The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. SaMumn CONDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Ors BM. WV, CORNER @F NASGAU AND FULTON STS ————_—— Wedemec KAM... ......-cecrsesersreee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Jace Cape—Youne wew SIBLO’® GARDEN, Reve * nats --Eswen apa. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Cusunas or Deats— orpor TEINS NEW THEATRE. Breadwey, opposite Bond ot. Rect Mae ane Wak OF NERTE SIAMESE 1 WINS CRE or. Broadway—Tus Coormus—Ticat avis. ws Fe WAL).AUK’S THEATRE, Breedway—O.miiie—Wno's My Bostaxp! LAURA KEENE'S THKATAB, 6% Breadway—Muny’s Denvaper ~ UIT Le TODDLER: ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st,—Itauian Ormna— ‘Nomma. (BASSET '® AMERICAN ® op wed Evening - Gorman, @RO CARTY AND WOO! MINSTRELS, 444 Broad ‘vey—Drniorias Puaroamavces—Nuw Yrax Cis. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 185 Brosdway—Ermiorun ewe mast—Locarza Borcia MSOB ‘NICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Nuone Mevoorms ac. oy Muwrens or tam Oniery an Cunisty’s MivsTaEis. GRIVESE ROOMS, 539 Broadway—Seven Mice Mmnon er Ter Gaeat Lakns np BIveRs, Bew York, Wednesday, february 4. 1657. Maile for Europe. ‘FHS NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘Tee Cunard mail steamship Persia, Captain Judkins ‘Wi leave this port to-day, at ope o’leck, for Liver pool. Tee Puropean mails will olose io this city at half-past eleven o/oleck in the morning. ‘The European edition of the Hens, printed in French and Englieh, will be published st tem o’ciock im the morn- img. “ingie copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Rubscripvons and sdverttsement for any edition of the @ew You: lerarp will be received st the following places to Horepe:— feo soem, amie Hayaarsor—Do do. 9 Chapel street. Exvasrooi—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East Bavex—Am. & European Express Oo., 31 Rue Corneille. ‘The ocptents of the European edition of the Hxwarn weil) combine the news received by mail and telegraph at She office during the previous week, and up to the hour ef poblicaticn. The News. The recent murder of Dr. Burdell in Bond street, ® the absorbing topic of conversation in all circles and the excitement seems hourly to increase. The @eroner’s investigation was proceeded with yester- @ay and most important points were adduced, par- tionlarly in the testimony of Mr. Brooks, which, in all probability, fixes the exact time of the murder, and that of Mr. Stevens, which is the strongest evi @ence yet given of the bad feeling subsisting between Mrs. Cunningham and Dr. Burdell. Full particulars of the proceedings thus far, with per sonal sketches of the various parties concerned, will be found in our columus. An election for Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart- ment took place last night, between the hours of 7 ané 10o0’clock. The summing up at a late hour was as follows, with serenteen (mostly Carson) companies vo hear from:— Berry Howard Alfred Carson, Feward’s majority....... pire Ree It was eupposed Howard had a small plurality. Our Legislatare at Albany yesterday, on the first ballet, elected Preston King United States Senator for eix years from the fourth of March next, in place ef Hamilton Fish. In the Senate Preston King re- ceived 14 votes; Joe) T. Headly, 9; Daniel E. Sickles 1. In the Assembly, King had 77 votes; Sickles 33, and Headly 6. We call attention this morning to our special despatch from Washington, in which will be found some rich and spicy extracts from the correspon- dence between Gen. Scott and Secretary Davis, and other interesting matters. In the United States Senate yesterday a bill was ‘mtroduced to secure to actual settlers, at $2.50 per acre, the alternate sections of public lands in grants made to States for railroad purposes. The Central American treaty was debated in executive session for three hours, but without any result. The House of Representatives was engaged during the day in the discussion of business relating to the District of Columbia. Mr. Buchanan left Washington city yesterday morning, accompanied by a number of his politica frends. Advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico, to the 20th ult, received at New Orleans, inform us that there were yumors of a new insurrection at Puebla, and that at San Luis effuirs were without change. lt was re- ported that Senor Soto was about retiring from the ministry. Our private advices from Monterey, of the 27th of December, state that General Vidaurri, with some 2,000 men, would soon advance on San Luis Potosi, $0 support Comonfort’s government. The Coahuila forces would concentrate at Saltillo, and those be longing to Nuevo Leon would concentrate at Monte- rey. Governor Vidaurri is invested by the general government with full authority to raise men and means in order to march immediately into the im