The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1857. _ NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPBIETOR, DPrICE H. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STs. AMUSEMENTS THIS SVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Nicnsuso—A Day artex te Weoving. NIBLO'® GARDEN, Brosdway—Eseues Orags—Baiwe Or (Amy Esmoon. BOWFRY THEATRE, Bowery—Kixe Jomv—Taw Two Buganos. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE. Brosdwey, opposite Bond st, PF asorm aris —IN vis inLe Parnon. WALLA OK’? THRATEE, Sresdwey ~P'nvs0) > Pauace His Warba—JONN Howes, LAURA KRENE'S THEATB, @34 Rroadway—fxooxp Leva—Youss Baccnvs. BARNUM'® AMERICAN MUSWUM, Broadway. Aner. eee. ‘Bvening—CivpEmEu.a—Honat GRO. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S: Rab bree og Bread- qway- Ermoriax PeAvoRmisone—Naw Vaan Ou. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, Mrmr ey La GO NAMBOLA |, 585 Broadway—Frmeruas ‘New York, Wednesday, January 7, 1857. ‘Mails for Surope. YEE NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR BUROPE ‘Me Conard steamship Europa, Ospt. Leitch, will leave fala port to day for Liverpool. ‘Tre European meils will close in this city at a quarter pest ten 0 slook this morning. Re Purepean edition ef the Hagan, printed in Freuch: tnd Engliad, will be published at vine o’ciook in the morn- Mg Single sopice, in wrappers, sixpence. @ubscriptions und advertisements for any edition of the aw Yous Km2itp wil) be received at the folowing placer tm Europe: — noe—ie. & Beropenn Express Oo., at King Willem et, lace de la Bourse, te De. do. 9 Chapel street, Yevwaroo:—Joan Hunter, 12 Exchange siroet, Kast, @avae—Am & European Express Oo., 21 Rue Coruoille. ‘Tho contents of the Furoposn edition of the HxRALD +i combine the uews reccived by mail and telegraph at Bhs office during tho previous week, aad up io the hour @f padiication. The News. We are informed from Washington that the gov- ernment are officially advised that Mr. Villiers, brother of Lord Clarendon, has been appointed Mi- mister to the United States, and that be will shortly arrive in this eountry—perhags in the Retribution, the vescel detailed by the British government to eenvey Capt. Hartstein and party to their native tand. This official information confirms the intelli- geuce of theappointment of Mr. Villiers, which ap- peared in the Herap some weeks since. The steamskip North America, from Liverpool for Portland, is in her fourteenth day out. She will bring four days later news. Congress makes but little progress. The Senate yesterday, after choosing Mr. Mason, of Virginia, President pro tempore in place of Mr. Bright—who goes home to look after his political interests— took up the case of Senator Harlan, of Iowa, and adjourned without concluding the debate on the subject. Mr. Harlan will finally no doubt be onsted from his seat. In the House Mr. Boyce gave notice that he should ofr an amendment to the new tariff bill, providing that all articles now subject to twenty per cent duty shall continne to pay that rate, and that tea and cof- tee shall be included in the same schedule. A dis” cussion on the political isenes before the country was opened by Mr. Stephens, of Georgia. Mr. Davis, of Maryland, made a speech in condemnation of the @emocratic and republican parties. He eulogized the American party, and contended that as Mr. Bu- ebanan was ele ted by a minority of the people, the majority condemned both the Kansas-Nebraska act and the Pierce administration. He predi:ted the greatest possible confusion iu the distribution of the spoils. Mr. Cadwailader, of Pennsylvania, respond- ed, and the House adjourned. The Legislature organized yesterday. The nomi nations for officers of the Assembly made in cancus by the repubiicans were confirmed. The Governor's message, which we publish to-day, was read. It g en interesting document. Both houses adjourned withont transacting any business. We have news from Monterey (Northern Mexico) to the 17th, and Brazos Santiago to the 24th ult. At San Luis » new pronunciamiento had been declared against the government by those dissatisfied with Vidaurri’s treaty. Vidaurri, however, remaine} true to bis agreement, and the good efiects of the settlement of the difficulty had already been felt on the frontier. Communication was again established with the capital, confidence was restored, and the prospects of affairs generally were in every way improving The Indians were committing serious depredations along the Upper Rio Grande, on the American side, and there were no troops available to be sent against the marauders. Late accounts from Texas state that the Governor had 4) ned to order out a company of rangers to assist in putting down the Indians in Kerr and Comal counties. An Indianola paper says:—Every steamehip that arrives at our wharf brings full freights- more than double that of last year-——which is an evidence of the increasing trade of Western Texas. A large number of sail vessels from foreign ports have arrived the present season, and dis- ebarged their valuable cargoes, retarning well filled with the staples of our growing State. Emigrants in large numbers are pouring in upon us, and ere mary cars will have lapsed the western portion ‘of our S ate will be populated with industrious and thriving tarmers. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Jadge Raseeil delivered bis first charge to the (rand Jury. This document, which mainly treats of the powers and duties of Grand Juries, is published else- where. Turner and McLaughlin, implicated in the Bill Poole affair at Stanwix Hall, were set at liberty, the forwer giving five hundred dollars and the latter two thousand do.lare bonds. The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, and organized by the appointment of ©. Godfrey Gan ther as chi No other business of importance ‘wee tran: \ meeting of the Board of Engineers and Fore. men of the Fire Department was held last evening for the purpore of taking the necessary measures for the Wuriv Patrick Murtt ho was killed on Mondoy evening last, while in the performance of hire duty e 4 report of the proceedings in our ad- vertising columns. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of abo 00 a 3,000 bales. In some cases an ad vance of (o. was claimed, and quotations given « cordingly. There wae « fair home demand for flour, without, however, changes of moment in prices. ‘There was some export demand for wheat, with rather more doing, while prices favored purchasers, Corn was easier, and ranged at 67c. a 70c. for West ern mixed from store. Pork was unchanged, and the business done was moderate. Salee o! sagars were confined to 200 a 300 hhds., while prices continued firm. Coffee was steady, with sales of 500 bags Rio and 200 bage government Java. The stock of Rio is estimated at 71,570 bags, and packages of all kinds at 07,029. By reference to statements given under another head it will be seen that our im- port: of Cuba tobaéco last year amounted to 54,663 Dales, against 99,806 im 1865, and 37,159 in 1A54. The saice in 1856 amouated to 36,934 bales, against 41.952 in 1 and 38,368 in 1854. Most of the Havana sold was tor fillers in the mannfacture of coger. Va this country wrappers are supplied by our dome tic growth, while the article to fill them for smoking i supplied from Caba. Taking the im- port of Lobmece lust year ending the Sist Decem- ber, at 54.954 bales, and estimating the bales at 150 ibe. cock, will give 5,240,100 ibe, which at the Jow average price of 26 cents per lb., will give $1,310,025, The tyne amount of value was probably not less than $1,500,000, to which, if we add over $2,000,000 worth of segars, will show that we are geod customers of Spain for smoking material aa well as for sugar and molasses. Freighta were with- out change of moment in rates. ‘The Governor's Message. We lay before our readers this morning Gov. King’s maiden message. It is a lengthy docu- ment, and there are parts of it which it is gratifying to read. Indeed, with the exception of the last few paragraphs, the whole of it is creditable, So far as we are concerned, the important topics of the message are the canal gestion, the city charter, and the Kansas matter. ‘To the former we have already wade allusion. At the time the last loan was voted for by the people, we warned the voters that it would not enflice for the enlargement of the canals; that it would be sqnandered, and that tke politicians would be back in @ very short while, wanting more money. Our remarks elicited much severity of comment from the Seward whig and hard shell organs; the 7rilune, we remember, was yery violent against those who qnestioned the sufficiency of the sum demanded, or the pro- priety of its levy. Sooner than was expected, oar forebodings have been veritied ; the canals are not completed, the money ie gone, and two millions and a half more are asked for, if we do not desire the money already spent to be unpro- ductive. Only two millions and a half, say the canal men, give us two miltions and a half, and the canals will pay all the debts and expenses of the State. We have not the least idea of anything of the kind. We fee} satisfied that the canals are like that bottomless tub, which the fifty ladies of classic fame atoned for their sins by vainly striv- ing to fill; they will never be so far fioished as to dispense with help from the State; they will never pay any considerable portioa of the ex- penses of the State government. At the same time, we suppose they must have the two mil- lions and a half they want: and in this belief, we are inclined to agree with Governor King that a State tax is the fairest and most satisfac- tory way of raising the money. But this severe measure, which will press nousually on some citizens of the State, ought not to be adopted alone. It should be accompanied by a revival of railroad tolis, so as to place the canals, which cost us sO much, at least on an eqnal footing with their rivals in business. Were the Legisla- ture constituted of men ef independent and pa- triotic views, it might be taken for granted that this very necessary measare would be adopted. As it is, there is reason to fear that the great railroad monopolies have bought up a sufficient umber of members to defeat any endeavor that may be made to compel them to bear their proper share of the burdens of society. With regard to the city, the Governor administers a sly rebuke to those partisans ef his who want to transfer the government to Albany. He declines to indicate the defects he sees in the city charter, believing that that can be best done by the city delegation. That there are defects, he thinks no one can doubt; but the remedy does not lie with him. We trust that the Legislature will have the good sense to adopt the views of the Governor on this bead, and will not insist on knowing more about usand