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4 NEW YORK F¢RALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1957. ar y 600 bhds, Alolders of coflee assumed grester NE a ¥ ORK HERALD. | fre ai apd some parties withdrew their stocks JAMES GUADON BENNETT | tromthe market in consequence of the news fron OITOR AXD PROPRIETOR. Java, which represented that the crop bad been ea anenprenate short by nearly one-third of the average yield. Writes ww. commun oF xassau 4xD FULTON OPH Within the past two days teas have advanced avon’ 20. & de. per Ib., and nearly all offering of the new crop bave been bought up. Some holders decline at pre” vent to offer their stocks in the market. Owing to the heavy rates of exchange in hina against this No. 23 | Country, teas were bought at high prices, and with- out some advenee new cargoes would scarcely bave yielded a profit to importers. Freiginte were eteady, with moderate engagements. themas, through the press and pulpit, against the slaveholders of the South, Why, the proposition of Governor Wise to extend slavery into the Territories, for the purpose of increasing the price of negroes, is not so bad, after all, when compared with a traffic that is attended yearly with a sacrifice of eight thousand lives. Is it not time that this crusade against South- ern men and Southern institutions were stopped, and that something were done to puta stop to this most fiendish, this most inhuman trade, car- ried on as it is by Northern men, and with Northern capital. Think of the amount of misery and suffering that is caused by this traffic, and that, to swell the profits of our mer- chants, eight thousand human beings are sacri- ficed every year. And this is the fearful cost at which they realize an annual profit of seventeen millions of dollars. Should not Congress appoint an investigating committee to inquire into these facts and do What it can to remedy the evil ? have got into difficulty several times by doing this sort of thing. The great Fry libel case grew out of our response to the appeal of some ag- grieved artiste who asked for our sympathy and the use of our columns, Nevertheless, believing we are right, we shall continue to pursue the same course, and give every one a chance for fair play in the Hera, even at the risk of trouble with the enpreario, In Mrs, McMahon's case we presume that we are comparatively sife, as she is her owe empresario. At is a little singular, how- ever, that the husband of Mrs. McMahon, who is a lawyer, has, in eonjunction with Mr. James Brady, been pursuing us with an action for al- Jeged libel during the last ten years, Now weare called upon to sympathise with Mr. McMahon’s wife who has been outrageously libelled, and we are expected to open our columns te her rejoinder. Well, we are tender hearted, and we let it pass, Despite the animadversions of the press, Mrs. McMahon bravely continues her performances every night, and shows a good deal of spirit. We must again direct the attention of her legal adviser to the fact that he has a eapital case for libel against six or seven of the daily papers, and he should proceed against them as soon as the weather moderates and the judges become thawed out. Decidedly we must have these cases The Ch¥a.se Question. The jotelligence pnbhicbed yesterday from China places it beyond a doubt that the peoding quettions in reia‘don to that empire are about to be cleared up. "A is competent te journalists, as well bere as ‘m Eogland, to take exception to ibis or that a et of Consn! Parkes or Sir Michael Seymour, ar al to argne, in a quibbling lawyer- like fashion , that in this particular quarrel, there is somethir ag to be said on the Chinese side. But when the question is examined practically the fu- tility of ail this cavilling becomes at once ap- parent. Every man, conversant with the antece- dents ‘ef the Chinese, is aware that the quarrel in vefert mee to the seized lorcha is only one of a series of systematic outrages practised upon fore ‘ignere by the Chinese authorities and people, eveg since the conclusion of the opium war. Every ove knows that instead of relaxing their male ef exclusion, the Chinese are really making it more stringent every year; and, that, instead of growing more amenable to foreign trtercourse, they are becoming more hostile to foreigners every season. It is indeed a matter of certainty ihat, without some revision of our relations with the Chinese empire, our trade with China will soon have to cease, and our people must be pre- vented from risking their lives on Chinese soil. eo PPM, BI per annem, Os’ BN, conte per Ser gen exlichOMy Lenume, to per & © any part of We Continent, SS wana part of Greet Sritaim, oF Fath 0 vache presi Worame EXM...... AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. SROSDVAT THEATRE, Broadway—Pee wx Paar — f990n HOY=aNn Cnsmer or TeTeRast. HFBLO® GARDEN, Tooasway—Ewounm Orsas—Tus | Lobby Corruptions—Congressional Reform— Cereranemnea. mains A Qvwestion for a New Organtzation of SOWSAY THEATRE Sowery—Mreeaant or Vexrca— Parties. pastindetmaprneaate snes by According to the developements thus far resalt- SIP Serna, ing from the House committee on the corrap- tions of the lobby, we should not be surprised if the prosecution of this reform were to eventuate in a reconstruction of parties in Gongress, lobby and enti-lobby, spoilsmen and anti-spoilamen, At present nothing but the fragments of écfunct or broken up