terior, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed among all classes. The idea of mwcbing into the interior ie very popular, and it would be Vidaurri’s lot t» save the government and the Constituent Congress. The affair at San Luis will do more good than harm, as it will have a tendency to nollify that military prestige that has catsed so much mischief in Mexico. The continued examination of the Nicaragua filibusters, before the United States Commissioner, is given in aaother part of our paper. From our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barba- dors, we learn that the cholera was raging at De merara. Toe ship John Gaskie, from Penang for New York, which had put into Briagetown in dis- tress, had been condemne?. The market was full of al) kinds of American produce. The Ten Governors met yesterday. Among the propositions before ‘hem was one to permit the Bellevue Hospital to be a school for medical stadents and to allow the Board of Physicians to give clini ca] lectures and grant Jiplomas like other colleges ‘Thies was granted. There are now 6,650 persons ji the institution— an increase of 145 since last week. The House of Representatives of Louisiana have passed a resolution instructing the members of Cor. gress from that State to oppose the contemplated re- peal of the duty on sugar. The net amount in the Treasury of the United States, on the 26th ult., subject to draft was $21,496,551 93. Aclerk in the Sommerville (N. J.) Post Office has been detected in extensive mail depredations in that locality. ‘The site of their present building, Monnt St. Vin- cent? having been included in the Central Park, the community of the Sisters of Charity of this city have Fonthill, the beautiful place re cently owned by Mr. E. Forrest, a few miles below Yonkers. The Bermuda Royal Gazetter of the 6th of Janu- ary, says:—The Parliament of this colony is dis- solved, anda new House of Assembty will shortly be elected. The determination was to put a period te the existence of the House, which in 1866 far ex- ceeded all bounds of parliamentary law and usage, and involved itself and the whole Legislature n in- extricable confusion. Cotton was again firmer yesterday, with sales of about 5,000 baler, part in transit, based npon mid- dling Uplands at 13)c. 9 194c., without sellers at the close, under the latter figure. Flour was firmer for common grades, while extra qualities were un- @banged. Armong the sales were some loty for gg NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1857. port. Wheat was firmly held for the higher quali- ties, which checked sales. Corn sold at 69c. a 70c. for Western mixed from store, and 72c. delivered- Pork was firm, a. at he close holders de- manded $22 for new mess, and $21 for do. Lard was firm and sold at 13jc. Cut were firm; 1,000 packages salted shoulders sold. liverable next spring, at 8jc. Sugars were more active. The sales embraced about 600 ” 260 boxes and 700 hhds. Molado, en terma stated descriptions, at steady prices. We refer to the remarks and stocks supplied by Mr. Scott's weekly circular, in another place. Freights were in mode- rate request. To Liverpeol, about 30,000 bushels corn in bulk, were engaged at 6jd.; cotton at jd.a 5-16d., chiefly at the former rate, and heavy goods at 258. “After mo,” said the fifteenth Louis, looking trom the splendors and corruptions of his Court and the ominous interna! quietade of France to the terrible tempest darkening the verge of the horizon—“after me the deluge!” Adapting this graphic, awful and sublime prophesy to the pe- culiar circumstances and exigencies of our own time and our own country, we may, perhaps, most fitly apply it to the administration of Mr. Buchanan, and to the perilous struggle for the succession which wil) inevitably make the year 1860 a most memorable one in the history of re- publican institutions. With every day’s observations and develope- ments, our opinion is strengthened that as far as Mr. Buchanan himself is concerned, he wil! have a peaceful, successful and prosperous admiaistra- tion. He has nothing more to ask of his party— no second term to intrigue and huckster for—no heir nor favorite to advance over the heads of other aspirants for the succession; but having secured the ultimatum of his wishes, he has no- thing more to do than to administer the duties of hie high oMice independently, fearlessly and faithfully to the Amer’ people, leaving the consequences to parties and politicians to be provided for as they may come to pass. In this view the different leaders and cliques of the democratic party appear already to have dise> vered that the policy of submission to Mr. Bu- chanan is their true course, whatever may be their preparations for the future. Threats and plots of intimidation and rebellion from this clique or that will be of no avail against a man who bas secured all that he wants, and who is the absolute