caring more for us than we do for ourselves. Finally, that part of the message which refers to Kansas isin very bad taste. The Governor tries to excuse himself by pleading the example of the President; but surely Mr. King has set up for him: higber model than poor Pierce. Mr Pierce, seeing himself utterly ruined, politically and morally, and having too little gentlemaaly feeling to rise above the rancor of a partisan, might weil devote bis lnst message to an outpour ing of spite against bis political opponeats: but we expcet better things of the Governor of New York. The people ot this State have no manner of concern with Kap:as. They have uo right to meddle with Kansas institutions. They have no t to speak, or act, or move in a way to influ- ence Kansas affairs. They are bound, in hono: in good fellowship, and in candor, to leave th: people of Kansas to choose themselves such such systems of labor, and such other institutions as they may choose; and when the Kansas men have chosen them, they are bound to defend and protect them in their enjoyment, Further than this, the people of New York, coliectively and a a commonwealth, have no right to open thei mouth; and when their Governor does it for them, he deserves to be rapped on the knuckles, Such trash may do very well in the altitude of Worcester, Mass, or in the torrid swamps of Alaboma, or Mississippi; but it is simply ridicu- lous here; and, so far as it goes, tends to shake the growing belief that Governor Jobn A. King bas independence enough to govern without dic- tation from bis party. Tne Wastixcton Lonny Onoans axp THE Henain--The Washington Union and its attend- ing little Sancho, the Evening Ster, publish the filthy personalities of Thurlow Weed's Albany Journal againet the editor of the New York Herat with undisguised satisfaction. “ Birds of a feather,” they “ flock together.” The Al- bany man and his Washington echoes are but co- laborers in the rame general lobby business of plucking the public goose. The Washington Union and its little tender, the Star, subsist upon public plunder. The idva with them of pub- liching a newspaper for the reading community f« lut a pretence. As there are lobby agente in the House professedly newspaper reporters, so these Washington newspapers are but the conve- arb of lobby jobbers and spoilsmen for ig the public plunder. The Union is buta an. the Stor is but a lobby satellite, and itis quite natural that they should join in the snap ping and barking of the big chaps of the lobby against the audacious intruder who walks io among them and laye about him, right and left like a policeman at an Irish wake. This lobby plundering in the winter society at Washington, we must also remember, is looked upon ae a highly respectable business, from the immense number of eminent outside ex-members of Congress, «x: politicians, ex-lawyers, ex-parsons, and charming fast women engaged in it. In ad- dition to these, the Kitchen Cabinet takes a band in the game very frequently, and on very big figures; and we have been told a hundred times that the private Secretary of the President is an active confederate among the stoukjobbers, organ grinders, gamblers, and others concerned in many of the fattest operations of the lobby. Where thus the adminietration itself is tainted with the corruptions of the lobby, what elee can we expect from its tondies and organs, whether at Albany or Washington, bat their most spiteful and their dirtiest abuse. Never mind! We hope yet to get them before an investigating committee, which will reveal to the public the exact point where the shoe pinches. Let them look sharp, for the country will have that committee, Proposed Munictpal Reforms—The Last New (Charter. ‘We extract from ene of our cotemporaries érafta of a new city charter, a police law, and a registry law, which will be presented to the Le- gitlature during the present session. The doca- ments will be found in another part of the paper. They proceed from the pen of Mr. Joseph Blunt: who has figured occasionally in politica witheut much suecess; but that is of no great consequence in thiscennection Mr. Blunt bas given us a char- ter which contains many good points. Jmprimis: The Board of Councilmen is reduced from sixty to twenty-two members, one from each ward, This is good. The Board ef Councilmen is too large, too noisy, too ineffective, too clumsy. The per centage of stupidity would be materially diminished by the reduction of the number of members. The Board has the same legislative powers as at present. The Board of Aldermen, constituted as at present, has power to confirm or reject nominations made by the Mayor, Two- thirds of all the Aldermen elected ean remove any officer appointed by the Mayor. The Execn- tive power is vested in the Mayor and heads of departments by him appointed. The executive departments are these of Finance, with a Comp- troller, Collector of the City Revenue, and Cham- berlain; of Streets, for the opening, laying out, widening, and so forth, of the public highways, with a Superintendent; of Water, with the Cro- ton Board constituted as at present; of the City Inepector, whose duty i: is to see that the streets are cleaned, lighted, %e., &c.; of the Almshouse, with the Governors elected as at present, but their appropriations must be submitted to a commission, to be composed of the Mayor, Re- cerder, Comptroller, Presidents of the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen. If