest yesterday upon the body of Cornelius Cammon, at the late residence of deceased, in New Utrecht, LI. The prisoner, John Wesley Layman, was examined by two physi¢ians, one of whom pronousiced him insane. Accused was committed on the charge of wilfal murder, Our Relations with Mexico—Important Re- velations trom Washington. We learn from Washington that a very curions and interesting correspondence is now going on between our government and that of Mexico, that may be productive of very great results and give an entirely new form to the elements that are conspiring to erect our.new Indiam Empire on our southern borders General Comonfort finds himself surrounded with difti- eulties and unable to control, unaided, the course of things. The church is at open war with him in every part of the Mexican republic, and though he has attained partial successes over the insurgents at Puebla, the hydra-headed monster of insurrection is showing itself on many sides of him. All the old leading names in that country have died out, or disappeared from the public gaze, and the new men seem to be in every way incompetent to bring order eut of the political chaos existing there. Besides the church, which is 2 hard antagonist to subdue, and which will not give upa single point of what she deems her right, ora jot of what she may have had in possession, other causes bear upon Comonfort to make his position one of great insecurity. England has been prese- ing her claims with great zeal, and in the Barron and Forbes case has already attained some set- tlement which is probably little to the honor of Mexico. Spain, too, has been very exacting, and has even menaced invasion. Under the pressure of all these conflicting cares, Comonfort has sought for meaus to secure at least some future for Mexico, and has proposed to our government an alliance which shall strengthen his govern- ment and bring the influence’ of our own to bear upon the re-organization of that republic. This is not by any means a new idea with the people of Mexico. When it was proposed after the close of the war to hold that coun- try under military eway, with a per- fect organization of the municipal bodies, and Gen. Quitman was called home from his po- sition as Governor of the City of Mexico, to fe- ceive detailed instructions from our own govern- ment, the idea found many strong supporters there. it is well known that after that plan fell through by the making of the unauthorized treaty of peace, Gen. Scott was offered a million of dotlars by a body of the prominent citizens there, if he would remain and organize a govern- ment. At later date, when the Cuban expedi tion was nearly consummated by Gen. Quitman, he was approached by parties from Mexico, and an invitation to twa his organization to that country was held out to him. Comonfort, there- fore, in see! e gid of our government, is gnly following in the fogteteps of former events, It is not at all surprising that Mexico shou'l | look upon our ji.ctitations, and our material pr>- grees and welfare ander them, with admiration and desire, There is in her midst a large party conservative and order loving citi- zens, who ever regretted the da, when our army was withdrawn from her border: and who would hail with delight the advent of of have government direv'ed hy and in close allianss with our own, Such an ovont would be to Me" co the greatest pomible guarantee of a Mfberal rule, and the developement of her rich yesourcer. We shall wateh closely the course of our go- yernment in this matter as well of that of Gen, Comonfort. In the meantime we recommen | both parties to hurry on the issue, for the matt-r is so plain that little negotiation Isrequired. ‘1 ecommerce of New York is ready to open its floodgates of supply upon the new Indian Empire, and it is time already that it were a fixed fact. Mr. Bremaxay axp tHe Wasirneron Onean. One of onr cliy cotemporaries informs us that Mr. Nicholson, of the Washington Jinion, by special invitation of Mr. Buchanan, has visite! Wheatland, and made ali the preliminary ar- rangements for a transfer of the Union newspe per and office as the organ of the new adminic tration. Now, we dare say that all this new- concerning the arrangements far the transfer of the organ is all gammon. Mr. Bachanan has eecn enough of Washington organs and organ grinders to keep clear of the whole tribe. We dere sey be will; for what is a Washington or- gan but a newspaper purchased by « fat printioy job from Congress to publish and puff