The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1857, Page 4

one rejected. RTISEMENTS renewed every day. 'RINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des- Vebume XXIM.,............ feeetrtrerttereey (oo. J AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROAVWAY THEATRE. Brosdway- La Bruix Panque- } 7p aaaaaee ay Tux MakvinerTi Famuy—M. Deosa- ve BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Guxxaxen or Mosoow— Oxvine. BURTON'S NEW THEA’ Broad) @ururia— Joan JOnm reneway, opposite Bond st, WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway —Camriie—Oueeny Bounce. LAURA KEENE'S THEATR¥ %%4 Broadway—Durams or Devsions—Kacusnt, tHe Rearen—Younc Baccavs. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fousteenth st,—Irauan Orena— Th Trovaronr. @B0. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Braad- Way— Ersioriax Panvormanors—New Yea Osis. BUOKLFY'S SERENADERS, [65 Broad way—Ermioruax Saperna x—-Dow-e JUAR, MBCHANTIOS’ HALL, 472 Broadway--Neono Mevopres, BY MEWHERS OF THR OntorNaL Cauisty’s MINSTRELS Hew York, Monday, tanuary 26, 1857. Malls for Harope. WAS NEW YORK HBRALD—RDITION FOR SUROPE. Poe Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Lang, will feave dosion on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close tn this city © morrow @Mernoon, at ball past two o'clock. Mee Taropean edition of the Hxxaxy, printed in French m4 Baglish, will be pubiiabed at ten o’siock in the morn WS Bingic copies, in wrappers, sixponce. Babsoriptions and adveriisements for any edition of she ‘ew Yous Hunan will de rocatyod at the following placos fm Berope — Lampon—Am. & Exropean Express Oo., 61 King William st, fam Do. do. 58 Place de la Bourse, De. ® Chapel street, do. davemroor—Jon» Hunter, 13 Kxohange sircot, Kast. Mavax— Am. & Soropeen Express Ov,, 21 Rae Corneille, ‘Peo oontents of the Buropean edition of the HamaLy ‘Fl combine the news reooived by wail and telegraph at @E Moco during the previous week, end ap to the Zour Ot pebtication. The News. The steamship Black Warrior, from New Orleans ‘and Havana, is considerably overdue at this port; imdeed, her owners have been expecting her arrival since the 1sth inst. She had not been heard of when we went to press, and her absence is the cause of much anxiety to those interested. Additional accounts from Nicaragua, received by the James Adger, which arrived on Saturday, may be found on the first page. The statement regard- ing the operations on the San Juan river will be read with interest. The leak of the steamship Atlantic has been as- certained to be about two feet from the stem and a foot and a half below the water line. The cargo in the forward compartment is considerably damaged Most of it, however, has been discharged, and men are at work stopping the lesk. The National Kansas Committee are holding their sessions in this city. The report of the Secre- tary states that niuvety thousand dollars have been subscribed to the fund of the Committee since July last. Of this sum eighty-one thousand dollars have been expended in forwarding emigrants and far- nishing supplies to needy settlers. A shocking tragedy was brought to light in this @ity yesterday. A German, named Rhineman, poi goned himself and family. Intemperance is the cause assigned for the commission of the dreadfal i The shed on pier No. 1 North river, belonging to the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and also the pier itself, have been seriously damaged by the heavy ma ce piled upon it by the tide. The steamer Jonn P tying at the same pier, ‘was cut through, but bas since been repaired Strennous efforts are being made at the Navy Yard to get the United States steamer Arctic clea ice, in order that she may proceed to the reliei o the British b-i¢ Princess Louisa, reported off this port in distress by the ship Patrick Henry. Elsewhere may be found a number of lette: our correspondents at Washington and Albany. develope many interesting facts, with reference to the political movements in progress at the national and State capitals, that will startle the wire- and plotters « fons and parties. Letters from London, Paris, Vienna and Madrid, received by the Persia, from our correspondents at thove centres of so and political affairs, are given in today’s paper. They will afford our read ers important in ation upon a variety of topics fnac The rews by the Persia, from Liverpool, received on Ssturdsy, checked sales in cotton, which were confined to a few bundred bales, the market closing quiet and rather unsettled. Flour was inactive, and with moderate seics, closing at easier rates for com- mon State and West brands. There were no bransactio: jent magnitude after the receipt of the Per ews to show its effect upon the mar- ket