they should de- cline to sanction the appropriations, 2 two-thirds vote of ail the Governors is necestary to carry it to the Supervisors. Here we would have an amendment or two to Mr. Blunt's charter. The Board of Almshouse Governors should be abolished altogether, and a department ef the City Institutions organized in its place, with one responsible head, appointed by the Mayor in the same manner as the other heads of departments. The Governors are irresponsi- ble, unpaid officers, who do nothing bat talk, quarrel, drink wine and eat dinners on the island. The institutions should be under the charge of a working, energetic, responsible officer. The Fire Department should be organized in the same manner as the other departments, and its head appointed in the eame way. The organization of the Fire Department is the same now as it was when the city had only forty or fifty thousand inhabitants ; the system is altogether unsuited to the requirements of the metropolis; it is barbarous and far behind that of any civilized city of any consequence in the world—Philadelphia alone excepted. The Fire Department is now brought into disrepute by being a shelter and a screen for half the rowdies and vagabonds in the city. It should be as much under the control of the Chief Magistrate of the city as the Finance or Street Departments. The plan of giving the Mayor the appoint- ment of all the heads of departments has been often advocated in these columns, and of course has our hearty approval. It is in accordance with the dictates of sound policy and common sense, These are the important points in the charter. Further than this, it makes a few changes in- tended to simplify the detail of municipal gov- ernment, and for that deserves commendation It might, and probably will be, made more simple, and will work all the better for it. The new police law is important. It provides that all matters connected with the police in New York and Brooklyn shall be directed by five commissioners, one of which shall be a resi- dent of the last named city. These commission- es shall be appointed by the Governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Mayors of New York and Brook- lyn shall have the power to suspend policemen for misconduct, and report them for trial and punishment at the next meeting of the com- mission. This plan somewhat resembles that of London and Paris, where the head of the State, not the city, appoints the police. Ittakes away some powers from the Mayor, but gives him the privilege of suspension, as a check on the men ‘The proposition will be fully discussed hereafter. The registry law will do well enough, but the publication ina daily newspaper of the names ond residences of seventy thousand voters is an absurdity. No newspaper could do it, and it would be only making an outside job for some pet journal of the Common Council for the time being. There is no good ground for objecting tu the trial of a registry law, and it might turn out a good thing. We have thus given a fair statement of the leading points in Mr. Blunt's scheme. It bas some excellent suggestions, and is good as far as it goes. Of course it will he fully analyzed by the journals and discussed in the Legislature. We are willing to ayerlook some minor defects to attain the grand result—a city government which will be a government in fact. If we can get this by the charter above referred to, althongh it does not altogether meet our views it shall have our voice, If it should be adopted there would he a new municipal election in April and a grand clearing out of all the departments on May day, New Prase or te Cenax Stave Trape We publish today a very curious plan for civilizing Africa and supylyi Caba with laborers, which bas been proposed to the Spanisa | government by Senor Meana, in Havana. Our | correspondents in that city inform ns that this ial favor there; plan is rapidly growing in off but we leara from other quarters that the native Cubans in the Board of Improvements of Havana are strongly opposed to it, on the ground that it ie nothing more than a legal revival of the «lave trade, and will tend still further to increase the numerical preponderance of the negroes, and in volve a great future danger fer society in Cuba, The plan is cimply an offshoot of the old aboli- tioniet measure of replacing negro slaves with Indian coolies, which has since relapsed into the present profitable practice of importing Chinese apprentices to the sugar growing fields of the tropics. Senor Meana’s plan is combined with great skill, and would effectually displace the slave trade on the coast of Africa, if adopted. The island of Fernando Po is situated in the Gulf of Guinea, abont thirty miles from old Calabar the great seat of the slave trade in former timer Calabar is one of the many month of the river Niger, and possesses many advantages for keep: ing up the supply of voluntary apprentices after | all the inhabitants of Fernando Po shall have been transported. Thie plan ie now under cou- sideration by the Spanish government, and it is argued that its adoption will materially reduce the prige of negroes in Cuba. War Berwess Tae ADMINISTRATION AND Lizv- | largest portion of our supplies come, give for TENANT Genweat Scorr.