parties can be found at Washington, for all the old party issues are dead-end buried. A national bank “ is an obsolete idea;” the tariff hes become rather a local iseue, ene way or another, than e-sectional or party issue; the Kan- ACM'S THEATRE Srou@way—Caunse—Coeney & TEKATHE, 64 Brosdwey—iscoww evs. BARNUMS AMLAIAN MUSKUM, Hrendway—Aner @eoo- O8PeAF OF GENRYs. Cveaing—Onruax OF Gamera Fanon Oo Tamwonrn. ORO. CHRISTY A WOOD'S MINSTREL, 444 Brondway— ‘Braroviax Temvowmance—Sew ikaw Calis. DUCKLAT'S KERENADERS, BSS Breadway—Prmerian PeRyOAua oso DE BROOKLYN ATHEN, Tue Cuevaiser Wikorr’s Book 1x ENGianp, —Aceording to the accounts received by last English mail, the recent brochure put forth by the Chevalier Wikoff had created the greatest ex- citement among the diplomats and journalists; SUM. Brooklyn—Guaxp Ormnatic “Seeeeneee Su ereuneos’e Shaun, eas question is in the bands of “the people” of The question, therefore, for the states- | tried. extracts were published in all the principal jour- “Wew York, Saturday, January 24, 1857. K eee + and the broad tine of demarcation be- | ™42 the merchant and the philosopher | But Mrs. McMahon is not the only candidate | nals, and the book was commented upon as one of the most extraordinary revelations of the cen- tury. Aswe predicted, the work has created a much greater sensation in England than it caused here. to consider at the present juncture, is— not what is the effect of a British register in the Bay of Hong Kong?—which is quite a trivia) mat- ter, but can we afford to permit the Chinese to turn us bodily out of their country, and to pro- grees in their anti-foreign antipathies until they come to cut the throats of our sailors wrecked on their coast? or ought we to use the opportunity Providence presents and the strength we possess to carry civilization and commerce into the heart of the most populous country in the world? The narrow minded caviller may decide, on a short sighted view of moral principle, thas we are bound to let the Chinese expel us, that we are bound to submit to their growing antipathy, that we have no business to introduce civiliza- tion among them unless they ask for it. But the statesman, looking ahead, must take the oppo- site view, aud overlook the petty, paltry legal bearings of the squabble in hand to grasp large considerations of the future welfare ef China and of the world. We have no reason to believe that the intense hatred of foreigners which is felt by the people of Canton, and one or two other ports is shared by the peopie of the interior, M. Huc, who travelled throughout the length and breadth of the land, certifies that all classes in the interior towns displayed hospitality rather than rudeness to him. Where antipathy is felt —away from the seaboard—it arises from the exploded notion that foreigners are all missionaries who seek to convert the Chinese in order to make them subject to the European Powers. This idea isa relic of the Jesuits. In their time, as is known, China was open, and might have remained so still but for the folly which they displayed in meddling in politics, and mixing themselves up with the affairs of the Court. The Emperor was obliged to expel them; and ever since that time, the Chinese idea has been that if foreigners were admitted into the kingdom, they would do nothing but intrigue, and proselytise, and foment conspiracies. Now it Ought to be a tolesably easy matter to explode notion, and to convince the more sensible antong tbe Mandarins that we don’t want to inter- tere with their religious belief, but only to sell them cottons, hardware and machinery. And this point settled, there really seems to exist no reason why they should object to let us in. At any rate, China is in so decidedly a revoln- tionary state that the mere instinct of self-pre- servation would seem to dictate a certain mea- sure of aggression. So far as we can learn, three fourths of the empire have been overrun by the rebels, and subjugated, if not retained by his officers. At the present moment, civil war rages all along the Yeang-tse-Keang, and no one can tell anything about the real state of affairs We cannet find out whether the Emperor is alive yet; whether Tae-ping-Wang is at the head of his army or died three years ago; where he is, what he is doing, what he bas done, what he intends, or indeed anything about him. All is profound» inscrutable mystery, As a necessary contequence, the bonds of society are loosed. Mandarina, responsible only to the central power at Pekin, van wield authority with but a feeble band when it is doubtful whether that power exists or u - Loyal citizens cannot tell whom to obey, or tw whom to pay tribute. The whole empire, in fact, is in a state of proximate diseolution. It reminds the historical student forcibly of the condition of Hindostan at the time of the British and French invasions. There, too, an immensel¥ populous empire or congeries of empires fp into hopeless decay, and was relieved by the British from the proximate prospect of incessau internicine wars. But we can do better witu China, There need be no East India Company to wring their wealth from the Chineee, and elic: the execration of the world. The country can be opened peaceably, quietly, by the three maritime powers of the world; a new treaty can be made securing to all men a fair right to trade through- out the empire; the rights of the Chinese can be amply protected, and they can be helped to