The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1857, Page 4

t NEW YORK HERALD. | BENNETT, BrOR, JAMES GORDON QF NASSAU AND FULTON STS Volume XXMIE. N eM King Lean-An BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway Owner oF inte MiBLO'W GARDEN, Brosaway—Eagusm Orena~Mant Pama BOWERY TERATRE, Bowery— Jous BORN 10 Goon Lv BURTON SNE ATAY, Broadway. oovosite Bond et Bax Wooo axp sur Wourp Nor -0on Wire WALLACK'S THRATSE ‘rosdway-Tue Catoue— nw Mhawarna—Weo's My He THEATRE, 624 Brosdway~Rammas Acouus, LAUBA FESNE'S sme Rial be) 0UNG SARNUM'R AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway soon—Doan MAN OF MaNceESTER. Byening— Jinn! ‘Tee Seennt 480. CHMISTY AND WOO! way Reh OFAN PRRPORM AN: S MINSTREL’, 444 Broad- w YEAR CALLS, BUCKLES'S SERPNADERS Womens: — DONE Juan. , S85 Brosdway- ermoriaN THIS EVENING BROADWAY THEACRE, Broadway—Granp Sicaep Sei ncr CONCERT BY THE GeRMAN Orena Ti oure, BUCK L FY Beer BY Dor ALL Ws I Hrosdway-GRawp ®acemp Com. D ASD THE BUORTEY®. New York, Sanday, January U1, 1857. Pae News. Neither the steamer Ericsson nor the Asia, now IE | other ¢ otion of the District Attorney,t> answer aulting policemen. There are prison, om m the ndiv nony in the case of Lient. Updegraff, of tiled by court wartial in this city upon tary offenoes, was closed yesterday. The re-aseemble on Monday. st Van Limbourg bas teen appointed Min- ister to the United States by the Dutch government, in place of Mr. Dubois, transferred to Copenhagen. Mr. Van Limbourg was lately Minisier at Lisbon. Gor. Reeder, backed by the free State meu of Kan- eas, again contests Gen. Whitfleld’s right to sit in the House of Representatives as delegate from Kansas. A petition setting forth his claims was presented in the House yesterday. It is believed that Gor. Reeder will fail in this attempt. ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday, as deal- rs were wailing for later European news. The sles were confined to a few hundred bales at steady prices. r was firmer, with fair sales, part on peculation. Wheat was quiet, and prices withoat change of moment. Corn was firmly held, but no sales of consequence transpired. Sales of grain were checked by the impossibility of delivering it to purcbasers on account of the ice, end especially from the Atlantic Docks. The export demand was also light, on account of reduced ship room. Pork was steady, at $20 for new mess. Old was sold at $19 31 a $1) 87, and prime at $17. $17 25. Sugars advanced about 4c. per lb. with a fair amount of sales. Coflee was quiet, while prices were quite steady. Vessels were scarce and freights firm, es- pecially for grain, cotton and heavy goods to Liver- pool, while eogugements were moderate. due at this port from Liverpool, had been tele The Washington Lobby Spotlsmen—An In- graphed up to a late hour last night. It will be seen by our despatches from Washington that a comme le alacrity has been displayed with reference to the investigation of the charges of corruption preferred in the House of Representa- tives on Friday last. The following named gentle- men constitate the committee appointed yesterday by Speaker Banks:— nr New York. repubtioan. t Soush Caroline, dcwmoorat, c yiaod, American. s, repuducan Oras ical point of view merely the composition of the committece is unexceptionable. The com nized without delay, and appointed a3 , in order that recorded and place . Tt is stated that the neces- sary steps will be trken to ensure the attendance of wirnesses, even it a special act of Congress should be required to effect so indispensable an object. It is also understood that the committee wil! be empower- ea to take cognizance of and investigate acts of cor- ruption that may have taken place at any time from the vo acement of the present Congress down to the present moment. Unquestionably it is due to the dignity of the Houve that th. course suggested should ‘De pursued. There should be a thorough overhauling, and a complete regencration before the advent of the new administration. There is abundance of the before the mute for the committee to work up. his movement upon the lobby, and the inside tools of those ch ters d'industrie, appears to have germi- nated in er localities than that ovcupied by Mr. Ke'sey, as is proved by the letter of corres- pondent riven in another column. The leiter re- ferred to was writien on the Sth inst., the day pre- yious to the one on which this subject was broached im the House, and it is therein stated that a resolu on for the appointment of a committee to investi gate the ubures of the lobby had been prepared, and tha. Hen. Geo. W. Jones, of Tennessee, would pat the ball in motion. Mr. lsey, however, was drst in the ficld, and the investigution which the Herat has inaugurated against the spoilmen and place hunters (pat infest the purlieus of the Capitol is ow In the bands of the committee of wich he is the bead. The City Inspector reports 425 deaths during the past week —a decreve of tour as cotopared with the return of the week previ arlet fever is somewhat on the rease, and it pr ls with more or Jess virulence in al! the Atlantic cities. The fol owing is a comparison of the number of deaths during the past two weeks:— Ke Mon. Women. Boyt. Girls, Total Week ening Jan. 3..... 