—One of our Washing- ton correspondents, whoee letter will be found in another place, gives us some interesting particu- lars of the quarrel now going on at Washington between poor Pierce’s pitifal administration and that gallant veteran, Lieutenant General Scott. When we say that the matter in dispute is only a few thousand dollare extra pay, te which General Scott is entitled, the meanness of the thing will be apparent to all. Further, a plot has been contrived to annoy the old hero by endeavoring to show that when commanding in Mexico he charged two and a half per centum upon all the government moneys that passed through his hands. This is intended to put General Scott in a bed position before the country, and is a mise- rable attempt to steal his well earned laurels as one of the greatest captains of the age. It will not answer the purpose of its projectors. If Gen. Scott did receive a per centage on the moneys, we have no doubt that he received it justly, and that he has precedents for it. He is a mo. of honor and probity-—above reproach, an‘, we have no doubt, that he saved to the government more than twenty per centum ef the funds in his charge. General Scott has conquered all the enemies of his country, avd also conquered his enemies at home in the Polk administration. He will yet ome out victorious in the present contest. Look at the position. The President of the United States, by the aid of some of the Sena- tors and the revolutionary bill, will receive five thousand dollars—not for his own, but for his father’s services—while at the eame time he is endeavoring to prevent a war-worn veteran from obtaining what is his own. It seems hardly possible that any man sitting in the chair of Washington could stoop to such unparalleled meanness. The people of the Unit- ed States will be sorry that even Franklin Pierce could be guilty of such abasement. With regard to General Scott, he has indeed learned something about the proverbial ingratitude of republics. He has lived to see Wellington and Pelissier loaded with wealth and honor, and he has even seen unsuccessful generals rewarded, while his own country, in the service of which he has passed his whole life, always a conqneror, has slighted his claims and refused him the few dol- lars which would have released him from all embarrassments and smoothed his downward course in the pathway of life. We lack words strong enough to express our unmitigated con- tempt for the administration which could be guilty of such despicable meanness. Wo arr tur Lorny AGents ?—We publish in apother column a singular article from the Jowa State Gazette, on the subject of the corruptions of the lobby at Washington. The writer of this ar- ticle, on evidence which we are not favored with, comes to the conclusion that Mr. Horace Greeley, of the New York 7ribune, became the lobby agent of the Des Moines Navigation Com- pany during the last session of Congress, and re- ceived for his services the sum of one thousand dollars. It is pretended that the facts have been elicited by an investigation into the affairs of the Company, which is now being prosecuted It need hardly be added, that Mr. Horace Greeley has the same right to act as lobby agent, and receive pay for bis services as any other in- dividual. Still, it may be questioned whether, if Mr. Greeley were known as a lobby agent, the public would place the same reliance in letters from Washington signed “H. G.,” as they might do were he merely known as the editor of the Tribune. This, of course, must have occurred to Mr. Greeley long since. We are therefore grati- fied to be able to afford him an opportunity of denying and disproving the assertions which are made by this obscure paper in Iowa. Orerratic Rerorms.—Mr. Strakosch intends to introduce some financial reforms into operatic management, which will make a little breeze in the newspaper world. He intends to publishhis a | vertisements in three journals ouly—the Herat and two others having the largest daily circula- tion. He will not advertise in any of the Wall street or Sunday papers. This is a sensjhle reform, as the three journals are the only page § which any place of amusement needs to advertise in, the others having no circulation worth men- tioning. Mr. Strakosch will undoubtedly get some strong left-handed puffs, especially from the Sunday papers, but these he expects will do him good. He also intends to carry out his idea of stopping all the leaks about the Opera, through which 60 much money has run away, and to take down the artisis’ salaries a peg or two. In this way Mr. Strakosch may succeed in making the Opera pay: and if he does that, we advise Mr. Buchanan to appoint him Secretary of the Treasury, for aman who could make the Italian Opera profitable is equal to any post in the world of finance. He might even succeed iu pulling vp some of the broken down railways. Tur Dety ox Svaan.