the speeches of John Jones, John Smith and John Brown! Or what bas the President's organ by come but the toc! of this or that clique, or « yoke upon his neck, or an officious kitchen visi ter, who is forever in the way? Look at the case of poor Pierce. We opprehend that with Mr. Buehanan’s experience, and good strong com mon seuse to back him, he will try the experi meat of dispensing with a Washington organ, leaving his acts to epeak for themselves, or trost- ing to the organship of the independent press of the country for justice ang fair play. It may also be rather soon for Mr. Nicholson to sell out the public printing of the next Congress, Who is the highest bidder Proorrss or “ Morat tesanrry.”"—We have had, within the last few days, some very striking evidences of the progress of “ moral insanity,” calculated to give a new impetus to the impreg- pable defence of Huntington. Here cortain parties have becn detected alinost in the uct of firing their own premises—there « man has coolly put a bullet through the head of another, on the public highway, a# a shorter method of forking o draft than forgery. All “moral in rouity.” What elect On this plea, Tuckerman, of Boston, charged with defrawting a railroad ) pe company of which he was the treasurer, of one “based on several ycars’ experience, is that, on the Every convict on Blackwell's Island, or at Sing Sing, or in the Tombs, is but the victim of moral ineanity; but the bright idea of putting their de- fence upon this plea wes never thought of be- fore. Give us an acquittal upon this plea, in the case of a sturdy, shrewd and deliberate rogue, and there will soon be no further necessity for jails, penitentiaries or hangmen, The Repubitean Scheme to Disfranchise the City. It cannot be too strongly impressed on the mind of the public that it is the intention ef the party called republican, if it bas the power, to disfrancbice the city-of New York at the next seesion of the Legislatere. Our cotemporary, the Courier and Enquirer, one of the leading organs of the party, has paraded the scheme before the public at great length, and has accompanied it with comments whose unexampled boldness, in a journel dependent upon the residents of the city for support, may well provoke remark. The argument of the-Courier, and of the lead- ers of the party called republican, is, that after a full and complete trial, the people of this city have been proved to be incompetent to govern themeelves, and tbat therefore it devolves upon the State authorities to set governors over them We sabmit that this is a perfectly fair statement of the ground occupied by the republican leaders. We leave it to the mercbante, to the mechanics, the wholesa’¢ and retail dealers, the profeesional men, and the people at large to decide how far this assumpticn from other parts of the State. does them justice. The plen of disfranchising | community, or withbolding from it the right of self government}, is not a novelty in politics or legielation. It is on this plan that British India.and the Russias are governed. If you ask Lord Canning his ideas about the bundred millions of Hindoos over whom he reigns, he will answer you in the language of the Courier, that theory and practice prove the incompetency of these people to govern themselves, wherefore he comes from England to govern them. Just in the same way, the Emperor of Russia thinks that he knows his people too well to trust them with the right of making or administering their own laws; and consequently, as the Courier says, he resorts te a source of authority which is not liable to objee- tion, namely himeelf. But it is something startlingly new and origi- nal to propose to apply this system to the me- tropolis of the United States, and to want to treat the people of New York as the Governor Gene- ral of India treats the Hindoos, and as Alexander treats the Poles, ‘There is an impreesion in certain quarters that moderate amount of intelligence lurks among the people of this city. There are persons who think that information and common sense are almost as widely spread here as in the butter and milk counties of the West, or even at Canandaigua and Batavia. That opin- ion is evidently not shared by the leaders of the republican party. Their sentiment, contrary, intelligence, common sense and probity are 0 rare here that we require that the country people shall come in and govern us for our own protection. This may be so. We do not under- take to dispute the principle. But we will thank