for bre ulls. Wheat was firm before the newer, with sales of common Southern white efoat, at #1 68 a 1 70. and choice @., with Missouri, at $1 *2. Com was wncbanced whi of Western mixed were 4 in store at the atlantic docks, 7 » in the city, Pork was firm, n sales « 21, and ola at ¢ 7} @ $20, closing at the latter figure. Sugers were firm, with moderate sales of hogsheai fall pric vefiner: was te were d wale ad were 80! | engagi' engaged meamer at 7-10d. nominal at 74.6 7d. The interference from ice stil prevented the delivery of grain on shipboard. The question was tooled on nge how fer the Atiautic Dock Company were liable to storers of grain, &c., provided a want of due diligence in keeping open the communication on their part could be shown. from They sales pew mess at 00 bo xe vid to ated in another col bh limited sales of a » await the advent of the auc or the 27th inst. 1,100 baga of 5 Freights were une’ i] moderate verpool at id., an Pic were for Tne Coxvitron or THE StHEETS.-We know of no time when the streets of New York were in a more filthy and a more disg usting condition than they are at present. Mountains of snow and dirt, similar to thore which barrieaded our thoroughfares last winter, are rapidly accumulating in Broadway and other streets, to the great inconvenience of travel, and the sidewalks are fn such 9 state with ice as to render them exceedingly daagerous to pedestrians. The Mayor should se to this matter at once; he ould call a mecting of th Street Commissioner, the City Lnepector, and the Commiceioner of Streets and Lamps, and let the public know whether it is the duty of one or of all of those officers to have the streets cleaned. Let him show the public on whom the responsi bility reste, if be have not the power to compel him to perform the work. We pay enough taxes #0 make New York the cleanest city io the world. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1857. Qur Financial Expansion. The thunderbolt which fell npon the Liverpool Exchange on the morning the Persia left, in the shape of an announcement that the Bank had, not lowered, but raised the rate of interest half per cent, may well stagger the sanguine operators of our own financial world. Coming close upon a heavy fall in the price of Credit Mobilier shares, and a decrease in bullion in the Continental banks, it ean only be regarded as a very gloomy indica- tion. Several days are likely to elapse before we receive any detailed explanation of the step; meanwhile we must content ourselves with per- ceiving that the operators of the stock market were somewhat precipitate in their anticipations of an unruffled horizon. The time has not yet come, apparently, when money will be as dross, and every shin plaster a valuable security. The money manufacturers must wait a little longer. To the reflecting portion of the mercantile com- munity, the news will be agreeable. Anything that can check the enormous tendency to expan- sion should be well received. Another Schuyler might be advantageous. For really, at the rate we are going, not only in this country but in Europe, if some check be not devised, we shall all blow up some day with a crash such as the world has never seen, We stated the other day, in reliance upon a general recollection of the figures, that the general expansion of the country may be set down at $2,500,000,000, Other authori- ties satisfy themselves with different figures; the Secretary of the Treasury sets down the expan- sion at a thousand millions less, But then the Seeretary’s calculations are so loose that he only counts seventy-five insurance companies, when this city alone contains that number; so that we may console ourselves in differing from him. On the whole, looking into the items, we see no reason to alter our original estimate. It may be distributed as follows :— EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES, 1856. Railroads iunded aud flomiog deot, stocks, KO ..... 66 Bapks, capital stock. Insurance and Trust Comparies stock. Mapu'acturing Companivs stock. ° United states Stale bonds County bondi Miscellaneous scour ities, bonds, stocks, &c., of coal and ober miaing’ companies, steamship companies, &c Agercgate expansion. The only item in all this which can be disputed is the first and largest—the railroad expan- sion—which is but little short of one- half the whole amount. The advocates of a continued policy of expansion insinuate that we exaggerate this. The trath can be easily as- certained. There are, in working order, 25,000 miles of railway, in round figures, at the present moment. Of this aggregate the most cheaply con- structed road over the most favorable country cost $50,000 a mile. A great portion of the remainder cost $100,000, $150,000 and some as high as $200,000 