—Our blanket cotempo- rary of Wall street, in its new born zeal as a protectionist, is disposed to cavil at our esti- mate of the amount of the sugar tax, and goes deeply into an array of figures to endeavor to prove that we were in the wrong in estimating the amount of protection on that article, “ at present prices,” at two cents per pound. To do this it skilfully evades the point of our argu- ment, which was based upon the present exces sive price of sugar, and the od valorem duty of thirty per cent, and quotes the importatious for the fiscal year which ended on the 30th of June last. This proceeding on the part of the Journal of Commerce is in strict compliance with the rules of the logicians, which recommend the student to ignore any of bis adversary’s points that he cau- not meet. In the returns cited by the Jowrngl of Commerce, one half only of the present year is included, while the past Six months during which the import has been very large, and at higher prices than in the be- ginning of the year, are completely set aside. Some idea may be formed of the increased amount of our importations of sugar from the returns of the New York Custom House, lately published, which give the amount at this port alone for the year ending 31st of December, 1856, at $7,840,046, and for that ending on the Slt ultimo, at $14,585,965, while in Boston it is $2,528,770, and 319,043 for the same terms respectively. The increase of importations bears | a much larger ratio in many other ports which | had been accustomed to receive the greater por- | tion of their supplies from Louisiana, So much | for the value of the eugars imported. | It deems the rate of duty, which we set down at two cents a pound, as far too high, and says that | at the time when it makes up its estimate it was \ “a little jess than one and a quarter cents.” We | Hated that our estimate was based on present ; prices, Now the Iatest quotations of sugar in the Yovana mabet, trom whenge by far th inferior to fair browns 12 to 14 rials per arrobe. An invoice of sugar purchased there at 12 rials, the price of inferior browns, will pay a duty in this country amounting to very nearly two and a quarter cents per pound, while on good browns, whieh are quoted at 16 rials, it will amount to more than two and three-quarter cents per pound. We have not space to give our slow cotemporary all the figures here, but if it wishes it we will send them to it in a note, or it can apply to some of its South street friends, The Journal admits that the production of sugar is less than the con- sumption, and that the consumer has to pay all the cost of production and subsequent charges on it. That is precisely the point we assumed. We hope our statistical friend will look a little closer 0 its figures another time, for really we cannot always undertake to post up our commercial ourpals upon matters that they should be sup- pored to understand. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Meeting of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Hangwsevrs, Jan. 6, 1857. The Cs apaiet ‘met this morning and elected J. 8. Getz ime & Sonate met this afternoon, David Taggart, repub- lican, was elected Speaker on the first baniot, bv a vote of 18to15. Mr. Hammersley was re-clected Clerc “Maal. mousiy. A Dill was introduced relative to contemm , court, for the purpose of effecting the release of General Small, who bas been confined since June last for contempt of the Supreme Court. The Massachusetts Legislature. Boston, Jan. 6, 1857. The Massachusetts Legis!ature moets to morrow, The republican Senators in caucus this evening nominated George W, Upbam, of Salem, for President, and Peter L. Cox, of Lynn, for Clerk. The republican members of the House in caucus nominated Charles A. Phelps, of Boston, for Speaker, and William Stone, of Springfield, for Clerk. Meeting of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, Paovivayce, Jan. 6, 1857, ‘The General Assembly of Rhode Island met to-day, aad aqnorum being present in both houses they proceeded to business, Ald for General Walker. Bavrimons, Jan. 6, 1857. Col. Titus and his Kansas company did not arrive at New Orlesne in time to proceed to Nicaragua in the steam- sbip Texas, Burning of the Vermont Capitol Building. Mowrrauma, Vt., Jan. 6—8 P. M. The Vermont capitol building is now on fire, with no hope of saving the entire edifice from destruction. The capacious dome is enveloped in flames, and the fire is rapidly spreading to all parts of the building. Tne origin of the fire ig laid to some defect in the heating apparatus. Disastrous Fire at Troy. Troy, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1857. A fire broke out at balf-past 12 o’cleck last night in the store No. 158 River street, occupied by B, Hatoh, hatter. ‘The fire from thence extended to six adjoining stores, south to the corner of Congress street; also burning four stores on Congress street, making ten stores. They were occupied as follows:—B. Hatch, hatter; Mrs. Dickie, mil- linery; D. E. Barnes, grocer; Mrs. Whyland, millinery; Mr. Coleman, clothing; J. 8. Toby & Co., do.; P. Bonio- con, do.; Mr. Dolon, do.; L. Kirchner, boots and shoos; J, Wyatt & Sons, mourning and fancy goods. The build. ings were owned by George Vail, sq. Loss not ascer- tained, Court of Appeals. Anany, Jan. 6, 1867, ‘The great North American Trost case is now on argu- ment in the Court of Apprals, A preliminary question éf jurisdiction was under discussion when the Court ad. ourned. ‘The Murderer of Mr. Beadle, &c. ALpANy, Jan. 6, 1857. Allen, who bas been under examination at Auburn for some days past, for the murder of Mr. Beadle, was to-day commitied for trial. A boy was run over last night, near the engine house of the Hudson Rivor Railroad, at Greenbush, by the ex- preas train, and killed, ‘The night express train of the Hudson River Railroad, dve here from New York at 10 o’clock last evening. ar- rived between 6 and 6 this morning. It was delayed by a freight train being off the track at Coxsackie, Affaire in Boston, Bostox, Jan. 6, 1857. Judge Meteaif thie afternoon pronounced sentence on Wine low Fddy, for the murder of his wite, Eddy is to bo confined tn Houre of Correction for one year, aad ‘then to be hanged on such day as the Governor may ap- point, ‘Thagjores, Nos. 78, 80 and 82 Waehington stree!, wore badly gamaged by fire carly this morning, The eullerers are James French & Co., boox publishers; the Mesara. Skinner, tailors, and Hamblin & Oo., furnishing goods. They were mostly insured. Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Bowron, Jan, 6, 1867. ‘The following are the footings of our bank statement for tbe past week compared with the exhibit of the week ‘Am’t due from other banks. Amount due to other banks, § Deposits: 000 6,600 Cirowlation 7,282,000 7,816,000 Death of Major Dutton, U. 8. A. Puraverrma, Jan, 6, 1967. Major Dutton, United States Army, died to day, of ery- sipelas, at the La Pierre Huse. He bad charge at Fort Miflin, on the Delaware river. Loss ot the Ship Prince de Joinville, ° Bavrmons, Jan. 6, 1857. ‘The Norfolk papers report the rumored loss of the ship Prince de Joinville, of that port, with all on board, Thalberg tn Providence. Provipence, Jan. 6, 1857. Thatberg’s firet concert this evening at Howard Hall war the most fully and fashionably attended of any given in this clty since that of Jenny Lind, The Marton at Charteston. Cnantaeton, Jan. 6, 1887. The steamer Marion, from New York, arrived heres) daylight th!s morning ‘The telegraph reports bigh winds and snow storms th's forenoon at Halifax and Yarmouth, N. &., Sackville, Charlertown, St John, and Shediac At Calais, Me, thore were indications of a snow storm. [tis very cold at all Poort aR Avnaxy, Jan, 6, 1867, ‘The weather hore is very stormy, and at eight o'clock this evening the thermometer ee two degroos be- low zero. ™M PHILADELPHIA STOOK BOARD. The brokers adjourned on wccowst Pot the death of S. N Lewis, haq. Penveylvenia 5 4436; Long inland Failrond, 19°, ;') i New Oni rans, Jan. 6, 4. firm: sales 20,000 baios. Flour steady, at $7. «red $1 60, Mixed corn 660. Pork buoyant, at $15 $19; holders demand an advance. Bieriing exebange 7 per cent pre © , Jan, 6, 1867. Cotton firm. Sales to-day 1,80 ‘Tre Naw Caer —The slang phrase, “nots red cent,’” must shortly become obsolete, for the new cent, of which we have a epecimen, is white as ailver, Tt is made chief ly from nickel, and js about equal im ctroumference and woight to the present half cent, and te thicker than that cotp, It bears on its face a flying eagle, with the date of ite inne, and on the obverse a wreath of maize, en- circling the words “One Cent.” It bas no ring, and tsa great Improvement on the prosent cota. Will Congress Authorize (be Insue vi the now cenit Our Philadelphia Correspondence. Pamapmiraia, Jan, 64} P. M, Im the Criminal Court this morning, in the case of ‘West, for the murder of his wife, the prisoner was foun? | guilty of murder in the fire: degree, aud in all probabili- ty will forfeit his life for the crime, ‘The weather ts extremely cold, and there is mush float. ing ico here, bag of? Spe and steam tugs Keep the~ 1 0] i Gegeel com ie Mr wart snk saeneal Weigh ent ane saxined a fow days ago from Liverpool, had a very” peed pe of being liet, 19 consequence of pod Toten Et boat on ine Five Fathom The Inte oat drifted from ber moorines, and has not bees pda or substituted. The beaving of the lead saved: the ship Westmoreland and « valuable aluable carge, Our Pittsbarg Correspondence, Pirrawora, Jan. 3, 1867, Trip to Kansas— Wh» v t @o Into the Oatrine! ?—The Tali Hereabuuts, &c., Bc. Ag an old reader, anc sometime correspondent? of yours, | occasionally, when o7 a jaunt as at present, take. the lberty of chatting with Mrs. Grundy through your world famous speaking trumpet, the Haratp, and ye know me by my ecrawl. The privilege, I’m sure, wil! not be denied, more especially as 1 am now en rouie (I be- er jat’s the modern affectation) for that political Pan- dora’s box, Kansas, and may now and again jot you some- thing of interest or entertainment for the good old lady, Mrs. G, While seated by a ‘ses coal fire’’ in this western - smokopolis of Pennsylvania, with the thermometer at zero, the rivers at zero, and by consequence, commerce the pede the only current thing being political specula- }, rumors, and opinions as to the favorite son’s future Cabinet T deem {t not unimportant to say mgd Richmond bas upon tbe fleid, ured by nent Pennsylvania politicians for the oltice of , OF Postmaster General whom tt is said wide ft Mr. Buchanan; not tho east curious phase of this turn of the kaleido- none Deing the fact tbat be is a Mary I ie Morning Union wad the Daily Post of ‘this 7 have Doth mado significans aliusions tbat way. This, in oon. nection with wha: I beard while in Lancaster, semi-au- thoritatively, (eads me to think that Judge John Thomson Mason, of Maryland, the cenileman alluded to, stande. pow in the ise of promotion if Pennsylvania influence has aught to do in the matter. Why it should be thrown in favor of agentier from Maryland taxes the ingenu!