the republican leaders to vouchsafe to us a little information touching the method in which this new plan of government of theirs is to be adopted. What shall hereafter be considered evidence that the people of a city or county cannot govern themselves and require pro-cousuls from abroad? Shall we have a chance of govern- ing Albany, Troy, or Syracuse? Are there any fat counties which can be disfranchised, and Finged under the rule of some of our loose politi- cians? Is it the rule that the peop! of eyery place which votes the democratic ticket thereby prove themselves incapable of self-government? How far does the principle go? Can Congress apply it, and @eclare that this or that State is incompe- tent @ govtrn itself? May we hope that the time wi come when the President will appoint Govemors to take charge of South Carolina and Massachusetts! Or ie the scheme merely intended for Staio purpores? Onr neighbor of the Courier will eee the neces city of throwing some light on these questions, It is something so new in this country for a larze community to be disfranchised and pro-consuls set over it from eleewhere, that we must be for- given for not seeing at the first glance where the plan will tend. We are well aware of the “peculiar advantages of despotism.” They have undoubtedly benefited Paris in one point of view, that is to say they have improved its looks, Ivo the republican leaders want to improve New York with the rome nostram? Whatever they do, we hope they will deal with us mercifully. We have been brought up as sim- ple republicans, and have been taught that the idea of the governments and institutions of this country was, that men should make and adminis- ter their own laws. Now, it seems, all this is wrong, and webave got to go back to the old methods which the Romans employed in their provinces, and the English tried to establish in their American colonies. Well, the lesson isa tough one, but we suppose it must be learnt; and the sooner we make our minds up to receive our masters from the country villages the better. Great Sacrivicn wx Stuks—Ivrontant to Tae Lanies.— Yesterday was one of the brighest and moet joyous of the season. Broadway was filled from morning till night with fair promenaders, ond the rueh to the fancy bazaars was tromen- dour. The /roffeir and the crossings were, how- ever, in a desperately dirty condition, being co- vered with an alluvial deposit from one to two inches in depth. The ladies—poor thingye—hada hard time of it, the hems of their garments being outrageously defiled. We have no doubt that thonsands of dollars worth of silks were com- pletely ruined through the negligence of the fair wearers who ought to know that mad fringe a foot deep is not the most appropriate border for 2 costly robe. The women of New York, with » few exceptions, have yet to earn how to dress themselves. They buy a costly bonnet, an expensive ect of fore, an extravagant silk robe—onerally unsuited for promenade wear -and then imagine they are dressed. They would rather hear the remark thefe goes a five hundred dollar fur cape —or there is a twenty dollar bonnet—or what a | splendid moire antique Mrs. Snooks had on yes- tesdoy, thon to hear a person of good taste say, | what a nicely dressed woman; how modest, how charming is her eneemble, And yet it wether twenty dollar bonnets, Russian hundred and fifty thousand dollars, might safely | sablee, not moire antique dres#es,to make a nicely be defended. How could any man morally sane do such a thing, or commit any other crime, put- ting bis character, life or liberty in denger? ‘Tuckerman, as a defaulter, was morally insane. Schuyler was another clear case of moral insani- ty, Sadlies angther, agd Redpath another. dreseed woman, who is at once modest, neat, chorming, and whore fou! ensemble is ravishing to the last degree. Make a note of that. They do there things much better in Paris. ‘The French woman is nice to the extreme point of particwlarity in the rclegtion of hoy ful as pearance of the city has neither wife nor daugh- brooms, that is no reason why everybody should follow his example. ° Ladies, this is about the peroration of our ser- mon. If you desire to look really pretty when you appear on Broadway—if you wish to attract the admiration of our sex and the envy of your own—keep your expensive dresses out of the mud—wear well made boots—have your skirts as pure as the record of a gaod man’s life, and your hose as white as the first flakes of the first winter snow. We would say something to you in the shape of a plea for the husbands and fa- thers who have to pay for costly dresses spoiled by carelestness; but there is a great deal of money floating about now, and your portemon- naies are too fall to think of economy. So we put the matter upon the direct issae—the im- provement of your own appearance—and charge not even so much as smile for the hint. Tur Assavtt on Senator Svumner.