re- constitute their broken down government; in- deed, the bulk of the benefit of the operation would be on their side, if the measures we recom- mend were carried out with candor, discretion, and a large spirit of liberality—as. indeed, as only it should be. for public favor to whom our attention is direct- ed just now. Some time during next week we shall have another excitement, A fair young lady, moving in the best socicty, carefully edu- cated, refined and accomplished in the highest degree, and possessing great natural gifts, ap- peared some time since in the coneert room, and at once took a first place in the musical world. We allude to Madame Cora de Wilhorst, who is tomake her dé at the Academy as Lucia di Lammermoor. This is perhaps a more interest- ing event to the fashionable world than the first appearance of Mre. McMahon. Madame de Wil- horst is known to be a good singer, and there will be intense curiosity to witness her first essay in the lyric drama. Both Madame de Wilborst and our fair correspondent of to-day hail from the magic circle which radiates from the Fifth ave nue. Both are queens in the salon. We sisil see whether they can maintain their supremacy before the footlights. Madame de Wilhorst has been singing with Thalberg in the rural districts, and we have heard that she has been told by some one—probably by Monsieur Ullman, who is fond of little diplo- matic feats—that we are opposed to her. This is an absurd impression. We have always treated Madame de Wilhorst with especial consideration, asshe must be aware. We are happy to have been able to record her suceesses thus far, and ehe has our besi wishes in the important step she is about to take next week. Let us have a bumper house for the new Lucia. tween the Jackson democrats and the Clay whigs of twenty years ago, concerning the public lands, hav been wholly obliterated in the general seram- ble of steckjobbing spoilamen and politicians, and their various schemes and devices for a share in these rich spoils of the public domain. The election of poor Pierce destroyed the old whig party; his administration has broken up and demoralized the democratic party, and the election of Mr. Buchanan, without either re- storing the identity, the unity, or the as cendancy of the democratic party, bas, at least, for the present, demolished both the Black Sea, As announced by our London cor- | the republican and Know Nothing parties. Thas, respond: some days since, Lord Napier | in Congress and throughout the country the ma- is appointed British Minister t» Washington. | terials of our political parties may be said to be Ht is said by @ portion of the English | in 4 transition state; loose, confused, unsettled, fer- __ thet hie oficial weining im the mie menting, and awaiting the new administration to of the Hast has rendered bis diplomatic habits rather etanas Cheam tas tallizati In thi lastic unsuited for the conducting of business with re- | [7S them toa crystallization, In this plastic publicans; but this remains to be seen. The Duke condition, these loose materials may be monided of Sexe-Cobnrg Gotha, a brother of Prince Albert, | i0to a detinite shape, more or less, upon the first of Exgland, hud offered to mediate between Prussia | practical issue brought before them; and in this view the comprehensive reformation in the go- and Switzerland, and an ultimate peace seettiemeat of the disagreeable matters pending between these | vernment involyed in the matier of this lobby countries was hoped tor, 4 Livingston testimonial | business, may result in the reorganization of par- mecting bad been neld in the Mansion House, Lou- | tics in Congress, lobby and anti-lobby, reform and don, at which the celebrated traveller madea speech. apti-reform, before the old peddling party politi. a ert oe =p de ae tragedy cians are prepared for it. Aud why not? This which was enacted in Paris on the 3d instant, in the third estate in the government, the lobby, has be- come the overshadowing evil at Washington; it assassination of Monsignor Sivour, Archbishop of Paris, by the hand of a priest, in the sacristy of the ” } bas grown, within a few years, from the condition of # needy and humble beggar for a soldier's cbureh of St. tenne da Mont, duriag the celebra- pension or a trifling claim, to the proportions of tion of the festival of Sainte Genevieve, the pa- troness of Paris. So far as is positively known the Neuchatel question hed advanced no fur- | a Colossus, aud to @ rapacious monster, withal ther towards a soluiion, The last despatch grasping at nothing jess than ail the resources of from Bere bapand January states that | the treasury, the public domain, and the pockets ma ise pre rertiermictoner lente Sanna of the industrial interests of the whole country. what Gheqoverians should do with the sbip Reso- Within the last eight years, under the weak, ju'e. Mr. Brotherton, M. P., had died in England, | Careless, and lary administration of Mr. Fillmore, Advices bad been reesived in England by the over. | 40d the imbecile but wicked and corrapt dynasty land mail from Port Phillip, Austraha, to the 24th | Of poor Pierce, have these lobby corruptions ex- ©! Cctover. The produce of the gold fields cont! | panded from @ mere trifle to their present prodi- nued Jarge, and a consideranle quantity had been | gious and startling dimensions. The Galphiu sbipped py tbe Montmorensy, which was to leave | claim appears to have been the