66 87 162 130 4a Week ending Jan, 10.... 75 (6 = 1001054 Among the principal causes of death were the following:— : K ending Week ening 3 dan. te ba 31 & 7 uv 24 . ott ly There were also 12 deaths of bronchitis f con: gestion of the brain, 6 of inflammation of the brain, isease of the Leart, 11 ot congestion of the f apoplexy, 11 prema‘are jolent causes m birth « tea ye Of the tive orgene 5% ah yenera! fevers ‘Tota! “ . “0 a The numbe exths, compared with the corres ponding weeks of 1555 and 1556, was as foilows:— Work ot A Wer om . or] a) eee 4 Week entire 1 able give natives ireland, 23 of Germany, and xc table shows the temperature of the wring the past week, the range of the the variation of the wind currents, and ~atber at three periods daring each {.,and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.i— oP ey > P= r & ‘ Tie t £ Ps : i waMarns afvernoon snow nooo clear. vernoon clear. aflernoon clear; night very Did * Gednerday——Morning aed aflernoon clear and cold; wi caredep-—Morsing and afternoon clear and cold; wighs wery cold Frioay —Morning and afternoon c' sy —Morming apd afternoon snow. cewhere we publish, copied trom a Guatemala journal, a bref history of filibustering enterprises, ancient ond wodern, in Spanish America. Of course Gen. Walker is placed npon the same “ plat. o# thet ecoupied by the buccaneering cut- It form throets of the good old times of “ Queen Bess.” is wo interessng paper, however, but like all his tories, is d ubt'e © more or lees apoeryphal. It sppears from our report of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions that MeLanghlin and Linn, participators in the homicide of William Poole, at Stenwix Hall, are to be placed on trial on the 19th inst. Mclaughlin was yesterday committed to vestigating Committee Ordered. The House of Representatives at Washington has favored us with a committee of investigation into the aftairs of the lobby spoilsmen sooner than we had anticipated. The resolution adopt- ed by the House ordering this committee rests upon the preamble, that “Whereas, certain state- ments have been published charging the mem- bers of this Honse with entering into a corrant combination for the purpose of passiug, and of preventing the passing, of certain measures now before Congress; and whereas, a member of this Honse has stated that these statements are not wanting in truth, Resolved, That a comamitiee of five members be appointed by the Speaker, with power to send for perrons and pape te. This is something. We think that the ends of justice wonld have been better served in the elec- tion of the committee by the Honse, as pro- posed by Mr. Brooks; but still we bope that the Speaker's committee will be equal to the great, the delicate and importaut task before it, even though bis own party should suffer moat se- verely from the investigation. Disgosed, for our part, to aid this committee in every available way, we embrace the occasion for eaggesting a number of wituesses, caleulated to be very use ful in this inquiry, from their intelligence, gene ral experience and knowledge of men and things at Wasbington, at both ends of Pennsylvania ave- nne. They ave men of respectability and of very extensive Congressional information, compre- hending, we dare sey, a considerable mass of in teresting facts, statistics, &e., connected with rail- road Jand grants, the repeal of iron duties, with planing mac patent revolvers India rubber, gutta percha, chloroform, and such things Of these honorable, i igeat, patriotic and well-informed witnesses, take the liberty for the present of suggesting the following a3 among these who will most cheerfully and use- ully anewer the purposes of the committee, to wits— Ben. Wm. F. Weea, Jam Hen. O #.M Morgan, Moses bell Rope, a! (brother of 8 «rnor Bo €. fo ik ; Hen Now York; Foo mr . Sew York; Hon nriugton, New Jersey; Hoa, W. H. Sowaro of New Houert “Farreer Abeil,’? of Geacnee coy ty, New York; George Borrington, of Massschasens; Jammer W. Simonton, of the NY, Times; Col Joha W. tommy. of Pa; Mr. cos, formerly member of Congrese, trom fows; Mr. Kioe, present delegate from Minnesutts, an! Mr, Sidney Webeter, the President's private sscre- ™~ A well posted Washington correspoadent i forms us that “tbe lobby is divided mto thr classes:— First, members on the floor of Congres second, agents who annually assemble to tak reapers, <eivey. Hon. Orvilie nodiseos, Tharl Y ii | the chances; and, third, certain letter writers, who are at the eervice of both the othee ots.” He fnrtber assures us that “in all the sencmes for robbing the Treasury, New York ig most conspicuous, by means of the men and cap! the interests involved «nd th Hence the number of dictiu- @, high toved, uvrmpeschable, but formed gerthamen from New York cit rived. aad and capable will be most probably of the highest hone in the above list of the com- them forward elreumstanti service to this committee of inqu’ miitce should only think fit to calt concerning — their schemes, combinations, tactic ad lt We anticipa this the exceed in rich and racy develope e¢ lobby great lobby investigatio lf thorooghly ¢ » will, arches of thir co of the sort in Congress sinec Bank disclosures