—We transfer to our columps, from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, a paper lately read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, by Dr. Perry, of Boston, on “the case of Mr. Charles Sumner.” This account gives us a painfully dis- tinct idea of the terrible violence of the as- sault upon this man; of its painful consequences in the sufferings which have followed it; of his Darrow escape with his life, and of the uncertain- ty of his ever being restored again from the con- dition of an invalid. Nothing but the constitu- tional healthiness, vigor and strength of the victim of this assault could have saved him longer than a few days from dissolution. Perhaps there are not two other men—perhape not another one—in the Senate, who could have survived through a week the twenty, thirty or forty gutta percha blows upon the head, neck and shoulders laid on in this case by an athictic arm and with the vio- lence of extreme excitement. Had Sumner perished at any time befure November, the result of the Presidential election would have given the democratic defenders and apologists of Brooks’s chivalry a more emphatic condemnation than that of the opposition vote of Massachusctts, New lfamphire, New York, Michigan or Illinoia, As it is, we are glad to be informed of the hope of a per- fect restoration of Mr. Sumner. We have no sympathy with his ultra notions upon slavery; but there are a thousand other reasons for wish- ing that the effects of that bloody assault in the Senate chamber may cease to be borne by the sufferer, except among hig recollections of past events, THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS. From Washington, A PLAN FOR A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC— 19 PORTANT DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT—THs NAUTILUS DIVING BELL—RESIGNATION OP ARMY AND NAVY OFFICRRS—THE KAW INDIANS—STEAM- ERS TO THE NORTH OF PUROPS, ETC., ETC. Wasuivetos, Deo, 29, 1956," T learn this evening that the House Committee on Pab- Nie Lands have agreed to report the Pacific Railroad bill gotten up by T, Butler King and Robert J. Walkor, both of whom are here, The biil will be matured in a day or two. ‘The Supreme Court today pronounced, through Jusice Curtis, a decision afecting the responsibility of masters of vessels for repairs and supplics. The case bofore that tribuzal was *ne growing out of the business transactions ‘of the captain of the bark Laura, while employed in traa- ing on the Pacific coast. Chief Justice Taney and Justice Wayne diesonted from the majority of their brethren. ‘The Court held that the captain, under contract to gail the veste), was merely the agent, and not owner, for the time beg of the vessel, the owners of which were res- ponsible for said repairs. Judge Taney occupied an hour w the delivery of his views, regarding the subject as highly impor tant, and containing points for the frst tine brought before that tribunal. The Navy Department having determined 10 subjoot ‘the application of the | Nautilus Sab- Marine Company,” for the sale and use of their machine at the different naval stations, to the severest scrutiny, has ordered a board, consisting of experienced engineers, to exam ne and report upon tts merite, The Noriolk Navy Yard is Indicated os the point for the experiments. If the * Na. tilue’’ is what its owners claim for it, they will no dow +t avail themselves of the opportunity with promptitaic. In the mean time, the pub/ic will be glad to know that the Navy Department is beginning to institute a proper ecro- tiny into the thousand new-fangled inventions which «re annually presented to ihe covernment for purchase aad adoption. Treasury warranis amounting to four hundred and thirty thoosand dollars wore entered at the Treasuy to day. ‘There are upwarda of one hundred and fifty members in the city, and yet there whi be no work done betory next Monday. Private advices recetvot here to day from Washington Territory state that the Indian chief, leech|, the leader ofall the marauding bands and the terror of the whole country, bad been captured, and wa: to be executed ma fow days. This, eaye the jotter, w!