a mile. We shall surely put the estimate as low as possible if we calculate that the average of the whole 25,000 was $45,000 a mile. This would give $1,125,000,000 as the total cost of the railwaysin operation. But there are not leas thao ten thousand miles of railway in process of con- struction in the United States. Parts are ready for the rails; in places the grading is being done; in others the roadway only has been purchased, and in others no expense has been incurred beyond that of surveys, We believe that it would be fair to set down the cost of this unfinished work at one-third of what it will cost when it is com- pleted, and to add $150,000,000 to our former estimate of $1,125,000,000, on account of rail- ways in progress: we have been moderate, and have only allowed $55,000,000 for this item. That the country is largely prosperous, that trade is likely to grow to unexampled propor- tions, if Mr. Buchanan gives us four years of peace and quietness, can be questioned by no one who examines in an intelligent spirit, the evi- dences of plenty, industry, order, and Providential bounty which surround us. But shall we say on this account that every bubble will prove genuine, that every hair-brained scheme, every fraudulemt stockjobbing enterprise will be successful’ Be- cause money will be plentiful, will spurious coin pass current Because the merchant and farmer grow rich, must Peter Fank expect to make a fortune? We think not. On the contrary, from the very lucrativeness and prosperity of legiti- mate trade, capital will be diverted from specu- Jation and bazardous schemes: men will sell out their stock in railways to buy corn, cotton, ships and lands. We can quite understand how hard it seems to the projectors of the great railways, like the New York Central, after having weathered three whole years of hard times, to find, now that the sky isserene, that they are not likely to part! - pate inthe general manna, and that like poet's little rill— Though trade may come and trade may go, They must go down tor ever. It is hard certainly. But what can be done? How can we put our money in mich schemes? The Schugler fraud beggared, in a day, in an hour, in a minute, hundreds of innocent families who had put oll their earnings into the stock which he controlled: how can we be expected to ran such riske as this? How can we go on increas- ing the fictitious capital of the country when it already amounts to a sum under which a nation and richer than the United States wonld a sum it may safely be sai at would in twelve months, break the back of any country in the world bat and aud the United ce IN THT Jadge, th faa criminal an- Judge occupied the in transacting the criminal busi- nee belonging to the Special Session i also to the General Sessions, In these three brief weeks he disposed of four hundred cases in the former, and about eighty jury trials in the latter, with a degree of promptitude, dignity, efficiency and public effect nnexampled, perhaps, in the records of the criminal jurisprudence of this city for the laet half century. During the last three weeks these two courta, ultimately held under the administration of Judge Russell, have commanded the attention of every well disposed citizen, brought forth their approbation, and wrung from the meanest and vilest journals of the metropolis, that formerly assailed him, the most unquestionable and well merited praise. The court room has presented a drama almost of the highest character, and from among all classes of our population has drawn crowds from the cheap theatres to the more im- portant proceedings that were taking place in the courts of justice. Jndge Russell is, we believe, a native of this city. or has resided here long enough to be the same as one. He bas been a practitioner of our civil tratic criminal justice in th memorable in i and criminal courts for mor? than twenty years, and is perfectly acquainted with society of every deecription in this city in a professional way. In these respects his antecedents have given him the greatest experience for the position he occupies; but his own character for moral courage, clear- ness of intellect, fearlessness in the performance of his duty, and dignity beyond many of his pre- decessors, have fitted him above any others we have seen on the bench to be a criminal judge in this awful modern Sodom and Gomorrah, crowded with villains, political, moral, civil, and all kinds, In the exercise of his ability and his power as a judge he has fearlessly dealt even- banded justice to the political rowdy as well :f this party as of that, and to criminals of every description. For the last fe ors, under the horrible de- moralization of ve bave had, all laws have been trat " itico) and moral villainy of very