beginning for England on the 16th Noveaaber. At Sydney the | oy this golden epoch of the lobby spoile- gevernment had been authorized to raise the sum Of | pion the Gardner and Mears Mexican prope etnwranaigy Sept bites e Herston claims, founded upou their silver and quicksilver tures shortly falling due. On the Sth of October | Wines in the moon, and the encouraging example the Acting-Governor of Victoria, Major-General Mac- | Of the numerous distinguished pnblic men of the arthor, paid his first official visit to Geelong. The | the country, concerned in those monstrous and statement of the revenue of the colony for the year | ipiamous swindles, gave a new impetus and a and the quarter ending on the 30tn of September | wider range than ever before dreamed of to the bas been published. There is a ge increase waty various operations and operators of the lobby. general revenues of £250,511 om the year, and of | But the spoils dynasty of poor Pierce has capp: je) on: TIVE mMOTe, rel . 7 5 " . ean tie ed Meluourne to 27th of October, bat | Of Mt: Fillmore’s dispensation dwindie into mere the substance of it had not reacbed Liverpoo! on 7th | D##atelles compared with the stupendous lobby pean epoliations, accomplished and projected under the Ovr telegraphic despatch from Washington con- | #uspices of poor Pierce, comprebending railroad teins important imformation regerding the forma- | land grants, patent extensions, contracts, indem- tion of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. Politicians should | nities, claims, jobs, and what not. look to it. P Great reforms are evolved out of great abuses, ‘ nigga > poe aba gag pe an eat like gaslight from the smothered combustion of resting. Sena . 0 . Witnestes to testify before Congressional commit- ain bere Thus, there lobby corraptioas, tecs, three only voting against it, The House was | Drought to their climax under the spolls auspices engaged in considering private bills. of poor Pierce, are coming to light; and for what- Several important bills were introduced in the | ever of good to the public morais, or of saving Legirlature yesterday. Last year's Sapply bill was | in the public money, may follow from this Con- defeated in the Assembly by a vote of fifty-eight | gressional investigation, the New York Hrraup yeas to thirty-nine nays. will be entitled to a share of the credit. It was wy. es oat Seecreriay legen omaha guia this journal which first brought before the public 4 clection of the Counpliman from the Sixtieth | ‘Be Teal nature and extent of the spoliations of Council district, had a meeting yesterday at the | ‘PB Galphin and Gardver claims; and it was, it City Hall, bat no new testimony of importance was | W are not mistaken, mainly through the efforts elicited. and expositions of the Herat, that Congress, in ‘The particular attention of al! good citizeas, and | the summer of 1854 brought the lobby operations the earnest consideration of all bad people, is | in the Colt patent case before a committee directed to our report of the proceedings of the | of investigation. The results were good. In the Court of Sessions yesterday. They will learn how | Galphin case public attention was aroused, al- though the money was lest to the Treasury; ia the Gardner case nearly a third of over half a million summarily Judge Russell dealt with two highway- men who were tried and convicted. One was sen” paid out by Secretary Corwin has been recover- ed, which is something; and in the Colt patent tenced to the State prison for life, and the other to fifwen years and «ix months confinement. Judge case a dead stop was put upon a nice little mo- nopoly of several millions in value, which was Resvell and the jury deserve the hearty thanks of also something: bat the Investigation disclosed the community for tneir condoct. The presentment ef the Grand Jory, which we also publish, contains eeveral facts of interest. The Board of Councijmen met last evening for | the working machinery of the lobby, which was ‘the last time this mouth. A resolution to widen | something more: and in the campaign which we Broudway, fifteen feet each side, at the Bowling | opened with this session of Congress aguinst the Green, was nt * motion © eM- | Jobby we have been aiming at the same thing, power the Inspectors of Sidewalks to have ice 804 | under the “moral conviction” that « searching ona fide investigation of the lobby jobbers and obs of the present day will be fruitful of the most valuable discoveries and reforms. The News. The steamship Atlantic, which lett Liverpool on the 7th imstant, arrived at this port last evening. ‘The news is three @ays later than thet brought by the America to Helifax aad is important. The Pa- wis Moniteur-of latest date announces that the men } bers of the second Peace Congress had signed Protocol which would give full effect to the intea- ‘tions of the diplomats who drafted the treaty of Paris on the subject of the Bolgrad boundary diffi- culty. That question is now fiually settled, and the protocol will go into force on 30th of March next, at which period the Austrian army will evacuate the Danubian Principatities and the English fleet quit THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. THE DEBATE IN THE SBNATE—PROCEEBINGS OF THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE—MR. BUCHANAN’S CA- BINET, ETC. Wasnixotos, Jan, 23, 1867, The Senate bas occupied the whole day in considering the House bil] compelling witnesses to testify. Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, made a vulger assault upon the press, pronouncing !t infamous and liceniious; whose miserable minions are permitted to come about the halis of Congress. 1 give bim the tull benefit of bis Senatorial phraseology ; and tt comes with good grace from s mem- ber of Congress now on trial under a charge of corrup- tien, and the charge sustained by a member of the House —Mr. Paine—and believed to be true by Mr. Butler of the Senate. Mr. Hale replied that the press had a bun- dred eyes and « thourand tong and would live on inepite of Congress, and even afer Congress was no more. This hours proceedings, he said, would be flashed over the biil should be so amended as to protect the rights of the humblest individual, and as amended the bill passed, Mr. Butler expressed his belief in the truth of the charge of curruption. Mr. Pugb, of Obio, read an able protest against the power of Congress to regulate the proceedings in the criminal courts of the States, which this bill pro- poned to do. The House consumed the day in the discussion of pri- ‘vate bills of no public !mportance, thetr {pquiries into the ebarges of corruption, and remain tm session most of the day. Their proceedings are kept entirely secret. Messrs. Green and Harrington, of New York, appeared before the committee to-day. | learn bal a witness testified before the committee that Green bad approached or attempted to bribe members of Con grees to vote for the fire bill now before Congress. He bas called with reference to that matter, He stated pos!- Uvely that be vever bad attempted anything of the kind to members or to anybody else; and after « rigid exam!- Bavion of about two bours, answering all the juestions satisfactorily to the committee, Le was dismissed. Har- rington’s testimony corroborased Green's There will be @ general stampede among the lobby as soon as they can get out of the city, mow ihat the Senate has passed the House biil imprisoning those who refuse to testify. I understand this evening that Stmonton’s coun sel bes advised him to disclose all the facts, and that it ia useless for him to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. It ‘Will be disposed of to-morrow, Mr. Buchanan is expecied here next week, but will probably not arrive so seon. Meantime, the position of affaira, as regards bis Cabinet, is as follows, to be moai- fled, doubtless, after hearrives here. Me has said, in- deed, that he desires to confer fully with the leading de- mocratic members, and to be governed in a great moaure by their decision. In the first place, Gen, Cass wil! not go into the Cabinet. Mr. Buecbanan personally docs not Nike Dim, Some time ago Mr. Bacbanan supposed that the Bouth was upited in its desire that Gen. Oss should be placed in the Mate Department, and he sent on here to fee if the representations to that effect were correct, at the same time intimating that he did not desire to have Cass in his Cabinet, and if obliged to place him there it de entirely the effect of Southern pressure. He discovered that no such extended feeling in favor of Cass existed, and this ended the matter, Mr, Buchanan has stated that be will give Glancy Jonos a sont in hie Cabinet if he takes any one from Pennsylvania, ‘Tris bas alarmed iho Forney, Sickles, Vandyke and Wal- kor clique, and they are now endeavoring to induce Mr. Buchanan not to take Cabinet oflcer from Pennsylva nis, Their efforts will probably be successfal. Governor Wise has great power over Mr. Buchanan, #0 much #0 that the latter bas absolately writ ten letter = deprecating Wise’s anger, and ‘» 80 many words begging bis support. Gover. nor Floyd, Wise’s friend, will undoubtedly go into the Cabinet. It has been intimated to Howell Cobb that be could go mto the Cabinet. Cobb will only accept the State Department, se he bas stated. Mr. Buchanan hat expressed & preference for Clifford, of Maine, over Tovcey, of Commecsiout. The latter has great Southern and Western strength, however. If Mr. Buchanan stands firm, C.\ford will be the man. If the representatives of the members here sway bim thon Toucey will be taken. Mr. Shel! bas made a point that Bepjamin, of Louisiana, x whig, must go into the Cabinet, and it is generally conceded that Slidell will succeed. I give the above not as idle specalations but as facts coming from the highest sources, and based upon letters and conversations of Mr. Buchanan himself, Asto the parties named there are Plenty of men in the country their superiors, whilst at the same time they are fully up to the average of Cabinet timber Mr Breck inride haa signi(ied bie acceptance of the in. Vitation to be present at the inauguration ball. Kleazer Wakely, of Wisconsin, has been confirmed as Judge of Neb in place of James Bradley, resigned. The general impression is that the Committee of In- ‘vostigation will again bave Mr. Simonton before them ‘under the new bill passed by Congress. The Meeting of the American State Council The American Slave Trade. We have been engaged for some time past in the prosecution of investigations regarding the slave trade, the extent to which it is carried on by Northern men, the amount of Northern capital invested in it, and the profits which are rea- lized in a single year. The facts we now pre- fent as the result of these investigations, and which have been collected by a thoroughly com- petent person, who has given