of C. C. Camoreleng’s search- ing committee, which reeulied, among oth things, it eand dollar operation with the 871). To be A. Wise bringing to fight that fifty-two thou Chevalier Web» enre nd Non vther whigs of tt House. | corruptions of Ve Baren’s administration, were rather startling; and we confess, too, that the Galphin and Gardoer wh claim investigations were sem all these intervening ocea-tons and committece o inquiry, from Jackson's time to the present day committee of the House does its work thoroughly the results will eclipse everything in the way o lobby and spoils corruptions in the history Congress— United Statee Bank, Van Buren’s ad. mit istration, Galphin and Gardner claime inclu ca We trust this House committe will extend thei specifications to all the railroad land gran’ schemes pending before Congress, and to all th an ment of, the wat mely yes also peuding against this ,ugnacious | thy exploratiqns o* astonishing : andso were the fucts of the investigation concern: | which breaks them: ard that that press is wholly ing Mr. Clerk Forney’s amendinent of the Mione- | gsitpate in the city of New York. What our rota Land bili, after the bil had passed. great men ere, that the New York press has must also be admitted that it was reserved for | jade them. the ex tire of inquiry in the Colt pistol pateat extension case, to bring forth those new and pow hair shawls, kid gloves ond perfumery, which figured *o couspicuourly arm be extra touches of that re kable case it, notwithstanding | it is our opinion that if this present investigating at patent extension and other monopoly joba and bogus claime awaiting a favorable move- ore in the House. And the com- mitue might as well include an inquiry into the operandi of the transfer of that “Brick Church” of New York from the speculators of the Zimes esiablishment to the government, in- NEW YORK HERALD, SU Lieut. Governor Raymond, Mr. J. W. Simontoa and others of the 7imes office, and Mr. Siducy Webster, the. President’s private secretary, and others of the Kiteben Cabinet, Let the commit- tee make elean work of the business before them, It is time to begin to wash and scrub out the house and the kitchen for the reception of Mr. Buchanan, Politicians and the Press. In another column the reader will find an arti- cle trom the Washington Union om the subject of Congressional corruption; and yesterday, he will bave found in the Congressional report the com- plement of the article in the remarks made by several members on the subject of newspapers generally. The Union, reterring more especially to the New York Times asd Weratp, considers them both“ great rogues and pluoderers,” “a pair of unmitigated scapegraces,” “infamous witnesses,” and does not think that the most direct charge made in either would “ be sufficient to raise a suspicion of guilt.” Ina like tone, Mr. Kelsey, member of Congress from New York, says,‘ it would be a waste of time to notice newspaper articles; Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, “does not wish to bring the New York papers mto that degree of respectability which Congres- sioval action on their conduct would bestow— such contemptible things being unworthy of such honor; Mr. Campbeli, of Obio, considers it “uo- becoming for Congress to inquire into a charge based solely on the idea that some penny-a-liner has seen fit to malign that body: Mr. Walker, ot Alabama, thinks that offending newspaper correspondents should be simply “expelled, without dignifying them by an inquiry; Mc Brenton, of Indiana, alluding to newspaper cor- respondents, says that “if any class of indi- viduals deserve to be treated with contempt, or if pot with contempt, with commiseration, it is that poor miserable class who hang round this hail in the shape of @emented fragments of hu- inanity, for the purpose of gathering up every whisper and word and circulating it through the land. Such is the language of the politicians at the federal capital. We say the politiciaas, because we do not admit that the Washington Union forms any part or portion of the press of the United States. It is not a newspaper, in any sense of the word. It is not an organ of public It never contains anything of interest to others than politicians, except what it steals from the New York papers. The very news on the strength of which it maligas them is filehed from their columns. It is a mere political fly- sheet, the organ of certain chevuliers d'industrie, who make a living by fraud and corruption in connection with the lobby; the “prade circular,” so tospeak, of the President, and, lik’? otlgr trade circulars, well paid for lying in season. Witli such a sheet we can have vo controversy. Of the politicians who seized this occasion to expices their contempt and hatred for the New York press, all are, so to speak, unknown but Mr. Campbell of Ohio. He has a feeble no- toriety among the republicans, founded chiefly oa newspaper puffs which he has procured to be ia- serted in every paper whoee editor he could ap proach; but, still, he is a young man, with bis fortune to make, The others are positive stran- gers. Mr. Brenton, of Indiana, Mr. Kelsey, of New Yorkthese gentlemen are republicans; we wish we could say more