master of his situation. Hence the gratifying signs of party acquiescence and submission on all sides, toa President who has nothing to sell and nothing to buy (excepting perhaps, the island of Cuba.) This party submis- sion, however, to Mr. Buchanan will be no bar to the plots and incrigues of party leaders and sectional factions for the succession. In fact, the very circumstance that tae democratic nomina- tion for 1860 will be left by Mr. Buchanan an entirely open question, will only result in enlarg- ing and embittering the plots and couaterplots, the mining and undermining, of the different fragments and aspirants of the democracy, and all other parties, for the sweepstakes of the new Presidential election. Granted, then, that Mr. Buchanan will give us a good and peaceful administration, satisfactory to the people and endurable to the politicians— that he will quiet all internal territorial disorders and silence all fears of external filibustering in a dignified and law abiding domes- tic and foreign policy, why should we anticipate the terrors of “a deluge” in 1860? Let us ex- plain: upon the simple principle that great ex- pansions are followed by great convulsions—that inordinate inflations, political, financial or com- mercial, are infallibly productive of violent ex- plosionsand all their extensive list of disasters. We are just now in the high career of financial and commercial prosperity—our national, State aad corporation credits of all the Union make the sum of three thousand millions of dollars. ($3,- 000,000,000.) A pacific and conservative ad- ministration will contibute vastly to enlarge this credit basis of our commercial and financial ope- rations, including all sorts of speculations and adventures, Our present relations with Eag\aud, in China and Central America, (for example) are tive, in themselves, of the opening ofa new field for the largest international joint-stock public and private ent os, Thus, under the peaceful auspices of Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration, the bubble of spy sula- tion, on both sides of the Atlantic. will contiaue to expand, reflecting to all eyes, on all sides, the brilliant bues of the rainbow. But wita the first definite movements of the various sections, factions and parties in 1860 for the succession, the ominous thunder of the impending burricane will be heard in the horizon, and as if rolling along under the ground. We see, already, that as far as political parties are concerned, every thing must be reorganized or every thing will be in chaos in 1860—we see that Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration is not likely to be made an issue of the fight—we see that there is no de- mocratic party, in a national sense—no republi- can party—no American party ; but in each a confused mixing of discordant factions, which cannot bold together four years longer. We see that this everlasting nigger question overshadows all others—that disunion conventions are no longer confined to the South; and from the pro- ceedings of Congress upon the Oregon and Min- nesota bills it is easy to discern that another vigger avd sectional agitation, overwhelming and sinking everything else, is before us, and wi)! surely come upon us like a hurricane in 1860, Then, with the existing discordant parties broken up into hostile camps and sections, may expect half a dozen Presidential candidates in the field; and with three of these thrown into the House of Representatives at Washington for an election, what will be the result,’ The government may be shaken to its foundations, and we shall do well to escape a total shipwreck among the rocks and shoals of abolition, secession, disunion and civil war. That we shall escape a tremendous commercial and financial revulsion we do not, we cannot, believe—but that with the expiration of the ad- ministration of Mr. Buchanan another convulsion far more ruinous than that of 1837 will shake the country, we verilv do believe. In the mean- time, therefore, let our prudent readers graduate their speculations so as to bring them to a eash adjustment before the summer of 1860, or they will be lost. Beware of large adventures in railroads, niggers, wild lands, new banks, old banks, manufacturing enterprises, steamships, regular and fancy stocks, which promise no ro- deeming dividends this side of 1860. When the winds blow, and the rains fall, and the floods do- soend, all these things may be swept away, ae within the brief space of a single night. In a word, while we would congratulate the people, including our politicians, financier, mer- cbante and business meu of all clases, on the we Gaily increasing evidences éf peaceful, god andj THE LATEST NEWS. Prosperous times under Mr. Buchanan’s edminis- tration, we would also admonish them of the | gathering cleuds in the horizon, and of the va- rious signs of the times of a political and financial convulsion