magnttud We have be c int social disorgu- dere adn necessary to have @ \ iy ar | to that which marked the 2) > at cisco, But with such a man as Juul the head of our criminal jurisdiction, icc just and determined, we have no hesitation in saying that his single example will do more to regulate the criminal population of the city, and set things to rights, than all the committees, and all the charters, and all the police departments that might be accumulated upon us by the spoilers now at Albany, who are trying to ruin the little government we have left. We hope and trust that the other Judges will take example by the model which was presented to them during the last three weeks in the Ses- sions of this city. We will then be able, all of us, to walk the streets at any hour of the night in peace and eafety, and villainy will scarcely dare to show its face in the light of day. A better day is dawning upon ua. Interesting from Nicaragua—The Elements of our Inaian Empire. We yesterday published the very interesting report of Gen. Henningsen of the destruction of the city of Granada and his retreat from there, together with the protests of Mr. Harris and Mr. Hutchinson in relation to the seizure of the steamers on the San Juan river, and full particu- lars of the news by the James Adger, from San Juan del Norte. To-day we publish several statements made by passengers who came through from San Juan del Sur, and a very important narrative by Capt. Kruger, who commanded Walker’s picket at Fort San Carlos, which was taken by the Costa Ricans. The story of Kruger, giving as it does the ad- mitsions of Spencer, who was the soul of the en- terprise against the Transit steamers, that he acted as the agent of Commodore Vanderbilt and in accordance with his orders in this matter, proves the truth of the view the Heraup has taken ot this contest in Central America from the first. It is, in fact, a cantest between the old and the new Transit Companies, and the soul and centre of both parties to the struggle is in New York. The part that the Central Ameri- cane are really playing is quite a subordinate one. The increasing tide of trade and travel be- tween our Atlantic aad Pacific shores is prepon- derating over every other interest in the coun- tries traversed by the Transit routes, and it must in the end result ina complete social and politi- cal reorganization of them. Nicaragua was the firet to feel the effects of this new order of things; but the other Central American States, in takiag up arms against the change which she was expe- riencing, have brought themselves into the con- test, and must abide the result. Incapable of self-support, we find the proofs daily accumulating that both parties look for and depend upon aid from Wall street; and while one party rends down men and material for Walker, the other furnishes money and daring rkill to his opponents. To the feeble political organizations of Costa Rica and Nicaragua it matters little which party triumphs : the ruling spirits of both become henceforward American. One may place the American at the head and tront of the new order of things; and the other, like Dessaix and Clive, in India, keep the raling power masked behind native puppet; the result is still the same, and the story of India becomes repeated in the Isthmus States of this continent. It looks now as though the true and open filibuster movement will triampb; and if General Walker, as the representative man of that rpirit, has the tact aud eagacity to endear himself to the masees of the people in Central America he may yet build up a great empire. For thirty years the marses there have been but the spoil and tools of ambitious men. Pressed like sheep into the ranks of each ambitious leader, or robbed by every one who wielded the strong arm of po rer, they have little sympathy with any government; all are looked upon by them as enemies. There is another element in the occurrences south of us that is becoming developed to the advantage of the American filiuster, This is most curtly stated in the letter published yesterday from o..