about them; we hope they have nothing to do with (he Minnesota schem> and the other rogueries of the day; but really they are so obscure that the best informed cor- respondents know nothing about them. Then we have Perey Walker, of Alabama, and A. K. Marshal), of Kentucky, both Know Nothings, if they have not turned their coats—who on ¢ knows anything about Percy Walker and A. K. Marshall? Where can we find out something about them that shail enlighten us upon their standing. antecedents and character? Jt is worse than seeking needles in bandles of bay to look up such wonderfully microscopic statesmen as theee. We incline to think that these budding Con- gressmen have adopted the idea of attacking the New York press from calculation, in order to be abused into notoriety, It is a clever notion, but young. In order to inflict a woanl upon the New York press, an assailant must have some stonding. Mr. Marcy or Sena- ‘or Seward might burt where your Breutons and Marshalls only tickle, Such tricks may auswer in some counties in Alabama aud Kentacky, where perhaps Brenton and Marshall ave great men; bat, bless them, we have to pat dowaa of people of their calibre every week of eur lives, These young men, who are beginnieg their Congressional career, will thank us some day for alitile advice we now give them. We advise them to talk lees and think more. It is not the case, a8 your Brentone and Marshalls and Walk ers seem to think, that a man rises by mere talk- e must be a worker and a thinker to ac quire real standing and public respect. Nor is it of any vee to almse the newspapers. It is all very well for the few score of country gentie- men who assemble at Washington every winter to eect to despise the press. But the older they erow, the more foolieh they will discover this to be. In this country the press is mir ror ard focus of popular sentiment ; abasing it is merely another form of abusing democracy. And for the poll ne to do so is the height of folly, for they are ite ereatures. The young men whose foolish expressions we have quoted above will, we trust, live to learn that it is the | press which maker statesmen, und the press rer Is He, on Ie He Nor ?—A tele- grophie despatch which we reevived yesterday from Hon. Jobn Barney, Washington, says that we shall receive by mail a “statement of facts relative to the State Department, from which it | will appear that Gen. Cass bax been tendered the appointment according to my interpretation of bis language.” /’er contra, another well inform- ed and reliable correspondent assures us ina tele- graphic message also received yesterday, that “T reed a letter to-day from Mr. Buchanan, in which he cays, if I have fixed my mind on any one in- dividual for a place in my Cabinet, neither he | (the individual) nor any other living man knows + | ik We begin to see daylight. Mr Barney has + | come down to this—“ Gen, Case has been tendered the appointment according to my interpretation of his language.’ “ Interpretation Hat! hat ‘Tiat's enough. We really suspect now that Gen. Cass bimeelf is on the anxious bench, but knows no more of the drift of the wind at Wheatland than Mr. Barney himself. In conclusion, if Mr. Bu- cbanan has not decided in favor of Gen. Cass, he ie, in all probability, ecarching for romebody elee. Gen. Case 0 cluding an examination upon the subject of | Fashiowable Folter—The Tendencies of So- | visible, in which morcecus from the opera are poured forth in harmony with the “dim reli- ‘DAY, JANUARY ll, 1857. printer, had become the head of the Kitchen Ca- inet, These poor and proud Virginians richly deserve a good strong dose of medicine, and we clety. ‘The wonderful prosperity of our comntry has in a measnre turned the heads of the people, The influx of gold has led to an outlet of expense, Economy uo Jonger exists pure and simple; ex- wavagance of habits is the rule, not the excep- tion. In nothing more do we observe this change trom the simplicity of former years, than in the dress and social entertainments of the day. We ave told, in the fashionable shops where silks and Jaces are the principal commodities, that nothing is too dear for the New York market, The num- ber of our successful (raifeurs indicates the large consumption of confectionaries and more substan- tial comestibles. A fashiouable lady—for in spite of Colonel Benton’s strictures we have such per- sonages amongst us—cannot now venture abroad without a silk dies worth perhaps fifty dollars; laces, fifty more; sables, fifty more; a French hat, almost fifty wore. « With bracelets, watch, and charms to match,” she moves along a capitaliza- ion of the floating funds of her husband, and this is but an item if compared with the costly contents of her boxes and bureaus at home. A dinner party is a heavy investment; course succeeds course, servants in white Berlin gloves help the guests to delicacies which would astonish a Helio- gabalus, and wines of the finest flavor, such, in- deed as intelligent travellers assure us can no where else in the world be found in combina- tion, moisten the throats of the appetizers. There are dinners given in this city every week, which surpass those of most English Dukes. To accomplish such luxuries, every effort is made by the aspiring, and honest industry does not so easily find the means. Business is pushed to its furthest limits, speculations are entered into of the greatest magnitude; the more ardent canxot wait, but boldly seek by fraudulent trans- actions to reach the summit of display at a sin- gle leap. The mania for sudden success per- vades every class of operators, from the man who trims your beard to the adventurer who sends bis half paid-for steamers over the ocean. The steadier and brighter virtues of humanity fall into disrepute, and * patient merit,” drag- ging far behind, much contumely from the * un- worthy takes.’ And what are the consequences already? A general demoralization of feeling; a reducing of the standard of public opinion; an indifference to crime; audacity in official plun- derers; the court room turned into a debating society for the amusement of tbe spectators, in- stead of being the forum of dignified justice; the money marts changed into vast gambling places, where fortunes are made and lost at a blow, ia transactions which the laws of! the land actually prohibit and denounce as illegal. Our very reli- gion has become infected with the temper of the times, Christians vie with each other in the gaudy construction of their churches, hundreds of thousands of dollars are expended to erect archi- tectural caverns, where the preacher is scarcely Forney with as large a majority as possible, to give those nincompoops a dose. Let them take their places side by side in the Senate, By this means a geperal account current will be settled, which ought to satisfy all parti Tue Article op THEATRICAL Printixe JoBs.— Our cotemporary of the Mirror suggests that the job printing of the theatres should be given to the lowest bidders. We concur with him in this suggestion, and hope it may be carried out to its fullest extent. We also have no objection what- ever if the managers should cut off another item of wasteful expenditure of moneys by ceasing to advertise in papers which have no circulation beyond a few hundred or thousand copies. Come, gentlemen managers, to the work. Another reform we would suggest. Cut off all the free lists of the press, and make all the editors and attachés pay at the doors, as all the rest of the public do, and then we may have in- dependent theatrical criticisms. Wuart is tHe Marrer?—It is singular that nearly for a week past the Morning News and Evening Day Book, the two organs of the office beggars of this city, have not said a single word abusive of the editor of the Heratp. What does this mean? Whence this singular forbearance? What is the matter? What isin the wind? We must look into it and ascertain the number of claimants and their connection with these two journals, which with a circulation of a hundred copies each, are tolerated by a clique or two of the democracy. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH, Interesting from Washington. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE AT WORK—RUMORED DUEL—GOVERNOR REEDER TURNSD UP AGAIN— A PAINTING FOR THE CAPITOL, BY HORACE VERNET —TBE NEW DUTCH MINISTER, ETC. Wasiaxeros, Jan 10, 1887, The Spesker has appointed an admirabie committee of investigation, who organized and went to work this afier- noon, sppointirg F. H. Smith, a stenographic reporter, clerk, with a view to give the public all the fio. Tao resolution confines the action of the committce to matters now pending® but a motion will be made to extend it over the proceedings of the last session, Persons suin- moned before the committee, and refusicg to appear, are to bo arresied by the Sorgeant-at Arme, and left to the writ of babeas corpus for relief. Should the courts de- cide agtinst the power of the Houre to compe! attendance, then a bill will be immediately Introduced and passed giving all necessary power. The Hon, Mr. Edwards, of New York, to whom sliueion was mace yesterday by Mr. Payno,jas the member offering the bribe, says, | understand, that Mr. Payne had wholly misconceived his remarks. ‘These two gentlemen are both Fillmore Americans, Mr. Edwards asks that judgmect may be suspended Mill all the facts are brought out. He says he ie not go- tng to be the scapegoat of other men’s rascality. If the committee make thorough exemination into all schemes that have passed during this session and that are before the House, as it ts sald they wif, a rather bad ri cord of some gentlemen will be presented, from tho elec- Vien of Speaker andgpublic priater down to the prescat time. A Various rumors are afloa! of difloulties growing out of the discloeures made yesterday, one to the effect that ibere jg a duel om the tapie, Other members are talked of quite freely as being tmplicsied. l understand there will be @ memorial and application made to Congress in a few days, by competent pariics, to Iny @ telegraphic cabic from the oastern coast of Mane to the const of Ireland, for the same sum that is arked trom thw government by ober parties, without asking anything from the Engiiah goverpment Private bills of no general interest occupied the House today. Mr. Grow pretentod a petition from,Kausas, Bumerously signed, proienting ageiust Gen, Whiteid holding bis seat, This was vot the shadow; tho