in 1860-61, without a parallel in the history of the world. ‘Whe Killed Dr. Burdell? The more evidence that is taken on the awful tragedy in Bond street, the mere clearly is it seen that it was the work of no common hand, of no mere jawless vagrant. Though the witnesses whose testimony is given elsewhere cannot be described as directly fastening the charge of murder on this or that person, yet their evidence goes on the one side to narrow very materially he circle within which the culprit must be sought, and on the other to lessen the improba- bility that a person in a station where murderers are supposed to be uncommon should have taken the life of the late Dr. Burdell. There is a risk and a responsibility in giving expression, at this early stage in the inquiry, to the suspicions that ferment in the public mind. It is possible that those whom the public eye aow regards as guilty may prove simply unfortunate. But we are bound to say that up te this moment the burden of the testimony taken is frightfully against Jobn J. Eckel and Emma Augusta Cunningham. They may be innocent, and heaven knows we hope they are. But it is, to say the least, an unfortunate thing that Mr. Eckel should have gone out before breakfast that morn- ing, and should have deposited in his pri- vate desk a paper which would seem to have been purloined from Dr. Burde. It is unfortunate that he should have been on sach terms with the woman Cunningham as to lead the housemaid to regard her as an indiscreet mother to grown up daughters. And it is still more un- fortunate that he showid have allowed expres- sions of ill will towards the deceased to escape him, to which the present conjuncture imparts an awful significance. As for the unhappy female over whom the public wrath now impends, every circumstance connected with her is unfortunate. She had a husband, who died, suddenly, in his chair, leaving a policy of insurance for $10,000 in favor of his wife. Was he poisoned? We must dig his body up. She led a life after his death which is described in the evidence of the witness Hildreth; a life evidently calculated to harden her heart and steel her nerves. Her ac- quaintance was such as no honest woman would willingly keep. Arrived at a mature age, aad not destitute of those artful charms or charmful arts by which women in the meridian of life se- cure lovers, she met, ensnared, and conquered Dr. Burdell. Entering his house as his mistress, she sought to assert a control over him against which the passionate and crabbed temper of the doctor rebelled. He gave her money. He gave her a home. He took in her daughters, He lodged her friend Eckel. Not content with all this, the woman Cunningham insists that he shall marry her. He refuses, and she sues him. Burdell, an angry, but not a persevering hater, capitulates; on certain conditions, among which is the one that he shall “extend to Mra. Cunningham and her family his friendship through life,” and another that he shall rent her his rooms at half their value, she withdraws the suit. Burdell confesses that from the woman to whom he has vowed friendship through life he stands in terror of his own. He declares he has caught her at his safe. The servant indiscreetly wakes at an untoward noise. Eckel and Mra, Crnningham leer at each other across the table as they speculate on the happy consequences of “a handy blow” on the doctor’s head. Yet all these people go on living under the same roof, until one night one neighbor smells burning woollen or flannel, another bears a stifled cry of murder, and next morning poor Dr. Bur- dell is found by Dr. Main and the boy Burchell dead in his room. We see that some organs of opinion abuse some of the public functionaries for prosecuting this inquiry like public prosecu- tors; but how can any man in his senses look at the facts without coming to some conclusion as to the guilty person—and that conclusion a per- fectly clear and fair one? The whole affair fills the honest mind with dis- gust and loathing. What shall we say of the other residents of this ill fated house? of these two girls, of whom the elder is said to be twenty-two years of age, and a lady of much havteur, and of the youthful Snodgrass, the son of a clergyman, who eee mingly got bis board on con- dition of being the cavalier of Miss Cunningham? How came these people to hear nothing of the mardered man’s death struggle? Of course, to suppose that they were accomplices is repulsive to common sense; but how came they all to sleep so sound that night? And what sort of a house wae this, at all? Are there any more of the same kind left, where diseolute women try to in- veigle amorous bachelore into matrimony nd murder them when they refuse? Can nobody enlighten this point? Abandonment of the Schooners Mary Steed- man and Worth. STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN TERRY, STEEDMAN, ‘The Mary Steedman left Georgetown, ©. C , on the 6ta of Janvary, bound to New York, with naval stores, and on the 18th was up to Little Egg Harbor, wben we took a heavy gale from the northeast, hove to, and on the 19th, ft blowing @ hurricane, blowed tho thive rect foressiis {nto ribbons, and a part of the storm trysail. The schooa- er laboring very beavily, and loaded down with foo, we threw over the deck load. Al! bands wore badly frozen. On the 20th sprung @ leak, and war thrown down on her beam ends, where she laid one hour, the sea making a clear broach over hor. We out away both masts in order to right her, She then having seven fect of water in ber hold, came up, and all hands were kept to the pumps night and day. On the ist We gale abeted, when the wind sbified to the northwest.,and drove us acrose the Guif Stream, atthe merey of the winds and waves. On the Sist ult, the bark Isaac R. Davis, bound and out OF THE MARY the gentlemanly s\eward of the Florida, brought several ‘with him om hie last voyage. The passengers enjoyed a juxury denied to the poor Northerners at this carly pe. riod. ‘at—Cireuit,—Nos. 1608, 33, 650 3, 629, utes ci 618, Tri B10, 861, 083, 686, 087, S01! Ope! ‘Screnion Covrr.—Nos. 316, 442. 761 168, 170. 181, iN ee, ed, a 794, 684, 289,188, 78, "930, Common PiastePart 1.—Nos, 909 to 883, 306, 190, 114, Beak” OH HS 110, 266, 208, ae rece Qovnr.—Now, 3] t0 40. ‘SY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Interesting from Washington. COMRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEN. SCOTT AND 6 ‘CRETARY DAVIS—DEPABTURE OF MR. BUCHANAN— ROBERT J. WALKER AND THE NEW YORK FILI- SUSTERS—THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPR BILL— THE LOBBY COMMITTEE, BTC. ‘Wastmeton, Feb. 3, 1867, Having been permitted to skim the long lecked for cut ‘Caroat correspondence between Lieut. General Scott and the Hon. Jeff. Davis, Secretary of War, I send you the ream for the benefit of the Hanaiy’s readers. ‘The correspondence, as communicated to Congress, opens with a letter from General Soott, dated July 50, 1655, in which he says:— Certataly as Secretary of War have enough to war- sak ens en pesslaen teas froma the first you bad special mission, by ‘Thea follows a lengthy enditement against the Secreta- Ty, containing eight distinct counts, setting forth official ‘acts of that officer, such as issuing orders, &c., to frou- tier posts, done without his (General Scott’s) approba. At the request of General Soott this document was re- ferred 1c the President, and referred without comment. In reply, Secretary Davis sent the following unofiicia! note, dated: — Wasuinctom, Aug. 2, 1866. Sm—Your letter of the 30th Juty was received yester- day, and, as you reques! as referred wo the Presi- dent, When returned to will be anewerei, You have taken the ocoasion Of an official correspondence to make unfounded imputations upon my motives, aud to ‘vse such language as my idea of the requirements of off}. cial courtesy does not permit me to notice in my official character, and I there! adopt this unofficial mode. You ascribe to partizan hostility my opposition to conf on you the title of Lieutenant General, but that onposi- on was aotivel} and publicly made when | was a mom- ber of the Uniied Sta'es Senate, and chairman of the Committee of Military Affairs. You were then known to the country a6 a distinguished soldier, but had not been forced upon public attention as @ partizen politician, nor as such been judgea by the people or ved by me. You certainly had better opporwunity to know of my oppo- sion then than when It was merely that of a well settled and long entertained opinion held by me ip a position whioh separated me trom a ipation in the active iness of Congress, My views were publicly given as Senacvor to a suflicient extent to ruow on what my judg. ‘ment rested, and your present acusation, which char; me with usurpation for the most unworthy eads, aud im- putes to me motives inconsistent with offictal inlegrity, is considered basely malevolent and pronounced utterly false, Your ob’t servant, JEFF. DAVIS. ‘This note, though unofficial, is replied to by General Scott officially, who insiste upon spreading {t upon the files of the Department. This roply is dated August 6, and Secretary Davis rejoins again september 7, at great Jength, and reviews the specifications in General Scott’. indictment s;ainst him. ‘The general next grants leave of absence to Col. Hitch- cock under circumstances not approved py the Depart- ment, and is ordered to countermand or revoke the leave of absence. This he refused to do, assigning his reasons therefor. This reason was referred to the President, who endorsed the reason assigned as unsatifactory. The Secretary of War will report hie views as to the means Dest calculated to secure promptitude 1a the execution of ordors relative to the movements of the army. Secretary Davis recommends that the headquartere of