muclgtime and labor to the subject, are so startling as almost to place them beyond the bounds of credibility. Iteppears that in the port of New York alone, about twelve veesels are fitted out every year for the slave trade, and that Boston and Baltimore furnish each about the same number, making a fieet of thirty-six vessels all engaged in a com- merce at which the best feelings of our nature revolt. Ifto these be added the slavers fitted out in other Eastern ports besides Boston, we will have @ total of abeut forty, which is rather under than over the actual number. Each slaver registers from one hundred and fifty to two hundred avd fifty tons, and costs, when ready for sea, with provisions, slave equipments, and every thing »>- cessary for a successful trip, about eight thousand dollars, Here, to start with, we have a capital of three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, the greater part of which is contributed by Northern men. The expenses of fitting out and of the trip to and from the coast of Atrica may be estimated as follows:— 120,060 160,000 + Bly this estimate, it will be seen tnat the amount of capital required to fit out a fleet of forty slavers is about fifteen hundred thousand dollars, upon which the profits are so immense as almost to eurpase belief. In a single voyage of this fleet twenty-four thousand human beings are carried off from different points on the Slave Coast, and of these four thousand, or one-sixth of the whole number, become victims to the bor- rors of the middle passage, leaving twenty tlou- sand fit for market. For each of those the tro ler obtains an average of five hundred dollars making a total for the whole twenty thousand, of ten millions of dollars, Now, if we estimate the number of trips made by each vessel in « year, at two, we will have this increased to twon ty millions, Each vessel, it is true, can make three, and sometimes four trips, but as some of them are destroyed after the first voyage, we bave placed the number at the lowest estimate. The expenses and profits of the slave trade for a referred, a* wae als snow removed from the sidewalks at the expense of @elinquents, A committee was appointed to report ypening @ communi: . eighty feet wide, frou University place through Wooster and Church — Aunany, Jam. 28, 1867 cueati'te Greanvich ‘aureus. Toe Comatiens on |. The Why MUNIie tate invariably failed to | | Amenicay Dewors axn Dencravrns.—Now | Single year compare as follows The annual meeting of the American Siate Council Streets reported in favor of the proposed stage | W frighten or lead us off the track. In | York is a city of emotions, and the latest of | foul reeipts of do 2 » $5093 008 | takes place at Troy on Tuesday, Fab. 24, and not Feb. 10, route through Lexingwon avenue and Irving place | the Garduer case, the unhappy chief of that | them ism pardon which has scized some of its] pregte,....... esac ur aa oo Saath Seay, 9 ee — oa lative ta the | (20d at first raised a great ery of indignant in- | aristocratic ladies to appear on the stage. We} What are the prolie of honest trade or legal Senator Sumner’s Acceptance. « reget: gchcpemrtise hovence against us; in the Colt case, Mr. Horace | Seem likely, just about this time, to be deluged | commerce to that which gives seventeen millions mempran fielnt te proposed increase of hie ralary, in which he states H1. Day, the India rubber man, was good enough with délnts and inundated with dinutantes. We In the Houre of Representatives thie forenoon a com. of dollars every year on « capital of three mil- lions? And all this, or the lion's share of it, goos into the pockets of Northern merchants. Here then are grand filibustering expeditions with which that of Walker is insignificant in comparisoa—fili- that it was made without consulting bim, and de- lines the proposed increase, The Board then went into Committee of the Whole and concurred in the city charter proposed by the Board of Aldermen. a @pecial committee war appointed to proceed to Al ‘monication was read from Hon. Charies Sumner, accept ing the office of United States Senator, to which he wae recently elected. He does no} indicate in the letter when he shall proceed to occupy bis seat. Mr. Sumner. in accepting ection, says:—The du- do not object to this. If we can find merit any- where, either in the highest or the lowest circles, we thali be happy always to give it its due meed of praise. The relations of these aspiring ama. to tell amember of the House that he (the rab- ver man) “had access to the columns of the New York Heravo,” and that for a considera- tion he could show the members how to reach bany for the purpose of seouring its pasmage in the | that paper; but Mr. Day has probably since die | teurs to the press sometimes give rise to amus | tustering expeditions, too, that have mot even | Mei ar bite e” Cinbeten aetiweys, conepicuoss. Legislature. covered that in this matter he was a fool. So | i complications. Take the case of Madame | the excuse of the extension of human freedom to | Sot": f° lite calculated to siteact public attention. ‘The cotton market was again active yesterday, with gales of about 6,000 bales, including part in transitn, based upon middling uplands at 1%¢c, and Orleans do. at 13fc. Paroeis in transitu were at the close held at firmer prices. Flour was firm, with a mode- rate demand from the home trade. Wheat sold afloat at $1 50 for Western common red, and at #1 82 