\) restore poace and quiet throughout the Territory Brevet I Joutenant Colonel Eaton, captain Third infantry, bas resigned hie commission on account of inability to ‘upport himeeif on his salary, A private letter from the Bast India squa¢ron any vun- oem the resignation of James Higgins and Julius C, Hill. map, !ieutenants on board the sioop of-war Levant. ‘The Kaw Indians, from Kaneas, to whom gilugion was made several days ago, had, it now apveara, no special Dusiness with the government relative to their lands, ‘Thotr vieit was for the purpose, as they say, of soving their ‘Great Father,’ and they might have added, of procuring some presents. Two of them are chiefs. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs bas furnished them with clothing better sulted to the,seaon than their fanciful forest costume, and to-day started them on thelr way home at the public expense. The Committee on the Post (Office and Post Roads of the | House of Representatives are preparing « bill in scoord. ance with Christian Hansen’s project for conveying the Unita saci wn 8 direct line of steamers betwoen New York and Gluckstadt, by the way o! Plymouth, Rog. land. ‘The various standing committees of the House ot Rep- yesentatives bave ® large number of bille matored, bat ‘no opportanity for reporting thom hae yet occwrred. Aid tor General Walker. New Ontaann, Dee, 29, 1866. ‘The steamehip Texas sailed for San Joan this morning. With Gre hundred reorulte for Walker's army voots, gloves, hose, skirts and other um mentionable mysteries of the female toilette. In rainy weather ehe steps gaily along, almost on tip toe, raising her robe just sufficiently to pre- serve its purity intact—showing the prettiest of feet, the nicest of ankles and the most immacu- late of skirts. The French women, as @ general thing, have not as pretty faces as their American sisters, but somehow or other they do manage to make a great seneation whenever the streets are unédy. A few American women have caught the French idea; but on Broadway, usually, the fair promenader does not dare to lift her rich robe half an inch from the side walk, on acconnt of a guilty consciousness of dirty skirts, while others wear clumsy boots and hide thick ankles ip a garment which is a cross between men’s trow- sers and meal sacks, and which is about as grace- the swathings of an Egyptian mummy. They always recall the recollection of the dandy who had nine flashy waistcoats and only one shirt. Water is a good thing internal- Jy and externally—s fact that we have endeavor- ed to impress upon New Yorkers, male and fe- male, many a time and oft. If we do suffer from a Commissioner of Streets, who, from the ap- ters, and who seems to have a holy horror of News from New Mexico and the Plains, Sr Loum, Deo. 29, 1856. ‘wet. Mining operations im New Mexioo were ‘tions are recorded, ‘The Negro Conspiracies in the South. Baurmors, Dec. 29, 1856, umber of negroes had been arrested. Desperate Fight Between Oystermen. Baurimons, Deo. 29, 1856, gether, and the fight continued all night. the Joyce Family. Lovnviurs, Dec. 29, 1856. Murder of AnotherWarden In the Mass» nu- Boston, Dec. 29, 1856. ‘warden was murdered in the same way. United States Supreme Court. d ‘Wasmuncton, Deo. 29, 1856. No. 8.—William Thomas et al., owners of the bark Lama, appellants, va. James W. Osborn. Judge Curtis delivered an opinion reversing the decree of the Circuit Court of Maryland, with costs, and remanding the cause ‘With directions to dismias the libel with costs. ‘No, 4.—Sebastian Wilmot et al:, plaintiffs, vs. John F. A. Sandford, Judge Catron delivered an opinion re- versing the judgment of the Circuit Court of Missourt, with costs, and remanding the cause with directions to award a venire facial de novo. No. 32.—Before reported. Argumentconcluded by Mr. Bepjam'n for appeliees aud Mr. Taylor for appellant. No, 88.—Wesley Williams, garnisher of Edward F. Ma- hone, plaintiff, vs. Hill, McLean &Oo. Arguea by Mr. Philip for plaintiff! and Mr. Hiiliard for defendants. Fire at Concord, New Mampshire. Coxconp, N. H., Dec. 29, 1856, ‘The Pheonix Hotel in this city was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. A portion of the furniture ‘was saved. The loss is covered by insurance. No lives were lost. Steam Boller Explosion. Atpay, Dec. 29, 1856. The steam boiler of Messrs. Rogers & Co.’s Ausable Forks rol!ipg mill exploded om Friday, killing two men and severely wounding six others. Mavigetn << ae ‘The ice in tho Potomae hes been much weakened dering , and the steamer Powhatan leaves every morning for Aquia creek. Markets. PRILADELPHIA 8TOOK 1A. Dec. 29, 1856. Blocks steady. hvania 6’s, 843; ; Reading Rail- 5 ; Pennay! Railroad, Sey fy jand on the nocssianene ofthe ene J. a . one of ite members. — New Onvaans, Dec. 29, 1856. 