¢ Lima correspondent. When President Castilla wirhed to send the Peruvian Admiral Saleedo to retake some runaway steamers, the Admiral said to him, “ Do not, if you expect success, give me Peruvians, for they are a set of cowards and traitors. I want Americans.” And Castilla sought them for his service. Here we see that Saxon tenacity and Saxon courage are heginning to tell apon the nish American politicians; it is natural that they should also produce their effects upon tho masses, and if they are applied to the science of govern- utas effectually as they are applied tu the art of war, they will command the re«poct and support of the misgoverned countries, Such an event wonld clevate those now disorganized communities to peace anda inaterial prosperity that must be the true source of intellectual developement among them. In whatever form, therefore, that our American truth and skill are brought to rule Centra! America, whether directly under President Walker or indirectly under Commodore Vander bilt, order will be brought out of chaos, and pros- perity out of the now wasted or abandoned cle- ments of material welfare. Such reeult is dix tinctly pointed at by the course of paseing events, and our Indian empire promises soon to become a fixed fact, as Caleb Cushing would eay, and doubtless to the advantage of ourselves and of the world. Speed, therefore, our Indian empire. w people ia those Tue Gas Comrasies ann THe Peniic—The manner in which the gas companies perform their contracts with the public and with indivi- duals has become the subject of general com- plaint. A Jarge number of the lamps are not lit at night, and the gas supplied to offices and private houses is of a very inferior description. For what they uso the gas consumers of New York pay perhaps a higher price than is paid in any other city in the United States, and there is bo good reason why they should not have the worth of their money. It is the business of the Police to see that the lamps are lit every night, and to report all cases of negligence to the Mayor. City Matters in the Legislature—Migration of the Lobby to Albany. We are heartily glad that the labors of the Congressional Committee have had one good ef- fect—that is, to block the schemes of the lobby at Washington, temporarily at least. But the lobby members are like vultures—driven away from one prey only to settle with renewed avidi- ty upon another. The men who are scheming to plunder the public chest, finding their plans sud- ly arrested at the national capital, have turned up in a new spot, and are pressing certain bills at Albany, with the intent to take a round sum out of the pockets of the taxpayers of the city of New York. It is very well known that the State svoils are of no consequence. The canals are ‘one up, 60 far as their value to the lobby is 4 it has been considered necessary ew plan by which the politi- the'r cravings. ~ four bills York, but really of the wirepullers vo. i Y party. During the next two v. » year are to be expended in this city some thirty millions of dollars, for various public pw poses. Some four or five millions are to be ex- pended upon the Central Park; an equal, perhaps greater sum, is to be devoted to the building of a new City Hall; and changes in the police system will undoubtedly increase the expenditures to a million and a half or two millions. Some extra expenses for the Croton aqueduct will use up a million or two—perhaps more—while the regular expenses of the city government will not fall short of eight or nine millions, and will perhaps exceed that sum. This splendid prospect for the spoils has not been lost sight of, and the lobby members driven from Washington have cooked up these bills in the Astor House parlors, and are now forcing them upon the Legislature. The first is an act to create in the city of New York a Metropoli- tan Police Department. We have already pub lished this bill, which places the entire control of the police, the City Inspector’s department, the elections, and the administration of criminal jus- tice in the lower court in the hands of three Commissioners, who are to be appointed by the Governor of the State, the Senate comturring. These Commissioners have fat salaries and al- most entire control over several of the most im- portant departments in the city govern- ment. They have almost unlimited con- trol over the city treasury, and a splendid opportunity to deplete it. The next is an act for the improvement and regulation of the Cen- tral Park. It provides that the park shall be un- der the exclusive control and management “of a Board of three Commissioners, to be appointed by the Governor, and to hold office during six years.” Next we have an act for the erection and location of a new City Hall; this is also to be done by a Board of three Commissioners, to be appointed by the Governor, and they are to have two millions to start with. So much for the spe- cial laws. To complete the catalogue, there is an act to amend the charter of the city of New York, which is in reality a new charter, and one entire- ly different from any that we have ever seen, It provides for the election of sixteen Al- dermen by districts, to be hereafter ar- ranged—gives the Mayor the power of ap- pointing the heads of departments, with one exception—the Department of Finance—and places in the Board of Aldermen the power to remove the persons appointed by the Mayor, wit.