for choice Missouri white. The ice embargo Massachusetts justly enjoins that no such interest shall be neglected, but by solemn revolution of her Legislatare, the votes of her people, and by the voice of her his- Massachusetts expressly esjoine upon her repre- fentativer to fee that at ail bavarde, be McMahon. She has been perseveringly written down by nearly all the newspapers, but she re- fases to stay down, and flings her gauntlet before all the critics in the following sharp letter to wi with the late dodge of the noisy littie chaps of the Times to head us off. They knew everything ~they could tell everything—they dared every- thing: but when called to testify they stultify themeelves, and then are obstinately dumb. For our part, we cordially approve the earnest and valuable labors of the committee thus far. Ia plead in their favor, but which have their origin in the most “ordid of motives and are prosecuted with a fiendish defiance of humanity aud all the nobler impulses of our nature. What have the abolition divines and lecturers of New England to say to this?—what have those brainless and stupid assailants of Southern slavery to say toa Farnay, January 1867. Mr Braver — . an Dean Sim—Pardon mo, but | really wieh that you also summoned to the effort now organized for the eman- Coste of ~ a ost from seats toe poy ‘iwence. Hostile to clvilization wherever its , a vi . Would be present at my rendition of Lance to night, wens, checked tales on the spot. Corn continued to be | hebalf of public morals, the public treasury and In order ihit you may jodgo. for yourseit whether ims traffic which every year destroys the lives of | So Tastucal tienes oranda Mine goneroet barricaded ot the Atlantic docks, aud was ss im- | individual honesty, we desire a full, thorough | Stee ai apeear tebe meme pists oe Lee bemeen, | ight thoumad human beings, ty the tortures | mdipesuss e¢ dest bar 't crete be tue wee uss movable as the icy congelations which surrounded | and searching smoking out of all the rate of all sihemecives othermice, i have Neen caliet | of the middle parcage!—what have they to say | the rerun bu the rent, ia dere ether great good, can it. The Dock company, in regard to keeping open | the ramifications of the lobby. In every availa- that the press shail not ertane me aay weat | to their fellow citizens of Boston, who fur- | Beacoompliched eniy by well firneted cflort. 1 know gmc communication, have displayed a “ masterly inac- | bie test, too, we hope that the friends in the | MY please, Taball sot heed them. Tuank Got! fam > whi Faas St Re laden abe tryed watch gue Survie lepenss; Gavtige” Wissnge ques on, ten 6 nb ten, ain AERA jn 4 oe pf ’ ‘ew not dependent epon them for a live'ihood. ‘not tue | Mish the money by means of which these | 1 also know somethin infgotion Which It alfords, they stir out of their warm houses or not, the prod to oure of this lobby purgation and reform will phy Le Fe —s worst of crimes against God and man are com- anything in office or honor. I weary them is rather better secured by doing nothing than | °#!! for the ayes and nays, #0 that the people | Meth) tha abe we appreciate, such hes been | mitted? And yet these are the men whose | montha, trom which 1 have now happily risen, my to have labored to keep their docks ao ble hy | MAY understand the nucleus of the new lobby | the case many others. It is only greatness thatcan | whole life time is spent in denunciations of by eae of my i furmount difficulties. Thanks for your article in to day's Paper. Yours, with esteem, Mre, McMAHON. We pubtish this letter with the remark that we and anti-lobby parties in Congress, and take their eldce acco: ding?y. the so-called evils of Southern slavery, and proper boats and other appliances, Pork continued who make the country ring with their ana £m. Sugare were also quite Lim, with sales of about the country by the lightning tines. Mr. Seward thought |* Sn TUIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SROOND MEHBION. Senate. Wasuinaton, Jan. 23, 1867. TAU CORRUPTION COMMIVTER’S BILL PASSED, ‘The Senaie proceeded to the cousideration of the House Dill the more especially to secure the attendance of wit- nesses rummoned by either house and compel them tu disclore testimony. Mr. Haus, (rep.) of N. H., expressod a hope that some friends ot-the bli) would explain its object and tae meces- sity of its passage. He bat no other knowledge of the. Circumstences under which it was brought forward than what was derived from the newspapers of the day; but it seemed that the rules of Congress which requires that. ® D&l shall have three separate readings on three sepa~ rate days, uniess by unanimous consent, had been dis~ pensed with. It was passed through the House and sent here and reported back from the Judiciary Commies im about two days. He expressed opposition to ali such hasty legislation, which burried through to meet Particular transactions, Ax he wndersiood che bill, 14 Proposed to sirike out the exisienoe of the principle which bas been considered neccasary to the protection o individual rights in court io every state of Lhe Un oa, aad to strike down the principle which bas been beld sacred for centuries whercver common law is practised, and tbat is the privilege which protects a witness from an swering in matiers which soa)! criminate or disgrace bimecli, The bill provided that a witness shalt be held iiabic vo any criminal indict- it for anything