army be removed from New York to the seat of govern. ment. Next comes the following rich specimen of official cor- we ena HEAngcaRrams oF THE ARMY, Naw Yors, Septomber 29, 1856. } Sr—Witn all the records of the army and every com- pulsory assistance at band, you have by a toil of more ‘than five weeks, on what to your nature must have been a labor of love poured only upon mo in twenty-seven compact foolecap pages, this full Lpemerapen pose een aod vengeance. Its precursor was savage acl but the slowly concocted venom now vented is no doubt fondly relied 0 to kill at once. The felonious intent is clear enough. Nevertheless, you may be forced to borrow the exclamation, ‘‘’tts not done and the attempt ‘and not the deed confounds us.’” Then follows a longthy tirade of abusive eplibets and a defence of bis cause generally. The Secretary of War replies again December 20, re- viewing the matters in controversy at great length, and exposing many matters of General Scott’s money dea’ ings with the government; referring to one itom, the so- at you paid to yourself. ‘That payment to yourrel!— meanness Joes it dis piay’ What could have been les: consistent with the generosity and magnatimity which should have graced the first in rank among @ band of gailaut soldiers. You awarded to yourself the whole percentage of the money pid by the city of Mexico when subjogmed by their vic- torious arms. To this delicate allusion to the old hero’s ‘laanceering qualities, be comes back at bim in game style and saya, under date of January 31, 186¢:— Such continued recklessness of character could only proceed from one whose low ambition is flattered with the title of **The Favorite.” He ‘s again lengthy, and referring to some unpleassct reminescences called up by Secretary Davis, Gen. «s0tt says:—For revenge, the slandere respecting the tra! of 1810 was disinterred by your letter of September, ‘which being refuted in the same month is now re pro duced with variations. ‘Who shames a scribblor? Break one cobweb throug, He spins the slight self pleasing thread anew; bis ab or sophietry in vain, The creature's at his duty work again. ‘Thia caustic epiatle, thus beautified with poetics! ex tracts, was responded to by the Secretary im a lette> be: ginning thoe— Wax Daraxruant, Fob. 29, 1856, Sir— received your loiter dated January 31, and pro. ceed to notice its contents. ‘You have persisted in making bed letters official, and I have thus forced upon mo the obligation to receive them i enlan ees me 8} , ‘To this the Secretary of War revurns « lengthy reply, ‘and Gen, Boott again retorte —"' My silence, uader the new provocation, has been the result first of pity, and {0 reprosent a large majority of the morchante of New York, stating that they (the merchants) wore extremely desirous that Mr. Walker should go into the to no determination upon the Ocean Steam bill, They have another meeting on Thursday of this week. It is thought they will adopt the plan of giving the contract jo ‘the lewanl bidder, wit® the condition that the successful party shall take the Coltine steamers i fair vatuation. ‘The Commities of Ways and Means have agreed to re- pert the Senate Submarine Telegraph bill without amend- ment, and they will endeavor to put it upom its passage to-morrow. There is strong opposition to i from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, ‘The Corruption Committee are on the track of certain railroad bends which were given out here last winter by Certain gentiomen to carry those Weetern railroads. ‘The Dallas treaty was under discussion in the Senate to-day upwards of three hours. The debate elicited very Utdle interest, for there was hardly a quorum present any of the time. A leading democratic Senator informed me that he did not believe it would be ratified. J. R. Sweeny has returned to'this city, aad signified his readiness to the Imveatigating Committee to appear again Defore them, and suggests that those persons who are implicated by his testimony, if there are any such, aud they desire it, be afforded an opportuntty to cross-exam- ine him in the presence of the committee. Mr. Simonton having fairly recovered from his severe sickness, will pro- bably be brought before ihe committee to morrew. Mr. Buchanan left here this morning, accompanied by twenty or more of his political friends. The House Committee of Ways and Means will make a favorable report om the Senate’s Submarine Telegraph ‘bil. The Bouse Post Office Committee have postponed further action on the Ocean Mail Service bill until ‘Thursday. The United States Treasurer reports the net amount subject to draft im the various depositories of the United States, on the 26th ult., $21,496,882. SHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. @BCOND sEBEION. Senate. ‘Wasmnaton, Feb. 3, 1867. PUBLIC LANDS, Mr. Wison introduced a bill to secure to actual settlers the alternate sections of public lands