- out his consent. The Comptroller is the head of the Department of Finance; he is to be elected by the people, and to be entirely independent of the Mayor and every one else. The radical fault of this charter must be ap- parent to every man of common sense. It makes & triple-headed goverument. The Mayor is one head, the Comptroller another, the Board of Al- dermen another, There would be a continual clashing of these powers, and the city would be in a worse condition than it is at present; and that is bad enough, What we want is a plain, simple charter, which shall put the executive power in the hands of the Mayor, and the legislative power in those of the Board of Aldermen. The people will then take care to elect a man like Wood, or such a magistrate as Judge Russell has shown himself to be, and we can have a Mayor who is perfectly awake to the responsibility of his posi- tion, and entirely able to discharge its duties with credit to himself and the city. That government which is the plainest and the simplest, is always the best. The radical fault about the present charter is that it is too complicated, and that it so far carves up the responsibility that there is none of it yisible. The Mayor should have all the executive power, and then the people can hold him strictly accountable for the manner in which he uses it. With regard to the schemes of the lobby in re- lation to the police, the Central Park and the City Hall, we have yet to be convinced that the Legislature will allow itself to be made the tool of a few political hacks who desire to quarter their friends upon this long suffering city. The taxpayers of New York have a right to protest against the creation of these three Boards, that are to have absolate power and unlimited control over the city tre» sury, and we trast that that protest will be !oud enough to be heard at Albany. We suffer suffi- ciently from plunderers here, without being obliged to support a horde of hungry country politicians. We donot want the leeches who have been found too voracious even for that cor- rupt atmorphere, to fasten their fangs on the city treasury. We do not want any charters or ape- cial laws cooked up by cliques of nigger wor- shippers at the Astor House and driven through the Legislature under the whip of the majority. Tar Boarn or Evvcatton ann rts Axnvat Ex- reners.—It is now about fifteen years since the system of common school education was estab- lished in New York, and the liberal manner in which it has been supported by our people during that period shows the importance attached to it and the high estimation in which it ie held. Pre- vious to the year 1841 the only instruction whieh the youth of the metropolis received was that afforded by private echools and the bivher ineti- tutions of learning, from both of whieh the poorer classes were almost wholly excluded by their poverty, Free schools, it is true, ied been established by private benevolence, under the title of the public school system, but it war im- porsible, through the limited and sometimes pre- carious meane with which it was provided, to meet city randizement al) the demands upon its attention. In addition to this it had to eontend against the opposi- tion of a pertion of our citizens who re- garded it in the light of a sectarian organiza- tion, and who could not be induced to trust the instruction of their children to its appointed teachers. As it did not, under these circum- stances, embrace all clasees, it became obvious that a new system should be established—a sys- tem which would be entirely free from the charge of sectarianism, and against which the religious prejudices of any denomination would find no eause of complaint. It was under this condition of things that the Board of Education was established, and there is perhaps no tax which the people of New York pay more willingly than that which is expended yearly by this body for educational purposes. In fact, the confidence which they have hither- to reposed in its proceedings, although sadly abused, has been most unwavering; but the way in which the school moneys have been mis- appropriated, the dishonesty which has marked the performance of contracts, and the fact that the Board of Education is passing rapidly uuder the control of designing and corrupt politicians, have already had the effect of weakening the pub- lic confidence in that body, Perhaps the strong- eet proof which can now be given of the charge of niraprrupriation of the educational fund is that » annual reports, We are told by that the whole number of ls taugh! in the ¥ ehools, of all kinds, ‘ that ‘Se annual ave A “ame time 1, on the amo who tion amouui calculation this enormous esp: to agree with the statement of tae j... amount paid for the education of each pupil it will require