substance followed in the person of A. H. Keeder, cootesting Whit fields seat, with an eye to another allowance of mileage and per diem, The republicans express their diegast at bis effrontery. The joint committee on the library have invite! Horace Vernet, the celebrated French painter, w execute a Datile piece for the new Capitol extens! Toe invite- tion bas been accepted, and the artist may be expocted im the United States during the coming spring. He is now engaged upon a picture for Louis Napoleon, repre- renting the storming of the Malakofl, and as soon as that is completed he will be here. No price is agreed upoo. Mr. Dobois, the late Dotsh Minister near this govern. ment, writes under date of Dec. 16, that he has veen traneferred by his sovereign to Denmark, and that his successor, Mynheer Roost Van Limbourg, late Minister at Lisbon, would leave early iu the spring for the United States, The Washington Union says that it has made inquiry ae fo Jobm Barney's statetcont that Genera! Cass had re- ceived and accepted the appointment of Secretary of Stato, and is authorized tc state that it \s cntirely without founds. tiom, It also acserts (bat no one member of the Cabinet bas yet been selected. It bas been determined by the frionds of Mr, Bachansa bere to erect a temporary building for ihe toauguration ball. The price of the tickets '# set at ten dollars, Mr. Kenpeit, of sfo,, bas returned in improved health, and sppeared in bis soat to-day. gious light,’ and sinners, buried in soft cush- ions, hear doubtingly and with regret, there is “another and a better world.” The Grama, toe, must needs aceord with the uni- versal desive, of wealth for pleasure, and pleasure for wealth. This is the moral with which it gains most success, and thousands rush to witness the career of Camille, the triumphs of a marble heart, and the fascinations of a courtezan prin- cess. These are indications in a general way of the tendencies of the times. but the details are infinite. The peculiarities of individuals become intensified under the general mania, furnishing subjects for wits and critics, if we have any, which would throw those of Hogarth into the shade. To be distingnished at all hazards, to appear, if not to be, rich, to float in the sea of fashion, to be even a drop of “the cream of cream,” is just now the folly of the hour, and the attainment of the distinction is often at the expense of honor. What an excited city is ours under all these influences! Society is a crust oa the side of sleeping volcanoes, which every no ¥ and then startle us with their explosions and hor- rity us with their desolations. When men and women of fashionable position constantly meet each other at celebrated refresh- ment saloons; when double veils are worn even by respectable ladies; when clerks give expensive divners to fellow clerks, and their families are starving at home; when debts are now chiefly collected by criminal process, and any man’s liberty may be taken from him by an affidavit drawn up by a Tombs lawyer: when companies with vast nominal capital are torn to pieces by greedy managers; when the peace and war of neighboring countries hang on the decisions of spe- cnlating monopolisis; when the municipal, state and general governments are becoming one vast theatre of corruption, we may well depre- cate the accursed love of gold for which the world is madly bartering its virtue, which is iu fusing iteelf into all business and monopolizing every thought——we deplore the prevalence of the sensnous over the mental tastes and tendencies of the day—we lament over the weakness of humo nature, which cannot endure prosperity. To the initiated, the city of New York is a cn rious spec’ If it were uncoofed, Asmodew himself would be astonished. In this capital night be found most of the singularities of oihee citice-—the gaiety and the freedom of Paris, soa its nnembarrassing social arrangements, the ant mal pleesures und sturdy deep drinking of Lon- don, the intrigue and the stilettoes of Madrid the solemn and bigoted devotion of Rome, the Noeentiousness of Vienna, the falsehoods and far uvity of St. Petersbarg, the harems and th: beastliness of Constantinople, the usury and the extortions ot Jerusalem én its palmiest days, And every doy it growe larger, and wealthier, and gayer and more audacious. Such are our social tendencics at present. Unrtep States Sexaton prom Pexnsvivanta. — We understand that the President elect has ex- pressed the wish that J. W. Forney should ve elected Senator from Pennsylvania by the pre- vent Legislature. Forney hae been for twenty years the constant, trae and faithfal friend of Mr. Buchanan, and certainly deserves something SHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND BESSION. House of Representatives, Wasnixetow, Jan 10, 1867, ‘The SrFaner annourced thai the Select Commiites to invertigate the alieged corruptions will consist of Mr. of New York, rep ; Mr. Orr, ot South Carolina, {i Meryiand, American, Mr Ritonio, of . Warner, of Georgia Mr. Grow enid tbet be bad bad for two or three woeks apeliion egned by fiteen hundred of the voters of Kan remou#! rating againat the rieht of Mr, Whittela to from that Territory. Hoe bad been informed that