reserved in grants made to States for rameeed merpoems. It provides that wotual cettiers sball tak reserved sections, about 11,0(0,0C0 acres, at $2 60 per acre, in wiih the pro emption act of 1841. CENTRAL AMERICAN TREATY. ‘The Senate went into Executive session at 1 o’clock, ‘Mr. Mason enying there was an imperative necessity for doing so immediately. The Central American treaty was debated for three hours, and the Senate adjouriied without coming to ary conclusion op the subject. House of Representatives. Wasuincton, Feb. 3, 1857. ‘The House proeeeded to the consideration of business yelative to the District of Columbia, under the special order. business of the least general Without transacting importanoe, the House NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. Atpany, Feb. 3. 1857. Mr. Baicce reported against the enlargement of the locks of the Chemung canals, az unconstitutional and in- expedient. ‘Mr. Urnam introduced ® mew bill to reconstract the Canal Letting Board. UNITED STATES SENATOR. The hour of twelve having arrived, the Senate proceed ed to vote for a United States Senator. On the first vote Preston King bad 14 votes, Joel T. Headley, 9; D. E. Sickles, 1. ‘The constitutional objection to the vote for Sickles was raised by Mr. J.P. Smith, and was overruled by the President. Messrs. Upham and Briggs were appointed a commit tee to wait on the Assembly. We are in receipt of Vera Cruz dates the 20th a ea tale ema ministry. Remere wore curves of the outbreak of « new insur- en cn ee ‘were without change. ——— Election of Chief Engineer. HARRY HOWARD PROBABLY CHOSEN CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BY A SMALL MAJORITY i re Hl i F i if ner’s office to eheap, by ALBERT BM. 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Lanman &Co., wholesale druggi 69 Water er York, and by all druggists, Sarsaparilla $1, and pastilles 25. per bottle. ite’ Fancy Articles Exclusively. stock for spring of 4857. RUFUS K. McH ARG & CO., 35 Nassau street, _ADVERTIREMENTS RYNEWED EVERY DAY. Wor Situations and Belp, see Sixth Page. MISCELLANEOUS. _ eet OND STREET MURD*R.—THE ONLY AUTHENTID and correct likeness of Dr Harvey Burdell, from an an- Drotype taken only five daye previous tothe murder Also, 4 correct view of the Unriv: 100m, taken by permission of the Corone,, OND STREET MURDER —iHE ONLY AUTHENTIC and eorrect likeness of Dr Harvey Burdell. from an am- brotype taken only five days previous to the murder. Also, correct view of the ermission of the Coroner, 3 for this paper. Also, deed was eommitie:, wil bert biehes in No. oS ene gy a wot ready on #ridav morning, Feb. news depots. 6 cents. . dies OND STREET MURDER.—THE ON! 'HENTI! Biwi correesikences st Dr Harvey Borde, trom ee ase brotype taken only five days previous to the mt € correct view of the room, taxen by ‘of the ho jublished in No 62 TRATED NBWS, ready on _ news depots, Price 6 ceu's Box? STRRET MORDER —THE ONLY AUTHENTIC correct likeness of Dr. Harvey Burdell, from an am- brotype taken only five days previous to the muréex, Also, « correct view of the room, taken by permission of thé 5 before the body was removed esprenaly for this paper. Also, 8 view of the house where ‘he horribie deed was com! will be published in No. Gz of FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUS: TRATED NEWS, ready on Friday morning, Feb. 6, at ail news depots. Price 6 cents. OND STREET MURDER —THE ONLY AUTHANTIC ‘and correct bkeness of Dr. Harvey burdell, from an am brotype taken only five dave previous to the murder. Also, @ correct view of the room, taken by permission of the Coroner, ¢ ‘was removed, expresaly for this paper. Also, & view of the house where the horrible deed was committed, Hil) be publiaded in No. 62 of FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUS TRAT! NEWS, ready on Friday morning, Feb. 6, at all news depois Price 6 cents. onnt )ER —THE ONLY AUTHENTIC likeness of Dr Harvey Burdetl, from an am brotype taken only five days previons to the murder. Also, & correct view of the room, taken by permission of the Coroner, before the body was remove, expressly for thia paper. Also & view of the house where the berrible ‘commnitted ublished ib "No. 62 of FRANK LESLTE'S 1LLUS- NEWS, ready on Friday morning, Feb. 6, at all news depois. Price 6 cents g country. Also, “The Game Cock bis Origin, Manner of Breeding Battle,” with an tilustration of two game cocks cut and trimmed for the contlict Also, resorted to by unfair cockers. In addition to these are and valuable works, the Pay ea aaa... ‘Dying Man's rol ual ia! makepersen nope earn Race = Fight in the Ai pepiece— 1Ke08 and Checkers—Theat eal here, there everywhere. 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RURDELL Is MOT HALF 80 exciting ee Sarthe morning. NHR MURDER OF DR. BURDELL I8 NOT HALF 80 Out thia morning, iB MURDER OF DR. BURDELL 18 NOT HALF TT Echiog op OM ANC Ont this morning.