all the mathematical ability, not only of the Board of Education, but of all the teachers in the city to explain. With all the light afforded us by arithmetic, we find it utterly impossible to make it less than nineteen dollars. What a contemp- tible artifice is this, then, by which to impose on public credulity, and give the taxpayers the im- pression that the expenses of public education are conducted on a most economical basis ! We have already called attention to the fact that the report for 1856 will show an increased expenditure of two hundred thousand dollars over the expenses of the previous year—an in- crease which certainly cannot be justified on the ground of the rapid growth of ourcity. Where, then, must we look for the cause of this enor- mous expenditure? The answer is so simple that it can be given by any one acquainted with the working of our city government and the manner in which the business of the various de- partments is conducted. It is with the Board of Education to a great extent, as with the depart- ment of the Street Commissioner--immense amountsof money are expended tor which the people receive no adequate return, and the greater part of which finds its way into the pos- session of contractors and officeholders, The system of contracts, as at present carried on, is nothing more nor less than an organized con- spiracy to defraud the public, and it is rapidly approaching that point when the people, with all their forbearance and all their indifference, will no longer be able to tolerate it. The Board of Education has become as much an arena of speculation as the Com- mon Council, and if the honest por- tion of its members do not take ac- tive and prompt measures to redeem it from the odium which the dishonesty of some of their colleagues must bring upon it, the great pur- poses for which our public school system was es- tablished will be defeated. They owe it to the taxpayers of New York—they owe it to the rising generation, and, lastly, they owe it to a proper regard for their own reputation, to ex- pose the frauds which have been perpetrated, and to bring to light the guilty parties who have in- sidiously crept into offices of the highest trust for their own selfish ends, What is demanded, then, is a committee of investigation to inquire into the actual expenses of the Board, that we, the taxpayers, may know how our money is ap- propriated—how much is really expended for the purposes of education, and how much goes into the pockets of contractors and official agenta. Let us have the committee of investigation and a com- plete exposé of the per centage system connected with the building of schoolhouses and the sup- plying of books, stationery, kc. A committee of honest men, determined to do justice, is what the taxpayers demand and what they must have. Naval Intelligence. ‘Tho United States steam frigate Suequehanne end fri gate Congress were at Genoa on the 17th of December. The Constellation, when last heard from, was at Coa- stantinople, and was to leave ina few days for Aloxan dria. Personal Intel nee, ‘The United States Senste have cuuirmed the following Dominali — Wiltam Howland, Collector at, Sacketis Harbor, New York, vice Obaries K. Loomis, removed Mathias B. Andrew, Uoilcotor at 8%. Augustine, Florida, ‘vice Paul Arnan, resigned Benjamin Stiler, Surveyor at Hardwick, Georgta, re ap- te Powter Maxwell, Sarveyor at Sunbury, Georgia, ro Appointed. DEPARTURES. For Saverrah. in the steamship Florida=P F Fitzsimon, H Baldwin, RF Holcombe, James eel)! 1, 0 Pi Kev Oe Colton, Mrs A Brae, Mies H L Peitio, WU daugaler, F W Lord, F M Harishorn and indy, 5 © Acams and lady. W Sinelate and indy, Mies Lord, J Weick WT Boate, Hm Waters, and i0 in the steerage. Ovituary. Froxcep Laasverworm, jer of the Revolution, died ot Derby, Conn., on the 20th inst., aged ninety three The Bridgeport Standard eaye he war the butidor of the first bridge st I'rdgeport aad qaue & potable ‘Tne Srawisn Coms.—The announcement from Aud on the 6% Cont Pleses the taprecte- 50 percent The by Pina for _ who bave ther ers and Jevies in iarge qnsniities world be wake hea to sho Wirt and one of them by weight for silver. This would sven the com junity to and have Kereatter Sur own eonveniest, cecimal culos for all we transection of trade. Jon THE LATEST NEWS; BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. aa aa ae. 25, 1856, marine Telegra; Dill will probably im the House to-mofrow, and i¢ is thought an Pewee 4 be made to pass it under ® suspension of the rules. A sample of the cable is on view at the National Hotel and altracts a great deal of attention. ‘The weather here has become much milder, Clearing Boston of Ice. ‘Boston, Jan, 26, 1857. 