- Ba uniess, indeed, ss it has been whis eA Bu- an is anxious toconciliate tre entire ad bring back to the fold this wandering Soubern Stat * and at the same time, while gratifying bis personal inclinations in behalf of a pergonal friend, who stond firm in the midst of defection, keep bis Cabinet free from extremists, as it is well known that Mr. Mason, now on the Supreme Beach of his pastve State, is not a secessionist. Wheatland whis- 8 arrange th the ¢ Capinet us But, aroint thee, politics’ ‘up my ears at tbe sound of hound and horn, and once ‘et, itike an ‘old hunter, I prick on the scent run heedless. But pardon—I not again thus offend. This temple of Mammon grows yearly richer and blacker, and its appropriately sulpurous incense arises daily more and more densely. ie sone penenieny, en. tertaimed, could do no less than servitors their demands—money! And money they have. I kaoow no- city of equal population where the wealth is more sub- eo absolute, tangible representative of actual ‘Since my last visit, some flye years ago, I perceive a frowing taate for the dulci as well as the utile—an emerg- Ing from mesermaking to the making money money agreeable; itis more particularly apparent to traveller in the street architecture, which is fast losing its store-box monotony and assu individuality. Pourical FEenivaus.—The present season promises to be a lively one among the politicians, if we may judge from the preparations which they are making for the ce- Dration of their different anpiversaries. The Society of Tammany will commemorate the bati:.of New Orleans by a grand annual ball and fesitval at the ola Wigwam, on Thureday evening, January 8, on which occasion the ball room will be decorated with a large and magnif- cent painting of the battle, and emblematic banners and flags of all nations. This wi'l be the great fostival of the season, and will be attended by the choice spirits of the democracy and a perfect galaxy of female beauty and grace. Then, on the evening of Monday, the 12th \matant, we are to have the grand Presidential ball of the Young Men’s Democratic Union Club, In honor of the election of James Buchanan and John C. Breckin- idge. Those who want to see how well politicians can dance and epjoy themselves generally have a fine oppor- tunity of gratilying their curiosity. Lacrcar ny THe SurcoN or tie Kane Exrgprrios.— Dr. Hayes, who accompanied Dr. Kane to the Arctic re- sions as surgeon to the expedition, recently read @ paper" before the Philadelphia Historical Society, The Philadel- pbia jov.nals say that the paper was exceedingly inte- esting, the Doctor having the most staphic descriptive powers and the richest store of material to work upon. A lecture of this kind is exceedingly valuable, conveying real instruction and intensely interesting narrative at the same time. We should be glad to hear Doctor Hayes in Now York. Ax Ovsrer Horse Minuionams anovt 10 Revs —A Grawp Sorex To Be Gives —A New York correspondent of the Springfleld Republican makes the following aa- ang tears ayaa be our old friend, who has not oad and einity, and ie ios will be 06 seriously felt. Belore he ip, be intends giving a grand “blow one Drie novelas to which entertainment his old are to be invited. ‘The Balm of a Thousand Flowers. SUPERIOR COURT—SPROIAL TERM. Before Hon. Judge Hoffman. Jan. 6.— Wm, Fetridge vs. Marvin J. Merchant.—An in- junction was granted some time since restraining the de- fondant from counterfeiting the cosmetic known as the Baim of # Thousand Flowers by selling an article called the Balm of X Thousand Flowers, but which was designed to induce the public that it is the patented cosmetic of plaintiff, The present motion s made on the part of the am Marxs ror Punta Anenas, La Unton, AcAgoRTA, AND SAN Jost DE GUATEMALA, (ORNTRAL AMERICA requested to give notioe that « manthly mail joreal- ter be made up at the Now York and New Orleans Post offices tor Pui Yosnoy La Union, Acajuita, and ce Guatemala, mf Central ‘America,)’ for despatsh California steamers of the 6th of each js ‘Said mail on ite arrive! nama, will be immodiately der patched thonoe tion by the steamship Columbus, belonging to ma Railroad Company, ee ‘vensol wil eall tween Panama and thore por: ‘The single rate Staten postage te ten nu wt woe the ing office is under 2,600 miles, and t conte when the {s Over 2,600 miles; pre- compu! 0 —————s Tuat Prize Frant.—The prize fight we referred to yesterday came off, according 60 Arrangement, during the day. The pet of buflere, men, sportors, bottle holders and bisexeusrds g , wont to a point sf FY i cy Fe big on Ulinn’s creek, just over the Del re line, and after forming tb the two planting the eiakee and a Metently e jargon to bow dune Sanith “put ia in bis very and of how Cal; “let go bis fives,” &o, Suillco it to say that at the second pd Monte’ of Smith, cieimed’ “foul” wed foal Personal Inteiligence. Fon. John Appleton, of Maine, a r ‘Washington. ‘enntylranian sayr —We opt y regres bare that Dr. are, The ender tigable ox- deepty ri lorer. wi fame fills the civilized world, is now ly! Tote ‘Nat Havane, His many friends and admirers wil ceeply regret to learn that his health#is in @ critical con. dition, and sincerely hope that 3 may yet recover and live to erjoy the rich harvest of fame and honor he hae 80 fairly won. the meamalip Kasheitie—Mise © W From ¢ the steamel vite — gee wep omar i Jndah, "Die Heaine, J Masieman, F Daweon, © Holman, Massay Floyde, Master { Baekmai, and 22,n the steerage, From Saran. Ja ibe the steamship Alabama A T Goxdwin, Bi aayton,| tm Mey Marion, G Srown, 8 Pratt, W Mi Robinson Hekeor, Mea J Reyer, } Milsom an Indy, AW Martin, AB Robivson, and 28 in tne steerage. Nonrn Riven—The Hndson river is open ae far Bp ae Cold Spring. Betweon Ooid Spring and (arrytowa large masses of joe wire floating, from many to two han. dred in length, some of which were piled up Me 4 } Soot aboye the level of the river,—Aibany Argur, Jun.