12,000 bales, at rates Mo- " 5 feo firm, and hor; sales at 10%. Freights to Liverpool duil. ;, Dec. 29, 1856. _ Cotton Sales to day 2,600 bales at advancing prices. Our Washington Correspondence. Wamuxctow, Dec. 28, 1856. ‘The Sub -AQantic Telegravh Company. I stated some days ago that several gentlemen from New York, connected with the New York, Newfound- Jnn@ and London Telegraph Company, had calied on the Pregident and several of the Secretaries, with a view of calisting the government in lending its ald and counte- object of their mission, I have no hesitation in saying, is Ukely to be crowned with entire success; and with that ‘view the President ts preparing ® special message, whic) will socompany certain documents which have beea furnished our government, and among otheraa le ter trom the British government, notifying the company, In an- re a ee ee ee the said mpany, ie area 13 enter eis. contrat wih the said company, jased upon the conditions set forth im their letter. It understood that the line will be three hundred and thousand Her ent het intted he “talegrant company, by the pay ment cf fou teen thousand pounds @ year, thall bave Ce hg HR] Mesrages over others. But the United Vern mest fail to make such am arrengement Tove rg ea * rp~ a ve mi other (ban private citizens. The om arises whether Congrees will make the necessary which ee bundred and ‘uty thousxad dollars, the tame that the Britien have offered, to secure the earnestly recommend it in covernment object. The President will special merenge to Congress, Syren. be communica. to ted a8 soon as there is a quorum ‘Waammcrox, Doo, 27, 1856. The New Treaty—4n Aliiance with Bngiand—Adventage on the Side of Clarmdon—Somehing Behind—The Monroe Doctrine Atandoned— Nicaraguan Affasrs, de., de. An stated by the Hunan before the appearance of the President's message, and subsequent to the execative scesions of the Senate on the new treaty with England, our government bas plonge:! headlong into diplomacy in seed ing ® solution of the great problem of the day, as in. volved In our relations with the West Indies and Central America. The American people will be surprised and in- dignant at the meagre results obtained so far. The whole affair bears the stamp of an unequal treaty, contracted by & government divided and weak at home, with the most powerful anc! compact nation of Rurope. The Foreign of. fice In London had the decided advantage over tho Cabinet at Washington, snd the advantage has been oly. England gets all for i u i if America, This troaty ex ‘Tho entire correspondence tion ie in strong ond ing ieee patriotic and 0 Mr. Ryerett op the same sul med sai honor, and with the ‘The Banta Fe mail arrived at Independence on the 20th Bevt's Fort was attacked by the Kiowa Indians, and but for the interference of the Cheyennes would have been destroyed. The Kiowas gave the mail train much trouble Captain Dodge, agent of the Navajos, had beea taken prisouer by the Apaches. Many Indian deproda- New Orleans papers of Tuesday last are reooived. ‘They contain despatches from Mississippi and Northern Alabama, giving reporis of slave excitements at Jackson and Centon, Misgissippl. Great alarti prevails, and a A fight took place on Christmas day among a number Of Philadelphia oystermen in Patuxent river. One man was killed and buried at Drum Point, Three others were taken ashore wounded. Three boats wore lashed to- Examination of the Supposed Marderers of ‘There was great excitement at the Court House here m Saturday in consequence of the examination of the Begroes who are charged with murdering the Joyce family. Wm. Jcyoe, a brother, proposed that the ne- grees be burned, to which the crowd responded “‘ Aye,’” but they were finally quieted by the Court, and the Regroes remanded to‘prisom. The presumptive evidence ‘against the negroes is strong, but there is nothing direct against them, save the confession of one of their number, Solon H. Tenny, Warden of the State Prison, was stab. bed by a convict named Decatur, this evening, and bas wince died. It is only two weeks agoto-day that a deputy Cane No. 17.