he may disc! nor shal matier be used in evidence } bimself. He dia not believe Congress have the right todo any such thing. The bili creates a new oft and then says | man guilty of this offence shad be liable to indictment for it, a8 a misdemeanor in any court of the United staies Daving jurisdiction of it, but what court bas a jurisdiction of an otfence which has not until now been created. Toc proper course would bave been for the bill to confer sucb jurisdiction, The bill was cone to the spirit of riy, contrary to the spirit of law, and contrary to the genius of our constitution. It was proposed to wthe witness he shall not 96 excused from ans bis testimony may criminate bimself. The bil: made no exception of contidential communications belween counsel and Sart sad Would compel a priest of the Catholic lose confessions whit to him under the most sacred ebiigations whiob can bind ‘the conscience of man. He did not stand here asa a cular advocate of the press of the city of New York, He did not fee} under any particular ob! to that press: or oe. [poy Mey = Pa was Fae infamous): assailed by one papers at city, and whem he took notice of the matter and came out, and coarted ‘an investigation, the paper only took the pb: privilege of reasserting the nor did he wish to induige in that wholesale denunciation of the press which some had seen tit to use. He believed that newspaper editors were much like other classes of ie, Containing many of most re- spectabie and worthy men to be found im the as well aswany of the most corrupt scoundrels on the face of the . (Laughter.) Toere were some con- ductors of the press whom be was prond to aumber among bis friends. He would not denounce such for he did not believe every charge made in ne against members of Congress was unworthy of ation or respect, but he wouid say that if Congress should now make this issue with ibe newspaper reporter who is in custody, or sbould make such an issue with a street poavsnger or the humbiest individual in the commaniy he would go to the country and beat them upon it. If rpg ooo alge in omg eye and Purpose of crushing tl Dewepaper end of conflict would nos be doubitul, the pubiic sympathy, whotner he be right or wrong. this Dill pass, no matior how wrong he be infinitely more in the wrong than he. quill be could be more tran the paces mace and all the ensigoa 0 passage barrier to which be has the right pamely: that he shall not be held to answer ter which may criminate himself; and th the lew goes further than that, and tled it has the support of every protection of the law goes so far, that a man bound to answer in any matter which may self, Such is the opinion of the best legal wi law evidence. Under no circumstances would for a bill which he believed contained a vicious principle. < H f i ef tat He 3 $3 i 3 1 re ity Under a pressure of circumstances like those which sur- round the present case, he preferred to adopt the old maxim, ‘‘basten slowly in legislation upon sucn impor- tant business matters as those appertaining to the liberty of the citizen.” Whilo be was perfectly willieg to pass a law whice should be potent enough in its “ Compe! the disclosure of aii the facts which eisher nouse might deem im the discharge of the business confided to them by their constituents and the constitu: In this in they bad found themselves suddenly brought up by the refusal cf a witness to disclose certain facts .which admits to be within his knowledge. order to wish this i ge p i 25 ri 1; ee ie Pupirbmentis inadequate This seemed to be mode in which they could ascertain the tral ailegation, because the bill provided that ** foture apy withers sbal) be brought up ‘Ventify be shall be liable to « pagent morn if Hi i i Hit shoul Heentiousness of the and iis miserabie minions, who are allowed te go nbout these bale, When it {s charged that the spring M8 polwoned at ite scarce it is proper thet witnesses i HH id | . i f ir i fd aH ii a Ke = PH iW bt ‘ "ye. ; a duty to suggest a few amend ments. it {s made @ misdemeanor for any ewer any questions inded the might be a trivie! question, inqulatorial ques therefore he . Again, the bili mates no distinction as to the character of the subject on which a witness may be ques. tioned. It might be on a matter over which Congress tus fareoan Tverty te aaover operete, uaaisy, eastrously to Ii ‘such power m at one time tere wore bes severe) bere wt agreed with on political to demand the y ae Aye—and when ws pay om Certain sentimenta he ought to be ¢: 6 body, to insert after the word “Neary worils ben grees or of eit Boure of .* The bill subverts and dis. Fenves with the privileges of witnesses common law. He also offered that \ this act eball not be construed sons to dope: i 3 voany witness of the ae are allowed witnesses by by oy ra ought th: hy protect! it. Bavarn thought the bill gave jon in (he in stances to which the Senator bad referred. Mr. Beriee maintained thet the bill ought to pass now, ‘ving to all who eepoured it & serener joy than | He hed-seen so much contempt for the Senate ast Saying mt olles Oe tion of | bim eer thouid never again. preseed 10 punien i waless nian \ noless they bad some law like this to control the proceedings. He should like to see the time when & man ponianed chief | this offence sball foe! the force of the law. Men do now Ike to be ched Bt 4 I a nepreee with corrupt propoeale, unless they Mr Sawann remarced be should Cor'ainly vote for the