large Dumber, similar to this, were on their way. He asked to have read the petition of Goverror Reeder, setting forth the reasons for contesting Mr, Whitheld’s sent. Onjcotion wae waco, the Comm litee on Elections, Governor Reeder in bis petition denies the right of Mr. Whitfield to the seat, and claima it for bimeelf, wetting forth reasons for thie asrertion, He saye it Wit Held were candidates at two reparate elections, when he (Reeder) received more than double the number of legal |. Upon a fnil invesigation of ali facie, the Hovse rejected Whitfield, but rofaged to dit Reeder, The reaso-* for this are fet forth in the report of the Kanrar Investi¢nting Commitee Without new legit/ation and under the samo state of hinge ae deteribed ip the repor: of the tavestigating com miltie, Mr. Whitfield became # candidate for a singic ses tion of the same Congres#, at the election held in Oovober lest, Tho election was entirely without authoricy of inw, ard Iarge majority of the legal voters refused to partic! pate ii vit heir reason #0 doing, that they Would pot 1eoogn re & Folnntery election when the quev tion bad airendy berm Acjacieated by the House, The pertons whe did parti i the papers wore referred to r b ‘ iene thong d exetion Wer Ml ember of the, * athis hands. Forney has made many mistakes © Territory, 'y lem than those who roted the voluntary elect! 1565, and a large number of in bis career, but he has never faltered ia bis | {hem wer oo rr ete ot Whe iritory 1 not ened P . | to + result thie election 1 be . i ie How was wil ara mn color of law. Other reasoos are stated in the of had a favorable opinion of Mr. Forney, but one day he charged falsehood upon an honest repori- er of ours to hide his own folly, and we thought this a mean trick even worse than his Forrest letter, which was bad enough. But the worst phase of his career is the support which he gave for two years and a halt to poor Pierce, This must have hurt his own conecien ve much. However, he has got rid of him, and turned to his first love, Mr. Buchanan. The Vir- ginia politicians, poor devils and office seekers, have always turned up their noses and tho ight | themselves enperior to a map who, from a poor = fap te Seaaeee he contends eter, regular election, unauthorized tate, wee Ineuficient title toa seat, Mr. Whitdeld sbould he rejected: and as bis adroiasion would reem to ttat the House are cisponed to reconsider ther ‘upon this point, Mr. Reeder hope the Pennsylvania Legislature will elect | | bate, luvolving the propriety built that road as provided by the aot of Congress grant- ing lands tor that purpose. The bill authorizing payment to the owners of the sonooner Guowet, of Maseschussetts, of the amount of isting bounties they wont: bave been entitled to receive bad the voyage been coinieted, gave rise toa jong de- of sueh bounties, wher the bill patsed by w vote of 80 against 70, Adjourned. Forney’s Gh ces in Pennsylvania, Haxrienure, Jam. 10, 1857, ‘The nomipaticn of J. W. Forney bas produced ® great: sensation, His prinolpal opponent will bo Simon Came- ron, the republican and Know Nothing, an old broker: down politician, The content will take Place on Tuesday, and wili be cloee, but ! think Forney will be elected. ¥ understand that vhe Dallas olique of the democracy, wil» the worthy Mayor Vaux, of Philadelphia, at their head, are all in favor of Forney, on account of bis services av the last election—bis fidelity to his friends—and as amea- sure of couctilation. If this be so, Pennsylvanta will be united hereafter, and the President elect will be highly gratified with the «ppointment. Forney, or any other person in Pennsy!vania, has no improper influence on the new Preeident, All such stories are coined in Washingtorr by the Cabinetmukers. Things look bright and encou- ragivy. Nomination for Senator for Michigan, Darrorr, Jan, 10, 1857. Zachariah Chandler, of Detroit, was nomiaated for United States Senator, last night, by a caucus of the re- publican members of the Legislature, ‘The Canal Bonds Due in July, 1858, ‘ Atnany, Jan. 10, 1867. ‘The State Auditor will publish notice to-day to the hold~ ers of canal stocks of this State, due on tho Ist of July, 1858, that he will purcha:e $600,000 worth of said stock at Par, end the accrued interest at the time of sale, as an investment for the Sinking Fund. Parties wishing to sel? must notify the Auditor, and within ten days thereafter transfer the same at the transfer office In the city of New York, where the payments will be made. Message of Gov. Wright, of Indiana, InpianaPoum, Jan. 9, idsr, Governor Wright read bie annual message to the Le- gislature this afternoon, The Senate adjourned, but did ‘Rot go into joint conveation with the House, The mes- sage shows the expenses of the State government for 1865 to have been $147,442 61, and for 1856, $169,522 63.. He recommends the passage of « law for the re-appraise- ment of the !anded property for taxable purposes. Tho entire amount of the funded debt of tho State outstanding of the 5 per cent stocks, is $5,156,560, and of the 23, per cent stock, $1,812517. Tho exhibit of the Common School Fund, including the estimated value of the Sinking Fund in the State Bank to date, amounts to $4,912,012 42, He recommends that the sinkizg Fund Commiesioners should be directed, by law, to invest the funds that secumulate in (heir hands jn the siocks of the State, The mesesge denounces, in severe terms, the new ‘State Pank, and recommends that the charter be expunged from the statute bcoks, and that all connection between the bank and the State, either by deposit or otherwise, bo probibited, He recommends the usval appropriation to aid the cause of African colonization, recommends an increase of the compere of the Judges of the Courts, and says also that the salary of the Executive ig wholly inadequate, The Missourl Legislature. Sr. Lovis, Jan. 10, 1857, ‘The Misrour! Legislature will, in joint scasion, on Monday next, go into the election of two United States Senators. ‘The legality of Mr. Jackson’s inauguration as Licutenant Goverzor will be teeted as soon as the Supreme Court meets. From the South, Barrimone, Jan. 10, 1857. The night mail between Waskipgton and Richmond has been discontinued, and there will be Dut one mail a day south of this place hereafter. Capt. Manning, @ retired naval officer, residing im Charlestown, Virginia, fell tuto tne fire and was burned to death. New Orleans papers of Saturday of last week havo just been received, An attack was made on the Carrollton Ratlroad stables. on New year’s day, snd one man was murdered and two others wounded, ‘The latest dates from Key West stated that the Court bad awarded the saivors of the ship Isaac Allerton, of New York, firty per cent. Missing Vessels, &e. Bostoy, Jan. 10, 1856, The New Bedford Standard states that the schooners Laura Jane, Young, from Baltimore, and Cremonia, Pot- ter, from Philadelphia, bow of and for New (odford, sailed about the 20th uit, and haye not been hear of since. James Fox was this morni itenced to twelve yeare. tn the State prison for manslaughter. The Sound Steamers. Bostos, Jan. 10, 1867. ‘The Stonit and River traing (rom New Yors, arrived in this city tl roing in reason. The Norwich train came ip at about ten 0’ + Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pataperema, Jay. 10 Stocke heavy. Penneylvania 5's, 82; Reading Rail- Toad, 4) °/ ; Long Inland Railroad, 18%; Morris Canal, 16> Pennsylvania Railroad, New Ontrans, Jan. 9, 1867, Cotton Sales today 9,600 bales orth America bad no cilect upon the of the w Add up 65,000 baler, and the Ling 4 Stock 4(0,000 baler. Flour lower, Molasses, 6¢c. ; ‘Tho. ; keg lard, 18%c. Coffee, ‘8 Lic; sales ‘Week 3,400 bags; stock &7 060 begs. New Oarzams, Jam. 10, 1867. Cotton—'ricer without quotable change alee to day 5,500 bales. Sugar, Piso. a Ske. Molunges, 100. Ble Pork steady. Ohio aaa $6 87 a $693. Merling ex- change 6X per cent jum. vail se Moms, Jan. 9, 1857. to-day foot Cottor—The rales for the week endi 21,000 bal Tho receipts tor the week have been 3,' Doles. Stock in port 198,000 dales, Middling, 120. Military Affairs. TRIAL OF LIBUTENANT UPDEGRAFF AND SURGEON HOLDEN, BY COURT MARTIAL. ‘The Court met on Saturday, at 12M., et No. 6 Stats street, Col J. R. Mansfield, President of the Court; Capt. Wm. B Jone, Judge Advocate, The evidence of the being read, tbe Court proceeded to take fur- the trial of let Lieut. Updegrat Sorgeon Holcea, witnoes for the defence, recaiied: — Accused— [iid you see me at the wharf in front of the Qvartermaster’s copartment on the morning of the 15tb of December last? A.—T dla Accused—What ressors did I then give you for not ac- comparying the invalids to Fort Wood’ A.—Taat there ‘War Do ( {lieer there for tim to report to, ‘ Accured—Did 1 tel) you of the arrangemonts maie for the reception of those men at Fort Woot? a.—Yos, str; he #nid that there wasa report that 128 sick mon were to be sent to Fort Wood, sod supp ies for those men had been sect there for them, and every arrangemen| made for thetr comfort. ee yon inform me that you were going with yom to the 'slaidy A —i oid. Acoveed—Md I bore under the Impression that you wore goine? A — Yer. ‘Aecwed—flave you ever observed any want of atton- tion on my part to the bealth and comiort of this com- OF a you do, the charactor of this lroumstanoes Of ite arrival in New York, is tt or te" your opinton that better a menis could bare been made for the bealtn and com’ ‘of the men than those I adopted’ A.—t1 don’t tank aay better arrangements could have been made, ‘The cefenco bere oloted, aud the Court adjourned to Moncay at 11 A.M sesdilachei Brooklyn Cty Pores APPoINIMENT® —Too following additional ap- pointments and removan were male yesterday by Mayor Powell and tho Aldermen of the ward:— Geo N. Cane, elector) ‘captain of the die’t, Tuomary, Avg. Reynalds Patrick Welab, Goo. Hi. Wyman, Peter McGuire, Chas a, Eiward He rty, Geo F. Williams, John Dowdell: Daniel Bi . Rus Over Yesterday morning @ boy nine years of ago, named Henry Hiliroth, was run over by & buteher'’s cart on the corner of Johnson and Adams strecis, and ‘Smith, of the tohin reaiience, No. 15 Myrilo avenue, Cononen’s Ixur Ret. —Coroner Kedding held an inquest, on Friday, wpon the body of P. Boorman, who was found suepended to rope from the vessel Jeddo, reene’s dock, on Tierday morning Inst. No wit. pean ound to vontify aa to hia death, A heard cries of freveral