—-Beuben L. Long et al., appellants, vs. Jobn O. Fallon. Judge Oampbeil delivered an opiaion affirming the decree of the Circuit Court of Missouri, with costs. ptral Ame’ States to the semi civilised hordes of Dall breeds who now that of this conti- Bent. In short, we recognise role in Central purely and tr re cogn! ee ee Tine ate in re. ard to jt, unless.to settle enmem witbonn the Vatea States entire sovereignty over Sica re. mains for a democratic ad ministration to whig one declined, to its eternal ‘that which a government, and that the show of him ‘was not sincere, but simply the result of « sure for ud Theatres Last Night. BROADWAY THEATRE—FIBELIO. ‘The German Opora Company, lately at Niblo’s Garden, commenced a season at ‘he Broadway theatre last eve- ning, and gave for the frat time in this city, (within the writer’s recollection,) Beethoven’s opera, ‘Fidelio.’ tm Paria last year. The plot is simple. Leonora (Mme. Jchanneer), the wife of Den Meee (Fiaoes, fer), © Spapish State prisoner, is held unlawfully in duress by Pizarro (Welnlioh), the Governor of the prison. Leo- ‘Bora assumes male attire, with the name of Fidelio, and enters the prison as = servant to the porter, whosd daughter, Marceline (Mme. Von Berkel), falls ix Jove with the stranger to assist im ¢igging hie grave, his death having been resolved upon by Don Pizarro, who fears @ Visit from the Minister of State and the consequent dis- covery of bis rascality, Pizarro comes to kill Florestan, when Leonora cefends her husband with her own body, “deepest dupgeon beneath the castle moat.” ‘a of the severely classical school, and would be consi- dered heavy bythe admirers of the flowing meledies of Verdi Bellini, The iostromentation is, however,'very fine, and there are two splendid choruses, whicle we could wait two hours for and then be amply Tepaid for the time. These, with a scena for the soprana and an alr for the tenor—tbe latter full of pathos—make ‘Up the pitces de resistance of the opera. Mme, Jobamnsen, as the heroine, achicved @ veritable suecess in a rdlc which challenges the powers of the greatest artist. She acted with much feeling. apd gave fall expression to tha has been often expreseed. The chorus was well (rained. and the orchestra Dighiy. creditable eo accomplished chef, Mr. Carl Bergmann. The scenery and — were excellent, and the operm was jusiastioally received by & crowded house. ‘The represeptation may be fairly beth man Srivcustionanes wear seme ‘ 3 chutz”’ is announced for Wednesday, ali the re- Davenport played King Jobn; Mr. William Wheatley, Fauleenbridge; Mr. J. B Howe, Hubert; Mrs. E. L. Da- vemport, Constance; M's Kate Reignolds, Prinee Arthur, ‘This excellent cast for the principal characters, together with the armoupcement of new scenery, costumes, &0., &0., drew packed house, and the performance was com- Bletely sat!sfactory to all wh “assisted” before the cur- “Twelfth Night was produced Inst evening at the theatre, Mrs. Barrow pereonating Viola; Mise Jano Coombes, Olivia; Polly Marshall, Maria; and Mr. Barton, of course, as Sir Toby Belch. Mrs. Barrow’s dolivery is Bot equal to her acting in the dle of Viola; but she took very well with the avud‘e: co, and ber impersonation may ‘be comsidered a suecessful one. Miss Jane Coombes has ® peculiar drawing in of the breath at the conclusion of her sentences, which mars the « as alcoa able tendency’ towards the ‘one er Of the other characters, Mr. C. Fisher’s Malodia wan very good, but he romewbat spoiled it by his frantic fipal exit; ‘Mr. Merk Amith’s clown would be excellent if It contained more ot the conrtly fool. The houre was full, the parquet and dress cl! Burton murt, we thirk, cle being crammed. Mr. thes s Nig! Moscat Matrens.—Thalberg gave s concert in Brook- lym Jest bight, assisted by D'Angri, Def Wiborst and Gotiscbalk. Ho gives bie first concert ip New Haven this evening, and goes thence to Boston. (ur Eastero friends have & great treat in store for them. Strakosch is about to take his concert company on a Southern tour, giving his first concert af Philadelphia on Monday, Patt!.Strakosob, Tiberint, Strakorch. Ho has abandoned the idea of giving operate performances hore. ‘The Brooklyn Murder. EXAMINATION OF THE PRIFONER BY PHYSICIANS, AS 10 1119 SANITY—INVEPTIGATION BEFORE CORONER BENNETT AND A JURY—HIS COMMITTAL ON THR CHARGE OF MURDER. Coroner Wynabt K. Bennett, assisted by Ooroser Has- In answer to questions by the physicians Prisoner that be: wee baok, spiritualists, As z gt oH i i ede ie i iti arte I i Ha aH sealtttd | Bd if Yim