4 contract has been made with a large firm in the co business to open a ship channel in the Barbor, to be com. pleted by Wednesday, in time for the departure of the America. A large number of hands have beon at work at it to-day. The thermometer to-day is about 15 degrees above zero, Cold Weather tn Vermont. Montrauisr, Jan, 24, 1867. Thie morning was the coldest within recollections Every thermometer congealed, and the best weather judges estimated the temperature at 60 degrees below zero, The railroads are badly blocked with snow. Brig Waverley Ashore, Sarem, Mass., Jan. 26, 1867, The brig Waverley, Ragnes, from Hayti for Boston, 0 ashore on Milk Ialand. 1 is not badly situated, and wild Probably get off with assistance, Fire in Boston, Boston, Jan. 25, 1867, The Maverick House, in East Boston, occupied as ® hotel and for stores, was partly destroyed by fire yes- terday morning. The loss is $30,000. Noah Sturtevant owned the building. Markets. New Jan. ‘The salen of cotton to-day were 14,000 alee te athough nae er ‘under the influence of the sows. td noted at 123,¢. alzX0. Flour . * cg Corn tending . eivea 8 s72"” Cotte verpool sadedt in CONBeY ZOO: * pales ot the week, 13,900 ius. has ad rink vance ; sales, 46,500 piews Proceedings of the National Kansas Con mittee. Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Llinois and Wisconsin, and the Territory of Kansas. Members are still expected from Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan. There were Present from Kansas Territory Col. L. W. Eldridge and ‘Wm, Hutchinson, Kaq., of Lawrenoe, and J M. Winchell, Eaq., of Council City, in behalf of the Kansas State Cen- tral Committee. In the absence of the President, Wu. H. Reesell, Esq., of Connecticut, was calied to the chair. ‘The session of Friday was occupied chiefly with the ro- port of the Secretary, which was referred to tbe proper Committees. From this document we extract the follow. ing ttems:—There have been received from all sources, teams into the Territory, Since the closing of the committee have reovived some threo which will go forward in March. will LA aed giving these statistics in de | F. M. Army, Eaq , tendered his resignation ral agent of the committee, to consequence of to remove to Kansas and devote himself to tional ee a the Arta; Dramatic and Musical Matters. ‘The great dramatic event of the week—and oertainiy <qnal to any event of the sonson—bas beom the début oF Mise Matilda Heron at Walinck’s theatre, Miss Heron commenced on Thuraday night, played Camille to 8 mo- dorate houre, and at once achieved a muccess tho follow to which, all the ciroum:tences considered, we cannot now recall to our minds. The prose unanimously socord- ed to her the position of a great tragic artist, and several sound erities bave placed her on the very highest podes- tal, On Friday night the honso was full, amd on Saturday it wes crowded. Miss Heron's acting is entirely fresh, e«pontancous, natural, She seems to us to have attained the redical points of that perfection of art which ia the closest imitation ef mature, She ty crade at times: she dashes on, leaving benatifol otfecte but half finished, and seems to have a nervous anxiety not only to Mx but to rivet the attention of her audience, In the vrateemblance of the part she is quite She did not give oF an entirely now view of ‘Camille, bat she worked out the points of the character from entirely different promise. and prodneed her effect» in an entirely different manner. itis in thie origioality that Miss Horon's great powor liss—ebe Is entirely aniike any actress we Lave seen, and therefore comparative criticlem ie impossibie, It can hardly be doubted that Miss Heron throws this vividly fresh coloring over other characters which she acts, aithough to piay Camillo as she playe it proves one of two things—elther that she haa confined her study to that +/+ simply, cr that she porsens- en the electric force of genius which goes straight to ite purpose, and accomplishes in an instant what ordinary power struggles for years to attain. This question, which is full Of interest to all thone who love the drame for iteelt, and are gina to recogniz: and reward the offorts of tis enc ceanfal exponents, will, no doubt, be soon settled. Watle It ae attractive as it is now, the managemont will not, of course, remove it from tbe bilis; but we hoar that Mise Heron intends to perform during this engagement her own version of M. Logouvé's tragedy of “Modes”. Mise Heron's enocess is insured. We have only to record the fact, which wo do with pleasure, She will play Camitie every night this week. ‘The ItauaN OreRa season at the Academy of Masic has Commenced yery well. During the week ‘‘Lacresia ‘Borgia”’ and the ‘“Trovatore”’ wore given. Parodi wae verp fine iB both operas, and she hes fully maintained her pe